AndrewTS

Nope, the only sequel or follow up to Landstalker is Dark Savior on Saturn or allegedly Time Stalkers on Dreamcast. EDIT: But the back of the box of Alundra clearly states that at least some of the people who worked on Landstalker worked on Alundra, so apparently it is a spiritual successor. I was confused by Climax releasing DC games later, though.

Devil Dice is better than Tetris.

No, average list. Not as good as the 2nd list, but better than the 1st one. Plus, the whole 100 is pretty good overall.

Well, I agree that it's be pretty much a pointless exercise, because too many biases would creep in. I think the 2nd list is adequate, although I might disagree about the order. That's really not a damning thing to say about a list, because people tend to never be happy about those lists anyway. But when games that in no way in hell should be on there are (the 1st list) then there's a problem. Incidentally, I found an EGM from 2002 with their top 100 list (it was the issue with Seanbaby's list of worst games of all time, which brought ET to the attention of a lot more people, I believe). I won't type every entry up, but the top 20: 20. Galaga 19. Panzer Dragoon Saga 18. Pokemon Puzzle League 17. Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 16. Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island 15. Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec 14. Metal Gear Solid 13. Street Fighter II Turbo Hyper Fighting 12. Final Fantasy V (Antholgy Ed) 11. Super Mario Bros. 3 (All Stars Ed.) 10. Super Mario World 9. Final Fantasy III 8. Legend of Zelda: OOT 7. Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (yeah--HUH?!) 6. Soul Calibur 5. Super Mario 64 4. Castlevania: SotN 3. Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past 2. Tetris 1. Super Metroid MM is a bit of a head-scratcher, and FFV?! Other than that, not bad, and typical of most of these sorts of lists.

Proud of ya boy. Doesn't it feel good to let it out? Just because it doesn't totally suck doesn't mean I don't hate it. But the dungeons absolutely suck, still. FFVII sucking late in the game puts them on a similar level. Lunars are iffy--if they were Playstation exclusive I'd say yeah, but they were upgrades of Sega CD games. Then there's WD's moronic translation bogging them down.

Alundra is quality, but I consider it more of an Adventure game than a true RPG. Obviously it owes a bit of debt to Zelda. The 2nd Alundra's "meh" though.

"Of it's generation," meaing the best RPG on the PlayStation. You could make an arguement for Final Fantasy Tactics, but I think of that more as a battle/tactical simulation game, myself. But, is it better than FFVII? That's like the situation with Zelda 64 and Zelda: LttP. You could spend hours debating it, and get nowhere. Tactics is better than FFVII. Hands down. No debate. There are RPGs better than FFVII on Playstation, like Star Ocean 2, (as much as it pains me) Xenogears (disc 1), and arguably a few other choices like Suikoden II or Dragon Warrior VII. Best Playstation RPG at the time (like Beyond the Beyond or Shadow Madness are really tough competition), but outclassed soon after but less well-known games. Even without that on the list, your list is still needs more variety, and the 2nd list gaves Mario his deserved props. A game that almost single-handedly revived the industry, has been copied countless times over and defined the platformer genre, and still is fantastic fun to play and one of the best games on the planet certainly is worth a top 5 spot at least. I agree about the LttP/OOT situation. It's hard to pick the superior game.

*dittos the Quistis love* She has a whip, too. Kudos to Czech for the Van Hagar reference.

"5. Final Fantasy VII. This was undoubtedly the greatest RPG of it's generation." No.

Agreed. Those GBA Metroid games aren't bad, but no way in hell do two of them belong in the 90's of any top 100 list. Two Zeldas in the top 10 of the second list is a *little* controversial--but I see X-COM and blink "huh?" The 2nd list's order is suspect, but pretty much all of those choices belong there---except Wolf 3-D shouldn't be, since it's impact was minimal until Doom and it wasn't a great game. Golden Axe sucks today, flat out. Tobal 2 doesn't really belong on the list for obvious reasons. It sounds like import snob hype to me. Gunstar and Bionic Commando should be higher, but being on the list is good enough. Super Mario World is mediocre compared to SMB3, I swear. It should get SMW's spot, although I guess it's because more people probably played SMW. However, Yoshi's Island beating SMW makes it alright. 1st list--WTF?! HCTP?! Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door (good game, but come on..)?! Maxx Payne 2?!?! Zelda at 80?! Starcraft at 74?! METAL GEAR SOLID 2??!?!?! Fuck this list, I can't read it anymore. Jak 3 making the top 50, ditto on that being messed up.

I was glad when I first heard that Tifa had Blitz techniques, but when the game actually came out, I was pissed that they replaced one of the most fun parts of FFVI, executing the Blitz attacks with fighting game motions, with a A FRIGGIN SLOT MACHINE. And yeah, Aeris was just Terra, not done nearly as well, defrosted and reheated. Which is why I never could really care much about her death. That being said--YUFFIE though?!

Harvest Moon's the only super-rare one listed there, save for the gold OOT one (although doesn't make any difference to me personally if they aren't gold--but it have anything to do with glitches/bugs that were fixed later? My grey OOT cart doesn't have the double shield trick). Pretty good taste in games, Matt. That list is very similar to my current n64 library. I am still looking for Jet Force Gemini and Mischief Makers myself, but usually I would find them for about 5 bucks each when I didn't have an N64. Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Starfox are very common and cheap. Mario Kart 64 is common as dirt but for some reason I usually see them for $19.99 most places. But they'll have like 6 of them. Why is Bad Fur Day so hard to find lately? No store could get rid of 'em when they were new. I don't have a GameCrazy, but if I see any of those games for 5 or less that Scroby can't hook you up with, I could do it. I've got a Diddy Kong Racing and a Mario Kart 64 I'd be willing to part with, but Scroby seems to have those covered.

Tifa, Aeris, Yuffie, and Barrett are the possible outcomes. 1st time through was Aeris, then 2nd time though I was a total ass and ended up with Yuffie.

Duke Nukem Forever is supposed to actually see the light of day soon after all, though.

Rolling Thunder wasn't on any of the previous Museums except Encore, which was a Japan-only release. Info on all of Namco's prior compilations can be found here: http://www.classicgaming.com/pac-man/Museum/ The Museum games, 1-5, can be looked up by clicking on the N,A,M,C, or O pictures at the top of the page. EDIT: found a better site for it here http://www.retroarcade.com/console/namcomus/namcomus.asp So, nothing off IV, the best of vol. 1, 2, 3, and 5, and a couple off Encore. So those of you begging for Wonder Momo in the US, you're outta luck.

*fails to see how the lil homiez are worse than these*

I've doubted its reliability ever since it said I was closest to Al Sharpton.

http://www.mgae.com/2004_product_pages/Pro.../BratzBabyz.asp "And some crack for my lil' baby whore too." Awww, and there's one for every major creed and color.

Triple H is the only one with the privilege to ride Flair. There's something for the returning Mark Henry, though. He's about the size of Kit Tajiri could lay stiff kicks into the appropriate sides to turn.

Matt is to "I'm poor" as Damu is to "I'm big."

The XB I had before did that too--a demo disc that was snapped in half, literally hanging on only by the label, and it played it. However, there are three different drives that have been used in the XB, and they are not of equal performance. Incidentally, are the 2006 baseball games out yet?

Gee, wasn't somebody asking for Rolling Thunder before? Well, there you go. On the upside, it's good to have a compilation with just the cream of the crop. However--a mere 14? Of these very simple games? Darnit, I wanted a compilation of museum volumes 1-5 plus the Japanese-only Encore. Sure, lots of filler there, but it'd be worth the price to see all those rare, obscure games in one place. I'm sure Flik may want to go into detail about how it isn't as easy as it seems, but--14?! Midway gave us 20 games each on the first two Arcade Treasures volumes, even if they had their share of weak games on them.

Yeah, just saw that myself. Well, be interesting to see how they do it--whether there'll be entirely new sage designations, if some OOT sage roles return, and if they use descendants or not.

I hated him at first, but grew to enjoy him. He started to work harder and have better promos, but to this day I can't buy him as a serious champion. He's too damn goofy. That being said, I preferred him as champ over Cena now, and I'd take him as champ over Orton without any hesitation.

Hm, well, I'd like to see that confirmed somewhere, but I'd think with all the land around that it wouldn't be. And even those the WW sages are descended from the old, Laruto isn't the water sage, but rather of Wind. They can and will add/drop sages as they feel necessary. But yeah, WW ties together with the OOT/MM continuity--found this an interesting read: http://www.zeldalegends.net/index.php?n=story_faq_tww