I never liked ranking games by popularity (which is essentially what this is). It always skips over some very good games that were just not for everybody + foreign games.
Descent, Nox, Elite, Gothic, heXen, Rage of Mages, EVE Online, Diablo I, for God's sake.
Seriously, half the games on that list are brand new. Bioshock? F3? Oblivion? The other half are just random. I'd imagine a good list would contain games that STILL have something to bring to the table, or games that are very well made. Those are, in fact, the greatest games, because they can stand the test of time.
I've heard plenty of these listed games already. But I know there are more good games out there, there are BETTER games out there, they're just hard to find because they were not too popular back in the day. I wish some magazine would find and pick those up, and list them, but I bet the guys who made that list haven't played little of those.
Doom is the father of modern FPS games like Half Life, Quake, and Unreal, it has it's place on the list.
The father of modern FPS is technology. The first modern FPS wasn't even DooM, and if DooM didn't come, something else would. Putting all that aside, DooM is a pretty meh game on all sides and is pretty unoriginal even for it's time.
No Heretic and heXen, but Doom is up there. heXen was much better than Doom... so was Heretic II... bah. They kicked themselves when they added DooM up there so high, that game is rubbish. It may have been "new" back in the day but to rate it right now, that game brings absolutely nothing to the table. Seems like they're adding games by the popularity at the time or something, rather than by their summed value.
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Descent, Nox, Elite, Gothic, heXen, Rage of Mages, EVE Online, Diablo I, for God's sake.
Seriously, half the games on that list are brand new. Bioshock? F3? Oblivion? The other half are just random. I'd imagine a good list would contain games that STILL have something to bring to the table, or games that are very well made. Those are, in fact, the greatest games, because they can stand the test of time.
I've heard plenty of these listed games already. But I know there are more good games out there, there are BETTER games out there, they're just hard to find because they were not too popular back in the day. I wish some magazine would find and pick those up, and list them, but I bet the guys who made that list haven't played little of those.