Absolute Must Have Games

[lordofduct]

Has no one said Sub-terrania yet??? Man anyone in here with a Sega Genesis, and love difficult... and when I say difficult, I mean balls to the wall, you're going to cry, difficult. Then play Sub-terrania. Probably one of my all time favourite games, and the soundtrack is killer amazing.

I actually set the "mission report" theme as my ringtone, that's how much I love this game.

Here's a taste of the game:

[crux]

Wow, that games looks and sounds awesome and I'd never even heard of it. Onto the list it goes...

[MrPopo]

It's easiest to pull off these kinds of lists with consoles at least ten years old, I'd say. The dividing line in my head is Dreamcast. I'd be hesitant to create a "best of" list on any console past the Dreamcast, as I know my biases would weigh in too heavily.

I'd argue you can do it easily with the Xbox. Watch:

Panzer Dragoon Orta
Steel Battalion
Shenmue 2





That is all.

[Breetai]

It's easiest to pull off these kinds of lists with consoles at least ten years old, I'd say. The dividing line in my head is Dreamcast. I'd be hesitant to create a "best of" list on any console past the Dreamcast, as I know my biases would weigh in too heavily.

I'd argue you can do it easily with the Xbox. Watch:

Panzer Dragoon Orta
Steel Battalion
Shenmue 2





That is all.

No Jet Set Radio Future? Knights of the Old Republic? Jade Empire?

[MrPopo]

It's easiest to pull off these kinds of lists with consoles at least ten years old, I'd say. The dividing line in my head is Dreamcast. I'd be hesitant to create a "best of" list on any console past the Dreamcast, as I know my biases would weigh in too heavily.

I'd argue you can do it easily with the Xbox. Watch:

Panzer Dragoon Orta
Steel Battalion
Shenmue 2





That is all.

No Jet Set Radio Future? Knights of the Old Republic? Jade Empire?

I knew I forgot something. I never got into JSR so I didn't think of JSRF. KOTOR is better on the PC, same with Jade Empire.

[aaron]

a lot of the multi-platform games are better on xbox from the last generation, imo. i dunno. metal arms comes to mind.

[Breetai]

I knew I forgot something. I never got into JSR so I didn't think of JSRF. KOTOR is better on the PC, same with Jade Empire.

True. I played through KOTAR on the PC and loved it. Still, there is something to be said about playing on a TV. The X-Box gives you that option. Having said that, I should also mentioned that if you prefer the TV to the PC screen, Morrowind is a must have.

Some people consider Halo and Halo 2 to be must haves. I don't, but I'd happily pick them up if they were cheap.

[h8b1llg8ts]

I, myself, like these threads because it opens up an opportunity to see what other gamers like and hopefully open up some games that I may have missed. Because of these threads I had to add another game to, what I thought was my oXbox complete list, Spikeout. Now because I'm a collector geek I don't want to hit up every system I have but here is one game that is a must have for these system.

Atari
Kaboom

NES
Goonies 2

SNES
Star Fox

N64
Mario Kart 64

Genesis
Target Earth

Turbo Grafx 16
Bloody Wolf

Sega CD
Popful Mail

3DO
Starblade

Dreamcast
Power Stone

PS One
Street Fighter EX Plus A

PS2
SkyGunner

Xbox
Halo (Typical but it's the best of all time in my book)

Gamecube
Animal Crossing

Gameboy
Pokemon Yellow

Saturn is the only one I couldn't narrow down to just one. Sorry ...

[MrPopo]

Having said that, I should also mentioned that if you prefer the TV to the PC screen, Morrowind is a must have.

I have to disagree with you on this point. I don't care how much you prefer the TV to the PC screen, Morrowind is so much better on the PC. On the Xbox you don't get plugins. I'd be like playing Warcraft 3 and never trying any of the custom maps.

[Ack]

I have to agree with MrPopo about the PC version of Morrowind being superior, as there were also some pretty nasty bugs reported in the Xbox version, including one that I believe would corrupt all save data.