Board 8 > Epyo's Top 100 Games of All Time (with write-ups)

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Kotetsu534 posted...

Great list, fun to read. Shame Onimusha 3 didn't make the list - if ever a game needed a remake/re-release, that's one.

Thanks for reading! ...For real though!! I'm guessing the Onimusha 1 remake probably didn't sell that well, and Onimusha 3 wasn't even a big deal when it came out, so it's probably not gonna happen... Weirder things have happened though.

Onimusha 1 is not that good though, they really should have done 3...

Boring story, do not read:

I've been on a quest for like a decade, to re-play Onimusha 3 to confirm it's as cool as I remember. My original PS2 stopped reading discs in like 2009, so I bought a brand new one around 2014, with the intent to mainly play the ps2 tony hawk games, castlevania games, katamari games, and Onimusha 3.

Then I realized my brother took my Onimusha 3 (ok fine, it was his all along), and it took me a while to remember the game existed and go buy another one.

By the time I got around to playing it (years)...my TV broke. It took me another year (of laziness) to get around to buying a new TV... But I accidentally got one that doesn't have the ports in the back my PS2 cables need. (I hate buying smart tvs so I always buy the worst TV possible.)

Then I procrastinated for another year or two to buy a new cable to hook the PS2 straight into my PC monitor, because screw TVs. That didn't work, so then six months later, I bought another one.

By this time it's been like 6 years, so this newer PS2 gets disc read errors too, for many games, including Onimusha 3. I've had browser tabs open forever, on ways to open up the PS2 and try to fix disc read errors, and I'm still procrastinating on that. (I remember trying some fix on the original PS2 and it was still janky afterwards.)

So yeah, this is why backwards compatibility and/or porting games is important! I had a PS4 throughout this entire story, they should have let me play Onimusha 3 on it!!

This is honestly a very unique list. So many games I havent heard of. Thank you for the thread. It was fun to read through.

Onimusha 1 is great! They're all good of course. It's a shame the remaster wasn't the Genma version, I think that probably hurt it sales a little too.

I only just started reading through this topic so I gotta bump it, can't let it fall into the void yet

CassandraCain posted...

I only just started reading through this topic so I gotta bump it, can't let it fall into the void yet

Your bump got me to reading this whole list for the first time. Really fun list Epyo! Love seeing Rush 2049. I havent thought about that game in ages but as a kid we would play the trick stages for hours.

eaglesarebeasts posted...

Your bump got me to reading this whole list for the first time. Really fun list Epyo! Love seeing Rush 2049. I havent thought about that game in ages but as a kid we would play the trick stages for hours.

Lol same, my family would crank up the stunt mode time limit to like 20 minutes or whatever the maximum was, and that time would just fly by!

...I finally finished reading through your list (got distracted and forgot about it for a few days oops), very entertaining write-ups! As with seemingly everyone else here, you introduced me to some new games that I'd like to try. First of which was Edith Finch.

I've never played a narrative game like this before as I typically prefer games with some form of action. You got me interested though, and I've been meaning to expand on my range of genre. Glad I did, what a hauntingly beautiful game. I felt stark emotional nostalgia the moment I first walked into the house.

And the sequence with the guy's imagination taking over, holy crap.

Edith Finch might very well be my favorite indie game of the last decade

CassandraCain posted...

...I finally finished reading through your list (got distracted and forgot about it for a few days oops), very entertaining write-ups! As with seemingly everyone else here, you introduced me to some new games that I'd like to try. First of which was Edith Finch.

I've never played a narrative game like this before as I typically prefer games with some form of action. You got me interested though, and I've been meaning to expand on my range of genre. Glad I did, what a hauntingly beautiful game. I felt stark emotional nostalgia the moment I first walked into the house.

And the sequence with the guy's imagination taking over, holy crap.

Yeah I would never play a game like this normally, but a streamer I regularly watch played it and I loved watching it, and then I played it myself a couple years later. Just goes to show, you should never write off a game, no matter the genre!

Hell yeah the imagination sequence is great, in fact IIRC it was giantbomb.com's pick for "Best Moment In A Game" during their goty awards that year (actually no just checked, it was their #3 best moment).

The "flipbook" sequence also gives me chills to think about, for some reason.

Don't know how I missed this thread for so long

Just read the top 15 and the writeups are really good! will check out the rest later

Some of them I've never tried, but I like the rest so I'll put them on my backlog!

Maybe you've mentioned some already, but what do you think about the resurgence of boomer shooters?

Thanks!!!

Boomer shooters are cool! A lot of them are permadeath-based roguelikes, which I'm rarely in the mood for. Once I die in a game and have to replay levels that don't feel sufficiently different the second time, I usually don't come back.

But I like "Dusk" a lot (it's on the list!). I tried "Amid Evil" but wasn't crazy about it. I'm waiting for "Graven" to come out of early access, 'cause it looks like a great Hexen successor. "Hands of Necromancy" looks cool, it uses the GZDoom engine and is also very Hexen-like.

Ultimately though when I'm in the mood for comfy retro single player FPS shooting, it's very likely that I'll just play some classic Doom, or find some fanmade classic doom levels (or replay my favorites), since I'm guaranteed to enjoy that, rather than try something new on Steam that I know isn't going to be quite what I want.