300 Games Bucket List
Inspired by Weatherby's "250 Retro Bucket List" ( https://www.backloggd.com/u/Weatherby/list/250-retro-bucket-list/ ), I did not limit my list to Retro games. One reason is because due to some quirks of how my life went, there was a period of about 10 years I couldn't really buy any new consoles (or a new PC), so my list of played games actually skews somewhat older to begin with. Plus I have so many games I want to play I didn't feel the need to limit myself. The basics of the list are the same: 300 games that I want to play before I kick that ol' bucket.
The first page, or Top 100, is the Top 100 games on this list I want to play, but there isn't any order within that Top 100. And while the games aren't in any super specific order besides that, I did try to make it overall aesthetically pleasing, or have some mini-themes here or there.
I'm rather undetermined in what I'll do as I actually beat these games. My first thought is to remove them to the list and do, IDK, a "Bucket List Games Completed" list while replacing it with a new game, which makes it a bit of an unending bucket list (given, after all, new games always be coming out). But maybe that's too much. But just leaving a game here after finishing it feels odd to me. What do you guys think?
I tried to avoid any games that were unreleased, or that I had what felt like "substantial" progress in, since that didn't jive with my mental image of what this bucket list is for. Funny enough, I got too far into Fire Emblem Engage to put it on, even though it was a game I thought of when making this list. Live A Live also would have been in the Top 100 if I hadn't started it already.
Later, I might I'll note down what systems the games first released on (or something) to show off that spread, and maybe which ones I actually have access to.
The first page, or Top 100, is the Top 100 games on this list I want to play, but there isn't any order within that Top 100. And while the games aren't in any super specific order besides that, I did try to make it overall aesthetically pleasing, or have some mini-themes here or there.
I'm rather undetermined in what I'll do as I actually beat these games. My first thought is to remove them to the list and do, IDK, a "Bucket List Games Completed" list while replacing it with a new game, which makes it a bit of an unending bucket list (given, after all, new games always be coming out). But maybe that's too much. But just leaving a game here after finishing it feels odd to me. What do you guys think?
I tried to avoid any games that were unreleased, or that I had what felt like "substantial" progress in, since that didn't jive with my mental image of what this bucket list is for. Funny enough, I got too far into Fire Emblem Engage to put it on, even though it was a game I thought of when making this list. Live A Live also would have been in the Top 100 if I hadn't started it already.
Later, I might I'll note down what systems the games first released on (or something) to show off that spread, and maybe which ones I actually have access to.
300 Games
Fun Fact: I got told about this game from someone I know before there was a Clean version who was like "okay, look, ignore the pornographic elements here, this is one of the best action platformers I've played in a WHILE".
While I understand why it is controversial, this game seems legit and has me interested in it.
yes i know it isn't good. but it tasks me. it tasks me and i shall have it.
I don't know if I have the stomach for the Demon Path, but damn if it isn't one of the games that most commits to it I've ever seen. This game's art style is also sick in the way those late era non-true-3D games were.
Also this game has amazing music guys oh hell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NAkEP68agk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkIGeP68ORA
Also this game has amazing music guys oh hell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NAkEP68agk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkIGeP68ORA
I got introduced to this via a friend and the concept and idea seem unique! I mean, hell, a game called Spider: The Video Game already feels bold. Maybe we should Spider: The Video Game more often.
Spyro and Crash Bandicoot are two of those platformers that were BIG when right about when I was growing up (I got my N64 when I was five, as I recall, give or take), although I did not hear much about them until later (since I mostly got plugged into gaming news as it went into the Gamecube/PS2 era). That's left me curious about what that Nintendo competition was up to, especially with how highly regarded both of those are. I'm a bit more excited for Spyro than Crash (plus I am partway through Crash 1, which has just been Okay so far), so he makes the Top 100.
I know this game gets a lot of hate for its plot twist but that's exactly why I'm so interested in it
Kreia's been one of my favorite video game characters to watch in videos and I ain't even played the game lol
Imageepoch is a studio that interests me. They feel like a studio that released a lot of this interesting, kinda niche RPGs on the DS, and really tried hard to break into the RPG mainstream while probably not being talented enough to do so. They released entire series like Luminous Arc that absolutely nobody freaking talks about. It has me deathly curious.
Anyway this was their last game ever and it got pretty good reviews so.
Anyway this was their last game ever and it got pretty good reviews so.
The first Swordcraft Story is my favorite game ever (at the time of making this list) and the second is a pretty dang solid game in its own right. So of course I really want to play the third game.
Man, I wish more Summon Night games came over. I'd be all over them for their Tactical RPG mainline, too!
Man, I wish more Summon Night games came over. I'd be all over them for their Tactical RPG mainline, too!
For some reason, this game especially sticks out for me among Classicvanias. I think it is the fact it sounds like innovations were made that are kickass and that were very well received at the time (multiple review outlets consider it a Best SNES Ever kinda game), yet fans seem to have turned against it and later games reverted more away from it with other acclaimed games such as Rondo of Blood. It really makes me wonder what, exactly, was happening there!
I don't really anticipate liking this as much as Super Mario Galaxy 1, but it IS really popular and SMG1 has been fun to play through so I can't complain.
Man, though, I swear I have some kinda warped perspective on this game. When it came out all I remember is people saying it was a bit too much of a stale sequel to Super Mario Galaxy, but in retrospect both critics and fans alike felt it was as good or better than the first a lot of the time. It goes to show you that you shouldn't stick in a singular bubble of opinion.
Man, though, I swear I have some kinda warped perspective on this game. When it came out all I remember is people saying it was a bit too much of a stale sequel to Super Mario Galaxy, but in retrospect both critics and fans alike felt it was as good or better than the first a lot of the time. It goes to show you that you shouldn't stick in a singular bubble of opinion.
The way I got started on the internet and found friend groups when I went from GameFAQs was freaking Digibutter.nerr so, like, is this even a surprise.
Another game that NitroRad got me very interested in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn0IobSCMmE
IMO, Sega has never really known how to leverage Sonic's large cast of characters to make effective spinoffs. Knuckles just got put into more 2D Sonic-like platformers. Tails got like 1 or 2 attempts and forgotten. Even Shadow's edgy attempt with guns still uses a Sonic Adventure / Heroes style.
All this is to say, Hot Take, Tails Adventure is probably not Good but they should have used it as a blueprint to expand outwards. Tails is an inventor with a lot of room for his own stories, and they could have totally had a little Metroidvania subseries going on if they cultivated it properly. If they had done a Game Gear sequel (which they should have), learning from this game and making a good Metroidvania for it would have been an excellent decision.
All this is to say, Hot Take, Tails Adventure is probably not Good but they should have used it as a blueprint to expand outwards. Tails is an inventor with a lot of room for his own stories, and they could have totally had a little Metroidvania subseries going on if they cultivated it properly. If they had done a Game Gear sequel (which they should have), learning from this game and making a good Metroidvania for it would have been an excellent decision.
Tales of Symphonia was big for me growing up and was one of THE Gamecube games I always wanted to buy, but could never find a disc of. One of my best friends growing up was a mega fan of it. The story seems cool, I love the art style, and Zelos is GOATed. I think when I finish both I might put Abyss above it, though.
While it is the one I am least hyped of from that Symphonia/Abyss/Vesperia "golden age" in my head, it undeniably holds a lot of interest. I feel like the Tales series lost its way after Vesperia for a while, especially in terms of plots, and that Vesperia's later third from an outside perspective feels like a symptom of that...but I gotta play to know for sure!
The trailer, especially with its music, was enough to instantly sell me on this game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7XJxI0RZNo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7XJxI0RZNo
At least half of this desire comes from the cover art.
This includes Trails to Azure, given they're a duology.
GOAT Trilogy?
The Nintendo 64 was my first console and I am pretty happy about that in a lot of ways. It let me connect with my mom, who grew up with an NES/SNES, via the vast array of multiplayer games it had and make memories I can look back on more fondly than any good game experience would give me for example.
It also introduced me to a ton of excellent games right off the bat. Super Mario 64, Majora's Mask, Star Fox 64, Mega Man 64, Paper Mario, Kirby and the Crystal Shards, F-Zero X and even more obscure stuff like NBA Jam 99 and Toy Story 2.
You might notice a prominent game missing: Ocarina of Time. Despite being an N64 gamer who has Majora's Mask as one of their all time favorites, I have NEVER had the chance to play Ocarina of Time, merely hearing it in baited breaths on the GameFAQs forum as the game Majora's Mask must live up to.
Will it still hit as well for me 20+ years later? I have no idea, but it has been a game I wanted to play since childhood.
It also introduced me to a ton of excellent games right off the bat. Super Mario 64, Majora's Mask, Star Fox 64, Mega Man 64, Paper Mario, Kirby and the Crystal Shards, F-Zero X and even more obscure stuff like NBA Jam 99 and Toy Story 2.
You might notice a prominent game missing: Ocarina of Time. Despite being an N64 gamer who has Majora's Mask as one of their all time favorites, I have NEVER had the chance to play Ocarina of Time, merely hearing it in baited breaths on the GameFAQs forum as the game Majora's Mask must live up to.
Will it still hit as well for me 20+ years later? I have no idea, but it has been a game I wanted to play since childhood.
I feel like I saw a text Let's Play of this game that seemed interesting and made me want to play it after like 3 pages but I can't find it anywhere.
I know not everyone is a fan of the HD-2D style that Square Enix is putting out right now, but you can count ME as a fan of it, and the demo while it had issues I wanted solved seemed solid. Just seems like one of those enjoyable 7-8/10 Tactical RPGs I'd enjoy sinking my teeth into.
This would probably be in the Top 100 if I was good enough at shooters to feel confident at it.
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This game is SO mechanically dense holy shit, I love it but I'm also terrified. Excellent character designs, love me some Wagner, Phonon, Vatista, Orie, Yuzuriha and Seth and wow that's sure a lot of characters I ended up bringing up! It feels like the next "big thing" for anime fighters and man I am ALL there for it.
but why is the sequel mobile only
Anyone else think of this and the Valkyire Profile series as connected despite the only connection in any way being the name?
Does anyone else mix up this game and Shadow Hearts all the time?
Along with Excitebike 64, one of those games I saw when I was a kid and thought just looked really cool. It still seems like it is in a unique spot within the Wario World canon, too.
This game came out and like 3 of the friends I know whose opinions on video games I kinda trust came to tell me it was based and super lit. So.
this is like the ONE game still stuck on the Wii U that needs to come over please make it happen
This is one of those formative games I know so much about I feel like I've basically played it, but also I haven't actually played it and so REALLY want to.
Including all expansions
I wish I had easier ways to play this.
I had a friend who thought this was one of the best games ever when it first came out and that's always had me interested, and I feel like the game's rep has only gone up with time.
The only reason this isn't in the Top 100 is because Phoenix Wright was EVERYWHERE when I was a teen on the internet and so I know SO much about this game when it is obviously highly dialogue focused.
Up there with Kingdom Hearts and Tales of Symphonia for that teenage year brainrot, and the game that gave Sonic appeal to me. Somehow I got Sonic Adventure 1 and Sonic Heroes instead of it when I was younger. I don't know why.
Technically I am playing the Sonic Adventure 2: Battle version, but this version has the better cover art. So.
Technically I am playing the Sonic Adventure 2: Battle version, but this version has the better cover art. So.
Unfortunately I am pretty late to the party.
Hot damn does Street Fighter 6 look good though.
Hot damn does Street Fighter 6 look good though.
The only problem with this game is that it is best played on original hardware and boy do I not have that. But this is a game I've wanted to play for an eternity.
Fun fact, in the Smash Bros. moveset theory contest I run, the only contest I won was for a set for Sho Minamimoto in the Brawl days. The set is horribly outdated now, but I'm still happy.
Fun fact, in the Smash Bros. moveset theory contest I run, the only contest I won was for a set for Sho Minamimoto in the Brawl days. The set is horribly outdated now, but I'm still happy.
Liam O'Brien's voice as Lezard Valeth is literally divine
