AstralSoul

#164 here - woo! I think it was only the second day it was live and already in the 100s..wow!

New F-Zero
Pikmin 4
EarthBound/Mother 3
Bloodborne 2
New Chibi-Robo (more akin to the original)
GTA Vice City 2

Blaster Master on NES. I know it's not a super hard game, nor a super long one. I've played it very far in many times over, but there's no password system and I hate relying on save states. I want to play it in its entirety in one playthrough one day. 

Playing the Outer Worlds and loving it!

Don't even get me started on OSTs. Music is a big part of my enjoyment of games and often find a great soundtrack can elevate an otherwise mediocre game, or make a great game perfect. Welp, too late, I'm gonna talk about it anyway! Some of my favorites have already been mentioned - EarthBound, DKC2, Terranigma, Secret of Mana...but I'll add to those here:

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles has an amazing soundtrack all around but this is probably my favorite track of the bunch.

Legend of Mana is not only one of my favorite action RPGs (yes I like it better than Secret of Mana) it might be my #1 favorite OST of all time. That's a bold statement to make so I'll just say it's definitely top 5.  This is my favorite track from it.

Ratchet & Clank is another favorite game of mine, with an amazing soundtrack. The sequels could never hold up to the original in terms of music but all the games in the series are great. This level in particular has memorable and ominous music. I love it.

Hollow Knight.... you want to talk about a game that is nothing but pure beauty? Here it is. The art is amazing, the gameplay is amazing, the soundtrack is amazing. I would honestly give this game perfect marks. This track in particular is beautiful.

Mega Man 3.... What is talking about great OSTs without at least mentioning Mega Man? Snake Man is my favorite track in the entire series. Memorable, fast paced and catchy. Just how I love my Mega Man music.

Mudkip!

10/10 - Favorite band of all time (tied w/ Weezer)

Also the first band I ever really got into back in 1994, in elementary school. Dookie was the first albums I ever owned. Still love them and listen to them today. Seeing Weezer and Green Day (with Fallout Boy) on the Hella Mega Tour next year and I can't wait!

Long Island, NY

• Super Ghouls n Ghosts - Feels like an old school 2D Dark Souls more than any other game I've played
• Battletoads - For is impossible racing gameplay sequences
• Punch-Out because button press timing and memorization is hard for me

Dark Souls is one of my favorite games series of all time. The original Dark Souls took me 7 years to beat. No I wasn't playing it for all 7 years. But I originally played it when it came in 2011(or 2012) and couldn't even get past the Taurus Demon. The first "real" boss. I revisited the game a few times since then and never got far and would end up quitting in rage. I figured the series is just not for me. I picked up Bloodborne last year and ended up really falling in love with the game even though I found it to be just as hard as Dark Souls. I got really far though (still haven't beaten it) but far enough to know that I could eventually keep going to beat it and that I loved the game. After that I revisited Dark Souls and much to my surprise I actually beat it. I couldn't believe it. It took me a month straight of playing only that game, but 70 hours later and 7 years in the making it was well worth it. It might have been the single most rewarding gaming experience ever.

I went on to play Demon's Souls, Dark Souls 2 and Dark Souls 3, and loved every single one of them. I have yet to completely finish them all but I made very good progress in them all and I will go back (needed a break as they are very draining to play). But the games are genius in design. Yes at first they seem like they are BS. But really it employs the old school mentality of just learning enemy placements and patterns and if you know the game well enough you can blaze through it easily. There are a few unfair moments I've encountered but most of the games are completely fair. The series is an acquired taste so I understand completely about not liking it. But if you enjoy difficult but rewarding games I say stick with it, you will get a bit farther as you keep going and eventually (hopefully) it will just click for you and you'll get into a sort of flow and the rest of the game will be smooth.

EarthBound but Super Mario 64 is right up there next to it.

EarthBound just has more nostalgia for me than any other game. It came to me at the ripe age of 13 back in 1996 and it was my 2nd RPG ever (Super Mario RPG was my introduction to the genre) and I loved the modern setting in EarthBound, the music, the humor, everything about it was memorable to me and I still replay it every year or two. 

Super Mario 64 though... I can't think of any other moment in my video game history where I was more "WOW"ed than the first time I picked up an N64 controller and played Super Marip 64. When N64 came out I was so uninterested in it, I just loved my SNES and didn't want to move on to the next gen. But I saw the game in Blockbuster in a demo unit and tried it out with much hesitation. It was mere moments later I knew I had to have an N64. All these years later I still remember everything about this game and replay it every so often.

Because it's near impossible for me to pick only 1 or 2 favorites, here's my top 10 list:
1. EarthBound
2. Super Mario 64
3. Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest
4. Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
5. Conkers Bad Fur Day
6. Final Fantasy IX
7. Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
8. BioShock 2
9. Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
10. Resident Evil 4

I use VGCollect to track my collection as well as a Google Docs Spreadsheet.

7 hours ago, Quaze said:

See? If I didn't see this post I'd have never known you were you, and you'd be lost in the mix of new names/faces!

Yeah I know and that's why I kept my old username so long but at some point u just stopped caring and figured no one would notice or care anyway. I also distanced myself from the community to the point where I figured I'd just stop visiting NA but yet here I am. Lol

Thanks! Happy to be a part of VGS in its inaugural season!

18 minutes ago, jonebone said:

Wow thanks for the reminder, totally would have forgotten that was you.  You were Kraken for quite awhile. 

Yeah I had that username for 4 years or so. I grew tired of it but kept it that long only so as not to confuse everyone but I wanted a name I would use across all sites and places - PSN, Reddit, other gaming sites, etc. So now at least I have that consistency.

People will know me best as KrakenSoup on NA, but I've changed my username several times, and more recently AstralSoul13 which is the username I use everywhere now.

Right now I have one foot in each door of VGS and NA, but it's only a matter of time til i close that other door completely.

I eagerly await in anticipation of the last 300 games! I appreciate the dedication you put into the list, and has inspired me to do one for N64 games, though I still have yet to play every single one, it's a long term goal of mine now. 

Mortal Kombat 11 (story mode) beaten. Really fun fighting game. I kind of fell off the series for a while this entry is really solid.

Hey there - formerly KrakenSoup on NintendoAge (and currently AstralSoul13 over there) - where I was a member since January 2014, my passion for collecting has grown stale as of late, what with a house and a kid to pay for, and less and less time to actually enjoy said games, all that on top of mostly playing new games on PS4 and Switch that occupy most of my free time. That said, my passion for old games (and new) will never die even if I'm not an active collector anymore. Maybe when I win the lottery... Lol. That said I look forward to becoming active in the forums once again, since I enjoy talking about games just as much as playing them. See you all there!