FamilyJules: Halo Theme, Metal

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CORRECTION - capture credits #5 & #6 should be swapped

This video took six weeks to make, including a bunch of all-nighters to make the deadline for the December EZA Community Showcase, where it debuted. The release dates of the games span 25 years from 1994 (see thumbnail) to 2018.

I made it super hard on myself by mandating that all the footage be captured from the original (or near-original for Game Boy) hardware at the original frame rate. YouTube looooves emulation... >_<

The original incarnation of this list was in image form - with charts! https://abload.de/img/tcmfiftym8kme.png

Fun fact...

...there's no PlayStation games on the list.

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@shoulderguy said in Next Community Vote:

@oscillator I'm up for doing a GOTY vote for the year 2001 or 2002 if that's what you're suggesting. But I think voting on any specific year in the 90s will leave too many voters out.

2001's a pretty sick year. Best of the 90s is also a decent idea, though.

My peak period of gaming was late 90s to early 2000s, as seen by this breakdown of my personal top 50 games:

But alas, it looks like the rest of the forum isn't in the same boat as me.

How about Top 15 Xbox 360 Games then?

Definitely looking forward to that 3D Kirby game in the spring. In terms of late year, most excited for Starfield. Not putting BotW 2 on my calendar until the release date is confirmed.

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I actually haven't played Portal yet - at the time of its peak popularity, I didn't have a PC strong enough to run it well, and I didn't realize until this thread that it was released on 360 XD - but I love puzzles in a 3D environment, and the more creative they are/the more varied they are/the more they make you think, the better.

Here's all I could scrape up for this year:

1. Halo 3
2. Project Gotham Racing 4 (3 is a mess - THIS is the proper sequel to 2, and has some of the best visuals on the 360 - an incredible shame it was the last one, with Microsoft putting all their marbles into the far blander Forza.)
3. Portal
4. Super Paper Mario (Not a fan of the hub world and its abstract NPCs, or the emphasis on platforming, or having to literally scan rooms for secrets, or the final boss, and the soundtrack's a little weak, but everything else about the classic Paper Mario games is intact here.)

2007 was a weak year for me - I barely scraped together 4 entries. This is made clear in that Halo 3 was my top game that year, but only my third-favorite Halo.

Especially when compared to the rushed Halo 2, it's VERY polished. I can't say anything negative about it in terms of objective quality (well, maybe the level "Cortana"... -_-). But compared to Halo 1, and even Halo: Reach, it's lacking heart. It's too clean, too slick, too focused. And the multiplayer skill gap is exceedingly narrow - it's less of a serious battle arena and more of a place to chill out.

Still quite fun though. The dual Scarab battle and battling 343 Guilty Spark are two of the great Halo moments.

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