Phantasy Star Online in the streets, Stardew Valley in the sheets.

I loved where they took the story in this. Gorgeous art direction and soundtrack carried me through a sometimes monotonous, inconsistent action RPG.

The half-hearted answer game-trivia-havers can give to the non-question: "Man, I wish there was a sequel to Rez".

Absolutely worth checking out for Mizuguchi fans. Nobody knows it exists, because the venn of people willing to pay 60$ for a 3 hour rail shooter and PS Move owners in 2011 was infinitesimal.

Assassin's Creed was never good.

A Scrooge-dive into an entire arcade redemption center's worth of plastic toys. This chintzy-ass game doesn't even have an options screen to fix its atrocious audio mixing, but you won't care if you're playing this thing drunk at a party with three others - which feels like the intended use case.

Eventually, the repetitive slog of the theoretically fun combat melted my brain into a paste which couldn't find the next handhold in the difficulty-curve-wall I found myself suddenly climbing. I loved the idea of "Diablo, but you control like eight guys at once and sic them on goblins", but didn't find it here.

Flying around is pretty cool for an hour or two, but there's not much else there. Some levels demand surprising precision, which I respect.

What if Shadow of the Colossus replaced the horse with a hoverboard, rocket boosters, and grappling hooks?
And also looked like a Spy Kids 3D setpiece?

Once you're comfortable with serious VR locomotion, load this thing up and experience this adrenaline rush.

second most-quotable video game of all time

A charming platter of delicious combat-improv with all the utensils you could reasonably ask for.
343 finally made a Halo game, and I think it might be better than CE.

This game gets left out in the cold when Boomer Shooter discussions happen, likely since any future relevance was killed by its disaster of a sequel, but this one's special. Fighting for your life on this surreal sci-fi-tribal alien planet, encountering cool optional bits of environmental storytelling, engaging in sharp, technical fights with fewer/stronger enemies instead of hordes of weaker demons - there's nothing else like Unreal. Play it.

Even more hangout-itude than the first!

Sure, he says some stuff some people don't think is funny anymore, but at the same time, you get to mulch hordes of literal cop-pigs.

Unfortunately the best Far Cry game.

Secretly the most interesting game of 2020 that nobody played. Makes some incredible strides in VR level design and storytelling that - if you're not willing to play along - chafe against the edges of the technology, but that undersells how truly wild it is to play this game as a fan of the series. The only thing Boneworks has over this game is the physics interactions, but if that's all you're in VR for, I think you're really missing the point.

The unintentionally-funniest game I've seen.

Elliot, I'm so sorry.