No mention of Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, or Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns Of The Patriots?

Fucking blasphemy.

I hate the MGS games. Endless cutscenes that are all, without exception, brain meltingly awful.

I remember playing a bit of of MSG1 as a kid and thinking it was cool but that was my entire experience until years later when my buddy loaned me MSG3 and I decided I was too lazy to get the hang of CQC.

I really wanted to like MGS1 back when I first played the demo, but despite how much I love stealth games, the stealth gameplay in these games always felt really awkward to me. So there's not even much for me there if I skip the cutscenes.

MGS 4 was the only one with one too many long cut scenes. Metal Gears my favorite video game series, I think Kojima's a genius. His cold war, nuclear holocaust, A.I conspiracy clone story lines are incredibly dense and well thought out. So fuck anyone who thinks CQC is not badass. And I seriously hope that Death Stranding gets a release date soon. Hopefully sometime this year but I'm not holding my breath on that.

I would find it literally impossible to sit through MGS 4, probably.

Definitely dense storytelling, but genius is a label that gets thrown around too much. I don't think Kojima is a genius as much as he's just very idiosyncratic about things.

Yeah I disagree. He is very idiosyncratic about certain things in all his games. But the level of storytelling he conjures up with for each Metal Gear has proven time and time again that he's one of the best writer/directors in any medium. And has been for awhile. He's a genius.

I don't think there's any way I can comment on that without sounding like a massive snob. Let's just say that I disagree quite a bit.

Huge Kojima fan. I have a tattoo of his face on my right ass cheek.

What's his tongue doing?

Eating Konami's wife's pussy.

Since we've slowed down a bit, I'll compile a list this weekend.

The way it'll work since we have so many submissions, people will be allowed to pick up to 10 games out of the compiled list, and at the end of it, the games with the most votes collectively will be put in their own threads. If you guys want me to increase that number lemme know. We can also save the other games for a round 2 of sorts if you prefer. I'm open for suggestions.

Alright, here is a look at the list so far. I can keep this open for the weekend if people want to give some more suggestions. I think we've got a pretty solid list so far though. We've basically hit them all.

I can see Suikoden 5 is on the list. Number 5, but no Suikoden 1 & 2? :eek:
That makes me sad.

Also: I noticed Tokyo Xtreme Racer is on the list. Who put that on? I wouldn't pick it, but respect anyway! :laughing:

Mass Effect trilogy
Dragon Age: Origins

Never played 1 and not enough of 2 to have an opinion, otherwise that might very well be up there.

Definitely among the handful most memorable JRPG experiences I've ever had, and I've play a lot of that kind of game back in the ps1/ps2 days. Suikoden II especially had a really good story. And I loved how every game has 108 characters that you can add to your castle and/or party.

I'd also like to throw in a few more that got forgotten.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf
Halo: Reach
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild & Wind Waker
Borderlands 2
Diablo II
Rocket League
Pokemon X/Y
The Binding of Isaac (Original & Rebirth)

I also have love for 4. The first Suikoden game I played and it gets **** on a bit by fans but I got my own ****ing galleon, and everything was so bright and fantastic looking.

I gotta admit I didn't even get out of the starting area. It turned me off in less than half an hour and I just went straight on to Suikoden 5 instead.

Isabel from 5 was my absolute ****. Always dead center of my front line.

https://i.imgur.com/NEPj61e.png

Rayman Advance is one of my favorite Rayman games of all time.

I'll add yours and that one to the list. Solid choices.

I can't really remember who I used in 5, but I played Suikoden II way more, so I recognize some characters when looking at a list of them.

I know this anime chick was usually on my team:

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20091028232511

There's also a couple "mature lady knight" type characters in the game that looks like Suikoden II's take on Isabel from 5:

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20080708040844https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20100307202709

Suikoden II had generally more grounded character designs where no one is carrying a boat sized sword or anything like that.

Like Jeane?

Seems I remembered things wrong. I din't play Suikoden 5 for more than a few hours so it seems different in my mind than it probably really was.

I was thinking her sword was kinda huge, but it's a lance, I suppose. I looked at some more Suikoden 5 characters and they're generally pretty realistic, so I'm remembering wrong. They're only slightly more frilly and colorful designs as compared to the very plain characters of Suikoden II, but it's no where near how over the top JRPG character designs usually seem these days.

Going to officially call this segment closed by 8am tomorrow morning. If you have any more games you'd like to see in the final list before then, be sure to get them in now.

I've also not heard any suggestions regarding the number of games we can vote for so i'm keeping it at 10. So basically, once the full list is posted, you can choose 10 of the games in the list as games you'd like to see make it to the final polling round, then after that, i'll put together a list of the most voted for games collectively, and individually poll them in their own threads.

Devil May Cry 1 & 3
Fable
StarCraft 2
Star Wars Episode 1: Pod Racer
Resident Evil REmake
Silent Hill
Silent Hill 2

I'm honestly surprised that none of these were on the list yet. Adding them on though. Nice choices. I'd like to put Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne (Expansion) on the list if it's not there already.

Ooh, SH 1 and 2. Good choices. Usually, people leave out the first Silent Hill game, but it's my favorite.

Since KOTOR 1 is on there, I'd like to put the more improved and better game KOTOR 2.

And Alien: Isolation, for Batty.

EDIT: Nevermind. Already there.

the reboot?????

also

dragon age: inquisition
horizon zero dawn

and omg remember that tarzan game on ps2????? idk what its called exactly but i was obsessed

Haven't played the reboot. I mean the original DMC on PS2.

honestly it was okay, not my favourite but i enjoyed it. they kept the secret keys/doors so hard to find that some levels i had to play like 10 times to get them all so that was a bit annoying. but also they made dante like a thousand times sexier so A++++++

Here is the final list. All submissions from this post onward will not be counted. Now for the fun part. Everybody who wants to participate will choose 10 games out of the list, and the final games with the most votes will go onto the final round to be polled separately. I feel like since we have so many games, we'll do multiple rounds of voting, just so we're not wasting all the other submissions.

Anyway, get your votes in. I'll keep this going for a week, maybe next Monday i'll compile them etc etc.

And please, for the ones you're voting for, just paste the list and bold the ones you're voting for. Makes it easier to compile at the end.

Omg, you actually put Demolition Girl on there? :laughing:

I didn't leave any out that were suggested in the thread.

So no votes so far. You guys know you can vote on the games now, right?

Anyone?

No poll, no votes.