Seeing as I havented encounterd any problems, and gotten good praise for the last part of the list, I've decided to continue this list. About the score, as much as it's silly I feel that if I took it out now, it would be redundant. So the score stays. [small]Sorry...[/small] In case you missed the last part of the list here is the list so far: (This list and all other pictures are under spoiler tags to save space.)
Now that we have that out of the way, lets continue the list!
#26 Rails Across America: PC 2001: Now let me tell you a story about a 11 year old little boy, who loved trains. He tried Railroad Tycoon 3,(I got the game in 2003) but felt that he couldn't get into it. Then this little boy stumbled across a PC game called Rails Across America, and became the Railroad Tycoon, that well... Railroad Tycoon 3 couldn't bring him. What I'm trying to say is that I love this game. Why? After trying Railroad Tycoon 3 and ended up bankrupt building trains from EuroStar and TGV during the 1840's because I was supposed to use trains slower than me walking. I felt sad and frustrated, despite the graphics were for 2003 standards, Crysis good. Then a game with technological downgrades in all sectors,(sound, graphics, gameplay) was fantastic. You start off anywhere in Canada, Mexico and the United States and start off the bustiling Railroad buisness. You compete with A.I companies, which you can sabatoge, steal and even work with, in order to get more people on your train line.
You can get bankrupt (Not through errors that game desingers did, like let me build bullet trains in 1850's France), upgrade your line by new tracks and new trains in CHRONOLOGICAL order, and all sort of other things in order to gain prestige. the more prestige, the more money you have, and at the end of the game, if you have the highest prestige, you win. This all worked so well, that my 11 year old self felt like, I was in charge of all this, and if you want to get a train from New York to Boston you have to do it MY WAY.(I don't want to take it out now. Sorry...)BoS Score: 9.0 Exceptional
#25 Spore: PC 2008 Jeez... I've been going through a lot of PC titles now haven't I? But it's true. I love Spore. In fact I'd have it higher on this list, if it weren't for a major flaw, which I'll get to after I praise it. Will Wright is infamous for building games with "freedom" such as Simcity, the Sims and, well... Spore. The freedom of this game starts when you create your cell on a home planet (I live in the Persona galaxy on the planet Persona 4) then evolve into a creature, who, yes (evolves by dancing and picking up skeletons) that gains a developed mind and creates fire and the act of living in huts. After fighting other species that build tribes, you build a city in order to become a global civilization, which was the point I loved the most. Then came the space stage. Oh christ, how I hate that space stage. (Coming from a major Mass Effect, and Star Wars fan.)Yatzhee was right how the tribal stage bastardizes Command and Counquer, and the Civilization stage bastadizes, well... Sid Meier's Civilization, but Will Wright's plagarisim was overlooked by the fact that he did it in a way that could make you not care if in the space stage, you saw 50 USS Enterprises floating around and you had the planet Hoth in the universe. (In fact one of the achivements is called 42... Cookie for very easy reference.)
But I'm getting a little off track, so lets get to wy the space stage is horrid. Unlike Mass Effect, where there were around maybe 50 worlds in a few nebulas (haven't played it in a while honestly) Spore is the ENTIRE FUCKING GALAXY. Excuse my language but, when you start, you have to do missions for your empire, and the energy your ship starts out with is very low. In fact jumping to one planet from another starts chugging your fuel like me chugging a 2L bottle of Sprite. Plus you get alerts of attacks and biological distatsers, when you are at least 100 solar systems away, making colonies hate you. It's probably trying to make me realize, you're part of something larger than yourself, but WoW did that with 2 continents and a couple of islands, and not trillions of planets. So as much as Spore has a glaring flaw, the civilization stage alone makes up for it. That's probably why I never ever play space stage, and only play from saves from the beginning of the civilization stage. BoS Score 9.5: Sterling Silver Marvelous
#24 Sonic Adventure: Dreamcast 1999: 2000 must have been the year that the original Sonic Team's palm flowers went black and made them flee SEGA. Because after this gem (not the shiniest one as the list will show later on) on the Dreamcast, Sonic team haven't made anything as good, or at this point, average. Adventure 2 I must say was okay, and when Sonic heroes came out for GCN, I bought it and decided Sonic Team was filled with 1000 monkeys designing at 1000 computers. But like Red Faction, I don't have much to say, in fact I can sum it up in 1 sentence. It's like the Genesis games, but 3-D and fulfilling as getting a 95% on a final exam. But let me tell you about the anticipation and high standards I had after playing Sonic Adventure. After Adventure I started reading the Archie Comic version of it, which I must admit, before Watchmen, I thought was the shit. After reading their Adventure 1 arc after playing I thought that the game was better than I thought it was playing it.
Then the Sonic Adventure 2 issue came out, and I thought that game was going to be THE SHIT. I bought the game and realized, that it was OK, and that I wasn't the only kid I knew who started having noddy thoughts about Rouge the Bat. (I'm not a furry. I was just a guy going through puberty.) But that's when I started noticing that the series was starting to lean towards hype to sucker people in, and that the time that could have been used to the game, was put into the hype. The people who noticed that early, still have nostalgia, in fact I still buy the comic. However those who didn't are now stuck in the cycle of Sonic games, and probably will be until there is a Sonic game with an average rating of 0%. As much as this was more about Sonic Adventure 2, I just wanted to tell you how I felt as a SEGA kid growing up during his noticing downfall. Anyhoo...BoS Score 9.5: Sterling Silver Marvelous. Comic on the other hand...10: Forged from Eternal Steel
#23 NECTARIS/ Military Madness: Turbo Graphix 16 1989: This is the grand-daddy of turn based stratagy. If you played Advance Wars, you get the basic gist. The story is however, different. Set in 2084, you command the armies of Earth to stop the Moon colony military. You have to use your units against the ones they are strong against, then keep them away from the ones that they're weak against. You can capture cities, factories and the enemy's HQ, to heal units, get pre made units from factories and win the match respectivley. It's like a game of rock paper scissors, except it's set on the moon, and the rocks , papers and scissors are infantry, tanks and planes. I can't say more, because Advance Wars: Dual Strike will be higher on the list, but im not saying where, and that game is pretty much the same as NECTARIS, but upgrade 4.0.(Counting AW, and AW2.) BoS Score 9.5: Sterling Silver Marvelous
Hope you guys enjoyed this, the next list will be tomorrow.
NOTE: Here's the other list. The next list will have links too. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.145606
30. DragonQuest: Rocket Slime
29. Hamtaro Ham-Ham Games
28. Medal Of Honor: Frontline
27. Red Faction
29. Hamtaro Ham-Ham Games
28. Medal Of Honor: Frontline
27. Red Faction
#26 Rails Across America: PC 2001: Now let me tell you a story about a 11 year old little boy, who loved trains. He tried Railroad Tycoon 3,(I got the game in 2003) but felt that he couldn't get into it. Then this little boy stumbled across a PC game called Rails Across America, and became the Railroad Tycoon, that well... Railroad Tycoon 3 couldn't bring him. What I'm trying to say is that I love this game. Why? After trying Railroad Tycoon 3 and ended up bankrupt building trains from EuroStar and TGV during the 1840's because I was supposed to use trains slower than me walking. I felt sad and frustrated, despite the graphics were for 2003 standards, Crysis good. Then a game with technological downgrades in all sectors,(sound, graphics, gameplay) was fantastic. You start off anywhere in Canada, Mexico and the United States and start off the bustiling Railroad buisness. You compete with A.I companies, which you can sabatoge, steal and even work with, in order to get more people on your train line.
You can get bankrupt (Not through errors that game desingers did, like let me build bullet trains in 1850's France), upgrade your line by new tracks and new trains in CHRONOLOGICAL order, and all sort of other things in order to gain prestige. the more prestige, the more money you have, and at the end of the game, if you have the highest prestige, you win. This all worked so well, that my 11 year old self felt like, I was in charge of all this, and if you want to get a train from New York to Boston you have to do it MY WAY.(I don't want to take it out now. Sorry...)BoS Score: 9.0 Exceptional
#25 Spore: PC 2008 Jeez... I've been going through a lot of PC titles now haven't I? But it's true. I love Spore. In fact I'd have it higher on this list, if it weren't for a major flaw, which I'll get to after I praise it. Will Wright is infamous for building games with "freedom" such as Simcity, the Sims and, well... Spore. The freedom of this game starts when you create your cell on a home planet (I live in the Persona galaxy on the planet Persona 4) then evolve into a creature, who, yes (evolves by dancing and picking up skeletons) that gains a developed mind and creates fire and the act of living in huts. After fighting other species that build tribes, you build a city in order to become a global civilization, which was the point I loved the most. Then came the space stage. Oh christ, how I hate that space stage. (Coming from a major Mass Effect, and Star Wars fan.)Yatzhee was right how the tribal stage bastardizes Command and Counquer, and the Civilization stage bastadizes, well... Sid Meier's Civilization, but Will Wright's plagarisim was overlooked by the fact that he did it in a way that could make you not care if in the space stage, you saw 50 USS Enterprises floating around and you had the planet Hoth in the universe. (In fact one of the achivements is called 42... Cookie for very easy reference.)
#24 Sonic Adventure: Dreamcast 1999: 2000 must have been the year that the original Sonic Team's palm flowers went black and made them flee SEGA. Because after this gem (not the shiniest one as the list will show later on) on the Dreamcast, Sonic team haven't made anything as good, or at this point, average. Adventure 2 I must say was okay, and when Sonic heroes came out for GCN, I bought it and decided Sonic Team was filled with 1000 monkeys designing at 1000 computers. But like Red Faction, I don't have much to say, in fact I can sum it up in 1 sentence. It's like the Genesis games, but 3-D and fulfilling as getting a 95% on a final exam. But let me tell you about the anticipation and high standards I had after playing Sonic Adventure. After Adventure I started reading the Archie Comic version of it, which I must admit, before Watchmen, I thought was the shit. After reading their Adventure 1 arc after playing I thought that the game was better than I thought it was playing it.
#23 NECTARIS/ Military Madness: Turbo Graphix 16 1989: This is the grand-daddy of turn based stratagy. If you played Advance Wars, you get the basic gist. The story is however, different. Set in 2084, you command the armies of Earth to stop the Moon colony military. You have to use your units against the ones they are strong against, then keep them away from the ones that they're weak against. You can capture cities, factories and the enemy's HQ, to heal units, get pre made units from factories and win the match respectivley. It's like a game of rock paper scissors, except it's set on the moon, and the rocks , papers and scissors are infantry, tanks and planes. I can't say more, because Advance Wars: Dual Strike will be higher on the list, but im not saying where, and that game is pretty much the same as NECTARIS, but upgrade 4.0.(Counting AW, and AW2.) BoS Score 9.5: Sterling Silver Marvelous
Hope you guys enjoyed this, the next list will be tomorrow.
NOTE: Here's the other list. The next list will have links too. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.145606
