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[Jorji Costava]

The two games that I go back and forth on are Super Metroid and Planescape: Torment. Super Metroid is about as close to a perfect game as I've ever played. Seriously, what are that game's flaws? I can't really think of anything I'd change about it. Even the glitches I wouldn't change; a lot of them are exploitable in speed runs, which have dramatically increased the game's replayability.

 

I don't think Planescape: Torment is perfect; some aspects seem a bit unfinished or unpolished (for instance, what the heck was going on with Fall From Grace's diary? It's a Chekhov's gun that was never fired). But its high points are a bit higher than Super Metroid's highpoints IMO. I think of PS:T as being for games what Watchmen was for graphic novels; like Watchmen, it challenges and subverts a lot of the conventions of its genre. It's a fantasy RPG with hardly any swords, no elves, no dwarves, no castles, etc. Your character isn't trying to save the world--in fact, his existence is probably a cancer on the world. Experience can be gained in very large chunks just by talking to your companions. And the game's handling of character death (both as a mechanic and as a narrative device) is as imaginative as any game I've seen.

[DeckardWasAReplicant]

The two games that I go back and forth on are Super Metroid and Planescape: Torment. Super Metroid is about as close to a perfect game as I've ever played. Seriously, what are that game's flaws? I can't really think of anything I'd change about it. Even the glitches I wouldn't change; a lot of them are exploitable in speed runs, which have dramatically increased the game's replayability.

 

I don't think Planescape: Torment is perfect; some aspects seem a bit unfinished or unpolished (for instance, what the heck was going on with Fall From Grace's diary? It's a Chekhov's gun that was never fired). But its high points are a bit higher than Super Metroid's highpoints IMO. I think of PS:T as being for games what Watchmen was for graphic novels; like Watchmen, it challenges and subverts a lot of the conventions of its genre. It's a fantasy RPG with hardly any swords, no elves, no dwarves, no castles, etc. Your character isn't trying to save the world--in fact, his existence is probably a cancer on the world. Experience can be gained in very large chunks just by talking to your companions. And the game's handling of character death (both as a mechanic and as a narrative device) is as imaginative as any game I've seen.

Thats because super metroid is perfect.

[B.A. Broska]

Deserves a nomination.

 

I just played the remaster not long ago and I must admit I don't quite get it, I mean I absolutely love the premise and the setting (I mean who would have thought that a film noir Casablanca-esque setting and the Aztec land of the dead mythos would work so well together?) but I just felt a lot of the scenes could have been better set up and it felt like a lot of the story was missing, I mean as I was playing I honestly felt like there was something wrong with my game and important sections and cutscenes were not playing for some reason, it was only after I did a quick check of a lets play of the original that I realized that is just how the game was. I also felt a lot of the puzzles made no real sense, sort of in the vein of "how the hell was I supposed to know to do that".

 

In the end the game just left me wondering if there was something I was missing?

[B.A. Broska]

Ridiculous question IMO. it's one thing to say GOTY, another to say your "top ten" or whatever that thread was a week or so back, but of all time? (OF ALL TIME!)

 

First off, we have no way of knowing if a new game will come in and blow something away. Second, there are games that are outstanding, the absolute pinnacle of their kind, but they really aren't comparable. Myst and Final Fantasy 13 aren't really comparable. Call of Duty and SimCity 4 aren't really comparable.

 

Games can be magnificent in ways that are completely unique, and there can be multiple that all have a different but equally strong impact on a person.

 

No questioning the thread, we are deciding the greatest game of all time and the final answer shall be indisputable, if any games come out after the decision is made then it is their own fault for not being released earlier and they must bow to the one true master of the Gamerverse.

[A Crusty Knight Of Colour]

Rome: Total War.

[Dean_the_Young]

I'm a sucker for Zelda: Majora's Mask. It's probably my favorite adventure game of all, and I love how the 'earn your happy ending' mood works with the time-travel/reset that makes any victory transitory until the end. It makes 'winning' a struggle through the end, rather than a one-way path of constantly overcoming evils that never reassert themselves.

 

I'm actually planning on starting a new playthrough in which I'll do my personal Zelda hardcore mode- avoiding hearts, healing only from potions or faeries captured, and buying all my supplies rather than looting them from pots or grass.

[mousestalker]

Obv. this

[Dominus]

I also felt a lot of the puzzles made no real sense, sort of in the vein of "how the hell was I supposed to know to do that".

I think that killed it for me above all else. Even Tim himself mentioned retrospectively in the commentary that a couple of those were likely too obtuse of logic for the player, one of which comes way way late in the game. Were it not for the GameFAQs walkthrough, I'd have never finished that in a million years.

Planescape: Torment.

A contender for best video game story of all time.

VTMB

Twas my runner up, admittedly.

OF ALL TIME!(Brood War)

I liked the story a great deal better than the original, the original campaign was a bit too cut-and-dry(besides one story twist) and a few too many of the objectives lacked creativity. I tend to prefer that game more for its multiplayer Build-And-Build-And-Then-Kill-Stuff than the story.

[Laamaa]

Neverwinter Nights for me. Mods included obvs.

[Seraphim24]

So....

 

What's the verdict? You could edit and put a poll perhaps?

[Sully13]

LIES ALL LIES. REVOLUTION 60 AND DEPRESSION QUEST ARE THE BEST.

[B.A. Broska]

So....

 

What's the verdict? You could edit and put a poll perhaps?

 

Yeah was just about to do that when BiowareMod03 decided to hand out a ban for reasons undecipherable to anyone but itself. Do the moderators get brownie points for every ban they hand out or is it just a power trip thing?

 

Regardless the OP has now been edited with a poll, the top 10 games of each bracket will be combined into one final poll to decide the greatest game of all time once and for all!

[A Crusty Knight Of Colour]

Welp, I put my votes in.

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

Where's Grimoire?

[Seraphim24]

Yeah was just about to do that when BiowareMod03 decided to hand out a ban for reasons undecipherable to anyone but itself. Do the moderators get brownie points for every ban they hand out or is it just a power trip thing?

 

Regardless the OP has now been edited with a poll, the top 10 games of each bracket will be combined into one final poll to decide the greatest game of all time once and for all!

 

Eh it's ok I've got a few warning points for reasons that I never completely understood, join the party I guess. I'll go ahead and vote too now I guess.

[TheChris92]

Well, now I kinda regret not mentioning any contenders myself. Guess I'll cast my vote for Masquerade and Grim Fandango then.

[bEVEsthda]

I thought it would be hard to vote. Difficult to choose something above other. It wasn't. I was so happy to see two game titles tower above all the rest.

VTMB and Morrowind of course.