Eurogamer's Top 50 Games of 2008: 10-1 Comments by Eurogamer staff

and the Sony stronghold that is EG forums will have a big party tonight.

be honest, you didn't want to lose 95% of your community eh?

am i getting advice on how to live my life by someone that parades these forums as Obiwanshinobi???

honestly get real.

Well despite all the usual furore over the EG list I'm glad they do it.

I do find it interesting to see what the EG staff like/dislike and for me there's always a mention of a game that I missed during the year that sparks my interest in taking a look. This year it's Braid and World of Goo that I missed.

Keep it up EG I'll still be reading next year even if you don't show the love to MGS4 :-)

Did nobody in EG other than Tom Bramwell bother to play Banjo Nuts and Bolts?

am i getting advice on how to live my life by someone that parades these forums as Obiwanshinobi???

Not really. Someone who once wrote as follows:

It's like the team just stuck up the middle finger to us all. we spent the whole week waiting for that final list and the team turn round and say "it wouldn't be my no.1".

is getting the statement:

That will teach you spending whole weeks on such activities.

Observation rather than advice.

honestly get real.

Thanks for the advice, but I'm not really into reality.

Did I miss the truely excellent Yakuza 2 on this top 50 list?

Comments threads are so depressing. Shows the poor mental state of most EG readers.

I always love the claims of bias as well. I thnik it's great how EG are both Sony and MS biased at the same time.

Let's just second the complete bewilderment at GH:WT over RB2. Sheer lunacy.

But then again, I don't really get the love for L4D either. Is it only me that feels like you're playing it in some kind of floaty god mode, not a real game? Swamped by tens of zombies clawing at you but able to stay alive for a fair while, shooting at them but not really feeling like you're connecting as they collapse... I think it's too manic for its own good and I don't really feel a thing while I play it other than amusement. Amusement is all fine and well, but it's certainly never got close to scaring me or feeling tense, which I really wish it would.

I think Soulcalibur must have been released in December to get in the list. Top 50 games of 2008? Top 50 games of last three months and countless remakes. Siren and Ookami made my head hurt.

Finally proof that EG are biased towards the ColecoVision!

the top 10 is the only thing that made any sense, your 11-50 was total nonsense.

/...back from GTA online, SSFIITHDR online, Burnout Paradise online, Burnout 3...

RETARDS!

I think it's too manic for its own good and I don't really feel a thing while I play it other than amusement. Amusement is all fine and well, but it's certainly never got close to scaring me or feeling tense, which I really wish it would.

Better amusement than pity RE4 delivered. Let's hope RE5 will provide more of regenerators' goodness, as even now I feel sorry for the rest of cannon fodder in RE4.

Oh yes, seems like the most of EG staff has yet to play Chrono Trigger (being merely a port of a pretty old game didn't prevent Rez from ranking much higher). To think they have no idea how great adventure awaits them...

At first i was really dissapointed with the positioning of Smash Bros Brawl because it is a great game with many a hilarious moment and masses of content. But seeing as its a game that relies on like minded friends and that really hurts your eyes i will let it go, aswell it seems to be the only fighting game on a list that is tending towards innovative games.

The list also redeemed itself for pointing me out to Trials 2 which i got for £1.50 that brought me right back to the days of digging up little dirt ramps with my mates and playing elastomania which was a classic little game.

Glad to see L4D and GTA4 up in high positions. Easily 2 of the best games this year, would right a few messages to argue some of the sillier comments people have wrote about GTA4 on this thread but cba.


It would be a fun little thread if you could post who voted for what just for the reactions.

Little Big Level Editor first? what a shame...

Argh, I used to really enjoy eurogamer's quirky maverick reviews, but its 90% mainstream now and heading toward 100%. Some new reviewers or maybe a new head editor might stop the downturn.

spudsbuckley
30-Dec-08 22:12:14

'But no No More Heroes?'

I think that even the reviewers who intially spunked themselves over the Japanese quirkiness (sp?) and fact that it was a Suda 51 game eventually realised it was just a really shitty game in retrospect.

Don't bother to tell me how it's a 'statement' on the current trends in videogame design or whatever pretenious crap was floating around shortly after it's release. It was just utter rubbish that deserves to be forgotten.


Absolutely, ABSOLUTELY incorrect. No More Heroes is a genuinely funny game, with such fresh presentation, and one of the few Wii games to utilise the controller in a new and sensible fashion, that it deserves a place on that Top 100. If you dismiss this game as you have, you simply don't have a soul and don't know how to laugh, you jaded, listless 60-year-old.

A platformer with a level editor...

Coming from someone who owns the game: "No."

Um guys, you obviously had an editing slipup there, and got World of Goo and LBP's places switched. Anyone feel like fixing that glaring error?

"LittleBigPlanet sets out to give people fun, social experiences, to make them laugh and challenge them to work together, and for those few whose creative talents are great enough, it gives them a wonderful toolset. It's a resounding success on all of those levels."

Rob Fahey's comment summed it up perfectly.

'...Does anybody other than me in the entire world like Mirror's Edge's story? Anyone?'

@Nithron Probably not, it started off ok,then goes all SOS The Final Escape without the silly hats, i.e. completely useless, like most videogames then, my real problem is that the game went into production with serious design faults, or had them added to improve marketability (combat) and seemingly goes out of its way to make me, someone who were enthralled with the promise shown in the opening level, utterly hate the choices DICE had made by the end.

Having read the article on how they come up with the final list I still cant believe that none of the contributors played Fifa 09. Yes it was not ground breaking but this is a game that a lot of gamers not only bought but played a lot online and in offline modes. At least even number 50 would been acceptable. What gaming journalist ranks Singstar higher than Saint Row 2 or MGS4? Bioshock was one of the best games on the xbox and I am told the PS3 version is as good/better, where is it? Yes admittedly its down to personal opinion but this seems more a joke than an opinion. LBP is first but most of the comments by the contributors are generally negative so how did it win. I know my top 10 would be worse than this but there are games I don't like which if I was asked I have to acknowledge that even though I wouldn't play them as much as the other games they are good games e.g. GTA and Fallout. ]The games I played the most this year were Soul Calibur, Midnight Club and most recently L4D and I know they are deeply flawed games that do not deserve to be the game of the year if I was a journalist because they would not appeal to a lot of people and there are better options.

LBP? Really? Admit it, you took a look in my notes, searching for "game I give the least amount of shit about" and were actually successful.
Or you just went for "game with the most bullshit PR" which also explains the inclusion of GTA IV.

Left 4 Dead is totally addictive and most engrossing multiplayer this year followed by Battlefield Bad Company which kept me occupied for many long hours in the summer. Burnout Paradise looked superb and played brilliantly once you familiarised yourself with the map and all the bonus free DLC only added to the enjoyment. All the above 3 games required team work and made it is pleasure to play online rather the relentless agressive battle that is Halo or COD online.

How you can leave Dead Space out of your top 50 when it is at number10 of the users top 50? A great atmospheric FPS.

How come Geometry Wars 2 and Braid? I've never seen anyone on my friends list playing either of those two. Had a quick look at Braid tonight. Am I missing something? Looks shite and Geometry Wars is just arcade fodder from 20 years ago. Gave me a headache.

I love EG, but this top sucks...

Where the hell was Valkyria?

I've only just started playing LBP so I'm actually quite inclined to agree with No.1 - And that's not even taking into account the ability to make your own levels:)

"LittleBigPlanet sets out to give people fun, social experiences, to make them laugh and challenge them to work together, and for those few whose creative talents are great enough, it gives them a wonderful toolset. It's a resounding success on all of those levels."

Funny, I thought it was a list of the to 50 GAMES of 2008, not top 50 fun, social experiences of 2008.
LBP might be a very accomplished game construction kit, but for me the GAME of the year was Fallout 3 (despite all the bugs).

Top Game of 2008: FallOut 3

Cause I never played LBP and I never will - since I'm not willing to pay twice the price of my current console to purchase another one just to be able to play their very scarce exclusive games that are worth a try.

Oh well, good thing I outgrew platforming games about 20 years ago...

LittleBig-bloody-Planet. You've lost a lot of brownie points for this.

Well fair enough; it's a pretty interesting list.

For me personally:
I've never played World of Goo, but they've got me thinking I probably should.
LBP actually made me feel clumsy. Anyone else get the same feeling? (I totally am in real life, so I guess that figures).
Fallout 3 is my nr. 1 cause I just can't seem to quit once started.
And I liked Dead Space a lot. Maybe not top 10, but still.

And to those people who were bugged in advance by CoD: World at war making the top 10:
It didn't and I told you so ... Pah!

Happy Newyear to everyone.

Fantastic news for LBP.

Wow... LBP Eurogamer's game of the year.. did NOT see that coming :)

And for once I agree ... it's my GOTY also. I'm enjoying creating levels much more than "playing" in a traditional sense - incredible piece of software :D

I take it all back EG...the fact that you left out the piling dungheap that is CoD:WaW means your kudos levels have went through the roof. Also, I have 4 of the top 5 and enjoyed them all.

but..but......but....its ps3 game?

everybody on here seems to think EG has a blatant 360 bias..how can this beeeeeeee?!

What is the DEAL with Fallout 3!? I wasted good money on this (literal) trash on the basis of EG's review. The laughable graphics, the soulless, stereotypical and predictable characters - a dire battle system where running up to an enemy and aiming for the head was more than effective for most of the formulaic 10 hours I could be bothered to put into this shite, I guess some people are easily pleased.

There's also this big song and dance about this "VATS" system which was bettered (by a country mile) 8 years ago by Vagrant Story - THIS gets placed 2nd while the World Ends with You doesn't even get placed!?

EG and their opinions are bloody pathetic!

Also suprised no Fifa 09.

It's the best football game ever made! It managed to convert loads of PES fanboys. With 11V11 online as well, it's just brilliant.

Owell.

Only just heard about braid, so downloaded it last night, good game, not sure how I missed hearing anything about it including the review!

Eurogamer and it's Xbox bias... bah!
I'm quiting this site, this and that....

edit: I just checked... it happens that that LBP editor thing is not an xbox game, so it's cool. I like EG again, as a matter a fgact I think they're the greatest and shit!

LBP? Hmmm. I'm sure I'd love the community aspect if PSN didn't constantly kick me out, a problem that many others are still having and Sony has done nowt about. /sigh

I could rant on about this for ages but all I'll say is...

By no stretch of the imagination is GH: World Tour better than RB2. The ability to make piss poor midi versions of songs does not make up for the awful setlist and sporadic DLC. And I know its a moot point at the moment since we have no idea when the RB2 instruments are being released in Europe but the World Tour instruments are pretty shoddy, especially the drums.

Left 4 Dead deserves to be MUCH higher as well. It gets nothing but praise in the comments, yet LBP has multiple people saying the basic platforming mechanic in the game is broken and gets to No.1?!

But I will praise you for keeping that clunky piece of rubbish Dead space out of the top 50. A poor imitation of other much better games.

good list EG!
a little surprised that Dead Space didn't make your top 50 but hey ho that's what opinions are for :D
Keep up the good work in 09

Favourite comment so far: "...what the hell else gets stated with such annoying bias and condensation."

Is anybody else just picking their favourite commenter and then plotting the trajectory of their nervous breakdown through the thread? This is totally what the Eurogamer Top Fifty is all about.

"I'm never posting on this piece of shit site ever again!!!!"

"Here I am, twenty minutes later, totally posting on this piece of shit site again!!!!"

There should be an annual Daily Mail campaign. A Eurogamer staffer should resign, someone else should get suspended for three months and, above all, Lessons Should Be Learnt.

hurrah!

LBP reigns surpreme!

EG's staff is getting older, you can see clearly this year, they just want puzzle games :P

don't agree with the top 5. but, who cares...

happy newyears eve to everybody.

I love all the cryes and complains about MGS 4 and LBP and the fact that, even with the large diference in the scoring in the "top 50 games", the disgusting taste for both in Eurogamer is comparable.

Let's go. I have a powerful PC, a PS3 and a Xbox 360. My most played games in PS3 this year were Unreal Tournament III -with keyboard & mouse- and Soul Calibur IV. MGS 4 and WipE Out HD are honorable mentions, but concerning gameplay both are inferior to UT3 and SC IV. Unreal Editor -PC but with the chance to adapt the contents to PS3- is > to LBP editor. So, I'm very happy playing in a minoritary fps shooter -which is what UT 3 is today- in console in the mos minoritary way -k & m controls- and playing the best fighting game of the year -SC IV- even taking in consideration that the online in this game is the second worst conceived online in a game ever -in both PS3 and Xbox 360, I have both versions-.

Aside from this, Fallout 3 -in PC- was dissapointing-, much worse than Oblivion in terms of beauty, gameplay, story and even graphics. My most played game this year was Diablo II LOD with near to 500 hours, that crushes in fun and gameplay all the other titles launched this year. Honorable mentions to Crysis Warhead and his mp Crysis Wars: still tramples above any other game in the technical department and makes that the best titles in the "HD consoles" looks like handheld generation games. And better, the game is fun -but can't competa vs Blizzard ones-. Also WAR was a amazing new addition to the MMORPG, best one sonce WoW.

Game of the year: WotLK, but to me his gameplay is inferior to D II LOD, which also does not need a monthly fee. Next year will be the year of the PC -Dawn Of War II, Starcraft II, Battlefield 3... - Sorry, I'll buy KZ2 and Tekken 6, but again will be a lose war vs the titles from Relic and Blizzard.

I don't see any glaring omissions in the list, except Dead Space probably (although haven't played it). Of course, the order can be debatable, but it doesn't really matter, does it? Most of the top 8-10 games in this list would be worthy GOTY winners in my book, even if I don't like them all equally.

As for FIFA 09 and MGS4, well, the first one is the latest iteration on an over-milked franchise. I can see why professional games journalists would be sick of it and tend to overlook it. It just looks pretty much the same, with minor steps back and forward every year. They really shouldn't release a new version every year, it's ridiculous.

MGS4...I admit I haven't played it. The very thought of 60-minute long (or worse) cutscenes put me off it, and I don't think I'll ever give it a go, except if I find it some day in the bargain bin for €9.99. They say "you either love it or hate it", and I think most people lean towards the second (which is not to say the actually hate it). The fact that it made the top 30 is good enough, no matter what the fanboys may say.

Oh well, so a 9/10 beats all 10/10 after all. You really should review your scores guys.

LBP number 1... I must go and buy a PS3 right now... It's only £299.99................

actually scrap that idea...

Interesting list, as always I don't agree with everything but always gives me ideas.

World of goo it is then.

GH:WT higher than RB? Seriously?

Get a grip, Eurogamer staff, GH sucks balls compared to Rock Band and you're the only website from those I read that considers GH:WT to be the better game.

9/10

... people who post a comment here do not understand how the list was compiled.

Absolutely, ABSOLUTELY incorrect. No More Heroes is a genuinely funny game, with such fresh presentation, and one of the few Wii games to utilise the controller in a new and sensible fashion, that it deserves a place on that Top 100. If you dismiss this game as you have, you simply don't have a soul and don't know how to laugh, you jaded, listless 60-year-old.

Look. It was just a crap, poorly designed, repetetive pile of drivel. People intially got all excited because it was a bit quirky but the excitement wore off after about 30 minutes play time when it's glaring flaws are revealed and boredom sets in.