This isn't any kind of official Negative World top 10 list or anything, merely a quick look at top rated games as of this day and time, according to our user ratings. Some have more ratings than others, some good games missed the top 10 list from a sole "low" rating, etc. But it's a surprisingly "accurate" list, in my eyes, considering that it is really only based off of a handful of ratings.

And if you are a current Negative Worlder and want to go rate some games, what are you waiting for already? DO IT!

Curious as to whether other games have landed in the ratings? Resident Evil 4? Super Mario 64? Final Fantasy III? Mega Man 3? Think the ratings are all off and you know better? Well, if not already a member, I suppose you will have to join the Negative World now, won't you? And if you are a member and have gotten this far, I bet you really want to go rate a few more games now, don't you?

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WTF!!

I'm going to have to rate some games. One will fall...

DAMN YOU.

I hope you're not one of those people who is like "Hmm I was a bit disappointed by this game... 1/10!"

It looks like Super Mario Brothers 2 took a bit of a dip. And Final Fantasy III has moved up to take the #10 spot.

The main reason I did this is I figured it might be interesting to do it say... another 3 or 6 months from now or whatever and see if anything has changed much. But of course, people need to start rating some games!

I had rated some games in the past, but it's a tedious process. Rated some more after reading this thread, and it seems like I bumped a few games off the top 50 in the process, by simply giving them 8s or 8.5s. I guess that's what happens when there are so few ratings: suddenly my opinion matters way more than it should.

It's the democratization of the internets! Every opinion is either supremely powerful or totally insignificant, depending on the context. Zero should set it up so the list is heavily weighted towards whoever is viewing it at the time, to incentivize more rating entry.

Nah, I wouldn't give Prime a 1/10. Maybe an 8. Or a 7, if I was feeling particularly vicious. Which I am.

Probably an 8...

Going to rank some. >

I'll be fair.

'I had rated some games in the past, but it's a tedious process.'

Was this when it was one at a time? Now you can rate entire pages at once.

Nice list. I had already gave scores to all of those games, with one exception. I've never played The Ocarina of Time so I didn't think it made sense to assign a score to it. I do have to say that I am surprised that Resident Evil 4 is coming in at #72. That seems low to me.

GoNintendo has the top VC games every week, and it's pretty interesting to see how little movement there is in the list.

The games and even the order are pretty much set in stone these days. It gives you a good idea of the 'most desired' ranking of classic Nintendo games.

'I do have to say that I am surprised that Resident Evil 4 is coming in at #72. That seems low to me.'

Well you know, this is why a small sample pool is kind of meaningless. It probably got one 8 or something out of its 5 ratings, which dragged it down a bit. If we had maybe 10 or more ratings for each game I might take out the highest and lowest for an "adjusted" top 10 or something, but right now we don't have quite enough to do that...

EVERYONE GET RATING!

No original Zelda in the top 10? How do I get off this site

I'm the asshole who gave RE4 a 7. I was kind of trying to use all of the 10 point for my personal ranking, not screw up its score for everyone.

wow, what a coincidence, I gave RE4 a 7 yesterday too. One of the most overrated games of all time, methinks.

Wow, Resident Evil 4 is down in the 8s! Amazing.

(I gave it a 9.9 myself...)

Hmm, the ratings have changed up a bit since I posted. I'm tempted to rate Tetris since I don't think it is quite a 9.7, but I have never played the NES version so that wouldn't be fair. Even though I doubt the NES version would win me over any more than any other version has. Though I did like the DS version...

Well, it's safe to say that I have absolutely rocked that list to its core. You guys had better start importing some shit if you want any hope of getting that top spot back.

I rated on an IGN-ish scale. What's everyone else using?

One comment: I had accidentally rated a game that I hadn't played, and, when I removed it from my collection, the rating remained. Get programming!

I call foul on Metroid 2 being listed for NES

Also, maybe you should put a rating guide in the corner, so we all use similar averages, and such.

'One comment: I had accidentally rated a game that I hadn't played, and, when I removed it from my collection, the rating remained. Get programming!'

Ratings and collections are independent of each other, you can just pick the blank option in the ratings if you want to unrate a game. The reason I made them independent is there are a ton of games I have played all the way through that I don't own anymore... in fact I don't really own much of ANY original NES games anymore, and I figured many people would have similar situations.

I hate ratings guides, I mean, even if you make them people have mental blocks against them anyway. For instance, I've noticed I find it next to impossible to give music and books less than a 3 out of 5 (unless they are just plain terrible.) Which ruins the 5 point scale because I have to cram everything I like into 2 ratings... either a 4 or a 5. Besides it's just fun to look at, I don't expect any real consistency anyway.

Anyhow, your 10ing a bunch of games no one else has played has ruined the consistency more than anything else! Ha ha. But longterm I will probably do something like gamerankings where a game needs at least 5 ratings or something to get into the official ratings.

It's true. I've ruined the whole thing. It's okay, though. If you guys had played those games, I'm sure you would have given them a 10, too.