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Series where a spin off is actually the best game in the franchise?
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Mega Man Legends for sure, I'm not super into twitch-reflex platformers but I love adventure games so it adds up
and I vastly preferred Paper Mario to core Mario up until it went down the toilet
Oh and I'd probably rather play a new Pokémon Mystery Dungeon at this point over a new mainline game
and I vastly preferred Paper Mario to core Mario up until it went down the toilet
Oh and I'd probably rather play a new Pokémon Mystery Dungeon at this point over a new mainline game
The 3rd and 4th Generation Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games are some of the best games in the Pokemon series.
Explorers of the Sky is a damn near perfect game, IMO.
God I miss 4th Gen...
Explorers of the Sky is a damn near perfect game, IMO.
God I miss 4th Gen...
I love the classic Crash Bandicoot games, but Crash Team Racing is one of the finest games ever, regardless of the genre.
Already mentioned, but Forza Horizon 3 beats any other racing game around basically, including mainline Forza titles.
Also, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is probably the best Far Cry ever, despite me loving most episodes of the series.
Already mentioned, but Forza Horizon 3 beats any other racing game around basically, including mainline Forza titles.
Also, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is probably the best Far Cry ever, despite me loving most episodes of the series.
Good call!
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To be fair I haven't played M&M but HoMM has always been immediately more appealing to me so probably this.
Now I was hard a Pokemon kid, I have sunk many hours into all of the mainline games but.... Pokemon TCG for game boy was some pure concentrated fun juice to me. Maybe I like it the best??? Maybe I like the Pokemon TCG more in general?
Xenoblade. Loved the first game to death, have no interest in the second, but Xenoblade X gripped 300h of my soul, and I only stopped because of a lack of free time. I still have itches to play it again sometimes.
Yeah, I'll agree with your Megaman analyses. They're direct sequels to the original Megaman series. The only one that could probably actually be considered a spin-off is the Battle Network series.
Other m is no more mainline than prime. The prime games are way closer to classic metroid than other m.
But Injustice is built upon everything that is MK. Plenty of differences, but also a lot similarities. I mean it is its own franchise while also being a spin off/continuation of MK vs DC, a main series MK game. It's a weird classification, but I think it holds up.
Do the SteamWorld Dig games count as spinoffs? cause those would be my pick, especially SteamWorld Dig 2 which is just fantastic.
The alpha series it's not a spin off, hell they're arguably the most important parts of the entire story.
I hope this comes from someone who's actually played Persona 2 and and/or the original SMT games.
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Except definitely not, in any realm of reality. DK is one of the best arcade games of all time. DKC is a generic platformer (released when there were 100s) with sub-Jimmy-Neutron-TV-series art and animation, and character designs they stole off a bag of store brand cereal.
Stop apologizing for abuse you received as a child. It wasn't your fault.
EDIT: You know, I think I'm being too harsh. Generic cereals usually have much better character design than DKC.
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In what way? It's a spiritual successor not a spinoff.
This is actually the greatest example. The story, the characters, the gameplay. All at the top of what Final Fantasy has ever had to offer.
Despite recognizing that DK is an all-time arcade classic, I would rather sit down and play DKC over it any given day. The look hasn't aged all that well, but it's still a fun platformer. I prefer that to a repetitive score chase game, myself.
Now if I really had a choice I'd say DKC2, the best of the Countries by far.
Except definitely not, in any realm of reality. DK is one of the best arcade games of all time. DKC is a generic platformer (released when there were 100s) with sub-Jimmy-Neutron-TV-series art and animation, and character designs they stole off a bag of store brand cereal.
Stop apologizing for abuse you received as a child. It wasn't your fault.
EDIT: You know, I think I'm being too harsh. Generic cereals usually have much better character design than DKC.
What an obnoxious post. Tone it down.
Regardless of your genre preferences, there are 100s of games that do DKC better than DKC and few to none that do DK better than DK
Like DK '94? Or Congo Bongo (lol)?
I don't think anyone has been rushing to make a 4 screen proto-platformer since 1982. The winner is still DKC2, greatest Kong game of all time baybeeeeee
There really aren't though. The DKC trilogy on SNES, especially DKC2 were rightfully regarded as some of the best platformers ever created, from both a design and visual persepective, and this was right at the end of the Golden Era of 2D platformers before 3D became the new normal. They managed this while also not attempting to clone Mario, which basically every other platformer was doing at the time. Flash forward to today, and Tropical Freeze is up there with SMB3 for greatest platformer period.
Some of us weren't children when these games came out. You're aging yourself in more than one way here.
Except definitely not, in any realm of reality. DK is one of the best arcade games of all time. DKC is a generic platformer (released when there were 100s) with sub-Jimmy-Neutron-TV-series art and animation, and character designs they stole off a bag of store brand cereal.
Stop apologizing for abuse you received as a child. It wasn't your fault.
EDIT: You know, I think I'm being too harsh. Generic cereals usually have much better character design than DKC.
The fuck is this? Also no
Oh good choice. Can't believe I didn't think of this.
I've not even played any of the other Far Cry games basically at all, but Blood Dragon is so good man.
I want a sequel so bad :(
The DKC games are not bad, but they miles and miles behind the actual classics of the day (Yoshi's Island, Sonic trilogy, Castle of Illusion, Mega Man X, etc).
They're like Cool Spot tier. Hanging out there just below Toejam and Earl 2 and Dynamite Headdy, and just above Bubsy and Plok.
