Poll: Best Game Series Ever?
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He can think whatever he wants, but when he tells me my opinion is wrong, and then directly quotes someone else, he isn't exactly showing that he can formulate his own opinions. And until he proves me otherwise by replying with something more constructive than simply saying the same thing Yahtzee does, I have a perfectly valid comeback.wassup27 said:So just because Yahtzee says that doesn't mean he can't think that?HUBILUB said:Oh yeah, go ahead and listen to everything Yahtzee tells you. In the mean time I'm going to go have my own opinions, thank you very much.No_Remainders said:Half-Life.HUBILUB said:The story is epic, the characters are epic, the gameplay is fun, and I just love it.geon106 said:I forgot about metal gear solid lol. But why? What makes it the best to you?HUBILUB said:
The story in MGS is not epic; it is and always has been badly written.
I think Warcraft that in terms of Lore and story it has to take the cake. To not only create a world but to fill it with so many diverse things, is quite an achievement.
Disclaimer: All that being said, I don't play WoW I did but could see it turning into an addiction so i stopped
Disclaimer: All that being said, I don't play WoW I did but could see it turning into an addiction so i stopped
It still makes no sense to me how a series with ridiculously long cutscenes and an incoherent story (even the writer doesn't know what's going on!) can appeal to anyone.HUBILUB said:
OT: None of those, there isn't a greatest that I can think of really; I tend to rate games on their own credentials.
The series where I rate every game in said series would probably be Splinter Cell however - the worst was Pandora Tomorrow but it was still a solid game.
HL2 + Episodes are great (never played the first) and I really do love them.
Got a feeling the Mass Effect trilogy will go down as one of the greatest.
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OT i voted COD simply cause i loved MW2, and MW1 and world at war, and COD3 i haven't played the others
Aie I understand the poll limitations, but the main issue here is that few of those on the poll are the true "hard hitters" when it comes to video game series.geon106 said:
I would have recommend searching around a bit for the top sold video games of all time and what not and leave the most recent or cult favourite classics into the "Other" option.
I mean, even if one does not enjoy it, I think anyone thinks of Super Mario Bros. when they think "Video Game series" (even if it isn't the first thing to pop up in their head) and a lot of other long running series: Zelda, Pokemon, The Sims, Metroid, etc..
And yeah I'm fully aware must of this stuff is Nintendo, but what do you expect when you're the oldest company still running with a console and your core sales come from classic video game series.
Half- Life series and Bioshock have been my favorite for a while now, but Bioshock's not a real series so I'll go with Half- Life.
I guess I would have to go with Fallout. It is a series of detailed and deep RPGs (though shallower after #2; at least #3 still is an actual RPG, unlike Tactics).
Overall though, I'm not a big fan of long-running series, in part because I like some closure and transitions in story-heavy games (For example, KOTOR: it could have easily ended conclusively after the first game. However, the second game still flowed from the first, and came to another conclusion, and doesn't need another game to finish the story. And, honestly, I don't know where they'd go from there if they tried). It's nice to see original games since they have to innovate, and can experiment with new mechanics or just focus on the story element. There's no need to develop everything from scratch, but in theory the writing is the easiest part so it should be as hard to make original story and characters. I know game developers aren't writers, but there are a crapload of writers out there, and most of 'em are decent, so I'd think it would be worth it to hire a couple.
Too many games in the same franchise necessitates that they become disjointed, or connected only superficially, or in small parts (see the Zelda and Mario series). While that formula has proven it can work, it often comes across like you're playing an upgrade of your old game rather than an actual sequel. That's ok if you're not really here for the story, but if you are you'll have to do shrooms for anything to make any sense (and it still won't, but you'll THINK it does), or take it one game at a time and pretend all the others don't exist while playing the current one.
Overall though, I'm not a big fan of long-running series, in part because I like some closure and transitions in story-heavy games (For example, KOTOR: it could have easily ended conclusively after the first game. However, the second game still flowed from the first, and came to another conclusion, and doesn't need another game to finish the story. And, honestly, I don't know where they'd go from there if they tried). It's nice to see original games since they have to innovate, and can experiment with new mechanics or just focus on the story element. There's no need to develop everything from scratch, but in theory the writing is the easiest part so it should be as hard to make original story and characters. I know game developers aren't writers, but there are a crapload of writers out there, and most of 'em are decent, so I'd think it would be worth it to hire a couple.
Too many games in the same franchise necessitates that they become disjointed, or connected only superficially, or in small parts (see the Zelda and Mario series). While that formula has proven it can work, it often comes across like you're playing an upgrade of your old game rather than an actual sequel. That's ok if you're not really here for the story, but if you are you'll have to do shrooms for anything to make any sense (and it still won't, but you'll THINK it does), or take it one game at a time and pretend all the others don't exist while playing the current one.
Warcraft, but not including World of Warcraft, it moved off of the originals too much... and who wants to pay every month to play a game? I like to pay once then not pay again
