My (Authorman's) Favorite Videogames
A list of videogames that I (Authorman) have really liked, presented in the order I remembered them.
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As far as I am concerned this is The Game. This was my first entry into Mario games that wasn't as a five year old and those rose colored glasses still make this game look like magic. I still remember the attract calls from the store displays for this game (Thank you for playing Nintendo 64 whos next!).
Ugh its the best.
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The Ace Combat series has always been incredible and was the best series of games to come out on the Playstation 2. Which makes Ace Combat 5, the best game of the best series on the best console. It is Metal Gear Solid in planes and it is silly and anime as shit. It is a tragedy that Namco has effed up the series so bad with 6 and Shattered Horizon.
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One of the rarest and most in demand Playstation games (that I happened to have picked up long before their scarcity, eat shit ebay), for a goddamn good reason. Character collecting, castle constructing, army battling, iron chef hosting, some-of-best-music-in-videogame listening fun.
One of the best Jrpgs ever made, despite its many hilarious bugs and translation flubs. My favorite bug is that in order to recruit the singer character you have to listen to her sing, but when you agree the game doesn't play the song and you get to watch a sprite flap its lips for two minutes in dead silence. Oh Konami.
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Ace Combat with people.
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This may arch an eyebrow or two, but the reason this game made my list is a story into itself. I started playing this game based on its comparisons to 999 and the desire to try to get into anime novels, preferably ones that aren't about fucking kids (a labor hercules would've asked a mulligan on).
Anyway, halfway through playing this game, my dad passed away suddenly and in a very traumatizing way for me and my family. Wanting to distract myself anyway I could from what had happened I delved deep into this game, which coincidentally dealt with death of loved ones as well as coping and accepting loss. In the end, this game was in the right place and time for me and it proved therapeutic for me. The fact that it was interminably long also helped pass the time.
So if you ever find yourself wracked by grief, why not have already played the slow first couple chapters of this game and dig right in, in a mindset able to ignore all the anime bullshit and get right to the heart of the game.
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The representative of the Phoenix Wright series, edging out the competitors based on the payoff in the end.
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