A List for All-Time
The greatest list of games I ever played while using pizza-grease-stained controllers.
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I used to say Mega Man 2 was my favorite game of all-time based solely on the fact that I could play it back-to-back(-to-back) without getting bored with it. It's true! I love it dearly. But still...
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...Vagrant Story may be the more important game to me personally. The quality of the storytelling was revelatory and it changed how I perceived not just game music but music in general.
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How much can one man love Richter's bad voice acting? This much.
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FFIV has the most of my favorites across the series: music, cast, dungeons, finale, and final boss. I feel so strongly about it that not even playing The After Years could ruin all that for me!
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When I look back on my gaming career in 30 years or so, there's a possibility that Nocturne may just have been the most important game I ever played.
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Is it strange that I consider Castlevania IV to be my favorite Castlevania game, yet rank Symphony higher on a general list? It may not have Michael G.'s performance, but multi-directional whipping is nearly as important.
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There's really little original you can say about Super Metroid at this point, even from a personal standpoint. However, I did name my cat "Sammy" after Samus, and she's nice.
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I've played Chrono Trigger a couple dozen times and have a NG+ file to prove it! I mean, having played it that many times has killed my motivation to replay it this past decade or more, but as far as "personally significant" games go, Chrono Trigger is it.
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Most of my love of Final Fantasy comes from the original Nintendo Power strategy guide for it, which I leafed through and studied so much it fell apart. Who knew memorizing it could make an obtuse game like this one so much more enjoyable?
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Ever get the feeling that a game is created just for you? (I do, and it's Strange Journey.)
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For me, Blaster Master represented a personal struggle that spanned an entire decade. I could never beat it as a little kid, but in the last throes of 1999 I promised myself I'd sit down and finish it before the year 2000 rolled around. I dunno; it seemed significant at the time. Y2K and potential Armageddon be damned, at last I finally defeated Plutonium Boss and rescued my frog. And became a man.
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I was always found of Mario's lucid adventure, but it became my favorite of all right around the time I first pelted an enemy with a vegetable, then jumped on the veggie during its mid-air ricochet and picked it up again. Surely no coincidence.
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"Defeat Dycedarg's elder brother" or bust.
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My favorite game in the Zelda series, which makes me a weirdo, I know.
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It's basically an unplayable mess at this point, but the story is absurdly pretentious enough to maintain some basic charm, and the soundtrack is legendary.
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What I think is the best of the post-Symphony Metroidvania mold. Also notable for introducing Julius "Where's the Beef?" Belmont.
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I admit, I've barely played Bloodlines even though I've owned it for over a decade; it's a great game, but I just never feel like hooking up my Genesis. A soundtrack can matter a lot (as with many of the games featured from here on down)!
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What do I think of Lords of Thunder? Well, ever since my baby's been born it's all that I do.
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The most obscure title on my list, it's an incredibly solid arcade-style soccer game that inexplicably became a contentious multiplayer favorite amongst friends and I.
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Parasite Eve makes the cut due to it being the game that convinced me to get a PS1. That soundtrack ain't half bad either.
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Okay, so Xiahou Dun isn't a game, I know. He's just my favorite, most-used representative from the Dynasty Warriors franchise with a history that's frankly longer than it should be. And for the record, DW3.
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Not even God.
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I'm Bronze Jonson, I don't care what anyone says.
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GILGAMESH
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MK64 makes the list due to countless hours of multiplayer while simultaneously listening to what amounted to porn soundtracks.
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DDS spawned a number of what you'd call life's little coincidences and has, uncoincidentally, Shoji Meguro's best soundtrack.
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It's sort of a lazy game, but does enough things differently in its world design that it's easily my favorite of the DS batch of Castlevania games.
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Super Empire is one janky-ass game, but it's the game that introduced and made me a Star Wars fan, so there.
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Very likely my favorite game of the current console generation, though its endless cavalcade of amusing glitches counts for a lot.
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