What is your all time favorite SNES game?

[Nazulu]

Yep, Link to the Past kicks ass. I actually played most of the famous 3D Zelda games before getting around to LttP, and I can honestly tell you Link to the Past is possibly the most entertaining out of all. It's in my top 3 Zelda's, that's for sure.

And as much as I loved LttP, Super Metroid mops the floor with the competition. I've played thousands of games and Super Metroid still has the most interesting and awesome introduction out of all I've seen.

 

[ultrabiome]

Megaman X is almost THE perfect platformer.

This. I can get all of the upgrades and beat the game in under 90 minutes regularly.

So many other good choices, but I'm surprised no one has brought up one of my other favorites: Earthworm Jim 1 & 2 (especially 1). I know its bit floaty and difficult at times, but oh so zany and fun.

Other gems already mentioned: Any Super Mario, Super Metroid, Zelda:LttP, Chrono Trigger, Killer Instinct,...

 

[Austin Howe]

Well, because I use the Playstation release of Chrono Trigger, my answer would probably have to be Super Metroid unless somebody can remind me of a few of the other good times I ever had with SNES games.

You do realize that port is god awful right? The load time comparisons are hilarious.

This may come as an utter shock to you, but... Well, lemme put it this way:

Anyone can SAY a thing, but if the other never experienced that thing, then it makes no sense to them.

Sorry. The PlayStation port may have the nice anime cutscenes every 50 hours or so, but when it comes to stuff like just the load time transition from walking to battle, the Playstation port takes like, 4 seconds to load that whereas the SNES one (being on a cartridge) takes no time at all.

 

[Azure-Supernova]

Holy crap... do I pick The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past or Harvest Moon. Damn that's a tough one.

 

[FalloutJack]

-Shortened-

Ummm...sorry, but this is important why? Your problem appears to be that you don't like to wait for a short delay for some reason and I'm just not seeing the horribleness.

 

[JimB]

Ummm...sorry, but this is important why? Your problem appears to be that you don't like to wait for a short delay for some reason and I'm just not seeing the horribleness.

I can't say as to why either positions of this argument is actually important, but since nothing about the gameplay was changed by the translation from SNES to PS except that the more advanced system has terrible loading times, the original, cartridge version is probably superior.

...I say "probably" because for all I know, you have a TV that lacks a coaxial port and therefore you can't play the SNES version, even if you have the machine and the game. That would make it, uh, suboptimal.

 

[WoW Killer]

Most of mine have already been mentioned. FF6, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Megaman X and Super Mario World are all pure perfection.

The one nobody mentioned: Star Ocean. Obviously I never played a legit version till the PSP one came out, so whether that counts or not is up to you. But for a SNES game that was seriously advanced. The game data is larger than Mario 64, apparently.

Bahamut Lagoon - A turn based strategy/RPG hybrid where you commanded squads of characters (each a JRPG party in its own right) and dragons, which you had to raise and train yourself, shaping both their physical attributes, spells and behavior (dragons were AI controlled). Also, nobody other than myself seems to have ever heard of that game, so I feel like a total gaming hipster...

I actually played that one. Kinda fun, but gets a bit easy mid-way through. The main character's dragon is actually invincible (which I think was a bug?) if you built him right. So you could beat everything just by hiding in a corner and waiting for this god-creature to one-shot everything. Similar to that in the whole SRPG genre, did you ever play the first Front Mission?

Also, Front Mission: Gun Hazard is very underrated. It's a platform RPG a bit like a Metroidvania, but with an overworld map and repeatable missions.

 

[Garrett]

Clock Tower anyone? Anyone?! It's like the first survival horror that actaully managed to be little scary.

Also Chrono Trigger is awesome.

 

[FalloutJack]

Ummm...sorry, but this is important why? Your problem appears to be that you don't like to wait for a short delay for some reason and I'm just not seeing the horribleness.

I can't say as to why either positions of this argument is actually important, but since nothing about the gameplay was changed by the translation from SNES to PS except that the more advanced system has terrible loading times, the original, cartridge version is probably superior.

...I say "probably" because for all I know, you have a TV that lacks a coaxial port and therefore you can't play the SNES version, even if you have the machine and the game. That would make it, uh, suboptimal.

The problem I have with the notion is that the argument is over some lapse in load time - mere seconds - and you can't call a port horrible because of something as insignificant as that. This renders no appreciable change on gameplay, so I gotta wonder why I'd be called out on that when I simply mentioned CT in passing to point out WHY I chose Super Metroid. It's kinda' rude.

 

[KoudelkaMorgan]

As much as I love Chrono Trigger, FF4/6, and Yoshi's Island I always go with Super Metroid. The reason being that all those other games have at least one thing that I don't like. In CT I got sick of fighting Lavos like 15 times for all the endings.

In FF4 I flat out hate the magnetic cave and the sealed cave and the Dark elf/Wall boss + the final moon dungeon is a pain. Also the road to the Esper city was a pain. In FF6 the multi party dungeons, while awesome, are very tedious.

In YI....BABY MARIO CRYING. Its literally the only thing I hate in an otherwise great game. Aside from 2 or 3 choice bonus levels.

In Super Metroid there is nothing I don't love about it. The ammount of polish and detail, the sheer density of the planet staggered me at the time. TBH I don't think any Metroid games since have had nearly as much raw geography, or cleverly hidden secrets. There are probably people out there that have no idea about healing with powerbombs or how to overcharge the individual beams for aoe affects. I may have forgotten how to do it, but they were cool at the time. Awesome Music too.

Hopefully they recover from the 3/10 that was Other M and make some new ones soon.

 

[Skylare]

well i def played Super Mario the most but i gotta go with Megaman x2

 

[GamingAwesome1]

Going for the sort of predictable pseudo-obscure (Christ, this is getting meta) game here, Earthbound.

It's well written, good sounding, good looking and plays smoothly. One of my favourite RPG's of all time. I always find it stands to reason that the best RPG's tend to be the one to defy tradition rather than merely refining it, perhaps default JRPG gameplay isn't that good then, how about that?