A strange reaction comes out of me whenever I hear people talk about "The Greatest Game of All Time". Wait, you mean that every game in the future will be inferior to the game you deemed "Greatest Game of All Time"? That gaming will never again progress in terms of experience?

I find it difficult for me to answer the question of what is my favourite anything, especially in terms of works such as video games. I feel that by putting one thing on a higher pedestal than others, I am implicitly denying the individual qualities that other things have that the thing on the pedestal either doesn't have or has less of. It's even worse when you get a bunch of people to determine a favourite, since there will never be a guaranteed consensus on which will be number one due to personal tastes varying. In fact, many people, including myself, tend to get annoyed at whatever ends up on the number one spot, as then it feels like the person (or worse, group of people) is trying to force that thing as if it was a "one size fits all" thing. This mentality is why I found Roger Ebert's assertion that all greatest movie lists are propaganda to be incredibly true and that the least interesting ones are based on large-scale voting.

In short, this is why I am reluctant to post on any of the many "Favourite Wii game" boards.