Bartimaeus

I know it's a little confusing because it has 64 in the title, but Quest 64 is actually in first place! @Algroth: Yeah, I hate all that crap littering cover art (video games, music, films, whatever). Then you throw in the low availability of decent quality scans on top of it... And yep, actual artistic pieces instead of just plain in-game shots tend to age the best. Decent game artwork became a bit of a last...er...art for a while there, but I think it's been coming back for a while now. Also, what the heck is that Tetris cover? I mean, really. Here's the Tetris soundtrack cover: Why didn't they use something like this?

There's a few different categories here: ones that are good or at least decent for some reason or another (visually striking and/or giving an accurate/good impression of the game for the most part), and then there are ones that are just poorly composed, ones that are simply dull as could be, and ones that don't give any sort of meaningful impression of the game...and then there are the ones that fall into two or all three of those categories. So far, I think the worst of the bunch are Goldeneye, The Longest Journey (good lord those early 3D graphics did not age well), Dragon's Dogma (could you get any more boring than this?), Tetris, The Pandora Directive, and maybe Grim Dawn. Bloodborne bothers me a bit, too, because it would've been much better without that dummy right in the middle of an otherwise mildly interesting-looking composition - with his back turned, no less. I guess that sort of thing is an industry standard now, though...

This guy gets it. If you look at the latest category (Whoa Dude 2.0), two totally unknown indie games called Luna and CPU Invaders, with 13 and 78 reviews on Steam respectively (and with no presence on any other platform from what I can tell), somehow were nominated by popular vote. Pretty sure it's been gamed in some manner, and I'm kind of shocked Valve did not see it. The good ol' hands-off approach strikes again... As for the new results...Hm, I'm constantly surprised Titan Quest gets as much love as it has over the years, given its terrible initial release and the fact that it was...uh, kind of mediocre, it seemed to me. And I say that as someone who loves the Greek mythological setting... Besides that, I should play Thief someday.

Well, Falcons won anyways, but if they hadn't, Blair Walsh missing another game-winning FG would've been a pretty hilarious way to end the season, too.

Yeah, it's just that kind of game. Glad you enjoyed it like everyone else here did!!

I went into it expecting to at least sort of like it. I was very wrong - I was shocked by how wrong I was, actually. I watched it when I was kid (probably around 3-4), and had fragments of memories from it. All the main characters not named Willow* were utterly awful cringe-inducers that just would not stop. The other miscellaneous characters were fine, like the other halflings (I actually had a pretty good impression of this movie right up until Val Kilmer appeared, which caused it to dip some, and then the introduction of the two micro-Jar Jar Binks caused it to drop through the floor and down into the mantle of the Earth, and then it dropped even a little more on top of that when the evil queen's daughter started doing...whatever it is she was doing in this movie - though by this time, the movie had already completely lost me and I was just torturing myself by continuing to sit through it). At a few points in the movie, I literally physically covered up my eyes and plugged my ears because I was in so much pain that I just couldn't take it anymore. I also watched The Brave Little Toaster (1987 - another movie I watched probably around the same time as Willow and wanted a refresher on). Weird and somewhat trippy cartoon movie, but I thought it was pretty decent. (edit): and whatever the baby's name was, I forget it: she was fine, too.

Willow (1988). Some okay parts interrupted too often by the endless stream of awful garbage that was this movie. Really terrible.

Yeah, and the funny thing is, I'm not really much into casual games at all (either as a genre, or as a method of playing). However, I do think there is a sort of beauty in something so simple: turn it on and immediately start playing with some decent music to go along with it, no complications. A bit like Solitaire or Mahjong in that regard, except faster-paced. If it were a game installed by default on Windows, I'd probably play it every once in a while while waiting for something to complete.

Uh, whoops, my sort of whimsical final vote for Tetris actually helped get it a place on this list. Not that it's totally undeserved (seeing as it's sort of the - or at least a - grandfather of casual games), but still. (edit): Also, games I considered voting for but decided against for various reasons that have currently shown up on this list: Majora's Mask, Hitman: Blood Money, Super Smash Bros., and Super Meat Boy, The latter two because I decided I simply didn't enjoy them enough for them to be deserving, the former two because while I did really enjoy them, MM had too many problems (especially for a game that was almost entirely recycled from bits and pieces of Ocarina of Time) to be deserving while Blood Money always had sort of that incomplete experience feeling to it (in its case, it was mechanically very satisfying, but lacking most everywhere else).

How so? Anyhow, the higher we go in the list, the more the points will make a difference. Right now all games have been voted by only two users out of the 39 who've taken part, so plenty are bound to gather together. I think we would've had less ties if some of us lazy folks (e.g. myself) had been more dedicated to assigning proper point values.

Yes, I just couldn't help myself: I was so stunned and overwhelmed by literally everyone voting for Quest 64, and everyone giving it all 100 of their points on top of it! (...While, uh, apparently still scrounging up some extra points somehow for all the other games.) I'm sorry: I just had to let everyone know that their favorite game had indeed won.

O.K., so I'm starting to get the feeling that some of us should've taken the points system a little more seriously.

And the results are in! Here is your #1 game of all time, Obsidian forums! 1= Quest 64 (1998) Developed by Imagineer Published by THQ Votes: 36 Points: 3600 Voters: algroth (100), Bartimaeus (100), Leferd (100), Raithe (100), Katphood (100), redneckdevil (100), Pidesco (100), IndiraLightfoot (100), eimatshya (100), Fenixp (100), ShadySands (100), Hurlshot (100), Keyrock (100), Tigranes (100), SonicMage117 (100), evilcat (100), Epaminondas (100), Amentep (100), TrueNeutral (100), Zoraptor (100), Malcador (100), injurai (100), marelooke (100), Mamoulian War (100), melkathi (100), Jozape (100), Humanoid (100), Fiasco (100), ZyroMane (100), Huinehtar (100), Wormerine (100), Messier-31 (100), Azdeus (100), blotter (100), FlintlockJazz (100), SadExchange (100) I'd like to congratulate you all for picking the perfect game to conclude this wonderful series by algroth! Truly, no game deserved it more than Quest 64. The thread is now done and there's nothing left to discuss, so uh, we can just, you know, close this down now. Yeah.

​Yeah, I wrote about it probably a month ago: played it for the first time with a friend in the co-op mode, and we were not impressed. The hitboxes-staggering dichotomy was one that they, uh, really got wrong, probably because they made it a dichotomy at all when they really shouldn't have. Would've been fairly easy to solve if they had just made it so that only attacks over a certain stamina level caused staggering (or over a certain health percentage of the enemy, or...anything but what they did with the magically disappearing and inconsistent hitboxes).

If you look very closely at my list, you can see the telltale signs of a truly vengeful ne'er-do-well who very specifically chose games to spite our dear SonicMage (...ignore that we apparently actually had a game in common, from what I'm seeing of his list right now).

wow, hard to believe this many games tied for #94

I remember when I first played DS1, I never used the kick or jump attack attack because I was using a cheap Logitech controller that just would not do it more than 25% of the time. Later, I went to an Xbox 360 controller and it become way, way easier to do consistently (although still not quite perfectly consistent).

It was either him or Eddie Lacy. Your team's brass went with Eddie Lacy.

Talk about an impact player. Only QB to have a passer rating >=100 against the Jaguars this season.

hell of a way to end a season, dem crapboys (e): rofl, kicking a FG on second down and MISSING it, even better.

And a very merry new year to you, too!

Meanwhile, your list very nearly forced me to make Hitman: Blood Money my final entry...but alas, I felt the game had one too many flaws to be deserving.

Looking through everyone else's lists, I would like to amend mine with a final 5 games to bring up my total count to 25. My original list was this: ​Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (2000) - BioWare The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998) - Nintendo Undertale (2015) - Toby Fox S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl (2007) - GSC Game World MOTHER aka Earthbound Beginnings/Zero (1989) - Ape Banjo-Kazooie (1998) - Rare Diablo II (2000) - Blizzard North Dark Souls (2011) - FromSoftware Planescape: Torment (1999) - Black Isle Studios Terranigma (1995) - Quintet Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy Kong's Quest (1995) - Rare Bloodborne (2015) - FromSoftware MOTHER 2 aka Earthbound (1994) - Ape Half-Life (1998) - Valve Corporation Portal (2007) - Valve Corporation Super Mario World (1990) - Nintendo Age of Empires II (1999) - Ensemble Studios Neverwinter Nights II: Mask of the Betrayer (2007) - Obsidian Entertainment Life Is Strange (2015) - Dontnod Entertainment Super Mario Bros. 2 (Japan) aka Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (USA) (1986) - Nintendo ...and these are my final 5: Faster Than Light (2012) - Subset Games Papers, Please (2013) - 3909 LLC WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos (2002) - Blizzard Entertainment The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1991) - Nintendo ...Dang it, I can't think of a final game. Give it to...uh...screw it, give it to Tetris (whateveryear) - the developer.

Yep.

The primary differences are supposed to be viewing angles and colors.