Also no Longest Journey, Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle..adventure games have been forgotten. But no surprise in those votes.
Any list without Super Mario Kart (original on SNES) & A Link to the Past has no clue about gaming history anyways.
Indeed, it's like PC didn't exist until 1998 according to this list. I don't see any Command and Conquer or Red Alert, no Baldur's Gate... no Pong, no older Atari or Commodore games. Not having Quake or Duke Nukem 3D I can forgive if Doom is in the list and you don't want to have the same type of games. But then we have Mario X, Mario X, Mario X, Mario X.
I mean, this is for best game of all time. Of all time! Games like Fortnite will still have to prove themselves to be classics that people want to play in ten years time, whereas Baldur's Gate is still popular.
I love that they included Inside, and it's definitely one of the most beautiful things I've ever played, but I don't think I would ever classify it as "best game". Great experience? Sure. Must play before you die? Definitely. Best game? Not even in the top 50.
But, to be fair, it's a dumb gimmick, made by one outlet, and all voting is done by popularity. So, fortnite can score high because it's popular now, and its user base has a lot of connection with the medium the poll is taken on. So in the end, this thing means nothing and I'll probably forget about it after I close this browser.
IGN... sigh... they probably wouldn't know a good game if they played it a thousand hours...
On this list there is one winner: Civ IV. I also like Doom and Minecraft (but I haven't played Doom in ages).
Having a list of "best" games is incomplete without titles like UFO: Enemy Unknown, Europa Universalis IV, Pirates (yes, the Sid Meier original one), Civ II and Championship Manager (mostly the EoS 94 edition that I like) and CM2 97/98. Omitting any of these in favour of.... Fortnite (?!) is just silly. This list is probably made by kids that doesn't know better. Sadly.
That's the problem with opinions, right? Because "one winner" doesn't work at all for me with these list. I can't easily say a game is better if I had a complete different sense of enjoyment playing it. If I go by nostalgia, or pure feeling of joy and amazement while playing it. Civ VI would have a very hard time for me, competing with Halo 2 (had so much fun, for so many hours, in co-op with that game), Mass Effect (personally I prefer 1), The Last of Us (amazing experience), Hades (one of the best games I've played this decade). Heck, I even look back at AC: Black Flag with beautiful memories.
That said, if you'd ask me which game from this list I'd take to a desert island, it would be Civ VI. Just the sheer replayability would help me out. If you told me I could play one game from this list in the last 30 hours before I died, Civ VI wouldn't even be in the running.
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. Many articles in Strategy & Tips are much better.
