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BaD Games I Gotta Finish - Xenosaga


Posted on 02/21/2020 at 10:37 PM | Filed Under Blogs

According to howlongtobeat.com those games are all between 30 and 40 hours to beat the main story, which, to be honest, is quite a bit less than I figured each of those would go (they're potentially much longer, of course, if you are a completionist). So for three games totaling 100-110 hours, I'd say that's actually pretty doable.

...unless you're a completionist Sealed

BaD Games I Gotta Finish - Xenosaga


Posted on 02/21/2020 at 06:43 PM | Filed Under Blogs

Are you talking about maybe just finishing the first game...or the whole trilogy? Do you have them all?

Episode 169: Coffee Talkin' About Robot Dinos


Posted on 02/21/2020 at 04:42 PM | Filed Under Feature

I was going to sit down and pour over lists of the games from this last decade and carefully weigh my choices for Stage Select...but it's the day you record and I'm out of time, so I'm doing this by the seat of my pants! (Yes, wearing pants. Sorry.) But I guess it's the games that stick out in my memory that should top my list anyway, right?

3. Super Mario 3D World (Wii U, 2013). I love all the Mario platformers but I've always preferred discreet, contained levels over an emphasis on exploration (I liked Galaxy better than Odyssey, for instance) but something about 3D World really grabbed me. The levels are varied and inventive, the cat suit power up is awesome, and the music is soooooo good! My wife and I played through the whole game—including all the postgame content!—when it first came out, and I've played bits and pieces of it multiple times in recent years with my kids. I could play it again right now.

2. Deus Ex: Human Revolution: Director's Cut (Wii U, 2013). I played and loved the original release of this game, but it had problems, particularly the boss fights. The developer had contracted out the bosses to a different studio, so while levels were intricate affairs offering lots of options for how you wanted to approach any given situation, the boss fights were brain dead battles of attrition. Fast forward a couple years and the Director's Cut of the game fixed all that. The boss fights were completely redone in-house and now stack up with the rest of the game. Plus the Wii U version makes excellent use of the GamePad. Yeah, it's mostly the menus and loadout and stuff but it does so much to keep you immersed in the game when you don't have to leave the on-screen action to take care of that stuff. I love the cyberpunk setting and story. I love trying to be stealthy but having the option to blow everything up if/when I get spotted. I really enjoyed the sequel, 2016's Mankind Divided, but I think the Director's Cut of Human Revolution is the stronger game.

1. Graviy Rush 2 (PS4, 2017). No game from this last decade grabbed me quite like Gravity Rush 2. The gravity-shifting gameplay still feels unique and fresh and the addition of multiple fighting styles, based on how light or heavy you make the gravity, helps alleviate potentially repetitive combat. The world—two large Ghibli-esque cities that look like idustrial revolution Europe...in the sky!—are a joy to fly through and explore, and the stylized graphics and music fit the game perfectly. I enjoyed the story and characters and ended up putting in the extra time to platinum the game, and it's not short either! It's not a perfect game and I think for me it was greater than the sum of its parts, but I think all those parts are very well made. I wish more people had played it.

Breaking BaD


Posted on 02/21/2020 at 02:35 PM | Filed Under Blogs

I'm good, thanks for asking. I don't think I'm going to even download Sims 4. I doubt that game is for me but even if I liked it, I don't need a time sink like that.

BaD #2: Mega Man Art Books


Posted on 02/21/2020 at 02:30 PM | Filed Under Blogs

I know what you mean. Last year I played the Metro 2033 remaster and it was refreshing having discreet levels that were not connected by an open world. The newest Metro game, naturally, has an open world...

BaD #14: Miscellaneous Novels


Posted on 02/21/2020 at 02:27 PM | Filed Under Blogs

That reminds me of how they made a Street Fighter game based on the movie based on the game. Despite being derived ultimately from a good game, the movie game was terrible, of course.

BaD #10: PoP Goes the Candy


Posted on 02/21/2020 at 02:23 PM | Filed Under Blogs

Costume Quest is great! It's a very lighthearted RPG from Double Fine and is about, of course, Halloween.

BaD #9: Mario and Zelda Comics


Posted on 02/21/2020 at 02:21 PM | Filed Under Blogs

The Legendary Editions combine two of the normal Zelda manga books and look really snazzy. Definitely the way to go.

BaD #6: Mega Man Comics


Posted on 02/21/2020 at 02:18 PM | Filed Under Blogs

They had a couple issues where they jumped ahead to MMX for story reasons and then he was in the second crossover, but the comic was cancelled before they got back to him again Frown

SNES Games I Love #20: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers


Posted on 02/21/2020 at 12:39 AM | Filed Under Blogs

I still listen to the music from this game sometimes.

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