Awesome Video Games

[Briarheart]

Ninja Gaiden gets name-dropped, but no love for the far-superior Vice: Project Doom?

Also, The Guardian Legend (NES) is a mix of Gradius, Legend of Zelda, and Metroid. Highly recommended.

[Storm Veritas]

I didn't like Vice as much as NG, because I didn't play it as a kid. They're both obviously dated, so nostalgia has a value.

I didn't like the driving at ALL in Vice, and the side-scrolling felt like a weird Batman/Contra hybrid to me, where you get the mediocre weapons of Batman with the wild bosses from Contra.

It's a good game, but came out too late to get the acclaim.

[Garron]

On awesome frustration tops, Friday the 13th for NES has always kicked me in the ass. I was never able to actually beat it on that console. I still long to destroy that game on actual NES.

[Nevin]

I'll toss Psychonauts in if it isn't already here - and Jet Force Gemini for the N64! And Quest 64

[ZephSorensson]

Lots of good games on this list, no need to repeat, but I'll toss one out I haven't seen yet:

Rimworld.

A base-builder, it's similar to Dwarf Fortress (without the difficulty of trying to figure out which Unicode symbol means "wheelbarrow") and allows you a pretty high degree of freedom in crafting whatever life you'd like for your colonists.

I've had one game where I worked as the paragon of the people, healing any tribespeople who attacked me and sending them back to their people to speak my praises. I would recuperate them in my Tier1 medical facility, complete with bionic legs and eyes and whatever else they lost in the fight between their spears and my plasma rifles.

On the other hand .... there was definitely one game where we huddled in the frozen tundra, dug our way into a mountain, and started manufacturing cocaine grown in hydroponics vats to support our quest for world domination. And in that one, we preferred to harvest the organs of people who attacked us, and their tribes never saw them again.

Certainly morally ambiguous, very open-ended, and a ton of fun.

[Garron]

Rimworld seems interesting, Zeph. Another of my irritation games to pile on the list is Ghost & Goblins. It also deserves my awesome standard for irritating the hell out of me.

[Erirag the Poet]

If you have a PS1 and can find it or if you have a PS3 and get it off the PSN, my all time favorite game is Suikoden II. It was basically perfection so...

[Nosdyn]

Hey Night I was never part of the Classic hype train.

It has things it did REALLY well that the retail version currently lacks a LOT of.

But when TBC servers go live THAT I will invest reasonable amounts of time on. Thats the expac I start on. To show you how NOT hype I was for Classic WOW I still don't have a single level 60 yet.

It is okay though everybody plays those games at their own pace you feel me?

But yeah mainly retail for me. I AM hype for Shadowlands got that on preorder yo.

I'mm play the crap out that and go back and pick up a lot of Achivement's I'm still missing and have been working on.

Either way nice to see fellow WoWers on here. I know like Classic I am very noob at still.

My highest is on VERGE of level 40 and is a Undead Warlock.

But like...interest my dood is very real for me.

If a game (Doesn't matter who made the game or what franchise it's a part of) but if it cannot hold my interest for more than like an hourish at a time, that game is dead in the water to me anyway.

Classic I STILL do wanna max out at least a couple of toons...but no rush. Expac I started on was TBC THAT I am hyped to all hell for. Mainly classic Achievements mattering again hahah. Anyway real pleasure sharing some of this with ya!

See ya around on the forums mate.

[Garron]

I was addicted to ToeJam & Earl for Sega Genesis back in the day.

[Garron]

Gonna switch gears and pop off with one of my favorite fighting games. Samurai Showdown kicked ass!