Top 50 Videogames: 19 and 18
19. Super Mario World (1991, Super NES)
Difficulty from 1 to 10: 4.
Played it with: Everyone. But Nick, mostly.
Did I complete it? Yep, plenty of times.
Others in the series I've played: Mario Bros. (repetitive, but good for the time), Super Mario Bros. (still pretty good), Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (awesome, and pretty hard), Super Mario Bros. 2 (I LOVE this game, despite the total inconsistency with the rest of the series), Super Mario Bros. 3 (I don't like it as much as everyone else, but it's good), Super Mario Sunshine (pretty great, but very weird concept). I haven't played Super Mario Galaxy yet, which looks pretty badass.
There's probably not much I can say here that people don't know. I certainly don't have to give backstory or explain what the game is all about.
I chose this one because it was such a giant leap forward...it truly showed off the SNES's power over the NES, and the gameplay was just so smooth and seamless.
I had a tough time choosing between this and Super Mario Bros. 2, which wasn't even a Mario game when it was created in Japan--but the actual Super Mario Bros. 2 was deemed too difficult for American audiences (it wasn't) and a different game was just ported with the only changes being the four main characters. Plus, I played Super Mario Bros. 2 with Jeremy Mikolai, Anthony Crep, Josh Mitchell and Missy Fuechtmann for countless hours in my dorm room, with the five of us (or whatever 3-5 of us were there) trading off levels, eventually playing so much that we were consistently doing it without dying once. Yeah, those were pretty awesome times. Should've picked that one, I suspect.
18. Beyond Good & Evil (2003, PlayStation 2)
Difficulty from 1 to 10: 6. 9, if you like to get everything.
Played it with: Cathy.
Did I complete it? I did this super dumbass thing. I went into one enormous tower where my mission was to take three surveillance photos. The place was hard as hell to navigate, awesome and fun as it was. Hours and hours later, I got out of the building...only to find out that I'd forgotten to take one of the three photos. So...no. I was close to the end, too. Instead, I watched Cathy play the end of it.
This is probably the very best game that never got a huge amount of attention. Well, that's a pretty ballsy suggestion, but it's up there. Beyond Good and Evil is about Jade, a Guy Fawkes-type freedom fighter who joins an underground group against a cartoonishly corrupt government. At her side is a bumbling superhero-type geek and a talking pig who walks upright. Despite this, the subject matter gets fairly serious.
Along the way, besides a pretty decent fighting scheme, the game is primarily about "how the hell do I get there from here?" and focuses far more on platforming and adventure. Also, you take photos of every animal you see on the way, which is an oddly addictive addition to the game. I can't necessarily pinpoint which aspect of this game makes it so awesome, but it all works in sync to become so.
Also: Jade gives me a boner.
Difficulty from 1 to 10: 4.
Played it with: Everyone. But Nick, mostly.
Did I complete it? Yep, plenty of times.
Others in the series I've played: Mario Bros. (repetitive, but good for the time), Super Mario Bros. (still pretty good), Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (awesome, and pretty hard), Super Mario Bros. 2 (I LOVE this game, despite the total inconsistency with the rest of the series), Super Mario Bros. 3 (I don't like it as much as everyone else, but it's good), Super Mario Sunshine (pretty great, but very weird concept). I haven't played Super Mario Galaxy yet, which looks pretty badass.
There's probably not much I can say here that people don't know. I certainly don't have to give backstory or explain what the game is all about.
I chose this one because it was such a giant leap forward...it truly showed off the SNES's power over the NES, and the gameplay was just so smooth and seamless.
I had a tough time choosing between this and Super Mario Bros. 2, which wasn't even a Mario game when it was created in Japan--but the actual Super Mario Bros. 2 was deemed too difficult for American audiences (it wasn't) and a different game was just ported with the only changes being the four main characters. Plus, I played Super Mario Bros. 2 with Jeremy Mikolai, Anthony Crep, Josh Mitchell and Missy Fuechtmann for countless hours in my dorm room, with the five of us (or whatever 3-5 of us were there) trading off levels, eventually playing so much that we were consistently doing it without dying once. Yeah, those were pretty awesome times. Should've picked that one, I suspect.
18. Beyond Good & Evil (2003, PlayStation 2)
Difficulty from 1 to 10: 6. 9, if you like to get everything.
Played it with: Cathy.
Did I complete it? I did this super dumbass thing. I went into one enormous tower where my mission was to take three surveillance photos. The place was hard as hell to navigate, awesome and fun as it was. Hours and hours later, I got out of the building...only to find out that I'd forgotten to take one of the three photos. So...no. I was close to the end, too. Instead, I watched Cathy play the end of it.
This is probably the very best game that never got a huge amount of attention. Well, that's a pretty ballsy suggestion, but it's up there. Beyond Good and Evil is about Jade, a Guy Fawkes-type freedom fighter who joins an underground group against a cartoonishly corrupt government. At her side is a bumbling superhero-type geek and a talking pig who walks upright. Despite this, the subject matter gets fairly serious.
Along the way, besides a pretty decent fighting scheme, the game is primarily about "how the hell do I get there from here?" and focuses far more on platforming and adventure. Also, you take photos of every animal you see on the way, which is an oddly addictive addition to the game. I can't necessarily pinpoint which aspect of this game makes it so awesome, but it all works in sync to become so.
Also: Jade gives me a boner.