The 50 Greatest Video Games of All Time
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From 'Super Mario' to 'Grand Theft Auto,' these are the titles that have defined gaming in pop culture.
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No no no NO. do. NOT fucking don’t give this any views.

This list was GPT generated. Look at the list that it gave me when I asked GPT 4o for a list…it’s 85% the fucking same:

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Creating a definitive list of the top 50 best games of all time can be subjective, as it often depends on personal preferences and experiences. However, I can provide you with a list that includes many games frequently celebrated for their impact, innovation, and popularity:

  1. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
  2. Super Mario Bros.
  3. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
  4. Red Dead Redemption 2
  5. The Last of Us
  6. Tetris
  7. Final Fantasy VII
  8. Halo: Combat Evolved
  9. Grand Theft Auto V
  10. Minecraft
  11. Super Mario 64
  12. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
  13. Dark Souls
  14. Half-Life 2
  15. Metal Gear Solid
  16. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
  17. Portal 2
  18. World of Warcraft
  19. Chrono Trigger
  20. Bioshock
  21. Mass Effect 2
  22. Super Metroid
  23. Resident Evil 4
  24. Doom (1993)
  25. Street Fighter II
  26. Pokémon Red/Blue
  27. Undertale
  28. Shadow of the Colossus
  29. God of War (2018)
  30. Silent Hill 2
  31. Journey
  32. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
  33. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
  34. Diablo II
  35. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
  36. Bloodborne
  37. Final Fantasy VI
  38. Super Mario Galaxy
  39. Civilization V
  40. StarCraft
  41. The Sims
  42. League of Legends
  43. Pac-Man
  44. Assassin’s Creed II
  45. Fortnite
  46. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
  47. Celeste
  48. Monster Hunter: World
  49. Animal Crossing: New Horizons
  50. Hades

This list includes a mix of classics and modern titles across various genres and platforms. Each of these games has left a significant mark on the gaming world in its own way.

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Someone has never read a Rolling Stones best of list before.

They were upsetting people over how they ranked music for decades before ChatGPT was available.

Here’s a thread where people are bitching about them in the same year ChatGPT was released. They’re talking about prior lists, so they’re not talking about AI generated ones. This has been an issue with Rolling Stone for literally decades. Everyone hates their best-of lists.

https://old.reddit.com/r/LetsTalkMusic/comments/fol2rk/why_are_rolling_stone_lists_taken_seriously/

I’m gonna get tired real quick of this “everything is AI and you shouldn’t engage with it” take. If you can’t handle it, get off the fucking internet and go touch grass.


EDIT: Further, each section of the article, about 2-3 paragraphs per game has a human author listed.

Let’s just keep pretending that nobody gets paid for this kind of thing and make sure that nobody gets paid by lying and saying it’s all AI anyway, leading it to all eventually become AI anyway because everyone stopped fucking reading.

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This will happen for every “best of” list. It’s why Giant Bomb always includes the deliberations, so you can hear how they arrived there.

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Each game literally has two or three paragraphs dedicated to why it was chosen with the human authors name credited at the end of each game section.

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Yeah, but how do I know they’re not AIs with human names? /s

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I would need more evidence to conclude that the list was generated using AI.

I don’t think there’s much argument over the merit of each of these games. Most “best games of all time” lists would have these games. I think it’s natural that critically acclaimed and widely beloved games show up on both the Rolling Stone’s list and in GPT 4o’s training data.

I can understand arguments regarding the order of their list however. That was my intention when submitting the link – to stir up discussion regarding the order they chose for the games.

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It looks like Rolling Stone included Baulders Gate 3.

That game is recent enough that it hasn’t qualified for Wikipedia’s List of video games considered the best yet.

Wikipedia’s list requires an entry feature on 6 different publications’ “best of” lists so that implies RS may have applied some and haven’t just cribbed directly.

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For anyone else interested it looks like RS was the 6th list including these three titles so they have now been added over on Wikipedia:

  • Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater
  • Celeste
  • Animal Crossing: New Horizons

I’m a little shocked THPS wasn’t already there.

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