Best Video Game of All Time

[Edgar !!PWXmqbpPR/R No.2383291]

This is it.

Oh sure, I've played hundreds. None beat it.

[Anonymous No.2383301]

[Anonymous No.2383328]

[Anonymous No.2383332]

>>2383291
>the best video game of all-time is a DVD menu simulator people champion because of its Saturday-morning-cartoon-tier story
This thread is going to be great.

[Anonymous No.2383334]

[Anonymous No.2383337]

>>2383334
Why?

[Anonymous No.2383339]

>>2383337
You gay?
The fuck outta here, cakeboy.

[Anonymous No.2383342]

>>2383332

>not even TRYING to bait

[Anonymous No.2383345]

>kotaku.gov/the-top-10-retro-games-you-wouldnt-believe

[Anonymous No.2383359]

>ignoring the many threads made up already

[Anonymous No.2383370]

>I cannot read the catalog
This is a slow board, don't treat it otherwise. We don't need five FFVII threads.

I have a feeling that it won't be long before I filter this guy, even though we've dealt with Smile before.

[Anonymous No.2383454]

Actually this is the best.

[Anonymous No.2383478]

I can't decide between Super Metroid and Quake being the best video game of all time.

Super Metroid is an incredibly smooth and simple game that hits high notes on atmosphere and gameplay. It's a concise package with all sorts of details to aid the player during gameplay without actually directly telling the player anything explicitly. Only once from start to finish is control ever taken away from the player, yet the world itself is expressive and alive.

Quake is a great game on its own, offering the same degree of atmosphere that SM has and is only broken up by map transitions. It's also simple to play, yet has enough depth to still be recognized as one of the strongest FPS games in the industry. And like the rest of the idTech family, Quake brought modding to the world as we know it today, allowing everyone big and small to create what they see fit.

I guess one's the best eastern game and one the best western game, and when you look at each, they do similar things but you can see the cultural difference in working between them.

[Anonymous No.2383487]

>>2383291

My favorites:

FF7
Ocarina of Time
Metal Gear Solid
Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door
Earthbound
Doom 2

[Anonymous No.2383512]

>>2383359
>>2383370
the worst part is that this and another one of them are made by the same samefagging POS

[Anonymous No.2383517]

>>2383291
I defended you in another thread, but as it turns out you really are a faggot.

[Anonymous No.2383520]

>>2383342
Yeah, it's called "telling it like it is."

[Anonymous No.2383521]

FF IX is goat

[Anonymous No.2383546]

>>2383342
>no rebuttal
As well, you can't really mock a post by calling it 'bait' if you're just going to respond to it, anyway.

[Anonymous No.2383556]

My favorite game is and will always be Banjo-Tooie. But if you like JRPGs more than platformers then good on you I suppose

[Anonymous No.2383567]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLSaP5NRFG0

[Anonymous No.2383575]

>>2383521
>>2383454

[Anonymous No.2383620]

>>2383546
Not really. It's good to point out bullshit statements even if you don't intend to grace them with analytical dissection.

Suffice to say the original statement was highly subjective valuation delivered with a dose of contempt. It's only logical to assume the intent was to provoke angry replies.

[Anonymous No.2383762]

I feel like these "FF7 is da best game evar!" threads are likely some VIfag falseflagging just so they can see VII continued to be bashed horribly.

[Anonymous No.2383764]

>>2383762
no, they're just ol' Edgar being his usual proudly-queer self

[Anonymous No.2383780]

>>2383764
>VIfag
>Edgar
The evidence is mounting.

[Anonymous No.2383782]

>>2383575
>not wanting to play Vegeta Trigger

[Anonymous No.2383829]

>>2383567
That looked like one of those ridiculously goofy shovelware games which are riffed on by LPers.

[Anonymous No.2383839]

>>2383291
you're gaimu a shit
sūpā metoroido best gaimu

[Anonymous No.2383848]

>>2383332
Holy shit, I laughed my balls off at this. So goddamn accurate.

FFVII is fucking terrible and proof gaming died in the mid 90s.

[Anonymous No.2383853]

>>2383848

[Anonymous No.2383859]

>>2383829
But it wasn't. That was the beauty of it.

[Anonymous No.2384148]

If you really think about it only a relatively small and simple game like Tetris that does it thing perfectly can be considered "perfect" or best game ever made.

[Anonymous No.2384267]

>>2384148
I know it's a cliche to claim this now, but it's universal appeal really proves it. Tetris has such a broad appeal to so many kinds of gamers and also triumphs over the gender divide. If any single game had to be picked for the subjective title of "best" this would be the closest overall fit.

[Anonymous No.2384313]

>>2383848
How much do you weigh?

[Anonymous No.2384456]

>>2383291
It honestly might be.

[Anonymous No.2384505]

>>2383291
Changed my life. Didn't know what to expect from it. Just got it from a garage sale. Popped it in and soent that weekend amazed.

[Anonymous No.2384521]

This is my GOAT, but I know its largely because of nostalgia. Lots of games are better in various aspects, but no game lets me enjoy myself as much as this, even after beating it countless times.

[Anonymous No.2384538]

>>2384521
been meaning to play this for a while now... hope it's ok if I play this one before the first

[Anonymous No.2384560]

>>2384521
>Everyone but Ashton feeling smug as shit

Ashton...had a hard life

[Anonymous No.2384702]

The best video game of all time is not retro yet

[oddish !jl9bhdSVNk No.2384835]

>>2383291
>>2383301
Funny, these are two of the most often named best of all time games and they're both really low in my opinion relative to the other games in their respective series.
And neither are
Legend of Mana (PS)
Dark Souls (gen3)
JSRF (XBOX)
Windwaker (gamecube)
Or Halo 2 (XBOX)

[Anonymous No.2384876]

>>2384835
>Funny, these are two of the most often named best of all time games and they're both really low in my opinion
It must be such a burden to you to be the ONLY ONE IN THE UNIVERSE to have an unpopular opinion. Oh, wait...

[Anonymous No.2384891]

>>2383848

[Anonymous No.2384892]

>>2383291
>a game which invovlves literally zero skill, only mindless grinding
>combat revolves around simply selecting "attack" 90% of the time
Yea sure, great game you got there! Was fun playing this back in the days, but I honestly can't see how people can still play this.

Best game of all times is R-Type imo.

[Anonymous No.2384894]

Final fantasy tactics is honestly the best game in my opinion.
Unreal replayability.
Fun gameplay.
Interesting story.
Tons of sidequests/miscellaneous objectives.

[Anonymous No.2384898]

>>2383291
This is such obvious bait by an FFVI fag. The trip's name "Edgar" says it all. Please, he's probably just bitter there's a civil discussion of FFVII in another thread.

plz ignore bait.

[Anonymous No.2384912]

>>2384148
Tetris is a game that can be learned and once you get to a certain skill level its not fun anymore. I like playing Columns because you can't exactly predict how everything will stack and clear down. In Columns, even if you are consciously setting up matches its really hard to defrag the entire board. In Tetris you only must solve the top layer.

[Anonymous No.2384941]

>>2383291
this >>2384898
it's bait...

but anyways...
It's overated guys, seriously. You played it in a time of your life it "marked" you in a way, but it's not "all that".

I can relate to this 'cos something similar happened to me with a PC game of the 90s. After growing up (in every sense of the word, not just age) I understood that it's just a psychological effect and that yeah, the game I thought was the "best evah" was good but, not "all that".

I played FF VIII some years ago just to check it out after all the hype, thought it was extremely overated by it's fanbase, the story was the thing that got me through it till the end, never picked it up again; in fact, despite all it's problems FF VIII, I find better.

[Anonymous No.2384943]

>>2383291 (OP)
this >>2384898
it's bait...

but anyways...
It's overated guys, seriously. You played it in a time of your life it "marked" you in a way, but it's not "all that".

I can relate to this 'cos something similar happened to me with a PC game of the 90s. After growing up (in every sense of the word, not just age) I understood that it's just a psychological effect and that yeah, the game I thought was the "best evah" was good but, not "all that".

I played FF VII some years ago just to check it out after all the hype, thought it was extremely overated by it's fanbase, the story was the thing that got me through it till the end, never picked it up again; in fact, despite all it's problems FF VIII, I find better.

[Anonymous No.2385012]

>>2384943
Most of the games I played during that time of my life have aged woefully. I played FFVII and really liked it. No it's not the best game ever, or even the best JRPG ever, but it's nowhere near as bad as the haters say it is. It's a shame the rabid fanbase can easily ruin someone's outlook of the game.

>FF VIII

I thought VIII was crap, honestly, the second worst FF.

[Anonymous No.2385037]

>>2385012
You've played lots of them? Honestly I've only given 3 of them more than 10 hours each: VII, VIII and IX. I've played a bit of VI. I was more into PC games than consoles in that time.

VII as I said, I got through it because of the story. Never picked it up again.

VIII I played once, and I thought there's some really cool shit going on underneath a mess, so I've given it other tries. That thought has made me invest more time in that one than all the others I've played combined (excluding Tactics).

IX, I seriosuly can't remember what made me drop the game half way through it. I'll probably give it another chance one day.

Those 3 I can compare, I can't put VI with them in my opinion, becuase it has a different pace and I feel it's from a different age, besides, I haven't even gone through the whole game yet... and I seriously don't undertand the extreme hype VII gets. With that being said, I think Tactics is the best thing I've ever played with the name "Final Fantasy" on it.

[Anonymous No.2385039]

>>2385037
>>2385012
>>2384943
>Most of the games I played during that time of my life have aged
Video games don't age, /v/ kid.

[Anonymous No.2385052]

>>2385039
It's not the games that age, you age and you realise it's not "all that" you thought it was. But despite all that, a good game will always be good, if you ask me, despite it's age or simplicity, silly anon.

[Anonymous No.2385064]

>>2384943

I basically agree, although I've been meaning to dig up my copy of the Eidos PC release (the only real way to play it) and see just how much nostalgia is coloring my opinion of it.

I like Okami and SoTC a lot better, for instance. Fuck, I like Zelda 2 better.

[Anonymous No.2385067]

Tears come to eyes when I think about how there will never be another game nearly as special as Xenogears.

[Anonymous No.2385072]

>>2385067

>special

That's a good choice of words to describe it

[Anonymous No.2385085]

>>2383291
Fuck, it's either FF7 or Deus Ex as my top favorite.

[Anonymous No.2385089]

VI > IX > V > VII >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> VIII

[Anonymous No.2385393]

>>2383291
Neither the story nor the gameplay was good. Battles were generally easy and one-dimensional, like nearly all FFs. The only challenging fights were those against the Weapons. The story was so-so. It's not even complicated at all. The amount of dialogue and narrative text in the game won't even fill up a children's novel. It feels "deep" only to people who haven't been exposed to media with similar themes.

[Anonymous No.2385439]

>>2384538
Absolutely. I played 2 long before I played 1 because as a kid, Star Ocean wouldn't emulate very well. There's only minor connections, mainly that one of the characters from 1 is Claude's father, but it tells you this right in the starting video.

Though if you have a PSP, you should play First Departure first.

[Anonymous No.2385823]

>>2385072
Good choice of words for the fans of the game too

[Anonymous No.2386408]

Why is this blatantly obvious troll thread still up?

[Anonymous No.2386657]

>>2386408
see

>>2386317

[Anonymous No.2388810]

>>2383291
Despite all the rabid contrarian protest, anti-weeb faggots and VIfags, I'd honestly have to agree.
VII isn't even my favourite FF title, it sits third in my lit, but I see it as objectively the best FF game, and quite possibly the best game around. Nothing else has the same charm, replayability and (for the time) solid design.

[GMT !BDEdguZ.Aw No.2391135]

>>2383291
FFIX was vastly better. I'm willing to bet this was the first rpg you probably ever played. Once you remove the rose tinted classes, it really isn't that great.

[GMT !BDEdguZ.Aw No.2391136]

>>2391135
Glasses*

[Anonymous No.2391626]

>>2383839
>having to open the character map for an internet post
you cannot be serious

[Anonymous No.2391749]

>>2385037
>VIII I played once, and I thought there's some really cool shit going on underneath a mess, so I've given it other tries. That thought has made me invest more time in that one than all the others I've played combined (excluding Tactics).

At the beginning it was actually really cool; unique high school/mercenary/military setting, story is kind of interesting (even after the "bad guys want world domination" shit), characters took some time to get used to (except Rinoa who is awful from start to finish) but had distinct personalities, new innovative style of combat to accompany you exploring the new open world etc.

And then everything completely falls apart after the first disc and destroys any positive sentiment whatsoever. Restrictive, linear level design almost as bad as FFX, a plot that made less and less sense the more you went along, dialogue that was most likely written by somebody's 5 year old kid (what kind of witty comeback is "Y-your b-breath s-s-stinks!" this could be a mistranslation but still) none of the characters except Squall having any real development and Rinoa still being the useless damsel/moron needing to be rescued.

[Anonymous No.2392215]

It's got robot arms, a rad protagonist, and Hitler's exploding head. There's really not much else you can ask for.

[Anonymous No.2392408]

>>2383839
>gaimu
That rhymes with "high", you know.

[Anonymous No.2392459]

>>2392215
Anyone who enjoys Bionic Commando should give Umihara Kawase a shot. If you can get past the cutesy graphics, the physics and gameplay are amazing.

[Anonymous No.2392496]

>>2391135
I agree with you. Only reason ff9 isnt as well remembered as 7 though is because they decided to go back to super deform character models. And of course, since ff7 and ff8 used that weeb visual key bullshit from tetsuya nomura, weaboos and edgy kids hated ff9.
Altough, back in the day ff7 made both rpg enthusiasts and casual players alike very excited. I never seem any similar hype since them. Im deadly serious, this game was so huge back in the day.

[Anonymous No.2392514]

>>2383521
I just got this recently for my iPod so it's not really the full experience but... It's just what I expected a Dragon Quest game to be.

Making the battle models all have the same awkward pose as the flat sprites just to make them look the same in their idle pose got me rock fucking hard.

[Anonymous No.2396090]

>>2392459
nice. thanks for the recommendation.

[Anonymous No.2396107]

The best game of all-time is Muppet Monster Adventure. And no, I'm not joking.

[Anonymous No.2396127]

Objectively? Super Mario Bros. 3.

Personal favorite? Either pic related or Super Fire Pro Wrestling X Premium.

[Anonymous No.2396937]

>>2384912
You can say that about absolutely any game. If you play it long enough, it's not fun anymore.

[Anonymous No.2396965]

This right fucking here. You cannot ask for tighter platforming. Mario's moveset is fucking crazy, it puts all other SMB games to fucking shame. The puzzle elements are fun, challenging, and only very rarely frustrating. Aesthetically, it's absolutely fucking perfect, everything is dead-on for the Game Boy hardware, truly a magnum opus for the original DMG. There are so many stages and so many ways to approach obstacles that you can replay it for dozens of hours just trying to get through stages a little bit faster, with a little more panache. They squeezed a masterpiece into this tiny little cart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoPAdb8b5Qo