These are games that are still stuck in my memory today. Many highly rated games are good, and I've been revisiting them, but these are the ones that come to mind first when I think of 360.
I'm a big fan of developer People Can Fly, so when I saw that this game was theirs, I jumped on board. I bounced off it a few times initially. I liked it but the feeling of the controls felt slightly off to me. I tried adjusting the speed of the analog sticks, but it didn't quite work. When I decided to really dig into this game, I figured it out.
These are the games I played last Tuesday when I was off work. The routine is somewhat different every time I get to play. Like last week I played some Gears of War Judgment in four player co-op. It was fun and I'm going for a hardcore run of the game that way. I didn't get to Gears last Tuesday though. Here's what I got to.
I didn't notice any new releases all that interesting to me in Jan, Feb, and March this year but I saw several for April. So I thought I'd share them here.
I went to a Comic Con here in the outskirts of Philly today, The Greater Philadelphia Comic Con. Then Mark and I seperately played the entire campaign of Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition.
Here's a list of my top ten most played games this year, in order of most played to least, for 2015.
I finally got around to uploading a few pics I made in the last week or two.
Too many words for a blog again, so I'll get right to my Sunday game fest.
I finished up all but one achievement in Saint's Row: Gat Out of Hell today. The one remaining is "Let's Bounce" - In Torment Fraud, hit 5 vehicles in a row without touching the ground. Torment Fraud has you become one of the zombie-like souls that make up most of the inhabitants of this Hell. You're object is to throw yourself into traffic and cause as much damage to yourself as possible, the idea being that the more suffering you endure, the less time you will have to spend in Hell. Thus you are, in effect, defrauding Hell of the time they sentenced you to. So you waddle your way into traffic and throw yourself at the cars, and if you do it right, the impact throws you into the air and then you can somewhat control your flight and try to hit more cars, bouncing your way across the map. Well, this is easier said than done. I found the best location to do this challenge (the place with the most traffic) and tried over and over to get to 5, and so did my friend Mark. Both of us got to 4 many times but just couldn't get that last one.
I thought I might start a habit of fishing the game stores on Saturdays and hook a few new things to fill out my library of games. I made a list of stuff to cast for (I made it large so I'd at least find something) and headed out to the mall where there is a retro game store and several Gamestops. I was also going there to get some street passes and some Chick-fil-a. Yum! Let's see what the nets brought in this week.
I tried some demos on Monday on Xbox 360 instead of playing Enchanted Arms. First I played Gears of War Judgment with a friend. It's only Overrun mode that's 4v4. It looks and plays just like GOW3 and that's just fine with me. More of great is good. Then it was Army of Two: Devil's Cartel which was a really good co-op experience. The shear amount of destruction in the game is glorious! Then I played some XBLA demos. Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon was hilarious and fun. I absolutely loved it! God Mode seemed to be just an endless hoard mode. Serious Sam DD XXL had controls that were unintuitive. Sacred Citadel was overly difficult and Double Dragon II annoyed me by consistently surrounding me with enemies to disrupt my fighting moves. Enjoyable however was Poker Night 2. It's just Texas Hold 'em but it's fun to listen to the characters responses especially the Venture Bros.'s Samson, Glados and Claptrap. Plus you can unlock a Samson skin for the Gunzerker in Borderlands 2. How cool is that! Then I played the demo for The Cave and got hooked and bought it.