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Favorite Games, as well as pretty much anything I think has defined or contributed to my taste as a gamer over the years.

Adventure (atari)
Aeon Flux (xbox)
Alien 3 (snes)
Aliens vs Predator (arcade), AVP 2 (pc)
Amazon Trail (pc)
Area 51 (arcade)
Armored Core, AC 2, AC 3, AC Nexus, AC 4
Assassin's Creed
Asteroids (atari)
Atlantis (atari)
Bad Dudes
Banjo-Kazooie, BK: Nuts & Bolts
Battle Chess
Battle Unit Zeoth (gb)
Bayonetta
Beneath a Steel Sky
Bioshock
Blacksite: Area 51
BloodRayne 1 & 2
Borderlands
Breakout (atari)
Brutal Legend
Bubble Bobble
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (xbox)
Bushido Blade 1 & 2
Bust-a-Move
Call of Duty 4, Modern Warfare 2
Captain Commando
Castlevania: CotM, OoE, SotN
Centipede (atari)
Chrono Trigger
Colony Wars (ps1)
Combat (atari)
Conker's Bad Fur Day
Counter-Strike
Crystal Castles (atari)
Dead or Alive 3, Ultimate, 2 Hardcore, 4
Defender (atari)
Deja Vu
Deus Ex, Invisible War
DinoPark Tycoon (pc)
Doom I & II
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong Country 1 & 2
Double Dragon (nes), Double Dragon II (gb)
Duke Nukem 3D & Time to Kill
Earth Defense Force 2017
Earthbound
Ehrgeiz
Elder Scrolls III & IV
Eternal Champions
Evil Genius
Excitebike (nes)
Fallout 3
Final Fantasy I, IV, VI, VII, & XII
Flashback: The Quest for Identity (snes)
Fortified Zone (gb)
Freespace 2
Frogger (atari)
Future Cop: LAPD (ps1)
Gex: Enter the Gecko
Ghost Recon: AW 1 & 2
Ghosts 'n Goblins, Ghouls 'n Ghosts
Goldeneye (64)
Grand Theft Auto, GTA2, III, VC, SA, IV
Guild Wars
Gun
Half-life , Opposing Force, Blue Shift, 2, Ep 1 & 2
Halo
Haunted House (atari)
Hitman: Codename 47, Hitman: Blood Money
Ice Hockey (atari)
Ico
Iron Man (360)
Jade Empire
James Bond 007 (gb)
Jedi Knight, Jedi Academy
Jet Moto (ps1)
Joust (atari)
Jungle Hunt (atari)
Jurassic Park (snes), (arcade)
Kirby's Dream Land
Knights of the Old Republic
Left 4 Dead
Legacy of Kain (all)
Legend of Zelda, LttP, Twilight Princess
Maniac Mansion (nes)
Marvel Super Heroes, VS series
Mass Effect 1 & 2
Max Payne
Max Payne 2
Medal of Honor (ps1)
Mega Man: Legends
Mercenaries
Metal Gear, Metal Gear 2
Metal Gear Solid 1, 2, 3 & Twin Snakes
Metal Slug (all)
Metroid II, Super Metroid, Metroid Prime
Mirror's Edge
Missile Command (atari)
Mission: Impossible (ps1)
Moon Patrol (atari)
Mortal Kombat, II, 3, UMK3, 4, Deadly Alliance, Deception, Armageddon
Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero, MK: Special Forces, MK: Shaolin Monks
Moto Racer (ps1)
N+ (ds)
Night Driver (atari)
Number Munchers (apple II)
Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus, Stranger's Wrath
Oregon Trail
Otogi 1 & 2 (xbox)
Outlaw (atari)
Perfect Dark
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (all)
Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat
Pitfall (atari)
Pokemon Yellow
Pole Position (atari)
Portal
POW (arcade)
Pressure Cooker (atari)
Primal (ps2)
Quake II (ps1), Quake III Arena (dc)
Quantum of Solace (360)
Rainbow Six, Rogue Spear
Rampage (arcade)
RC Pro AM (nes)
Red Faction (pc)
Resident Evil 1, 2 & 4
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
River Raid (atari)
Rock Band 2
Rusn'n Attack (nes)
Saboteur, the
Saints Row 2
Samurai Showdown
Seaquest (atari)
Shadow of the Colossus
Silent Hill (all)
SimCity, 3000
Simpsons, the (arcade)
Sims 2, Urbz: Sims in the City
Solstice (nes)
SoulBlade, SC, SC II, SC IV
Space Trader
Spider-Man (atari), (ps1), 2 (xbox), Web of Shadows
Splinter Cell (all)
Star Raiders (atari)
Stranglehold
Street Fighter II, SSFII: Turbo, Alpha 3, III: TS, IV
Super Mario Bros, 2, 3, SM64, SML, SML 2
Super Princess Peach
Super Solvers: Midnight Rescue
Swordquest: Earthworld (atari)
Syndicate Wars (ps1)
Syphon Filter 1, 2 & 3
TMNT (arcade, Turtles in Time (snes), Back from the Sewers (gb)
Tenchu, Wrath of Heaven, Tenchu Z
They Hunger (half-life mod)
Thief I & II
Thing, the
Time Killers
Tomb Raider: Legend, Anniversary, Underworld, The Prophecy (gba)
Tomorrow Never Dies (ps1)
Treasure Mountain
Unholy War (ps1)
Unreal Tournament, 2004, III
Video Pinball (atari)
Virtua Fighter 4 & 5
WCW vs NWO: World Tour
Wet
Wheelman, the
World Heroes (all)
Xena: Warrior Princess (ps1)
X-Men (arcade)
Yars' Revenge (atari)
Zen: Intergalactic Ninja (gb)

I Hated It But I Eventually Learned To Master It Anyway, Then Lost My Skills and Hated It Again
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Test Drive: Off Road (ps1)

Most Despised Games That Are Quite Popular - >:(
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Far Cry 2
Fable series
Gears of War series

Games I'm Not Mad At, Just Disappointed -_-
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Mercenaries 2: Vehicle Hijack QTE of Destruction
Assassin's Creed II: Sassy Madam
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sequel of Libelty
Final Fantasy VIII: Believe Your Way Through Time
Final Corridor Fantasy XIII

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Licensed Game Love: Jurassic Park Ubersuntzu | 8:00 PM on 12.07.2009 8 comments

With the recent release of Avatar, I've been thinking about making a few blogs on all the licensed games I've played that really struck a chord with me, some of them even being my favorite games. There are a lot more than people give credit for, usually either because expectations are way out of whack or because they don't care about the license enough to appreciate them for what they are. Most people are capable of appreciating a game even if it doesn't revolutionize the entire industry as long as it uses its own established elements well, yet the bar ironically seems to be raised when it comes to licensed games. It's almost as though the stereotype is so entrenched in the minds of gamers across the world that nobody wants to admit one can be good unless it reinvents what it means to be a game. To start off I'd like to showcase a game that would have been awesome without the license. So awesome that they didn't even need to put the director's name on the box or subtitle it with THE GAME. Most of that probably had to do with the fact that no director would have been caught dead putting their name on a game box in the mid 90s, though. >_> I always loved SNES title screens. Even the crappy games usually had good titles. ;_; Like most licensed games, Jurassic Park mostly builds upon ideas that were first innovated by other games, but it drew from multiple areas and used them to make something that stood on it's own as a unique and memorable experience. The simplest way to describe it would be to say that it was equal parts Zelda and Doom, but at the time I would have described it as survival horror if such a genre had been established yet. Zelda influences the overworld by giving you a huge area to explore with multiple dungeons laid out across the map, and in order to progress you have to make you way through each one. The only flaw there was that unlike Link to the Past you basically had to figure out where you had to go on your own, but the dungeons made up for that. They're all first person shooter maps with multiple floors and basements that totally scared the shit out of me, and I think they probably still would even now. Part of this was achieved through using some of the best midi music of the era (at least among western games), and part of it was the fact that the dinosaurs were terrifying enough on their own. Regardless of which mode of exploration you were in, pretty much everything but the "compies" could kick your ass if you didn't know where threats would pop out from. Actually even those were a bit of trouble in the closed in maze portions. The stuff nightmares are made from. What made Jurassic Park feel like its own game instead of a Zelda clone was the top down shooter combat and the fact that just getting from one place to another was almost as much of a challenge as the dungeons themselves. Sometimes multiple packs of raptors would pop out as you crossed thresholds in the mazes and what would look like innocent clearings would instead end up being T-Rex territory. His running speed was set up so that you'd always get out by the skin of your teeth if you reacted fast enough, but that didn't make it any less scary every time he reared his ugly head. Everything would get... why is it so qui-OH SHIT!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! Despite how scary the game was in tone you still had multiple lives and finding extra wasn't that big of a deal. The catch was that you had to complete the whole thing in one sitting. Not so small a feat if you didn't know where you were going or were running out of ammo. I don't have a whole lot more to say about it, especially since I haven't actually played it in years, but I remember it as one of the best SNES games I ever owned. If you're a "retro" gamer and still haven't given it a chance then I would really recommend it. I don't think there were many genuine "Zelda" adventure/dungeon crawler style games back then, and there definitely weren't many good ones. Attached photos: