GameFAQs Contests
Time for a new list: my top 222 games (with short writeups).
| trannyscience | Posted 5/1/2008 6:24:20 PM | message detail | #001 |
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This list is dumb as hell. It's too big for anyone's good, and I could
have made it a lot bigger if I wanted to include the plethora of crappy
Atari, SMS and PC games I played back in the 80s, or the trillion
stupid arcade games that I spent way too many quarters on. You know,
back when arcades mattered. I also had discussions with four different
people on whether or not skee-ball counted as a video game. They all
told me I was an idiot. I told them I would kick their ass at
skee-ball. They called me an idiot again. But I like the number 2. It sounds good. Two two two. So, 222 it is. It's probably wildly inaccurate. There's about 46 Final Fantasy games on it, another 97 Nintendo games, and a grand total of zero DEEP AND MEANINGFUL PORN GAMES. Sorry. There are a billion old games no one cares about and I'll probably hear "whoa, you're old" jokes about 49 times before I'm done. awww yeah let's do this --- http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/7019/blahru1.png been thinkin' about ye... |
| Not Dave | Posted 5/1/2008 6:24:46 PM | message detail | #002 |
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woo ND |
| Whit3_Rabb1t | Posted 5/1/2008 6:33:25 PM | message detail | #003 |
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awesome --- http://www.destructoid.com/elephant//ul/9855-550x-contra-poster-2-dsf.jpg |
| _Harmonica_ | Posted 5/1/2008 6:37:25 PM | message detail | #004 |
| get to work you lazy bum |
| _Harmonica_ | Posted 5/1/2008 6:37:50 PM | message detail | #005 |
| come on I haven't got all day |
| Haste_2 | Posted 5/1/2008 6:39:53 PM | message detail | #006 |
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Whoa, you're old. --- "Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So...what is a party?" "Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think." |
| Not Dave | Posted 5/1/2008 6:40:41 PM | message detail | #007 |
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hurry up old man i wanna see some games ND |
| trannyscience | Posted 5/1/2008 6:41:22 PM | message detail | #008 |
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222. Blades of Steel (NES) I remember the first time I played this thing, and I was amazed -- "whoa, the game just talked to me!" The BLADES OF STEEL voice will always stay with me, despite the fact that I have utterly no desire to ever play it again. Blades of Steel is pretty much the only hockey game I've ever played - it was memorable for its use of so-called "Konami sounds", something I can't quite describe but every Konami game had it in common, and for its awesomely pointless button-mashy fights. The entire time you're sitting there beating the hell out of each other, no one thinks to go and get the puck. Good stuff. 221. Pro Wrestling (NES) This game is probably best-known for the classic "A WINNER IS YOU", but it's actually a fun little game in moderation. Extreme moderation. Pro Wrestling features six different wrestlers, each with their own unique move. I always liked Starman because of that running body slam move that you could spam to death against the computer. I used to always love playing this game on Playchoice arcade machines -- does anyone actually know what I'm talking about? -- because it was the perfect game to play for 700 seconds or however long it was. And I love the name KIN KORN KARN for whatever reason. What a name. 220. Keith Courage in Alpha Zones (TG16) The pack-in game for the TG16, and the only game I had before my mother traded my TG16 for a broken dishwasher. (don't ask) Keith Courage is highly nostalgic for me.. until I start playing it, anyway. The controls are unresponsive and slow, the gameplay is repetitive, the engrish is great, and it was so easy to randomly game over. I had fun with this when I was a kid, but going to back to it, it's like "...why?" --- http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/7019/blahru1.png been thinkin' about ye... |
| kaonashi1 | Posted 5/1/2008 6:44:29 PM | message detail | #009 |
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a grand total of zero DEEP AND MEANINGFUL PORN GAMES total outrage imo also did you know if you switched an e for an i in 'transience' it anagrams to "ancient sir" or if you add an a it anagrams to "ancient arse" |
| Crystal King | Posted 5/1/2008 6:46:36 PM | message detail | #010 |
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Dumb-as-hell lists? I live for those! Tag! --- I ain't no garden-variety octopus! |
| Xuxon | Posted 5/1/2008 6:48:10 PM | message detail | #011 |
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I also had discussions with four different people on whether or not skee-ball counted as a video game. You're an idiot. But I like the number 2. It sounds good. Two two two. So, 222 it is. 2 is like z. zzz. See? --- DQVIII LLG - level 1/6/10/18, Dhoulmagus defeated (35 attempts) Brawl FC: 0344-9611-6716 |
| trannyscience | Posted 5/1/2008 6:49:53 PM | message detail | #012 |
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I hope you're not implying that sleep is a bad thing. No sir. --- http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/7019/blahru1.png been thinkin' about ye... |
| trannyscience | Posted 5/1/2008 6:50:26 PM | message detail | #013 |
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oh, and my name anagrams to nectarines, which is far better than any adding-letters crap. --- http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/7019/blahru1.png been thinkin' about ye... |
| Cybat | Posted 5/1/2008 6:51:28 PM | message detail | #014 |
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| Cybat | Posted 5/1/2008 6:52:23 PM | message detail | #015 |
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eh, why not (tag) --- Everyone has a right to sarcasm. It's like murder, except legal. - MYC |
| Xuxon | Posted 5/1/2008 6:53:50 PM | message detail | #016 |
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Nope. Sleep is good. And I thought you liked z. I vaguely remember
clicking your name and seeing the profile full of zyzzy or something. --- DQVIII LLG - level 1/6/10/18, Dhoulmagus defeated (35 attempts) Brawl FC: 0344-9611-6716 |
| Crystal King | Posted 5/1/2008 6:54:12 PM | message detail | #017 |
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Starman was great, but Amazon was amazing. It isn't every day that a
wrestler puts his pearly whites to work, but Amazon did it with style!
As much style as 8-bit graphics allowed, anyway. --- I ain't no garden-variety octopus! |
| Ed Bellis | Posted 5/1/2008 6:55:42 PM | message detail | #018 |
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i fully expect there to be like three games i've played on here all of them ending in "metroid" --- This was KING BELLIS LOL ed status: gone overboard |
| Sonic_Factor | Posted 5/1/2008 6:56:13 PM | message detail | #019 |
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I just hope this isn't another nintendo franchise dominated list.. --- Brawl FC: 3480-2245-9396 Name: Hero |
| Leon_Judas | Posted 5/1/2008 7:11:34 PM | message detail | #020 |
| Sweet. Blades of Steel. |
| trannyscience | Posted 5/1/2008 7:13:52 PM | message detail | #021 |
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I'm really not as indie as you think. Especially when it comes to games. 219. Altered Beast (Genesis) From the TG16 pack-in game to the Genesis one. Is it any wonder we stopped packing games in with consoles? Altered Beast is pretty terrible, but the unintentional comedy factor redeems it. It controls terribly until you transform into some random beast that is a thousand times better than the inexplicably naked guy with baseball bats for feet. Watching him lose clothing as you get POWER UPs is pretty hilarioous, as are the random quotes -- WISE FROM YO GWAVE and WELCOME TO YOUR DOOM -- all of which make it a great throwback game for ten minutes. 218. Duck Hunt (NES) Man, I hate this game. I just suck at it so bad. Whenever I play it, I have to go right up to the television and play like a four year old. I'm sure everyone did this when they were like 7, but I'm 27. :) 217. Star Tropics (NES) Cool idea, terrible execution. Star Tropics was a nifty little Zelda clone that would be fun to play if it didn't control like ass. Seriously, you can only move in like four directions and when the game gets harder you're fighting the control more than the enemies. The result is a letdown of a game. (And seriously, what was up with that weird copy protection in the letter attached? There has to be a story behind this.) --- http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/7019/blahru1.png been thinkin' about ye... |
| Ed Bellis | Posted 5/1/2008 7:14:59 PM | message detail | #022 |
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your signature disturbs me --- This was KING BELLIS LOL ed status: gone overboard |
| GuessMyUserName | Posted 5/1/2008 7:15:29 PM | message detail | #023 |
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From Ed Bellis Posted 5/1/2008 7:14:59 PM #022 your signature disturbs me |
| trannyscience | Posted 5/1/2008 7:20:34 PM | message detail | #024 |
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'tis the point --- http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/7019/blahru1.png been thinkin' about ye... |
| GuessMyUserName | Posted 5/1/2008 7:21:15 PM | message detail | #025 |
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you can't do that it's not doable |
| trannyscience | Posted 5/1/2008 8:29:10 PM | message detail | #026 |
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216. Arc the Lad (PS1) A sort-of-fun strategy RPG that has one fatal flaw - it's like five hours long. Seriously. It's like the opening chapter to a book, and while the book improved by leaps and bounds in the sequel, this game is essentially ruined. The biggest plot twist is seeing the ending credits, if I remember correctly. 215. Ehrgeiz (PS1) CLOUD AND SEPHIROTH IN A FIGHTING GAME THIS IS GOING TO BE SO GOD DAMN COOL Man, what a terrible fighting game. This is the ultimate button masher, where you can get utterly destroyed by someone just doing the same move over and over. It's terrible. The "whoa I'm playing on Sephiroth omg" factor is the only thing this has going for it, and that wears off after about 173 seconds. There's also a weird, seemingly unrelated adventure mode that I played for far longer than anyone else would have dared, and I had fun with that. Although I really don't remember a damn thing other than it was a repetitive dungeon crawler type thing. What a bad game. Fair or not, this is why I'm skeptical of Dissidia. 214. Gorilla (PC) Haha. This is a huge inside joke between Heroic Mario and myself: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ncykt-YJO1M GORILLA.BAS is a qbasic game that came with some version of DOS - 5.0, I think, not that anyone cares - with some of of the most hilarious effects ever. The awesome intro music. The exploding nuclear bananas. The taunting dance after you kill someone. Hitting the sun. This game is just hilarious, and while I actually liked the other game (Nibbles!) more, this thing is so funny that it's still worth playing. From GORILLA.BAS spawned a bunch of improved games like Scorched Earth and Worms: Armageddon, but I either haven't played those in a dozen years or never played them in the first place. The guy in that video is insane - dude played way too much Gorilla back in the day. I like how he sits there and thinks for a second, then changes his throw by 1 degree, and then nails the dude. ha. What the hell. Heroic Mario was so obsessed with it that he hit up google and found a remake that had tons of new features, from leaderboards to online play. We couldn't get online play to work -- too bad, because I would have busted his ass via nuclear banana -- but I did manage to beat the computer and get this amazing screenshot: http://imgcake.com/img/60/gorilla.jpg haha. this game is so classic. --- http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/7019/blahru1.png been thinkin' about ye... |
| the icon ownz all | Posted 5/1/2008 8:35:06 PM | message detail | #027 |
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"I told them I would kick their ass at skee-ball." bring it --- ICON: When there's nothing left to burn, you have to set Bidoof on fire. |
| trannyscience | Posted 5/1/2008 8:36:08 PM | message detail | #028 |
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i nail that 100 hole like i nailed your sister last month oooooh --- http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/7019/blahru1.png been thinkin' about ye... |
| the icon ownz all | Posted 5/1/2008 8:37:03 PM | message detail | #029 |
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it's possible she's in ontario and pregnant i mean you better watch yourself and by yourself i mean your back since the swinging motion can't be too good for it old man --- ICON: When there's nothing left to burn, you have to set Bidoof on fire. |
| trannyscience | Posted 5/1/2008 8:38:09 PM | message detail | #030 |
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resorting to old jokes is like resorting to picking on a friend's knocked up sister ...oh --- http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/7019/blahru1.png been thinkin' about ye... |
| Super Sonic 5 | Posted 5/1/2008 8:42:50 PM | message detail | #031 |
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Tag? --- Smash info: http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b150/AreoCrunch/ss5smashcard.png |
| TheKnightOfNee | Posted 5/1/2008 8:44:20 PM | message detail | #032 |
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Thank god, a list with old games, that means it will have games I've actually played and oh god, how did Altered Beat make this list Once you get the initial quote, it's all downhill --- Sushi, Kamikaze, Fujiyama, Nippon-Ichi... "you have to cut weiner holes in all of your hats, sorry" -gotspork |
| trannyscience | Posted 5/1/2008 8:45:52 PM | message detail | #033 |
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never underestimate the power of awesome quotes and baseball bats for feet --- http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/7019/blahru1.png been thinkin' about ye... |
| TheKnightOfNee | Posted 5/1/2008 8:47:50 PM | message detail | #034 |
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Oh how I do love my cheesy quotes IIDX games are great because those games are still packed with them in this day and age. --- Sushi, Kamikaze, Fujiyama, Nippon-Ichi... "you have to cut weiner holes in all of your hats, sorry" -gotspork |
| trannyscience | Posted 5/1/2008 9:50:29 PM | message detail | #035 |
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213. Final Fantasy 8 (PS1) It's so incredibly easy to make fun of this game, so I'll try to be brief. The gameplay is slow and boring, drawing is boring, GFs are awful, Triple Triad is something I hope I never have to do, the storyline is bad, but good compared to the disaster that is FF8's characters, I dislike making weapons, how enemies level up with you, and pretty much everything else about this game. It's probably the most disappointing game I've ever played, given the great track record of FF4/6/7. FF9 probably failed sales-wise because of how disappointing this game was. It's not all bad, though. I like the music. I'm trying to think of other things that I liked, but I think I blocked them out. :) I'm just irrational when it comes to FF8. 212. Rampage (multiplatform) One of those classic arcade games from the 80s that you can play forever. It's repetitive and kinda fun, and I used to play this thing endlessly when I was young. There's nothing noteworthy about this game whatsoever, though. oh and Lizzie > Ralph > George suck it George 211. Super Mario Bros. (NES) This is probably my pick for most "overrated" game of all time. I just don't enjoy it very much - I often end up dying by going too fast because I just get bored, hold run and go until I mess up. The gameplay is so unresponsive, which I could deal with if it had some fun level design.. but it doesn't until near the end, and I never bother to get that far. This game might be influential and all that, but it's aged terribly and isn't nearly as classic as Mario 3/World, if you ask me. --- http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/7019/blahru1.png been thinkin' about ye... |
| transience | Posted 5/2/2008 12:46:14 AM | message detail | #036 |
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210. Battletoads (NES) Man, I suck at this game. And I don't just say that because Battletoads is freaking hard - I'm probably worse than most, and I'm usually good at these kinds of games. Level 3 crushes me, and if I'm lucky enough to get past it, every other level brutalizes me too. I beat this game once using savestates and I still failed hard at it. Argh. 209. Mario 64 (n64) Here's another game I suck at. I finished it without too much trouble, but I didn't really enjoy it at all. I think it's the controls - I pretty much hated the 64 controller from the start, I didn't like the camera at all, and when I tried to play it again recently on the VC, I couldn't even control Mario. I figured that was the classic controller's fault as much as anything, but I just didn't have much fun with this game. I will give it one thing, though: its nonlinear design makes for great speed runs. Definitely a better game to watch than to play. 208. Super Baseball Simulator 1000 (SNES) This is the one baseball game I got into. BS1K is fun because it's completely unrealistic, what with its equippable powerups and stat boosts and who knows what else. It's fun to blast people with all kinds of different hits or throw several balls at once to confuse the opponent. It also plays simple, meaning there's no learning curve. I love simple sports games. --- xyzzy yzzyx xyzzy yzzyx xyzzy yzzyx xyzzy yzzyx yzzyx xyzzy yzzyx xyzzy yzzyx xyzzy yzzyx xyzzy |
| Lady Ashe | Posted 5/2/2008 12:50:06 AM | message detail | #037 |
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...64? Seriously? tranny = joke alt confirmed true gamers know that sm64 is top 10 material --- Lady Ashe. The Cream of Final Fantasy Fanboyism. http://club.ign.com/b/list/custom?&cList=105384&owner=Embok&mode=vown |
| ZFS | Posted 5/2/2008 12:51:44 AM | message detail | #038 |
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hail to gorilla --- 6.12.2008 -- Sneak Out |
| transience | Posted 5/2/2008 12:51:46 AM | message detail | #039 |
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you like deep and meaningful porn games --- xyzzy yzzyx xyzzy yzzyx xyzzy yzzyx xyzzy yzzyx yzzyx xyzzy yzzyx xyzzy yzzyx xyzzy yzzyx xyzzy |
| ZFS | Posted 5/2/2008 12:59:03 AM | message detail | #040 |
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Ha. The Baseball Simulator game was good fun back in the day. --- 6.12.2008 -- Sneak Out |
| TheKnightOfNee | Posted 5/2/2008 1:02:19 AM | message detail | #041 |
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Super Mario Bros really isn't that great. It's influential, but that's most of what it's got going for it these days. --- Sushi, Kamikaze, Fujiyama, Nippon-Ichi... "you have to cut weiner holes in all of your hats, sorry" -gotspork |
| spiegel22 | Posted 5/2/2008 1:20:02 AM | message detail | #042 |
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George does suck but Ralph is where it's at. You old bastard. Brawl FC -- 4425-1133-2606 || Pearl FC -- 4682-8533-6276 ~Ç~ Sonic! ^.^ |
| spiegel22 | Posted 5/2/2008 1:26:14 AM | message detail | #043 |
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<--- Also hooray for the large quantity of 2s. --- Brawl FC -- 4425-1133-2606 || Pearl FC -- 4682-8533-6276 ~Ç~ Sonic! ^.^ |
| transience | Posted 5/2/2008 1:28:02 AM | message detail | #044 |
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207. Mortal Kombat: Deception (multiplatform) 3d MK games are really not my cup of tea. I don't like sidestepping and weapons and stances and god knows what else goes into them. That said, I liked this game for a totally unexpected reason: Konquest mode. In the awfully-spelled Konquest mode, you follow a guy named Shujinko - basically, a Shang Tsung clone - throughout his life and run around hitting trigger points like an adventure game. It's got an in-game clock, tons of optional stuff, and a full-blown story that was entertaining in that lame Mortal Kombat way. I never really played the main game much and I was always like "man why do i like this augh", but I *did* have a decent amount of fun playing through that. 206. Asteroids (Atari 2600) I can hear the incessant Asteroids music just by thinking about it. It's probably the most memorable part of the game. Asteroids is repetitive as hell, but there's something fun about sitting there in the middle and shooting stuff. Whatever. Also, I just found this quote on wikipedia: On November 13, 1982, 15-year-old Scott Safran, of Cherry Hill, NJ, set a world record of 41,336,440 points on the classic arcade game Asteroids. He beat the 40,101,910 point score set by Leo Daniels of Carolina Beach on February 6, 1982. To congratulate Safran on his accomplishment, the Twin Galaxies Intergalactic Scoreboard searched for him for more than fifteen years, until 2002, when it was discovered that he had died in an accident in 1989. In a special ceremony in Philadelphia on April 27, 2002, Walter Day of Twin Galaxies presented a special award to the surviving members of Scott Safran's family, commemorating the Asteroid Champion's achievement. oh Comedian Jim Norton (Frrrrrrunkis) once got the high score for the game Asteroids. This led him to have his picture on a local New Jersey paper two columns from his hero, Ozzy Osbourne. This was discussed during the April 14, 2008 episode of the Opie and Anthony show.[citation needed] .....oh 205. Gradius 3 (SNES) I always liked Gradius's formula, with the powerups and the options and the different guns and such. I really enjoy this game until about level 3, where I inevitably die. The problem with Gradius's system is that if you die, you lose all your powerups and are stuck with this itty bitty pea shooter going up against a zillion things that move ten times faster than you. That's pretty much certain death. It's a pretty glaring flaw. (I just hit up the codes page here and found out there's a 30 guy code. Huh. I'll have to try that, though it still ruins the fun of being able to blast everything on the screen with an arsenal of weapons. Actually, there's a cheat for that too apparently. Blah.) --- xyzzy yzzyx xyzzy yzzyx xyzzy yzzyx xyzzy yzzyx yzzyx xyzzy yzzyx xyzzy yzzyx xyzzy yzzyx xyzzy |
| transience | Posted 5/2/2008 5:30:11 AM | message detail | #045 |
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204. Freeway (Atari 2600) Freeway is, quite literally, Activision playing "why did the chicken cross the road?". It's nothing more than eight lanes of traffic, a bunch of cars moving at different speeds, and a chicken that can move in two directions trying to cross the road as many times as possible in 216 seconds. It looks like Frogger and is even less interesting. And yet, I get some strange kick out of this game. I don't get it. Let's move on. 203. Batman (NES) Batman sort of takes Castlevania and Ninja Gaiden and combines them into one game: Castlevania's general level design and sub-weapons, Ninja Gaiden's walljumping and mean difficulty. One of my proudest video game accomplishments when I was a kid was actually beating the Joker. My best friend and I spent like two hours trying over and over, and I'm sure it wasn't very hard but I don't want to find out because it might ruin my childhood. I pick this game up and play it sometimes, but never get more than a few levels in. When I want to be tortured, I just play Ninja Gaiden. 202. Mega Man (NES) One of the glitchiest games ever -- http://youtube.com/watch?v=nA_8WxrNYf4 what the hell is going on here -- Mega Man has the signs of being a really cool series but ruins it with annoying level design, lame powerups and frustrating difficulty. (Guts Man, what?) I guess there's something to be said for being the first in a series that produced some of the very best NES games, but I really don't care. It's worth a play just to see how badly 2 blows it out of the water. --- xyzzy yzzyx xyzzy yzzyx xyzzy yzzyx xyzzy yzzyx yzzyx xyzzy yzzyx xyzzy yzzyx xyzzy yzzyx xyzzy |
| Jack White | Posted 5/2/2008 5:36:39 AM | message detail | #046 |
| FF8 hate I can get, but Triple Triad hate? augh! |
| Mitochondriagon | Posted 5/2/2008 5:37:13 AM | message detail | #047 |
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oh gawd taggle best. FF8 write-up. evar The music and Triple Triad were its only redeeming qualities though you didn't like Triple Triad :( --- "Well, this is certainly a mature topic."-hochiminh155 |
| Shoenin_Kakashi | Posted 5/2/2008 6:00:46 AM | message detail | #048 |
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Pfft, Pea Shooter and Giant Vic Viper are still game beatable. Course I beat the game without dieying <_<, Until those Mother ******* regenerating walls at the last level. Course Bacterion is always....well....emo. --- Brawl Friend Code:1504-5386-5298 SHOE is Always Ready for FIGHTIN AROUND THE WORLD! |
| transience | Posted 5/2/2008 8:31:10 AM | message detail | #049 |
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201. Vandal Hearts (PS1) This third-rate SRPG is most memorable for its hilarious death animations, where blood goes spurting out of characters as if it was Mortal Kombat. This is one of those stupid-yet-fun SRPGs that I played a ton of when I was a teenager but would never give the time of day today. The characters are hilariously ugly (look at them - http://charas-project.net/resources/Facesets/8237_1085601854.png ) and the story is dumb, but it *is* pretty fun somehow. 200. Beatmanix IIDX (PS2) I love playing with keyboards and I like rhythm games, so I thought I'd adore this game. Plus, it's hard as hell. Seems right up my alley! Unfortunately, the controls are... clunky? I don't know, but whenever I play this I have to look at the keys constantly to figure out where my hands are and what I'm doing. After a bit of practice I got up to 3 stars or whatever it uses to measure difficulty, but I was always annoyed and couldn't do anything without struggling with it. In conclusion, I don't like this game because I suck tremendously at it. 199. Rock 'n Roll Racing (SNES) I think Blizzard made this game? Throw crappy classic rock in poor quality, some awesome quotes (*insert name* IS IN ANOTHER TIME ZONE) and some slide-y physics that mess with me and you've got Rock n Roll Racing. It reminds me of RC Pro Am, only not as good. It's a game that frustrates me but that I keep on playing for no discernible reason. Yay! --- xyzzy yzzyx xyzzy yzzyx xyzzy yzzyx xyzzy yzzyx yzzyx xyzzy yzzyx xyzzy yzzyx xyzzy yzzyx xyzzy |
| TheKnightOfNee | Posted 5/2/2008 8:43:21 AM | message detail | #050 |
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Aww yeah IIDX actually made the list (but a bit too low) --- Sushi, Kamikaze, Fujiyama, Nippon-Ichi... "you have to cut weiner holes in all of your hats, sorry" -gotspork |
