1. Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse (Genesis)
2. Darkwing Duck (NES)
3. Batman* (NES)
4. Journey to Silius (NES)
5. Aladdin* (SNES)
6. Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse* (SNES)
7. Run Saber (SNES)
8. Batman: Return of the Joker (NES)
9. Ninja Warriors (SNES)
10. Thunder Spirits* (SNES)
11. Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Switch)
11. Thunder Force III* (Genesis)
12. Donkey Kong Country* (SNES)
13. Skyblazer (SNES)
14. Super Turrican* (SNES)
15. Donkey Kong Country 2* (SNES)
16. Super Turrican 2* (SNES)
17. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (PS4)* = replay
CoD games aren't too bad when you pick them up years later for $10 a pop. Last year I went through Modern Warfare 3 finally which I really enjoyed, then I suffered through Black Ops which was terrible. Black Ops 2 I jumped into as well and it seemed fine... but then I got a Switch and played other stuff. Consider Black Ops 2 dropped forever, I don't really care as it didn't seem like I'll be missing out on much.
Now I'm getting to the more interesting CoD's that dip into sci-fi, starting with new developer Sledgehammer's Advanced Warfare. This game was headed by some of the creators of Dead Space, so that always perked my interest. Is this the best CoD I've played so far? I'm not totally sure, but I really liked a lot of it. From start to finish it had a pretty cool slick aesthetic and gold/white tint to it, that was kind of popular just a few years ago but visually I was really impressed. This CoD finally blesses us with ONE main character you play as from start to finish, which I wish would be the standard. It's pretty short and I ran through it casually over the weekend but yeah it was really good with a lot of great set pieces. It does still fall into several of the CoD pitfalls, with some bad trial and error QTE scenes, or having to constantly follow someones ass through a door and hallways... it really felt like with just a few small changes here and there this could have been an incredible game if it were under a different name and free from the CoD tropes. I can say that about the story too especially during some cool twisting moments near the middle, this was probably the most interesting story I've seen in CoD yet with an iconic villain (and in real world current events is even more evil now), but the story kind of folds back into cliche' material in the final stretch. That said, I was impressed, it was far more interesting than Infinity Ward's Saving Private Ryan scenarios, or the atrocious "edgy" try too hard vibe that I got from Black Ops. Nothing about this one annoyed me.
There was a Power Armor/Mecha level near the end that I think is the best vehicle/tech/gadget CoD level I've played, by far. Made me wish we could just get some insane huge budget mecha title from Sledgehammer.
I think the coolest way to put Advanced Warfare, is that through most of the campaign I found myself thinking... this is like if Titanfall 1 had a campaign. That's a big thumbs for me.
Now I've got Black Ops 3 and Infinite Warfare left. I'm happy to hear that Black Ops 3 doesn't bother to connect much with the first two, hopefully it doesn't try too hard to be edgy and annoying again, but I hear it does some crazy things that sounds fascinating. Jokes for Infinite Warfare aside, I've heard really good things about its campaign and that it tells a far better story about humanity than WW2, haha. I have no interest in WW2 at all. I'll stick to the modern/sci-fi games.