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1991, Game of the Year

Street Fighter 2 8 10.26%
 
TMNT: Turtles in Time 2 2.56%
 
Eye of the Beholder 0 0%
 
Sid Meier's Civilization 5 6.41%
 
Metroid 2: Samus Returns 1 1.28%
 
Sonic the Hedgehog 11 14.10%
 
Final Fantasy IV 13 16.67%
 
A Link to the Past 31 39.74%
 
Super Castelvania IV 4 5.13%
 
Other (please specify) 3 3.85%
 
Total:78
bdbdbd on 08 October 2023
The_Liquid_Laser said:
bdbdbd said:

Taste too, but in discussions like this people tend to forget, that gamers gravitate to where the games are they want to play. No doubt Sonic was largely the reason for Megadrive's success, but also because there was no serious competition. If you wanted to play platformers in 1992, 1993 or 1994, MD was your only realistic option. This did change during 1994, though.  I do agree that SMW was disappointing after SMB3, but still they rival for being the best platformer ever made.

I remember after the DKC hype vanished and you played SMW for the first time after a long break, you noticed SMW was the better game after all.

You are right overall in that whoever was making the best platformer that year ended up being the leading console.  First Mario at the SNES launch, then Sonic for the next couple of years, and then DKC after that.  I actually think Nintendo dropped the ball not making more Mario games on the SNES (and no Yoshi's Island doesn't count).  However, Rare came along and saved their bacon with DKC.

Yeah, they did drop the ball. They had SML2 and 3 (though, 3 was a Wario platformer a bit like SMW2 was Yoshi) and after that, we had 2D Mario platformer in 2006 with NSMB and three years later NSMB Wii. I's not any wonder why people think Sonic 2 is the best of the series as there really was no competition and Sonic 2 did fix some issues peole had with the first one. I too think Sonic 2 is the best Sonic, but the first one holds certain newness and freshness in itself - a bit like Donkey Kong Country games.



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Kaunisto on 08 October 2023
Kyuu said:

FF4 had a gripping story and introduced the godlike ATB system. The series' 3rd best game after 6 and 7 imo.

I hate ATB, it's almost the single reason I didn't vote FF4&6.

Give me straight up old turn-based any day.



Bofferbrauer2 on 11 October 2023
Kaunisto said:
Kyuu said:

FF4 had a gripping story and introduced the godlike ATB system. The series' 3rd best game after 6 and 7 imo.

I hate ATB, it's almost the single reason I didn't vote FF4&6.

Give me straight up old turn-based any day.

Same for me, ATB was too stressful for me. You could just as well make combat real-time then



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Kyuu on 11 October 2023
Bofferbrauer2 said:
Kaunisto said:

I hate ATB, it's almost the single reason I didn't vote FF4&6.

Give me straight up old turn-based any day.

Same for me, ATB was too stressful for me. You could just as well make combat real-time then

One gamer's stressful is another's engaging!



CaptainExplosion on 11 October 2023

A Link to The Past, easily.



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TruckOSaurus on 12 October 2023
Kyuu said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:

Same for me, ATB was too stressful for me. You could just as well make combat real-time then

One gamer's stressful is another's engaging!

Also, the games are easy enough that you can take your time making decisions without costing you too much.



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