in fact you said that youre not even allowed to vote unless you explain your answers which gave me an anxiety spiral and i sat out voting two rounds because i was too sad to post about my choices
but anyway cuba is pretty much always wrong, please talk about games on the list @vegetables. im running out of things to say about the games without repeating myself, so someone showing up late is actually a good thing
quake is a better platformer than those mario games
please do!!!
Finally, wisdom in this thread
One thing about Chrono Trigger that I think about a lot is how thereās like a huge difference between the player and enemy HP scales ā your party HP reserves are in (relatively) small Dragon Quest-ian numbers, but the damage you deal falls within the bigger Final Fantasy-ish ranges. This results in some really funny things, like Magus the boss having 10 times the HP as Magus the partymate, or confusion being one of the more a terrifying status effects because your partymates hit so much harder than enemies.
Iām not sure where Iām going with this but I think itās interesting to note the bits of weirdness that come from splitting the difference between the numerical universes of FF/DQ. I think it mostly accomplishes its goal without being too intrusive or conspicuous.
I do like how the final battle is just sitting there in a bucket you can peek into less than a third of the way through the game, waiting patiently for you to reach the point where itās mathematically winnable.
idk about the game as a whole (IIRC the farthest Iāve ever gotten myself is to the Undersea Palace), but I listened to the soundtrack today and Battle with Magus gave me the chills so I guess itās not bad (but is it as good as holding girlhand and doing pushblocks?????????????)
I listen to music from Chrono Cross more often, but this song has always stuck with me.
Oddly, I can remember the point at which this song became permanently ingrained in my mind. Sometime back when I was in high school. Iād fallen asleep on the couch reading a book and when I awoke one of my siblings was playing Chrono Trigger (or had just left it running). Something about hearing it while half awake.
But Iām still going to choose ICO.
In retrospect, I never explained my votes because I donāt want to be passive aggressive about how I think Nintendo games are good actually. So Iām just putting it here, because they are good, actually.
voting is now open and will last for one week
I know I committed myself to voting every time for the grimmer, quieter, more PC-esque experience but Iām sorry I had to violate my rule to vote for Chrono Trigger over Ico. I played that damn cart til the battery died
I think weāre going to need Puyo Puyo in an emergency Beautiful Game because I want to boost that series through the stratosphere.
iāve played a lot of puyo but iām bad at it so i resent it
getting ready to see Deus Ex lose =(. ah well, at least it got this far to begin with.
was surprised to see Super Mario 64 ahead of SMB3. i think i like SM64 slightly more than SMB3 so i of course counter-intuitively voted for SMB3. but that game is one of the first games i ever played, and itās without a doubt the game that got me interested in games. itās my favorite 2D Mario game easily as well. so for that i will be eternally in debt to it, which means it got my vote.
idk this week. too many close ones I donāt want to pick
Ico
SMB3
Deus Ex
Resident Evil 4
F-Zero GX
Silent Hill 2
Quake
Legend of Zelda
I wasnāt going to vote for SMB1, idk Iām just unenthusiastic at this point, but I decided to play it tonight and hell I will vote for it.
In my mind itās in the chain smoking salaryman / office lady famicom canon along with games like spelunker, druaga, wizardry and lode runner, idk that is a gamer identity I really aspire to and I can channel those vibes and feel cool playing it
I probably would have voted Mario 1 if it was the only Mario in the running. I didnāt want to vote for two Mario games though and I couldnāt remember if I had voted for Silent Hill 2 yet or not. Iāve not played it in probably 15 years or more but I still have vivid impressions of my time with it and you canāt say that about many games.
I voted for the dog ending and also cuz I enjoy contradicting myself
I think Iāve gushed about how Quake 1 and Zelda 1 are my two favorite games of all time in these threads every single opportunity, but Iām going to do it again.
Also SB Q1 DM night needs to happen again. Itās been many years since I last triedā¦
I played Super Mario 64 for the first time last year and thought it was kind of mid but I ended up getting all 120 stars anyway and keep thinking about it now and again despite not being a Mario monk. I think that game really benefits form being just enough of a technical/mechanical pioneer (idk if this is historically true but it feels like it) that everything is barely holding together and even playing casually you can discover fun movement tech and skips (I figured out the TTM and THI skips 80% of the way myself, just needing a final youtube video to tell me that they are possible), and that makes it way more fun than if it was the same game but with all the holes patched up and with Mario not fucking belly sliding into a hole at the slightest provocation.
Deus Ex vs Nocturne is really hard for me because I became a SMThead and a blobber guy this year and Nocturne seems amazing, but I havenāt actually played it myself. I donāt really have any huge attachment to the immersive sim genre but I did enjoy Deus Ex 1 a ton, beating it for the first time in 2018. For a while there when I had trouble falling asleep Iād try to mentally fly through all the maps in orderā¦ I think around Paris my memory starts getting very hazy, but Iād usually fall asleep by LaGuardia anyway. Nocturne doesnāt have voice acting, and itās hard to get things like āMy vision is augmented.ā out of your head, but on the other hand it means Nocturne doesnāt have all the Hong Kong NPC performances in it either.
So glad I voted against this shit
