Your Top 50 Games: 2011 Discussion Thread

[Runa216]

05 - Donkey Kong Country 2 (SNES, GBA)

Where the original Donkey Kong Country initiated something great, and the third expanded but had some weird design choices, the second was perfection. It took the gameplay of the first and cranked up the difficulty; it took the visual and audio and perfected them by giving us some of the moodiest, most atmospheric worlds and soundtrack the world has ever seen; and it added a bunch of gameplay features that made it stand out. More worlds, more secrets, more animal buddies, better graphics, and one of the best game soundtracks of all time makes this a worthy entry into my top 5 games.

04 - Megaman 2 (NES)

What was once my #1 game of all time lost its spot becuase I came to realize that its nostalgia factor played into it more than anything else. That nostalgia still is there, as it was the first game I ever mastered and probably the single game I've played more than any other game in existence (having beaten it more times than I beat all three Donkey Kong Country games combined), but the gameplay is still tight, the characters still memorable, and it's still fun as can be. There's a reason I was so happy to see that megaman 9 basically took everything from this game to make a proper sequel.

03 - The Legend of Zelda: a Link to the Past (SNES, GBA)

Here we go, the final descent into the last three. I don't know what to say, other than the fact that A Link to the Pas was....epic. I still don't really care much about the story, but everything else was awesome. The dungeons were all cleverly designed, the world was alive, there were so many side quests and hidden items to find that most could easily spend 50+ hours looking for them all...on the SNES. Sure, I can beat the entire game in a matter of hours (did the entire light world in 32 minutes), but that's because I loved it so much that I basically memorized the entire game, all the heart pieces, all the secrets, and...you get the point. Regardless, I loved this game but didn't care much for its successor: Ocarina of Time, becuase at the time I wasn't accustomed to the idea that all zeldas are basically the same, so it just felt like an uglier, glitcher version of Link to the Past in 3D. Also, LttP was my first Zelda game!