Board 8 > Herein lies a list of 20 video games that may or may not be the best ever! Pt. 2

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I didn't think the battles were too slow on the 3ds.

for me it's like..

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oh, and I played an hour and some of the 3DS version of 11. it made me want the ps4 version because I thought the 2d/3d gimmick doesn't work and I don't have a strong affinity to DQ to be 2d. when that comes I'll get it on ps4 for sure -- or switch if that is day 1 and isn't compromised.
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I think DQ3 was fine but I played it so so long ago and my preferences have certainly changed.

I do know that I've tried to play DQ5 at least twice and could never get past the first few hours. Gameplay is just too slow and boring.
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I got busy and stopped following this on page 1 of the last topic. Is it archived anywhere?
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gmun-chama posted...

9 is a fantastic game

Yep, I love me some DQ9.
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9 does what I like about Dragon Quest games worse than other Dragon Quest games, or just straight up takes specific story elements from other DQ games, and I think the game is weaker for it. but I still like it quite a bit. it's the quintessential casual mobile game. it doesn't require much out of you. it was something I'd pluck away at for months at a time, doing co-op and exploring new dungeons, all in familiar DQ trappings.

still, it's pretty low on my own personal list.

5 > 4 > 7 > 8 > 3 > 6 > 9 > 2 > 1
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mobile game is a really good way to put 9. it feels like a best of compilation without any real meat to it, sacrificing a wholesome dq experience for spotpass content that just doesn't play here.
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I need to replay DQ8 one of these days because I owe it to LotM still.
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I've gotta catch up on my comments!

Mega Man 2 is a top ten game on my list, good choice. I don't feel I need to add anything regarding this game.

Earthbound is pretty good, but Mother 3 is better! Mother 3 would be a top ten game on my list. Sorry, Earthbound

Zelda: LTTP is also good! Would you believe that I also call this a top ten game? Also, uh, you and Kleenex did dungeon speedruns and I missed out on this whole time period? Dang, I would've had a blast getting in on this!

I played Dragon Quest V for the first time a couple years ago, and I do believe it was my favorite in the series. I don't remember too many specifics about best parts or anything, but it hit the good points for me. (not something I'd put in top ten though, sorry)
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7 > DQMJ > 8 > 9 > 4
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oh, uh, also

5 > 8 > 3> 1 > 2 > 9

9 just felt like generic city and I never felt any strong feeling after doing anything or towards anything I was going to do
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KingButz posted...

I do know that I've tried to play DQ5 at least twice and could never get past the first few hours. Gameplay is just too slow and boring.

It's literally the same gameplay as every other DQ game. Save a few minor improvements over its predecessors.
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I really liked DQ9, but it was my first and the only one I've played all the way through and beaten. I also played a good chunk of it multiplayer which is always a huge plus for me. I've played about 10 hours of DQ8 and that's it. But I own DQIV and VI on DS and they're still in plastic <_< Btw, is DQV for DS expensive/hard to find now?

Oh, I also have that weird Rocket Slime game but I've never played it either. Oh and another I forgot about is Dragon Quest Heroes and I really liked that one. I beat it actually.
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The dungeon speed run thing is a little embellished! We really only did Eastern Palace and Desert Palace and this was like one weekend 10 years ago.

We did get Eastern Palace pretty much down to actual speedrun status though.
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Every Metroid game I've ever played, I've thoroughly enjoyed and I've never finished a single one. I have this curse where I cannot exceed 65% completion in a Metroid game. I've played the original, Super Metroid, Metroid Prime, and Metroid Prime: Hunters, and I've quit out at roughly 65% through all of them.

Like the idea, but they lose me on implementation.

this is why you never go for 100%

are you one of those completionists?
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I quit literally right before the Ridley fight in Metroid Prime.
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transience posted...

this is why you never go for 100%

are you one of those completionists?

No..I mean like 65% through the main objectives. I've never beaten any of them.

I guess it's a good thing we never really tried that hard to get Robo into a Character Battle huh

losing to Lucca yikes
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Frog is the Yoshi of CT and we all knew this
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redrocket_pub posted...

KingButz posted...

I do know that I've tried to play DQ5 at least twice and could never get past the first few hours. Gameplay is just too slow and boring.

It's literally the same gameplay as every other DQ game. Save a few minor improvements over its predecessors.

Yeah, that's the reason that I haven't seriously played one since 3
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VIII > III > VII => V > IV => VI >>> who cares > I & II

Aside from GBC I - III, I've only played these on the consoles they were originally released for.

III being as high as it is might be nostalgia. It's a fine game to be sure with a neat world map and exploration but messing with that game's class system a lot doesn't strike me as fun at this point and there's not much story. I might just have overplayed it though; I got all the way to Divinegon on a Single Character Challenge.
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2 | Super Mario 64 (N64)

Now were playing with power!

When I think about the major video game landmarks in my life, theyre almost always marked by a significant Mario release. Super Mario Bros. was my first game, Mario World blew me away as the pinnacle of 2D games, and then there was Mario 64. The game that changed the game; the blueprint for the third-dimension, a true revolution.

Mario 64 was the moment that Mario games stopped being pure platformers, and started adventuring into the brave new world of, well, adventure. Part of what makes Mario 64 so great is how you arent just running right to left, jumping on goombas, but are exploring and solving puzzles based around Marios abilities. There are many stars in this world, but where are they? How are you going to use your abilities to reach them? How are you going to deal with familiar foes in a third dimension?

If Im honest, this was about the last point where I felt like gaming had truly gone into uncharted territory, into a place where the rules as I knew them were twisted and backward and wrong and foreign. It was exciting and fresh and new and it was MARIO! Its such a distinct memory in my mind of playing Mario 64 for the first time, running through these levels in 1996, no more than a year after freakin Donkey Kong Country released. What a change.

But you know what? Mario 64 is about as much fun today as it was back then. It may be more rudimentary, more simple and less shocking, but the joy of run, jump and play is still as present here as it has always been. Mario games have a unique quality to them, a certain special sauce that no other series has, in that you never really feel that youre playing a game that is a product of its time, you know? They feel ageless. There may be remnants of visual degradation, but you can pick them up now and they still hold so true to how they alway did.

(OK, maybe the C-button camera control is about as aged as it gets, but you know, you cant win em all!)

Its such a refreshing experience even by Mario standards! Dire Dire Docks is a sound, a mood, a feeling, that will never leave my person. Or the first time the Wing Cap became unlocked, and it was like I was using the Mario cape for real! The idea that I could grab Bowser by his tail and launch him into a bob-omb? Thats still one of the strangely satisfying things to do. I kind of wish I could do it to him in a modern Mario. The again, it could be viewed as a precursor to Mario Partys spin the control stick mini games are some kind of dark arts.

Mario 64, to me, has become a sort of influencer into my own quirks and preferences with video games. I demand a certain level of control, precision and feeling in my games that if Im not met with, can led to some mild frustration. How my games control today stems from how effortless and natural it was to control Mario in a 3D space. Its why Mario Odyssey is such a big deal to me, a sort of reunion and expansion of perfect 3D controls.

I guess it could also be that its fun.

Except Penguin Racing. Or maybe because of penguin racing. Do you know how many times I raced that penguin?

heroicmario posted...

Mario 64 was the moment that Mario games stopped being pure platformers

unfortunately

Mario 64 probably isn't even a top 5 mainline Mario game for me
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too low
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Well, it was a short lived time before Mario started inching back toward the more platform-based style, before embracing a 2D/3D compromise with Mario 3D Land and World!

Mario goes so deep that even being out of the top 5 could still be a compliment!

I mean Mario 64 is still a fine game

but the Galaxy games are more my style when it comes to 3-D Mario
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prediction update

1 | New Super Mario Bros U
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I love the Galaxies as well. I used to be a stickler for the first over the second, but Galaxy 2 is a creative masterwork of genius that were often not privy to know. Koizumis rise to being the face of modern Nintendo and Mario games is well deserved.

iiicon posted...

prediction update

1 | New Super Mario Bros U

Secretly a good game. Could it be!

Both Galaxy games are top 5-10 caliber games for me, but I lean Galaxy 2 over the original because that is such a well designed game. It sacrifices some of the magic of the first one in terms of setting and atmosphere, but it's just so much fun to play.
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(I like NSMBU more than SM64)
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I remember when the N64 launched and my best friend got it that Christmas. It's hard to describe how much the transition to 3D absolutely blew us away. There is no modern comparison to that first 64-bit gaming experience.

That gaming experience in 1996 obviously refers to Wave Race 64.
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Hey HM, do you like the Mass Effect series? I feel like it would be right up your alley...
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I like most games more than Mario 64
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

Hey HM, do you like the Mass Effect series? I feel like it would be right up your alley...

heck they even ported Mass Effect 3 to the Wii U so there's a chance it could be #1...!
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Yeah, Galaxy 2 doesnt have the same presentation, the first feeling of jumping between two planetoids and experiencing those gravity mechanics, or the mildly touching story about Rosalina, but the level design is out of control. Its such a strong representation of Mario. It would be on this list if I wasnt concerned about Mario games overrunning, haha.

iiicon posted...

(I like NSMBU more than SM64)

My friend, let me change your mind with something I was made aware of long ago, and can now never take back. This is the price of knowledge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A" data-time="

Take it inas much as you can. To understand this video is to know the world as we know it is nothing but numbers and formulas.

(Except peanut butter and mayo. That defies all mathematical equation.)

Nelson_Mandela posted...

Hey HM, do you like the Mass Effect series? I feel like it would be right up your alley...

Hmm. Im conflicted about Mass Effect a bit. I thought ME1 was great, more ambitious than a perfect execution, but it never lived up to what it tried to do after that. ME2 was way better gameplay-wise, but lost some of the charm and intrigue of the first. ME3 was kind of bad from beginning to end. It was a slow unraveling of a good series, but ME1/2 are good, or at least they were when I played them. I dont know how Id feel on a replay.

Oh, yeahME4 exists, doesnt it? I never played that one, but I seem to remember everyone saying it was bad.

Mass Effect 3 top ten game

Andromeda is basically Mass Effect 1 all over again, so you might enjoy it despite its issues.
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What?! Really?

Was it seeing through all the plot threads that you liked? I feel like ME3 being a top 10 game is kind of crazy, haha! I could understand ME2.

I think what happened with the Reapers really soured my whole experience. It felt like everything got smaller and smaller the more they tried to explain the shadow behind the curtain.

I think switching consoles at the end could have possibly impacted my experience at the end as well.

Also, Wave Race 64 is a good little memory! Those water graphics, baby.

transience posted...

I like most games more than Mario 64

Yeah, I knew you werent a big fan, haha. I dont think you like any 3D Marios, yeah?

I thought ME3's scale and atmosphere were pretty much perfect. Every main mission feels like it has weight and it really matters. The ending and the truth behind the Reapers is whatever. It's been discussed to death and I don't really care about it anymore at this point.
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I like Odyssey.

man, I never made it pass the A press explanation but the rest of that video is like 10 times more insane. I hate this guy so fucking much.
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Im not sure there was ever going to be a satisfactory conclusion to the Reapers, in terms of what they were, which is why I wish they would have stayed an ominous, looming countdown timer instead of a thing you interacted with in any real sense. But yeah, that whole thing has been beaten into the dirt worse than a FF ranking topic, haha.

I was never that big on Mario 64. I played Banjo-Kazooie first, so going to Mario 64 a year or two after that felt kind of weird. Banjo-Kazooie is thus the one that has a place in my heart because of how it exposed me to the third dimension, much like many of you hold Mario 64 with such esteem.

Also, since you have Mario 64 this high... I must again recommend A Hat in Time, because that game is heavily rooted in Mario 64 and Sunshine, Banjo, Psychonauts, etc. It's a love letter to all of those late 90s/early 00s platformers you seem to like.
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comparing A Hat in Time to Mario Sunshine and Banjo-Kazooie definitely does not make me want to try that game
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transience posted...

I like Odyssey.

man, I never made it pass the A press explanation but the rest of that video is like 10 times more insane. I hate this guy so fucking much.

The Float Short decimals are stupid and dumb and I feel exactly how you feel, haha. Between this and LTTP randomizer races, I am at a loss with video games.

do a search for Mario World on YouTube and you'll learn some frightening things. lttp has nothing on Mario.
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The Half-A Press video is a work of art
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Mario 64, like many N64 games, has not aged well.
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