Hottest 100 Redux

It seems IGN have released another list of 100 Greatest Games of all time.

Regular readers to this blog would know that my journey into game truly began when I stumbled across IGN's 2005 list of 100 Greatest games of all time.  What it meant for me that after so long away from gaming, I realized that this was an attempt to come up with a definitive list and chart gaming's progress over the years. The pioneers and game-changers were given proper dues and it became clear which games had endured the test of time.

However time is indeed a ravager: Looking at this new list, it seems that many of the classics have been ditched. Granted, old games can date and newer games can be game-changers in their own right but I am interested in seeing which games from the 2005 list are still present in the 2018 list.

Thirty Nine apparently.

Not a bad showing but it does raises the issue of what makes a game...well...time resistant.
What is it makes a game like, say, Super Mario Bros an enduring game that is recognized as an undisputed classic and still enjoyed by gamers over three decades on?

There's no way around it: This is an industry that moves remarkably fast. And in some cases, too fast for anything to withstand the test of time. Consider: 2018 marks forty six years since the beginning of the First Console generation with Pong and the Magnavox Odyssey.
By comparison, with movies, it took forty six years to get from, say, Frankenstein to Star Wars - two movies that are undisputed classics in their own right and look set to endure for decades to come.
Watching both movies will reveal considerable differences in forty six years of movie-making techniques - but such differences will mean little when comparing Pong to the likes of Far Cry 5.

Still, it would be interesting to see if people will still be playing The Last of Us, let alone praising it, in 2025.....