Another "Top" List

Okay, I might not have totally agreed with you dissing the last Top 10 list that you posted, but I'm all aboard for this rediculous Top 100 Best Games to Play Today list from Edge.

This list is littered with games from 10+ years ago, which if I were to even think about the best games to play "today", it wouldn't involve playing games with graphics so dated they make my eyes bleed. I think we've all gotten nostalgic for games that we played when we were kids. I've tried many a time to go back and play GoldenEye, Perfect Dark, Mario 64, Wolfenstein, Doom, Majora's Mask, and even a good batch of PS2/Xbox games. Today, those games graphics really limit their playability when our eyes have gotten so used to the smooth, liquidy graphics we play now.

And by the looks of the comments section, I'm not alone. Really, the only thing that hurt the list was including "to Play Today" in the name. Basically the article will spur a bunch of people to dust off or go buy a bunch of old games they'll play for about 15 minutes and then jump back into CoD: World at War for the rest of the night where the rest of their friends are.

P.S. I'm so hungry right now.

Intrinsic Values in Gaming: Memories

A thread over on Penny-Arcade is titled, "Well, at least play this part...", asking for people's submissions of what they think some games best parts are that should be experienced by everyone.

I love these kinds of topics because they make you think back on your game collection and gaming history. The kinds of emotions that you attach to some games and experiences really proves that gaming isn't just a waste of time. It's like listening to a song and remembering exactly where you heard it that impacted you the most. Or re-reading a book and consciously awaiting your favorite part.

So for me my list includes (but is not limited to):

• Riding the horse, Epona, around on The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
  
• All 18 battles in Shadow of the Colussus (and riding that horse around, Argo)
  
• Shooting the three guns in the air support level in Call of Duty 4
• Reaching the highest point in the map in Crackdown, then jumping off
  
• The final mission in Halo 3, driving the vehicle as the space station collapses from underneath you
  
• Rolling up the countries in Katamari Damacy at the end credits
  
• Playing any song that all four band members love in Rock Band
  
• Snowboarding down the whole mountain in SSX: 3 in surround sound
  and music off

I realized going through my game list that a lot of the "must play" experiences I could rattle off really wouldn't apply to people who
don't play games or don't like certain types of games. I tried to pick things that either someone would like to play or would at least enjoy watching.

You can probably find all of these on YouTube, but you really need to experience them in a dark room with 5.1 surround sound.