I Guess goes down to personal choice but i was thinking today about an article i read about Final Fantasy 7 being the best game ever, i did really like FF7 and it could well be worthy of the title, just curious to what others think.


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> I Guess goes down to personal choice but i was thinking today about an article i
> read about Final Fantasy 7 being the best game ever, i did really like FF7 and
> it could well be worthy of the title, just curious to what others think.
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> Sweeeeeeeeeeet
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> I Guess goes down to personal choice but i was thinking today about an article i
> read about Final Fantasy 7 being the best game ever, i did really like FF7 and
> it could well be worthy of the title, just curious to what others think.
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> Sweeeeeeeeeeet
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River City Ransom - Fun in single player and awesome in co op. Has aged pretty well (graphics/music) and still plays great.

Super Mario Brothers 3 - Laid the groundwork for future iterations of the series with its overworld map. Clean, attractive graphical style, solid play control, great level designs, etc etc. As much fun today as it was when it first came out.

Mario 64 - Showed how 3d platforming should be done. Still one of the top 10 (possibly even top 5) examples of the genre.

Fallout - Highly replayable, nonlinear, and somewhat open 2d RPG with attractive sprite-based graphics, a well written story (accompanied by solid voice acting), and an intuitive combat system. Somehow it manages to maintain a solid pace and sense of cohesion no matter what path you choose to complete the game in (unlike its sequel, which was also loaded down with too many in-jokes).

Half Life - Integrated storytelling and level design in ways that hadn't been done before. Unreal did the level connected to level idea before and Sin did the story-intensive gameplay before, but neither interwove both together with such success. Unreal still had Bluff Eversmoking, which was a great level with a nice mystery regarding the location of the escaped prisoner, but that doesn't compare to the whole experience that Half Life offered (also expanded upon in the various expansions and sequels).

Crazy Taxi - Ultimate risk/reward, pickup and play game. Easy to learn/ difficult to master, and it doesn't matter who you are, you'll have fun playing it. Even the lackluster PS2 port is fun as hell to just kick back and play for a while. WHY IS THERE NOT A VERSION FOR PSP? Oh well, at least the PSP has Outrun 2006 Coast 2 Coast (which is the only other driving game I'd nominate).

I'm not much of a fan of Final Fantasy 7 for a variety of reasons. Inconsistent art direction, bad localization, overemphasis of graphical effects instead of playability (hi, unskippable summons), trite character design, etc. It was very much a typical jrpg that was simply at the right place and right time with just the right marketing push.

> infinite replay value, playstyle variety, risk/reward scoring and survival, great sound and music, detailed and fluid graphic style still looks great

-nZero

God no...best overhyped PSX and Final Fantasy game of the lot, yes.

Average story, long winded gameplay, non-skippable aggravating summons/spells, 10x more aggravating non-skippable FMVs usually before bosses left as punishment if you fail. It gets way too much respect for what it did for gaming on the FF series on the whole, does get respect though for bringing more people into caring about FF. Problem is though it allowed a lot of close minded pricks into the fold thinking FF7 is the model of how a good RPG is benchmarked.

Overall I dunno, still very partial to SMB3 due to all the design intricacies of that one, but as far as RPGs go FF4, 5 , and 9 blow out FF7 easy, and beyond that the Dragon's Quest series has been FF's superior as long as you're not adverse to some level grinding.

Nice expansion into new areas of role playing. Your decisions and actions actually had a bearing on the game.

I am sure it isn't the best ever but I loved Road Rash on the Genesis.I played the hell out of that game,also Comix Zone was neat.



> I Guess goes down to personal choice but i was thinking today about an article i
> read about Final Fantasy 7 being the best game ever, i did really like FF7 and
> it could well be worthy of the title, just curious to what others think.
>
>
> Sweeeeeeeeeeet
>

> I Guess goes down to personal choice but i was thinking today about an article i
> read about Final Fantasy 7 being the best game ever, i did really like FF7 and
> it could well be worthy of the title, just curious to what others think.
>
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> Sweeeeeeeeeeet
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All work and no play makes me..., well, you know the rest.

also puyo and samsho

> > I Guess goes down to personal choice but i was thinking today about an article
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> > read about Final Fantasy 7 being the best game ever, i did really like FF7 and
> > it could well be worthy of the title, just curious to what others think.
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> > Sweeeeeeeeeeet
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> All work and no play makes me..., well, you know the rest.
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Okay, so the top-down battles in the boss areas weren't all that great, but when playing in the car, it had great gameplay, sweet graphics for it's time, a rockin' soundtrack.

Alyas
"Good... Bad... I'm the guy with the gun."

> Okay, so the top-down battles in the boss areas weren't all that great, but when
> playing in the car, it had great gameplay, sweet graphics for it's time, a
> rockin' soundtrack.

it takes a lot to impress me when it comes to videogame music (yeah, that's right, you cunt), but blaster master is probably the first game i played that had music that i really enjoyed. my next door neighbor owned a copy in my youth, i borrowed it for months after he finished it. that game was the bomb- and in defense of the overhead boss battles, they were the worst part of the game, but that's only because of the high standard the rest of the game set.

was the sequel any good? i never really played it, but i probably should have.
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> Alyas
> "Good... Bad... I'm the guy with the gun."
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I'm pretty sure that Blaster Master was one of the first games I played that had music that really impressed me. The first tune in the game is really good and so on.

I was going to say Gp2 for PC, because i STILL play that shit on my not-so-hot-but-free-and-made-from-spare-parts-pc, almost on a daily basis.
GPL is tha bomb too!

Some other nominations would include :
Super Mario Bros. 3 - NES : Really stood up to the test of time. Great fun.
Super Mario World - SNES : Same, but not as revolutionary as 3.
Rock n´ Roll Racing - SNES/Genesis : Great replay value, great fun, one of the first games to use licensed soundtracks
Out Run - Arcade/Genesis : I´m not sure why, but i love it to death.
Alex Kidd in Miracle World - SMS : REally stood up to the test of time.
Sonic I - Genesis : The slowest Sonic, is by far the best.

Meh, too much to pick just one.

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This game revolutionized for me what gaming was about. My friends and I still talk and laugh about stuff we did in this game almost 10 years ago!

Others in contention that I realy liked are Super Mario 3, Super Mario Kart SNES and No Mercy on Nintendo 64. Old school Megamania and Dodge'em on Atari are both still pretty sweet. We have some Super 8 of me dancing around playing this when I was like 5, I should youtube it :)

It's out on the virtual console for 800 Wii points. Or free in emulation for the past 10 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comix_Zone

> I Guess goes down to personal choice but i was thinking today about an article i
> read about Final Fantasy 7 being the best game ever, i did really like FF7 and
> it could well be worthy of the title, just curious to what others think.
>
>
> Sweeeeeeeeeeet
>

> I Guess goes down to personal choice but i was thinking today about an article i
> read about Final Fantasy 7 being the best game ever, i did really like FF7 and
> it could well be worthy of the title, just curious to what others think.
>
>
> Sweeeeeeeeeeet
>

Also, Deus Ex, Secret of Mana, and like JudgeInjury said, Ultima Online during the early years.

> I Guess goes down to personal choice but i was thinking today about an article i
> read about Final Fantasy 7 being the best game ever, i did really like FF7 and
> it could well be worthy of the title, just curious to what others think.
>
>
> Sweeeeeeeeeeet
>

> I Guess goes down to personal choice but i was thinking today about an article i
> read about Final Fantasy 7 being the best game ever, i did really like FF7 and
> it could well be worthy of the title, just curious to what others think.
>
>
> Sweeeeeeeeeeet
>

> > I Guess goes down to personal choice but i was thinking today about an article
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> > read about Final Fantasy 7 being the best game ever, i did really like FF7 and
> > it could well be worthy of the title, just curious to what others think.
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> > Sweeeeeeeeeeet
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Seriously though, Metal Gear Solid is one of my favorites. Best series of games for me is Street Fighter. I've been playing the shit out of SFA3 on the PSP for the past couple weeks, and this shit never got old for me.

I think a lot were already covered in this thread, but Castlevania SOTN is brilliant.

-nt-

> was the sequel any good? i never really played it, but i probably should have.

Which one? It's been a while since I played any of them, but from what I can remember:

Blaster Master Boy (GB): Never played this one. No car, and played entirely top-down. Reminded me of a Robo Warrior clone, which was enough to scare me away.

Blaster Master 2 (Gen): Played this one, it had "improved" graphics, which were a lot more dingy and not as bright as the first game's. Side-view boss stages instead of top-down, and it wasn't that bad, but didn't capture the charm of the first one.

Blaster Master (GBC): Remake of the first game. I remember this one being pretty good, if I recall correctly, a couple things had been altered from the original game, and they also added a password this time around.

Blaster Master (PSX): I didn't play very far into this one at all. Low-resolution 3D and dirty textures, it just didn't feel like a Blaster Master game at all, it felt more like just another 3D platform game.

Alyas
"Good... Bad... I'm the guy with the gun."

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> > was the sequel any good? i never really played it, but i probably should have.
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> Which one? It's been a while since I played any of them, but from what I can
> remember:
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> Blaster Master Boy (GB): Never played this one. No car, and played entirely
> top-down. Reminded me of a Robo Warrior clone, which was enough to scare me
> away.
>
> Blaster Master 2 (Gen): Played this one, it had "improved" graphics, which were
> a lot more dingy and not as bright as the first game's. Side-view boss stages
> instead of top-down, and it wasn't that bad, but didn't capture the charm of the
> first one.
>
> Blaster Master (GBC): Remake of the first game. I remember this one being
> pretty good, if I recall correctly, a couple things had been altered from the
> original game, and they also added a password this time around.
>
> Blaster Master (PSX): I didn't play very far into this one at all.
> Low-resolution 3D and dirty textures, it just didn't feel like a Blaster Master
> game at all, it felt more like just another 3D platform game.
>
> Alyas
> "Good... Bad... I'm the guy with the gun."
>

When I tried it on my 486, I couldn't ask for more. As Carnby walked in Derceto, I flipped out. Never felt like that ever again.

> I Guess goes down to personal choice but i was thinking today about an article i
> read about Final Fantasy 7 being the best game ever, i did really like FF7 and
> it could well be worthy of the title, just curious to what others think.
>
>
> Sweeeeeeeeeeet
>

I remember being blown away by the graphics on my Tandy 2500 XL. And you can design your own tracks and ramp duke boys style all over the place, with a replay feature for when something sweet happened. Plus it had a Hummer and an Acura MSX, cars I had never seen in a game before.

Although I could never beat the hardest computer people, so I had to cheat and give them slow cars and try and crash them :)

enn tee

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> I Guess goes down to personal choice but i was thinking today about an article i
> read about Final Fantasy 7 being the best game ever, i did really like FF7 and
> it could well be worthy of the title, just curious to what others think.
>
>
> Sweeeeeeeeeeet
>