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Sirkickyass said:
Tekken Tag Tournament is probably the game I was the best at in my entire lifetime. At one point I was running a six-year unbeaten streak against anyone I met in any arcade (with a sample size in the hundreds) that was finally snapped by some random guy in Oklahoma City that I was told had pretty much exclusively played that game for years. Even still, I took him to the wire.

I am generally very poor at most fighting games, but for some reason that one and I essentially had a psychic connection.
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What were your favorite characters? I'm a Heihachi guy, myself. Also liked Kazuya (obviously), Bruce, Paul, Yoshimitsu. My brother always liked King.
 
AtheistPreacher said:
What were your favorite characters? I'm a Heihachi guy, myself. Also liked Kazuya (obviously), Bruce, Paul, Yoshimitsu. My brother always liked King.
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My go-to combination was Julia and Michelle Chang. I understand they are relatively unpopular characters to play with, which may have worked to my advantage due to unfamiliarity with move sets.
 
Sirkickyass said:
My go-to combination was Julia and Michelle Chang. I understand they are relatively unpopular characters to play with, which may have worked to my advantage due to unfamiliarity with move sets.
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Yeah, they certainly weren't personal favorites of mine. I will say that I really started to like Wang in Tekken 5, when they started to differentiate him more from Julia/Michelle.

Also, I should have mentioned that I liked Jin as well, since he had many of the same moves as Kazuya and Heihachi, plus a few more... I was just always annoyed by the fact that his crouch-dash moves were so sub-par in comparison to Kazuya and Heihachi. For instance, his Wind God Fist was slow and high-hitting, while for Kazuya and Heihachi it was fast and mid-hitting. It was like Jin learned those moves from his elders while slightly inebriated. I liked him better in 4 and 5 when they made him more of his own character.
 
Sirkickyass said:
My go-to combination was Julia and Michelle Chang. I understand they are relatively unpopular characters to play with, which may have worked to my advantage due to unfamiliarity with move sets.
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Could it have been you chose them due to your pubescent state at the time?
 
So AP, how psyched are you for Skyrim? It's the 2nd game ever I've preordered (the first being Oblivion).
 
Nate505 said:
So AP, how psyched are you for Skyrim? It's the 2nd game ever I've preordered (the first being Oblivion).
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You know, I'm likely going to be so busy starting my PhD program that I don't know that I'll have much chance to play it. Plus, Dark Souls will be coming out around the same time, and if I'm going to play anything, it's going to be that.

The other thing of course is that Bethesda usually releases a "gold edition" or similar, after all the extra content has been released. I'm excited for the game, but I may actually wait for a price drop or for the more definitive edition to come out.

You might know more about it than I do. What are the big changes? I know there'll be dual-wielding of both weapons and magic, and there's the dragons to fight. Any other big features for this one?

I must say, though, I've been pre-ordering games more now that Amazon has the release-date delivery for a dollar. Good times there. Did it for Red Dead and Mass Effect 2.
 
Played the new Duke Nukem at a friends, and it was sorely disappointing. They lost all the spirit of the original and settled for gross-out jokes and over the top misogyny. As an avowed philogynist I found it stupid and crude, even with my jr. high school sense of humor. The game play was alright, and the aliens were definitely cool and well-done, but I was looking forward to more of the Duke's one-liners and tongue-in-cheek humor. What they put out is a game that looks great, but plays like it was built on a game engine at least 3 generations behind, with verbal "effects" so stupid I turned it off. Truly sad.
 
AP, you had two Final Fantasy titles on your list there. I respect your opinion, (we seem to have similar taste) so I'm curious how you would rank the Final Fantasy titles you've played, and specifically what you think of the current direction of the series.
 
Knew I'd remember some other games that deserved inclusion on my list once I thought about it a little more. Hopefully this'll be it after these few latecomers:


Super Mario Bros. 3 (1990)
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How did I forget this? I got Mario 64, but I think it's probably blasphemy to leave this one out.

Halo (2001)
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I still like the original Halo the best. It had the best sound design of its generation (just one part of a superb overall cinematic-feeling presentation), along with the most compelling campaign among any of the Halo games.

Capcom vs. SNK 2 (2001)
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Everyone knows Street Fighter... fewer in the States know SNK, but they're big in Japan, with games such as King of Fighters, Samurai Shodown, and Fatal Fury. This game features a huge cast of characters from both developers, and allows up to three characters on a team. There's even a "groove" system that allows different players to have different types of game mechanics -- like air blocking, just defense, rolling, dodging, short jumps, different types of super meters. All of it made for a hugely customizable 2D fighting experience that remains one of the best ever to this day.

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004)
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Here's another one I can't believe I forgot. Grand Theft Auto should be represented somewhere in my list, and San Andreas just seemed like the best version, although all of them are good... it's sort of up for grabs.
 
Safetydan said:
AP, you had two Final Fantasy titles on your list there. I respect your opinion, (we seem to have similar taste) so I'm curious how you would rank the Final Fantasy titles you've played, and specifically what you think of the current direction of the series.
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You know, I've kind of stayed away from the more recent ones. Square Enix still excels at presentation, but the last few just didn't seem all that compelling gameplay-wise. My one-time roommate played both 12 and 13 and was underwhelmed, so I never even picked them up, myself. I did start both 8 and 9 but didn't finish either of them... I just didn't care enough.

I'd rank the ones I've played like this:

Tactics
VII
X
V
IV
VI
I
II
VIII
IX

If you like Final Fantasy games, you'd be well-advised to look into Persona 3 FES or Persona 3 Portable, as well as Tales of Vesperia (or Tales of Symphonia, if you happen to have a Gamecube or Wii). Those were the best "traditional" JRPGs I've played in recent memory... proving that the genre isn't quite dead yet, although I think it may be heading that way.
 
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