No no no NO. do. NOT fucking don’t give this any views.
This list was GPT generated. Look at the list that it gave me when I asked GPT 4o for a list…it’s 85% the fucking same:
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Creating a definitive list of the top 50 best games of all time can be subjective, as it often depends on personal preferences and experiences. However, I can provide you with a list that includes many games frequently celebrated for their impact, innovation, and popularity:
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Super Mario Bros.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Red Dead Redemption 2
The Last of Us
Tetris
Final Fantasy VII
Halo: Combat Evolved
Grand Theft Auto V
Minecraft
Super Mario 64
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Dark Souls
Half-Life 2
Metal Gear Solid
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Portal 2
World of Warcraft
Chrono Trigger
Bioshock
Mass Effect 2
Super Metroid
Resident Evil 4
Doom (1993)
Street Fighter II
Pokémon Red/Blue
Undertale
Shadow of the Colossus
God of War (2018)
Silent Hill 2
Journey
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Diablo II
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Bloodborne
Final Fantasy VI
Super Mario Galaxy
Civilization V
StarCraft
The Sims
League of Legends
Pac-Man
Assassin’s Creed II
Fortnite
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Celeste
Monster Hunter: World
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Hades
This list includes a mix of classics and modern titles across various genres and platforms. Each of these games has left a significant mark on the gaming world in its own way.
Someone has never read a Rolling Stones best of list before.
They were upsetting people over how they ranked music for decades before ChatGPT was available.
Here’s a thread where people are bitching about them in the same year ChatGPT was released. They’re talking about prior lists, so they’re not talking about AI generated ones. This has been an issue with Rolling Stone for literally decades. Everyone hates their best-of lists.
I’m gonna get tired real quick of this “everything is AI and you shouldn’t engage with it” take. If you can’t handle it, get off the fucking internet and go touch grass.
EDIT: Further, each section of the article, about 2-3 paragraphs per game has a human author listed.
Let’s just keep pretending that nobody gets paid for this kind of thing and make sure that nobody gets paid by lying and saying it’s all AI anyway, leading it to all eventually become AI anyway because everyone stopped fucking reading.
I would need more evidence to conclude that the list was generated using AI.
I don’t think there’s much argument over the merit of each of these games. Most “best games of all time” lists would have these games. I think it’s natural that critically acclaimed and widely beloved games show up on both the Rolling Stone’s list and in GPT 4o’s training data.
I can understand arguments regarding the order of their list however. That was my intention when submitting the link – to stir up discussion regarding the order they chose for the games.
Wikipedia’s list requires an entry feature on 6 different publications’ “best of” lists so that implies RS may have applied some and haven’t just cribbed directly.
Edit:
For anyone else interested it looks like RS was the 6th list including these three titles so they have now been added over on Wikipedia:
No no no NO. do. NOT fucking don’t give this any views.
This list was GPT generated. Look at the list that it gave me when I asked GPT 4o for a list…it’s 85% the fucking same:
Tap for spoiler
Creating a definitive list of the top 50 best games of all time can be subjective, as it often depends on personal preferences and experiences. However, I can provide you with a list that includes many games frequently celebrated for their impact, innovation, and popularity:
This list includes a mix of classics and modern titles across various genres and platforms. Each of these games has left a significant mark on the gaming world in its own way.
Someone has never read a Rolling Stones best of list before.
They were upsetting people over how they ranked music for decades before ChatGPT was available.
Here’s a thread where people are bitching about them in the same year ChatGPT was released. They’re talking about prior lists, so they’re not talking about AI generated ones. This has been an issue with Rolling Stone for literally decades. Everyone hates their best-of lists.
https://old.reddit.com/r/LetsTalkMusic/comments/fol2rk/why_are_rolling_stone_lists_taken_seriously/
I’m gonna get tired real quick of this “everything is AI and you shouldn’t engage with it” take. If you can’t handle it, get off the fucking internet and go touch grass.
EDIT: Further, each section of the article, about 2-3 paragraphs per game has a human author listed.
Let’s just keep pretending that nobody gets paid for this kind of thing and make sure that nobody gets paid by lying and saying it’s all AI anyway, leading it to all eventually become AI anyway because everyone stopped fucking reading.
This will happen for every “best of” list. It’s why Giant Bomb always includes the deliberations, so you can hear how they arrived there.
Each game literally has two or three paragraphs dedicated to why it was chosen with the human authors name credited at the end of each game section.
Yeah, but how do I know they’re not AIs with human names? /s
I would need more evidence to conclude that the list was generated using AI.
I don’t think there’s much argument over the merit of each of these games. Most “best games of all time” lists would have these games. I think it’s natural that critically acclaimed and widely beloved games show up on both the Rolling Stone’s list and in GPT 4o’s training data.
I can understand arguments regarding the order of their list however. That was my intention when submitting the link – to stir up discussion regarding the order they chose for the games.
It looks like Rolling Stone included Baulders Gate 3.
That game is recent enough that it hasn’t qualified for Wikipedia’s List of video games considered the best yet.
Wikipedia’s list requires an entry feature on 6 different publications’ “best of” lists so that implies RS may have applied some and haven’t just cribbed directly.
Edit:
For anyone else interested it looks like RS was the 6th list including these three titles so they have now been added over on Wikipedia:
I’m a little shocked THPS wasn’t already there.