Top 75 games: A list by sharky & shion

[maybee]

Way too much Pokemon already and you're only 1/5 of the way through the list. Good gravy.

Because you have to collect them all

[Pike]

Yeah I'm with maybee on this one, you can never have too many Pokemon games.

[chionos]

Way too much Pokemon already and you're only 1/5 of the way through the list. Good gravy.

Because you have to collect them all

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[Pumpkin]

60. Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
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Release Date: 1996
Platforms: SNES, Virtual Console

I have so much love for this game. It should indicate the quality of this work that used copies still go on Ebay for what it cost new. Brand new in box copies are in the hundreds of dollars. Back then, Square and Nintendo combined could do no wrong. It was a fun, lighthearted story combined with classic RPG elements thanks to Square. It had lots of neat areas to explore, like Yoshi’s home island, and the town of reformed monsters. Plus it was the first chance gamers had to use both Bowser and Princess Toadstool. The music was catchy, and fun. The graphics were bright, colorful, and really very good for the old SNES platform. While it never received a true sequel, it also inspired the Paper Mario series, and remains a very fun RPG even by today’s standards.

59. Soul Calibur II
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Release Date: 2002 (Arcade)
Platform(s): Arcade, GameCube, Xbox, Playstation 2

While they continue to crank out sequels, I believe number 2 will always be the best. Soul Edge and Soul Caliber were both excellent games, but never saw widespread release across several consoles. SC2 took the very well balanced gameplay of the first two entries and, combined with new combat features, made the game available to pretty much everyone. Some of the improvements players saw were easier side stepping and evasion, some environments now had walls to lower wins due to ring out, it kept the theme of several weapons for each character, and introduced both the Guard Impact and Guard Break features. The graphics were great for the time, the music set a dramatic tone, and the amount of characters was pretty big. Four new people were introduced. Even so, the large roster remained very well balanced against each other. Even the bonus characters that were made available for each platform (Spawn, Link, and Heihachi Mishima) fit into the system naturally and felt like they belonged. The sequels continue to garner less and less favorable reviews, and playing them, I can understand why. This Soul Calibur was the last one to get it exactly right. On a personal note, Seung-Mina and Lizardman FTW!

Soul Calibur 2 was a fun game. I never played the original but I did think it was interesting to add in a weapon's element to the game to distinguish it from other fighting games I had played. I found most of the characters interesting. Overall it was a good fun game that I enjoyed playing when I wanted to play a fighting game with a change of pace.

58. Pokemon Stadium
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Release Date: NA February 2000
Platform: Nintendo 64

Pokemon stadium was the first Pokemon game that I played. It wasn't exactly what I was looking for in terms of going out to catch your own Pokemon, but it involved Pokemon, so that was good enough for me. I liked the different stadiums which allowed different types of Pokemon to be used so that when you got further in the game it provided a kind of challenge to go back and not be able to rely on your really strong ones. The mini games to me were a lot of fun. Especially the Lickatung one and the Rattata running game. Overall, very enjoyable.


57. Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
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Release Date: September 2003
Platform: Game Boy Advance


This is the third in the Tactics series that I played, and it did not fail to dissapoint. The story and characters were interesting, as was the job system. I liked the weapon's-ability system in a different way then that of the original Tactics. I enjoyed being able to place the locations. It was a good, solid, fun game to play, although it wasn't anything amazing and is slightly forgettable.

56. Final Fantasy VI
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Release Date: April 1994
Platforms: SNES, Play Station, Game Boy Advance, Virtual Console


I was pretty late to the party in playing Final Fantasy VI, having only played it recently. The game had a good solid cast of characters, although I am not fond of hidden characters, so it lost some points with me there. The main ones were very interesting to me. I liked the villain a good deal, as well as the story. The Esper system of learning abilities was also very interesting and I quite enjoyed it. The game had a good sense of humour, which made it much more fun and made the characters more relatable. I think it had some of the most relatable characters in the series, in my opinion. Overall a good game and I plan to play it again.

[Loony BoB]

FFTA is the first and only FF Tactics game I've played, and I really enjoyed it. I recently bought FFT so it'll be interesting to see how the two compare.

[Skyblade]

FFTA is the first and only FF Tactics game I've played, and I really enjoyed it. I recently bought FFT so it'll be interesting to see how the two compare.

Aw, yay for you, BoB. Too many people on here give that game way too much flak.

Pokemon Stadium should not be on that list. "It has Pokemon" is in no way a reason to stick a game on a "Top games" list. Nor is "it's the first game in [x] series I've played".

[Pumpkin]

The reason is "I enjoyed it enough to be on my top list". That's really all the reason I need. This is a thread about personal preference.

[sharkythesharkdogg]

And the disagreements begin!

Hahaha. Trust us, this is an interesting combined list.

[edczxcvbnm]

There are far too many
1) RPGS
2) Pokemon
3) Newish Games (Where are all of the Atari, NES, PC, Arcade Games)

[Pumpkin]

There are far too many
1) RPGS
2) Pokemon
3) Newish Games (Where are all of the Atari, NES, PC, Arcade Games)

1. A large majority of the games I play are RPG's. There will be slightly more variety thanks to sharky.
2. I like Pokemon . That's the end of the Pokemon games on the list in any case.
3. There will be more of them from sharky. Not really PC games though, because neither of us play those.

[Skyblade]

2. I like Pokemon . That's the end of the Pokemon games on the list in any case.

Hang on a second. Stop what you're doing. Go buy a Gamecube (skip this step if you already have one). Go buy a copy of Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness. Play it. If Stadium made the list it must simply have been because you never played either Coliseum or XD, as they completely trounce it.

I don't actually mind your list, it's your list. But if you're a Pokemon fan and haven't played the Gamecube games (especially XD), you're missing out.

[Slothy]

There are far too many
1) RPGS
2) Pokemon
3) Newish Games (Where are all of the Atari, NES, PC, Arcade Games)

So go make your own ruttin' list you alliance lovin' piece of gou shi.

[Pike]

There are far too many
1) RPGS
2) Pokemon
3) Newish Games (Where are all of the Atari, NES, PC, Arcade Games)

I can't wait until I make a list of Top 100 Games and it's about 90% strategy games and 10% old DOS RPGs.

[NeoCracker]

There are far too many
1) RPGS
2) Pokemon
3) Newish Games (Where are all of the Atari, NES, PC, Arcade Games)

I can't wait until I make a list of Top 100 Games and it's about 90% strategy games and 10% old DOS RPGs.

Will it have Dragon Wars or Bards Tale?

I may have the name for Dragon War wrong though.

Edit: It is!

Dragon Wars

[Bolivar]

I like this list so far! Wouldn't match up with mine at all but it's taking me on a wonderful trip down memory lane with a lot of games I haven't thought about in a while, much less gone back to.

And you can never have too many RPGs on a top list! They're gamers' games!