I love the Splinter Cell games but I never finished Chaos Theory (I only finished Blacklist and the very first one, I have played all of them tho) which remains to be a mark of shame for me. I would have played it before the voting ended but I got IRL stuff to do unfortunately.

As much as I want to understand why people like NFS: MW so much, I just never have the desire to play it myself. The game's color palette is simply hideous, and combined with the edgy-cheesy attitude it makes for the worst kind of 2000s aesthetics imo.

Playing Ape Escape through the PS Plus upgrade thingy. It's real jolly. Loving the vibes and such. The controls took me like 5 minutes to get used to, which surprised me. I've been playing mostly open world games for the past few months so this level based linear structure feels very cozy.

Liberty City Stories is good and certainly very impressive for the handheld, but I just think Vice City Stories is so much better. My opinion of LCS keeps going down as I keep comparing it to other GTAs.

Bringing my Xperia Play with me when I took a bath at a waterfall. Pretty much halved the performance of the phone even after I dried it. All my PS1 games and such that I installed never played smoothly on it ever again.

I was really thinking about voting for this one but I don't have enough experience with it as much as other games on my list so I skipped it. The more I think about it the more it feels weird to me that you can ride bikes instead of skating, and also the long-ass transition areas between the zones used to baffle me, not knowing it's a loading trick. But it's still a fun, worthwhile game, especially when you look at how the franchise ended up in the years after AW.

SWAT 4 is way better than it has any right to be. It actually has some incredibly atmospheric individual levels. The one early on where you get to invade somebody's house at night and see what's really going on there, it definitely caught me off guard. I think the controls and systems will need some time to get used to since it's kinda complex, and to be honest I never fully managed to get the hang of it. Always got somebody in my squad hurt or killed especially after the first few levels, which is why I never actually finished it. Real time tactical stuff isn't my cup of tea usually, but I can't say that I wasn't having a blast despite my troubles, which I think says a lot. I used to retry the later levels so many times and I don't mind it at all. I especially commend the squad AI for not being terrible like in most games, they follow orders well, and they react to your orders/actions which adds some personality to them. I have been thinking about replaying this game but just haven't found the time for it.

Oh damn I forgot about The Warriors, lol. Oh well. I still to this day never watched the full film, but even without the knowledge of the film, this game is still fun to play. Really solid beat em' up, and the PSP version is no slouch either. Honestly you can't call yourself a beat em' up fan if you haven't played this, it's so rooted in what makes the genre so good.

I never cared for people who say a game has no gameplay just because it looks cinematic or it doesn't force shootouts/battle sequences every 10 seconds down your throat. God forbid having any sort of gameplay variety or trying to do something other than just violence. I also don't like when people use "slow" as a negative descriptor without further explanation, mostly because I like it when games have nuanced pacing instead of just the typical ramp up.

I thought it's really good. In terms of Sci-Fi games it's probably one of my favorites in recent years. The first few hours were quite terrifying with those pesky mimics hiding in plain sight, and later on it can be really fun to just use whatever knowledge and skills you have obtained so far to get through obstacles. Also exploring the space station itself is really fun and rewarding. I'm still bummed that it flew under many people's radars, but it is what it is. To echo the Bioshock comparisons, Prey is easily the best Bioshock game imo.

I will be sending mine at some point as well... I'm still looking to add more games to my list since it's pretty barren rn. Might be able to play 1 or 2 more games if I'm lucky.