Oh hai Board 8. I'm gonna give you 30 of my favorite games and stuff. I totally like to love all these games. They're pretty cool!
30. Incredible Crisis (PS1)
This game is an underrated gem. You go through a series of mini-games and get this family home in time for dinner. Things like dancing, and flying down the highway on a gurney avoiding traffic. The game is beyond bizzare and just screams Japanese. All the weird and randomness in this game can't really be explained, it just needs to be seen. If you like quick and fast paced gameplay, check put Incredible Crisis.
29. Goldeneye 007 (N64)
I really am not a fan of FPS games. However Goldeneye 007 is a classic, and I'm sure most of us have some good Goldeneye stories to tell. I was in 7th grade or so when this came out, and my friends and I would have sleepovers and just play Goldeneye for hours. Fights would break out over the game, friendships nearly ended, and amazing bonding experiences were had. Goldeneye 007, I salute you and your fantastic multiplayer.
28. Super Castlevania IV (SNES)
Super Castlevania IV, was my first, and is also my favorite Castlevania game. I love the music and everything about it really, its just so much fun. AVGN agrees with me on this I think. I remember watching his video where he said he also liked it the best. Its a really good game. I play it now and then, since I have the VC version, and I think it holds up. Its got a nice classic feel which I enjoy from time to time.
27. Actraiser (SNES)
If you have not played Actraiser, check it out. Your some sort of hero. The gameplay is basic side scrolling, but the real meat lies in the "Angel Mode". Where you build a city, with roads and stuff. It can't compare to some more modern city builders like Sim City, or even The Sims, but for its time it was great, and it has a certain charm to it. Its fun to watch your world grow. Yeah you get to build up like 6 or 7 different towns. Some of which you gotta wash away things like desert, marsh or even snow
26. Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles (Gamecube)
I don't see a lot of talk about this game. I really enjoyed it. Insert the same friends from Goldeneye partys, add 6-7 years and some alcohol, and you get an even more fun time. Maybe this one is more personal to me, but those nights we just so fun, even if the fights came back and all that. It's cooler than everyone can play their own style, like magic or whatever. Call me crazy but I think this was a really fun game. Single player might be a little dry, but multiplayer, that's good times.
Yeah, my first game was Street Fighter 2 on the SNES. I always enjoyed it more than Mortal Kombat. Both are good, but I was always team Street Fighter. Tons of games later, adding things like ALPHA and SUPER and HYPER, etc etc etc. Its just a blast to play with people, and I even like the fighters better than the MK ones. Ken Masters is the man. I may not always play fighting games, but when I do I choose Street Fighter.
24. Conkers Bad Fur Day (N64)
Who doesnt love this game? Crazy people that's who. Its kiddie look, and adult humor is quite memorable. I still remember coming across this at like Hollywood video, back when people still rented games from the store. My cousin was browsing as well, while our grandparents looked for movies. I came across it, and talked my cousin into agreeing to choose this for "the game our grandparents are letting us pick out". We had such a blast back then on multiplayer Capture the flag mode. Such good times. Plus the single player mode was awesome, and who in their right mind does not love The Great Mighty Poo?
23. WWF No Mercy (N64)
WRASSLIN! WOOO. Yeah amongst wrestling fans, No Mercy tends to be the holy grail of wrestling games. For a good reason, it did gameplay well, and it had a great story mode that changed and stuff. Todays SVR games just don't have the feel I got from No Mercy. I suppose if your not a fan of wrestling, you may not like it. But I am a diehard, and despite the fact I buy SVR games veery eyar (and will get WWE 12 no doubt). No Mercy still reigns as the Undisputed Champion of wrestling games.
22. Portal 1 & 2 (Various Platforms)
Portal 1 and 2, I think might be my favorite puzzle game ever. Really unique gameplay, awesome character in Glados. Plus Those ending songs are fantastic. I already wonder what the Portal 3 song will be. "Back Again"? "Oh, You Again?" "Seriously Chell **** off?". Is there even going to be a Portal 3? I wish I could put it higher, but it does lack some replay value after a going through it a few times. Still awesome though
21. Pokemon (Series) (Various Handhelds)
Pokemon will probably be around forever. I think a lot of people just love the idea of a world of monsters you can capture and have battles with. Battle the PC, your friends, go online. Pokemania has been pretty strong for a while. I think it does the battling better than Digimon or Monster Rancher too. For whatever reason you just get attatched to those little Pokemans. I thik a problem is they keep adding more and its starting to become too much. However, that doesn't take away the fun you can get out of a pokemon game, whichever your favorite might be. I like them all, but I think B&W is clearly the best game, but the original 150 will always be the best Pokemons, truth.
In RTS land, Starcraft is arguably top dog. I say arguably because I have a different RTS listed higher. But everyone loves Starcraft. Its basically a sport in Korea. Anyway even if Starcraft is not your favorite RTS, if your an RTS fan at all, you enjoy it. I would hope so anyway. Online mode is a blast, and I dont have a PC able to run Starcraft 2, but I really do wanna give it a shot. I have such fond memories of Starcraft. Classics man.
19. Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (SNES)
Oh hai baubeta. I know you have DKC3 on the list, but I'm in that group that supports DKC2. The other 2 are great. But DKC2 is the one I have memories of. Just plowing through stages with my cousin. I thought the game was soooooo cool. I was let down by DKC3 a bit. I still play DKC3 sometimes. I have the VC version, and it still holds up, when your looking for a game to just relax and enjoy.
18. The Sims (Series) (PC)
Good god, The Sims, I love them all. I can't explain it. 1 2 and 3. I dont care for the Spinoffs on consoles, but I just love caring for my family...or making their lives hell. The Sims is one of those games I can get stuck on fr HOURS. Earlier this year I played Sims 3 for like 7 hours straight, then my eyes hurt and It seemed like the Sims 3 was imprinted on my eyes..cause I could still like..see it. However, after a month or two of Sims playing, it grows tired......till you come back a few months later because of a new expansion and get stuck all over again. Also I love designing my house with custom content.
17. Balders Gate 2 (PC)
What a great RPG. Good customazation, good characters. All around good fun. I just love this game. Its been a while....I should try it again. I always found it challanging too, but not SO SO hard. Its like a good challange. Good athomsphere, music, story and doesnt everyone love Minsc?
16. Fable (X-Box)
I like the Fable games. I really do. Two was a dissapointment, and I've been playing 3. I personal;ly think 1 >>>>>>>> 3 > 2, but I didn't hate 2 as much as some. I feel they try to hard to add new things to the newer ones, and Fable did not really need it. They should be adding more hairstyles, tatoos and stuff to customize your character, but 2 and 3 seem to have less customazation. I also REALLY REALLY miss the boasting platform. I loved boasting that "I SHALL SLAY THE WHITE BALVERINE IN THE NUDE USING ONLY MY HANDS"! in the first one. Fable 4 they need to go back and look at their roots in Fable 1
Kingdom Hearts was a great game. It had a charm about it, and mixing Final Fantasy and Disney was pretty cool. KH2 was somewhat of a letdown, as we all know. I'm not sure of anything on KH3, and I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist. Kingdom Hearts 1 however was fantastic. It didn't have stupid singing, and I personally loved the extra fights in Herc's Battle dome or whatever. Also this game doesnt have GET UP ON THE HYDRAS BACK!!!!. You go Kingdom Hearts, you awesome game you.
14. Age Of Empires 2 (PC)
Best RTS ever. I think so anyways. I like just deciding my race, and having all our wars, and building epic wall's around my base and stuff. The solo player was great too, and LOL YOU WERE LEARNING. But being able to play as Joan of Arc, Atilla The Hun or even Ghengis Khan was cool. I still play this from time to time. Gotta love the Japanese.
13. Legend of Zelda: Majoras Mask (N64)
Zelda debuts on the list, there are 3 Zelda games, and Majoras Mask is one of them. The whole feel and theme was different. I dug the time aspect of it all. This was also the first game I ever worked to 100%. I wanted that Feirce Deity mask, and worked and worked to get that bastard, then Oni Link kicked Majora's ass. It was all too easy as Oni Link, but oh so satisfying.
12. Resident Evil 2(PS1)
ZOMBIES!! Yeah this will be the only Resident Evil on the list. Before it became all FPSish we had what I felt was much better gameplay/ Call me old fashioned, but I'll take the RE1 and RE2 gameplay style over the RE4 and RE5 anyday. Resident Evil is a classic, but RE2 improved on it sooooo much. Plus all the extra goodies for doing special stuff was a great touch. If theres anything I want from a Resident Evil 6, I wanna see it go back to its roots, and look at RE2. (RE1 as well, but RE2 is vastly superior).
11. Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney (series) (DS)
HOLD IT!!!!! You say you haven't played Phoenix Wright? Well you should. The story is really quite good, I was surprised by that, the whole stuff with Iris and what not are some of my favorite moments in the game. Plus all the great and colorful people we net along the way. Phoenix Wright also gave us one of the best characters to enter the gaming universe, and thats GUMSHOE, PAL. I DARE you to play Phoenix Wright and not love Dick Gumshoe. The game is really quite challenging at times as well, and frustrated me a good deal. I'm also one of the few who didn't mind Apollo Justice or Miles Edgeworth. Not as good as the PW games, but still top notch stuff, despite Apollo Justice kinda ruining some of what made Phoenix Wright so great.
What a game man. What a game. Just hearing that "ITSA ME, MARIO" for the first time ever, was awesome. Being able to explore the castle? awesome, finding hidden secrets, like the one on the sun platform? AWESOME. Then you add ll the "Find Luigi" rumors and you have a great game. Not to mention how cool it was to see Mario in 3D. Mario 64 is a game that will live on forever as a piece in gaming history. Plus who didn't love screwing up and warping Marios face?. I did, I always wanted whatever you warped up to be his face WHILE YOU PLAYED.
9. Legend of Zelda OOT (N64)
If Mario can do it, so could Link, and Link did it better. Better world, the dugneons (or paintings in Marios case I guess) were more fun. I liked the side stuff. You got cool songs on your Ocarina, you got Epona, you got Link being the mack daddy of Hyrule. This game was great, maybe I liked it more because I'm more into Zelda than Mario, but whatever. OOT is a great game, and you all know it.
8. Super Mario World (SNES)
I'm with baubeta on this one. Super Mario World is way better than Mario 3 (which is also a good game). But I love love love SMW. I agree with baubeta, everything just felt so crisp and nice. I loved the levels, I still play it today. The castles are fun, I dig the ghost houses. Forest of Illusion rocks my socks. I think Super Mario World just might be the game I've beaten the most times, I never keep track of that sort of thing, but I know I've beaten this game at least 100 times in my life (and that's without Star Road). Oh did I mention the Special land and how Tubular is still ****ing annoying to this day? **** you Tubular.
7. Breath of Fire 3 (PS1)
My stepbrother pickesd this game up, randomly I think out of a bin. He wanted an RPG, and came across this. It was cheap, so he bought it. We fell in love, our friends fell in love, we ALL played this game. We ALL beat this game. Rei was an awesome character and sticks with me as one of my favorites I've seen. DAT WERETIGER. Finding all the crystals was fun to get the awesome KAISER dragon. For those of you who know my wrestling character "Keevee Kaiser". I did in fact get "Kaiser" from this game. That's what I mean to reference, not the hospital, and not the germans. BREATH OF FIRE THREE AND THE KAISER DRAGON. Also Behemoth is awesome too, and I still gotta use Peco sometime. I never use that cute little fella.
6. Persona 4 (PS2)
I forgot who got me into this game, I feel like it was Tombo, cause I know I talked to him a lot during my first playthrough, keeping him updated on my status and stuff via AIM. Yes Tom Bombadil got a private "Coffee Ninja Plays Persona 4" in a way. Great game, I got the really sad ending involving Nanako my first time and it depressed me a good deal. But man this game has replay value, cool characters. Rise is amazing in my opinion. few games top this for me, and I'm pretty sure Tom was the one, so thank you for that Tom. If it was someone else, then I thank you for introducing me to awesomeness in PS2 form.
Personally I think I enjoy Fable 3 more than 1, but I just could never get into Fable 1 as much. And that opening section is so annoying that I doubt I will ever try again.
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Disgaea is a great game. Another one with lovable characters. I liked 2 as well, but not as much as 1. I don't own a PS3 needed to play 3 or 4 sadly. Maybe someday. But Disgaea is my favorite tactics RPG. The colors, the humor, it's all right down my alley. One of the few games I find grinding to be fun. I wish I could find my PS2 cables, cause Disgaea sounds fun right about now. I have the DS version, but it doesn't compare at all really, the loss of the VA takes away from the charm.
4. Elder Scrolls: Oblivion (Various Platforms)
I love Elder Scrolls games, I really do. The openess, the customazation. Everything. Each time I play the game, I feel like I find something new, or learn something new. It's never ending really. I am hyped for Skyrim beyond belief. Oblivion, while having some flaws is still a GREAT game. Elder Scrolls really is the best series out there, and my personal favorite series....hmmmmm?