Homeworld was novel, sure, but it had no balance to the multiplayer and the campaign secretly scaled to be harder (added more ships to each mission) if you had more than a certain number of ships. Plus if you were really bad, it could become unwinnable at certain points which forced you to restart at an earlier level. And all this information was hidden from you, you had no way of knowing that because you screwed up three levels earlier you now couldn't win. It wasn't a well designed game.Homeworld was fucking amazing. I've never played a game before or since that gave me chills like that one did. It definitely deserves a place in the top 100 games of all time.
To me theres a lot of reasons to consider games best. Sometimes games are amazing just because they create or define genres, sometimes they're good because the story is amazing, and sometimes they are good just because they are mechanically engaging. It's really hard to compare games that are good for one reason against those which are good for others, and some are so objective, such as rating games by story. I thought homeworld's story and world were utterly enthralling, but I can understand that there are people out there who likely hate it.
FF tactics for example is a game that mechanically is passable, but god I got into that story so hard. Easily my favorite world of all the final fantasy games by a mile. I don't think any of their top 30 games would make my top 10 list, tbh.
Cataclysm was a great game. It certainly was better than homeworld from a -mechanics- stand point, but I truly enjoyed the way homeworld brought me into their world and kept me there. To me, the story pushed it to being the better game overall.It makes sense that Cataclysm is actually a better game, they had a chance to learn from their mistakes.
For some you may even go by sub genre. Is it really a fair to compare chrono Trigger to planetscape or BG2? Zelda-ocarina is another great game but not sure what genre to put it in.Lists like this are indeed stupid.
If there was a serious ranking it would need to be broke down in to genre, top 10 in each. Top 3 in each can be voted on for best overall game.
You cant stack The Last of Us up against Deus Ex. Deus Ex was far more progressive for its era then The Last of Us was for it's own etc etc
It is a travesty. Shenmue should obviously be #1I honestly barely glanced at the list before I commented on how stupid it was, they always are. However since we are still talking about it I think it's funny that no one has brought up Shenmue at #7. This is a statement beyond bad taste or incorrect ordering the fact that someone would put that there blows my mind.
That's a religious opinion. unwinnable game states are perceived by some people to be good. I never had an issue with having to start over at Homeworld.Homeworld was novel, sure, but it had no balance to the multiplayer and the campaign secretly scaled to be harder (added more ships to each mission) if you had more than a certain number of ships. Plus if you were really bad, it could become unwinnable at certain points which forced you to restart at an earlier level. And all this information was hidden from you, you had no way of knowing that because you screwed up three levels earlier you now couldn't win. It wasn't a well designed game.