Poll: A poll for the best Video game series ever

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Nazulu

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Phenakist said:
you could just put "Nintendo" down for one of them, hence covering Mario, Zelda, Metroid etc.
Mario is bigger than all of them, this guy just doesn't care for Nintendo games!

Other for me obviously.
 

Cpt_Oblivious

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Where is Elder Scrolls or Monkey island? Or the Sims? the Settlers? Total War?

You appear to have named some recent games that have numbers on the end and concluded they are the only game series' around.
 

Cpt_Oblivious

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Where is Elder Scrolls or Monkey island? Or the Sims? the Settlers? Total War?

You appear to have named some recent games that have numbers on the end and concluded they are the only game series' around.


OOps it appears to have double posted :/
 

Phenakist

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Nazulu said:
Phenakist said:
you could just put "Nintendo" down for one of them, hence covering Mario, Zelda, Metroid etc.
Mario is bigger than all of them, this guy just doesn't care for Nintendo games!

Other for me obviously.
True Mario is bigger but he's kind of a jack of all trades :p awesome all the same
 

Nazulu

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Phenakist said:
True Mario is bigger but he's kind of a jack of all trades :p awesome all the same
Well you got Super Mario Brothers, Super Mario Lands, Super Mario Worlds, Mario 64, Mario Galaxy, Mario Party's, Mario Golf's, Mario Tennis's, Mario Karts, Super Mario Toilet Scrubber etc.

Yeah, I can see what you mean but with all the platformers added up it's pretty big! Or you can just do the Mario Karts, they were pretty big!
 

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CountFenring said:
TES or something else. Probably TES. Morrowind was awesome, Oblivion was better than I expected.

WHY NO LOVE FOR TES IN THE POLL?!
I'm hearing that. We want Elder Scrolls.
 

GuerrillaClock

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How on earth can you put Metal Gear Solid, Call of Duty and 007, all with only one truly great game each buried in mounds of mediocrity, ahead of Mario, Zelda, Sam and Max, Metroid, Resident Evil, Mother, Prince of Persia and Wario Land to name but a few, all of which have consistently produced excellence?

I know a list like this is hard to draw up, but some of those choices are just baffling.
 

Valiance

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Vrex360 said:
Yeah I know that just because a game doesn't sell a million copies doesn't mean it's shit (I mean I love Otogi and except for my immediate friends no ones ever heard of it) but my argument was that games that are incredibily popular are not usually bad, usually they are popular because they are good.
I agree. Or that they were "mediocre" or "alright" and had very good marketing behind them. I will never say Halo is a bad game, I just don't think it is the shining gem that some other people think it is. I suppose it boils down to personal taste for the story, or the presentation, neither of which thrilled me. Halo is by no means bad, but why do you think it is the best series ever?
Honestly it might have a nostalgia that chamrs me too it, Halo 1 was the first game I ever played as a kid and it blew my mind, I only played bits of it though. Halo 2 I then first played co-op with a friend and had to learn the story as I went along giving it a new flavour to most others plus there are so many good memories of Halo 2 multiplayer.
Finally Halo 3 was the one game I had been most excited about in 2007 and all my friends got together to play it the night it was released, it was an EVENT.
If it wasn't for Halo I never would have met the girl of my dreams either.

Maybe it isn't a shining gem in the long run but no other series in game history has ever given me such fond memories. So I guess that's why, I find the series lovable in a sort of sentimental type way.
I can acknowledge that other games may be superiour like Bioshock, but they will never compar to the level of affection I have for this series.
I fully respect that, since that's why I hold games like Ocarina of Time in high regard...When if I went back and played it today, it probably wouldn't be as good. But it was more of the adventure of the thing, the immersion, the talking with my friends about how to beat the water temple, you know, that sort of thing, because I was young and it was pretty cool.

And I think Halo can fit that kind of bill easily. Glad you've had a good time with it.
 

Zhalath

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Other. You'd want to get a more comprehensive list to ask the question you are asking and receive the best results to work with.
 

Guerrilla1

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Half life hands down, most fun i've had in a single player game in a while, the subtitle says it all. "Thinking Man's Shooter"
 

Lord Kofun

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OK.. I think we need to remove the "other" option. That is WAY to easy to go for. Make it an actual choice instead of "Well, that one nobody liked but I did." or "There was that one you forgot." I'm not saying that there isn't a better series up there, but... For one, I know a lot of other people (not me) will be upset because Gears isn't up there, along with Final Fantasy and the Super Mario series.

"Other" is just way to vague, is what I'm trying to say.
 

Fightgarr

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How did Star Ocean score a slot? I mean, I haven't played any of them but I think they should be an 'other' for sure. If you're going to throw a JRPG up there then throw up Final Fantasy. Its at least high on the radar.