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The search for the Holy Game.

The last few days I have been reading some posts where someone will say "I beat this game, I didn't like it." and people will either say "Yeah! it was boring" or they will say "What? That game was amazing." It had me thinking, what makes so many people have such different taste? I know we are all different but I have always said personally for games that don't suck entirely "Okay, I think this game sucks dick but I can see the appeal" when I get that thought I don't go to that forum page and tell people that it's dumb and I think they are dumb for liking it.

Everyone hates those game magazines that come out with their top 100 games of all time and put Tetris at the top or something else that makes you say really? Maybe it was number 1 10 years ago but so much has been done since then. So, I am not asking for the greatest game of all time from you the viewers. What I am asking for is there a game that we as a Giant Bomb community can all say "Yeah, that game is bad ass". I'm sure this is an impossible task because there is always someone who hates it for some reason. It's too popular, I don't like the way the character is or something else.

An example of this is Final Fantasy 7, people argue it's the best and other argue it's the shittiest. So let's start a little test, I will post the name of a game that I think is amazing. If you disagree with me reply to me specifically in this thread and say "No" and tell me why you think that, but you have to post the game you think should be that holy game.

So ladies and gents lets see if there is a game that nobody who reads this blog can say "It sucks". Lets being honest when striking out the persons game and if the game has been struck out then I'll mark it off the list.

I'll start with something completely random

Eight Bit Shiks pick!
Eight Bit Shiks pick!

I choose Skies of Arcadia because it's an RPG, that has a good story, amazing characters, great graphics and you are a mother fucking SKY pirate. Let the games begin.

The game so far, the ones who have lived and the ones who have been killed off.

Skies of Arcaida - Killed off by Enigma777

Aqauria - Killed off by Beachthunder

Valkyria Chronicles - Killed off by SirOptimus Prime

Portal - Killed off by Kingzetta

Doom - Killed off by gamefreak9

Castlevania SOTN - Killed off by Rolyatkcinmai

Baldurs Gate 2: Shadows of Amn

Wizball C64 -

Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time -

Pong - Killed off by Bumpton

Tetris - Killed off by Synaptic

Picross 3D - Killed off by Brad Shoemaker

Half life (All) - Slaker killed them all with his pure hatred of anything with orange in it.

Infamous - Killed off by Example1013

Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts -

Shadow of the Colossus - Killed by Skytylz

Vampire: The Masquerade - Killed by ????

Another World/Out of this World - Killed off by Video_Game_King

Deus Ex - Killed by Eight Bit Shik

Planescape -

Super Metroid - Killed by TotalEklypse

Dragon Quest V - Killed by Xpgamer7

Day of the Tentacle -

Age of Empires 2 -

System Shock 2 -

Black and White -

Legend of Zelda Link to the Past -

Fallout 1 - Killed by Xpgamer7

Fallout 2 - Killed by Xpgamer7

Resident Evil 2 -

Road Rash 2 -

Road Rash 64 - Killed by HotSauceMagik

Final Fantasy Tactics -

Michael Jackon: The experience -

Michael Jackson - Moonwalker

Knights of the old republic -

Reaping the Dungeon - Sigh

Chrono Trigger -

Castlevania IV -

Super Mario World -

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@Skytylz: No, It's a thread where the point was the first person Post a game, someone says they hate it and why. They post their holy game and then so on and so on. It's meant to be fun, find out why people hate your game in a clean way, learn about games you might not of heard of and I really don't think anyone is gaining street cred.

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@EightBitShik: I love KOTOR but hate shadow of the colossus because it's shit! 
 
Am I doing it right?
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@SeriouslyNow said:

Wizball.

You know I'm always going to say a big YES to Wizball. It's not my favourite game on the C64, but I'll not argue with anyone who wants to pick it as theirs.

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@Skytylz: Exactly! Other then having class about it :P

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@buzz_clik: I never heard of the game, watched the vid and it looked like shit to me but I haven't played it so I can't hate.

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@EightBitShik: Sweet, I'm kinda pissed because the stupid Ign Pro League stream died  and fed me a bunch of ads :(  I'm never buying a move or golf for the move now because of that stupid ad!
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@Skytylz: Lol? What are you talking about?

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@EightBitShik: Starcraft.  
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If I pick a game that no one else here has played, do I automatically win? Since no one can really refute a game if they haven't played it...

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@BeachThunder: Yes, but people lie :(

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Dragon Quest V was too repetitive and Fallout was broken.

Why not throw Chrono Trigger up there.

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@EightBitShik: Well, I'm going to put forward Reaping the Dungeon/Dungeon Rogue anyway (/hipster cat meme)
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@Enigma777:

Dude, Castlevania IV is the best Castlevania game. Screw loot and leveling up, 8-way whipping is the best.

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@EightBitShik said:

@buzz_clik: I never heard of the game, watched the vid and it looked like shit to me but I haven't played it so I can't hate.

The funny thing with your system will be this: even though Wizball is a bona fide C64 classic, there probably won't be that many people on Giant Bomb who have actually played it. I'm guessing the people who have played it (and I mean played it properly, not just fired it up in an emulator for 5 minutes without knowing how everything works) really like it, but it's still probably not large enough a sample to draw any true conclusion here.

Rest assured, though, the game is an excellent shmup, combining twitch elements, tactical decisions, brilliant music and a quirky sense of humour.

EDIT: Oh, and it has Mount Rushmore in it, too.

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@buzz_clik: I don't know why but I believe you.

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@BeachThunder said:
If I pick a game that no one else here has played, do I automatically win? Since no one can really refute a game if they haven't played it...
Really? That's how it works. Let me drop a fucking payload on this thread:
 
Beat that, everybody!
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I've played a bunch of those, but now that I'm all the way at the bottom I've forgotten which ones, so ill comment on the one I can see.  The Granstream Saga was good, but got really boring about half way through.  So F that game.

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@HotSauceMagik
 
It kinda went insane near the end, when it crammed a bunch of weird themes and mythological/religious references into one area. Still, that's only one down; I'm still going to win because apparently, obscurity is holy.
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@Xpgamer7: Apart from the graphics and music, there aren't many notable things about Chrono Trigger.
 
I nominate Space Rangers 2.
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@FancySoapsMan said:
@Xpgamer7: Apart from the graphics and music, there aren't many notable things about Chrono Trigger.
Well, what about being able to beat the final boss almost at the beginning of the game
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@BeachThunder said:
@FancySoapsMan said:
@Xpgamer7: Apart from the graphics and music, there aren't many notable things about Chrono Trigger.
Well, what about being able to beat the final boss almost at the beginning of the game
You had to play the game all the way through to do that, so it's a pretty moot point.
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@FancySoapsMan said:

@Xpgamer7: Apart from the graphics and music, there aren't many notable things about Chrono Trigger. I nominate Space Rangers 2.

I disagree. It was one of the first commercial games to use time travel as a key solution driving element. The only game to beat it in that regard was Day of The Tentacle which came out a couple of years prior and was destined for an entirely different audience (though you could argue that the Maniac Mansion FM Towns release disproves that). It allowed for a selection between turn based or real time combat and in that and in many others way it shaped the future for many RPGs on consoles for another decade - not just those from Square. You may not like the game but Chrono Trigger is almost the very definition of notable.

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I'll put Chrono Trigger up on a pedestal.  I played it one of the summers in junion high.  It was literally life changing concerning the way i looked at playing games.  That and FFVI in one summer....kids these day should only be so lucky....

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@Video_Game_King: He has to be he copied and changed a tiny bit of an earlier post.

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@Video_Game_King: He has to be he copied and changed a tiny bit of an earlier post.

Not sure what you're talking about. This would have been a good time for you to use the quote button. Also, I killed Chrono Trigger for being so damn short. It's like the 1995 JRPG equivalent of Portal. Hell, it even begins with a few portals.
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Super Mario World.  
 

Front Cover
Front Cover
 
Flawless.
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@Video_Game_King: Sorry, some guy the one you said "I am not sure if you are spam bot" took your post from Aquaria and changed it a tiny bit with typos and had all that runescape gold links on it. I couldn't quote it because I had flagged it first I didn't know it would remove it from the thread like that so quick. Sorry for the confusion.