EDGE magazine, the widely respected UK publication, has taken the time to provide up updated list of their top games of the last 30 years. To do this they have asked current and former writers for the magazine along with readers and members of the press to create a comprehensive list of the best games of the last 30 years. The top game is The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild which beat both Dark Souls and Super Mario 64 to top the list. You can view their top 100 here.
EDGE magazine’s 10 greatest games:
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Dark Souls
- Super Mario 64
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- Resident Evil 4
- Halo: Combat Evolved
- Half-Life 2
- Portal
- Elden Ring
- Doom
I find it difficult to argue with BOTW being number 1. But where’s Super Metroid, at the very least being in the top 10? Before BOTW, I would have picked Super Metroid as the greatest game ever. It’s a masterpiece, perfect game design, that was, and is the blueprint for the series since. Not to mention all the other games it’s inspired since.
There’s a stack of games that should be in this top 10, but you ain’t gona get em all in there. But def agree super Metroid should be in there and so should Metroid prime, that game was a master piece and a huge leap for the series that paid off big time!
What are half of these games?! BOTW really? The game plays out like an actual fever dream. You fight the same 2-3 enemy types throughout the whole game. Voice acting is downright cringe at times. Story is as basic as they come. Mechanical depth regarding combat, traversal, progression is as shallow as a puddle on a highway. Open world has almost nothing to offer. You get either a weapon that will eventually break either way, or a part of a costume.
I would say that botw as well as totk are probably the top 1 and 2 in terms of perfect mediocrity for an open world adventure game. I’ve seen 2 day indie jam projects with more creativity and originality that this.
Well, at least the good portal made it to the top 10.
Surprised they chose portal instead of portal 2. It does everything the first one did but way better and with a more compelling story.
I rate Majora’s Mask , Ocarina of Time and A Link To The Past higher. Like someone else said , you can only put so many games in a top 10 list. If I have to mention one more it’s World of Warcraft! No game comes close for played time and impact and this counts for allot of people.
Im surprised that the holy grail of video games FF7 isn’t within the top 10. More important im surprised that Skyrim and all it’s different variations aren’t the top 5 spots. Skyrim Og, Skyrim Legendary edition. Skyrim special edition, Skyrim VR and Skyrim anniversary edition. … Bazinga!
how is BOTW best, when TOTK is BOTW but better
My answer to that would be how the games made me feel.
Totk is an incredible game and I love it, BUT diving into the new hyrule for the first time in botw was incredibly satisfying and awe inspiring and the vast open world was fresh for a Zelda game.
Totk was/is just a lot more of what we had already got accustomed to so even though it has the buildable stuff etc and floating islands and is a bigger game it didn’t have the same initial effect.
Don’t get me wrong if you’d not played botw and jumped straight into totk it would be vice versa if you know what I mean.
Both games are ace though!
Probably because TOTK was built on BOTW. I mean, there’s better Mario games than Mario 64, but it did it first and influenced every subsequent 3D platformer. I think that’s a lot of what’s going on here… not necessarily the best, or even the first, but the most influential games.
👆 this
Heres mine in no particular order
Rome Total War, Deux Ex, Skyrim, No One Lives Forever, Fortune Street, Minecraft, DoDonPachi, GTA V, Civilization, Fight Night