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Games I Will Accept As Your Answer to the Question "What Is The Greatest Game Ever Made?"

Different people with different upbringings in different eras mean that everyone's going to have a different answer to the question. 
 
For the record, when people ask me, I usually say Tetris. It's certainly not my favorite game of all-time, but if you look at its popularity and the wide-rangning effect it had on games, it always seems like the most logical answer. 
 
Though GoldenEye is a somewhat common response for this list, I do not accept it as an answer. Just because you were in college at the time of its release and you and your "bros" got "really high" and "played GoldenEye" doesn't make it an all-time great.

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  • If you remove all of your personal feelings from the matter, this is probably the right answer. You know what? I could probably go the rest of my life without ever playing Tetris ever again and be totally OK with that.

  • Sure, it's up there. One of those "phenomenon" type of games.

  • This is not the right answer, but I see how someone could think that MGS is the greatest game ever made.

  • Yeah, OK. I see where you're coming from.

  • If I was like 12 or something when the Xbox was released, I might be right there with you. Well... probably not, actually. But I can see why someone would say Halo. They'd be wrong, but hey, you're young, you probably don't know any better.

  • It's no Super Mario World, but I understand why people love it so.

  • This answer always strikes me as a little pretentious. Great game, though.

  • OK, yeah, you're with the whole "coin shortage in Japan" angle here. I feel you. But... what about Galaga? Less of an impact, yeah, but it's better in every way.

  • Doom has a Tetris-like ubiquity to it that continues to this day. I remember someone made Doom run on the first digital camera I ever owned. Weirdos. It's almost sad that Doom is still the blueprint for so many of today's first-person shooters.

  • You're weird if you're giving this as your answer and probably aren't to be trusted. Greatest Sonic game? Yes. Greatest game ever? No.

  • I understand this game practically made you drop out of college.

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namesonkel

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Red Dead Redemption might be the best, most complete and all-round greatest game that I have ever played.

GTA IV is also a personal favorite but it has more flaws than RDR.

But there are definitely other games that are up there when it comes to naming my actual favorites.

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I'd probably go with either Super Mario World (because it's clearly the right answer) or Baldur's Gate 2.

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Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence would be the correct metal gear

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Pokemon should be on this list (and I don't even care for the series)... has sold gagillions of copies (of essentially the same game) on several consoles and was a cultural phenomenon for a while.

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What about Donkey Kong Country 2? I had all three, and put the most hours into DKC2.

Most of the talk surrounding the game whenever it's brought up is how dumb the characters are, especially Dixie. I don't care about that - the platforming is fantastic, as is the music. I posit it is a totally acceptable entry in the Great Game Ever Made.

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Symphony of the Night can sit here more because of how it changed the Castlevania series, but not because it is the best one.

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Metroid (not super metroid). Metroid is the greatest game ever made.

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A Link to the Past would be my answer. It had the perfect mix of being guided, while not being so strictly linear as to bore you. The original Legend of Zelda is a game that is difficult to pick up now, if you don't have the context for it, while recent Zelda games are so linear that it's hard to push through it. The best thing about the old Zelda games was that sense of exploration, and I feel like Ocarina of Time is the last one to have that at all, and even then, it's stripped down from A Link to the Past. Ocarina of Time seems like an acceptable answer, too, though.

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No Counter-Strike, no Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, no Quake? What a scrub.

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I know it's open to interpretation, but no Goldeneye and Halo is allowed? Aren't they practically the same thing, except that Goldeneye had a storyline and something to do other than shoot things? Don't get me wrong, I'm a big Halo fan, but the first wasn't that good.

What in the actual fuck?

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I am honestly surprised dota isnt on this list, though it was originally a mod so I guess that would technically disqualify it?

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I'd say I only have strong enough feelings for 4 games on this list.