Yesterday it was 10 years since Resident Evil 2 was released, and I got to think that during 2008 it will be 10 years since: The original Half Life that changed FPS for ever. The release of the Dreamcast, one of the best consoles in history, and pretty awesome while it lasted. Zelda Ocarina of Time, the best N64 game and one of the best RPGs. Sonic Adventure, which is one of the last great Sonic games SEGA made. Metal Gear Solid, considered revolutionary by many. Man, cant believe is 10 years already, what happened that time went so fast? In all these years all I can recall as fun are just a handful of games, and thats all:-(
don't be surprised. it's the same for us all. i guess it's a mix of bad games and nostalgia. i think i should play more the wonderful SWOS on my xbox360 such things make s you feel better! like knowing that bionic commando's remake in on the way too!
I can't believe its 10 years since all that stuff, damn time does fly. Those seem like they were only released 3 years or so ago, never mind 10. Still i think they are all good games and consoles, the dreamcast was a top machine back in its day.
Best N64 RPG? Sure Best Action RPG? Ehh pretty close (i more prefer wind waker even tho it was easier, some prefer Majora's Mask more then OOT). Best RPG? ***K NO Just my two cents. Anyways 10 years is not all that long ago. Hell in may I hit 6 years of being in the VG industry and it still feels like nothing. I'm more impressed by games we grew up on hitting 20 or 30 year anniversary.
I said among the best, not the best. And honestly I'm not impressed by that, since I know theres been a looong time since the Nes and Mario Bros were released, to name a few old ones. Is just that since the end of the 32bits/beggining of the 128bit, to this year is like nothing amazing happened in VG land...
I beg to differ. This generation is seing the rise of indie games again. Online services like XBLA/PSN/WiiWare will really make for some awsome stuff as this generation moves forward. What really will be awsome is when dev studios open up further to let their own coders release home projects on DL services. Some people in the industry make awsome things in their free time at home.
In 5 years or so, some kid's going to make a similar post about the PS2 and how it changed gaming. The DC was a cool machine, but it definitely had it's faults, and an overall underwhelming library. Still has some gems. I still think the 32-bit machines were the culmination.
Whoa, thats an opinion I never thought I'd hear here! I completely agree - The DC has some greats, but it suffers from almost martyr-ism combined with good old rose-tinted glasses - it's dead so it must have been good. In my opinion, the DC did have some greats, but the majority of the 1st party catalogue were arcade conversions which just aren't designed for long play sessions (Sega Rally/Daytona/Crazy Taxi/Sega Fishing/numerous fighters/Virtua ***) Might work somewhere but not here - people buy games with stories and a story-line, or games specifically developed for consoles, not the half-way house of an Arcade conversion. I really don't think the DC had any more or less great games than the majority of consoles of its time -the PS1, PS2, N64 and saturn all rank pretty close to me. Not sure if that was a coherent rant, but I still just don't see the big deal of the DC
That may fill the void. Under that theory I should be talking about the Genesis/Snes, and not the DC... I just mentioned it becos it was released in 1998 and SEGA peaked after that, no more, no less. And heres when it gets awkward: on one hand you got these elaborated games with hollywood-quality stories (sometimes even better) yet most people play them once and leave them behind. On the other hand theres all this people playing arcade-like games on the Wii and XBLA, making these two highly profitable. Now I'm not going to be a liar and say "the story doesnt matters" since for me it does (hell, I only played the Halo series for the story, nuff said) but numbers are numbers and it seems to me that most of the market is going casual/arcade nowadays...
How is OOT considered to be an RPG? Unless its like the old term Emo and new term of emo, it really isn't an RPG, because you're playing the role of someone else's character, in this case, its Shigeru Miyamoto's. That would be like saying Super Mario Bros. is an RPG because you're playing the Role of a mustached Italian plumber. I might come off as an oldbie, but I didn't learn the difference between RPG and REAL RPGs until recently myself, where RPGs used to mean you played the role of your OWN character, but I digress. I know certain gaming sites might refer to some games like action RPGs, but they really technically aren't true RPGs. Just look at my sig. Its not me just being goofy, but its based on how the term has changed.
to be honest resident evil 2 was bigger than all of those.. even the DC.. i guess 97 was a pretty good year
that would depend on how you define an RPG. Best true RPG on the N64 was Paper Mario, best Strategy-RPG was Ogre Battle. Ocarina of time is one of my favourite games of all time indeed, but i wouldnt bother comparing it to other titles of similar gameplay - it was the first of those to get a spot in my heart and I ll always be biased, so there's no point debating.
Last time I did that my gf got hit by a truck:-( Whatever man, I just put it in there becos it was one of the big hits of 98 and if I didnt every fanboy out there would come and flame this thread... Anyway, added MGS, dunno why I forgot about it.
I think most people now consider any sort of game with "talking" or a fantasy setting to be an RPG of some sort. It's not so surprising though since I imagine most have never had exposure to pen and paper games.
As far as JRPGs are concerned, I'm giving them a new genre name. Japanese Stat Grinding movie. That sounds about right.:thumbsup:
