It's time to call it quits in the battle to decide the best game ever. The Golden Joystick awards have spoken, and selected the Ultimate Game of All Time.
The answer may surprise fans of classic games like Zelda or Mario: the winner is FromSoftware's Dark Souls.
The game was voted for by gamers in a public survey, and ended up edging out some iconic competition.
"We'll be talking about Dark Souls in another 10 years, and another 10 years after that again. In Dark Souls, we're told that history repeats itself. But in reality, there will likely never be a game quite like it again," said TechRadar's Joe Donnelly.
The hugely influential Dark Souls spawned an entire genre of 'Souls-like' games, including Bloodborne, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and even the more recent Assassin's Creed games.
The full list of nominees for the Ultimate Game of All Time, in order of number of votes, includes:
- Dark Souls (Winner)
- Doom (1993)
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Half-Life 2
- Minecraft
- Street Fighter II
- Tetris
- The Last of Us
- Super Mario 64
- Metal Gear Solid
- Halo: Combat Evolved
- Super Mario Bros. 3
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Portal
- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
- Pac Man
- Super Mario Kart
- Space Invaders
- Sim City (1989)
- Pokémon GO
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Previously, Valve's 2004 first-person shooter Half-Life 2 picked up dozens of awards for 'best game ever', but it seems that the people have spoken.
TechRadar explained that the 20 games eligible for the Ultimate Game of All Time category were narrowed down from around 1.1 million releases over the last twenty years.
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Its team said : "We did this by creating a long list of several hundred titles using existing best of all time lists from Edge Magazine and Retro Gamer magazine, plus the addition of every Ultimate Game of the Year winner from the Golden Joystick Awards (established 1983)."
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"This long list was then put to a panel of industry judges who created the shortlist of 20 you can see through the voting module."
The latest game from 'Dark Souls' developers FromSoftware, Elden Ring, is due for release in February 2022. It was co-written with Game of Thrones' George R. R. Martin and is the first foray into open world gaming for the company.
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