Be Excellent To Each Other

Can people follow Lave's example and give me numbers as well as names, so I can scroll less? Ta!

I'll give FF7 to Grim..., on the grounds of his long history of defending the hateful rubbish on the forum.

Oh, can we have more than one? In that case, I could do SWOS and Half-Life, too.

I don't see why not, if more than one person desperately wants to do one particular game I'm sure we can sort it out.

And because he said about it on Friday, along with the article idea

888 Bananas

Fuck it, now I've triggered banana subtitles.

[rummages around for off key]

Chinny, you might want to make the first post link to viewtopic.php?p=258007#p258007 instead of dupe the content. Unless you're planning on cut/pasting it a lot as I update.

Maybe we should just make the admins reassign the first post to me so I can edit it? Don't wanna tread on your toes though.

wouldn't mind doing swos, advance wars and ouendan

If nobody else wants to do them, I'll do -

7. OutRun 2/2006: Coast 2 Coast/Online Arcade [3] - 30 *
10. Doom - 27
31. Crackdown - 12
35. Grand Theft Auto Series (3D Versions) - 11.5 *

If anyone else wants to do any or all of them, that's fine by me.

If you can beat me over two legs at SWOS, I'll let you do it.

Hah! That's an excellent way to settle it!

The Rev writing about Outrun is an ace choice. He can really right good text about racing games. As his super nerdy blog attests.

(You going to make me buy fuel by he way! )

I now i'm late to the party, but merging votes for Final Fantasy VII or monkey island (or any adventure/RPG) is incredibly stupid

EDIT: Or Zelda. I voted for Wind Waker and i cannot accept the fact that this have counted for Ocarina of Time

can I do 6 - Goldeneye and 33 - Perfect Dark please? That's if there's write ups available for them?!?

Yup.

All volunteers for writups are listed here. If a game has no name next to it, then it's still free for people to write.

Actually.. I missed this one, but could I do Street Fighter as well please? I'm not sure I can squeeze my love for it into one paragraph AND include the fact it came out on the Spectrum but I'll give it a go!

I'll have a bash with...

18. Ico - 21

I can write Heroes of Might and Magic 3....and humm.....Final Fantasy VII???

Just a quick query but are we planning on doing this annually? It could work out with new people joining the forum, people leaving, all those people that didn't post this time and new games being released!

Plus.. it should be easire as we've got the rules set out now haven't we?

That's the plan. The real validity will come to see how games do year to year.

Awesome! I'd like to think that my list won't change that much in a year, but it'd be fun to see what I think.. if only I could phone myself in a years time and ask what I think. I need a future phone!!

Considering that Pirates! was my number one pick and the sole reason it's on the list at all, I suppose I'd better writ dat shit bitch.

Just as I was gonna buy a fackin' PS3.


I was shocked by that too.

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May I 'do' Mario Kart please? It's the only unbaggsied game that I'm comfortable enough with writing about.

And on the bench for SFII, should anything 'happen' to TheVision. Ta.

I think I'm responsible for King's Bounty being in there so I'm happy to write some bollocks about that.

I'd be happy to do the write-ups for Shenmue and/or Fallout 3, and even though I didn't vote for it, I'm sure I could manage to say some nice things about the most therapeutic game in the world: Transport Tycoon. That said, I realise I'm just a lowly lurker, and I don't want to step on any toes, so if anyone is aching to write those up I'll be able to live with being displaced.

Also, PLEASE take Malc's advice for the scoring system next year. It makes huge amounts of sense if you stop and think about it. How many people truly thought that their first-placed game was ten times better than their tenth placed game? I certainly didn't- and think a list which puts more emphasis on the number of separate votes each game receives instead of where they placed 1-10 will reflect the tastes of the forum more accurately.


Oh, and I forgot to ask last few times I posted: am I REALLY the only person here who thinks Tetris needs to be counted among the best games ever made?

Has anyone volunteered to write about Bubble Bobble yet? If not I would like to give it a crack.

Should just mention this for the writers....

The games indicated with a star had votes contributed towards them from other games in the series. So when writing a review you might want to mention why the title is the standout version or even if other games in the series are worth checking out.

So, like the PS2, and the XBox (and the PC) which had the full, authentic arcade version released for them.

Edit -- hmm, I have missed some posts from people. Stand by for update.

Don't worry about that! I've put you down for all three. If anyone else wants to write one or more of them, we'll flip a coin or something, or spread it around so everyone writes about the same amount.

Right, I still need volunteers for the following games:

(DG) 1. Resident Evil 4 - 46.5 *
8. Wario Ware - 30
9. Super Mario Galaxy - 28.25 *
(DG) 11. Elite - 26
12. Civilisation IV - 25.25 *
(DG) 16. Rock Band/Rock Band 2 - 22
17 Zelda: Ocarina of Time - 21.25 *
22. Baldurs Gate 2 - 17
(DG) 23. Chaos - 16
28. Animal Crossing - 13
32. Gravity Power - 12
(DG) 34. Deus Ex - 12
37. Championship Manager 01/02 - 10
39. Landstalker - 10
40. Samurai Warriors 2 Empires - 10
41. World Of Warcraft - 10
42. Hypersports - 10
(DG) 44. EvE Online - 10
46. Quake - 10
(DG) 50. Syndicate - 9

(DG) prefixed before the game means I would be comfortable writing that one if no-one else comes forward.

List of volunteers I've had so far.

Can we get Comical to do number 44?

I'll do the EvE one if you want. i've got the original forum post open in a text editor at present, with the intention of tidying it, adding to it, etc, but it's just sitting there. how many words do you want?

Just a paragraph for most of the games. Chinny suggested that EvE get a longer writeup which I agree with -- with two MMOs, one should get a longer bit, and WoW is boringly conventional. Plus EvE is the modern inheritor of Elite and Elite is also in the list. Even so though, I'd say only a few paragraphs.

Good luck summing EvE up in a few hundred words

Any deadline? it's not as if I'm terribly busy right now.

Mr Chris just volunteered to do Baldur's Gate 2.

Oh go on, add 28 - Animal Crossing to my list.

I'd like to get them all done over the next week or so. That should be OK.

Dude, I'm going to need a few hundred words just to explain why the fuck we're lumping the FF series into one game.

I think the top 10 can run out a bit longer, if people feel they need it. And certainly the top five.

Edit -- it's not that I'm concerned about any writeup being too long, more that I don't want anyone to feel they have to write a lot. If you want to write more than a paragaph I think that's OK as long as no-one goes nuts and starts sending me 10,000 word essays.

[starts whistling "Somewhere Over The Rainbow"]

The full arcade gameplay is available on home formats. Indeed, home formats which people are more likely to have, rather than turning to emulation (which if they're going to do, then the arcade version is available)

Things like the Amiga and spectrums versions do not have the same gameplay as the arcade original. Hardware constraints stopped that being possible.

[continues whistling "Somewhere Over The Rainbow"]

I'm already getting PMs with writeups from people. A few authors have asked about the personal vs informative balance of the piece. I think I'd lean on the personal side. After all, people could go to Wikipedia if they wanted the facts; what I think we should convey is a passion for the game, and that comes from the personal angle. Obviously you do need to sketch out what sort of game it is and stuff, but I think the personal angle should be foremost. Convince me I should play that 15 year old game because it's vitally important or just huge fun.

With that in mind, in the writeups, each game will of course be subtitled by who contributed that writeup.

I wish to be known as Chinny Pillar. Halfway through we'll change it and deny I'm the same person.


Not really.

+ we need an "Arnie Speaks" boxout. Natch.

I'll take Chaos off your hands DG unless you especially wanted to do its write-up?

Nope, the DG ones are the reserve list, as it were.

It did occur to me that we might not be worthy to review these games. But no fear, I introduce to you the (Linda Barker - Ed) Ouija Board. Yes we can ask the spirit of (Linda Barker - Ed) to rate each game in the top 50.

[lights dim]

So, spirit of (Linda - Ed), what do you think of our top 50?

Empire have published a voted-for "top 100" games ever list, which interesting also puts FFVII at number 2: http://www.empireonline.com/100greatest ... lt.asp?p=2

If we did a Top 50 worst games ever, where would FFVII place, do you think?

someone someday may have to explain to me the Linda Barker jokes