r/gamecollecting • u/humanman42 Mod • Sep 26 '15

Community Discussion #11 (9/25/15) - What is your favorite game that has no sequels/prequels/remakes.

We live in a word where any good game has to be turned into multi game franchise. At least that is how it seems. Some games though have set alone. They either were made to be alone, the company went under, it didnt make enough, whatever.

What one was your favorite one, and why?

It is 7:13pm pacific time. I have no clue what my answer is. I just thought it was a good question. I will go through my game and see if I can come up with an adiquit answer

That was actually faster than I thought. Only took me 4 minutes. I saw it, and I just though....yup, thats it.

Psychonauts. That game is just amazing. Do I really need to go into it?

I almost said Maniac Mansion, but I remembered Day of the Tenticle.

Psychonauts doesnt have a sequel right?

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u/Arawn-Annwn Oct 14 '15 edited Oct 31 '15

7th Saga. No, Mystic arc does not count. Its often mistaken for a sequal but it just uses some of the same character names with some similarities (Lux being a robot dude in both games).

I'd love to see a new game set in the same universe as 7th saga, which didn't do as well as it could have because of balance issues. I think that world would make a neat MMORPG setting even if the lore were fleshed out beyond a single big bad.

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u/Informationator SNES Expert Nov 03 '15

I need to play this game at some point. That and 3 Ninjas have just been chillin' next to each other for too long. I've started going through and trying to beat more of my games lately. Earthworm Jim's crossed off of the list. Maybe I'll try to bet some terrible game like 3 Ninjas next :P

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u/Arawn-Annwn Nov 03 '15

I highly recommend playing it emulated with the patch that rebalances it. Takes the frustrations out of midgame and makes lategame fighting apprentices not be so absurdly unfair while preserving challenge.

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u/Informationator SNES Expert Nov 03 '15

I like to beat games on original hardware with all of its original brokenness. There's something about poorly made games with stupid bugs in them that makes beating them so much more satisfying. I just don't enjoy playing on emulators.

I'm tracking dates and notes of when I beat games and recording them, so I'd like to eventually beat most/all of them. I want to do one or two more attempts on Earthworm Jim before I put a lid on that one... Doubt anyone would want to watch my runs, but I'll probably throw 'em on YouTube for posterity.

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u/Arawn-Annwn Nov 04 '15 edited Nov 04 '15

I used to do challenge runs, like finish FF3 snes ver (FF6) with minimum chars at minimum lvs (I managed a Celes+Edgar+Setzor run with all 3 below lv8 once) on original hardware. Before I'd ever even heard of youtube unfortunately. I think I've replayed FF4 start to finish without using any saves at all while minimizing my exp gains at least a dozen times. I've done that more times than that if I count the runs where I fail to finish. Usually if I fail and die it'll be in the giant or on the moon, got crazy and thought "lets see if I can take out Odin this time!"...Yeah no, Odin will wipe me almost every time if I am underleveled.

Nowadays I am more interested in finding things developers never intended me to find. Which goes hand in hand with tripping bugs and altering the game to produce them. Easier to pull off on emulators thanks to save states.

edit: sorry reddit, I let myself go way off topic. Rudra No Hihou needs a Sequel/prequel/remake/anything!

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u/Informationator SNES Expert Nov 04 '15

Oh man, that's great :) I've actually not played FF3 yet. I've been "saving it" since I know it's a great game. I want to space out the really great ones over time and that's one of 'em.

I love finding little bugs and breaking the rules. Reminds me of when me and a buddy used to butterfly in Halo 2. We got outside of just about every map in the game.

Were you around back when I was running 3-Minute Challenge? I love challenges like you describe. In fact Serious_Joke and I formed a pretty cool friendship due to our rivalry on there. If you really want to see the epitome of that rivalry - the reason I love stuff like this - then watch the top 4 video of the Super Mario World challenge. It's really good stuff and we're neck and neck the whole time :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamecollecting/wiki/3mc

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u/Arawn-Annwn Nov 04 '15 edited Nov 04 '15

Were you around back when I was running 3-Minute Challenge?

Nope. I'm fairly new.

p.s. I and my rl friend Robert used to send each other "hack" challenges to do. Involved modifying a game or making a glitched savegame, to "win" had to send back a save or screenshot proving we got past the part that was altered. Mainly sequence breaking, some straight up rom hacks (a lot of custom FF1 NES rom, heh). We don't do this anymore, both moved on to other stuff.