Guiness World Records - 50 best games

[Guest Stevie_K]

And C&C didn't make it.

 

Top 50 Videogame Series:

 

1.Halo

2.Call of Duty

3.The Legend of Zelda

4.Guitar Hero

5.Metal Gear

6.Super Mario Bros.

7.World of Warcraft

8.Gears of War

9.Super Smash Bros.

10.Grand Theft Auto

11.Pokemon

12.Resident Evil

13.Fallout

14.Half-Life

15.Sonic the Hedgehog

16.Counter-Strike

17.Runescape

18.FIFA

19.Kingdom Hearts

20.Final Fantasy

21.Pac-Man

22.Madden NFL

23.The Sims

24.Tomb Raider

25.WWE Smackdown Vs. RAW

26.Rock Band

27.LittleBigPlanet

28.Saints Row

29.The Elder Scrolls

30.God of War

31.GoldenEye 007

32.Bioshock

33.KillZone

34.Skate

35.Left 4 Dead

36.Need for Speed

37.Chrono Trigger

38.Gran Turismo

39.StarCraft

40.Ratchet & Clank

41.Pong

42.Tom Clancy's

43.Star Wars: Battlefront

44.Battlefield

45.Diablo

46.Lego Batman

47.Mario Kart

48.Burnout

49.Crash Bandicoot

50.Pro Evolution Soccer

 

Lego Batman? Saints Row?

Any arguments or guesses why the first great RTS series didn't make it?

[Luk3us 63]

50 best games based on what exactly? Cause a lot of those games, suck, badly.

[Inferno 22]

Based on what indeed.... can't be sales, cause otherwise something like WiiFit would have to be in that list.

[Sonic 296]

Its always best to post a link to the source of such news. Found this Gamasutra....

 

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/28435/H...Game_Series.php

 

Guinness World Records revealed its reader-voted list of the "Top 50 Videogame Series" of all time, with Bungie's flagship franchise Halo taking the number one spot. The company, which tracks and recognizes record-breaking achievements, notes that the series is the "Best-Selling First-Person Shooter (FPS) Franchise Ever", too.

 

More than 13,000 readers voted for the list in an online poll hosted on the company's Gamer's Edition website between January and August 2009. The list is featured in the Guinness World Records 2010 Gamer's Edition, a variant of the popular record-keeping reference book dedicated to achievements by video games and their players.

 

Activision Blizzard's Call of Duty franchise and Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda series placed second and third on the list respectively. The full list of Guinness World Records's "Top 50 Videogame Series" follows

1. Halo
2. Call of Duty
3. The Legend of Zelda
4. Guitar Hero
5. Metal Gear
6. Super Mario Bros.
7. World of Warcraft
8. Gears of War
9. Super Smash Bros.
10. Grand Theft Auto
11. Pokemon
12. Resident Evil
13. Fallout
14. Half-Life
15. Sonic the Hedgehog
16. Counter-Strike
17. Runescape
18. FIFA
19. Kingdom Hearts
20. Final Fantasy
21. Pac-Man
22. Madden NFL
23. The Sims
24. Tomb Raider
25. WWE Smackdown Vs. RAW
26. Rock Band
27. LittleBigPlanet
28. Saints Row
29. The Elder Scrolls
30. God of War
31. GoldenEye 007
32. Bioshock
33. KillZone
34. Skate
35. Left 4 Dead
36. Need for Speed
37. Chrono Trigger
38. Gran Turismo
39. StarCraft
40. Ratchet & Clank
41. Pong
42. Tom Clancy's
43. Star Wars: Battlefront
44. Battlefield
45. Diablo
46. Lego Batman
47. Mario Kart
48. Burnout
49. Crash Bandicoot
50. Pro Evolution Soccer

"We decided to take a different approach with this list than we did in the previous edition," says Guinness World Records gaming editor Gaz Deaves. "Instead of asking developers, industry insiders and journalists to rank their favorite titles, we approached a different kind of expert: the players themselves! We are confident that this 'top 50' more accurately reflects the tastes of the average gamer and not just the critics."

So it was fan voted, not a really Guinness World Records type of thing if you ask me.

 

And no C&C? Who cares. C&C has been in the Guinness World Records already.

 

Command & Conquer's long history resulted in Guinness World Records awarding the series 6 world records in the Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition 2008. These records include "Biggest Selling RTS Series", "Most Number of Platforms for an RTS", and "Longest Running Actor in Video Game Role" for Joe Kucan, who has played the part of Kane, the villainous mastermind of the series, for 15 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_&...tion_and_legacy

[Inferno 22]

More than 13,000 readers voted for the list in an online poll hosted on the company's Gamer's Edition website between January and August 2009.

This is exactly what makes it Guiness World Records unworthy.

[Guest Stevie_K]

Its always best to post a link to the source of such news. Found this Gamasutra....

 

So it was fan voted, not a really Guinness World Records type of thing if you ask me.

 

And no C&C? Who cares. C&C has been in the Guinness World Records already.

 

Yeah, forgot to post the link. And I'm sorry if I offended you.

 

But honestly, I'm just surprised that the biggest RTS franchise didn't make it to a top 50?

 

[Sonic 296]

We all know C&C is huge and we don't a stinking Guinness World Record to prove that.

[PurpleGaga27 40]

Although the C&C series have ups and downs, it's still by a long shot in the long term.

 

Besides I disagree with the number one best game series of all time because it doesn't deserve that number one spot. As of now, where's Halo 3 and expansion pack for the PC version, hmmm? It should be the GTA series, since that gaming series has sold more sales than the Halo series and GTA4 is one of the best games of all time; and the Half-Life series should be in the Top 10. Therefore. this list is definitely 100% total disagreement. Everyone knows that Gordon Freeman was voted last year's game hero of the year (in Gamespot) who beat Mario on a voting stun-out.

 

More than 13,000 readers voted for the list in an online poll hosted on the company's Gamer's Edition website between January and August 2009. The list is featured in the Guinness World Records 2010 Gamer's Edition, a variant of the popular record-keeping reference book dedicated to achievements by video games and their players.

 

That's not enough votes to make it official. A million will do.

Edited May 10, 2010 by purplescrin

[Guest Stevie_K]

We all know C&C is huge and we don't a stinking Guinness World Record to prove that.

 

Then why all the hate? Look I'm not trying to offend anyone, I just wanted to discuss the list, not whether GWR sucks or not.

 

Purplescrin, I agree your points.

 

[Doctor Destiny 41]

As soon as I saw Halo on the top, I knew this list was a lie.

[Nmenth 291]

As soon as I saw Halo on the top, I knew this list was a lie.

Ditto on that. There is no way Halo is the best game from any perspective.

[Mighty BOB! 5]

As soon as I saw Halo on the top, I knew this list was a lie.

Heh, same.

 

This list is not legit. Guiness ideally should be records only of hard facts like most sales, not something subjective like a biased fan poll.

 

 

D14810 don't be an apologist.

[Luk3us 63]

rofl, The Guinness world records peeps need to stick to what they are good at, facts.

 

Not idiotic popularity contests which I have absolutely no doubt hardly anyone heard of before this little announcement.

[Gben 20]

We all know C&C is huge and we don't a stinking Guinness World Record to prove that.

 

Just a pint of guinness???

[dbjs2009 25]

Lego Batman? Saints Row?

my little brother likes lego batman.

C&C has been in the Guinness World Records already

you're right sonic i've read that before on wikipedia ..

[Guest Stevie_K]

D14810 don't be an apologist.

 

I'm not. I greatly disagree with the list as well. I where actually a bit frustrated when I received the list in an e-mail. I used to like GWR but now I look at it with more skeptical perspective.

 

They should have made the poll "official" like the one with Super Mario vs Gordon Freeman if you know what I mean. I'm sure the list would be very different.

[PurpleGaga27 40]

As soon as I saw Halo on the top, I knew this list was a lie.

 

QFT. This poll is a disaster knowing that CNC isn't well known anymore to most game players. Besides the CNC series lasted longer than most type of game series. The longest game series are the Mario and Final Fantasy series. Call of Duty series at #2 is okay but should have been #1. The Halo series have faded since GTAIV's success two years ago.

 

Another error is that the Warcraft series is not in the Top 50 as well, seemingly after the overwhelming of the MMORPG franchise (which is World of Warcraft) that started it all.

 

Not only the C&C community are going to be so disappointed about this, so will the Warcraft and Blizzard community. Next time if there's something like this poll again, I believe there's will be huge attention to the game world and their communities that they need to watch this.

Edited May 11, 2010 by purplescrin

[Gazdude 0]

I wonder how much Bill paid to put Halo up there..

[Doctor Destiny 41]

Bungie doesn't answer to Microsoft; they're just a publisher. This was voted on by the fans anyway so the list is a lie.