Poll: A perfect game?
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My Top 15 favorite games of all time:
1. Chrono Trigger - Party members were a bit unbalanced. Marle was useless, Frog wasn't that great, and Robo was a physical powerhouse with shadow techniques and healing that beat any other healer by far. Also, triple techs were kind of pointless because it nearly always dealt more damage just to attack three times.
2. Final Fantasy IV - Half the characters die only to come back later in the game, sometimes twice. The final boss comes out of nowhere story-wise.
3. Final Fantasy VI - Once you get at least to characters with Ultima, you've basically won the game.
4. Super Metroid - Uhh... I'll get back to you.
5. Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past - Two bosses in a row are giant eyeballs stuck in a congealed liquid. The final boss fight was underwhelming.
6. Final Fantasy VII - Extremely convoluted. Story grinds to a halt in the middle of disc two to collect three magic rocks. Jenova (a much better villain than Mr. Mommy Issues, in my humble opinion) gets shafted with a pathetically easy last battle before Sephiroth. Many more.
7. Super Mario World - Very easy, though I wouldn't necessarily call that a flaw. Visually underwhelming, though that's to be expected for a launch title.
8. Mega Man X - The first form of Sigma had a pathetic pattern that becomes tedious quickly. And what the heck is a Kuwanger?
9. Portal - Uh... I'll get back to you.
10. Chrono Cross - Don't even get me started.
11. Mega Man 2 - That freaking third fortress boss meant that if you died you had to spend twenty minutes recharging your weapons lest you lose all of your energy tanks.
12. Metroid Zero Mission - Ridley was stupidly easy on all difficulties.
13. Silent Hill 2 - Sucky combat, weird puzzles that didn't make any sense.
14. Metroid Fusion - Game holds your hand like a five-year old.
15. Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening - Boomerang sub-quest is almost completely mandatory to finish the game. Underwhelming final battle.
I humbly consider Super Metroid and Portal to be perfect. I don't mean that they are the best games of all time. I just mean that they have no discernible flaws. If someone points out a legitimate flaw in Super Metroid, I will admit its imperfection.
I think that length breeds flaws. You can't have a thirty hour game and not screw up somewhere. Portal and Super Metroid are both three to five hours long, and that keeps their goodness so concentrated and replayable.
You can pick up Portal or Super Metroid twice a year and always have fun with them.
1. Chrono Trigger - Party members were a bit unbalanced. Marle was useless, Frog wasn't that great, and Robo was a physical powerhouse with shadow techniques and healing that beat any other healer by far. Also, triple techs were kind of pointless because it nearly always dealt more damage just to attack three times.
2. Final Fantasy IV - Half the characters die only to come back later in the game, sometimes twice. The final boss comes out of nowhere story-wise.
3. Final Fantasy VI - Once you get at least to characters with Ultima, you've basically won the game.
4. Super Metroid - Uhh... I'll get back to you.
5. Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past - Two bosses in a row are giant eyeballs stuck in a congealed liquid. The final boss fight was underwhelming.
6. Final Fantasy VII - Extremely convoluted. Story grinds to a halt in the middle of disc two to collect three magic rocks. Jenova (a much better villain than Mr. Mommy Issues, in my humble opinion) gets shafted with a pathetically easy last battle before Sephiroth. Many more.
7. Super Mario World - Very easy, though I wouldn't necessarily call that a flaw. Visually underwhelming, though that's to be expected for a launch title.
8. Mega Man X - The first form of Sigma had a pathetic pattern that becomes tedious quickly. And what the heck is a Kuwanger?
9. Portal - Uh... I'll get back to you.
10. Chrono Cross - Don't even get me started.
11. Mega Man 2 - That freaking third fortress boss meant that if you died you had to spend twenty minutes recharging your weapons lest you lose all of your energy tanks.
12. Metroid Zero Mission - Ridley was stupidly easy on all difficulties.
13. Silent Hill 2 - Sucky combat, weird puzzles that didn't make any sense.
14. Metroid Fusion - Game holds your hand like a five-year old.
15. Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening - Boomerang sub-quest is almost completely mandatory to finish the game. Underwhelming final battle.
I humbly consider Super Metroid and Portal to be perfect. I don't mean that they are the best games of all time. I just mean that they have no discernible flaws. If someone points out a legitimate flaw in Super Metroid, I will admit its imperfection.
I think that length breeds flaws. You can't have a thirty hour game and not screw up somewhere. Portal and Super Metroid are both three to five hours long, and that keeps their goodness so concentrated and replayable.
You can pick up Portal or Super Metroid twice a year and always have fun with them.
NFL BLITZ 2003!!!...haha nah that game is good but has it flaws...nothing can be perfect but some have came close
Ah Men.magicmonkeybars said:
O.T. There will never be a truly flawless game, a flawless game must have everyone like it. And remeber, Jack Thompson is still out there.
But there are some games that come damn close. Timespliters is a good example. I got my friend into gaming with that game, she thought that shooting at stupid AI charactors was stupid. She played Timesplitters and she now plays games a good amount now. And any game that can transform a hater into a player is great in my book.
There's no such thing as a perfect game, but the closest I've ever seen is either Braid or Portal. For what they set out to do, they were simply brilliant.
No such thing. Perfect doesn't exist, ever. And yes, partially because of a pesky thing called "opinion."
Sure. Perfect is subjective, not objective. So, from each subject's point of view, something can be perfect. Is it unanimously perfect? Absolutely--for each person that wants it to be so. For everyone else, something else is perfect. So...yes. Perfection can happen.
As many others said already there is no such thing as a perfect game or any perfect anything.
A game that would be the closest to perfect would not necessarily need a lot of different things to do but would need to do everything it does in a very very great way. The game would need to feel very smooth in controls and have no movement flaws or any kind of flaws. The story would need to be unique and deep. Music would need to vary and sound amazing to the point of above orgasmic. The game would not even need to have violence. I mean if done right the perfect game could be rated E, although that would be very very very very tough. I feel that a perfect game could be made for one person but that could take years. I would be amazed by a game that did many things and did all greatly. There are many more factors that would need to be looked at as well.
I guess my choice for a game that is nearly perfect right now is well I can't be specific really I have to say one of the Metal gear Solid games.
A game that would be the closest to perfect would not necessarily need a lot of different things to do but would need to do everything it does in a very very great way. The game would need to feel very smooth in controls and have no movement flaws or any kind of flaws. The story would need to be unique and deep. Music would need to vary and sound amazing to the point of above orgasmic. The game would not even need to have violence. I mean if done right the perfect game could be rated E, although that would be very very very very tough. I feel that a perfect game could be made for one person but that could take years. I would be amazed by a game that did many things and did all greatly. There are many more factors that would need to be looked at as well.
I guess my choice for a game that is nearly perfect right now is well I can't be specific really I have to say one of the Metal gear Solid games.
It would have to be an impossible (or at least nearly impossible) combo. An amazing story that blew books and movies out of the water. Great characters that are super memorable. Crazy voice acting by the best in the business. Amazing (pretty much real) looking graphics. Outstanding innovative gameplay that redefined gaming. And that's just for the single player (which of course would need infinite replay value). The multiplayer would need to be perfectly balanced, be skill based but not too frustrating, no bugs, no exploits, no glitches, good spawns, allow for different play styles and be super addictive.
He lists Halo right after and you pull him up on HL2?Souplex said:
OT: No,there is no such thing. Which is why, "so-and-so magazine only handed out 2 perfect 10/10s this year" (or something similar) will remain one of the most ridiculous things I've ever read.
there is no such thing as a perfect game
1) every game no matter how good has it's downsides. Even me as a Halo fan will admit that there have been flaws in all 3 of them (4 if you enclued ODST.)
p.s don't bother with replying to that with just a hole bunch of hate mail about me being a Halo fan.
2) Everyone has their different taste in games
e.g I like FPS's and fighting game, I hate puzzle and most JRPG's games, but there could be someone else who likes puzzle and JRPG's, they will have a different view on how they like their games to how I like mine.
1) every game no matter how good has it's downsides. Even me as a Halo fan will admit that there have been flaws in all 3 of them (4 if you enclued ODST.)
p.s don't bother with replying to that with just a hole bunch of hate mail about me being a Halo fan.
2) Everyone has their different taste in games
e.g I like FPS's and fighting game, I hate puzzle and most JRPG's games, but there could be someone else who likes puzzle and JRPG's, they will have a different view on how they like their games to how I like mine.
Everyone is saying that no game can be perfect, i think the poster was asking about games people thought were perfect. Yes, everyone knows that perfection is unobtainable, there are thirty+ posts about that, but that kind of makes this into a "your favorite game" thread, so o well, i like fire emblem series, MW2(it has flaws but i still play it for hours on end, nothing is going to be flawless but some things are so good u can overlook their flaws) , assassin's creed series, Fable (1 more than 2) Super Smash Bros series