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I’m going to break the rules and just nominate every SNES RPG. FF4, FF6, Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, Mario RPG, Lufia 2, and even more that weren’t released in America like Live A Live, Fire Emblem 4 and 5, Star Ocean, and Front Mission. Even listing that many, there are many more that I haven’t played that it would be totally fair to say, “How could you forget X?” Amazing era for that type of game, and I’m only partially saying that because of nostalgia.
Shinobi 3, Sega Genesis
Elite - BBC Micro Model B originally.
Super Mario Bros 3 - NES
This game was huge. People that weren’t around at the time don’t understand how much better it was than previous games.
They made a freaking MOVIE to promote it!
And that stupid glove.
Looking back, boy did they have vision. I get that the Power Glove wasn’t all it was cracked up to be but Nintendo really saw early on how we want to interact with our machines.
Then somewhere along the way they realized they could make a lot of money by relicensing the same game over and over again, and suing their most loyal fans out of existence.
The power glove was like Wii version 0.0.0.1.
The amount of weird tech that got thrown around in the NES days was baffling. U-force was probably the weirdest thing I ever tried to play a game with.
UFO (or xcom) - enemy unknown.
Take one step forward
Instantly killed
Great game!
Unreal Tournament
Super Mario Bros. - NES
Thief (1998)
Final fantasy 8, it is the best, no sarcasm.
I would give a testicle for a proper remake, expand the Laguna story, a more populated world, even more battshitery
I respect your opinion.
Mine is: the draw system is shit and the teenage angst gunsword story a hot mess.
I liked that I didn’t have to worry about mana/magic points, and if you didn’t want to draw you could convert items into magic, or cards into items into magic, enemies into cards into items into magic…
The weapons in general I chalk up to fantasy universe with flying school buildings, and the story could absolutely be more fleshed out, but it doesn’t revolve around gun sword, that’s just another weapon in the messed up world
Yes, that sentence was mashed together, the gunsword is unrelated to the story. For me it just added on stuff I didn’t like or could not relate to.
Interesting point with the mana! I didn’t like the consumable aspect of magic basically because I feared running out of something. Similar to some of the worse paper Mario titles.
It’s fantastic to hear from someone who thinks the opposite!
Dance Dance Revolution.
(Do you feel old now?)
Syndicate PC/Mac
Pirates!
The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask - N64, 2000
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)
There are better Zelda games. ALTTP is clever, for sure, but the path through the game has too many obtuse moments. I don’t know how I would have gotten through it the first time without Nintendo Power magazine. I liked Link’s Awakening and Link Between Worlds more, though without Link to the Past, we wouldn’t have those games.
Now, the Super Metroid and A Link to the Past Randomizer is an incredible achievement and a must-play for people who have finished both original games.
Chrono Trigger - SNES, 1995
I hear people say all the time that it is perfect. It definitely has imperfections.
However while I will insist on it being imperfect it has still been my number one favorite game for at least two decades.
It is easily the closest to perfect I think you could possibly ask for with the hardware limitations and the fact that teams don’t have magical infinite time or budgets. Anyone with even a slight interest in RPGs should play it.
Plus it gave us the musical career of Yasunori Mitsuda
