TNL's 20 Favorite Games of All-Time

[Fe 26]

Yeah PS4 is pretty smooth playing. It was a big aggravating back in the day because you could not save in castles. But in many versions of it now, you can save state, which fixes that problem.

[Anal Kaboom]

This list is pretty bad ass. Good job Yoshi.

[Changeling]

This was a much better list:

1. Battlefield 2
2. Unreal Tournament 2004
3. Yoshi Island
4. Capcom vs SNK 2
5. Super Castlevania 4
6. Smash TV
7. Jungle Hunt
8. EA NHL Hockey
9. Ghouls n Ghosts
10. Planet Puzzle League

Way to go me !

[Geen]

10. Planet Puzzle League

Urgh. Out of all the versions of Panel de Pon that you had to pick, did you have to pick the worse one?

[Frogacuda]

I can appreciate Phantasy Star I for what it brought to the table and how it was superior to its peers in a lot of ways, but it's still a little too old school for me to get into these days. (Pretty much any 8-bit JRPG is.) PSII wasn't even bearable with a walkthrough. I've also played that one roughly half a dozen times but have never made it much beyond Neifirst.

PSIV is an order of magnitude better than either of them for no other reason than that it doesn't waste your damn time. No grinding needed if you know what you're doing, no inexplicably slow walk speed, battle macros, mostly straightforward maps, starting off with 3 party members who can actually handle the first few areas as-is, etc. Everything else is just a bonus.

I gotta say, if you know where to grind in PS1, you really don't have to spend much time doing it at all. There's a couple points where there's a sharpish bump and you want to go down to the beach and kill mermen, but it's not nearly as bad as any other game from that era in terms of grinding. I have very little stomach for that kind of stuff anymore and I played through PS1 again like a year or two ago when the retranslation came out and had plenty of fun.

[Yoshi]

Sega let each of their teams run wild with their best, most creative ideas trying to find a breakout franchise that would stick, rather than copying or modifying other succesful franchises like they spent much of the 16 -bit era doing. It was a truly unique situation.

Agreed. And they failed to come close to matching the level of quality of the previous generations. Making a better mousetrap beats the shit out of making a new fly trap if you want to catch mice.

[Yoshi]

Yoshi did you count votes of people with under 2,000 posts?

I counted everything. Otherwise, I would have cut it off at 30,000. Josh and I would have gotten this shit right.

[bbobb]

Cut it off at 20,000 IMO.

[Cowutopia]

Could you pick two less comparable games? Obviously there's not going to be a huge overlap in those audiences. Crazy Taxi is one of the best pure arcade, pick up and play games of the last decade. X-Com is a deep, very involved experience for the patient gamer.

Fuck Crazy Taxi.

[Cowutopia]

Urgh. Out of all the versions of Panel de Pon that you had to pick, did you have to pick the worse one?

for real. Near unplayable. Though I think there was a GBC or GBA rev that was worse.