DieHARD GamePOLL - Console Poll, vol. 3 - 5th Generation RESULTS

theyre foolish karl malone

should play abe on steam but was on a strict original-hardware regimen for this poll (well, a fat ps2, so original-processor at least).

how am i supposed to keep up with all the jrpgs from this period. i couldn’t vote for xenogears either. sigh, making a note.

The more I think about them the fonder I become - the fully imagined world, the lovely (fsvo) visuals, the interesting mechanics (that indeed no other game wants) - I went back and checked and I'm glad that Odyssee is my highest-rated game so far, at 7. And I'm not surprised that they've recently largely just remastered them for modern consoles.

you can watch some Let's Plays and hold the old PS1 controller, pretending to grind through all the random encounters yourself. attack! attack! spell! heal!

xp

DLH i'll make you a list at the end of what you should play in descending order of "how dare you"

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51 - Guardian Heroes - 165 points / 3 Votes

yeah i couldn't find a real magazine ad for that one either sorry everyone!

RECAP DAY 1:

51 - Guardian Heroes - 165 points / 3 Votes
52 - Suikoden II - 162 points / 3 Votes
53 - Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus - 161 points / 3 Votes
54 - Twisted Metal 2 - 156 points / 3 Votes
55 - 1080º Snowboarding - 155 points / 3 Votes
56 - Crash Bandicoot - 147 points / 3 Votes
57 - Turok: Dinosaur Hunter - 145 points / 3 Votes
58 - Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee - 144 points / 3 Votes
59 - Tekken 2 - 143 points / 4 Votes
60 - Alundra - 143 points / 3 Votes
61 - Dragon Force - 138 points / 2 Votes
62 - Einhander - 132 points / 3 Votes
63 - Die Hard Arcade - 132 points / 2 Votes
64 - Tomb Raider 2 - 131 points / 4 Votes
65 - F-Zero X - 130 points / 2 Votes
66 - NiGHTS into Dreams - 126 points / 2 Votes
66 - No One Can Stop Mr. Domino - 126 points / 2 Votes
66 - Virtua Fighter 2 - 126 points / 2 Votes
69 - Metal Slug - 119 points / 3 Votes
70 - Tenchu: Stealth Assassins - 115 points / 3 Votes
71 - Heart of Darkness - 114 points / 2 Votes
72 - Diablo - 112 points / 2 Votes
72 - WWF Wrestlemania 2000 - 112 points / 2 Votes
74 - Colony Wars - 110 points / 2 Votes
75 - Daytona USA - 107 points / 2 Votes
76 - Driver - 106 points / 3 Votes
77 - Front Mission 3 - 103 points / 2 Votes

TOMORROW: 50-26
FRIDAY: 25-1

Splendid stuff!

yah highlight of my week will

Thanks Will!

yeah, good stuff!

That's a good rollout, thanks!

7 of my ballot has shown up so far, I am not at this point worried that any of rest won't place. By this time tomorrow - that will change!

don't thank me yet -- you might get REAL MAD AT THE LATER RESULTS (although i suppose that's only 4% my fault and 96% your collective faults)!

hehe colour me intrigued

#1 Superman 64

Actually I take that back - it may be a hostage to fortune but I'll be amazed if Tekken outdoes its prodigy.

great stuff so far Will, thanks!

yes, great rollout so far!

the inclusion of ads is a great choice. god, so much "attitude" copy.

trying to figure out if "for temporary relief of Dragon's breath, Monster pains, or Battle fatigue" is a multi-pronged attack on competitors

relatedly, crash's "my trip to seattle" is a real masterpiece of poochie. for nintendo, a harsh realm indeed.

I will stan for all the Tekkens but of course each one was more polished - and more hilarious - than the last (up to #4 anyway). I played enough f-zero x but as a playstation and wipeout fanboy I refused to vote for it.

ha we should players club the winner (if it's tech feasible)

Emulating these systems on Retroarch or etc is pretty easy imo

i keep wanting to put emus for this era on my SNES Classic but then I realize the controller doesn't have the buttons for it, and the system probably doesn't have the storage for even a basic PSX game.

New batch starts soon!

Just need a few minutes to make sure my links are ok and a few more minutes to moan loudly about suikoden ii being too low

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50 - Um Jammer Lammy - 171 points / 3 Votes

My guitar is in my MIND!

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49 - Colin MacRae Rally - 174 points / 4 Votes

i like how the front of the MacRae Rally case highly resembles the function-first, ugly as hell, cluttered with advertisements from the trucks themselves

VALUE SERIES DO NOT CROSS

Guardian Heroes and Dragon Force both WAY TOO LOW

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48 - Chrono Cross - 178 points / 4 Votes

look is chrono cross flawed? sure

but STILL TOO LOW

I played the hell out of Lammy and even drew her on the whiteboard on my door, the first week of moving into the dorms (big dork alert). I hadn't seriously played PaRappa at that time but when I later did, I found the staccato syllables a lot harder to enjoy "jamming" or improvising with, which the game secretly wants to do. Whereas noodling around with weird guitar sounds and riffs just kinda works as a game mechanic or a toy to play with.

I also think the songs are really good (except the island/Hell one) - the firefighter one gets stuck in my head a lot!

starting to fear what's going to appear in the top 20 if these are so low

Chrono Cross! made my list at #20. I've never played it again, since. Has anyone else? i'm curious how it holds up. at the time, having never played chrono trigger when chrono cross came out, I was very impressed by all the different characters you could play as, the interweaving stories and time-travel elements - basically all the things people love about Chrono Trigger

I'm wondering just how normcore I was (or am!) if I've only played like 2-3 of these games so far and voted only for one!

xp Karl did you play Chrono Cross for an hour?

lol

Never played this, but then I never even played Chrono Trigger until this year

lol, yes that was a very bad description of chrono cross. someone else do it! i have a job ok!!!

never forget: I just played Chrono Trigger for over an hour.

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47 - Panzer Dragoon Saga - 180 points / 1 First-place vote / 3 Votes

Guardian Heroes and Dragon Force both WAY TOO LOW

they're saturn exclusives. at least guardian heroes is available on the 360 and BC with the bone/series

speaking of, my #1, not even breaking the top 20 as expected

i defy anyone to find a good full sized box art for that game lol i spent 20 minutes looking for that one alone!!!

this is the one that is inexplicably an rpg in a series of rail shooters right? i think the insert credit pod was talknig abt this one recently

yes, a very short and easy jrpg but the best thing ever for 98 me

like daytona usa, source code lost forever

ugh sad :( how long is it? maybe i should try to emu, i never got to even touch a saturn in my life (idk if they even emu well?)

I played a few Saturn games in my research and they just seemed so much shabbier than the N64/PS games.