Regulation Podcast - Greatest Video Games of All Time - Ranked

Episode Date: September 28, 2025

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When you're with Amex Platinum, you get access to exclusive dining experiences and an annual travel credit. So the best tapas in town might be in a new town altogether. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Terms and conditions apply. Learn more at Amex.ca. 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 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 one, two, three, four, five, and then for the sixth pick, it'll be the fifth person.

So again, again, just like Snake Draft, like we always do, one, two, three, four, five, four, three, two, one, 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, 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, and I'm so fascinated to hear. It's different because we've done the pool thing before where we all pick stuff and then 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 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, two different parts. We have the names here because we have to randomized 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 Bear 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, leaks to amount of pressure.

Are you, are you ready? Are you ready to see number one, let's do it. The 20th randomization. Jeff. No! Kevin. Eric. Yes.

Ooh. No. The pressure on Jeff right now. No. 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 turn it 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 gavoned to myself here. Yes.

Yeah. It 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. 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. 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 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 of the idea of a top 20 list that no one can see the top 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, like, incredibly personal?

You can't. Or do you try to with swage 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. One of 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 pets. We're due for a really good Peggle.

It's been a while. They did put out on a mobile one that didn't feel great. I beat, I beat the shit out of it, though. Take shot. That's not what I, 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, 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. Yeah. Um, Pegel, number one.

Wow. Greatest video game of all time. I will say, I'm just going to throw it out there. Pegel, not even on my list. Not, I, not. Was it 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 Peggle. Pagle, 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 a great character uh I actually named my son after this character and uh

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 Most to Peace 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 Red Dead Redemption 2 Number 1 game Of all time Peggle

Number two video game Of all time Red Dead Red Dead Red Dead Redemption Tegel is a lot easier to pick up and play mechanically very strong Red Dead Redemption 2 Very immersive

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 Pagel elements in 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 of 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 GTA 4, and incredible DLCs as well. Great DLCs.

IV, though. You've got to type it IV. 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 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 three because you want 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. It can be that.

He only has control over the number three game. He could argue that this should be number 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 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. 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 five game and because it's a snake draft,

Andrew also has the number six game. So he's got back-to-back picks right here. Back-to-back. a lot of pressure I'm gonna swap it up I'm gonna put my one and two in this I'm not gonna put my five wow wow I respect the move

they need to be here number my number one pick which is being put at five is Tetris timeless so much fun it's on my list as well yeah 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.

Petrus at 5. 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 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 Red Dead Red Dead. redemption two is already on the board for me. So do I pick my number eight?

I 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 6 game of all time but the number 7 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 number eight, and we go to Gavin with the number eight pick here. Well, this is interesting, the number eight.

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. Oh.

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You're not a VR guy? It's kind of cool, the number of these games that we have some sort of an Easter egg or involvement. And 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 about waiting until the Halo pops up on the list, but 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 go. Oh, you've never played it. You seem pretty proud of that there. 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 guy's company, and Halo's not even on my list. I think all this depends on the age you were when you played them too. That's true, too.

This wasn't 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-released essentially and it's just the gameplay is better and two I think but the story overall in one is better

18 on my list. Way better in the first one are there as many milfs in the first one as the second? I imagine there's probably the engine probably couldn't handle as many, though, back then. The lower definition milfs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, were you not aware in Last of Us 2? They

implemented the Milf Slayer legend. And that's the only way that they were able to get all the milfs on screen at once. It was a tech, dumody. 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 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, uh, uh, fuck. I could 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 Fable 2 top 10 game it's one of the best games I've ever touched so much fun wasn't on 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 continuation of Fable 1 where basically 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.

Got it. It was just awesome. Cool. Especially your choices affect the world around you. Did they introduce the housing market and two, or was that in three? 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 in weird mechanics of this really cool idea that was poorly executed of you become like the king of the world.

You have to make these choices, but it just doesn't feel good and it just abruptly ends. But two, so much fun. Like a definitive of 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 wow very interesting uh that's our third two but yeah a gta four that's a sequel that's a sequel that's a sequel there'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 two 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 But then you're done, right? Isn't this his last big? I'll have one more. Oh, you'll have one more. 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 Penaenaata trouble in

Paradise. I thought you were going Jim's Award for a minute. 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 Panata. And so the Panada lives. Guma Panada. That's why it's.

There you go. Oh, he did it. I had to look it up copy and paste it. Viva Penaata, 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, actually, 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 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 Gavin

once you get over the hump there I can't get past the like the Griffin fight and the oh the Griffin and all the oils and wipes and shmirs

feels so like it's too much once you get on 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. It's a good game. You should play 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. Uh, 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's the number 13 game of all time? Got a little cluster of games down here. 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. own face. It's Mass Effect 2. Oh, interesting. 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? To be honest, below 10, 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 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. 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 RPG 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 picked 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 Pro Skater, too, an undeniable video game that I think belongs on the top 20 easily. And 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 and trying to decide, well, you had. I'm right there with you. Yeah.

With number 15, I'm gonna 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, I don't know. 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 164. 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're stuck to your guns. I admire that. The thing about this, Andrew's going to have the 16th 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, very strange. 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. Yeah, I can't either.

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. Hit pause on whatever you're listening to and hit play on your next adventure. This fall, get double points on every qualified stay. Life's the trip. Make the most of it at Best Western. Visit bestwestern.com for complete terms and conditions.

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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 3. Fallout 3. It was on my list. It was 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 3 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 going to 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 least replayable now.

100%. 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, whatever they are? Yeah, I'm a tunnel snake all the way, baby. Also, a lovely assload of DLC, too. Yeah, a lot, a lot, a lot. 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 2 really outshines the first one,

the third one, and kind of everything that they've done. So I think Diablo 2 is hard to top in that action RPG sort of isometric 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 3 because of it. So I've played the Diablo games because of Diablo 2. Mm-hmm. Still holds up. She's great.

It's just so good. It's so good. Yeah. There's something about that game, man. It's special. But we are round 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 of 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. Yeah. 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 the 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, what do you want? I think 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, or 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. Yes. It might be the game I've started the most in my life. You've ridden on that cart. Yeah. 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 out. 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. I'm surprised it didn't already make its way to the list. I assumed it would. But I'm going to pick it because it 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.

Halo 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 one. 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 Penaata, 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. Um, we can talk about honorable mentions. I kind of want to go. I want to know everyone's top five.

Like, like, not five, three, two, three, two, three, four, five. 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 the Super Nintendo. GtA 4 GoldenEye 64 and Halo 3 That's insane

Golden I was on my list But like at number 16 Golden I 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 GoldenE But I figured Perfect Dark was a much better version

That was 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 Farside in it That was so cool You can see through walls.

Yeah, dude. It's 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, Populus, the Peter Moloniu masterpiece, and Chrono Trigger. Oh, chrono triggering. 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, Pentiment, 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 uh to occur or the best decision to make jeez it is it has an amazing art style really well done uh obsidian game oh that's very cool um my top 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. Oh. 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 on mine. 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 it? 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 the list.

Oh, yeah. I had Pokemon Yellow at 20. Oh, I have red and blue at 18. Also, Cal-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. 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. was everyone's number, uh, 13? Walking Dead season one. Grand Theft Auto 5. Uh, Resident Evil 2. What was 13 on our list? Uh, number 13 on our list was Mass Effect 2. Okay, that was makes sense. I was like, yeah, pretty good. Resident Evil 4 was my number 13. So, Nick, we were kind of like in that same. The original or the remaster?

Original. I really struggled with that. The remasters were so good. I like them a lot. I had cyberpunk as well at, uh, nine, I think. Interesting. I need to play that. You, Nick, I, I don't think there's a way you don't love that game. Yeah, I think you're right. Did anybody else have Left for Dead 2 on their list? I did. No. No, I should have had that.

Yeah, I had it like 18, yeah. I had Portal 2, though. Oh, Portal 2 is a good one. I had Super Smash Bros. Malay 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. It's 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. Surprise you didn't have like 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, yeah, yeah, yeah. 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, yeah, unstoppable.

The show's going to 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 can do like a little supplemental piece with it. That's great. Oh, that's such a 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 going to piss them off. 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 that's your regulation

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Bye. Bye. Hey, Gavin. You didn't. I beat your trials time. Oh, shit. Awesome. You've done it outside of regular canon.

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