15th March 2005, 12:56 AM
Well okay if that's not enough for you then you could check out the games I didn't list. I only listed the ones I've actually played because I thought that would be enough to remind you of why that system was so succesful. I mean, it didn't sell because of popularity alone right? If that's all there was to it, the GG would have totally beaten it due to how popular that was... at first...
First off, I should say I really wasn't trying to insult you, so no need to be sarcastic to me. I know you are in a fight with ABF but I'm just trying to offer my opinion here based on what I've played, and I liked what I played.
What other games have I heard of that were reasons to own the GB... Hmm... There was the Final Fantasy Legends series of games, which was a nice RPG series so I've heard (never played it), and the first 4 Megaman games were apparently pretty good too (though apparently the 5th, the only one I've played, is the best of the lot).
Thing is, for every system I've played, there are only about 20 or so over the course of the system I really think are "must haves". At least, that's the pattern I've seen. It's been broken this generation I think though... There's been an explosion in the past two or three years of awesome games the likes of which I never saw before. I mean, I can only really list about 20 or so games that defined the Super Nintendo experience. About 8 are RPGs (Final Fantasy, Earthbound, Breath of Fire...). Outside of that core experience, most SNES games just aren't worth owning, to me anyway. Again, I'm very picky. I didn't list modestly fun games like Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle because, well, it's just moderatly fun, something that's fun to play but I really wouldn't pay full price for it... ever...
So yeah, I would say the GB had an awesome assortment of great games. Should that assortment have been bigger given it's lifespan from 1989 to 1999-ish? Yeah, it probably should have, but it was still definitly a system worth having. Certainly, I'd say that anyone who didn't get it missed out on a large number of great games. I really think that games like Link's Awakening, Tetris, Wario Land, and Donkey Kong are ones that people should play.
That's all... I mean, if you don't think those were very good games or anything, that's okay, but I loved them.
Now, if you want to bring up the disappointing lineup of Gameboy Color games, go for it! That had... well honestly only 4 games.. TOTAL... were worth my money. Those being, Super Mario Bros DX (A remake of an awesome game, including a neutered version of another awesome game, hard to call it an exclusive...), the Oracle games (good and original games, but honestly, not as good as the Zelda games before it, still, they are the crown jewels of the GBC), and finally, Zelda LA DX, which isn't really a GBC game so much as a GBC enabled GB game. Honestly, the improvements are nice, but an extra dungeon and a photo hunt, the latter of which can still be done on the original Gameboy, is not exactly a good reason to get a GBC. Oh, there's a 5th game I guess. There's Pokemon Crystal, a part of the "Metal" game series that, for reasons unexplained, can only be played on a GBC (while Gold and Silver were only GBC enabled and could still be played on the original GB, meaning they are part of the GB line of games), but um... that's not worth getting a GBC over. Yes, I would call the GBC a failure, except that it sold so inexplicably WELL, namely due to the system's existing popularity in the orignal GB.
First off, I should say I really wasn't trying to insult you, so no need to be sarcastic to me. I know you are in a fight with ABF but I'm just trying to offer my opinion here based on what I've played, and I liked what I played.
What other games have I heard of that were reasons to own the GB... Hmm... There was the Final Fantasy Legends series of games, which was a nice RPG series so I've heard (never played it), and the first 4 Megaman games were apparently pretty good too (though apparently the 5th, the only one I've played, is the best of the lot).
Thing is, for every system I've played, there are only about 20 or so over the course of the system I really think are "must haves". At least, that's the pattern I've seen. It's been broken this generation I think though... There's been an explosion in the past two or three years of awesome games the likes of which I never saw before. I mean, I can only really list about 20 or so games that defined the Super Nintendo experience. About 8 are RPGs (Final Fantasy, Earthbound, Breath of Fire...). Outside of that core experience, most SNES games just aren't worth owning, to me anyway. Again, I'm very picky. I didn't list modestly fun games like Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle because, well, it's just moderatly fun, something that's fun to play but I really wouldn't pay full price for it... ever...
So yeah, I would say the GB had an awesome assortment of great games. Should that assortment have been bigger given it's lifespan from 1989 to 1999-ish? Yeah, it probably should have, but it was still definitly a system worth having. Certainly, I'd say that anyone who didn't get it missed out on a large number of great games. I really think that games like Link's Awakening, Tetris, Wario Land, and Donkey Kong are ones that people should play.
That's all... I mean, if you don't think those were very good games or anything, that's okay, but I loved them.
Now, if you want to bring up the disappointing lineup of Gameboy Color games, go for it! That had... well honestly only 4 games.. TOTAL... were worth my money. Those being, Super Mario Bros DX (A remake of an awesome game, including a neutered version of another awesome game, hard to call it an exclusive...), the Oracle games (good and original games, but honestly, not as good as the Zelda games before it, still, they are the crown jewels of the GBC), and finally, Zelda LA DX, which isn't really a GBC game so much as a GBC enabled GB game. Honestly, the improvements are nice, but an extra dungeon and a photo hunt, the latter of which can still be done on the original Gameboy, is not exactly a good reason to get a GBC. Oh, there's a 5th game I guess. There's Pokemon Crystal, a part of the "Metal" game series that, for reasons unexplained, can only be played on a GBC (while Gold and Silver were only GBC enabled and could still be played on the original GB, meaning they are part of the GB line of games), but um... that's not worth getting a GBC over. Yes, I would call the GBC a failure, except that it sold so inexplicably WELL, namely due to the system's existing popularity in the orignal GB.
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