Building the Permanent Games Library

On 01/27/2020 at 03:54 PM by KnightDriver

I’ve started a row on my bookshelf for a games library. I used metacritic’s all-time highest rated database as a guide. I went down the list and picked games that I wanted to play again and ones I’ve been desperate to play for years. Here’s the list I made from page one.

Halo: Combat Evolved
Half-Life 2
Bioshock
Uncharted 2
Batman Arkham City
Mass Effect 2
Zelda Twilight Princess
Zelda Wind Walker
Baldur’s Gate II
Grand Theft Auto Vice City
Halo 2
Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Bioshock Infinite
Final Fantasy IX
God of War (2018)
Chrono Cross
Gears of War
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Quake
Halo 3
Burnout 3 Takedown

I aim to have a physical copy of each. Some I’ll get both physical and digital for convenience sake. I have the first 8 and 5 others physical.

I hope to play each again, one a month. I’m currently set up with Halo C.E. on original Xbox at home and the digital version from Master Chief Collection on my Xbox One at Mark’s place. Of course, I haven’t played them yet because of Minecraft, but that’s ok. No pressure.

But the other day I at least watched the opening cut scene and played the first moments of Master Chief’s “birth” from cyro on original Xbox. You know that opening close-up of bacteria and subsequent zoom out to a world that’s used as part of the Bungie logo in the very first few moments of boot? That sequence immediately brought back the early 2000s for me and the many, many weekends Mark and I played Halo.

Joaquim Mira Media Manager

01/27/2020 at 04:48 PM

Half-Life series is free to play for a limited time on Steam. Unitl the release of Half-Life Alyx I think.

KnightDriver

01/28/2020 at 03:02 PM

Interesting. If I get a new laptop, like I'm thinking of doing, I might look into it.
I've got the Orange Box for the complete Half-Life 2, but I'm considering getting it for original Xbox again because I played it there first.
I should get a hold of the first game on PS2 again too, or maybe I still have it? I'll have to look.

SanAndreas

01/28/2020 at 12:20 AM

Gamecube was such an awesome era for Zelda.

01/28/2020 at 02:55 PM

I kind of want that Zelda Collectors Edition for GameCube.

Cary Woodham

01/29/2020 at 05:50 AM

Well there's only four games on your list that I liked. The two Zeldas, FF9, and Chrono Cross. I reviewed Chrono Cross for the newspaper back in the day. It's hard for me to consider Chrono Cross a true sequel to Chrono Trigger because they really don't have anything in common. Chrono Cross' battle system is just a cleverly disguised card game. Really nice graphics and sound for PSOne, though. Although Chrono Trigger is so much better. I'd recommend playing that instead.

01/29/2020 at 03:43 PM

Yeah, I have to play Chrono Trigger one of these days.

I used to own Chrono Cross on PS and remember playing a few hours of it. It was a two disc game. I guess I'll probably download it on PS4 because the CDs are probably expensive these days.

goaztecs

01/29/2020 at 11:34 PM

I like that and I wanted to do something like that when I had a purge of games awhile back. Having all killer no filler takes up less space but I ended up keeping games that had some sentimental value and I didn’t want to break up sets. Yeah I‘m one step away from hoarding.

02/03/2020 at 04:04 PM

Yeah, I still have a stack of stuff that won't make the list for a long time but are old favs or stuff I always wanted to try. I'm not sure what to do with them, but I don't really want to trade them.

PixlBit