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What Black Sheep game of a popular franchise is your favourite?
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Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:35:12
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Majora's Mask?

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Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:17:32
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I don't think Majora's Mask is really a black sheep. Maybe when it was first released, but it's generally considered to be as good as, if not better than Ocarina of Time.  Link's Adventure is really the black sheep of that series.

Personally I'd go with Super Mario Bros. 2.  That was one of my favorite games of the NES era and it's still my favorite Mario game of that era. Now that they're doing "new" Super Mario Bros, I'd really like to see a version done in that style.

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Zelda: Wind Waker

Super Mario Sunshine

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Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:09:18
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Star Fox Adventures (It was considered a Black Sheep because it was hardly like the other games in the series)

SUPER MARIO MAKER LEVELS:

  • SMB Mix-Up! (1AB2-0000-0047-5A7D)
  • Storm the Castle (77BD-0000-00E0-A9C0)

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I think Resident Evil: Code Veronica is kind of a black sheep....because it was originally a Dreamcast game that didn't get a number to it just because it wasn't on Playstation, even though Mikami confirmed later that Code Veronica was the real RE 3, and Nemesis was the game that should have just had a numberless tag name.

So I think a lot of gamers wrote it off as being just a half-assed side game, when in reality its one of the best games in the series, if not the best.

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Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:57:48
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Edge has a good one. With Zelda the black sheep would either be Zelda 2 or WW.  
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Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:38:36
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I don't think WW is a blacksheep anymore. They made 2 more games in that style. I'd say that was verfication that people liked it.
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Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:03:26
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robio said:
I don't think WW is a blacksheep anymore. They made 2 more games in that style. I'd say that was verfication that people liked it.

Which lead to two even bigger black sheep.

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Duh. Simon's Quest, of course. It had the most awesome kickass Belmont suit, and it featured Bloody Tears. 

What a horrible night to have a curse.

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Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:13:09

Dvader said:

robio said:
I don't think WW is a blacksheep anymore. They made 2 more games in that style. I'd say that was verfication that people liked it.

Which lead to two even bigger black sheep.

You mean the best two games of the franchise? Happy

SteelAttack said:

Duh. Simon's Quest, of course. It had the most awesome kickass Belmont suit, and it featured Bloody Tears.

What a horrible night to have a curse.

Ooooh excellent call.  That's a damn good nominee.

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Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:52:59
I don't have much.  I guess, Super Mario Bros 2 (the real one, not Doki Doki Panic).

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Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:13:41

SteelAttack said:

Duh. Simon's Quest, of course. It had the most awesome kickass Belmont suit, and it featured Bloody Tears.

What a horrible night to have a curse.

Except the game was kind of sucky. I love it cause of the old school quirkiness of it all and I believe with some good design that idea would make a masterpiece. That said the game itself was a mess. It wasn't like Zelda 2, that game was weird and different but it nailed that style of gameplay.

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Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:23:57

Dvader said:

 It wasn't like Zelda 2. 

 Of course it wasn't. Simon's Quest was actually fun to play. 

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Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:27:01
LOL

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Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:59:53

SteelAttack said:

Of course it wasn't. Simon's Quest was actually fun to play.

Nyaa

LOL It's funny cause it's wrong. Nyaa

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Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:49:37

Dvader said:

LOL It's funny cause it's wrong. Nyaa

 You get aroused by Sonic erotic fiction. Your opinions are invalid until the end of time. LOL 

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Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:32:24
Oh speaking of Sonic and black sheep gaming I have to admit I do enjoy Sonic Spinball.
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Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:52:48
I liked Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom. People seem to consider THAT the black-sheep of the series!
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Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:57:43
That was just a depressing game.
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Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:59:03

Ravenprose said:
Zelda: Wind Waker

Super Mario Sunshine

Super Mario Sunshine is your favorite Mario platformer?

The closest I have is that I consider GTA: Vice City Stories (the PSP game, later converted to PS2) to be the best of the GTAIII series (so GTA3, VC, SA, LCS and VCS).  It was the last entry in the series before 4 and Chinatown, and it really does  provide the best balance of everything that was learned from the games that preceded it.  It still had the failures of the franchise (which remain today), but mitigated the bloat and had a better story.

I don't think that it is considered a Black Sheep, but for the most part I think it was ignored critically (came on the PSP when there had already been 4 in the series).  It is one of the very few million sellers on the system IIRC (the 2 GTA's and Chains of Olympus).

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