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Top 5 Games with Sonic In
Sonic
Sonic 2
Sonic 3
Sonic & Knuckles
SSB Ultimate

Herdanos wrote:

Ironhide wrote:Top 5 turn based JRPGs I have played

Skies of Arcadia: Legends
Jeanne D'Arc
Phantasy Star IV
Persona 4 Golden
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

Ironhide, are these the only five such games you have played? Or are there others that didn't make the cut?

I've played loads of JRPGs, that was basically the first five that came to mind.

Another five would be

Tactics Ogre
Golden Sun
Disgaea 5
Lost Odyssey
Final Fantasy IX

Herdanos wrote:
Five games I'd love to replay, if time were no object

Dragon Warrior Monsters
MysticalNinja Starring Goemon*
Skies of Arcadia Legends*
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
Pikmin 2

*and in the case of these games, assuming I had viable copies to play through

Why Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon and not Legend of the Mystical Ninja on SNES?

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Top 5 PS5 Games I Wish Someone Was Selling

1. Dirt 5
2. Spiderman: Miles Morales
3. Assassin's creed Valhalla
4. Immortals Fenyx Rising
5. The Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time

Top 5 pricks

1. Jenuall
2. Jenuall
3. Jenuall
4. Jenuall
5. Jěnüall

Awesome, I made the top 5

Herdanos wrote:

kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:It's telling that the most popular thread here is one which provides no real means of discourse and is just people shouting things that they like

Well, that's just the way people have chosen to approach the thread thus far. There's nothing stopping any discourse, but so far folk have seemed keener to share their own lists than critique those of others.

Balladeer wrote:

Zerudaaaaa! wrote:Top 5 games with Mario in them

Super Mario Odyssey
Paper Mario and the Thousand-Year Door
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

It's funny* because it's true!

Balladeer, I read into this that your view (Paper Mario series aside) is that for the major Nintendo franchises, the most recent game is the best. Is that consistent with your views in general?

Ironhide wrote:Top 5 turn based JRPGs I have played

Skies of Arcadia: Legends
Jeanne D'Arc
Phantasy Star IV
Persona 4 Golden
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

Ironhide, are these the only five such games you have played? Or are there others that didn't make the cut?

Zerudaaaaa! wrote:Top 5 games with Mario in them
Super Mario Galaxy (Wii)
Mario Kart: Super Circuit (GBA)
Mario Golf: World Tour (3DS)
Smash Bros Melee (or Ultimate, haven't played much of that one yet)
Mario Party (the one on Wii)

This list is subject to change, depending on my mood.

Zeruda, was the Wii Mario Party the first one you played?

Christopher wrote:Top Five Painfully British Games

1. Manic Miner
2. Jet Set Willy
3. School Daze
4. Fable
5. The Getaway

Chris, nothing by Rare makes your list, did you mean "painfully British" as littered with British-isms, or is it more of the feel / setting of the game?

Skarjo wrote:Top Five Times I Nearly Shat my Pants Playing a game

1. The bit with the water in Amnesia
2. The first time a Crimson Head stood up in the REmake.
3. Pretty much any jumpscare in FNaF
4. When I thought Eternal Darkness was erasing my memory card
5. The Legend of Zelda; The Ocarina of Time

Skarjo, when you played REmake had you previously played RE, or was it new to you? If it wasn't new, are you saying the Crimson Head was so terrifying, it frightened you all over again even though you knew to expect it?

Feel/setting.

Rare are obviously made the most British in isms games.

Some lols in this thread

Jenuall wrote:Top 5 Episodes of Neighbours

That one with the plane crash
Harold Bishop dies
Doctor Kennedy is a paedo or maybe just has an affair or something
Harold Bishop comes back
Toadie plays The Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time

I distinctly remember an episode of someone playing Pokemon Pinball. So maybe he really did play OoT at some point.

Herdanos wrote:

Zerudaaaaa! wrote:Top 5 games with Mario in them
Super Mario Galaxy (Wii)
Mario Kart: Super Circuit (GBA)
Mario Golf: World Tour (3DS)
Smash Bros Melee (or Ultimate, haven't played much of that one yet)
Mario Party (the one on Wii)

This list is subject to change, depending on my mood.

Zeruda, was the Wii Mario Party the first one you played?

I have to admit Mario Party is a line of games I have somewhat neglected over the years. Partly due to the weird way I wouldn't buy anything that didn't get the N64/NGC/N-Gamer Star Game award and MP rarely seemed to quite make the cut I still maintain that the Wii MP has some quality board design though.

Zerudaaaaa! wrote: Partly due to the weird way I wouldn't buy anything that didn't get the N64/NGC/N-Gamer Star Game award

I had this mindset in the N64 era too

Mario's first two Parties were given Star Game awards. 3 narrowly missed out despite it being the best in the series.

Tomous wrote:

Zerudaaaaa! wrote: Partly due to the weird way I wouldn't buy anything that didn't get the N64/NGC/N-Gamer Star Game award

I had this mindset in the N64 era too

Me too, I think it was because as youngsters we had a very finite amount of cash to spend on games and wanted to make sure we got a good one.

Herdanos wrote:Balladeer, I read into this that your view (Paper Mario series aside) is that for the major Nintendo franchises, the most recent game is the best. Is that consistent with your views in general?

I don't think so, but newer games do have an inherent advantage, don't they? If a hypothetical company makes the same game in two eras using the tech available to them, the second one will be better. So, Smash has an advantage because it's a game that benefits from fanservice and, generally, the more the merrier.

With a lot of my top games though, it's more about approach. I like exploration, and while more recent tech allows for bigger worlds, that's not the end of the story. Take Mario Odyssey, for example. It follows the template of my favourite game for a long while, SM64. The most recent 3D Mario before that was 3D World, a very linear game that's closer to 2D Marios in style - and before that (and 3D Land), the Galaxies. Nintendo didn't choose that approach based on tech., and I was less keen on those games. Similar for Zeldas: before BotW my favourite was Twilight Princess, not Skyward Sword.

And of course you're missing out several other series. My fave Metroid game is Prime 1; my fave Star Fox is Lylat Wars; my fave Yoshi is Yoshi's Island. If Nintendo made a Metroid Prime game like Prime 1 in basically every regard, but new, and using this gen's tech, that would probably be my favourite. But they haven't so it isn't.

I remember there being a game I was interested in that got like 80-84%, thereby narrowly missing out on a Star Game award and I immediately shunned any notion of being interested in it.

The best neighbours period was Karl having an affair while his family were addicted to magic carpet on the pc.

But the best Smash Bros game is Melee.

The ones that followed featured too many characters (most of which were unwelcome) and had the final smash crap.

Herdanos wrote:

Skarjo wrote:Top Five Times I Nearly Shat my Pants Playing a game

1. The bit with the water in Amnesia
2. The first time a Crimson Head stood up in the REmake.
3. Pretty much any jumpscare in FNaF
4. When I thought Eternal Darkness was erasing my memory card
5. The Legend of Zelda; The Ocarina of Time

Skarjo, when you played REmake had you previously played RE, or was it new to you? If it wasn't new, are you saying the Crimson Head was so terrifying, it frightened you all over again even though you knew to expect it?

So I was brand new fresh and being a Ninty kid it was basically my first real experience of horror gaming. I also thought the Crimson Heads were new for the remake right? Were they in the original? I thought the whole point of CH’s were that they were dependent on the GC’s memory to make it work?

Anyway, they were new to me and I remember them so vividly because my dad had basically walked in to ask me ‘Are ya winning son?’ when then first one stood up and it might be the first time I’ve sworn that badly in his presence.

The only Neighbours episode I remember is Ann and Billy in the pool/hot tub.

I think we all remember that episode.

Jenuall wrote:Top 5 PS5 Games I Wish Someone Was Selling

1. Dirt 5
2. Spiderman: Miles Morales
3. Assassin's creed Valhalla
4. Immortals Fenyx Rising
5. The Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time

Brutal