I would, but I haven’t even played HDR since Arcade In A Box in 2009, let alone the good stuff.
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More than a few people never played ST competitively before HDR launched and now they’re really good, time isn’t an excuse son!
I thought you just said ggpo has a pool of thirty players?
If you have new blood, where the old at?
Is rcadio still on there?
Has missing person gotten passable yet?
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I worded myself poorly I just meant ST scene (offline) is a lot more alive than most if not all old games but compared to any current ones like AE or UMVC it’s as dead as the mystery of your identity.
HDR brought lots of newblood to ST marsgatti AKA best guile in the U.S and top8 final at tournament of legends started with HDR. Rcaido AKA baklakiller occasionally still plays he’s surprisingly a decent geif. Never knew missing person was on ggpo what’s his tag?
Sid Meier’s Pirates! is the best one. Just perfect design in simplicity and complexity, and while sailing at sea can be a little dull when the wind isn’t in your favor, it changes your mood as if it was a sea voyage. You can’t wait for landfall or to see another ship. And then there’s the ton of replayability and things to do: save your family, become a pirate, become a duke, find buried treasure, steal the silver train, eradicate a nationality from the carribean, fencing, land battles, amass a fleet, find a wife, become a merchant, eliminate spies… that’s just off the top of my head.
Most games today don’t even have all that. This free roaming adventure was made in 1987.
FF:X
I spent the better part of a summer just grinding the shit out of that game. It just had such a great cast of chars IMO with some serious development. On the sappy side I really loved the Yuna/Tidus thing [the whole suteki da ne scene was gorgeous]. As a kid there’s something I really liked about Tidus and Jecht, like even the dad didn’t know how to deal with it and they all had to sorta ‘grow’ into it with that high 5 as a great payoff. Really like how they reworked that dynamic in Dissidia 2. The whole twist that the pilgrimage was a fraud resulting in the Yunalesca fight was hella epic. Too me that was a more realistic turn on the whole beat up the relevant pretty person to save the world it really felt like they had to put in THAT WORK to make a change in the world. And of course all the internal conflicts the natives had to go through.
On the gameplay side it just had so much to do too. So much secret stuff and the progressive nature of the creature arena was addicting as hell. Hell I even loved blitzball, tried to get all the skills and make the best damn team. Battle system was quick, freakishly fluid and fun and the sphere grid was a good way of distinguishing chars at the beginning and then giving insane flexibility in the end tho I picked Auron as one of the chars to min/max like a scrub D:
So like. Where’s that HD rehash squaresoft?
It was a really good game, for sure, good story and decent characters, I’ve tried to beat it twice after I beat it the first time, and I’ve pretty much accepted it’s probably not going to happen again.
FF:X has two large minuses for me. The laugh, idk how you still get voice acting so bad for one of the most popular and highly respected (grain of salt a lot of people like the fuckin series OK?!) video game series of all time. And the shit was too easy, you at least had to grind in other FF games, which is a problem in and of itself if you ask me. But you could switch characters every fight and just arpe every fight and have all of your characters godlike at the end game. I don’t mean to shit on your favorite game, cuz I beat and did enjoy it but I found a couple things to be lacking.
EDIT: I mean the laugh scene by the way… Seriously that shit was so memorably terrible, I want to post it so everybody who hasn’t played the game to know what I’m talking about but fuck that.
Nah, I get you guys. The game doesn’t have the most compelling replay value of all time given the RE style world map and MS Excel style airshippin’ making the game feel fairly aggressively linear. Also some parts of the game are, how do you say. LESS FUN than others. Balloon catching and lightning dodging come to mind. As for the laugh bit, whether you’re in the camp of it sounds forced because it is forced [Yuna is trying to cheer up a fairly despondent Tidus who in turn tries to return the feeling through gritted teeth] or whether the VAs just dropped the ball - shrug I didn’t really notice since I was so wow’ed by Voice Acting in a FF game and now I just have good feelings about it all around so it gets a bit glossed over.
As for difficulty, yeah its now hard, but I mean RPGs that have leveling systems have a tendency to slide that way. I remember the Yunalesca fight being a bitch the first time through and the Omega Ruins while not hard, could random kill you whenever that slimy marboro slithered on screen…the creature arena was also a nice exercise in critical thinking, but as you say not really hard or anything.
shrug its not really the kinda thing you return to over and over, its more of an experience that you can get through once[or 4 times] take it out, recall the good times, put it in your collection and then rant about on every vaguely related forum like a frothing lunatic.
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Wipeout HD+Fury for PS3. Maybe not my absolute favorite all-time but definitely from this generation. Coming from somebody who only plays arcade-style games, in what’s supposed to be a non-FG topic.
Dynamite Cop for Dreamcast. what was i thinking when i gave that game away?
Impossible for me to accurately answer this, but I can give some honorable mentions right?
FE7 (GBA) - Omg I’m a huge FE fan. I’ve played Fire Emblem GBA like a billion times already, and it never gets old. Never. What I like about the game is that somebody can suck ass on one playthrough, then be a pure badass the next. You can never stick to one guy because you can never depend on how the RNG will determine how good characters become.
**Dragon Age Origins (PC) **- The first DA was very solid. I’ve played this one countless times as well, soooo many options and customs to choose from. This game was actually the last one I’ve spent at least over 66 hours on dating back to when it came out (2009).
**FF7 (PSOne) **- Sure, call me a fanboy/whatever. I really enjoyed this game despite the mixed opinion it gets, and it’s probably my favorite FF with 9 coming a close second.
**Sonic 3K **- There’s just something about blazing through levels as Hyper Sonic that’s still very appealing to me. It doesn’t have that “blown away” feeling I had as kid, but it’s still up there with the best of them.
GTA3 - This game honestly changed the world. I could be having a real F up day in real life, then enter GTA3 and just take my fustration out on everybody walking the streets with tanks, flamethrowers, motors, shit was totally bizzare.
Super Mario Bros. 3 - Broken power ups, interesting levels, mario at his best. I love SMB3, and I can play it anytime without feeling bored.
This. No other sequel surpasses the original like JSRF. I was blown away by the Dreamcast one, but JSRF took everything great about the original, improved it, then improved it again. Every new area had me stupefied. Shenmue came real close, but JSRF sucked me in. I unlocked everything, I did everything. It’s absolutely incredible.
But if I HAD to pick something that wasn’t JSRF:
-Virtua Tennis 1. The most intense tennis game ever created. Endless replay value if you are with friends who like it as much as you do. Which I am lucky enough to have. Tennis. Serious tennis. VT2 sucked. VT3 was on easy mode. VT4 I haven’t played. But 1 is still the best in my opinion.
-Windjammers
-Twinklestar Sprites
-Puzzle Fighter
Then Sonic 2 somewhere at the bottom
Shout outs to Ninja Five-O on the gba
Greatest game? I wouldn’t say I have one but I can say some that are really great.
The Shin Megami Tensei series. I’ve been playing that a long time ago when they had games on a regular Gameboy.
The Etrian Odyssey series on the Nintendo DS. I love dungeon crawlers and its easily one of the hardest RPG games I’ve played. This is without using cheap builds and such but those are still fun to use too.
Pokemon, even if people didn’t really like it. It stuck with me while I was a kid and still stuck on me even when I’m older. I’m not all fanboy about it anymore like I was when I was kid but playing competitively here and there is pretty fun.
Street Fighter series. Played back on the arcade, came out on console and played it too. Still have some SF game cartridges back on SNES on hand still.
Just a ton of classic SNES games in general like Battletoads and all those other awesome games.
The list can go on forever.
Metal Gear Solid 1
Because: It is the only game I watched being developed for two years, then played for two years. That’s two and two together.
Every demo, every sticker, every magazine cover featuring MGS prior to it’s release, I hunted down. Big deal for an eleven-year-old.
Snake’s character has inspired me on different levels. Kojima’s writing illuminated me. Snake’s struggles affected me personally.
It happened again with MGS3.
It’s happening now with Tekken x Street Fighter; my soon-to-be favorite game of all eras.
Lol, word.
I knew rcadio had a killer geif - he formed his current physique in a failed attempt to emulate geif, whilst living on the asian wife gravy train (ergo why he bitches about looking more like honda).
Missing Person is Missing Person on GGPO.
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Rcaido is like the only guy in the nw who actually plays hdr lol
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The only bad thing about FF10 is the voice acting.