Your actual top 10/20/25/50/100/200 games - have you ever?

@Muss wrote:

Still need to play Galaxy...

Mate. Mate.

I lost my virginity on Carnival Night but my favourite Carnival Night is still the year Mario Galaxy released.

Disco Elysium is March for PlayStation and Stadia along PC update. Summer for Switch and Xbox.

Thinking about it March is a decent month already with Balan, MonHan Rise that waiting till the summer for Xbox might make more sense as can give it more love.

Agree on the vibe thoughts as yesterday evening I was like didn't put Gone Home on my list, that it's easier really for me to go these X games I think are neat and that could be hundreds.

@Buskalilly wrote:

@Muss wrote:

Still need to play Galaxy...

Mate. Mate.

I lost my virginity on Carnival Night but my favourite Carnival Night is still the year Mario Galaxy released.

Mate. Mate.

I know. We might be getting it, via the Mario All-Stars package, for Christmas but that depends on whether my girlfriend's parents visit or not.

They've already bought it for her I think but they're gone from we're definitely coming down during the holidays to exchange gifts to we're not really sure about coming down.

Which is fair. Either way I'll play it at some point!

I'm so jealous you (might) have Super Mario Galaxy as a Christmas game. I deliberately waited on Odyssey a couple of years ago and it was magical

Oh yeah. That was a special game so if it lives up to that then that'd be good.

I played Odyseey whilst I had something between the flu and a cold and despite that its quality really shone through. Watching it vicariously when my girlfriend played it was good fun as well, so many things to appreciate about that game.

I'll be playing Disco when it comes to Switch in summer.

I was going to say that my top 25 hasn't changed at all since my giant post at the top of the last page, but that's not quite true. After my replay of Ghost Trick, I've realised that it's aged phenomenally well, stands up on replay, and the few flaws I recalled don't seem that flawed any more. It's certainly aged better than Twilight Princess and probably better than Metroid Prime. Ghost Trick is now my fourth favourite game ever.

@Kriken wrote:

11. Super Mario Galaxy 2
12. Super Mario Galaxy 1

Ah, I see you're a fellow of culture too...

@Kriken wrote:

20. Metroid Prime 2
21. Metroid Prime 1

...wait what? I'd be curious as to the reasoning behind this!

Anyone who puts Galaxy 2 above Galaxy hasn't played them in close succession and hasn't played either for a while.

Or there's something wrong with them.

Who cares

@Balladeer wrote:

@Kriken wrote:

20. Metroid Prime 2
21. Metroid Prime 1

...wait what?  I'd be curious as to the reasoning behind this!

Cooler setting, more challenging and interesting bosses. The two games are pretty close together for me. On another day I could put 1 above of 2. I mark down Prime 2 a bit for being a bit derivative of some scenarios in the first game, but overall I think the game is an improvement.

I think they're both miles ahead of Prime 3, anyway.

Hm, I'd disagree on bother points. Maybe it's just my faulty memory, but I recall 1 having more varied settings ('bog' and 'purple bog' don't count as two) and the better bosses (the most memorable for me in both are the monstrous plant thing with scythe arms and solar panels, vs. a fat shark). Not saying you're wrong, just that those aren't points I can reconcile with my faulty memories.

Obviously they're both better than 3 though. NPCs. Who the feck asked for NPCs?

@Buskalilly wrote:

Anyone who puts Galaxy 2 above Galaxy hasn't played them in close succession and hasn't played either for a while.

Well, yep. Who'd play them both in quick succession anyway? That sounds like the ideal way to overdose on and get sick of what's otherwise a winning formula.

Game opinions are only valid when you binge the whole series for comparison I guess. And disregard the ability to form long term memories of course.

As for Prime 3 and NPCs, I liked the bit at the start where you're wandering around the ship and can talk to people. It felt fresh. The portrayal of the Federation of those games, and the dialogue, is so dull though.

Eh, that's just Buska for you.  I'm 100% sure there was no genuine offence meant.  As for that dialogue...

I did mean lots of offence though, I hate you both deeply and personally.

Looking back in the thread, my last list update was in February 2018, so I reckon I'll wait a couple of months and do a three year update on my top 25. Looking at that old list, I can already envisage a totally different list this time round. Besides, waiting a couple of months will allow me to get deep into Hades as I reckon that might end up featuring at this rate...

@Buskalilly wrote:

Top notch. And very true, to boot.

@Balladeer wrote:

@Buskalilly wrote:

I did mean lots of offence though, I hate you both deeply and personally.

A fence colander?

Yeah that's fully a colander, not a sieve.

I was trying to find something that had a guy with some fencing under his arm and 'I TAKE A FENCE AT THAT', but the Internet let me down.

Off-topic: that Mudasar meme always makes me laugh like an absolute drain.