Rate the Game: Week 76

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Getting an early start here as once again I foresee myself occupied with other matters today so I figure I should just get a move on. Well, we move past the milestone of last week's 75th entry and we coast on smoothly into the future onto the next one. Number 100 will be here before you know it! And then I still won't be able to stop because there will be 25 more to go! Yay for me...I guess. Well let's help move past last week by finding the spot designated for Duke Nukem 3D as determined by our collective average. Is Duke indeed man enough to chart at the top of the mountain? Let's have a looksie....

Rate the Game Results

1. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (4.8)
2. Hitman: Codename 47 (4.75)
3. Super Mario Bros. 3 (4.7)
4. (TIE)Chrono Trigger, Portal (4.5)
6. (TIE) Mega Man 2, Donkey Kong Country (4.44)
8. Super Mario Bros. (4.41)
9. God of War (4.4)
10. Metal Gear Solid (4.33)
11. Perfect Dark (4.3)
12. (TIE) Shadow of the Colossus, The Last of Us (4.28)
14. Super Street Fighter 2 (4.15)
15. Sonic the Hedgehog (4.14)
16. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (4.125)
17. Super Mario 64 (4.07)
18. (TIE) Grand Theft Auto 3, The Legend of Zelda (4.06)
20. NBA Jam (4.05)
21. (7-WAY TIE) Super Mario Kart, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Super Metroid, The Simpsons, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Donkey Kong Country 2, Resident Evil 4 (4.0)
28. Final Fantasy 7 (3.94)
29. Mega Man (3.89)
30. Half-Life (3.83)
31. (3-WAY TIE) Contra, Castlevania, Devil May Cry (3.86)
34. Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver (3.77)
35. Batman: Arkham Asylum (3.76)
36. Double Dragon (3.75)
37. Tetris (3.69)
38. Mortal Kombat 2 (3.67)
39. (TIE) Diablo, F.E.A.R. (3.66)
41. Mortal Kombat (3.65)
42. Doom (3.625)
43. StarFox (3.61)
44. Resident Evil (3.58)
45. Ninja Gaiden (3.5)
46. Dead Space (3.4)
47. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (3.39)
48. Resident Evil: Nemesis (3.38)
49. (4-WAY TIE) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Condemned: Criminal Origins, Crash Bandicoot, Wolfenstein 3D (3.33)
53. Gears of War (3.27)
54. (TIE) Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Borderlands (3.22)
56. (TIE) Quake, Duke Nukem 3D (3.2)
58. Pac-Man (3.125)
59. Killer Instinct (3.11)
60. (TIE) Virtua Fighter, Rock Band (3.09)
62. (4-WAY TIE) Time Crisis, Tekken, Earthworm Jim, Metroid (3.0)
66. Guitar Hero (2.875)
67. Streets of Rage (2.84)
68. Dead Rising (2.71)
69. (TIE) Silent Hill, The Sims (2.6)
71. Tomb Raider (2.55)
72. Halo: Combat Evolved (2.5)
73. Twisted Metal (2.42)
74. Gran Turismo (2.3)
75. Ghosts n' Goblins (2.14)



Well some last minute scoring saves Duke from ending up in the dreaded 2.0-2.9 range but he still claims some real estate at the bottom of the pile, right alongside four other entries at the number 61 spot with an average 3.0. That's a five-way tie as we're back into the groove of creating some more kinky grouping. I can see Duke trying to hook up with the Williams sisters from Tekken. No time to think about that right now as we've got more work to do. So we do the average thing and ultimately Duke Nukem 3D ends up with a FINAL score of 3.2, enough to get over the hump and join up with fellow bloody first-person shooter, Quake! Yup, that's totally the way it was supposed to be all along. *ahem* Anyway, time for a new game, no? Roll some more of that beautiful bowl footage...

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Well, we continue our trek down PC gaming memory lane but in a completely different genre from what Duke Nukem 3D was all about. It's one of the grandfathers of the God-game genre, the city planning simulator with a hint of monster attacks, SimCity 2000! We already have The Sims gracing our list, however low it may be in the rankings, but how does this jaunt into the realm of world-building rank with you? Is it better? Worse? A pile of trash? Take the poll and rate and discuss and share and what not. Until next week....