I've chosen ten games from the Metacritic best of list to start my OG Xbox journey. Here they are.
It's time to run down the list of GameCube games on Metacritic. It's fun and brings up memories and helps me decide what stays in my collection and what I need to pick up. Here goes.
I only have a few here I put on my must-play list, but I like to look at everything anyway and perhaps try something new if I can find it for cheap enough. Remasters are also of interest since sometimes they vastly improve the experience. So this is Metacritic's top PS2 games 26-50 with comments.
Alongside my PS2 gaming is also me trying to play the handheld out at the time, GBA. I've had trouble getting to it, but this week I got super sidetracked on GBA games. I also touched on PS4 and XSS and bought a bunch of stuff both digitally and at my game stores.
I'm going down the Metacritic list for PS2 and seeing what might be worth trying out. Journey along and see the sights.
Good morning Pixlpeeps from a cool morning here in Hawaii. Tomorrow will be two weeks since I got here and I have to say it’s been nice to just casually wake up and not have the stress of moving hanging over your head. I refuse to get on local time, so I’ve been getting up around 4-5am here which is 6-7am in California. It’s quiet, I open the window and you hear some of the neighbors in their cars going to work. During this time I started playing a new game that everyone is playing….Wordle.
Well it’s kind of a cloudy night here in what is usually normally sunny Southern California and here I am trying to remember which games I’ve played this past week. At this point my gaming revolves around the PC, iOS, and the Switch. I’ll explain why next week, which should be fun. Anyways before I forget let’s get started.
It’s Monday Night here so I’m still on track with my goals for 2022. Good evening Pixlpeeps! So more running around this past week along with today…seriously have you ever had a day where everything just isn’t clicking? That was today for me. Trying to get paperwork printed when printers didn’t work, when the printer did work, it didn’t read the usb stick, pick up other paperwork in a busy location, people not knowing how to drive in a parking lot and then the cherry on top was Panera getting my lunch wrong. It was that kind of day. I did however play some games when I did have time.
It’s 2022 and this is the first Monday of the new year. Good morning Pixlpeeps! There is a lot happening on my end right now so I’m a little (a lot) preoccupied with bigger things, but it is what it is. I did however say that I am going to be here more and it is the new year so I’m here. So a quick update of what’s been going on:
So last week we had an Excessive Heat Warning for the entire week, which usually means everything outside is hotter than the surface of the sun. Happily I spent the week indoors with the occasional trip outside to experience life on the sun. During these non melting periods of when it was 120°+ outside I played some games including some new ones.
Good morning Pixlpeeps! It is a breezy Monday here in Southern California and I finished breakfast and I am ready to update you good people on the things I played or at least tried to this past week. I played a handful of stuff some new and some are my usual so let’s get started.
Good morning Pixlpeeps! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend filled with tons of games and all kinds of crazy stories. I did not game much because I had my second shot (Part 2 of the Pfizer), still didn’t get my sticker, and I thought I would be sick as a dog the entire weekend. Since I already had the virus I was fine, but my post virus cough has seemed to return. Whatever, so most of my weekend was continuing to clean up the mess that is my music libraries (FLAC and AAC/MP3) but the days leading up to the weekend and Sunday afternoon I may have squeezed in some games just to say I played some games, and progressed my created players.
Well good morning Pixlpeeps! I’m going to make this short because there’s errands I need to tackle (I’m doing them so I can get ice coffee and a donut) and I would like to read what you good people wrote, plus I really didn’t play much this past week. Let’s get started.
I’ve been doing a sort of buffet style gaming this past couple of weeks where I would pick and choose random games, play them, drop some, keep others and just got rid of others. Nothing too crazy but it is what it is.
Basically, it's Darkest Dungeon on PS4 and Torchlight III on Xbox One, but I also played a single 9 inning game of MLB The Show 21 and got my Farm Together lands down to 14. I also downloaded Path of Exile, a free-to-play action RPG to play sometime in the future. You can stop here or read on. You choose your own reading adventure.
I had to work today but at the right time, so I was able to visit my friend's place and my Xbox in the late afternoon. I knocked off a Xbox rewards quest and a Game Pass rewards quest before diving back into my attempted completionist run of Dark Void.
Good evening Pixlpeeps! So I’ve been gone for the week and I have a good reason: my one year old nephew turned one, and he was on his Spring Break from his School so I was in Las Vegas for the week spending time with him. I tried to make it a no internet week, but I was sometimes on Twitter but I’ll save the random Vegas stories for Quick Hits but I did play a lot of games (a lot for me) because little guy likes to take power naps throughout the day and he goes to bed super early so when I wasn’t singing along with Baby Shark (there’s a one hour loop, and there’s another video of just remixes) and being the fun uncle, I was playing some games.
So get this, last week I had a Quick Hits written and ready to go, but just didn’t post. I got caught up in some things, and then on Monday, and Tuesday actual worked popped up including scanning pictures. You know what’s wild? When you take a picture that’s seen better days since it was taken in the 1940s, you not only make the torn sections go away, but you make it almost look like it was taken yesterday and nobody says “hey thanks for working your magic on this” it’s kind of annoying, but whatever. I’m here, you’re here, let’s type this up, catch up on stuff I missed here the past week or so, and then get back to scanning pictures and working my magic.
So I am currently waiting the 30 minutes post floss/brush before I can eat breakfast so here I am updating you good people on the games I’ve been playing this past week. Spoiler: it’s only been a handful of games, but I’m playing and that’s all that matters. Oh and it is a breezy Southern California morning.
Currently I am pulling the eBooks and Audiobooks from my Media drive and dumping them onto my new Books drive. It’ll take a bit so let’ catch up. I didn’t do a Quick Hits last Friday because well, I don’t know why really but there wasn’t a lot going on. I’ll talk about WandaVision later on this week. Yesterday I had a plan where I was going to update the hard drives, and then spend the rest of the day playing games. I did update the drives but didn’t get to playing games until my normal time of around 9-10 and then finish at 11pm.
I was thinking about blog ideas and it got me looking at my collection. I sorted through my demo discs which I've kept all these years, and it led me on a quest to revisit the Original Xbox. It will be 20 years in November since its release. That will make it like a classic car. I'm going to start with the demo discs of a particular year (the ones I have) and then play a game or two. I've even acquired a few new ones I haven't played before. Should be fun for my weekday gaming. So here's a demo disc I have from around the launch day, I believe, November 2001.
Well it’s March, which means BaD is over, it’s getting warmer, and I am here still playing the same handful of games thinking about if I should try something new or go back to the same old stuff. So let’s have a quick chat about the games I’ve been playing and not playing.
Since I figured today was a holiday I would take a morning nap…3 hours after I got up. Odd, yes, but either way I took the nap. Here I am and I am ready to update you good people on things I’ve been playing.
