1998
Worth it for the soundtrack alone.
1998
Half-Life is an absolute classic, I’ve played it so many times I can map out the Black Mesa research facility in my head. Great atmosphere especially if you have your settings right, which the steam release didn’t up until recently. Everyone should play Half-Life, as outside of a few tedious sections it is one of the most fun and engaging games from the time and holds up remarkably well as a first person shooter.
What is there to say about Ocarina of Time anymore, it is iconic for a reason, an absolute classic, if you can get past the clunky visuals you can find so much here.
2010
It’s the only good 3D Fallout game and that’s not saying much, but it’s actually good outside of that too! Great even! The game is definitely overhyped, and the performance issues are pretty bad and require third party patches, not exactly the developers’ fault, more Bethesda’s but it still is a pretty egregious problem, other than that Fallout New Vegas is one of the best RPGs ever made, there is so much to see and so many unique ways to engage, player freedom is so rewarded, you can be so many different types of people.
I thought I hated open world Zelda until I played this game, it is an utterly joyous game that values player freedom and creativity over everything else in a way not many other games even come close, one of the best Zelda games of all time, unfortunately the source of a lot of contrarianism where people have to believe that popular thing bad.
Another addition to the list of games I wish I enjoyed, Ultimate is a good game, I recognise that. Maybe it’s just nostalgia blinding me, but I just enjoy all the previous entries more. I played this game to death like every other Smash game, but unlike the others I felt it was missing something, like it was almost too good. Missing some janky charm, I had no desire to get good at it like with the others, the idea of being competitive seemed tiring. Daisy is pretty cool though so I mean, yeah.
I want to love this game, and in many ways I do. It unfortunately just struggled to capture the same magic as the original on PlayStation 4, I’m not a huge Sony fan but that was always the exception. In many ways this game surpassed the original but still feels like there’s something missing, just a tiny bit of that friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man lost.
Resident Evil 7 is one of the best games in the series, the idea that the game was a return to form for the franchise has been done to death, what’s more interesting is everything it did differently.
A new tone and art style, Resident Evil 7 is grounded in a way the games before it never even attempted, the art direction makes the horror scarier and the zanier parts more surreal, the perfect balance between true scares and pure camp that few games have ever managed.
A setting that will stick in my mind forever, Resident Evil 7 is the perfect blend of classic Resident Evil and 2010s pop horror games.
A new tone and art style, Resident Evil 7 is grounded in a way the games before it never even attempted, the art direction makes the horror scarier and the zanier parts more surreal, the perfect balance between true scares and pure camp that few games have ever managed.
A setting that will stick in my mind forever, Resident Evil 7 is the perfect blend of classic Resident Evil and 2010s pop horror games.