Edge Magazine: 100 Greatest Games to Play Today

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Actually Omecle, I was just responding to some blatant sony fanboy crap which blames Halo for all Sony's woes. Lets be fair The PS3 has the graphical capacity, it has the format win (blu-ray) it has the best hard-drive if you exclude the 360 elite. However here is where Sony fails: Online. Sorry guys but the PSN is free yes but it's also highly unstable and not as efficient as the Xbox Live network. As with most internet things; you get what you pay for. When you pay for the servers you end up with a better service and those complaining about £39.99 for a year + 1 month free is less than £4 a month. It also fails to give up some truly epic in house/exclusive games. Killzone 2 is good but so far it's not showing Halo 3 up in much same goes for a lot of the other exclusives. The real differences could have been made with titles such as Final Fantasy XIII however thats not an exclusive anymore.

Now about the top 100 games, excluding Halo 3 as I've said my part on this:

There are so many fantastic games out there not on this list, Star Ocean, Breath of Fire, Jade Cocoon, Front Mission 3, Fable (which is imho better than fable 2 though fable 2 is bigger) KOTOR, Suidoken (I only own IV but it's fantastic fun with a good mix of strategy, action and traditional rpg elements for combat = win) Spyro or Crash for platformers, Tomb Raider, Mass Effect, Ace Combat, Dead or Alive, Tekken, my god I can keep going all bloody day. And mostly these are latest generation games, if I go right the way back to the late 80s and early 90s when I first began gaming then I'd possibly do 200+ titles which deserve to be in the list.

At the end of the day what are Edge basing their choices on? Is it sales figures? if so thats a pretty bad way to decide this, was it publicly voted for? If so where, when and can you trust the results of an internet poll? Especially when some people are so intent on causing a massive disruption, need I remind people of the quest which failed to make Rick Astley the christmas number 1? That was nigh on impossible, affecting the outcome of a poll on Edge Magazine's website is a lot easier. Or was it merely personal choices of their staff did they go around and say: "hey name a great game" to 100 of their staff and then decide randomly/editorial choice of whose game is better. I just feel they made some crap decisions in there but mostly the right choices are made it's just the ordering they've done makes no sense I also disagree with so many mario spin offs or titles being there same with zelda and GTA. 3+ titles from any one series is too many when you're doing just 100 games because lets face it. Unless you're 12 you won't love every mario game out there. I personally hate the fat red dungareed plumber with a vengance which is why I will NEVER own a wii myself.