For this “deserted island” list, I strongly debated with myself as to whether or not to distinguish between first-person shooters and first-person games. Only then I remembered that I’ve hardly played any FPS’s, strictly speaking, so I opened up the floor to games that only feature the first-person viewpoint, whether or not shooting at things…
Tag: deserted island games
Top 5: My “Deserted Island” Fighting Games
I know what you’re thinking…what’s the use of having fighting games on a deserted island when you’d have no one with whom to play?? It’s a valid question. I suppose the answer lies in the fact that while I personally don’t enjoy being overly challenged in games generally, I don’t mind the working through challenges…
Top 5: My “Deserted Island” Puzzle Games
I recently began playing the highly touted puzzle game, Blue Prince; and while I’m not yet sure of its staying power in my library, it got me thinking about puzzle games with lasting effects that I have played. As much as I enjoy puzzle games, I have mixed feelings about their replay-ability. Often, once a…
Top 5: My “Deserted Island” Action-Adventure Games
When combining the genres of “action” and “adventure” into one, well…the mega-genre of “action-adventure” games could be applied to nearly any game that’s ever been made. But there has to be some delineation between genres somewhere, right? In choosing a small set of action-adventure games I’d like to have with me on my purported “deserted…
Top 5: My “Deserted Island” RPGs
On this site’s former life, a long, long, loooong time ago, I ran a “deserted island” series that featured lists of games that I’d want to have if I were to get stuck on an abandoned isle with any given console of the time. Since that series ended with the Xbox 360/PS3, I’ve since considered…
My “Deserted Island” Games — Xbox 360 edition
I don’t know that I’ll ever find the right words to describe my relationship with our Xbox 360. Since picking up its controller some six years ago, we’ve run the gamut of emotions, from adoration to frustration. I’ve not played many games on the console, but those few that I have remain the ones into…
My “Deserted Island” Games — Xbox edition
It registers now as kind of odd to me now that we never had an Xbox since we were so on top of the video game consoles of the time. But a close friend of ours owned one, and it was open to use whenever we wanted, so we never actually needed one. I also…
My “Deserted Island” Games — Playstation 3 edition
Around this time a year ago, our Playstation 3 died. During a round of Sleeping Dogs, the console just quit and started in with the blinking red light — the deadly “red light of death.” We tried to get the thing up and running again to no avail. And since it died with the game…
My “Deserted Island” Games – N64 edition
Of all the systems I plan to cover during this series, the N64 is probably the system I loved the most. I received the system as a gift in the late 90s. With nothing but an ailing SNES at the time, it was the greatest gift I could have received. Through the N64 I experienced…
My “Deserted Island” Games – NES/SNES edition
After completing a lot of day dreaming and soul searching, I decided to combine the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) into one post for this installment of my “deserted games” series. Why? It’s certainly not because I didn’t love the SNES to death, because I did. But as fun as…
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