GWR: Pokémon takes the 11th Position

Ok, sorry, but this list is crap. Guitar Hero beat Pokemon? Pokemon has been around 15 or so years, and every new game that comes out ALWAYS takes the number 1 spot for that year (I have many record books, this IS true). But sariously guyz, who here honestly think that guitar hero is even MESURABLE agaist pokmeon. I understand WoW and sonic....but GH?

Congratz!
 
Awww... I think it should have placed better.

And how did Pokemon get beat out by Guitar Hero?
 
lolwtf, runescape is above final fantasy and bioshock and pong...=\ But good job pokemon :spin:
 
Yeah... just asking the critics isn't very accurate. American audiences =/= the entire world. If it was worldwide, Pokemon would be much higher.
 
At least we beat Half-life.

Congrats Gamefreak, for taking such a high slot.
 
While I am glad that Pokémon got such high a spot, this list seems more like a glorified popularity contest than an actual measurement of how good the games are.
 
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yeah, that list is shit. As someone pointed out, Guitar Hero beating out Pokemon (by about 7 places) is ridiculous enough, but beating out Mario too? Does this list fail to recognize the extremely important contributions Mario has made to the history of video games for close to the past 30 years, with such prominence still continuing to this day? No, instead, the top spot goes to a franchise with only about three or four titles and hasn't really accomplished much (by comparison) other than being over-rated by the mainstream (in which case, Final Fantasy should easily be topping it... on that note, Kingdom Hearts beating FF, albeit by one rank? Huh?) and sponsoring X-Play (where it wins out in their clearly biased reviews and awards). Though, this is what happens when you have a poll decided by readers, most of which are young and likely only into whatever's new or currently popular and, from the looks of it, restricted to North America (maybe even just the US) despite being about "world" records. For shame, Guiness, for shame.
 
Not even Top 10. Still, 11th out of 50 is pretty good tho.
 
Terrible list. GTA beat Pokemon? Hah. World of Warcraft beat Pokemon? Hah. Metal Gear beat Pokemon? Hah. HALO BEAT ZELDA? LMFAO.

I don't understand how any of those games scored so high. Except Zelda, SSB, Super Mario, and Pokemon.

Guitar Hero is #4...? lol. Ridiculous list. D:
 
How on earth did Runescape get so high? Chrono Trigger is way better than it.
 
Well, UK/US =/= the whole world then. The culture there is different from Japan and other parts of the world where Pokemon is much more popular.

But hey, learned something new today.
 
Ryuutakeshi said:
At least we beat Half-life.
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Half Life... is... amazing. I don't want to hear it.

Oh well, the list is garbage anyways. Bioshock, Half Life, and Metal Gear would've been my top picks. Well, maybe swapping MG for pokemon.
 
According to Kotaku, it was nothing but a popularity contest. The only reason Halo/Call of Duty won was probably because someone posted about it on some popular forum for the franchise and everyone foamed at the mouth over it. Also, I laughed at Lego Batman. I mean, whaaa? JUST Lego Batman, or all of the Lego licensed stuff?

If the decisions were left to a board of actual experts based on contributions to the gaming industry itself, half of that list would be gone and Pokemon would probably be in the top 5.

Meh, the list isn't worth sweating over. It's hard to even come up with such a list while remaining neutral an unbiased.
 
Obviously its a popularity contest. How else would Halo get the top spot.

If they want this to be accurate, they should take their popularity contest, combine it with the overall success of the franchise, and its contribution to its genre or gaming in general.
 
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This list is such garbage o_O At least they sucked it up enough to put Pokemon on.

Here let me do some basic cleanup on this...

*Yellow moves Guitar Hero down about 25 spaces, give or take 10* :rolleyes:

*Yellow moves Super Smash Bros way up somewhere in the top 5* :rolleyes:

Can we all agree that those two games positions were EXTREMELY inappropriate?

Guitar Hero I think we already do.

But I don't know about anyone else but Super Smash Bros is what got me into Nintendo (Back in the days of the N64), and is the only game I play on my Wii anymore. It's the only game I think about regarding the Wii, in fact.

I mean come on. It got a 93 on meta-critic, which is more than about 8/10 Metal Gear games ever got, and is the 8th best selling wii game, 3rd if you do not include Wii Sports / Wii Fit / Wii Play / Wii Sports Resort and Wii fit plus
 
make_it_worse said:
In the Headline, it says that GWR asked a million of person.
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Yes, but they were from a set area. And anyway, London on its own has around 10,000,000 people! A million is quite a tiny measure in comparison to practically anything big, and America has a lot of those.

Also, they just had to look it up. Who has multiple encyclopeadias? Does Mario, or Zelda Wiki cover over 16,000 topics? In fact, even Mario deserved to be ahead of the likes of Halo. Well, it should be in the Top 3 anyway. I get this sinking feeling that they only asked irresponsible teens, and with America having a bigger games industry, chose to use them much more than England. If they asked even 100,000 pre-teens, I can guarantee that Pokemon would be at least 10th. Followed by Spongebob Squarepants.
 
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