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I think Super Metroid is overrated and I'm not trolling. 

It's really good, don't get me wrong, but the GREATEST GAME OF ALL TIME talk from pretty much everyone gets old to me when it doesn't play much differently from other 2D Metroids and I don't really have much of an emotional connection the caves I'm traveling through. 

Also, it was spoiled for me, but I don't personally understand the baby Metroid sacrifice making people cry. 

To me it's like the Citizen Kane of video games in that it's important, an amazing technical achievement and nails what it's going for ... but what's it's going for isn't going to appeal to everyone on the same level, and the "objectively good/bad" thing so many people pull with stuff like this is so annoying it honestly hurts my image of the game more than the game itself in some ways. 

It's great, but that doesn't mean "it has to be everyone's favorite or fuck you." 

This is the worst stage select to realize my comment didn't post for. Well, that sucks. I feel like I finally had an interesting response I didn't have to do "research" to think up. 

Well, still looking forward to the podcast anyway. I love hearing opinions that go against the mainstream conscious. It just feels fresh to hear perspectives the culture has almost made "objectively wrong" when "objective" shouldn't even enter into the discussion. 

Great stage select idea, in any case. 

How'd that happen? The -26 karma thing?

My friend hadn't seen the first Kingsman, but went to the sequel Saturday I think. He said it was ok, and they were a bit heavy handed with a war on drugs plot of some sort. 

I told him I figured he'd like it better (I've seen the first one) and don't remember the original being political. 

Minecraft again? AGAIN?! Good God, man. You're obsessed. Excuse me while I finish Beyond the Storm again.

Yeah, exclusivity means you have to pick the right console in order to be on the winning team ... Luckily I am on the winning team this time with PS4, but still.

I'm glad someone finally mentioned Mega Man 2.

See, I completely understand that, but in a way I'm still glad I played the first one, if not just for comparison's sake. That and I have just enough nueroses to feel compelled to play series in order if they're numbered titles ... And I had the collection, which kind of helped that along.

It's interesting that games as a medium almost always improve with their sequels. I'd actually consider MMX the first of a spinoff series as opposed to a sequel, but great game nonetheless. Melee is definitely ne I consider leaps and bounds above the

Well, your novels probably require a bit more dialogue in all fairness. 

I want to go back and play Tekken now. That was one of the first games I noticed at PlayStation kiosks when they first came out.

As for what makes a game fun, I think the reason I'm ok with some level of auto-pilot is because I just want to reach the end and sometimes that ends up meaning the less in the way the better. That said, I did enjoy the intensity of the train sequence in part because it made me feel like the main character in a big- budget movie, but with some sense of the possibility of failure. 

But then come to think of it, I recently put Horizon on "Story Mode" in order to get through it before November DLC and couldn't stand how it completely eliminated the challenge in that game. That game made combat much more fun by forcing me to think before I acted with a relatively small health bar and much stronger enemies. Once that was gone, so was the tension and so was the fun. 

I think in Uncharted's case, I still find some of that tension in the combat, but not to the frustrating level of the overbearingly shooter-heavy first entry. The platforming is mostly for show, but again the sense of scale has a cinematic quality I enjoy; I just like being able to interact with it on a low level. And I've never felt smart for figuring out video game puzzles (usually I'm annoyed with myself or saying "well that's what I thought you were supposed to do, but I wasn't able to get my character to do that earlier") but they're a nice break from the action.

I think the key word here is balance. I think as Casey has said a couple times, Uncharted 2 is just much more well- balanced than Uncharted 1.