I did this once last July, before the massive influx of users, so I thought it would be fun to do it again and see how much has changed. The main thing that has changed, of course, is that we have a lot more users now and therefore a lot more voting on games. So for the sake of this write-up, I am only going to choose games with at least 10 votes. I have also decided that in the case of a tie, the game with more ratings wins out. Makes sense to me.

And if you are a current Negative Worlder and haven't rated any games yet, what are you waiting for already? DO IT! Heck, go do it even if you have rated games. And if you aren't a member, why not join up? It takes mere seconds and the benefits last... a lifetime!

It was interesting to look at the ratings, especially the top 5, with a mere .04 separating our #5 game from our #1 game. All in all though, not too many major shifts. Makes me think there could be some major changes in the positions with just a few votes. So if you are a member, maybe you should go make a difference!

Absent from the list this time around / last time's spot in the top 10
Super Mario Brothers (NES) / 10th
Super Mario Brothers 2 (NES) / 7th
Tetris (NES) / 6th

Zero, why surprised the Wii version rates higher? It's superior in every way to the GameCube version (even though the GameCube version came first).

I'd be surprised if the PS2 version showed up higher than the 'Cube and Wii versions.

^ I agree, the "Wii Edition" is the definitive version of the game. Bar none. It *should* score higher than the other versions.

Obviously, the Wii version is the best version of RE4. But I always rate games based on what I scored them when they came out.

@ludist210 Because the "definitive" version is an old news game by that point.

Mind you, we aren't Gamerankings compiling "current" review scores, our users are going BACK and rating old games (at least, for anything beyond the last year or so). But I think most people in general also tend to rate based on how they felt at the time. Or at least, that is a huge influence on their scores.

Which is probably the same reason Metroid Prime Trilogy and Super Mario All-Stars and Ocarina of Time / Master Quest are not rated quite as high as some of the individual games that can be found in those collections.

One of the interesting things about doing these ratings is seeing the different philosophies people apply to how they score things after the fact. I know the way I think is the original game should get more credit for being the groundbreaking game, but I can see the "definitive" version argument as well.

RE4 on the Wii is better. But its GCN counterpart is still awesome. I can't complain about that list. Pretty solid

@Zero

I could rate the Wii edition too, I do own it. But I won't...for now.

@Jargon WTF did you buy a game a second time if you didn't like it the first!?

@Zero

I got it with the Wii I bought in Spain. Then because everyone loved it so much with Wii controls I gave it another shot, but still didn't like it the second time.

Well it is the same game, I'd be shocked if it changed anyone's mind unless they actually liked the first game in theory but just hated the controls.

@Zero

Well, the controls were one of the things I hated, but the Wii controls weren't really that much of an improvement. Not that I didn't know that going in, since I knew what they changed, but I thought I'd give it a shot, just to see if something struck me that didn't the first time. At least no one can say I didn't do my due diligence in order to give it the rating I did.

Yeah but it was still a lo... HOLY COW YOU 6.9ED PIKMIN 2?

out.

now.

GTFO.

What do you want from me? Only to rate the games I like?

I just rated a bunch of games, as well as added Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door to the database. I can't believe this much time has passed without that game being there

@Jargon I want you to stop sucking at liking awesome games! Pikmin 2 rocked!