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General Discussion => Technology and Development => Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: AngelFish on March 20, 2011, 12:30:02 am
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A list of the best games of all time, starting from the best.
- Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: Simply the best game ever made. It has the story, reasonable graphics, almost limitless re-playability, and a short guy with a fairy.
- Doom: If you don't recognize the name, then you can't be helped.
- Super Mario World: Come on, any game that has plumbers who eat mushrooms and fight deadly turtles with flaming flowers and hallucinogenic stars is awesome.
- Tetris: It's been ported to more platforms than any other game in history. It's also the game with the longest prison sentence for playing, after Faiz Chopdat was jailed for 4 months as a result of playing the game on a plane.
- Ms. Pac-man: This game managed to pretty much launch the gaming industry. I couldn't even talk about the Halo without mentioning Ms. Pac-man twice!
- Pokemon Red & Blue: 256 Pokemon, two rival trainers, one epic quest. Gotta catch 'em all!
- Resident Evil Franchise: While Resident Evil 4 is probably the best, all of them are good enough that you can play them for hours non-stop. I did that once with a friend at his birthday party. The fact that I even remember the game when I consistently forget the date of my own birthday should tell you something.
- The Game. Look up at the URL. Now look back at this text. Don't tell me you didn't expect it.
- Final Fantasy: No one can agree on which one is their favorite, so they're all up here.
- Minecraft: It's such a unique variation on the sandbox genre that I think we'll be seeing many more games like it in the future. Who knew graphics even more pixelated than Ms. Pac-man could be so fun?
- Tony Hawk: Not my favorite, but everyone else seemed to love it when it came out.
- The Halo Franchise: This is one of the most talked about franchises in history (After Mario, Zelda, Pac-man, Tetris, ...,etc), so that's pretty much why it's up here. The graphics and gameplay are decent compared to Pac-man, but they haven't managed to port it to the important platforms like calculators yet.
- Goldeneye 007: Personally, I never liked this game much because of the odd controls, but a lot of other people apparently do.
- Need For Speed Franchise: While these may not have been the first racing games or the best, they're still the games everyone thinks of with regards to racing. Just look at the fact that there were several movies made under the title.
- Mortal Kombat: You can still buy the arcade versions of this...
- World of Warcraft: Yeah, I don't like it either, but any game that can inspire half of the reactions from being guild kicked on Youtube is pretty influential.
- Soul Caliber: Never played it, but it's supposedly pretty good.
- Dragon Warrior franchise: It has "Dragon" in the name.
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Some of my other favorites are the Rage Racer/Ridge Racer series (especially the 7th on the ps3, four years and still fun to play) and Ratchet and Clank series.
I kind of like Ratchet and Clank better tho...it's not every day you can run around smashing things up with a 3-foot long wrench ;D
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Trackmania
Super Meat Boy
I Wanna Be the Guy
The Orange Box (Half life 2, Portal, etc.)
Half life 1
Halo 3 and Reach
Doom/Quake
Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2 (Really amazing quality given the cruddy graphics the Wii has)
I think FF has been going downhill ever since 7/8, but that's IMHO
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- Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: Simply the best game ever made. It has the story, reasonable graphics, almost limitless re-playability, and a short guy with a fairy.
I come from an obscure corner of the internet where everyone agrees that Majora's Mask is better. :)
But of course, OoT is pretty awesome too.
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what, no cave story?!!!
no blaster master?!!!
no mike tyson's punch out?!!!
make sure to include the original super smash bros as well.
also, i only seem to recall there being 151 pokemans in red and blue (unless you're counting the empty spaces in the pokemon data).
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151 Pokemon...
>.>
<.<
I knew that...
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You left out Chrono Trigger. :'(
Chrono Trigger is probably the best RPG I've ever played. The graphics and music are beautiful, especially considering it was a SNES game, it had a gripping story and fantastic characters.
Final Fantasy: No one can agree on which one is their favorite, so they're all up here.
FF6 is the best. Anyone I've convinced to play it has agreed.
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I say the best zelda game was perhaps actually Zelda III: a link to the past. Most zelda games were actually influenced by that one, (and so is TaNF, because I liked ALTTP so much)
Pokemon Red & Blue: 151 non-glitch Pokemon, two rival trainers, one epic quest. Gotta catch 'em all!
I say all final fantasy titles with a number at or below VI were classics.
Tony hawk underground was my favorite tony hawk game ever. Very addicting on gamecube where you could build your own large skateparks :)
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Why isn't Starcraft in the list? ??? It was one of the most successful game of all time and considered as the best strategy game ever, so much that even after 13 years, there are still 20000-30000 people connected on Battle.net at once and a thousand on iCCup, and the game received patches until 2009.
Also for FF, my favorite is the 6th one also, but some ppl IRL prefered the 4th one because 6 was too easy and some other people prefered the 7th one due to the materia system and many side quests compared to previous ones.
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the mario RPGs for the DS(Partners in Time and Bowser's inside story)
they have a semi-linear plot(in both, you can go back to areas in which you were before with new abilities to unlock stuff), some bonus stuff, and an interesting plot. This is what I'd reccomend to anyone with a DS
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Oh wow I always forget to try that last one. It seemed awesome. I don't think Partners in time is sold over here, though, unless it just came out recently. The only Mario RPG I tried was the Super Nintendo one and it was pretty great.
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You forgot Solitaire. I've been playing Solitaire for over 10 years. One of the best games of all time!
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Pokemon Gold and Silver, with ~250 pokemon, are widely regarded as the best pokemon games to date (although I can't speak for Black and White yet)
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Pokemon Gold and Silver, with ~250 pokemon, are widely regarded as the best pokemon games to date (although I can't speak for Black and White yet)
I agree with that -- they're so damn long and hard! ..which means to me they're fun ;)
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Pokemon Gold and Silver, with ~250 pokemon, are widely regarded as the best pokemon games to date (although I can't speak for Black and White yet)
Why does no one ever mention Crystal? In my opinion, Crystal was the best of the three, and still is the best Pokemon game in my opinion. (Though White comes really close.)
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is white really that good? I would buy it, but I can't stand the thought of having more than ~380 Pokemon (because I was more introduced to pokemon games around the time ruby/sapphire came out)
I barely was able to stand it in diamond/pearl, but I got it for free so I just played it anyways :P
How many are in white/black?
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Total, there are around 649. 156 or so new ones.
In a nice twist, you can only natively find the new Pokemon in Unova until you obtain the National Pokedex. In addition, the music is great, the areas are robust, and the story is much more interesting than that of Diamond and Pearl. Also, the battle system has been slightly changed. It still plays out the same way as before, but it just seems smoother. The Pokemon are constantly animated and the camera pans around when you're not doing anything. Also, at certain points in battle, the music changes. When a Gym Leader sends out their last Pokemon, the music shifts to a different track. When your Pokemon's HP hits red, instead of beeping, the tempo of the music kicks up a notch. All in all, I was very pleasantly surprised with the quality of the games.
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I would just include Pokémon Blue and Red, since they started it all over here.
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Pokemon Sapphire/Ruby was where I started as well. But anyone ever heard of Pokemon Colosseum and it's sequel XD: Gale of Darkness for Gamecube? Very, very good. About black and white, I recently sold my DS, and I'm not buying a new one just for 2 games. Maybe the 3DS, but we'll see. I'm also waiting in joyful hope for the coming of our savior: the Ubercalc.
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black and white suck. IMHO
My biggest problem is that it takes >5 sec to walk into a Pokemon center and other buildings.
The animation is so long....
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Were Colloseum and Gale of Darkness just arena-based RPGs? Or where they full RPGs like the GB series where you could explore maps? I didn't like Pokémon Stadium because you just fought Pokémons and trained, with no dungeon exploration.
PersonallY I never got much into Pokémon, though, because of the whole "must shell away money for 2 games for full features" mentality Nintendo had back then. This is the same reason why I never got into Zelda: Oracle of Ages/Seasons. To me it seemed like they tried to make money by making ppl buy an extra game just to get full features on another. Then later they released merged versions of both Pokémon games, such as Yellow, so ppl who bought both Blue and Red just to get all 150 Pokémons only to see Yellow come out afterward must have been pissed. (although I heard in Yellow and other merged Pokémon games it takes much longer to level up)
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black and white suck. IMHO
My biggest problem is that it takes >5 sec to walk into a Pokemon center and other buildings.
The animation is so long....
And if you press the button to skip the text too many times, then you end up talking to the nurse AGAIN...
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I started with Pokémon Yellow, and I pretty much stopped there as well...
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I went from Red to Yellow to Gold to nothing after about 10 minutes with Gold.
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Were Colloseum and Gale of Darkness just arena-based RPGs? Or where they full RPGs like the GB series where you could explore maps? I didn't like Pokémon Stadium because you just fought Pokémons and trained, with no dungeon exploration.
It's both overworld and battle, but the Pokémon catching mechanics are a bit different. There are no wild Pokémon, and certain Trainer Pokémon can be captured using the Snag Machine.
PersonallY I never got much into Pokémon, though, because of the whole "must shell away money for 2 games for full features" mentality Nintendo had back then. This is the same reason why I never got into Zelda: Oracle of Ages/Seasons. To me it seemed like they tried to make money by making ppl buy an extra game just to get full features on another. Then later they released merged versions of both Pokémon games, such as Yellow, so ppl who bought both Blue and Red just to get all 150 Pokémons only to see Yellow come out afterward must have been pissed. (although I heard in Yellow and other merged Pokémon games it takes much longer to level up)
Yellow and the other "third games" don't have a different leveling curve, but they don't have every Pokémon from the first two versions either. Just like RB, Yellow is missing a few Pokémon that can only be obtained in the other games.
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I would include Metal Slug even though many of the ppl haven't played it yet.
It's an Shoot'em up acrade like contra, but better. (Choosing character, interesting storyline, comicness...)
Especially, Metal Slug 3, just because it's freaking long.
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You left out Chrono Trigger. :'(
Chrono Trigger is probably the best RPG I've ever played. The graphics and music are beautiful, especially considering it was a SNES game, it had a gripping story and fantastic characters.
hell yea, CT is one of the best.
I would also like to add Wipeout XL, a wonderful futuristic racing game
and the Metal Gear Solid series, "just a box" :P
EDIT: btw, the soundtrack to Wipeout XL is one of the best to ever be included in a video game. Featuring artists such as: The Chemical Brothers, Photek, The Prodigy, The Future Sound of London, Underworld, and Daft Punk!
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Were Colloseum and Gale of Darkness just arena-based RPGs? Or where they full RPGs like the GB series where you could explore maps? I didn't like Pokémon Stadium because you just fought Pokémons and trained, with no dungeon exploration.
It's both overworld and battle, but the Pokémon catching mechanics are a bit different. There are no wild Pokémon, and certain Trainer Pokémon can be captured using the Snag Machine.
PersonallY I never got much into Pokémon, though, because of the whole "must shell away money for 2 games for full features" mentality Nintendo had back then. This is the same reason why I never got into Zelda: Oracle of Ages/Seasons. To me it seemed like they tried to make money by making ppl buy an extra game just to get full features on another. Then later they released merged versions of both Pokémon games, such as Yellow, so ppl who bought both Blue and Red just to get all 150 Pokémons only to see Yellow come out afterward must have been pissed. (although I heard in Yellow and other merged Pokémon games it takes much longer to level up)
Yellow and the other "third games" don't have a different leveling curve, but they don't have every Pokémon from the first two versions either. Just like RB, Yellow is missing a few Pokémon that can only be obtained in the other games.
Actually, there where wild Pokemon in XD: Gale of Darkness, but only in 3 or so certain areas. And you had to leave bait to attract them.
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You left out Chrono Trigger. :'(
Chrono Trigger is probably the best RPG I've ever played. The graphics and music are beautiful, especially considering it was a SNES game, it had a gripping story and fantastic characters.
hell yea, CT is one of the best.
I would also like to add Wipeout XL, a wonderful futuristic racing game
and the Metal Gear Solid series, "just a box" :P
EDIT: btw, the soundtrack to Wipeout XL is one of the best to ever be included in a video game. Featuring artists such as: The Chemical Brothers, Photek, The Prodigy, The Future Sound of London, Underworld, and Daft Punk!
Did CoLD SToRAGE contribute to this soundtrack as well? I remember he contributed to Wipeout Pure and the original Wipeout soundtracks. He's the guy who founded MTV Music Generator series.
BTW MTVMG is another nice serie of games too. It's a dead genre, because now music games focuses on rhythm rather than creation. It isn't really a serie of game, but rather tools to create music. The first MTVMGs were way ahead of their time when they came out, because back then most people couldn't afford a computer to create.
The last MTVMG (that wasn't done by Jester Interactive) is terrible, though.