15th March 2005, 12:11 PM
Quote:Actually Final Fantasy Legends weren't ports of the console games at all. Actually, they weren't even Final Fantasy titles in all honesty. Square thought they would sell better in America with Final Fantasy slapped on the title. They were actually a whole different series, a series which would later have such titles as Frontier Saga and such.
I never said they were ports, just that they sucked in comparison to the home console FFs.
Quote:Final Fantasy Adventure was a pretty fun game for the time. Sure the later games in the series were better, but at the time it was fun whether you were comparing it to existing portable games or console games.
Adventure was definitely better than the Legend games, I'll give you that.
Quote:Mario Land 3 wasn't actually a Mario game. It was Wario Land 1, the very first Wario game. I actually loved it as it introduced all the classic Wario gameplay. I wouldn't call it a pale imitation, it was something new and I for one enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed Mario World.
It's as much a Mario game as Yoshi's Island is. It still counts. And you really liked it as much as Mario World?
Well okay...
Quote:I really did like Donkey Kong Land. Donkey Kong Country was the first and is still my favorite of the series, but Donkey Kong Land was as good as any of the sequels they made in the series, to me anyway.
Well that's your opinion... no matter how strongly I disagree with it...
Quote:Metroid 2 is a game that I think was misjudged as much as Zelda 2 was... It was different but honestly, as I've said before, I really loved that game. I wouldn't call it the worst of the Metroid games. Metroid Fusion maybe, but even that one's pretty good and if that's the worst, then that says something for how good the series is.
I never said it was bad, just the worst in the series. Fusion at least did something very different. Metroid 2 was Metroid 1 without a map.
Quote:Megaman 5 is certainly not a pale imitation, except in the sense that every Megaman game recycles the old gameplay. It's one of my favorite Megaman games ever.
I don't believe I included Mega Man 5 in my list.
Quote:So in answer to your question, yes I can honestly say that most of the games I listed were not pale imitations of their console counterparts. The only thing I can add is that there is a reason that system sold so well, and a lot of the games we listed can be found in the libraries of pretty much everyone who owned that system. Most people would agree the Gameboy was a great system to own. I know, majority doesn't mean correct, but I mean, it's not like I'm trying to defend the N-Gage here, I really DO think that the Gameboy was popular because of the games available for it, the best reason for something to sell well. Oh yes, Tetris was actually better than the console version, because it had multiplayer. (For some reason Dance of the Suger Plum Fairies was taken off the song list though... that's still my favorite Tetris song, but oh well it still had good russian classical music, which needs to RETURN to the Tetris series!)
I never said that it was a bad system, just that compared to every other Nintendo system ('cept the VB, of course) it had a very poor selection of games, considering how long the system's lifespan was. And that was largely because the system had very little real competition. Nintendo didn't have to make stellar titles for it. The games were good enough by portable standards and that's all that mattered. I honestly think that people give the Gameboy far too much credit and rate their games so highly simply because they were portable. The GBA, on the other hand, actually stood up to the big consoles. Some of the best games released in 2003 were GBA games. That says a lot.
But you know, if you really love those Gameboy games so much then I won't debate that. I'll just have to strongly disagree with you. Really, really strongly disagree with you. ;)