So somewhere in the darkness of the late 90s, I decided that the breadth of games that I had gone through merited a list. Perhaps for absurdity's sake, perhaps to try and convince myself to kick the "childish" habit; whatever the case, I now have proof positive that I've done some dumb things in my life, I'm a proud (and old) gamer, and I wish to share that very madness with the Giantbomb community.
Lost most PSP games of this kind, it felt super short. Sorta nice to revisit some old fashioned Ratchet.
Most people probably didn't play this. It was the Jak X of the series, except it didn't totally jump the shark with straying to the point of abomination. Pretty much another Ratchet game, so no real complaints from me.
My first Wii game, went right through it. Loved the small progress you could see in your holding cell and the rabbids slowly cheering you on.
Really disappointed how this one turned out. Felt totally empty compared to the previous one.
More roaming than I'm ever gonna like, but that's part of why I liked it too. It was great busting up every important building and doing whatever good side missions were around (note: most of them were crap). I remember a big hump in the difficulty, but once you're over the hard parts, you can have the kinda havoc you wanna have in this game.
Always felt bad for never finishing an RE game. Thank god for the reimagining of the genre. Tank controls died for a reason. Got me into the universe in a big way.
Busted through this enjoyably. Complete global saturation. A , would play again? I dunno what else, great.
Neat idea, but didn't feel too great. Thought I could get through this in one short setting, oh ho no.
Terrific idea, pretty much a good excuse to make fully NES style games again. Problem is, like Jeff mentions, they kinda make you replay and replay and replay instead of just giving you an objective list and allowing you to get multiple ones done in a single playthrough. Course if that were true, the game'd be a far shorter game.
Otherwise fantastic, Looking up cheats in fake 'zines is crazy.
What do you want me to say? I think I saw god in here somewhere.
Definitely not as good at this game as I assumed I'd be. Maybe an iota more explanation would've taken out some of the frustration of this game. Despite, left me sorta wanting. But hey, keep the rhythm games comin.
I had a friend who was really stoked about how the combat looked in this game and was devastated when it turned out to be mash-y. I actually enjoyed the game as a whole quite a lot. It felt like a poor man's Mass Effect with the dialogue system, and I sorta like how the experience and abilities all worked into the dialogue and other acts you committed. Kept my interest in a way that tells me it was an enjoyable game.
Two analog stick games like this on the PS2 always seemed funky to me. How are you not supposed to cheat on the final boss? Better than you'd think a "Jet Li's" game is gonna be, but still nowhere what the pitchmen would have you believe.
This game was super super hard. I still dunno how I trekked through the whole thing. Skin of my teeth this one. Gorgeous design though.
Well that got weird. Thanks for that Fez-like experience without spoiling it Brad!
Wasn't sure if I had beaten this before, so I went through it again just in case. Yep, that's Kirby!
Just enough crazy platforming in a real sexy art style to make this more than worth going through.
Finally a proper Kirby game! Hits all those simple platform parts of the brain with all those lovely Kirby powers. May be my last Wii game.
I like that they didn't go into the backstory here, it was just "here's a game, GO". Good, but it's missing something to make it great.
A fun game that knows how to do quick right.
This is like if Bayonetta was done all wrong. I will say this though, truly gorgeous game. I've never seen video game scenery like this.
I MUST be runnin outta games if I'm beating the game that came with my system. Maybe I should do all those Mario sports games on the gamecube...
My hand didn't appreciate this game (crampy). No wonder FPSes didn't pick up on the DS. Have /any/ worthwhile games come out for the DS in 2011 though? Seems dead.
They made some real novel concepts here in bringing over the film concepts. Good addition, shame they didn't get to make another.
One of the best games on the PS2, hands down. The leveling systems, the traversal, the bonus levels. Arg, so perfect! And no one's played it!
Seemed easier than the first, but that's only cuz those purple coins were killer. 120 and done.
Finally had enough time away from the franchise to love it all over again. Great improvements across the board (aside from stupid rover to stupid probes). Can't wait for 3. Also, Mordin died for /no/ reason.
Got through this in 3, 4 hours? Glad to have played it, not sure I'd recommend it. The music and announcers felt nicely genuine.
Huge improvement over the original. Everything you wanted fixed is fixed. Things you didn't even think were missing, now in the game. Great, relaxing fun.
Beat the DS version too. Easiest platform out there.
I'm glad it took me a while after Blur to play this game. It's very much the same racing/battle scratch, but in a different enough way to make me wanna 100% this bad boy too (which I did, goddamn detonator levels...). Very pleasing experience here.
This was a weird, really really hard game as a kid. The last level had this stupid slots thing that you had to do in a certain amount of time (or was it pulls) to win. Totally bogus.
A nearly exact iteration from the first. I played this way after the first, so it felt like it wasn't as eye-opening. Still every bit as fun though.
My first foray into this franchise. I liked it! All the holds and counters get pretty intense, but it felt good. This confirms Virtua Fighter as being dead last of the big fighting games.
This is one ugly ass game. It plays like alotta crap too, but I remember liking it, probably cuz of the fan service of including everyone ever.
Ho lord. Lazy zombie Sigma is worst Sigma. Series sorta jumped the shark giving X the sabre. This and X5 had quality music still though.
This game absolutely grew on me. Didn't see the flag races and all the other window dressing as a detraction from the new ideas that sprang from this game.
Most boring, repetitive of the bunch. Definitely limited by the PSP
I got through it quick, so this was an easy strategy game. Does anyone else just assume that in every strategy game you'll have funny multi-click responses a la Warcraft II?
This was real enjoyable. We need more Nintendo games that stretch out the few characters they have into crazy new genres like this more often.
This game surprised the hell outta me. I never really like these mech games, but this was so smooth, so good in how the combat felt, I had to play this until I beat it. Thought it would be one of the better mech games, until...
Yo, it's a Trauma Center game. Thankfully a tad easier than the others, but I've taken to skipping the story entirely at this point. Who cares who put those shotgun shells in that dog, get em out!
The same but far worse!
Well this was better than the first, that's for sure. Not in love with this though.
Thought this was good way back when, maybe it was the Green Jelly music. Looks pretty awful, doesn't play much better.
Oh, I beat this? Shows how much I'm fully apathetic to this series.
Came back to it a year or two later remembering it as controlling poorly, and guess I just stopped at the wrong point. Actually a solid feelin game. Now I can see why Jeff likes it so much.
Helluva game! Fixed everything that I griped about with the first, and boy that ending was something to behold.
And here I thought this'd be a fun little game. Nope. I fought the controls at every turn. And that's made all the more infuriating by the fact that after your 5 lives are gone, you "Game Over" and get thrown back to the main screen. The concept was fun, the game was not though.
Was really really bad/rusty at this game at first, but once I got a feel for the vehicles, I was relatively back in it. I remember sorta breaking the game at the final boss, but whatever, got beat.
A fighting game I can beat in 20 minutes? Done.
A classic! I remember seeing a friend playing it and thinking it looked majestic, but didn't have any interest in "games with numbers" (RPGs, basically). A couple years later, this game took me in and I became engrossed hard. That mask dude was creepy. I still have to play Sei. Den. 3 and Secret of Evermore...
I'm a British gentleman. I've turned into a young explorer! I GAIN POWER THROUGH TETRIS ATTACK! JESUS CHRIST IT'S TEA TIME! THIS IS THE BEST GAME EVER!
Really, it's stupendous.
Played Red Joker. Again, hated the bosses. Some of the levels felt fresh though. Literally thought I was playing 2 for the first few hours though.
So very short and lacks memorable moments. Decent customization of weapons, but nothing spectacular.
Played this on PC actually. First Sonic game I legit beat. Ykno I liked it. Definitely with Jeff on this one being the best.
Illusion of Gaia's sorta predecessor. Mix that game with Actraiser and you get this game. It's pretty good, probably would've loved it as a kid, but I played this real late in life.
Oh, hey Ultimate Destruction but shinier. Seemed a little weak for a sequel to that monster. Maybe cuz it was movie-tied. Also pre-Prototype.
Felt a bit worse than X4, but still quality. Hueg Sigma pales in comparison to Kaiser Sigma in X3 or whenever that was. And that space shuttle garbage? Who thought that was an idea?!
The best of girlfriend games. Eponymous and I played through this all the way. Hit a hard part? Grab the other player and go. Impossibly adorable. But don't come lookin for a challenge.
Okay, hear me out. REALLY good fighting game. Like I'm astounded how great it is. The characters actually lend themselves well to this. It's a weird not-3D sorta deal, story is, well, it keeps things going. Emerl's a beast once you get to that part in the story. Really quality.
As you'll find out much like Sonic, I like my Spider-Man games too. Actually played this after the sequel. Final boss should be added to the list of nightmare fuel.
Maybe it was cuz this was my first Spider-man game after SNES, but this one seemed really awesome at the time. Getting all the different costumes with abilities was a great reason to replay. Probably doesn't hold up anymore, but I remember it fondly.
I dunno why they made this game, and I dunno why I played it. But I did, and it's done. So let's not speak of it.
PS2 and DS (for some reason). Guess I felt like playing a mindless game during work breaks. Interesting melding of 616/Movie/Ultimate universes? I got nothin.
Why is Mysterio the bad guy in SO many games? He's so uninteresting compared to other masterminds that could be it. I guess it's easy to make him final boss-y.
Mysterio being voiced by Megatron excited and confused me. Maybe its my Spider-softspot but I relatively enjoyed this. NPH (who I adore) was awful, maybe it was the writing. Ultimate's Keaton is the BEST, 2099 is new and old at the same time, and Christopher Daniel Barnes as Noir/Arkham Asylum? *swoon* My 1990s Spider-man. Whatever, I enjoyed it.
It was funny, the most interesting parts of this game were the interpretations of non-movie bosses. FUCK BALLOONS! What a fantastic open-world game though. And Bruce Campbell!
THAT PIZZA SONG! I still love this game just for that music. Definitely better than the first. More Bruce Campbell!!
Bruce Campbell is now the only reason I'm playing this. A step down, but that still puts it 10 steps above the movie.
Whiniest voice actor I've ever heard. Air fighting was pretty neat, symbiote-d bosses were at least halfway interesting (that 2nd vulture fight was crazy, like 10 minutes just in the air). Definitely some things to be fixed if they wanna ever do this again.
Bought alongside Shadow Complex cuz I had leftover money. I now think of donuts every time I pick someone up. Kinda wonder what Twisted Pixel could make out of a full retail game. They sure as hell do these throwbacks real well.
Probably a stretch to most, but getting to space was all I intended to do, and I did that. Since there's a solid cutoff period, I'm gonna count it. If it was more open-ended like, say Sims 3, I wouldn't add it whatsoever. For the record though, I got my lifetime goal and died a happy, wealthy man in that game, so that one's kinda done too.
I never beat Spyro 1? Hm...I mean there's so many of em, I can't remember one over another, but I could've sworn...well the Cheetah was annoying, but I don't really remember much else. Probably fun but doesn't hold up? Yay PSX!
The one with the eggs? Okay, I remember that being pretty enjoyable.
Press the screen until you win. Very cute, and even some witty lines in there. Just a couple hours.
My very first N64 game. Stayed up til 3am (got to Aquos) with it. Gold medals on every level. I loved the SNES version, but I loved this way more. Still play this every now and again.
Some levels are just like an updated Starfox that you know and love. A couple crappy on-land levels, but not too many. Story gets sorta dark. Probably a good idea I skipped Adventures, right?
Sorta odd feeling with there not being any runs in the entire game. You had to get pretty good at this to beat it. Some characters were fun, others were atrocious. Mixed bag!
Sorta good? How did that happen? It actually felt kinda nice to slice through stuff with the lightsaber.
Was nice to see how crazy force powers could get. More Vader-walk. Most of the bosses didn't feel very good. Pretty stoked to see what II's gonna do as the developers are saying they went even farther with the powers.
Guess what? It's a bullet time third person shooter. Imagine Max Payne with better graphics and a weaker story, and there you are. I appreciate them trying to continue Tequila's story some more though.
This is the version of Street Fighter III I played. GODDAMNIT GIL! Sexy menu music too. Didn't really like most of the new characters.
Crazy good lookin game, very quick too.
Really shouldn't have played these one after the other the day I did. For me anyways, adventure games wear very thin very fast. Felt more and more directionless as it went on, but it sorta came back at 5 since they just went total FAN SERVICE with it.
I had the honor and the privilege to play this wonderful little game. I actually have a save a third of the way through Suikoden II somewhere too...wonder if I'll ever be able to finish that up.
Anyways, as you can imagine, this was a really great experience, this game. Having 3-5 in queue is pretty daunting though. That's alotta 108's.
So tried as I might, I was never able to play Tales of Phantasia. The controls were just too abstract. But I feel like I redeemed myself (marginally) by playing through and enjoying the hell outta this series. Dungeon crawler upgrading weaponcraft action rpg style? Yes.
Story seemed a bit weaker than the first (or at least predictable). Same great gameplay, less filling?
I remember playing almost this exact game on the GBA and being really good at it. Whatever the case, I had lost that magic by the time this DS version came out. NBA Jam for the playground.
Like I'm gonna even try.
Was worried I was gonna get sucked into getting the whole 120 stars once I started. Guess what? Happened. Great game. Won't say it's /better/ than Mario 64, but it's definitely that game for this generation of video games.
Despite the great visuals and neat art design, somehow still more boring than the Call of Duty franchise. Good on them for making it a more personal story, but who cares?
A little improved over the first two, I think I may've even liked this one?
Boring and repetitive despite a good mix of bad guys. At least twice as long as it needed to be.
I like how the guys went from military lingo to grunts and curses. Really good way to show how messed up this all got. Forget Arkham Asylum Batsuit degradation, these guys got torn.up. Shame it didn't have a bit more gameplay-wise, cuz that would've made this fantastic instead of just a fine game with a great story.
Took 70 lives to get through the whole game, then another 80 just for the final boss. Still not as hard as I thought it'd be. A good old fashioned platformer scratch was itched.
The changes are there, but it's Mega Man X to the core. Definitely easier though. And who even cares about playing as Vile?
A little less patient with the riddles this time around, but this continues to be a solid franchise.
So I forget what convinced me to buy a Dreamcast, but I did, and I got this. Now I assure you it's nostalgia, but I remember loving this game somethin fierce. Maybe it was cuz it was the first Sonic game I owned, maybe it was the multiple character playthroughs that blew my mind at the time. But I basically got every emblem in this.
So I never played the first one, but it wasn't really needed for this. Much like Jeff said, once you get the stealth buff, you're golden. Killing humans is a waste of time. Otherwise pretty durn generic.
While it had a good personality, it really did feel like a tutorial for how to play the game. And cuz of that, I feel like I barely got what I should've. Only had to try on the last mission. Good effort though.
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