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Post by blackoak on Apr 5, 2015 12:42:25 GMT -5
The stuff I come back to again and again is actually pretty conventional, and mostly for nostalgia. I replay the Dragon Quest games (1-6) every couple years. I used to play them with my Dad so the music and graphics really trigger a lot of nice memories. Likewise with the Donkey Kong Country games, though I happen to think they're also great. Finally, I have a yearly ritual of replaying the Mega Man games (1-10) each summer. We sometimes get a little ways into the X series too.
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Post by levepedro on Apr 7, 2015 13:39:50 GMT -5
Super Metroid (SNES) Contra 4 (NDS) Super Contra 3: The Alien Wars (SNES) Maximo: Ghost to Glory (PS2) The Red Star (PS2) God Hand (PS2) Demon Souls (PS3)
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Post by Scylla on Apr 9, 2015 12:50:04 GMT -5
I have a hard enough time trying to make a dent in my backlog of games I've yet to play through even once, so I don't do a lot of replaying anymore (even though I cling to hope that I'd be able to someday). Now, if we were talking like pre-2000, then I replayed lots since back then my collection was only around 100-some games at the turn of the century and considerably less in the years before that. In the 90s, I played a ton of games over and over: all three NES Mario games + Lost Levels, all three Donkey Kong Country games, Chrono Trigger, Harvest Moon, Kirby's Dream Course, Kirby Super Star, On the Ball, Super Mario RPG, Wario Blast, Castlevania Legends, Donkey Kong Land, Kirby's Block Ball, Vegas Stakes, Link's Awakening, etc. etc. (Yes, a few odd games in there; some of these date back to when I had a very limited assortment of games and replayed virtually everything I had multiple times over.) Some of these I have replayed in more recent years too, though, even though I have plenty of gaming options.
Now post-2000, the two that instantly come to mind are Wonder Project J2 and Tail Concerto. I don't replay them every year or anything, but they're ones I always seem to go back to every few years despite my backlog. It helps that I never spend more than a few days on them tops (Tail Concerto I can comfortably beat in one day if I want to.) Some others I've played a least a couple times (and not in a "gotta replay for full completion" kind of way; just for fun) in the last decade or so: Secret of Mana, E.V.O., Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, Legend of Zelda, TwinBee Da! (I used to play this multiple times over in a single playing session during breaks between college classes), Stinger, Detana!! TwinBee, Castlevania, Crystalis, Dragon Spirit, Dynastic Hero, ActRaiser, etc.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2015 13:48:33 GMT -5
Ha! Interesting choice with Vegas Stakes. That's one I've also played numerous times, even though it really doesn't have much to it. I guess the music really helped the atmosphere for me, as well as the fact that even though it's a gambling game, it sort of had a plot.
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Post by Scylla on Apr 9, 2015 19:24:56 GMT -5
The Game Boy version to be precise, haha. I think it was...the third Game Boy game I ever had? Fourth? Something like that. So that's why I played it a lot. The random strangers that approach you are pretty amusing, and just fiddling around with blackjack and poker is fun for a while. I've never had a total aversion to gambling video games like a lot of "hardcore" gamers have; they can be fun in short bursts. Like everybody craps on the gambling series for NGPC but they're solid games for what they are (maybe a little excessively light on content, though; it would've been a better value if all the games were combined into a single release like with Vegas Stakes).
Haha, I just realized I unintentionally made a bad gambling pun with "craps". Yes, pointing that out was worth editing this post for, haha.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2015 19:47:11 GMT -5
Interesting. I never knew there was a Game Boy version. In fact, I just looked the series up, and never knew that Stakes was a sequel to Vegas Dream on the NES.
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