'cause it feels so good. Stuff I played a lot in the 7th generation of consoles, 2005-2013ish.
Games Beaten
This is my list in coordination with the all-time best OG Xbox games on Metacritic. I'm playing games in order of MC rating instead of release date this year.
In Stephen King's memoir In Writing, a good piece of advice (regarding reading habits) that King made was to read in small sips as opposed to big gulps. Which is more accessible depends on the person, their schedule, and how much time they have during a given day.
Lots of stuff this week, but it all comes down to Farm Together 2, which will be my friend and mine's obsession for the coming weeks.
The dreaded stealth gameplay got to me again in several new games I tried out this week. But I finished Doom Dark Ages, discovered some new Atari games, and got sucked into an old classic again.
I recently purchased a refurbished laptop (nothing fancy, one of the Acer Aspire models) after having spent so many years without a laptop (the Samsung Chromebook I own still works but its OS stopped receiving support two years ago). I don't know why I went so far like this. The idea was not to acquire a gaming PC/laptop but something good enough to handle jack-of-all-trades utilities. So far, it's worked out well for me.
It's hard to pull myself away from some of these games but that's my plan. Here's what I finalized my month with this week.
Finally, I am Switch exclusive right now. I already have youtube running for meal times, and I'm exploring the story and news apps thoroughly. I'm also just as impatient with every game I'm playing, taking breaks and jumping around like a manic flea from game to game. Well, maybe I've found a game I will stick to for a while in Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince. Details below.
The 3DS was released this year. Minecraft came out of beta. The highest rated games were Batman: Arkham City, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and Portal 2. Here's a list of what I put the most time into that year followed by stuff I played later and then a wish list.
Pokemon finally got topped in sales by Grand Theft Auto this year with Vice City #1 and GTA III #3 in the U.S. . Critical acclaim went to GameCube's Metroid Prime and Zelda: Wind Waker. The Sims topped all-time PC sales beating out Myst this year. Microsoft bought Rare and Gametrailers began online. Remember Gametrailers? I used to check out that site all the time. Now for games I wouldn't mind playing again or for the first time.
I broke 200k in achievements on Xbox the other day. The top scorers worldwide are over 3 million. The top gamer on my friend's list has around 400k. My score reflects 15 years of playing on Xboxes. But enough of that, on with what I played this week so far.
First two I played for Game Pass rewards. The rest trying to clear up my harddrive. That 111GB Forza Horizon 5 has installed but is not playable yet. That's a lot of Gigabytes - the new norm I'm told for triple-A games.
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I guess a lot of people were watching American Idol and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest; playing Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, listening to High School Musical and reading yet another James Patterson book, but I was somewhere else (except for Pirates, I do like those movies). Below describes just where.
This is about the waning years of the Battletoads as they sit in their rockers on the porch of their farmhouse reminiscing. Each of them remembers differently, so the object of the game is to push your own memory as the true one. You do this via a casual card battle game like Magic the Gathering. After Rash, Pimple and Zit talk and come to a disagreement, the card battle game begins, and the winner moves the conversation their way. There are multiple endings that encourage replay. It's a short game. I won as Pimple and got the "Brutal Fist" ending. I won't spoil what that meant. I would've replayed the game, but the card battle system was a little too simple, and I moved on to the following five games.
It could be another solitaire variant but it's actually the collective title of the four games I played today.
As it rains and t-storms for the second day in a row, I'm going to blog again. Thanks for the comments for the last blog posts and for the new Switch friends (thanks Cary and Super King!). Still enjoying my Switch and making my daily duties in Animal Crossing NH: recently unlocked the museum and the new Nook shopping building. I'm about 15,000 bells from paying off my first debt.
I’ve started a row on my bookshelf for a games library. I used metacritic’s all-time highest rated database as a guide. I went down the list and picked games that I wanted to play again and ones I’ve been desperate to play for years. Here’s the list I made from page one.
I was thinking, probably too much, about the games that got me to buy a particular system and that one game I would have if I could only have one. Here's what I came up with across all the systems I've played
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I really shouldn’t be buying new games, but in the last couple of weeks I’ve been snatching up digital games, sometimes on a whim and sometimes after having forgotten about them.