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    Default 10 best games of the last 10 years, yahoo news

    I thought this was fairly interesting:

    http://us.i1.yimg.com/videogames.yah...decade/1175626

    Gran Turismo over Final Fantasy VII? I don't know about that...

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    Quote Originally Posted by mrmark0673 View Post
    Gran Turismo over Final Fantasy VII? I don't know about that...
    What about Goldeneye too?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nintendork View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by mrmark0673
    Gran Turismo over Final Fantasy VII? I don't know about that...
    What about Goldeneye too?
    What about Goldeneye too?
    Eh, come on, it's Yahoo. I wouldn't trust their opinion on video games as far I could throw their whole server farm. For all we know, this is just based on sales records and that's it.

    For the record, though, I don't think I agree with a single game on that list.

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    What a great gaming year 2004 was...
    and I've never even played WoW...

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    Quote Originally Posted by WiseSalesman View Post
    I don't think I agree with a single game on that list.
    The only game I agree with is "1998 - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time." However, Rayman 2: The Great Escape should've been a runner-up.

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    Bah....

    No Half-Life or Half-Life 2??

    The only game on that list I agree on is RE4.

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    I think it is quite obvious to everyone here that Yahoo is just living up to its namesake with that incredibly clueless list of games. That list just says "yes, I have been hanging out on the gamefaqs boards for the last ten years."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rob2600 View Post
    The only game I agree with is "1998 - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time." However, Rayman 2: The Great Escape should've been a runner-up.
    See, I love Ocarina, but I'd rank both Half-life and MGS above it. All excellent games, though. Just personal preference really.

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    Not a great list but not a bad read either. I wouldn't have gone with Gran Turismo for 1997, but I wouldn't have went with the overrated FFVII either.

    My pick would have been Goldeneye.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WiseSalesman View Post
    See, I love Ocarina, but I'd rank both Half-life and MGS above it. All excellent games, though. Just personal preference really.
    As a musician, I really appreciate and enjoy the way music was incorporated into the gameplay in Ocarina of Time. It was brilliant. The graphics were fantastic, too.

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    Why are so many upset that FFVII didn't end up on that list? I'm glad it's not there.
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    Quote Originally Posted by vintagegamecrazy View Post
    Why are so many upset that FFVII didn't end up on that list? I'm glad it's not there.
    No kidding... Not to mention it's 11 years old.

    And yahoo must have forgotten... Until The Sims broke the record, Half Life 1 was the top selling PC game of all time. And it's doing fairly well, 9 years later.

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    Quote Originally Posted by diskoboy View Post
    No kidding... Not to mention it's 11 years old.
    10 by my count. Unless you're referring to the Japanese release...
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    It's kind of fitting that they started at 1997, since that's about the time I stopped using or paying attention to Yahoo! for anything.

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    "Other games of the year: Everquest, System Shock 2, Half-Life: Counter-Strike, Unreal Tournament, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Soul Calibur"

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    Uhm, SC > THPS.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fuzzball24
    "Other games of the year: Everquest, System Shock 2, Half-Life: Counter-Strike, Unreal Tournament, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Soul Calibur"

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    Uhm, SC > THPS.
    Well if we're going on opinion System Shock 2 owns all of them, but that's beside the point. Why on at least two occasions do they try to use "it launched a successful series later" to qualify average-to-decent games as best of that year? And what's with this unnatural boner they seem to have for all online games?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rob2600 View Post
    As a musician, I really appreciate and enjoy the way music was incorporated into the gameplay in Ocarina of Time. It was brilliant. The graphics were fantastic, too.
    I totally get that (I'm actually a musician as well ... or at least I like to pretend I am).

    For whatever reason, MGS was the first game that ever really offered me a storyline that I felt was as immersing as any good movie or book. I never cared for the traditional "great game storylines". For instance, when Aeris died? I could not have cared less. I felt she was one-dimensional and boring, and that I never got to really know her, if there was even anything to know. But when Meryl was pinned down by the sniper - or when Snake was forced to endure torture to save her life? I felt more tense, like it was important that I keep her alive, because she and the Colonel were developed enough to feel more like real people for me. I even felt a little bit for Sniper Wolf when she died. That's why I like that one.

    Half-Life, for me, was all about atmosphere. Again, it was an immersion thing. I felt like I was actually there, since the game felt so incredibly detailed to me at the time, and the AI was so advanced. Many times, the enemies would pull some crazy maneuver that I was sure had to be scripted. Then, I would die and play through the area again, and it would happen differently. I think they did a good job, with very minimal dialogue, of giving you an idea what was going on, and keeping you on your toes and freaked out. Also, the game is a triumph of player insertion. I can't think of a single game - maybe Bioshock - where its felt more like the character WAS the player, and not some third party simply being controlled by the player. The only complaint I have against the game lies with the last level, and anyone who's played through it knows exactly what I mean.

    To be honest, I'm sure Ocarina got more play-time from me than either of them and, while it's not my favorite Zelda game, it's definitely up there.. I did EVERYTHING in that game, and getting that last bottle was a real bitch, too.
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