The Greatest Videogame You've Ever Played

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also, someone mentioned gta san andreas.
ok, i’ll admit its one of the greatest sims ever made.
that said, my major gripe with gta is that…why the hell is it that if i failed a mission i’d have to drive all the fucking way back to my boy’s crib to retart the mission?
if i fail a mission, what the developers shoulda done is when the screen says MISSION FAILED, make a screen that follows it saying RETRY press X on the left, QUIT press O so if i or anyone wants to retry the mission…
they don’t have to drive 10,000 miles in a world built to scale…which translates as taking 45 minutes just to get back to friend’s crib to retry the damn mission.
case in point.
that mission where you had to drive that fat bastard friend that tries to shoot them mexican’ts from the top of that moving cargo train.
so i get to his house, he tells me he needs to eliminate mexs from moving train.
ok?
i drive the bike, he sits behind and machine guns them fools.
ok?
seems fine.
meanwhile…it takes like 10 minutes to get there.
seems reasonable.
mexicans and train go for a ride.
my job is simple.
drive motorcycle as friend tries to shoot said mexicans from train.
ok.
should be a piece of cake.
uh oh.
seems like…wait…this cpu controlled fat bastard is THE worst shot in the history of shooting. guy’s shooting everything EXCEPT the mexicans! shooting the ground, the train, rocks, clouds, birds, lamp posts, literally everything under the sun CEPT the freakin mexicans!!!

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so what happens?
mission failed!
coz cpu controlled fat friend sitting behind me seems to need glasses.

ok,

so i’ll try it again.

wait.

where the fuck am i?

i’m in the middle of fucking no where!

all i see is no man’s land forest and train tracks.

lemme look at the map for a second so i can pinpoint my location in comparison to the mission spawn point.

oh dear lord.

seems i’m 10,000 miles away from fat bastard’s house!
so wait…

i gotta drive all the way back JUST to retry the mission?
the mission that was fail only due to cpu being the world’s worst shot?
that i had no control over whatsoever?

ugh.

well…
maybe the trip back won’t take to long.
i’m on a motorbike.
if i go max speed.
and dodge and swerve through traffic.
shouldn’t take TOO long.

right?

WRONG!

45 minutes later…

i get back to my kfc lovin homboy’s crib.

so let’s review.

it takes 5-10 minutes from my house to get to friend’s house to spawn his mission.
the trip to mexican’s train spot takes 10 minutes.

train takes off. i follow.
mission is like 2-3 minutes long.

mission failed, but it takes 45 minutes to get back to homboy’s house to retry!

why god why?
why did the developers not employ a retry/quit selection screen after you fail a mission…so if you choose to retry the damn mission you can RESPAWN BACK TO HOMBOY’S CRIB so you DON’T find yourself driving for 45 minutes just to retry a mission that only lasts 2 minutes!!! a mission i failed through no fault of my own. just random dumb luck if you succeed or fail.
its like they(rockstar) never even bothered to play their own gta games.

ROCKSTAR trolls the whole world with their gta series.
god damnit!

that particular mission took me 30 freakin attempts.

shit was purgatory. dare i say a living hell.

if it wasn’t for those mision fail=drive 10,000 miles back to respwn mission=45 minutes of needless unwanted journeying only to get more and more frustrated by bad mission design…it would be a perfect game. almost perfect.

i did have a ton of fun though.
the working out. the shopping, the radio. heh, andy dick’s spoof of a homosexual botonist dj.
the pool games.

but the best thing was the camera and photo-momento gathering.

i just went to the beach and took pics of a ton of tits and asses.

lol.

bikini camel toe everywhere.
and i just took pics of fat jiggly polygon ass like a true perv.

oh, but my favorite pics was of two things.

1-there was a shooting. a police shooting that didn’t involve my character. i was just driving and there was this stand off between police and this one guy. i don’t know why. got there late. anywho, so the guy ended up getting shot to death by a mob of police.
so i calmly walk over after the shooting passed and took a pic of the guy lying on the ground. dead as a possum, blood everywhere. i stood over his corpse and took a close up pic of his face.
it was pretty tragic looking really.
2-one night at the beach when all the “white” folks left the beach and the “minority” gangstas where hanging out at the pier…i found a group of 4 dudes smokin blunts and drinking 40s. my side. greenies.
so i took a pic of them, with the moon behind them, on a starry night…
and i managed to take the pic right when one of them lifted his head to blow out the weed smoke upwards.
so i managed to take a pic of the smoke exiting homboy’s grill.
a splendid lil moment, i must say.

so…
i think that game is genius.
but the mission are broken as fuck and that whole “fail mission, drive 10,000 milres back just to retry said broken mission”, makes that game a no-go for me, imo.

did you enjoy my post?
i know you did.:razzy:

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Super Mario World

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you have to click everything in diablo games, I know ive beaten diablo 1 and 2

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The best video game I’ve ever played? It’s kinda hard to say; I’ve played so many great games. But when it comes down to it…

Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask.

Even with just 4 main dungeons, the game still felt lengthy. There was a ton of stuff to do, tons of side quests, and I felt that it had the perfect difficulty level. It definitely wasn’t too easy, but it also wasn’t too hard. The bosses felt challenging, but they didn’t feel unbeatable. It was also the one Zelda game (3D anyway) that seemed to make doing sidequests for better items and extra empty bottles worth it. It was definitely still possible to beat the game without upgrading your sword, but it was a lot more difficult to do so. Getting extra empty bottles for potions, or rescuing the stray fairies in the dungeons actually felt rewarding because of the higher overall difficulty.

I just feel that Majora’s Mask is the perfect Zelda game. In my personal opinion, if there is a Zelda game that the next game needs to “surpass,” it’s Majora’s Mask, not Ocarina of Time. Ocarina of Time was an amazing game, but in terms of gameplay, I feel that Majora’s Mask is just better.

I really, really can’t wait for them to make a remake of Majora’s Mask on the 3DS. Though in a way I’m more looking forward to a brand new 3DS Zelda. :slight_smile:

Honorable mentions (in order):

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Super Smash Brothers (N64)
Kid Icarus: Uprising
Kingdom Hearts 3D
Need for Speed: Most Wanted

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Yeah I used to have a Multitap so me and my friends would get together and smash that game constantly. One the most fun modes was Virus mode, where you had to run from the infected players for as long as possible.

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For me its between:
FFX
RE4
Bioshock
Jet Set Radio (Dreamcast)
Catherine

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Honorable Mentions (Not in order):

Sonic and Knuckles
Super Mario 64
Ocarina of Time
Goldeneye 007
Tekken 3
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Star Wars KOTOR
Halo 2
Halo 3 (My very first Xbox Live game)
WWE Smackdown Here Comes the Pain
NBA Street Vol. 2
Burnout 3 Takedown (My most addicting game)
Kingdom Hearts 2
Resident Evil 4
God of War
Twilight Princess
Bayonetta (Best experience I’ve had with any action game)

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Yo that was basically my comment lol

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LOL My computer often messes up the links like that for some reason. Edited original post

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[media=youtube]uCGFsK6n774[/media] greatest FPS series ever, even better then halo.

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I wanted to say Super Mario World but honestly I found SMB3 more fun to play. That’s not to say it isn’t a good game though.

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You don’t like YOSHI?

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I guess you didn’t know you could bind your skills instead of having to click them all day like a scrub. I said this in my last post, but your’re so thick-headed it didn’t go through.

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I can’t pin down just one, so I’ll give an approximate top 5 (in no order).

Tie: Lunar: The Silver Star & Lunar 2: Eternal Blue (1992 / 1994)****: Two great turn-based RPGs. Unlike many RPG franchises, the sequel was just that - a sequel. As in, it continued the story from the first game, just a few hundred years later, and filled in some of the hanging plot holes. Most people tend to pick the first game over the second, but I like 'em both the same. Lunar 2 may actually be better (Sega CD version specifically for added difficulty), but you really need to play Lunar 1 first in order to fully appreciate the story. To put it mildly, seeing these games in magazines in the 90’s with their animated cutscenes and bright graphics filled me with so much envy for anyone who happened to own a Sega CD. I dreamed of this stuff, man. Fortunately, they were both ported to the PS1 several years later, and they did not disappoint. To this day, they remain some of my most favorite RPGs ever. Lunar 2’s epilogue after the main story is such a cool idea and really adds life to the game.

**Odin Sphere (2007): This one’s here mostly because it reminds me so much of Secret of Mana (see below), right down to the ring menu item system. It’s like if SoM and a classic 2D Capcom beat 'em up had a child who was one of those uppity bookish types who really liked Shakespeare and Wagner. Five characters each with their own playstyle and stories (even if they re-use the same areas) and lots of challenge. The story’s a little “ehh”, but the graphics are some of the best 2D art on the PS2. Play this in an emulator with upscaling and it could pass for HD easily.

Duke Nukem 3D (1995): I’m not an FPS player in the slightest, but I know what I like, and I like Duke. Up until this game, the only shooters I had any experience with were Wolfenstein and Rise of the Triad, and this blew ‘em both away. I love the interactivity with the levels - blowing up walls, kicking trash cans, strippers, and all those crazy weapons. Most of which weren’t necessary at all, but shrink-n-stompin’ is always fun), as is filling a room with 50 pipebombs and blowing some pig cop to dust. Downloadable levels, mods, and bots gave this game a crazy long life.

Pokemon Crystal (2000)**:** Every gamer of a certain age played or at least had a passing interest in Pokemon at some point, even if they won’t admit it now. Even if some parts of the franchise like the TV show don’t really hold up to snuff, the games rightfully deserved every bit of attention they got. The Game Boy was pushed to its limits for Red & Blue, and even though I thought those games were pretty good, Gold, Silver, and Crystal, to me, is the concept fully realized. Crystal in particular has the most content, so if I’d have to narrow it down to one, that’d be it. Not only does it have the original region from the first game (sort of making it two games in one), but it takes the original gameplay elements and improves upon them without moving too far from its simple 8-bit roots like in later games. With so many party/move combinations, it’s still playable to this day (assuming your battery isn’t dead).

Mega Man 3 (1990): Everyone’s quick to say that Mega Man 2 is the best in the series, and while I do really like that one, I like Mega Man 3 a little bit more. Both are some of the best platformers on the NES, a system that did platformers better than just about anything else, but MM3 inches ahead in a few ways. The controls are just a little more tight, the graphics are a bit more detailed, and the atmosphere a little bit darker. I also like how you get to fight the robots from MM2 at one point. Rush is cool, but he’s not a deal-breaker; the rest of the game is just so well done and offers more of a challenge than the first two MM games, and even some since. I’m also a big fan of the music.

Honorable Mention:

**Secret of Mana (1993): It may be a buggy, broken-down, easily abusable mess with an incredibly truncated English script, but this game blew my mind in 1993. It took the best parts of Final Fantasy and Zelda, threw ‘em together, and gave us three unique playable characters you can switch on the fly. We’re talkin’ a three player, completely real time ARPG on the SNES with amazing music and a genuinely sad ending.

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…Pokemon.
It’s long, it’s pointless, it’s repetitive.
I LOVE IT.

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only glanced from the first page but how in the hell is FF7 over rated? it’s like it’s cool to say the game is over rated now a days. anyone who says that really doesn’t understand the game.

but anyways to answer the OPs question.

the greatest game i’ve played is SMT: Nocturne

the greatest series i’ve played is Koudelka/Shadow Hearts

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blanket statements ftw

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For real, Why the hate? 4,5,6,7 were all equally worthy of mad respect

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Because hating on popular things is cool…

p.s. for the dude who needs to know - I like portal and portal 2 for the isolated feeling they give me. I probably like that feeling because I never actually get to be alone.