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Posted: Sep 06 2011 02:59 pm

[quote="GPFontaine"]

taterfyrings wrote:

I would have rated the list like this:

1. FF 2 (IV)
2. LoZ LTTP
3. Super Metroid
4. FF 3 (VI)
5. Secret of Mana
6. Lufia 2 (sorry Douche, but at least it made my list)
7. Chrono Trigger
8. Lufia
9. Street Fighter II Turbo
10. Super Mario Kart

I started a thread kind of like this recently. This is how I rated my list.
1. Final Fantasy VI (III)
2. Chrono Trigger
3. Zelda: Link to the Past
4. Secret of Mana (When I have a second player, otherwise this game would be further down the list)
5. Super Metroid
6. Final Fantasy IV (II)
7. Equinox
8. Illusion of Gaia
9. Soulblazer
10. F-Zero
I do have to agree that Super Mario World does not need to be on the top ten. I don't hate it, but I still feel that Mario games are just a little too hyped in general.

Joined: Aug 28 2011 Posts: 537

Let's hear the explanation for why some Final Fantasy game is better than Super Metroid.

Joined: Sep 25 2009 Location: Bergen, Norway Posts: 395

GPFontaine wrote:

Yoshi is the most annoying game mechanic of all time and Super Mario World was where he was first seen. As far as I am concerned, the game fails outright for adding a mount to Mario.

How this list considers F-Zero, Starfox, Donkey Kong Country, or Super Mario World 2 top 10 games is just flat out sad. Perhaps to little kids that is true now, but to those who grew up with the system I refuse to believe that any of those titles were a top 10 game.

Considerable omissions:
* Final Fantasy 2 (IV)
* Secret of Mana
* Chrono Trigger
* Street Fighter II Turbo
* Lufia
* Lufia 2

I would have rated the list like this:

1. FF 2 (IV)
2. LoZ LTTP
3. Super Metroid
4. FF 3 (VI)
5. Secret of Mana
6. Lufia 2 (sorry Douche, but at least it made my list)
7. Chrono Trigger
8. Lufia
9. Street Fighter II Turbo
10. Super Mario Kart

Also, Syd, as far as I am aware FF 2/3, Secret of Mana, LTTP, Super Mario World, Super Mario Kart, and several others all used Mode 7. Perhaps not to the same exaggerated end result as F-Zero... but they were all better games.

I will start with saying that I like all the games in your top 10 except for Super Mario Kart which is just nothing compared to F-Zero or its so-far-superior-sequel-it-aint-funny Mario Kart 64. However, Super Mario World is awesome, as is Yoshi, even though his games are not that great. Yoshi is a very different form of powerup, that gave you lots of new possibilities, and combined with the cape makes you feel almost invincible, which is in my opinion the hole point with power ups.

My list:
15. Super Mario RPG
14. Star Fox
13. Actraiser
12. Final Fantasy IV
11. Super Castlevania 4
10. Contra III
9. Donkey Kong Country
8. F-Zero
7. Mega Man X
6. Super Street Fighter II
5. Chrono Trigger
4. Super Metroid
3. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
2. Final Fantasy VI
1. Super Mario World

As for the Lufia-games and Secret of Mana, I like them, and they would be just behind these games, however, I hated the way your party members moved in Secret of Mana if you played that game singleplayer. Much prefer to have a sole hero like in Zelda, or turn-based for my party-based rpgs.

Posted: Sep 06 2011 03:50 pm

Secret of Mana is much more fun with a second player. I don't play it much without someone to play it with. Like you said, your party members act pretty retarded without someone telling them what to do.

Joined: Sep 25 2009 Location: Bergen, Norway Posts: 395

I know, but I could never get a friend to play the whole of an epic rpg with me, so when I tried to play through it with various friends, we always stopped after some time, which in the end made me go ahead and play through it on my own.

Posted: Sep 07 2011 01:39 am

The only time I went through the entire game with a second player was shortly after it came out. What was that, '94?