Rolling Stone's List of 50 Best Video Games of All Time
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In all, it is a list put together by somebody young, that really loves Nintendo, l and with limited video game history knowledge
Half the games on this list are from the 90's and were on Playstation??
They even correctly clocked that Ms. Pac-Man is actually a better game than Pac-Man.
Hell, there are only three Nintendo games in the to 10, as a reminder Tetris isn't actually a strictly Nintendo property despite being #2 in the list.
There's six fucking games in the top 10 that were all available on various generations of Playstations.
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This list was AI generated with recency bias. You're not going to get that on there.
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Someone has never read a Rolling Stones best of list before.
They were upsetting people over how they ranked music for decades before ChatGPT was available.
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This will happen for every "best of" list. It's why Giant Bomb always includes the deliberations, so you can hear how they arrived there.
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I didn't care for Disco Elysium, and my friends list is full of people who got a few hours into it like I did and then put it down. I can't say why they did, but maybe while it really landed for some people, it didn't for plenty of others. In a top 50 of all time, I'm not certain Titanfall 2 would make it for me either, as much as I did enjoy that game.
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Each game literally has two or three paragraphs dedicated to why it was chosen with the human authors name credited at the end of each game section.
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Yeah, but how do I know they're not AIs with human names? /s
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I would need more evidence to conclude that the list was generated using AI.
I don't think there's much argument over the merit of each of these games. Most "best games of all time" lists would have these games. I think it's natural that critically acclaimed and widely beloved games show up on both the Rolling Stone's list and in GPT 4o's training data.
I can understand arguments regarding the order of their list however. That was my intention when submitting the link – to stir up discussion regarding the order they chose for the games.
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Fuck yeah for Steel Battalion. With the rise of VR this would be an amazing game to come back to....too bad Capcom has no interest in it after Heavy Armor
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Heavy Armor wasn't FromSoftware's fault, it was Capcom's for forcing the Kinect as a controller. If they had made another controller for it like the first game, it definitely would have been better.
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That is heartbreaking
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People still read Rolling Stone?
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For anyone who wants this list without reading the article
::: spoiler List
50: Animal Crossing: New Horizons (2020)
49: Hades (2020)
48: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997)
47: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1992)
46: League of Legends (2009)
45: Fortnite (2017)
44: Elden Ring (2022)
43: Celeste (2018)
42: Batman: Arkham City (2011)
41: Metroid Prime (2002)
40: Chrono Trigger (1995)
39: God of War (2018)
38: Shadow of the Colossus (2005)
37: Pokémon Gold and Silver (1999)
36: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018)
35: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992)
34: Hollow Knight (2017)
33: NBA 2K11 (2010)
32: Ms. Pac-Man (1982)
31: Counter-Strike (1999)
30: Wii Sports (2006)
29: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (2009)
28: Minecraft (2011)
27: Resident Evil 4 (2005)
26: Mass Effect 2 (2010)
25: Stardew Valley (2016)
24: The Sims (2000)
23: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater (1999)
22: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007)
21: Fallout 3 (2008)
20: Mario Kart 64 (1996)
19: Baldur’s Gate 3 (2023)
18: Madden NFL 2004 (2003)
17: Diablo II (2000)
16: Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018)
15: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015)
14: Street Fighter II (1991)
13: Doom (1993)
12: World of Warcraft (2004)
11: Halo: Combat Evolved (2001)
10: Super Metroid (1994)
9: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011)
8: Final Fantasy VII (1997)
7: Metal Gear Solid (1998)
6: Half-Life 2 (2004)
5: The Last of Us (2013)
4: Super Mario World (1991)
3: Grand Theft Auto V (2013)
2: Tetris (1989)
1: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017)
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It looks like Rolling Stone included Baulders Gate 3.
That game is recent enough that it hasn't qualified for Wikipedia's List of video games considered the best yet.
Wikipedia's list requires an entry feature on 6 different publications' "best of" lists so that implies RS may have applied some and haven't just cribbed directly.
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Thank you!
