It's been about 5 and a half years since I did my last Top 100 list. Due to my OCD and compulsion to constantly create lists in my head I think it's time for an all new Top 100.
My first thought was to reevaluate the old top 100, but fuck it, it's easier to pick 100 new games that I didn't have on the list last time. In the past 5 and a half years I've played more than I usually have, largely due to COVID. And in that time I've played a lot of new great games.
Plus, when I made the last list, I avoided adding multiple games from the same franchises. So I can dip back into the Dragon Quest pool and a few others.
Anyway stay tuned. Starting tomorrow we're doing this shit again.
My first thought was to reevaluate the old top 100, but fuck it, it's easier to pick 100 new games that I didn't have on the list last time. In the past 5 and a half years I've played more than I usually have, largely due to COVID. And in that time I've played a lot of new great games.
Plus, when I made the last list, I avoided adding multiple games from the same franchises. So I can dip back into the Dragon Quest pool and a few others.
Anyway stay tuned. Starting tomorrow we're doing this shit again.
Recently Spotted:
*crickets*
Did they patch in Circle Pad Pro support or no? I never played Uprising.
I don't think anyone ever told Nintendo they can also patch single player games. So hush and be quiet about it.
Well, they patched the heck out of Breath of the Wild, so I think the cats out of the bag now.
Maybe its just games that they care about?
Twilight Princess had a game breaking glitch like that. I vaguely remember Nintendo created an app to fix people's save files or something because Wii couldnt update games.
One of the things I miss about gaming from 30 years ago is I really didn't have my finger on the pulse what was coming out. New games would completely surprise me. Case in point, X-Men: Children of the Atom.
I had popped into a local arcades, and behold here was an X-Men fighting game. The characters were big and bright, and holy hit!!!! the voice actors from the cartoon were doing characters in the game. This felt monumental. I loved Street Fighter and I had just started reading X-Men comics about a year or two earlier, so in my mind, this was the greatest possible crossover in the world. And it came out of nowhere! They weren't even promoting this in the comics (Marvel was a goddamned mess at the time).
The various incarnations of Street Fighter were making me a regular at the arcade, but this game almost made me live there for a couple weeks. I got good with Cyclops and Colossus and passable with Psylocke. But I always wanted other characters like Rogue and Gambit (and eventually got them in the vs. games).
Kind of sad it never got a proper home release. The PlayStation version was shit. The Saturn one wasn't bad, and I even went out of my way to rent the system at a local mom and pop used game shop during winter break one year. People definitely focus on Marvel versus Capcom 2, and for good reason, but this was the game that really broke comic books into the fighting genre and thank God for it.
I owned this one on Saturn; played it quite a bit. Fun game.
Very important game as this spawned an entire new kind of capcom fighter.
Also X-men 97 is the best thing marvel has done in phase 4.