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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?
The PlayStation 2 library featured some of the most important games ever in terms of pushing the boundaries of video games as art. Here are five of the best.
"Every gaming season there are dozens of games vying for attention. Some are destined to be blockbusters; some are destined to be flops; still others are destined to be forgotten. Because of competing titles, poor marketing strategies, or limited budgets, several games with the potential to become the next best thing are just lost through the cracks. It’s a sad thing when a carbon copy Madden game can outsell a great and innovative title like Mirror’s Edge but it’s a fact of life."
"There has been a heated argument over whether or not video games can be considered an art form. One side's augment is that something interactive, that is subjective to the user's choice cannot be art. I wholeheartedly disagree. It is an art because we can choose, because we can make games something different, unique to the player. Art is not a single definition, it doesn't have boundaries. When you confine something like art, to take it away from everyday life; it starts it to lose its meanin..."
"Some people blame the economy for a game’s poor sales but with the gaming industry gaining ground even in the face of the sunken economy there has to be other reasons for it. Some people blame market saturation saying there are too many desirable games to compete for the available time and cash gamers are willing to surrender. Still others think that a game’s sales have everything to do with competing titles released on or around the same date. Whatever the reason, it’s clear that some gam..."
"Part three of our series takes a look at platformers, a very prolific genre on all three systems last generation. Playstation 2 had a lot of the bigger names though, giving it an edge over the others in this department. A problem with the Platformer genre is how similar they can be, so when making this list, I went for some that stand out as different and have some more original concepts."
"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..."
A list of 7 of the most Bizarre video game characters that somehow manage to remain awesome. Ranging from such video games as Wolfenstein 3D to Age of Mythology all the way up to Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3.
James Walker of Binge Gamer is almost at the finish line for the Top Games Lists, now releasing the 2005 list. While the Xbox 360 did see a release during this year, it was at the end of the year and none of the first generation of titles were able to make their way on this list when compared to what the older systems were still pumping out. Including many franchises that we are still playing today.
![Box shot of Psychonauts [North America]](http://i.neoseeker.com/boxshots/R2FtZXMvWGJveC9BZHZlbnR1cmUvRmFudGFzeQ==/psychonauts_frontcover_small_wnKw5tnjO3Lnogc.jpg)