diddles_mcbean

Finally got around to playing Earthbound and really enjoy it so far. It's lighter than most RPG's I've played from the era which I kind of appreciate.

You're all heroes to me. I can't beat Macho Man.

Mine is... Dark Cloud 3. I loved the first two and then Level 5 kinda dropped it. I think Sony has the rights tho, so we'll see.

On the old site, very recently, someone named Lonsta asked if they could take it over/revamp it. I wouldn't want there to be double effort if that person does it here as well but yes, by all means, take it over! I want it to continue to help people and it probably has a lot of updating to be done. But just a heads up about the other person asking as well.

I mean, I'm a purist at heart too but i really wanted to see what the fourth level looked like

So simple yet so genius.

Shamefully, I've not kept up with it in a while. It became a whale to maintain and I got a job, working on a phd, and have a new baby. I would not mind if someone else wanted to take it over completely. I feel bad I let it slide.

That's one tough list. I couldn't even beat Battletoads on Rare Replay with the rewind feature...

I did call myself out on that. Round, even numbers are so overrated....

With you on Turtles! Although, the more I practice the more I realize the Water level is probably the easiest. Damn that Technodrome!

Thanks for taking interest. So the disclaimer here would be that these are relative to themselves and it's entirely subjective and personal. I rank NES difficulty compared to other NES experiences, etc. As for the math, it's not the best system. I'm no mathlete, but the rankings do end up sorting in a way that I find reasonable to my experience. My rankings are on a 1-10 scale. For example, I gave Double Dragon 3 a 10 because it was a very tough and truthfully a mostly awful experience (but YAY I finally beat it!). GameFaq users think it's a 4.17 (their scale goes to only 5). It's just an average of the two ((10+4.17)/2). This also means that the theoretical highest score a game can get on my scale is 7.5 which isn't ideal for round number OCD but I've grown used to it. I can probably normalize it so that 7.5 = 10 and maybe I will. There's probably a hundred better ways to do it but that's why I brought it up - to see if others do this as well and to inquire how. I beat Dark Link using the exploit... but not knowingly. It was what I did when I got there - it wasn't until later that I learned I took the coward's way out. Oh well. The other 99% of the game was still pretty tough for me. Conversely, Contra is 17th on my list. I used to think it was hard, but a little practice went a long way and now it's no issue. It's all going to bank on personal experience and when I played it (even 5 years ago versus now- I'm probably better now). I can't stress enough that the list is personal so I wouldn't try to convince anyone that LOZ2 will be harder than Batman - but it certainly was in my experience. The purpose of this from my perspective is more or less a self-maintained achievement list.

I've played far fewer SNES games... 1) DK2 Diddy's Quest 6.185 2) Super Metroid 6.145 3) Demon's Crest 5.845 4) Super Castlevania IV 5.805 5) Link to the Past 5.57

As a mark of achievement, I always log the games I beat specifically on the NES/SNES. I also attribute a difficulty score to them. I came up with a little personal algorithm that will combine my personal difficulty score with the difficulty ratings from GameFAQs.com to come up with a ranked list that weights my opinions and factors in what others think. Does anyone else nerd out on difficulty like I do? I'm sure the games I find difficult are nothing for you whizkids For example, of the games I've beaten (there are plenty of tough ones I've not beaten) here are the rankings I have. 1) Double Dragon 3 (7.0895) 2) Zelda II: Adventure of Link (7.065) 3) Metroid (6.95) 4) Castlevania (6.545) 5) Mega Man (6.495) 6) Batman (6.47) and the list goes on...

Hello! Was just told about this place. Looking forward to hanging out here.