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The Gaming 5 #5 Mother 3
The Gaming 5 #5 Mother 3
Note that this post contains massive spoilers for Mother 3. I’ll warn you when they’re about to get rotton, but if you want to experience the game clean, you’ve been warned. Why is it on this list? The four preceding games are all “games” first and foremost: yes, there’s a story, heroes that grow, and villains to be defeated, but the primary focus of all of these games is the actual experience of…
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The Gaming 5 #4 Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
The Gaming 5 #4 Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Why is it on this list? So far, all the games I’ve used to define gaming have been predominantly single player experiences. Yes, Gitaroo-Man had a two player mode, and, technically, you could consider the “score” elements (item acquisition percentage, speed involved, damage incurred) of the previous games to be competitive, but, by and large, these are games meant to be enjoyed by a solitary…
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The Gaming 5 #3 Gitaroo Man
The Gaming 5 #3 Gitaroo Man
Why is it on this list? Single Player Video Games have grown to be stories based on achieving one goal: get to the end and save the princess, get to the end and save the world, get to the end and beat the bad guy, get to the end and find out your penguin girlfriend has gotten fat, etc. The moment to moment of the levels and experience are not emphasized, but what is important is reaching that…
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The Gaming 5 #2 Super Metroid
The Gaming 5 #2 Super Metroid
Why is it on this list? As I mentioned in the Mega Man X article, the best video games are the ones that evolve with the player’s skills. You’ve mastered running and jumping? Great, now let’s turn into a ball! Got being a ball down? Welcome to the wonderful world of bombs. Etc. However, a significant difference between Super Metroid and Mega Man X is that MMX is “level based”, and X’s abilities…
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The Gaming 5 #1 Mega Man X
Around February of 2015, Issun of the Talking Time forums proposed a question, “What five games would you use to demonstrate to anyone, be it an alien or someone from three-thousand years in the future or a fellow gamer or your mom what defines gaming now and forever?” I made up a list of five games pretty quickly, so, for the next five posts (effectively the next two weeks), I’ll be highlighting…
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