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GTA: San Andreas Voted Best Game of All Time by Gaming Public

What's the best game you've ever played? It's a tricky question isn't it? If you're anything like us lot, you've probably racked up hundreds of hours of gameplay time across hundreds of titles. So which is the best game of all time?

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SaveFerris3172d ago

No Elder Scrolls games in the top 20? No Call of Duty titles despite their popularity? No Pokemon?

Although these games are not my choices either, I am surprised that not one title from any of those franchises made the top 24 listed.

chrish19903172d ago

Call of Duty was actully somewhere close to #30. Looks like people have better taste than we give them credit for ;P

xHeavYx3171d ago

Anyone else got a "What the... hell" reaction by seeing the Walking Dead at #2?

LordMaim3171d ago (Edited 3171d ago )

Don't put too much stock in it. The Toluna survey involved only 1000 people, and judging from the responses, they were only asking "gamers" in North America and they had specific choices on the survey with anything else not specified lumped into "Other".

San Andreas got 119 votes, for a little over 11%.

Hardly representative of the "Gaming Public".

EDIT: For those who are interested in the results of this survey of the "Gaming Public"

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas 119 (11.89%)
The Walking Dead 102 (10.19%)
The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time 72 (7.19%)
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City 71 (7.09%)
Batman: Arkham Asylum 43 (4.30%)
Batman: Arkham City 32 (3.20%)
Final Fantasy VII 29 (2.90%)
Resident Evil 2 24 (2.40%)
Fallout 3 23 (2.30%)
Resident Evil 4 19 (1.90%)
The Last Of Us 19 (1.90%)
BioShock 15 (1.50%)
Half-Life 2 15 (1.50%)
Halo: Combat Evolved 14 (1.40%)
Dead Space 13 (1.30%)
Silent Hill 2 13 (1.30%)
Final Fantasy VIII 10 (1.00%)
Portal 2 10 (1.00%)
Mass Effect 2 7 (0.70%)
Max Payne 7 (0.70%)
Deus Ex 6 (0.60%)
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater 6 (0.60%)
Shenmue II 3 (0.30%)
Grim Fandango 1 (0.10%)
Other, please specify 328 (32.77%)

Ezz20133171d ago

** Resident Evil 4 19 (1.90%)
The Last Of Us 19 (1.90%) **

My top 2 favorite games of all time are on the the list ...Great :)

But no RDR is making me sad :(

hay3170d ago

The list's silly as f*ck. Seems to be made up of articles popular throughout last year.

Phoenix763170d ago

Terrible, terrible, list of 'best games ever'.
Yeah there are some good games on it for sure, but if your 'greatest games ever' only stretches back for just over 10 years, instead of the last 40 years and doesn't even list games from home computers either, as all of them console release titles, then its a waste of time.

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morganfell3171d ago

@SaveFerris,

I wouldn't put too much stock in it. Did anyone here know about this poll before the results were announced? And on a personal note, since that poll seems to be more someone else's opinion than a public sampling, Vice City > San Andreas.

chrish19903171d ago

It was a public survey using Toluna.

morganfell3171d ago

Doesn't alter the fact plenty of people - the majority of the gaming public, did not vote.

chrish19903171d ago

The survey was targetted at gamers... No survey will ever be able to get EVERYONE involved.

showtimefolks3171d ago

gta sa needs a complete remake so does vice city. or atleast a hd remaster

Hercules1893171d ago

I would say only vice city needs s remake. SA is not interesting enough.

Mankey3171d ago (Edited 3171d ago )

System Shock 2?
Planescape Torment?
Red Dead Redemption?
Chrono Trigger?
Fallout (2? > New Vegas? >>>>>>> 3)
Theif?
The Elder Scrolls III?
Call of Duty 4?
Doom?

Don't get me wrong, I love almost every game on the top 25 (except number 17) but there are def a few more I would add.

Tetsujin3171d ago

I'm surprised Socom 2 or any Mario and/or Sonic game of any type made the list as well.

I want to know the age range of the voters, since the majority of the games listed were released after the late 90s.

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djplonker3172d ago

Gta makes me proud to be scottish easily one of our major exports lol...

chrish19903171d ago

Second best export - the whiskey always comes first!

Mankey3171d ago

Indeed. I'm suprised Rockstar North hasn't made a game set in Scottland or anywhere in the EU for that matter in the past decade.

Shineon3171d ago

Why wasn't PS2 tagged in this?

Simco8763171d ago

What a list, def not a list I would come up with. Not enough classic games. Glad some gems made it though, like Max Payne for the PC and Deus Ex. Where is Quake III or Mario games?

Guess getting old in a genre that started when you were a kid is getting tough.

FunkyGoron3171d ago

Invalid list as COD4 MW and Pokémon Gold/Silver aren't on there. Two of the most impressive and revolutionary games for the series/genre.

Grim Fandango and The Walking Dead are great games, but number 24 and 2 respectively? What a joke.

Not my list so it's not big deal, but that list is very very odd.

chrish19903171d ago

That's the public for you....

ShaunCameron3171d ago

And most likely young judging by the games that made the list. They didn't start gaming until 1996 or later.

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Where are These Missing VR Games?

As is they're coins down a sofa, some announced games seem to just disappear. So just where are these missing VR games?

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anast53d ago

There wont be enough demand until the tech gets better and more affordable.

ApocalypseShadow52d ago

The article is more concerned with where the announced games are. Not about VR demand.

Even with my thoughts on Facebook, they did supposedly sell over 20 million headsets. Not that I think that many are still using their Quest headsets. But even if it's only 10 million users and 5 million are interested and able to play GTA SA, that's still a lot of consumers and a lot of sales.

It just comes down to why these developers are taking so long. Is something like GTA canceled? Is it being held back for a future event? It's not like there's competition in the stand alone space. And now that I have a Quest 3 myself, I'm wondering as well what's the hold up.

Profchaos52d ago

For GTA SA
Meta made a lot of budget cuts and cancelled a fair few exclusive game contracts we don't know if this was cancelled but it's possible and this was announced prior to the release of GTA definitive edition which was slammed and eventually moved to be supported in house by Rockstar.

Since then we have just gotten the mobile versions a d they are actually the best way to play the definitive edition unfortunately the consoles never got a retrospective patch to implement the improvements they made in the mobile games.

But for VR we know a VR mode was found in the definitive editions game files thanks to data miners so seeming it was meant to be using the definitive edition as a base given its ue4 that makes sense. And the mode is there right now (some Polish may be required still) I would assume this is ready to go but meta got cold feet and cancelled it given the games reputation.

I do hope Rockstar forge ahead and still just launch it anyway on psvr2 as it's a game I've loved since day 1 on PS2 I'll even tolerate the de version to get it in VR

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The Most Iconic Game Weapons Ever

BLG writes, "There are many fantastic and iconic weapons in game history, but some are significantly more memorable than others. When we think of iconic game weapons, these are the top 20 that come to mind."

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phoenixwing79d ago

You forgot one and it's a doozy. The weapon is kindness in undertale. :) defeats countless enemies.

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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is the anti-Breath of the Wild

Polygon: "To get back to the way Ocarina made us feel, it was necessary to reject almost everything about it."

LG_Fox_Brazil125d ago

Ocarina of Time changed my life forever, such a masterpiece

Zeldafan64125d ago

Hard to believe it's 25 years old already.

Cacabunga125d ago

The feeling this game gave me the first time i had my hands on it is indescribable.. i still get the chill from that day..
botw is like a spin off of the series.. it’s fun but with many flaws and the most important which is Zelda formula isn’t there..

FinalFantasyFanatic124d ago

I can't even remember how many times I played through OoT, I finished that game, and collected everything so many times.

Vits125d ago

I generally agree with the author here. However, if I had to point out a single game as the 'anti-Breath of the Wild,' that would be Majora's Mask. Pretty much everything in that game is interconnected, relies on something that the player must have done previously, is timed, and can be considered a puzzle in itself.

gold_drake125d ago

but still considered the best of the seties.

i would have liked botw to be more like ocarina.

franwex125d ago (Edited 125d ago )

25 years from today whatever Zelda is out people would too be looking fondly at Breath of the Wild.

Ah the more simple times of the 2020s.

babadivad124d ago (Edited 124d ago )

It isn't...