New Edge Magazine Special 'EDGE Definitive Top 100 Magazine'

[Windy Miller]

This has finally hit the shops in the UK after taking what seems like 2 years in production. I haven't got my copy yet, but it's apparently 250 pages, costing £10. I'm guessing that it'll eventually reach the US stores sometime soon. I'll try & post a picture of the cover as soon as I get my copy.

[CosmicMonkey]

I'm sure this'll be no better than all those other 'Top X' lists. I'm wondering what'll be at No.1. When I stopped reading Edge, only 3 games had received a 10/10: Mario 64, Zelda: OoT and Halo.

[Windy Miller]

Nice cover. That's Army of Trolls pixel art isn't it ?

[Mayhem]

If you want to be spoiled, the top 10 listed are...


1.Legend of Zelda:Ocarina of time
2.Resident Evil 4
3.Super Mario 64
4.Half Life 2
5.Super Mario World
6.Zelda:A Link to the Past
7.Halo:Combat Evolved
8.Final Fantasy XII
9.Tetris
10.Super Metroid

A bit of a change since they last did it in 2000... my only real surprises is that #2 is at #2 (though I'd say it might be just about considered top 10) and #8 completely (to which I say WTF, because it's an average game imo).

[Anthony1]

If you want to be spoiled, the top 10 listed are...










A bit of a change since they last did it in 2000... my only real surprises is that #2 is at #2 (though I'd say it might be just about considered top 10) and #8 completely (to which I say WTF, because it's an average game imo).

Yeah, I got a problem with No.2 as well. Sure, it's a great game, but in another 10 years would it be ranked in the top 10 of all freaking time? hell no. And No.8 doesn't belong in the top 10 either. That's just there to appease the millions of fanboys.

[Mayhem]

If it had been, oh say the entry rhyming with "weetabix" then I may not have an issue. But that one? Yeah indeed... I think Edge were the only place to rate it highly...

[cyberfluxor]

I have a bad feeling about this release. I really have loved the re-prints and specials but it does seem to be appealing to the masses. Nothing wrong with that but it just doesn't give justice to all of those nice sleepers and long-lost classics that just kicked ass eatting quarters at the arcades.

... I'll still buy it though.

Halo shouldnt be in the top ten of any legit list but of course most of the time it is.

Totally agree too. There are many FPS games I've enjoyed over the years and Halo always seemed just ordinary.

[Daniel Thomas]

I don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but Edge's Top 100 list was compiled from readers' votes. Which pretty much explains those top ten games, which are all current big-selling franchises.

These sort of things are a bit of fun, because they always spark the "who's best" arguments, and it's pretty easy to join in. So I don't think too much about this newest one. I remember when Next Gen had their first Top 100 issue back in '96 or so, and it was packed with the full history of videogames, instead of simply the most recent sellers. I think the top spots included Super Bomberman 2, Civilization, Sentinel, Robotron, Micro Machines, Virtua Racing, Street Fighter 2, and of course Mario and Zelda and Tetris. Heck, they even threw in a couple Infocom text adventures just for kicks.

If I want to read a "best games ever" list, I want something like that, something a little more diverse, something that makes me want to pull out the older games just to see what the fuss is about. The newest Edge issue? A nice publicity stunt, and should sell some magazines. That's really what it's all about.

Has anyone ever compiled all the various best-of lists from the various magazines? It'd be interesting to see how things stack up.