I would drink a GALLON of scalding hot grease, just to see one of your smiles GRANDMA!!!

[theperfectdoug]

This is the best thing ever (for this week): www.somethingawful.com/rchs

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[theperfectdoug]

A lot of people say that but i dont know. I was never able to get through that part a little after the beginning where Chrono is being held prisoner. I just couldnt get into it and i hate games i cant get into. But it's just personal opinion, ive heard nothing but good things about that game, it just wasn't for me i suppose.

[avenger314]

20) Ranks as my least favorite in the Final Fantasy series

[theperfectdoug]

It's weird but im finding SO MANY people who are saying "you liked river city ransom?! i thought no one knew that game existed! I love that game!!". It;s just plain fun from a time period when thats what games were all about! As for Silent Hill 2, i knew you'd come around! The SH games are all great but this one i felt had the most psychological story, and it all kind of tied together in a way that made sense (well as much sense as one of those games is gonna make). Silent Hill one disappointed me right at the end. It was a great game, but the fact that the end point turned out to be "Demons from hell are running a drug dealing pyramid scheme and using your daughter/halfdaughter/cabbage you found in a cemetary as a figurehead!!". I would have appreciated something simpler more, like "this town is haunted!". OR just leave it unexplained, more is less in situations like that. Whereas in silent hill 2 the big twist makes sense (im not gonna post just what it is in case someone reading doesnt know). And yes, Pyramid Head rules. I cant

[anonymous]

It's good to see a Best Video Game list that doesn't enrage me. A million high-fives to you and yours for excluding Halo and Vice City. I did a top 20 Console Games list in pretty much the exact same format on my blorg in August of 03 (i think). But my list was more arbitrary, as Ghostbusters for the Genesis got like, 3rd place. And I put FF6 at first. I think you might have blended together Rival Schools and Project Justice.. unless that's what they call the game in Japan or something I don't know about.

Good call on River City Ransom!

"BARF!"

~Ryan F

H4l0 1s 4 Suxorz

[theperfectdoug]

Thank you for all the praise, it means a lot coming from a person who's played so many games! I hate Halo with a fiery passion, the single player was boring and im just not a fan of FPS, i think goldeneye was the high point wherein anyone could pick it up and play. I feel kind of bad that i didnt include more computer games on this list but if it makes people feel better if it was longer Sam & Max Hit The Road, would have been number 21 and Rainbow 6 would have been 22. As for Vice City, i understand the appeal and i played both PS2 GTA's at chucks appartment extensively but i just didnt like it. Everything seems the same and boring in that game, "go pick up this guy and bring him here", now do that over and over again. It's just lame. That always struck me as odd about that game theres so much to do yet at the same time not much at all. Ah, well, to each his own. And you're right about that Project Justice, i could not for the life of me remember what it was called, i just remembered "justice" was in the name and it was the sequel to

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[anonymous]

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It's not so great, but there it is.

Haha! Sam and Max! Now i'm all curious, did you ever play Day of the Tentacle? As for FPS, I am a fan of the genre, but no more than most other genres. Half-Life kicked my ass when it came out, and Half-Life 2 is kicking it all over again right now. As for Halo (and Halo 2), yeah, the single player was crap on crap, yet it recieved tons of praise from people who never played any other video games ever. Yay Xbox.

I liked GTA3 when it came out, it felt very fresh.. unfortunately, Vice City and San Andreas was just more of the same, and barely even felt like full-fledged sequels. More like expansions. At least those games tought me to appreciate linearity in games. Sure, you can wander around some of the biggest (blandest) environments in video game history... but uh, that's about it... just wander. Fuck, I can do that without video games! Somebody gimme a boss fight!

~Ryan F

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[theperfectdoug]

Hey don't be so down on yourself that blorg of yours is like twenty minutes of nonstop edutainment. I particularly liked the two pictures of the only good things to come out of the eighties, especially since you managed to squeeze yourself, the Watchmen and Contra into just one picture! Yeah Cliff Yablonski once said the eighties was like a 10 year prison term and im prone to agree with the guy. Whenever i remember the eighties i dont remember fun goofy new wave music or anything like that i remember Luther Vandross and Whitney Houston. And if anything is gonna depress a child between the ages of 0-8, it's gonna be them two. I admit the first time i walked into a Hot Topic and saw shirts with He-Man on them i was like "sweet. He-Man." but being the avid collector that i am i have some excuse (I have every action figure and playset besides Hurricane Hordak and the Eternia playset up in my parent's attic. And i cant bring myself to sell them to Toy Vault so some fucker in a Family Guy shirt can go "wow, He Man i totally remember this!"

[anonymous]

Ah yes. Strongfist Maximum: The Team Thunder Story. I had finished a rough draft in the winter, but it's been going through a lot of changes since then. I keep throwing in notes and ideas for things I want to change, and it's gotten to the point where I think I might just break everything down and start over.

I still want to do it, but i'm not gonna be able to take the summer off from school to work on it, seeing as I missed out on 6 months of school against my will. So i've got some catching up to do. Money's a little too tight to start right now, also. But you've still got top billing.

It's become less of a faux-japanese action thing, and more of a bizarre superheroes vs bizarre supervillians thing. It allows for funnier characters and more outrageous jokes, I think. I can only make fun of Versus and Battle Royale for a few minutes before I run out of funny parody ideas. So poo to that idea.

~Ryan F

[sociopathetic]

No Mike Tyson's Punch Out...tsk tsk tsk Doug. I think I'm far more a sucker for nostalgia than you are in your list. Then again I'm a bit older too. There's no games for Saturn or Sega CD in there, Night Stalkers, and there was a Kung Fu Game for Sega CD that was really good, For Saturn I loved Daytona USA, Virtua Fighter 2, and Panzer Dragoon was interesting. I must say as well you have to play Def Jam Vendetta Fight for NY before picking the best fighting game ever.

[theperfectdoug]

Hey i said it this weekend and ill say it again. Def Jam FFNY is a very fun game. But is it a good game? No, not at all. There are horrible character balance issues being it's biggest problem. And while this is also a problem in another game i listed (Super Smash Bros.) that game's balance issues are nowhere as glaring as the ones in Def Jam. Def Jam is also a very shallow and simple fighting game with, basically, a three button system. You could argue that Smash has the same simplicity problem but between all the special moves, blocking and dodging, the items you can use and the stages each with their own benefits and drawbacks Smash becomes a pretty darn deep game. While we're on that topic, the stages in Def Jam are uninspired and repetitive. There's really only two types when you break it down: Stages with deathtraps, and stages without deathtraps. Anything else is purely cosmetic and not very impressive. The stages in a game like Alpha or (ESPECIALLY) SF3 are beautiful and alive. Im not down on Def Jam at all, i love the game and

[sociopathetic]

Did you ever play X-Men 2 for the Genesis? The one where you have to play through the first level as a randomly selected character before you can even go to the title screen?

~Ryan