alexl86

The thing to keep in mind is that VII represents a huge shift in art style and storytelling for the franchise. I through VI have a different feel from VII onward. Also, each individual game has a different story in a different world (mostly). I'll just write down some of my thoughts on all the games, since people seem to try to persuade you into VIII as well. 
 
A thing to keep in mind for Wii owners, the first three games(unaltered, it seems) released in the US is available for Virtual Console for 500 or 800 (900 in Europe) Wii Poiins
 
FF: Your characters are completely blank slates, and attacking the darkness is annoying, but it's fun for 5 dollars(if you have a Wii at least)
FFIV: It's definitely impactful, I just think the "Engrish" stands out more in this game than the others. I guess the DS version has fixed some translations.
FFVI: This is often competing with FFVII as the best in the series, and it's easy to see why. I personally prefer VII though, but mostly due to nostalgia.
FFVIII: I really don't like it. None of the characters are likable, the battle system is a step back from VII (drawing magic is a sick joke) and after Kefka and Sephiroth, Ultimecia is a pretty weak villain.
FFIX: Never actually played it, it's touted as a return to the older Final Fantasy games. Don't know much about except it didn't sell as well as the other PS1 era games.
FFX: I don't know... I really like the battle system, but every character in your party is insufferable(except Auron). Also, I think Yuna would've made a better protagonist, as Tidus has barely anything to do with the plot at all.
FFXII: I like this more than most. The story is interesting, the world is interesting, most of the characters are well made. Again, main character Vaan has barely anything to do with the plot...
FFXIII: Haven't played enough to give an opinion. 30+ hour tutorial and more inspired by FFVII I guess would be the takeaways when considering.

My top 3 is constantly changing. Once upon a time it was FFVII, Oblivion and Mega Man 3. Then GTAIV found it's way there for a time. I'm still not really sure about third place, but I guess I have to make a decision.
 

1. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - I'm not really sure what else to say. Oblivion would've held this spot if not for Skyrim, but Skyrim is too good.
2. Super Mario World - I never owned this game as a kid, but I played it a lot at my cousins' house. I bought the Virtual Console version and just in terms of gameplay, I think this is the best 2D platformer ever made.
3. Tekken 3 - When I got my PS1, the very first thing I played was the Tekken 3 demo that came with it, and I played it for hours. The demo only featured Xiayou and Eddy, but I played that demo more than I played the actual full games I got. I got Tekken 3 a few months later and I got up 4 am the next day and played it nonstop until noon.
   

 
Other candidates for third place were: Fallout 3, Mass Effect 2, Final Fantasy (insert number here), Diablo II, NWN2... Wow, I play a lot of RPGs..., uhm, FIFA 99(which is probably not as good as I remember), Gran Turismo 2, Forza 2, Mega Man 3, GTAIV, LoZ: Link to the Past, and a bunch of other games.

Anyway you look at it, Metal Man is the right answer.
 
Metal Man is weak (and the only one who's weak) to your mega buster, to his own weapon, but none of the other robot master weapons. Metal Man's weapon is the weakness of three other robot masters (Bubble, Flash, Wood). Metal Man's weapon uses very little energy, meaning you can actually use this as a replacement for your mega buster(deals more damage, can fire directional shots). Metal Man's weapon is probably the most overpowered weapon in the Mega Man series as a whole due to it's practically unlimited use(really, you can pretty much whip this out at the start of a stage and through periodic energy pick-ups still have nearly full energy when facing the boss).
 
Edit: Correction, after looking it up, Metal Man is weak to Quick Man's weapon... not that it makes Quick Man preferable.

Even in a "lawless" society, there are social norms and I imagine there would still be people punishing murderers, thieves and other people deemed dangerous.

As an atheist, I don't live by values that are strictly religious, so I'd be more worried about how my neighbours with completely altered realities would react and worry more about how I would live differently. 

No scientific laws? It's all relative, and since there's nothing that is relative, then there is nothing. Everything would just seize to exist, I guess.

For some reason (probably because my Xbox is broken) I've been playing a lot of Fortune(though my box says Boom) Street lately. The TNT really sold me on it, but it got middling reviews.
 
On the flip side, I really didn't like BioShock.

Is it just me, or is the S model Xbox just as broken as the previous model?
 
I'll state for the record that I've owned three different 360s so far, two old pro models, one which was broken out of the box, one which red ringed, and my current S model. My current 360 I got the winter before last and had no issues at all, until I put in Fallout: New Vegas last summer.
 
At first I thought it was the game, which is notoriously buggy. The screen and console would just freeze, and I couldn't do anything but force shutdown the console. This started very infrequently, but became unbearable, and I detailed it in my blog on the site. And then it disappeared. I played Arkham City, Skyrim and Dark Souls, and life was good. And then it started again and now it's worse than ever. It's been a gradual process, it's gone from once every day to once every few hours to once every few minutes. In the last 30 minutes it's frozen about ten times, three times during the xbox logo animation. It's even red ringed on my a few times this week. Luckily I still have my warranty.
 
I'm having far more problems with this S model Xbox than my old pro, and this doesn't fill me with confidence about their next console. If their hardware is as shoddy next time around, maybe I'll buy a Portstation instead, or a PC...
 
Anyone else having problems with their consoles in general, or S model 360 specifically?

I'd just like to take a moment to say, some(probably most) of the people who have answered no to this poll probably would eat a friend's body part after four days without food and coming to the realization that if they don't do it, they'll die.

Most of the bugs with this game have been fixed, it performs about the same as Fallout 3 now(unpatched, it's a mess though). I think the characters in this game are better done than in Fallout 3, and a lot of the underlying RPG systems are more in line with the old Fallout games. Generally better, but DT can make certain weapons ineffecient as opposed to DR in Fallout 3(basically different ways of handling damage resistance, some enemies in NV are very strong against automatic weapons and shotguns). I kinda liked the wasteland exploration stuff better in 3, and I think 3 had better dlc, but I also think Old World Blues is pretty good, and New Vegas has a greater variety of weapons.

Oh, tell your brothers to save before entering the dinosaur (sometimes crashes and corrupts save, at least for me) and leaving the bunker in Hidden Valley(if crash, load earlier save, then load save before leaving). I also had a few crashes in Vault 22, that may also be a problem area.