It's kind of funny (and sad) that the thing that brought TellTale such success and reknown—putting out games with big expensive licenses attached—ultimately led to their downfall too. I wonder if they had to stuck to smaller "classic" style adventures games, or at least a mixture of the two, if they'd still be around today.
Isn't that like missing the best part?
Hey, I've actually played and finished all of those! Winter Waker is possibly my favorite Zelda and has for sure the best ending, so you gotta see that. Twilight Princess has some really great dungeons but it's just a reeeally long game and takes itself very seriously. I played Skyward Sword just a few years ago myself and finally lessened my own shame somewhat. I think the motion controls in that game are some of the best ever done...however, they are still motion controls. But the game has great and very inventive dungeons and perhaps the best character of Zelda in the whole franchise. I would say it is worth playing.
Masters of Doom? I've been meaning for years now to get that book. Also Racing the Beam about Atari. There are a lot of good video game books these days.
When it comes to Nintendo history, yeah, you can find that info a million different places online. You'd have to dig a lot deeper to find the Sega history but I'm sure it's out there. What you get with books like these is the convenience of having it all compiled neatly for you and in the case of Console Wars in particular, the author did a lot of interviews himself, since the account largely deals with Sega of America. Plus...I just like reading from a book better than a browser screen, you know?
"9 games played" would be a big chuck of my year, probably. Lol.
Is the first boss in Vanquish that giant tank? I started that game years ago but didn't finish it. I remember that tank boss being ridiculous.
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 
Are you talking about maybe just finishing the first game...or the whole trilogy? Do you have them all?
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.
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.
