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Originally posted by Spam Well, to begin with, intelligent people wouldn't attempt to make a top TWENTY-FIVE list for a genre with 10 stand-out titles if it's lucky. An FPS is an FPS, very few stand out enough to actually be placed in any form of ranking after top 5, let alone 25. Secondly, it's important that when making a top X list for a genre, that the games you list are actually members of said genre. Sorry, House of the Dead is NOT an FPS, it's a First-person rail-shooter. Finally, it's also important to know whether they are comparing single-player campaign, or multi-player or the overall opinion of both combined. They are two entirely different worlds, so I would say you have to choose either-or. In short, the entire premise of the list is flawed, and thus the list is flawed as a result.

Intelligent people wouldn't take a top 25 list so seriously. If you want to show me how a proper list is to be done, feel free.

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Originally posted by dj_alfi change your avatar for fucks sake.

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Originally posted by Beatflux Intelligent people wouldn't take a top 25 list so seriously. If you want to show me how a proper list is to be done, feel free.

Did you read the post? Or did you just hit reply and tell me to show you? I explained in perfect detail what I expect out of a Top-Games list.

I expect the list to be short, top 5 is golden. Top 10 if you MUST add in a few shovel-ware games that you really like. Any particular genre in gaming has 5 stand alone titles, and anything after that is pretty much guaranteed to be imitations, or the original concept of an improved imitation that makes the top 5.

Secondly, I expect a genre-specific list to include games within that genre, and not throw in games from other genres. House of the Dead is a first-person RAIL SHOOTER, not an FPS, it belongs in a comparison between games like Silent Scope, Jurassic Park, That game where two players are cops and the arcade machine has guns with recoil, etc. NOT in comparison with real FPS games like Goldeneye, Doom and Halo.

Third and lastly, I expect some explanation for how the list was compiled. As you well know, my beef with an FPS list is that you MUST distinguish the multi-player experience from the single player experience, and thus rank games separately based on those two unique experiences.

So as an example, for top FPS games. I might say:

Here are my top 5 Multiplayer FPS games of all time:

5: Goldeneye - Yadda yadda yadda, what a good game, I masturbated to this game in my dreams and stuck my dick between two copies of the cartridge so I could pretend it was a vagina one night.

4: Unreal Tournament - Like, whoah It was the first game to have pretty graphix and lots of people!

3: Action Quake 2 - Real guns, realistic health, bandagin, limping, doors, arcade-style straffe jumping and high-speed. So super-fun! Personal fav!

2: Counter Strike - A little slow for my liking, but tactical requirements made this game super fun.

1: COD4 - A perfect blend of speed and realism, good maps, great guns, perks help noobs overcome the learning curve, fun game modes. What a game!

YAY I made a list that's ALREADY 100000000X better than that ridiculous top 25 peice of shit. And it took 5 minutes.

It's not that I take these lists too seriously, it's that I wonder why people bother with ridiculous lists that serve no purpose except to fill the pages in a magazine with useless, baseless, CRAP. If you're not going to do it right, don't BOTHER doing it!

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Originally posted by Spam It's not that I take these lists too seriously, it's that I wonder why people bother with ridiculous lists that serve no purpose except to fill the pages in a magazine with useless, baseless, CRAP.

That's pretty much the point if you ask me. I think general readership yields that people enjoy seeing Top *insert number here* lists. It gives people a chance to make comparisons and be reminded of classic titles they may have forgotten about.

Even though I tend to try and create lists of own, like I said before, they change and lack consistency. Some days I like a particular game more than another. It always changes.

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