Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake is the second best game in the series after Metal Gear Solid (with Snake Eater coming in at a close third). Ghost Babel is also close up there with MGS3.
Well modern Metal Gears are pretty much evolved Metal Gear 2s, the mechanics introduced in this game were amazingly new and innovative.
For my own controversial opinion:
Ico is far superior than Shadow Of The Collosus and Shadow of The Collosus is overrated , and had a bad ending. I must say, I played the games for the first time about a year ago.
*puts band-aid on forehead, looks around for something to throw while yelling*
No way man. Different styles of combat, but Chrono Trigger is just perfect in that respect. As for environments (any environment you could think of), story (insane amount of possible endings), and mythos (in-dwelt alien villain within the earth), a perfect tale told in 25-30 hours is far more preferable than the forever long BG II. One last thought - characters create the most lasting impression within a story, and CT's are second to none.
PC gaming is far and away superior/better than console gaming
The biggest problem with some of this gens great games is that they are on consoles (Dragon's Dogma immediately comes to mind)
Paper Mario peaked with The Thousand Year Door and has since died and had its corpse mutilated
Skyward Sword is the absolute worst game in the series BUT it also has the best and most enjoyable controls and combat.
Zelda has absolutely no business, nor any place, being even remotely light hearted. Stop being Disney god damn it!
One of Skyward Sword's bigger problems is that despite the prologue it feels like I'm walking through some rejected Disney Land area(s). This is a world ravaged by war between God and the Devil, why does this place look like it was designed by people even Disney
rejected due to it being far too excessively sugar coated?
Stop forcing light hearted bullcrap into/onto things that have no business being light hearted! This goes to everyone but especially Nintendo.
Wind Waker is far, FAR better than Ocarina of Time and far, FAR darker than Skyward Sword.
The Wii U should have had far better hardware.
The top screen on the original 3DS should have been 4 inches and 16:9, MINIMUM
Super Mario Galaxy 2 is the best 3D Mario game despite it looking like it was designed by toddlers all hopped up on sugar and made for newborns who like watching TV's explode into colorful nonsense
Super Mario Galaxy 1 had a good story
Super Mario Galaxy 2 had a great sound track
Tomb Raider (2013) is not a good or great game by any stretch......
I cannot bring myself to state the other end of the spectrum
The first bioshock is a horrible game
My biggest complaint with Skyward Sword is also my biggest complaint with the first Bioshock (Fetch Quest: The Game)
Half Life 2 is one of the most boring games ever created
Bulletstorm is one of the best shooters ever made
Left 4 Dead is one of the worst zombie games ever created (same goes for 2)
Resident Evil 5 is the worst in series
Resident Evil (Game Cube) is one of the best games to feature zombies, period.
Mass Effect has zero replayability
The Witcher games are the only games where choices actually feel like they matter and the only games that I've played that actually seem to do the whole choice thing properly in the first place
Fallout New Vegas is a proper Fallout game, 3 is a boring pile of dulled out boring boring.
Oblivion is terrible
Skyrim is okay with mods
Obsidian should be in charge of the Fallout series
Gamebryo needs to be destroyed
Bethesda can't write worth a damn.
1080p native should have been the standard for Wii U
Mario Kart DS was the last good Mario Kart game
The 3DS has no games, nor does Vita
Epic Mickey was a great movie
Nintendo needs to stop converting their franchises into bridge games (another issue I had with Skyward)
Intel is overrated and overpriced
Games should be a tad more cinematic if the situation calls for it AND have great, deep gameplay to back it up
Video games can outclass both film and novels when done right (Bioshock Infinite comes to mind)
Delays are annoying but not as incredibly irritating as devs releasing teaser trailers for games that won't come out for another half a decade.
I got bored. The story did nothing for me whatsoever and I didn't care for the characters. The entire time I was thinking "I'd rather be playing Devil May Cry"
As much as I love their games, I secretly think Obsidian is kind of bad at making RPGs on their own and should perhaps try their hand at making adventure games that will let them go crazy with their strengths (writing, world building) and not have to worry about their weaknesses.
I got bored. The story did nothing for me whatsoever and I didn't care for the characters. The entire time I was thinking "I'd rather be playing Devil May Cry"
*puts band-aid on forehead, looks around for something to throw while yelling*
No way man. Different styles of combat, but Chrono Trigger is just perfect in that respect. As for environments (any environment you could think of), story (insane amount of possible endings), and mythos (in-dwelt alien villain within the earth), a perfect tale told in 25-30 hours is far more preferable than the forever long BG II. One last thought - characters create the most lasting impression within a story, and CT's are second to none.
I feel as though I entered a terrible RP session :lol
I can appreciate CT, but to me all the things that BG2 offered culminated into one of the best rpg experiences I have had. To me it is the yardstick by which I compare other rpg's. The game was as long as you wanted it to be, depending on how many side quests you wished to do. I thought the characters in bg2 were fantastic. Irenicus is a goddamn badass, and all the guys you encounter along the way just added in their own wsy to the experience. To me it is the most compelete rpg in what it offers.
Are you a scholar? That sounds so prolific. I mean that makes total sense. [/not sarcasm]
** you know what while we are still doing this:
I don't understand or like games like Fallout. I played the game for I don't know how many hours and could not get anywhere, and ended up dying because I went to some far off place where some mutant dude kills me. I just don't get the fascination, same with elder scrolls dat combat.
I really don't like the DC fighting games. I really hate them. No style or substance imo. I cringe at the very thought of them.
I have been gaming for a long time (over 20 years) and I don't understand the shin megami tensei series at all. I tried one a long long time ago, just don't understand the fascination.
That's it for now. I think I will come back to this thread periodically.
Persona 4 is boring as hell and all of the time wasted on making virtual friends is really annoying. I have actual, real-life friends. I don't need to waste hours and hours wooing virtual ones.
I agree (except I paid full price and really regret it), and I also feel this way about Sony's western first party efforts in general. Games like inFamous, Killzone, God of War and Resistance are downright unpleasant to play. I really hope they are focusing on other things for the PS4.
PC gaming is a money-suck, and consoles are more powerful and more efficient. Case-in-point, my graphics card (Radeon HD 7570) costs $139.99 on Dell's website, which is more than a PlayStation 2 costs these days. I bring that up because it can barely emulate a PS2 game properly. Any card that has came out within the last few years should be able to handle last-gen games with ease. Also, gaming on PC pretty much sucks with AMD hardware because no game is specifically coded for it, and nVidia is too damn expensive.
Anyone who plays GTA just to kill and blow up stuff without playing any of the missions is a mindless idiot.
I actually enjoy Final Fantasy XII's story because it's more about overall plot themes/devices (political espionage, power struggle, secret power structures, political ambition & war) that it is about character-driven shenanigans. That's why the game is played through Vaan's eyes, because it's less about him, and more about everything that is going on around him. Anyone who wants wonky animu characters should play FFX or FFXIII.
Anyone who plays games just for the multiplayer has bad tastes in video games.
Sony is the best company of the big 3.
Current-gen Madden contains some of the laziest programming in video game history. It's barely decent at being a functional video game, let alone an accurate representation of pro football.
Speaking of sports games, any game not named NBA 2K or The Show needs to take some notes from those two games.
NFL 2K5 is the most overrated game in history. It's semi-realistic, other than the fact that every player runs like a girl, DB AI sucks, and the sprint button is completely broken.
David Cage is a visionary.
"Indie" is becoming synonymous for "talentless hacks who have shitty ideas who have to go mobile just to make video games, because no one takes them seriously enough to put them on a console."
Tekken is better than Street Fighter.
There is no "sexism" problem in the industry. There is, however, a problem with getting women (and minorities, for that matter) involved with game development in the first place. Patricia Hernandez, you want to see more women at Sony's pressers? Then give DigiPen a call and tell them to lower their damn mortgage-esque tuition for a Bachelor of Arts & Science in game development.
Xbox LIVE is the worst thing to happen to gaming.
The "secret sauce" for both of the next-gen consoles' success will be social gaming and interaction.
Infamous 2 is the best PS3 game. Uncharted 2 is a close second.
The first Mass Effect was a decent game with a decent story with terrible AI, terrible animation, and terrible characters (other than Garrus & Liara). The second Mass Effect had a good story with good gameplay, good AI, and terrible characters (again, other than Garrus. Liara was barely in the game because EA DLC). The third Mass Effect had great gameplay with great AI, a terrible story and (you guessed it) with terrible characters (once again, excluding Garrus & Liara). Which makes Mass Effect 2 the best in the trilogy. Fuck those characters and all their daddy issues, though.
Tower defense games are shit.
Steam and subsidized hardware pricing have ruined the perception of market pricing in the game industry.
I didn't have an SNES or PS1, so when I played Metroid and Castlevania on my GBA and loved them (LOVED them, let me emphasize that), I went back and played Super Metroid and SotN. They're not nearly as good as the GBA games. Not even close. I couldn't bring myself to finish either of them.
Metroid Prime is probably one of the most overrated franchises in gaming. It is just so fucking bland. Literally it's only redeeming factor is it has a female protag which doesn't happen often.
PC gaming is a money-suck, and consoles are more powerful and more efficient. Case-in-point, my graphics card (Radeon HD 7570) costs $139.99 on Dell's website, which is more than a PlayStation 2 costs these days. I bring that up because it can barely emulate a PS2 game properly. Any card that has came out within the last few years should be able to handle last-gen games with ease. Also, gaming on PC pretty much sucks with AMD hardware because no game is specifically coded for it, and nVidia is too damn expensive.
I had to stop here. There's opinions, and then there's being factually wrong. You really have no clue what emulation is, eh?
The PS2 and Wii are likely the last consoles to be emulated on PC because their architecture is simple enough. Everything past that (including the og Xbox) is too complicated to ever emulate without a huge team of dedicated programmers being paid to make it work.
Persona 4 is boring as hell and all of the time wasted on making virtual friends is really annoying. I have actual, real-life friends. I don't need to waste hours and hours wooing virtual ones.
Bethesda is a common whipping boy - there's really no negative opinion you could share about Bethesda that would be considered controversial anymore. I'm actually a huge Bethesda fan and I agree with your assessment. They're masters of world-building but they're terrible at writing stories set in those worlds.
Now if you were to say Obsidian's writing was awful, that'd be another story entirely.
I had to stop here. There's opinions, and then there's being factually wrong. You really have no clue what emulation is, eh?
The PS2 and Wii are likely the last consoles to be emulated on PC because their architecture is simple enough. Everything past that (including the og Xbox) is too complicated to ever emulate without a huge team of dedicated programmers being paid to make it work.
I don't claim to be the paragon of emulation standards, but I remember a quote that I read in an Android forum regarding possible PS2 emulation on tablets: "The hardware has to be more powerful than the console it's emulating for it to work." Call me crazy, but I would like to think that a graphics card and CPU made in the last two years are more powerful than 10 year old hardware. But when the only games I can run are FFXII at 59 FPS with occasional slowdown during certain cutscenes, Kingdom Hearts at 59 FPS and Tekken 5 at 30 FPS, I start to wonder. That, and I don't want to have to do a bunch of tweaking to make my games work.
As far as normal PC gaming... I can barely get 20 frames out of GTA IV. That's the whole reason I bought my new PC, to play that and make movies using the clip editor...
EDIT: For reference -
HP ENVY hd1534
Beats by Dre Audio
10GB DDR3 RAM
Radeon HD 7570 2GB
AMD FX 6200 Six-Core Processor
HP Pavilion 1080p HDMI Monitor
As far as normal PC gaming... I can barely get 20 frames out of GTA IV. That's the whole reason I bought my new PC, to play that and make movies using the clip editor...
PC gaming is a money-suck, and consoles are more powerful and more efficient. Case-in-point, my graphics card (Radeon HD 7570) costs $139.99 on Dell's website, which is more than a PlayStation 2 costs these days. I bring that up because it can barely emulate a PS2 game properly. Any card that has came out within the last few years should be able to handle last-gen games with ease. Also, gaming on PC pretty much sucks with AMD hardware because no game is specifically coded for it, and nVidia is too damn expensive.
