Legend of Zelda... except for the whole Zelda II thing. :p
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Legend of Zelda... except for the whole Zelda II thing. :p
And you would be right.Quote:
Originally posted by Van Helsing
I personly have to go with Castlevania
Originator of what? It wasn't even the first game in its series...Quote:
Originally posted by Lordmrw
Super Mario Brothers. It was the originator
I'd go for Virtual On and all, but I can't play VOOM and I don't know much about Force.
So it goes to KoF.
I guess either Zelda or the Metroids. EVERY one in the series has been damn good. Mario has suffered a bit every now and then and theres been shitty Sonic games. But those two series are ALWAYS quality. And yes I LOVED Zelda 2. I dont know why it gets so much hate.
Mario is surely #3 though all time.
I didnt want to be Nintendo biased but when you really think about it those truely are the best game franchises ever.
Legend o' Zelda
The word dolt just doesn't go good there, it would flow better with "idiot," or "fool."Quote:
And I, in the minority, will have to say *sets self ready to receive flaming* Final Fantasy. It only surpasses Mario when I factor in FFt.
I would have to say Metroid. Never had a shit game. Castlevania is very close but I really don't care too much for Super Castlevania IV. All 3 Nintendo franchises can easily be considered the best. Very few have the pedigree that those franchises have. I will go out and say that, for me, the Soul Reaver franchise is right up there. Great exploration and the most intelligent story ever written for videogames.
Monster World.
Seriously. I've been replaying them all this week and I'm convinced.
It can only be Super Mario Bros.
It is Ultima, by far. Why?
01. It pretty much invented the RPG genre. Dragon Warrior was like a less complex Ultima I.
02. The storyline is incredible. Ultima I-III was pretty much the "defeat the big bad guy games"... and developers are still making essentially fancier versions of that. However, Garriott moved on by U4.
03. U4's storyline is just plain brilliant, an RPG without a bad guy to defeat. Its like a quest for enlightenment. Amazing game.
04. The series got even better. Ultima VI's storyline is in particular extremely clever and pretty brilliant. Ultima VII's is fantastic as well, as it has probably the best bad guy in all of videogaming, The Guardian.
05. Ultima VII did the whole "huge interactive world and you can interact with it all" thing about a decade before Shenmue did, and it did it better, too. Really amazing game.
06. Origin consistently pushed PC technology with their titles.
07. Ultima Underworld did the 3D thing a year before Doom did, and if I remember correctly it had six degrees of freedom (Doom had what, four?). It was also handled by Warren Specter, who went on to make titles like System Shock, Thief, and Deus Ex.
08. Ultima Online put MMORPGs on the map, and its also the most complex of the existing ones. Still. Too bad EA canned UO2.
09. Origin, along with Infocom, started the trend of putting all sorts of extra crap into the game box that so many of you eat up with a spoon.
Yes, U8 was not very good and U9 was rushed (still an AMAZING game though). But Ultima gets my vote because its so far ahead of its time, I mean, it STILL is. Another game in the style of Ultima IV has *never* come out, developers won't even try. And its been 17 years. One day they will but until then Ultima will be at the forefront of interactive storytelling.