The 500 Best Games of All Time according to Polygon

Spoiler: Battle for Bikini Bottom is nowhere to be found.

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>reading 500 polygon opinions
haha fuck that shit

Here's a taste of the BS you're about to witness.


Pong is ranked higher than Portal 2.

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I just made this post to see user's reactions.

tetris memes

archive it retard

Archive or go away.

>Caring about Polygon
Holy fuck.

>linking to polygon

There's literally nothing wrong with Polygon

t. Polygon writer

Except for that time they totally sucked at DOOM.

>Gone Home in 31
Go kill yourself unironically

DIRECT LINK TO FUCKING POLYGON, WHAT'S NEXT KOTAKU? WHERE ARE THE MODS? MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!

>Direct Linking to Polygon
>Expecting me to read 500 paragraphs of marketing bullshit
Fuck you here's the top 10

10.Super Metroid
9.Street Fighter 2
8.Minecraft
7.World of Warcraft
6.Ms.Pacman
5.Pokemon Red/Blue
4.Doom
3.Legend of Zelda NES
2.Super Mario Bros 3
1.Tetris

And my reaction was "there isn't a chance in hell i'm looking at that shit"

where's the problem?

>Ms.Pacman

AHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA Normal Pacman is too sexist for this list

Expectation: Anons getting pissed by Polygon’s list
Reality: Anons getting pissed by the Polygon LINK

for jeff

>#1 is Ocarina of Time

I hate how red/blue always make it to the top 20 of these lists, but the OBJECTIVELY BETTER REMAKES never even make it on them, let alone other games in the series that aren't broken, nearly unplayable messes.

We get it, you enjoyed it when your were seven, so did I. It doesn't make it good though.

>linking to Polygon
Kill yourselves, fags. Pastebin for the people who wants to read:

pastebin.com/tigTSD2q

ms pacman is objectively better

Where is the archive link so I can laugh at them
>linking to polygon

>bully is near the bottom
You know what? Polygon is alright.

>Pokemon Red/Blue
>Legend of Zelda NES
What the hell? I thought this was a list of the best games of all time, not the most influential. Both of these games had similar but vastly superior sequels. What garbage.

At least it's debateable with Mario 3

>less than half are Top 10 material
As expected.

Fuck Polygon.

>#1 is actually Tetris

nope it got beat by gone home

polygon might get a few cents if you click on the link, which they'll use to buy soy to dump in the reservoirs or whatever the fuck these dudes are mad about now

>Pokemon Red/Blue
Why the fuck. I'm so sick of everyone saying a top game has to be part of a nostalgia trip and "le originalz xD". Fuck this crap. Even Gold/Silver were heaps better, nevermind its remakes, or games like Black 2/White 2.

I sometimes wish video games went back to being a relatively obscure hobby not plagued by these retards.

25. METAL GEAR SOLID
24. DWARF FORTRESS
23. ROGUE
22. FIFA 12 (why)
21. SUPER MARIO BROS
20. THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: A LINK TO THE PAST
19. CIVILIZATION 2
18. CASTLEVANIA: SYMPHONY OF THE NIGHT
17. PORTAL
16. SUPER MARIO 64
15. SIMCITY
14. HALF-LIFE 2
13. STARCRAFT
12. GRAND THEFT AUTO 3
11. FINAL FANTASY 6
10. SUPER METROID
9. STREET FIGHTER 2
8. MINECRAFT
7. WORLD OF WARCRAFT
6. MS. PAC-MAN
5. POKEMON RED AND BLUE
4. DOOM
3. THE LEGEND OF ZELDA
2. SUPER MARIO BROS. 3
1. TETRIS

God this just screams casuals
>street fighter 2
2 isn’t even the best SF for fucks sake

Lists like this are retarded. I don't know what anyone expects. People always put shit like Tetris or Pongs on lists like this because of historical impact, but then other games are put on it that have very little historical impact. The fact that Guild Wars 2 is in the top 100 is a complete joke, but then a game like Everquest which was one of the genre's first big hits is over 100 spots lower is even dumber.

The problem with these lists is that it's more or less got no criteria in how they rated them. They just came up with games and decided to write them down and made sure the shit everyone knows is near the top.

if someone ranks red and blue above gold and silver there's simply no forgiving them

the latter contains an altered version of the former within it

Thank you user
>Depression Quest is on the list
big lol

>if someone ranks red and blue above gold and silver there's simply no forgiving them
No, Gold and Silver are just as broken and flawed as Red and Blue.

Seriously, look up coin case glitches.

Tetris wouldn't be my pick, but that game is literally infinitely replayable. It's flawless.

>fifa
>minecraft
>simcity

you can just tell what the editor really enjoys, and what he just added because he thought it would make his opinion more epic

That's the thing though. Yeah it's a solid game that has been remade and replayed and remixed countless times over the decades. I don't think anyone really -hates- tetris.

Anyone who gets upset over "why is x game above y game" in this list is stupid because it's pretty blatantly obvious that this whole thing is just a jumbled mess with no real structure, paying any attention to it is what they want. It's more or less just one big clickbait article meant to get people arguing.

>Pacman
>Tetris
Why do these ALWAYS get a free pass on these lists?

I seriously doubt that most people would place either on their individual list of the best games ever made, unless you're over the age of 40 and have played less than 5 games in your life

>flawless
there are much, much better games. in fact any game with level design beyond a rectangle is going to be better, and even then devil daggers manages to be more entertaining. some autist i bet could play tetris for thousands of hours, but i would be bored after 5 minutes

SAUCE

Monster factory is the only decent thing to ever come out of polygon.

>linking directly to polyshit
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MUH INFLUENCE

Any SJW shit in that list?

Golden sun being nowhere in the top 100...

>Fifa 12
>NES Zelda better than ALttP
>Tetris at all

IT'S A LIST OF BEST GAMES
INFLUENCE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH QUALITY

>literally infinitely replayable
I can't play it for more than 10 minutes at a time. It's far far too casual with very little depth.

>but i would be bored after 5 minutes
So you've never played Tetris then.

you never played those games seriously enough if you think that

>Bejeweled higher on the list than bioshock 2

>Kim Kardashian: Hollywood
>Don't laugh. Despite a mixed reaction, Kim Kardashian: Hollywood is a force to be reckoned with. With 22.8 million players making the game $43.4 million within its first quarter of release, Hollywood reached — and continues to reach — more players than most critically acclaimed games.

>sports games below 300
>pokemon go lower than bloodborne, demons souls, fallout 2
>football manager at 51
>wii sports at 41
>fifa at 22
What a bizzare list

>linking Polygon
It doesn't that that long to use an archive or make a pastebin, newfag

>direct link
Report and hide.

Gome Home is 31. Her Story is 131. Depression Quest is 466. Dragon Age CISquisition is 497
I couldn't be bothered to find any more of those. There's a pastebin in the thread, suit yourself for more disgust

Woah! Sorry, I didn't realise we had a true patrician with an IQ over 220 in the thread!

obvious astroturfing thread, fuck off.

>dissing on the OG SimCity
Dem's fightin' words! Unless you mean SimCity 2013.

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The website is horrendous but their youtube channel is really good, especially monster factory.

are you literally implying tetris is obscure

>unironically shilling polygon
It’s all shit.
Now fuck off back to where you belong.

>rocket league at 354
Okay.

Top 10? No bloodbourne, No metal gear 1, no super mario 64, no bomberman, no silent hill, no resident evil 4, No Zelda a link to the past, No final fantasy 7, No shadow of the collusus, No half life, This list is shit, and doesn’t count for nothing.

use Archive next time

Red/Blue are garbage, just had a unique idea that was actually refined into a really fun game in gold/silver which should have been on the list, especially considering you go back to Kanto in gold/silver. genwunners need to be fucking castrated

>mother 3 is in the top 100

No, I'm implying this is bullshit.

Every poster below this post is a polygon employee.

GS are still crap, though. If anything, FRLG or HGSS should've been on the list.

I don't like Gold and Silver much anymore because it's hard to make a good team out of just gen 2 Pokemon and the Kanto portion of the game is very bare bones.

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>directly linking to polygon
how about no

its literally the same SHIT BUT WITH SLIGHTLY MORE CONTENT
HOW THE FUCK DOES POKEMON GENDERS OR EGGS MAKE A GAME BETTER OR WORSE YOU FUCKING NIGGER

why? you are just lining up blocks. that is boring. tetris didnt even have multiplayer so dont pull that shit, im not talking about tetris attack or puyo vs. every single game released in the past two decades, without exception, is more entertaining than the most dry and basic game you could possibly play

Well, they got SOMETHING right.

>remake
not even once
for faggots like you we got shit like crystal, emerald, bw2, usum etc

HGSS had everything in Crystal.

And Emerald/Platinum are unironically the best games in the series.

>Having this much shit taste
HGSS are some of the best Pokemon games, you humongous faggot.

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Just playing tetris a couple dozen or even hundreds of times means jack shit. Its like trying to talk about any other game fresh out of clearing the tutorial

>fan choice

There's your reason. The same folks who spew Gen 1 sucks are also the same people who say its their favorite for cred.

Now why is WoW and Minecraft in the top 10? As for cultural phenomenon I can see it but this is a top games list. I could justify top 25 maybe.

>"Best" game list from any website
>They conflate pioneering/influential games with quality

According to the list LoZ and Link to the Past is better than Ocarina but so is Gone Home

give me a single reason to play tetris over even minecraft, none of you posers even play tetris anymore and for good reason, it is plain the worst game comparatively to anything else. even pacman and frogger have more interesting level design, replayability means jack shit when there are literally thousands of better finite length games available which could last ten lifetimes

>linking to Polygon
>no pastebin
Eat shit

>list of "best" movies of all time
>Citizen Kane is on it
Everytime

It's almost unwatchable compared to modern movies. So fucking boring but I guess because it did some new things with a camera it gets a free pass

I've never understood why people have a wank over Tetris. Even when it was new I got bored of it in about thirty minutes.

Minecraft is probably significant enough to be top 10 material. Any FIFA game though? Fuck. They're literally, LITERALLY just cash grabs.

> captcha: Solda Games

>linking to Polygon
>five times
You're a nigger

>someone remembers battle for bikini bottom
Underrated game desu
Mermalair was the shit

>that game is literally infinitely replayable
You could say that for any and every game. "Finished the game? Just start it over once more, infinite replayability lmao"

This thread is about best games, not most influential games

>fucking Minecraft in the top 10
>fucking guitar hero in the top 100
Shit list. At least they but 2k5 over Madden 05, and at least they put Mrs. Pac man higher than regular.