IGN’s Top 100 Xbox Games REACTION - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

Kinda Funny Gamescast: IGN’s Top 100 Xbox Games REACTION

Date: January 28, 2026
Host: Blessing Adeoye Jr. (Blessing) and SnowBike Mike
Guests/Contributors: Barrett (occasional interjections)

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Episode Overview

In this lively, two-part episode of the Kinda Funny Gamescast, Blessing Adeoye Jr. and SnowBike Mike sit down to react, debate, and occasionally roast IGN’s recent list of the Top 100 Xbox Games of All Time. The first half aired last week, covering #100–76; this episode continues from #75 down to #1. The conversation is a blend of nostalgia, critical analysis, and humorous banter, as the hosts reminisce about classics, question surprising inclusions, and scrutinize IGN’s criteria, especially the balancing act between first-party exclusives and third-party multiplatform games that were simply "big on Xbox."

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

The Shit List Format and Recap (#100–76)

[03:36] Blessing: The episode kicks off with a quick run-through of the previous picks, highlighting oddities and beloved classics:

• Notable “strange pulls” included Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath (#95), Full Spectrum Warrior (#87), and Rayman Legends (#83), which the hosts felt were not typically associated with Xbox.
• Nostalgic love for Castle Crashers (#90), with both Blessing and Mike questioning why it wasn’t ranked higher.

"Castle Crashers should be way higher. Way higher." —Blessing & SnowBike Mike [04:49]

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Diving Into #75–51: Recency, Exclusivity, and Xbox Identity

Beginning at #75, the hosts address the blurred lines between Xbox exclusives and games merely “associated” with the brand:

• Tunic (#75): Initial skepticism (“I don’t associate this with Xbox,” [07:51]) dissolves after learning it was a timed console exclusive [09:34], affirming its “Xbox identity”—a recurring debate throughout the episode.
• Morrowind (#74): Respect for its historical role bringing Bethesda RPGs to console, though they ponder if the ranking is too low.
• State of Decay (#73): Anticipation for its sequel and how the series evolved through technical hiccups.
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 (#72): Warm nostalgia for the Xbox 360 era and the “prime time” of Xbox Live multiplayer gaming.
• Lost Odyssey (#71): Praised as an overlooked exclusive JRPG, with hosts lauding its Final Fantasy lineage and considering replaying it.
• SSX 3 (#70): Some confusion about its Xbox relevance, as both recall playing it more on PlayStation. Mike champions "Amped 3" as the real 360 snowboarding gem.
• Ori and the Blind Forest (#69): Both agree it’s a classic, with Mike suggesting both Ori games deserve Top 50 status.
• Mirror’s Edge (#66): Blessing calls it one of his all-time favorites and credits Xbox’s strong backward compatibility for his enduring access.

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Assessing List Methodology: The Third-Party Dilemma

As the list nears the halfway mark:

• The hosts debate IGN's “Xbox-iness” metric: Should the list lean more on exclusives, or is zeitgeist association (i.e., being most played on Xbox during a console’s heyday) enough?
  • Blessing ([08:23]):

    "For entries like this, I want: what is the Xbox story with this game?"

  • This theme recurs every time a third-party or multiplatform title appears.

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Entering "Bangers Only" Territory (#50–11)

From #50 onward, the list is stacked with major releases, sparking stronger reactions:

• Shadow Complex (#50), Psychonauts 2 (#49), Viva Pinata (#48): Recognized as “cult classics” and favorites.
• Limbo (#46): A shock that it's not in the Top 25, given its impact on the indie scene.
• Rise of the Tomb Raider (#44): Discussion around its controversial timed exclusivity and comparisons to Uncharted.
• Bastion (#42), Fable (#41), Crimson Skies (#40): Celebrated for embodying "classic Xbox vibes."
• Cuphead (#39): The panel calls it near perfect, with personal anecdotes about the game’s difficulty—particularly the infamous dragon boss.

  "Cuphead is one of those games where I can almost make the argument that it's a perfect video game." —Blessing [44:05]

• Super Meat Boy (#28): Agreement that it marks a turning point in indies on Xbox, though Blessing debates whether it belongs above contemporaries like Ori and Cuphead.

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#25–11: The Debate Intensifies

• Burnout 3: Takedown (#25): Wildly praised, despite being “pure third-party.” Mike and Blessing agree it’s a 10/10 game but grapple with its Xbox relevance.

  "What does Burnout 3 have to do with Xbox? ... Nothing... It's just a good game." —SnowBike Mike [80:01]

• Outer Wilds (#24): Lauded for discovery on Game Pass, with acknowledgement of its six-month console exclusivity.
• Skyrim (#23): Argument over its relatively low placement, but justified by its critical and community acclaim.
• Left 4 Dead 2 (#22): Called as a must-have Xbox classic by Mike.
• Gears of War (#21): Noting 2 and 3 are yet to appear, foreshadowing their imminent high placements.
• Mass Effect 1 (#19): Recognized for its original Xbox exclusivity; surprise at its placement behind certain indies.

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The Top 10: Predicting and Reacting to the Final Choices

Speculation & Surprise

Blessing and Mike try to guess which games will appear, predicting a mix of Halo, Gears, Forza, and a few “third-party bangers” like The Witcher 3 or GTA V.
They are wary:

"How many third party games will be in the top 10? ...Three?" —Blessing & Mike [69:06]

The Reveal

1. Halo 3 (#1): Universally agreed as an all-time multiplayer phenomenon and the quintessential Xbox game.
2. Mass Effect 2 (#2): A surprise, as its 1-year exclusivity paid huge dividends, but Mike is torn—happy for the game, frustrated by the list’s method.
3. GTA V (#3): Sparks debate over whether such a multiplatform giant should be placed so high.
4. Gears of War 3 (#4): No surprises—Gears 2 and 1 appeared lower, but 3 carries the Xbox torch.
5. Halo 2 (#5): Cementing Halo’s dominance.
6. BioShock (#6): Noted for its 1-year exclusivity, but also its legendary status.
7. Inside (#7): An indie darling, though its two-month “exclusive” window gets side-eyed.
8. Forza Horizon 5 (#8): High praise for its polish and legacy.
9. Halo: Combat Evolved (#9): A must for any Xbox retrospective.
10. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (#10): Nods to its RPG influence and original Xbox exclusivity.

Notable omissions (as discussed): Killer Instinct and a few first-party XBLA titles that didn’t make the cut.

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Notable Quotes and Memorable Moments

• On Third-Party Creep:

  "Too many third parties. ... I appreciate that we leaned on the timed exclusive. I'm into that. Halo 3 is a GOAT. ... I hate the goddamn list." —Mike [77:52]

• On Burnout 3 Love:

  "Burnout 3: one of the greatest games ever made. ... But now top 25 Xbox game?” —Blessing [59:44]

• On the list’s logic (or lack thereof):

  "I feel like there's now way more room for, all right, let's define an Xbox game. ... It never felt concrete enough; it always felt like you had to make up a reason why this has Xbox-ness." —Blessing [79:30]

• On Limbo’s placement:

  "Some people would put that top 10!" —Mike [39:41]

• On Cuphead’s difficulty:

  "To beat Grim Matchstick, you have to enter the matrix." —Barrett [45:14]

• On Halo Rankings Prediction:

  "Three, two, one, but Reach might slide in between, like, two and one somewhere. People love Reach." —Mike [29:34]

• After the reveal:

  "Is the list shit? ... I think it's shit." —Blessing [78:48]

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Important Timestamps

• [07:43] #75 Tunic – Discussion on how exclusivity defines Xbox's "identity."
• [12:35] Black Ops, Xbox Live Era – Nostalgia for 360 multiplayer prime.
• [18:04] SSX3 – Snowboarding game debates.
• [24:15] Mirror’s Edge – Blessing praises backward compatibility.
• [39:39] Limbo – Surprise at placement, indie game influence.
• [44:05] Cuphead Discussion – A near-perfect game, anecdotes about “the dragon.”
• [56:08] Super Meat Boy (#28) – Weighing XBLA indie roots.
• [59:40] Burnout 3 (#25) – Is it Xbox or just an all-timer?
• [62:02] Skyrim (#23) – Debating its spot and platform associations.
• [72:19] BioShock (#6) – Timed exclusivity as a “cheat code.”
• [73:08 – 78:44] Final Ten – Revealing, debating, and reacting to IGN’s top spots.

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Final Thoughts & Grading the List

Both hosts land somewhere between "lukewarm" and "solid job" in terms of IGN’s curation, leveling specific critiques at the inclusion of multiplatform games with only brief exclusivity on Xbox, and the absence of key first-party titles like Killer Instinct.

"Let's give it a grade—C? C minus? I think I'm like a C plus, C plus. ... There's just too many true Xbox exclusive titles left off this list that should have been on here." —Mike [83:56]

"Because they put Burnout 3 in the top 25... I'm bumping this to a B." —Blessing [84:22]

Ultimately, the list is called "the shit" in both the positive and negative sense, with Blessing and Mike inviting the audience to debate it in the comments.

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Summary Table: Top 10 (with Timestamps)

| Rank | Game Title | Notable Discussion Point | Timestamp | |------|---------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|-----------| | 1 | Halo 3 | "GOAT; no debate, truly Xbox." | [77:42] | | 2 | Mass Effect 2 | 1-year exclusive; hosts surprised | [77:16] | | 3 | Grand Theft Auto V | Third-party, controversial inclusion | [77:10] | | 4 | Gears of War 3 | Peak Gears representation | [73:21] | | 5 | Halo 2 | Halo dominance solidified | [73:08] | | 6 | BioShock | One-year exclusive; legacy | [71:40] | | 7 | Inside | 2-month exclusive; indie darling | [70:16] | | 8 | Forza Horizon 5 | Latest/most polished Forza | [70:08] | | 9 | Halo: Combat Evolved | Foundation of Xbox legacy | [70:00] | | 10 | Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic| OG exclusive RPG classic | [69:40] |

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Conclusion

The episode is a fun, energetic ride through Xbox’s history—part love letter, part roast—reflecting on how "Xbox identity" is sometimes clear (Halo, Gears, Ori), sometimes muddled (multiplatform "exclusive" indies), and often judged by the cultural moment rather than publisher. Blessing and Mike recommend IGN (and others) consider dividing future lists: one for exclusives, another for multiplatform contemporaneous hits.

Is IGN’s list shit or the shit?
The answer, according to Kinda Funny, is up for debate.

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[Let us know in the comments: Shit list, or the shit?]

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It's Friday.

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We're pre recording this early for all of you next week. But it's our Friday. Right now. Yep. We've had a fun long week together. Off on assignment.

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I know, right? I can't wait for. Since we're in the past. I can't wait for it. Honestly, I kind of want to play high guard.

[Snow White Mike]

Right. We're ready to play. Is right. So. Yeah. I mean, what a fun week. I mean, if this is the future. Hey, guess what? Mike and Bless are also off on assignment again.

[Blessing]

Yeah. We're not here.

[Snow White Mike]

Crazy.

[Blessing]

Which is why we're pre recording this. Yes. And so you're watching a pre recorded episode of Kind of funny games cast, which means a few things. You don't have to super chat in because we won't read your super chats. However, sorry, you can super chat in because other people in the chat will see that chat highlighted. And so maybe super chat in with what your picks are for the top 100 Xbox.

[Snow White Mike]

You can start a conversation and remember, super chats help keep the lights and mics on.

[Blessing]

They do.

[Snow White Mike]

Tim just had a baby. Tim just had a baby.

[Blessing]

Exactly, exactly. But of course, this will be a very fun one because this is the second half of me and Mike's conversation. Me and Mike's shit list about the top 100 Xbox games from the one and only IGN. But before we get there real quick, I want to remind you that if you're watching live, you can be a part of the show like we mentioned by super chatting in. And remember, we couldn't do this without our producers over on patreon.com kind of funny. So thank you and shout out to Carl Jacobs, Omega, Buster, and Delaney the Psalm twining for now. Let's begin with topic of the show. It's a shit list. That's where I go online. I find a top 10 list and I bring it back to the crew and we react to it for your amusement. We started doing this last week, as of the time you're hearing this, where me and Mike, we saw IGN's list go up of the top 100 Xbox games, but they didn't have the full list. They had numbers. 100 all the way up to 76.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

And so me and Mike did a lot of speculating, a lot of guessing what was going to be on the list and we reacted to the 100 through 76. We're of course going to recap the that top of the list for you,

[Snow White Mike]

but couple of strange polls.

[Blessing]

What was that?

[Snow White Mike]

A couple of strange polls.

[Blessing]

Couple of strange polls. Yeah, we can talk about it.

[Snow White Mike]

Polls that we'll. We'll walk through here.

[Blessing]

I mean, listen, a couple of good

[Snow White Mike]

ones, a couple of oh, wow moments, but a couple. I don't know about that.

[Blessing]

So now we have access to the full list. I'm gonna recap real quick that 100 through 76. So coming in at number 100, we have 1 versus 100. Under that 99, we had conquer Live and Reloaded.

[Snow White Mike]

I dug that.

[Blessing]

We then had a number 98 top spin.

[Snow White Mike]

I like that.

[Blessing]

At number 97, binary domain.

[Snow White Mike]

I was like.

[Blessing]

At number 96, steel battalion.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

And number 95, odd world strangers Rap.

[Snow White Mike]

I was like, maybe I don't know about that.

[Blessing]

Interesting1. Number 94 we had Fusion Frenzy.

[Snow White Mike]

Hell yeah.

[Blessing]

At number 93, Lost Planet. Explaining condition. At number 90 I played it. Played it. At number 92 we had Benji Kazooie. Nuts and Bolts.

[Snow White Mike]

You bite, you bite your lip, you go maybe.

[Blessing]

Interesting one. At number 91 we had condemned criminal origins. At number 90 we had Castle Crashers.

[Snow White Mike]

Love that.

[Blessing]

Higher.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah, higher.

[Blessing]

Should be higher.

[Snow White Mike]

Way higher.

[Blessing]

At number 89 we had Mech assault. Number 88 we have Peter Jackson's King Kong.

[Snow White Mike]

I mean, I'm about to play this.

[Blessing]

Oh, yeah. At number 87 we have full Spectrum Warrior. Which I saw some people, they're like, they don't know. Full Spectrum Warrior.

[Snow White Mike]

Weird.

[Blessing]

Yeah, yeah.

[Snow White Mike]

We looked like a weird tactical, real time strategy game. Yeah, very weird. Okay.

[Blessing]

At number 86 we had Dead or Alive 3. Shout out. Dead or Alive. Talked about that one. At number 85 we have perfect Dark Zero. Another question mark.

[Snow White Mike]

That was a question mark of like, you give me 80 to 150 range for this. I don't know if I'm putting in the top 100, but like there's going to be some games that I would move in or out. This is fine. 80, 75 to 100, that's where this would be.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Under this. At number 84 we had Panzer Dragoon, Orta.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

At number 83 we have Rayman Legends.

[Snow White Mike]

We like. I don't know. I don't know.

[Blessing]

Because of the third party though.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah, I know. We're getting it. We.

[Blessing]

It's the weird one where it's like, Raymond, Legends is a very, from what I hear, excellent video game. But on the top 100 Xbox, we're

[Snow White Mike]

about to start busting open the door. Yeah. So I'm like, okay, those are third party games here.

[Blessing]

Y. At number 82 we have Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six. Vegas third party.

[Snow White Mike]

But I with it.

[Blessing]

At number 81 we have Brothers A Tale of Two sons. At number 80 we had Titanfall, which I. I think from their conversation we had. This is like a favorite.

[Snow White Mike]

This, this is an all timer.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Snow White Mike]

This is a favorite. This. I'm surprised. I would put. This might be a top 50.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Snow White Mike]

This really inspired me to make my own list. So don't be surprised if Snowbike Mike comes back one day with his own top 100 Xbox games. That Tim and Blessing can shit list

[Blessing]

this, but like that's a good idea.

[Snow White Mike]

I think Titanfall for me might be a top 50 game.

[Blessing]

Mike, you need to make that top 100 list. Me and Tim. Yeah. We'll shit list it with you on

[Snow White Mike]

the episode and then I could be the third party.

[Blessing]

Yes.

[Snow White Mike]

Let you know.

[Blessing]

You will be in the chair in between both me and Tim.

[Snow White Mike]

I like that.

[Blessing]

At number 79, we got the outer worlds two. At number 78, we had Keeper, which fun fact, that was wild because I love this pick. Simon Cardi messaged me after this. He was like, you know, I love Keeper.

[Snow White Mike]

He likes me.

[Blessing]

So you know me.

[Snow White Mike]

Very recent.

[Blessing]

Same page. And number 77, we had Jada Empire. And then we closed out the episode at number 76 with Gears 5. Now, Mike, me and you, we're going to talk about the top 75. We're going to go entry by entry and have fun with it.

[Snow White Mike]

We're going to give the people what they want.

[Blessing]

And of course, here it is. You could of course just watch and listen to this episode. Stand alone if you want. Want to. Right. It's not like there's a spoiler situation at all. We're going to do this as a pure shit list. However, I do recommend going to the previous episode. I feel. I feel like this is a great two parter. You can do a standalone or go back to the previous episode if you want our expanded thoughts and our predictions. Yeah, we did a lot of predicting what was going to show up on the list. And so if you want all the speculation where we predict things, go to that previous episode. Check it out, hang out. But without further ado. Mike, you ready? Coming in at number 75.

[Snow White Mike]

Let's go.

[Blessing]

We got Tunic. Was not expecting this.

[Snow White Mike]

Wow. Okay.

[Blessing]

Tunic.

[Snow White Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing]

I don't associate this with Xbox.

[Snow White Mike]

I never would know. I didn't. I wouldn't have guessed Tunic.

[Blessing]

I mean, great game.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah. But Xbox top 100 list. We're gonna talk. I mean, we've talked about it the whole time. Bless. There's gonna be third party titles in here that you might not associate with Team Green, but they were on the console, they were on the platform, and they made waves in a special way at some certain time period that made its imprint on an Xbox gamer. And Tunic is one of those they,

[Blessing]

in their original blurb, right, they say when we say the best Xbox games, we mean the ones that most evoke that weighty sense of Xbox. Some are first party, most are exclusives, and all of them are indelibly tied to the legacy of and the fondness for a platform that's left a massive mark on gaming.

[Snow White Mike]

I don't like that. Then. I don't like Tunic on that.

[Blessing]

Was it Game Pass?

[Barrett]

I think it was also at a couple of showcases.

[Snow White Mike]

Some of the showcases id@xbox now. We started showcasing things like that. Yeah, I mean, that's just the problem. Like when they read it out. When you read it out like that, they spell it out like that. It's gonna get dicey with the third party games. Unless they really were something special. From Game Pass to Titanfall kind of being exclusive and like the launches and stuff. It's like you look at Tunic, I don't think anyone's like, I want if

[Blessing]

for entries like this. I want. What is the Xbox story with this game? Yeah, what's the story that ties this thing to. To Xbox?

[Snow White Mike]

That's good call. It's like, hey, you should. You should give us your.

[Blessing]

Why. Yes, because I'm reading the thing right. They say Tunic looks adorable, but it hides a secret beneath its cute surface. It's an unapologetic cross between Zelda and a souls. Like in Tunic, there are no tutorials. They go about talking about Tunic.

[Snow White Mike]

I see it right at the end. A timed console exclusive for the Xbox series generation.

[Blessing]

There we go.

[Snow White Mike]

There it is. There's your.

[Blessing]

Why was it really.

[Snow White Mike]

I never knew that.

[Blessing]

Yeah, I don't remember that. Well, I guess it was what Xbox and PC. I assume it came out also. But hey, that's the case.

[Barrett]

Yeah. It did start Xbox console exclusive March 16, 2022, and then came to other systems later that year.

[Snow White Mike]

Okay, then you know what? You have got my face.

[Blessing]

There you have it.

[Snow White Mike]

I like that.

[Blessing]

All right, coming in at number 74, we got the outer scrolls three, Morrowind.

[Snow White Mike]

There it is.

[Blessing]

Is that high enough for Morrowind?

[Snow White Mike]

I mean, it doesn't really, like, hold up to this day, but like back in the day, what it was, what it meant to the Xbox console where Bethesda was going to go on the next entries. I think it's pretty important here. Is it a top 50 game for me? Maybe maybe a little bit higher. Maybe. Maybe in the 40 through 60 range.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Snow White Mike]

But like, of course it's all me saying I. I would have to build a list. But it being on the list, of course it has to be on the list. 74 feels pretty good. 74, 34 feels pretty good.

[Blessing]

Coming in at number 73, we got state of Decay.

[Snow White Mike]

State of Decay.

[Blessing]

Do you think we see two above this?

[Snow White Mike]

Yes, we will see two above this.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Snow White Mike]

I think I. I believe we will. State of Decay 2 was a jump better than State of Decay 1. Of course, suffered from server issues and things like that. But really in its lifespan, state of K2 is a great groundwork of what you want to see from this State of Decay franchise. And excited to see where they go with two.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Snow White Mike]

Or three, I should say.

[Blessing]

And number 72, we got Call of Duty Black Ops 2. Let me tell you, I love this video game Call of Duty Black Ops, period. I love Call of Duty Black Ops 2 where we're talking about. I always forget the name of the. The level, but it was like a cruise ship level, right? That was that two or is that three? I think that was the yacht.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah. Loved the yacht.

[Blessing]

We used to do sticks and stones on the Yach yacht non stop.

[Snow White Mike]

What if I told you the yachts on this new one right now, for real?

[Blessing]

I mean, what you doing later?

[Snow White Mike]

What if I told you it's on the yacht right now, bro?

[Blessing]

Was this era was Call of Duty

[Snow White Mike]

Black Ops 2, 2012.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Snow White Mike]

So that is 22 year old Mike. Yeah. This is prime time. I mean that Call of Duty, Modern Warfare 2 or Call of Duty 4, whatever they call that. Right. Like that generation from here To Black Ops 3 was just Xbox Prime, Xbox, Xbox Live. You're gaming with your friends.

[Blessing]

I played that stuff on PlayStation. But I think there was that in. In during that generation there was just this inherent thing of like no Call of Duty, that's an Xbox experience. Like that's the multiplayer. That's the. I think even like it coming down to people preferring to play that on the Xbox controller because the triggers and all that stuff that felt like Xbox owned that multiplayer experience. That generation.

[Snow White Mike]

That's that man. That's that Xbox Live back in the day. Yeah. Time, man. Special.

[Blessing]

Super cool. What other Call of Duties do we see on this list?

[Snow White Mike]

Black Ops 1.

[Blessing]

Above 2.

[Snow White Mike]

Above 2.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Snow White Mike]

I think so. Just for 2000. Maybe it's because I'm a Black Ops 1 guy.

[Blessing]

I mean I, I agree.

[Snow White Mike]

I'm a Black Ops one.

[Blessing]

I'm there with you as well.

[Snow White Mike]

Maybe that's why I'm higher on it.

[Blessing]

Of course. Nuketown, which is all in all the Black Ops.

[Snow White Mike]

I mean you have to think we see Modern Warfare, right? What number is that? I don't.

[Blessing]

Four. Call of Duty four. Modern Warfare.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Or you just talking about like a Modern Warfare.

[Snow White Mike]

No, like the modern, Modern Warfare that you're thinking of. Yeah. Call of Duty four, I guess. Call that. Yeah, it's like hard to call all these ones. Call of Duty for modern warfare. Yes. 2007. That's 100% going to be on this list.

[Blessing]

Okay, I can see that 100%. What about anything post this, right?

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Are we.

[Blessing]

Is there a Xbox One generation or Xbox Ghost Series generation? There's Ghost, there's Advanced Warfare, there's War Zone, Infinite Warfare. That's the one where they want to. Up in space.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah, War Zone, maybe.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Snow White Mike]

Big time pandemic game. Everyone's on their consoles. It had. It was a meaningful one. Okay, what kind of Battle Royales do we see? You know, so like here's. I mean, pubg, as a die hard Xbox gamer back in the day, right now I've moved to PC a lot. But like a die hard Xbox gamer, you would look off. I'm sure you felt that kind of console gamers, right? You didn't get many of the early battle Royales or the survival crafting games or the MMOs. The Xbox gamer always hopes, I want World of Warcraft, you never got that. But then an Xbox One, you got a bunch of MMOs out of nowhere, right? We got like terror. I talk about Neverwinter. You start to get these like weird, like, we want to be World Warcraft, but will never be World Warcraft. But like, here's an MMO for you to play. We also got a bunch. Pubg started to roll out.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Snow White Mike]

Fortnite came like you started to get a lot more of the PC Battle Royale games on. This is a pubg gonna hit this.

[Blessing]

I mean, it came to Xbox Console first.

[Snow White Mike]

It's a big deal.

[Blessing]

You know, it ran terribly. Ran, ran like shit. Horribly ran bad. But it did come to the Xbox first. But I also, I don't know, I put that more in the PC bucket.

[Snow White Mike]

What about an Apex Legends?

[Blessing]

What makes that Xbox over anything else?

[Snow White Mike]

I mean, that's the problem.

[Blessing]

That's too third party, I think.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah. Fortnight.

[Blessing]

I mean, same there, right? That's like everything great, but like it's

[Snow White Mike]

one of the ultimate experiences on your console, you know what I mean?

[Blessing]

Maybe I'll give it maybe to Fortnite. Okay. Just because Fortnite, I think on any list, top PC, top PlayStation, like Fortnite has a potential to be there.

[Snow White Mike]

Call of Duty, I think I'm going to take a guess right now. I think we see two more call of duties. Okay, two more call of duties coming

[Blessing]

in at number 71. We got lost Odyssey.

[Snow White Mike]

Lost Odyssey.

[Blessing]

When I was asking for a JRPG to play the other day, they gave me this. Quite a few people were saying, Lost Odyssey, which I've started Lost Odyssey. I never, I never got that far into it. Never got Far into it, but seems really cool. Exclusive JRPG to the Xbox.

[Snow White Mike]

Yes.

[Blessing]

Which is insane. Xbox 363.

[Snow White Mike]

6.

[Blessing]

360. 2008 is when this came out.

[Snow White Mike]

2007. December. 2000.

[Blessing]

December 27.

[Snow White Mike]

So you're right. That doesn't.

[Blessing]

You remember that? Oh, you Google.

[Snow White Mike]

You remember that? You Incredible is right. It's Lost Odyssey. It's. What's the other one? Jade Empire that we ride for.

[Blessing]

Oh, yeah.

[Snow White Mike]

And then there's one more.

[Blessing]

What's the one I'm thinking of? There is. There's like a game that has, like. I think it might have card combat or something like that.

[Snow White Mike]

And then there's one called Enslaved Odyssey of the west that are like three games that I've seen all the time on my Xbox. Never played them.

[Blessing]

I'm thinking f. Is there a game that's like Phantom something? Phantom that has like card combat to it?

[Snow White Mike]

Card?

[Blessing]

Yeah. Like Xbox Original Xbox era, maybe 360 era. It might show up on this list. Okay, I forget what it's called. Phantom Knight. No, that's not it. I'll figure it out.

[Snow White Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing]

I'll think of it.

[Snow White Mike]

It'll come to him, but yeah.

[Blessing]

Shout out Lost Odyssey. Who made Lost Odyssey? That's my question. I'm looking it up.

[Barrett]

Says here Mistwalker.

[Snow White Mike]

I'm on it right now. Yeah.

[Blessing]

Mist Walker.

[Snow White Mike]

Mist Walker.

[Blessing]

Comp. Hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up. Designed by Hironobu Sakaguchi and Nobuo Umatsu, of course. Nobu Matsu. You know, from Final Fantasy. I think. Sakaguchi, you might also know from Final Fantasy. Yeah, he's the Final Fantasy creator. Damn, that's crazy. Yeah. I didn't realize the. The team like that was stacked for Lost Odyssey.

[Snow White Mike]

Something special.

[Blessing]

Good for them.

[Snow White Mike]

And you started it.

[Blessing]

I started it. Never got. Never got far in it.

[Snow White Mike]

Did you vibe with it? I mean, you're on a Final Fantasy 10 kick right now.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Snow White Mike]

Would you try this again?

[Blessing]

Nowadays, maybe. I think at the time I was curious about it because, remember, they had ported it to Xbox Modern Xboxes. I think it was part of the backwards compatibility thing where it became playable and people were like, yo, Lost Odyssey. Lost Odyssey. Lost Odyssey. And so I booted it up.

[Snow White Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing]

Either it was free or I got it through game pass. I forget which. But I booted it up just to see what it was. And then I was like, oh, okay, this seems neat. And then I put it down. But I would go back to it, you know, this game looks cool.

[Snow White Mike]

It's giving Final Fantasy 10 looks when you look at it.

[Blessing]

I mean, maybe that's one for you. You're the Xbox guy.

[Snow White Mike]

Keep an eye on that.

[Blessing]

And you like Final Fantasy 10.

[Snow White Mike]

I really, I'm into it now.

[Blessing]

Coming in at number 70. We got SSX3.

[Snow White Mike]

Okay, okay, okay.

[Blessing]

This is the, this is the one that I owned. I didn't have Tricky. I had the first SSX game and then I jumped to three. And I have really fond memories of three. Even though I know the streets will tell you all the time. Tricky is the one.

[Snow White Mike]

Tricky's the first one. Tricky's the one that I had.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Snow White Mike]

On Tricky's the second game.

[Blessing]

But you would say it's like the best one though.

[Snow White Mike]

What's the first one?

[Blessing]

It's just SSX. There's SSX1, there's SSX Tricky, and then there's SX3.

[Snow White Mike]

SSX1?

[Blessing]

Yeah. No, not many people know about SSX1. That was bare bones, but I love it.

[Snow White Mike]

Oh, I had SSX1.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Snow White Mike]

SSX1, which is the well known one.

[Blessing]

Tricky is the one that people love.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah, yeah, I've had them all. I don't remember much about three. Okay. Cause like all these start to blur together. Here's the problem. Yeah, they made a lot of SSX games. They made a lot of EA Sports big games. So they all start to blur together.

[Blessing]

I love three, but I don't.

[Snow White Mike]

I played SSX on my PS2.

[Blessing]

I also played on my PS.

[Snow White Mike]

That's where like when we talk EA big games, I think PlayStation. I put all my EA Sports big titles on PlayStation.

[Blessing]

Really?

[Snow White Mike]

Every one of them.

[Blessing]

They were there.

[Snow White Mike]

Maybe not NFL street, but like the rest of them.

[Blessing]

Yeah, they were so third party to me.

[Snow White Mike]

Oh yeah, yeah.

[Blessing]

So it's like I, I play them all on PlayStation as well. I don't associate them with a singular platform. I'm not seeing here them writing anything regarding, like why they're going with this as a best Xbox game. They do say that, you know, they think SSX3 isn't just the greatest snowboarding game ever made. It might also be the best sports game, the sports sim. Sorry. It might also be one of the best sports Sims, period.

[Snow White Mike]

Now see, here's the hot take for you. Your boy Snowbike Mike would actually lean Amped 3 over SSX amp3 snowboarding game and Xbox. Because it's an Xbox 360 title going from the Amped franchise. Amped 3 on your Xbox 360. It was pretty special. It was a really good game. I actually prefer Amped on my snowboarding side of things over what SSX became and like what others did to bring it into the franchise.

[Blessing]

You should play a Sex three.

[Snow White Mike]

Okay, I'll try.

[Blessing]

I as somebody who again, I didn't play it much. SX Tricky. I think I played that once or twice at a friend's house.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

I played so much three and I. I think three is excellent. I can't tell you whether it's better or not than tricky. But SSX3 was the.

[Snow White Mike]

See, I think you might like Amped. Amped is like skate.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Snow White Mike]

A little more grounded. Yeah. A little more ground. A little more semi. But still like the over the top fun but. But not like Sean White. So like all of a sudden we had a moment with Skate that came out that was like, hey, we're going to get a little more grounded with this. We're not going to go crazy. Tony the Hawk combos. Right. And that inspired other games like amp started to go that way of like, let's get a little more grounded. Bring it down a little bit towards the snow as opposed to go into the sky. Sean White, he made a video game. They gave you Red Bull Wings. And I don't know if you remember, but you were flying down the map. Dude. That was insane, man.

[Blessing]

God. All right, let's move on to number 69. We got Ori and the Blind Force.

[Snow White Mike]

Of course. Of course. Or games are on there.

[Blessing]

Surprised this isn't top 50. Although maybe they're waiting for Will of the Wisps. Maybe Will of the Wisps is going to be in there as well.

[Snow White Mike]

Which one was the first one?

[Blessing]

The first one was. Or in the Blind Forest. So this is the first one.

[Snow White Mike]

And then Will the whiskey Will of

[Blessing]

the Wisps is the second one.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah, I like that. I like that.

[Blessing]

Number 68.

[Snow White Mike]

Both could be argued for top 50.

[Blessing]

I agree.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Number 68. We got Alan Wake. The first one.

[Snow White Mike]

I like that.

[Blessing]

Cool.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah, that's a 361. People like that. I mean, what did I bring up before? Max Payne? Dead to rights. Will we see any of those games but Alan Wake? Okay.

[Blessing]

Yeah, I like it. At number 67 we got skate two. Speaking of skate.

[Snow White Mike]

Hell yeah. Hell Hell yeah. And Low Key. They picked the best skate. Skate two is the best Skate Better than Skate three. Skate. Skate two is better than Skate three. I'll die on that hill for sure. Skate. Skate two had everything that you wanted. Skate three was very good. But Skate two had Danny Way's Hawaiian Dream. And they tried to remake it in skate 3. Not even close to as good as skate 2 was.

[Blessing]

I'm trying to see now is this an Xbox pick?

[Snow White Mike]

It was an Xbox pick for me because I'm playing it on my 360. Yeah. But like no, that's just a third party game. That's just a good third party game.

[Blessing]

Yeah. I'm trying to see here. The ability to get off your board and set positional markers were game changers at the height of the Xbox 360's popularity. And it made it a timeless classic that still holds up today.

[Snow White Mike]

I mean it's on PS3.

[Blessing]

Yeah. I mean I played. I guess I played skate three on PS3. But yeah, I associate it with everything. But it's iconic though. It's the weird thing. Here's what I'll say, Mike. 360 during this era was the dominant console for most of it. That's right.

[Snow White Mike]

And so right until the very end.

[Blessing]

Right until the very end. Right. Was the dominant console. So I think you can make the argument that around this time, third party games, Xbox leaning. Okay, okay, I'll let it slide for that. Okay.

[Snow White Mike]

Maybe advertisement, marketing stuff.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Okay. At number 66 we got. Even though Bear stepped away, we got Mirror's Edge. Yeah, please run it back.

[Snow White Mike]

I put Mirrors Edge as a 360 game. 100%.

[Blessing]

Really?

[Snow White Mike]

An Xbox game. Yeah, yeah. I think, I think of Mirrors Edge on that.

[Blessing]

Here's what I'll say is that on the Xbox side, Mirror's Edge has followed me with every new Xbox console I've gotten. I've been able to play Mirrors Edge. I can't say that with the PlayStation it's followed by. It's followed me. Mirror's Edge, I don't talk about enough. One of my favorite games of all time.

[Snow White Mike]

It was a cool vibe, legitimately.

[Blessing]

One of my favorite games is Mirror's Edge. And yes, like when I got my Xbox One, Mirrors, that was one of the first games I was able. I booted up because I wanted to, I wanted to. To see it play on the next gen. Same with Xbox. Series X. Booted up your edge because I wanted to see like those Xbox, you know, boosted features riding the high

[Snow White Mike]

that was Assassin's Creed at the time that introduced like awesome movement and parkouring into your video games and then being like 2008, the just peak of like edgy, like we're going to be cool and out there and futuristic and different. Yeah, it's like we're going to do that but with like hardcore parkour and like Mirrors Edge is like, yeah, this is the coolest thing.

[Blessing]

There's the feeling that this game evokes that they capture so well, which is kind of like the wind flowing, like the. Like you're running and you can almost feel the wind on your.

[Snow White Mike]

Yes. Yeah.

[Blessing]

You know, they went. There's combat in this game, but that's not the focus. Right. Like you can shoot a gun. The gunplay fucking sucks. And we do. We're doing that on purpose because we don't want you to pick up a gun and shoot. This is a first person game where it is run, jump, swing, climb, do all this shit with a beautiful art style. I really like the color palette they got on this thing where they have, of course, the red, which signifies like, oh, this is the way to go or whatever. And then you have like a lot of whites and like light blues and stuff. And I think this game is gorgeous to look at.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

In the. In the music, the soundtrack. We don't talk about Mirror's Edge enough.

[Snow White Mike]

I mean, it's dope. I love this odd top 100 Xbox game.

[Blessing]

Yeah, you're right.

[Snow White Mike]

But I love third party game.

[Blessing]

But okay, at number 65, we have pentiment.

[Snow White Mike]

Nice. Yeah. Okay, that gets some love. And you know what? I like that placement.

[Blessing]

65, that's good for you.

[Snow White Mike]

I think Pentiment for me is like, yeah, we can have a conversation from 40 to 80.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Snow White Mike]

I could probably name 40 that are more iconic and impactful. But like, what Josh Sawyer and that team did over at Obsidian was something different and actually something that was really fun to play if you dove into it.

[Blessing]

Oh, yeah. And number 64, we got Trials HD.

[Snow White Mike]

Trials is a great franchise. I love, and I'm fucking uptight that Ubisoft is so lost in the fucking wind because we deserve more Trials.

[Blessing]

What happened, you know, the last one was what? Trials rising in 2018 or 19?

[Barrett]

Yeah, 2019, I believe. I think that was my first year. Kind of funny.

[Snow White Mike]

Trials rising 2019.

[Blessing]

What are we doing? It's been too long.

[Snow White Mike]

They lost the song.

[Blessing]

They're over here making fucking roller champions. Making rise. Make Trials.

[Snow White Mike]

Trials HD was a Xbox360, mainly an arcade title that I remember that makes being very prominent on the Xbox arcade side of things.

[Blessing]

So as much as I Love trials, though, 64 feels kind of high.

[Snow White Mike]

Feels high.

[Blessing]

Feels high. Castle Crashes was number like 80 or 90.

[Snow White Mike]

Oh, castle crashers blows us out of the water. Yeah, yeah, no doubt about it.

[Blessing]

Number six, the 64th best Xbox game is Trials. And I, again, I Love trials. Yeah, but like.

[Snow White Mike]

No, no, no.

[Blessing]

Come on.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

At number 63, we got hi Fi Rush.

[Snow White Mike]

Hi, Fi Rush. People in the comments section from video one were like, we better see high five. Rush.

[Blessing]

Oh, we better see high five.

[Snow White Mike]

And there's the flowers at the surf.

[Blessing]

Honestly, too low for my tastes. Get that in the top 50 for me. Hi Fi Rush.

[Snow White Mike]

Man, what a world we lived in. For them to bring that out From Tango gameworks, a team that was known for horror games. Yeah. To build a fun, like, rhythm action adventure game. Right there was really great.

[Blessing]

A game that, like, energized me. You know, you play this game and it's like, oh, shit. Video games are fucking awesome.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

You know, video games are cool. Video games are fun. Find the beat, Find the beat.

[Snow White Mike]

Chai and his friends.

[Blessing]

Fun characters.

[Snow White Mike]

All the tease.

[Blessing]

Fun vibes. Oh, my God, I love this game. At number 62, we got dead Rising, the first one. Now you're going to see two.

[Snow White Mike]

This should probably be a little higher because it is very special. It's a really good game. Will we see two above this?

[Blessing]

I would think so. Right?

[Snow White Mike]

I like to a lot. I think two improved a lot on the first one. I think the mall is a little more iconic than the Vegas casino, but. The Vegas Casino, very cool. But, like, when I think Xbox and like, importance, I go one over two.

[Blessing]

That's fair. Because one. Was this an exclusive?

[Snow White Mike]

I believe so. I believe it was exclusive. I think all of them works.

[Blessing]

No dead rising. Two, I booted up on my PlayStation.

[Snow White Mike]

Okay. But then three came back.

[Blessing]

Three was exclusive. Yes.

[Snow White Mike]

Okay. Probably.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah. Interesting.

[Blessing]

I think two was the only one that was exclusive. Yeah.

[Snow White Mike]

How weird.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah. I put whenever I think Dead Rising, I think Capcom and Xbox together.

[Blessing]

At number 61, we got Halo 4. This is our first Halo on the list. I believe it is four.

[Snow White Mike]

Wow. Yeah, I. I think if you remember, I said Halo 4 and 5 might be my only ones that don't make the list. But like, you have four being the first one is the correct one. Everything. Everything's going to be above that.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Snow White Mike]

Four into five. Odst reach. 1, 2, 3. Well, how the rankings go in my mind.

[Blessing]

Oh, like three being that three will be the highest. Yes.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Okay. You have three, two, one.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Snow White Mike]

But like, Reach might slide in between, like two and a one somewhere. People love Reach.

[Blessing]

I remember when Reach people love.

[Barrett]

Remember Reach, baby.

[Blessing]

And number 60, we have Street Fighter 4. Okay.

[Snow White Mike]

Another fighting game.

[Blessing]

As a Xbox One, they say Street Fighter 4 was the console fighting game at A time when the Xbox 360 dominated the living room. And then jumping forward, they say it's one of the best fighting games ever made. And outside of the arcade, there's no better place to play it than Xbox. I mean, what about the PS3?

[Snow White Mike]

Wouldn't be crazy if they don't put Killer Instinct on this. Oh, no, killer, like, it's like out of nowhere. Like, forgot Killer Instinct.

[Blessing]

I mean, again, this is. This will fall back into my argument of like, hey, it was the dominant console at the time.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

And so, okay, I'll give you that. That like maybe more people were playing it on. On Xbox because of that. Unless maybe I missed something about how it runs also or something. But I played so much of this on PlayStation 3.

[Snow White Mike]

That was 2008. Okay, okay.

[Blessing]

At number 59, we got Peggle 2.

[Snow White Mike]

We talked about Peggle. Yeah, we knew Peggle would be on this list. Peggle is a must have on this list.

[Blessing]

At number 58, we got Project Gotham Racing 2.

[Snow White Mike]

Yep, we talked about that. Project Gotham Racing 2 for sure is going to be in this.

[Blessing]

At number 57, you got Call of Duty 2.

[Snow White Mike]

Yes. This is what I remember on the OG Xbox. I remember the old Call of Duties, man. The old Call of Duties were special back then 2005. So this would have been right when the 360 was launching then. Yeah.

[Blessing]

That's wild.

[Snow White Mike]

Old school.

[Blessing]

I don't hear people talk about pre. Pre Modern Warfare.

[Snow White Mike]

Oh, yeah, man.

[Blessing]

And number 56, we got Mark of the Ninja. I've heard people talk about this one.

[Snow White Mike]

You know what, I've played this like maybe one time.

[Blessing]

This was an Xbox Live arcade joint.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Yeah. This is one I never got around to, but. Side scrolling stealth game. I remember. I think Alex Van Aken was the one that put me on the market.

[Snow White Mike]

I feel like you and Barrett might like this, right? Kind of like the Metroidvania. Like you said, 2D side scrolling stealth right here.

[Blessing]

I do like that.

[Snow White Mike]

I wonder if you guys. Yeah. I wonder if you went back to this if it would hold up and you'd really like these.

[Blessing]

I bet you it would. I mean, look at. Wow.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

The vision cones and all that stuff. Interesting. All right, there you go. At number 55, we got Forza Horizon 1.

[Snow White Mike]

Wow.

[Blessing]

Interesting.

[Snow White Mike]

Okay, well, I mean, what we have Forza Horizon 1 through 5.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Snow White Mike]

How high in regards? You hold The Forza Horizon 1 top 1, 2, I think.

[Blessing]

I think we're gonna see a Forza Horizon in the top five.

[Snow White Mike]

Yes, but that's like four or five.

[Blessing]

Yes.

[Snow White Mike]

I think I. Like I told you earlier today, fun little rewind for you on the podcast. I think the hype started with three. I think the old heads appreciate one and two, but I think three is, like, when it started to push to the mainframe.

[Blessing]

Three is where, like, for me, as somebody who was an IGN listener, I used to listen to Unlocked all the time. Ryan McCaffrey. When Forza Horizon 3 came out, Ryan McCaffrey was loud about it. He was like, yo, they're in Australia

[Snow White Mike]

and they're ripping it up.

[Blessing]

Yes. Like, this game is one of the best games of the year that nobody's going to talk about. And I think that inspired me to go check it out. And from there I was converted. I was like, yo, this Forza Horizon shit, we gotta do something. Like, this game is fucking insane.

[Snow White Mike]

For Horizon 1 2012. If I believe, if I'm right, I think it was Colorado was the setting. Like a Colorado, Montana kind of mountainous place. I'd have to look at. I have to look up this. The full setting there. But okay, I don't. I never played one.

[Blessing]

I never played one either.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

And I wonder if you can buy it because they. They delist the force of Horizon contracts.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah, yeah.

[Blessing]

Which is still crazy to me that we let that slide. You can't buy Forza Horizon 3 right now. That's criminal. That's absolutely insane. But yes, Colorado was the map at number 54. We got jet Set Radio Future. I'll take it.

[Snow White Mike]

You called it.

[Blessing]

I called it.

[Snow White Mike]

You called it.

[Blessing]

I loved this game. You know, I talk about. Well, I talk about, you know, all the friends I play video games with growing up. But yeah, this was my next door neighbor, Freddy. He had an Xbox, went over to his place, we played this game. It was a two, two game disc, I believe. Oh, okay. It was Jet Set Radio Future and then a racing game. I forget which racing game. But they shared the same disc. I remember he would boot it up. I'd see the racing, like, not, man.

[Snow White Mike]

Sega GT 2002.

[Blessing]

There you go.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah, yeah, I'm seeing it right now.

[Blessing]

We would hop in a jetset Radio Future. They had a fun multiplayer mode that we play all the time. But then. Yeah, once we got into that single player, oh, man, what a fucking game.

[Snow White Mike]

What is this? Like, I never played this one. Is this like a Crazy Taxi almost?

[Blessing]

No, I mean, I understand why you say that. Right. Because the cell shading. Yeah. And crazy art style. But no, it's like. It's almost like a 3D platformer. You're going around, you're graffiting walls, you're collecting paint cans or grinding Hawk. Almost a little bit of Tony Hawk. It's like if you took Tony Hawk and maybe mixed it with Banjo Kazooie.

[Snow White Mike]

Okay, okay. Yeah.

[Blessing]

But, like, made it about rebelling against the system.

[Snow White Mike]

Cool.

[Blessing]

You know, Pretty cool. A crazy soundtrack. You would really dig Jet Set Radio.

[Snow White Mike]

I'll check it out. Yeah, I'll put it on my list.

[Blessing]

Put that on the list.

[Snow White Mike]

I love putting games on the list in this.

[Blessing]

At number 53, we got crackdown.

[Snow White Mike]

Yes.

[Blessing]

I feel like we're getting heaters now.

[Snow White Mike]

Now. Now we're warming up.

[Blessing]

We're warming up.

[Snow White Mike]

We're warming it up. The stove top, we turned it on. It was a little cool at the beginning. Now we're starting to warm it up here. We're gonna. We're gonna hear that first pop, that first sizzle, and we're gonna say, oh, it's hot now. And I think crackdown is the sign

[Blessing]

of, like, it's coming.

[Snow White Mike]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Blessing]

We're knocking on the door. At number 52. We got Halo 3. ODST.

[Snow White Mike]

ODs.

[Blessing]

All right, wait, listen. It's coming.

[Snow White Mike]

Are they dishon five? Where will five be? Five ODST above five. Okay.

[Blessing]

Okay. At number 51, we got Sunset Overdrive. They're cooking. Now that we're warming up, we're firmly into bangers only territory.

[Snow White Mike]

I thought Sunset Overdrive would be higher. A. A 15 through 30 window.

[Blessing]

What do. Where do you put up hi Fi Rush against Sunset Overdrive? What do you think's better? Have you played both?

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah, I've played them both. Well, like, my personal taste would go Sunset Overdrive because I like open world games. Right. Both very good. Damn.

[Blessing]

One day, if we are both of

[Snow White Mike]

them a 30 through 50 window, because I. I think hi Fi rush is a little too up there.

[Blessing]

Like, too high.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah, See, when I say high, I mean, like, high in the. Oh, I mean lower meaning, like, you

[Blessing]

want it in that.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah, I want them, like, getting.

[Blessing]

What window would you put? Sunset Overdrive.

[Snow White Mike]

Sunset overdrive.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Snow White Mike]

15 through 30. Wow.

[Blessing]

Wow.

[Snow White Mike]

I think. I think when I make my list, I think Sunset's overdrive will be higher. I think it might be twenties.

[Blessing]

All right. some point, one thing I want to pitch is, like, doing March Madness brackets when March comes around. Because I feel like this would be a fun bracket setup of, like, Sunset Overdrive versus Sci Fi Rush. Maybe we do our own best Xbox thing.

[Snow White Mike]

I like that.

[Blessing]

Who knows?

[Snow White Mike]

We could do it but for now,

[Blessing]

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[Blessing]

And we're back with number 50, Teton Shadow Complex.

[Snow White Mike]

Oh, okay. That's an old school one. Okay, okay.

[Blessing]

That's a good poll. I feel like that's like cult classic area.

[Snow White Mike]

Have you played this? I've never played Shadow.

[Blessing]

I never played Shadow Complex. But I heard people talk about it, right. This was a.

[Snow White Mike]

There's an Xbox One title.

[Blessing]

Was this a live arcade thing?

[Snow White Mike]

2009. No.

[Blessing]

They say taking the timeless gameplay of Super Metroid and turbocharging it with modern twin stick shooter controls. Or, sorry, modern twist twin stick controls and striking Unreal Engine 3 visuals. Shadow Complex. I have played Shadow Complex. Okay, I forgot I played this, but not through it. But it's like it's another.

[Snow White Mike]

I'm looking at it.

[Blessing]

Oh, it's another lost odyssey where I booted it up and I was like, oh, this is neat. And then I never touched it again.

[Snow White Mike]

Yes. Okay, okay, okay.

[Blessing]

It's a Metroidvania. Yes, yes. 2D. It's funny because you look at the key art and you think, my friend is Pedro. Yes.

[Snow White Mike]

Remember that?

[Blessing]

My friend Pedro.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah, My friend Pedro. Yep.

[Blessing]

Yeah. All right, next up, we got at number 49, psychonauts 2. I like that again, we're only like that. Bangers only territory. Yeah, we're warming up at number 48. We got Viva Pinata must have. Come on. Must have. At number. This is. This is like the portion of the list where people start having fights in the office.

[Snow White Mike]

Well now. Yeah, because now we're warming up here. Now we're going to start because you

[Blessing]

know, somebody that really cared about Viva pinata. At number 47 you got Microsoft Flight Sim.

[Snow White Mike]

Hell yeah.

[Blessing]

Good pull.

[Snow White Mike]

Hell yeah.

[Blessing]

At number 46 you got limbo. Here's what I'm saying.

[Snow White Mike]

Some people thought limbo was going to be super.

[Blessing]

I would have put this higher. I would have put this like they

[Snow White Mike]

would have put that top 10. There's some people at the top 10.

[Blessing]

I would say top 25.

[Snow White Mike]

25.

[Blessing]

Top 25. Unless they have inside. Inside should be. But like that's not Xbox as much. You know, it's a. It's a weird thing.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Limbo I associate with Xbox Arcade and number 45, we have Forza Motorsport 4.

[Snow White Mike]

Now we take it to the track. Yeah, you got to have some motorsport love on this one.

[Blessing]

Yep.

[Snow White Mike]

There's the die hard race fans out there. So. Yeah, I'm in that.

[Blessing]

Number 44. Oh, we got Rise of the Tomb Raider.

[Snow White Mike]

This was the timed exclusive, right. That Bill and the team announced.

[Blessing]

This is the one that came out, I believe the same week as Fallout 4. Or maybe like a week prior, a week after. Okay, okay. I remember it very well because everybody was like, why are you releasing right now?

[Snow White Mike]

Interesting. Yeah, I just remember the big deal of like oh, Tomb Raiders back in a big way. Oh, wait, this is the second one.

[Blessing]

This is the second one.

[Snow White Mike]

That's fucking crazy.

[Blessing]

This is the one that I think. What did IGN give this? Because I think IGN might have given this a 10.

[Snow White Mike]

Really.

[Blessing]

Or maybe a 9.5.

[Barrett]

I remember this is the most beloved of that trilogy.

[Snow White Mike]

Okay.

[Barrett]

At least from what I remember.

[Blessing]

And like the whole. Yeah.

[Barrett]

Controversy with it.

[Snow White Mike]

Right.

[Barrett]

Was the first one was on all platforms and then they made the second one a sequel, an Xbox exclusive and

[Blessing]

everybody was like, what are we doing?

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

I gen gave it a 9.3 out of 10.

[Snow White Mike]

I'd have to. I would love to replay these three. I know a couple of my friends recently have. But I don't remember playing Rise of the Tomb raider thing in 9.3.

[Blessing]

I remember playing the first Tomb Raider. That's the like the reboot. Tomb Raider is the only one I've

[Snow White Mike]

really like just Tomb Raider. That one's. Yeah.

[Blessing]

Really, really dug that one. In fact, I remember at the time. I don't know if I would stand by this at the time I was like, hey, this is better than Uncharted, that's how I felt. Maybe it was like, gameplay wise, I thought it was better because I. I don't unchart. His gameplay, I think, is good. Not the best in my mind.

[Snow White Mike]

Right.

[Blessing]

Like, I like it, but it's not. I. I have frustrations with it until Uncharted 4. Uncharted 4 turned the ship.

[Snow White Mike]

These both feel very similar, but, like,

[Blessing]

I think gameplay wise, this is more engaging, there's more going on. But, you know, Uncharted still had it on, like, the cinematic.

[Snow White Mike]

Did these ones have the online multiplayer? Because Uncharted had a little bit of the online multiplayer. I think Tomb Raider had one.

[Blessing]

I forget.

[Snow White Mike]

One of them might have had an online multiplayer.

[Blessing]

I mean, it was that era.

[Snow White Mike]

Oh, man.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Everything had an online man. And also the one. One more thing I remember about these games, these games are weirdly violent.

[Snow White Mike]

Tomb Raider, the first one was very violent.

[Blessing]

The first one?

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

She was getting impaled. She was getting destroyed in those games.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Number 43, we got the Chronicles of Riddick. Escape. Butcher Bay. I think we said that one as well.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah. How do you play that now?

[Blessing]

Chronicles of Riddick.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah. How do you. How do you. Do you have to have an old console. I don't think this is backwards compatible on this one. You know What I mean?

[Blessing]

PC, maybe. Did it come to PC?

[Snow White Mike]

Maybe find it on PC. Yeah. Because Ryan McCaffrey loves this. I never played this one, but when you listen to podcasts Unlocked, he talks about this one as a big deal.

[Blessing]

Interesting. Number 42, we got Bastion. Must be an Xbox Live Arcade thing. Yeah, they say it here.

[Snow White Mike]

Yes. That's a big. That one for sure is an Xbox Live Arcade 1.

[Blessing]

Cool. Number 41, we got Fable

[Snow White Mike]

1. I think Fable 2 will be higher on this list. Or coming up. No, Fable 3.

[Blessing]

Okay. Fable 2 and number 40.

[Snow White Mike]

Is it crazy that they said that there won't be horns or a Halo? And Fable, the new one.

[Blessing]

I mean, you can't. I mean, I'm not the person to ask.

[Snow White Mike]

You don't care about.

[Blessing]

I don't really care about that.

[Snow White Mike]

I mean, that was the coolest, was the idea that, like, your character could all of a sudden have, like a devil horn.

[Blessing]

Yeah, right. The more evil you do.

[Snow White Mike]

I loved that. So I was a little let down when, like, we just saw Fable at the developer direct and then more interviews came out. It's like, oh, none of that.

[Blessing]

I'm like, interesting. Oh, 40, we got Crimson Skies.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah, I.

[Blessing]

Road to Revenge.

[Snow White Mike]

Yep, that's on there.

[Blessing]

Shout Out. Crimson Skies. Had this on. Had a demo for this on PC.

[Snow White Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Snow White Mike]

Okay. Yeah, Yeah. I don't know.

[Blessing]

I don't think it was this specific game, but it was for a Crimson sky game. At number 39, we got Cuphead. Could be higher.

[Snow White Mike]

Cuphead is so good.

[Blessing]

Cuphead is so good.

[Snow White Mike]

Me and Nick are recently playing Cuphead on Streams, and we've been loving it.

[Blessing]

Cuphead is, like, unbelievable. Cuphead is like a game shouldn't be this good. You know what I mean? Like, Cuphead is one of those ones where it's almost. I can almost make the argument that it's a perfect video game.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

You know, it's like, not one flaw here.

[Snow White Mike]

No, it's so good. And then the dlc, the delicious last

[Blessing]

chord, you know, I never played that. In fact. Oh, now you just remind me. I never beat Cuphead. What? I got major suck at it.

[Snow White Mike]

That's a. That's a blessed stream.

[Barrett]

It was a king dice.

[Blessing]

No, it was the one like. This probably isn't even the boss to get stuck at, but, like, it was the one. It was like the dragon in the clouds.

[Snow White Mike]

Oh, yeah. That's like.

[Barrett]

Oh, I. I remember because I was one of the assigned to that game for ign, and that was a big. That was a big one that me and the one or two other people who were assigned to that game to do covers for it. We were stuck on that one for a bit.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah, that one. My stick is his name, wasn't it Grim Matchstick?

[Barrett]

Yeah, there's a lot of. There's a lot of, like. The tip to that one is you just got to stare at the center of the screen and just use your peripheral vision just to see where everything is coming from.

[Blessing]

What you're telling me is that I have to enter a flow state.

[Barrett]

You got to enter the matrix.

[Blessing]

You got to enter a flow state.

[Snow White Mike]

Enter flow state. Yeah, yeah. Here's what I'll tell you. And I told Nick, if you go back and you get the dlc, the DLC adds a weapon where you don't have to always be aiming perfect. You can just shoot it backwards and it will loop back to the enemy. Oh, that's so it makes it much easier and approachable for, like, hey, this game was really difficult. Don't worry about that. Just hold down the shoot button and pray to God that you dodge. You'll be in. You'll be in.

[Blessing]

At number 38, we got Ori and the will of the wisp there.

[Snow White Mike]

It Is I like that. I might go a little higher.

[Blessing]

Here's the thing, right? 20 through 30, we got Cuphead and we got this.

[Snow White Mike]

We're getting bangers.

[Blessing]

I feel like we're in. Like, everything here needs to be at least a nine.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

If we see a game that's not a nine at this point, it's like, what are we doing at number 37? We got Braid. Okay.

[Snow White Mike]

Another Xbox 360 Arcade, big deal banger game. Yep.

[Blessing]

At number 36, we got Assassin's Creed 2 Bangers Only territory.

[Snow White Mike]

You know, What a franchise back then. What a special dude. My, what a special time.

[Blessing]

My friends were so obsessed with Assassin's Creed, they would platinum every single. I had a friend James called off. I don't know. I gave his government name, but James used to platinum every single game. And he had it to where if you went to his PlayStation, went to his trophies, like, there was no game that didn't have a Platinum on it. It was one of those ones where he's like, if I'm putting this game into my PlayStation 3, it needs to platinum. And there was one time where I brought my game over. It was like Mortal Kombat or something. I was like, oh, yeah, let's all play Mortal Kombat. I put in this thing, and they're like, no, no, no. And then I popped the trophy list, and he's like, hey, James needs to keep that game. And I'm like, I'm not giving him a game. Like, I'm not giving James my game. Like, I'm not. It's not my fault he's crazy. You know, I did what.

[Snow White Mike]

How did this go, Barrett? Order wise. So you had Assassin's Creed 1, and then did it go to Assassin's Creed 2 right after that?

[Barrett]

Yeah. There was no, like, a spin off in between.

[Snow White Mike]

So 2.

[Barrett]

1, 2 was the big leap where we started to see what the. The franchise.

[Blessing]

This was the first.

[Barrett]

This was the first Ezio game.

[Blessing]

Right.

[Barrett]

Where we get the story of Etio Auditory, the fan favorite still to this day.

[Blessing]

Then you get Brotherhood and Revelations.

[Snow White Mike]

Okay. Because then I was like, then three comes out of nowhere.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Snow White Mike]

And we're doing something different with three. Three, you're in a revolutionary war in America. Yeah. You remember those commercials?

[Barrett]

All of the trail for two Brotherhood revelations in three. Like the. What was the company that did those announced trailers?

[Snow White Mike]

Was it Blur?

[Blessing]

Maybe.

[Snow White Mike]

I don't know. They.

[Blessing]

They.

[Barrett]

They were insane back in the day.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Yeah. But I bring up. I also bring up James because James and Stevie obsessed With the story.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

They wanted to know everything going on with Desmond. They wanted to know. They were excited for the next Assassin's Creed.

[Snow White Mike]

Oh, they wanted to get outside.

[Blessing]

They were. Oh, man, they were.

[Barrett]

Because it was all building up to 2012. Plus the world was going to end.

[Blessing]

The world was going to end. Yeah.

[Barrett]

And that was like a big part of the storyline. Desmond and what's her face. Lucy, I think is her name.

[Blessing]

It was a crazy story.

[Snow White Mike]

So with this two at 36, the only one in my mind that would be important to Xbox. Black Flag isn't on here.

[Blessing]

Is that important to Xbox.

[Snow White Mike]

Big 360 title.

[Barrett]

And that was. It was 3 64.

[Blessing]

I thought four was like Xbox one. Was that really 360?

[Barrett]

So it. It launched a month before the new gen, so it was like the tail end of the 360 and PS3 and then get. And then weirdly, also becomes a big launch title for the Xbox One and PS4.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Snow White Mike]

And Rogue was also in the mix there. Assassin's Creed.

[Blessing]

Rogue. Yeah.

[Barrett]

We don't need to talk about Rogue.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah, that would. That would be the only other Assassin's Creed that I would have on a top 100 list. Like, that's like, mean something to me. When I was playing my Xbox.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Snow White Mike]

Would be Black Flag.

[Barrett]

I would go Black Flag. Or if we're talking Xbox specific, think about that era. Just thinking about the Ezio trilogy. I would put Brotherhood as well.

[Blessing]

Okay. Brotherhood. At number 35, we got Rock Band 3.

[Snow White Mike]

We talked about it.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Snow White Mike]

I think. I think we'll see Guitar Hero still too.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Snow White Mike]

I think. I think Guitar Hero has to be on this list. But, man, Rock Band took that up to another level, huh? Oh, yeah. From how cool Guitar Hero was to now you have different instruments and somebody singing. That's crazy, man.

[Blessing]

Bring me back. I wasn't a big bring back to those.

[Snow White Mike]

I didn't have many people with Rock Band in my life. It was. It was a lot of Guitar Hero.

[Blessing]

I just remember so vividly it was me, my friend Stevie in our friend Abby's basement. I think James might have been there too. Just full band and like it was me and Stevie on the microphone singing our hearts out. Like, oh, man, those are the memories you remember. You know, Those are the moments in life that stick with me.

[Snow White Mike]

Where did I miss? When did Rock Band come out? The original one. 2007. Yeah, so that would have been. Yeah, my senior, like junior. Senior year of high school. And so that's interesting. It was like so much guitar here. I don't even remember anyone having the Rock Band.

[Blessing]

Oh, dude. I didn't really.

[Snow White Mike]

My life.

[Blessing]

I didn't know Rock Band existed probably until like 08 or 09.

[Snow White Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing]

You know what I mean? For me, it was the same. Guitar Hero was the thing.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

I think it just came first, right.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course, of course.

[Blessing]

You know, the name brand was out there. At number 34, we have Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell. Just the first one.

[Snow White Mike]

I remember it on my Xbox. I remember renting it, playing it and thinking, this is too difficult. I think I dropped this game, like level two type shit.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Snow White Mike]

Because it was that difficult. And so. Yeah, I mean.

[Blessing]

I mean, we're still going to see Chaos Theory, I think.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah, man. See, now we start doubling up with a lot of. We still have a lot of Halos, we still have a lot of Gears.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

But like, there are certain games I think are just too iconic. Right.

[Snow White Mike]

That's interesting.

[Blessing]

I think. I think you're going to double up on Splinter Cell.

[Snow White Mike]

Okay, here's one for you right now. Just a little time capsule. I don't think we see another Splinter Cell. I don't think we see another Assassin's Creed. I think we kind of stop with third party double ups.

[Blessing]

I don't think we see another Assassin's Creed, but I do think we see Chaos Theory. Because why, why, why choose this over Chaos?

[Snow White Mike]

Still have more Call of Duties too, but how many?

[Blessing]

I don't think. I don't know if you have that many more Call of Duties.

[Snow White Mike]

One minimum. Sure have to have Modern Warfare.

[Blessing]

Okay, okay. I'll give you Modern Warfare.

[Snow White Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing]

At number 33.

[Snow White Mike]

Damn.

[Blessing]

We got Batman, Arkham Asylum. We're. Listen again, these are third party.

[Snow White Mike]

We're getting loose.

[Blessing]

We're getting loose a little bit.

[Snow White Mike]

We're starting to lose the temperature.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Snow White Mike]

For me, we're hitting a peak temperature of like. These games are dope. Hell yeah. We're losing the temperature of like. These are Xbox holy grails.

[Blessing]

Yes.

[Snow White Mike]

We had that for a moment of like 55 into like, I don't know, 41 or something. But then we. We've kind of lost track again. Yeah, we're back onto. These are just great games for the time period. It's like.

[Blessing]

Okay, I will say. And you like Arkham Asylum is my favorite Arkham game. So they. They made the right choice in my heart. Because I don't think we're gonna see City on here.

[Snow White Mike]

I never played Asylum.

[Blessing]

Oh, I love.

[Snow White Mike]

I've only. I played City and Onward. So I'M thinking about playing Asylum one day. Maybe.

[Blessing]

Asylum has more. It's a Metroidvania design. Interesting. You know, it's not open world, it's more. So it takes place in Arkham.

[Snow White Mike]

In the prison.

[Blessing]

In the prison. And like, it's more quote unquote, linear.

[Snow White Mike]

But I mean, I watched Barrett streaming. I watched him play it for Batman Day. And so, yeah, it's just. It was odd that I never played Asylum. But then, of course, I played all the rest and loved every single one of them.

[Blessing]

Yeah, what a good game.

[Barrett]

We gotta get Andy to play him eventually.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah, he'll play him, you know. Yeah, he'll love him.

[Blessing]

And number 32, we got fallout three.

[Snow White Mike]

Yes.

[Blessing]

Another one. But also, you know, great, great, fantastic video game.

[Snow White Mike]

Fantastic.

[Blessing]

In my top 10.

[Snow White Mike]

Oh, yeah. I mean, I love it. I do think this in New Vegas are in my. Probably top 100 Xbox games, if I was to make one.

[Blessing]

But do you see Fallout 3 as an Xbox specific game for my memories?

[Snow White Mike]

Yes. Yeah.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Snow White Mike]

But like, I mean, and then also now they own Bethesda, so you can kind of put the show like Mike of like. Well, Bethesda is an Xbox company. So, like, I'll accept that. Yeah, you kind of have that kind of conversation.

[Blessing]

And I know here's the thing, too. I know Bethesda games fucking ran like shit on PS3.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

And so there was probably that as well, too.

[Snow White Mike]

Skyrim going to be on this end.

[Blessing]

Yes, undoubtedly. Oh, and Skyrim might be top five oblivion then.

[Snow White Mike]

Top 20. Top 15.

[Blessing]

Top 25.

[Snow White Mike]

Okay. Yeah. Because we got to still have Oblivion and Skyrim have to be on this list.

[Blessing]

Yes.

[Snow White Mike]

Will New Vegas be on this list then?

[Blessing]

Yes. Yeah. Oh, we're running out of spaces, though.

[Snow White Mike]

We're running. Bless you. I still have about seven halos to jam into this thing.

[Blessing]

At number 31, we got fallout New Vegas.

[Snow White Mike]

All right.

[Blessing]

All right, we got it. They put three in New Vegas right next to each other.

[Snow White Mike]

Crazy.

[Blessing]

That's insane.

[Snow White Mike]

Crazy.

[Blessing]

This is the thing I ask about all the time. Those like, you know, these games are the same, basically. Like, just put them next to each other. They did it.

[Snow White Mike]

They did it.

[Blessing]

Which leads to my argument of Forza Horizons 3 through 5. Better just be right next to each other on the list.

[Snow White Mike]

7, 6, 5.

[Blessing]

Yes. I want to put 3, 4, 5, in that order. Right next to each other.

[Snow White Mike]

Okay. Okay. Well. Yeah, there we go. There's the new Vegas that we wanted to see. Yeah.

[Blessing]

At number 30, we got Indiana Jones in the great circle. Listen, I like. I like this game a lot.

[Snow White Mike]

You like it.

[Blessing]

Okay, we gotta stop glazing, bro.

[Snow White Mike]

That's the glaze.

[Barrett]

Did you ever finish it?

[Blessing]

I didn't finish it. Okay. But I got, like, probably, what, 60% of the way through this game. Yeah.

[Barrett]

And the last. I would say. And this is what I talked about when I talked to my. About my personal top 10 that year. Whatever this year. This came out. The last third of that game is what, like, reminded me of, like. Oh, right. Like Indiana Jones kicks ass.

[Snow White Mike]

Okay. I like that.

[Blessing]

I mean, I respect this game a lot.

[Snow White Mike]

This is on the top 100 list, no matter what. It's probably.

[Blessing]

Oh, yes.

[Snow White Mike]

You know what I mean?

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Snow White Mike]

But, like, top 30 conversation. We would have a conversation. We'd have a conversation.

[Blessing]

Coming in at number 29, we got sea of Thieves, arguably. Could be higher.

[Snow White Mike]

Could be higher, man. Rare really cooked with this one. This was a special one. I think this is one when it first came out, kind of like the game pass game.

[Blessing]

Right.

[Snow White Mike]

As well. When you think back to that time period, live service games, this was something different for Rare as well. And what they've created from then to now is like an. Actually a really, really great game.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Snow White Mike]

That's gotten a lot of love, a lot of care, a lot of updates that can bring you in for whatever style of pirate you want to be. So. Yeah, that's on there.

[Blessing]

Oh, yeah. And number 20, not a bad.

[Snow White Mike]

Not a bad place.

[Blessing]

We got Super Meat Boy Live Arcade. Okay, okay, okay. Trying to think of what I want to say. Do we glaze Meat Boy too much? I love Meat Boy.

[Barrett]

Absolutely not.

[Blessing]

I love Meat Boy. But some of the other indie masterpieces we have, like, yeah, the inside, we had cut. We had Limbo, Cuphead, Ori and the Will of the Wisps. Great. Actually, you know what?

[Barrett]

It's one of those, like. I personally like Cuphead more, but I could see the argument of Super Meat Boy being in that very important first wave of indie games going into the 2010s.

[Blessing]

Oh, it definitely was. Yeah. You're absolutely right about that.

[Barrett]

And, yeah, it being like Xbox Live

[Snow White Mike]

Arcade, you know, Castle Crashers. Not up there with Super Meat Boy, though.

[Blessing]

I mean, you'd have to tell me.

[Snow White Mike]

I. I like. I like how Bear describes me, boy. Like, how special that was with Xbox live arcade, that 2010 era.

[Barrett]

Like, I. I said, where did castle crashers land?

[Snow White Mike]

90 something.

[Blessing]

Yeah, like.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah, like, cat Castle Crashers should be right up there in this conversation as well.

[Blessing]

Yeah. All right. You know what? Even as honestly as I read through those other games, I kind of had to like, you know, me Boy, I think is in the conversation. Meat Boy is in the conversation.

[Snow White Mike]

A top 28.

[Blessing]

Honestly, for me, it's the all time Xbox game. It's the jump to where, like we had those other games at around 40, and then we get around to 28 and it's like Meat Boy. And I'm like, well, yeah, those. Some of those other games I'll put above Meat Boy, but I don't think it's a gap. I don't think it's a chasm. At number 27, we got Grand Theft

[Snow White Mike]

Auto 4, 360 online multiplayer.

[Blessing]

But like, it's too third party for me, man.

[Snow White Mike]

That's a really. Third party.

[Blessing]

Really third party.

[Snow White Mike]

I mean, what does that mean? Is San Andreas coming on this?

[Blessing]

No, Cassandra's came to PlayStation 2 first.

[Snow White Mike]

Well, yeah, I mean, that's what I'm getting. That's like no gta, the trilogy getting

[Blessing]

on any of this. I mean, is GTA 5 gonna be on here now?

[Barrett]

Is the question GTA 5 a top three?

[Blessing]

If GTA 5 is in the top three of this list. Simon Carty, lock your doors because I'm coming.

[Snow White Mike]

Let's get locked in right now. There's like GTAs, the Fortnites. Like, what. What are some other weird ones that are like, could be on that? When you talk about that, I mean,

[Blessing]

Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate three.

[Snow White Mike]

Baldur's Gate three.

[Blessing]

Right. Which are four. Witcher three, because that was metal. You're solid. Like, we're getting to weird conversations now.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Okay, let's keep going. Give it to me at number 26. We got geometry Wars, Retro Evolved. Can I call this Glazing?

[Snow White Mike]

Can you call this one Glazing?

[Blessing]

I know, this is fantastic. Don't get me wrong, okay, but like, we're above Meat Boy and we're above like fucking Braid and Ori and all these other cuphead.

[Snow White Mike]

I think this one is held as the Xbox Live Arcade game, though.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Snow White Mike]

Like, I think this is the one. Like, when you think Xbox Live Arcade, you talk about the history and when it came out and what it did to the indie scene. I think this is the one that they hold up. Everyone holds up. It's like this started it. This was the movement.

[Blessing]

Okay, I'll accept that.

[Snow White Mike]

I think that's what it is.

[Blessing]

This one is like a history lesson.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah. I think that's why we give it the glaze. Yeah.

[Barrett]

The first sentence is most downloaded Xbox Live Arcade game in history, which Is crazy.

[Blessing]

Him. Okay, this one. I'm going to chalk that one up then. I wasn't.

[Snow White Mike]

I think it's the poster child. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Blessing]

At number 25, we got Burnout 3 takedown. Listen, don't start with me.

[Snow White Mike]

Bless. I don't like this.

[Blessing]

I love this game.

[Snow White Mike]

Like this.

[Blessing]

Listen. Crazy for all the things that we just talked about. Fuck with it though. Burnout 3 takedown. One of the greatest games ever made.

[Snow White Mike]

I think we're. We're cooling.

[Blessing]

One of the greatest little longer made. Burnout 3 takedown now top 25 Xbox game on the Xbox list with the Xbox connection. Listen. Yeah, yeah, but it's a t out 10 game though. Okay, that's what I'll say. 10 out of 10 video game.

[Snow White Mike]

This is 25.

[Blessing]

This is number 25.

[Snow White Mike]

So now we start the real part of this episode. The top 25 greatest Xbox Xbox games of all time from IGN.

[Blessing]

Yes. And outside Xbox, at number 24, we got Outer wilds. This was on game pass. Okay, that's what I'll give it. I think so many people discovered this game.

[Snow White Mike]

There's a lot of games on game pass. There's a lot of fucking games on game pass that are great games and I understand this one is really special.

[Blessing]

This one is really special.

[Snow White Mike]

I understand how much fun and how much people appreciate it It. Okay, I don't know about this one.

[Blessing]

It's winning me over. You said the magic words. You said burnout finals and Andy are

[Snow White Mike]

so out of wilds.

[Blessing]

They said the magic words. They went burnout three takedown and outer wilds. I can't be mad at that. Those are two of the greatest games I've ever played in my life.

[Snow White Mike]

There's so many.

[Blessing]

Okay, to be fair.

[Barrett]

Gotta dial this in to be fair because I already. I already heard. Why am I blanking on his name?

[Snow White Mike]

Simon Cardi.

[Blessing]

Simon Carty. Thank you.

[Barrett]

I already hear him bringing out his phone, starting the text message thread. Console exclusive for six months.

[Blessing]

Boom, boom, got your ass.

[Snow White Mike]

That's all it takes. Exclusive for six months.

[Blessing]

Just to be fair.

[Snow White Mike]

To be fair. You're right. To be fair.

[Blessing]

To be fair.

[Snow White Mike]

To be fair. I'll take it.

[Blessing]

I could only.

[Snow White Mike]

I'll take it. But I'm not going to take it.

[Blessing]

There was a moment in time where you could only play this on Xbox box.

[Snow White Mike]

You know I'm gonna keep it deep down inside. Simon Cardi.

[Blessing]

This is a 10 out of so far. Hey, Simon Carty. You just had back to back bankers. All right, as far as I'm concerned Burnout 3, takedown.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Outer Wilds. That's what the I'm talking about. Okay, and number 23, we got Skyrim. Oh, okay.

[Snow White Mike]

Oblivion over Skyrim, then.

[Blessing]

What if Oblivion isn't on the list?

[Snow White Mike]

That would be a miss. That would be. I. I would. I'll rip this surface in half. That would be crazy.

[Blessing]

I'm shocked. This is number 23. I feel like this will be higher.

[Snow White Mike]

I mean, this. This is at home, where it needs to be.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Snow White Mike]

In the top 25, Skyrim has a place.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Snow White Mike]

I'll just say that, you know, Oblivion

[Blessing]

because Skyrim, of course, you know, third party.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Best played on. If you're playing on a console. Best played on Xbox360.

[Snow White Mike]

I have to remember, it's also Bethesda. We talked about Bethesda.

[Blessing]

Bethesda Umbrella. Oblivion, though, was a exclusive.

[Snow White Mike]

If I remember, Bolivian was the one

[Blessing]

that was an exclusive.

[Snow White Mike]

Oblivion was the one.

[Blessing]

So that's probably top 10. Yeah. Number 22. We got top 15 left for dead two.

[Snow White Mike]

Called that.

[Blessing]

That's good.

[Snow White Mike]

Called that. That's. Yeah.

[Blessing]

Too high.

[Snow White Mike]

It's in my top 50.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Snow White Mike]

I think the importance carries it a long way. I think it's Special.

[Blessing]

At number 21, we got Gears of War 1.

[Snow White Mike]

So that puts 2 and 3 above this.

[Blessing]

Okay, well, we saw Gears 5 earlier.

[Snow White Mike]

Gears 5?

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Snow White Mike]

Haven't seen 4. We saw Halo 4.

[Blessing]

Yes, man.

[Snow White Mike]

Okay. Yeah. 21. There better be bangers after this. There better be no third party BS after this.

[Blessing]

Oh, you're gonna see.

[Snow White Mike]

Third party has to become the stop.

[Blessing]

Dude, you're about to see. I'm. I'm telling you right now. GTA 5. We saw Outer Wilds burnout 3, takedown at number 24 and 25. You're about to see some third party on here.

[Snow White Mike]

The Witcher better not be over this.

[Blessing]

The Witcher 3 might be number one. The Witcher 3 might be number 1.

[Snow White Mike]

Just stop right there. Witcher 3 better not be over this.

[Blessing]

Coming in at number 20, we got Halo Reach.

[Barrett]

Okay, I'll take it at 20.

[Snow White Mike]

I'll take it at 20.

[Blessing]

Nice.

[Snow White Mike]

I think Die Hard Xbox fans would have that closer to the tens. Okay, but, like, these are. This is tight spots here, so. Yes, that's where it needs to be.

[Blessing]

At number 19, Mass Effect 1.

[Snow White Mike]

We talked about the exclusivity. We talked about how people hold that one tight.

[Blessing]

That makes sense.

[Snow White Mike]

That one tight.

[Blessing]

At number 18, we got Fez in that, you know, indie storytelling. You know what I mean? Like, I think the super meat Boy to Geometry wars to Fez. Kind of like baton pass of what they did for the indie titles.

[Snow White Mike]

I don't love it.

[Blessing]

No, I was trying to help out.

[Snow White Mike]

I don't love it.

[Blessing]

I was trying to make the argument.

[Snow White Mike]

I mean, I get it.

[Barrett]

Console exclusive for two years.

[Snow White Mike]

Everything you're saying is right. Everything that it meant to and did is right. Right. I just.

[Blessing]

Xbox Live Arcade. Why don't you. You just think it's not Mass Effect.

[Snow White Mike]

Above. Mass Effect was the greatest sci fi stories ever told.

[Blessing]

They made a whole documentary about Fez. You know, made a whole documentary indie game, the Movie. Okay, at number 17, we got Gears of War 2. That means they're meeting with you.

[Snow White Mike]

Gears 3 is the number one for them is what they're saying out of the trilogy.

[Blessing]

Yeah. And number 16, we got Red Dead Redemption. Third party.

[Snow White Mike]

You know, I'm just biting my tongue on that one. I mean, maybe Xbox 360. I remember it. Yeah, I guess it's just like.

[Blessing]

It comes down to, like, they were dominant that era.

[Snow White Mike]

It's just a lot of flow with the river. You know what I mean? The river is flowing. Bless third party. Greatest games of the era. Yes. Xbox top 100 video games. You're telling me we couldn't find more Xbox games? Make this next Accentric list.

[Blessing]

When I picture the box art for Red Dead Redemption, I picture it, I can see the Xbox360 logo. You know, I think there's something to that. I mean, I played it on PlayStation.

[Snow White Mike]

Next thing I know, they're gonna put Bully on this list. Right above this.

[Blessing]

At number 15, we got ninja Gaiden Black.

[Snow White Mike]

Damn. Yeah. I mean, the OG Xbox 100%.

[Blessing]

Yeah, but, like, damn, I didn't realize people love Ninja Gaiden Black that much.

[Snow White Mike]

Okay.

[Barrett]

Oh, yeah, you got to talk to Mitchell Salzman about that.

[Blessing]

Oh, you know what? That's a good call. That's a good call. At number 14, we have Fable 2.

[Snow White Mike]

Called it Fable 2. No, Fable 3.

[Blessing]

At number 13, we got Splinter Cell. Chaos Theory. What I say, dude, I try to tell you, man, these Xbox people, they love Splinter Cell. Chaos Theory, man.

[Snow White Mike]

Splinter Cell cleaned up. Yeah. Two and what, the top 20. Top 30 here.

[Blessing]

Good for them.

[Snow White Mike]

God damn.

[Blessing]

Okay, and number 12, we got the Elder Scrolls four. Oblivion. There you go.

[Snow White Mike]

Yes.

[Blessing]

Had to be on there.

[Snow White Mike]

I mean, might have made the top 10, to be honest with you.

[Blessing]

Surprise is not in the top 10.

[Barrett]

I think it'll be because Kotor is in the top 10.

[Blessing]

Oh, I like that, Barrett. I like that.

[Snow White Mike]

Okay, let's I'm excited. Get me to 11.

[Blessing]

And number 11. Call of Duty 4. Modern Warfare. That's the stop that could have been top five.

[Snow White Mike]

Boom. Yeah.

[Blessing]

All right, let's sit for a second. Top ten. What's in there?

[Snow White Mike]

Halo one through three.

[Blessing]

Huh.

[Snow White Mike]

Has been missing a. Gears. Gears three is missing. Okay.

[Blessing]

That's four of them there.

[Snow White Mike]

Yep.

[Blessing]

You think? Knights of the Old Republic.

[Snow White Mike]

I'm gonna clear my mind. Knights of the Old Republic. I'm put over here. Knights of the Old Republic. Okay, we just said oblivion right there, right? Okay. Forza Horizon 5.

[Blessing]

Wow.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah, you're right.

[Blessing]

We haven't seen a lot of fortresses. Forza Horizons, specifically.

[Snow White Mike]

Did you see a Forza Horizon 4?

[Blessing]

No, I think it's 5.

[Snow White Mike]

We're gonna put 2 and 5 on the list, but not give any love to 4.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Because I think you put 2 on there for maybe, like, the Influence, like putting the franchise on the map, and then five for like, the latest and best.

[Snow White Mike]

But I'll put Pagel over there. No offense to Bagel. I love you, Pago, and I agree. You're on the list. We'll put a Bagel on the list.

[Blessing]

Listen, we only have so many slots left.

[Snow White Mike]

We'll put a Trials HD on the list.

[Blessing]

It's like how many driving games you want them to want them to put on the list? You know, we know what these games are. They're all the same game. Anyway.

[Snow White Mike]

Where's Killer Instinct?

[Blessing]

Not on the list. There's no way you're putting killer instinct

[Snow White Mike]

top 10 not on the list.

[Blessing]

Are you gonna put it above call of Duty 4, Modern Warfare? I don't think so.

[Snow White Mike]

It should have been top 25.

[Blessing]

It should. Listen, they had so many chances. They had to put Had a lot of chances. They had to find a space for. I'm trying to find something I want to dunk on. Actually, these are all good games. Geometry Wars. Actually. No, that belongs there.

[Snow White Mike]

We got one Crackdown.

[Blessing]

I'm still scrolling. They had to find space for Arkham Asylum.

[Snow White Mike]

Arkham Asylum had to be on the

[Blessing]

list at number 33. They had to put Arkham Asylum on there.

[Snow White Mike]

Okay, let's just make it easier, huh? How many third party games will be on this top ten?

[Blessing]

Three.

[Snow White Mike]

Three out of the seven. Three out of ten to make seven true Xbox.

[Blessing]

Yes.

[Snow White Mike]

First party.

[Blessing]

And I think it's the Halos you talked about. I think it's the Gears that's missing.

[Snow White Mike]

Forza 5. Two more.

[Blessing]

Because I think the third party. I am talking Elden Ring. I think GTA 5, ETA 5 is

[Snow White Mike]

going to be on this.

[Blessing]

Witcher 3.

[Snow White Mike]

Fortnite is probably going to be on this list. List.

[Blessing]

Yeah, Fortnite.

[Snow White Mike]

There's a good chance Fortnite is now on this list. Bear, run it.

[Blessing]

All right, to me, coming in at number 10, we got Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic. Okay. Yeah.

[Snow White Mike]

Okay. I like that. Like that.

[Blessing]

Is that one of the third part? No, that's exclusive.

[Snow White Mike]

It was exclusive, but it was a third party title. But yeah, it's exclusive. It's a Mass Effect situation.

[Blessing]

At number nine, we got Halo Combat Evolved. Right. There's your first Halo number one.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah, it should go one, two, three, here.

[Blessing]

Gotcha. And number eight, we got Forza Horizon 5.

[Snow White Mike]

Yes. Okay.

[Blessing]

And number seven, we got inside. Inside. Forgot. Inside. Oh, yeah.

[Snow White Mike]

Limbo. And inside.

[Blessing]

And inside. Was it exclusive when it came out? It was gonna shout out.

[Snow White Mike]

It was pretty good.

[Blessing]

It was exclusive.

[Snow White Mike]

Really good.

[Blessing]

It was exclusive for like, I want to say it was either six months or two weeks. I forget people really with this.

[Snow White Mike]

I don't know if I have it in my top 10 Xbox games.

[Barrett]

I just, I remember I'm brave. I think say that I remember brave. I think Ryan McCaffrey reviewed this when it came out. I think he gave it a 10 out of 10.

[Blessing]

He definitely gave it a 10 out of 10.

[Barrett]

It was his. Definitely his game of the year that year. I remember. Yeah, Yeah.

[Blessing]

I, I Inside is one of my favorite video games as well. I. This game is a perfect video game.

[Snow White Mike]

This is a top 20 video game of all time for you type situation.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Probably I'd have to look back at my top one.

[Snow White Mike]

I like this game. I stepped out of my box to play this. I enjoyed this game.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Snow White Mike]

I just don't know if it's like, I don't ride for like a top 10 video game.

[Barrett]

It was exclusive to the platform for two months.

[Blessing]

Two months? I said six months or two weeks. I was right there. But it was. But here's the thing, though, because I remember it vividly because we didn't know it was coming to other platforms. Like they released it for Xbox and we thought it was just gonna be on Xbox forever until two months later, like, it's on PlayStation. It's like, oh, yeah. All right, cool. Yeah, because I'll play this year too. All right, number six, we got BioShock. Yeah.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah, it's good.

[Blessing]

Yeah, it's good.

[Snow White Mike]

It's a good game. It's a top 10 Xbox all time game.

[Blessing]

I mean, some people will say, yeah, a Number six.

[Barrett]

Yeah, it was exclusive to the platform for a year.

[Blessing]

Yeah, it was exclusive. And it's BioShock.

[Snow White Mike]

You're getting away with this exclusivity for. You can't be getting away with that.

[Blessing]

But people love BioShock. You know how much people love BioShock?

[Snow White Mike]

We love BioShock. BioShock was really dope. BioShock 1 and then, of course, into 2, and then infinite. We rode with that. We had a lot of fun with those games. It was a great time on the Xbox. I remember it vividly. Played it recently. I like this game. I just, I'm having trouble with the timed exclusivity, I guess.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Snow White Mike]

The third party timed exclusivity, I think, is like the cheat code to slide some of these games in.

[Blessing]

I feel you, but I, I, I

[Barrett]

see where you're coming from, but I think with that comes a association with the brand, with the title, with the platform. Right.

[Snow White Mike]

Because of the time spent on it.

[Barrett]

Yeah. And that's why, like, we saw Rise of the Tomb Raider on here earlier. Like, that was a game of the year contender that year, and that was only on Xbox for that year. Right. So.

[Blessing]

So yeah, you kind of have to put yourself in the era, I think.

[Snow White Mike]

Right.

[Blessing]

Like, think back to 2007 or 8 when this came out, and kind of think about, like, oh, yeah, this was an Xbox game.

[Snow White Mike]

I like that.

[Blessing]

All right, top five. At number five, we got Halo 2, the goat. Is three gonna be, like, the number one on this list?

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah. With Gears 3 being number two.

[Blessing]

All right.

[Snow White Mike]

That's how this is tracking. Unless they do GTA and Baldur's game.

[Blessing]

No, they're not gonna put those at number one on on this list. At number four, you got Gears of War 3.

[Snow White Mike]

There it is. Okay.

[Blessing]

All right, so top three. Let's top three.

[Snow White Mike]

Let's really think about it.

[Blessing]

Yes. Number one. You said Halo 3.

[Snow White Mike]

Halo 3 will be number one.

[Blessing]

Number two, Gears 4 or no Gears. Which gears?

[Snow White Mike]

They're done with Gears.

[Blessing]

Oh, that was the Gears you're talking about.

[Snow White Mike]

That was Gears 3. I thought they've already done the whole trilogy now.

[Blessing]

Oh, okay.

[Snow White Mike]

There will be no more Gears on

[Blessing]

this, so we're done with the gear. So number one is gonna be Halo 2 and 3. I'm gonna say GTA 5 is gonna be one of them. GTA 5 and Witcher.

[Snow White Mike]

Witcher.

[Blessing]

Are there any iconic Xbox games are truly missing here? No, we got them all.

[Snow White Mike]

I think we got the ones that would be a top three. Yeah. Unless I blinks.

[Blessing]

The Time Sweeper. You didn't see that? Almost.

[Snow White Mike]

Give me one second. Eat up. A little more time. Give me one second.

[Blessing]

He's looking stuff up.

[Snow White Mike]

I got something.

[Blessing]

Because yeah, if I'm thinking through third party games and again, it's such a weird thing because. Yeah, I said witcher. I said GTA 5. If I'm just throwing things out, you know, forgetting even association or anything. Metal gear solid 5. I'll throw. I'll throw in the conversation. Baldur's gate 3. I'll throw in the conversation. I don't think they make it because they're too third party and best played, I think in other places. Baldur's Gate. I'd rather play on PC.

[Barrett]

Yeah, Baldur's Gate would be a weird one, especially with, remember all that drama

[Blessing]

with the series S. Oh, you're absolutely right.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

No, yeah, that'd be such a weird one to have on this list.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Because Baldur's Gate came last to Xbox. Yeah.

[Barrett]

I think you've got it. I think it's Halo 3. GTA 5 at number two. Which are three at number three.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Snow White Mike]

The community came in. Shout out to Suburbanite Slob. Big Alex out there, he did something fun, doing some good as well. Let me find it really quick. It was on our Reddit. Had a bunch of people write in to support Minnesota as well, which was a nice thing.

[Blessing]

Oh, that's nice. What? They did their own top 100 thing.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah, here it is. Suburbanite Slump. As we wait with bated breath for IGN to release the 25 to 21 portion of the Xbox games, I decided to make my own and wager with myself. I will make a top 10 list and give money to charity for every spot I get wrong. Currently I'm raising money for Mirac, an organization here in Minnesota that is on the front lines fighting to help those affected by ice. So shout out to suburbanite Slob and the family out there for doing that. We had a bunch of write ins here. He has. Here's my list. Halo 3, Forza 5, Mass Effect, Halo 2, Halo Gears, Knights of the Old Republic, MW2, inside Arkham City. The only one missing out of that is Arkham City that we haven't listed already.

[Blessing]

I mean, I think there's a possibility top three. It'd be weird, but it'd be. I. I could see it from that point forward.

[Barrett]

Everyone else, Arkham Guy. I feel like for a top three, that's weird.

[Blessing]

Yeah. But like, I mean they had Arkham Asylum pretty high up on the list. I Feel like city.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Gets.

[Barrett]

I just remember, at least when I was at ign, I feel like there were more Asylum fans than there were City fans. I feel like the City fans, me and maybe Brendan Graber. I forget where he landed on all that. We were a dying breed already at that point, so I don't know.

[Blessing]

All right, so what are we locking in on? Are we saying Halo number one, GTA 5, and then Witcher?

[Snow White Mike]

I don't like Witcher, but I like that. Yeah. Yeah.

[Barrett]

Why don't you like Witcher?

[Snow White Mike]

Because I think they'll do something weird. Like Fortnite. This is what my mind goes to. Or like a Baldur's Gate, I guess. I just don't put Witcher top three.

[Barrett]

People love the Witcher.

[Blessing]

People love the witcher.

[Snow White Mike]

Witcher top 10. What's your top 20? Which is top 25?

[Blessing]

You're already so upset when you see his number three coming in at number three. We got Grand Theft Auto 5.

[Snow White Mike]

Wow. They would say the witch is better than Grand Theft Auto 5.

[Blessing]

Yes. Okay.

[Snow White Mike]

See what happens here.

[Blessing]

Coming in at number two, we got Mass Effect 2. We didn't even think about Mass Effect, too. They had Mass Effect. Why didn't we even think about Mass Effect 2?

[Snow White Mike]

Someone wrote in with Mass Effect 2, and I. I was like, that's so. Just don't believe it.

[Blessing]

But, yeah, I was thinking about the third party of the fact. But, like, you know, we're talking about third party anyways. Mass Effect 2 makes sense. So you're putting Mass Effect 1 on the list, which means that number one

[Snow White Mike]

man, Mass Effect 2 is special.

[Blessing]

It's going to be Halo 3. All right. We did it.

[Snow White Mike]

I hate it.

[Blessing]

You hate it?

[Snow White Mike]

I hate it.

[Blessing]

You hate it.

[Snow White Mike]

Why do you hate it?

[Blessing]

You hate it.

[Barrett]

Mass Effect 2 was exclusive for a year.

[Snow White Mike]

I love that. I like Mass Effect 2 a lot. I hate the list.

[Blessing]

He's saying the overall.

[Snow White Mike]

I hate the goddamn list.

[Blessing]

Too many.

[Snow White Mike]

What?

[Blessing]

Too many third parties.

[Snow White Mike]

Too many third parties.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Snow White Mike]

Too many third parties. I appreciate that.

[Blessing]

We.

[Snow White Mike]

We leaned on the timed exclusive. I'm into that. Halo 3.

[Blessing]

We did it.

[Snow White Mike]

Halo 3 is a goat. Did you watch this?

[Blessing]

Did you see Splinter Cell? Yeah.

[Snow White Mike]

It was like.

[Blessing]

It was Chaos Theory. What was the other one? Pandora Tomorrow.

[Snow White Mike]

No, the first one.

[Blessing]

No, that's.

[Snow White Mike]

Oh, I get it. Yeah.

[Blessing]

Like, it's. You know, I mean, Conviction also had

[Barrett]

a really big moment.

[Blessing]

It was a huge deal. I don't know if you're gonna put conviction.

[Snow White Mike]

All right.

[Blessing]

It was a big one. I like Conviction.

[Snow White Mike]

It was A bit more Skyrim.

[Blessing]

I didn't watch the episode. I. I don't want to keep on asking you questions.

[Snow White Mike]

I'm sorry. Yeah. Shout out three my go.

[Blessing]

Sky was number 23.

[Snow White Mike]

I love when Roger comes on. We should add Roger on this.

[Blessing]

Yeah, that's all right.

[Snow White Mike]

Is the list Shit is I.

[Blessing]

It's tough for me.

[Snow White Mike]

Is the list.

[Blessing]

I think these lists are always tough to make.

[Snow White Mike]

Yes.

[Blessing]

Because they're very tough when you're asking.

[Snow White Mike]

You know what?

[Blessing]

I'll say it shit. The reason why. Because I'm not too. I'm never too mad with the third party stuff because I feel like for me, if you're going to say top Xbox 360 games, then like, let's just say what the 360 games are. Right. Why are we dividing this stuff up? Those games exist. Whatever. But when you say top Xbox games, just period. Just top Xbox games. I feel like there's now way more room for. All right, let's define an Xbox game. There has to be some like, Xbox ness to it, which they do. But I don't feel like there's a good consistent way to be like, okay, but we have this for this reason. We have this for this reason. And it never felt concrete enough. It always felt like you had to make up reason.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Why this has Xbox.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah. The kind of smile nod with it. It's right.

[Blessing]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But like, I do. I like a lot. I like so many of the inclusions. Like, I see how we land in so many of the places that we land on. Oh, man. Actually, do I think it's shit because they got Burnout 3 in Outer Worlds.

[Snow White Mike]

Some good games on this.

[Blessing]

They got some good games on here.

[Snow White Mike]

Really great representation from Xbox Live Arcade to Time exclusives to like, you're saying third party games that made an impact on your console experience.

[Blessing]

Like Burnout 3. What does Burnout 3 have to do with the Xbox?

[Snow White Mike]

Nothing.

[Blessing]

And maybe I wasn't there. No, it had nothing to do because I play that.

[Snow White Mike]

It's just a good game.

[Blessing]

It's a fantastic.

[Snow White Mike]

They don't have Killer Instinct on this list.

[Blessing]

Yeah, it's kind of crazy. That's kind of crazy. I'm like. I'm like control effing to see if I can find Killer Instinct. And no, it's not there. Yeah. That's kind of wild.

[Snow White Mike]

I would just be more interested with IGN when they do this to say, no, we're just doing only exclusives to maybe a timed exclusive.

[Blessing]

It had to be Time exclusive for at least A year?

[Snow White Mike]

Yes. No third party stuff. Like let show me that list. And like. Yeah, I think the comments section, even I. You saw, right? As I struggle for a top 10, it might be sparse. Maybe it only comes out to 45. You know what I mean? Like, maybe it's a weak list, but like, show me that list as opposed to like sliding in a bioshock out of nowhere or Mass Effect, right? Of like, like show me just. You mean.

[Blessing]

I feel like big shock. Makes sense though. That's a whole year.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah, I mean, that's a long.

[Blessing]

But it makes more sense than I think. Here's the thing, right? Because I understand inside.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Because inside felt like an Xbox game. But that was only how many months? Two months. I feel like at that point it's third party. At that point it's like nobody remembers that this was an Xbox game.

[Snow White Mike]

Nobody remembers that?

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Snow White Mike]

Nobody holds and cherishes that. No, they just cherish that it's a great game.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Snow White Mike]

Have they done a top? They did the top PlayStation one, right?

[Blessing]

Yeah, I think they did top PlayStation. I think they also did top Nintendo. Because me and Tim, we should probably

[Snow White Mike]

compare all these lists and see the similarities.

[Blessing]

Oh, like overlap. Like, like.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah, like PlayStation. Did they like knock it out the park with a bunch of PlayStation only games or was there. I mean, a lot of like, remember

[Blessing]

me and you reacted, but it felt

[Snow White Mike]

like it was more the top 10.

[Blessing]

Let's see. Yeah, like I'm looking through. They had. I mean, man, this time they had red Dead Redemption 2 at number seven for this PlayStation list they had as well. They had Baldur's Gate 3 at number 10. They had Resident Evil 2, which I think might have been. I forget if that was exclusive or not. I don't think that was.

[Snow White Mike]

Excuse me. I don't think so.

[Barrett]

OG Resident Evil 2.

[Blessing]

No, the new Resident Evil 2 remake. That was a review out of the PlayStation thing. They have Witcher 3 on here, San Andreas, which makes sense actually, because that came first at PlayStation.

[Snow White Mike]

Yes. I mean, the GTAs. Those OG GTAs are on that. Yeah. Yeah. Damn.

[Blessing]

They have Final Fantasy 10, number 31. Look at that.

[Snow White Mike]

Game Rocked Rock.

[Blessing]

They have Guitar Hero 3 on here as well.

[Snow White Mike]

No Guitar Hero.

[Blessing]

Oh yeah.

[Snow White Mike]

Odd.

[Blessing]

I mean, but isn't that third party though?

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah, but I think they had a special guitar. They had the sick all white electric guitar.

[Blessing]

Is that. Is that the different speaker? BioShock was exclusive for one year and you over here like, oh, but guitario. An exclusive guitar.

[Snow White Mike]

Plastic, bro. It was. Look it up. It Was pretty sick. I'm pretty confident on that one.

[Blessing]

I mean, yeah, I'm looking through. They have Hitman, World of Assassination. It's so weird because it's funny because there's actually not. Not as much overlap as I would have thought.

[Snow White Mike]

It was crazier because they got Baldur's Gate 3 in there.

[Blessing]

Yeah, it's almost like they have Arkham City on here. It's almost as if they were like, all right, now let's get the third party games that weren't on the PlayStation list to get them for the Xbox list.

[Snow White Mike]

Okay.

[Barrett]

I wonder how different the panelists are as well.

[Snow White Mike]

Panelists? Yeah, remember, we had a different team as well working with IGN loop on here.

[Blessing]

Well, I guess that was PlayStation exclusive.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah, that was exclusive. That was timed.

[Blessing]

Is that on Xbox yet? Like, did they ever look at they put on there? All right.

[Snow White Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Okay, I'm gonna put. I'm gonna say I'm so, like, in the middle on this.

[Snow White Mike]

B2. Let's give it a grade. An F through A. Where would you put your A?

[Blessing]

C? C minus? Maybe I'll give it a solid C. A solid C. Solid C. I'm a little high.

[Snow White Mike]

I think I'm like a C plus, C plus. I think it was C plus to be minus. I'm like, hey, you did a really good job. You nail you. You identified some really great games. You made a good, strong Xbox list. There's just some that I just don't agree with that I'm like, we couldn't find more Xbox titles. I feel like there's just too many Xbox, like, true Xbox exclusive titles left off this list that should have been on here.

[Blessing]

You know what? I'm scrolling through it. I'm bumping this up to a B because they put Burnout 3 in the top 25.

[Snow White Mike]

You need to let us know. So what do you grade this top 100 list? Is it a shit list or is it legit? Is it a legit list?

[Blessing]

Is it shit or is it the shit?

[Snow White Mike]

I love that.

[Blessing]

Let us know in the comments below. Until next time, of course. I've been blessing. That's been Snow White Mike. Have fun hanging out in our next show that we have coming up right after this. And until next time, it's been our pleasure to serve you.