Any game in a series = probably the rest of the games in the series as well.

>>8561
Not necessarily.
Street Fighter 1 and 3 were bleh; however 2 and 4? I can play that ALLLLLLLL day.
Diablo 3? There is no Diablo after 2.
Command & Conquer was good until EA bought it, then the rot set in.

Elaboration provided where applicable.

Pokémon
I chose RSE for the Pokémon series, but all of them are close. They all also have their problems, but overall I like RSE the most.

Warcraft III
A no-brainer with the tens of thousands of hours thrown at it and its custom maps (and recently, Valve's port of DotA Allstars) - not even Pokémon in all its iterations comes close. Arguably the best "casual" RTS in history with the strongest map editor and mapmaking hordes of any game the genre. Too bad it's all but dead nowadays with SC2, Dota 2, and other more recent titles robbing an already declining decade-old game blind.

Tyrian
One of the first video games I ever played, and a damn good one at that. Looking back, it has its share of flaws and there are countless better STGs out there, but nothing can match the nostalgia value.

KotOR II (with the fan restoration/bugfix patch)
Without the patches, the endgame is unfinished and a huge drop from the rest of the game. With the patches, it's still a bit below the rest, but it's good enough to complete the fantastic game.

>>8658
Sigh.
http://www.ausgamers.com/news/read/3371206

What are your 2013 picks?
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/12/the-20-best-and-three-most-disappointing-video-games-of-2013/
http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/12/23

>>10412
Most fun game of 2013
INJUSTICE!

Witcher3 for GOTY2014!

Mine's a bit boring.

As imaged, in no particular order:
Lost Odyssey
The Witcher
KOTOR 1
KOTOR 2
Cave Story
Dragon Age: Origins
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Mass Effect
The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker

>>11204
Nice choices

>>11214
Thanks. Only thing to note is that I haven't played Witcher 2 yet, because of spec requirements.

2014 updates?

>>11251
Haven't played a lot of '14 games, but I'm having trouble imagining any real contenders. For me, maybe the new Divinity game?

>>11253
Dragon Age: Inquisition & Divinity are easily the best this year.

>>11256
Until its tactical view is fixed, I'll contain my enthusiasm. There's 2 problems with it: Locked camera distance and unintuitive controls (think "designed for gamepads"). According to a certain interview with a developer, the tactical view was only meant to be a "safety net", implying that you should be bruteforcing your way through every clusterfuck. What?

Post edited on 25th Dec 2014, 6:05pm

Best of 2014 ?
http://games.on.net/2015/01/best-games-of-2014-staff-choices/

>>11303
Let's crunch the numbers 2014
http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-feature/2015/01/12/feature-crunchyroll-2014-favorites-part-two-video-games

I like simulation games where reflexes aren't important.
For example;
http://games.on.net/2015/02/towncraft-the-aussie-made-crafting-and-city-building-game-is-coming-to-pc/

>>11251
I'm the OP if anyone cares. You probably don't.

>>11362
You didn't keep any of your games? Or is that just for 2014?

>>11366
Just what releases I liked in 2014.

Hmmm... my 3x3 seems to have a lot of F2P games...
http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/82824-the-20-best-free-pc-games

2015 updates?

>>11480
2015 is pretty meh so far...

>>11484
Metal Gear Pantsu will save us.

>>11511
What is this?

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/goodgame/reviews/

Favourites:
Fallout 4
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Undertale
Witcher 3
Jotun
Destiny: The Taken King
Phantom Pain
Bloodborne

Biggest disappointment:
Arkham Knight, Evolve

started really struggling to think of things near the end. The blank one was supposed to be splinter cell chaos theory.
Despite being a huge weaboo ive never actually played and completed a JRPG. Ive found all the demos for them ive played very pleasant and nice, but never properly got one

>>11847
Only played games by Jap studios?

>>11875
No, I have played a lot of the western games mentioned in this thread.

Does 3x3 squares allow for all the gaming genres?

>>11983
sure why not?

Anyone played raft? Thuis game is zo awesome
http://www.freetoplayhub.com/raft-free-to-play-survival-game/

i don't feel like making one of those.

here's my favorites in order from most favorite to least favorite.

SMT III nocturne
devil summoner soul hackers
muramasa rebirth + DLC
the dark spire
the last blade 2
wizardry 8
way of the samurai 4
battle for wesnoth
etrian odyssey ii

>>11847
best in the thread in my opinion. i haven't played parasite eve but i will now since our taste is similar elsewhere.

I desperately need to play an Etrian Odyssey....

People seem to say EO3 is the best of the bunch but i've heard 2 has better designed dungeons from someone whose word I trust on this stuff.

>>12432
it's honestly not that great. i only included it in my list for sentimental reasons.
i can't pinpoint why exactly it is, but etrian games are unmemorable as shit for some reason.
they have great difficult gameplay, and that is all. there's no style, no atmosphere, the sprites are ugly as sin pokemon garbage, nothing that makes it stand out.
you would not miss anything skipping them. play smt instead.

>>12433
You can shove that SMT edge shit up your ass. There is NO way in hell that it is even slightly better than EO when I can play with an entire party of cute girls instead of having shitty set ones to be the harem of some faggot MC piece of shit that is never interesting.

>>12434
cute girls, you mean ones you never see other than on the character creation screen? you realize the whole game takes place in your imagination.
etrian odyssey is like eating plain rice.

>>12434
>I can play with an entire party of cute girls instead of having shitty set ones to be the harem of some faggot MC piece of shit that is never interesting.

Are you conflating SMT with Persona? The very early ones are pure dungeon crawls with absolutely none of that stuff, which Nocturne managed to take and translate into third person flawlessly. Not sure about SMT4 since I haven't played that but I heard it dumbs things down a bit unfortunately.

By the way, maybe you should think twice before basing a game's merit on waifu bullshit. These kind of things make you sound like a mouth breathing retard.

>>12436
> Not sure about SMT4 since I haven't played that but I heard it dumbs things down a bit unfortunately.

I'm only 40 hours in, but here's my thoughts:
-No 3d models during fights; instead sprites with a few repetitive frames of motion
-Lower quality 3d models and lower resolution textures for the overworld, and the protagonist in the overworld.
-"in exchange" for this you get to play dress-up with the different equipment you can get for the protagonist. Unfortunately you don't get to see how the different weapons look; there's just a generic spear, sword, and dagger model depending on which type you have equipped.
-Every boss so far is countered by *kaja to max, *nda to max, and auto-battle. Plus they seem to have very small health pools. In other words, easy.
-Anime cutscenes rather than 3D cutscenes. A lot of dialogue with anime portraits speaking to eachother. Very similar to Persona in this way.
-Demon fusion changed. Rather than fusing X with Y, you run a search for demons that can be fused with the demons you have. You can tell it to include a specific demon, exclude another, search for a specific resistance or ability, etc. You can even tell it to include your compendium, and it will tell you the cost to fuse including pulling demons from the compendium.

All in all it's a letdown from SMT3 in my opinion. I like the compendium changes because it makes 100% less tedious, but it took a bit getting used to it.

>>12437
Oh, and how could I forget. You can save anywhere, and the "random encounters" are started by Persona-style "hit the enemies wandering around with your weapon to get the first strike"

>>12432
I'd say IV is the best entry point for the Etrian Odysseys. Of course it does spoil you with the whole overworld mechanic, whereas other games only have the main Yggdrasil dungeon. Every class in IV is decently good, it has a good difficulty curve, and it also has, in my opinion, the best and most intuitive skill trees.

>>12432
I'd probably agree with EO3 being the best; personally I found EO2 to be the worst by far. It has far more pronounced class balance issues than even 1 did and recycled virtually all of its classes and assets from 1 to boot. EO2's stratum also felt more dickish and tedious rather than 'challenging but fun', but maybe that's just me.

>>12440
I'd disagree greatly with that.

While I don't think EO4 is a bad game by any stretch of the imagination, it's fairly easy even if you don't turn Casual mode on.

If you go back to say, EO1 from 4, you're going to immediately be shocked by not only the comparatively bare-boned features (and its older generation of graphics) but its brutal difficulty. I can imagine a lot of people starting with EO4 wanting to try the earlier games in the series and quickly becoming frustrated and quitting, unless they play the 3DS remakes.

>>12443
>I found EO2 to be the worst by far
This is also pretty true of its 3DS remake, sadly. Class imbalance is still an issue, and most monsters have inflated HP from the original just to account for the broken amounts of elemental damage the Fafnir can output.

behold my bad taste

>>12430
You have a nice list too.
If you like old RE and RPG combat, you'll like it. Wasn't really a fan of the first one but I really like 2. Atmosphere is nice too. Haven't played it in a long time though, so nostalgia goggles play a heavy role.

>>12433
As dungeon crawlers SMT games are way below EO, dude.

>there's no style, no atmosphere, the sprites are ugly as sin pokemon garbage, nothing that makes it stand out.
It has style and atmosphere, imagination is just a big part of it. The music is pretty fucking great too. I'm not a fan of the enemy designs myself but it's not that important to me.
The portraits are cute though and add to the charm.



>>12435
>you realize the whole game takes place in your imagination.
Not the whole game but a lot of it, yes. It's heavily inspired by classic dungeon crawlers for a reason.

>>12437
I was content with the graphics. I prefer 2D enemies over 3D ones since you can have a lot more of them (my main complaint with Nocturne) and the sprites look great. But yes, it's way too easy.



It's pretty funny that graphics play a big role for a lot of people. I understand it adding to the experience but it is only secondary for me (I don't mind Famicom graphics as long as the gameplay still is good). Story/Gameplay are the most important factors.

>>12581
The same guy who did the soundtrack for EO did the soundtrack for Revenge of Shinobi and Streets of Rage which are my two favourite game soundtracks.

>>4903
No other game like shadow of the colossus.

>>8213
I did enjoy mass effect, more the second one though. I know I'll get blasted for saying that but whatever.

>>5425
How is blood? I really like the look of it.

>>14402
New Vegas is great.