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TheSunshineFund:

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5.  Star Force - NES.  This is actually a port of an arcade game but since I've never seen nor ever hear of anyone ever owning the actual arcade game, I'm counting this one.  Still my favorite shoot em up and it gets bonus points because my wife likes it as well.



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Dick, if you check out Martin Bedard's streams at all, he's been playing this in MAME every now and then.  I fired it up in MAME after thinking it looked pretty fun and just got my ass kicked everywhere.

D.B. Cooper:
Thanks Steve, I'll check it out.  Playing on default (easy) settings, the game isn't bad and there are some huge scores up on MARP.  But, if you play on TG settings (hard, I think), the game is an ass kicker.

tudose:
great lists so far, guys. LOVE IT!

lol ok so this post got a lot bigger than i expected it to be lol. i wouldnt blame anyone for just looking at the list and not reading the descriptions Kappa

im definitely looking forward to seeing more lists and playing some of the games that i havent tried before. great topic, steve. anyway...

1. The Legened of Zelda - A Link to The Past (SNES) - as much as i loved the original NES title, this one just blew me away when i was a kid. it was the first game i ever bought with my own money when i was around 8 years old so itll always be #1 for me. this is what i left DK to speedrun, so yeah... <YSG>

2. Final Fantasy XIII (PS3) - ok so this one isnt quite your daddys final fantasy. in fact there are a lot of ppl in the final fantasy community that totally dislike it. its known for being quite linear in the first half, and didnt hold true to a lot of the original things that made final fantasy a great series. nonetheless i found this to be an awesome game. a great lineup of characters, great atmosphere, a ton of grinding(which i enjoy), and some fresh music make this a game i can return to over and over again. when im happy with my overall time on alttp im going to move on to speedrunning this title.

3. Drake/Uncharted (series) (PS3) - i picked a series of 3 games as my choice for #3. the reason i put all 3 in one slot is because theyre not particularly long games. for example i could probably beat all 3 of the games in this series before finishing a casual FFXIII run. that being said i still enjoy firing these games up at least once every 6 months. the writing is great, the scenery is amazing, the puzzles and gameplay are a lot of fun, and the voice actors are top-notch. i would recommend this series to anyone that thinks theyd enjoy a fresh take on an indiana jones-type character.

4. The Last of Us (PS3) - WOW. WOW. WOW. this game was created by the same folks that brought us the uncharted series(Naughty Dog). i just finished this title last week and was blown away. it found its way into my all-time favourites list immediately. i almost feel as if i could put this title into the #1 slot. its that good. i actually cant think of a story i enjoyed more on a modern console. i would love for some of the strictly classic gamers to try some of these newer titles. dont be a <Pigger>. just because a game has good graphics doesnt mean its shit lol. there is a 0% chance you will dislike this game. 10/10

5. Final Fantasy X (PS2/PS3) - the first final fantasy game in the series that i completed. an amazing story and characters, a bunch of side-quests, TOUGH challenges(fuck the sun sigil), extra bosses/monsters(many of them being exponentially harder than the final boss), and one of the greatest soundtracks ever(uematsu hype) make FFX an almost perfect game in my eyes. the hymn of the fayth Kreygasm BibleThump

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Honourable Mentions

1. Oblivion and Skyrim(Elder Scrolls) (PC/PS3) - you can spend hundreds or even thousands of hours exploring these games. theyre both massive and allow you to do pretty much whatever youd like. these are the kinds of games worth paying full price for new.

2. God of War (series) (PS2/PS3) - i left these out of my top 5 simply based on the length of the games. i enjoyed each and every one of them but i feel like the entire series shouldve been one game. for example the most recent in the series took me 9 hours to complete on first playthrough which is a joke lol. by contrast my first playthroughs of FFXIII, Oblivion, and Skyrim each went between 150-200 hours. it honestly bothers me that games like these still charge full price upon release. you can get 20x the gameplay from a game like skyrim for the exact same price. in fact the cutscenes alone from FFXIII are about the same length as the entire new god of war release lol. great games, but seriously a 9hr title with a new game+ option? get stuffed <Allen>

3. Mario Kart (SNES) - what really needs to be said about mario kart? its fkn awesome. all of them in fact. love it.

4. Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike (Arcade/PS2) - it took everything i loved about SF2 and made it better in every single aspect. this is easily my favourite of the series. its not even close.

5. Skate (series) (PS3) - same deal as god of war. that being theyre all fairly short games. still a lot of fun and probably each under $15 used at this point. worth picking up if you are or were ever into the skate scene.

Adam_Wilmot:
1: Mario Kart 64- Nintendo 64. My friends and I used to play this all the time a few years back in high school and had some epic battles, we were all about the same skill level and so it made for some interesting races. We all had our "main" character that we always went (mine was bowser) and it was always fun to get together and race. Still to this day we get together and bash out a few 2 player Grand Prix tournaments

2: Dynasty Warriors 5- PS2. I had a lot of fun with this game, although its very repetitive and just a button mashing game there is a lot of unlockables (characters, items, weapons, maps). One of my fondest gaming memories is my brother and I spending most of the summer holidays in 05' trying to unlock everything in the game and max out the statistics for each character. I remember my brother printed off a huge FAQ with all the locations for pretty much everything which was very helpful. Also for a PS2 game the graphics were pretty good and the load time for the game was pretty much non-existant which blew my mind considering it was an older gen game.

3: Super Mario All-stars- SNES. This was the game that started it all, my childhood was very much centered around this game and with the 4 in 1 capability it made it that much better (although I don't care for SMB 2). This was for me the earliest gaming memory I have. Not much more can be said. Great gameplay, decent graphics for SNES, and excellent fluid controls. Will always be one of my favourites and once I discovered TG, SMB and SMB 3 were the first scores I tried to set a WR on. Still one of the best SNES games around in my opinion.

4: NBA Live 2003- PS2. I got this game dirt cheap at one of those "selling out of season sports games sales" at the local video store. Being a huge basketball fan it was great, it had pretty easy controls, good balance (although if you had good timing you could almost always hit the jump shot) and most importantly for me a huge selection of legends that you could add to your roster. This was the last NBA game (until recent) That had a truly great selection of legends (also the last NBA game that featured Michael Jordan, before 2k13). My friend and I would play 2 player season mode and make teams that had the current players and would add any legends into the team (only if the played for the team though) to create a best of "all-time" team. We played the hell out of this game every weekend and we were both quite devastated when it finally scratched up and stopped working.

5: Super Castlevania 4- SNES. Found this game in a box that was ready for garbage pick-up on the side of the road when I was in year 8 (who would throw out a gem like this) and had no idea what I had picked up, I just saw the SNES games in there (was about 6 games), knew I had a working SNES and took them home. This game is awesome. Very smooth gameplay and graphics, great atmosphere and awesome music. Blew my mind first time I played it with that awesome theme from stage 1 and I have been hooked ever since. Again similar to Mario All-Stars the game is a SNES gem and has a well-known reputation, If you haven't played it before I highly recommend it.

Honorable mention:
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2- PS2. Similar to Dynasty Warriors 5. Button mashing game, with a lot of stat and item unlockables as well as extra characters. Except you can play as your favourite Marvel characters and have a team of 4 on the screen at each time instead of just a singular player. Was debating giving this the 5 slot but I couldn't pass over Super Castlevania 4.

Anyway I have gushed long enough on my favourite console games but as you can see it was a big part of my childhood and its always interesting to see other people's choices for lists like this. I always like to read peoples  reasoning for putting games in their list, wether it's because of childhood memories or just a cool story (like getting a great game cheap or for free)

Also the other games in that box of SNES wonders on the side of the road included: Donkey Kong Country 3, Super Mario World, Mr.Do!, Lion King and I can't remember the last one. Some people have know idea what they are throwing out.

VON:
#1.) Quake III: Arena (PC): Quite simply, the best first-person shooter engine of all-time.  Q3A, and the numerous mods it spawned, kept me busy playing FPS for the better part of a decade.  All other FPS are second-best.

#2.) Metroid Prime (Gamecube & Wii): The original Metroid and Super Metroid were also excellent games, but the 3D of the Prime series took it to another level for me.  If you haven't played any of the Prime series, you're doing yourself a mighty disservice.

#3.) The Legend of Zelda (NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Wii): All Zeldas, all good.  If I had to choose one, I'd probably settle on Ocarina of Time, though I've not played the most recent installment, Skyward Sword.  (I actually own Skyward Sword, yet haven't even taken it out of its packaging.  CAG has consumed me FailFish.)

#4.) Super Mario 64 (N64, Gamecube, Wii): The 64 installment built the engine on which the Galaxy games were based.  Just reflect on that for a moment: SM64 was released in 1996, and yet over a decade and multiple console generations later, the engine was still good enough to build a wildly fun and very successful game.  SM64 was groundbreaking, and it's obvious why it's still widely played today.

#5.) Mario Kart 64 (N64, Gamecube): Again, I'm including multiple games here, as Double Dash also used the near perfect MK64 engine.  My only complaint against this game is that I pwnd too hard, and my friends stopped playing with me. 


Honorable Mentions 

MegaMan I & II (NES)

F-Zero GX (Gamecube)

NBA Hangtime (N64)

Punch-Out!! & Super Punch-Out!! (NES, SNES)

Rygar (NES)

Solomon's Key (NES)

Resident Evil 4 (Gamecube, Wii)


Obviously, I'm a fan of the Nintendo franchises, and I hope Nintendo doesn't fall off the map like many have projected them to do after their underwhelming release of the WiiU.

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