Each video game, like each soundtrack, goes back to an era.
Although technology advances, a gamer will make room in his heart for the titles that accompanied him from the beginning.
Nostalgia will be mixed with the bad mood of experience in a seesaw that will also have the opposite effect: given the almost cinematographic nature of some current gems, the past will always be worse.
The lists (the collections) of essentials combine for these reasons very different approaches to hardware, production studios and gameplay dynamics.
Just take a look at the historical rankings of specialized publications such as
IGN, Metacritic, Gamesradar
or
Hobby Consoles
to understand that quality has nothing to do with the profusion of bits and pixels.
RANKING
This selection, ordered in rigorous disorder, is not the result of chance.
Each champion appears in at least three of the top bibles from the magazines mentioned.
A seasoned console player could argue -with good reason- that myths like
Sonic the Hedgehog (Sega)
,
Final Fight (Capcom), Gran Turismo (Polyphony)
or
Fortnite (Epic Games) should be sculpted in micro-Olympus,
but space is limited and the panoramic perspective goat (
Generation X
) shoots to Mt.
No compendium would make sense without
Nintendo.
Often accused of existing around the pantheon of its old creations, the Kyoto company is responsible for at least two of the best games ever,
The Legend of Zelda
: a
Link to the Past
(with precursors on the
NES
and
Gameboy
and many successors in the machines that come after) and
Super Mario World,
the first clearly inspiring of the open worlds that today captivate all audiences and the second impeccable clinic of the platform genre.
The irruption of
Sony
and, later, of
Microsoft,
reversed the old world order.
If Nintendo was Barça, Sega was Madrid.
The former resisted, the latter abandoned the manufacture of consoles and focused on its games.
Thanks to the new dominators, a shipment of gold bars arrived:
Metal Gear Solid
and its stealth, the thug
Grand Theft Auto,
the science-fiction of Halo.
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According to
Newzoo,
the video game industry invoiced a whopping 191.2 billion euros globally in 2021.
The forecast is that this year they will exceed 200,000 million.
This pull has raised the bar for premium developers, subscribed to super production with disparate results.
When they hit the key, as happens when talking about
Rockstar Games,
the earthquake is morrocotudo: his latest hit,
Red Dead Redemption 2,
exceeds 43 million copies sold.
This is one of those cases where everything fits.
It is perhaps the best game designed to date.
What will happen in the next five years?
In theory, virtual reality will eat the toast of traditional leisure, although this refrain sounds and sounds without finishing curdling.
Playing will almost literally be like living another life.
You could be
Michael Jordan, Conor McGregor
or (God forbid)
Julio Iglesias
even if he wears the same boxer shorts his mom bought him at puberty.
The market, however, will continue to stretch like the arms of
Inspector Gadget,
so that a good classic is at hand when perfection becomes too much to bear.
What will happen in the next five years?
In theory, virtual reality will eat the toast of traditional leisure, although this refrain sounds and sounds without finishing curdling.
Playing will be almost like literally living another life.
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