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Post by Sooj on Aug 12, 2018 9:08:28 GMT
Can’t give an order but...
Metal Gear Solid: it blew me away as an 8 year old, especially the Psycho Mantis fight. In Snake Eater, I somehow missed the sniper rifle and couldn’t fight The End. Left the game for a bit and ended going to Poland for a month and a bit to visit family. Imagine my surprise when I come back to boot the game up and The End died... of old age.
Pro Evolution Soccer: 4 was my first, 5 didn’t get much love from me (unfortunately) but 6 was played to death on my PS2.
Fallout: 3 was an incredible experience. I didn’t appreciate New Vegas until I was older (in time to play Fallout 1 — still need to get into Fallout 2).
Fire Pro Wrestling Returns: my introduction to the Fire Pro franchise as a PS2 classic on the PS3. And here I am. I loved the real-world roster with fake names.
Grand Theft Auto: started playing the first one on my PS1 around the time Vice City was getting hyped. Thus began my lifelong appreciation of everything Ray Liotta. Vice City’s soundtrack was my 2003. San Andreas was my entire 2004.
Tony Hawks Underground: I used to take days off school to play this at my grandparents’ flat in 2004. So many days off school.
Smackdown: Here Comes the Pain. My first proper foray into wresting video games (even though WWF Attitude on the N64 kindled my love affair)
STALKER: I adore this game. I love the atmosphere. I love the gameplay,
Need for Speed Underground: Two words. Get. Low.
Red Dead Redemption: here’s hoping 2 gets a PC port.
Having re-read over these, these are probably a list of my favourite games from one year or another. Some I still play regularly (STALKER and Metal Gear Solid); others fell by the next-gen wayside (Tony Hawk and Need for Speed). But I figure these games all made a significant impression on me and still resonate to this day
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Post by DakkoN on Aug 12, 2018 10:33:44 GMT
No order..
Fire Pro Wrestling World
Final Fantasy 7
Final Fantasy 6
Diablo 2
Metal Gear Solid 2 (also 1 & 3)
WWF No Mercy (along with all the other THQ/AKI games)
Super Mario RPG
Super Mario 64
Super Mario World
Red Dead Redemption
Honorable mentions of games that I immensely enjoyed:
Age of Empires 2
Borderlands 2 & 1
Elder Scrolls Skyrim & Oblivion
Fallout 3
Final Fantasy 11 & 14
Grand Theft Auto 3, Vice City, San Andreas 4, & 5
Suikoden 1 & 2
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2
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Post by BakFu on Aug 12, 2018 13:57:30 GMT
This is an awesome idea for a thread and also a surprisingly difficult list to generate!
Animal Crossing: I couldn't tell anyone specifically why this is on my list other than it is pure, unpretentious, innocent, peaceful escapism expressed in a colourful, cheerful medium. The ambient music is some of the best out there and I find myself humming the tunes at random times even if I'm not actively playing the game, and even though it's not one of Nintendo's huge, famous orchestral anthems, the music is top notch. I love Animal Crossing in that I can pop in for fifteen to twenty minutes at a time, escape, and feel like I've enjoyed myself and had some time to power down and forget about my day, or I can sit there and dig in for over an hour if I have the time and really want to just escape in my little town. I haven't played the mobile game, but I have played every other iteration since it's been out. Should Animal Crossing be announced for the Switch, it will be a system seller for me.
Grand Theft Auto 3: Played my first GTA on the PS1 and was blown away. You could pop the lid and throw in a music CD and listen to your music while you played! I remember reading that a 3D version of the game was in the works, and I thought screw that, they will only ruin it, then I played GTA 3. The game changed EVERYTHING from then on, everyone tried to make their own version, and eventually GTA's influence was everywhere, which isn't a bad thing. GTA 3 is still one of my favourites of the series. I remember standing outside of the safe house in that shitty, dirty alley, hearing the ambient white noise like you hear when you're out in the city at three or four AM, the din of traffic, people talking, cars honking, papers blowing by, the grit, the dirtiness, the whole thing just sucked me in. People talking as they walked down the streets, Guru from Gangstar's voice playing the bomb making character 8-Ball, the missions (always remember "Skunk in the Trunk" from GTA 3. get the car to point B, bad guys beat up your car, the trunk/boot comes open, and there's a BODY in the back! The surprise blew me away!), THE MUSIC, THE MUSIC, THE MUSIC! An amazing soundtrack at your fingertips on Liberty City's various radio stations and the talk shows/advertisments! I really loved the nameless avatar of GTA3, it added TONS to the game and let you imagine his motives, his history, who he is, all of that. The voiced protagonists are okay now, but the mute Claude will always be my favourite. The satire of our ridiculous society the series brings will always hold a spot close to my video game loving heart, and it is a great reminder that we all need to take ourselves a little less seriously, reflect, and laugh!
Red Dead Redemption: Not going to go into detail since we have a dedicated RDR thread here, but again in the vein of escapism, RDR is an incredible gaming experience, a huge, beautiful, technologically simple world FULL of amazing characters, gorgeous/horrifying wildlife, and amazing scenarios. Crazy story, incredible music, and hours of exploration. As big as the world is, I never found myself bored, but only wanted to see more. It's not often that you find yourself upset when you realize you're nearly done with a game, but I was, and I actually stopped playing the game for a couple of months somehow thinking it would keep it going for longer. And that ending... Wow.
AKI Wrestling games: Didn't really matter which one it was, they were all good in their own ways. Of course No Mercy was the technically most up to date version, but they all had something special to them. Personally, I feel that the AKI games "GOT" what pro wrestling is the best of all of the titles available in western markets at the time. The games felt complex but also intuitive, the moves had weight and impact to them, and the ring wasn't an afterthought in that it was as much a part of the match as your opponent (diagonal running dives out of the ring over the corner post, over/through the ropes, wanging your opponents' head off of the corner post, etc.) I could play those games for hours, and although many 3D games have come since, I still feel like no other wrestling game has captured the essence that somehow AKI did with much simpler technology.
Castlevania Symphony of the Night: Didn't play this game until YEARS after it came out, but did on a recommendation by a friend who also introduced me to my beloved SSX, so I figured I should give it a try. Played through it on the PS1, the PSP, and Xbox 360. Of course its influence is now ubiquitous in indy games everywhere and even helped coin the the reviewers old favourite pigeon hole "metroidvania". A lofty measuring stick all similar games are still compared to after all of these years, and for good reason. Castlevania is another one of Konami's sad casualties, and you'd think they'd jump in NOW with another game since pixely 16 bit looking METROIDVANIA games are all the rage and they're the grandparents of the genre, but I guess canning great game developers and burying storied franchises is what their M.O. is these days. Did I mention the incredible music?... :)
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Post by TwistC on Aug 12, 2018 17:17:10 GMT
My top ten tends to change frequently, but here's some that generally always appear at some point when ever someone asks me for my top ten games. 1. Shadowrun (SNES) The game that introduced me to not only Shadowrun but Cyberpunk in 1993. It was also the same year I saw Blade Runner for the first time. I became obsessed with cyberpunk. This was also the year when we first got our internet and I spent all my early internet browsing years on Netscape going to Shadowrun and Blade Runner websites. This game will never get old to me. Part detective story, part action RPG all coming together with an atmospheric soundtrack set in a future dystopian Seattle. It would be almost two decades later thanks to Kickstarter that the series would be revived, literally overnight, spawning the spiritual successor series to the old SNES game starting with Shadowrun Returns on PC.
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Post by TwistC on Aug 12, 2018 17:27:36 GMT
not an exact order but heres just some of the games i had the most enjoyment with
-mega man x (absolute favorite)
-street fighter 2010
-alien soldier
-smackdown here comes the pain
-minestorm II
-DOOM (original)
-Space Megaforce
-Road Rash 3DO
-fire pro wrestling world
-Sonic 2
-WCW/NWO Revenge
-Shadowrun SNES
-Tekken 2
-GTA 4
-Super Metroid
-Jikkyuo Oshaberi Parodius
-Twisted Metal 2
hell, why not throw in Sweet Home on NES too. That games aged like milk, but I loved it enough to beat it. Really interesting game.
if theres other ones my memory is just failing me, as usual.
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Post by LankyLefty17 on Aug 12, 2018 17:54:14 GMT
No particular order:
Fallout 2 and 3 (its a tie, they're both awesome for completely different reasons)
NBA Jam (the original with Barkley)
Madden 2005 (current Madden still doesn't have some of the features this game had)
Fire Pro World
Wrestlemania 2000 (the one that got me into wrestling video games)
Blade Runner for PC (Dude, Nth- awesome that someone else played/loved that game, very under the radar)
Red Dead Redemption
Hardball 3 (first sports game I ever played, AL Michael's robotic announcing is still hilarious)
Last of Us
GTA 4
I"m probably forgetting others (I always loved NBA2K as a series but no specific year stands out), but those are the major hitters.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2018 14:41:38 GMT
Not really in any order:
KoC2
Fire Pro World
Ogre Battle
Morrowind
Daggerfall
Fallout 2
Freelancer
Diablo
Neverwinter Nights
Cities Skylines
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Post by BakFu on Aug 13, 2018 15:55:13 GMT
Okay, next five.
Bioshock: The intro to this game alone will always stand out as one of the best I've seen, and it sucks you into the world completely, getting you ready for your experience in Rapture. As a shooter, the controls aren't the tightest, but that almost adds to the game. Your character isn't some expertly trained commando, he's just a dude, and anyone that's used firearms for the first time knows you're not always going to be hitting bullseyes right off the bat, especially in pressure situations. The plasmid system is awesome, and how many games can say that the offer a swarm of angry bees to the face as a form of offence? The star of the show however is Rapture itself. I'm sure one or two games have since presented an atmosphere similar to Rapture, but the cool thing about Boshock is that Rapture feels more like an NPC than just a bunch of hallways for you to run through and shoot nut jobs in bunny masks in. The little sister/Big Daddy interplay is awesome, leaving you with the choice to sacrifice or save the creepy, golem like children for varied benefit or penalty. Great game, the sequel was almost as good (better in some aspects), but Infinite, although fun and cool in its own way, didn't feel like part of the series to me.
Elderscrolls V Skyrim: I almost passed on this game, a friend kept raving about it, and I kept "yeah, yeah, yeah"ing about it, then he got it for me for Christmas. I started playing it and thought "wow, this game looks amazing!". I found myself, being the OCD completionist nut case that I am, picking plants and flowers and stuff. An hour went by with my roguish dark elf character in his rudimentary armour and rusty ol' weapons, freshly escaped from execution as a captured convicted rebel, I had collected most of the flowers, plants, and local fungi I could. I almost quit right then, hating the fact that I just wasted all that time collecting plants, then I found a cave. After sneaking up on a couple of wolves and silencing the bandits sitting around the fire with long distance arrow shots, watching them pitch face first into their fires, I was hooked. A YEAR later with almost exclusive play (with the exception of a break to play and 100% Sleeping Dogs), Skyrim is one of the only games I 100%ed or even cared to. The alpine environment, the music, the creatures, the DRAGONS, the whole package was such a beautiful escape for me, an awesome place to head to to decompress and relax. Discovering old hidden ruins, realizing you're not quite strong enough to handle that troll yet, hitting an arrow shot from WAAAY out and having the satisfaction of seeing it sail through the air for many meters only to sink into the neck of a distant enemy, so many good gaming experiences. I have to exercise every shred of willpower I have not to buy Skyrim again every time it goes on sale, I have a backlog to slog through, and I know it would be ignored for another year if I did Skyrim again! This game would be worth every penny charged for it, not something that can be said for every game, getting it as a gift was awesome!
Fire Pro D: Fire Pro Advance was my intro to the series I'd been reading import reviews for and dreaming of playing for years. It blew my mind on so many levels, and after some time getting sucked into the Fire Pro community (YOU lot...), I grabbed a used Dreamcast from a pawn shop (still have it, still works!), a boot disk, and FPD off of eBay for $16 CAN. The game absolutely blew me away. I have so many fond memories of FPD, there were so many surprises, it was so much deeper than FPA, it looked amazing, sounded amazing, the match options, the moves, and most of all, the ROSTER!!! FPD was magic, it existed at the end of the "I will sue you out of existence for using any of my IP without licencing" era for video games, before people started to take notice of the potential money that the video game industry was ready to bring in. The rosters looked like the real wrestlers/fighters, just with the name changes, so that was a real trip for me. Even FPR, a technically better game with more moves and options, doesn't hold the same position for me as FPD. Classic game!
Tekken series: This is a cop out, I can't just pick one, but I love this series (with the exception of Tekken 4 which almost put me off for good.). The fighting on a 3D plane is awesome, the characters are incredible, although early on there were a lot of pallet swaps (Nina and Anna, Tiger, Eddy, and Christie Monteiro, Marshal and Forest) in the early going, characters like Heihachi (all time favourite of any series, hands down, I love this old geezer!) and Kazuya Mishima, Lei Wulong, Paul Phoenix, YOSHIMITSU, JACK, Xiaoyu, Steve Fox, DEVIL KAZUYA, etc. Not a fan of tag fighting games, but I got sooooo many miles out of TTT on the PS2, especially after unlocking Tekken Bowl! The newest game, Tekken 7 was worth the price of admission for the Heihachi/Akuma fight alone (and Harada's group did an incredible job handling Akuma. If you're a SF player and have never played Tekken, you will be totally capable with Akuma, he plays just like he always has in SF, it's a really odd feeling, there's really no adaptation time needed, I was able to jump right in with him and start whuppin ass. Great respect for the SF original material, if it ain't broke...). As a longtime fighting game fan, being able to control a fight featuring the two BEST fighting game characters of all time in such an incredibly beautiful arena was an amazing gaming experience! I haven't been playing many fighters these days, especially with the $$$ based pass system (looking directly at YOU Street Fighter), but Tekken is back on the docket and my one go to to scratch the fighter itch!
Shadow of the Colossus: I love this game, and the recent dusting off treatment it got shows how relevant it still is. The atmosphere, the mystery, the lack of gauges and maps fouling up the screen giving more room to see the beautiful environments, the sound effects and music, and the inexplicable feeling of guilt you have immediately after vanquishing a colossus, even if it was an insufferable bastard to beat, all make this experience very memorable. I'm glad someone stole my PS2 copy of the game and I couldn't finish it back in the day, the remaster was an incredible experience that I know I'll go back to and replay again and again!
Honorable mentions:
Sunset Overdrive (PLEASE PLAY THIS GAME IF YOU HAVEN'T AND HAVE ACCESS TO AN XBOX!!!!)
Naughty Dog's Uncharted/Last of Us games
Dark Souls/Bloodbourne
Forza Horizon (all three, can't wait for 4!)
Yakuza Series ("Kiryu-Chan!")
God of War series
Ninja Gaiden 1 and 2
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Post by sonny615 on Sept 2, 2018 13:21:23 GMT
Oh man, that's a really hard list to make... I'll try to be impulsive this time, rather than thinking about it for a whole day:
1. Super Mario Bros (NES) - This game will always have a special place in my heart.
2. Fire Pro Wrestling Returns + World (PS2\PC) - I'm cheating a little bit by placing two games in one spot but I guess it's ok :)
3. Fallout 3 (PC) - That game blew me away, one of a kind experience. I must say that I didn't play the earlier Fallouts at the time so everything felt new. The concept, the world, the humor and the gameplay. It was perfect and I never wanted the game to end.
4. WWE Smackdown: Here Comes The Pain (PS2)
5. Football Manager (PC) - I think I played 2013 version the most. I don't think many people understand how deep this game goes in order to capture the realism of football. I remember picking my then local team of a small Israeli town, Hapoel Beer Sheva, and being absolutely amazed by how accurate the staff, player stats and just everything around the team was. Exciting, tense and sometimes even heartbreaking - football experience at its best, delivered by text and minimal graphics.
6. Her Story (PC) - the shortest game on this list by far, Her Story managed to be captivating, unique and fun. I thought about it long after finishing the game (about 4 hours).
7. Hearthstone (PC\Android) - I never considered myself to be even remotely interested in CCG until I played Hearthstone. Blizzard knows how to take a game style and nail it perfectly, while appealing to new players. I am a casual but consistent player. In recent months I decided to step it up a bit and reached rank 1, just a few games shy of legend (0.5% of the players worldwide). One day I'll make it :)
8. Heroes of The Storm (PC) - I never considered myself to be even remotely interested in MOBA until I played HOTS. Blizzard knows how to take a game style and nail it perfectly, while appealing to new players. A blast to play with strangers online and even more fun to play with friends. Highly underrated.
9. Starcraft II (PC) - I'm not going to repeat the same Blizzard joke :) Plus, I did play other RTS before. Starcraft II was and still is the best RTS ever made in my eyes. I played countless hours with friends online and loved every moment of it. I loved the lore, the single player content and even watching online streams and tournaments. Pretty much stopped playing once my son was born and now I feel too old for this (and I have Heroes, which is nowhere near as demanding in multitasking as SC2) but due to the amount of fun SC2 provided me with, I am including it in this list.
10. Disgaea 2 (PS2) - I have yet to find a game of this type to be as enjoyable as Disgaea 2. It's super deep yet accessible and funny. I enjoyed every minute of the ~140 hours I put into this game and I can't wait to Disgaea 5 to come out on Steam.
Honorable mentions:
* X-Com (both modern and classic)
* Papers, Please
* Pillars of Eternity
* King of Fighters\Fatal Fury Series
* The Banner Saga Series
I am probably forgetting a game or two but I feel like the above represents my taste well.
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Post by sonny615 on Sept 2, 2018 13:32:35 GMT
Not really in any order: KoC2 Fire Pro World Ogre Battle Morrowind Daggerfall Fallout 2 Freelancer Diablo Neverwinter Nights Cities Skylines I just started Cities Skylines a few days ago and it's freaking addicting. I have a feeling that you're playing a heavily modded game :) Any recommendations in terms of must have mods and\or DLC? I have only a handful of modes installed like move it and a few quality of life mods for the roads. Also have After Dark DLC. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2018 16:54:53 GMT
Not really in any order: KoC2 Fire Pro World Ogre Battle Morrowind Daggerfall Fallout 2 Freelancer Diablo Neverwinter Nights Cities Skylines I just started Cities Skylines a few days ago and it's freaking addicting. I have a feeling that you're playing a heavily modded game :) Any recommendations in terms of must have mods and\or DLC? I have only a handful of modes installed like move it and a few quality of life mods for the roads. Also have After Dark DLC. Honestly, most of the mods I use are QoL mods, and most of those have been added to the game over the various updates...I just got so used to the way the mod does it over the way the vanilla game does it that I continue to use the mod version of a lot of things.
Ploppable RICO is really the only mod I use that is "game changing".
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Post by Phil Parent on Sept 3, 2018 1:04:55 GMT
No order...
- Fire Pro World
- XCOM (Original in current series)
- Civilization V
- No Man's Sky
- Mega Man II
- MLB The Show (Latest Version)
- Metal Gear Solid 3
- Grand Theft Auto 3
- Dragon Warrior VIII
- Ogre Battle
I'm mostly disconnected from modern gaming. I don't like MMORPGs and FPSs so...
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Post by soak314 on Sept 3, 2018 10:56:57 GMT
I think about this a lot, for all the media I enjoy. Largely in terms of which ones have helped shape my tastes as a person growing up. FPW is a given, so I'll list my 9 in no particular order, along with the definitive genre points that have stuck with me throughout the years. Fallout
+ Post-apoc + Turn Based Combat + Resource and inventory management + Open world
Monster Rancher 2+ Resource management + Fictional Biology + Cute art
Pokemon (Soul) Silver + Turn based combat + Fictional Biology + Cute art X-COM (one day I'll beat TFTD)
+ Difficult
+ High Learning Curve
+ Turn Based Combat
+ Resource and Inventory Management
+ Coping with repeated instances of failure
Smackdown 2
+ Creative sandbox
+ Wrestling
+ Fighting Game
Civilization 3
+ Turn Based Combat
+ Resource Management
+ 4X
Factorio
+ Literally drugs
+ Workflow and Logistics
+ Destruction of friendships
Morrowind
+ High Learning curve
+ Open world
+ Inventory management
+ Coping with repeated instances of failure
DARK SOULS
+ High Learning curve
+ Difficult
+ Coping with repeated instances of failure + Cute Art
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Post by BakFu on Sept 3, 2018 18:08:23 GMT
Monster Rancher 2+ Resource management + Fictional Biology + Cute art
DARK SOULS
+ High Learning curve
+ Difficult
+ Coping with repeated instances of failure + Cute Art
Monster Rancher, wow, haven't thought about that game for ages! I remember borrowing CDs from EVERYONE to try to generate new, rare monsters! Also, I guess the art in the Dark Souls series is pretty cute. :) |
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Post by Joker on Sept 5, 2018 9:21:38 GMT
1. Resident Evil 4 (Gamecube) - Ridiculously replayable and astounded me at the time.
2. Super Streetfighter 4 AE (Xbox 360) - Love all Street Fighter games, but this incarnation was awesome. Yoga Flame!
3. Skyrim (Xbox 360) - Beyond Epic, so many hours spent exploring and an engrossing story (when I finally got around to it :) ).
4. Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64) - Need I say anything?
5. Starfox 64: Lylat Wars (N64) - My favorite N64 Game I love it and have max scored every level.
6. Red Dead Redemption (Xbox 360) - The Wild West in video game format, Story is good, online is ace.
7. Batman: Arkham City (Xbox 360) - Batman being awesome.
8. Smash Tennis: aka Super Family Tennis (SNES) - Memories of epic 4-player snes multiplayer. Pick Mike.
9. F-Zero GX (Gamecube) - What I expect from racing games, still waiting for something to live up to this.
10. Alien Isolation (PS4) - A more recent but very enjoyable survival Horror.
Honorable mentions:
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (Gamecube), Fire Pro Wrestling World, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Limbo, King Arthur's World, Total Annihilation, Gargoyle's Quest, Flashback, Dragonball FighterZ, Goldeneye and Spartan: Total Warrior (Gamecube)
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