Top 25 Best Selling Video Games Ever

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mattchaos

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Well, I don't know if this forum is the right place to post, if not please excuse me.
I don't know either if it's worth posting an argument like that for the eternal debate about bird-view/FP view and turn based/ real time.

But anyway, I would like to share this informations with people that may appreciate it.
I'm kind of pissed off, when I see "Turn based don't sale" or things like that.
Well apparently it's the contrary :

http://www.gunslot.com/blog/top-twenty-five-25-best-selling-video-games-all-time

Few RPGs in this list, and maybe Pokemon can't be considered as an RPG by some standards, in this case I would say that by some other standards Oblivion and future Fallout 3 wouldn't be considered as RPG, so let's take them both as RPG and compare them.
Pokemon is turn based.
Pokemon is top down view.
Pokemon is 2D.
Pokemon sold 20 milion of games and is the best selling video game ever according to this list.

Thing of the past ? Then take Pokemon Diamond/Pearl, from 2006, 10 million. It's not as good as the first one, but still a good sale, and it's still turn based, still top down view, and if it's not truly 2D (I hated it when I first learned about it) the result of this strange mix of 3D/2D is true to its ancestors and finally very enjoyable.

Limited technologie ? There are some FP and real time games on DS, maybe it's just that there is a public for 'oldschool' top down turn based games ...
 
I agree, the whole "turn based is so 20th century" argument is bull.

Turn-based combat and isometric view are very much alive and well, just look at the recent AAA titles like "Jeanne D'Arc" for the PSP.
 
But just as damaging.

Oh. Sorry, I thought you had meant "fallout" instead of "Fallout" :P
 
Pokemon is top down and 2-d and turn based, but no where near the same way as Fallout. Fallout was isometric with hex based tactical combat.

Pokemon had FF style random battles where enemies popped up in two portraits and had skimpy 2 frame animations for attacks.

Also: For the record, most Fallout fans don't want 2-D. We just want good looking 3-D with our ISO/TB, and for the hexes to be replaced with something more natural and intuitive.
 
I'm not really comparing, Pokemon and Fallout are of course very different, like, Oblivion and Fallout are very different as well, but I love both of them (no not Oblivion, never played it, I stopped with Arena, I don't like any FP game, just a matter of taste).
I'm just saying that it's interesting to see that the arguments "FP is the thing" or "turn based is a thing of the past" are again proven to be wrong, and the whole "a turn based top down game won't sell in today's market" is completely wrong as well, as pokemon prove it (and civilization too, but pokemon is selling event more than civilization and is a RPG).

Concerning 'most fallout fans', well I consider myself as a fallout fan, and I want it 2D, even if I could buy it 3D if well done. And except here, the fallout fans with which I usually talk want it 2D as well, if they could choose. I don't think you can decide what most fallout fans want based on the ones your talking with, cause their not representative, but I won't say the contrary, cause I have no real proof of it, it's just that I personally want it 2D, or 2D-like, not the ugly 3D we're seeing everywhere (to be honest I consider Fallout graphics as ugly 2D, but it can be improved).
 
Comparing the Fallout and Pokemon franchises is like comparing apples and oranges, man. Sure, they're both fruits and they both can be seen by the human eye, but other than that, they're different.

Anyways, isn't Pokemon one of those games that gets cited as an example of Nintendo's habit to gold mine popular games without really adding anything to the series? I know the earlier games were. Red, Blue, and Gold were exactly the same game with exactly the same plot except for different combinations of Pokemon.
 
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