NOW YOU'RE POLLING WITH POWER. SUPER POWER. Console Poll, vol. 2 - 4th Generation RESULTS

that action button secret of evermore review was heavily critical of secret of mana, but secret of mana rules. i haven't played evermore, so perhaps it's even better, but that still wouldn't diminish the greatness of mana.

one key, though, is that i played through it with my sister. the multiplayer aspect of it was key.

this thread has convinced me I need an SNES emulator right now. Only ever had Genesis from this generation :(

ps I assume everyone is listening to this reading the rollout? https://nmesh.bandcamp.com/album/welcome-to-warp-zone-4-hour-vgm-mix

i bought an snes controller with a usb adapter and it works amazingly well

xp

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8 - Super Metroid - 288 points / 11 Votes

Note the point jump, getting into rarified air now

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7 - Street Fighter II & SFII' Turbo - 292 points / 11 Votes

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6 - Earthbound - 304 points / 3 First-place votes / 11 Votes

OHHH NOOOO

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MALOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE

sorry everyone.

Man, that Edge article has me salivating about the next generation, and it hadn't even got to the good stuff yet.

turns out that the thing i do on ilx where entire words and even parts of phrases go mysteriously missing in the middle of sentences, also happens when i fill in a spreadsheet. i tried to be careful.

*ducks*

on the plus side i think i'm going to give emulated link's awakening a try today. never owned the original gameboy, so i'm looking forward to it! also the super mario lands

play mario lands w sound on! hopefully emulator doesnt sound bad!

have tried and failed to love Super Metroid and Earthbound. i get why people like the latter and maybe i just need to get further in but it just drags for me

super metroid took me a while too but i did eventually get it

here we go... top 5 incoming!

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5 - Tetris - 313 points / 1 First-place vote / 13 Votes

i loved super metroid because of the mood it created

i used to play at night in the dark and loved the music

at the time, the worlds seemed so big and crazy, and the 'puzzles' were enough to keep me engaged

but i had already been a massive fan since the first nes game

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4 - Final Fantasy VI (III) - 371 points / 2 First-place votes / 12 Votes

I get it with FF3 but I don't GET IT get it. There are just a lot of other jRPGs I love a lot more on the SNES. then again that's a lot of nostalgia and maybe not necessarily taste? like i have a uge soft spot for illusion of gaia. is it a bad game? i can't remember!

also where did everyone go it's the final 3 soon!

still hungover :/ i feel much the same as you about the whole FF series

pretty sure i know what the top 2 are, just not the order

actually i can guess the order

This was the one with the 'opera scene'? I heard about that in hushed tones.

It is indeed. Opera scene is in a nutshell my problem with FF3; it seems like it's overreaching a bit and doesn't hit as hard for me as it seems to for everyone else.

Anyway... *DEEP BREATH BEFORE POSTING #3*

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3 - Chrono Trigger - 433 points / 3 First-place votes / 14 Votes

ah i didn't realise that there were still 3 to go - thought this might be number 1. i didn't rate it that highly cos it's not my fave but i have to admire its ambition and world-building

Sometimes I feel kinda dumb because I have Tetris on my Vita like the last 20 years haven't elapsed but...c'mon, man, it's Tetris.

(Also have Chrono Trigger and FF Origins on my Vita. Taking full advantage of those graphics, dontchaknow.)

chrono trigger really should be #1

oh wait my #1 vote should be #1 but still it's one of the greatest games of all time for sure

I might spend the next week drinking heavily and playing the shit out of these games since it looks like my Disney trip is a bust. It's sort of like going on a ride, right?

(xposts since i posted #3)

Conversely, this is my numero uno. And one of my top games of all time. No matter how epic it got, the characters grounded it. They were sweet and cared about each other. (SPOILERS BEGIN HERE) And this is despite the fact that with a few exceptions (Lucca-Crono, Frog-Magus) they all met during the adventure. Also, this is something that is kind of only occurring to me now, but probably explains my love for this game: every single character in this game is lonely until they join the party. Crono is mute. Lucca is an introverted nerd. Marle is locked up in a castle, unable to have friends. Robo's a malfunctioning robot whose brothers beat him up. Frog has been turned into a monster. Ayla is the next chief, but has a hard time with sexism. Magus is misunderstood/also an asshole. Add into that a wonderful time-travel story (we saw the future! it's terrible! but we can stop it from being terrible! let's do it together by visiting cavemen, knights, and INSANE FLOATING MAGIC SECRET HISTORY RENAISSANCE TIMES!) and you get something really touching and special and it's one of the rare games that NAILS everything else. The art, the rpg elements, everything are just wonderfully tuned and presented.

It also stands as the only "multiple ending" game I've gone through many times to see the multiple endings; and I did it because I couldn't bear for the game to be over, and the thought of infinite possibilities let the game kind of live forever in my mind.

The closest this genre has ever gotten to perfect.

I haven't played thru it in years, might be time for another go-around. It's released on the Vita?

So many times I would immediately accidentally get caught and blow myself up, and then you just have to sit there and wait for the other players to finish the game. After a while I was like fuck this!

I don't remember whic one of the many Bomberman that was but I remember there was one where when you'd die you would go around the battlezone and throw bombs at the other players. That was fun.

Secret of Mana <3

p sure that was 2

Alright, let's put a bow on this! Here are number one and number two! I forgot to make joke #1/#2 so we're just DOIN' IT for real!

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2 - Super Mario World - 473 points / 19 Votes

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1 - Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - 522 points / 3 First-place votes / 18 Votes

god just thinking about bomberman makes me want to devote my life to being a champion bomberman player

I'll post a recap later!

Can't argue with that #1

fair

forgot Zelda hadn't appeared. it's not as good as Crusader of Centy.

lttp was my #1.

chrono trigger is also either the best or second best time travel video game of all time (maybe day of the tentacle is better?)

i still have never beaten a zelda. i used to care, as recently as a few months ago, but you know what, i don't even care anymore. fuck it.

(i will still give link's awakening a go, though)

the only thing that could have improved super mario world was to make it more difficult.

i beat lttp not that long ago (maybe 5 years or so?). when i was a kid i think i got to like the 3rd or 4th dungeon in dark world before giving up. i don't think i ever beat link's awakening - i got to the end maybe but you need to open the egg with instruments or something and i didn't figure that out. i did complete the entire mini giving gifts game that starts with winning that yoshi (?) at the claw game.

it's tough to directly compare link to the past, SMW, and chrono trigger in a ranking system. all three are pinnacles of the genre, so whichever one you prefer just depends on what kind of game you prefer (super metroid, same thing)

high point of lttp besides the guy under the bridge: looking down on the lost woods from the top of death mountain. real sense of a world connected to itself, probably more so than koholint island (def more so than ocarina imo, even than the cramped but brilliant majora's)

Super Mario World is totes overrated. SMB3 with SNES graphics.