Definitive Neo GEo AES top ten
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Good god someone actually mentioned NAM-1975, good lad.
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A top ten is really hard, so many good games in so many genres. I'm a fighting game guy and big Fatal Fury fan, I could easily fill half a top 10 list with the Real Bout games, Special and Garou. If I was stuck on an island with just a Neo, though, I'd want a variety, so here goes:
10) Ghost Pilots - controversial, it's basically just a cheap attempt at a Toaplan shooter but then, I love Toaplan shooters, so have soft spot for it
9) Sengoku 2 - underrated, it's crazy and unique and Sengoku 3 is boring by comparison. Best beat em up on Neo.
8) League Bowling - simple and fun, great party game anyone can play
7) Ninja Commando - another underrated game, though it would have been replaced with Shock Troopers if this wasn't supposed to be an AES list
6) Blazing Star - best shooter on the system IMO
5) Baseball Stars 2 - Close call between this and 2020, which one I'd pick would depend on my mood that day
4) Metal Slug 3 - this and X are my favorite MS games
3) Real Bout Fatal Fury - The other Real Bouts and Garou are better competitive games but to me this one is more fun
2) Magician Lord - amazing that the best platformer/action game for system was it's first game released
1) Neo Turf Masters - boring and predictable but the game is just that good, easy to pick up hard to master.
Honarble mentions - Waku Waku 7, Kizuna Encounter, Last Blade, and SamSho 4.
10) Ghost Pilots - controversial, it's basically just a cheap attempt at a Toaplan shooter but then, I love Toaplan shooters, so have soft spot for it
9) Sengoku 2 - underrated, it's crazy and unique and Sengoku 3 is boring by comparison. Best beat em up on Neo.
8) League Bowling - simple and fun, great party game anyone can play
7) Ninja Commando - another underrated game, though it would have been replaced with Shock Troopers if this wasn't supposed to be an AES list
6) Blazing Star - best shooter on the system IMO
5) Baseball Stars 2 - Close call between this and 2020, which one I'd pick would depend on my mood that day
4) Metal Slug 3 - this and X are my favorite MS games
3) Real Bout Fatal Fury - The other Real Bouts and Garou are better competitive games but to me this one is more fun
2) Magician Lord - amazing that the best platformer/action game for system was it's first game released
1) Neo Turf Masters - boring and predictable but the game is just that good, easy to pick up hard to master.
Honarble mentions - Waku Waku 7, Kizuna Encounter, Last Blade, and SamSho 4.
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Woosh!
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I guess I should have read the thread before posting. In that case
All the soccer games in random order followed by Legend of Success Joe
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Ill show you a “honarble mention,” buddy!!!
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I’d still take Ninja Commando. I love Shock Troopers but it moves a bit slow to me. I’d rather play mercs.
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Anybody knows nothing about the Neo GEo AES knows Art of Fighting has to be #1, which makes it 10 points-and-last-on-the-list-yet-first-mentioned.
10- Magician Lord
9- Cyber Lip
8- Last Resort
7- Sengoku
6- Nam-Jiggling-1975
5- World Heroes
4- Samurai Spirits
3- Fatal Fury Special
2- King of Fighters '98
1- Art of Fighting
10- Magician Lord
9- Cyber Lip
8- Last Resort
7- Sengoku
6- Nam-Jiggling-1975
5- World Heroes
4- Samurai Spirits
3- Fatal Fury Special
2- King of Fighters '98
1- Art of Fighting
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AOF1 is great. Anyone who disagrees eats crayons for breakfast.
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I don't know how you like Zed Blade. I find it the most dull and uninspiring game ever. It's like if I asked AI to generate a 90's horizontal shooter.
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AI is never the right lens to view 90's media. It took real effort from real dull and uninspired people to make that.
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Zed Blade isn't dull and uninspired, it's quite characterful. In a weird, and some would say retarded way, but it does have its own identity. It's a fun game, even if it's kind of repulsive at first.
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#10 (1st favorite): Magician Lord
#9 (2nd favorite): SNK vs Capcom SVC Chaos
#8 (3rd favorite): Samurai Shodown II
#7 (4th favorite): Fatal Fury Special
#6 (5th favorite): Art of Fighting
#5 (6th favorite): Samurai Shodown
#4 (7th favorite): World Heroes 2
#3 (8th favorite): The King of Fighters '95
#2 (9th favorite): Fatal Fury
#1 (10th favorite): World Heroes
#9 (2nd favorite): SNK vs Capcom SVC Chaos
#8 (3rd favorite): Samurai Shodown II
#7 (4th favorite): Fatal Fury Special
#6 (5th favorite): Art of Fighting
#5 (6th favorite): Samurai Shodown
#4 (7th favorite): World Heroes 2
#3 (8th favorite): The King of Fighters '95
#2 (9th favorite): Fatal Fury
#1 (10th favorite): World Heroes
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He's just trolln.
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I was super into NEO•GEO when it first came out, but interest started to wane once 3DO, Saturn and others arrived.
Street Fighter is my favorite series though, so when you could finally play as Ryu in a NEO•GEO game, I got back into NEO•GEO.
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Not trolling friend.
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I like Street Fighter and NEO•GEO so much that CVS, CVS2 & SVC are all very enjoyable to me in their own ways.
I like that SVC Chaos is one on one. I like that there are so many hidden characters only accessible with codes. I like the graphics style a lot.
Have a lot of great memories of playing it in the arcade in 2003. My friends and I camped out to be the first ones to play it the day it was arriving at the big arcade in the mall. I couldn't afford an AES (or the cost of games), so I bought an Xbox and SVC Chaos in 2004 the day the SVC Chaos port came out. A couple years later when money wasn't so tight, I bought my first AES and a copy of SVC Chaos.
I thought Capcom Fighting Evolution sucked and it didn't even get an arcade release in the US, so SVC Chaos was the final arcade game I was ever into. The culmination of 12 years of spending so much of my life in arcades.
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I played so much Super Street Fighter II Turbo and Samurai Shodown on my 3DO it was ridiculous.
And Samurai Shodown was uncensored, unlike the AES version, which made it even cooler to my 11 year old brain.
What were your favorite 3DO games during its heyday?