Throwing daggers at those without Dreamcasts. A curse on your homes. A pox on your children etc.

Verecocha wrote:

Really quiet at work today so stole this from Gaf as thought some of the answers were interesting, though many lists are similar. If you could only have one game for each console you've owned what would it be, and why? Remind you of a good time in life or just an awesome game? NES -Super Mario Bros 3. Just an awesome game, better than anything I'd ever played. And loved the Tanooki suit. Runner up- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. SNES - Super Probotector Played this just far too much. Awesome game. Co-op with my dad. Aces memories. Loved every second of it. The guns, sound FX, the looks, awesome. Runner up- Zelda A Link to the past.The much better game really, but man those co-op memories. PlayStation- Metal Gear Solid Really snuck up on me, wasn't interested at all but man, hooked within minutes. Way beyond its time. Speed running at a mates house became almost a weekly thing. Runner up- Resi 2. Very close... N64 - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Christmas Day was taken away by this, sod the other gifts, keep your food, I'm not stepping away from this. Runner up- Mario 64, mind blowing at the time for me. The absolute scope of it all... Gamecube - Resident Evil 4 Don't think I've completed a game as many times. Again it was much more than I expected. Was so worried they'd changed an awesome formula, turned out to be one of if not the best 3rd person experience I've had. Runner up- Eternal Darkness. Lots of choice here, but ED is such an awesome gem of a game, shame it's not got a sequel...yet. DreamCast- Shenmue The most boring good game ever. Way ahead of its time in scope, and hardware capabilities. The combat system was ace though, and even the crap story pulled me in a bit. Runner up-Jet Set Radio, fucking awesome game. This was a close call too. Xbox - take a wild fucking guess... Saved for ages and got about 4 launch games, took the day off college, didn't put anything else in the dust drive. Hall had everything. EVERYTHING I wanted in a game. The memories, co-op, MP, most played game for years until Halo 2. Runner up-Halo 2 would be too easy, though it added online MP! So I'll go with Fable. Awesome game at the time. Did loads I'd not really seen or been interested in before. PlayStation 2-MGS3 Loved this game, eventually. Same crazy MGS but loved taking the gameplay systems into a different environment. Runner up-Good few I can't really choose from DMC, Ico, Silent Hill 2. Xbox 360 - Not very original but... Again just awesome. Pretty much exactly what I wanted. No Arbiter, just Chief times! The co-op, the MP took up so much of my life, fucking awesome times. Runner Up- LOADS! Bioshock, Mass Effect, Red Dead, Dead Space, CoD 4, but I'll go with Gears, came kind of out of nowhere and took up so many Uni nights on MP, and tons of forum fun...and hate. PS3 - Uncharted I'll be honest in saying I wasn't big on the PS3, but I did like Uncharted, a decent adventure with likeable characters. A good romp! Wii-Super Mario Galaxy Ninty do it again, take Mario and put him in a different environment with much of the same systems and somehow make it work. Aces game. Runner Up- Metroid Prime, took time but eventually loved it. PS4 - Not played much on it but so far I'd have to say The Last of Us Remastered Great game, never played on PS3, but really emotionally involving! Runner up- Until Dawn, rubbish but awesome game! Loved comparing results with everyone! Xbox One- Destiny Simply never played a game so much. Regardless of what everybody else thinks I love it. Played nearly everyday for an age. It's got everything gameplay wise. And it's been fucking awesome with badgers. So many memories. And to be honest it still gets better all the time. Best game mechanics wise of all time for me. Runner up-Alien Isolation, Titanfall, Quantum Break, Halo 5.

Perfect list for me, bar Dreamcast which would be.... Capcom vs SNK!

Boo.

I'd probably consider changing heaps on my list now. There's too many to think of and forget. 

Dreamcast though is easy. The soul still burns. Toy Commander is a solid runner up.

Quake III is the nearest miss for me.  Still the most fun I've ever had with online mp.

PS1 and PS2 are the hardest for me. Oldbox pretty tough too.

360 is Halo 3 all the way. Rock Band 3 might have made it tough, but I'd have nothing on Xbox One if I didn't choose Rock Band 4, so I can sidestep that.

Spectrum - Elite - Thought about Lords Of Midnight or Jet Set Willy, but this was a time sink. Hard to believe it was possible on that hardware. I wonder what sort of frame rate it ran at?

Megadrive - Flashback - For the graffix, I don't think a game has seemed such a leap forward since.

Saturn - Sega Rally - An arcade game, in the living room! In hindsight, the competition wasn't strong.

N64 - Goldeneye just beats Perfect Dark and 1080 Snowboarding. Invention and 3D and shooting and a film adaptation, all on one cartridge.

Dreamcast - Metropolis Street Racer - Simcade perfection.

PS1 - Driver - Cinematic sandbox goodness. Amazing how this series predates so much, but turned bad so quickly.

Xbox - Halo CE - Atmosphere, playability, difficulty, versus.

Xbox 360 - Battlefield: Bad Company 2 - Never to be repeated large map MP goodness.

PS4 - Motorstorm Pacific Rift - Punching another motorcyclist never gets old.

Xbox One - Forza Horizon 2 - Shenanigans.

Here we go.

Mega Drive - Sonic The Hedgehog 3

Was just so excited about it. It came out a month before my 7th birthday and I begged and pleaded with my parents to get it. £59.99 was the price and I remember thinking that was megabucks. Thankfully, they relented and I played it for months and months. I remember being in awe of the fact that this was The New Shit, and it just looked better and there were all these crazy different new levels and songs to hum along to. I know it's not the best Sonic but it's the one I'd choose.

Super Nintendo - Super Mario World

There's nothing I can add to the millions of words already said about this game. Just about the perfect platformer.

Game Boy - Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins

And whenever I wasn't indoors playing SMW, I was in the back of the Volvo playing this. Again, not the best in the series, but it was the one I had and I was proud of it and made sure I bloody enjoyed it!

Playstation - Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2

I was 13 when it came out in the summer of 2000, and Generation X was in full effect. I'd started to listen to rap and punk music, and had a group of close knit friends and we all played the shit outta THPS2. Marseille is the level. I've played so many PS1 games, but I'm choosing one and this is it. Every entry since has been a case of diminishing returns.

N64 - F-Zero X

I hadn't really clicked with Wipeout at that age for some reason. I just loved this. The feeling among us pre-teens that we may actually have enough controllers between us to make sure that shit was gonna go down is one of pure excitement and joy. Thankfully, the game delivered and then some.

Dreamcast - Virtua Tennis

The buzzphrase back then in the mags was "perfect arcade conversion", and when we talk about that, we talk about this game. So addictive. But so cruel too, as friendships were tested when the rallies hit what seemed like quadruple figures.

Playstation 2 - Pro Evo 5

The One.

Game Boy Advance - Astro Boy: Omega Force

At this point, I was beginning to see what games were being "critical darlings", and this, oddly enough, seemed to be one. Then I noticed it was some team called Treasure that made it and they also made a Mega Drive game I loved by the name of Dynamite Headdy. So I took the plunge. The guy in Gamestation laughed at me as he went to retrieve the cartridge, I remember, but I think I got the last laugh. Hard as nails platformey shooty joy.

GameCube - Metroid Prime

Got completely immersed in it. The first FPS that made sense to me.

Xbox - Outrun 2

Cant quite find the words for just how perfect this game is. When the Dreamcast died, and as arcade games shrunk in popularity, the dream of getting more perfect conversions for home use went with it. Then AM2 delivered this. And it was probably better than anything on the DC. Absolute joy on a disc.

PSP - Lumines

The six different bus journeys I'd make to college daily, to sit around and record music (and post on a Internet forum hosted by the renowned videogames magazine Edge because I didn't have an Internet connection at home) were made bearable by this little gem, and the Virtua Tennis conversion on launch. As the games and love for the PSP dried up, amongst the failed promises of PS2-quality experiences and the fact that maybe they didn't just work, a little puzzle game made FOR the system and it's widescreen display done more for it than many imagined. There's been many different versions released, but they just don't work unless it's on PSP.

Xbox 360 - Skate 2

The original, and the demo they released for it, was a complete revelation. It was when EA still had a bad rep, but I was burned so bad by what THPS had become, so it got a chance. Then the sequel came along and topped it in every way. So I choose that. 3 was also great, but 2's map edges it. It's odd how a different series, with a completely different way of presenting a sport, can almost completely obliterate the love you had for its fallen rival. I'd wondered what the hell I was doing, playing these simple, mere shadows of what Skate was and is. It needs to come back. It just needs to.

Nintendo DS - Elite Beat Agents

Osu! Ouendan! Takedan! (and it's sequel) could be my choice easily, but I prefer singing along to Sk8er Boi and Material Girl, so there ya go. Where did you go, iNiS? You were so good to me.

Playstation 3 - Wipeout HD

The silkiest, smoothest, shiniest, most brilliant game on that system by a mile. Such a shame it didn't get the love from the wider general public it deserved. Online races with the Sonybots from here are well remembered. Great times.

Nintendo Wii - Sin & Punishment 2

Treasure do it again, giving you a blend of gameplay that delivers excitement and demands skill once more. It's just fucking great.

Nintendo 3DS - Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour

Still worth a round or two whatever the weather.

Xbox One - Forza Horizon 2

What is left to be said about the racer on the underpowered and lower-selling console that still commands full 12-player lobbies most Fridays from a small pool of gamers all coming from the same small corner of the Internet? There's a reason why we keep going back. Maybe it's the buttery-smooth handling model, adapted perfectly from Turn 10's simulation model into a perfect blend that's "arcadey but not too arcadey". Or maybe it's the map, full of tight city circuits, long coastal sprints, or off-road Hill climbing and descending madness. Or maybe it's that just about nothing comes close to the feeling of nailing a long left turn over the bridge on Costa Sprint in a Lambo as 8 or so fellow Badgers breath down your neck and Hair is trying to put you off and Webbs dulcet tones are in your ear and your drunk and crylaughing and still trying to race and the sun shines so brightly on the course and your just in love with it all.

In fact, just watch this. 5 minutes of video from a FNF race, where it's all encapsulated.




There we go. Surprised I didn't get Rez in there, as it's maybe my all time fave, but I just went with instinct and winged it in the blurbs. Cheers.

Thats a great lust Gav. Nice

@I_R nice to see some love for Driver, definitely my runner up for PSOne

Now THAT was an awesome race Gav. Friday Night Forza is just the best

Cheers all. I really implore anyone on the fence about Forza Horizon, or even the One, watch the first 2m30s of that vid. My heart was racing at the end.

Good list.

Also, this is interesting.

http://kotaku.com/poll-japans-most-memorable-games-on-each-console-1780043369

SwiftBoyAdams wrote:

Haven't seen anyone mention No More Heroes for Wii (it's where I got my avatar from).

Pay closer attention then.

SwiftBoyAdams wrote:

Haven't seen anyone mention No More Heroes for Wii (it's where I got my avatar from).

It's completely batshit crazy, plus it used the Wiimote in a few interesting ways. Probably my fave Wii game.

One day I'll get around to playing the sequel using Dolphin Emulator on my PC.

Was a great game, the sequel is much better imo.