I'm going to have a go with some of my favourites from time gone by.
Ten years ago i got this game for Christmas
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Class games.
Some of my all time favourites, along with all the Half Life/Opposing Force/CS versions.
FF7 > The Settlers > Zelda: Ocarina of Time < FF8 < Age of Empires <> Goldeneye > MGS2 < GTA
bah the golden age and its memories.
bah the golden age and its memories.
Theyve never made a better game... if you havent played this... then do so!
Secret of Mana is without a doubt one of the top 5 RPG’s ever created and easily in the top 10 games ever created. It was a Squaresoft RPG for SNES, meaning it was going to be one of the greatest games ever created with the kind of thought put into it that a great philosopher would put into his magnum opus. Great RPG’s have the character of reading fiction, but having absolute real-time interaction with the book your reading. Playing this game is on par with reading “the lion the witch and the wardrobe” for the first time. Right away, from the cover of the game, you could tell that this game was going to be incandescent and massive in breadth. Three heroes overlooking a massive tree in the middle of a massive forest served as the game cover. The largeness of the theme would be equaled by the actual game itself that was huge, but never ever boring. The big advantage that Secret of Mana has over other RPG’s is the multi-player action that was never found in RPG’s afterwards. You could play this game with two other people and take it on habitually with them, after school, and even on Friday nights when everyone else was gearing up for banal pseudo social hour time. It’s unbelievable to think that no other RPG afterwards utilized this power, and understood that there are groups of people who want to go on massive RPG adventures together. For some reason, the RPG theme is understood as primarily single-player. This is a mistake by the creators of these games that “Mana” cashed in on. Every single tune in this game is memorable, which makes you wonder why every single tune in new games are never memorable. Every single land in this game is filled with beautiful, distinctive themes, which makes you wonder why RPG’s on new systems, with all the new technology involved, pale in comparison to the impact of this 16 bit installment. There’s a little saying that goes “It’s not the Arrow, it’s the Indian”. This may be the best example of that maxim in gaming history. One could write about this game forever, but it’s not to be understood by what others write about it…
Secret of Mana is without a doubt one of the top 5 RPG’s ever created and easily in the top 10 games ever created. It was a Squaresoft RPG for SNES, meaning it was going to be one of the greatest games ever created with the kind of thought put into it that a great philosopher would put into his magnum opus. Great RPG’s have the character of reading fiction, but having absolute real-time interaction with the book your reading. Playing this game is on par with reading “the lion the witch and the wardrobe” for the first time. Right away, from the cover of the game, you could tell that this game was going to be incandescent and massive in breadth. Three heroes overlooking a massive tree in the middle of a massive forest served as the game cover. The largeness of the theme would be equaled by the actual game itself that was huge, but never ever boring. The big advantage that Secret of Mana has over other RPG’s is the multi-player action that was never found in RPG’s afterwards. You could play this game with two other people and take it on habitually with them, after school, and even on Friday nights when everyone else was gearing up for banal pseudo social hour time. It’s unbelievable to think that no other RPG afterwards utilized this power, and understood that there are groups of people who want to go on massive RPG adventures together. For some reason, the RPG theme is understood as primarily single-player. This is a mistake by the creators of these games that “Mana” cashed in on. Every single tune in this game is memorable, which makes you wonder why every single tune in new games are never memorable. Every single land in this game is filled with beautiful, distinctive themes, which makes you wonder why RPG’s on new systems, with all the new technology involved, pale in comparison to the impact of this 16 bit installment. There’s a little saying that goes “It’s not the Arrow, it’s the Indian”. This may be the best example of that maxim in gaming history. One could write about this game forever, but it’s not to be understood by what others write about it…
A forgotten Classic.
A forgotten Classic.
Great game wasn't my favourite but still a very good RPG considering they were pumping out RPG's every 6 months or so back then it's amazing the quality was so high.
I think there should be a seperate forum on here for Squaresoft/Square/Square-Enix as there are so many lovers of them on here. Myself included. Actually Star Ocean 2 was a top game that's just popped in my head there. Damn, now all i can think of is Air Slash.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown greatest PC game of all time.
Those of you who like RPG games should download an emulator and this game. It's absolutely brilliant!
fecking loved this game when it came out. Always wanted them to make a sequel, but they never did.
We're talking about classic games yet not one of you has mentioned the greatest 2D game ever.
No game since has ever topped it and i doubt no game ever will.
Agreed. Twilight Princess was close and I'm sure some 12 year old loved it to death but it just wasn't OoT. Nothing will come close to the first Zelda game in 3D. If they wanted to make a killing, they'd update the graphics to the best Wii can handle, use TP controls and rerelease it. It'd be weak compared to bringing something new and innovative to the series but I know I'd buy it. Simply because I loved the original so much
Best ever IMO.
I loved Shenmue 1. I got a EU import of Shenmue 2 years and years ago but the 3rd disc didn't work so I've never got to beat it. Stupid waste of $120 CDN. Now that I have a 360 I need to find myself an Xbox 1 version of Shenmue 2 and finally play through it.
Years ago I heard rumours about Shenmue online/Shenmue 3....were they quashed?
Good calls on Vagrant Story and Secret of Mana, excellent games.
In terms of multiplayer, nothing beats Super Bomberman 2. We have a SNES emulator and we just play it constantly in the labs in uni, it's so, so, so good.
In terms of multiplayer, nothing beats Super Bomberman 2. We have a SNES emulator and we just play it constantly in the labs in uni, it's so, so, so good.