What it is: Stuff I played close to the year of release or at least during console generation 7, listed in order of Metacritic ranking for 2008.
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.
Idealized because I don't own all of these yet, at least, not in physical form.
It's fun to go down the list of best of all time on Metacritic and make a personal list of favorites. Here are mine for the original Xbox.
A list of games I'd like to revisit in order of Metacritic score for the years 2004-2006 with some notes.
This is what my friend's Barbarian in Diablo IV says all the time as we're battling together. I can't resist repeating it whenever I hear it. He's got to work on keeping his rage meter filled. Anywho, I'm waiting for his cleaning lady to finish with his apartment before we game it up today (my day off). I thought I'd relate my progress on the late 90s Metacritic list I'm made.
. . .about Generation 3 in console video games, but more specifically the years '84-'89. It's my theme for March this year. I couldn't resist expanding it to include arcade, PC and board games too. I thought I'd share it here.
Much more than just Shmups this week but I played a lot of Shumps and finally had my fill of getting beaten down. I think I'll put the Shmups aside for the rest of the month. So I've also been exploring games of the late 80s both from hits lists and my own lists. I've got the Switch, Retron 3 and Xbox Series S all running and sourcing whatever I can find. So here goes.
It's almost August when I will be focusing my retro gaming on the 90s. That's NES, Genesis, SNES, PS and N64 for me. I don't have a Saturn anymore, never had a TG-16 or Neo Geo, and I didn't play handheld games until the DS. However I do now have the option to play Game Boy and GBC games on my Gamecube's GameBoy Player. So I may break that out too. Here's a list of stuff I'm interested in from 1990, more or less.
Lots of stuff of interest to me this year. Mostly in retrospec because all I had that year was arcades and a Mac Plus computer.
Quite a few actually in the last month or so. I had some rewards money from Microsoft, and I'm working on a new game plan and needed some games to make it work.
My friend and I played a lot of games together back in the OG Xbox years. I thought about the top 50 games we played the most. It's made up of 17 FPS's, 9 Co-op, 9 Collections, 4 Racing, 4 3PS's, 4 Action-Adventure, 1 Flight, 1 Sports, and 1 RPG. Here's the list in roughly chronological order:
Good morning Pixlpeeps! It is Monday and I haven’t been around last week. I was going to write up a Quick Hits but on Friday I had a dentist surprise dentist appointment. I was on a wait list and someone canceled so I got their spot. I have one more appointment like that, and a regular appointment later this week. Hopefully both happen this week. I really like my dentist and his staff but it feels like I’m becoming a regular and that’s a little odd especially there. Anyways more on that later, let’s get started with today’s combo Quick Hits/What I’m Playing blog.
I was really excited to see the first batch of original Xbox games get added to backwards compatibility on Xbox One. I quickly gathered what I had and brought them over to Mark's place, where I have my XBO. I've got Crimson Skies, Ninja Gaiden Black, Psychonauts (can't wait to finish this one), Sid Meier's Pirates and Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic (can't wait to finish this one too). I desperately need to get a copy of Black again. I have it for PS2 still, but I traded all my original Xbox shooters a while back. I watched Mark play some Black and it looks better than ever. Also, that it is a Criterion game gives me hope that the Burnout series (1-3) will be next.
Didn't actually game at all myself, but I watched my neice and nephew do so.
Happy new year people! It's been a few weeks since the last time I did a blog, so much like daftman does on his updates, I decided to show everything I bought ever since this blog and perhaps make this something montly, unless I simply do updates on everything that include other non-gaming related stuff.
Kind of a bad year for me really. I was fighting what I found out later was carbon monoxide poisoning from my car. I had bad fatigue in my neck and eyes. Also I couldn't find a bed that let me sleep well at night. I finally got one I liked, but in the meantime, I had injured my back and I'm still not quite right even after a new workout routine, better diet and sleep. Ah life, sometimes it just up and tries to kill you. That being said, I did enjoy a bunch of media despite all that. Here's some selections.
Today I picked up some VG stuff. I thought I wouldn't do the Halo novels that came out this year because there's at least three of them, but I did, and got two of them. Then I started gathering some games for my project in January looking at the 16th century (I was tired today and couldn't work out). I made a list and put books, art, music, and games. With regards gaming, unless I wanted to play backgammon or draughts (checkers), I had to find a better solution. So I did some research on video games that take place in the 16th century. I've only got a short list so far, so more work will need to be done. Below is a pic of today's stuff.
Still going through my games list, shortest to longest. I'm not even past games more than 6 hours yet. I played three games all on Xbox Live. Here be they.
I was going to play Sid Meier's Civlization Revolution today but I had to wait for the download, so I tried to find someone online to play Ticket To Ride. I waited a while in Quick Match hoping someone would pop up, but no one did, so I jumped back in my Minecraft game from yesterday. Well, that got pretty obsessive, and, after a while, Mark joined my game and then things got really crazy. I never did get back to Civ Rev.