BOTR: Candidates
All the potential candidates for Back Of The Rack. Click Notes for justifications.
121 Games
If we are going to use the OST we gotta play it.
I gotta remember Ben doesn't like motion controls. The surgery JRPG
The reason we would buy an Xbox
Fuck Dark Cloud 1. We going straight to 2
At this rate....It will be BOTR.
Beyond Good and Evil Forever amirite hahahaahahaha
Beyond Good and Evil Forever amirite hahahaahahaha
When BOTR was conceptualized, this was one of 3 games that was immediately agreed upon. The other two being, ChoroQ and Mystic Heroes.
Muramasa is a beautiful ass games. I had it in my Top 10 just from the nostalgia for it. wanted to experience the game fully, because I don't think I beat it all the way, as well as dive into Vanillaware lore and development team.
project drip drop ass jrpg that everyone forgot about anyway after begging for it to be ported over.
This one is interesting because Cyberconnect created this, but the DLC is needed to get the full context and the PSN store might close at any second.
A JRPG about WW2 that plays with this weird tactical style. We both think its cool. Its cool its worth a shot.
Make sure the wifey ain't around for this one...
i am literally just as old as this game down to the date.
Truthfully, True Crimes Streets of New York is the BOTR title from this series, but I like my sanity in check.
Probably the most Modern game we would ever cover for BOTR. I think ICO would honestly be a more fun game to tackle then the Last Guardian.
Dude the fact this game works is insane.
I remember seeing so much covereage about this game when it came out but couldn't play it because it was stuck on the OG Xbox.
This is almost locked in at this point its just deciding when its good to do another Musou.
My one and only Spider-Man.
There are a couple other choices that we could do for a Star Wars game, but I feel this one is the one to play.
Season 3 Replay Award Winner
I've recently played through the series, and Onimusha is still one I would go back and play again to talk about for the podcast. It's got a lot going on for it.
They took off American Mcgee's name, but he's such a character and this warped version of Alice in Wonderland.
This is locked in. Everytime we look at the list we always go "Oooh thats a good one right there". I don't even know what this game looks like.
One of those titles we both were looking to play because we always saw it as kids but never played.
Mark Ecko, the fashion guy, makes a video game starring a fuck ton of celebrities as voice actors. In such game where you beat the fuck outta people and do graffiti to fight the dystopian government.
I'm not saying anymore. You know why it's here.
I'm not saying anymore. You know why it's here.
let it cook okay.
Nigga do you see this!? Gun-Fu JRPG. I ain't saying no more.
A later addition to the list. With every coming year Dino Crisis gets more and more justified for being on this list until the announcement of a remake or something new.
Fuck them remakes, let's play the old fixed camera Yakuza.
We don't really try to get into handheld games because that's another huge can of worms. We both have fond memories of this game and wanted to replay it.
MY Spider-Man is in this game. Into The Spiderverse before ITSV.
Binary Domain is a middle of the road shooter with some interesting design choices. Originally slated for S3, still possible to do.
I played this game before. I don't know if Ben has, but if he hasn't (and even if he did), we are playing this game just to break down what it even is.
Season 2 Replay Award Winner
Season 3 Replay Award Winner
Is this even playable without streaming it cause that streaming shit is dead.
I feel like we could put every Suda51 game on here before we gotta stop and set a limit. They all are really the same backstory aren't they? It's really just the break glass if in danger button.
A quirky adventure game that inspired 4 sequels. theres like a subset of people just like musou or harvest moon games that die by these games.
Season 3 Replay Award Winner
Before Warriors Legends of Troy, we had Spartan Total War. A Musou game by the Total War people, what could go wrong?
a third person bond game not based on a game but starring the cast of the movies at the time. I remember never being able to beat the first level on coop with friends, I never actually played the single player for this game.
The psychic fixed camera survival horror game that nobody ever mentions.
One of those games based on the bible. Its a weird looking Action game that got a old school rpg style sequel on the Vita.
Surprisingly expensive in the collector's scene. An open-world Spider-Man game with a Morality system.
One of the rarer PS3 ganes. An interesting monster based jRPG that would be fun to dive into.
"Action Adventure" games are a dime a dozen. This one just fell into the sea of PS2 games to never be found.
The awkward middle child between Killer 7 and No More Heroes. This, Samurai Champloo, and No More Heroes is a Trilogy in Suda51's eyes.
A JRPG where you don't do any combat. From the summaries how gameplay is, it seems like an interesting title.
I think the background is more interesting than the game, and that's a red flag for me.
I remember seeing my uncle play this game more than I remember anything about this game. It's a really cool looking game.
a Mega Man JRPG, do I need to say more.
Be honest how many times you skipped over this on the store shelf?
"That's a BOTR title". It really is, a diablo clone starring the X-Men. Apparently at the time there was licensing done by genre for Marvel games, so activision had the rights to making a Marvel RPG. Also one of those games I feel you play as a kid but never beat as a kid which would be fun to go back to.
Do you not see this cool ass Cel-shaded racing game by Capcom of all developers?
Midway's horror series about a prisoner with some weird monsters running around. It uses the same engine as Psi-Ops, which we are obligated not to talk about because we covered Second Sight.
I saw a review say Armored core for kids and that made me chuckle. I forgot this game existed before the movies came out.
WE WILL PLAY THIS.
John Woo directed game that came out EARLY in the 7th generation. Surprisingly doesn't get that much love.
Ben did not know this game existed until we did the E3 Videos so with that we gotta play it. Warren Spector got Disney to make this horror filled Disney game.
Was featured in the S3 intro. So its on the list for that. I've watched this game go up in price every single year and I don't even think there's anything super noteworthy about it other than FROM SOFT.
There is so much background to this game that would be interesting to talk about, but first I need to convince Ben to keep playing Final Fantasy 14 with me.
kinda breaking the no handheld rule, but this was my first introduction into mega man, it was my generation's mega man. And turning it into a card battling jrpg is weird as fuck.
Before SSX, there was Coolboarders..
let us cook.
This is a weird ass game, once again one of those ones we always saw as kids but never played.
one of them ones. We gotta cover it.
This game makes it off a technicality. TECHNICALLY, it's a 7th Generation game. TECHNICALLY, this would be a bitch to get a physical version of.
GTA but in London from what everyone says, but I know there's gotta be more to this that just that.
It got 3 sequels but Sony just forgot about it. Even Killzone and Infamous got PS4 games but they just dropped this one.
When you look up best movie tie in games this is always up there in the list, so we gonna see if it holds up to that, cause the Thing is a good ass movie.
This is the BOTR Prince of Persia game if there is one.
you play as a spider..like...come on.
One of those hidden gem franchises from Capcom that started in the 7th Generation that was mismanaged to death. Unfortunate because it could've been another Pillar franchise, but that's a story for if it gets chosen.
We don't usually cover a lot of Nintendo games. This is one of those you just gotta talk about.
A sequel only in name and setting to the classic cRPG from the 80s.
No you don't remember it.
Bungie developed anime game. We joked that this was Ghost in the Shell one time, so I felt obligated to add it to the list.
A lot of people call this a Max Payne clone...
The weird anime tie in game that no one talks about existing. Back when Naruto and DBZ ruled the anime world.
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She was featured in PS All Stars Battle Royale, and she had one game... and never another one.
The crossover that should've been the greatest thing known to man, but somehow.....wasn't
YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is one of the Original 3.
This is one of the Original 3.
The black sheep of the Musou series. Interesting to speak about with the changes that happened with 9 at the time thinking adding this to the lsit.
This is one of those rules of If I used it in a video to explain the podcast premise, we gotta add it to the list.
A M Rated Nintendo game. Miyamoto specifically called out making the player the actual ghost to possesing items, before it was just a generic shooter.
A gorgeous game with some amazing music. I rented this game as a kid around the same time as FF12 but I got confused and gave it back. It would be fun to go back to it.
If you're adding Dynasty Warriors 6, you gotta add Strikeforce. I thought of the idea of doing both in one episode. This was always an interesting title. The fact that they really went all the way anime that the openings allude to was always a cool concept that I never got to play other than the demo on PSP.
The PS3 port of one of those Vita Monster Hunter clones that bloated the catalog.
AFRO!!
WE NEED MORE NOMURA
You see this cover and think of Condemmed or some shit, but this is a sci fi shooter .
Long as I can curve the bullet Imma play it for BOTR idc.
ID Software's weird shooter. I remember playing it and thinking it was only a little bit of shooting and a lot of racing.
