F**kface - Greatest Video Games of All Time - Ranked

Episode Date: September 28, 2025

AN EGG are doing a different kind of draft today: a video game ranker that requires you to draft for the position you're in. The first person to pick MUST PICK the #1 video game of all time. The second person picks the #2 video game of all time, etc. We get off to a... hot start for our rankings. Let us know if you agree! Support us directly at https://www.patreon.com/TheRegulationPod Stay up to date, get exclusive supplemental content, and connect with other Regulation Listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello and welcome to another piece of regulation supplemental content. Today, we are going to rank the 20 greatest video games of all time, but we're going to do it a little differently. We're going to do it in snake draft order. So the order that you end up drafting corresponds to the number on the top 20 list that you are picking. So first pick on the draft is going to be the best game of all time. Last pick on the draft is going to be the 20 20th best game of all time. This is going to be insane. There's no way to alter.

No. Usually when we do these rankings, then we pick the 20 and then we debate and determine the ranking, but we're letting fate and each individual person decide. I am Jeff with me as always, Andrew, Nick, Eric, and Gavin. Did I explain it well? Do you think? Are we ready to get going? Oh, totally.

I think so. So it's going to be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. And then for the 6th pick, it'll be the 5th person. So again, just like Snake Draft, like we always do. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, all the way through for the top 20 games. We each have our own lists. I think we might see different approaches here, but I'm going to try to... There's so many ways.

I know, I'm going to try to stick with the... I made a top 20, and, like, if I'm, if I get number, if I get, like, the third pick or whatever, I'm going to, I'm going to pick my number three game. Like, I don't want to, I don't want to bump anything up or down. Like, I want to try to, like, lock it in. I don't want to go first or second. I just don't feel like either of those games. are even on my list.

Yeah. Yeah. It is a weird thing of like factoring in personal compared to maybe historic. Do you factor in historic? Is it what you want to play right now? There's so many different approaches. As Eric said, he wants to stick to

if he's fourth, he's putting the fourth game on there. I'm trying, yeah. Is anyone going to put their number one at six just because they feel it should be represented? It will be interesting to see. Very curious. Yeah, I'm curious to see. We could get a fucking crazy list.

I'm so fascinated to hear. It's different because we've done the pool thing before where we all pick stuff and then like we debate and kind of go over it. And it gets a little muddy, kind of like 13 through 20 kind of gets muddy like where things should land. It's going to get weird in this one where like if you're picking 13th, how do you determine that it's better than 14? And if you have 14, how do you like determine that it is one worse?

I have a feeling we are going to make zero people happy with this list. And I kind of like that. Oh, this is this audience is going to hate. this. This is lose, lose content. We will irritate everyone. We will be annoyed and the audience. Yes.

Yes. We are using Sean Bear's site, but we're using two different parts. We have the names here because we have to randomize to see what order we're going to go in. How many times are we randomizing, boys? I think 20. It's got to be 20, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Okay. We're going to randomize 20 times and then we're going to take you over to another screen where the ranker is put together by Sean Baer just like this. So now let's begin the randomization again. It starts, Andrew, Nick, Eric, Jeff Gavin. Let's randomize 20 times. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Halfway, Eric, Jeff, Andrew, Gavin, Nick.

Oh, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. Eric, Nick, Gavin, Jeff, Andrew. Here's 17, 16, 18, 19, Andrew, Eric, Nick, Gavin, Jeff, boys, are you, are you ready to see, are you ready to see number one, let's do it. The 20th randomization, Jeff, Nick, Kevin, Eric, Andrew. Oh, no, no, no, I've touched a bullet there, the pressure on Jeff right now. Jeff never gets to be first. And now, Jeff, who never gets to be first, gets to be first in our top 20 games of all-time regulation, Ranker.

And Jeff, you have the ultimate responsibility of picking the number one game of all time. Oh, boy. Jeff, we turned over to you. I do not like this one bit. Oh, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm, I'm, very rarely do I regret my own ideas. Okay. I feel like I've really gathered myself here. Yes, yeah.

Was not looking to go first. Suddenly, I'm on a string of going first. This was not what I had envisioned when I came up with this idea. Now I have to pick the greatest video game. Number one. All time. Yes, correct. Number one video game of all time.

Here's the problem with my list. Uh-huh. My list is zero Mario or Zelda. Because those just aren't my games. Yep. They don't have to be the number one. I feel like the global consensus would probably be that it's Mario or Zelda. Okay.

However, I don't have those on my list, so I got to go with what I have. And I think the greatest video game of all time, I'm so sad about the online discourse that's going to follow. We can bleep it. No, we can't. Bleep it and blur it. No one can ever know. No.

I hope the idea of a top 20 list that no one can see the top of. Oh yeah. Top of. Can we make a special bleeped version? What's the best video game of all time, Jeff? I don't know. It's like, do you go with, do you go with the best video game of all time as pertains to me or video games as a whole? You know?

Like, do you go? you go, like, incredibly personal? You can't? Or do you try to with sway the masses? I interpreted it as what you think is the best video game of all time. Yeah, that's just kind of what's special here is that it's up to you and whatever you want, whatever you want to do. I felt like I'm heavily swayed by the masses there.

Oh, me too. You know what? Fuck the masses. The best video game of all time is Peggle. Okay. The one on the list is Peggle. I couldn't see it at 20. Not what I was thinking, you would say.

It's a very personalized list. I'm going to shoot my pants. We're due for a really good peg. It's been a while. They did put out on a mobile one that didn't feel great. I beat the shit out of it, though. Take shot. That's not what I thought that the one that I have number one of my list would be also yours.

I was not expecting Pagel. But I get it for you. Deeply personal game. It is a really good game. It's a great game. It was a, it was honestly, it was a toss up between three games. Oh, man. Well, don't name them.

Yeah, don't say them, but let us know if they come up during this process. Peggle, number one. Wow. Greatest video game of all time. I will say, I'm just going to throw it out there. Pagel, not even on my list. Not, I wasn't on mine either, but I really like it. Never played it, so I don't know.

Uh, I think it's very good. Well, we got the hard part out of the way. Number one is locked in. The greatest video game of all time is Pagel, Pagel, the greatest video game of all time. But Nick, you have the choice for number two video game. This is a game with a great story. story, a great character. I actually named

my son after this character. And it has excellent collectibles. It's a game I've spent a lot of time and I keep going back to it. It's one, whenever I'm out and about and like the old country, it reminds me of it and takes me back to it. It's Red Dead Redemption 2. Masterpiece. It's on my list. A little bit further down. Me too. It was on there.

Masterpiece game. Love that game. Arthur Morgan, one of my favorite characters of all time. Red Dead Redemption 2. Number one game of time Peggle number two video game of all time Red Dead Red Dead Red Dead Red Peggle is a lot easier to pick up and play mechanically very strong Red Dead Red Dead Red Dead Redemption 2 very immersive very but a lot of depth to try to navigate through I put a lot more time into Peggle than I did Red Dead honestly yeah no I did totally get it I would say that there are Peggle elements in Red Dead Red Dead Redemption 2

you know I will say this is Jeff's all over this list it's his number one game of all time and he's in the second greatest video games at the time. So congratulations, Jeff. It's true, thank you, thank you. Don't think that didn't factor in, Jeff. Okay, so we got the first two out of the way. Gavin, it has the number three. My pick is along similar lines, another masterpiece.

It was in the era of games before too much of the greed. The company greed was all over the game. Therefore, I've picked GTA4, and incredible DLCs as well. Great DLCs. Ivy, though. You've got to type it. Was this your third, was this listed as your third game?

Yeah. Because you mentioned before what your first was, and not either of those. So this is, you went with the third on your list. Well, as you can see here, Andrew, I was tasked with providing the number three game of all time. Yeah, but you could pick the number one on your personal list to put it on the list. Well, number one's peggle, Andrew. Yeah, but if you felt that that game should be in the top 20, you put it there. But in a way, are you not disrespecting your own number one and two choice by not including it in this list at all?

But it's not about picking the number one game. It's about picking the number three game. Yeah, but he, you can make an argument of at least I want it on the list. I want it recognized. This is my favorite game of all time. I think it's the best. But that's not what this is. This is picking, he's picking the number three game.

Yeah, but he can be that. He only has control over the number three game. He could argue that this should be number three. one, I'm forced to put it at three, so this is what I'm putting. There's no forcing. He has his number three games. He's locked into his position. We asked Gavin, what's your number three game?

And he said, GTA, four. That's his number three game of all time. What's the game that you're putting at three is what you're asking, not what is your number three game. Jeff, when you pitched it, it sounded like I'm, I'm now putting in my number three game, right? Right. I thought the whole point of this was that you could go either way. And I felt we had talked about that.

I suppose you can. It is up to you, Gavin. And I don't claim to any territory over your internal thought process. That's all for you to figure out. I stand by my choice. I agree with it. It's not a bad choice. I think it's great.

I have the fourth choice, and this is fourth on my list because I am a good boy. And this is a game that maybe I don't necessarily have a ton of love for, but you can't deny its impact in video games, even still to this day. and it's World of Warcraft. Hell yeah. It was on my list. World of Warcraft, gigantic. Yeah, a monolith in terms of video games.

In my top three, yeah. There you go. Never played it, so it wasn't on my list. I felt like I had to play everything that would be on my list. Totally get it. I feel like that game changed the world for about 10 years.

It absolutely did. It like changed everything. Gaming-wise, online gaming-wise, I think it's undeniable and it belongs in the top five for sure. I think it's hard to deny World of Warcraft's place as a top game right along with

GTA 4, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Pagall. The top those look you guys, we're looking at the top four games of all time, but now we have to go to the number 5 game and because it's a snake draft Andrew also has the number 6 game. So he's got back-to-back picks right here.

Back-to-back. A lot of pressure. I'm going to swap it up. I'm going to put my one and two in this. I'm not going to Wow. Wow. I respect the move. They need to be here. My number one pick, which is being put at five, is Tetris.

Timeless. So much fun. It's on my list as well. It's on my list. So much variation. It's an incredible game. I struggled with maybe making that my number one pick, but I just don't like it personally that much.

That's totally fair. I really, I enjoy it. There's so many different variations of it. It's so easy to pick up and play. It's not the ultimate Game Boy game. ultimate game boy game so much fun tetraset five and number six one that i thought would be in jeff's number one spot potentially i'm curious if it's in his top three i'm going with minecraft equally so approachable so much customization so much ability to create your own

world the way it has impacted the world generally some of the initiatives through minecraft such an incredible educational game as well as just a fun game to play just a a massive impact and just accessibility in gaming. Andrew, let me tell you, that's my number five. My number five is Minecraft. So synced up in a weird way. Yeah, yeah, very close. Very close on these picks.

I feel really good about that. Tetris and Minecraft 5 and 6, which comes back to me for 7. Unfortunately, my number 7 is already on the board at number 2. Red Dead Redemption 2 is already on the board for me. So do I pick my number 8? can't pick my number eight to go in that slot because it belongs at eight.

So I guess I'm going to have to bump down my number six. And that's Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2. Unstoppable game. Unstoppable soundtrack. Remake fantastic, but the original is in an echelon, in and of itself. Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 was a refinement of the first one, which was just a blowout banger of a game. And I think it's hard.

to top with any of the other games that came after it. And I think just for the age that I was when that game came out, I could not put it down. So Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, to me is, well, it was the number six game of all time, but the number seven game on our list. If there's

no Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, there's no MVP, therefore I never ride a skateboard. So there's a lot to consider. A lot to consider. It's a huge impact. Yep, yep. There you have it. That's number. seven on the list, but we got to go to

8, and we go to Gavin with the number 8 pick here. Well, this is interesting, the number 8. This is the only game that has made me cry without any emotions involved other than nostalgia. And on top of that, it was an extremely fun

gaming experience that I wish I could relive again for the first time. And that is Half-Life Alex. Ooh. Is it A-L-E-X? I think it's Y-X. I thought it was. spelled weird. Okay. Half-Life Alex, in it number eight.

Number eight. Never played it. It's a VR game, so. You know a VR guy? Not. It's kind of cool the number of these games that we have some sort of an Easter egg or involvement in. There's a red versus blue Easter egg and World of Warcraft. Obviously, the Tower of Pimps is in Minecraft and then the Red Dead connection as well. That's cool. Yeah, that's cool. How much representation we have here. Yeah. What's the half, is there a Half-Life Alex Easter egg? I'm not aware of one. Oh, you just brought it up now? Yeah, I just brought it up now because I was looking at the list. Oh, okay, okay. I thought

you were going to tie it into a Half-Life Alex thing. I'm like, oh, how are you guys involved in that? Oh, okay. No, I thought I thought. I thought, I just was thinking about it now, so I thought I'd tell it now. Can I tell you guys right now? Halo, not on my list. I'd just say it. There you go. Not on mine either. There you've never played it. You seem pretty proud of that there.

I'm not, I'm not proud of it. I'm just letting you know. It was a thing that I looked at and thought about afterward where I went, I'm in the, I'm in the Halo guys company and Halo's not even on my list. I think a lot of this depends on the age you were when you played them, too. That's true, too. This was an Xbox kid, I guess. But we got to go to the next pick, and that's Nick, with the number nine game of all time.

I feel like this game did a lot for video game storytelling, and it's definitely an emotional game. I think it hit me when I first played it, and it hit me more when I became a dad, and that is the Last of Us. I love that game. It's had several remakes. I've played almost every single time it is re-release. essentially and it's just the gameplay is better in two i think but the story overall and one is better 18 on my list way better in the first one yeah are there as many milfs in the first one as the second i'm uh i imagine there's probably the engine probably couldn't handle as many though

back then the lower definition milps yeah yeah oh were you not aware in uh last of us too they implemented the milf slayer legend uh engine and that's the only way that they were able to get all the milfs on screen at once. It was a tech demodey. And here we are. You see, Joel will open this gate and an outpouring of milps. Oh, no. There's too many.

We'll be overrun. Oh, no. Don't overrun me. Jeff, we are rounding out the top 10. You gave us Pagel, and now you will give us number 10 and number 11 on this top 20 list. I'm going to make no friends For me, if I'm picking the 10th best video game of all time

Oh fuck I could I could like I could win some of the audience back here Or I could just keep being me You know I'm gonna go with Once again a game that I played more than most other games and I loved every second of it

and I loved the promise of what it could have been and it almost was. I'm picking Fable 2. Oh, wow. Wow. Fable 2, top 10 game. It's one of the best games I've ever touched.

So much fun. Wasn't on my list. Very fun game though. I'm very excited for the new fable. Yeah, me too. Interesting. Interesting. Which one was Fable 2?

What was like the thing for that? It was just a, it was a continuation of Fable 1 where basically you're a, good you you can pick the good side or the dark side and then as you go evil or good the world around you changes and people interact with you differently and it was just awesome cool especially your your choices affect the world around you did they introduce the housing market in two or was that in three uh i that might have been in two as well but i'll be honest two and three kind of blend

together for me because i played them a lot back to back but the housing market stuff was great it was yeah three kind of i don't know it fell off and in weird mechanics of this really cool idea that was poorly executed of you become like the the king of the world you have to make these choices but it just doesn't feel good and it just abruptly ends but uh two so much fun like a definitive step above the first in each way delivered on everything it was going for really fun game that's our third sequel on the list our third two wow very interesting uh that's our third two but yeah a gta four that's a sequel Half Live Alex, that's a sequel.

There's a lot of sequels here. I think there are some where you could debate whether it's the best in the series or not, but for me, Fable 2 is definitively the best fable. Absolutely. But Jeff, you don't just have number 10, you also have number 11. So you have the next book is right? But then you're

done, right? Isn't this his last big? No, I'll have one more. Oh, you'll have one. Yeah, he picks 20th then. He rounds us out, buddy. Once again, for me, a game that required me to maintain a spreadsheet that was 12 pages long

and took me probably four full months to get through. I know this is... I think maybe the 11th best game of all time is Viva Penaata Trouble in Paradise. I thought you were going Jim's Award for a minute. No, no, no, no. No, and by the way, Jim's Award did not make my list.

Got it. Is it like that Viva Penaata Trouble in Paradise? Yes, thank you. Okay. Which is a sequel as well. You got to put the little, the Nya thing on. Oh, yeah. I don't know how to do that, do you? I don't know either. You don't have to.

It doesn't matter. You really don't have to. Looks cooler. You super don't have to. It does, but we don't need it. Now it just says Viva Panata. It does say Viva Panada. And so the Panada lives.

Guma Panada. That's why it's. There you go. Oh, you did it. I didn't look it up copy and paste it. Viva Penaenaata, Trouble in Paradise. The number 11 game of all time. I'm sorry, but it is.

Now, we spin it back around. And we go to Nick for number 12. Oh, how do I want to play this? All right, I'll tell you what. This game, another excellent, you know, I think I'm a big story game guy. Excellent story in this. Very rich, lived in world, a sequel, but it really expanded the universe of these games based on a book series that also has a TV series.

It's the Wisher 3 Wild Hunt. I just love that game. It's one that once you get past the, what is it? it, Gavin, the, once you get over the hump there? I can't get past the, like, the Griffin fight and the, and the, and the oils and wipes and smears feel so, I could, too much. Once you get all the shmirs down, get to the bloody baron and get past that bit, smooth sailing. Smooth sailing.

I feel like I've been hearing about this game nonstop this week specifically. Well, what good timing! Yeah, great timing. I thought you were going to say cyberpunk, but before you said, Witcher. I never played cyberpunk. What's a good game? You should play it. It, that's, to me, it's crazy that you never played cyberpunk.

I think we talked about that also this week. Like, you should, I think you will really enjoy that game. It's on my list. You pump for Liam Hemsworth in the Netflix show this season? Is there a Netflix show? No, he's talking about for The Witcher. Oh, the Witcher. He's replacing Henry Cavill.

No. There you have it. Well, that's the number 12 game of all time. With the pick for number 13, we go to Gavin. Gavin, what is the number 13 game of all time? Oh, cluster game. down here that... Mm-hmm.

Well, I feel like similar to Fable. I like a good game where you can, where your decisions start making long-term effects on the world. And in this game, long-term effects on your own face. It's Mass Effect 2. Oh, interesting. Oh. I think Mass Effect 2, it is definitely the best Mass Effect game.

That game was so much better than Mass Effect 1. Was this 13 on your list? Yeah, was it 13 on your list, Gavin? Where was it on your list, Gavin? I've just got little clusters of stuff I'm picking from. Oh, wow. You made, like, pockets of things. I made little pockets of, like, pool pockets.

Little buckets. Because I knew that some would be taken, so I'm just... Yeah, yeah. That's tough. But I knew it was going to get muddy kind of in this space. I didn't think it was going to get muddy immediately with Pagel. But I figured the muddiness would come around this sort of section, because how do you really determine what, like, the 14th or the 12th best game?

You know, it's tough. It's tough. But I'm going to pick number 14 from my list. list. It's a game that I think is undeniable, and it was remade recently. And that's Final Fantasy 7. I think Final Fantasy 7 was an entry point for a lot of people into RPGs and video games in general. And Final Fantasy 7 is easy in the top 10, or I'm sorry, the top 20. I'm really glad you pick that. Oh, good. Because I never played any of the Final Fantasy games. And I feel like I hear nothing but amazing things, obviously.

It's such a loved franchise. I'm glad it has representation on this list. Yeah, I don't even really like Final Fantasy very much as a franchise. I don't really have like a ton of love for it. But Final Fantasy 7 again was just, it's like Tony Hawk Presbyter 2, an undeniable video game that I think belongs on the top 20 easily. Doesn't the franchise have like a really confusing number scheme like internationally as well? Like they're all like offset from each other? It's only like the first six, like two through six are like a weird little, it's like goof world.

It's like two is like five is three and three is four and like four is two or something. Like it's, it's real goof world numbers. But Final Fantasy seven is where the ship writes itself and we just get straight on through Final Fantasy. But that's my number 14 pick. And now we have to go to Andrew for the 15th and 16th pick. Ooh. Oh, a lot of pressure. Here for 15 and 16, I'm looking at my list as a whole.

This is a pressure for 15 and 16. Try one. Well, it's like a thing where I'm looking at my list, and there are things that I feel like need to be on this list. Oh, yeah. Trying to decide. Well, you had, you. I'm right there with you.

Yeah. With number 15, I'm going to pick my third game, because I think this needs to be here, and it was my third. Super Mario Odyssey is my, third. Of the 3D Mario games I have played, it is my favorite. Now I haven't played all of them. I haven't played Galaxy one or two. I know people really like that one. Just a big fan of Odyssey. It was magical. It was the main reason I bought a switch to begin with. So much fun. So much diversity

in the level design. Great soundtrack. Just a great overall experience. Did you play 64? I did. Yeah. And I would rather play Odyssey than 64. Wow. Interesting. Interesting. I like 64. I think that's my favorite. 64 is a great one. Yeah, I'm just trapped in, I think, just once again, the age I played it and just have fond of memories of 64. Bobham Field, my favorite. I looked at a lot of independent lists online before doing this, and I would say Odyssey was pretty continually above 64 in them.

Where was Peggle on those? I don't think any of mine are going to be on any list. Yeah. No. Yeah, what are you going to do? You stuck to your guns. I admire that. The thing about this, Andrew is going to have the 16th.

to pick here in just a second. But the thing that's really throwing me for a loop on this list that we're making is that I really mold over what goes in what order and what things should be on the list and what shouldn't or whatever, like when I made my top 20. And then we come in here and do this and you pick four. And it's a weird, it's just the opposite of what it was to make the actual top 20 list. It's very, it's very, very strange. It was, it was a feeling I wasn't expecting. I feel full of guilt for some reason. Weird. I can't think of why that would be. I guess we'll just have to stop and think about it as Andrew picks the next game number 16 video game of all time. With Amex Platinum, $400 in annual credits for travel and dining means you

not only satisfy your travel bug, but your taste buds too. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Conditions apply. This, oh, man. Do I go with my number four? I think you should go with your number 16. This is your final pick. Are you all right? I know, but it's like, do I want to... Let them sit with it?

It is a problem of like, what I have at four is my personal number one of all time for enjoyment. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Your four is your number one? It's a game that I enjoy the most, but I don't think it's the best video game of all time. but it means the most to me as a player. So to you, this is number one, number four, and number 16. Yeah, I'm picking between four. I'm going to go with, you know what, I've gone with my lowest for each one.

We'll share our list at the end of it, right? Like, well, I'll go through what our top 20s. I think we should. I think we should all sort of like talk about it. Well, then I will put in for the first time what I have at 16, my 16th best video game of all time. is fallout three fallout three was on my list is my 16 does that rank for you above new Vegas yes new Vegas is on my list as much as I like new Vegas

fallout three was the fallout that like made me into fallout as a world as a whole it opened me up to Bethesda games it was a game that I played initially and bounced off of really quickly because I found it overwhelming as soon as I left the vault it was like there's so much to explore and do I don't know where to begin I'm just gonna not play this. And then like maybe a year or two later, I revisited it, went back in and fell in love with the world, explored every inch of it, became a big fan of both Bethesda as well as the Fallout universe as a whole. It's like my least favorite fallout game. I had almost the exact same experience as Andrew. Oh, I love Fallout 3. It's like my least favorite fallout game. It's the

it's the least replayable. A hundred percent. I think it's so ugly to look at. I don't like the terrain. I don't like the place. I don't like the setting. I mean, it's, it's ugly. And I think the way the city's laid out is really annoying to get around. But I've, I, it's fun, though. Love the game overall. Oh, yeah. I think Eric just really wanted to be a tunnel rat. And when he couldn't. Oh, dude, just get me all down. Or tunnel snakes. Yeah, I'm a tunnel snake all the way, baby. Also, a lovely assload of DLC, too. Yeah, a lot, a lot, a lot. Um, that's number 16. And we're starting to round out the list, boys. There's just a few games left. And we go to me for number 17. I am going to go with another sequel, and it's Diablo 2.

That was on my list, too. Diablo 2, a huge game, hugely influential. Again, remade recently, but, like, I remember rushing home from school and going, like, I have to put more hours into this until, like, my eyes bleed, could not get enough of it. Not all of my list is a nostalgic ride. It just happened to be that where I kind of, like, landed on this thing. That's just, like, what a lot of these games are. but man diablo two really outshines the first one the third one and kind of everything that they've done so i i think

diablo two is hard to top in that action RPG sort of isometric uh gameplay it's fun they put out a remaster of it about a year ago that was the first time i played through it and then i played through diablo three because of it so i've like i've played the diablo games because of diablo two still holds up it's just so good it's so good yeah there's something about that game man it's special. But we are rounding out the list number 18. We're so close to the end. Gavin, this is your final pick to be on the top 20 video games of all time list. What do you have? Well, I think this is a very good game. And the only reason it's not higher in my list is because I just missed the entire middle of this franchise. I played one of the early 2D ones. And it is Zelda Tears the Kingdom.

I feel like everyone's penis got immensely hard when Breath of the Wild came out to the point where they were saying it's the best one of all time but I'll be honest it got my penis to maybe 80% filled with blood. I liked it but it wasn't a full rock on until Tears of the Kingdom came out

and I could have punched a small hole in a wall especially if someone kicked me in the butt my penis would have gone right through. Amazing game, incredible. I'm so the opposite where Breath of the Wild I felt like a revolution to me where I was like wow this game's like phenomenal unstoppable and then I played Tears of the Kingdom

and I think it was just too soon after I played Breath of the Wild and I didn't like it. I'm replaying it now on Switch 2 and it is a revelation. It is so good and better than Breath of the Wild. It looks so good. It plays so well.

The Switch 2 upgrade has been phenomenal for it. What a fun game. Their ability to throw in a new mechanic that was non-existent in the first one and have it change the game so much, but also be almost completely ignorable if you're not into it. It's amazing. Yeah. Well done

on their part. Yep. Really special stuff. That's your final pick. That's number 18. I'm so conflicted about it. Because I'm so glad that Zelda's on this list. Like it needs, in my opinion, there needs to be representation of it. But Gavin was the only shot I had

at a game that I wanted that I was debating between for my pick, making it on list. So I've just had to come to terms with, that game isn't going to make it. DM me that game and maybe for 50 bucks it will. Well, number 19 is Nick who cannot be bought. Nick, what is your 19th pick here? I mean, name your price. I'll, I'll, what do you want? He's the most easily bought of the group.

No, sometimes, maybe. Wink. Anyway, so I'm having trouble with this one because a lot of these I've gone from my one to and then several of the others on my list. The third one then was also a little bit further down, but not right at the top. Because I was trying to play within this world of getting things in that might otherwise have been on this list. Or like franchises.

So I think I'm going to have to go with Elder Scrolls 5, Skyrim. And that's just because that game, Oblivion, I think, had a better story to me. But Skyrim played better, even though it was still janky. I like the DLC that it had. It was very fun. The story was great. And for a game, it's probably the one that has the most replayability to me,

at least until they remastered Oblivion. And so, like, that's the game I've gone back to. It's the game that I just put on and get lost for a while. The music's peaceful. It's really enjoyable. And it's a fun game. So I just, and you can start it over at any time. But I've gotten past that damn dragon so many times.

It's certainly the longest game I've replayed multiple times. It might be the game I've started the most in my life. You've ridden on that cart. Yeah. It was in my top 10. This game was definitely my top 10. It was in my top 10, but it was not this part now. I understand. I understand. But it's on the list, which is important because to get on this list means you're one of the top 20 video games of all time.

Speaking of, Jeff, he had our first pick. He also has our final pick with the number 20 game of all time. Jeff, round us out with the final pick here. I'm going to pick this pick. It definitely belongs on the list. surprised it didn't already make its way to the list. I assumed it would, but I'm going to pick it because it didn't. I owe my entire career to this franchise. I wouldn't be anywhere in life, were it not for Master Chief. And so I'm going to pick Halo 3 as the 20th best video game of all time.

Halo 3 is on the list. Gamer Fuel all the way. It's the best campaign and it's the second best multiplayer experience in Halo. Well, there you go. Best, best Halo 2. I think Halo Reach, personally. Heller Reach. Wow. Well, boys, there we have it.

The top 20 games of all time. We can talk about our honorable mentions. We can talk about things we didn't make the list. But first, we need to go down this list from 20 to 1. Number 20, Halo 3. 19 is Skyrim. 18, Zelda, Tears of the Kingdom. 17 is Diablo 2.

16, Fallout 3. 15, Super Mario Odyssey. Number 14, Final Fantasy 7. Number 13, Mass Effect 2. 12, Witcher 3, Wild Hunt. Number 11, Viva Pinyatta, Trouble in Paradise. Number 10, Fable 2. Number 9, Last of Us.

Number 8, Half-Life Alex. Number 7, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2. Number 6 is Minecraft. Number 5, Tetris. Number 4, World of Warcraft. Number 3, GTA 4. Number 2, Red Dead Redemption 2. and the number one video game of all time

as selected by the regulation podcast is Pagel. Hell yeah. There you have it, the top 20 list. We can talk about honorable mentions. I kind of want to go, I want to know everyone's top five. Like not 5, 3, 2, 3, 2, 4, 2, 4.5.

Does anyone want to share theirs? Sure. I'd love to. Good for it. Red Dead Redemption 2 was my number one because I think that, to me, is still my favorite game of all time. Last of Us was next.

Zelda Ocarina of Time, Witcher 3 Wild Hunt, and then God of War 2018. Wow. Good picks. Gavin. My top five, number one, was Tetris,

number two, Super Mario World on Super Nintendo, GTA 4, GoldenEye 64, and Halo 3. That's insane. GoldenEye was on my list, but like at number 16.

GoldenEye, to me, was the first time I realized that my friends and I can just play the same game multiple times and how it would be different every time. Yeah.

I thought about GoldenEye, but I figured Perfect Dark was a much better version of my game. So I had perfect dark on the list. I wasn't allowed to play perfect dark because you had to be 18 to buy it and I was too young. It had a gun called the far side in it that was so cool. You could see through walls. Yeah, dude. It was awesome. Jeff, do you want to share your top five or no? I mean, the four of my video, four of mine made that are already on the thing, but I had like a clump, like a little cluster of ones that I was trying

to choose from. The ones that I agonized over that didn't make the list were Animal Crossing, New Horizons, Populis, the Peter Mulanew masterpiece, and Chrono Trigger. Oh, Chrono Trigger. Good one. Andrew, what was your top five? My top three made the list, so I'm going to read four through eight. Hitman World of Assassination was four for me. I was really hoping Gavin would put that somewhere on the list.

Number five, Pac-Ban, number six, Fortnite. Number seven, Pentamint, number eight, Resident Evil, seven. Wow. Oh, seven, interesting. What's Pentiment? Pentiment is a, it's a narrative sort of adventure type game where you're trying to figure out who murdered these people in a different time period. But it is a game in which you don't, you don't get a definitive answer to whether you're right or not. You get the evidence and then you have to create your own reasoning as to why you feel that this is the case.

Or have to maybe decide maybe you don't actually think this is the person who murdered it, but ethically you think it is the best move. to occur or the best decision to make. Jeez. It has an amazing art style, really well done, obsidian game. Oh, that's very cool. My top five, a little different. Ocarina Time is number one for me.

Number two, one that I didn't think anyone else is going to put on the list, but whatever. Street Fighter 2. It was on my list. That's a great pick. Made a whole industry, a whole genre of game. And same for my number three pick, which was Doom. Number four is...

Yeah, there you go. Doom, number three, I think, is just, it's so, it just changed so much. Number four, for me was World of Warcraft, which made the list. And then number five was Minecraft, which, again, I have no real love for, but, like, I just, you can't deny what it is. Anybody have any others you were surprised didn't make? Like, I was surprised Resident Evil 2 didn't make it. I was surprised Half-Life 2 didn't make it.

I guess Aylix covered that. I thought Gallagher or Miss Pac-Man might have snuck in as old-school ones. Really? I was surprised no Pokemon game made them. the list. Oh, yeah. I had Pokemon Yellow at 20. Oh, I have a red and blue at 18. Also, Call of Duty Modern Warfare, I thought would have made it. Call of Duty was like, that one was just below like my top 20. I almost had it, but didn't quite make it. Um, it's 50. Metal Gear Solid also didn't make the list and I was really surprised by that, but I don't take anyone

here as like big Metal Gear Solid fans. No. No. I feel the same way about Alden Ring, where I don't view anybody outside of me. I had a couple that I would put in my top five that I just didn't think would be in the world top five, and that was the Outer Wilds and Max Payne. Oh, yeah. I love Max. Those are great. I'm surprised one of those didn't make it, actually.

I should have put Outer Wilds on my list. What was everyone's number 13? Walking Dead Season 1. Grand Theft Auto 5. Resident Evil 2. What was 13 on our list? Number 13 on our list was Mass Effect 2. Okay, that was fantastic.

I was like, yeah, I was pretty good. Resident Evil 4 was my number 13. So, Nick, we were kind of like in that same. Original or the remaster? Original. I really struggled with that. The remasters were so good. I liked them a lot.

I had cyberpunk as well at 9, I think. Interesting. I need to play that, man. Nick, I don't think there's a way you don't love that game. Yeah, I think you're right. Did anybody else have Leffordead 2 on their list? I did. No.

I should have had that. Yeah, I had it like 18. I had Portal 2, though. Oh, Portal 2 is a good one. I had Super Smash Bros. melee at 19. That is a deeply personal favorite that it's just so I could not. I still, when I went back to San Diego last time, I went to my friend's house and we are 40 year old men and we played it for three and a half hours. I don't think there's another franchise where

I can't get past the first hurdle of goodness. I consistently dog shit across the franchise. It's just freaking game. So fun. I want to always just be as good as and then a little bit better than all my friends so it's just a constant struggle it's so much fun i love it surprised you didn't have like uh star fox 64 somewhere eric it was hard to put it on the list when i was trying to look at like significance for like how strong these like games that i felt like really deserved on here i mean like if we were doing like personal personal personal favorites it's like new vegas star fox like those and like smash it like those are probably like my top three god i love new vegas yeah unstoppable the the show's gonna be new vegas exciting but guys that's our

Top 20 video games of all time. Let us know what you think about the list in the comments. And please be nice. Thinking about maybe making a form that people could submit what their favorite game is of all time and then doing a top 20. Oh, Andrew, that's such good idea. We could do like a little supplemental piece with it.

That's great. Oh, that's such good idea. That's a really, really good idea. If you share this with a friend without any kind of prompt of the information of how this is laid out, it's gonna piss them on. Yeah, I was imagining seeing this list as like a Sporkel quiz and people

just typing different games over and over again and never being able to figure out the number one. There you have it. It's your regulation list of top 20 games. I like drafting in order. That was a lot of fun. I really like that a lot. Definitely a fun new mechanic for our drafts

and incredibly stressful. Well for some of us. Guys, if you like this, check out our other drafts. Check out everything that we have over at patreon.com slash the regulation pod. Check out the podcast. Check out our game plays over on YouTube. Let us know what your top 20 game is.

Let us know in the comment what your number 13 is. And, yeah. Before you talk shit, you little dickheads, don't play some peggle and find out for yourself. There you have it. Guys, thanks for watching. We'll see you next time. Bye.

Bye. Hey, Gavin. What? You didn't. I beat your trials time. Oh, shit. Not even an episode. You've done it outside of regular canon.

That's phenomenal. That is phenomenal. All right, guys. We'll see you next time. Bye. Bye. Bye.