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Topic	The Board 8 Discord #sports Chat Ranks Their Top 100 Respective Games
Naye745 01/15/21 11:42:50 AM #452:	72. Crystalis (NES, 1990) I think most folks of my age grew up falling in love with either the Legend of Zelda or Final Fantasy. Me? I had Crystalis, one of the first games that successfully combined open world exploration, a boatload of items and abilities, and an RPG-style leveling-up system and storyline. Crystalis has a similar kind of cadence to Final Fantasy IV, where story moments happen suddenly and dramatically. The whole set of psychic powers always seemed super rad to me as a kid, I still can't think of many games where Telekinesis is something learn. And as someone who has never loved RPGs particularly, having no turn-based battles was a plus. And hey, there's that absolute banger of an overworld theme, too. Somehow despite not being a fighting game fan I still managed to place two SNK games within three spots of this list; what an achievement! 71. StepMania (PC, 2001) Honestly debated for quite a while whether this was enough of a "game" for the list, but as you can see, here it is. StepMania is a freeware PC Dance Dance Revolution simulator, and because it's so good, it is basically the only one you have heard about or ever will hear about. Since its release, it's been all over the place - the popular fan-game In The Groove uses StepMania as its engine, and was over arcades in the US in the mid/late-2000s. In addition, there's an absurd amount of original user-created content by this point, ranging all over the place in difficulty, length, and gimmickry. StepMania was the stepping stone to get me from DDR to more complex hand-based rhythm games. I've never gotten bonkers good at it - I always preferred optimizing my timing to playing super dense or difficult charts - but I'm still "pretty alright". As stated earlier, the vast network of content means you can find something that will play to your interests, as long as the central conceit of a 4-button rhythm game is compelling enough. I'm gonna spoil my own list here - DDR itself is on the list too, and there's a lot of stuff I'm kind of omitting here to save for that writeup. But StepMania itself has been a unique experience of enjoyment, and one that has largely stuck with me over the course of 20 years, and really deserved both recognition and a place in the Top 100. --- it's an underwater adventure ride <cite>Naye745 posted [p:949529253] in The Board ... [t:79208627]...</cite> <quote>72. Crystalis (NES, 1990) I think most folks of my age grew up falling in love with either the Legend of Zelda or Final Fantasy. Me? I had Crystalis, one of the first games that successfully combined open world exploration, a boatload of items and abilities, and an RPG-style leveling-up system and storyline. Crystalis has a similar kind of cadence to Final Fantasy IV, where story moments happen suddenly and dramatically. The whole set of psychic powers always seemed super rad to me as a kid, I still can't think of many games where Telekinesis is something learn. And as someone who has never loved RPGs particularly, having no turn-based battles was a plus. And hey, there's that absolute banger of an overworld theme, too. Somehow despite not being a fighting game fan I still managed to place two SNK games within three spots of this list; what an achievement! 71. StepMania (PC, 2001) Honestly debated for quite a while whether this was enough of a "game" for the list, but as you can see, here it is. StepMania is a freeware PC Dance Dance Revolution simulator, and because it's so good, it is basically the only one you have heard about or ever will hear about. Since its release, it's been all over the place - the popular fan-game In The Groove uses StepMania as its engine, and was over arcades in the US in the mid/late-2000s. In addition, there's an absurd amount of original user-created content by this point, ranging all over the place in difficulty, length, and gimmickry. StepMania was the stepping stone to get me from DDR to more complex hand-based rhythm games. I've never gotten bonkers good at it - I always preferred optimizing my timing to playing super dense or difficult charts - but I'm still "pretty alright". As stated earlier, the vast network of content means you can find something that will play to your interests, as long as the central conceit of a 4-button rhythm game is compelling enough. I'm gonna spoil my own list here - DDR itself is on the list too, and there's a lot of stuff I'm kind of omitting here to save for that writeup. But StepMania itself has been a unique experience of enjoyment, and one that has largely stuck with me over the course of 20 years, and really deserved both recognition and a place in the Top 100. --- it's an underwater adventure ride</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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