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When Tim Schafer appealed to the fans to help make a new game at his Double Fine productions, not many people expected their goal amount of money to be met - and exceeded - in less than 24 hours.
It was said that 10% of video game titles make up 90% of the industry's gross revenue. What about the other percentage of video games lacking a good name. Are they bad games? Have you ever played a game you loved that never once was advertised. Well check out this Top Ten List of Best Video Games that people never talk about.
Joystick Division runs down the ten best ensemble casts in the history of video games, from Psychonauts to Knights of the Old Republic. Did your favorite make the list?
"Critical Gamer writes: Tim Schafer is one of the most famous names in the games industry, and not without reason. He played an important part in the making of the first two Monkey Island games, played a larger part still in Day of the Tentacle, and was the driving force behind Full Throttle and Grim Fandango. Everybody had high hopes for Double Fine Productions, the company he formed in 2000; but has Schafer become his own worst enemy in recent years?"
"Halloween is coming fast and you should probably start working on those pumpkins if you want to have something as amazing as the game-based Halloween pumpkins you can see below created by an incredibly gifted DeviantArt user."
"Every time a game is successful, critically or commercially, folks start speculating about sequels. Will there be a sequel? How many sequels? When will we see the sequel? What will happen in the sequel? Who shows up in the sequel? Sequel?
That’s too obvious. A truly compelling game deserves the exact opposite. If the story is masterfully written, players will want to see how it actually started. If the world is deeply designed, players will insist on seeing how it first formed. And if the ..."
"10. Katamari Damacy
9. 9
8. The Fallout Series
7. Ico/Shadow of the Colossus
6. Heart of Darkness
5. Portal
4. The Oddworld Series
3. Grim Fandango
2. Every Shiny Game Except The Ones Based On Movies
1. Psychonauts
RUNNERS UP: Bioshock, Okami, Heart of the Alien, Beyond Good & Evil, the Metroid series, Mirror's Edge, and the works of Warren Spector. Just had to stop at some point. Okami and Heart of the Alien I don't find particularly fun (compared to others on the list), but both..."
