Over the past year, I've gotten into the habit of trying to stream something at least once at week or have an ongoing series of a game that I'm currently plowing through at my leisure. For the first article of 2018, I wanted to share my top 5 favorite games to stream over the past year on my personal Twitch TV channel. For any of my other archived gaming streams, go visit my YouTube channel here.
#5 - The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii)
Why? I haven't played a Zelda title (at least none of the "newer" ones) for a VERY long time... at least not since Ocarina of Time on Nintendo 64, then dabbling with the portable entries and A Link to the Past via emulation (still need to finish that last dungeon at some point). I loved Midna as a sidekick - much more entertaining than Navi was and I appreciated this much "darker" Zelda narrative. I was a little disappointed at the ending, but I enjoyed the game from start to finish. I did roughly everything outside of the Great Fairy Challenge in those 40-50 floors of enemies and get some of the "rare" items (hunting down all of the Poe Souls for one...), so I guess there's that to do if I ever wanted to revisit this game.
#4 - Borderlands (Xbox 360 - Xbox Live Co-Op) - Defeating Crawmerax
Right after the New Year rolled in at the start of 2017, I pulled off this feat.
It's just a clip but damn we were fucking proud of this moment. I finished him off while bleeding out and we got the kill there.
I haven't been able to get much Borderlands gameplay recorded as I like playing that mostly with my best friend, but I don't like to bug him while he's enjoying the married life when he's not busy preoccupied with his scholarly studies. (Shrugs) I dunno, maybe we can get that run of True Vault Hunter Mode run of Borderlands 2 finished at some point. If not, I plan on getting back to my solo Siren run eventually too.
#3 - Asura's Wrath (Xbox 360)
I mainly streamed this game to expose my readers and viewers to this collaboration between Capcom and CyberConnect2 (who normally handles Bandai Namco's anime-based titles, such as the Naruto games as the influences are bloody obvious here...) that created a game that literally is like watching and playing an anime series play out from start to finish. There's a few sections that I hate in this game with a passion from the redundancy, but it's narrative and presentation is one worth experiencing.
It's one thing that frustrates me with Capcom currently. They put so much stock into Street Fighter and their fighting game properties that they fail to realize that they have single player properties that are pretty much easy money on the table if they would give those series just enough love and care that they do to their beloved Street Fighter. This game, along with Remember Me, I felt were criminally slept on and skipped over by gamers at the time of their release. They aren't perfect games, but they bring ideas to the table that sequels could polish and truly be great.
#2 - No More Heroes (Wii)
I'm shocked at myself that there's not one but TWO Wii games on this list. What can I say? No More Heroes is the game that introduced me to the awesomeness that is Suda51's brilliant (yet crazy and bizarre mind for gaming narratives). I thoroughly enjoyed revisiting this game and exposing people to it that never seen this game before. Even though I didn't much care for the sequel, I think I might stream that at some point too down the road. It's either that or a New Game+ run of this on Hard difficulty.
I will note that Suda51 gear his games towards mostly a more "mature" audience, so I'll put that precaution out there before anyone tries to dwell too deep into his games. He doesn't pull any punches in that regard and was a rather pleasant shock to say that this was a Nintendo Wii exclusive for a VERY long time until the HD remaster No More Heroes: Paradise popped up on the PlayStation 3 (and import Xbox 360).
#1 - Horizon Zero Dawn (PlayStation 4)
Well duh... You KNEW this was going to be the number one pick. With 100+ hours of gameplay in-game, I hate to calculate up how much real life time that I've sinked into that game over the past year. That being said, I don't regret a moment of it. That was my personal Game of the Year pick since launch and it just seems to get better the more time I sink into it, especially with the recent Frozen Wilds downloadable content add-on. The only things I haven't done in this game was find all of the collectibles, the hunting club activities, and I'm possibly missing a few of the fetch sidequests that I somehow overlooked on the map. Most of that is all grind work and I doubt I would stream it unless I get really bored one day.
After the playing the DLC, I am interested in doing an Ultra-Hard New Game+ run at some point though. That's definitely in the pipeline.
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