Video games are scapegoats for politicians and government organizations. Can't assess the cause of a shooting or violent behaviour? if the person ever played video games they are classified as an addicted gamer, and games are entirely blamed, not mental issues. In this case he had easy access to legal weapons, which is clearly the real problem.

Also, alldaybrekkie, i do not want to suggest anything, but I assume you at some point have developed mature rated games. if you wouldn't let your kids play them isn'r it sort of hippocritical to make them?

As a huge Half Life 2 fan I am very happy with it being third (though I would have placed it first myself). This list is about the best games from a current perspective, as though they were all released today and what you would think about them based on that. Thus, i find the choice of things like pokemon yellow odd, because they don't really stand up to newer versions when compared in this manner. Half Life 2 is very deserving despite being from 2005, because it was so far ahead of its time (with respect to physics and things like the water effects, and not the total package), that it does not portray itself as a games that was released a while ago. Even if Half Life 3 was released today and was not quite as good as HL2 was in 2005 (but still very close), you would have to put HL3 ahead. Everything ages, and videogames, unlike wine, never improve when they do, instead getting worse (from our current perspective) at varying rates. HL2 is just getting worse very slowly.

On another note, anybody who insults or suggests changes should go out and write their own list, if they feel strongly enough. If they don't bother, they can't expect their opinion to be taken seriously, because this is a subjective feature.