2002 VIDEO GAMES POLL

first one of these polls thts been too tricky for me

rez, sunshine, prime, wind waker, there must be so many others too

MORROWIND

I totally missed out on this generation of videogames. I didn't have an Xbox, PS2 or Gamecube, a GBA, or a good enough computer to run modern games, so I played a whole bunch of SNES.

animal crossing, vice city, WHAT DO I CHOOSE

CHOCOBO FTW.

Nah, seriously, I voted Morrowind. I think the only game I actually bought that year.

Didn't Bejeweled come out in 2002?

(A quick look at wiki indicates that I am wrong - it came out in 2001.)

i think that was one of the GBA Castlevania games that i played and loved. they all run together though.

I totally missed out on this generation of videogames. I didn't have an Xbox, PS2 or Gamecube, a GBA, or a good enough computer to run modern games, so I played a whole bunch of SNES.

― (Z S) (Z S), Monday, December 22, 2008 4:07 PM

^^ this, except for the playing snes part

tho i did play splinter cell on my pc -- one of the last things i did on it, and i thought it was pretty great.

i also had a lot of fun with mech assault even though it's kinda lame

i was huge into baldur's gate 2, hated NWN

Actually, I did play Aria of Sorrow last night on GBA, which is pretty similar to Harmony of Dissonance, right? I'll go with that. The handheld 2D Castlevania games this decade have been addictive as hell.

yeah, they are basically awesome SNES games

i haven't played the new DS one. apparently it's linear, and while the Super Metroid routine of getting new abilities and backtracking to find previously inaccessible areas does get a little routine, fighting through linear levels seems a little boring in comparison.

I do wish that when you gained a new ability that opened up a new area (like double jumping), it would just highlight on the map the areas that just became accessible. I assume that on the DS versions you can just draw on the map Zelda style, but on GBA you are faced with the decision to either a)make a little note to yourself on a piece of paper where the inaccessible areas are and why, b)not have an awful memory or c)wander around the boundaries of the map like an idiot. I tend to go with C.

went with Wind Waker, with Vice City being a close runner up.

Harmony is the worst of the modern handheld castlevanias. xpost: you can drag markers around on the map screen. not the best solution but it helps.

You can drag markers on the GBA Castlevanias? I suppose it doesn't matter anyway. All of my GBA games are bootleg China copies, and half of them (including Aria of Sorrow, unfortunately) play perfectly, let you save the game, and then when you start it up the next day - your saved game is gone, every time.

C is part of the fun!

(but can be super annoying when you're sure you've been over every inch of the map, yeah)

voted for kingdom hearts, but didn't ever get around to playing it until 2-3 years ago. if this had been san andreas instead of vice city, that would have won in a walk, but VC just looks so fugly to me at this point that i can't vote for it.

i seriously want to register a whole bunch of fake accounts to give suikoden more than just my vote

GTA:VC was the only one i played...

Is Kingdom Hearts that free Microsoft card game?

Kingdom Hearts was the Squaresoft Disney game.

Is Kingdom Hearts that free Microsoft card game?

this made me lol hardcore

MORROWIND

― nabisco inferno (Autumn Almanac), Monday, December 22, 2008 10:05 PM (1 hour ago)

metroid prime is one of the all time greats

I thought something was weird about Wind Waker and Prime coming out the same year - oddly enough, the North American and Japanese releases were switched. We got Prime in November '02, while they got it the following February - for Zelda, it came out in Japan during December '02, and the US got in March '03. So technically they both came out in '02! But that was around the point I broke down and got a Cube, between those two and Sunshine it was enough to justify it.

Harmony of Dissonance was pretty mediocre - it paled in comparison to both GBA games that preceded and followed it. It was definitely playable, but it felt lazy and rushed compared to the other two.

I think I'll have to go with Wind Waker, too, though Metroid is very very close - another day I would choose that one. Vice City was damn good too, as was Animal Crossing, Rez and Warcraft III.

So far I've only played three games on this list :(

You can drag markers on the GBA Castlevanias?

gah, i misread

Morrowind was out in 02? I thought it came out just before then. At any rate, the intro segment to Morrowind struck me at being some next-level shit, with the music, dialogue, and immersiveness of a first-person rpg that was more than i felt with deus ex or ss2 or something.

This was a year before I upgraded my system to a proper gaming rig, so I had a ps2 and a gamecube before that.

I think Rez and Zelda:WW were the only ones out of all these that I beat.

Cos Morrowind is my favourite game of all time this is easy.

I voted Warcraft 3 over Neverwinter Nights. It's funny, I played the shit out of Oblivion this year, but I had Morrowind and never got into it, too many problems getting started. I only had it on PC which I don't really like playing on (bleh on mouse).

Jet Set Radio needs a re-release as DLC.
Torn between Metroid Prime and Animal Crossing; the latter more for watching my girl play.

I feel that someone should at least have mentioned Gitaroo Man.

I'm the only person who's going to vote NWN, aren't I ;_;

wht are u voting for lamp?

i went out on a limb and voted for gta vc

i was more of a Rez man myself

metroid prime. best game for the gamecube, and yeah, one of the greatest games ever

is pokemon ruby/sapphire the most innovative pokemon iteration? i don't think i played the games before that (was that gold/silver?), but going from red/blue to this seemed like a huge leap

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metroid prime
vf4
gta: vice city

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O_O nwn over elder scrolls

So GTA wins out over four fruity RPGs.

I should've remembered Super Mario Sunshine, which was kinda cool but missing classic enemies. It also introduced me to the 'durian' fruit, however I didn't play it until 2008.