Best Game Series Of All Time

[Yazoo]

Alright, let me say this before everyone freaks out, and says:

"Like omg! You are missing a lot!"

I am only allowed 15 poll slots. So yeah.


You can have more than one, by the way ;)

ANYWAY, we all know what Miss Levera's is:

1. Tomb Raider

I love Tomb Raider from the very beginning. I have all the games, beat them as well. I have action figures (still in the package), I have comic books, and even graphic novels (They are different do not think otherwise.) I have the games for the PC as well. I even have the movies (in which Angelina Jolie and her wonderfully agonizing fake British accent. She ruined the movies. Cast Rhona Mitra for Lara, next time, please. Oh, for all of you who doesn't know. Rhona Mitra was Lara Croft's first model for the game. Thank you, Miss Rhona.) And I have the games that come out on the Wii as well. I am a die hard fan of Lara Croft. Sure she started off as the this big breasted woman. But now she looks amazing. That is what it led too. And in fact, they didn't even think Tomb Raider would go as big as it did. And did it huge.


2. Fatal Frame

Though only the first 3 came to USA. And the rest are strictly in Japan. I love the game play. Though when the controller vibrates, there is potential danger lurking around the corner. The ghosts were freaky. And of course I sucked at getting the camera out. So I died a lot of times. And even when watching my friend play, I am always scared.



3: Resident Evil

Amazing game play. Just utterly amazing. The way they got the Zombies down, and made you feel like you were going to just be on the edge of your seat. Why? Because for one the camera angles. And second for the surprise of which door those damn things were going to come out of. It was just an amazing experience. However, do you know which game actually started the Zombie gaming genre? HINT: It wasn't Resident Evil.


4. Silent Hill

Terrorized people with not only the angles of the camera. But also, what and when were would there be danger. That put a lot of people on the edge of their seats. At least with me it did. I love how the graphics were. (Of course back in the day of the original Playstation. No one would ever guess that there would be a second to the generation, then a third.) I love Silent Hill as well.


5. Mortal Kombat

Who doesn't like heads getting hit off the person's torso. But if everyone remembers. The game was better on the Sega Genesis, why? Because it was more gory. The Nintendo version was limited. Which totally sucked. Thankfully, I had both, and Mortal Kombat on both systems :D YAY ME! Oh oh, TRIVIA QUESTION: Which character(s) of the Mortal Kombat series has been ALL of the games? I mean EVERY SINGLE GAME.

6. Super Mario/Mario

I had this game on the Nintendo, and I would play for HOURS. I am not kidding. I beat the game eventually, after getting pissed off at the very last level of the game, and I wanted to break the damn screen. -.-" TRIVIA QUESTION: Where was Mario's true first appearance?



Now, what is the Best Game Series, in your eyes?







Remember the question I asked earlier? The answer is: Zombie Zombie. It was released in 1984. For the ZX Spectrum Computer.

[Axe Gaijin]

Why? why?! WHY?! Why the flipping flip flop in all that is holy since the start of the universe and time beyond is Need for Speed on that list?! Did you mix it up with the worst game series of all time perhaps?

Anyhow, my vote goes to a series not on the list: Elder Scrolls, with Mass Effect second, third is an ex aequo, Monkey Island & Leisure Suit Larry.

[GnatGoSplat]

Not in your poll, but so far my favorite series has been Dragon Age. Origins is the best of the series, and I love that my ass kicking Grey Warden was a cute little elf girl.

Unfortunately, I don't share the love for Super Mario. My family had the original NES growing up, and SMB was sooooo hard. I would play it over and over trying to beat it, but I sucked so bad. It's been decades, but I can still hear the Mario dying song (http://www.hark.com/clips/rqccngvzmg-mario-dies) in my head. I think purely by luck, I beat it once, but was never able to reproduce that. We had SMB2 and SMB3 as well, never could beat those or any NES game for that matter. They used to make me sooo angry, I'd throw the controller across the room - and I'm a super easy-going guy who has never thrown anything out of anger since! Mario probably single-handedly turned me off from gaming altogether for 20 years. I didn't try gaming again till my early 30s and was happy to learn that modern games aren't nearly as impossibly difficult as old games!

[Yazoo]

Anyhow, my vote goes to a series not on the list: Elder Scrolls, with Mass Effect second, third is an ex aequo, Monkey Island & Leisure Suit Larry.

I knew I freaking forgot one! Elder Scrolls. For some reason it went over my head. And as for Need For Speed, it sold 100 million copies o.O So apparently it was good in a LOT of people's eyes -.-"

[Rawra]

Mass Effect, totally, totally, all my life, forever. Because of Liara T'Soni, otherwise it would have been Dragon Age or Syberia. I'll say all three of them, anyway. Still, Mass Effect. *cough*sillyfangirl*cough*

[Yazoo]

*shakes head at The Creeper*

Then again...I really don't have room to talk. I am obsessed with my Lara Croft


SO, does anyone know the answers to the Trivia Questions? o.O

[Axe Gaijin]

I knew I freaking forgot one! Elder Scrolls. For some reason it went over my head. And as for Need For Speed, it sold 100 million copies o.O So apparently it was good in a LOT of people's eyes -.-"


Just because it sells a lot doesn't mean it's a good game though :) Just look at the Fifa games, or Call of Duty, same crap each year. There hasn't been a good Need for Speed since Hot Pursuit. (1998)
Last NFS I played was Carbon, which I finished in 2 days. :rolleyes:

[Yazoo]

@Axe Gaijin: I agree with you, on Need For Speed Hot Pursuit. First night my brother and I got that game. We stayed up until three playing it. Actually it was sort of funny. In the desert one. Where there is a gas station. My brother drove REALLY slow, and still got a ticket. He approached a cop car, and nudged it, and got a ticket. And here I am lapping him. Ah, good times :D

[TheSimaniac]

In answer to your Mario question, would that be Donkey Kong (though depending upon what you mean by 'true' I guess it could be DK Junior or Mario Bros.)?

I chose Mario from the list, but I considered Zelda, Pokemon and The Sims as well. I'm not quite such a follower of The Sims and Pokemon games though, and there's quite a few Zelda games I'm not too keen on - the games vary quite a lot, so that's not much of a surprise. Mario games vary hugely as well, but I don't think that's such a problem since different Mario games are extremely independent of one another, especially across genres. With Zelda, however, all of them are 'main series' games.
If the Elder Scrolls had been on the list then I'd have thought about that too, Oblivion's a serious contender as my favourite game altogether.

[Gabrymato]

My top 5 picks:

1) The Sims 3. I've been playing The Sims since I was 11 (I am almost 20 now). It's just neverending. There's so much to do, and the possibilities are endless with the EA default items and interaction, not to mention the enormous amount of custom content created by the community. When you're bored playing you build, when you're bored building you play. For me, it's simple as that. :)

2) Grand Theft Auto. I know I'm lacking originality, but honestly, who plays GTA and doesn't fall in love with it? While Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories may be a bit sh*tty, San Andreas and IV were two gems.

3) Kingdom Hearts. It probably reconnects with my morbid obsession for Disney movies. Let's just said I cried when the game was over.

4) SSX. Amazing! I snowboard in real life, and this game has everything a good game series need. Even though sports videogames get old superfast.

5) It's a tie between Crash Bandicoot, Need For Speed, Midnight Club and Fallout.

Ok I'm done :)

[Yazoo]

In answer to your Mario question, would that be Donkey Kong (though depending upon what you mean by 'true' I guess it could be DK Junior or Mario Bros.)?

Yes, it was the Original Donkey Kong that started Mario. (Or well, his first appearance into the gaming world.) However, in that game he wasn't known as Mario. He was simply known as "Jumpman". But that is how Mario got it start. :D LETS A GO...I dunno.