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Ender's game is awesome.

My favorite fantasy series is the Death Gate Cycle by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.
My favorite sci/fi series is Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

Cool Spot for SNES?

I've done a bit of looking, and I can't find the answer to this question. Forgive me if I have placed this thread incorrectly, but I had to ask: Is there any way to filter out hacked games when you're looking through the games lists? I seem to be wading through them to find games that were legitimately published. I'll get around to trying them, but for now I am more interested in playing the classics. I know I can use the search to find specific titles, but sometimes I like to look through to find gems that I hadn't tried before. Can anybody shed some light on the subject for me?

Minecraft is amazing.

When I first played it, I wasn't impressed. But then, I had no idea what I was doing. Once I started exploring the world it had created for me, I found there was so much to do! Explore vast (sometimes epic) cave systems, mine for diamonds, build anything I could think of, try to survive, look for treasure, fight monsters... The beauty of the game is that there IS no goal. You make your own goals. For example on one of my save slots I am building a recreation of Zelda: A link to the Past's overworld. To do this I must gather the raw materials. To do that I first have to find the materials I need. To do that, I must survive at night, so I had to build a shelter (as well as plenty of storage space for the needed materials. One I get the materials, I gotta craft them into useful items, then go out and place them.

The resource collection aspect of it is wonderful in that just about everything you see is collectible, and there's a ton that you can only find in certain ways (try getting a skeleton archer to shoot another monster between you and it, and you'll see). Then you can use those collected items to build virtually anything. There are tons of videos on youtube showing off various Minecraft inventions, and there's even a system in place where you can build 'electric' circuits. Because of those a clever player can build any kind of (actually working) machine that they can design.

I recommend Minecraft heartily, but only the 'real' version. The free one is junk since you have infinite of everything and that takes away from the accomplishment that you feel when you finally complete that castle or whatever it is you're building, since you had to mine and fight and work for it rather than just choosing the block type you want.

Then, there's the endless customizations that can be made to the graphics. I've even seen a Lego skin that makes every block type a different Lego piece! I find that one appropriate since the game kinda feels like a giant randomized Lego world. Even if you leave the graphics alone, you may find (as I did) that once you got past the pixels you could find a ton of beauty in the world, the vast vistas you can see when you climb a mountain, or the awesomeness of a massive cavern full of lava, water, and obsidian.

Go buy it. I'm serious. The few dollars the creator is asking for more than makes up for the hundreds of hours of entertainment that this game has to offer.

My favorite game of all time is Breath of Fire for the SNES. I've always loved dragons, and have loved rpg's since I first played Final Fantasy for the NES. Breath of fire was the first rpg I played on the SNES, and it captivated me. A story where you could transform into a dragon at will? Sweet. I loved the bright, colorful art, and the audio I thought was awesome. The cast of characters with their various in and out of battle abilities was cool. The puzzles weren't so challenging that you got frustrated, and the battles were difficult enough (if you didn't build up heavily beforehand).

I liked BoF 2 and 3 alright, but they just didn't have the magic that I found in the original.

Some of my runners-up:

-Super Metroid (SNES) *Wow. Just wow.
-Crystalis (NES) *First game I ever beat that I was proud to have done so.
-River City Ransom (NES) *Dunno why, but I loved the stores in that game.
-Zelda: Link to the Past (SNES) *Note that I do not include OoT on this list-it never really wowed me like LttP.
-Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PSX) *A great game made better by the almost 8-bit difficulty of the second half.
-Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals (SNES) *Another great game that I keep going back to.
-Doom (PSX version) *PSX had the best of everything in this breakthrough game. I loved it like I've never loved a FPS since.
-Shining Force II (GENESIS) *Played this one through so many times that it had to make the list. I like Fire Emblem, but I felt SFII was more fun.
-Earthbound (SNES) *A game that made me go, 'What the....?'
-Soul Caliber II (Gamecube version) *Link RULED!!!
-All of the Smash Bros series *Link still RULES!
-GTA: San Andreas (XBOX Version) *A massive game that Rockstar still hasn't topped (IMO), made better by the fact that you could make your own radio station. I still love cruising around SA on a Sanchez, jamming to whatever I felt like adding.

Thank you all for the welcomes! I have also been looking for a friendly board to frequent, and this seems like a good one. Who are the important people to know about around here? (Like mods, admins, whatever)

Hello, my name is Goatmanji. I've been playing video games since the Atari 2600, but sadly had to sell off my collection 2 years ago. I'm happy to have found this site so I can play all the old games that I know and love. I personally believe that these games were so much better than what they make today (but I'll get more into that later).

I can be extremely active on forums, or watch quietly from the sidelines. Either way, I will be around, hopefully for a long while. I respect friendly people, and do not put up with flamers.

Thank you for reading my short introduction; feel free to introduce yourself to me, and let me know if there is anything I should know that is not covered in the Newbie guide.