Oh boy, last week I thought I was throwing a small gathering of die hard fans a bloody zombie bone, but apparently there's almost no closet Resident Evil movie fans around these parts of the Internet. Let's just get this over with and move onto something much more exciting. Here are the results:
- Favorite Resident Evil movie: Resident Evil
Yep, the first R.E. movie won, and Resident Evil: Degeneration was pretty much the only other movie to get votes.
This week we're bringing 2009 to an end by finishing our game series debate era with a bang. I want to know what your favorite game series of all time is. Is it an extremely old series, or a new one? Is it your favorite because of just one amazing game out of them all, or is it impressive overall? Will I be reading lots of Legend of Zelda or World of Warcraft votes? Perhaps Final Fantasy or Street Fighter? Maybe Super Mario? All series from all genres on all consoles/PCs/handhelds count.
What game series do you like the most out of every game series ever made, and why? What sets it apart from every other series? Give it some serious thought, share your thought process with all of us, and then get some gamer friends to join in on the fun. Hit the jump for the new bonus questions!
Next week's debate: What's your favorite game of 2009? It's coming! Start thinking about your answer now, and be ready!
BONUS QUESTIONS:
BQ1: What was the first game in this series you played? How old were you?
BQ2: What's your favorite game in the series? Why?
BQ3: What's your least favorite game in the series? Why?
BQ4: Have you played every game in the series? Have you beaten every game in the series?
BQ5: What do you want the series to do next? Why?
BQ6: Name one thing you didn't like, or wish was improved, in the series you voted for this week.
BQ7: What's your New Year's gaming resolution for 2010?
Contest:
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BQ1: What was the first game in this series you played? How old were you?
BQ2: What's your favorite game in the series? Why?
BQ3: What's your least favorite game in the series? Why?
BQ4: Have you played every game in the series? Have you beaten every game in the series?
BQ5: What do you want the series to do next? Why?
BQ6: Name one thing you didn't like, or wish was improved, in the series you voted for this week.
BQ7: What's your New Year's gaming resolution for 2010?
So many different stories and types of gameplay, it's definitely the series I've played and enjoyed the most.
BQ1: Pokemon Red, 6 years old.
BQ2: Pokemon Red. It was the first one, it set the groundwork, and at that time, it was all new. Everything was an entirely different experience, and it wasn't just expanding on the Pokemon- it was about the adventure.
BQ3: Pokemon Yellow. Pikachu following you wasn't endearing- it was annoying as fuck.
BQ4: Nope. Never played anything after Diamond/Pearl, and never finished Diamond Pearl. Nope.
BQ5: I don't know, but chances are that I will have no part in it. I'm no longer big on Pokemon, mostly because I've been slowly drifting away from handheld gaming (aside from the occasional iPod touch game). Unfortunately.
BQ6: FUCK THE ELITE FOUR YOU GUYS.
BQ7: Try new things. I bought Mass Effect to play recently, because despite the great things I've heard about it, it reminds me of KOTOR, a game I didn't like. I'm not much for patience, which is why I don't really play RPGs (aside from, as I said, Pokemon.) but I want to be less close-minded. And not just with gaming- with everything.
First time I played it, I was young enough to not remember. Best game in the series would be Jak 3, because the combat and weaponry felt tuned perfectly, least favourite would be J&D1, because it wasn't the other two. I haven't beaten 1 or 2, come to think of it, as the final boss in both cases got me stuck until I couldn't be arsed. Haven't played the spin-offs that aren't Jak X. I wan't the series to make Jak 4, damn it Naughty Dog! I think it would be improved by featuring more character comedy...Aaaaand my NYR is to play more games. Didn't play too many this one.
1)I played MGS 1 on my Playstation when I was seven.
2)My favorite game in the series is 3. I was stunned by the options you had in combat and how deep the story was.
3)Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops. It was the control scheme that killed the game for me.
4)Yes I have Played all of the games, and beaten them on all difficulties.
5)Nothing. I don't want another main series game, as 4 ended it perfectly for me.
6)Camera CAMERA! I want better camera controls in all of the games.
7) To beat every single Final Fantasy game by the end of the year.
Q1: I played Halo ce at age 8 and it got me hooked.
Q2: Halo 2 is my favorite for just the amount of fun to be had outside of the already substanstial gameplay, with things like getting rid of your gun and superjumping. Also the first game with substantial dlc.
Q3: Halo Wars was great but still I feel like it wasn't all a halo rts could be.
Q4: I have played every game and beaten everyone except for Halo Wars.
Q5: I want to see the story and extended universe put into the games more because it is a fantastic universe.
Q6: Push to chat for multiplayer is not good and the lack of dpad use because we could have the use of vision and equipment.
Q7: get play my psp more, repair my ps3, and get a snes.
BQ1: Pokemon Blue. I was about 5 or 6.
BQ2: A Tie between Silver and Diamond. Silver because Lugia is a badass, and Diamond because that's how I got my first shiny Pokemon.
BQ3: Probably any of the home console versions. I don't know why, when I play, I don't get the same addictive kick I get out of the Portable versions. Hell, I spent more time with Pokemon Pinball than I did with Pokemon Colosseum.
BQ4: Every game except Pokemon Green. And HELL TO THE NO.
BQ5: I'd like it to go into an MMO like state, but still keep the portable aspect. With the advent of free 3G services, and some cities providing free city wide WiFi for registered residents, it could be possible.
BQ6: I wish Game Freak would let me fully customize my avatar. I'd love to have a Decked out Dax in the next Pokemon iteration.
BQ7: To be able to play video games in my house again. I don't know how I'm going to achieve this, but it's top priority in my book.
BQ1: MGS2, when I was 15.
BQ2: MGS4, but I have NOT played Subsistence, only Snake Eater. And the margin that MGS4 won with for me is probably made up for in Subsistence, because the simple answer to why I think Guns of the Patroits > Snake Eater, is that Snake eater has a somewhat horrid control scheme.
BQ3: MGS2... of course. The game has less and shorter cutscenes than MGS4, but it feels the opposite. And with the story being such a mess, they only confuse the whole thing even more. This is the only game in the Solid series that I dislike.
BQ4: Played and beaten every game in the Solid series, but only the regular versions of 2 and 3 (not Substance and Subsistence, but Twin Snakes). Not played any of the Acid games (oh, the irony... *looks at username*), and not beaten any of the old Metal Gear's.
BQ5: Something that feels less confined than the current games, where you sometimes feel like a tank. Perhaps Kojima should give Uncharted 2 a glance.
BQ6: Cutscenes, of course... they are too long, too many, and the story, well written as it is, isn't well written ENOUGH to warrant a 90-minute cutscene. The only game that handles it's cutscenes really well is Snake Eater.
BQ7: I'm going to get Tales of Symphonia and finally play it, to see if it's really as good as my friends say...
BQ1: What was the first game in this series you played? How old were you?
A Link to the Past....five maybe
BQ2: What's your favorite game in the series? Why?
Majora's Mask. It's completely different and it's totally better for it. I love the Dark Themes. The different masks switch up the gameplay. I like how it mirror's Ocarina of Time, and is totally wacky. The town makes up for the disappointment I felt with the towns in OoT, and makes it so interactive. I really felt like that place was alive.
BQ3: What's your least favorite game in the series? Why?
Wind Waker. Collecting the Triforce Shards is dull and tedious. I haven't picked up the game in 5 years. It's the only game in the series that I've started and have yet to complete.
BQ4: Have you played every game in the series? Have you beaten every game in the series?
No.
BQ5: What do you want the series to do next? Why?
I feel like if you took Majora's Mask, Twilight Princess, and Metroid Prime and threw them in a blender you'd be off to a good start. Maybe hire Goichi Suda to spice things up.
BQ6: Name one thing you didn't like, or wish was improved, in the series you voted for this week.
It follows a formula too closely. It needs to shake things up.
BQ7: What's your New Year's gaming resolution for 2010?
Playing Eternal Darkness would be good.
That is the best resolution I've seen thus far.
BQ1: What was the first game in this series you played? How old were you?
Resident Evil 2, I was around 5 or 6 years old
BQ2: What's your favorite game in the series? Why?
Code Veronica, I just love the psychological problems Alfred faces
BQ3: What's your least favorite game in the series? Why?
The 3 survivor games, do I really need to answer why?
BQ4: Have you played every game in the series? Have you beaten every game in the series?
I've played all of the games, beaten every game except Gaiden
BQ5: What do you want the series to do next? Why?
Go back to the original forumla
BQ6: Name one thing you didn't like, or wish was improved, in the series you voted for this week.
Coop = fail, the fifth one was just a disaster, they killed off my favorite character, Sheva was a whore, the storyline was pathetic, the game was just like RE4 with better graphics and lighting effects in Africa
BQ7: What's your New Year's gaming resolution for 2010?
Play more old games, such as SNES games, PS1 games, N64 games.
BQ1: What was the first game in this series you played? How old were you?
DKC2. 4 Years old.
BQ2: What's your favorite game in the series? Why?
DKC2. It had the best levels. And the best character! (Dixie)
BQ3: What's your least favorite game in the series? Why?
DKC1. It had just minor issues. Still really fun to play.
BQ4: Have you played every game in the series? Have you beaten every game in the series?
I've played all 3 (or 4 if you include DK64). I havent technically beaten any except DK64.
BQ5: What do you want the series to do next? Why?
It's a nonexistant series now. LOL.
BQ6: Name one thing you didn't like, or wish was improved, in the series you voted for this week.
More... Monkeys.
BQ7: What's your New Year's gaming resolution for 2010?
Play more single player games? ... I'm not sure.
Series: Metal Gear Solid
BQ1: What was the first game in this series you played? How old were you?
Metal Gear Solid at around 8 or 9... I'm not sure. It was like, "WHY CAN'T I JUST SHOOT EVERYONE?!?! WHY DO I KEEP DYING!?"
BQ2: What's your favorite game in the series? Why?
BQ3: What's your least favorite game in the series? Why?
Metal Gear Solid 2. It took me like 8 years to understand the plot.
BQ4: Have you played every game in the series? Have you beaten every game in the series?
Oh yeah. Just beat MGS4 a few months ago.
BQ5: What do you want the series to do next? Why?
Eh, I know this is a fanservice but maybe remake the original Metal Gears? I'd like to see Outer Heaven in glorious PS3 graphics.
BQ6: Name one thing you didn't like, or wish was improved, in the series you voted for this week.
I was the story wasn't so complicated. I know that it's kind of a bittersweet charm for the series, but I'm a college freshmen and I know that I'll get my Ph.D before I completely wrap my head around the entire plot.
BQ7: What's your New Year's gaming resolution for 2010?
Beat Dead Space! And get through all these games I purchased in the Steam Holiday Sale.
MY VOTE: Legend of Zelda series.
BQ1: What was the first game in this series you played? How old were you?
It was actually Ocarina of Time, and I was in 7th grade. I remember for sure, because each week day, me and the funny guy in front of me in English class would talk about how far we had gotten the night before. He started a few days before me, and I'm a slow gamer cuz I wander around to much, so he would always talk about new areas and I was mesmerized by how cool they would sound, worry they wouldn't live up to the hype, but was ecstatic when they did. Seeing the sun rise and set over Hyrule for the first time is the moment that changed me from being a gamer into wanting to be a game designer. It's that powerful in my memories.
BQ2: What's your favorite game in the series? Why?
My favorite is and possibly always will be (excluding multiplayer games -- DotA FTW) Ocarina of Time, but I'm hesitant to say it's the best. Majora's Mask is two impressively ambitious, badass and brilliant games rolled into one. I remember the game design and execution being on a whole new level of awesome.
I definitely plan on giving Majora's Mask a replay soon (I'm still not quiiiiite done replaying Wind Waker yet). I'm a HUGE fan of the Zelda series, but this needs to be said: Wind Waker is amazing on many levels, but severely lacking in one place in a terrible way. The triforce pieces quest at the end isn't the "Yeah, it's annoying" tangent that most like to remember it as. It's borderline terrible game design. I like the nonlinear-ness to it, but it robs it from ever deserving the title as "Best Zelda game ever" for me.
Oh yeah, and Link's Awakening DX is surprisingly amazing, and should be a must-play for any of you who missed out on it.
BQ3: What's your least favorite game in the series? Why?
Sorry for the cliche answer, but Legend of Zelda 2. CDi crap doesn't count.
BQ4: Have you played every game in the series? Have you beaten every game in the series?
Yes, I have played them all, but no, I have not beaten them all.
BQ5: What do you want the series to do next? Why?
Use that two separate realities timeline loophole to make a Zelda trilogy that finishes the series completely for a decade or so, until it no doubt will eventually be resurrected once again. My suggestion: Game 1 is you play as Ganondorf and see his side of the story, and see why he went bad, or possibly is doing his evil for some secret good. Game 2: You play as Princess Zelda while Link is gone in Termina doing the Majora's Mask thing, which allows you to see how Hyrule hit dark ages, and let's you see (and play) the journey where Zelda becomes a Sheik. Also, Ganon may or may not end up being Zelda's real dad, cuz you can totally see Nintendo pulling that card. Game 3: Ganon's bitch, aka, Zelda's mom, takes the throne as the new ruler and the new super villain, and Link comes back, possible ZOMG there's 2 Links time conundrum, and then it's Big Link and Little Link versus Ganondorf and Super Queen Bitch to save the Princess one final time. The way they must save the world is by using the "poe" ghost idea in a clever way -- all the people that died or were killed by Ganondorf in the dark ages of hyrule, you can hunt down there poe spirits and bring them back to life to open up new adventures for more poes, until you've saved enough to help you find and fight Ganondorf and Super Queen Bitch. Then end the fucking series and move on god i hate you nintendo make something new why do u do this to me? ahhhhhh!
BQ6: Name one thing you didn't like, or wish was improved, in the series you voted for this week.
Read above, about Wind Waker.
BQ7: What's your New Year's gaming resolution for 2010?
To be actually MAKING games by this time next year, instead of just playing them. ;) Wish me luck.
BQ1. Persona 3, I was sixteen. It promptly stole my heart away.
BQ2. Persona 4. I really liked the characters of P3, though all the added gameplay features of P4, with the incredible voice acting and story just blew me away.
BQ3. Persona 1, it's a little unfair to say anything about it, considering it's age; though after P3, it felt really quite antiquated.
BQ4. I still haven't got my hands on P2, though I do want to play it. I'm hoping Atlus comes out with a PSP remake for it as well. I've beaten every other Persona, though.
BQ5. I want Persona 4. 'nuff said.
BQ6. Is it wrong to say 'More Chie?'
BQ7. Play Mother 3, but it's hard to do without finding a ROM and I'm resisting the urge to download a ROM.
I've played every single one and all of them are fun. True some more than others and Third Strike is MILES better than the EX series but there's always something to see in a Street Fighter game.
I want the series to go back to 2D, IV is awesome but the Street Fighter III games are the most beautiful for.
My gaming resolution is to finish more games, since this year I probably finished little more than half of the games I've started.
BQ1: I played The Final Fantasy Legends games on Gameboy ages ago, but the first REAL FF game I played was FFVI. I don't remember exactly how old I was, but it was soon after the game was released in the U.S.
BQ2: (tie) FF Tactics and FFVI
I love FFVI, because the cast was so huge and awesome, and the story was engrossing. I love FF Tactics because it introduced me to the drug known as strategy RPG's, the story was very different from your typical RPG plot, and the job system rocked.
BQ3: FFXI is my least favorite. MMO's are not for me :-(
BQ4: I've played and beaten every main FF game and all of the Tactics games (I haven't beaten FFXI, of course). I've also played most of the good spin-off games, like Crystal Defenders, Crystal Chronicles, Crisis Core, Dissidia, etc.
BQ5: I'd love a new Tactics game for consoles. Gorgeous hi-res 2-D art, more jobs/classes, more cameos from other FF games, and a great soundtrack, please.
BQ6: With the exception of FFVIII, the black characters are usually horribly done and embarrasing. Ugh.
BQ7: My gaming resolution is to get a Wii and a PS3, and then somehow find time to play all my consoles.
BQ1: What was the first game in this series you played? How old were you?
-Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, probably around 16. I played that game into the ground. When I found out I missed the True Demon Ending because I finished the Labyrinth of Amala after I entered the final dungeon, I was for some reason inspired to do it again. Playing it on and off for a year, I beat it once on normal and got the True Demon ending on Hard. Got 100% and my best demons to max stats. Amazed that even then the game could still turn around, bite you in the ass and kill you. Now that's a real game for you.
BQ2: What's your favorite game in the series? Why?
-As much as I loved SMT: Nocturne, Persona 4 holds the crown. I could talk about Kanji all day, since I'm always overjoyed to see video game story lines deal maturely with sexual identity, but he wasn't the only character to have be so complex and pop off the page. And the dating sim, dungeon crawl hybrid is to die for
BQ3: What's your least favorite game in the series? Why?
-Digital Devil Saga; not that it wasn't good, but it wasn't quite the same SMT to me
BQ4: Have you played every game in the series? Have you beaten every game in the series?
-Absolutely not. They haven't all reached stateside!
BQ5: What do you want the series to do next? Why?
-Really take advantage of the next gen hardware; The Xbox360 has begun a sort of RPG haven at the moment; I would love to see SMT take advantage of it somehow...but not lose the incredible gameplay
BQ6: Name one thing you didn't like, or wish was improved, in the series you voted for this week.
-SMT is all about repetition; sure rote is the name of the game, but I'd like to see it varied up a bit more; and not to go the FF route with battles - Persona 4 fixed this about Persona 3, but even the easiest battles started to move too slowly because of battle animations
BQ7: What's your New Year's gaming resolution for 2010?
-Probably to finish all those games I haven't finished yet. STILL so close to beating Persona 3!
BQ1: I was seven when i played the first mgs
BQ4: I havent played mgs4 because I don't have the cash for a ps3 at the moment
:(
BQ1: Super Mario Bros., the classic! I believe I was 3.
BQ2: Super Mario Galaxy. i like the style, music, superb platforming, and it's fun as hell.
BQ3: Super Mario Bros. 2 (the REAl one, not Doki Doki Panic.) It's really hard.
BQ4: I've played em all.
BQ5: I'd like a better story. Enough of this rescuing the Princess already! Also, for the 3D Mario, I'd like to see a different formula than the one established in 64.
BQ6: I'm tired of the "get the stars" formula for the 3D games.
BQ7: Get a PS3, and also to make an Indie game!
BQ1: A Link to the Past in a friends house, but the first I finished was Ocarina of Time.
BQ2: Ocarina Of Time. First Zelda game I finished, I love the art style, the gameplay, the story, everything.
BQ3: Assuming CD-i doesn't count, Four Swords (NOT Four Swords Adventures, I like that game).
BQ4: Played every game in the series, but I haven't beaten all of them.
BQ5: I don't know. I would like to see a really unusual art style for the series someday, and maybe more magic.
BQ6: I love Wind Waker, but gathering the pieces of the Triforce was one of the most annoying things I ever had to do in a videogame.
BQ7: Buy more games, play more older games, and like the above poster, play Mother 3 (I have no problem with downloading it though).
I would dare say Halo. Those games have sucked up more time of my life than any other game series out there (including the grind-tastic Final Fantasy games), and they've been a staple of get-togethers with my friends for about five years now.
The first Halo game I played was Halo 2. A friend of mine was renting it, so I decided to give it a shot. I liked it so much that I bought it myself, as well as the first Halo. I got Halo 3 and ODST as soon as possible as well.
My favorite game in the series is definitely ODST. Bungie has done an excellent job of improving on each game before it and polishing as much as it can for the next. ODST not only had excellent atmosphere and music, but it also had intense combat scenes, new enemies to keep you busy, and rather fun story writing.
As such, my least favorite was Halo 2. It had many of the aspects that would make the later games so much fun, but it lacked polish in almost every area, which at times made it more boring (or just silly, in the case of the infamously invincible warthogs).
I have now played and beaten every game in the series (on legendary, no less)
One thing I think Halo lacks as a series is properly cooperative combat. Apart from one small scene in ODST, the most help you'll be getting from area to area is four or five shmucks to help you out (until they walk onto a grenade and die horribly, of course). I would love to see larger battles, with more people on your side and the enemy's.
>> Uncharted <<
This franchise is a baby compared to most of the votes so far, but it's accomplished so much. Every moment of each of the games (the 2nd especially) kept me smiling the whole time. Naughty Dog has created a cast of characters that you feel you know, and pack emotion into every carefully scripted scene. Video game technology has excelled to much with the requirements to make an AAA title and pack emotion into characters is SO hard, pulling off an 'Aries death scene' with today's technology is so much harder then 1997 when FF7 came out. That is why the Uncharted franchise gets my vote
I'm a huge Final Fantasy fan, played them since my SNES days, MGS has locked me in for hours, the persona series has a certain flair about it and Half-Life cannot be unmentioned, as it definitely gets my vote for runner up. However the polish and enjoyment I have received in the Uncharted series personally trumps them all. Strongly recommended to fans of FPS/RPG/Action-Adventure, well any type of gamers will get some sort of enjoyment out of them.
BQ1: Super Mario Bros! On the original NES, I was three or four when my family bought one. I remember being a stupid kid and pushing up to make Mario move right, because I wanted to make him go forward.
BQ2: Super Mario RPG. It released around the time I was getting into playing 16bit RPGs, and it combined the best of Mario with the best of console RPGs. The graphics were awesome, the story was awesome, and for once Bowser wasn't the bad guy.
BQ3: Where in the World is Mario? I remember renting this excited, thinking it was a SMB game I hadn't played. It wasn't super fucking Mario. It was Carmen Sandiego disguised as Mario, or perhaps homework is a better term. Mario and Luigi Superstars 2 comes as a close second because it was a bunch of linear suck.
BQ4: I think I really have, at least the games on Nintendo systems. I even owned the Virtual Boy Mario game, which sucked (not the tennis one...the tower one). I've beat them all besides the unbeatable ones, like Mario Tennis and whatnot.
BQ5: Keep innovating. Mario 64 revolutionized 3d platformers, and Galaxy took that a step farther. One of my favorites in the series is Yoshi's Island, so maybe giving Mario a new art style would reinvigorate the series (did I hear realistic Mario like in those paintings? Oh yes.)
BQ6: The newer RPG lite elements in the Mario and Luigi games need to be ditched. You either go all the way or not at all. Also: all that button/stylus mashing gets old really quick.
BQ7: Playing all those games that were moved because of MW2, like Mass Effect 2 and Bioshock 2.
BQ1: What was the first game in this series you played? How old were you?
7. I'm 21 and English, I'm too young for the earlier ones, And 7 was first one released in the UK.
BQ2: What's your favorite game in the series? Why?
6. Ultros. Kefka. Terra.
BQ3: What's your least favorite game in the series? Why?
11. It's just not good, I don't mind it being an MMO, I love MMO's, I hate bad ones though.
BQ4: Have you played every game in the series? Have you beaten every game in the series?
Played all the main numbered ones, and alot of spin-offs. Beat them all apart from 11.
BQ5: What do you want the series to do next? Why?
Release 13 in Europe tommorow.
BQ6: Name one thing you didn't like, or wish was improved, in the series you voted for this week.
Final Fantasy 7 fanboys. I don't like them.
Improved? Square-Enix's attitude towards PAL. (It's slowly improving though!)
BQ7: What's your New Year's gaming resolution for 2010?
Buy more shit!
legend of zelda
link to the past (SNES) aged maybe 5.
link to the past again, very fond childhood memories of this game, and i could complete it now without looking at the screen (probably)
wind waker, mainly cos im not a fan of cel shading ( apart from Jet Set/Grind Radio
yes i have played them all, and no i havent beaten them all.
i dunno, maybe see a darker side of the hero of time?
i cant think fo anything i would change to be honest, every game had its pitfalls and high points, but without actually spoiling the experience for me.
Gaming resolution, hmmmm, complete a discworld game without resorting to violence towards the computer or close reletives
BQ1: What was the first game in this series you played? How old were you?
A: Shin Megami Tesnei: Nocturne, approx. 19
BQ2: What's your favorite game in the series? Why?
A: Shin Megami Tensei Persona 4. It had an amazing combat system, great characters and a story that was mature and well paced.
BQ3: What's your least favorite game in the series? Why?
A: Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha VS The Soulless Army. Clunky, slow moving comat, art wise it looked much worse then Nocturne, and the story was mediocre at best. (in my opinion, of course)
BQ4: Have you played every game in the series? Have you beaten every game in the series?
I've at the very least played every game in the series. The only SMT games I've yet to beat to completion are: Persona (PSP), Digital Devil Saga 2, Persona 2: Eternal Punishment, and Devil Survivor.
BQ5: What do you want the series to do next? Why?
A: Take a graphical leap into the next gen. I don't think the series will ever leap to something the likes of Final Fantasy when it hits PS3 or 360, but the art style would benefit from graphics capable of finer detail.
Also, I wouldn't mind a radically different social system and new combat system for the next Persona. Just to see something a bit more fresh.
BQ6: Name one thing you didn't like, or wish was improved, in the series you voted for this week.
A: I kinda wish there were more detailed conversations between characters instead of just having static character's with blinking and slight facial animations.
BQ7: What's your New Year's gaming resolution for 2010?
BUY FEWER GAMES and finish more of them instead of leap frogging between new releases.
BQ1: What was the first game in this series you played? How old were you?
Ace Combat 2. My older brother bought it for me on my 10th birthday, when we first got a PS1. I'm forever indebted to him for that.
BQ2: What's your favorite game in the series? Why?
Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War. Everything about it just clicked for me. It had the great gameplay, the awesome planes, but the story was just amazing, and the orchestral score... aw man, just thinking about it gives me an epic feeling.
BQ3: What's your least favorite game in the series? Why?
Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere. I just wasn't a fan of the anime style characters, and the plot which was much more sci-fi driven. Not that I don't like sci-fi, or that the other games have no sci-fi elements, but I just felt like it was too much.
BQ4: Have you played every game in the series? Have you beaten every game in the series?
I haven't played any of the portable games in the series, and I have not beat Ace Combat 1 or 3.
BQ5: What do you want the series to do next? Why?
Bring back the big cinematic story in single player that made 'The Unsung War' so great. Ace Combat 6 felt much more like an arcade challenge mode, and I never really felt 'attached' to my squad or just the story overall. During 'The Unsung War', you really felt like you were a part of it all; you were Wardog, you were Razgriz, and the legends within the game, and the reporter telling your story just made me feel like I had a really strong connection with my character and his squad.
BQ6: Name one thing you didn't like, or wish was improved, in the series you voted for this week.
I'd like to see them do a lot more with the online aspect of the game. I'd love to see some sort of smaller scale objective based game types, something along the lines of CoD's 3v3 tactical gametypes, or even Chaos Theory's Merc vs Spies setup.
BQ7: What's your New Year's gaming resolution for 2010?
Devote some serious time to catch up on God of War before the third one comes out, and find a multiplayer game that I can really stick with for more than a month (Bad Company 2 perhaps?).
BQ1: Super Mario Bros when I was 3. First one that I owned was Super Mario World; got it with a SNES on my 5th birthday.
BQ2: If I HAD to pick, I'd say Super Mario RPG, but it's basically a tie between SMRPG, Super Mario World, Paper Mario and Mario Kart 64.
BQ3: Hahahahaha. Mario Is Missing.
BQ4: Not by a long shot, especially when you include spinoff games. I've played most of the main ones, though.
BQ5: Just keep on being awesome?
BQ6: Uh, pull a Sega, ditch the hardware and start just making software for other consoles so I can keep up with the series without having to buy a Wii that I have no use for outside of maybe 5 games.
BQ7: Play more of them. I want to pick up some games that are outside my radar.
BQ1: What was the first game in this series you played? For Mario, it would be Super Mario Land for the Gameboy, and I was about 7. For Donkey Kong, it was Donkey Kong Country and I was 6.
BQ2: What's your favorite game in the series? Why? For Mario, Yoshi's Island, cause it's just awesome. For Donkey Kong, DKC 2, cause well, it's awesome.
BQ3: What's your least favorite game in the series? Why? For Mario, the worst Mario game I played was Mario Is Missing. It was supposed to be educational...it isn't. For Donkey Kong, well...actually I've enjoyed every DK game I've played.
BQ4: Have you played every game in the series? Have you beaten every game in the series? No to both.
BQ5: What do you want the series to do next? Why? For Mario, hopefully Galaxy 2 will surpass the first Galaxy in every way. For Donkey Kong, they really need to bring him back properly. No more of these Kongo games or cheap portable titles.
BQ6: Name one thing you didn't like, or wish was improved, in the series you voted for this week. There are way too many games based on Mario. If it was my choice, I would limit him to his main titles, Super Smash, and probably just one party game per system.
BQ7: What's your New Year's gaming resolution for 2010? To finish all the unfinished games I collected over the year...or at least the good ones.
I kid.
I'd say Metal Gear Solid.