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Greatest Game of All Time
Topic Started: May 21 2010, 10:52 AM (1,137 Views)
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The Batman
Due to me getting my new laptop the award for this will be given at a later date due to me having not much extra money for the next few months. I will look over the entries in the next few days to see who will win.
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Understood. Have fun with the laptop, btw.
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Due to a barrage of things that have come up, none I accounted for I probably won't be able to get the prize out for the very forseeable future. Sorry folks :/
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That's fine. I got the $20 PSN card last week as a present.
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Don't care if I win or whatever, but I'll contribute.

Honorable Mentions

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time/Master Quest
The original Ocarina of Time was a great game all around. When it came packaged with a more difficult version that I could play with my GCN controller, which is easily my favorite controller of all time, I basically died.

Super Mario Bros. 2: The Lost Levels
No, I don't have the title wrong. This is the real SMB2. Look it up. Until Super Mario All-Stars on the SNES, where it was released as simply "The Lost Levels," this game was Japan-only. You can also now buy the original, Japan-only game on VC. A fan of the original Mario, I loved this game because of its increased difficulty.

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
This was such an incredible game. It had a great storyline, a beautiful musical score, and was nicely difficult. Plus, first game with the Hookshot!

Super Mario Strikers
My dad and I play this game together a lot. It's much more fun than a real soccer game and I like it, overall, far better than its Wii sequel.

Super Mario Bros. 3
Ahhh, nostalgia. This was the first video game I ever played. I loved the suits to death, and the way you beat Bowser is just hilarious. Great game.

Super Paper Mario
Paper Mario returns with Wii controls, an excellent story, and the same quirky humor present in all of the Paper Mario games. Fantastic.

Portal
This was an incredible game. The idea of the portals was genius and was used superbly in some of the hardest puzzles I've played through. I'm eagerly awaiting Portal 2.

#5: Super Mario World
I love this game. Seriously, it's absolutely my favorite Mario game of all time. Oh, sure, the new ones with their crazy additions like wall-jumping and four players at once are fun, and I'm sure Galaxy 2 is amazing--haven't played it--but I've never been a big fan of the 3D Marios and I much prefer the old games, barring Mario 2 since that wasn't really a Mario game, over the new. The way everything works--what would today be called a physics engine--is what I grew up on and just works so much better for me than NSMB's. The soundtrack in Super Mario World is superb--there isn't a song in there I don't like. This was the first game with Yoshi, and the only one with his elemental powers derived from eating shells. I like the bright, colorful graphics that just weren't present in the original few, which is because the game was made on the SNES. I thoroughly enjoyed the challenge of finding all ninety-six exits and gathering all of the Dragon Coins. And the Top Secret Area was a genius invention. But above all is the fact that you can get a cape and fly. You can soar through a level or even just fly through the sky for fun. I have played the game countless times and it never stops being entertaining.

#4: Mario Kart Wii
I have always enjoyed the Mario Kart games, and whenever I play another racing game, it pales in comparison to Mario Kart. I enjoy the high-speed frantic action and the wacky characters and items. Though there are a few things I would change about this game (mainly items I don't like or miss), it's overall my favorite of the Mario Karts. There are twenty-four characters to choose from (twenty-six if you count the two Mii outfits) and thirty-six vehicles in all. That's a lot of unlockable stuff, and some of it is quite a challenge to obtain. And while all that is fine and dandy, the biggest thing for me is the gameplay. I couldn't stand Double Dash!!'s steering, meaning that I would only ever play with another person who would drive so that I could handle the items only. I don't know what it was; perhaps the way everything handled like crap and I couldn't feel myself drifting. Prior to MKWii, MKDS was my favorite. Everything handled much more smoothly with the D-Pad and the drifting was beautiful. Then Mario Kart Wii came out and revolutionized the steering. The Wii controls work almost impeccably--I would never dream of using the GameCube controller--and drifting is, while different, not horrible; it works rather well, in my opinion. Mario Kart Wii, with its twelve racers per course and online play, is a fantastic game.

#3: Super Smash Bros. Melee
It was probably 2004 or 2005 the first time I played Super Smash Bros. Melee, and I still remember it to this day. I played Ganondorf against my friend's Peach, on Fountain of Dreams. (Maybe that's why Fountain of Dreams is one of my favorite stages.) I lost miserably, of course, as does any person who's playing a Smash Bros. game for the first time, but I still fell in love with the game. I vowed to get it then and there. Masahiro Sakurai describes Brawl as a "party game," and it's certainly not a fighting game at this point, but Melee is. With Brawl, I have to hack the hell out of it before I actually find it fun, but Melee's quick action and levels of complexity in its gameplay really stand out to me in making it one of the greatest fighting games of all time. Sure, it has some issues, and there are a very small number of Brawl's aspects that I prefer, but overall, I'd rather play Melee any day. Yes, it has fewer modes, fewer characters, fewer stages, less music, worse graphics, and Pichu, but gameplay is easily the most important thing in a video game. You don't necessarily need an incredible storyline or amazing graphics--let me point to the original Super Mario Bros. or the original Legend of Zelda. These both had minimal storylines and simply bad graphics by today's standards, but the gameplay was superb, and that is what Melee has over Brawl for me.

#2: Tetris
Ahhh, good ol' Tetris. Such a classic game. If you don't know what Tetris is...well, that's impossible. You'd have to be living under a rock that had been buried by the fires of Pompeii. I believe this game is the original puzzler, consisting of placing tetronimoes--shapes composed of four blocks--that fall from the top in strategic positions to form lines along the bottom. There are, of course, seven different shapes: the square, the T, the L, the reversed L, the Z, the reversed Z, and the line. It sounds easy enough, but sometimes it gives you shapes with which you can't do anything effective, and in addition, the game speeds up as you progress, meaning it's likelier for you to make mistakes. Once you get into the game, it can get really difficult. This game brings me back to the point I made about gameplay with Melee. Tetris has no story and the graphics are composed of blocks. Blocks! You can't get much lower than that in terms of graphics. But the gameplay is so much fun, and the theme song is superb. It's such a classic that it has been released on just about everything. Oh...but I forgot to mention, I don't like the new versions, with that bullcrap "Hold" option. You're supposed to take the good with the bad and deal with whatever problems you may have, not throw them away when you can't make room for them. See? Tetris is a metaphor for life!

#1: The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
And so we come to my favorite game of all time. It was overshadowed by its predecessor, Ocarina of Time, but in my opinion, it's far superior. Majora's Mask tells the story of Link as he journeys to Termina in search of his dear friend--most assume it to be his fairy, Navi, from Ocarina of Time--and finds a world in serious need of his help. Well, you should be able to tell right from the start that the place is in trouble--it's called Termina! As in "terminal" or "terminate" or any of those other fun words. The moon is falling on the world, and it's up to Link to stop it--in three days. Seventy-two hours. Which, in real time, translates to just over an hour. Sure, it's a short game--only four dungeons and the space in between them--but of course you can't do it in an hour. So Link has to go back in time to the beginning of the three days to repeat them every time time starts to run short. And to beat the dungeons, our intrepid hero will have to take on different forms--Deku, Goron, Zora--by putting on magical masks. All in all, it's quite a challenging game, what with puzzles, hard fights, and the time limit. And the final boss is much harder than OoT's Ganon. While the main story is short, there's so much to do in terms of sidequests to obtain all the masks--twenty-four in all. And of course Nintendo wouldn't make you collect all these masks without a reward. Once you reach the final boss, you can trade in your other twenty-three masks for the godly Fierce Deity Mask, which turns you into what appears to be a huge, white-tuniced, war-painted, armor-wearing, greatsword-wielding version of Link. (You get your other masks back once you beat the game.) I thoroughly enjoyed the darker storyline and atmosphere of the game, and there's so much backstory left unanswered that Nintendo could easily make an entire other game preceding it as well as a direct sequel. I liked that there was an enemy other than Ganondorf--a mischievious Skull Kid who was taken over by an evil force inside Majora's Mask. The game has a great musical score, especially the Song of Healing and the Termina Field remix of the original Legend of Zelda theme. And the creepy Happy Mask Salesman fits right in with the overarching eerie feel of the game. I would love to see Nintendo make a sequel to this game, or even remake it on 3DS like they're doing with OoT. If you trapped me in a room forever with just Majora's Mask on my Virtual Console, I would be happy.

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Give hero the prize light. That man deserves it.
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Yes, evil comes in many forms, whether it be a man-eating cow or Joseph Stalin, but you can't let the package hide the pudding! Evil is just plain bad! You don't cotton to it. You gotta smack it in the nose with the rolled-up newspaper of goodness! Bad dog! Bad dog!

And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!

Announcer: So tick... do you think you could destroy the earth?
Tick: E gads! I hope not! That's where I keep all my stuff!


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"Pwangg?" Trees don't go "Pwangg--" Llamas don't go "Pwangg--" Nothing found in nature goes "Pwangg", which means -- we're officially hip deep in the smelly stuff.

You know what? &@#$ tacos. And waiting. Damn you, Bullseye...damn you for making me hurt the ones I love. This time, it's personal. This time...it's for the tacos.

You should talk. Your costume's so tight you can tell what religion you are. Ever hear of a cup?

AAAAAAAAGHHH!! Packing chips! That's the greatest weapon on the face of the planet -- styrofoam packing chips! Just imagine getting nailed by some of these babies! Oh the humanity!

Dude, I had to hack that off to save you from zombie germs. You should totally put me on your Christmas card list.

If you're not Black Cat, then I'm done. But first -- The Olsen Twins: Good? Evil? Or part of the elaborate C.I.A. plot?

Pardoneth me, fair lady, but dost thou have any Grey Poupon?
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Jul 28 2010, 02:57 PM
Give hero the prize light. That man deserves it.
Really? I wasn't going for it...

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Hmm way too many games to choose just five but I'll try.

1) Road Rash series (Sega Genesis)
This is a motorcycle racing game with basically the same game play throughout. You encounter cops with the other 15 or so racers. There are weapons you can steal from the other racers to try to knock them out of the way or even damage them enough to fall off their bike. You get more money depending on what place and the difficulty of the races. You use the money to upgrade your bike and eventually you can buy a bike that is too fast for your own good. The most violent game I ever owned for the genesis besides Primal Rage.

2) Pokemon (GBC/GBA/DS)
I can't choose which one is my favorite, yeah you got the old school R/B/Y and G/S/C, then the remakes on the GBA along with the 3rd gen and on the DS D/P and HG/SS. Eventually we will have what looks to be very promising in B/W versions. I have probably spent over a month of my life playing pokemon on the handheld systems.

3) Jet Force Gemini (N64)
A Sci-Fi 3rd person shooter. You are the character Juno, traveling with your dog and female companion and eventually a flying robot thing that can be controlled by a 2nd person. I have not played this one in a long time, but I do remember some of it. There is a multiplayer mode where you basically just kill each other.

4) We love Katamari (PS2)
This is the second game of Katamari. Roll up all you can using your little alien guy, find his cousins and make the biggest stars and planets in the sky. The music is awesome, probably half is in japanese. I loved both Katamari games. Fun, funny and addicting.

5) Kingdom Hearts & Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories (PS2)
Is there anything you can't love about these games? I mean Disney characters and Final Fantasy collide in these RPG titles. I remember the disk broke on me like the 3rd play through on Chain of Memories, only two months after owning the game. Longest I ever played a game straight at roughly 7 hours. That disk got a lot of abuse in its short life in my house.

I would have to say my favorite game is Kingdom Hearts. Not only are they good games, but growing up I watched basically every Disney movie. The story lines are somewhat dark and Mickey just comes out of no where and kicks everybody's ass. A feature I liked in the first that was taken out was the gummi ships and the customizations that you could make to them. Traveling into the movies to destroy the shadows and take down Ansum to save Kairi and your island in the middle of nowhere. Fight along side Goofey and Donald Duck for most of the game, but along the way you can unlock characters such a Simba (my personal favorite).
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Someone mentioned Jet-Force Gemini? Awesome.
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Don't wanna pressure you, Light, but is there any chance you can announce the winner soon? Doesn't matter if whoever it is can't get the prize yet, but I honestly don't think anyone else is going to enter and I just wanna know who won.

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