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Title: List your evergreen games! Post by: shane on April 10, 2020, 09:44:23 AM After reading MetalFRO's (http://www.rfgeneration.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=11366) blog post on evergreen games (http://www.rfgeneration.com/news/evergreen-games/Evergreen-Games-4135.php), I thought it would be interesting to know what others consider their evergreen games. I have quite a few of them, so I'll try to break it up by platform:
Atari VCS/2600
NES
SNES
Game Boy
PS1
Game Boy Advance
PS2
Xbox
Xbox 360
GameCube
PSP
Nintendo DS
Wii/
WiiU
PS3
3DS
Vita
PC/Win/MacOS
Title: Re: List your evergreen games! Post by: MetalFRO on April 10, 2020, 02:51:12 PM That's quite a list! Lots of great games in there. Nice to see some love for King's Quest IV - that was always a fun one, and one that I don't think gets as much respect, because it was later in that game engine's life, and most games had moved on to more sophisticated interfaces. Also, I probably need to look into Blood Omen. I have both the PS1 and Dreamcast releases of Soul Reaver, but I've still never played the original Legacy of Kain game. I know it's supposed to be quite a bit different. Glad to see my article inspired some further thought on this topic!
Title: Re: List your evergreen games! Post by: Crabmaster2000 on April 11, 2020, 08:51:50 AM Atari 2600
Phoenix NES Mega Man 3 SNES Mega Man X N64 Goldeneye Gamecube P.N.03 Wii Sin & Punishment Star Successor Wii U Shovel Knight NES Remix Switch Super Mario Odyssey Genesis Sonic 2 SEGA CD Lords of Thunder Saturn Darkstalkers Revenge Dreamcast Marvel vs Capcom 2 TG16 Blazing Lazers Turbo CD Lords of Thunder Playstation Twisted Metal 2 PS2 Marvel vs Capcom 2 PS3 Batman Arkham Asylum PS4 Nex Machina Title: Re: List your evergreen games! Post by: Mr_Stubbes on April 13, 2020, 09:36:18 AM That is a very extensive list Shane! Here's my list in no particular order.
Fable: The Lost Chapters Super Mario 64 Super Mario Odyssey Super Mario Sunshine Super Mario Bros. 3 Paper Mario Animal Crossing (series) Legend of Zelda Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Final Fantasy VII Crash Bandicoot Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped Red Dead Redemption 1 Red Dead Redemption 2 Katamari Damacy Katamari Forever Touch My Katamari Portal 1 Portal 2 Minecraft Chrono Trigger Mario Kart 64 Croc: Legend of the Gobbos Dark Souls I'll probably add more as I remember them. It's kinda fun making a list like this cause I was just looking through my library and kept thinking. This is a great game.... This one too... Man I forgot about this one... Now I'm thinking about adding some of these into my backlog to beat them again! Title: Re: List your evergreen games! Post by: Seno on April 13, 2020, 05:58:04 PM Cool idea, I'll add some more when I've got more time:
MD Rocket Knight Adventures Thunder Force 4 Sonic DS Advanced Wars: Dual Strike Bangai-O Spirits. PSP Wipeout: Pure Dreamcast Cannon Spike Street Fighter 3 PS1 Final Fantasy 7 (and switch) Switch Mario Kart 8 Bayonetta 2 PC Factorio Transistor Super Time Force Ultra Left4Dead 2 Gamecube Pikmin Ikaruga SNES Cybernator Title: Re: List your evergreen games! Post by: MetalFRO on April 14, 2020, 09:40:57 AM Cannon Spike! That's a great one as a go-to game, because it's so immediate, and very pick up and play. Plus, it's a great game.
Title: Re: List your evergreen games! Post by: shane on April 14, 2020, 11:44:08 AM Portal 1 Portal 2 I play through the first Portal maybe every third time I play the Half-Life 2 series, so it didn't make my list, but it's definitely a game I've played at least half a dozen times. Title: Re: List your evergreen games! Post by: Disposed Hero on April 14, 2020, 12:20:36 PM This was an interesting list to come up with. These aren't necessarily my favorite games (although some are), but these are games that I find to be relatively stress-free comfort food games that I can and probably have played over and over again. At any given time, popping in and playing through one of these games sounds like a good idea to me. I may add more later as I think of them.
NES Castlevania Contra Super C Super Mario Bros. 3 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game SNES Brawl Brothers/Rushing Beat Ran Chrono Trigger Final Fantasy IV Final Fantasy VI Final Fight 3 Illusion of Gaia Soul Blazer Super Castlevania IV Super Double Dragon Super Mario RPG Super Mario World Super Metroid Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Wild Guns Genesis Alien Storm Final Fight CD (Sega CD) Golden Axe Golden Axe II Streets of Rage Streets of Rage 2 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist GB The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening Neo Geo Metal Slug Metal Slug 2 PC-Engine Castlevania: Rondo of Blood PS1 Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Final Fantasy VII Parasite Eve Resident Evil Resident Evil 2 PS2 Onimusha: Warlords DC Dynamite Cop! GC Resident Evil Resident Evil 4 VITA Persona 4 Golden PS4 Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon God of War (2018) Persona 5 Resident Evil 2 (2019) Resident Evil 3 (2020) Resident Evil 7: Biohazard The Last of Us Yakuza 0 Yakuza Kiwami 2 Switch Dragon Quest XI Mario Kart 8 Super Mario Odyssey Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Arcade Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Vendetta Title: Re: List your evergreen games! Post by: bombatomba on May 08, 2020, 02:44:54 PM This was a super fun thought exercise, and I spent a couple of weeks just mulling it over. While at first I made up my own list of Evergreen games (I call them Comfort Games), I abandoned it due to a realization that my Evergreen games aren't so much specific games, rather a game that evokes nostalgia, and is something that I have muscle memory already built up, so that gaming isn't about thinking, rather just relaxation and fun. For example, recently I've gotten a little dizzy from the amount of GB games I've been playing and had to retreat to Mega Man Legacy Collection on Steam to play through Mega Man 1 with my 8bit Do M30. That is how MM1 should be played!
On a side note, I also got a lot of enjoyment from reading through the games in this thread, and trying to imagine what makes it that persons Evergreen game. I'd love to read some short explanations for some to of these. Here, I will go first: Final Fantasy VII - While I rarely play more than five or six hours these days, I always come back for the amazing music. Sometimes I don't even make it past the first time the overworld theme is played before I just sit with my eyes closed and marinate in that aural goodness! Mega Man 1 - I know this one is supposed to be ultra hard, but I just love part one! Cheesing the bosses in Wily's stage with the Thunder Beam is its own reward! Persona 4: Golden - I play the first two hours, then spend another two hours listening to music in the main menu. Then I sometimes watch the "Movie" on Youtube. I wish the game had an option to do the same... Dying Light - Zombie parkour that is all muscle memory at this point. |