Perfect Score Games Before Way Too Many Games Existed

Way Too Many Games launched in the beginning of 2017, meaning we've only reviewed games from that date onward. To this day, we have never given out a perfect ten in any of our four hundred reviews. But that doesn't mean we haven't played games worthy of a perfect score. On occasion, we've been asked which games we'd score a ten out of ten and it's time for each member of the website to list their top nominees.

[Jinger]

Halo 2, Uncharted 2, Mario 64, God of War 2, Mass Effect 2, Bioshock, Bloodborne, Zelda OoT, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Chrono Cross... probably more that I would give 10's but that's all I can think of right now.

[gutteranthems]

Donkey Kong Country

[PressXtoBacon]

64

[LucasRuinedChildhood]

And Mass Effect Andromeda of course.

[PressXtoBacon]

Who let you out of your cage, monster?

[Jinger]

That was GoaT. 11/10

[LucasRuinedChildhood]

@jinger This guy gets it.

[stupidusername]

Such a great game. It totally destryed both Horizon and Zelda BoTW in terms of story, characters, gameplay... just everything. Andromeda is the true Goty of 2017. Fact

[PressXtoBacon]

ummmm.... Goldeneye?

[Jinger]

Perfect Dark > Goldeneye

[gutteranthems]

Needs more polygons

[LucasRuinedChildhood]

Goldeneye is a tough one. It hasn't aged well but it's a ridiculously important game and was incredible at the time of its release.

[kevnb]

After playing games like quake 3 and unreal tournament goldeneye was like a joke, but still couch co op made it worthwhile until better games came out.

[Shmeidi]

You'd give Super Mario Galaxy 2 a perfect 10, but not Mario Odyssey?

[Jinger]

I would, but I was, uh, trying to stay with the theme of the article that states "Before 2017"

[Shmeidi]

Damn you're right. I forgot that came out in 2017. It felt like it took me a lifetime to collect all those moons.

[3-4-5]

No such thing as perfect score games...all games have flaws, but the games you mentioned are all awesome.

[Jinger]

All games have flaws, yes, but some are less noticeable if 98% of the rest of the game is still AMAZING.

[LiViNgLeGaCY]

A perfect score does NOT mean the game is perfect. Jesus guys...

[3-4-5]

Literally what the word perfect implies. This gen hands them out like participation trophies to make everyone feel good about their favorite game.

[lptmg]

Sam Fisher upside down... "golf clap"

[PressXtoBacon]

but Big Daddy is so small....

[PhantomS42]

Nooo, he's just really far away XD

[Shmeidi]

I'm surprised no one put Super Mario Land 3.

[gutteranthems]

time for a rewrite

[bluefox755]

The first game I really felt like was a masterpiece was Final Fantasy 7 (keep in mind, I didn't play FF6 growing up). FF7 was my first real experience with a JRPG since Dragon Warrior on NES, and man, it consumed me. I had a similar response to FFT as well (probably put 500 hours into that game). I remember the day I got my PS1, I got FF7. I didn't understand memory cards though, so I didn't buy one. I couldn't get someone to take me to the store again, but I really wanted to play it. I put about 12 hours in and then died. But yeah, those 12 hours captivated me, and as devastating as that was, I couldn't wait to get back to where I died.

[gutteranthems]

OG FFVII is still one of my favorites. but the older I get, the less that the game makes sense by disc 3

[bluefox755]

Lol, yeah, it did seem pretty crazy. I just assumed I was too young to really grasp the story. I really have to go back and play it again.

[PressXtoBacon]

it gets weird af.

When we get FFVII remake in 2077, I want the story to be fixed.

[paintedgamer1984]

Id agree with you except shortly before ff7 i played super metroid... and i was like head blown. Think i was like 14... ff7 didnt come until i was 16ish... i was also on the non memory card having ass club at first lol. Totally forgot that... ff7 def consumed me like no rpg before. I remember really liking 7th saga, legend of gaia, and secret of mana prior and then ff7 said totally forget about what ever bad ass rpg youve played before now... forget! Back in the days where my mom would get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and id swear she did that just to yell at me 😂 sooo i put a blanket over my door to shed the light of my tv and turned the volume so low hah

[-Foxtrot]

Lot of Bioshock Infinite love...I mean really?

I understand the first Bioshock but Infinite? Hey it was a great game but in comparison to the first and what it featured before being heavily stripped and reworked before launch I couldn't say a perfect 10 in my opinion

[gutteranthems]

We based it off of what was in the game, not what was removed from it. And the end of the day, Infinite is worth its salt, even if it had the potential to have contained more.

[-Foxtrot]

The point is even what we got pales in comparison to the first game.

It was good but not a perfect 10 good, no chance...and that's coming from someone who enjoyed it.

[lptmg]

Beach Boys acapella dude. Beach Boys acapella

[paintedgamer1984]

Agreed, the 1st bioshock was the best and to me it felt like the magic was lost after every following entry... which happens in almost every game ever except very few. Im hearing a new entry is comming? God i hope its a reboot

Foxtrot: Well said

[LoveSpuds]

Yeah, I have to agree with you here Foxtrot. Bioshock is simply a masterpiece, it still holds up as a playing experience today in my opinion (I replayed it just a few months ago in fact) but I think it is also a historically important game in respect of the gaming landscape.

While Infinite was a tremendous game, and maybe deserving of high scores, I still dont think it can hold a candle to the original game and I certainly dont think it has the same impact on gaming culture and development as the original Bioshock.

[I_am_Batman]

I think people are overcritical on Bioshock: Infinite most of the time. I loved both games personally (I loved Bioshock 2 as well even though it's not on the same level as the other 2). And cut content is absolutely the standard procedure in AAA game development so if you gonna knock Infinite for that you can do that with the vast majority of AAA games in existence.

[-Foxtrot]

Point is the cut content which existed when the game was reworked in another way looked more promising and technical then what we got. The things you could do or the things Elizabeth could do during the old build was more then what they could both do in the final product. Not to mention the levels seemed more open aswell to give off the impression the world was bigger, it was said if you saw something in the distance, another section of the city then you could use the skyhook to get to it...in the final release it was not the case.

http://bioshock.wikia.com/w...

[I_am_Batman]

Yeah I agree that the cut content was more ambitious than what we've got in the final game but again that's not unusual at all. Often times the most ambitious ideas are the once being dialed back or cut from the game because of time or budget constraints.

Obviously these early trailers set expectations really high so I get the criticism that the finished game didn't live up to all the promises. I assume that's why most people don't want games to be announced so early. I for one don't have a problem with that as I'm very aware that a lot of things can and will change throughout the development of a game. I try not to let the early footage impact my judgement of the final game.

Almost all games that aren't conceptually very simple can be improved upon. What's important to me is how much I liked what was there and in the case Bioshock: Infinite I liked it a lot.

[kevnb]

Any game that holds up decades after release, like Mario 3, Starcraft and quake 3.

[PressXtoBacon]

Warcraft 3 <3

[stupidusername]

So great! I’m still playing it.

[ninerguy1608]

Metal gear 3:snake eater. And metal gear 4 of course

[showtimefolks]

And peace walker

[showtimefolks]

Uncharted 2
Mgs 3,4 and peace walker
Ratchet and clank reboot

Honestly it's about fun and games like saints row 2 and original mercenaries were fun games

Fallout new vegas was awesome

Right now every AAA blockbuster is expected to get few perfect scores

A perfect review score doesn't make the game extra fun to play when many of us have played average games for countless hours because those were fun

[Shmeidi]

I agree that great games are mostly about fun, but some of my all time favorite games I wouldn't score a perfect 10 due to some issues. For example, Dragon Age: Origins is one of my die hard favorites, but the animations were very stiff and the combat mechanics had some problems. That doesn't stop me from loving it with all my heart. I just wouldn't score it a perfect 10.

[showtimefolks]

That's what I was trying to say. Just because a game is 10/10 doesn't mean it's fun because many 7-8/10 type games are fun to play

More reviewers need to start mentioning fun factor in their reviews

[kevnb]

Baldurs gate 2 was better.

[DaDrunkenJester]

Replying to your response to Shmeidi, our site (Way Too Many Games from this actual article) does factor in Fun Factor as one of it's main 4 scores. It actually accounts for 40% of the total score. So while a game can look and sound beautiful, if it's boring the score will get docked a lot for Fun Factor.

Our "about us" page explains our review method if you're interested.

https://waytoomany.games/ab...

[paintedgamer1984]

Halo: Combat Evolved, Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Uncharted 2, FF7, Super Metroid, and Demon's Souls are among the games that after i finished them... i had to literally do a standing ovation haha im such a nerd

[RavenWolfx]

Super Mario Bros 3 (NES), Chrono Trigger (SNES), Final Fantasy IV (SNES), Final Fantasy VI (SNES), The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES), Sword of Mana (GBA), Chrono Cross (PS1), Legend of Dragoon (PS1), The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (N64), Shadow Hearts: Covenant (PS2), Rogue Galaxy (PS2), Ace Combat 4 (PS2), Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Xbox), Mass Effect 2 (Xbox 360), Chromehounds (Xbox 360), The Last of Us (PS3), Tomb Raider (2013, Xbox 360), The Witcher 3 (Xbox One), Nier: Automata (Xbox One).

Several of the games have been re-released or remastered/remade. For example, Chrono Trigger DS (for the Nintendo DS) is a great remaster with bonus quests and an additional "true" ending bridging the game to Chrono Cross. Also, several games are multiplatform but I just listed what I played it on. Some other games I would expect to give perfect scores to would be Horizon: Zero Dawn and Uncharted 4, but I haven't played those yet.

[Sidewinder-]

Deus Ex.

[Hylian10]

Zelda: OoT, Link to the Past, MM, Bloodborne, MGS2, Mario Galaxy, and Chrono Trigger are all 10s imo

[LoveSpuds]

Perhaps this site should revisit their scoring system because any site worth their salt would tell you that a 5/5 or 10/10 is not an indication of a 'perfect game', it is simply an indication that the game is recommeded without reservation or is unmissable.

Touting that you have never given a game a perfect scrore suggests to me that your scoring system needs work or revision, it doesnt suggest that you are more discerning in any way.

By way of example, I am fully aware of very minor issues surrounding games like The Last of Us, Mario Odyssey, Horizon, Zelda Breath of the Wild, Uncharted 4 and Bloodborne however, I would suggest that any reviewer who chose to hand out a maximum score is not telling me that the game perfect or flawless and is instead giving the game the highest recommendation that they can.

[PurpHerbison]

I've never played a 10/10 game. They simply don't exist.