Khan FurSainty
Look, Ma! Two Heads!
Fallout makes #13 on the reader-voted best video game series of all time list in the Guinness Book of Records, behind such luminous titles as Halo and Call of Duty.
Fallout one of the best game series
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Look, Ma! Two Heads!
Yay, Diablo made the list. Just above LEGO Batman, but it did! one
I really loved the list tbh, it made me laugh! 
"Yeah, people ARE idiots! They like things I don't, so therefore they are idiots."
Halo should be on that list, but not as high. I'm thinking maybe the Legend of Zelda series should be number 1, simply because it's such a long-running high quality series.
EDIT: What is idiotic is listing Runescape, World of Warcraft, and other games as series rather than individual games. They should also have changed the title to Most Popular rather than THE BEST. Causes annoyance amongst fans of other games.
Halo should be on that list, but not as high. I'm thinking maybe the Legend of Zelda series should be number 1, simply because it's such a long-running high quality series.
EDIT: What is idiotic is listing Runescape, World of Warcraft, and other games as series rather than individual games. They should also have changed the title to Most Popular rather than THE BEST. Causes annoyance amongst fans of other games.
What is idiotic is that Guinness is even doing this. Not its area of expertise, hmmmpfh.
Alphadrop
A right proper chap.
Aww I prefered the original thread title. I know it was against the rules but it just spoke to me in a way that the current one doesen't.
Guinness has done a couple of World Record books on computer games, a lot of it being wrong.
Guinness has done a couple of World Record books on computer games, a lot of it being wrong.
The Record Book is good fun. When listing measurable records. This subjective opinionated stuff isn't what they do well.
Janmanden
First time out of the vault
Guinness World Records.. It must be related somehow to consumption of the ale and not the record hoarding company.
WoW is a kind of series, because each expansion is like a game in itself.
WoW is a kind of series, because each expansion is like a game in itself.
Definitely not. It's a user-voted list and you can tell what group of people voted from the games that came out. No Baldur's Gate? Then definitely no Fallout.
Khan FurSainty
Look, Ma! Two Heads!
Oh, joy and wonder that Fallout made it in to a moronic list that doesn't change anything in the gaming world! Truly, that must mean that Fallout 3 is the greatest thing that ever happened to the francize! We are so fortunate that, thanks to Bethesda, the Fallout name made it in the 13-th place (Lucky Vault 13. Maybe it was fate?) just so we can stand proud with the masses for liking the same series. Hurry, men, bring out the booze and wenches! For we must party like it's 999, in honor of this great achievement!
Burrich
meme me up scotty
Was the poll held primarily over PSN and Xbox LIVE?
Janmanden
First time out of the vault
Well, now that you (someone, somewhere above) mention it. I find the lack of anything that I relate to adult humor and wits is completely lacking quite surprising, but in that context I can see why, but there is too much prejudice in that reason and unfortunately it seems quite true to me.
Maybe Monkey Island and all those other adventures I played weren't that good, but I guess even Myst is kinda missing. Of course Baldurs Gate too, but someone already mentioned that. Maybe it was the same person. Not sure. My mouse is too heavy.
I feel I must be part of that spoiled generation, that experienced games that addressed me and incited me mentally with so much wit and attention to detail and also punished me in so many ways. Maybe the developers of that age were just unlucky that the market wasn't as rich as it is nowadays or maybe the somewhat geeky nature of games is what held it back then, before computers became public property and games became mainstream. This decade, from 2000 to now really pushed a lot of daisies. I would really liked to have seen, what kind of reception and sales figures games like Fallout, Baldurs Gate and Planescape:Torment would have gotten today.. with the engines and technology of today. But maybe they are remnants of an age lost. Maybe they would have been turned into dumbed down first-person action crap instead of the isometric classics they are.
Maybe Monkey Island and all those other adventures I played weren't that good, but I guess even Myst is kinda missing. Of course Baldurs Gate too, but someone already mentioned that. Maybe it was the same person. Not sure. My mouse is too heavy.
I feel I must be part of that spoiled generation, that experienced games that addressed me and incited me mentally with so much wit and attention to detail and also punished me in so many ways. Maybe the developers of that age were just unlucky that the market wasn't as rich as it is nowadays or maybe the somewhat geeky nature of games is what held it back then, before computers became public property and games became mainstream. This decade, from 2000 to now really pushed a lot of daisies. I would really liked to have seen, what kind of reception and sales figures games like Fallout, Baldurs Gate and Planescape:Torment would have gotten today.. with the engines and technology of today. But maybe they are remnants of an age lost. Maybe they would have been turned into dumbed down first-person action crap instead of the isometric classics they are.
Khan FurSainty
Look, Ma! Two Heads!
Blackened said:
Different tastes. You have yours, i have mine, every person on this site has his, every person on the world has their's. And when you splice them together, you don't get what is the best, you get what most people want or think. No matter if it's true or false, that's what is relevant to their interests and they'll stick by it. When you make a "Top Best X" list, you want the opinion of the tiny part of humanity. These, that are neutral to the masses and neutral in their tastes. The people that hold deep knowledge about gaming. Let's have an example. Let's say that i don't like reading books, but was forced bay my parents to go to the library and pick some. Because i don't want to screw myself with a bad writer i decide to go and ask someone. Now, what will be wiser? To go and ask the librarian for an advise, or to start asking random people, that most certainly haven't read 1/3 of the books in the building and will just stick with the names they know?
My point in a nutshell is, the list is not "Top Something Games That People Love". It's "Greatest Sequels". And some very important sequels are missing, while other games are not supposed to be even in this list. They just relayed on the wrong number of people and the wrong people for the wrong thing.
Blackened said:
I sense someone coming here, trolling "You see! If it wasn't for Fallout 3, Fallout wouldn't make it to the list!! So shut up and enjoy the greatness of Beth's creations! Oh Hail!!"
But yeah, what's up with WoW being a series?
Warcraft- yes, but WoW is a spin-off to Warcraft, isn't it? Most of teens who play WoW probably don't know that there was something before WoW. Same for FO3- the '3' is just for lulz.Not really. I prefer to have unpopular Fallout series, instead of this - a second Fallout community, made of ignorant people. It sucks that now most people think of Fallout 3 when they heard of Fallout.
My point was that it's misleading that this list is right about having Fallout series because Fallout 1 and 2 are great RPGs.
My point was that it's misleading that this list is right about having Fallout series because Fallout 1 and 2 are great RPGs.
DGT
It Wandered In From the Wastes
How can a game and it's expansions (and they are expansions; you can't play WotLK without BC which you can't play without vanilla WoW) be called a series?
Edit: I would also go so far as to say StarCraft isn't a series yet; only one game until July, as I don't think a port to N64 counts -- and I just mentioned expansions.
Edit: I would also go so far as to say StarCraft isn't a series yet; only one game until July, as I don't think a port to N64 counts -- and I just mentioned expansions.