Best selling video game of all time?

Yeah wasn't suggesting the thread should change Just thought this was the best place to post that contest. So everyone go and vote

 

I thought the original Myst ruled them all.

It was ported to damn near every platform there is including 3DO's.

Whats the world wide, total sales for Myst?

 

I just found it too

I played it on 3DO and thought it was cool, just an adventure game

 

Myst rocked. ^_^

Sadly Riven was plagued with too many early design inadequacies that I didn't get too far into it. (Basically walking back and forth a half-dozen screens to check of pushing Button A or pulling Lever B had any reaction, AND putting a CD swap in-between...? Not a game I'm gonna play. )

Will have to get everything on DVD at some point just for kicks. Being able to play it fast would probably give me reason to get through and see what it offers.

Not quite sure what's with all the people who like to berate the poor game... Just something about being popular, I guess. Don't realize people that "hating popular games (or movies or TV shows) for being popular" is passe at this point?

 

The best selling games are Minesweeper and Solitaire

 

Most myst sales were bundles with PC or new video cards. Not that I'm against bundles with consoles, but as for the PC market , people are buying bundled PC or cards without even looking at the content.

 

Madden is quite high (as is Fifa too). I'm not interested in EA games sales, because they are too predictive. The same crowd will buy the same game year after year until the end of time. Unlike the other franchise which may die or collapse dur to a decrease of quality, those sports games wil sell no matter what.

You can even predict when Madden 100M

 

The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour by Trilobyte. There's a nice article on the rise and fall of Trilobyte at Gamespot.

http://www.gamespot.com/features/btg-tri/

 

They are far from being "best selling"

A lot of games sell in the 5M unit now.

 

Oh, I know. I just posted it because it had similar gameplay to Myst but better graphics/animation

 

I found this one year old (not too good) article:

All Time Top 20 Best Selling Games and More

http://www.ownt.com/qtakes/2003/gamestats/gamestats.shtm

 

I don't understand what the first chart means. What order are they on? I keep reading the description but i just cannot understand it. :?

Oh i think i get it now....

 

Heh, they even made a movie about that single game!! Who remembers it? Some "the videogame wizard something-something in the world" (NOTE: that title is completely off, i must have seen it like 10 years ago or more... it was about this little kid who enters a mega-videogame-contest together with his mates and wins... blah blah blah... And the final game was SM3, putting the emphasis on the "flying" Mario...)

Go on, there must be someone who remembers that! It even showed Nintendo's "glove" thing... It was a whole huge Nintendo movie....

 

Old, but I'll come back to it anyway since the thread was updated:

Not really. One of the things I found most irritating about Myst were the brothers' books, where you got a bit of pixellated live-action thrown in--it was just too out of place. Thankfully it was pretty much only limited to the books. 7th Guest and 11th Hour had too much of that (and too much of it over pre-rendered backgrounds looking even more out-of-place)... overall, it made me think of those old games played on VCR's and the like.

Myst was also not so dark, confined mainly inside a building, or trying to "replicate" more than create. The areas and styles it presented were broader, and on the whole the art direction was much better. Certainly it has spots that look rather rancid by today's standards (as will all games that age), but at the time it very stand-out.

Now Riven and Exile...? Those started being far more shruggable, as they weren't notable improvements graphically, nor compared to their contemporaries as Myst was. Exile was frankly a yawn even to look at.

As far as animation goes, that's a big shrug for me. All I know is it was pretty obvious and out of place on both, and there's no real way for me to do direct comparisons now.

 

Didn't Myst use static CGI? I know 11th Hour had animated CGI. For example when you click to a location where you wanted to go, it would show the animated CGI in first person perspective too.

 

just played through myst for the *first* time, actually. I had played it when it was new and got stuck in stoneship and quit it. . .that was 10 yrs ago, give or take. lol

Myst was pretty but 7th guest flat out BLEW it away for graphics (yes pre-rendered transitions) and gameplay. In reality, if I'd been older when the two came out I'd have beated myst in ~10H of gameplay, 7th guest in ~25-30H. That's a lot more bang for the buck. 11th hour wasn't quite as good as t7g, but it was pretty in-depth, too. The game I want is the collector (the 3rd game that doesn't have a publisher and maybe not even a development team anymore. ).

The sims has outsold everything, as far as I know, with 50million+ on just PC (including expansions, etc. . .which you have to if you are putting it up against mario). Considering that the sims hasn't been bundled with anything, afaik, that's REALLY impressive.