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A top games ever list I can almost agree with
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26-08-2009 10:48am#1Join Date:Posts: 51594
I usually hate top X games ever lists but this one I actually kind of agree with. It's from the second edition of gamespite quarterly, a magazine set up as a response to the dissolution of EGM with many of their old hands on board. There's minor things like the no Fallout, deus ex or system shock 2 and I personally hate FFXII but other than that it's a pretty damn good list.
http://www.gamespite.net/toastywiki/index.php/Site/Issue15TableOfContents
Funnily enough the only other top X game ever list I ever had respect for was EGMs.
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A top ten list without OOT, Mario 64 & Final Fantasy VII? About feckin time!
Here here! and Super Metroid in it's rightful place.
Actually no Final Fantasy VII but Suikoden 2, Persona 3, FFIX, FFTactics and FFVI (no panzer dragoon saga
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Also Majoras mask and link to the past above OoT
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Retr0gamer wrote: »(no panzer dragoon saga )
Also a complete omission of SNK releases. Sadly it seems to be the way with most of these western lists. Hopefully GMOTW being released on the xbox will see a change to that somewhat.
Would have thought Metal Slug would have at least made it though.but yeah -- the 16bit is strong with this one!
You mean 8-bit/16-bit Nintendo is strong with this one! Almost takes every one of the top ten slots.
I'd try to argue against it but I can't. They really are all fantastic games.0 -
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Well the list was produced by a bunch of americans. EGM staff famously have an unhealthy obsession with all things nintendo and street fighter since it's what they grew up with. Still at least even though a lot of it is populist stuff it's populist stuff that well deserves it's place in the list.
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From what I have read, Americans are actually very familar with NeoGeo titles from the arcades. More so than folk over this direction. The big red cabinets were all over the place. Sure Michael Jackson even had one in his games room.
Don't underestimate how much these guys love Street Fighter
I'm going to give those editorials a read. Everything in those mags will eventually appear on hte site, they are releasing it as a print mag for collectors. Jeremy Parish on retronauts is great so I know I'm going to like the stuff on this site.
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Actually it's FF9 which is a fantastic game and gets a lot undeserving flak from people who were expecting another emo fest.
FF11 would never get on a list like that, it's a dreadful MMO.
FF12 I can agree with you on. I bored the arse off me. I only finished it because of the name attached.
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Halo=God
Fact is, even with the occasional repitition of scenery, mainly in interior settings, the game still captures something, cinematic, and drops you into a warzone the likes of which was never really done before.
I love it, most people love it, not so many don't tbh.
The weapons are well balanced, the solution to driving a vehicle in a console FPS without breaking from the controls of an FPS is inspired, the enemy behaviour is convincing, all in all a wonderful game.
And one that absolutely deserves an entry into any top games list out there.
You can keep Modern Warfare 2, I'll take Halo 3 ODST thank you very much.
Plus, I'm playing the non retro Wolfenstein on the PS3 right now and it's everything the original was, great fun, solid weapons and lots of Nazis having facial itches scratched with machine guns!
Nurse! We need 50ml of good taste stat!
(I refuse to turn this into a halo rant because my own rants are even beginning to bore myself)
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Damn, all of Retro's current easy psychological triggers are no longer effective, must do more research and find more trigger words, hmm, will have to try a couple out...
I'm actually in fear of getting a well deserved temporary ban for going totally off topic again with another Halo rant.Final Fantasy Sucks
Meh some are good. It's no Megaten though.Disgea stinks
I tried the Nippon Ichi games and for some reason they never appealed me.Persona 3 is for girls
Oh no, you didn't just go there!A love of 2D graphics is natures way of telling you to get those cataracts seen to.
How dare you!A love of turn based games is natures way of telling you to play chess instead.
You mother ****er!Now, we wait and see what happens......
Retr0 smash!!!!!!!
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LoGiE - Can we please have an addition to the charter stating that anyone who mentions Halo will be stoned to death?
Think of it as the new Jehovah.
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“All I said was, that piece of halibut was good enough for ..'
I like it... but seriously lets not go down the Halo route again!
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Super Mario World is probably the single best game I have ever played, the love that went into the game is obvious in every sprite design, every level, the way the game gives and gives to the player, when lesser titles would have ended days before.
Genius, and that generosity of spirit on the developers part is unlikely to be seen again
But at least we have it's contemporaries like Zelda A Link to the Past and Super Metroid, plenty to keep us occupied.
And three games that, no matter what Nintendo formats are to come, I will buy them, again...0 -
Super Mario World is probably the single best game I have ever played, the love that went into the game is obvious in every sprite design, every level, the way the game gives and gives to the player, when lesser titles would have ended days before.
Genius, and that generosity of spirit on the developers part is unlikely to be seen again
But at least we have it's contemporaries like Zelda A Link to the Past and Super Metroid, plenty to keep us occupied.
And three games that, no matter what Nintendo formats are to come, I will buy them, again...
Miyamoto said his was not happy with Mario World, he said it could of been better if it was not for the time constraints.0 -
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Yep it was rushed, think they got the game out in 9 months. It's obvious it was made on a development system when the fina SNES specs weren't set in stone because the game only uses about half the power of the snes. I know this because on my P100 it was the only SNES game along with UN squadron that ran on my system at full speed
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UN Squadron on the arcade is only ok. You should try the SNES version, it's way better and improved in loads of areas. Those idiots at screwattack have it as their no. 1 best shoot'em up ever but they are way off the mark. It's still rather good it very difficult and the boss in the caves is very unfair if you aren't expecting it.
I really like the un squadron sequel Carrier Airwing in the arcades. It's another excellent game and not too difficult, I 1 credited it with not much practice at all.
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