Ya know, it’s been far too LONG since i’ve made the top 4 GP games, and quite honestly, it’s been kind of hard sifting though what i would recommend to people since there’s some i wouldn’t.
But for every rock i throw to a side, somebody will discover a gem inside. My father used to tell me that. 
So i figure i will just give a list of games, what i think, and … ehh? This gonna be a long one, so grab a big gulp and stay awhile.
And let’s start off with a low note. 
Redfail. (Redfall)
While the graphics are nice to look at and don’t overheat my GPU, the gameplay is nothing like it’s advertised (Plays more like Dying light actually… on a bad day), the enemies are pretty bad, the cutscenes are still stills, the story is inane, and i can i ask who the heck my character was? Don’t care actually, because, man this was boring and rough to get tho if not a little insulting given this is the guys who made Dishonored. One of my favorite Stealth games.
I’m not exaggerating in saying this the sheer definition of the worst kind of filler you can have in ANY subscription service. If there be the Velma of GP, this would be it.
I think people would normally be angered by Microsoft medding behind the scenes like they did with Conker’s Bad Fur day with it’s remaster on Xbox, but this is one of the clear cut cases that Microsoft SHOULD’VE stepped in and canned it for good.
Final thoughts:
Avoid them like the vampires. Actually the game much like it’s vampire avoids you more then you avoid them.
Okay, on with the more better stuff.
Wreckfest
Got to say, this game piced my interest, seeing if demoliation derbies are my thing, and while they are kind of fun for the first few moments, i got a little bored and just moved on.
Final thoughts:
I don’t have much to say, it’s alright. Moving on.
Burnout Paradise
The only time i’ve been exposed to Burnout, was the demo for Burnout 3 on NFS Underground 2. Good stuff.
This is also kind of good, with open world city to break stuff and crash stuff in which is nice, but, racing, not so much.
Final Thoughts
I don’t have much to say, it’s alright. Moving on. Sorry i don’t have much to say about these two games in particular… it’s just everytime i talk about a racing game, i immediately think back to NFS underground 2 or Midnight club 3.
Skatebird
Ya get it? Because it’s a burb that skates… on lines… powerlines… and somehow doesn’t get electrocuted because evolution hates you. 
But jokes aside, this isn’t too bad of a Tony Hawk clone… I wasn’t expecting American Wasteland levels of complexity, but i was hoping for like Pro Skater 3 polish at least. And the most important thing about skateboarding games is the controls and well… it feels like you’re a bird on a skateboard, i’l give it that. But it’s the turning that what kind of ruins it for me. Along with the floaty kind of psychics going on that makes moving around the first level a bit of a pain, along with the spine trensfer not feeling right… put that along side with all the “burb” jokes and memes, i think imma skate on by.
Sorry but, as much i’m a meme person, you’re gonna need a bit more then that to keep me on there.
Final thoughts:
It's fine if your into that sort of humor, but the gameplay will play a factor into what you're looking for.Goat Simulator
Speaking of memes, were going to one skateboarding game to another, only this time with a firey demon hellspawn that eats anything in it’s path like a bull shark. Of coarse this isn’t Maneater, it’s … Goat simulator.
Ya know, there’s times when i don’t even know what to make of this game, outside of figuring out how it clicks when i realized there’s a manual in this game. It’s basically just “cause chaos in a combo with wacky ragdoll effects where you MURDER HUMANS” the game here.
Will say, this did give a few smirks while i was pretty much just screwing around with it. It definally has it’s moments, but overall, i’m a little torn on wanting to keep it since it’s something that just got old with me 5 minutes in.
Final thoughts:
Still a better skateboarding game then Tony Hawk Pro Skater 5.
Minecraft
Okay, this needs no introduction, does it? If you ever played PC in the past, or Xbox 360, you’ve heard or played some version of it at some point. I’ve first played the limited website version before going to the limited Xbox 360 version, to then going to the unlimited PC version.
I could say more but litteraly the only thing i can say about this on GP is… Ray Tracing. No seriously, ray tracing. For as much poor implementations of Ray Tracing i’ve seen, and while i don’t think it fits with Minecraft at all and makes readability translate pretty badly to gameplay… i be darned if it didn’t look nice. But i would consider that a bonus to the game you’re already getting.
Final thoughts:
All and All, def get it.
Sunset Overdrive
Before swinging though New York, stopping doc ock from messing up new york and wondering why Bully McGuire isn’t an unlockable skin in this game… We have… Umm…
A Game i was kind of interested in playing, but when i played it, it feels… off.
I get what the game is going for, and for what it is, it’s unique. A Zombie horde open world game where you play “the floor is lava”. With a bit of Crackdown somewhere in there. And you’re anti-corperation here… So prototype (heh) Crackdown 3? 
But for the life of me, i can’t seem to wrap my head around the same way i can with Spiderman. It seems like it’s more or less for controllers, or i’m just being stupid. I would bet with more time, this would be something i will engross myself in, but for the time being, i have no interest in coming back.
Final thoughts:
It’s alright. I say it’s fine. Just not my cupo pasta.
Katamari Damacy
The Game’s locked to 30fps on PC whhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhy?
Final thoughts:
The game itself it’s good, i just can’t STAND 30fps.
Fallout 76
Speaking of Why, Why.
Why did it ever exist. Why anybody thought it’s a good idea. But most importantly… Why is this good?
I’m not too nuts over Fallout 4 considering the game before it, Skyrim, was a better game. but it’s a great game, and weridly, so is 76. Infact, 76, may be better then 4 in some cases. West Virgina looks WAY better and varied then Boston (Baspensy for me), The encounters i’ve encountered are genuinely fun, the QQL they have made the game approachable, and the community isn’t half bad either. 
Basicly, it’s Fallout 4 but crammed deep into a live service model that is falling apart at the seams at almost any moment. In that being in typical usual Bethesda affair, it’s glitchy. Cept we can’t use mods and we have to pretty much deal just falling though the world because of coarse. Tbf, it’s nothing compared to one of the epic glicthes i’ve captured in another game, but that’s for later.
Final thoughts:
For Bethesda fans, i would recommend. Hestitant for any new comers tho.
Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga
How many of you played Lego Star wars? Now how times you’ve played it? If you’ve said once, you lied because they made the same game over and over and over with different franchises. 
Tbh, their not bad. I think one of my favorites has to be Lego Star Wars 3 Clone wars. And the Indiana Jones one. But i’m not exaggerating when the amount of games released with the same formula and have like high praises and such across the board and still be remembered is nothing short but impressive for Traveler Tales/TT games.
This is where Lego Star Wars the Skywalker Saga breaks that mold for something fresh and new: A Thrid person shooter/melee open world collectathon thing with talent trees. … Wait. 
Okay to be fair, this game is definally a little too open for it’s own good, with it’s planets to hop to, making things far less linear then before, and it’s puzzle sloving elements is kind of neglected where combat and action seem to be it’s focus… which is a little odd to think about in a lego game. Another thing that is odd is the VA. Going from just grunts/groans from the orgrinal to hearing full voice lines abieit abridged, is a culture shock. I mean, they did this for awhile since Lord of the Rings, but to do it in a way to completely remake the first games, along adding new content is nice.
Will say tho, because of this game, i need to check out 7, 8 and 9 now. And apparently i also have to check out Solo story, and Rogue one so… oy. I’m opening the door to all that am i?
Final thoughts:
Game’s great if you love the earlier lego games and want a bit more action in it, but for the love god disney STOP MAKING EVERYTHING MARVEL.
Power Wash Simulator
Hey 30 somethings! You want a job that you could do in irl but in a video game? Then here ya go! have fun spraying on somebody’s house for 2 hours.
Curiosity can put Bari in odd places a lot of the time. Like this game here.
I see it, i play it, i’m washing a van, it’s okay so far, then i was in a yard and i had to spend LITERAL 2 hours to clean it, i drop it faster then i drop my phone in the backyard. 
Look i get it, it’s for people who like doing this sort of thing, infact, i might be the sort of person who would love to do that since that seems like fun. But in a video game, it seems kind of… Idk, just… unengaging? Uneventful? Unrewarding?.. Like i mean, i sound like i’m going mad but, i think the idea of powerwashing for real is a much more fun idea then powerwashing for not real.
Final thoughts:
It’s fine. Water is water here.
Medieval Dynasty
Well well well, this looks like if WoW Classic met a mid-late 2010’s survival game.
Ya know, there’s really not a lot i can say other then… i can throw spears at ducks. Geniune excitment was felt. 10/10, best duck hunting simulation since Duck Dynasty. Hey Medieval Dynasty, Duck Dynasty? Huge coincidence.
Well i suppose it is a survival game to it’s teeth, you have your temps, hunger, so on. And fighting Wild Boars was pretty much a death sentence unless you’re willing to Dark Souls it out or craft a bunch of spears. And i’ve built a house. Of coarse the process was pretty slow thanks to the weight slowing my char down, (though he’s strong enough to carry a tree lol) and that you have to build the house slowly one log piece at a time. It definitionally strives for immersion then convenience i say.
I was tuckered out by the end because the game was asking quite a lot for me, and i’m like… ehh.
Final thoughts:
It’s decent. Best Duck Spearing game ever.
Need for Speed Heat
In short of bursting out into Lil Jon’s get Low or Snoop Doggs/The doors Riders though the storm, for the brief hit of nostalgia of seeing this game… or going all metal with Disurbed’s Decadence since i’ve years ago in 2020 played MW the good version for the first time, while i undoubtably waste weeks of my life decking out my car into a hidious eyesore that wouldn’t be out of place from the bling culture of the early 2000’s…
… i was quickly shut out by the fact that YOU CAN’T CUSTOM BIND YOUR CONTROLLER LIKE YOU CAN WITH UNDERGROUND 1.
THANKS EA. THANKS A LOT. 
Final thoughts:
EA ruined everything.
Mirrors Edge
I got the game on Xbox, but tbh, the controls on there are… AWFUL. Seriously, controller for this sort of game is like… bad.
So PC version, help me out here. Okay okay, Key bindings, got it… and… still feels a bit off, but not as off as before.
Anyways, a relic of a bygone era where there’s experimental new IP that will later go on to inspire other games such as Dying Light. But instead of being Roger Craig Smith running away mutant zombie monsters or Italian cops and can leap of stab people, you are Jules de Jongh, running away mutant corporation monsters and American cops, and built like a toothpick. And it’s pretty short and linear stage by stage at a time when open world is really hitting it’s stride, but it makes strong use of it’s free-running FPS platforming.
Final thoughts:
EA ruined everything. But this game is pretty good.
Immortals of Aveum.
Okay i’ve never played this on GP, but when the heck i’m ever going to talk about this?
Well for starts, the demo does make a fine enough impression. You are aladdin sort of guy with your thief friend, going around a neat looking underground harbor looking city with your magical superpowers, as anybody would… your town gets invaded by the bad guys, you discovered your the drago-- i mean superhero with your wicked power, your friend died, the good guys take you in to train, with great power comes with GET A HAIRCUT.
Honestly, this game left me a little mixed. On the one hand, i did kind of dig the whole “Let’s take the joke that was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on the xbox 360 and try to make something decent with it”, in that being it’s selling point of… FPS but with magic instead of guns… and your magic acts like guns cept you don’t run out of magic… It definitionally competent FPS stage by stage shooter here, sort of like your DOOM here, but with a dash of dark fantasy sort of thing that seemed to be famous with EA with Dante’s Inferno and Dragonage orgins.
And what you know, it’s made by EA. Aren’t i a Dee Dee. And as we all know, Dee Dee is the most toxic cartoon character ever created. 
But sadly unlike Dexter’s lab, this game’s selling point gotten a little old and didn’t evolve much “Shoot something green with green”. It’s like if Hogwarts Legacy’s combat gotten even more basic and less flashy. I can see some fun with this game, but it’s not gonna be like something like DOOM or so on. And the story is just… “You’re the chosen one, go do… things”…
Ya know what’s the most surprising? This is a 2023 Unreal Engine 5 game… Thats it. 
Final thoughts:
Try it, but it doesn’t click, always check out Dante’s Inferno. EA ruined everything.
Palworld
Hey ya want to hear a joke? What happens if you Pikachu an AK47? You get an AWESOME SURVIVAL GAME!! 
Legit honestly, i thought this was just gonna be another silly meme we all go for a month and like forget, but… NO! it was… Actually good! great! amazing even!! It was the meme that transcends the meme into greatness! THIS IS what i wanted!!
Ever wondered what it’s like if you mix Zelda Breath of the Wild with Art Survival evolved and get to pick up a bat and break Pikachu’s kneecaps like he owes you money? 
Okay it’s not Pikachu, it’s a yellow electric rat that has machine guns, Totally different 
. Hell it almost feels like somebody let Running with Scissors make a pokemon este game. And it’s shocking as well it’s awesome. Instead of turn-based, you can just widdle the pals health down and capture them. And force them to do manual labor like mining. And they can stress eat?! 
Sweet I love this! i love to abuse them. 
But i don’t want to abuse all of them. Depresso my favorite here. 
Or how much of a shock it was when i've encountered humans and i can kill them, as well capture them, make them do manual labor, butcher them and sellf them on the auction house?...
Crowd of Silence
" Okay, I’m waiting for the punchline…"
There’s no punchline… they really do have that. Everybody gasps.
Ya know what isn’t funny tho? Nintendo… 
You think were the kind of gamers who pirate are trying to start a movement?.. We pirate you because you Nintendo, are AWFUL. Scarlet and Violet is awful these days, it’s enough to make anyone crazy…
They couldn’t carry a spinoff to save their games… Oh why is everybody SO upset about these guys? If it were palworld that failed, you WALK right over it. Have you seen what it’s like out there Nintendo?.. Do you actually ever leave the corporation? Your people just yells and screams at each other. NOBODY’S CIVIL ANYMORE!! They think we will just sit there, and take it like good little boys… That we won’t werewolf and go wild!..
…You’re awful Nintendo… Suing Palword… for patents they literally just made up that everybody including WoW uses… You’re just like the rest of the corperations.
How about another joke Nintendo? What do you get… When you cross, a gamer that had enough, with a game company that ABANDONS THEM, AND TREATS THEM LIKE TRASH!!!
I’L TELL YOU WHAT YOU GET!!
YOU GET WHAT YOU DESERVE!!!
Holds out the metacritic scores, Nintendo faints
https://www.metacritic.com/game/pokemon-scarlet/
and everybody screams and leaves the room while i sit back, smiles and laughs. Then gets up to grab the camera … And on that note… Don’t watch Joker 2.
Final thoughts:
Get it. It gud. Nintendo ruins everything.
Also watch Phoenix Wright’s Joker from 2019.
Pac-man Museum +
So atfer enjoying Pac-man World 1 Repac, i decided to tap in my inner thoughts of my childhood and go… “Namco museum was good.” But sadly that’s not there, and thankfuly this game is there to fill that void as well happily make me think of Pac Man World 2’s arcade games. Mainly Pac-Attack and Pac-Mania.
Will say, it’s pretty awesome to go and play though Pacman’s history here. Esp since it’s always a blast to see so much thought and care to be put in the presentation of how it presents its arcade games of the past. See, they could’ve just let you pick off a menu and that’s that, but no, they give you an arcade place to explore around and customize even! Not as awesome as exploring a museum, but hey, that good ole namco vibe is still there i tell ya.
Putting OG pac aside here i mean… WE all know how it plays, if you’re here, you already like Pac-man.
- Super Pac was pretty interesting run amok and sort of collect the keys sort of way.
- The one where you have to hop over stuff that wouldn’t look out of place from the NES that was fun too.
- There’s the one where you turn into a ball and roll around, couldn’t get the hang of that… * There’s Arrangement one where the ghosts combine,
- We got 256 with it’s endless maze chase sort of thing…
- And here’s something unexpected, Pac-Man Battle Royale! it’s a 1v1 Pacman fight… I left disappointed by the fact that Namco couldn’t have 100’s of pacmans duking it out in a hunger games etse fight.
Speaking of movies with female heroes… where’s Ms Pac Man? 
Welp, we do have an answer to that… she wasn’t actually namco’s character and there was like some back and forth with some guy who owns it, and there’s drama with him not getting the royalies, and Namco decided to remove ms pac man, even to a point where they go back to the old NES games and edit them with Pac-Mom. And hence why Ms Pac Man didn’t appear in the remake of World 1.
Final Thoughts.
This is a good one. BUT PAY THE GUY NAMCO. 
Wolvenstein 2 the New colossus
Boy talk about never have expectations for a game you know it’s not going to be reached, huh?
While this isn’t my first foray into the world where you get to shoot WW2 bad guys, this could’ve been a better way. You think a game that would look like WW2 Equivalent of DOOM would be about Action right away, right? Like how DOOM literally starts you ripping and tearing demons the second you boot it up. Not here tho. We got to sit though “Previously on Wolvenstien”, while we play and interactive movie of BJ getting abused as a child to hammer the message that he has abusive parents, and then we are fighting WW2 bad guys… on a wheelchair while some woman i don’t know of who happens to be the bad guy shows up instead of mustachio man himself, and then suddenly Molly Ringwald stunt double switched sides, and THEN i get into a power armor, all the while were on some steampunked submarine flying over the air or something, only to get pelted in like 2 seconds because the game forget it’s not following DOOM anymore for it’s inspiration.
This is the most awkward date i’ve been in.
Look i … just don’t care anymore about this. The 2009 one has me more on a hook then this, and that’s exactly i went to after this. I get this game probably lorded over for it’s story, but…
IT’S WOLVENSTIEN. Killing WW2 Bad guys should be it’s highlight. LIKE DOOM. WITH DEMONS. Wern’t they the same game at some point or is the Mendala effect messing me over again?
Final Thoughts.
… Play the 2009 one instead. You might have to pirate it, and learn a bit of russian, but it’s well worth it over this. I’m sorry.
Crackdown 3
Nostalgia. Hell of a mana pool ain’t it? If you were like me, you were an Xbox 360 player. If you were not then… Welcome.
Anywho, you might’ve played Crackdown 1 or 2 at some point and go like “Heh, it’s pretty great”. 2’s my favorite, mainly because of the leveling up skills thing along with collecting agility orbs, slaming though zombies with my car, and wondering why my gun is aiming at the car instead of the guy who is shooting me, as well having fun with Keys to the City.
Crackdown 3 is pretty much that… And i mean it both good and bad ways here. Minus the zombies of coarse. It pretty much follows the same formula down pat with no attention to quality of life here. Even to locking on Cars when you don’t need to. Even down to wingsuit taking up a grenade slot…
And yes, the lock on feature is there even on Mouse and Keyboard because Chicken Thigh.
Colors and the city itself is garish as all hell, but i guess if they stuck with the same city, we will be complaining about that. At least you still have Michael McConnohie so… you win some, you lose some.
Final Thoughts.
If you enjoy Crackdown 1 and 2 in the past, this will be right up your alley. Otherwise you might be forgiven in thinking this game is pretty derivative. Wait until it's $10.Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy
Welp, when purple boy is away, Orange spinning air thrusting guy comes to play. In that being WHERE’S MY SPYRO 4 YOU PUMPKINS?!!? I THOUGHT I HAD TO RESORT TO DRASTIC MEASURES WHEN I THOUGHT ENTER THE DRAGONFLY WAS DECENT. But now we reached stage 5. 
In seriousiness, this is really good.
It actually feels like i’ve played this sort of game in the past… which is ironically… Pac-Man World 2.
It’s good cartoony fun platformer goodness with a time trial that will make me grind my teeth to perfect because i’m a Masochist. Was going to start with Twinsanity, but the game don’t want to play nice with my PS2 emulator so this is better then wincing at things not working when it should. Still, no Rooftop Rampage = Sad Bari.
Final Thoughts
WHOA! 
Cities Skyline Console
Okay ladies and gentlemen, get ready for this…
This is awesome. I already love the PC version for basicly being Simcity Reboot but AWESOME, but they somehow took this game, and made it the same amount of awesome on the Xbox. Seriously, i’ve spent HOURS on making a city on that game on my couch. It’s like i’ve never left the PC version.
…That is until you feel the need to have Traffic Manager Presidential Version… Bit of a problem considering that game was made with mods in mind. But how it plays with a controller is pretty great otherwise.
Final Thoughts
Console or PC, this game is still awesome.
Skate 3.
Hello gamepass ultimate subscriber on PC. Why yes, you get the honor of playing this game on PC!.. but only via by the cloud and you get this distracting windshield wipe… Seriously, what’s with that?
But hey, look! 'nother skateboarding game, and it’s a good one! i mean, Skate 2 is better in some regards, but for gameplay purposes, this is a good one too. Shame EA is never making another skate game again, or at least this good.
Final Thoughts
Game’s gud, Make EA Skate again, EA ruins everything.
The Elder Scrolls Oblivion
When Patrick Stewart’s character stares daggers into your soul and tells you you are the chosen one to close the gates of hell… you now for a fact it’s not you who need to be afraid of the demons, but the demons afraid of you… because you spent too long making your character’s face look funny and awful at the same time.
Imma be real, my foray into Fallout 3 and NV wasn’t a good one. Yeah, it’s kind of like Skyrim but… boring. And the gunplay was bad.
So Oblivion is like “Hold my beer” and decided to land the best impression it can. Definitionally feels weird in some aspects to go back to Sword with two hands and cast magic offhand like it’s a grenade, but i guess it shows that Skyrim is the black sheep of the franchise in the eyes of it’s other games, despite being majorly popular. It’s what you can call an RPG before Skyrim simplified things. And something i always want to go back and see how it is. And maybe come back with some Mod-mentos.
I not gonna lie, i thought i was going to be heavily turned away from looking directly in the NPC’s eyes with graphics so … imma be honest, awful in an uncanny scary kind of way… but so far, it doesn’t bug me away just yet. And i think i might try this again in the future since… i’m subbed to GPU full time now lol.
Final Thoughts.
Horse armor aside, this is well worth it.
Fallout 3
Welp since i’ve mentioned it and played a bit of it on Xbox last night, i figure, why not mention it here.
Aside from the length of the intro that feels like it goes on and on and on, and doesn’t seem to get the point other then, “Oh look how happy we all are living in a bunker while the world is dying! Here’s your birthday party!”… Meanwhile in Fallout 4, i’m already taking to Codsworth… It’s not that bad of a game. Dare i say it, it’s better then Fallout 4 in some aspects.
I did try it in the day, didn’t care for it, but having played it… yeah it holds up nicely. Not a fan of the yellow filter tho, but that’s 2008 for ya.
What i am REALLY not a fan of is the overreliance on VATS. It turns every single combat encounter into Auto-Aim City. At least they look cinematic and cool. “Well you can just not use it”… cept i kind of have to otherwise i can’t hit jack, and given the enemies don’t have a habit of having stormtrooper aim, this pretty much made it a soft requirement for ammo convervation and surviving. Not that Fallout 4 was much better, but it at least fixes the gunplay a bit. But that’s the problem with Bethesda. They ALWAYS PUT IN VATS TO BAND-AID THIS. They NEVER DID ANYTHING WITH IT. The gunplay from 2008, is the same for 2023. I’m SO tired of it. I get it, it’s from Interplay’s games, but somethings should’ve left in the past. At least rip off bullet time.
Final Thoughts.
Play it.
Starfield
inhales deeply and exhales And last… but not least… Starfield. Where do i begin with this?..
It’s a Bethesda game… IN SPPPPAAAAAAAAAAAAACE… Sorry.
And at this time of writing, i’m tired, i made a WHOLE THREAD about this game and what i’ve thought about, but the Taxed Largely didn’t rent version…: It’s another Bethesda open world RPG glitchfest where you stare dead into people’s eyes that don’t look half decent, with Fallout 4 combat, okay ship battles, With half of the RPG stuff back, silent protag, filling your lootbags, procedural generation up the wahzoo, superpowers cause “you chosen one”, Side missions more interesting then main ones, graphics that great, dinosaurs, neon city and… this epic glitch where i’ve perma destoryed new altlanis. 
Final Thoughts
If you love Bethesda RPG’s, then here ya go.
Anywho, those are my thoughts on these games. If you have any gamepass recommendations too, then put them up here and game on. 