All of GameSpot's 10/10 Review Scores

Wonderful list. I agree with the majority of the titles. People get upset that some games haven't aged as well. But the reviews are given at the time that they review the games. You can't go back and change it. Most of the time you just know that this game is special and one of the greatest I've ever played. There aren't too many like that. But I can safely say Ocarina of Time and Breath of the Wild should be on there - the enjoyment I got as a kid playing OoT with my dad helping me and then 20 years later with Breath of the Wild and getting those same feelings.

Also agree with the Witcher 3. What an adventure.

I don't think anyone could have foreseen how big GTA 5 was going to get with its online mode. At the time 4 was amazing and I understand why they chose that at the time as it followed GTA SA.

Some games dont deserve 10 point. Soul calibur is better than tekken 3 and tekken 4? Bayonetta is better than god of war 3? Tony hawks a skateboard game deserves 10? Sometimes i find pointless review in gamespot. But that doesnt brake that reality that gamespot is the best reliable place.

Except for Journey, Bayonetta 2, and Chrono Cross, I owned/have played them all. Masterpieces, indeed.

glad to see Chrono Cross on the list. thought i was the only one that liked it so much. i think it gets overshadowed by trigger and all the original fans upset that the "sequel" didn't have much to do with the original. but if you take it for it's own game, which i did as i had never played trigger before, damn is it good!!

I thought SMG2 wasn't as good as SMG1. Yoshi was fun, but SMG2 just felt like I was playing a DLC of SMG1. If SMG1 didn't get 10, I don't think SMG2 should have got a 10.

Chrono Cross was fun, but I wish the devs had spent more time on the story instead of jam-packing it all at the end in a big text wall.

I still haven't beat Witcher 3. The game just got really really old to me really fast. I got a pretty good ways through. It just got far too boring for me to finish it.

Ocarina of Time definitely deserves its 10, though.

Disappointed Skyrim and Hollow Knight aren't on there. Both games were incredible.

It's really a shame that you didn't score Skyrim in 2011 and GTA V in 2013 a solid 10. Both were amazing and corner stones in gaming (despite the technical issues in Skyrim).

GTA IV lol... That was a engine test for GTA V. And yet that soulless game got a 10...

The list oddly has more games this decade, or even the past 5 years, than any of the previous years combined. Weird. It's like they got lenient with the list the same time Nintendo got their break with the Switch. Very weird, indeed.

Think of all the games that should have gotten 10. It would be double that list at least.

I've said it so many times, and I'm still saying it. SMG2 still does not deserve a 10 as that game is to Jedi Academy while the first game is to Jedi Outcast.

Zelda Breath is a great game, a great open world action rpg, but not a Zelda game. The only Zelda game thing it has is its characters and theme, it lacks all basic elements which make a zelda game a zelda game. Don't get me wrong, its a great open world RPG, but as a Zelda game it was a big let down.

Dungeons have no keys, no key items, no unique theme, nothing, they're small generic dungeos and thats it, just to say they're there (I'm talking divine beasts), and they're only 4, and not even really mandatory. Shrines are ridiculous, a lot of easy mini games that are more annoying than anything, no complexity at all. Actually, all puzzle in both divine beasts and shrines were a big let down, very simple, not even slitly imaginative.

Getting all items considered key items, those tablet powers, was also a really bad move. I mean, you have no sense of accomplishment in the game, which you had in previous Zelda games when you got a key item and could finally explore a new area. In BOTW you get all items at the very beginning and can go anywhere, like any generic sandbox, and not how it was done in most previous zelda games. I say most because this isn't the first time they pulled this shi on us, A Link Between Worlds had the same foolish idea, and it was equally bad administrated. The thing is, even in Zelda 1 you were limited by your items, it had an open world too, but which wasn't fully available because of your inventory, which made you go after what you missed, accomplished things, get rewards, solve puzzles and push foward, all these gave a sense of growing and evolving which zelda BOTW failed to give.

Another thing that was a huge mistake is the soundtrack. Zelda was strongly related to music and to its soundtrack. It allways had themes for places, for items, for actions,which made every title unique and relatable, and also memorable, you could feel sensations and feelings related to the games but just listening to its sound track, and BOTW killed this. Sound track has been a key element in a zelda game, and turning your back on it because of "muh listen to the wild" was just a sad excuse to hide the fact that this is not a Zelda game.

Welp, I could go on with my text, but I'm done for now and I also know that nobody will care for what I wrote, people will just get defensive and try to defend the game out of fanboyism and never accept that this is not a zelda game. I just wanna finish my little text with a little reminder that zelda fans were a lot more critic before, seem like they got soft and just accept anything, since I see a very small number of actual fans speaking badly of BOTW, even with all its obvious flaws. I remember when Twiright Princesu came out and it was highly criticized, and when Wind Waka came out it was also bashed but for some reason people started liking Twirighto, and we all know Skyward was horrible, its more of a zelda game then BOTW, but still awful.

Chrono Cross a 10/10???!!! That game is LITERALLY the worst game EVER MADE!!!! ET is a MASTERPIECE compared to this game and the guy who reviewed it must have had a monetary stake in it and OBVIOUSLY never played Chrono Trigger!

Caution: take this list with a grain of salt as always

Seeing this list it's a good thing I don't watch your reviews just like igns and others. Research and common sense isn't a hardest part of this community and that is a huge problem. Most of these reviews are a joke.

When I played this game at a expo I was like this got the worse game I've ever played. I've already pre-ordered the game :( Its Nintendo what the hell give them a chance. So I brought this game and played it and you know what, its the first game that's ever made me talk to myself. What did I say?

Thank-you Nintendo for making this great game and I play a lot of the games over the years. This got to be the best damn game on the Switch

i am surprised this Mario game got a 10 as even with the pro controller the controls are rather inaccurate too often . Especially in the 2D platforming parts or having to quickly shift direction.

The camera is also often a bit strange as 3 times now it has completely blocked me from the view of my character regardless of what direction i turn it . Hoping they can fix these things in a patch soon as it is spoiling the game.

I know these things are issues in other games too but those games usually don't get a rating of 10 out of 10 so for that score i was expecting close to perfection, especially when it comes to controls.

I like the game and not just bagging it out for the sake of it , i just would have thought the controls would be much tighter than they are and the camera would have been better.

I agree with half of this list or so.

Right now, 2 years after the release, MGS5 is considered a pretty bad game, not even closely deserving a 10/10.

Funny how 2 years change the perspective.

Chrono Cross... but the biggest of all jokes is Journey, of course.

P.S. How did UC4 got a 10 over UC2? Only because that guy Mike Mahardy reviewed it.

Journey 10 out 10. I played that game literally for 2 hours and never again. Game was good, but a short game like that is not 10 out of 10 and there are better short games, like Braid, Inside and Limbo.

half these games shouldnt be on here...

and also why is shadow of the colossus not on here?

The problem is publishing this in 2017.

Most of the games listed WERE, at their respective time and context of industry standards and "gaming trends and popular game genres and mechanics" deserving their scores. But TODAY, replaying them with different (and older) eyes and tastes and sometimes experience shows how TODAY they would NOT have had their original score given to them when they were released.

There's a very, very FEW select that ARE timeless classics that are simply too important to even consider that they "deserve" any lower score. That would be Ocarina of Time for example (or MGS4 too), even if today the original N64 version looks absolutely archaic, it still PLAYS wonderfully well and its game mechanics are STILL good today, level design hasn't magically switched from genius to bad just because of time alone. The same can be said about its phenomenal Soundtrack (music is timeless, if it worked 20 years ago it's gonna work 20 years later too). And so on, and so forth; that's how TRUE classics work.

BUT... most of those games wouldn't be scored higher than 7s or 8s today. That is why so many people seem to disagree more so now than they would have even back then. I can guarantee that something like Breath of the Wild, just like Ocarina of Time, will STILL be praised 20 years from now (same with Mario Odyssey, apparently), but you won't say the same about GTAIV or some other so-called 'virtually perfect' or 'essential' games.