When someone asks what is the best game in history, some connoisseurs usually mention the classic The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, or the iconic Dark Souls, games that have marked the world of gaming; on the other hand, others decide to opt for options based on their personal experiences, so the answers are usually quite varied. However, The Spanish magazine GQ decided to solve this discussion, and brought together developers, streamers, directors, journalists, and other eminent figures from the world of video games to choose the 100 best titles of all time.
The creation of this list considered 300 people who had to generate a list with the best 10 games according to their criteria, of which each one would have a score regarding its place in the list, the best game on the list would add 10 points, and the number of points would go down to game 10, which would only score one point. In this way, 239 lists were received by GQ with more than 652 different video games, and these were some of the results:
1. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: The best game according to the participants was Zelda: Breath of the Wild, a game that revamped the foundations of open worlds and focused the experience on exploration and puzzles like no other. A game full of possibilities, secrets, fights, missions, and whose sequel, Tears of the Kingdom, could follow in its footsteps
2. The Last of Us I:Second place was taken by The Last of Us Part I, a game that achieved great recognition for its story based on a post-apocalyptic world with infected around a fungus. Its great reception led it to have a second part, as well as a series on HBO that is as successful as the game.
3. Tetris: Third place, on the other hand, is Tetris, a game that, despite being from 1985, is still valid today and is easily known in the gaming world, as well as holding the Guinness record as the most ported game. of history on 65 platforms.
4. Bloodborne: Fourth place goes to Bloodborne, a Fromsoftware game that triumphed with its aggressive combat and its dark and Lovecraftian setting. If Miyazaki achieved something great with Dark Souls, Bloodborne went further. There’s a reason people expect a PC version.
5. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt: In fifth place is The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, a game that, according to its reviewers, has a large universe of interesting characters, a very striking world creation, as well as the best quests in role-playing games.
6. Mass Effect 2: we come to the sixth best game, Mass Effect 2, a game that shines mainly for its final mission, called Suicide Mission, which is considered one of the best of all games, because after getting attached to the characters, many of them could die, marking a before and after in the players.
7. Metal Gear Solid: In seventh place is Metal Gear Solid, Hideo Kojima’s game that became a cornerstone in stealth games, as well as having a crazy and unique story worthy of its creator.
8. Portal 2: The eighth place goes to Portal 2, the second title in the saga of quite complex puzzles around the creation of portals, and which maintains a quite entertaining narrative by the few characters that appear, but who steal the scenes.
9. Dark Souls: The ninth place goes to Dark Souls, one of the most demanding games in the industry that asks its players to put all their concentration in order not to die over and over again. This game set the precedent for what is known as difficulty in the video game industry, so it couldn’t be off the list.
10. Half-Life 2: Closing out the list of the top 10 games is Half-Life 2, a game that was able to explore all the possibilities that 3D offers in the video game industry, with a number of world interactions that allowed the industry to move forward. to where it is now. Without considering that his story is one of the most acclaimed by the Valve community.
Other 10 games within the list are the following:
13. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
15. Red Dead Redemption II.
16. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Other great games like Resident Evil 4 or Elden Ring could not be missing
If you want to know the complete list, you can find it on the RevistaGQ site; maybe you like the order of the list, or maybe you think they made a mistake in some of the decisions. However, it is indisputable that many of the games present in it marked an important milestone in the industry and in the players who once enjoyed them.
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