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It's still FFVIII

Evil

Yeah Mario Kart 64 had weight classes (light, middle, heavy), but even within the classes each character had subtle differences. IIRC from lightest to heaviest it went:

Toad > Peach > Yoshi >>> Mario > Luigi >>> Wario > Donkey Kong > Bowser

Castle

Prince

Metroid Prime

Gear

Maybe Crystal Skull won't be the worst Indiana Jones movie now.

(6) Metroid Prime 2: Echoes - 16
(22) TimeSplitters 2 - 19

Metroid
Mario

Man of Medan is worse than all of those! Man it would've been hilarious and interesting to rate some Dark Pictures games.

Auto
Hearts

Zelda
Mega

Never played it on PC, absolutely loved it on console. Couldn't really see a mouse and keyboard improving much if at all. It's first-person, but it's not a twitchy game.

Speaking of which, Outer Wilds and Silent Hill 2 are definitely the real #1 and #2 here based on actually getting enough votes for their scores to be impressive. Actually, I'd be cool giving the nod to anything with 10 or more votes, making FFXIV Shadowbringers the #1, Outer Wilds #2, Silent Hill 2 #3, Planescape: Torment #4, and Eternal Darkness the #5.

A full list with the 10 or more votes criteria being met would be cool to see!

My theory is that the game somehow knew I would be more terrified in anticipating Lisa than actually confronting her. Generally with horror, you see the monster once and the shock factor rears diminishing returns on repeat encounters--but I never even had the chance!

When it comes to survival horror, I feel like location is at least 2/3s of what makes a game scary. Hell, that goes for any horror medium. The environment is the conduit for the terror. YOU'RE the one that has to traverse this. YOU'RE the one that has to directly interact with this. Horror is adept at making even the most simple of areas a hostile environment, twisting what you deem as "safe".

On that note, you know what else is terrific in this game? The sound design. The sounds in P.T. are so well crafted and organically integrated that it's almost like you're living inside the game. Every clunking footstep, the pitter-patter of the rainfall, the swinging chandelier, these numbing sounds become part of your routine, and you begin to almost ignore them - that is, until a new sound enters the mix, usually something unknown and jolting. Every sound that emanates from the bathroom is nauseating and thought provoking in equal measures. The sounds of the baby crying feel so raw and unsettling and is inherently ear-catching. I also particularly love the radio sounds and voice actor in this, and how the radio broadcasts lend themselves to an intimate experience the creators were trying to invoke.

The game's sense of reality starts to crumble. The hallway, you realize, is a long way away from ever providing the same sense of repetitive comfort it once did. Roaches now infest the whole house, a sign of abandonment. Pictures are ripped and defaced. Lisa surrounds your entire presence. No matter how long you've been there, you will never get used to it. Eventually, the swinging chandelier is replaced instead with a blood-soaked refrigerator, The sound effects and flickers on the screen now become your constant companions, always out-of-sync with your brain's perception, and confusion becoming the constant state of mind. The game completely validates its created nightmare and you're just another hapless victim of its poisoned narrative. I applaud P.T. for taking the metaphor so far into the realm of hopelessness. You're trapped, trying to figure out just what exactly to do while trying to solve the final puzzles. It's an onslaught on the senses in every regard. The room grows increasingly more distracting, the puzzle problems increasingly more complex, even the fetus starts taunting you.

Zero
Sonic

8 for Batman: The Enemy Within. I LOVE what they did with the Joker in this version.

Long before Persona 4, Katamari Damacy was one of the quintessential board 8 games. We even got the King of all Cosmos in the 2005 Character Battle! Katamari has been popular here for a long time

And thank you very much for all your effort. Can you make a wiki page for this so it's remembered, or at least send me the stats so I can do it?

Wow! Care to offer any quick words on this?

TTYD
Kirby

Looking to play this soon.

Katamari
Evil

Makes me wonder how badly reviewers are gonna knock down tears of the kingdom if it has frame rate issues and there's no switch pro or switch 2 announced by then

Sun
Gear

Psycho
Monkey

Btw M&L and FE won in blowout fashion. I don't have time to count the votes now but I think only two people voted after the count I had yesterday so definitely no changes in victor