I ripped through a bunch more on my quest to get through my collection and decide what stays and goes.
At the end of my "vacation", I did the rounds of my west side game stores (I got two west, two east and one south - working on the north side) and filled a bunch of holes in my 360 collection and one for DS.
In conjunction with Metacritic. I'm numbering all my games with the Metacritic rank to give me a play order as I go through my collection. Its just my lately metagame. Here's my 1-10 with the Metacritic rank in parenthases.
An imagined library of games I would have from the best of the 2010s. In order of rank on the Metacritic list for those years.
This week I played mostly Mass Effect 2 but also Flock. I bought EDF World Brothers on Switch with some Fetch rewards and I saw the Borderlans movie.
August begins my next set of three retro years, 2010-2012. Here are my picks from page one from Metacritic's best-of-all-time games for those years. I organized them in order of score but now also by system because I've found I don't like switching systems too frequently.
This is roughly the Xbox 360/PS3/Wii generation that I'm revisiting in July. I thought I'd take a peek at the top 16 on Metacritic for these years which will become my retro game list for that month. I like to make some notes on each too.
2010 was certainly the year of the Wii even though it came out in '06. The top four spots for world wide sales are Wii games with Wii Sports being number 1. Microsoft and Sony tried to imitate Nintendo's success by putting out motion control devices this year with Kinect and Move respectively. Niether did much for thier respective systems. I started blogging this year at 1UP.com. Here are some stuff I played that I would replay and some stuff I missed I'd like to play.
I briefly touched on a handful of games and then my friend and I got back into Diablo II for a good long time. Finally, I dug into Horizon: Zero Dawn on my PS4.
Wed/Thurs is my weekend right now, so that's when I do most of my gaming. This is what I did this week.
THE TIME HAS COME AT LAST! Chex Quest. Chrono Cross. A 16-foot-tall steel cage. Who will emerge as the first ever Nerds Without Pants Video Game Cage Match champion? The listeners decided. Now you need to listen to find out. We’re joined by Mike Fallek and John Gholson in their first ever meeting on NWP to help with the proceedings!
Well howdy, partner! Nerds Without Pants is back, and Mike Fallek as back. So you know what that means: a massively meandering show that loses control almost immediately. Enjoy! Also, why did I start this by typing “howdy, partner”?
Well hello there! In this episode of Nerds Without Pants we put on our creative caps and brainstorm what we’d like to see in the next Mass Effect game. Fair warning: Julian and Justin are fresh off of recent Mass Effect playthroughs, so the amount of nerdy lore being thrown around is HUGE.
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.
To say that EA is having a bit of a problem with public perception would be a massive understatement. In the past year they have come under fire for predatory micro transaction practices, cancelled a highly anticipated Star Wars game, stated that single player games are a dying breed, and shuttered yet another well-regarded development team. Their lackluster E3 presentation didn’t do much to help matters. Sure, EA is doing gangbusters as far as sales and revenue, but they have burned up so much good will with their customers that it’s easy to see a scenario where they find themselves in a tough position, relying on their yearly Madden and FIFA games to keep them afloat. As someone who has a complicated relationship with their brand, I have some ideas on how EA can win players over, and move strongly into the upcoming next generation.
So Bad in fact that I avoided it entirely. Sorry, but I moved this month, and there was no way I was posting every day or keeping up with your 400ish posts, especially as I wasn't going to have internet for the last stretch. In fact, I only got the internet set up today.
I think I’m done with Hitman for now. I have a couple bonus missions to play, but I don’t want to burn myself out on the six locations in the game. Still have my review in the queue, but I’m waiting for senpai (Nick) to notice me.
Pixlpeeps, I hope you didn't think I forgot about you good people. I've been kind of busy today but I needed to get a Christmas Eve Eve's Quick Hits up before Saturday when STORM WATCH 2016 continues. Yes if you haven't heard what is usually Sunny Southern California is rainy. For the past couple of days we had one storm, and tonight we are getting another storm. Actual rain, not the sprinkling that I like to joke about being STORM WATCH 2016. Anyways earlier today while there was no rain I decided to replace the light bulb above my shower because it went out and really who wants to shower when that area is dark? I don't like the new bulbs that have the prongs and little plastic wings that only fit into a certain socket. Seriously can we have a universal one like the screw-ons? Anyways let's get started with Quick Hits.
We are fast approaching November 7, which in recent years has been marked as “N7 Day” by EA and BioWare, and is usually a celebration of all thing Mass Effect. We’ve done things for N7 Day in the past, and I’m sure we will this year, as BioWare is set to finally show off the upcoming Mass Effect: Andromeda in a big way. Considering that the game is expected early next year it’s a little worrisome that we have seen so little of it by now. With that being the case, I thought it would be fun to take a look back at my favorite game in the series: the first Mass Effect. That game had some serious issues, but instead of fixing those issues for Mass Effect 2, BioWare’s solution was to throw most of them right out the window. So let’s take a look at some of those problems with the original Mass Effect. I will identify the major issues, explain what BioWare’s solution was, and provide an alternative fix that I hope makes its way into Andromeda.
I beat the main Quest line, I havent beaten the whole game but I did go ahead and fight the final story mission that isnt DLC. It was...quiet easy, even on Normal mode. There was only one point where I was like"OH SHIT WE MIGHT DIE!" which was the second half of the mission. Overall, the ending was not very strong which of course was probably done like that on purpose because they probably knew that the final DLC was gonna be the last part of the story for the game. Now Im not going to go jump in and finish the story DLC. Im gonna go to previous save before I beat the final mission and level my character up and continue more side stuff. I need to be level 20 for the final section stuff and im 3 levels behind. Its kind of boring not being able to interact with people, especially Cullen since he was my chosen romance for my human rogue on this playthrough. The only thing they do is say a few lines of dialogue now. So advice to any one who hasnt gotten this far or played DAI yet, dont even consider doing the final quest for the main story unless you intend to jump right into the DLC story stuff. Its boring, you cant recieve kisses anymore from your lover and dialogue is limited to like 1 to 2 sentences with companions. Other than that, I have enjoyed the game. It has kept me quiet busy these last couple of days. Its a lot of fun and I do plan to do a few more playthroughs.
This is going to sound coming weird coming from me. On 1up, I was that idiot who would whine at everyone who liked Dead Space, proclaiming that it wasn't scary and therefore wasn't a valid form of horror. If you learn anything from this blog, let it be this: 19 year old Blake was a fucking idiot. He didn't like Mass Effect. His favourite game was books. And he totally thought he was better than you as he meandered his way through his first year at college.
Good morning Pixlpeeps! I hope your weekend was excellent and you are ready to tackle this week. There really hasn’t been a lot of game playing this past weekend because I decided to clean up/organize my video game/sneaker closet. I placed all the games I played and beaten back in their cases and left the games that I want to play. I spent a good couple of hours hunting for game cases and placing the games back in their homes and this was just for the PS3 and 360 games. The finished PS4 games I had this system already in place so it wasn’t much trouble.
Sorry for the lack of media on this one. It's kind of late at night (took a lengthy nap) and I need to get to bed because I have a shift to go to in the morning.