Just to show I don’t just credit Nintendo’s best games for doing all the heavy lifting, I’d give a 10 to Dark Souls for the reason I’ve given. I think that should be the description for an 8 or 9 but when you suggest those games have reached the very highest ceiling, it means you’re lumping them in with those that go as far as shaking the foundations of game design. I’m not alone in thinking some mainstream publications hand out 10s way too liberally nowadays, to the point where it loses any meaning beyond ‘I had a great time with it and can’t think of any obvious areas for improvement’ and that’s why we’ve seen games like God Of War Ragnarök and Forza Horizon 5 get so many max scores. I appreciate others will have different criteria such as timelessness or an absence of flaws but most games I’d have given a 10 on release probably aren’t as enjoyable decades later without some meaningful update (Super Mario 64 and Metroid Prime) while others can include a ton of widely accepted irritations but those fail to undermine the game’s real triumphs (Zelda: Breath Of The Wild and its sequel). I don’t know how many hours I spent playing it but I had an amazing time.Įasily a 10 and I’ll be amazed if you don’t get quite a few other readers naming this game.Ī 10 for me is one that takes at least one important element of what gaming is now (or what it has ever been) and smashes through any boundary or parameter associated with that aspect, to the point that it significantly impacts the experience and makes me excited about the possibilities the medium offers. I went home and told my wife I was buying an Xbox 360. I didn’t have a console until I saw this game on a friend’s Xbox 360. It had one of the best campaigns I’ve ever played, with some simply amazing missions coupled with an addictive as heroin brilliant multiplayer. So you want to know which game is a certain 10 then, GC? One game springs to mind: Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Super Mario Bros.Basically, that the positives so outweigh the negatives when I play it, or even think about playing it, which to me is the key.
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