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There are a lot of games with great music. The Megaman series has always been a favorite of mine, music-wise. I also love the early Sonic games, Toe Jam and Earl, and World of Warcraft. Funnily enough, one recent favorite of mine has been Yoshi's Woolly World! The music in it was just the right...

I am happy to wait for the games I want to go on sale a year or more after release. The only games I get "pre-orderey" about these days are the two or three online games I am passionate about. You frequently need to be there from the beginning to be successful since your performance depends on...

Call of Duty. I know it's in-style to hate on the franchise, and the shooter genre in general, but my reasons are more a matter of personal failing than anything Activision did. The games just made me so angry! The net code for most of the Call of Duty franchise is objectively broken on the...

I much prefer paid games because there's an unwritten contractual obligation that the title be of a certain quality or the market rejects it. With free-to-play games you are the product. They finance themselves by making you a living revenue stream. This is done either by marketing in-game goods...

For me it's World of Warcraft. That game is designed specifically to prey upon the exact variety of compulsive that I am. There are so many things to collect: Pets, armor, weapons, locations, achievements...it just goes on and on. There are dozens of story lines to follow and associated quests...

Oh yeah! Who doesn't like a good game trade? I mean, obviously I vet the people I'm trading with. If you don't take care of your own stuff I'm probably not going to lend you my stuff. Given how expensive those little discs are I do hold people to a certain level of accountability, and I hold...

I have a confession to make: I like Monopoly. I don't just like Monopoly though; I'm the cut-throat variety of player no one actually wants to play with because I will go full Fat Cat on them. I make shady deals that appear to benefit them, but which actually set me up for future success at...

Oh I'm firmly in the physical media camp. I'm getting old, I guess, but I simply expect to have something to hold when I pay $60 for fun. Of course, I'm of the generation who got to have physical media, manuals, and box art as a standard part of the deal so it obviously has colored my...

I thought this was a great move and I'm hoping to see them take it even a step further. It would be great to see every expansion is free to play up to the current one. I think a lot of people are intimidated by the sheer glut of content that is now in the game to the point they're not willing to...

Black Ops II ate a solid three years of my life. The broken net code aside, the mechanics in that game were so good and the level design was fantastic for smaller sized maps. I loved the variety of customization I could get and had 7 or 8 custom load outs for various weapons I had gained some...

I've always thought it a shame we never got a Metal Storm 2. It was a little known game on the NES that took creative advantage of the primitive layering system to create parallax scrolling and introduced a gravity mechanic to the run n' shoot genre. You were able to reverse gravity so you could...

I'm going to go on record as having said Final Fantasy VI is my favorite 16bit RPG, already. But since that's been mentioned several times in this thread I thought I'd offer a close runner up; Terranigma. If you do not live in Japan or PAL regions this will be a hard game to get a hold of...

Arcades took a few killing blows, any one of which could have probably ended the arcade fad by itself. For starters, they were primarily an installation at malls. Sadly, the big box store paradigm that we now live in has caused a great many of our malls to close, being unable to compete with...

I might actually go full retro with this and say the Atari 5200. The thing about that console is that it was riding the pedigree of the biggest name in video games of the time. It would be like if today Nintendo or Sony put out a console and it flopped. Some might argue that the Wii U actually...

Fair warning: This will be a stick in the mud comment for most people, but it will be honest. I love Final Fantasy VII. I have often said it was my generation's "Gone With The Wind", that first time we realized a game could be something more than twitchy shooting or jumping and could deliver an...

The truth is for some it wont have any appeal. It is a semi-directionless game which will provide you little, if any, prompting to do anything in its world. For some people this is a huge turn off. For others this is an invitation to realize your dreams! Minecraft provides you with an easy to...

Yes I still play Minecraft here and there. I can honestly say I've had no problem finding well populated servers but which portal you use to find you potential Minecraft home matters a lot. Using their official forum is probably still the best way to find a quality server because it puts you...

One point I forgot to mention in my post, and which is especially true for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, was that cheats can be a value-added proposition. Especially after completing the game fair and square, I had a very good time using cheats to give me the best weapon sets and more than...

I would say that if you have the means, get a Wii U! I'm not going to tell you it was the best thing ever but that dual screen gaming gimmick really had a lot going for it. Plus, there are some high quality games on that console! Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is probably the version you'll want on the...

If you're going to play A Link Between Worlds you really owe it to yourself to play A Link to the Past first. ALBW is essentially a sequel and takes place largely in the same map. It was the first of the "modern" Zelda titles and the one which established the formula which would be repeated in...