Started great.

Played great.

Ended great.
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"Love isn't something you feel, it's something you do. And if the person you're with doesn't want it, you know. Do yourself a favor and save it for someone that does."
--Nate Fisher, "Six Feet Under"

True, it was way too short, but definitely a completely satisfying game experience through and through.

Peace-Like Stylee,
J-Bird

"Nobody light-skinned reppin' harder since Ice-T"

"You're fucking up the vibe right now. Be less OKP." - Dr Strangelove

"Get an axe. Axes fix everything."

I'm working on like 10 games at once right now, so I'll try to do that one next

they need to make another game

My real problem is that the game is sooo good that I'm afraid to reach the ending, so I've been intentionally dragging out the experience. I've kind of been planning just one weekend where I lock myself inside and do nothing but play this game. Hopefully it will happen soon.

it's like they were trumpeting a cause.. glorification of journalists or some bs.

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a fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic
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I need a sequel ASAP.

Zone of Enders 2, and Crash Bandicoot 3

however, they all have their moments.

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I can play that joint for hours.... and the game is only about an hour long!

i'm playing Warrior Within right now.. it's not too bad, but the beginning was fucking bullshit.

>i'm playing Warrior Within right now.. it's not too bad, but
>the beginning was fucking bullshit.

And I rented Warrior Within and stopped playing about an hour in. It just really sucked compared to the first one -- way too much emphasis on combat, which is *not* what made the game fun for me. The first one, though, is brilliant start to finish.

>>i'm playing Warrior Within right now.. it's not too bad,
>but
>>the beginning was fucking bullshit.
>
>And I rented Warrior Within and stopped playing about an hour
>in. It just really sucked compared to the first one -- way
>too much emphasis on combat, which is *not* what made the game
>fun for me. The first one, though, is brilliant start to
>finish.

it picks up about 20% in.. if you haven't seen the Dahaka i'd suggest renting it again for the chase sequences.
but the cutscenes are pretty awful too compared with the first one's.

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It wasn't perfect, but I was really surprised when we finished it.

That was better than fantasy football, and I'm mad we don't have it again this year.

One of the greatest videogame experiences I've ever had.

I can not think of a videogame experience better than the online league.


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Simmon

lol :D

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I have to agree.

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IT SUCKED! I lost Tyrone Wheatley! (insert Q-Bert cussing)

Aight...Can't front..

The league was easily the best videogame experience for me since Mario 3. No gaming experieince compares to having a league online. Sure, you have to cuss folks to get games played, but at least we finished the thing. We owe it to one other to put it down on the next generation games when the time comes.

Jimaveli

Mario 64
Kirby Canvas Curse
Zelda OoT
Halo
Jet Grind Radio (DC)
Katamari Damacy

... a few months ago, but haven't been able to get back to it because of school. I started again last night, and only managed 5 hours of sleep. I'm completely hooked on it....

I'd like to add Meteos.

but i'm sorry i can't say the same for wind waker (this coming from a zelda fanboy).

i got up to ganon and i just can't bring myself to finishing it because i'm so uninterested.

you gots to see him die...

honestly it had one of the best endings of a zelda game

That ending gave me goosebumps....

ok i'll try to dust it off and finish it this weekend.

i mean i loved the game up until it was a fetchquest for the triforce shards. sailing all that ocean killed my mood.

i gotta wait till after some exams n shit...

:)

XBox - Psychonauts

I loved that damn game.

--Maurice

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George Michael: Ann.

Michael: ... getting her all glittered up for Easter, you know?

perfect length, perfect difficulty and it actually rewarded you for beating it

shenmue
shenmue 2

One of the best games I think I've ever played. And when you finally do beat it, it gives you a shitload of mini-games to fuck with too...

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for a game. when i switched to disc 2 i thought "they can't possibly keep this up" there must be one more level then the final boss... nope! that was only halfway through the game

The replay value is amazing too

Which reminds me, has anybody seen the video for the original version of RE4? It looks scarier, but it also looks like it plays like shit

I don't even play videogames that much anymore but I couldn't put the controller down until I beat RE4

every five minutes was an "oh shit!" moment

Old school Ninja Gaiden in your mouth

Strider woulda been here, but it was a little too easy

co-sign the mickey mouse
I'd also toss revenge of shinobi into the mix

Halo
Ninja Gaiden (NES)
GTA3-SanAndreas
Super Mario Bros. 2
Resident Evil 2
Resident Evil 4
Devil May Cry

>Ninja Gaiden (NES)

I mean, I love Ninja Gaiden and all, but the real pleasure of the game is getting past that one spot you've been stuck on for like 3 weeks, ready to throw your controller through a window and cussing up a storm. I can't see how that fits into the first post's suggestion about 'satisfying from beginning to end.' It's just satisfying in one giant rush (following hours of torture) that few other games can duplicate.

>GTA3-SanAndreas

And while I've had some of my fondest play experiences in GTA3, you can't tell me that there aren't spots that drag in those games. There are more than a few missions that are just chores that you complete to unlock something else. I distinctly remember car collecting for the dealership in VC as the point where I lost faith in the 'brilliance' of the series. It was a pathetic fetch quest, noticeably below 'brilliant' (but sill I did it to get those cool cars in the show room).

Just kidding. Sure there were some hard parts in those games, but to ME they were still fun. How can a game with no challenge be fun?

sometimes I just want it to be easy so I can relax. Sometimes I just like firing up an RPG and levelling for a few hours b/c it helps me chill out. Or playing a really good platformer where you can just dick around -- like Mario Sunshine, Psychonauts, or Jak and Daxter. If I'm already stressed out, the last thing I want is a videogame adding to my blood pressure.

But yeah, there's definitely something to be said for challenging games, I just can't play them *all* the time.

I know it's quickly becoming a cliche among the hardcore gaming crowd, but that game was amazing. My only problem w/ it was that it ended. I could have played that game forever.

(And can I also pretentiously point out that I got that game the day it was released, rode my fucking bike like an hour to get to the store to get it, and enjoyed it all through the Christmas season while everyone was ignoring it and buying other games, long before it became this obnoxious cliche of artistic gaming? I loved this game long before it was hip to do so.)

That game was just beautiful
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George Michael: Ann.

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--Maurice

spooks like us

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September is Prov's Sanaa Lathan Month

especially since it gives you a 5 second window for laughing at the other player through the microphone

Tecmo Super Bowl, Super Mario 3-World,Metal Gear, MGS1, MGS3 and the Missions segment of MGS2 Substance.

these are only the first couple that come to mind, but i've been outta the loop for a while

my shit.
:)

spooks like us

co-sign

...that game was amazing, ABSOLUTLY AMAZING! made me happy to build the new computer

It was the first game I tried on my new comp
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I play the thing over and over again just to see all the little details


I love how when you're under water and people are shooting at you, that not only do you see the bullets whiz through the water, BUT - you see the fluttery, disturbed water around the round as well.

Plus, you really feel as if Mofo's are after you - I'm never had my adrenaline pumping like that from a video game before.




Peace,






M2

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The GOAT of game endings!

http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/nes/a/mario2.htm

Metroid had alternate endings.. word:

http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/nes/b/met.htm
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A wise man sees failure as progress,
a fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic
(c) canibus - poet laureate 2

SMB2 is one my all time favorites I liked it way more than SMB3.

cuz I don't usually finish games, but that doesn't mean I'm unsatisfied, just fucking lazy,


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http://rjcc.stumbleupon.com - what I'm looking at

i think the last game i beat was vice city

hell, I didn't even finish KOTOR, and I loved that game.

it's just, games aren't so start-to-finsih, at least for me

cuz I don't just sit down, watch it and its over.

I play a few hours every now and thne, some I finish the story, some I don't. to evaluate it on a start to finish of the storyline I just wouldn't be able to do on most games.


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Certified Grade A Coon - Inspector Abrock33

http://rjcc.stumbleupon.com - what I'm looking at

if i'm to finish a game, it better have a dope-ass engaging story to keep me playing or it better be really short

i do see myself playing through indigo prophecy in its entirety. maybe even multiple times

also i did finish makai kingdom recently but that wasn't even motivated by the story. i just wanted to play with the secret characters that are a lot easier to get when you're playing through for the second time

...never be another better

Super Mario RPG
The Monkey Island games (thats right bitches!)
EARTHBOUND!!!!!!!!!


I'll just throw those in cuz everybody already mentioned MGS, MGS3, RE4, Zelda games, Final Fantasy VI and VII, and Chrono Trigger

Any game with Yoshi in it also achieves superiority

... though I'm still working on Prime 2.

Super Mario World
Sonic 2 & 3
FF7
Halo 1 & 2 minus cop-out endings
Rez
Katamari Damacy (has anyone copped the sequel yet?)
I'm STILL working on Mario 64, but I'd put it here so far (on the DS, in fact..... I didn't get a 64 until very late in the game)
And of course....Tetris

if you are a DBZ fan there's noway you wouldn't enjoy this game...it's particularly satisfying for day-one fans who had to endure dozens of shoddy/mediocre DBZ titles in the post-16bit era(UB22..ughh), not saying it's the best fighter ever, but it's the game DBZ fans have been waiting for

that new one that's coming out at the end of the yr looks amazing too....2P split screen goddammit!! hopefully it'll live up to the hype

Civ 2 because, even when you don't win, you have fucking epic games that are basically like alternative world histories, you watch your empire rise and fall over the centuries. I once surrounded Karakorum for 2 years with sea bourne forces, taking the capitol of my fiercist enemies once it had weakened sufficiently (cut off it's supplies). Eventually they took it back, and with technology stolen from me, swept through asia and eastern europe, cutting off MY capitol (rome) from the remains of the empire, finally leaving me nothing but Great Britain, from which to launch my last ditch nuclear attack in a bid to win the space race, hence the game.

Or the time I took over the aztecs in one turn. Or the world war 2 scenerio which I played on into the coldwar era, disabling nuclear weapons in the program code and entering a BIG ASS world war 3 with the soviets. Stealth bombers hitting Moscow from hidden aircraft carriers, espionage units sent into the city to disable their air defence.

And Deus Ex. So fucking brilliant. I literally stopped playing videogames for 2 years after I played that, cause there was just no way anything could live up to those standards. I remember they order you to execute your brother, and i was like "fuck that" so I turned and shot the commanding officer in the face... and instead of saying "mission failed," it kept the brother in the game, and removed further scenes with the commanding officer. And then later they tried to arrest us in the brother's appartment, MiB style. Instead of running away I decided to stay and fight... when they eventually got enough hits on me, instead of dying and restarting the level, I woke up in the next level, prisoner,having survived death. And the twist about that prison... dopeness

now I got to go back and get Deus Ex. That shit sounds awesome!

you see i had set a booby-trap... i just underestimated its explosiveness somewhat. this made things quite intense, since I wouldn't be able to run away if any more guards spotted me

you get to spend experience points and also robotically/cybernetically upgrade yourself. but you can't have everything. like i went for "silent run" and "speed run" and built up my melee strength so I could cover 50 yards in a second and samurai-sword my enemies, then carry their corpses back off into the shadows (no-necro)

i need to replay the game sometime and try the swimming upgrades and jumping upgrades and combat upgrades... so many platforms and underwater areas that i didn't try

yeah... you need to get this game

I need to know how addictive this game is because it could possibly ruin my study habits.

i was getting home and going on it straight away. and it's a longish game. there's so many rooms/buildings i can recall, but I don't remember what level they were on. but also there's so much information in this game. there's little "datacubes" that tell you stuff about the various parties, which you don't have to read, but you feel like a detective and you have to piece together everything, turn over ever stone so to speak. it even had me looking up stuff on the internet

yeah, fit it in during a holiday or something, otherwise it will fuck up your exams. you'll be thinking about it even when you're not playing it. lol

i think it took me 2 weeks, a 3-4 hours each day

I can't get over how bad the Chinese accents are though

definitely one of the all time greats

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Nintendo is like your close friend that always says lame things at partys, and when he goes to the bathroom you have to explain to everyone "No I'm telling you guys, he's a cool guy...really" - ign board quote

http://miyamoto.ytmnd.com/

Silent Hill 2 (In Water ending)

everyone rags on max payne 2 for not being long enough but I thought it was perfect. Didn't drag at all, and definitely made you want to keep playing until the end.

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Nintendo is like your close friend that always says lame things at partys, and when he goes to the bathroom you have to explain to everyone "No I'm telling you guys, he's a cool guy...really" - ign board quote

http://miyamoto.ytmnd.com/

Damn I love some Spyro the dragon and FF-10 is just so beautiful throughout....


Dee

Just the way it starts, the cutscenes
GOAT

<---*bites my fist*
mercy.......

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are they ever gonna make shenmue 3?

I really enjoyed playing that.

n/m

But I wholeheartedly agree.

--Maurice

looking back, I'm not sure how I ever managed that shit

Sonic - Sonic & Knuckles (w\ all emeralds)
FF7
PSO (1 nigga oniline, forest - falz, twin brand and a Soul Banish)
Panzar Dragoon

I agree with the bearfield that a game either needs to be appropriately short or extremely compelling in order to truly belong under this topic.

On that note I'd like to add the original NES Castlevania to the list.

Heck, after Aries died, it was pretty much a wrap from there

and like someone said, deus ex

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the best puzzle game I've ever played (sorry Tetris Attack)

amzing gameplay and design, great ending.

kingdom hearts
FFX

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bets action game of the year hands down.

Mercanaries dragged a little with the second suite, but really pcked up at the end

oh and Metroid Primes (both)


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