You ask "What is it with the Japanese and not understanding black culture? The real question is "What is it with the Japanese and not understanding other cultures? The answer to both questions is. They don't care.
***** Exactly my thought. But I agree with Le Dom, I think the immigration rate is something like... 0.X%, and most of those are from other Asian countries, so they only rely on TV Shows etc xD
Maybe it's just me, but I found Black Knight much better than Secret Rings. Sonic was easier to control, the story I found to be more interesting, the soundtrack was much better in my opinion (though to be fair, I don't really care for Secret Rings' soundtrack), and the multiplayer, while still not the greatest, was far better than Secret Rings' broken Mario Party clone.
***** You mean that one plot twist that was telegraphed before the story even picked up steam? But yeah, I definitely enjoyed Black Knight, flawed as it was. I remember Secret Rings fondly, but that's probably the ten years of nostalgia sitting on my back.
***** Black Knight has probably the most definitive characterisation of Sonic, really nailing his personality while telling a nice story. Jason Griffith's performance was brilliant as well.
Pokemon X and Y. The pros, it introduced character customization to the main stream Pokemon games, I only completely dislike ONE of the new Pokemon (Aromatise) while I love the rest (especially Hawlucha), the battle mechanics are polished to perfection, the mega-evolution is fun to use, EV training is easier, the online system is not a chore to use and you can INTERACT with your Pokemon!! Cons; weakest story in the entire franchise, most forgettable gym leaders ever, only 6 characters are either interesting or fleshed out, Team Flare is both forced and forgettably one dimensional (not counting their leader), the story doesn't even try to use the new mechanics and WAY too few inverse battles and I HATE SKY BATTLES WITH A BURNING PASSION!
I recently tried to replay my copy of X and... I just hate it. I was so utterly bored playing the game. The story did not hook me at all and I forgot most of the characters names.
@@sisterlillybug3142 Pokémon is a franchise I feel is something you play for the gameplay- casual or competitive. Story and characters? You’re not getting much of either from Pokémon at all. The best story is in Black and White, and it’s mediocre at best.
One of the things I always loved about Josh is how unique the countdown ideas are, from Overhated Games to Music Battles to this. Keep up the great work Josh!
You, good sir, are(to me) a part of a little bunker of TH-cam past. The part that hasn't changed much, and refuses to. It's people like you, and others like Chuggaaconroy, who are proof that the pure, and good TH-cam is not at all dead, just concentrated into one place. Hopefully, someday, we can reclaim all that we have lost to the TV and movie channel TH-camrs.
Ah Underrated games I think they are actually pretty good I don't pay attention to the ratings or reviews Don't trust them Heck, some of my favorite things have bad ratings, but I still enjoy them
***** You can also choose when you want to drop too if your in the middle of Prankster Paradise and your back in Le Cloche de bells just switch back I agree with you about the Abilities via Dream Eaters though and maybe the drop shouldn't be during boss battles
***** The first Yu-Gi-Oh video game I played was one for the Gamecube. It was atrocious. Never beat the first level because of how much the gameplay bored me.
@MMOs: I usually find two underlying problems with them. #1: The grind. They deliberately put in filler content designed only to slow down the progress of the player (in order to stop the player from actually completing their game). This includes the "Kill X enemies in location" quest. #2: Combat usually isn't particularly interesting in them. This, combined with a plethora of "Kill X enemies"-type quests turns them into a huge chore. Personally, my favorite MMO is DCUO simply because it's combat is fun enough for me that "Fight X number of enemies" can still be fun. It also helps that such quests feel a bit more natural in a super-hero setting ("Baddies are overrunning an area! This looks like a job for a super hero!")
Frieza: if I have an ego boost than let the fiery joker explode in front of me Josh: KABOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMB! Frieza:HA! Nice try jack*aa! Next time give it your A game
What was so bad of Sonic and the Black knight it did actually fix some of the secret rings problems and even seeing the others as medieval archetypes was interesting and especially funny seeing Shadow as Lancelot?
Niro's voice actor is the same as Ichigo's, the first ever Black Power Ranger, so he probably sounds whiny because his other roles didn't really require him to sound like that before.
+Matthew Rubenstein I have honestly never played Black Night. I have played Secret Rings, though. I couldn't even get past the tutorial. Thank Arceus I lost it.
Princess Celestia Personally, I enjoyed the game. The story was fantastic, the scenery and action looked great, the music was standard Sonic awesomeness, and the difficulty was just right through the main game. Side missions were another story, though. Anyway, a lot of the problems that Secret Rings had were fixed in Black Knight, though the inclusion of loose sword controls did add a new layer of clunkiness. It's flawed, yes, but it's got the kinds of flaws I can forgive in a game. Also, if you do pick it up, be warned that the first time you see the credits is only halfway through the story.
Princess Celestia Personally I really enjoyed the game as I do most Sonic games that people hate. Everybody's biggest complaint with most modern Sonic games is that they're "different". Usually because they each have some sort of gameplay mechanic (Guns, hoverboards, werehog combat, swords etc.) to differ themselves from each other which most people think that they're just trying to throw in new stuff to see what works and what doesn't.
The Monster Hunter series. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely _love_ MH, but there's some problems with it that make me want to snap my 3DS in twain. "I'm going to go all the way across the map and regain all my health real quick, is that okay? Oh yeah, when you get to me, I'm also gonna take _all_ your health with a really fast attack while you panic because you're already poisoned and are out of antidotes. You cool with that?" ~Rathalos, 2015 "My roar does damage :D" ~Akantor, 2015 "I'll just sit here and do an attack that will make you completely immobile, then I'll bodyslam you to take all your health. Also, I'll make it so you can't heal with items. We cool?" ~Congalala, 2015
Yeah, I love the Momster Hunter games, but I've kinda fallen out of Generations Ultimate because I feel like I'm going through a massive cycle of "get destroyed by monster, exhaust every resource available to me and finally kill it, go through a bunch of gathering quests to power up again, repeat for the next monster". It kind of gets exhausting after a while.
I have to *STRONGLY* disagree with you on number 6. I hate that game so much, I'd put it on my worst video games of all time list. I also disagree on the sequel, since I liked and enjoyed that game much more. Other than that, I enjoyed this list. Keep up the good work, Josh. :)
Hub Hikari I can't decide which is worse, Shadow or Secret rings, then again, I played the PS2 version of shadow, so maybe the gamecube version was better.
I see your problem with KH Birth By Sleep but I still love the game and same goes with Chain of memories but as for my Love/Hate game I guess Sly 4 thieves in time the game play was really FUN but as for the story line it has it's problem.
I know I'm probably alone with this opinion but honestly I liked SPM better than the original and the Thousand Year Door. I do recognize that technically speaking the other two are superior but I have such fond and nostalgic memories with Super Paper Mario that I have to say I liked it better
Gohan... DOOODGE!!! Also, the TFS reference that was thrown in here (rather than the one I just made) - was AMAZING and well-timed. I guess you gave it your A-Game. Loved the rest of the video too. This was a really good countdown.
Junglehero127 *sees profile picture* ...oh! Nah man don't worry! EVERYONE likes taht game! (sarcasm lol!) No but in all seriousness I liked secret rings, but haven't played black knight, from what I can tell its better so I'll probably like that one too!
KuroNoTenno The "Final" boss or the true final boss? Because King Arthur was pretty difficult compared to the rest of the game. Shadow Queen or whatever her name is was like the easiest thing ever though so yeah I agree if that's what you mean.
...I liked Black Knight... Also, could not agree more with Xenoverse. Also, oh my god, the spam from the enemies. At some points, you can get attacked and be unable to escape from it even though enemies can teleport away at any time.
Mine would be Skyward Sword. Yes the motion controls were gimmicky, and Fi was annoying af; but the combat was pretty enjoyable, Ghirahim is easily my favorite Zelda villian to date, and I like how it took full advantage of the fact that it's the first game in the timeline. What I mean by this is how it explains various reoccurring things in the series. It gives the origins of the Triforce, the forging of the Master Sword (as well as why it's called that), why the 3rd bearers of the Triforce ate always meeting up, and it even works in the origin of the main theme.
Madness They much easier after you git gud yes but there still annoying as fuck when you come across that one boss for the first time that has that one OP move that you have to fight 4 times to learn how to counter. It does get easier the more you play though.
Madness Two hard bosses at the same time that could easily have been seperate bosses which then dragon ball fusion into eachother and become an even harder boss which regains all its health so if you split damage you wasted so much time. But at least when you finally beat them you get to see some fake ghost goddess boobs.
I think Pokémon Red/Blue belongs on this list. It has a great concept, but it is also very flawed and unpolished. Admittedly, not nearly as much as Sonic and the Secret Rings, but it should be worth at least a honourable mention.
+Schwarzer Ritter Flaws include but are not limited to: Rage (the move will cause what it's called) UNfocus Energy Binding moves Unbalanced Psychic types (even dragons were never than broken) The anti paralysis/anti burn method Frozen status Sleep status Hyper Beam etc.
Excellent list. I relate to you so much on Assassin's Creed. That F Zero racing looked like my kind of intense. I've never played Secret Rings, but I loved Sonic and the Black Knight. I much prefer the pacing of Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance over Chain of Memories. At no point has the Kingdom Hearts series lied to us about its universe, certainly not in DDD. I really need to play the DMC and Prince of Persia games. Alright, cool.
Fun fact: The voice actor for Nero (Johnny Yong Bosch) in DMC 4 has done a shit ton of voice acting in a lot of other places probably most recognizable as Ichigo from bleach (games and anime), Firion from both dissidia final fantasies, Brock from pokemon origins, Sasori from naruto (games and anime), and Rush sykes from Last remnant among other more niche thing like persona. Damn this guy gets around.
one of the games that I hate and love the most is 358/2 days. It's combat seemed repetitive and annoying and some bosses were extremely cheap (Ruler of the skies). But I loved the character development, how much you can see characters like Roxas grow into better characters, and I enjoyed slowly seeing parts from the first game flash up.
Even some of my favorite games have some flaws Cheap frustrating AI, glitches, lag Racing games and fighting games have broken AI Seriously The AI in Koei games is inconsistent It's either beat the crap out of you until you rage or let you beat it up
Sonic & The Secret Rings is a personal guilty pleasure, namely due to the fantastic soundtrack and the cheesy story. Seriously, that pinky swear was absolutely ridiculous.
Hey josh how come you don't like sonic and the black knight? I personally enjoyed playing it but it's probably because I'm a sucker for sword fighting games.
Also, found two little errors in the credits. First off, Ty's last name is Salmons, not Selmons. And secondly, what's Crash Bandicoot Racing? I've heard of Crash TEAM Racing, which was clearly the game you were showing off in that segment (maybe Crash Bandicoot Racing is its name in a different region, I dunno).
+MaverickHunterZero75 I'm pretty sure he meant Team Racing. But I can see why someone would confuse it for "Crash Bandicoot Racing" I also don't get how someone can mispell Ty's name! Is Salmons! Like the fish! XD
***** Yeah, I knew he meant CTR, but I don't recall any region calling it "Crash Bandicoot Racing". Eh, just a nitpick. The rest of the list was pretty great.
I actually loved feeding and petting my pets in Dream Drop Distance. It was a good relaxing break from the fighting and worrying my head off over getting enough done before the timer ends
If there was a certain kind of game I love and hate, it's games that are really fun just playing through them, but complete hell to 100%. Games like Super Mario Sunshine, Donkey Kong 64, and Sonic Unleashed are all like that for me. If it was a single game, then I'd say Sonic Heroes. Love a lot about it, the gameplay and how they handled multiple teams bogs it all down.
+zedersteel NSSmod I 100%'d Super Mario Sunshine in only three months last winter, but I agree. I used a guide to get all the blue coins, which probably eased the frustration considerably.
I personally loathe F-Zero GX. I dislike the controls to begin with, but the insane difficulty mixed with how flagrantly the enemy racers play by a different set of rules than you do, it's about as fun to me as pulling out my own hair with a pair of white-hot tweezers. For me, being incredibly fun only holds on for the first dozen or so deaths. Then, I begin to get angry and notice all the little cracks, flaws and failings, and the whole thing just falls apart.
My own candidate for this list, and I'm probably going to get crucified for this... The Last of Us. When the game was annouced I was so f*yay*ing hyped, a proper post-apocalypse game that wasn't tedious (Walking Dead Survival Instict) and not in early access limbo (DayZ). And it was quite a lot of fun, the visuals were amazing on PS3 and the gameplay was pretty decent what with the lack of supplies (which I actually FELT was the case compared to other games that claim to have such mechanics). The problem for me is the story and ESPECIALLY the ending, *THE REST OF THE COMMENT IS A MASSIVE SPOILER WARNING, LEAVE NOW IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS* At the very start of the game, Joel's daughter is shot and killed by a soldier, but this is glossed over by the 20-year timeskip immediately afterwards, they could've at least showed what Joel had to do in order to get over the situation of his daughter dying, but nope, timeskip for the win. Early on in the game you're introduced to Ellie, the other main character, who is later revealed to be immune to the zombie virus (which can be transfered through bites, how original) and that a group of survivors called the Fireflies wish to use her genes in order to make a cure. You can see the obvious story setup by now: Ellie reminds Joel of his dead daughter, they grow a bit, something happens that forces them to seperate, they come back together and promise never to leave each other's side, this sounds awfully familiar don't it? Sound like *EVERY VIDEO GAME AND MOVIE THAT HAS TWO PROTAGANISTS IN A POST-APOCALYPTIC WORLD*. But then comes the ending, where Joel finally delivers Ellie to the Fireflies and they immediately work on the cure... But it's then revealed that the opperation has a very high chance of killing Ellie in the process, but the lives of many are worth more than the life on one, right? 'WELL NOT ACCORDING TO JOEL!* Upon hearing this he grabs the nearest weapons and starts *MURDERING THE INNOCENT PEOPLE THAT COULD POSSIBLY END THE APOCALYPSE*, it doesn't matter who they were, soldiers or scientist, every Fireflies member that Joel ran into on that day were shot and killed, just because of a 14-15 year old girl that somewhat reminds Joel of his daughter. In case you weren't paying attention, THE ONE THING you've been working towards for the entire game was flushed down the drain because of a single man's selfish wish to keep the girl alive. Once Joel escapes with Ellie she wakes up and asks what happened, whereupon Joel straight up lies to her and says that they couldn't find a cure, Ellie even says "Swear to me... Swear to me that everything you told me about the Fireflies is true" whereupon Joel lies to her AGAIN and the screen cuts to black, DID SOMEONE SAY SEQUEL BAIT? I know I'm probably rambling for no apparent reason, but I just needed to get that off of my chest. The gameplay and visuals are good, but the story kills it, revives it and kills it a thousand times over.
stefanfr13 While I do agree with most of with,the ending itself for me was good. But one thing though:INNOCENT PEOPLE? THe ONLY people I would consider innocent are the doctors who were doing the surgery and Marlene. THe rest of the fireflies however? When Joel gets Ellie to the hospital,they greet him by hitting him in the head with a gun. Also,if I remember good,the plan at first was to kill Joel on sight.The only reason they didn't do it was because of Marlene. As for the ending and Joel's decision,while it is sellfish,but for me it was believable ,and,dare I say, realistic? What I mean by that. While yes,by killing Ellie they could get cure for entire humanity but by doing that Joel would loose the only reason to give a damn.He treats Ellie like an adoptive daughter at tha point and to say to him that she needs to die so that humanity can live? Nu-uh. My reaction when Marlene says than Ellie will die was:Oh fuck no,screw you.You're not killing her. Imagine yourself in similar position.There is a person that you care for very much(doesn't have to be a family member,you just care).Then somebody tells you that they can save the world/race etc. BUT that person needs to die. Would you really say:Ok,do that,let's save the world OR: NO,you're not doing that.
stefanfr13 I agree with you on everything, the story had a little too much drama, and the ending was a disappointment. But I also had a problem with the replay-ability. Once you beat the game for the first time, you realize the start is agonizingly slow, i just want to get into the action but Joel and Ellie have to walk through the environment and explain the situation I already know. It's why I've only beaten the game once.
+stefanfr13 Well, about the ending... it's been talked about and debated A LOT in other parts of the Internet (Josh's Top Ten Evil Characters comment section being one of those parts), but one vague issue with the ending is this: there was no guarantee whatsoever that the surgery with Ellie would have produced a cure and saved the world (in fact, during the hospital level, the player can find recordings stating that Ellie is far from the first immune person they've found and tried this on). In addition, as Krzysztof Gorski above has stated, the Fireflies are not good people, so Joel's distrust and vengeance on them were understandable (even if he went too far). Still, though, Last of Us was a very beautiful game, had pretty good gameplay, and even had two interesting ideas about a zombie apocalypse that I had not seen before: people with an immunity to the plague, and zombies just decaying out and re-dying on their own. Granted, the story did not do much with these ideas (nor do most movies/games/stories that even consider those elements, which are not many), but it was fun to consider. And yeah, coolguyman16, a game like that does have little replay value. I guess the devs thought there may be a little replay value in the Joel's customization system, but that doesn't help much when you're playing through the same (long) story over and over.
At number 9, and let me brag and say I have beaten story mode on Very Hard and unlocked all the racers. That full racer select screen is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.
Just played and finished KH DDD on the PS4 (KH2.8) and i must say i 100% agree with Josh. The combat was the best thing about the game, I LOVE THE FLOWMOTION ! Its without a doubt the best thing about the game. The worse thing about the game ?? DREAM EATERS !! I hate the idea of it. The leveling and acquiring abilities is a HORRIBLE IDEA ! Trying to get second chance and once more is such a chore ! I thought it was bad in Birth by Sleep because you can get it early in the game; hence, breaking balance and challenge of the game but in DDD it TAKES FOREVER and you need them to fight Ansem and Young Xehanort ! It took me 3 days of my free time to get Ryu Dragon :/
Im a huge Kingdom Hearts fan and if theres a game thats i hate and love the most (more on hate) it would be birth by sleep. Hands down the best KH game is kh2fm and when Birth by sleep came out my God i went through i tone of pressure just to buy a psp and the game with it and then when i played it i was heart broken, THE GAMEPLAY ... SUCKS. Physical combos feel off in comparison to KH2, having forced command styles during mod/boss fights are annoying and good God ! Bosses like mysterious figure and no heart are a b*tch to beat without second chance and once more (especially with terra) and unfortunately the game doesnt make much effort to tell you how to obtain the two they just say "meld your commands ..." thats IT ! The only thing i love about Birth by Sleep mainly is of the story and character design. Ventus is cool and it explains why soras nobody looks like ventus himself. Aqua character and design is summed in one word: Beautiful. For a woman shes one hell of a keyblade weilder she kicked vanitus' ass and sacrificed her freedom to save terra/terranort. As for terra, he's my second favourite character in terms of detail. I look at him as a daily kid/teenager/man who is trying to do the right thing but leading him into struggle with bad things that end up making himself stronger. So yeah i love the story of birth by sleep but hate the gameplay.
***** As someone who grew up on Jak 2...I can't agree to that at all! It was really fun for what it was, and I'd spend tons of time just messing around killing guards and stuff! Was it a tad bit challenging at times? yes! but that's what I like about it! It's hard to find 3d platforming games of that difficulty AND good controls! (Plus its not that hard at all really, if you played it as a kid like me, go play it now and you won't stuggle, I garantee it!)
I will say this, I really REALLY enjoyed "Rhythm Thief and the Emperor's Treasure" for the 3DS. It was the first rhythm game I ever owned and was able to finish, the story and its characters drew me in (Phantom R in particular is an entertaining and charming character), and a lot of the mini-games were fun to go through... with the glaring exception of a lot of mini-games involving Charlie. Now I don't hate Charlie as a character, but his mini-games were a big pain in the ass. At least half of them involve you kicking his soccer ball back to him in time with the music (obviously), but the problem is you practically have to be pinpoint accurate or you'd miss the cue entirely and your score at the end of the game would get severely penalized as a result! The hang-glider min-game in particular was a huge source of frustration for me cuz the tilt controls, for some reason, didn't want to cooperate in that particular mini-game! You know how many times it took me to beat that one? 33! Yeah yeah, I know a lot of Charlie's mini-games are set at a higher difficulty than a lot of the others, but that doesn't change the fact that this pint-sized detective needs to be NERFED!!! I still love the game nonetheless, and I'm still waiting on that sequel, Sega! Don't pull a Capcom and leave us on an unresolved cliffhanger!
Aidan Miles *HOLD IT!* Trials and Tribulations is vastly superior to Dual Destinies because it got everything right. There's not a single bad case, all the characters are amazing, the music kicks ass, and there are very little flaws in it. Rarely do I ever call a game perfect, but this along with my favorite game of all time come pretty fucking close where there are only 1 or two flaws in them, and even then they just come off as nitpicks. Also Justice for All > Apollo Justice, Investigations, The original and Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright.
How the hell is Secret Rings is better then Black Knight? Please explain youself. Black Knight had better control, better use of the motion, and no bullshit levels like that Egg minssion in Rings. If any of you say "oh it sucks because Sonic has a sword", that just means you only looked for the bad in the game and hate changes, like the fucking eye color of Sonic. Also, before anybody askes, yes I believe that BK is a good game, actually a great game. However, it is far from my favorite, I would rather play Unleashed, Colors, Generations, Lost World, Heroes, the Rider series, and Sonic Adventure (only 1, because fuck Battle...) before I consider replaying BK.
I liked the thumbnail, basically ramming Xemnas with Phoenix clinging for dear life and Nero looking at him with mixed looks. And Xemnas is being rammed at faster than the speed of sound.
Hey Josh, if you want to be a healer/support character, you should Try Mabinogi. Unlike most mmo's, you only buy items for a little extra customization, and you can choose to be taught by the game directly about it's mechanics. Yeah, it has some serious issues if you tend to lag (Most notably rubber banding) but im sure youll like it after you become a healing bard.oh yeah, and no buying stuff to form parties. *Final fantasy noise*
You must be smoking Chili Dogs, Black Knight is 100 times better than Secret Rings q.q I don't even consider Black Knight a "dark age" Sonic game or anything like that...
The player can get "super armor" in Xenoverse, too. One of the Ginyu Force poses gives it to you. It makes your stamina take the damage your health would, and you don't flinch.
*Love-hates!* 3: Five Nights at Freddy's. Let's start by saying that what frustrates me the most about the games is that they're actually more like two games in one for every release, with the first game being overly lengthy, stressful, rage-inducing, and almost downright unpalatable, (The segments of the game where you're actually *playing* the game) but the second game being eerie, gripping, and at some points, mind-blowing. (The minigames, the secrets, the ARG-esque discovering of lore, the hidden endings) I loved the lore, and I loved the minigames, and I loved traversing the wilds of the internet, the forums, wikis, reddits, just to find out what's going on and uncover stuff for myself. Theorizing, conversing, it was all part of this really entertaining and fun experience that was bogged down by having to play the actual game. It's a situation where my real life experience revolving around the game was a more pleasurable time than the time spent actually experiencing the game, so I figured it would be worth mention. 2: Metroid Prime. This game was fantastic, with the utterly atmospheric music design and aesthetic, the perfect level of mobility, a well-built growth curve for the middle 75% of the game, a fascinating world teeming with life in Talon IV, and some ABSURDLY DEEP levels of lore that, to this day, I've only really had challenged by Silent Hill and the Elder Scrolls series. On the FLIP SIDE, backtracking was a pain in the ass, particularly since Samus herself galumphs her metal ass around like she were walking on stilts, along with the fact that the morph ball has a surprising amount of trouble accessing several different area. The backtracking also became the WORST experience in the game a little bit later on when the obnoxious and difficult chozo ghost enemies start showing up in EVERY ROOM OF THE CHOZO RUINS. You know, the *HUB WORLD*. Not to mention, the game was often a little unintuitive or even backward in how you should go about solving your problems, (I.E you can't get a heat resistant suit without first taking a short detour through the hottest level in the game) which would have been acceptable if map layout were more accepting of lateral thinking. There were multiple occasions where I would be trying to go to a particular room, but the normal path to the room was swarming with danger, so I would try to take an alternate route to the room via the back door, and end up wasting half an hour of backtracking by finding out that the route was actually just a one-way exit OUT of the room! 1:Smash Bros series. It's my favorite series of all time, with a MASSIVE list of pros and achievements that almost no other game series can hope to live up to. Conceptual brilliance, with tight and well-executed mechanics, and the only possible things on this planet that can make a man happier than playing his all time favorite character in smash are discovering a NEW all-time favorite character through smash (bowser) and sex. I am comparing a video game to sex, it makes me that happy. Which is why it's so frustrating whenever they get it wrong. Character balance is always one of the most massive issues in any smash title, even moreso in smash because it punishes you for playing your favorite characters, and playing your favorite character is almost the entire reason for smash bros. I'll be playing with friends as bowser, ganon, WFT, or someone else, and I'll get utterly pulverized by some diddy kong player who clearly doesn't actually care about the character or even playing in a style that he likes, but only cares about playing the top tier, winning every game, and being an asshole. Not to mention the game is addicting in all the right ways, buuut also some of the wrong ways. Menu layout, timers, and gui are programmed so that losers never quit, whether by the game spending an overly lengthy time on the win screen, or by it being much more inconvenient and slow to quit a game than to start up another round and maybe get your smash power back. It almost makes you feel like you dishonor somebody by leaving a match, ESPECIALLY after a losing streak.
OKAMI IS BEST. ALL PERISH BEFORE THE BEAUTY OF AMATERASU AND HER BELOVED NIPPON!!!! But I guess you made up for it with the Kefka-Dimensio bit. That was awesome! Keep up the top tens!
Ya know seeing Young Xehanort pinned to the grill of that flying car while you're suffering Elika's magic seizure attack I guess while invoking road rage makes me smile
While I agree on the difficult spikes and super sayin spamming I didn't really have a problem with super armor, but my biggest problem was with the parallel quests and having to complete the bonus objectives to try to fight the bonus character only for them not to appear
dream drop distance needed a shadow of the colossus boss, IMAGINE HOW AWESOME IT WOULD BE CLIMBING WITH FLOWMOTION (thankfully this might happen in III)
I think I may have 2: Tera, because while I do like the flow of combat and the class and race options, it is a reminder that being an MMO, I mostly wanted to play with friends, but because they tended to be higher levels than I, it meant they either had to create another character to play, or I had to do quests alone - which feels tedious at times and makes me think I'd be best off just playing a single player game. The other one is Majora's Mask because while it feels rewarding to do quests, the fact that having to travel back in time undid everything I've accomplished (minus the permanent upgrades) makes me question what's the point even of doing the quests?
I'm having trouble understanding what was wrong with Sticker Star. I've played it a bit myself and while resource management is a bit annoying I haven't found it to be all that bad.
The problem with the "Tamagatchi" part of KH Triple D wasn't that it existed as much as it took WAY too long to get the better abilities in the first place. I actually beat the game on Proud Mode WITHOUT Second Chance or Once More. I don't know how I did that.
It'd have to be Crimson Shroud for me. Interesting aesthetic and gameplay with the tabletop RPG elements, but the story ends on such a downer (and that one level where you have to fight skeletons over and over just to get the item that will help you move forward... ugh) that I'm questioning whether or not I should even play it again.
What is the name of the first music track played in the Sonic and the secret rings segment? Around 10:20? UPDATE: I found out myself after 10 minutes of research, it's Splash Hill Zone from Sonic 4.
F-Zero GX is also on my love/hate list. It's a one-of-a-kind super fast and fun racer, but when you ask for the shackles to come off, it holds nothing back. My advice for the final mission on Normal mode is to not race to ghost, but the track. The ghost barely tries on Normal, and you're just getting a feel for the track. On Hard, same thing, just boost once or twice. Very Hard? You're racing the ghost, and a near-perfect one at that. I cleared every mission on every difficulty, and personally, I found the Grand Prix mission the hardest. I wish you good luck on it, as it took my a combined few months to clear (including the first file that got deleted by a defect in my Wii)
That ending statement for number eight, I agree, I haven't played Devil May Cry games, but I've played Mario Galaxy, granted, it only makes you do this to 100% the game, BUT COME ON! Sure you play as Luigi, but Luigi's campaign is barely different from Mario's, Luigi has slippery physics, better jump height, slightly altered text, a more frustrating version of Cosmic Mario (Cosmic Luigi) and Mail Toad gives you twenty lives instead of five, yaaaaay! Luigi doesn't even save Mario, he saves Luigi, come on Nintendo! Here's the best part, all you get for recollecting all 120 stars as Luigi, and watching the credits four freaking times, you get an uninspired purple coins level, in Peach's courtyard, from the beginning of the game, yaaaaay! Mario Galaxy Two fixed this, by adding green stars, making the experience after collecting the one hundred-twenty stars fresh, and the finale level is a Galaxy that tests your skills, called Grand Master Galaxy, now that's improvement.
5:04 Oh, how stupidly proud of myself I am to have been able to 100% complete F-Zero GX back in high school. Now that's a memory card I'll never let go
You ask "What is it with the Japanese and not understanding black culture?
The real question is "What is it with the Japanese and not understanding other cultures?
The answer to both questions is. They don't care.
***** More like, their country's population is 99% japanese. So they just don't know any better.
***** Exactly my thought. But I agree with Le Dom, I think the immigration rate is something like... 0.X%, and most of those are from other Asian countries, so they only rely on TV Shows etc xD
+TheNecrotimer After watching Hetalia, I think the better answer is "They care enough to make a joke out of it any chance they get."
Author Bat The thing with Hetalia is that it's a parody of the stereotypes japanese associate with other countries
Le Dom Yeah, I know. That's the joke.
Maybe it's just me, but I found Black Knight much better than Secret Rings. Sonic was easier to control, the story I found to be more interesting, the soundtrack was much better in my opinion (though to be fair, I don't really care for Secret Rings' soundtrack), and the multiplayer, while still not the greatest, was far better than Secret Rings' broken Mario Party clone.
***** I absolutely agree, I hate Secret Rings, love Black Knight
I have to agree with that. Plus, I always wanted a sonic sword game, so it interested me right away.
***** You mean that one plot twist that was telegraphed before the story even picked up steam?
But yeah, I definitely enjoyed Black Knight, flawed as it was. I remember Secret Rings fondly, but that's probably the ten years of nostalgia sitting on my back.
I have to agree with you there Maverick. I was playing Black knight again and again even after I beat final story, but not secret rings.
***** Black Knight has probably the most definitive characterisation of Sonic, really nailing his personality while telling a nice story. Jason Griffith's performance was brilliant as well.
17:40
Picollo in the distance: DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDDDGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SOUL WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE
Melted Sherbert i'm not allowed to watch one of my favorite youtubers?
Eating Corn Hens by day, slurping P.F. Changs at night.
soul shield ...That's not what I...Okay.
+soul shield
Missed opportunity
Josh: Hey Gohan, move away from the giant death ball that is being charged!
Me: Or as Piccolo puts it, DODGE!
I never thought I'd hear "Dragon Ball Z" being "fast-pasted" in the same sentence.
Pokemon X and Y. The pros, it introduced character customization to the main stream Pokemon games, I only completely dislike ONE of the new Pokemon (Aromatise) while I love the rest (especially Hawlucha), the battle mechanics are polished to perfection, the mega-evolution is fun to use, EV training is easier, the online system is not a chore to use and you can INTERACT with your Pokemon!! Cons; weakest story in the entire franchise, most forgettable gym leaders ever, only 6 characters are either interesting or fleshed out, Team Flare is both forced and forgettably one dimensional (not counting their leader), the story doesn't even try to use the new mechanics and WAY too few inverse battles and I HATE SKY BATTLES WITH A BURNING PASSION!
I wouldn't say the story is the weakest and team flare was..interesting I wouldn't say they were a "bad" team though
I recently tried to replay my copy of X and... I just hate it. I was so utterly bored playing the game. The story did not hook me at all and I forgot most of the characters names.
@@sisterlillybug3142 Pokémon is a franchise I feel is something you play for the gameplay- casual or competitive. Story and characters? You’re not getting much of either from Pokémon at all. The best story is in Black and White, and it’s mediocre at best.
One of the things I always loved about Josh is how unique the countdown ideas are, from Overhated Games to Music Battles to this. Keep up the great work Josh!
You, good sir, are(to me) a part of a little bunker of TH-cam past. The part that hasn't changed much, and refuses to. It's people like you, and others like Chuggaaconroy, who are proof that the pure, and good TH-cam is not at all dead, just concentrated into one place. Hopefully, someday, we can reclaim all that we have lost to the TV and movie channel TH-camrs.
I love chugga
The joker driving the Blue Falcon reminds me of Dbza Bardock yelling "FREIZAAAAAAAA!"
kilian foust XEHANOOOOORRRRRTT
+joshscorcher VEEEEEEEEEGEEETTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
***** ARIES!
(let's go people, pick other notorious and screamable antagonist and shout their names)
+Sonny Firestorm KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
+kilian foust SEPHIROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTTTTHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think Sonic heroes deserves a little more credit than it gets
flipcamgamer I think you worded that very nicely
Ah Underrated games I think they are actually pretty good I don't pay attention to the ratings or reviews Don't trust them Heck, some of my favorite things have bad ratings, but I still enjoy them
It's solid but playing the game 4 times to get to the last story get really old
theguywiththebluejayshat that and the controls are quite slippery. Especially with the special stages
flipcamgamer I also really enjoyed sonic chronicles but no one talks about it
Do people not know that Drop me not's exist?.
29gish I addressed that.
*****
Barely - For like a second. Honestly if you just buy like 80 drop me nots early in the game then the drop bar isn't an issue.
29gish And you can drop immediately at any time, so if you are at a point in one story you really want to finish you can just redrop real quick
***** You can also choose when you want to drop too if your in the middle of Prankster Paradise and your back in Le Cloche de bells just switch back I agree with you about the Abilities via Dream Eaters though and maybe the drop shouldn't be during boss battles
Muraia The Sagely agree with you 100%
The Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship Games.
***** I'd love to hear your reasons for that. Also side note is a new one of those ever going to come out again?
***** Have you ever thought of doing a countdown based off of Yugioh like Top 10 Yugioh games or characters or monsters?
TheChaosStormBringer I thought they released a Yugioh game not too long ago?
Federico Porcel Not a world championship game though the last one was 2011.
***** The first Yu-Gi-Oh video game I played was one for the Gamecube. It was atrocious. Never beat the first level because of how much the gameplay bored me.
@MMOs:
I usually find two underlying problems with them.
#1: The grind. They deliberately put in filler content designed only to slow down the progress of the player (in order to stop the player from actually completing their game). This includes the "Kill X enemies in location" quest.
#2: Combat usually isn't particularly interesting in them. This, combined with a plethora of "Kill X enemies"-type quests turns them into a huge chore. Personally, my favorite MMO is DCUO simply because it's combat is fun enough for me that "Fight X number of enemies" can still be fun. It also helps that such quests feel a bit more natural in a super-hero setting ("Baddies are overrunning an area! This looks like a job for a super hero!")
Frieza: if I have an ego boost than let the fiery joker explode in front of me
Josh: KABOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMB!
Frieza:HA! Nice try jack*aa! Next time give it your A game
Seth Howell
Jacksaa?
I get you censored it but that is odd placement of the star-thingy.
+Pierre Rivet I ment jack*ss
+Seth Howell it's just too funny
17:40 Piccolo: "DOOOOOOOOOODGE!"
What was so bad of Sonic and the Black knight it did actually fix some of the secret rings problems and even seeing the others as medieval archetypes was interesting and especially funny seeing Shadow as Lancelot?
Niro's voice actor is the same as Ichigo's, the first ever Black Power Ranger, so he probably sounds whiny because his other roles didn't really require him to sound like that before.
KuroNoTenno YES, you're right, I completely forgot about Zack.
Wait, what was so bad about Sonic and the Black Night?
Idk I liked it.
+Matthew Rubenstein I have honestly never played Black Night. I have played Secret Rings, though. I couldn't even get past the tutorial. Thank Arceus I lost it.
+Matthew Rubenstein Monty Python is the best. Thanks for the suggestion. :)
Princess Celestia Personally, I enjoyed the game. The story was fantastic, the scenery and action looked great, the music was standard Sonic awesomeness, and the difficulty was just right through the main game. Side missions were another story, though. Anyway, a lot of the problems that Secret Rings had were fixed in Black Knight, though the inclusion of loose sword controls did add a new layer of clunkiness. It's flawed, yes, but it's got the kinds of flaws I can forgive in a game.
Also, if you do pick it up, be warned that the first time you see the credits is only halfway through the story.
Princess Celestia Personally I really enjoyed the game as I do most Sonic games that people hate. Everybody's biggest complaint with most modern Sonic games is that they're "different". Usually because they each have some sort of gameplay mechanic (Guns, hoverboards, werehog combat, swords etc.) to differ themselves from each other which most people think that they're just trying to throw in new stuff to see what works and what doesn't.
Collective Consciuosness as the background
This video is already a 11/10
The Monster Hunter series.
Don't get me wrong, I absolutely _love_ MH, but there's some problems with it that make me want to snap my 3DS in twain.
"I'm going to go all the way across the map and regain all my health real quick, is that okay?
Oh yeah, when you get to me, I'm also gonna take _all_ your health with a really fast attack while you panic because you're already poisoned and are out of antidotes. You cool with that?"
~Rathalos, 2015
"My roar does damage :D"
~Akantor, 2015
"I'll just sit here and do an attack that will make you completely immobile, then I'll bodyslam you to take all your health. Also, I'll make it so you can't heal with items. We cool?"
~Congalala, 2015
Yeah, I love the Momster Hunter games, but I've kinda fallen out of Generations Ultimate because I feel like I'm going through a massive cycle of "get destroyed by monster, exhaust every resource available to me and finally kill it, go through a bunch of gathering quests to power up again, repeat for the next monster". It kind of gets exhausting after a while.
I have to *STRONGLY* disagree with you on number 6. I hate that game so much, I'd put it on my worst video games of all time list. I also disagree on the sequel, since I liked and enjoyed that game much more.
Other than that, I enjoyed this list. Keep up the good work, Josh. :)
It is an opinionated list
KidSnivy69 Doesn't mean I can't disagree.
Totally agree
Hub Hikari Yeah, I found that choice odd, too. I was like: "...really?"
Hub Hikari I can't decide which is worse, Shadow or Secret rings, then again, I played the PS2 version of shadow, so maybe the gamecube version was better.
Sonic and the black Knight is ok to me, it was an improvement over Secret Rings.
I see your problem with KH Birth By Sleep but I still love the game and same goes with Chain of memories but as for my Love/Hate game I guess Sly 4 thieves in time the game play was really FUN but as for the story line it has it's problem.
Drawn to Life. Thats the only game that made me want to burn it in a fire, but cry when it was over. I had to use cheat codes.
I know I'm probably alone with this opinion but honestly I liked SPM better than the original and the Thousand Year Door. I do recognize that technically speaking the other two are superior but I have such fond and nostalgic memories with Super Paper Mario that I have to say I liked it better
Gohan... DOOODGE!!!
Also, the TFS reference that was thrown in here (rather than the one I just made) - was AMAZING and well-timed.
I guess you gave it your A-Game.
Loved the rest of the video too. This was a really good countdown.
Am alone in really loving Sonic and the Black Knight? I thought it was really good and brought a lot of unique things to the Sonic Franchise.
Junglehero127 BK is my favourite modern Sonic game, so you're not alone.
Junglehero127 *sees profile picture* ...oh! Nah man don't worry! EVERYONE likes taht game! (sarcasm lol!)
No but in all seriousness I liked secret rings, but haven't played black knight, from what I can tell its better so I'll probably like that one too!
I thought I was alone.
Junglehero127 Black Knight was good, but... easy somewhat. Especially the last boss.
KuroNoTenno The "Final" boss or the true final boss? Because King Arthur was pretty difficult compared to the rest of the game.
Shadow Queen or whatever her name is was like the easiest thing ever though so yeah I agree if that's what you mean.
Glad to see you still enjoy kicking ass with top ten lists Josh. Keep doing what your doing.
...I liked Black Knight...
Also, could not agree more with Xenoverse.
Also, oh my god, the spam from the enemies.
At some points, you can get attacked and be unable to escape from it even though enemies can teleport away at any time.
What is the name of the music during each transition?
Mine would be Skyward Sword. Yes the motion controls were gimmicky, and Fi was annoying af; but the combat was pretty enjoyable, Ghirahim is easily my favorite Zelda villian to date, and I like how it took full advantage of the fact that it's the first game in the timeline. What I mean by this is how it explains various reoccurring things in the series. It gives the origins of the Triforce, the forging of the Master Sword (as well as why it's called that), why the 3rd bearers of the Triforce ate always meeting up, and it even works in the origin of the main theme.
Oh hey look at that, Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 fixed a lot of that~
What song is played during the countdown where it shows the numbers
Collective Consciousness from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
The live action moments look a little overexposed IMO. Might want to turn down the lighting a bit.
1: Bloodborne.
2:Dark souls.
3:Dark souls 2.
4:Demon souls.
5:Dark souls 3.
Wolfy Meh, they aren't really annoying after your first souls game because its to be expected. That and they all become easy after gitting gud.
Madness They much easier after you git gud yes but there still annoying as fuck when you come across that one boss for the first time that has that one OP move that you have to fight 4 times to learn how to counter.
It does get easier the more you play though.
Wolfy I do remember replaying around 40-50 times against O and S my first time round.
Madness Two hard bosses at the same time that could easily have been seperate bosses which then dragon ball fusion into eachother and become an even harder boss which regains all its health so if you split damage you wasted so much time.
But at least when you finally beat them you get to see some fake ghost goddess boobs.
Wolfy Well they do complement each other in terms of Ornstein being fast and Smough being slow so you can just separate them.
I think Pokémon Red/Blue belongs on this list. It has a great concept, but it is also very flawed and unpolished.
Admittedly, not nearly as much as Sonic and the Secret Rings, but it should be worth at least a honourable mention.
+Schwarzer Ritter
Flaws include but are not limited to:
Rage (the move will cause what it's called)
UNfocus Energy
Binding moves
Unbalanced Psychic types (even dragons were never than broken)
The anti paralysis/anti burn method
Frozen status
Sleep status
Hyper Beam
etc.
Would you ever do a redux of Top ten manliest characters?
F-Zero GX is still my favorite racing game ever. I'm still trying to beat the Diamond Cup on Master difficulty 12 years later.
Excellent list. I relate to you so much on Assassin's Creed. That F Zero racing looked like my kind of intense. I've never played Secret Rings, but I loved Sonic and the Black Knight. I much prefer the pacing of Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance over Chain of Memories. At no point has the Kingdom Hearts series lied to us about its universe, certainly not in DDD. I really need to play the DMC and Prince of Persia games.
Alright, cool.
What was the transition music? I LOVE IT
Josh you look different...aside from the hair cut that is. New lighting?
DeathGodRiku he looks like he came out of an anime
DeathGodRiku Yeah it seems like lighting... maybe camera.
Fun fact: The voice actor for Nero (Johnny Yong Bosch) in DMC 4 has done a shit ton of voice acting in a lot of other places probably most recognizable as Ichigo from bleach (games and anime), Firion from both dissidia final fantasies, Brock from pokemon origins, Sasori from naruto (games and anime), and Rush sykes from Last remnant among other more niche thing like persona. Damn this guy gets around.
Forget the Japanese and not understanding Black Culture why didn't One piece do a rapping Pirate first?!
Naruto has a rapping ninja
I want the name of the song. Before every entry with the metal gear in the background.
one of the games that I hate and love the most is 358/2 days. It's combat seemed repetitive and annoying and some bosses were extremely cheap (Ruler of the skies). But I loved the character development, how much you can see characters like Roxas grow into better characters, and I enjoyed slowly seeing parts from the first game flash up.
Even some of my favorite games have some flaws Cheap frustrating AI, glitches, lag Racing games and fighting games have broken AI Seriously The AI in Koei games is inconsistent It's either beat the crap out of you until you rage or let you beat it up
Sonic & The Secret Rings is a personal guilty pleasure, namely due to the fantastic soundtrack and the cheesy story.
Seriously, that pinky swear was absolutely ridiculous.
Hey josh how come you don't like sonic and the black knight? I personally enjoyed playing it but it's probably because I'm a sucker for sword fighting games.
F-Zero needs to come back. I hope Nintendo's at least considering making a new F-Zero game on the Nintendo Switch
ViceN53X I doubt it
That probably why you need guide for what you need to do
Also, found two little errors in the credits. First off, Ty's last name is Salmons, not Selmons. And secondly, what's Crash Bandicoot Racing? I've heard of Crash TEAM Racing, which was clearly the game you were showing off in that segment (maybe Crash Bandicoot Racing is its name in a different region, I dunno).
+MaverickHunterZero75 I'm pretty sure he meant Team Racing. But I can see why someone would confuse it for "Crash Bandicoot Racing"
I also don't get how someone can mispell Ty's name! Is Salmons! Like the fish! XD
***** Yeah, I knew he meant CTR, but I don't recall any region calling it "Crash Bandicoot Racing".
Eh, just a nitpick. The rest of the list was pretty great.
***** 100% agreed there.
+MaverickHunterZero75 He is right about racing bosses though...*cough*Basil*cough*Bubbler*cough*
I actually loved feeding and petting my pets in Dream Drop Distance. It was a good relaxing break from the fighting and worrying my head off over getting enough done before the timer ends
If there was a certain kind of game I love and hate, it's games that are really fun just playing through them, but complete hell to 100%. Games like Super Mario Sunshine, Donkey Kong 64, and Sonic Unleashed are all like that for me.
If it was a single game, then I'd say Sonic Heroes. Love a lot about it, the gameplay and how they handled multiple teams bogs it all down.
+zedersteel NSSmod I 100%'d Super Mario Sunshine in only three months last winter, but I agree. I used a guide to get all the blue coins, which probably eased the frustration considerably.
18:15 Josh, I have ten times more respect for you for putting this in. Awesome use of the abridged.
It's...it's not like Josh likes those games or anything!
I personally loathe F-Zero GX. I dislike the controls to begin with, but the insane difficulty mixed with how flagrantly the enemy racers play by a different set of rules than you do, it's about as fun to me as pulling out my own hair with a pair of white-hot tweezers.
For me, being incredibly fun only holds on for the first dozen or so deaths. Then, I begin to get angry and notice all the little cracks, flaws and failings, and the whole thing just falls apart.
Does anyone remember Wizard101? No. OK. .-.
Ew.
Liked the card battling, little else.
NerdEnthusiast no the real thing no one rembers was that disney mmo rpg
I remember getting bored after world 2 in wizard 101
***** wait they still have it omg send me a link
Can anyone tell me the name of the MMO that shows up at 13:37? I recall seeing that trailer but can't remember anything else.
My own candidate for this list, and I'm probably going to get crucified for this...
The Last of Us.
When the game was annouced I was so f*yay*ing hyped, a proper post-apocalypse game that wasn't tedious (Walking Dead Survival Instict) and not in early access limbo (DayZ).
And it was quite a lot of fun, the visuals were amazing on PS3 and the gameplay was pretty decent what with the lack of supplies (which I actually FELT was the case compared to other games that claim to have such mechanics).
The problem for me is the story and ESPECIALLY the ending, *THE REST OF THE COMMENT IS A MASSIVE SPOILER WARNING, LEAVE NOW IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS*
At the very start of the game, Joel's daughter is shot and killed by a soldier, but this is glossed over by the 20-year timeskip immediately afterwards, they could've at least showed what Joel had to do in order to get over the situation of his daughter dying, but nope, timeskip for the win.
Early on in the game you're introduced to Ellie, the other main character, who is later revealed to be immune to the zombie virus (which can be transfered through bites, how original) and that a group of survivors called the Fireflies wish to use her genes in order to make a cure.
You can see the obvious story setup by now: Ellie reminds Joel of his dead daughter, they grow a bit, something happens that forces them to seperate, they come back together and promise never to leave each other's side, this sounds awfully familiar don't it? Sound like *EVERY VIDEO GAME AND MOVIE THAT HAS TWO PROTAGANISTS IN A POST-APOCALYPTIC WORLD*.
But then comes the ending, where Joel finally delivers Ellie to the Fireflies and they immediately work on the cure... But it's then revealed that the opperation has a very high chance of killing Ellie in the process, but the lives of many are worth more than the life on one, right? 'WELL NOT ACCORDING TO JOEL!*
Upon hearing this he grabs the nearest weapons and starts *MURDERING THE INNOCENT PEOPLE THAT COULD POSSIBLY END THE APOCALYPSE*, it doesn't matter who they were, soldiers or scientist, every Fireflies member that Joel ran into on that day were shot and killed, just because of a 14-15 year old girl that somewhat reminds Joel of his daughter.
In case you weren't paying attention, THE ONE THING you've been working towards for the entire game was flushed down the drain because of a single man's selfish wish to keep the girl alive.
Once Joel escapes with Ellie she wakes up and asks what happened, whereupon Joel straight up lies to her and says that they couldn't find a cure, Ellie even says "Swear to me... Swear to me that everything you told me about the Fireflies is true" whereupon Joel lies to her AGAIN and the screen cuts to black, DID SOMEONE SAY SEQUEL BAIT?
I know I'm probably rambling for no apparent reason, but I just needed to get that off of my chest. The gameplay and visuals are good, but the story kills it, revives it and kills it a thousand times over.
stefanfr13 While I do agree with most of with,the ending itself for me was good.
But one thing though:INNOCENT PEOPLE?
THe ONLY people I would consider innocent are the doctors who were doing the surgery and Marlene.
THe rest of the fireflies however?
When Joel gets Ellie to the hospital,they greet him by hitting him in the head with a gun.
Also,if I remember good,the plan at first was to kill Joel on sight.The only reason they didn't do it was because of Marlene.
As for the ending and Joel's decision,while it is sellfish,but for me it was believable ,and,dare I say, realistic?
What I mean by that.
While yes,by killing Ellie they could get cure for entire humanity but by doing that Joel would loose the only reason to give a damn.He treats Ellie like an adoptive daughter at tha point and to say to him that she needs to die so that humanity can live? Nu-uh.
My reaction when Marlene says than Ellie will die was:Oh fuck no,screw you.You're not killing her.
Imagine yourself in similar position.There is a person that you care for very much(doesn't have to be a family member,you just care).Then somebody tells you that they can save the world/race etc. BUT that person needs to die.
Would you really say:Ok,do that,let's save the world OR: NO,you're not doing that.
stefanfr13 I agree with you on everything, the story had a little too much drama, and the ending was a disappointment. But I also had a problem with the replay-ability. Once you beat the game for the first time, you realize the start is agonizingly slow, i just want to get into the action but Joel and Ellie have to walk through the environment and explain the situation I already know. It's why I've only beaten the game once.
+stefanfr13 Well, about the ending... it's been talked about and debated A LOT in other parts of the Internet (Josh's Top Ten Evil Characters comment section being one of those parts), but one vague issue with the ending is this: there was no guarantee whatsoever that the surgery with Ellie would have produced a cure and saved the world (in fact, during the hospital level, the player can find recordings stating that Ellie is far from the first immune person they've found and tried this on). In addition, as Krzysztof Gorski above has stated, the Fireflies are not good people, so Joel's distrust and vengeance on them were understandable (even if he went too far).
Still, though, Last of Us was a very beautiful game, had pretty good gameplay, and even had two interesting ideas about a zombie apocalypse that I had not seen before: people with an immunity to the plague, and zombies just decaying out and re-dying on their own. Granted, the story did not do much with these ideas (nor do most movies/games/stories that even consider those elements, which are not many), but it was fun to consider.
And yeah, coolguyman16, a game like that does have little replay value. I guess the devs thought there may be a little replay value in the Joel's customization system, but that doesn't help much when you're playing through the same (long) story over and over.
At number 9, and let me brag and say I have beaten story mode on Very Hard and unlocked all the racers. That full racer select screen is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.
Just played and finished KH DDD on the PS4 (KH2.8) and i must say i 100% agree with Josh.
The combat was the best thing about the game, I LOVE THE FLOWMOTION ! Its without a doubt the best thing about the game.
The worse thing about the game ??
DREAM EATERS !! I hate the idea of it. The leveling and acquiring abilities is a HORRIBLE IDEA !
Trying to get second chance and once more is such a chore ! I thought it was bad in Birth by Sleep because you can get it early in the game; hence, breaking balance and challenge of the game but in DDD it TAKES FOREVER and you need them to fight Ansem and Young Xehanort !
It took me 3 days of my free time to get Ryu Dragon :/
Nayem Rahman not to mention that Sora was completely dumb.
I like how you integrated a scene from your number 1 pick into your outro.
Im a huge Kingdom Hearts fan and if theres a game thats i hate and love the most (more on hate) it would be birth by sleep. Hands down the best KH game is kh2fm and when Birth by sleep came out my God i went through i tone of pressure just to buy a psp and the game with it and then when i played it i was heart broken, THE GAMEPLAY ... SUCKS. Physical combos feel off in comparison to KH2, having forced command styles during mod/boss fights are annoying and good God ! Bosses like mysterious figure and no heart are a b*tch to beat without second chance and once more (especially with terra) and unfortunately the game doesnt make much effort to tell you how to obtain the two they just say "meld your commands ..." thats IT ! The only thing i love about Birth by Sleep mainly is of the story and character design. Ventus is cool and it explains why soras nobody looks like ventus himself. Aqua character and design is summed in one word: Beautiful. For a woman shes one hell of a keyblade weilder she kicked vanitus' ass and sacrificed her freedom to save terra/terranort. As for terra, he's my second favourite character in terms of detail. I look at him as a daily kid/teenager/man who is trying to do the right thing but leading him into struggle with bad things that end up making himself stronger.
So yeah i love the story of birth by sleep but hate the gameplay.
I'm not that good at some fighting games but I like them I hate the AI Cheap as heck
What's the intermission music?
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Batman Arkham Knight
Jak 2 and 3
I'm agree with Assassin's Creed. I love it but the game can piss me off a lot.
Amen to Jak 2.
Swedish X Dat sewer mission.
***** Those ring challenges
Swedish X That Erol race **pukes**.
***** As someone who grew up on Jak 2...I can't agree to that at all! It was really fun for what it was, and I'd spend tons of time just messing around killing guards and stuff! Was it a tad bit challenging at times? yes! but that's what I like about it! It's hard to find 3d platforming games of that difficulty AND good controls! (Plus its not that hard at all really, if you played it as a kid like me, go play it now and you won't stuggle, I garantee it!)
I will say this, I really REALLY enjoyed "Rhythm Thief and the Emperor's Treasure" for the 3DS. It was the first rhythm game I ever owned and was able to finish, the story and its characters drew me in (Phantom R in particular is an entertaining and charming character), and a lot of the mini-games were fun to go through... with the glaring exception of a lot of mini-games involving Charlie.
Now I don't hate Charlie as a character, but his mini-games were a big pain in the ass. At least half of them involve you kicking his soccer ball back to him in time with the music (obviously), but the problem is you practically have to be pinpoint accurate or you'd miss the cue entirely and your score at the end of the game would get severely penalized as a result! The hang-glider min-game in particular was a huge source of frustration for me cuz the tilt controls, for some reason, didn't want to cooperate in that particular mini-game! You know how many times it took me to beat that one? 33! Yeah yeah, I know a lot of Charlie's mini-games are set at a higher difficulty than a lot of the others, but that doesn't change the fact that this pint-sized detective needs to be NERFED!!!
I still love the game nonetheless, and I'm still waiting on that sequel, Sega! Don't pull a Capcom and leave us on an unresolved cliffhanger!
Trials and Tribulations is still best Ace Attorney game.
OBJECTION I think dual destinies is the best game
Btw loving ace attorney month
Aidan Miles *HOLD IT!*
Trials and Tribulations is vastly superior to Dual Destinies because it got everything right. There's not a single bad case, all the characters are amazing, the music kicks ass, and there are very little flaws in it. Rarely do I ever call a game perfect, but this along with my favorite game of all time come pretty fucking close where there are only 1 or two flaws in them, and even then they just come off as nitpicks. Also Justice for All > Apollo Justice, Investigations, The original and Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright.
+randezzel27 Plot Twist: Not a single Ace Attorney game is good c:
***** k
18:21 was that abridged? I need to rewatch that some time.
How the hell is Secret Rings is better then Black Knight? Please explain youself. Black Knight had better control, better use of the motion, and no bullshit levels like that Egg minssion in Rings. If any of you say "oh it sucks because Sonic has a sword", that just means you only looked for the bad in the game and hate changes, like the fucking eye color of Sonic. Also, before anybody askes, yes I believe that BK is a good game, actually a great game. However, it is far from my favorite, I would rather play Unleashed, Colors, Generations, Lost World, Heroes, the Rider series, and Sonic Adventure (only 1, because fuck Battle...) before I consider replaying BK.
I liked the thumbnail, basically ramming Xemnas with Phoenix clinging for dear life and Nero looking at him with mixed looks.
And Xemnas is being rammed at faster than the speed of sound.
Holy sh- I'm early... what to do... Oh I know, let's make a very original joke!
AND HIS NAME IS JOOOHN CEEEENAAAAAA!!!
Do doo do dooooooo
The Lunatic Fridge AND HIS NAME IS JOSH SCOOORRRCHEEER
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Hello. You Have A Collect Call From: "THE FIERYYYY JOOKAAAH!!!". Will You Accept The Charges?
***** Who's champ?
+The Lunatic Fridge that question will be answered this Sunday night on wwe SUPER SLAM
11:36 Song name?
Luckily Xenoverse 2 is vastly superior to the first game. Besides having to play the WHOLE GAME over when making a new character.
Hey Josh, if you want to be a healer/support character, you should Try Mabinogi. Unlike most mmo's, you only buy items for a little extra customization, and you can choose to be taught by the game directly about it's mechanics. Yeah, it has some serious issues if you tend to lag (Most notably rubber banding) but im sure youll like it after you become a healing bard.oh yeah, and no buying stuff to form parties. *Final fantasy noise*
Wait, you prefer Secret Rings over Black Knight? Um...ok.
;-; The song during the number sequences. i need to know it....
Am I the only person who likes Sticker Star? Yes? Ok then ;-(
What is the song at 11:38 It is not in the credits and it sounds pretty cool!
You must be smoking Chili Dogs, Black Knight is 100 times better than Secret Rings q.q I don't even consider Black Knight a "dark age" Sonic game or anything like that...
Does anybody know what song is at 11:37 to 11:46?
The player can get "super armor" in Xenoverse, too. One of the Ginyu Force poses gives it to you. It makes your stamina take the damage your health would, and you don't flinch.
What Keyblade is at 20:12 ?
What's the song used at 11:37
You know it funny Nero is voice by johnny yong bosch the same guy who voiced Vash the Stampede from Trigun. :P
*Love-hates!*
3: Five Nights at Freddy's. Let's start by saying that what frustrates me the most about the games is that they're actually more like two games in one for every release, with the first game being overly lengthy, stressful, rage-inducing, and almost downright unpalatable, (The segments of the game where you're actually *playing* the game) but the second game being eerie, gripping, and at some points, mind-blowing. (The minigames, the secrets, the ARG-esque discovering of lore, the hidden endings) I loved the lore, and I loved the minigames, and I loved traversing the wilds of the internet, the forums, wikis, reddits, just to find out what's going on and uncover stuff for myself. Theorizing, conversing, it was all part of this really entertaining and fun experience that was bogged down by having to play the actual game. It's a situation where my real life experience revolving around the game was a more pleasurable time than the time spent actually experiencing the game, so I figured it would be worth mention.
2: Metroid Prime. This game was fantastic, with the utterly atmospheric music design and aesthetic, the perfect level of mobility, a well-built growth curve for the middle 75% of the game, a fascinating world teeming with life in Talon IV, and some ABSURDLY DEEP levels of lore that, to this day, I've only really had challenged by Silent Hill and the Elder Scrolls series. On the FLIP SIDE, backtracking was a pain in the ass, particularly since Samus herself galumphs her metal ass around like she were walking on stilts, along with the fact that the morph ball has a surprising amount of trouble accessing several different area. The backtracking also became the WORST experience in the game a little bit later on when the obnoxious and difficult chozo ghost enemies start showing up in EVERY ROOM OF THE CHOZO RUINS. You know, the *HUB WORLD*. Not to mention, the game was often a little unintuitive or even backward in how you should go about solving your problems, (I.E you can't get a heat resistant suit without first taking a short detour through the hottest level in the game) which would have been acceptable if map layout were more accepting of lateral thinking. There were multiple occasions where I would be trying to go to a particular room, but the normal path to the room was swarming with danger, so I would try to take an alternate route to the room via the back door, and end up wasting half an hour of backtracking by finding out that the route was actually just a one-way exit OUT of the room!
1:Smash Bros series. It's my favorite series of all time, with a MASSIVE list of pros and achievements that almost no other game series can hope to live up to. Conceptual brilliance, with tight and well-executed mechanics, and the only possible things on this planet that can make a man happier than playing his all time favorite character in smash are discovering a NEW all-time favorite character through smash (bowser) and sex. I am comparing a video game to sex, it makes me that happy. Which is why it's so frustrating whenever they get it wrong. Character balance is always one of the most massive issues in any smash title, even moreso in smash because it punishes you for playing your favorite characters, and playing your favorite character is almost the entire reason for smash bros. I'll be playing with friends as bowser, ganon, WFT, or someone else, and I'll get utterly pulverized by some diddy kong player who clearly doesn't actually care about the character or even playing in a style that he likes, but only cares about playing the top tier, winning every game, and being an asshole. Not to mention the game is addicting in all the right ways, buuut also some of the wrong ways. Menu layout, timers, and gui are programmed so that losers never quit, whether by the game spending an overly lengthy time on the win screen, or by it being much more inconvenient and slow to quit a game than to start up another round and maybe get your smash power back. It almost makes you feel like you dishonor somebody by leaving a match, ESPECIALLY after a losing streak.
OKAMI IS BEST. ALL PERISH BEFORE THE BEAUTY OF AMATERASU AND HER BELOVED NIPPON!!!! But I guess you made up for it with the Kefka-Dimensio bit. That was awesome! Keep up the top tens!
Ya know seeing Young Xehanort pinned to the grill of that flying car while you're suffering Elika's magic seizure attack I guess while invoking road rage makes me smile
While I agree on the difficult spikes and super sayin spamming I didn't really have a problem with super armor, but my biggest problem was with the parallel quests and having to complete the bonus objectives to try to fight the bonus character only for them not to appear
dream drop distance needed a shadow of the colossus boss, IMAGINE HOW AWESOME IT WOULD BE CLIMBING WITH FLOWMOTION (thankfully this might happen in III)
I think I may have 2: Tera, because while I do like the flow of combat and the class and race options, it is a reminder that being an MMO, I mostly wanted to play with friends, but because they tended to be higher levels than I, it meant they either had to create another character to play, or I had to do quests alone - which feels tedious at times and makes me think I'd be best off just playing a single player game. The other one is Majora's Mask because while it feels rewarding to do quests, the fact that having to travel back in time undid everything I've accomplished (minus the permanent upgrades) makes me question what's the point even of doing the quests?
Great video Josh! Can't wait for the next countdown.
I'm having trouble understanding what was wrong with Sticker Star. I've played it a bit myself and while resource management is a bit annoying I haven't found it to be all that bad.
The problem with the "Tamagatchi" part of KH Triple D wasn't that it existed as much as it took WAY too long to get the better abilities in the first place. I actually beat the game on Proud Mode WITHOUT Second Chance or Once More. I don't know how I did that.
It'd have to be Crimson Shroud for me. Interesting aesthetic and gameplay with the tabletop RPG elements, but the story ends on such a downer (and that one level where you have to fight skeletons over and over just to get the item that will help you move forward... ugh) that I'm questioning whether or not I should even play it again.
What is the name of the first music track played in the Sonic and the secret rings segment?
Around 10:20? UPDATE: I found out myself after 10 minutes of research, it's Splash Hill Zone from Sonic 4.
F-Zero GX is also on my love/hate list. It's a one-of-a-kind super fast and fun racer, but when you ask for the shackles to come off, it holds nothing back.
My advice for the final mission on Normal mode is to not race to ghost, but the track. The ghost barely tries on Normal, and you're just getting a feel for the track. On Hard, same thing, just boost once or twice. Very Hard? You're racing the ghost, and a near-perfect one at that. I cleared every mission on every difficulty, and personally, I found the Grand Prix mission the hardest. I wish you good luck on it, as it took my a combined few months to clear (including the first file that got deleted by a defect in my Wii)
That ending statement for number eight, I agree, I haven't played Devil May Cry games, but I've played Mario Galaxy, granted, it only makes you do this to 100% the game, BUT COME ON! Sure you play as Luigi, but Luigi's campaign is barely different from Mario's, Luigi has slippery physics, better jump height, slightly altered text, a more frustrating version of Cosmic Mario (Cosmic Luigi) and Mail Toad gives you twenty lives instead of five, yaaaaay! Luigi doesn't even save Mario, he saves Luigi, come on Nintendo! Here's the best part, all you get for recollecting all 120 stars as Luigi, and watching the credits four freaking times, you get an uninspired purple coins level, in Peach's courtyard, from the beginning of the game, yaaaaay! Mario Galaxy Two fixed this, by adding green stars, making the experience after collecting the one hundred-twenty stars fresh, and the finale level is a Galaxy that tests your skills, called Grand Master Galaxy, now that's improvement.
I agree with most of these choices. Good job, Josh!
Also, any pot-shots at Sticker Star are always a bonus.
5:04 Oh, how stupidly proud of myself I am to have been able to 100% complete F-Zero GX back in high school.
Now that's a memory card I'll never let go
It's funny, I felt this way about Sonic and the Black Knight, yet Secret Rings I just straight up loathed.
Josh, NEVER apologize for taking shots at Sticker Star.
That being said, Paper Jam looks like an improvement.