The 100 Best Games of the 21st Century - Giant Bomb (community vote) - /v/ (#714576461) [Archived: 577 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/5/2025, 2:22:07 PM No.714576461
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50. Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers
49. Persona 4 Golden
48. Celeste
47. God of War
46. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
45. The Last of Us Part II
44. Shadow of the Colossus
43. BioShock
42. The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
41. Mass Effect
40. Balatro
39. Deus Ex
38. Portal
37. Super Mario Galaxy
36. Undertale
35. Hollow Knight
34. Yakuza 0
33. Persona 5 Royal
32. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
31. Halo: Combat Evolved
30. Stardew Valley
29. Minecraft
28. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
27. Final Fantasy X
26. The Last of Us
25. Halo 3
24. Portal 2
23. Metroid Prime
22. Fallout: New Vegas
21. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
20. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
19. NieR:Automata
18. Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
17. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
16. Resident Evil 4
15. World of Warcraft
14. Red Dead Redemption II
13. Hades
12. Disco Elysium
11. Super Mario Odyssey
10. Half-Life 2
09. Dark Souls
08. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
07. Bloodborne
06. Baldur's Gate 3
05. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
04. Mass Effect 2
03. Outer Wilds
02. Elden Ring
01. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
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Anonymous
7/5/2025, 2:22:24 PM No.714576479
100.Death Stranding
99. Pokรฉmon HeartGold/SoulSilver
98. Batman: Arkham City
97. Burnout Paradise
96. Astro Bot
95. Shadow of the Colossus
94. Dota 2
93. Journey
92. Tetris Effect
91. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
90. Persona 5
89. Hitman
88. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
87. Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4
86. XCOM 2
85. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
84. Rock Band 3
83. Spelunky
82. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
81. Dragon Age: Origins
80. Diablo II
79. Return of Obra Dinn
78. Alan Wake II
77. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
76. Fallout 3
75. DOOM (2016)
74. Katamari Damacy
73. Super Smash Bros. Melee
72. Grand Theft Auto V
71. Resident Evil 2 (2019)
70. Final Fantasy IX
69. Batman: Arkham Asylum
68. Control
67. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
66. Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence
65. Super Mario Galaxy 2
64. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
63. Team Fortress 2
62. Rocket League
61. Silent Hill 2 (2001)
60. Red Dead Redemption
59. Titanfall 2
58. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
57. Cyberpunk 2077
56. Halo 2
55. Kingdom Hearts II
54. Hitman 3
53. Resident Evil 4 (2023)
52. Mass Effect Legendary Edition
51. Slay the Spire
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Anonymous
7/5/2025, 2:26:06 PM No.714576671
>>714576461 (OP)
>10. Half-Life 2
>09. Dark Souls
>08. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
>07. Bloodborne
>06. Baldur's Gate 3
>05. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
>04. Mass Effect 2
>03. Outer Wilds
>02. Elden Ring
>01. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Holy goyslop batman
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Anonymous
7/5/2025, 2:27:02 PM No.714576720
No one can resist Zelda's "Breath of the wild"
Anonymous
7/5/2025, 2:28:46 PM No.714576803
the millenial tier list
Anonymous
7/5/2025, 2:29:35 PM No.714576847
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>>714576461 (OP)
omfg why do people like Botw it's just a bunch of copypasta shrines that are LAUGHABLY easy.

Terrible content
Terrible quests
Terrible dungeons
Terrible items that are mostly filler
Terrible voice acting

"ITS OKAY WHEN NINTENDO DOES IT!!"
so retarded
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Anonymous
7/5/2025, 2:30:36 PM No.714576891
>>714576461 (OP)
What a shit list
Anonymous
7/5/2025, 2:31:45 PM No.714576953
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>>714576461 (OP)
Anonymous
7/5/2025, 2:33:08 PM No.714577037
>>714576461 (OP)
What a shit list.
Anonymous
7/5/2025, 2:35:42 PM No.714577150
kek sonygroes in ruins. Another list BOTW tops.
Anonymous
7/5/2025, 2:36:25 PM No.714577186
>>714576461 (OP)
Holy recency bias Batman!
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Anonymous
7/5/2025, 2:39:35 PM No.714577362
>>714577186
BOTW was almost 10 years ago
Anonymous
7/5/2025, 2:40:54 PM No.714577432
>>714576461 (OP)
>>714576479
a normalfag list and its WRONG.
botw/totk are glorified tech demos, not actual games.
Anonymous
7/5/2025, 2:41:46 PM No.714577470
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>>714576461 (OP)
>01. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Why do we have to pretend this game was some once-in-a-lifetime masterpiece? It was a nice groundwork but that aside I wouldn't even say it's in the top 3 best games of it's own franchise.
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Anonymous
7/5/2025, 2:42:02 PM No.714577485
>>714576461 (OP)
2000 isn't the 21st century retards
Anonymous
7/5/2025, 2:48:36 PM No.714577859
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>>714576847
the lack of enemy variety despite the gigafuck huge map is probably the most insulting part, even more than weapon durability.
enemy variety in loz has almost always been its strongest aspect.
and now you're telling me that the enemies in the desert region are exactly the same as the enemies in the snow region?
really? REALLY?
AND THE BOSSES ARE THE SAME FLOATY GUY EVERY SINGLE FUCKING TIME. AT LEAST GIVE THEM A DIFFERENT WAY TO MOVE. COULDNT BE BOTHERED TO MAKE ONE OF THEM A DAMN SPIDER? YOU HAD THE GUARDIANS RIGHT THERE.
Anonymous
7/5/2025, 2:53:11 PM No.714578097
>>714577470
its normalfags.
the answer is always normalfags.
just take a look at nintendo's modern fanbase. children and manchildren that grew up on nintendo.
its almost entirely composed of people that exclusively play nintendo games. this is their first physics sandbox game.
they dont know that everything botw tries to do has been done by another game and infinitely better
Anonymous
7/5/2025, 2:57:29 PM No.714578317
>>714576461 (OP)
>05. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
>04. Mass Effect 2
>03. Outer Wilds
>02. Elden Ring
>01. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Holy fucking cringe
Anonymous
7/5/2025, 2:59:45 PM No.714578438
>>714576461 (OP)
>>714576479
>>714576671
Starts with the top 50, does 100-51 after, re-posts top 10.

Are you actually dumb?
Anonymous
7/5/2025, 3:01:40 PM No.714578556
>>714576461 (OP)
Clearly Giant Bomb is frequented by literal retards
Anonymous
7/5/2025, 3:02:19 PM No.714578598
I can't decide if my biggest problem with this list is Deus Ex being so low down, or Bioshock being included at all.
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Anonymous
7/5/2025, 3:07:35 PM No.714578874
>>714577470
you lost and got raped eric
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Anonymous
7/5/2025, 3:11:06 PM No.714579073
Why are games like Persona 5 and MGS3 listed twice? that's retarded
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Anonymous
7/5/2025, 3:19:11 PM No.714579521
>>714579073
Ah, clearly GiantBomb follows in the Hbomberguy school of list rankings.
Anonymous
7/5/2025, 3:19:43 PM No.714579557
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>>714576461 (OP)
I never understood the appeal of rollslop. I truly don't.
Anonymous
7/5/2025, 3:22:04 PM No.714579704
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>Twilight Princess the only 3d zelda completely ignored
lmao WW chads keep winning
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Anonymous
7/5/2025, 3:23:23 PM No.714579797
>>714579704
I didn't see skyward sword anywhere on the list.
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Anonymous
7/5/2025, 3:24:59 PM No.714579901
>>714576461 (OP)
Undertale should be top 10 in terms of impact
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Anonymous
7/5/2025, 3:27:04 PM No.714580023
>>714579901
Earthbound. Not Undertale.
Undertale owns nearly everything to Earthbound.
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Anonymous
7/5/2025, 3:29:03 PM No.714580120
>>714580023
This is for games in the 21st century and the biggest Earthbound knockoff before Undertale was OFF.
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Anonymous
7/5/2025, 3:30:33 PM No.714580201
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>>714576461 (OP)
>04. Mass Effect 2
Anonymous
7/5/2025, 3:32:15 PM No.714580297
>everyone says TOTK is better than BOTW
>but BOTW keeps topping these lists and not TOTK
???
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Anonymous
7/5/2025, 3:37:26 PM No.714580651
>>714576461 (OP)
If youโ€™re making a list like this then I feel like story would have to be a pre-requisite for a game to be here and how well it used the mechanics of a video game to tell a story. Cause otherwise itโ€™d be like arguing if Scrabble or Monopoly is better when โ€œfunโ€ is subjective thatโ€™s objective
>Dark Souls
>Sons of Liberty
>Undertale
>NIER Automata
>Hades/Bastion
>Shadow of the Colossus
Those feel like obvious choices
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Anonymous
7/5/2025, 3:37:44 PM No.714580668
>>714580120
I'm not convinced you know what a knockoff is.
Anonymous
7/5/2025, 3:38:00 PM No.714580693
>>714580120
>This is for games in the 21st century
My fault, ur right. I agree in hindight that undertale should be top 10
Anonymous
7/5/2025, 3:38:31 PM No.714580732
>>714580651
*something thatโ€™s subjective* my bad Iโ€™m dyslexic
Anonymous
7/5/2025, 3:38:37 PM No.714580739
>>714580297
The same reason why OoT tops lists when MM is just better, first impressions are a helluva thing.
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Anonymous
7/5/2025, 3:38:59 PM No.714580763
Deus Ex not being in the top 3 is a sin.
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Anonymous
7/5/2025, 3:39:55 PM No.714580832
>>714580651
Art is subjective, retard. "Objective" video game ranking is the most inane shit imaginable.
>Undertale
>NIER Automata
>Hades/Bastion
pfffffffffff
Anonymous
7/5/2025, 3:57:05 PM No.714581989
>>714576847
>doesn't like british accents
opinion discarded
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Anonymous
7/5/2025, 3:58:18 PM No.714582095
>>714576461 (OP)
>01. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Holy fucking boring.
Anonymous
7/5/2025, 4:03:15 PM No.714582484
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>>714580739
Ironic because to me it's literally the opposite. The first 40 minutes of Majora are so amazingly enigmatic because of how they executed the initial reveal of the "moon falling" concept and real-time stuff, and it's very atmospheric. When you keep playing the game that impact mostly lessens, the dungeons are some of the weaker 3D dungeons, and ultimately the story isn't really that deep or dark. It's actually just a tale about "Friendship" and the whole theme around Skull Kid, the Giants and Link leaving for Navi, is about the cycle of misdemeanor, loss of friendship, and regaining of friendship. MM is a novella-sized Zelda plot.

Ocarina of Time on the other hand is complete. The game surprised you the more you played it, because you thought it would end after you collected the 3 sacred stones and have to defeat Ganon with the Master Sword. But then the whole perspective changes and the world becomes darker, and creates a theme of "Childhood vs Adulthood" reflected in Past / Future, and at the end of the game Link is the embodiement of childhood's purity and Ganon is the embodiement of the corruption of greed and power that forms with adulthood.

It just feels like a more epic, complete narrative, and it's a lot cleaner than MM.

I'm not surprised OoT isn't on the GB list. MM is the most popular internet-circlejerk choice for Zelda games, but real Zelda fans who actually played them recently will realize OoT is still a better game.
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Anonymous
7/5/2025, 4:03:22 PM No.714582502
>>714576461 (OP)
Reddit ass list
Anonymous
7/5/2025, 4:31:47 PM No.714584580
>>714582484
OoT came in 1998 dumbass, so it wouldn't be on this list.
Anonymous
7/5/2025, 4:41:15 PM No.714585276
>>714579797
>TP on the same forgotten tier as ss
Kek
Anonymous
7/5/2025, 4:42:37 PM No.714585364
>>714580739
Except that fedora's mask is not better than OoT and TotK is not better than Botw
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Anonymous
7/5/2025, 4:51:50 PM No.714586000
>>714585364
>TotK is not better than Botw
How is it not? TOTK is just BOTW with more shit.
Anonymous
7/5/2025, 4:52:11 PM No.714586023
>>714581989
show teeth
Anonymous
7/5/2025, 5:00:44 PM No.714586595
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No time for shitty lists
Posting Zeldass
Anonymous
7/5/2025, 5:04:17 PM No.714586865
>>714576461 (OP)
>>714578598
>>714580763
>39. Deus Ex
Deus Ex came out in 2000, which was the last year of the 20th century. It does not belong on this list.
And deserves to be at the top if it did.
Anonymous
7/5/2025, 5:08:36 PM No.714587182
>>714578874
his name is yoda