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The 100 best games of all time

Timeless. Essential. These are the video games we cherish

Words: on February 15, 2013
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  • Unicron - February 16, 2013 7:18 p.m.

    All lists are subjective but seriously, what a craptastic attempt at a videogame top 100. Everyone will bring up examples, so here are mine. WhereTF are Eternal Darkness and GTA San Andreas. And Portal the best game ever made in videogame history???? Please, don't make me laugh. Start again and do it properly this time.

  • jeremycarrier - February 16, 2013 5:41 p.m.

    Over half of this list is from the last 6 years. For a medium with tens of thousands of games across four decades, that's seems kinda...wrong?

  • RaQin - February 16, 2013 11:15 p.m.

    Great games don't get trumped by lesser games just because many new ones are out...If that were true wouldn't we as a society have selected new 'great' art over the works of Picasso, Renior, or Van Gogh? New doesn't beat old; quality must be the only thing which changes the list.

  • zackaria-william-lachance - February 16, 2013 5:23 p.m.

    San Andres?

  • KingAdrock - February 16, 2013 1:04 p.m.

    ...where is DOOM? I think this is the first "Top 100 List" I've ever seen that didn't have it in the top 10, never mind EXCLUDING IT ENTIRELY.

  • RaQin - February 16, 2013 11:16 p.m.

    Agreed, I think this list has a lot of oversight where games of the 80's and 90's are concerned.

  • botanace - February 16, 2013 1:02 p.m.

    sims 3 needs to be higher on the list, at least 50...

  • Plasma Narwhal - February 16, 2013 11:29 a.m.

    Based on your previous "Best PS2 Games" article, shouldn't you replace Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4?

  • Bansheebot - February 16, 2013 11:28 a.m.

    Uh, muh gud. I dun't 100% agree with teh placements on this list. BIASED AND GEHY.

  • BladedFalcon - February 16, 2013 11:31 a.m.

    Are you, by chance, tehtimeisnow's twin brother?

  • Dante1924 - February 16, 2013 12:43 p.m.

    I think he was mocking the people raging in the comments about how shitty of a list this is.

  • BladedFalcon - February 16, 2013 1:11 p.m.

    Probably, but it still amused me to see that he used a grammar style very similar to that of our "favorite" Apple supporter XD

  • signal2noise - February 16, 2013 9 a.m.

    First of all how can this be the "greatest of all time" since time has not ended yet? There will be games coming down the line that will surpass ones presented here. Secondly, to have a list with Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (one of the highest critical scoring games along with Half-life) not in the top 10, let alone the top 100, is a travesty. Epic fail on Games Radar's part.

  • Xealios - February 16, 2013 5:24 p.m.

    Greatest of all time, up to the current date. Obviously. This list is also the poster's opinion, you can't please everybody, and I don't think they were trying to.

  • mudpooch - February 16, 2013 8:48 a.m.

    Spoiler alert ! How on earth can portal be number one. That must be a horribly bad joke...

  • noweareman - February 16, 2013 7:12 a.m.

    Command & Conquer Red Alert,Tomb Raider and Wolfenstien not on this USELESS LIST??? WTF!

  • DBNS - February 16, 2013 6:25 a.m.

    Quite a good list. Such lists are never going to please everyone, and indeed, I disagree with some of your choices, but pretty damn good overall. I respect that you had the balls not to choose Ocarina of Time as the best 3D Zelda game of all time. (I'm not 100% certain I would have chosen Wind Waker over Twilight Princess & Skyward Sword, but kudos nonetheless.) To those who think Goldeneye 007 deserves a spot on this list--you're letting nostalgia get the better of you. Goldeneye 007 is not one of the best 100 games ever made, it has some of the best MEMORIES, and I certainly played the living shit out of it back in the day, but I challenege you to play 4 player splitscreen today & say it's as good as you remember. One final note: FFX better than VII? Insanity. I'd even rank XII higher. VII is the pinnacle of 3D FF. But good job ranking VI so high.

  • DBNS - February 16, 2013 6:34 a.m.

    P.S. Thanks a lot Gamesradar, because of this list, my already massive backlog is now a dozen games longer ;)

  • kiebs-iee - February 16, 2013 9:26 a.m.

    "you're letting nostalgia get the better of you" - Only great games create nostalgia :P

  • daninthemix - February 16, 2013 5:37 a.m.

    You seriously expect me to click 100 times to see this list? Pass.

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