To be honest, I started Xbox 360 sometime in May. So it took around four months to go through everything in my physical and digital collection and play a few new ones too. Here's the list of stuff I ended with. Note that I've been playing in order of Metacritic rating, and so these are the lowest rated games I have (doesn't mean they're are actually that bad though).
Physical
Duke Nukem Forever - Gameplaywise, this isn't like the worst FPS ever. It's actually pretty exciting and varied. The humor, though, used to be funny to me but these days it kind of horrifies me. I got myself a new achievement throwing laser trip mines around (you can stick them to enemies with hilarious results). I still haven't finished the game. I hate that boss battle with the beast inspired by a monster mentioned in Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide (Eccentrica Gallumbits). That's all I'm going to say about it.
Cabela's African Safari - I am far from supporting any kind of sport hunting/fishing but they can be fun in a video game. Of all the Cabela's games, this one is the only one I'd replay. It has a nice balance between being very arcade-like and still looking good and having some challenge. I played the whole Safari again (first time was in 2013) and unlocked all the bird hunting achievements I didn't have. I also got all the Trophy Hunt Challenge mode achievements. I only have the Expert mode achievements to get when I return to it. You have to replay the whole Safari for those and I wanted to move on.
Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazzard - I wanted to like this as a B-level shooter with goofy humor but I just couldn't. I mean the line, "I'm down to my last squirt" (about a specific gun you get later in the game) will live in my head forever, but the basic third-person shooting is so jangly and just off, I couldn't stand it.
Operation Darkness - I got this years and years ago when it was cheap because it had gameplay just like Valkyria Chronicles for my Xbox. Thing is, there's something about the visuals, camera angles and UI that just confuse me and make the game a chore. Valkyria Chronicles, by comparison, is smooth, visually easy on the eyes and you can see everything clearly whether in third-person view or top-down view. I should get some good trade-in value for Operation Darkness even though I only own the disc.
007 Legends - Daniel Craig Bond in this but story elements from Goldfinger and other Bond movies. It's actually not bad but I literally got stuck in Blofeld's office wondering what to do next. It was something with my phone's biometric scanner I think, but I just couldn't get a clue what to use it for aside from unlocking the key coded locks in the room.
Backyard Sports: Sandlot Sluggers - I wanted to like this since it has a story mode where you play against other little league teams to bring down a big bully in your local neighborhood, but the AI players are like the best of The Little League Championships teams. They never miss a fielding challenge and you'll be lucky to get a hit off their pitchers.
Kung Fu Panda: Showdown of the Legendary Legends - Like Smash Bros for Kung Fu Panda characters. I love the visual design of it and the characters but fights are hard. I grabbed all the achievements I could outside of actually winning battles and moved on.
Nickelodeon: Nicktoons MLB - Now this is a good kids baseball game! Controls are simple, you can change difficulty level, number of innings played (I liked 5 inning games, but you can do 7 or 9), you can play as real human players or a host of Nicktoons characters from shows like Ren & Stimply, Invader Zim, Spongebob, Avatar, and others. You can also play in various stadiums, some real, some imagined from the TV shows. I did everything in this game except do the entire 17 game Tournament and collect all the cards for doing things in the games. I'll leave those for next time. High Voltage developed it. They've been doing sports, licensed games and ports since the 90s and a few originals like Conduit 1-2 and Hunter The Reckoning. I'm interested in diving into their other games.
Digital
Faery: Legends of Avalon - This got such bad reviews but it's really not bad at all, just kind of low budget, I guess. Mechanically, it works just fine. You are a winged faery and fly around the world freely and fast. You never actually land and walk at all. You are tasked with saving faery land by Oberon and travel to different realms to solve problems like healing The World Tree or freeing The Flying Dutchman of a curse and control by Mermaids. Battles are turn-based, RPG style. You can gain magic and items from leveling, side quests or hidden treasure chests. I got stuck on the third realm, though, trying to find the lower quarters of the desert city. I just couldn't find the entrance to it no matter what (kind of frustrating because I wanted to finish it). Next time, I'll look it up.
Crystal Defenders - Final Fantasy characters in a tower defense game designed about as simple as you can. It's not easy, though, and even though I've played it many times, I haven't even cleared all the levels in World 1 yet. I mostly remember playing this in 2008 on my PS3 while MK was watching hockey on TV. It's an easy game to play distracted.
And now, I am fully playing PS3 and nothing else. I almost finished Uncharted 2 at the end of this week and will speak on that next week.
It's crazy to me that the 360 is one of my top five favorite consoles, but I never owned an original Xbox , or the Xbox One or X/S. The 360 just hit the right notes for me at the time I guess.
It's a shame that the Backyard Sports game didn't turn out so well. The Backyard Sports games were Humongous Entertainment's most popular series. They're even making a new cartoon of it soon!
I reviewed that Nicktoons baseball game a LONG time ago. I remember it being pretty good.
http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2011/09/21/game-review-nicktoons-mlb-wii-ds-xbox-360/
I'd try one of their other ones. It's a great idea.
I loved that GIR was part of the announcers but I can see how it could get annoying after a while.
