The popular fashion and entertainment website and GQ magazine decided enough was enough and decided to release their own 100 Greatest Video Games of All Time. However, the difference between this list and the others is that they asked video game developers and journalists to battle it out to find out what they consider to be the best games of all time. You can read the full list on their website here.
About the GQ selection process:
Lists of the greatest games of all time have, for all time, gone the same way; a team of video game journalists sits down and compiles a ranking that is almost predetermined – a seemingly canonical hall of fame that tries to cover as many bases as possible. Here at GQ, we thought we’d embrace the chaos instead. Instead of shuffling Ocarina of Time, Dark Souls, and Ico around the big list according to our own whims, we decided to include our friends.
So we gave the industry as a whole a blank canvas on which to set its own “best” criteria, to see where the selected games differ from – and where they are similar to – the traditionally accepted canon. This meant bringing together a huge collective of our favorite programmers, streamers, directors and journalists in the business. Think of it as an Avengers reunion moment.
Each voter had one task: to choose a personally ranked list of the ten best. The first game gets 10 points. The game in 10th place gets 1 point. We invited 300 individuals to participate and received 239 final lists from a whopping 652 games that received one vote or more. Our winner not only received the most votes, but also placed 1st more than any other competitor.
GQ’s Top Ten Video Games of All Time:
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- The last of us
- Tetris
- Bloodborne
- Expert 3
- Mass Effect 2
- Metal Gear Solid
- Portal 2
- Dark souls
- Half life 2