Entertainment Weekly: List of top 50 classics from the past 25 years.

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To celebrate 1000 issues Entertainment Weekly have published a list of 50 classic games from the past 25years.

Personally I think it is rubbish, what do you think is right, and what would you add or remove.

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20207076_20207387_20207334,00.html

1. Tetris
PC (1985)
2. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
N64 (1998)
3. Doom
PC (1993)
4. Super Mario World
SNES (1991)
5. Guitar Hero
PS2 (2005)
6. Street Fighter II
SNES (1991)
7. Super Mario Kart
SNES (1992)
8. GoldenEye 007
N64 (1997)
9. Grand Theft Auto IV
PS3 and Xbox 360 (2008)
10. Metal Gear Solid
PlayStation (1998)
11. Halo: Combat Evolved
Xbox 360 (2001)
12. Super Mario Galaxy
Wii (2007)
13. Final Fantasy VII
PlayStation (1997)
14. Resident Evil 4
GameCube (2005)
15. Chrono Trigger
SNES (1995)
16. Gran Turismo
PlayStation (1998)
17. Sim City
Macintosh and Amiga (1989)
18. Half-Life
PC (1998)
19. Sid Meier's Civilization II
PC (1996)
20. Gears of War
Xbox 360 (2006)
21. StarCraft
PC (1997)
22. Super Metroid
SNES (1994)
23. Deus Ex
PC (2000)
24. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2
PlayStation (2000)
25. Shadow of the Colossus
PS2 (2005)
26. God of War
PS2 (2005)
27. Soul Calibur
Dreamcast (1999)
28. BioShock
Multiplatform (2007)
29. Final Fantasy III
Famicom (1990)
30. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Xbox (2003)
31. Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes
Dreamcast (2000)
32. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
PlayStation (1997)
33. Metroid Prime
GameCube (2002)
34. Tomb Raider
Multiplatform (1996)
35. Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
PlayStation (1996)
36. Star Wars: TIE Fighter
PC (1995)
37. Tekken 3
PlayStation (1998)
38. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Multiplatform (2007)
39. Contra
NES (1988)
40. Okami
PS2 (2006)
41. Tecmo Super Bowl
NES (1991)
42. Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi
PC (1991)
43. Psychonauts
Xbox (2005)
44. Silent Hill 2
PlayStation (2001)
45. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Multiplatform (2003)
46. Perfect Dark
N64 (2000)
47. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Multiplatform (2006)
48. WipEout
PlayStation (1995)
49. World of Warcraft
PC (2004)
50. Madden NFL 2005
Multiplatform (2004)
 
The small fact of there being no mention of Elite, means this list has no kind of credibility.
 
Standby for plenty of arguing over exclusions, lists like these will never please everyone (Not knocking your post Spank-A-Thon) it's a general comment and someone will always think that a game they personally loved should make the list even if the majority of other people disagree.

Just remember that so long as you loved the game yourself it matters not if anyone else should be converted to your opinion and even less so if any list includes it.

That said, of the games i personally loved, where the hell are Terranigma (snes), final fantasy tactics (ps1) and banjo tooie (N64) :rotfl:
 
I think the main issues are games like GTA IV and CoD4 being on the list. They are popular/fun games. But classic status is something that takes more than 6months to achieve. In the case of GTA IV a month would be nice.

I just noticed that Halo was apparantly an Xbox360 game.
 
Standby for plenty of arguing over exclusions, lists like these will never please everyone (Not knocking your post Spank-A-Thon) it's a general comment and someone will always think that a game they personally loved should make the list even if the majority of other people disagree.

Just remember that so long as you loved the game yourself it matters not if anyone else should be converted to your opinion and even less so if any list includes it.

That said, of the games i personally loved, where the hell are Terranigma (snes), final fantasy tactics (ps1) and banjo tooie (N64) :rotfl:
I agree about the games people love, hence why the likes of Mega-lo-Mania didn't get a mention from me.

But Elite.... I mean, the grand-daddy of the space trading/combat/exploration genre getting no love is just shocking! :(
 
But Elite.... I mean, the grand-daddy of the space trading/combat/exploration genre getting no love is just shocking! :(
Didn't get into it myself, but the word on the street at the time was it was amazing, therefore it should have been included, though console yourself in the fact that it was included in loads of other top 100 lists anyway.

Strange that not one commodore 64 game made this list either, what happened to impossible mission, the last ninja, international karate, paradroid and beach head, to name but a few.
 
I would want to see Rogue Leader on the Gamecube , Virtua Tennis on the DC and Burnout 3 on the list . Out of the games i've played , i'd give Perfect Dark and Knights Of the Old Republic the old heave ho .
 
wow Tetris is 1st :D
I play Multris though haha xP

and I would want StarCraft higher !! I still <3 that game~!
I can't wait for StarCraft 2 baby!!!
 
hmmm, 23 games from the year 2000 onwards? need some more love for retro! although i agree a list like this is all up to the individual. i must admit this list looks like its based on sales more than anything, either that or they spent 10 minutes going through the boards over at gamesfaq! my list is entirely different - as im sure yours is, and yours, and yours etc.
 
It's not a bad list really, some notable exemptions but all in all most of the classics are there.

IMO the following games should be there, but that's just my opinion and the next person will think differently.

Elite
Kick Off 2
Laser Squad
Vulcan
Super Tennis
MGS4
ISS Pro Evolution Soccer
PGR2

I think if at least 10 games in the list would appear in yours then it's done it's job!
 
I agree with a comment above, some of the games are simply too 'new' to be listed as a classic game. Bioshock, Gears Of War and Call Of Duty 4 for example were outstanding games but I wouldn't describe either as 'classics', a couple of years from now and both will look ropey on the graphics side after which all they have is a half decent narrative.

I'd question Halo but I suppose there is a good argument for saying it spawned the console FPS era and thus will be seen by many as a classic. But then where is Quake, which spawned the 3D FPS genre?

All said and done though the list does have many games which I'm sure many of us would call classics - so they haven' done too bad a job IMHO.
 

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