Eurogamer's Games of the Generation

[icarusfall]

Slide that goalpost around as you see fit.

[Tyler_Durden]

Eurogamer probably has the finest collection of game journalists at the moment. KillScreen is up there too. I'm loving this Games of the Generation series.

[Mzo]

Super Meat Boy is excellent because of its controls and level design. It's a different design philosophy than most of the OG platformers but it does what it wants to do extremely well.

[Joust Williams]

I haven't played Volgarr, but there is absolutely no way Super Meat Boy is as good as the best vintage platformers as a complete package.

Super Meat Boy is one of the best platformers of all time, full stop. It has great controls, great pacing, and doesn't dink around with filler.

I'm not a fan of every level but you're wrong on this one

[Finch]

I really didn't care at all about Super Meat Boy until Yoshi said it couldn't compete against the best vintage platformers

but now i think it's the best game of the generation and i hope they declare it as such tomorrow

[Hero]

Super Meat Boy is excellent because of its controls and level design. It's a different design philosophy than most of the OG platformers but it does what it wants to do extremely well.

How I feel about this.

Super Meat Boy is really good at what it wants to do, but it's not the same thing that say, Mega Man or Mario want to do.

[A Robot Bit Me]

Yeah, it's kinda not the same thing at all. We call beatmania and Um Jammer Lammy "rhythm games," but we know they're different in the same way Meat Boy and Rockin' Kats are.

[A Robot Bit Me]

o. mai. gad. The Japanese title of Rockin' Kats is "New York Nyankees."

Any room on that Famicom bandwagon left for me?

[Yoshi]

And wrapping up the list is Super Mario Galaxy, completing the 360 shutout.

[Yoshi]

Super Meat Boy is excellent because of its controls and level design. It's a different design philosophy than most of the OG platformers but it does what it wants to do extremely well.

It just ignores little things like art, graphics, etc. That's exactly what I'm talking about with "there is absolutely no way Super Meat Boy is as good as the best vintage platformers as a complete package." These retro games are lazy by definition. They want to rest on someone else's laurels for a sense of nostalgia instead of actually putting in the effort to make a modern game with classic gameplay.