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Maiden Voyage

Maiden Voyage

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Hey Gaf, I had an idea after reading a magazine. We should do a top 5 to get to know each other a bit better. If you like the idea, I've put a template below in quotes. Feel free to add categories or to ignore specific ones proposed.

The thing is though, no elaboration is allowed. Just list your points. If you you want to discuss someone else's list with them or others, fair game. But your list should only be your list.

The list isn't necessarily GOAT, but more what you're feeling at the moment. As time passes, you can repost with your new thoughts but please don't spam a new list every week.

Lists are also unordered intentionally.

My example is below the line break.

Games





Consoles





Franchises





Devs





Trends you're over





Genres





Moments





Dead companies





Soundtracks





Worst publishers





Last games you played





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Games

  • Earthbound
  • Fez
  • Elden Ring
  • Session
  • Chrono Trigger

Consoles

  • PS2
  • Switch
  • SNES
  • Wii
  • PC

Franchises

  • Earthbound
  • Resident Evil
  • Mario (mainline)
  • Zelda
  • Costume Quest

Devs

  • Valve
  • From Software
  • poncle
  • Tunic Team
  • Bullfrog

Trends you're over

  • Hand-holding UX / press A to win
  • Open world, meaningless spam objectives
  • Cluttered UI
  • Accessibility options
  • Lack of basic functionality like cloud saves

Genres

  • Soulslike
  • Puzzle
  • Indie
  • Simulation
  • Strategy

Moments

  • Magic cake in Earthbound
  • Weed field in Far Cry 3
  • Any oh shit moment in Tunic
  • That moment in Fez
  • Ending in Walking Dead season 1

Dead companies

  • Bullfrog
  • Neversoft
  • Telltale
  • Maxis
  • Westwood

Soundtracks

  • Tony Hawk Pro Skater
  • THPS2
  • THPS3
  • THUG
  • THUG2

Worst publishers

  • EA
  • Activision
  • Ubisoft
  • Take Two
  • Epic

Last games you played

  • Norco
  • Murder by Numbers
  • The Last Campfire
  • Tunic
  • Session
 
I'm going to give each and everyone of your lists a lol emoji to assert dominance.

This took some time, but it was entertaining to do some self-reflection on gaming related stuff. Skipped a few categories btw.

Games

  • DOOM (93)
  • The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
  • Dragon's Dogma
  • Elden Ring
  • Metal Gear Rising Revengeance

Consoles

  • Sega Megadrive / Genesis
  • Super Nintendo
  • Nintendo DS
  • Neo-Geo
  • PC

Franchises

  • Yakuza
  • Shin Megami Tensei
  • Dark Souls
  • DOOM
  • Dragon Quest

Trends you're over

  • Storytelling over gameplay.
  • Open world, meaningless spam objectives, theme-park effect
  • Soulless clean UI with no visual design
  • The solution to a puzzle is spelled by your sidekick
  • Walkie-talkie sections

Genres

  • Action
  • JRPG
  • Retro FPS
  • Colony management
  • Chad simulator (Yakuza games)

Moments

  • Half-Life Alyx, final moments, blasting through the Citadel one hadouken at a time + that ending.
  • SMT IV, first major boss fight, "Now come samurai, put on a good show". Banger starts playing.
  • Yakuza 5, Shinada gets told he'll get 90 minutes for just 3000 yen if he comes back. :lollipop_crying:
  • Dragon's Dogma, Daimon fight. (specially kino since I was underleveled, fight lasted for about 20-30 minutes and I lost 2 pawns in the process)
  • Hi-Fi Rush, penultimate level, Invaders Must Die starts playing.

Soundtracks

  • Shin Megami Tensei IV
  • Metal Gear Rising Revengeance
  • Persona 5
  • Lost Judgment
  • Furi

Last games you played

  • Kero Blaster
  • Dragon Quest XI
  • Hi-Fi Rush
  • Doki Doki Literature CLub
  • Blasphemous
 

Games

  • Link to the Past
  • Super Mario Brothers 3
  • Elden Ring
  • Warcraft 3
  • Final Fantasy 9

Consoles

  • NES
  • SNES
  • Xbox 360
  • PC
  • PS2

Franchises

  • Super Mario Brothers
  • Zelda
  • Halo
  • Warcraft RTS
  • Wing Commander

Devs

  • Nintendo
  • From Software
  • Origin (Wing Commander team)
  • Bethesda (Todd Howard Team)
  • Bullfrog

Trends you're over

  • Everything in Skyward Sword

Genres

  • FPS
  • Platformer
  • RTS Space, fantasy, war
  • Racing
  • Puzzle

Moments

  • Sliding down a hill in Mario 3
  • Halo 1 landing on the planet and the open world
  • Bionic Commando killing Hitler
  • NES defeating Gannon
  • Dragon Hand Godrick the Grafted.

Dead companies

  • Origin
  • Bullfrog
  • Digital Anvil
  • Maxis
  • Atari

Soundtracks

  • Zelda
  • Uncharted
  • Atomic Heart has some great tunes

Worst publishers

  • EA

Last games you played

  • Company of Heroes 3
  • Atomic Heart
  • Rocket League
  • Hot Wheels racing
  • Hi-Fi Rush
  • Vampire Survivors
 
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Games

  • Apex Legends
  • Jedi Fallen Order/Survivor
  • Rayman Legends
  • Halo MCC
  • DOOM (2016)

Consoles

  • Series X
  • PC
  • N64
  • SNES
  • Mini anything

Franchises

  • Titanfall/Apex
  • Halo
  • Space/King's Quest
  • Mario
  • Pac-Man

Devs

  • Respawn
  • id Software
  • Nintendo
  • Bungie
  • Ubisoft

Trends you're over

  • Open world for marketing tick box
  • Zombies
  • Shite quality assurance
  • Visual excess
  • Walled gardens

Genres

  • FPS
  • Action/adventure
  • Platforms
  • Coop
  • Party

Moments

  • Halo 2 XBL
  • Rayman Legends family couch coop beating Living Dead Party
  • Titanfall 2 time switch
  • E3's "fuck the Oscars"
  • Mario 64 jumping through the paintings

Dead companies

  • Bullfrog (stolen from Maiden's OP)
  • Westwood (also stolen from Maiden's OP)
  • Microprose
  • Lucasarts
  • Pandemic Studios

Soundtracks

  • Halo 2
  • Halo Infinite
  • Tony Hawk 1&2 remastered
  • Rock n Roll racing
  • Anything Bitmap Brothers

Worst publishers

  • EA
  • Activision
  • Atari (current day not old school)
  • Apple (mobile)
  • Google

Last games you played

  • Apex Legends
  • Halo MCC
  • Hogwarts Legacy
  • Atomic Heart
  • Ultimate Chicken Horse
 
Games:

Elden Ring
Resident Evil 2 Remake
MGSV
The Witcher 3
Civilization V


Devs:

From Software
Kojima
Capcom
Koei Tecmo
CD Projekt


Genres:

Souls
Third Person Action
Third Person Shooter
Survival Horror
Turn based strategy (Civilization and Nobunaga's Ambition type)


Most hated things in games:

Unskippable cut scenes
Unskippable tutorials
Long walking sections
Low fov
Screen shake/head bobbing


Last games played:

AC Odyssey
Far Cry 6
Genshin Impact
Vampire Survivor
Flight Simulator
 

Games

  • DOOM 2016
  • Prey (2017)
  • Metal Gear Solid 3
  • Destiny 2
  • Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

Consoles

  • PS2
  • OG Xbox
  • N64
  • Switch
  • PS4 Pro

Franchises

  • Elder Scrolls
  • Call of Duty
  • Yakuza
  • GTA / Red Dead
  • Metal Gear Solid

Devs

  • Machinegames / former Starbreeze
  • Old Blizzard
  • Arkane
  • Bethesda
  • CDPR

Trends you're over

  • Remastering remakes
  • Open worlds, especially ones that are huge for the sake of being huge
  • Cursor drag UIs
  • Gear scores / rarities
  • Please walk slow and listen to this exposition dump

Genres

  • Survival Horror
  • FPS
  • WRPG
  • JRPG
  • ARPG

Moments

  • DOOM 2016 - "dat pump"
  • Dead Space ending for the 1st time
  • Vader Immortal in Oculus Quest
  • Putting together the utter insanity of scale in Star Citizen

Soundtracks

  • Doom 2016
  • FFXIV
  • Final Fantasy VII
  • THPS2
  • Forza Horizon 3

Last games you played

  • Sons of the Forest
  • Destiny 2
  • COD MW2
  • Hogwarts Legacy
  • Insurgency: Sandstorm
 
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Damn that is hard, its hard for me to pick 5 games as favorites, its actually impossible i think because i have more than 5, but you know what, i will participate in the thread so i will list 5 varied games and maybe come back later and post more who knows.

Games

Actually i need to think about this (i lost like 10 minutes already), so im skipping it. Sorry.

Consoles

  • PC
  • Playstation
  • SNES
  • Xbox 360
  • Gamecube

Franchises

  • Resident Evil
  • The Legend of Zelda
  • Fallout
  • Souls
  • Hitman

Devs

  • Capcom
  • Valve
  • Fromsoftware
  • Arkane
  • This one is hard, ehh i dont know i never idiolized devs, but i guess CD Projekt Red? There was a time i really really liked them, i still like them kinda?

Trends you're over

  • Inserting crafting into every single game
  • Extreme handholding through giving solution by side characters, what tinto said basically.
  • Open World collectables and copy pasted filler. (i know its optional but it takes away from the game quality most of the time and it makes the game bigger for no good reason)
  • Games chasing Hollywood, through heavy focus on cinematics, voice acting and generic presentation (e.g MCU dialogue and presentation), im not against unique and cool high quality presentation though.
  • The obsession with inclusiveness and representation.

Genres

  • FPS
  • RPG
  • Horror
  • Action/Adventure
  • 2D Metroidvania/Platformer

Moments

  • Shodan's Reveal - System Shock 2
  • Arriving in Toussaint - Witcher 3 Blood and Wine
  • Landing on the Quantum Moon - Outer Wilds (I honestly could fill the entire list just with this game lol)
  • The Inverted Castle - Symphony of the Night
  • Discovering Siofra River - Elden Ring

Dead companies

No idea, what do you mean, like favorite dead companies or what? I never really thought about it you know
  • Eidos Interactive
  • 3DO
  • Black Isle Studios
  • Looking Glass Studios
  • I really forgot! lol i can name the Red Alert developer but you know i might be missing out a better choice.

Soundtracks

  • Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
  • Chrono Trigger
  • The Legend of Zelda - Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask
  • Final Fantasy IX
  • The Witcher 3
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Worst publishers

  • EA
  • Sega
  • Activision
  • Ubisoft
  • Square Enix

Last games you played

  • Dead Space Remake (most recent)
  • Metroid Prime Remastered
  • Tactics Ogre Reborn
  • Ace Combat 7
  • Bioshock 2 Remastered

This took some time, i wanted to delete it at some point but then i said fuck it, i already invested the time. :messenger_tears_of_joy:
 
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Games

  • Deus Ex
  • Planescape Torment
  • Dark Souls
  • Persona 4
  • X-Com Enemy Within

Consoles

  • Gamecube
  • PS4
  • SNES
  • Gameboy Advance SP
  • Switch

Franchises

  • Mario
  • Souls
  • Xenoblade Chronicles
  • Zelda
  • Yakuza

Devs

  • Nintendo
  • From Software
  • Larian
  • Monoliftsoft
  • Sega

Trends you're over

  • Requiring logging into an account to update/use graphics card drivers
  • Launching a game broken with a promised early patch
  • Bad crafting systems that are useless unless you read a guide that tells you stuff no one would ever figure out
  • Zero effort switch ports
  • Pandering to political extremists who don't really like games but like controlling games as well as everything/one else

Genres

  • Souls
  • Turn based strategy
  • Jrpg
  • Metroidvania
  • Wrpg

Moments

  • Ridley's shadow flies over Phendara drifts
  • Mother 3 "I found this great weapon but you won't like where I found it"
  • Link's Awakening end credits
  • Yakuza Like a Dragon Quest stinky breath homeless guy performs CPR resurrection spell
  • Xenoblade 2 end credits/song/drama

Dead companies

  • Origin
  • Bioware
  • New World Computing (Heroes of Might and Magic)
  • Lucasarts
  • Blizzard (og blizzard)

Soundtracks

  • Castlevania series
  • Metroid series
  • Persona 5
  • Final Fantasy X
  • Xenoblade Chronicles

Worst publishers

  • Ubisoft
  • EA
  • Activision
  • Bethesda
  • Ubisoft twice

Last games you played

  • Fire Emblem Nokia ENGAGE
  • Persona 4 Golden
  • Sports Story
  • Bayonetta 3
  • God of War Ragnarok

Can't. Resist. A list.
 
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