[General Discussion] Games you consider "Perfect"?

No game is perfect: already been said, but I agree. What follows is the closest anyone's got to perfection (and it's gotten close).

-Final Fantasy VII- Cliche, but all too true. I love the story of this game to death, it stands as one of the best plots in any medium.

-Goldeneye 007- If anyone has played this game so much as I have (and so recently) then you know how awesome is was and still is.

-Metroid Prime- The best Gamecube game, in my opinion, and well deserved. The graphics are STILL amazing, the gameplay is STILL novel, and the game just evokes an amazement I will never really experience again, considering it was my first fourth-gen game I played.

-System Shock 2- Not only is it amazingly cinematic and fun, but it's also one of the scariest games I have ever played. Well crafted is an understatement.

-Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance- Personally, I believe it was here that Konami got the Metroid-vania down perfectly. I played this one first, and after played Symphony, yeah, it was good, but this one beats it better. Too bad I sold my copy oh so long ago...

-Super Mario 64- My first game. Enough said.


Time for my LttP speech. Ahem.

The Legend of Zelda is definitely not my favorite series, regardless of my avatar, and although I enjoy the games very much, I find that the defining points of the games are what makes me tick. The save system has always been a problem with every game for me. The story is the most boring thing besides Mario the developers can think up (although WW has a moment or two, and I hear good things about TP). And the gameplay is, while good, fundamentally the same. I'm not bashing LOZ, here, I have every game, and have enjoyed them all. What I am saying is that the are definitely NOT the best.

LttP, for example, has some small but nagging flaws. The lack of a coherent story, for example, and an annoyingly outdated difficulty curve. It's essentially the first half an hour over and over again the entire game. I did not get into Video Games until the N64 era, but when I go back to LttP, I just drop it and go, OOT is so much better. The presentation is better, as well as difficulty, story, and general awe factor. LttP is fun, and I think it's a great GBA game, but for console and handheld, OOT wins. We'll see how good TP is, though. 6 days. XD.

Jam it back in, in the dark.