![]() It's been decades but Chrono Trigger still feels modern and fresh. But for many, the game's greatest achievement was its densely woven plot that spanned millenia and wrestled with the nature of fate and destiny between dozens of memorable characters. Nier: Automata (2017)Ĭhrono Trigger remains the greatest RPG from the SNES era for so many reasons. Related: Why Final Fantasy XIV Is Still One of the Best MMORPGs Around 2. It's one of the greatest stories of a game developer listening to player feedback, taking responsibility for mistakes, and rectifying everything in a way that overjoyed players. To this day, it's one of the most popular MMORPGs of all time, and it continues to draw in new players every year. The result was Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, which was essentially a totally new game. Rather than patch the game with incremental fixes, Square Enix boldly chose to shut down the original game for nearly two years while the team worked on it. Not only did it lack in engaging content, it also suffered from server instability issues.Īs it turned out, the original development team had a serious lack of MMO development experience-and it showed.įortunately, a brand new team was brought in to overhaul the entire game. When this MMORPG originally released in 2010, the game was a critical failure in every way. Who doesn't love a good comeback story? And in the world of video games, it's hard to think of a more successful comeback story than the one behind Final Fantasy XIV. Sure, it may have one of the most confusing starts to any video game ever, but the overall package is a fantastic action RPG filled with so many incredible Disney and Final Fantasy characters we all love. ![]() As for story, there are heartbreaking moments mixed in with genuine humor and massive battles. The combat of Kingdom Hearts 2 was a huge improvement over its predecessors, and the graphics pushed the PlayStation 2's capabilities to their limit. The game's story started off confusingly and made little effort to explain itself-and yet, it's easily the best game in the series to date. 8.There's simply not enough space in a single article to explain the plot or chronology of the Kingdom Hearts series-and it doesn't help that Square Enix has made it more confusing than necessary.įor starters, when Square Enix released Kingdom Hearts 2 in 2005, it was actually the third game in the franchise (with the actual second game being Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories). It’s like an interactive Franz Kafka novel, only a lot more enjoyable. It’s funny because: it’s a complete deconstruction of video game narrative conventions, allowing the player – as downtrodden office worker Stanley – to disobey and contradict the ongoing voice over exposition. It’s funny because: it’s a brilliant Grand Theft Auto pastiche in which super-cop Chase McCain hunts crime boss Rex Fury through a cavalcade of deconstructed action movie cliches, daft characters and whip-smart one-liners – all of which gleefully whiz over the heads of its younger fans. ![]() Released after a series of beautiful family platformers, Rare’s mature-rated masterpiece remains one of the most subversive acts in console game history. It’s funny because: it’s about a foul-mouthed binge-drinking squirrel whose attempts to get home to his girlfriend are continually thwarted by an embittered Prussian weasel. It’s also funny because Swedish developer Coffee Stain Studios made it as a joke and never actually meant to release it, but it did and now more than 2.5 million people have played. ![]() It’s funny because: you’re a goat, clip-clopping around a glitchy urban environment ruining barbecues, destroying museums and licking passing trucks. ![]()
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