Every so often I peruse the magazine shelf of the supermarket I work at. Ever since I managed to get a shedload of comments for posting top 100/50/25/10 lists from one, I thought it would be imperative to at least get your opinion on any particular one if I spot it.
Published in
Stuff magazine, this list has the following tag to explain what the list is about...
"The future is stuck in traffic and the past has been discontinued. Now is where it's at, and these are the 50 best games fighting for your current currency."
Yeah, that may be what the list is about, but nothing except the quotes under each game to explain 'how' these are chosen. Also, some of these games must be within the last two years, so I wouldn't really say they are all 'now'. And the Korg DS-10 isn't a game, so unless you are Dale North, you may already think this list is fail.
Anyway, the scans;
The interesting inclusions to me begin with
Rolando, a game that Destructoid had a
review a while ago, with its sequel
coming soon. This came in at number 37.
At number 19 is a game I reckon most of you will believe shouldn't be there;
Alone In The Dark. Yes, it is the new one. There is nothing to see here. No rioting please.
Dead Space is one place ahead of
Resident Evil 5 at 16, and I believe that was one of the parts of the list
Stuff got right; on the other hand, people still think
FIFA 09 edged out the latest
Pro Evolution Soccer, yet the magazine put them 13th and 12th respectively.
X-Plane was something I heard of on the PC, yet
X-Plane Airliner not only got a release for iPhone and iPod Touch, but got to 15th on the list. Has anybody played the flight-sim, and agreed with it? And would you also agree with
Up There at number 10 on the same formats?
Two of the top five had their question marks as well;
Eve Online is a game you can
play now, but is it a game
of now? And
Wii Fit? Is this just to infuriate all those who have had to endure Wii Sports in every other damn list?
Once again, I bet mostly call fail on this. Your call.
Batthink out.
No Bioshock? What the hell?
I think that list is completely messed up. Wii Fit number 4 OMGWTFFBBQ
I think whoever made the list needs a slap in the face. If this list was to be more accurate it would need to be out of 100.
Thanks for posting :)
Ok, looking at the list I'm guessing that these are just games released from the beginning of 2008 until now.
The list definitely has some errors... but the big one I don't get how Alone In The Dark for 360 got on there instead of the much better version for the PS3 where they fixed a shitload of problems and made it an all around better game. I mean, on metacritic it jumped 12 points from a 58 to a 70 on the ps3 iteration. That's just lazy journalism not to check stuff like that.
You'd think they could get a L4D picture that was recent at least.
i used to date a girl who worked for stuff she had the best fucking job of all time. but that list is BS
There are some super weird choices, but many of those games are worth experiencing.
Generally it's a decent list but they are missing some top-notch games.
I don't see Eternity's Child.
Where's Lee Carvello's Putting Challenge? FAIL!
List invalidated by inclusion of Alone In The Dark. Nothing to see here, move along.
wow! that was really suprising. lbp at #2! but mgs4 needs to be #1 (_in_the_hood_G!!)
alone in the dark in front of mgs4? NO just NO
@Char
I see what you did there...
Where's Aaron Linde's BonerQuest , this list is fail.
List is fail for putting alone in the dark anywhere on that list. It is EPIC fail for being in front of MGS4. Also: CoD: WaW, should not be #3.
However, I do like the inclusion of Wipout HD though I think that game, combined with the price tag should also be higher. Oh well, Stuff is for idiot preteens anyway. They probably shouldn't even review games, as I get the feeling that they gave Alone in the Dark a good score, or maybe the British version wasnt horribly broken.
@ Zippyduda;
Aww, thanks. ^_^
@ Projectexodus;
You've made a good point, Exodus. If Eve-Online is allowed in there, then Bioshock should too (from the praise it has received, I gather).
Maybe our fellow commenters would choose to replace it with a certain Alone In The Dark?
That's intersting.