Rate the Game: Week 84

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Well, last week's Rate the Game was...well...um...I mean, I don't want to use the word "disaster" or anything but sadly Shinobi wasn't as popular among the TPWW Universe as I might have believed. I'm kind of wondering why I even bothered adding it to the pile. I guess ninjas were all the rage back then. I mean, you had Ninja Gaiden. The Ninja Turtles. Strider. That counts, right? Well regardless let's see where the poor sap ends up on the list. Let's take a gander...

Rate the Game Results

1. (TIE) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (4.8)
3. Hitman: Codename 47 (4.75)
4. Super Mario Bros. 3 (4.7)
5. (3-WAY TIE)Chrono Trigger, Portal, Red Dead Redemption (4.5)
8. (TIE) Mega Man 2, Donkey Kong Country (4.44)
10. Super Mario Bros. (4.41)
11. God of War (4.4)
12. (TIE) Metal Gear Solid, BioShock (4.33)
14. Perfect Dark (4.3)
15. (TIE) Shadow of the Colossus, The Last of Us (4.28)
17. Super Street Fighter 2 (4.15)
18. Sonic the Hedgehog (4.14)
19. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (4.125)
20. Super Mario 64 (4.07)
21. (TIE) Grand Theft Auto 3, The Legend of Zelda (4.06)
23. NBA Jam (4.05)
24. (7-WAY TIE) Super Mario Kart, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Super Metroid, The Simpsons, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Donkey Kong Country 2, Resident Evil 4 (4.0)
31. Final Fantasy 7 (3.94)
32. Mega Man (3.89)
33. (3-WAY TIE) Contra, Castlevania, Devil May Cry (3.86)
36. Half-Life 2 (3.85)
37. Half-Life (3.83)
38. SimCity 2000 (3.8)
39. Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver (3.77)
40. Batman: Arkham Asylum (3.76)
41. (TIE) Double Dragon, Max Payne (3.75)
43. Tetris (3.69)
44. Mortal Kombat 2 (3.67)
45. (TIE) Diablo, F.E.A.R. (3.66)
47. Mortal Kombat (3.65)
48. Doom (3.625)
49. StarFox (3.61)
50. Resident Evil (3.58)
51. (TIE) Ninja Gaiden, Shinobi (3.5)
53. Dead Space (3.4)
54. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (3.39)
55. Resident Evil: Nemesis (3.38)
56. (4-WAY TIE) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Condemned: Criminal Origins, Crash Bandicoot, Wolfenstein 3D (3.33)
60. Gears of War (3.27)
61. (TIE) Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Borderlands (3.22)
63. (TIE) Quake, Duke Nukem 3D (3.2)
65. Pac-Man (3.125)
66. Killer Instinct (3.11)
67. (TIE) Virtua Fighter, Rock Band (3.09)
69. (4-WAY TIE) Time Crisis, Tekken, Earthworm Jim, Metroid (3.0)
73. Guitar Hero (2.875)
74. Streets of Rage (2.84)
75. Altered Beast (2.8)
76. Dead Rising (2.71)
77. (TIE) Silent Hill, The Sims (2.6)
79. Tomb Raider (2.55)
80. Halo: Combat Evolved (2.5)
81. Twisted Metal (2.42)
82. Gran Turismo (2.3)
83. Ghosts n' Goblins (2.14)


Well it's almost fitting that Shinobi ends up sharing the same spot as Ninja Gaiden. Both have their fare share of frustrations and what not. Plus they're ninjas. That goes without saying. Anyways, let's move away from last week's showing and take a peek at what this week has in store for us. Hopefully it'll be a title with a bit more recognition among the good people of TPWW. Show us what we're dealing with this week, bowl....

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Ta-da! Oh, sure, NOW the bowl wants to give us something horror-related. This would have been perfect about 3 weeks ago. Anyways, we're bringing Capcom back to the forefront as we take a look at the monster fighting game, literally, Darkstalkers! It's a franchise that often gets overlooked in comparison to something like Street Fighter but maybe there's enough love for it here to land it in a good spot on the board. Or maybe it deserves to be forgotten and cast down into the pit at the bottom of the list? What do you think? How does this game fare with you all? Rate and discuss and share and have a good one. Until next week!