Comments on: Gamedaily’s Top Ten RTS Games

By: Gamer’s Bookshelf: Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World

Gamer’s Bookshelf: Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:23:41 +0000

[...] historian; let’s be honest – how many lists actually astound us with their conclusions? Like any list, it tells as much about the listmaker as it does about the putative [...]

By: Troy

Troy — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 15:37:36 +0000

The inanity of picking an entire series instead of a game is something that goes beyond Mr. Atkinson. How many top 50/100 lists have you read that will arbitrarily choose to honor either a single game (Civilization 2) or a series (SimCity) on the same list? Next-Gen’s list of the “top 100 selling games” was, in fact, about franchises – probably so they could squeeze more game onto the list.

Arguing series on a list like this is, I agree, idiotic. But then, you see, the list would be clogged with newer games except for maybe Age of Empires II.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 13:32:35 +0000

Good work.

And you never ever skewered the Best 10 RTS ever which includes series of games as one game.

Seriously, you lazy fucking drone: Argue a corner. Shogun, Medieval and Rome are all fundamentally different games. Which one’s best?

(I mean… if they called Starcraft, “Warcraft: Space”, would you have included it in the same entry? Well, yes, you clearly would. Fucking dolt.)

By: Troy

Troy — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 01:03:38 +0000

“I have great skepticism in regards to Mr. Buffa’s ability to write a gaming article, let alone whether or not he actually played any of the games at length.”

To be fair to Mr. Buffa, he didn’t write this article, Greg Atkinson did. However, he or one of his under-editors should have given it a thorough proofread before loading to GD.

Buffa’s no Shakespeare, but he’s not this bad.

By: FastangLX

FastangLX — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 22:08:44 +0000

I have great skepticism in regards to Mr. Buffa’s ability to write a gaming article, let alone whether or not he actually played any of the games at length. AOL should request their money back.

By: xtien

xtien — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 21:00:23 +0000

Thanks for making me laugh today. More importantly, thanks for not making me read the original article.

Also, I’ve got to chime in with Natus here. It’s cheating just to lump a whole series in as one game. Actually, more to the point, it’s lazy.

“Some people think that chocolate is good. Other people think that other flavors are good.”

Still laughing.