1. Chrono Trigger
2. Final Fantasy VI
3. Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
4. Shadow of the Colossus
5. Super Metroid
I guess I am a nostalgia whore. I have tons of honorable mentions that have came out in the past 5 years but there are no games in my mind that can top these games. 4 of them are from my childhood so it's probably just nostalgia but I have played these games over and over and over so many times and they never lose their appeal to me. I guess 2D gaming was the pinnacle of gaming to me. I wish they would try to release some amazing side scrolling game that takes full advantage of current console capabilities (I know about games like Braid on the online stores but I'm talking about full, massive games). How awesome would it be for a new Metroid or Castlevania side scroller on a next gen console? How about even another top down Zelda? These games could be epic but I guess everyone just wants their cheap thrills from an FPS shooter that lasts 6 hours.
In my opinion, Zelda's move to 3D was horrible. OoT and Majora's Mask were two of the absolute worst Zelda's to me (barring the CD-i games). But then again, I never really liked the Nintendo 64 in the first place.
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Originally Posted by Martian
By rights, newer games should be better. Newer hardware gives developers the ability to do things that the guys in the eighties or nineties wouldn't have bothered dreaming about. Perhaps this is the problem -- when one has to tell a story with 256 colours and PC speaker blips and bloops, one must necessarily get creative and do something new and interesting. Removing restrictions also removes the drive to innovate.
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