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Chart 100 Market Economy THE RESULTS parts 1-3!

I’ve been busy compiling all your votes the last few weeks and with the aid of SCIENCE on my side I have eventually come up with a DEFINITIVE list of the best games of all time. After all, who would know better than the listeners of One Life Left?

It’s certainly taken up more time than I expected as there were so many variations on the gamenames ( Zelda [x] , Legend of Zelda: [x], Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, GTA: Vice City for example). And of course people who couldn’t spell (Tecken indeed..).

I also took the liberty of combining certain titles. Rock Band I’ve combined with No.2 and used that. There’s no reason anyone could prefer 1 to 2 as they’re basically the same but with better organisation in the second one. The Ace Attourney games are classed under the ‘Phoenix Wright Series’ much like with the Monkey Island games. Slants toward a particular one have been noted. I’ve done the same with We Love Katamari and Katamari Damacy.

I’m still disappointed that there weren’t more votes for 8bit games and also the Warriors games. Most ill defined vote was ‘That baseball game I used to play on the gamegear’ which has obviously not made the chart.

So without further ado, here’s the first 20 games from 100 to 81

100.Resident Evil Code Veronica

99 Sonic3 & Knuckles
98 Warcraft III
97 Total Annihilation
96 Speedball 2:Brutal Deluxe
95 Sonic CD
94 Cortex Command (WIP indiegame) [Can that even be allowed ?)
93 Settlers2
92 Dystopia (SourceMod)
91 TombRaider (PS)
90 Sonic 2
89 Samurai Warirors 2 (360) (Clearly this should have been number 1)
88 Mount & Blade
87 Dancing Stage Euromix 2
86 Asteroids (arcade)
85 Quake (PC)
84 GTA:Vice City
83 Empire
82 GTA San Andreas(PS2)
81 Mario Kart 64 (Why? Isn’t this one utterly horrible? I thought it was)

So there you have it. 20 games today. And 20 more will be updated tomorrow. Possibly twice. We’ll see how much time I have.

Part 2 80-51

80    Mario & Luigi: PartnersInTime
79    Teken 2 (PS1)  (Strange, I would have thought Tekken 3 was the one)
78    Half-Life
77    Syndicate (Amiga) (This should have been higher in the chart as well)
76    Guitar Hero III
75    Braid (Voting for Braid is soooo pretentious)
74    Beyond Good and Evil
73    3D Deathchase
72    Shenmue
71    Psychonauts
70    Metal Gear Solid (Borrrring. Why not just watch a film instead?)
69    Fifa09
68    Chaos (Spectrum) (Hey have you heard of http://www.wikihost.org/w/doodleblog/chaos_wars/ by OLL’s Duncan Timiney)
67    Mass Effect
66    Head Over Heels (Spectrum)
65    Oblivion
64    Castlevania : Symphony of the Night
63    StarWars (Sit Down Arcade-80s version) (It’s best when the controls work of course, unlike at Videogame Nation)
62    Lemmings (The Speccy version is best because of the way the lemmings splat, more gooey)
61    DeadSpace
60    Civilization IV (Clearly this one was out in the lead of all Civs)
59    Wi iSports (Wii) (Unnecessary identifier alert!)
58    Bioshock
57    TurboEsprit (GTA: Spectrum? Pretty much)
56    Resident Evil (Gamecube)
55    Pokemon(blue/red/yellow)
54    Mario Kart (I’ve never liked Mario Kart, you’re all wrong)
53    Left 4 Dead
52    Command & Conquer:RedAlert
51    WWF NoMercy (N64) (Pleased to see this do well as it’s the best wrestling game ever! Obviously.)

Part 3 – 50 to 11

50 Supreme Commander (PC Games are boring and rubbish, I don’t care what you say)
49 Wipe Out 2097 (Did you vote for this just because of the soundtrack?)
48 Fallout 3 (I’ve tried many times to get into this and just can’t, thus I conclude you’re all wrong)
47 Team Fortress 2
46 Ace Attourney series (DS) (They are all brilliant even if some of the art in Apollo is dodgy. I’m currently replaying 3)
45 Perfect Dark (N64) (But it only had one good level – the Blade Runner rip off..)
44 GTA III(PS2)
43 Earthbound
42 DonkeyKong’94
41 Eternal Darkness
40 Panzer Dragoon Saga (Maybe not enough of you have played this to realise it’s the best RPG ever)
39 Diddy Kong Racing (I’m now ashamed of the lot of you)
38 Worms (7/10)
37 Baldur’s Gate2
36 Super Mario Bros
35 Legend Of Zelda : Majora’s Mask
34 Gitaroo Man (Surprised to see this so high)
33 Jet Set Willy (If only I’d known it was the 33rd best game ever when I saw Matt in Manchester, I could have told him)
32 Legend Of Zelda : Link’s Awakening
31 Civilisation (Amiga) (I lost many hours to this, somehow this original version can be more appealing than later advancements)
30 Prince Of Persia : The Sands Of Time (PS2)
29 New Super Mario Bros
28 Mario Kart DS
27 Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
26 Deus Ex
25 Super Mario World (Look stoppit withe Mario and Zelda okay?)
24 Ico
23 Super Mario KaAARRRGHGH
22 GTA 4
21 StarCraft
20 Tetris
19 Chrono Trigger
18 Burnout Paradise (Are you sure? Is just because you’ve been playing it a lot recently?)
17 Advance Wars
16 ResidentEvil4
15 Rock Band 2
14 Street Fighter 2
13 Bubble Bobble
12 Super Metroid (No. You’re wrong)
11 Portal (Well maybe just because it included Still Alive which is the best video game related song ever. Probably)

For some kind of exciting gimmick which would have worked better for show 100 I’m going to update the final 10 during tomorrow night’s show. (Though by that I meant Tonight because for some reason this didn’t update properly when I did it last.)

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3 Comments »

  1. Conclusive proof there that GTASA is better than GTAVC

    Comment by dbot — July 23, 2009 @ 5:17 am
  2. Not sure if you will be happy to hear this or not:

    There never was a “Mario Kart.” So all those votes probably were supposed to count to “Super Mario Kart,” since that was the original.

    That could push Super Mario Kart into the top 20, but on the other hand, there will be one less Mario Kart in your list.

    Comment by Sagan — July 27, 2009 @ 11:11 am
  3. Derek, if you say nasty things about WipEout again I’m afraid I’ll have to have some serious words with you.

    Comment by iainl — July 28, 2009 @ 3:32 am

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