[QUOTE="Disturbed_King"] I don't know if I'm simply overreacting, or is it just me, or am I seeing lately on a lot of threads and a few YouTube videos that have a "top games of all time" or whatever in them and about 95% of the comments/replies to the videos and/or forum threads have all modern games on their list. But that's not all. What's also weird that I noticed is that the lists with all modern games in them tend to get the most in-depth conversations and/or intense arguments, while the lists with classics included (which are the accurate ones in my opinion), get completely ignored.
I mean seriously, what's wrong with today's generation of gaming? While I'm only 15 (and turning 16 in several days), I started playing games when I was 3 or 4 and I remember the first game I played being either Super Mario World or Mario Kart for the SNES. And eventually I got an N64, and I enjoyed that a LOT. But it seems now of days that a vast majority of today's gamers seem to believe that games started out on PS2 (and that's also the system they all started on as well, and most of the "modern gamers" started gaming only several years ago). But anyways, if you're curious to see my top 10 games of all time list, here it is (it has accuracy in it, I never judge by if it's modern or old, I judge by what I think is the best of all games):
1) Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
2) Doom
3) Metroid Prime
4) Super Mario World
5) Super Mario Bros. 3
6) Oblivion
7) Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
8 ) Donkey Kong Country
9) Half Life 2
10) Banjo Kazooie
Well, that's my offical list as of right now, but it's subject to a few changes later on. But now onto the question: Why are most of the people who play games today so ignorant and show absolutely no appreciation for the C*assics? Afterall, a lot of C*ssics such as Doom ended up influencing the production of games such as the Call of Duty series, Halo series, etc. (just showing an example, there are a ton of other influential games out there).
P.S. I had to censor the letter "l" in c*assics because GameSpot is telling me about some forbidden HTML error in using that word.
nopalversion
It's all a matter of perspective. For someone who has gamed for 20+ years, your list is way too recent.
As a 20+ yr gamer myself I agree. With the greatest games of all time you'd have to start with the Atari and work your way forward. Each console created something new and inventive that spawned something Else.
You'd have to start with games like Pac man and Galaga. Move up to Tetris, Contra, Castlevania. To half life, Tomb Raider, Resident evil, Castle wolfenstein, Move foward another generation from there.
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