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Title: Favorite Game. Ever.
Post by: Mr. Apple on May 11, 2013, 00:35
This is like picking your favorite child. Its something you don't reall y want to do, but you do it anyway. Kinda self explanitory. What is your favorite game, whether it be pokemon, zelda, , Mario,  call of duty, ANYTHING.
Mine would have to be either Pokemon Blue Rescue team, or sapphire. (I realise I picked 2 pokemon games, which is kinda lame, but whatever)

Whats yours??
Title: Re: Favorite Game. Ever.
Post by: lugia95 on May 11, 2013, 00:48
Don't make me choose! It's too painful.

But if I have to (which I don't) I'd probably say Pokemon Sapphire, purely for the nostalgia value. However, the original Ace Attorney comes in a close second.
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Post by: Goshdarned Sillyface on May 11, 2013, 02:02
it's a tie between pokemon soul silver, team fortress 2 or portal
but of course we all like pokemon here :u
Title: Re: Favorite Game. Ever.
Post by: Lord Raven on May 11, 2013, 04:06
Fire Emblem:  Path of Radiance

The only FE game that i've had the patience to beat like 13+ times over.  Everything about this game is beautiful except the gameplay is a little bit too broken...


EDIT:  Let me put things in perspective.  Compare this to other FE games.

a) the lord is of nobility.  Ike isn't.
b) the lord is generally polite and diplomatic.  Ike has been nothing but blunt towards nobles he's disagreed with.
c) the lord is universally respected by his allies.  Ike has people like Shinon and Gatrie, that up and left as soon as he took command, and people who only fought with him because he was up against "sub-humans."
d) the lord is incredibly sheltered, seeing as he is nothing but a common mercenary.
e) the lord's personal weapon is given to him due to birthright.  Ike has Ragnell...  which is one of Altina's swords...  and Altina is Sanaki's ancestor, not at all Ike's.  Ike has no holy lineage at all; the closest he has is Greil being a former Rider of Daein.
f) most of the big bads either have some sort of occultish religion or genuinely believed what they were doing was right.  Ashnard does not care for anything but power, and will gladly die so long as those with power are in rule.
g) Genocide and Racism, for the first time, is probably one the biggest plot themes in this game.
h) The most important part of this whole thing is no single character feels tacked on.  Every single person you have recruited has a reason to fight in this war, and has an emotional backstory involved with what they do.  Many do it out of devotion to their lord, others wish to support their family, others do it for social justice, some are in it for money, and there's only one or two characters I can list which have very little business being there (Mia and Ilyana off the top of my head).  Almost everyone has some sort of backstory or redeeming feature about them which keeps you wishing you can use everyone on every single map.  There is not a single character I do not hate, and even characters like Mia and Ilyana, as one-dimensional as they are, can be endearing.
i) Screw h), the most important part is the plot is fantastically written unlike other FE games, and despite cheesy voice acting the emotion in many of the written lines is phenomenal.
It doesn't matter what our blood ties are.  We are family.
The pain and sadness is in you, Brother. It clouds your very soul. To see you like this, to watch you. It hurts me. Please...do not lose yourself to hate
All of Chapter 17 (all four parts) were actually amazing, and it all had a conclusion in this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQY5zkqXTzc).
I love the final chapter's title - Repatriation.
And finally, Life Returns (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH2iL2s_UKk&t=0m27s).  One of the most beautiful credits songs I have heard in my life.
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Post by: Richard and Blaziken on May 11, 2013, 04:51
The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time. Many, many reasons, but nostalgia and it coming at a time of my life where I had never experienced any game like it laid the foundation for my love for this game. I've finished it countless times, and will finish it several dozen more before I die, I'm sure.
Title: Re: Favorite Game. Ever.
Post by: Webby on May 11, 2013, 11:58
Digimon World and Final Fantasy IX.

Digimon World defined my childhood. I remember when I first had the game, I was so entertained by the sounds that Digimon made when pooping. I remember going to Stourbridge one day with my dad, and I ended up going into a shop and happened upon a basket of unofficial game guides. And there I found a guide for Digimon World. I was no longer confined to the central areas of the island. No more would I have to digivolve into Numemon. I WAS FREE. And I still replay this game all the time. It's only recently that I've digivolved my In-Training Digimon to Kunemon, digivolved an Agumon into Greymon, raised Ultimates with ease, arrived at Beetle Land... I remember how it felt when I finally recruited every Digimon to the village.

... I just remembered one Christmas where I sat down with a catalogue and ticked off everything I wanted, and I asked for Digimon World 2003. This was December of 2002. Gosh, I'm old. ;____;

FFIX is just amazing. The characters, the gameplay, the scenery, the music and the feel of the game just feel wonderful, even now. And it's frustrating enough to make me replay certain boss fights for something as trivial as being unable to steal something. Sometimes it's all the trivial, little things that make a game amazing.
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Post by: Sappy on May 11, 2013, 12:19
Digimon World and Final Fantasy IX.

Digimon World defined my childhood. I remember when I first had the game, I was so entertained by the sounds that Digimon made when pooping. I remember going to Stourbridge one day with my dad, and I ended up going into a shop and happened upon a basket of unofficial game guides. And there I found a guide for Digimon World. I was no longer confined to the central areas of the island. No more would I have to digivolve into Numemon. I WAS FREE. And I still replay this game all the time. It's only recently that I've digivolved my In-Training Digimon to Kunemon, digivolved an Agumon into Greymon, raised Ultimates with ease, arrived at Beetle Land... I remember how it felt when I finally recruited every Digimon to the village.

... I just remembered one Christmas where I sat down with a catalogue and ticked off everything I wanted, and I asked for Digimon World 2003. This was December of 2002. Gosh, I'm old. ;____;

FFIX is just amazing. The characters, the gameplay, the scenery, the music and the feel of the game just feel wonderful, even now. And it's frustrating enough to make me replay certain boss fights for something as trivial as being unable to steal something. Sometimes it's all the trivial, little things that make a game amazing.

Digimon was amazing. First ever playstation game.

But my favorite is Pokemon Diamond, because of my connection to the site and I love the moment is first came out and we were all using Wi-Fi for the very first time. Plus, it's a pretty amazing game.
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Post by: Inferna on May 11, 2013, 17:05
Besides pokemon it's got to be spyro 1/2/3 <3 spyro 1 was my first ever game and i just loved it.
other games are animal crossing (hi wasted life), windwaker (my first zela game, i loved the music and graphics) and the prof layton series.
Title: Re: Favorite Game. Ever.
Post by: SirBlaziken on May 11, 2013, 17:06
I like many games, I can't decide!
Title: Re: Favorite Game. Ever.
Post by: That Girl in the 'Roo Suit on May 13, 2013, 02:26
Hmm. This is a difficult one. If we're talking about current favourite game, it's a choice between Luigi's Mansion 2 and Fire Emblem: Awakening. Favourite game of this era, I would have to say either Awakening or Okamiden. From my childhood, however, it would be either Theme Hospital, Discworld Noir, or Oddworld: Abe's Odyssey.

Admittedly, if I still had a way of playing it on my laptop, it would definitely be Discworld Noir or Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, but outdated platform problems. This will change eventually. And then my life will be glorious.
Title: Re: Favorite Game. Ever.
Post by: Eifie on May 13, 2013, 03:46
I love Spyro: Year of the Dragon. It's the third Spyro game (it is said that the first three Spyro games were the best, but what do I know), it's for PlayStation (1) and I played it a lot when I was younger. It's great, because, well - you get to be a cute little dragon, jumping around, killing sheep and collecting eggs that hatch into cute little baby dragons! Yay.

(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs7/i/2005/183/7/3/Spyro__s_Hobby__by_floppyneko.jpg)
(By floppyneko at deviantART)
Title: Re: Favorite Game. Ever.
Post by: Milsap on June 18, 2013, 00:41
Resident Evil 2. That was easy.
Title: Re: Favorite Game. Ever.
Post by: Turner on June 18, 2013, 02:15
Pokemon Gold.

I feel like every generation of Pokemon has brought about something amazing in my life, (Besides Gen V). Gen I was the start, by Gen II everyone was on the wagon and loved it, it was part of the most amazing days of my childhood. Gen III was the beginning of me really first taking my steps on the internet and joining PKMN.NET, Gen IV was like a really huge, grand re-boot thanks to online. Gen V was interesting in that it seemed very different to the past generations in its execution and oddly was released at a time I felt least connected to the franchise, I guess that too is reflective of my circumstances. Gen VI well, time will tell what that brings.

Other than Pokemon...I've always loved Super Mario World, another big nostalgic favorite with me but just had such a charming world that really struck a chord. I'd also have to nominate GTA: San Andreas, even now I can just have so much fun cruising through the desert listening to the radio, it introduced me to a load of great music that has made a considerable change on my life, it made me loads of new friends I still talk to to this day and just generally was a lot of fun.
Title: Re: Favorite Game. Ever.
Post by: LaggySoldier on June 18, 2013, 04:10
That's easy, Portal 2.


Title: Re: Favorite Game. Ever.
Post by: Moon Chaser on June 18, 2013, 14:16
It's a tie between Spyro: Year of the dragon, Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped and Fallout New Vegas (probably going to be replaced by Fallout 3 when I finally get around to playing it). Crash Bandicoot 3 was the first game I ever played, Spyro is the game I must have spent the most time on as a kid and Fallout just has so much to do, so many places to go and the amount of different ways to do things means, you're done with one play-through you just start all over again.
Title: Re: Favorite Game. Ever.
Post by: JSM on June 18, 2013, 16:03
Another Spyro: Year of the dragon fan here! Just finished a 100% playthrough of the game and it has reaffirmed my love for it <3
Title: Re: Favorite Game. Ever.
Post by: quack98 on June 18, 2013, 16:39
I've just realised I haven't been on a game in about a month :o been to busy in America, and then working on the show! But anyway, favourite game ever, hmmm... I think I'd go for LBP2, just because of the creativity involved!
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Post by: f3raligatr on June 18, 2013, 16:54
I'm going to be quite.. radical here and say that my most favourite two games from my childhood are Pokémon Red and Final Fantasy VIII. My love for Final Fantasy VIII is well documented (or used to be rather when I posted more regularly) but I think I always maintained that my favourite Pokémon game growing up was one of the three Generation II games. I'll be honest and say that Pokémon Silver I still think as being brilliant, but being fair and trying to pull nostalgia away.. Pokémon Red I played and played to my heart's content.

Usually, I'm fortunate enough to get the two main games with one of the titles serving as my "Keeps!" game and the other was my reset game (restart, beat the E4, capture Mewtwo, trade, restart); Red was the reset, Blue was the Keeps. Even now, I kind of look back and wonder how I managed to replay Pokémon Red as many times as I did because I just.. seemed to play it constantly.. although now I find it quite hard to replay without a challenge in place (such as a time limit, etc) because I've just worn it out completely. I honestly don't think there was a Pokémon I hadn't used in Gen I.. I just played and played and played. Then Generation II came across and that got played just as much..

Final Fantasy VIII is just brilliant though, even though I'll openly admit VII is the better game. Actually, I'll not get my head bitten off anymore for my fanboyism towards VIII, screw it, I take that last bit back! :D
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Post by: Wolstenholme on July 26, 2013, 02:55
Spyro: Year of the Dragon or Pokemon Gold... Or possibly F1 Race Stars (PS3) Usually the vintage ones win out but F1 Race Stars is added in there because even though it only came out last year, if you follow F1 avidly (like me) it is soooo much cooler... The amount of fun me and my brother have had on all these games however is positively unreal so it's impossible to say which I like the best.
Title: Re: Favorite Game. Ever.
Post by: SirBlaziken on July 26, 2013, 02:58
My favorite is Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Title: Re: Favorite Game. Ever.
Post by: Lord Raven on July 26, 2013, 08:55
Final Fantasy VIII is just brilliant though, even though I'll openly admit VII is the better game. Actually, I'll not get my head bitten off anymore for my fanboyism towards VIII, screw it, I take that last bit back! :D
I'm so sad that it took me a few years to realize how brilliant FF8's plot is.  There needs to be a discussion about that, pronto!

On the bright side, FF7's brilliance does not come from its beautiful story telling and its amazing graphics (sarcasm, I'm sure its story is nice but it needs revamping- I don't understand why ff4 was remade a million times and given a sequel but FF7's only ever been on Steam and PSN, all I want is some 3DS remake lol.  They could've spent time on that instead of that bullcrap compilation but I digress).  Problem is that a lot of the hype for FF7 comes from the 90s where people first played it and thought it was the rebirth of christ himself, but in reality it's a game that has aged poorly over the years and FF8's aged incredibly well in comparison.  People are starting to realize that FF8's story telling is not blunt at all, and it hinges on extreme subtleties that may take a little while to absorb; FF7 has those, like most FF stories after 7, but the writing is very in-your-face and it's...  quite odd at points.

I'm replaying it but it's never been a game I could say is anywhere near the GOAT.  I think the love for it is either nostalgia (which is by far a great thing to be nostalgiac about) or a circle jerk of some sorts.  I can press that FFX, FFVIII, and FFXII and even FFXIII is better than FFVII these days in terms of story, and the gameplay in FFX/XIII/XII is far more tactics based than FFVII's (because I never got a game over in FFVII but asshats like Seymour Flux and Yunalesca gave me fits, and don't get me started on some of the bosses in FFXIII).  But it's GOAT because of its impact on localization of games to the west and its popularity in the 90s, not because it's really that good.

Only comparison I can make is an NFL one so I can't prove my point (read up on why Joe Namath is in the hall of fame, he did play as well as his contemporaries but he generally wasn't really that impressive) but I'm sure you understand it.  The same sort of people probably also praise the living daylights out of RBY/GSC but abhor the later Pokemon games.
Title: Re: Favorite Game. Ever.
Post by: Richard and Blaziken on July 26, 2013, 09:07
On the subject of FF7 (and very briefly I might add), I played it once like 7 years back and I could not get into it at all. It has not aged well at all and having not played it when it was released, I don't have the nostalgia goggles, so I found it to be uninteresting (didn't get too far in, I'm sure it gets better), and didn't care for the combat system at all. It put me off trying other FF's, though, which may be a sad thing.
Title: Re: Favorite Game. Ever.
Post by: Spriter on July 26, 2013, 11:37
Continuing with the Final Fantasy discussion, I think I nominate Final Fantasy 10 as my favourite game.

The plot is really good, they do flesh out some of the characters a fair amount. Heck, even Kimahri got a bit of a backstory (Mt Gagazet when you have to solo Biran and Yenke). Tidus was a bit of a pleb in parts of the game, but his dad was used as a plot device quite well.

Characters wise, I think my favourite character was Auron, followed by Wakka. Auron was just a cool guy, but it was kinda sad when he *SPOILERS* was sent to the Farplanes accidentally when Jecht was beaten. Quite the tank in battles too.
Wakka ended up helping Tidus out a lot at the beginning of the game, and he supported Tidus a lot too. Other than that, he was a useful character in battle.

As for the villain, Seymour, he was cool. Evil but cool. The battles against him were such good fun, particularly Flux and Omnis. Some of the lines he was given were good too (eg. "Death awaits you!", but there were better ones in parts). He was actually a rival to Tidus for Yuna in a sense (which led to an awesome scene where Tidus and co. crashed Seymour's wedding.

Now, boss battles!
My favourite boss battle...oh dear I don't even know. There's Omega Weapon, Seymour Flux, Yunalesca, Seymour Omnis, Dark Bahamut, Dark Yojimbo, Dark Anima, that beast in the underwater lake in Baaj Temple, Penance...there's more I think...nope, that's all.

It was a great game, simply put.
Title: Re: Favorite Game. Ever.
Post by: Clairefable on July 26, 2013, 21:11
Just a drive-by comment to say that Final Fantasy 6 is the best Final Fantasy.
Title: Re: Favorite Game. Ever.
Post by: Lord Raven on July 26, 2013, 21:41
yeah i'm not sure how anyone can disagree...  my friend picked it up after playing through chrono trigger, ff7/8/9, and etc and he fell in love with it before the floating continent
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Post by: Webby on July 29, 2013, 23:54
I feel lost everytime I attempt to play FF6. It's the only one in the series that has completely thrown me from the get-go, and it feels like I have no incentive to actually persevere with it..

I'm quite a lot further through FFVII now and I have to say that it's a lot better than I expected, considering how badly it has aged. That's probably because I played Crisis Core first so I was invested enough in the story to persevere with it. Though I still can't stand Cait Sith.

FFIX still beats out the rest for me though.
Title: Re: Favorite Game. Ever.
Post by: Liam on August 03, 2013, 14:00
Majora's Mask. It really is amazing.
Title: Re: Favorite Game. Ever.
Post by: Milsap on August 05, 2013, 12:07
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(probably going to be replaced by Fallout 3 when I finally get around to playing it).

New Vegas was better than 3 I felt. Just in terms of characters, story and weapons.
Title: Re: Favorite Game. Ever.
Post by: Freestyler on August 05, 2013, 13:07
Crash Bandicoot 2 gets my pick :D
Title: Re: Favorite Game. Ever.
Post by: Lord Raven on August 07, 2013, 05:00
I feel lost everytime I attempt to play FF6. It's the only one in the series that has completely thrown me from the get-go, and it feels like I have no incentive to actually persevere with it..
I think if you restart it you'll be less confused...  that's how it works out with a bunch of games (from my POV at least).  Trust me, it's worth it and you get one of best rollercoasters of emotions you'll get in a video game.
Title: Re: Favorite Game. Ever.
Post by: Luminoose on December 11, 2013, 17:16
My favourite video game is actually a tie, between two games from the same franchise-Hotel Dusk and Last Window. Beautiful graphics, beautiful story, neat puzzles, and cool characters (Not all, though. I'm looking at you, Maria...) make these my favourite. It's a shame that Cing (The makers) shut down, though, because a sequel would be very nice.
Now, if you excuse me...It's Pinky Rabbit time.
Title: Re: Favorite Game. Ever.
Post by: Kerou 犠牲 on December 20, 2013, 23:49
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is definitely up there, I remember as a kid finding it very difficult for some reason but replaying it often adds a massive nostalgic smile; all the Sonic games from that system (bar Sonic 3D) have aged well tbh. Sonic 1 is fun although the lack of the spin dash is somewhat annoying, and Sonic 3 and Knuckles is great too but 2 takes the edge.

I know it's only just been released but GTA V is another contender purely because of how good that game is. I was sure I wouldn't buy into the hype but I did!

Spyro 1 and 2 are classic, Super Mario 64 is one of the best games ever, wish I played it more as a kid. It's another that has aged really well compared with other N64, the Mario Kart series I guess is up there too for the casual aspect of it. Love a bit of Minecraft too, although I prefer 360 version personally.

CM4 has a close part to my heart now too lol

Think that clears it.
Title: Re: Favorite Game. Ever.
Post by: Richard and Blaziken on December 21, 2013, 10:20
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is definitely up there, I remember as a kid finding it very difficult for some reason but replaying it often adds a massive nostalgic smile; all the Sonic games from that system (bar Sonic 3D) have aged well tbh. Sonic 1 is fun although the lack of the spin dash is somewhat annoying, and Sonic 3 and Knuckles is great too but 2 takes the edge.

Yes, this. All of it, word for word. Not my favorite game ever (was posted earlier in the topic), but yessss all of this. Sonic twoooooo <3