GBAtemp's best game(s) of all time

[Kouen Hasuki]

Project Zero / Fatal Frame (In North America)

 

[Slammin'JamminPowerDunker]

Bastion.
So simple, yet so powerful.

 

[Vinnymac]

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

 

[wiggatron]

Zelda LttP

 

[potato3334]

Wind Waker

 

[Maxternal]

Mario Galaxy 2


and I know it will take a lot of work after 5 years of not updating and having lost count but it would be really nice if the OP were updated with the new voting counts.

 

[TyBlood13]

+1 Earthbound

 

[Rizsparky]

Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest

 

[Deleted member 329676]

+1 Zelda: Ocarina of Time

So many good games, but that one takes the cake...

Or is the cake a lie?

 

[Silverthorn]

+1 Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
So many good gaems, even narrowing down the choice to 5 was hard, but this one is probably the only one I enjoyed from the beginning to the very end.

 

[ilman]

Look at my avatar and guess which game I'd vote for.






+1 The world ends with you, for those who don't know who my avatar is.

 

[Kurly]

This took me too long to decide but I'm going to have to vote for Xenoblade Chronicles.
Ultimately, it boiled down to having played a 13 hour session on one fateful, rainy day.

 

[Dhampir]

I'll add another vote for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles

 

[The_Cooker]

New Super Mario Bros. (DS)

 

[Redhorse]

My choice is Advance Wars Days of Ruin/Dark Conflict pleaes add iit to list

 

[Enchilada]

+1 Minecraft

 

[frogboy]

I really can't remember if I voted already or not.

+1 Portal 2

 

[Blaze163]

Well....shit. This is a tough one. What to judge on. Sheer fun factor? Amount of time it drained from my life? How memorable? Depth of experience? What are the terms?

Fuck it, sorry to be cliché but I gotta go with FF7. Prior to that my gaming life was brief sessions on Mario or Sonic, had never thought a game could go on for days. The moment we're all supposed to put in spoilers even though it;s common knowledge to everyone and their cat these days still gets to me a little bit even now, as I approach the area I'm like 'Well, brace yourself, you know what's coming.'

 

[TripleSMoon]

Have I voted in this yet? I really don't think so. If I have, I apologize, and please do discount whatever previous vote I may have had.

Anyway, +1 for The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.

To make things interesting, I think I should give an explanation for my vote. First, this isn't a "nostalgia vote." I didn't play this game for the first time until two or three years ago, and didn't even like it at first. It wasn't until me fourth (or so) attempt late last year that I got hooked on it.

Initially I didn't like it because I was used to 3D Zelda (Ocarina of Time was my first Zelda game, and I had only played and beat the 3D Zeldas since then), but I bucked up and got over the increased difficulty and "outdated looking" style and seriously started to enjoy it. I got my ass kicked HARD, and I think that's part of the reason I respect it so much (especially with modern Zeldas going all, "Master, here, look at this puzzle. Allow me to give you a bunch of really obvious hints on how to solve it, before you even get a chance to figure it out yourself!").

Plus the design of the overworld and puzzles and dungeons, dare I say, are even more complex and impressive than Ocarina of Time and any other Zelda games. Plus, I find it more addicting than any other game. I've beaten it twice this year, and I've been itching to beat it a third, but am forcing myself to wait until early November so I can have a playthrough fresh in my mind when I pick up Zelda: aLBW.

In the end, it's not my favorite game of all time, or even my favorite Zelda, believe it or not. Both of those titles go to Majora's Mask. But from an objective standpoint, I think A Link to the Past is the best Zelda game, and definitely at least a contender for the best game of all time.

 

[sandytf]

Lunar: The Silver Star (Sega CD) / Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete (PSX)