by desuroku
These are the only two games from the entire generation that I've played... Just two games...
The 9th generation was an important one for me. I was not interested in buying a PS5, Xbox Series X or the Switch 2. I realised that my life would be easier if I has a gaming PC, which I finally bought one for myself. Instead of playing new mods, I instead played fan made mods for older games. I was able to download older games from my childhood and be a part of the amazing communities that keep those older titles alive.
There's something wrong when I'm more excited to play fan made mods for older games, than I am for new games. This generation also marked the death of my favourite genre, Arcade Driving games. Games that I have listed in the past have all been discontinued or have become shells of their past successes (looking at you Need for Speed). It was a sad thing to see my favourite genre die out right in front of me. But I couldn't just mope around be cynical, I had to branch out and find new genres for me to play.
This was a generation of growth for me, for good and bad.
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Dispatch is my definitively my favourite game of this generation (it's only one of three games, LOL). I went into it with tempered expectations. I thought it was just another run-of-the-mill story game like your Telltale's and Dontnod's. Just something fun for me to do on my day off. Experiencing Dispatch the first time was a feeling I wish I could relive over and over again. It does what Telltale and Dontnod have done but with better. I was sick of the overused "millennial" writing in media, fucking characters that can't shut the fuck up, and keep cracking jokes at every moment, and being too self aware. But Goddamnit, Dispatch won me over. The game balanced its serious scenes with moments of levity. Playing as "Mecha Man" Robert Robinson, a third generation superhero who seeks revenge on the villain Shroud, who had taken his father away from him. Seeing him go through the highs and lows of a career change, being a team leader to a group of misfits, having to balance romance and workplace professionalism, and eventual return to form as Mecha Man. This was a journey I will never forget. I'm pre-ordering on day one, if a sequel is announced. I have looked down on this generation of gaming, I thought I fell out of love with this medium, but stories like this is what keeps pulling me back. And for that reason, Dispatch was the best experience I've had in this generation.
I've always been a casual Halo fan, it's tradition for me at this point to buy the latest entry, play through the campaign and then make my way to the online multi-player. Good thing, the online portion is free and I didn't have to waste money on the lacklustre campaign. I have fun with the online even getting absolutely smashed in CTF. Not a fan of the un-skippable cutscenes in the training segment though.
THIS! After the same racing simulators and the same arcade festival racers releasing over and over again, and diluting the racing genre to the point of near death. An old school throwback came back from the dead, and its name is Tokyo Xtreme Racer. It's refreshing old school to just have a simple arcade racer for me to sink my teeth into. I don't need to worry about all of the trivial excess garbage from modern racing games. This is what I've wanted for a long time and I'm glad it arrived.