Ok, let's think about things logically:
What people consider to be the 'best game ever' can easily be influenced. For instance, I've one post for Halo 2, only two people (including myself) have mentioned Panzer Dragoon Saga, and there have been some mentions of games like Elite, Half-Life (the original), Final Fantasy and Legend of Zelda.
Halo 2 is a new game and some people haven't played dit yet (I'm waiting for a PC version, I hate FPS games with control pads), where as some other games are so old (Elite for example) that many people on these forums may be too young to even have heard of the game.
On the other hand we have games that saw very pour sales dispite getting rave reviews at the time. Panzer Dragoon Saga is possible to greatest unknown game in history, since fewer then 10,000 copies of the game were manufactured world-wide! There are hundred of thousands of people around the world who have heard about the game, but will never play it due to it's rarety, and therefore, those people are unable to vote for this game.
You will also find that soon after a great game is released, (such as GTA) many people will vote for tha purely because it't the game they play the most at this time.
Then you get some people who stick rigidly to certain genres, such as FPS, or RPG, or RTS (damnit, too many abbreviations) and have no real knowledge of games from other genres.
There are even some people who don't understand that games exist other then Counter Strike.
I'd like to point to the magazine Computer & Video Games Magazine (CVG) who have been in print since 1979. They review games on abslutely everything and followed the Saturn and Dreamcast to their deaths. In 2001 (prior to the PS2 release) they had a vote in competition where people were asked to vote for their favourite 5 computer games of all time on any systems that was officially released in the UK.
Elite (the original BBC version) was in 60th place.
Half-Life was in 13th.
Shenmue (Shenmue 2 hadn't been released yet) was in 10th.
Mario Kart (Snes version) was 8th
Zelda: Ocarina of Time was in 1st
Panzer Dragoon Saga (probably fewer then 1000 copies in the UK) was in
24th place.
Now, granted the game didn't get an amazing position, but for such a rare game to have enough people across the UK to vote it into the top 25 out of several thousand games, against the likes of those above and with over a million votes counted across the whole event, is a phenominal feat!
I know people are going to disagree with me about whether PDS is the greatest game of all time, but I challenge anyone to play the game, and THEN disagree! Graphics and gameplay may be dated now, but rememeber it was state of the art when it was released in the summer of 1998!
I don't suffer from insanity:
I enjoy every minute of it!
