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52 Games Challenge 2026!!!
bikingjahuty:
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--- Quote from: bikingjahuty on March 13, 2026, 12:48:58 pm ---25. Mega Man 2 (PS4)
I'm a bit ashamed to admit that despite being a gamer for over 30 years of my life, I've never really played or beat one of the core Mega Man games.
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One gripe I have with a lot of video games made before the late 90s is how it was a fairly common for a game's difficulty to be tied to how broken or poorly thought out the gameplay was. Some of this is due to the limited technology of the time, however much of it is also because devs back in the 70s, 80s, and 90s were trailblazing a medium that was still very new for the most part. The end result of this for me personally, is the older a game is, the less likely I'm probably going to enjoy it. My enjoyment cutoff, at least for console gaming, seems to be somewhat in between the 3rd and 4th console generation; essentially most NES and Master System games don't appeal to me all that much,
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We are in the same boat (though, I haven't hit the 30 year mark yet. Another 2 years before I can claim that).
Out of the hundreds of games I have played, Mega Man is a pretty huge gap in my experience. I played through 1 and 2 last year for the first time.
Yellow Devil sucks, but the rest of the game was pretty good. A solid 7 for me. 1 gets a bad rap but its not that much worse imo. Like a Low-Mid 6. A little bit more "frustration as game design" than 2, but still manageable.
I will say though that while I agree with your general thought that a lot of games on the NES were somewhat poorly thought out, and as a result poorly balanced (or in the worst case, just not fun) there are enough gems on the NES that I can't personally throw the whole generation out. The NES Super Mario Bros. games are all gems, with SMB3 being one of the best games of all time in my opinion. The Legend of Zelda is an all time classic, and seeing it's DNA in Breath of the Wild is what helped elevate BotW to a 10 for me (I would only consider 3 games I've ever played to be a 10, maybe 4 if you count TotK which feels a bit like cheating cause it's just BotW again with even more stuff lol).
But for every gem there are like 2 or 3 games that treat making the game so difficult that you have to play a level 100 times to memorize their layout as good game design. An interesting thing about this design philosophy though (that the longer you play the game, the better it is) is that it hasn't actually changed. Just instead of making the game super hard and replaying the same content over and over, you now just do the same thing over and over to pad out games. Instead of replaying the same level 100 times, you play a level that has been copy and pasted 100 times instead. It's weird how games evolved and how gamer's brains have been conditioned to correlate playtime with quality.
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There are definitely 3rd gen games I enjoy (MM2 being one), but unfortunately I'm left feeling disappointed and/or annoyed when I play most 3rd gen games, particularly on the NES since that's where the bulk of my 3rd gen experience is. I played and somehow beat the Castlevania on the NES earlier this year and while it had its moments, my overall experience with it was not very positive. The same goes with Ninja Gaiden, the original Contra, and a few other games that are generally considered among the better games on the NES. Still, I do enjoy games like Super Mario Bros, so it's definitely not all games from that gen. I don't discount my own bias and preferences in why I feel this way, but a lot of it is also gameplay I'd considered fairly outdated and difficult to go back to, when compared to 4th gen games.
kashell:
--- Quote from: bikingjahuty on March 16, 2026, 01:39:19 am ---
--- Quote from: kamikazekeeg on March 15, 2026, 06:33:53 pm ---
--- Quote from: bikingjahuty on March 15, 2026, 06:11:09 pm ---I was completely oblivious to the hate for this game until after I beat it. I really enjoyed it. Sure, it's different than the original, but I don't see that as necessarily a bad thing. It seems the biggest gripes seem to be how Nemesis was handled and also the game's length. I didn't have an issue with either and thought the game was pretty fun. I actually like it slightly more than the original game.
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I didn't hate it either, a lot of my annoyance was that it just felt so much more lacking compared to RE2R, like they cut back on what you could do against zombies where you could shoot off limbs and such, which was so weird to get rid of. After I finished, I found all that was missing from the original and it's kind of a lot, which would've helped with how short the playtime is. I put as much time into my first run of Requiem than I did all the time I spent playing RE3 lol I know there was some other annoyances that just didn't work great for the game either, but a lot of it was just how short the game was and how unsatisfying the replay for it was. It's one of those games where in vacuum it's mostly fine, but compared to the other games and its original, it's really lacking.
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oh, no doubt. It's definitely not a top 5 RE game for me, and probably not even a top 10 game. Still, it was a fun, pretty memorable RE game that I've been meaning to play through again. However, at the moment I'd pretty much been submerged in RE following RE9 coming out and need a break for a bit. On top of that, I'll probably be playing Revelations 2 or the original RE4 next, whenever that ends up being.
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Hopefully I wasn't too harsh with my little critique of it. I had some fun moments with RE3R, but it was just a major step back. Interestingly, it was the one I went in with the highest hope because I usually enjoy the "black sheep" games in major series'.
bikingjahuty:
--- Quote from: kashell on March 16, 2026, 07:58:55 am ---
--- Quote from: bikingjahuty on March 16, 2026, 01:39:19 am ---
--- Quote from: kamikazekeeg on March 15, 2026, 06:33:53 pm ---
--- Quote from: bikingjahuty on March 15, 2026, 06:11:09 pm ---I was completely oblivious to the hate for this game until after I beat it. I really enjoyed it. Sure, it's different than the original, but I don't see that as necessarily a bad thing. It seems the biggest gripes seem to be how Nemesis was handled and also the game's length. I didn't have an issue with either and thought the game was pretty fun. I actually like it slightly more than the original game.
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I didn't hate it either, a lot of my annoyance was that it just felt so much more lacking compared to RE2R, like they cut back on what you could do against zombies where you could shoot off limbs and such, which was so weird to get rid of. After I finished, I found all that was missing from the original and it's kind of a lot, which would've helped with how short the playtime is. I put as much time into my first run of Requiem than I did all the time I spent playing RE3 lol I know there was some other annoyances that just didn't work great for the game either, but a lot of it was just how short the game was and how unsatisfying the replay for it was. It's one of those games where in vacuum it's mostly fine, but compared to the other games and its original, it's really lacking.
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oh, no doubt. It's definitely not a top 5 RE game for me, and probably not even a top 10 game. Still, it was a fun, pretty memorable RE game that I've been meaning to play through again. However, at the moment I'd pretty much been submerged in RE following RE9 coming out and need a break for a bit. On top of that, I'll probably be playing Revelations 2 or the original RE4 next, whenever that ends up being.
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Hopefully I wasn't too harsh with my little critique of it. I had some fun moments with RE3R, but it was just a major step back. Interestingly, it was the one I went in with the highest hope because I usually enjoy the "black sheep" games in major series'.
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Same here, at least with the RE series. Despite all the hate it gets, I actually really like RE6. I expected to hate it and ended up enjoying it quite a bit in the end. RE5 though...that one has me agreeing with the haters on it.
kamikazekeeg:
--- Quote from: bikingjahuty on March 16, 2026, 11:06:00 am ---Same here, at least with the RE series. Despite all the hate it gets, I actually really like RE6. I expected to hate it and ended up enjoying it quite a bit in the end. RE5 though...that one has me agreeing with the haters on it.
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I'm like the opposite, I really don't like RE6, it's the culmination of everything I hate about what the series had become, but RE5 has enough RE4 feel, that it can be tolerable, both just fall apart in the end for me for being co-op focused and more actiony. It's why I was so in love with RE7 when that came out and turned everything around.
Cartagia:
Just finished a playthrough of Dark Souls Remastered as a magic user. Haven't played in 5 or 6 years, so itvwas a cool refresher while also doing a new style of play. Felt like early game was more difficult than expected because of the limited spell options, but it was cool to see what stuff unlocked and became useful as it goes along. I don't think it really changes how you play all that much, but I had fun and am glad I did it.
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