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

in that one the objective is to crouch and convince your friends you got “the big version” of your gun

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also appreciate that FF8 settles on a character art style. looks kinda like a sierra adventure.

but damn, junctioning Ultima to your stats was a heady feeling.

otm otm otm, my most lingering memory of this game is literally getting like 50 ultimas and junctioning it to myself (i didn't even remember the term until now lol)

ok here we go games number 2 and number 1 back to back

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2 - GoldenEye - 958 points / 2 First-place votes / 15 Votes

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1 - Metal Gear Solid - 1022 points / 2 First-place votes / 15 Votes

A HIND D

my number 1 is the number 1 no i did not cheat to make this happen ilx is just correct FOR ONCE AM I RIGHT FELLOW G*MERS

i ride dog sleds. i’m a musher.

GOLDENEYE TOO LOW!

wow majora's mask shockingly low

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valkyrie profile was the other snub i was thinking of though i guess thats more of a cult classic so less surprising than paper mario or spyro

SUPER SMASH BROS. i didn't play until about five years ago when my ex and i got her old N64 hooked up, so i got to experience it really through her eyes, as this delightful mess of chaos and going after your friends with wild button mashing. right around the same time i was present when she tried bumper cars for the first time and she had an absolute blast in the same way, so i think of it as kinda the video game version of bumper cars - just wildly bonking into whoever's there and cracking up if you can send them flying in some awkward and unexpected way. very different from the way i enjoy most games, even head-to-head ones. what's cool is most of that is in the mechanics and not even in the main gimmick of it being a bunch of beloved characters! fun game.

DDR i cheated and voted for even if i'm not sure i ever played the console version, or even much of the arcade version. but it's obviously a really special and important game. an old high school buddy of mine got into it at the local tournament level, i went once to see him play at some combination arcade-and-go-cart place... it was really fun!

TONY HAWK'S PRO SKATER i'm sure i've posted about enough... what a great concept, what a blast. i can remember my roommate pinning down the idea that it let you live out a "skater fantasy" and as a non-skater i can't speak to that but it really had a wonderful sense of momentum and defying gravity without it ever feeling weightless or meaningless. you were always in danger of pitching off the edge but instead you kept it going. the sequel is all-around "better" but i ranked this one higher because A, it was first, and B, the sequel dropped the linear downhill levels which i really appreciated, especially the one at the dam/canyon. this was THE game on my freshman year dorm floor, apart from a period when one guy's room was the center of Conker activity and a shorter spell of SOTN.

MAJORA'S MASK i never completely played through by myself - it was actually a collaborative, handing-off-the-controller-between-sessions game with the same aforementioned roommate. that seems insane to me given how complex a lot of the puzzles turn out to be, but it could be that it was really primarily him playing it, and me coming in for some of the dungeons and stuff. but jesus how do you not stan for this bonkers gimmick, and them actually pulling off the ballet of timed NPC encounters that let you figure out, and then execute, incredibly complicated payoffs late in the game as you know where everybody is and figure out what masks you'll need to use? this game is all about that gradual "dawning" moment of putting together in your head what will work, and it's sooooo satisfying as that. i can remember the night my roommate did the big Zora musical puzzle and the exact smile that came across his face as he realized "i'm gonna have to get the band back together!!" great.

MARIO KART 64 is the real "too low" for me, and #9 is a great place to be! i've played the Gamecube and Wii versions and IMO they were both subtly, inexplicably worse though they looked amazing. see Tony Hawk - it's all about NAILING the weight and control, and the later ones just felt too floaty or slippery or smooth, or something. this game is a fucking jam, the only problem is a couple of the courses are kinda boring. i'm stunned to hear that anybody considers it the worst!

it’s-a bond, james bond

GOLDENEYE is wayyyy too high but i totally get why it's there and i can't begrudge that. way way back in ILX history i ruffled some feathers by complaining about its numerous and very obvious faults, but a few years back in the same wave as that discovery of Super Smash Bros., i put a lot more hours into it, single- and multiplayer, and now i finally have at least some of the happy fun couch times memories that made it iconic for so many others.

(that was to stretchy face goldeneye box)

Goldeneye is perhaps too high, but I'll say this for it: it made hanging out with the neighbor kids not just bearable, but an actual good time.

still a pc shooter snob about goldeneye tbh, feels like a dog on its hind legs. those cabins in the snow are an iconic space tho.

xp yeah it was that game, until smash bros came out and became that game for the rest of eternity

yeah dlh i'm with you

I just typed an offensive amount of commentary on the list so I hid it in case people don't want the speed bump, hope it works:

1 - Metal Gear Solid

Well, I guess I need to replay it. I wish these games came with an option to just "remove all plot" and make it strictly about gameplay. My favourite in the series (so far) is MG2, the MSX one, I played it via emulation and it's just as inventive and interesting as MGS (and isn't cancered with a garbage novel)

2 - Goldeneye

Some of these 1-player levels are really aggravating but on my recent replay I've been surprised at how awesome so many other levels are/were. 25 years ago it took me forever to painstakingly work through the Train, now I blow through it in no time at all. Love this game

3 - Super Mario 64

This game is spectacular, and remains my 2nd favourite in the series behind SMB3. I can't think of anything bad to say about it. Highlights: the surprise inner-pyramid boss fight, every Bowser level, the difficulty of those final worlds...

4 - Final Fantasy VII

Any time I have an urge to play this again I just re-read the script, and think "no"

I realize that the text is vastly condensed from the Japanese (in order to maintain the same number of text bubbles) but it doesn't make the story at all comprehensible

I like Final Fantasy VI

5 - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

So happy to see this perfect game so high, I've played it through to completion twice and it was exceptionally rewarding both times

7 - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Can't decide if this game is over- or under-rated but it'd definitely not in my top 4 Zelda games

8 - Resident Evil 2

Still need to play this-- I enjoyed RE1 (no desire to replay) and loved RE4 (replayed it in early stages of lockdown). I have it for N64 but I haven't played it (the switching of resolutions makes my HDMI converter lock up)

9 - Mario Kart 64

This game is BULLSHIT. I adore SNES Kart and the latest one like no other, but I remember my older brother bringing this home and feeling like the 5min+ races were interminable, I have never been so tested by a game. Battle mode is garbage. Way too high. Diddy Kong Racing was a much more fun racer (despite the garish graphics)

12 - The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

This is an amazing game, the dungeons are spectacular and I'm looking forward to getting a "must stay in bed" illness so I can do a walkthrough-free replay and just drift around

13 - Silent Hill

I have never been so scared by a game but I don't remember much about the latter-half. I feel like I'd just be more inclined to replay Dark Souls for whatever reason

18 - Super Smash Bros

This game is great. I have the same complaint about the Switch Smash as I do about Mario Odyssey-- making the game Extremely Large kind of makes it get tedious really quickly. My ex played through Switch Smash to completion but I can't imagine ever having that kind of commitment. This N64 version, on the other end, was great

19 - Vagrant Story

I played this and sold it recently for not a small amount of money

20 - Banjo-Kazooie

Rare are the most overrated developers of this era, it's like they deliberately chose a troll-y colour palette and garbage characters to punish their children, but I do love the design of this and would be excited to play it again. Tooie is on my list of "haven't played yet" carts that I'm excited to get to

21 - Wave Race 64

This game is super fun, still my favourite "water" from this generation

23 - Star Fox 64

Classic classic classic. This format of game is too spectacular and I'm so frustrated that there are not a bevy of sequels and knockoffs. I read recently somebody ranked the Wii U Starfox as "the worst game for the system" and I couldn't agree more-- despite there being at least three levels on it that captured the thrill of this and its SNES predecessor

24 - Final Fantasy IX

I'm an adult and I have adult things to do and do not have time for games like these any more

26 - Perfect Dark

The Flying Mum laptop and Elvis The Alien really ruined this game for me. I need to replay it I guess but I remember it all feeling clunky in its over-ambitiousness

33 - Star Control II

Was this my #1? It was either this or SOTN. It's the best game. I've never felt such a complex emotion as the one I felt when the Slave-y Ur-Quan kept trying to argue that they were just trying to protect you from the Genocide-y Ur-Quan

41 - Blast Corps

I have this on my Everdrive and I've always wanted to finish it

51 - Guardian Heroes

Didn't vote for this one, probably should've, Treasure is my favourite developer-- I just restarted Sin & Punishment 2 for the Wii yesterday and it's better even than I remember. No Sin & Punishment on this list is no surprise, but if it'd gotten a NA release it'd be listed here. The plot is, well, bad, like a condensed Neon Genesis Evangelion with awful characters. Still one of my favourite games ever

55 - 1080º Snowboarding

My younger brother was at one point an Olympic track skier and he'd bring his ski friends over and I'd thrash them on this game and say shit like "watch your line" when they fell behind and it would drive all those future cokeheads nuts

57 - Turok: Dinosaur Hunter

Is this game good? or is it just a bloody soup

62 - Einhander

Surprisingly amazing and highly, highly recommended to anybody who likes Treasure-style shooters, I like this as much as Radiant Silvergun tbh

65 - F-Zero X

Headaches for days bc of this game

69 - Metal Slug

Another blind spot I gotta check out

76 - Driver

Weirdly picked this one up and I remember it being clunky and sterile but super-fun, and that the final mission took me 100 tries to beat, it was so hard

Nope, didn't work. Sorry!

actually pulling off the ballet of timed NPC encounters that let you figure out, and then execute, incredibly complicated payoffs late in the game

the entirely optional wedding scene all of this optional helping people would eventually take you to, each little quest and additional mask contributing another coincidental piece towards your ability to make this happen, is the Real Ending imo: something beautiful+fractal in the way it suggests that if you just keep trying to help people out you’ll trip over accomplishments at a scale both wider and more human than you planned for

Resident Evil 2 was the one of my ranked games that I thought wasn't showing up either, good work all!

I'm another FFVII first-placer, the text on the bottom of that "blindfold and a cigarette" ad reads "Possibly the greatest game ever made is available only on PlayStation. Good thing. If it were available on cartridge, it'd retail for around $1,200." - and yeah, they made the most use of that space - vast and detailed and with incredible cutscenes - and the moment when you careen out of Midgar (sorry ciderpress) and there is the whole rest of the world just sat me on my ass.

I'm a SM64 non-voter - I love platform games, but by the time I borrowed a N64, I had seen so many better 3D platformers (and who didn't have slippy feet) that I just never felt what you all were feeling.

I have played Goldeneye, and it seemed largely bullshit, but then I was only ever playing single-player.

And yeah, MGS is one of those games where it doesn't seem graphically amazing, but it's just close enough to let you forget you're playing and get into the patterns and distractions and gameplay (and insane plot)

I've never felt such a complex emotion as the one I felt when the Slave-y Ur-Quan kept trying to argue that they were just trying to protect you from the Genocide-y Ur-Quan

TODAY, YOU CONSIDER US THE ENEMY. IN TIME, THIS WILL CHANGE.

That's beautiful dlh

Or warping down to try and convince the Pkunk to stop their march toward inevitable Yehat destruction, I'm like "oh so this is why my grandparents hated hippies"

that *redacted* scene was an incredible payoff for me, cause i found one of the involved characters incredibly early (before the repeating days gimmick even started, still in the deku scrub part of the game)

Is this game good? or is it just a bloody soup

It is delicious bizarre bloody dinosaur soup

Please Kill Me: The Oral History Of Pkunk

turok 2 is just a bloody soup, tho still kind of a forgotten gem for that. but 1 rly does feel like being in an fog-choked alien jungle full of velociraptors.

This game is BULLSHIT. I adore SNES Kart and the latest one like no other, but I remember my older brother bringing this home and feeling like the 5min+ races were interminable, I have never been so tested by a game. Battle mode is garbage. Way too high. Diddy Kong Racing was a much more fun racer (despite the garish graphics)

OTM, SNES Kart is all-time, not overladen with features, and pure fun distilled into a cartridge.

hopefully this works:

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| RANK|  TITLE                                           |   PTS |#1s |Votes|
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|   1 |  Metal Gear Solid                                |  1022 |  2 |  15 |  
|   2 |  GoldenEye                                       |   958 |  2 |  15 |  
|   3 |  Super Mario 64                                  |   907 |  2 |  13 |  
|   4 |  Final Fantasy VII                               |   828 |  3 |  12 |  
|   5 |  Castlevania: Symphony of the Night              |   772 |  1 |  11 |  
|   6 |  Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2                          |   743 |  1 |  13 |  
|   7 |  The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time            |   692 |  2 |  10 |  
|   8 |  Resident Evil 2                                 |   629 |  0 |  12 |  
|   9 |  Mario Kart 64                                   |   547 |  0 |  10 |  
|  10 |  Final Fantasy VIII                              |   465 |  0 |   9 |  
|  11 |  Final Fantasy Tactics                           |   440 |  2 |   6 |  
|  12 |  The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask              |   430 |  2 |   6 |  
|  13 |  Silent Hill                                     |   405 |  0 |   8 |  
|  14 |  Tony Hawk Pro Skater                            |   393 |  0 |   6 |  
|  15 |  PaRappa the Rapper                              |   364 |  0 |   8 |  
|  16 |  Wipeout 2097 (AKA Wipeout XL)                   |   327 |  0 |   7 |  
|  17 |  Dance Dance Revolution                          |   320 |  0 |   6 |  
|  18 |  Super Smash Bros                                |   316 |  0 |   6 |  
|  19 |  Vagrant Story                                   |   313 |  0 |   6 |  
|  20 |  Banjo-Kazooie                                   |   305 |  0 |   6 |  
|  21 |  Wave Race 64                                    |   298 |  1 |   5 |  
|  22 |  Gran Turismo                                    |   279 |  1 |   5 |  
|  23 |  Star Fox 64                                     |   268 |  0 |   4 |  
|  24 |  Final Fantasy IX                                |   260 |  1 |   6 |  
|  25 |  Gran Turismo 2                                  |   260 |  0 |   5 |  
|  26 |  Perfect Dark                                    |   259 |  0 |   6 |  
|  27 |  Sega Rally                                      |   256 |  0 |   5 |  
|  28 |  Crash Bandicoot 2                               |   238 |  0 |   5 |  
|  29 |  Grand Theft Auto                                |   237 |  0 |   5 |  
|  29 |  Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo                   |   237 |  0 |   5 |  
|  31 |  Bushido Blade                                   |   235 |  0 |   5 |  
|  32 |  Resident Evil (incl. Director's Cut)            |   218 |  0 |   6 |  
|  33 |  Star Control II                                 |   216 |  1 |   3 |  
|  34 |  Vib Ribbon                                      |   207 |  0 |   6 |  
|  35 |  Wipeout 3 aka Wip3out                           |   200 |  1 |   4 |  
|  36 |  Tekken 3                                        |   197 |  0 |   4 |  
|  37 |  Street Fighter Alpha 3                          |   196 |  0 |   4 |  
|  38 |  Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver                     |   194 |  0 |   3 |  
|  39 |  Tomb Raider                                     |   193 |  0 |   5 |  
|  40 |  Bust a Groove                                   |   189 |  0 |   4 |  
|  41 |  Blast Corps                                     |   187 |  0 |   5 |  
|  42 |  Xenogears                                       |   184 |  0 |   3 |  
|  43 |  Grandia                                         |   182 |  0 |   5 |  
|  44 |  Ape Escape                                      |   181 |  0 |   4 |  
|  44 |  Resident Evil 3: Nemesis                        |   181 |  0 |   4 |  
|  46 |  Shining Force III                               |   181 |  0 |   3 |  
|  47 |  Panzer Dragoon Saga                             |   180 |  1 |   3 |  
|  48 |  Chrono Cross                                    |   178 |  0 |   4 |  
|  49 |  Colin MacRae Rally                              |   174 |  0 |   4 |  
|  50 |  Um Jammer Lammy                                 |   171 |  0 |   3 |  
|  51 |  Guardian Heroes                                 |   165 |  0 |   3 |  
|  52 |  Suikoden II                                     |   162 |  0 |   3 |  
|  53 |  Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus                         |   161 |  0 |   3 |  
|  54 |  Twisted Metal 2                                 |   156 |  0 |   3 |  
|  55 |  1080º Snowboarding                              |   155 |  0 |   3 |  
|  56 |  Crash Bandicoot                                 |   147 |  0 |   3 |  
|  57 |  Turok: Dinosaur Hunter                          |   145 |  0 |   3 |  
|  58 |  Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee                         |   144 |  0 |   3 |  
|  59 |  Tekken 2                                        |   143 |  0 |   4 |  
|  60 |  Alundra                                         |   143 |  0 |   3 |  
|  61 |  Dragon Force                                    |   138 |  0 |   2 |  
|  62 |  Einhander                                       |   132 |  0 |   3 |  
|  63 |  Die Hard Arcade                                 |   132 |  0 |   2 |  
|  64 |  Tomb Raider 2                                   |   131 |  0 |   4 |  
|  65 |  F-Zero X                                        |   130 |  0 |   2 |  
|  66 |  NiGHTS into Dreams                              |   126 |  0 |   2 |  
|  66 |  No One Can Stop Mr. Domino                      |   126 |  0 |   2 |  
|  66 |  Virtua Fighter 2                                |   126 |  0 |   2 |  
|  69 |  Metal Slug                                      |   119 |  0 |   3 |  
|  70 |  Tenchu: Stealth Assassins                       |   115 |  0 |   3 |  
|  71 |  Heart of Darkness                               |   114 |  0 |   2 |  
|  72 |  Diablo                                          |   112 |  0 |   2 |  
|  72 |  WWF Wrestlemania 2000                           |   112 |  0 |   2 |  
|  74 |  Colony Wars                                     |   110 |  0 |   2 |  
|  75 |  Daytona USA                                     |   107 |  0 |   2 |  
|  76 |  Driver                                          |   106 |  0 |   3 |  
|  77 |  Front Mission 3                                 |   103 |  0 |   2 |  
|  78 |  San Francisco Rush: Extreme Racing              |   102 |  0 |   2 |  
|  78 |  Saturn Bomberman                                |   102 |  0 |   2 |  
|  80 |  Fighters Megamix                                |   100 |  0 |   2 |  
|  80 |  Spyro the Dragon                                |   100 |  0 |   2 |  
|  82 |  Sin and Punishment                              |    98 |  0 |   2 |  
|  83 |  Destruction Derby                               |    97 |  0 |   3 |  
|  84 |  Fear Effect                                     |    97 |  0 |   2 |  
|  84 |  Pokémon Gold & Silver                           |    97 |  0 |   2 |  
|  84 |  Suikoden                                        |    97 |  0 |   2 |  
|  84 |  The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages             |    97 |  0 |   2 |  
|  88 |  Coolboarders 2                                  |    90 |  0 |   3 |  
|  89 |  Mario Party                                     |    90 |  0 |   2 |  
|  90 |  Pokémon Snap                                    |    89 |  0 |   2 |  
|  91 |  Rayman                                          |    85 |  0 |   4 |  
|  92 |  Duke Nukem 3D                                   |    85 |  0 |   2 |  
|  92 |  Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions                   |    85 |  0 |   2 |  
|  92 |  Star Wars Episode I: Racer                      |    85 |  0 |   2 |  
|  95 |  Die Hard Trilogy                                |    84 |  0 |   2 |  
|  96 |  Bushido Blade 2                                 |    83 |  0 |   2 |  
|  97 |  MTV Music Generator                             |    81 |  0 |   2 |  
|  98 |  Night Warriors: Darkstalker's Revenge           |    80 |  1 |   1 |  
|  99 |  Twisted Metal                                   |    80 |  0 |   3 |  
| 100 |  Breath of Fire III                              |    80 |  0 |   2 |  
| 101 |  NFL Blitz                                       |    79 |  0 |   2 |  
| 102 |  Diddy Kong Racing                               |    78 |  0 |   3 |  
| 103 |  The New Tetris                                  |    78 |  0 |   1 |  
| 104 |  Conker's Bad Fur Day                            |    76 |  0 |   2 |  
| 105 |  Fear Effect 2                                   |    76 |  0 |   1 |  
| 106 |  Vampire Saviour                                 |    74 |  0 |   2 |  
| 107 |  International Superstar Soccer 64               |    74 |  0 |   1 |  
| 108 |  Mischief Makers                                 |    72 |  0 |   1 |  
| 108 |  Panzer Dragoon Zwei                             |    72 |  0 |   1 |  
| 108 |  Powerslave (Exhumed)                            |    72 |  0 |   1 |  
| 108 |  WWF No Mercy                                    |    72 |  0 |   1 |  
| 112 |  Worms Armageddon                                |    71 |  0 |   2 |  
| 113 |  Doom 64                                         |    68 |  0 |   1 |  
| 114 |  Ghost in the Shell                              |    66 |  0 |   1 |  
| 115 |  Brian Lara Cricket                              |    64 |  0 |   1 |  
| 115 |  Mystaria: The Realms of Lore                    |    64 |  0 |   1 |  
| 117 |  Dragon Quest VII                                |    62 |  0 |   2 |  
| 118 |  Fighting Vipers                                 |    62 |  0 |   1 |  
| 119 |  Incredible Crisis                               |    58 |  0 |   2 |  
| 119 |  Radiant Silvergun                               |    58 |  0 |   2 |  
| 121 |  The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons          |    58 |  0 |   1 |  
| 122 |  Tekken                                          |    57 |  0 |   2 |  
| 123 |  G Police                                        |    56 |  0 |   1 |  
| 124 |  Grand Theft Auto 2                              |    55 |  0 |   2 |  
| 125 |  Battle Garegga                                  |    54 |  0 |   1 |  
| 126 |  TOCA 2                                          |    52 |  0 |   1 |  
| 127 |  Tetrisphere                                     |    50 |  0 |   1 |  
| 128 |  King of Fighters '95                            |    48 |  0 |   1 |  
| 128 |  Mega Man 8                                      |    48 |  0 |   1 |  
| 128 |  Paper Mario                                     |    48 |  0 |   1 |  
| 128 |  Star Wars: Rogue Squadron                       |    48 |  0 |   1 |  
| 132 |  X-men vs Street Fighter                         |    47 |  0 |   2 |  
| 133 |  Lunar: Silver Star Story                        |    46 |  0 |   1 |  
| 133 |  Revelations: Persona                            |    46 |  0 |   1 |  
| 135 |  Banjo-Tooie                                     |    44 |  0 |   1 |  
| 136 |  Pokémon Stadium                                 |    43 |  0 |   2 |  
| 137 |  Burning Rangers                                 |    40 |  0 |   1 |  
| 137 |  Dark Saviour                                    |    40 |  0 |   1 |  
| 137 |  Jumping Flash                                   |    40 |  0 |   1 |  
| 137 |  Mega Man Legends                                |    40 |  0 |   1 |  
| 137 |  Mega Man Legends 2                              |    40 |  0 |   1 |  
| 137 |  Persona 2: Innocent Sin                         |    40 |  0 |   1 |  
| 137 |  Silhouette Mirage                               |    40 |  0 |   1 |  
| 137 |  Sonic R                                         |    40 |  0 |   1 |  
| 137 |  Time Crisis                                     |    40 |  0 |   1 |  
| 146 |  Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage                           |    37 |  0 |   1 |  
| 146 |  Spyro: Year of the Dragon                       |    37 |  0 |   1 |  
| 148 |  Armored Core                                    |    36 |  0 |   1 |  
| 148 |  Dino Crisis 2                                   |    36 |  0 |   1 |  
| 150 |  Bishi Bashi Special                             |    34 |  0 |   1 |  
| 150 |  Micro Machines V3 (aka Micro Machines 64 Turbo) |    34 |  0 |   1 |  
| 150 |  Muppet RaceMania                                |    34 |  0 |   1 |  
| 153 |  Crash Bandicoot: Warped                         |    32 |  0 |   1 |  
| 153 |  Klonoa: Door to Phantomile                      |    32 |  0 |   1 |  
| 155 |  Dino Crisis                                     |    31 |  0 |   1 |  
| 155 |  Jet Force Gemini                                |    31 |  0 |   1 |  
| 155 |  Lunar 2: Eternal Blue                           |    31 |  0 |   1 |  
| 155 |  Madden NFL 98                                   |    31 |  0 |   1 |  
| 155 |  NBA Live 98                                     |    31 |  0 |   1 |  
| 155 |  Parasite Eve                                    |    31 |  0 |   1 |  
| 155 |  Parasite Eve II                                 |    31 |  0 |   1 |  
| 155 |  Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire                |    31 |  0 |   1 |  
| 155 |  Wetrix                                          |    31 |  0 |   1 |  
| 155 |  Virtua Cop 2                                    |    31 |  0 |   1 |  
| 165 |  Irritating Stick                                |    28 |  0 |   1 |  
| 165 |  Mega Man X4                                     |    28 |  0 |   1 |  
| 165 |  Vigilante 8                                     |    28 |  0 |   1 |  
| 168 |  Devil Dice                                      |    26 |  0 |   1 |  
| 168 |  Enemy Zero                                      |    26 |  0 |   1 |  
| 168 |  Layer Section                                   |    26 |  0 |   1 |  
| 168 |  Mizzurna Falls                                  |    26 |  0 |   1 |  
| 168 |  Virtua Cop                                      |    26 |  0 |   1 |  
| 173 |  Moon: RPG Remix Adventure                       |    24 |  0 |   1 |  
| 174 |  Breath of Fire IV                               |    23 |  0 |   1 |  
| 174 |  Gex 3D: Enter the Gecko                         |    23 |  0 |   1 |  
| 174 |  Wipeout                                         |    23 |  0 |   1 |  
| 177 |  Rival Schools                                   |    22 |  0 |   1 |  
| 177 |  Tomba!                                          |    22 |  0 |   1 |  
| 179 |  Donkey Kong 64                                  |    21 |  0 |   1 |  
| 179 |  Mortal Kombat 64                                |    21 |  0 |   1 |  
| 181 |  Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber        |    14 |  0 |   1 |  
| 182 |  Tempest 2000                                    |    10 |  0 |   1 |  
| 183 |  Body Harvest                                    |     8 |  0 |   1 |  
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valkyrie profile didn't get a single vote ;_; i considered it but then i couldn't remember if i played it or the sequel and even then it wasn't for very long

Intense Goldeneye sessions were the tits for four of us back then. Which led in turn to one of the most bizarre reactions from my mates mother who yelled up the stairs to us one night "Will you boys shut up! Nothing is that funny"

tony hawk 2 would have been #1 with 1’s points right? wasn’t mine but would still have been otm tbh

also thanks will!

FFVII and MGS were my two big memorable experiences on PS1, and I never finished another game in these series after that (I do remember playing most of FFVIII though, maybe even up until the endgame).

MGS is the one I'd want to replay, and is it possible that it's underrated? Mostly I hear about MGS 2 & 3 when people are waxing nostalgic. But the whole thing is indelible in my mind, and I'd love to play a remake.

MGS 1 is fantastic, I much preferred it to the second one. Ignoring getting annoyed at some of the 'solutions' to the boss fights, it was a memorable experience for the ps1.

PUT YOUR CONTROLLER ON THE GROUND!!!!

MGS is the only PS exclusive that made it on my ballot, because I got to play it a few years after its release using the short-lived Bleemcast emulator on my DC. I remember being so flummoxed by the instructions to get Meryl's codec number from "the back of the box." It never occurred to me that they would break the 4th wall like that. I think I had to look up a gamefaq to figure it out. Well played, Kojima.

So... you like Castlevania, don't you?

tony hawk 2 would have been #1 with 1’s points right? wasn’t mine but would still have been otm tbh

also thanks will!

― difficult listening hour, Friday, November 13, 2020 6:28 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

you're welcome! and it would not have been (the way i calculated it is if the thps1 voters switched to 2, and the both-voters put 2 in their higher spot -- with all of the other vote splits accounted for, it would have jumped to 875 points, 5th place)

sorry for super slow replies im on this DANG OL ZOOM CALL

I just dipped into Perfect Dark, emulation-wise, the music is so good.

and the moment when you careen out of Midgar (sorry ciderpress) and there is the whole rest of the world just sat me on my ass.

Not quite the same but I recently started playing a nintendo 3ds game (yes I broke out my 3ds again last week) callllllled Shin megami tensei iv and while it didn't hit the same as leaving midgar it was the first time in years I went "holy shit there's an over world?!"

i played something recently that sold that feeling well but i can't remember what now

Regret not voting now. I wasn't a huge fan of the N64 as a console, and didn't own any other consoles, but I'm surprised how many of the games on the countdown I loved. I have to stick up for Mario Kart 64 though. It was such a huge leap forward for party racing games and remains fun to play to this date. The newer Mario Kart games are probably more fun (though not Double Dash, they messed that one up a bit) but I got so much mileage out of that damn game

The only game I got more mileage out of in that era was Super Smash Bros, which would have been my #1 if I voted