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The SNES-athon sold me on being a monthy subscriber. This did not sell me on why I should renew after my first month though. I didn't see any new features that make it worth my time.

I would pay for more retro quick looks though like the snes stuff and random pc games. We'll see once my subscription expires later this month.

Giant Bomb and Tested segments are the only ones I watch really. I can't really stand to listen to Comic Vine's or Screened's.

If done correctly, a console-focused MMO, this could be the next PSO.

Online on the Wii is a great idea. If they could make a successful console mmo, it could be PSO all over again.

Donkey Kong Country 2.

They're all great though. It caused me pain when some dude requested DKC2 during the SNES-athon, and no one from the entire staff has a single DKC cart.

Yakuza Endurance Run. Wait no. Yakuza series Endurance Run. All games back to back.

@Jolt92 said:

Yoshi's Island is fucking great, I also can say now that Yoshi's Story might not be a great game, but I fucking love that too. "beeeee caaaaarefuuull~!

Yeah, Yoshi's Story wasn't anywhere near as good as Yoshi's Island, but I still enjoyed it myself. Still a real colorful and cool looking game. Same goes for Yoshi's Island 2 on the DS. I probably liked Yoshi's Story more than that though.

@iAmJohn said:

Yeah, between their hatred of Yoshi's Island and their saying really stupid fucking things like "they should never make another Metroid game," I think Jeff and Ryan need to do us all a favor and never have an opinion on anything Nintendo does ever again, lest I have another aneurysm.

Haha, well, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Jeff also doesn't care for Super Metroid, which is crazy, but hey - whatever. I'm curious to what Brad will think of Yoshi's Island when he plays it eventually.

I just feel that sometimes, the younger crowd of Giant Bomb is too eager to hop on the bandwagon of the staff. And when it comes to games the younger users probably never played due to them being too young or....errrr....not even born yet - I don't want them to only have one viewpoint and think that games like Yoshi's Island, Donkey Kong Country, or Super Metroid are only "okay" games.

And that's another thing, it broke my heart during the SNES-marathon when a user requested DKC2 to be played, and no one of the entire Giant Bomb staff said they had any copies of the DKC games. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! I will admit I love the DKC series way more than your average person, but still, those games were huge when they came out.

One of my favorite Yoshi's Island tracks:

Super Mario World and Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island are the best Mario games.

Yoshi's Island is an amazing game. The graphics, music, characters, everything is superb.

When I was a kid playing this on the SNES, I could appreciate the graphics and the music, but the gameplay involving baby Mario turned me off. His cries were just too annoying for me at the time. But years later I revisited this title, and loved it fully. No game to this date has looked this pretty, and it has some unique gameplay quirks going too. Even the story and the characters are great. That Kamek wizard dude was sweet, and all the boss fights are fun too. The last boss fight is one of the coolest boss fights in a Mario game.

Then Kirby just straight jacked this game's style in recent years. And as cool as it looked, I thought that game was super boring to play through. A little bit too easy difficulty-wise I guess?

Lame.