10-16-2015, 02:50 PM
Warcraft 3. I love this game's story, I love its units, I love its graphics, I love its online play and I love all the custom maps that spawned out of it. It's easily my favourite PC game of all time.
The Legend of Zelda series. I love this entire series but there are a few standouts. Skyward Sword, Link's Awakening, Ocarina of Time, Spirit Tracks, Minish Cap, Oracles.
Metroid fusion, other M, and the prime series, 3-1-2. In order of favouritism. Fusion got me into the series. Its sparing use of dialogue in concert with a pervasive sense of tension and dread made me instantly hungry for more. I don't care what anyone says about other M; it's a fantastic game, with my favourite combat of the entire Metroid series. I'm extremely disappointed that it was taken so badly and I would love a sequel. It's combat is followed closely by Metroid prime three, which introduces the hyper mode mechanic, a risk-reward mechanic that feels epic. Due to the Wii controls it has the most feel of being in Samus's suit. Flicking the nun chuck to fire the grapple beam felt so good! When I was about to die in combat, I was jumping around in my seat like I was there. I still think the feeling of being on a vast, empty, abandoned world is best handled by the first prime, whose musical direction is genius, but they are all fantastic games that do their own thing and don't try to imitate each other.
Paper Mario and its sequel. I've played the N64 game so many times and I love it each and every time. Actually, I try to take inspiration from a lot of it in terms of the gameplay elements, like how major upgrades feel rather than tiny upgrades you don't feel. It feels chunky, good. In the in between platforming and puzzle elements are simply fun. It's simple and I don't know why they changed the formula so much after the second game. It's a shame because it feels like they got it right the first time.
Left 4 Dead 1/2. I played this hard-core want first came out, and I should specify that I play the versus mode almost exclusively. It was my answer to Warcraft 3 custom maps after its multiplayer scene and all those brilliantly asymmetric games died out. This something so fun about coordinating a good attack, or becoming the tank, those dramatic moments are executed so well and with enough variation from game to game that it doesn't get boring.
XCOM. This game has so many flaws but there's a reason I've sunk so many hours into it.
Viewtiful Joe. My favourite platinum game. I spent a looong time on it.
Hyrule Warriors. Something about getting to finally play Zelda and Ganondorf, and killing thousands of enemies, is so addictive. It's the level up parts.
Warframe. I love superhero games with a lot of parkour and movement, and this combines the genre with weapon upgrades and collecting and all kinds of crazy space powers. It then combines it with online play that is pretty much perfect. You don't have to wait to get into games, finding groups is almost instantaneous a lot of the time. The missions are short enough that if you've only got literally five minutes to play a game, you can fit one in before work. There's a reason it's become my most played game in 2015.
Smash Bros. It's my favourite fighting game. It's the only fighting game I love. I love it.
Monster Hunter three ultimate. A game which is entirely extended boss battles where the monsters have behaviour and which you have to chase across the map? It's like Shadow of the Colossus in some ways but focusing the gameplay into repeatable, farmable goodness with a greater emphasis on combat and developing your weapons, of which there is a great choice. I sunk a lot of time into this game and it was a huge shame that my RSI happened just before the fourth came out, after several years of waiting!
Rune factory three. I like farming. I like swords. I like magic. I like phoenix girls. This game has all those things and I would do them forever if not for the repetitive dialogue.
Resident evil four. This game got me into the resident evil series and while other people hate the direction the games took after this point, I really loved it. The fourth game retains enough scariness and creepiness, which the fifth and sixth kind of lose. It's a good blend of shooting and horror.
Dark souls. I hated this game when I first played it and had a huge grudge against for a long time. That's because there's no way to respec, and I came in not knowing what to do. I completely fucked up my stats. I was also heading in the wrong place, without which I probably could have continued anyway. Later, after getting just a little bit of guidance on the best way to proceed through the game courtesy of SBF's blood-borne play through, I revisited it and fell in love with it. The terrifying sense of scale had stuck with me the first time and I still had nightmares about what that damn hydra. I came back and I conquered it. Through blood, sweat and tears. I went through the wrong area in the wrong order and completed it anyway. I stuck with it because I would not let the game beat me. And I was rewarded with some of the weirdest, most evocative artwork I've ever experienced in a game.
Dark Souls 2. Great for a different reason. I feel like the online is more streamlined and integrated. However it lacks so much from the first game that I'm really ranking it on the gameplay improvements, some of which actually end up detracting from the difficulty of game. Still, it's great and still worth sinking a few hundred hours into.
Portal one and two. If you don't know why these games are brilliant you need to play them.
Pokémon. Its charm wore off with later renditions of exactly the same game, but nobody can deny how good Pokémon was when they first played it, with silver and gold first came out. I lasted up to the Ruby generation personally, and after that I lost enthusiasm. I've played the later games but not managed to complete any of them, which is simply a result of the novelty being completely gone.
Dragon age series. I haven't completed inquisition yet. Origins was really the best, because you actually got to pick your own origin.
More later. Mentions:
Warlock: Master of the arcane
Warhammer 40k Dawn of War 2
Mario Galaxy
Super Mario World
Star Wars Battlefront 2
Rogue Squadron
Sonic Adventure 2 Battle
Star Fox 64/Assault
Skyrim
New Vegas
DRAGON QUEST VIII AND IX
Mars Affect series, 2 is best
Alundra
Final Fantasy VII
Fire Emblem awakening
Golden Sun 1+2
Elite Beat Agents
DARKEST DUNGEON
And so many more
The Legend of Zelda series. I love this entire series but there are a few standouts. Skyward Sword, Link's Awakening, Ocarina of Time, Spirit Tracks, Minish Cap, Oracles.
Metroid fusion, other M, and the prime series, 3-1-2. In order of favouritism. Fusion got me into the series. Its sparing use of dialogue in concert with a pervasive sense of tension and dread made me instantly hungry for more. I don't care what anyone says about other M; it's a fantastic game, with my favourite combat of the entire Metroid series. I'm extremely disappointed that it was taken so badly and I would love a sequel. It's combat is followed closely by Metroid prime three, which introduces the hyper mode mechanic, a risk-reward mechanic that feels epic. Due to the Wii controls it has the most feel of being in Samus's suit. Flicking the nun chuck to fire the grapple beam felt so good! When I was about to die in combat, I was jumping around in my seat like I was there. I still think the feeling of being on a vast, empty, abandoned world is best handled by the first prime, whose musical direction is genius, but they are all fantastic games that do their own thing and don't try to imitate each other.
Paper Mario and its sequel. I've played the N64 game so many times and I love it each and every time. Actually, I try to take inspiration from a lot of it in terms of the gameplay elements, like how major upgrades feel rather than tiny upgrades you don't feel. It feels chunky, good. In the in between platforming and puzzle elements are simply fun. It's simple and I don't know why they changed the formula so much after the second game. It's a shame because it feels like they got it right the first time.
Left 4 Dead 1/2. I played this hard-core want first came out, and I should specify that I play the versus mode almost exclusively. It was my answer to Warcraft 3 custom maps after its multiplayer scene and all those brilliantly asymmetric games died out. This something so fun about coordinating a good attack, or becoming the tank, those dramatic moments are executed so well and with enough variation from game to game that it doesn't get boring.
XCOM. This game has so many flaws but there's a reason I've sunk so many hours into it.
Viewtiful Joe. My favourite platinum game. I spent a looong time on it.
Hyrule Warriors. Something about getting to finally play Zelda and Ganondorf, and killing thousands of enemies, is so addictive. It's the level up parts.
Warframe. I love superhero games with a lot of parkour and movement, and this combines the genre with weapon upgrades and collecting and all kinds of crazy space powers. It then combines it with online play that is pretty much perfect. You don't have to wait to get into games, finding groups is almost instantaneous a lot of the time. The missions are short enough that if you've only got literally five minutes to play a game, you can fit one in before work. There's a reason it's become my most played game in 2015.
Smash Bros. It's my favourite fighting game. It's the only fighting game I love. I love it.
Monster Hunter three ultimate. A game which is entirely extended boss battles where the monsters have behaviour and which you have to chase across the map? It's like Shadow of the Colossus in some ways but focusing the gameplay into repeatable, farmable goodness with a greater emphasis on combat and developing your weapons, of which there is a great choice. I sunk a lot of time into this game and it was a huge shame that my RSI happened just before the fourth came out, after several years of waiting!
Rune factory three. I like farming. I like swords. I like magic. I like phoenix girls. This game has all those things and I would do them forever if not for the repetitive dialogue.
Resident evil four. This game got me into the resident evil series and while other people hate the direction the games took after this point, I really loved it. The fourth game retains enough scariness and creepiness, which the fifth and sixth kind of lose. It's a good blend of shooting and horror.
Dark souls. I hated this game when I first played it and had a huge grudge against for a long time. That's because there's no way to respec, and I came in not knowing what to do. I completely fucked up my stats. I was also heading in the wrong place, without which I probably could have continued anyway. Later, after getting just a little bit of guidance on the best way to proceed through the game courtesy of SBF's blood-borne play through, I revisited it and fell in love with it. The terrifying sense of scale had stuck with me the first time and I still had nightmares about what that damn hydra. I came back and I conquered it. Through blood, sweat and tears. I went through the wrong area in the wrong order and completed it anyway. I stuck with it because I would not let the game beat me. And I was rewarded with some of the weirdest, most evocative artwork I've ever experienced in a game.
Dark Souls 2. Great for a different reason. I feel like the online is more streamlined and integrated. However it lacks so much from the first game that I'm really ranking it on the gameplay improvements, some of which actually end up detracting from the difficulty of game. Still, it's great and still worth sinking a few hundred hours into.
Portal one and two. If you don't know why these games are brilliant you need to play them.
Pokémon. Its charm wore off with later renditions of exactly the same game, but nobody can deny how good Pokémon was when they first played it, with silver and gold first came out. I lasted up to the Ruby generation personally, and after that I lost enthusiasm. I've played the later games but not managed to complete any of them, which is simply a result of the novelty being completely gone.
Dragon age series. I haven't completed inquisition yet. Origins was really the best, because you actually got to pick your own origin.
More later. Mentions:
Warlock: Master of the arcane
Warhammer 40k Dawn of War 2
Mario Galaxy
Super Mario World
Star Wars Battlefront 2
Rogue Squadron
Sonic Adventure 2 Battle
Star Fox 64/Assault
Skyrim
New Vegas
DRAGON QUEST VIII AND IX
Mars Affect series, 2 is best
Alundra
Final Fantasy VII
Fire Emblem awakening
Golden Sun 1+2
Elite Beat Agents
DARKEST DUNGEON
And so many more
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