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darthdevidem01 on 05 March 2010

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KungKras on 05 March 2010

Tetris

Guild Wars

Starcraft

any 2D Mario

any 2D Sonic

Virtua fighter 3

street fighter 2

those are the ones that I come to think of.



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twesterm on 05 March 2010
Kenryoku_Maxis said:
twesterm said:
Kenryoku_Maxis said:
twesterm said:
Kenryoku_Maxis said:

8. Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout (NES) - What's this!  An NES game!  And a not very well known one at that!  Well aside from one particularly famous skit on a certain site, where it seemed said person didn't even play the game correctly, this game actually has some of the best balance out there.  Each area gets a little more difficult and your skills can be used in various ways to get you out of all sorts of jams.  An all around well developed platformer that surprisingly has very good balance on the level of a Mario or Kirby title.  Speaking of which...

Really?

 

 

You might want to rethink that one.  Unless of course that's the skit you're talking and in that case, well, you're just wrong.  You might like the game but a bad game is a bad game (and yes, I've played it).

Funny how opinions are 'just wrong'.

And yes, that was the 'skit' I was referring to.  And yes, as I said, he was playing the game wrong.  Most likely you were as well.  Would you run into turtles headfirst or hit a hammer brother from the bottom while Playing Mario?  No.  Then why did he smash Clocks with a hammer and jump into fire enemies and then complain 'the game sucks'!  I love AVGN, but this is one time he seemed to just be trying to make a game seem bad by playing it wrong when it wasn't bad in the first place.

Saying I like a game is an opinion but if I like something like Bomberman Zero that doesn't make it a good game.

Just because you shield something with it's my opinion doesn't mean you can't be wrong.  Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout is a bad game, plain and simple.  I honestly don't remember why it's terrible, I just remember I saw it for $0.99 years and years ago and thought well this could be interesting since I enjoy random NES games and it was ass.

Again, you can like bad games, that doesn't make it a good game.  That game was easily on the middle-low teir of NES games.  Not bad enough to be an LJN game but not good enough to be actually good.  There's a very good reason a lot of people haven't played that game.  If it were actually good, you would haven't have to preface it with not very well known and I wouldn't be able to buy it for $0.99.

Alrighty then, think what you want.  I really don't want to start an argument over 'what's the basis of an opinion'.  This thread isn't about what games people personally like or a thread about starting arguments.  Its about what games you yourself found to have good balance.  If you didn't understand the implied opinion of everyones choices, then oh well.  I even said 'opinion' in the first sentence of my first post.

All I'm going to say further on the subject is you're trying to say my opinion is 'wrong' with your own opinion on the game.

You opinion on saying you like the game is right since that can't be wrong (assuming you aren't lying to yourself), but saying the game is good, balanced, whatever along those line is wrong because it just isn't.  You can call if your opinion all you want, but it just isn't right.  It's like saying it's my opinion the Earth is flat.  Sure, you can think that all you want but you're still wrong.

In the end you're talking about games that are well designed and Bugs Bunny Birthday Blwout asbsolutely was not.  Just like The Nerd says, it's playable, but it's not good.  It's a license cash-in game and that's about all you can say about it.



 

Mise on 05 March 2010

Kenryoku_Maxis said:

What do I mean by balanced?  Well, I mean, games that had well designed gameplay, but also good progression of difficulty.

 

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6. Metal Slug (Arcade/Neo Geo)

7. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PSX)

 

 

Erm, what?

For those who didn't get it - Symphony of the Night starts out effortless and never really goes above it, and Metal Slugs start annoying and proceed to ball buster territory quite quickly.

I'd say neither of those has any semblance of a balanced difficulty progression.



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hsrob on 05 March 2010

Ocarina of Time and Metroid Prime. For multi-player Streetfighter II.



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Boutros on 05 March 2010

Probably World of Warcraft. Hence it's popularity.



gurglesletch on 05 March 2010

MW2 is very balanced. The good players always destroy the bad ones.




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Sephiroth357 on 05 March 2010

GTA:SA.

BEST GAME THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN. YOU get a TASTE OF EVERYTHING.

Don't deny it.




ItsaMii on 05 March 2010

Wii Fit, very balanced.



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jonop on 05 March 2010

I found Dragon quest 8 very balanced. I felt that it added new aspects to the game just when it needed it and the difficulty felt right for me.