Your Top 50 Games: 2011 Discussion Thread

[Michael-5]

RolStoppable said:

Michael-5 said:

RolStoppable said:

Those big franchises had the advantage that the majority of the old guard tanked with the step into the third dimension. Contra, Rock'n'Roll Racing, Mega Man, Sonic, Castlevania etc.; aside from Nintendo series and JRPGs barely anything made it past that era in an admirable fashion.

It also meant to go from 2D games approaching perfection to barely playable 3D games. I suppose it was brilliant, if you always thought that 2D games are childish.

So basically everything Japanese at that time translated well into the third dimension?

Also new titles like Metal Gear Solid were pretty damn good on PS1.

Only games that didn't translate will IMO are Resident Evil and GTA, but honestly I like the old school Resident Evil controls.

Of the five examples I have given, four were Japanese games. I don't know how you derive from this that all Japanese games translated well into the third dimension.

Resident Evil and GTA didn't even exist prior to the PS1.

Prior to PS1, what were the better received, better selling games? There were Nintendo games like Mario Kart, Super Mario, Zelda, Starfox, Kirby, Donkey Kong, etc which all matured well on the N64, Final Fantasy and other Squaresoft JRPGs (which matured well into 3D on PS1), Street Fighter (no PS1/N64 era game), Disney games like alladin (no major N64/PS1 era title), and what Mortal Kombat?

The world pre N64/SNES was defined by Nintendo games and JRPG's, all of which have matured well on the 6th generation. So when you said aside from these games, you basically said "aside from the bulk of the video game software."

I don't know what Rock'n'Roll Racing is, so it's not a mjaor title, and Contra never saw an N64/PS1 iteration did it?

So most games did get into the 6th gen era in an admirable fashion.

I expanded the arguement by saying many franchises also debuted in this 6th gen console era (the era Rune claims was terrible). MGS, Smash Bros, Mario Party, Twisted Metal, Crash Bandicoot, etc all are great franchises that started in the 6th gen era and since then, like Nintendo games, and to a degree JRPG's, have been relatively unchanged.

My arguement is that the 6th gen console era was one of the most important. Most games from this era represent the best of many big franchises today, and most of those franchises that existed back then and still do now, had their best titles on the console at the time.

Best Zelda's, Mario, Starfox, Final Fantasy (3D ones), and others are arguably of similar quality (Mario Kart, MGS, Twisted Metal, etc)