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Diablo 2.
I know there is a remake out, I've seen it.
I might do it, but I've fully switched to Linux in the mean time and I don't want to put another 10 years of my life and tens of thousands of hours into it.
At least it would be good value for the money, I guess.
Invisible War. The controversial sequel to Deus Ex. The PC port ran like shit on the best PCs, but I have Macs. Xbox might be the best way to play it but it’s still gonna suck. The game itself was good but the tech was complete trash. Literal downgrade in every way from the first one. And yet it was still a gem.
Deus Ex is my favorite game. This is the only sequel I haven't played.
Honestly you're not missing much. There are good things in Invisible War, but the software was just bad.
The problem with Deus Ex was, they made a great computer game, but it could not run on Xbox and they had to struggle to get it on PS2. They had to basically remake the thing. They developed Invisible War for the Xbox first, PlayStation never (AFAIK), and the PC port was a bad port that suffered the problems of the Xbox version. (This was OG Xbox, not even Xbox 360.)
If you get a chance to play Human Revolution (the third one/reboot/prequel), definitely do so, it's very good. Came out on the 360, but plays well on Series X and PC. Had a yellow tint to everything (like the Underworld films and their blue tint). A Directors Cut came out later removing the yellow tint (though you had the option to bring it back) and integrating the DLC. Great game.
What I liked about Invisible War was, it didn't care what ending you picked in the original. It assumed you picked the Helios ending, but explains that you couldn't contain Helios, so the New Dark Age (destroy the compound) happened anyway, and the Illuminati moved in (so Illuminati ending is canon, but so are the other two). Invisible War's Helios ending is awesome and terrible at the same time. You basically invent the Borg from Star Trek. The Illuminati ending is creepy, but seems like the most reasonable. Another has all the leaders killed, and I also remember an alien invasion. In short, there are no good choices. What was cool was the rival coffee companies and what you learn if you do all of their quests. And the Britney Spears/Taylor Swift chatbot.
And the ugly? In the original, though they never come out and tell you, the human race is a couple generations from extinction as the youngest woman in the Deus Ex universe is in her late teens. There are little boys, but little girls are extinct. They've all grown up. And once the youngest one hits menopause... no more boys will be born either. Invisible War flips this around. Now the only children in the world are female. (And you can still kill children in Invisible War, just like you could in the original.) Humanity is still doomed, but we got a reprieve of maybe a decade when girls were being born who, when they got older, could be used to continue the species. Of course, neither of these things are actually canon to the world of Deus Ex. It's just technical limitations. It would be years before Skyrim would figure out you could use one body for both boys and girls, and just give girls longer hair.
I played it for the first time this year. Finished it in like 5 hours, so can't say it would be worth full price..but I still enjoyed it a lot for what it was.
Saints Row 1.
Only one in the series that was strictly a console exclusive. It never left the 360. 😔
If you have an Xbox one or series whatever both sr1 and sr2 are backwards compatible. Locked to 30fps cause of how the emulator used deals with vsync though. Annoying, cause you could disable the vsync on 360 and have the game run at a unstable AF 30-50fps, but it is what it is.
Or run it on a PC via Xenia. Needed a bit of tinkering to get it running back when I tried it a few years ago, but even then the game ran pretty damn well, and didn't have any major issues running at 60fps.
Boom Boom Rocket
Trackmania, the improve grind never stops :D
Portal 2 Co-op with someone that never played it could be good. I played it with a lot of friends already, but it still felt like a different experience with each of them.
As of a game I'm currently replaying, Last Command B-Side on Nightmare difficulty. Cleared hardcore difficulty previously, but Nightmare mode doesn't let you play safe.
For a game I cannot replay, Overwatch 1. Overwatch 2 doesn't give the same vibes as OW1, everything feels more clunky to the point I quit it. I didn't really like OW1 that much to begin with, had like 200 hours tops on it; but really felt its absence after OW2.
Headbangers: Rhythm Royale was also another game I really enjoyed that didn't really took off after launch. I still play it at times, but it's entirely bot lobbies and they suck at the game. I miss needing to try hard to win a round on it.
The non botch version of Oni. The game looked so freaking good! But Microsoft buying out Bungie for Halo made them rush to finish the game.
Castlevania: Harmony of Despair
Its an online multi-player Castlevania. So much fun.
Castlevania: Harmony of Despair
Is it like a coop castlevania game then? Sounds great!
Now that I've seen what HBO has done with their terrible Last of Us 2, I want to cleanse my mind by replaying this masterful game!
Sonic Rush for me. I remember that game being hella fun, but I could never get friends to race me after a point and I don't have a DS anymore.
Also, shout out to f-zero gx, that I'm pretty sure I still own but I don't have a tv.
