Best and Worst Playstation Network Games

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#1 - Final Fantasy VII

Final Fantasy VII 7The game that tops everybody's video game lists, it's no surprise that it tops mine as well.

Everybody knows the characters, the story, the gameplay, and so on. However, what people never tell you is WHY the game still endures as a 'must have'. Final Fantasy VII is the essential RPG: It takes a genre and makes it accessible to nearly everyone. The gameplay is less complex than modern RPGs, yet it is still efficient and effective. The story is not about a far off place with wizards and dragons, but instead it's closer to a world much like our own filled with characters that reflect that world (our world). Themes of love, hate, loss, and adventure are ever present, and there's rarely an uninteresting moment. The story (now milked to death and over-complicated by sequels and prequels) started off as somewhat straightforward, but, through interacting with characters and fantastic storytelling, absorbed the gamer into an epic story in an equally epic world.

Final Fantasy VII is one of the few games that transcend time. Final Fantasy VII is not the graphics, or music, or gameplay.
Final Fantasy VII is an essence.
Final Fantasy VII simply 'IS'.

#5 - Mortal Kombat II

Mortal Kombat II*Insert 'Techno-Syndrome' Mortal Kombat theme*

If Street Fighter II was the Cadillac of arcade fighting games, then Mortal Kombat II was the muscle car. Mortal Kombat 1 was an arcade hit, mostly in part to its (then) extreme violence and the prevailing shit-storm is produced. Parents and politicians were foaming at the mouth, screaming for censorship, and it only fanned the flames of fame. Mortal Kombat was a decent game, but aside from the gore it was nothing special, and had the gore gone unnoticed or had it never been brought to center stage in the media, I doubt there would have been a sequel.

Thank God for politicians and stupid parents! Mortal Kombat II took everything that was good about Mortal Kombat, and it took it to the extreme. The character roster grew, the fighting was refined, and the game was bloodier than ever. New stage fatalities, outragious fatalities, and the 'Friendship' finishers that flipped the middle-finger at censors; Mortal Kombat II was the king of the arcades. The first time I witnessed its glory, there was an enormous crowd of teenagers in the arcade, and they would be fighting one another in a king-of-the-hill kind of fashion, and the reigning champ would SLAUGHTER his challenger by eating his head, or throwing him into a pool of acid. It was glorious.

All of its arcade greatness... has been lost. There is no crowd around your television, there are no parents screaming at you for playing it, and politicians have found that video game censoring isn't profitable. The aura of 'taboo' is now missing, but in its wake is still a solid game and a great nostalgic trip for anybody with $5 to spare. It's still fun to go back and see if you can pull off some of the fatalities by heart, and with a decent online mode (I said 'decent', not 'good') Mortal Kombat II is totally worth the price of a Big Mac.