The year's just about over (thank God) and your friends here at RetroforceGO! are ready to close it out in the coolest way possible: with lists. You guys like lists, right? C'mon, everybody loves lists. Well, we like lists, anyway. So we made a bunch of them.
Tonight we'll be taking a look back at the year in retro, and we've compiled a list of our top ten Virtual Console titles, XBLA games, and PSN games, along with a bunch of other random top ten lists. Lists of what, you ask? Who knows? Whatever we feel like making a top ten list of. That's how we roll, kids.
We've also made some New Year's "retrolutions" that we'll be revealing later in the show, and we were wondering if any of you listeners did the same. Hit the comments and tell us all about it.
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4:51 PM on 12.30.2007
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But I do have a question for yall. What retro titles do you want to see most on VC/XBLA this coming year?
Well.
Mine is to get a wii.
Here are mine:
To buy every bullet hell shmup released on Wii, DS or PSP. I've already paid for Nanostray 2 and will pre-order Shikigami no Shiro III as soon as I can.
To continue supporting old-school flavored games as often as possible. Mysterious Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer is pre-paid; Professor Layton, Dungeon Explorer DS and N+ will all sell at least one copy.
To buy all Dragon Quest-related games so that SquareEnix will release the DS remakes and I can finally play IV, V and VI.
To continue supporting the most ridiculous and interesting games possible. And by that, I mean Suda51's games.
To continue buying Treasure games, especially those on the VC that I have purchased used.
Oh and BEAT CONTRA 4 ON NORMAL GODDAMNIT.
Also, please list the Top 10 Final Fantasy repackagings. There had to be at least 10.
My resolution: Hm... Maybe "come up with good resolutions for 2009"? I don't have any for the next year.
I'm looking forward to the lists. If you want a challenge: How about the top 10 Sega Genesis/Mega Drive soundtracks? ;)
And that's not a blow to you, it's just that that game is fucking impossible, no matter how old you are.
I'll try to make sure my rambling comments don't look like questions, so Dyson won't start reading them on the show only to realize half-way through there was no question.
Keep up the good work in '08 Retroforce crew!
but still...I need to beat SMRPG and FFIV
I mean, I’m probably about 75 or 80% done with Uncharted, but I’ve only logged an hour or two with Ratchet & Clank Future, and I stopped playing Resistance when I was on the last level of the game for no particular reas—oh, wait...the reason was God of War II, and I estimate that I’m only about halfway through that game. I’m also still playing through the solo career modes of Guitar Hero III and Rock Band (though the former game hasn’t seen the inside of my PS3 since the middle of November for two reasons: (A) I moved on to Rock Band ,and (B) I’m kinda doing it to spite Activision for their refusal to allow Harmonix to patch Rock Band. I want to use my Les Paul controller, dammit!
Dang, that was longer than I intended. Anyway, I hope the four of you had a wonderful Christmas (and a great 2007 in general), and here’s hoping that however this past year went, 2008 will be even better. Happy New Year, gang, and thanks for brightening my weeks with the glory that is RetroforceGO!
What about you guys? When will you make a Castlevania Retroforce Episode? And what about a Sonic one?
Is it foolish of me to expect the retro crew to play and enjoy some 8bit and 16bit Sonic games?
I recommend playing Sonic The Hedgehog 1 and 2 for the Master System and Sonic The Hedgehog 2 and 3+Knuckles for the Genesis/Mega Drive.
Retrolution: To f'in beat Super Mario Bros.2 (Japanese version) or die trying. Also, continue replaying Silent Hill 2 and Illusion of Gaia. And get awesome at Rock Band, of course.
1. Play through Final Fantasy III (DS) and IV (PS).
2. Get an X360.
3. Get on XBox Live with said X360 and make friends/play against D/Toid members.
4. Get some SNES games on the virtual console, preferby Super Mario World, F-Zero, Super Mario Kart.
5. Try to get a photo manip/paint program to show off my artistic talent.
6. Stop worrying about not being able to fulfill all the resolutions and concentrate on completing just one.
7. Complete Breath of Fire II (VC).
8. Remember to post what you object to/agree with on podcasts.
9. Get involved in a D/Toid meet-up or video game expo.
1. Get into the current generation of gaming
2. Improve my efficiency in video editing from knowledgable to "dude's got skillz"
3. Play Guitar Hero on Hard and Expert.
4. Get Rock Band
5. Make a Band on Rock Band with characters from Guilty Gear, KOF, Street Fighter, or Bleach.
6. Audition for plays at the campus.
7. Set up a simple recording "studio" so I can get serious about voiceover work.
8. Lose weight.
9. Quit porn...ease up on porn...screw it, burn out my hard drive and use up my blank dvd spindle.
10. Meet new people, hopefully dtoid members on Live when I get a 360.
11. Lose virgini....er...get even more ladies than this year!
12. Learn to draw.
13. Learn a new language.
14. Release a dove from a church rooftop.
15. Pwn.
I need to play through Secret of Mana and Super Metroid again.
I need to play for the first time Monkey Island 2, NiGHTS and Panzer Dragoon Saga.
A Best Of List would be spiffy. You guys are awesome ^_^
Paper Mario
Super Metroid
Super Mario 64
Super Mario Bros 2 (the japanese one)
It will be difficult in a year of Mario Kart Wii, No More Heroes, and of course Super Smash Bros. Brawl, but I need to do it.
Is there any of you stocking unfinished VC games?
Play more shmups.
Attempt to beat the shmups I actually have played.
Buy Contra IV and then beat it on Normal! :D
Buy every Treasure game that hits the VC (I've gotten all of them so far I believe, unless I've missed one I can't think of. Alien Soldier, Sin and Punishment, Gunstar Heroes, anything else?)
Beat Super Mario Bros 2: Lost Levels (Hah, yeah right).
Have sex with women.
Aww, thanks! One resolution down! ^_^
1. Finish The Dig without having to use a walkthrough
2. Complete my collection of Metroid Games
3. Beat Contra 4 with some dignity left
4. Avenge the loss of Jigglypuff if it doesn't make it into smash bros brawl
5. Buy a Ford Mustang GT 390 and become the new Steve McQueen
Those all sound fairly feasible, except for Contra, that game is beautifully difficult.
SPARTACUS' BOTTOM 2 OF 2007 RETRO
1. Nintendo ruined Christmas
2. Sonic the Hedgehog for Genesis is apparently not the game I remember having so much fun with in the dentist's waiting room when I was little and it stole ten bucks from me
I know I'm late to the party (I just finished listening to the ast episode), but ya'll forgot the best Christmas moment in gaming history! It was in Secret of Mana, where you were tasked with defeating an ice monster that ended up turning into--no joke--Santa Claus. He explained that he became a monster because children no longer believed in him. Rudolph was so scared. Aww.
Geez my profile is finally working! who knew;
My New Year's resolution is to stop getting side tracked, what I mean is 360 had such a good year and I've been ignoring my PS2, I still have many titles to complete on that bad boy.
Also like man of us who work and have little time, I want to try my best and finish a game before I start a new one. I'm 90% through Dragon Quest VIII and my wife is always at me to finish it off.
Virtual console for me this year has been a joke, at least on live games get a graphical update; I want to see Mario Bros. is HD people!
Most of my resolutions revolve around getting some direction in my life, but I suppose I do have one game-related resolution that can actually help with that, which is to buckle down and start on a mod project that could be a lot of fun.
Looking forward to the show!
Well, I DO own an original NES game genie. Hell, I think I even have the two big codebooks, and I had the subscription to the monthly codes.
I have the (20 year old)technology, I can beat it.
Lose Weight
Play Games
Meet new people
Get out more
Bring a smile to Colette
Etc.
@d0nfil0fi0
Please finish playing those games :).