Hi guys. The fourth in a not so new and disastrous series shamelessly stolen from the Guardian, as per DrownedInSound’s Best Things of the 21st Century! .
Results so far
I think someone asked about games, so lets do those this week
How it works:
- You rank the best 2, 5, 10 or 20 (or whatever number it seems) Videogames of this century so far in order.
- Post them in here or DM them to me by 9am next Monday
- Please don’t abbreviate the titles.
- I’ll do some mathematical gubbins and produce the definitive DiS best Videogames of this century!
Rules:
- For the purposes of these lists, the year 2000 is included in the 21st century. Yes, I know it’s not technically correct, no I don’t care that it’s making your eye twitch.
- For a game to qualify, it should have originally been released in the UK market on or after 1st January 2000.
- Remasters on new consoles don’t count as new releases - the original release date counts. This means no Ocarina of Time despite the 3DS remaster.
- Where you’re nominating something from a regular franchise, please try and pick an individual game (e.g. FIFA 18, not simply FIFA).
- I reserve the right to make utterly arbitrary decisions over whether a game qualifies or to group what you’ve listed mainly on the basis of what I think will irritate the most people.
Go!
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I enjoy playing and talking about video games and look forward to participating in this thread
It’s going to be hard to narrow it down to a specific edition of CM/FM
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I hate playing and talking about video games and will be posting 100+ responses in this thread
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Right, I’m gonna be the idiot who posts a list early and spends the rest of the day ruing all the games I forgot. You can’t stop me.
- Dark Souls
- Ninja Gaiden Black
- Portal
- Arkham Asylum
- The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2
- Fallout: New Vegas
- Street Fighter IV
- Rocket League
- Knights of the Old Republic
- Tony Hawks Pro Skater 4
- Pro Evolution Soccer 5
- Monster Hunter: World
- Left 4 Dead
- Hotline Miami
- Eternal Darkness
- Resident Evil 4
- Halo: Combat Evolved
- Kentucky Route Zero
- Hollow Knight
I’ve only picked one game per series because I like arbitrary rules and unfortunately I couldn’t settle on one Champ Man game so ended up leaving it out altogether. Sorry.
Now let the regretting commence!
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What I’m taking from this Ant is that Horse hates you with a passion.
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that’s the curse of consistency I’m afraid. In terms of hours played it’s a combined no. 1 but I’ve no idea which one was best. It think it’s ultimately the people’s champ if that helps?
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I haven’t played that many games in the 21st century - a few games passionately at uni and just before, then none until this year when I got a Switch. So I’ll keep this nice and tight (unless other people remind me of stuff).
1.The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
2. Celeste
3. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
4. Mario Kart Double Dash
5. Timesplitters 2
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Me, my brother and cousin would play death matches for hours on end.
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Lol my top 2 are both gonna be from 2000
[checks launch date of Beehive Bedlam]
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- The Sims 3
- Super Smash Bros Melee
- Championship Manager 00/01
- Guitar Hero 3
- Tiger Woods PGA Tour 02/03
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
- Simpsons Hit and Run
- The Sims 2
- Super Monkey Ball
- Pacman World 2
I’m really tempted to troll by listing a bunch of Neopets games but I am not going to do that. Can you tell I mostly played video games in 2002/03 on the GameCube?
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Also, Super Smash Bros Melee is fucking brilliant and Marth is my computer animated boyfriend.
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Oh this reminds me, @anon76851889 please add Rock Band to my list.
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I’m shite at Call of Duty but I quite enjoyed it as a shit player. Snipers are cowards, there’s nothing more adrenaline-inducingly kamikaze than running right into the thick of it spraying bullets out of your M249 Saw. What a time to be alive!!
Note: I reckon Disco Elysium would be high up on here if it had been released last year, but I don’t feel right ranking a game I haven’t finished yet.