A List for All-Time
The greatest list of games I ever played while using pizza-grease-stained controllers.
The greatest list of games I ever played while using pizza-grease-stained controllers.
I used to say Mega Man 2 was my favorite game of all-time based solely on the fact that I could play it back-to-back(-to-back) without getting bored with it. It's true! I love it dearly. But still...
...Vagrant Story may be the more important game to me personally. The quality of the storytelling was revelatory and it changed how I perceived not just game music but music in general.
How much can one man love Richter's bad voice acting? This much.
FFIV has the most of my favorites across the series: music, cast, dungeons, finale, and final boss. I feel so strongly about it that not even playing The After Years could ruin all that for me!
When I look back on my gaming career in 30 years or so, there's a possibility that Nocturne may just have been the most important game I ever played.
Is it strange that I consider Castlevania IV to be my favorite Castlevania game, yet rank Symphony higher on a general list? It may not have Michael G.'s performance, but multi-directional whipping is nearly as important.
There's really little original you can say about Super Metroid at this point, even from a personal standpoint. However, I did name my cat "Sammy" after Samus, and she's nice.
I've played Chrono Trigger a couple dozen times and have a NG+ file to prove it! I mean, having played it that many times has killed my motivation to replay it this past decade or more, but as far as "personally significant" games go, Chrono Trigger is it.
Most of my love of Final Fantasy comes from the original Nintendo Power strategy guide for it, which I leafed through and studied so much it fell apart. Who knew memorizing it could make an obtuse game like this one so much more enjoyable?
Ever get the feeling that a game is created just for you? (I do, and it's Strange Journey.)
For me, Blaster Master represented a personal struggle that spanned an entire decade. I could never beat it as a little kid, but in the last throes of 1999 I promised myself I'd sit down and finish it before the year 2000 rolled around. I dunno; it seemed significant at the time. Y2K and potential Armageddon be damned, at last I finally defeated Plutonium Boss and rescued my frog. And became a man.
I was always found of Mario's lucid adventure, but it became my favorite of all right around the time I first pelted an enemy with a vegetable, then jumped on the veggie during its mid-air ricochet and picked it up again. Surely no coincidence.
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"Defeat Dycedarg's elder brother" or bust.
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My favorite game in the Zelda series, which makes me a weirdo, I know.
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It's basically an unplayable mess at this point, but the story is absurdly pretentious enough to maintain some basic charm, and the soundtrack is legendary.
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What I think is the best of the post-Symphony Metroidvania mold. Also notable for introducing Julius "Where's the Beef?" Belmont.
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I admit, I've barely played Bloodlines even though I've owned it for over a decade; it's a great game, but I just never feel like hooking up my Genesis. A soundtrack can matter a lot (as with many of the games featured from here on down)!
What do I think of Lords of Thunder? Well, ever since my baby's been born it's all that I do.
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The most obscure title on my list, it's an incredibly solid arcade-style soccer game that inexplicably became a contentious multiplayer favorite amongst friends and I.
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Parasite Eve makes the cut due to it being the game that convinced me to get a PS1. That soundtrack ain't half bad either.
Okay, so Xiahou Dun isn't a game, I know. He's just my favorite, most-used representative from the Dynasty Warriors franchise with a history that's frankly longer than it should be. And for the record, DW3.
Not even God.
I'm Bronze Jonson, I don't care what anyone says.
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MK64 makes the list due to countless hours of multiplayer while simultaneously listening to what amounted to porn soundtracks.
DDS spawned a number of what you'd call life's little coincidences and has, uncoincidentally, Shoji Meguro's best soundtrack.
It's sort of a lazy game, but does enough things differently in its world design that it's easily my favorite of the DS batch of Castlevania games.
Super Empire is one janky-ass game, but it's the game that introduced and made me a Star Wars fan, so there.
Very likely my favorite game of the current console generation, though its endless cavalcade of amusing glitches counts for a lot.
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