In regard to Michael Dirda's notion that games may approach art when they become able to depress their players, Bioshock depressed Adam Tierney deeply and in a way that many players might not have encountered.
Not every Halo game has been a banger, but the franchise still has a raft of the greatest games of all time.
Infinite is a dumpster fire and as much as I like ODST, in no universe it ranks above Halo 2. This list is trash.
Best to worst: Halo 3, Halo 2, Halo Reach, Halo CE, Halo 4, Halo ODST, Halo Infinite, Halo 5.
The Xbox 360 was a fantastic console in its day with some truly classic titles, but what are the seven best games for the console?
I'll go with,
Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, Culdcept Saga, Shadow Complex, Ace Combat 6 with the flight stick,A Kingdom for Keflings, A World of Keflings.
Bonus Kinect Games: Happy Action Theater and Sesame Street.
*Skyrim was so bad on PS3 that it almost deserves to be #1*
Ah yes, Shadow Complex! Good indies back in the day. Summer of Arcade. I enjoyed Trials Evolution as well.
Was this made by a.i.? No human being would put Shadowrun, Fable III, and Splinter Cell: Conviction into a list of the 7 best Xbox 360 games.
Would love to play Ace Combat6 on PlayStation, but Xbox decided to buy exclusivity and keep it off a competing platform.
The only mainline game I never played except for one level at a friends place. Game sold less than any other in the series if I remember correctly.
360 had Namco hitters AC6 and RR6... both quality titles. You should at least bust out the 360 for AC6 if you can score the flight stick. Its great.
When the current gen XBOX offering is so lacking people need to refer to games released two generations back....
It's a nostalgia peice same reason we get thousands of YouTube videos on sega genisis. Something people have fond memories for but the era is long gone.
It's xboxs golden year imo it was their genisis years the time where they stuck it to the market leaders Sony.
They stuck nothing. Sony screwed themselves giving Xbox an opening. They would have gotten the usual smack down if the PS3 had launched at $399 and was easier to develop for.
The Xbox 360 launched in North America 18 years ago, and is now officially old enough to buy you a drink in Europe.
Great platform, and many of its games (not bc) still hold up well to this day. Like the PS3, I keep a 360 hooked up for those games you can't play any other way.
The last gasp of greatness from XBox, you are missed, except the RROD that was lame, but amazing exclusives until the Kinect dropped.
I really enjoyed my X360, some great exclusives on it. Used to play the shit out ot Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, two masterpieces
wow.. thats real cool , LOL i never knew that they had a hypnotize feature in the game.. still its just like those movies where the hero is about to get shot and the ol sidekick comes and gets killed.. dramatic..
nuff said
Awww. Poor Big Daddy. :P
Interesting e-mail/article. That's a true testament to the game maker, even if that wasn't their intention. As an aside, I can't wait to play Bioshock. Hopefully they'll release it on PS3, if not I guess I'll buy it for my Xbox 360...
On an even greater scale for me was Half-Life 2. I would replay sections of the game MANY times to make sure I kept all my NPC support alive. I would always somehow feel responsible for keeping them alive. If one died it actually made me feel something.
Some people have no idea what they have been missing if they have never played half-life 2. Oct 10th is going to be a good day. It should have received the attention halo 3 (unecessarily) had.
I can relate...I mean, the Little Sisters take it pretty hard when a Big Daddy is killed. And the game's "good" ending is actually pretty touching, and although some have objected to it, I though it was appropriate.
***Spoiler***
It's like when, in Prey, you have to put Jen out of her misery, or the deaths of certain secondary characters in Halo 3...when a game has the right combination of believable characters, script, and voice acting, a character's death can become an emotional experience.
question: can u hypnotize a bigdaddy while a litle sister is around him?