#BEST INDIE GAMES ALL TIME PLUS#

The way in which you look for the 'best game of all time' is also up to opinion.ДЇor instance, you could look at games that still hold up today, games like Mario 3, Super Metroid, or Megaman X. However, we could still determine 'the best', we just need to look at games differently. I'd say, it's impossible to determine the best game ever this way, unless a game came out that every single person unanimously loved and thought was the best, considering everyone's differing tastes, that game seems like a fantasy. If anyone said any one game was the best, there would be at least a thousand people who preferred another game over it, and at least a hundred who didn't even enjoy that game at all. A lot of people prefer shooter gameplay over gameplay like Bloodborne's, or The Last of Us' story over Persona 4's, or Smash 4 over Melee. The thing is, no one can say for sure what the best game ever is in that retrospect, (which is where I actually agree with Mark Serrels' article) because so much is up to opinion. In fact I can't think of a game I would say is the best

#BEST INDIE GAMES ALL TIME PLUS#

Melee, more than any other game, plus it's given me so many fun experiences, and I've made a lot of friends through it's community, doesn't that make it the best game ever?

Hang on though, because I've spent so much time on Super Smash Bros. The obvious choice would be a game that plays perfectly, solid gameplay, perfectly executed, and perhaps has an immersive and engrossing story, but above all it should be better than any other game before it.Д«ut what game does that? A lot of people seem to think Mass Effect 2, but in my opinion the first game has better gameplay, sure the story isn't as good, but I myself focus more on how fun the game itself is.В But then again if we're talking gameplay, I would probably prefer something like Bloodborne, not as much story, but certainly deeper combat, and faster to boot.Д«ut if we're talking story, well I'd say I prefer Persona 4, it's got incredibly deep and well written characters, and a plot that's all about looking into those characters and finding more about them. This, however, questions are idea of what determines the 'Best Game Ever' Whether or not Undertale is a truly great game is up to opinion, whether or not you think plot is a massive priority in games, but that's a story for another time. It's also debatable whether Undertale is a perfect game, it's definitely an amazing experience, with superbly written characters and events, and that's what it's true focus is on. Because of the nature of Undertale, it probably won't inspire any more games like it, because if it did, Undertale fans would probably put it down as a trying too hard to replicate the game they love. It's impossible to say whether or not Undertale hasВ done this, in fact I would go so far to say that it probably hasn't. Games thatВ innovated the genres they belong to and changed the way we think about them. There's two reasons for this, the first is that some people might not have even been done with the game at the time of voting, some people might have just voted for it because they hadn't have time to digest what they had just experienced they were still riding the waves of excitement the game generated.Д«ut what's even more important, is that how can we compare Undertale to games like Ocarina of Time, Dark Souls, or Symphony of the Night? Games that have a legacy, have stood the test of time. Undertale is a great game, don't get me wrong, but who's to say that it can be the best game of all time, within a couple weeks of its release? Now obviously a bunch of people were annoyed because they wanted their favourite game on top, but others were frustrated for a different reason, and that's that the game had just come out. You see, the winner this year was Undertale, the immensely popular indie title that came out a couple of weeks before the GameFAQs vote. However, in this case I feel that they might have been justified.

Serrels goes into explaining how Tetris is the obvious choice, it doesn't change anything, it doesn't show what games can be, it is 'the safe choice that puts video games in the cultural corner with a dunce cap on, where it belongs.' This made me, like most other readers, question what the best game of all time really was, but it also made me think about whether one truly exists.ДЄt the end of last year, GameFAQs allowed users to vote for their best game ever, whichever game got the most votes came out on top, a pretty simple way of creating a general consensus on a favourite game.ДЄs anyone could have foreseen, the final result aggravated people that didn't vote for it.

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