Mortal Kombat 3. Mostly the SNES version, but also Ultimate in the arcade. My friends and I were totally obsessed with it when we were kids and played it constantly for years. There's no way I'll ever top it as an adult, unless I quit my job and make a life out of it.
In the single player world, it would probably be Dragon Quest VIII because I've played through it 3 times complete at about 80 hours per. I think I put 190 into Skyrim, so that would be tops for a single playthrough, but DQ8 would win if I go just by the hour count.
The 360 is a great system with a lot of great games, but personally, I don't take any statement that a console is the "greatest of all time" unless there's at least some effort put into placing it in an historical context with older systems.
I don't agree with Jeff's Genesis pick as the zenith of all systems, but I would put it over the 360. I'd also put the Dreamcast over the 360, and the PS2, and the PS3 for that matter, and certainly the SNES, which had a game library that was absolutely unreal in its depth and quality. I think that's my biggest problem with the 360: it's a little too one-note to be called the greatest. Lots of great Western games; shooters, 3rd person action, stuff like that. But not enough platformers, RPGs, and Japanese fare. And most of the great games were multi-platform anyway, so those can't count for much.
It's a great system, no doubt. I'm just not feeling this greatest of all time talk.
My friend used to play this PC game back in the early 90s where you encountered a farmer who tells you, in this high-pitched Irish accent, that he's "only got one cow, and all she eats his carrots." It became one of those little things you remember over the years for whatever reason, but I've never been able to narrow down what game it was.
I don't know much else about the game. It was a point and click, I think, but I never actually played it. Not much to go on, but that's why I've never been able to figure it out.
I like the content and the satire overall, but Stewart does mug too much for my tastes. I also don't like it when they do the fake news panel stuff. It comes off as too scripted. Stewart's interviews on the other hand--and the location interviews from the news team--are great. So it's kind of a mixed bag for me. Overall, I love the show, but I agree with others that Colbert is a bit funnier.
VI. The combat system in VIII was shite. The story was fine, but you were basically invincible from the start with the Guardian Forces. And the consumable spell crap incentivized you to do that draw shit constantly. Plus the summon animations were way too long, and they were unskippable, forcing you to watch the same stupid cutscenes (which were cool for a minute) over and over or just revert to using regular magic or attacks, which inevitably led to more drawing. It really wasn't a good battle system, and that should be the bread and butter of any good RPG.
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