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hi everyone. i just wanted to share something. i have been a loyal surfer of ign.com for about 4 years now and just discovered something disturbing. they recently posted their idea of the top 100 video games of all time. this includes all platforms, form the intelivision (i know im showing my age here) to the modern PC. and guess what, NOT ONE SIERRA GAME other than half life, which is really a Valve game. come on! not Kings Quest 5 or 6? not Space Quest 5 or 6? not my all time favorites Larry 7 or Quest for Glory 4? but there was plenty of lucasarts adventures on the list. i think i counted at least five of them. and the only two i saw fit to be included were day of the tentacle and grim fandango. the people at ign are obviously just die hard lucasarts fans when it comes to the Adventure catagory. its a shame. i just thought i’d bring it to everyones attention. i mean, come on, not Phantasmagoria? what were they thinking?
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I also read that article and I was expecting at least one or two Sierra titles (Leisure Suit Larry I & Gabriel Knight). At least there were a few adventure games on that list. Althought I like LA games and not a big fan of Grim Fandango. My 2 favorite LA games are Fate of Atlantis and Curse of Monkey Island.
I think the problem with the bigger gaming websites is, IMHO, the new generation of gamers. A lot of game reviewers for the bigger gaming websites or gamers nowadays are mainly console gamers or FPS gamers. A lot of them never had or lost the connection with adventure games. Just take a look to the #1 game on the Readers list: Resident Evil 4!
Game genres have evolved in the years. Better graphics, better sound, better gameplay. Alot of “3D” and console games can rival the best adventure games storywise. I don’t blame the reviewers but when Magna Cum Laude got a 7.2 Rating on Gamespot I lost all respect for them. Games I also expected on the list were Lemmings, Diablo and even Tomb Raider. I think the list is more of a populairity list than a greatest game of all time list. Well at least Syndicate was on the list…
I’ll stop now because I feel a rant coming…
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The only saving grace about that list is that there are a lot of Nintendo games near the top of it – which deserve to be there as anyone who has played Mario, Zelda, Metroid etc can vouch for.
I’m a bit pissed off about the lack of respect Sierra gets in general on such lists, as it really did release some groundbreaking and wonderful games. The fact that there are far more Sierra fans, sites and projects around than LucasArts says a lot about the effect Sierra had on gamers. Whereas LucasArts games were pretty much a bunch of jokes and comedy situations strung together by a weak story, the Sierra games really focused on great story and great characters.
I wouldn’t seriously listen to the IGN opinions anyway – I’ve been reading it off and on for 6 years and for the most they are tech-whores who love flashy graphics and surround sound. They mark games down for not having features like widescreen and progressive scan support which is absolute rubbish.
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