IGN's top 100 Games: Civ2 at #4

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IGN has posted a list of the top 100 games.
Two of Sid's titles are in the top ten.

Civ2 is at #4 and Pirates! (the original) is at #6.

http://top100.ign.com/2005/001-010.html

Whoa, I think this is my first post in this forum. :mischief:
 
Bah! On the other side, civ2 just entered in the desprate path of the N-Gage. Too bad.
Nice! Civ is only beaten by Mario, Zelda and Tetris, and those are unbeatable.
 
It's great to see that they put it at #4, but looking that list over...... I really don't agree with anything they've said. I mean, they put Rome Total War at #14 for instance... still great to see Civ 2 is still considered one of the best games ever though.
 
If they think Civ II is one of the "deepest and most complicated" games ever try playing Civ III at the higher levels !
 
Whenever I think of the past I get very sad. I think back to all the great games I played and how I haven't gotten "that" feeling of exploring a new game and content etc.. and how I will probably never do again.

Worst of all I think of the time when Microprose made games. Over 80% of games I have played and loved are/were made by Microprose and I fail to comprehend why they decided to leave the business and split up.

Anyone here remember:

- Age of Empires (original - Ensemble Studios)
- X-COM (Microprose)
- X-COM Deep Ocean (Microprose)
- X-COM Apocalypse (Microprose)
- Civilization II (Microprose)
- Master of Orion II (Microprose)
- Sim City 2000 (Maxis now taken over by EA -ewkhh)
- Pirates (Microprose)
- Transport Tycoon (Microprose)
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The list seems to have an awful lot of video/arcade games, and multiple versions of the same game (Mario Bros). Four of the top 5 are video games (Tetris came out for PC much later). So you could claim Civ2 is really the "Top computer strategy game".
 
Well, If the Firaxis team can combine the playability of Civ II (#4) with the graphics of pirates (#6), they might end up doing a top one game (Civ IV)
 
ElephantU said:
Four of the top 5 are video games (Tetris came out for PC much later). So you could claim Civ2 is really the "Top computer strategy game".
Actually Tetris was available on Macintosh long before it became a video game. It guess it did not make it to PC for a while, because PCs back then were running DOS.
 
I actually liked this review. Now I may not agree with all the places of the games (uhhh Tetris @ #3), I do think that all the games that need to be on there actually are. Games like River City Ransom, Dune 2 & Sonic the Hedgehog were games I really enjoyed and up on the list with full contextual detail of what made them so great.

However there are a few sore points to this. Some of the descriptions are downright misleading:

On Red Alert:
"But while the original C&C often found itself contending with Blizzard's Warcraft brand for supremacy, Red Alert really had no equal. Westwood's alternate history RTS presented unparalleled strategy that perfectly married currently-applicable RTS interface conventions with diverse units to create some utterly compelling gameplay."

Westwood had C&C and RA, Blizzard had Warcraft 2 and Starcraft, yes RA not only had an "equal" in SC, but SC was way better. Red Alert was woefully unbalanced heavily favoring the soviets and it really became a matter of who could build more war factories in order to churn out Mammoth Tanks every 3 seconds...

Oh Tecmo Super Bowl:
"In fact, Barry Saders was so fast, many tournaments actually instituted a no-Detroit rule."

You mean Bo Jackson? He was THE fastest character in the game. And when I mean fast, he could run in a strait line and people couldn't catch him (an impossibilty in TSB standards).

On Sonic the Hedgehog:
"For a while, Sonic the Hedgehog was the most recognized mascot in the entire world, bigger than Mickey Mouse and more recognized than the beloved Mario."

I'll make this brief: I am a Genesis owner, and even I say "Whatever" to this absurd statement.

+ Note: Was any copy of the Mega Man not good enough to make this list? What about Flight Sims? None of the Tycoon Series?
 
I'm thrilled seeing Grim Fandango on 49. I'm about the only person I know of agreeing it's a fantastic game.

It also warms an old SC'er to see what is placed on 7! :)
 
Ali Ardavan said:
Actually Tetris was available on Macintosh long before it became a video game. It guess it did not make it to PC for a while, because PCs back then were running DOS.


Maybe I am a bit old, but I think Tetris was released originally for the Sinclair Spectrum 48.

Edit: Well, aparently, I was wrong :blush: I made some googling and it says that the game was programed on a Electronica 60 :confused: on 1985 and ported to IBM PC on 1986.

http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/special/tetrishist.html
 
That list lost alot of credibility whenI saw Sonic was only ranked 63rd.
 
I think SimCity 2000 should have been in the top 10 at the very least; preferably the top 5 with Civilization II.
 
This list is a balooney list.
Theres a lot of dubious titles and some of the finest ones are missing.

And Civ should be number ONE (just another proof its a balooney list).
 
It's nice to see that all the games I enjoyed in my childhood are here ! Actually, there aren't that numerous (I've never been a big video game player) :

#1 : Super Mario Bros
#3 : Tetris
#4 : Civilization II
#11 : The Legend of Zelda - A link to the past
#15 : Super Mario Kart
#31 : Simcity 2000
 
Urederra said:
Well, If the Firaxis team can combine the playability of Civ II (#4) with the graphics of pirates (#6), they might end up doing a top one game (Civ IV)
Part of playability is whether you can PLAY it or not; many players will not not be able to play Civ4 without having to put with atrocious, game-killing performance or face a major upgrade. Civ2 is on the list because of its popularity at the time (notice that most Civ2 forums are all but dead): don't expect Civ4 to get that kind of attention--those days are over and Civ4 is just another game (albeit probably the best quality one on the market...when it finally makes it to shelves).

Note that the difference isn't just that the game has changed but also that the audience has changed--or simply grown out of video games altogether.
 
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