The Armchair Game Designer

I decided to take another look at the List of 100 Games and quickly realized the gross overlaps that occur within that list… either in terms of games that have been re-released under different bundles, or annual incarnations of what amounts to the same damn game (I’m looking at you, EA Sports!) With that said, I’ve decided that it’s necessary to drop the following games from the list:

• MGS3: Subsistence (35) (Duplicate)
• GTA3 (29) and Vice City (14) (San Andreas being a refined and honed version of both games’ gameplay)
• Street Fighter IV (34) (Practically impossible to play effectively without a special control, and thus violating the Guitar Hero Rule)
• Burnout 3: Takedown (32, PS2 version) (Duplicate)
• Ninja Gaiden (57) (Duplicate with its re-release)
• Madden NFL 2003 (83) (Incremental)
• Madden NFL 2002 (75) (Incremental)
• World Soccer Winning Eleven 7 (49) (Incremental)
• Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 (30) (Incremental)

…and add the following game (so far):

• Batman: Arkham Asylum

Since I don’t exactly feel like completely rewriting the game chart until perhaps right at the very end, I’m abandoning the “descending order by score” method and just slotting games into the newly-opened spaces. I’ll continue to keep the 100th game as the lowest-scoring, however, to maintain a benchmark above which other games will have to reach. I have no doubt that the next two quarters will produce releases which will eclipse some of the lower entries on the list.