Top 5 Dungeon Crawlers

March 17, 2010 By thecabbage 1 Comment

Scott’s news that Bethesda is publishing a new co-op dungeon crawler got me digging out my old favorites, and it inspired me to compile a Top 5. Even though dungeon crawling action-rpgs are a sub-genre in themselves, within that I see at least four obvious styles:

• Classic Rogue-like, just you against a dungeon. With terrifying perma-death…
• Single-player with shops and quests – maybe a pet, too.
• Parties with NPCs. These tend to be more traditional rpgs, albeit with trimmed down combat systems.
• Multiplayer, local (console), and online (PC) with parties

It has to be said that the best dungeon crawlers have probably been on PC over the years, but as a committed console and arcade gamer my top 5 tends to lean toward the latter style, more specifically local co-op, and will probably be different from most peoples’ choices. I’m sure most of you will be horrified at the omission of Diablo (I only played the inferior playstation version, with its use of 10 memory card blocks!!). And I haven’t played Torchlight yet. But hey, here are my TOP 5 DUNGEON CRAWLERS: [Read more...]

Filed Under: Community Submitted, Top 5 Tagged With: Baldur's Gate, Borderlands, Demon's Souls, dungeon crawlers, Gaunlet, Hunted: The Demon's Forge, Neverwinter Nights, roguelike, RPG

Top 5 Hardest GBA/DS Games

March 15, 2010 By Adam 1 Comment

I know that I originally said in my “Top 5 Hardest GB/GBC Games” that I was going to write similar articles pertaining to both the Gameboy Advance and the DS, but upon further review I couldn’t come up with five good, ludicrously difficult titles from either portable system. I’m sure that both systems have games hard enough to qualify for a more individualized list, but my exposure to both the GBA and the DS is slightly limited; at least in comparison to the earlier Nintendo portables. Having said that, I decided to combine the two lists into one. So, without further adieu, my Top 5 Hardest GBA and DS games:
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Filed Under: Featured, Top 5 Tagged With: dawn of souls, final fantasy iii, hardest ds, hardest gameboy advance, iridion 3d, lethal alliance ds, the world ends with you

Top 5 Hardest Game Boy/GBC Games

February 18, 2010 By Adam Leave a Comment

The current series of Top 5 lists that Scott and I are doing in the lead-up to MGC 2010 has been good thus far, but something that we have skipped over entirely has been the portable systems. Hence, I am going to be doing a web-only series of Top 5s detailing what I think are the most difficult Game Boy, GBA, and DS games that I ever played. I would love to include the other portable systems, but my severe lack of experience with them somewhat precludes me from doing so.
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Filed Under: Top 5 Tagged With: Bionic Commando Elite Forces, difficult, Final Fantasy Legend, Game Boy, hard, Metroid II, Solar Striker, Star Wars