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    Your End Of Year Switch/3DS Games

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    Far too many games. Not enough time and money. That's how my Q4 2017 looks.

    I'm mostly interested in Odyseey and a huge nunber of e-shop titles. Xenoblade. I'll double dip on Skyrim. Maybe Doom. Definitely FE:Warriors. Maybe LA Noire as I've never played it. FIFA I'll probably skip as a played 2017 on the Xbox One recently and it pales in comparison to PES from a gameplay standpoint, which I already have on Steam plus the Master League is all I ever need.  

    The N-Europe top 10 Nintendo games of all time.

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    4 minutes ago, Jonnas said:

    For the record, I was obeying the "2 entries per franchise" rule when I made my Top 10. That's why I excluded Majora's Mask and Link's Awakening from the get-go, otherwise, there was a good chance one or both of them would've made the list. I certainly thought everybody else was restricting themselves as well.

    Everyone has been following this for the personal top 10s otherwise BOTW and MM would have been in mine.

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    What would you want on the N64 Mini?

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    I don't think it's too far fetched for Nintendo and Rare/Microsoft to strike up some kind of deal. They seem to be getting along fairly well at the moment (Minecraft cross play). An N64 classic without the Banjo games and DKR wouldn't be an N64 classic for me. If both companies could work out something re: Goldeneye that would be amazing. I'd say it's win-win for both companies, but who knows what goes on behind the scenes.

    For my dream list I'd give a shout out for:
    Top Gear Rally
    Rocket: Robot on Wheels
    Spacestation Silicon Valley
    World Driver Championship
    F-Zero X + Expansion
    Blast Corps
    Turok 1 and 2.
    Jet Force Gemini
    Mario Golf and Tennis
    Pokemon Snap
    WWF No Mercy

    Though I doubt many of them at all will actually appear.

    The N-Europe top 10 Nintendo games of all time.

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    1 minute ago, bob said:

    @Nicktendo, do you want to edit your first point so the rules reflect what we're actually going with? I.e.

    * Two games per franchise
    * 10 games, ranked for scoring purposes
    *no nostalgia allowed
    *or maybe nostalgia is allowed
    *nostalgia is allowed, but you have to justify to Ronnie why you're picking it

    Will do so when I get home, I'll also try and tally up the current results from the thread.

    The N-Europe top 10 Nintendo games of all time.

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    Posted · Edited by Nicktendo

    I have been thinking about this all day and I want to stop thinking about it, so here goes...

    10) Splatoon 2 - I adored the first game, this one improves on it in almost every way imaginable. In my teens I'd been into online shooters in the heady days of Xbox Live Halo 2 and the first couple of years of the 360 before growing disillusioned and dismissing the whole experience of competitive online as a waste of time. After a good 6 or 7 years, Splatoon brought me back, with it's new fresh approach, bright colours and J-Rock tunes. By rights that game should be here, but Splatoon 2 is just so much better it seems silly to even consider it. Even it's current young state it's one of the best games I've ever played. The Splatfests and Salmon Runs with team N-E have been a blast, and I'm hoping Nintendo will be joining the 21st Century in the near future so we'll all be able to communicate in a non-ridiculous way as we tear team G&K Douchebags a new one. 

    9) Goldeneye 007 - Facility. Proximity mines. No Oddjob. Need I say more? I'm certain this game is responsible for 99% of the N64 Action Replay sales. WHAT? You can reach the other side of the dam? Wanted to, and went on to explore every single inch of this game. Also noteworthy for retaining the best cheats to ever feature in a video game.

    8) Banjo-Kazooie - The pinnacle of 3D platformers. I had 35 N64 games before I got rid of it, Mario 64 was never one of them, I had no want or need for it with this gem sitting on the shelf. My speedrun record is 7 hours, 20 minutes, so I was kind of sad when Sam smashed it at last year's MadDog Marathon, but I'm remain impressed with how fun the game still is. 

    7) The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - If I really had to, I would probably choose Breath of the Wild instead of this, but seeing as this is the peak of 2D Zelda gaming and my 3D one is coming up later, LTTP gets the nod. I actually only played this properly after OOT, but it's still one of my most cherished gaming experiences and one of the only games I regularly replay, purely because of how fun it is. Fantastic design, unforgettable music (I'm going to be talking about that a lot), and a polished experience which would go on to become typical of Nintendo products. 

    6) Wii Sports - Nintendo at their absolute best. Easy to pick up, endlessly fun with friends, grandparents and communist uncles, but beneath the simple core is a selection of games that can be truly mastered to the point of absolute absurdity. My 13-under-par in Wii Sports Golf is, to this day, one of my most cherished gaming memories / achievements, purely from the amount of time I spent learning and mastering the course and the mechanics which lead to the eventual rewards. I still despise Reggie for his "blue ocean strategy" PR bullshit, but my god, it worked. 

    5) Animal Crossing GC - This game single handedly save my failing relationship (which eventually failed after we stopped playing). I jest, partly, but this "communication game" did exactly what Miyamoto San hoped it would do, and for 2 full years, it was the hot-topic of discussion between me and my missus as we did stupid shit, sent stupid letters and bullied stupid residents who we mutually hated. I don't know many people who had 8 different memory cards 59s for thire GameCubes, each with a different Animal Crossing town saved to it, but we did. The holy "Master" town memory card (an official Nintendo memory card, of course) was used as a base to jump from in order to steal oranges, peaches, items and recycle residents from far and wide, and where my super collection of rare and wonderful NES roms was housed. Cheif was my bestie, and he is yet to show up in any other AC game I've played since. :cry: New Leaf is obviously a million times better, but Animal Forest+ will forever hold that special place in my gaming heart.

    4) Pokemon Silver / Gold - Team Silver here. Pokemon Red and Blue for nostalgia purposes should be here, but I won't do that because GS are better games. I played Pokemon Blue before everyone else in my school even knew what a Japanese pocket monster was. My next door neighbour brought it back from America and me and my brothers crowded around my 10-inch hitachi CRT on the SNES GameBoy Player for 3 nights straight seeing how far we could get (we weren't allowed to overwrite his save file). It was my first experience of RPG games and I was immediately in love. In year 8 I was the kid who was covered from head to toe in Pokemon merch, I was made fun of but I just didn't care. The anime, the games and the trading cards took over my life. So when my friend figured out how to download ROMs and emulators we were immediately on to Pokemon Gold - JP version. I knew, vaguely, what I should do having put 100s of hours into Blue, but this experience was the next level. I was enthralled by the new Pokemon, and the day / night cycle (which incidentally was completely broken in the illegal version and didn't match real time, but instead continued from when you started the game. So if you started at 8am, it would match your play time, not the actual time. Frustrating) But this was a proper sequel. It looked amazing in colour, the game was twice as big, the music twice as good and I ended up playing Silver, Gold and eventually Crystal to full completion. 

    3) Super Smash Bros. Melee - Hands up if you plugged four controllers in a left a 99 stock death match running to unlock Mewtwo. I know I'm not alone. The N64 original provided HOURS of entertainment, but like Splatoon 2, this perfected it in every way. The graphics were amazing at the time, jaw-dropping 60FPS, utterly, utterly sublime controls. This is me mentioning music again. My god, THE MUSIC. The stages. The sheer number of characters. The Franchises. The History. The Lore. The Easter Eggs. Sorry Sakurai, no matter how many hours you work, no matter how much you run yourself into the ground, you will never top this game. 

    2) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time - Despite it not making my personal number one, I still consider it to be the greatest video game ever made. Do I need to explain why? Probably not. It encapsulated me. So much so that I ended up submitting a written novel of the game for my year 9 English coursework. I got an A. My teacher must have been a Sony fanboy, who didn't know what an N64 was.

    1) Super Mario World - The first game I ever played on a home console and one which is solely responsible for my unashamed 26-year adoration of this company. A masterpiece and easily the best 2D Mario. The physics are spot on, the variety in level design is excellent and the music has never been (and never will be) topped. 

    Honerable, honerable mentions for: Mario Golf 64, Luigi's Mansion (guess I lied), Jet Force Gemini, Mario Kart 8, Mario Party, Metroid Prime.

    The N-Europe top 10 Nintendo games of all time.

    in Nintendo Gaming

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    14 minutes ago, Ronnie said:

    I still think the best way to do it is to each list our top 10s, and add up all the points for a final N-Europe Top 10. That's how gaf does it and it works really well. It's a good way to get honourable mentions noted too.

    Easy way to do it is to just vote on which way you'd like to go with, (or suggest new ones)

    1. IGN method
    2. Each post our top 10s
    3. Each post our top 5s of each platform, with the top 1 or 2 from each console going through to the second round etc

    I agree that the GAF way is probably the best but I sincerely enjoyed the chaos IGN's method brought, and in the end the result wasn't vastly shocking. I only decided to start a thread because this has been discussed for a week or so now and I want to get started and I though seeing has how the IGN brought on this discussion, that would be the most appropriate method to use. A mod is welcome to edit the first thread if necessary. Sorry for jumping the gun ;)

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