TNL's 20 Favorite Games of All-Time

This isn't the first time Super Metroid has made #1 on some list. I genuinely wonder if Super Metroid is some sort of pinnacle or apex in game design. A highest point as far as graphics, sound, atmosphere, and playability coming together as a total package is concerned.

Also, I think this list is pretty much faultless. Good job, Yoshi.

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Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater

Somehow I missed this before -

Dude, after all the shit you have given people for liking the SNES more than the Genesis or missing out on lesser known games, not having played it is just wrong.

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Perhaps, and I will get around to it on VC, but it's not going to change anything. It's one of the few SNES games I have not played, and it's a style of game I don't find that engaging. Remember that I don't even like the Castlevanias of that style all that much. So I'll play it to check a box but not because it's going to close the chasm between the Genesis and the SNES or anything else like that.

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Originally Posted by Nash

I'm a bit disappointed in the list as a whole, though. This was supposed to be in response to awful top games list put out my gaming sites and publications, but it isn't any better. We criticized other lists for not having any historical perspective on games, but this list doesn't even go back farther than Super Mario Bros. (although this wasn't one of my criteria when I voted). What's also lame is that in the other list that Yoshi put together, the best games of last generation, Resident Evil 4 came in number one by a landslide, yet is nowhere to be seen here. Jet Grind Radio, however, cracks this list but ranked 10th on the last list. The consensus best game of last generation wasn't on anyone's favorite list?

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This crossed my mind too. In fact, I think RE4 only received a single vote. Hell, the series only received three I think. I personally voted for the original. I think what happened is that everyone took favorite to mean "childhood memories." Way too many people started on SNES here, and it shows. On a positive note, FFVII didn't even come close to making the Top 20.

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

this forever will put anything Yoshi has to say into perspective.

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Yes, clearly. Admitting that I haven't taken the time to play every game in genres I don't enjoy that much shall taint my very existence for all eternity. If it makes you feel better, I haven't played many games in that genre on the Genesis either. *gasp*

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

Yoshi's Take: Thank God a Mario game didn't finish on top. Metroid I can live with, since it's the least repulsive of Nintendo's major series. Zelda getting shut out of the Top Ten is icing as well. I'd say more here, but I have never played Super Metroid. In fact, I think it's the only game on this list that I haven't. Maybe I should...
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I was thinking about making a thread about people that play through high profile games that they missed when the game was at its peak. Seemed like a GAF "late to the party" thing, so I declined.

I STILL haven't played the whole way through Super Metroid either. I've played through almost all of the other games in the series, but never finished that one. I really should do that.

I don't think I voted. Do-over.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

Yes, clearly. Admitting that I haven't taken the time to play every game in genres I don't enjoy that much shall taint my very existence for all eternity. If it makes you feel better, I haven't played many games in that genre on the Genesis either. *gasp*

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This being said not having played Super Metroid is the gaming equivalent of claiming to be a film critic that skipped out on Citizen Kane or the Godfathers. Playing it may put the genre in perspective for you and help you appreciate it better.

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Originally Posted by Bojack

This being said not having played Super Metroid is the gaming equivalent of claiming to be a film critic that skipped out on Citizen Kane or the Godfathers. Playing it may put the genre in perspective for you and help you appreciate it better.

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I don't like Japanese Action RPGs either, and the only perspective any Zelda game added is that Nintendo games are nearly always hugely overrated because people were limited at some point to one platform and didn't see the greener grass. That said, Metroid being a Gunpei Yokoi series and not a Miyamoto one gives me some hope.

I'm glad this whole thread has turned into this idiocy though, especially when I guarantee that several people who voted for Nintendo games haven't played the PC games on the list. And, no, PS2 ports of Deus Ex and Half-Life don't count.

Eh, I played Landstalker, Beyond Oasis, and Golden Axe Warrior. That grass is pretty nice, but it ain't greener.

How did you guys vote en masse for stuff like Phantasy Star II but leave off Rez & Shenmue 2? Weak.

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Originally Posted by Bacon McShig

Eh, I played Landstalker, Beyond Oasis, and Golden Axe Warrior. That grass is pretty nice, but it ain't greener.

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Neutopia!