Megadrive - Gain Ground, Sonic 1&2, World of Illusion
PS1 - Toy Story 2, Rayman 1&2, FFVII, Rugrats, Tony Hawks 1-4
Gameboy/Color - Pokemon Blue, Tetris, Rayman, Tweety - Around the World in 80 days
PS2 - Kingdom Hearts 1&2, GTA 3,VC&SA, Need for Speed Undeground 1&2, Tony Hawks Underground & American Wasteland, Jak 1-3, Sims Bustin Out
GBA - Pokemom Fire Red
Xbox - Halo 2, Need for Speed Most Wanted, KOTOR 1&2, Fable, Prince of Persia Warrior Within, *Fahrenheit
Gamecube - Wind Waker, Sonic Adventure 2, Mario Sunshine, Luigis Mansion (I didnt have a gamecube as a kid but was enamroed by these at a friends house)
DS - Mario 64 DS, Pokemon Diamond. New Super Mario Bros, Worms Open Warfare, Sims 2
360 - Rockband 1-3, Guitar Hero World Tour & 5, Halo 3, Battlefield Bad Company, Mass Effect, Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts, Far Cry 2, Assassins Creed 1-3, GTA IV
PC - Rome Total War, Empires Dawn of the Modern World, Black & White 2, The Movies, Sims 1-2 (I liked 3 too but I was older than a kid then), Spore
Lines are a bit blurred at a certain point for 360 and PSP to when I wouldve no longer been a kid and more of a late teenager or whatever.
Half life 1 just got a new big update that makes it much better to play this day and age and fixed a bunch of bugs. Either way you could skip 1. As a kid I never played 1 and went straight into 2, then 2 episodes 1 and 2 with the orange box. I still haven’t finished 1 but with this new update I think I’ll go back to it some point soon now.
I like watching it. But i like to see the faves I played throughout the year get recognition and hear a little bit from the Devs when they receive the awards. Announcements are a bonus for me. Plus I prefer to watch things fully even if they had already passed rather than just looking up the winners (in the case of the game awards). It would be like being into a sport but just looking up the results the next morning instead. I prefer to watch the full game unknowing of the outcome, and I take that mentality with me with both award shows (that i care about) and even Nintendo directs and it’s counterparts (which admittedly the game awards is half of)
So isn’t this like what stadia wanted to do with its integration with YouTube where you could watch someone’s letsplay and there’d be a button that could take you to where they were so you can experience it or see if you can do better?
How were they able to patent it if something like this was already described by another company years ago?
Microsoft and Apple have some form of x86 to Arm translation at the moment. Also I know it’s not something that’s really done now. I’m not arguing it can be done right this second cause valve are talking about that there’s something they want to do but can’t yet and need technology to get a bit better before they move on with their plan. I’m saying this feels like the most logical thing that they’re waiting for.
I think it’s well in valves wheelhouse after proton to do something similar and revolutionise x86 to ARM translation. But at the moment better chips still need to arrive for that too be good enough for a product to built around. Which is why it’s the first thing i think of when they say they need technology to advance more before they make a new steam deck.
There’s too many games in the world that I want to play and I like to change it up in terms of what kinds of games in playing, and often have different games on the go at the same time on different platforms to keep up with my adhd. I really appreciate short games that give me a full experience without overstaying it’s welcome. Very few games can keep me going 30+ hours in, they have to either be REALLY good, the most fun I’ve had in ages or a truly gripping storyline with fantastic pacing, especially if it’s an RPG expecting 100+ hours.
Some busywork in games is fine as long as it’s not overdone. the insomniac Spider-Man games come to mind with that. Traversal and combat are fun enough to carry those games through any lull it may have that it actually makes going around ticking stuff off the map genuinely fun for me. And usually I hate it when games just fill a map with icons of things for you to do. It helps that its world isn’t THAT big compared to the likes of farcry, at least relatively to how fast you can traverse it.
I wish there were more premium games didn’t have egregious ads or micro transactions and respected your time. I pretty much dismiss all free to play games on mobile.
Play Pass is a god send for playing mobile games if you care enough to do so. Not only do you just get a whole bunch of premium games, it also removes ads and microtransactions in a good chunk of free to play games as well (but that usually puts the game balance out of whack - but that also accentuates how shitty some of those games are, being designed fully around them)