Glad to see this is the first mentioned at being too high. Look, it’s all subjective and we can argue about the precise ranking all day. But I think pretty much all games on the list deserve their spot in there somewhere.

But then there’s FO3. I liked it a lot. It’s got a place in many of our hearts. But 39 is a crime. It ranks higher than Portal, ffs. Among Fallout fans, NV being better is pretty much as close to consensus as a gaming opinion will ever be. It also has plenty of the typical Bethesda jank, was criticized for mediocre art direction - it also failed to wow us with visual fidelity like Oblivion had before - with just tinting everything in green and back then also for dumbing down the RPG elements of previous Fallout games. The gunplay was atrociously bland and could not hold a candle to shooters of its time. Bethesda has come such a long way in this regard ever since, with having hired devs from Bungie and all for it.

If there’s one game on the list that has me wonder if the publisher bribed listicle editors to rank it higher, it’s this one. Either that or there was some spike of new hires in games journalism shortly after that resulted in unusally many people in the industry having super nostalgia goggles when it comes to this game.

this isn’t metacritic, OP used surveys and listicles from way later, doing retrospectives on the history of gaming.

We are addicted to lists for some reason, but if there’s something that’s really not fit to be ranked, it’s video games as such. “Which is better, Last of Us or Tetris?” is a nonsense question to start with. It’s like asking “Which is better, Sushi, Albert Einstein, or the color green?” Completely different categories.

Then again video games don’t restrain themselves to genres, either, there’s a reason the Steam catalogue is mostly tag-based nowadays and some award categories continue to be absolute jokes due to the games they mix together (looking at you, Crusader Kings not winning best strategy because of MS Flight Sim being in the category, too).

he’s just Dutch, he’s actually floating on water but due to a bug, the sea level rise in OW isn’t visibly rendered.