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The Top 7... games that don't deserve nostalgia
Wow. Every damn thing I've said since the mid-90's. Right there. Aerith/Aeris' death was better... When it was Nei in Phantasy Star II in 1989. I thought the idea of having a character who suffers from amnesia and doesn't realize he never did anything he remembers was great also... In Ultima VII: The Black Gate in 1991. The fact that the main villain was a spell was even cooler... You see where this is going? The most original idea that Final Fantasy VII had going for it was that Nintendo's 64-bit cartridge-based travesty would have been the perfect place for 8,354 ideas that were outdated before the game started development. I don't know which is WORSE: That this won the Association for Idiotic Aggregate Sales (AIAS you illiterate Ritalin junkie products of the Helicopter School of Parenting) Game The Year against THREE (!!!) games that were so groundbreakingly original they're STILL considered the most original titles seen, twelve years later! Palm greasing is the only way to explain how this beat Fallout (Fallout 3), System Shock (You know System Shock 3 as "Bioshock") and Panzer Dragoon: Zwei (Panzer Dragoon Saga)- all of which were games that had stories that NEVER resorted to drivel to get you to keep playing with pretenses of "Happily Ever After" - you played through them knowing that the end would be as far from rainbows and kittens as humanly possible. That BAD STUFF was going to happen. That YOU MOST LIKELY WILL NOT make it out alive. But you had to keep playing, if you didn't you'd think you let the protagonist go through Hell for no reason. Square did that in Final Fantasy 3 (not 6 - I live in a proper country where we don't purchase underage girls' panties from vending machines) and has never returned to that form since. If they did maybe I'd respect them more than just "That company that makes pretty cutscenes and has everyone look like they were in an Old Navy/Hot Topic that got hit by a tornado."
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2 years, 10 months ago The Top 7... games that don't deserve nostalgia
Wow. Every damn thing I've said since the mid-90's. Right there.

Aerith/Aeris' death was better... When it was Nei in Phantasy Star II in 1989. I thought the idea of having a character who suffers from amnesia and doesn't realize he never did anything he remembers was great also... In Ultima VII: The Black Gate in 1991. The fact that the main villain was a spell was even cooler... You see where this is going? The most original idea that Final Fantasy VII had going for it was that Nintendo's 64-bit cartridge-based travesty would have been the perfect place for 8,354 ideas that were outdated before the game started development. I don't know which is WORSE: That this won the Association for Idiotic Aggregate Sales (AIAS you illiterate Ritalin junkie products of the Helicopter School of Parenting) Game The Year against THREE (!!!) games that were so groundbreakingly original they're STILL considered the most original titles seen, twelve years later! Palm greasing is the only way to explain how this beat Fallout (Fallout 3), System Shock (You know System Shock 3 as "Bioshock") and Panzer Dragoon: Zwei (Panzer Dragoon Saga)- all of which were games that had stories that NEVER resorted to drivel to get you to keep playing with pretenses of "Happily Ever After" - you played through them knowing that the end would be as far from rainbows and kittens as humanly possible. That BAD STUFF was going to happen. That YOU MOST LIKELY WILL NOT make it out alive. But you had to keep playing, if you didn't you'd think you let the protagonist go through Hell for no reason. Square did that in Final Fantasy 3 (not 6 - I live in a proper country where we don't purchase underage girls' panties from vending machines) and has never returned to that form since. If they did maybe I'd respect them more than just "That company that makes pretty cutscenes and has everyone look like they were in an Old Navy/Hot Topic that got hit by a tornado."
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I'm a lifelong PC gamer since I got my second-hand Tandy 1000 in 1988 and Wasteland a few months later. I got my first console, an NES in 1989, a SNES in 1994 - then trading it in 1995 for a Genesis. After that I bought a Virtual Boy in 1997 for $40 at a Wal-Mart and owned all 13 U.S. releases, thanks to pawnshops and second-hand stores... Which I sold for 100$ and some (now fairly valuable) Magic cards at 15 in 1999... I still kick myself for that. In 1997 I got my Saturn (BEST SYSTEM EVER!) and proudly own all U.S. Capcom fighters released for it and the whole Panzer Dragoon series - yes even Saga (Toys R Us in 1998 for $50). I'm a CRPG freak and have a large and, honestly, unbiased distaste for JRPGs (same story... Over and over again... Minor hair color changes...) but some (Final Fantasy III (SNES), PStar I-IV, Grandia, Persona series. I think that Panzer Dragoon Saga ruined the whole thing for me, seriously.) I am proud to say I was a hardcore gamer before I even knew what Mhz were. Primarily because of the fact that I read too much as a little kid, and wanted either in-depth RPG goodness, or White Boy Zen gaming (Shmups). Ultimately, if I was held at gunpoint, and told to make a list of my favorite games of all time, it would have no places, just names. Well, okay - two places. BEST GAME EVAR: Street Fighter 2 Turbo: Hyper Fighting Edition (Arcade/Genesis version only - I could write a thesis on the SNES/TG-16's version's incongruities). Bar none. Still the most balanced fighting game I've ever played. The other unnumbered spots: Wasteland/Fallout (all) ("Ten legged blackwidows sure run fast!" Ninja Gaiden (NES and Xbox(es?)... The only game that makes you feel like a significant other in an abusive relationship. "It beats me so much because it loves me...") Panzer Dragoon series (SAT/Xbox - and 360 if those damn "Project Alpha/Beta" rumors play out... I.e. Sega papers that have been leaked (since 2003, no joke) talking about "Project Alpha" being a total graphic and engine remake of "A notable Saturn game" and "Project Beta" being "A sequel to a Saturn game we released at the end of the system's life"... Still haven't said anything... Could restore faith in God... Ohpleaseohpleaseohplease...) Any-AD&D-Game-Made-By-SSI Blazing Lazers(TG-16)/Raiden(TG-16 versions ONLY)/Gradius V Armored Core series/Steel Battalion. Well worth the $600 we shelled out for the only 4 consoles in Billings, MT in 2005 + Line of Contact. Armored Core Nexus MADE me buy my PS2... Still the only games I own on the system. Blades of Steel. Best sports game ever.