What Are The Top 100 Xbox Games?! - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

Kinda Funny Gamescast: "What Are The Top 100 Xbox Games?!"

Date: January 20, 2026
Hosts: Blessing Adeoye Jr. ("Blessing"), SnowBikeMike ("Mike")
Episode Focus:
Delving into IGN's ongoing "Top 100 Xbox Games" list (100–76 released), with in-depth discussion, nostalgia, predictions, chat engagement, and debate over what defines the "Xbox-ness" of a game.

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Episode Overview

This Gamescast pivots from its planned Dark Souls review to celebrate Xbox's legacy in anticipation of the Developer_Direct event. IGN's new "Top 100 Xbox Games" provides the foundation for a spirited breakdown by Blessing and Mike, as they reminisce, critique, and debate what should make the cut, what defines an "Xbox game," and their own personal histories with the brand.

“We're talking about the green team…Team Green. Team Green. I like that.”
— Blessing & Mike [03:17]

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

The Xbox Identity and Nostalgia

• Hosts debate what makes an "Xbox game":
  • Is it exclusivity? Platform association? First-party status?

    “Are we talking about OG Xbox? ... Because Mass Effect will probably be on this.”
    — Mike [04:44]

  • Mike brings up iconic Xbox tropes: Mad Catz controllers, classic multiplayer games among friends, and the role of Xbox Live.
• Personal histories:
  • Blessing recalls grinding NBA Street Vol. 2 with Mad Catz controllers at church and at a neighbor's.
  • Mike reminisces about OG Xbox accessories and legendary couch sessions.

Early Predictions & Franchise Debates

• Both hosts rattle off expected series/franchises:
  • Halo, Gears, Forza, Fable, Minecraft, Mass Effect, KOTOR.
• Discussion on Xbox Arcade and “Third-Party” vs. “Exclusive”:
  • Debates around games that started as exclusives but moved to other platforms later (e.g., Mass Effect, KOTOR).
• Kinect Games’ Place:
  • How many Kinect games, if any, should/will appear in the top 100?

    “Do you think that a Kinect game will be on this list? What is the best game ever made? I don't know.”
    — Mike [12:30]

  • Both are skeptical—maybe Dance Central, but general sentiment is that Kinect is under-represented for a reason. They set an over/under of 1.5 Kinect games.
• Franchises: Which entries should make the list?
  • How many Halos? Gears? Forzas?
  • Should “Master Chief Collection” or “Rare Replay” count for all games within?

Generational Weight

• Which Xbox era dominates the Top 100?

  “You would go 360. But…Xbox One generation will start to be the turn of more third party games.”
  — Mike [15:20]

  • Consensus: Xbox 360 era was “the sweet spot,” with Xbox One bringing more multiplatform overlap.

Live Viewer Engagement

• Chat and Super Chat contributions bring up favorites like:
  • Condemned: Criminal Origins (“…one of the most underrated and underappreciated games of all Time.” [20:56])
  • 1 vs. 100, NCAA games, Project Gotham Racing, Braid, Limbo, Doritos Crash Course, Viva Piñata, Fight Night, Sunset Overdrive, and more.
• Hosts actively debate, sometimes gently roast, these suggestions.

What Makes the List (and Why)?

• Sharp distinction drawn between personal nostalgia and wider public impact.
• The role of “Xbox-ness”—not just platform but that particular era’s “vibe” and innovation (Xbox Live, early multiplayer, avatars, unique hardware).
• “Most are exclusives. And all of them are indelibly tied to the legacy…” ([37:15])
  Hosts vow to hold IGN/Outside Xbox to that standard.

Reaction to the 100–76 Reveals (Highlights Below)

• Celebration, nostalgia, and occasional bewilderment at placements, e.g.:

  “Castle Crashers…That should probably be higher.”
  — Blessing [49:19]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On “Xbox-ness”:
  “What is an Xbox? Microsoft has spent 25 years trying to answer the question…but for fans, the answer is easy…”
  — Blessing, reading IGN [36:35]

• On the Friends-Console Dynamic:
  “That's the thing I miss about...not having the access to buy multiple consoles…you had what you had…I'd go to Addison's house.”
  — Blessing [09:48]

• On Generational Preference:
  “If I could have the 360 for the first 80% and then switch over to the PlayStation 3 for the last 20…”
  — Blessing [25:47]

• On Castle Crashers’ Placement at 90:
  “That is probably a top 50, if not a top 30 all time classic Xbox game…”
  — Mike [49:02]

• On Modern vs. Classic:
  “Gears 5 is a mixed bag…they tried to do...larger open areas…but it's not the same as the OGs…”
  — Mike [66:33]

• On Franchise Fatigue:
  “Are we putting...is every Halo on this list?”
  “No. 4, 5—not on this list. ODST, probably not.”
  — Blessing & Mike [18:54–19:08]

• Crowd Participation:
  “The chat has been going crazy...I gotta give it up to the livestream audience.”
  — Mike [32:34]

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Timestamps of Important Segments

| Time | Segment | |---------|----------------------------------------------| | 02:10 | Why they pivoted from Dark Souls; focus of episode | | 04:01 | “Topic of the Show” – defining “Xbox-ness,” setting ground rules | | 06:42 | Controller nostalgia: Mad Catz, couch multiplayer | | 13:26 | Kinect games: Should any make the list? | | 15:00 | How much do multiplatform games count? | | 19:00 | Halo & Gears: Which entries deserve a spot? | | 20:01 | Chat-driven predictions and questions | | 25:46 | PS3 vs. Xbox 360 generation reminiscing | | 31:34 | Start of IGN/Outside Xbox official Top 100 reading & analysis | | 37:15 | Full explanation of IGN’s criteria (“Xbox-ness,” exclusivity, etc.) | | 37:52 | Reaction to “1 vs. 100” and “Conker: Live & Reloaded” (100 & 99) | | 49:02 | Castle Crashers discussion (should be much higher) | | 61:00 | Titanfall 1: “J. Cole/Friday Night Lights” analogy | | 65:28 | Gears 5 in the Top 100, Gears series representation | | 69:53 | Flight Simulator and Forza Horizon chat | | 70:09 | Mike’s Top 10 predictions | | 71:34 | Splinter Cell Chaos Theory love; outro |

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The Official IGN/Outside Xbox List: 100–76 (With Notable Reaction)

• 100. 1 vs. 100
  Hosts approve: “Fun slot, perfect for engagement” [37:55]
• 99. Conker: Live & Reloaded
• 98. Top Spin
• 97. Binary Domain
• 96. Steel Battalion
• 95. Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath
• 94. Fusion Frenzy
  Hosts: “Fusion Frenzy will always be on the Xbox top 100 list. 94, OK, I would have gone a little lower or higher...” [45:34]
• 93. Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
• 92. Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts
  Hosts: “I would have expected this to miss the list…” [48:23]
• 91. Condemned: Criminal Origins
• 90. Castle Crashers
  Hosts: “Should be higher!” [49:19]
• 89. MechAssault
• 88. Peter Jackson’s King Kong
• 87. Full Spectrum Warrior
• 86. Dead or Alive 3
• 85. Perfect Dark Zero
  Hosts: “Should not be above Castle Crashers…” [54:23]
• 84. Panzer Dragoon Orta
• 83. Rayman Legends
  Hosts: “I don’t think of Rayman with Xbox, but…” [55:37]
• 82. Rainbow Six: Vegas
• 81. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
• 80. Titanfall
  Hosts: “Banger, all time great…” [58:43]
• 79. The Outer Worlds 2
• 78. Keeper
  Hosts (surprised): “I love Keeper. That’s kind of crazy.” [63:44]
• 77. Jade Empire
• 76. Gears 5
  Mike: “Gears 5 is a mixed bag of emotions for me…” [65:33]

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Predictions & Endcaps

Mike’s (Rough) Top 10 Predictions [70:09]

• Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 3
• Gears 1
• KOTOR
• Mass Effect 1
• Oblivion
• Forza Horizon
• Fable
• Sunset Overdrive (debated placement)
• Open spot (too many strong contenders!)

Other Contenders & Points of Debate

• Forza’s multiple entries and franchise “overlap”
• Which “Bethesda” RPGs make it (Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 3/NV)
• Is Sunset Overdrive overrated or rightfully top 25?
• Is there any chance for Kinect games, or will third-party multiplats overtake legacy picks?

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Engaging Closing

The episode closes with teasing a follow-up on the final list, and the continued conversation in the Kindafunny community. The nostalgia, fandom, and debate are infectious, leaving listeners eager to see which Xbox greats will top the list as the countdown continues.

“That’s gonna bring us to the end of the show. …I’m going to convene with Mike and Greg Miller to figure out how we finish the second part of this once all of IGN’s list is out. Because, man, let me tell you, this is some content right here.”
— Blessing [71:54]

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TL;DR – Why Listen to This Episode?

• Perfect balance of nostalgia and critique—a celebration of what makes Xbox and its games special.
• Entertaining, insightful debates on old-school vs. modern, exclusives vs. multiplats, and what “counts” as truly representative of Team Green.
• Lots of chat interactions and crowd-sourced predictions for extra community flavor.
• If you have any Xbox nostalgia, this episode is a warm, funny, sometimes spicy walk down memory lane—as well as a great primer for upcoming list reveals.

Transcript

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[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yo, what's up? Welcome to the kind of funny gamescast for Tuesday, January 20, 2026. I want your host, Blessing Adioye Jr. Joining me is the master of Hype Snow Mike. Mike, my main man.

[Mike]

Bless. Thank you for bringing me on today. This is special games cast.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

This is a really fun one.

[Mike]

It's a little flip flop because we're going to do something different. We're not on that one already.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, we're going to do the Dark Souls review. And listen, get mad at me. I'm the one that came in and changed this. I was excited to talk about Dark Souls. Honestly, it's been like a week and a half since I played Dark Souls. So I've already kind of like.

[Mike]

See, now you get it. Yeah, I tell Andy this all the time. It's like you can.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I'm not fresh off it anymore.

[Mike]

A day or two days after, a week later. I've already told the stories. I've already forgotten the story.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, exactly. But the bigger Thing here, here is that IGN has started to release their top 100 Xbox games. They put up the first part of it, which is their 100 through 75 games listed. And me and you, I mean me, here's the thing, me and Tim are the list bros. Me and you though,

[Mike]

we've had a couple of games, we've

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

had a couple of classics, we've had

[Mike]

a couple of good lands.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Me and you did the top 100 PlayStation games. And that for me that's a bonafide. For me that's a bonafide classic.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And so I thought it would be a really good pivot for us to talk about this, especially because we are leading into the Xbox. But developer Underscore direct where we're going to learn all about this year of Xbox from the team at Xbox.

[Mike]

Perfect layup from you.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yes.

[Mike]

I saw the Slack channel. I was like blessing stinking ahead right now.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. And so hey, we got Xbox vibes this week. You know this, this week we're talking about the green team. Is that what you call it? The green team. Is that what you.

[Mike]

Team Green.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Team Green.

[Mike]

Team Green. Team Green. I like that. Team Green.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And so we're going to get all into it. We're going to predict what else is going to be on the list and we're going to, we're going to talk about what's in their top 100 through 75. But before we get in there, remember if you're watching live, you can be a part of the show by super chatting or over on YouTube.com kind of funny games. Super chat in with what should be on the list and your arguments for maybe even the top 10. We don't have the top 10. But write in with your arguments what's in there, what should be above the other thing. What are some, what are some low key hits that should be on the list? Let me know in the super chats. Remember, we couldn't do this without the support of our producers over on patreon.com kindafunny so thank you to Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney the Psalm twining for for now, let's begin with topic of the show.

[Mike]

Tod's. Todts. Todts. TodTS. Todts. Todts. Todts. Todts Todd.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Topic of the show is a shit list. That's where I go online. I find a top 10 list, I bring it back to Mike and we judge it for your amusement. Like I said, we're reacting to IGN's top 100 games. Except they only have the first part of it. And so we're gonna do a lot of discussion and predicting around what's gonna be on that list this episode. Let's start off, Mike, when I say top 100 Xbox games, the first games that come to mind for you.

[Mike]

Halo, Gears, Forza, Fable, Mm, Minecraft. See, now we start to play a game here. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

What's an Xbox?

[Mike]

Are we talking about OG Xbox? We talking about Xbox? The generations. Right. Because Mass Effect will probably be on this.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Which one?

[Mike]

Mass Effect 1 was an OG exclusive for TIME. For a time period. Yeah. So, like, a lot of Xbox gamers hold that kind of near and dear to their heart. So, like, will that be on?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Did one even. Did Mass Effect 1 ever come out on PlayStation? Aside from legendary Edition?

[Mike]

Let me know, chat.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I don't. Was that A P on PS3? I don't remember if that. I remember booting up Mass Effect 2 on PS3.

[Mike]

Will there be Xbox 360 arcade games? Right.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, there's got to be. People are saying, yes, it did come to PS3.

[Mike]

Kotor. Yep. Code tour is a great pull from the chat right there. So there's like a fun line that my mind goes to. It's like I started with OG Xbox.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I was like, all right, let's get down to the original box. Let's talk about that, Mike. And then my mind started to wander, like, well, now we're going to go down the list.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Go down. Here's what I want you to do. Let it all out. Give me all the bless. I brought some Machine Gun games at me.

[Mike]

Right. I brought some props for you.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Wow. Okay.

[Mike]

I brought some plop props because I thought it'd be fun. I sent two things to Assets for Kevin because when I think of my OG Xbox, there's some games that I hold near and dear to my heart. And there's some moments similar to you with your PlayStation or Nintendo. Everyone listening out there. And I actually want to start off with two controllers that I sent to Kevin in Assets. Now, many of you know, Mad Cats was that off brand that your mom or dad bought because they were cheaper than the actual, you know, official light or official controllers. And I hold these ones near and dear to my hearts because I had two. This mini green Duke that. That Kevin showed. The first one of this thing was my everything. It took the Duke controller and made it small and miniaturized and it felt good in my hands. It had like these rubberized grips on the side. A wicked see through jungle green like my N64. And it was just so sick looking dude.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

So my memories of the original Xbox. Of course, I never owned the original Xbox as a kid. However, my next door neighbor Freddy did. I was at Freddy's place all the time playing Xbox games. And my youth group at church had an original Xbox. In fact, I think they had a couple of original Xboxes. And Kevin, you can bring that controller back up that controller they had at my church. Because of course, they weren't gonna spend the money to buy an actual Xbox controller. No, they were buying that Mad Cats one. So when I tell you that green luminescent controller on the left, I am a fucking beast at NBA Street Volume 2 with that specific controller. You don't want to see me on NBA Street Volume 2 with that controller in my hand.

[Mike]

And then I bring up that see through orange one, because that was my first ever wireless controller with the Xbox. I don't know. I think they had wireless controllers at that point. Mom and dad definitely weren't buying the official Xbox wireless controllers. If they did, we were buying these madcap ones. I don't know if Xbox had wireless controllers. When I think back, I'm like, I remember a wireless remote that had that little plug in that was like a TV changer, but I don't remember an official Xbox One. I remember they had long. They had the ropes on them. They were small, they were mini. I don't remember the one, but I remember my Mad Cats one. I'll always remember the Mad Cats one. So I gave you those controllers just to bring you back to a time frame. And. And you brought up some great games. You brought up NBA Streets. And now when you say Mike, rattles him off at me. Guitar Hero. Guitar Hero will be. That's an Xbox game, man. Fantasy Star Online, okay, Was an Xbox game to me. Me and AJ played that a lot. Links. The OG Golf game. Oh, that's a special one right there. Project Gotham Racing. That's.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Can I throw a couple at you? I want some Jet Set Radio Future. That was one that me and Freddy played through, and I was obsessed with that game. I played that before I ever even got around to the original Jet Set game, but love that one. I don't know if that ends up on the top 100, but I love that game. Mech Assault. Can you tell me about. Tell me the tales of Mech Assault.

[Mike]

You know what? Bless. I never played Mecha Salt.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You never play.

[Mike]

Okay, I can probably. I get close. If we did a fun game.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Showdown.

[Mike]

Showdown. I could probably get close to drawing it, but I couldn't tell you about Mecha Salt. I don't think I played that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I want to say I. Mech Assault. I think I know because I was watching G4 as a kid and they brought up Mech Assault. And I was like. I was like, that looks like the coolest game of all time.

[Mike]

Y.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But I had a PlayStation, so I could never play my. I had a cousin that lived down the street that I think had Mech Assault. And I only played it once, and I didn't. Not even for that long. I probably played it for like five minutes one time and I was like, this is the fucking coolest shit ever.

[Mike]

I love that. Everybody has those games where, like, you played it for a little bit at somebody's house and you'll never forget it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Now Kevin brings up. People had this custom controller for Mech Assault. What was the other game? Steel Battalion. Was that. Was that an Xbox?

[Mike]

I believe that's a Steel Battalion controller. I don't know what Steel Battalion was on. I never played that either. That definitely was not my. My move there. You know, it's funny you bring that up. Sonic with the Chow Garden.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

That I played at Victor's house on the game.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

And I'll never forget that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

It was like my one and only Sonic experience. And I thought it was the fucking great.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's the best. When you go to a friend.

[Mike]

Never. Never played Sonic again.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's the. That's the thing that I miss about having friends. No, I miss about growing up and, like, not having the access to buy multiple consoles or whatever. Is that, like, you just had what you had. And so I had an N64 and then I had a PS2. And so it would be. I'll have to go to Addison's house. Because he had a PS2 before I had a PS2. So I was experiencing these games or whatever. Or he had a Super Nintendo when I had an N64. And so he's the reason why I, like, learn about Street Fighter, all these things. And yeah, Freddy, it's like, damn. All right. I played so many Xbox games only through Freddy.

[Mike]

Yeah. Right.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I would go over to his place. I think he had links. I think he had that one. The golf game, he had Blinks, the time sweeper. Blinks of times when he busted that out.

[Mike]

I don't think Blinks will be on this list.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Not a top 100.

[Mike]

I'm going to confidently say, I don't think Blinks is making this list here.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Now show me what. What games you have now.

[Mike]

I. I Did bring some props, of course. You know, I love to keep all my old games that I can, but I bought some new ones for me and Nick to play. Just some fun ones. This is 50 cent bulletproof and 50 cent blood in the sand. Now do I think this is a top 100 game? No.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

No.

[Mike]

But in my heart, is it a top 100 game? Yes.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Hell yeah.

[Mike]

Like I had to bring these because I do think maybe we'll get some fun love with that. Now we get into games that I think for sure will be on this list. We talk about NCAA Football and NCAA basketball. I have a good feeling that there will be an NCAA college football on this list.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I love that for you.

[Mike]

I. I don't think you can think about the Xbox360 and probably not think about NCAA Football 2014. This was the last entry in. This is where we did go the decade plus without being able to play a college football title. I just think that you think of back in the day an A NFL Fever with Peyton Manning on the front, a Madden with Mike Vick on the front, a college football with your favorite college athlete, probably Denard Robinson on that one. Like I just don't think you think of video game consoles and not put a sports title on there.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Right? Oh for sure.

[Mike]

Now like you and I might go NBA Street, NFL Street, FIFA Street. I might go SEGA Soccer Slam, which is an underrepresented great soccer game.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, NFL 2K5 2K. Isn't that. Was that an Xbox One?

[Mike]

I thought that was. Oh, you know what? Yeah, I think that was back with NFL Fever back then.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Cuz like I don't know if people have association with it.

[Mike]

My mind goes to Sega Dreamcast. When I think of the 2Ks.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh that.

[Mike]

I think Allen Iverson with that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's a good point.

[Mike]

Randy Moss I think was on the one you're thinking of. Yeah. Or maybe it was Terrell Owens, but yeah, that one. Now another fun one. I brought a Connect game. Do I think that NBA Baller beats with de' Aaron Williams on the front will be on this? No, but the question is the fun question bad here.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I see that.

[Mike]

Yeah. Do you think that a Connect game will be on this list? What is the best game ever made? I don't know.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's crazy that this is a Kinect game because this box art says like Xbox OG era.

[Mike]

Yes.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Like even like the like the type face they use to like list the soundtrack. It looks like NBA Street. You know, they got like the degraded font that gives it like kind of

[Mike]

the street style that is just dance or Dance Dance Revolution. With a basketball. No. So they sold this game with an actual basketball. And the idea would be if you look on the back, if you showed a trailer, it would be just dance. Like you play on your switch with the movements, but you would be doing it with the basketball. So you would do crossovers behind the backs and you would try to score while essentially dance.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I know Andy Cortez. Love that game. I know Andy Cortez. Probably that game. So okay, Connect, Connect. If there's one Connect game on the list, what is it? Is it. Is Dance Central or.

[Mike]

Yeah, probably a dance Central. You might get into like a Star wars game. The problem with me and my Connect is like, no Connect game was ever good. I can't think of one good Connect game where I'm like, that was the one everyone around me talked about. I can't. I couldn't pull a single Connect game out there. That's what I worry. Connect. I don't know.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, I mean Dance Central. Right.

[Mike]

Because I was using it for like Nike Fitness Pro.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Okay.

[Mike]

That was crazy. So like. Yeah, I don't have a good. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

People in chat. People in chat are throwing out games. Right. Fruit Ninja. You mentioned the Star Wars. The I'm Han Solo meme is what I remember. Oh, there was one that somebody had in there that already got lost. But like. Yeah, it doesn't seem like any of these Connect games are.

[Mike]

That's a fun.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Over.

[Mike]

Under. We'll go. We'll give it a little bit of a boost.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Uhhuh.

[Mike]

2.5 connect games on this. Under to make three total.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, I'm going to say under under. Yeah.

[Mike]

Okay. How about over, under 1.5? 2 or 1 or nothing.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I think 2.

[Mike]

You think 2 is on this at most.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But I'm gonna say 2.

[Mike]

I feel like Connect is like. I don't think we'll see a single Connect game on this. I have a good feeling we won't

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

see it connect depending on how much they reach into third party games. Yeah, I, yeah, I, I could see there being no third party, no Connect game on the list because at that point you're gonna run out of space. Because I do think that they'll end up doing like they won't do every type of third party game. But I think anything that has any association with Xbox is free game. And I just think there's so much we learned. 360 ERA. There's just so much we learned when

[Mike]

we did the PlayStation one.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Right.

[Mike]

It's like, you hold tight to those exclusives, those first parties. Yeah, but we know there's going to be a lot of third parties on this. There's going to be a lot of games that like you could have played anywhere on this list. We're like, all right, like I guess on that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Right. This is my question for you. What era of Xbox has the most games on this list? I got a clear answer.

[Mike]

You would go 360. You would go 360. But like, I'm just trying to like Xbox One. Xbox One generation will start to be the turn of more third party games that we'll see. Like a weird Metal Gear Solid will be on there. Like a Metal Gear Solid five, right?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Like that's the problem is you'll get into Xbox One and beyond and it will just be like, oh, these are games I played everywhere.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But I think that's the thing. I don't think a metal gear solid 5 would be on here. Right. I think that's too. That's not. I don't associate that with Xbox. That's just a. Yeah, but I said

[Mike]

about PlayStation, they were putting on games that I didn't associate with PlayStation. I think we'll see a lot of those.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Okay.

[Mike]

So like I, I do think, I think you see a metal gear solid 5 on this.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I think that'd be crazy because then it's like we're just putting every great.

[Mike]

That's fine.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

At that point. It's like, okay, put Elden ring on. That's my problem with, you know, everything on there.

[Mike]

Let's focus on the Xbox titles and go from there. And so then another one I brought up army of Two.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, okay.

[Mike]

Me and Nick just played through this. Army of Two was a pretty special game back on that 360 era. When you talk about like 360 bangers, army of Two was on there, right? A Max Payne is on there. A Dead to Rights is on there, right? Like these are all hits in my old school.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Dead Rising is on there.

[Mike]

Dead Rising.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

You have to have Rising one or two. Don't you dare put Dead Rising three.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But I feel like that's where we start to get exclusive with it, right? Dead Rising 3 was that first exclusive one for.

[Mike]

Yeah, but it had. It was Xbox One. It was a giant open world in LA. They added vehicles.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Sunset overdrive since.

[Mike]

Oh, 100%.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

That's like when you get into the Xbox One era. Like when I think Xbox One era, it'll be Sunset Overdrive, Titanfall 1 Titanfall 1 is a certified Xbox banger.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

See is that one where you just give it a Titanfall 2 though.

[Mike]

Well then, then we start saying it could be on anything.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I mean, if you're gonna put fucking, you know, the games that you're talking about.

[Mike]

I agree.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You gotta put the best Titanfall on there. It's a weird one because. Yeah, Titanfall was the exclusive Titanfall 2 1. Clearly the better one though. The campaign. One of the best first person shooter campaigns ever.

[Mike]

I wonder how they hold that because yeah, you hold it in such regards now when you look at it. But at the moment, right, everybody was caught up in the Call of Duty and Battlefield and forgot about Titanfall 2 at that time. Right. So it's like, okay, now they're going to look back and go, hey, it was a great time at this one. Back in the day. It's like I wouldn't have put Titanfall 2 on this list because it got overshadowed by the other two. Yeah, I would have gone number one for sure. Some people put Crackdown. Crackdown will be on this with how many.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Which one?

[Mike]

Crackdown one and two. I would put on this. If I was doing strictly Xbox games. Crackdown 1 and 2 would probably make.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I'm just going to say the name of games and you tell me yes or no.

[Mike]

Right.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Splinter Cell, Chaos Theory. Yes, of course.

[Mike]

It has to be.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Has to be Recore.

[Mike]

No, but great pull.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Thank you.

[Mike]

You know what, it's a.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Maybe it's not on the list.

[Mike]

It can't be.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

There's too many good games. I think there's too many good games.

[Mike]

Sometimes you get into the hundreds and you start getting into 80s, 80 to 100 and you start reaching for things. Bless. And that's when people start to. From the 80 to 100 is when you start to burn yourself out on all the great Xbox games. Yeah, you start to get a little bit of like the really great to good third party games and then you want to get back to the first party games because you've gotten too many third party games. And that's when you get weird and you're like, well, we got to go back. Like how about Rise, Son of Rome?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And people are like, see, I was

[Mike]

going to say idea. Great idea with Rage Ride, Son of Rome. So like Rise and Recore, there's a chance that they're on this should Rise, Son of Rome. Beyond this top 100 Xbox games. Absolutely not.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. Will it be probably Halo Infinite? Come on.

[Mike]

Yes.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I mean, are we, Are we putting. Is every Halo on this list?

[Mike]

No. 4, 5. Not on this list.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Okay.

[Mike]

ODST. Probably not. Halo. Reach. Yes. Reach. 1, 2, 3. Infinite. That's fine.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You think infinite?

[Mike]

Like top 100 games.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I mean, listen, Infinite is my Halo. So I'm with you. I'd be. I'd be fucking down. But I think there's so. Because I think once you get out of that, it's like Halo Wars.

[Mike]

Halo wars is in this.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Are you putting Master Chief collection on

[Mike]

Lord of the Rings? Battle for Middle Earth is in this.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I'm just saying, like, how many games can you put with the. With the word Halo in the title on the list?

[Mike]

I mean, that's. That's where people start to get crazy. That's.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

How many. Does every Gears make the list?

[Mike]

No.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

What Gears?

[Mike]

Gears, which is the one with braid in the front of it. Gears. It went 1, 2, 3. Gears. Judgment. Gears. Judgment isn't on that. They're not making it 4 and 5. We could have a discussion about. You'd like to just keep it tight with like Gears 1 through 3.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Okay.

[Mike]

I don't know if I'm going modern Gears.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Let me get into some super chats. I want to see what you guys are saying really quick.

[Mike]

Chad, this is your opportunity. In the comments down below, you can let us know some of the fun stuff that you think will be on this list. Tell us over under 1.5 connect games because it will be a perfect opportunity. When me and Bless finish this, I'll go through the comments and I'll add up what you all predicted and what you thought so you can play along with us.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Skyler Forceland 3315 says. Will you be reacting to each day? No, because our schedule is too full for that. I. I mean, we have to react to the finalist. I was looking at the schedule. It's a packed schedule, guys. It's a big week. I don't know how we're going to do.

[Mike]

How did we get this year packed so fast?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, it's crazy, like, but we got to find time. I think Mike had a good idea where if there's not a gamescast slot, maybe we do it as a stream, which I think is a great idea. But I'm going to say we will react to the finalists because I think we have to. We're not going to react to every day because we just. Yeah, no, that's not going to happen. Good question, though. James Peters 11, says condemned criminal Origins is one of the most underrated and underappreciated games of all Time. Do you know about that?

[Mike]

Damned is fucked up. Yeah. Condemned. I could see making the list and I would give it the nod. Condemned is probably not on my top 100 just because it wasn't my kind of game. But like it's. If it's on the list, I go, yep, that's that. That makes sense.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Two more games I'll throw at you. Viva Pinata.

[Mike]

Of course, of course.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

1 versus 100.

[Mike]

I mean, yes, in the back half. Maybe even the final 25.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Okay. And that I think we see it in this list today.

[Mike]

Yeah. I can make so many more arguments for other games that, like, we're going to get into some weird ones where it's like, these are like great Xbox Arcade games. Those going to be on it. The good Xbox Arcade games. It's like you're like, maybe. You know what I mean?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Maybe. Project Gotham racing.

[Mike]

Yes.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Okay.

[Mike]

100%. You'll see a Project Gotham Racing.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Do we see Forza Horizons? How many Forza Horizons do we see? Do we just see the whole series? Two through five?

[Mike]

Like, no, three. I bet you get four and five max.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Well, you gotta put three on there.

[Mike]

You think so?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Dude, Australia.

[Mike]

I guess I'm just trying to limit myself on how many, like you said, franchise tags I'm putting on.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Because then it's like once you get out of that, it's like, okay, well, Force Motorsport has to be on there as well. So how many of those are you putting on the thing Motorsports on there? Crimson. Crimson Skies. Yeah, you can't make room for every game.

[Mike]

You can't make this list. You have to eventually say, no.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I think any of the games that we're talking about where it's like, oh, it's okay. Yeah, I think, no, it's not gonna make the making.

[Mike]

Yeah, okay.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I think, I think there are enough good games.

[Mike]

Here's the deal. Crimson sky came out at the OG Xbox. It was an OG banger. It's a classic that has stood the test of time in the lineage of Xbox. It'll be on the list. There are games like that Braid has to be on. I mean, yes, that's a problem.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's an Xbox joint, right? Like Braid is an Xbox.

[Mike]

There are now. That's the Xbox Arcade games. Like, yeah, they're going to be a lot of those.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Are we doing that with limbo as well? This limbo is limbo in that conversation.

[Mike]

Hale of two brothers.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, Brothers tale two sons. Yeah.

[Mike]

What's the other one? Geometry Wars. That was a big one. There's gonna Be a lot that weird.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Like PlayStation. If I. Here's my thing. If it came to Xbox first, then boom. Yes, it's got to be in strong consideration. But if it came to both at the same time.

[Mike]

I love this list. I think it's this with you.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's a good time. It's a good time.

[Mike]

Yeah. I mean, Guitar Hero, Rock Band. Guitar Hero has to be on this list. Yeah, Guitar Hero has to be on this list. I'm trying to think of like some other titles like that or just.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I mean, there's so many games we haven't talked about. We haven't talked about like Morrowind, Oblivion.

[Mike]

Like, I mean, those are guaranteed.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Some more super chats for you. Yelling says. Do we know if they're prioritizing exclusives when we get into the list? We'll see. We'll read that first paragraph. See what they talk about. Christoph or Christopher is saying over. Over on the 1.5 Connect games. Wow.

[Mike]

I'm gonna take two or more. I like that. We got a Doritos crash course. Obviously that's 100 is on that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

No, it's not. Doritos crash course.

[Mike]

Fantastic game. Has to make the list.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Kevin, if we can get footage. I need to see Doritos. Have you crash course. I've never seen greatest.

[Mike]

The greatest blast. Really so much fun, bro. It was fall guys before fall guys.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Okay.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Okay. Was that 360?

[Mike]

360. Xbox Live Arcade. Took your avatar, put it in the game. All time. Trials of obstacle courses. Very modeled after American Ninja Warrior when that was kind of hitting its peak. They modeled it after a lot of those. And like, yeah, this was it. You would just literally do this and then you just run.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

This is what I'll say. Here's the thing. I would never. I would never like, take back the fact that I had like, my.

[Mike]

That era.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I was PS3, right? PS3 was the console I had. I also had a Wii, I guess I was. I was using that Wii, let me tell you. But if I can go back and replace my PS3 with the 360, like, if a genie came to me and they're like, hey, you have the option switch out. You know you're gonna have the 360. I might do it. Because there's something about the 360 library, the catalog, that just feels a bit more like, interesting.

[Mike]

It's that if you could, in the

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

multiplayer aspect to it too, you would

[Mike]

want the 360 from launch to like the like 75 to 80%.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I like that. Then you switch, and then you switch the PS3.

[Mike]

Like, that's kind of how my life went. It's like I had the 360 from launch, and then somewhere, my Tahoe early years, I remember I got the PS3 for the Last of Us. For the Resistance.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

For three, maybe.

[Mike]

No. Yeah. Uncharted 3. But what's the other shooter game? Kill Zone.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Kill Zone.

[Mike]

For the Kill Zone. Try like. So I was lucky to, like, get those PlayStation games. And then by that point it's like, oh, yeah, I'm getting a PS4 with this Xbox One. Like, I'm moving on to that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, I think that's a good call.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

If I could have the 360 for the first 80% and then switch over to the PlayStation 3 for the last 30 or last 20.

[Mike]

I mean, like, you'll have a Ninja Gaiden in this.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, yeah, for sure. You'll have.

[Mike]

You have some fighting games in there.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I know. Soul Caliber, though. Like Killer Instinct.

[Mike]

Yes, Killer Instinct.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Killer Instinct's on the list in there. It's in there. I think there. I. I think we might see today when we get into the top or into that bottom 2575 to 100. Yeah, I think Killer Instinct's in there.

[Mike]

I wouldn't be mad at that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

More super chats for you. John Van Pelt says Mass Effect 3 was a connect title. You gave the. You gave the squad orders.

[Mike]

Yes. There was a lot of games that had connect features in it. A lot of sports titles as well. Would punish you if you cursed at it. I did a lot of cursing back then. And they definitely would punish you for that. I thought that was so much fun.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Do you remember in GA5 where if you're playing online, you can, like, yell into the controller? Rob one of the clerks at the store. Yeah, I used to do that all the time.

[Mike]

So dumb.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

There's a mic in here that says, what about Sensitive Overdrive, which you mentioned. Burnout Paradise.

[Mike]

They say it's a great pull as well. Peggles. One of my favorites. Like, someone just wrote Ghost Recon. You have the gross Ghost Recon Advanced War Fighters. You have the Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas that were fantastic back then. I love those games. Another one that I love called Shadow Run, which was an always online tied in with Windows XP game that had, like, crossplay with it, but. But it was literally just like, attack or defend. Capture the flag. The best blessing. This was a classic.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I want to bring in this one from Red Misfit. Pissing me off. All right. Ok. Oh, Rog and Blessing was defending Phil Spencer. First of all, I think you mean we're defending Phil Spencer. We were defending Phil Spencer yesterday and I can't do it. He has to be held accountable for bad decisions he made for the company. He's a great ambassador for Xbox, but not the best CEO. And to Red Misfit. This is what I'll say, okay. Roger was defending Phil Spencer. I sat there. I didn't say. All right, don't put that on me. Put that on Roger. All right, that's what I'll say. I didn't. I. I wasn't saying. I wasn't saying all the. He was saying.

[Mike]

Got it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I was like, all right, cool. Listen.

[Mike]

Amazing.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Listen. I was gonna yuck his yum. I was gonna be. I was gonna sit there and be like, you're wrong. You know what I mean? No, I wasn't gonna do that.

[Mike]

Of course you brought up the Bethesda games. Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout, New Vegas. Right. Like you have a lot of writes

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

in and says which Fallouts indoor Elder Scrolls make it Which.

[Mike]

Okay. Fallout 3 or new Fallout 3 and new Vegas have the highest running in my mind.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Sure.

[Mike]

Okay. Elder Scrolls it would be. They're probably. They're probably hit you with Marwin Oblivion and Skyrim.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I could see it. The last one. I'll say. I'll ask you before we go to break and then hop into this top or this bottom 25. Starfield.

[Mike]

No.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You think Starfield's not on the list?

[Mike]

Starfield is 100 not on this list.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I like it.

[Mike]

I would be. I'm stunned. I like it if Starfield is on this list. Absolutely not. Well, I can't wait to get into this list.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I can't wait to get into it.

[Mike]

I love talking Xbox with you. Bless. It's so much fun. Big Dog.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

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[Mike]

And we're back really quick.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

What's up?

[Mike]

Gotta hit you with a couple.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Hit me with something.

[Mike]

The chat has been going crazy. Gotta give it up to the live stream audience. I'm gonna pull a couple from you right now. People bringing up Wolfenstein and Doom. That's in the later years. I think we could see those for sure. Being on this list, a lot of people brought up some great Xbox 360 arcade games. Gotham City Imposters. Mine was Small Arms. Blessers. No way. Special time.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

The special that was on PlayStation as well.

[Mike]

Blast. We're going to see PlayStation games, you know, like.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Okay, but if we're doing third party games are on both. I don't think Gotham City Imposters is the one to die.

[Mike]

That's my hill. I die.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, yes. I mean, I like that game too. But like, at that point, if we're going like third party category. Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate. Three Gotham City Imposters.

[Mike]

No one for you. Bless that. I know you'll love if you ever tried it. Smash Bros. But Xbox Edition. Small Arms was the game.

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[Mike]

It was, it was literally Smash Bros. It was Smash Bros. With their own little characters.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Super fun.

[Mike]

Fight Night will be on this list. Fight Night 100 will be on this list.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Right.

[Mike]

Will we see an NBA Street? I think Home Court with Carmelo Anthony on it where they win.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

No, no. I mean, listen, I, I, you know, I love NBA Street. You're not NBA Street. Home Court is not on any top 100 list.

[Mike]

And then NFL Blitz the league.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, that'd be fun.

[Mike]

Blitz the league was pretty good.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I like that.

[Mike]

I like that one.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I like that.

[Mike]

So many good ones. Freedom Fighters out. There is one.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

We can hang out here more. Indiana Jones, the Great Circle. Let's talk about some more modern stuff. Outer Worlds. Grounded, Grounded.

[Mike]

Sea of Thieves.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, Sea of Thieves is probably top 50. Top 10. No, this is what I want to do is we're Going to. We're going to go through the 176.

[Mike]

I hope.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Hopefully we have enough time because I want to then end this with your predictions of the top.

[Mike]

I love that. I love that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I want to talk about your predictions. The top.

[Mike]

Let's take it off. Let's have some fun. Riddick will be on this list.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Riddick will be on the.

[Mike]

Riddick will be on the. Riddick is like held so tight by Xbox gamers. It's crazy.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

South of Midnight. Do you think is on this list? No.

[Mike]

Wow. I don't think so. I don't know if we'll get that many. You know what? I only say that because in my mind I don't think we'll get many recent games. But like clearly this could be very recent as well.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, it can be.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Everything's. We might get a Call of Duty on this list.

[Mike]

Mike, you're gonna call duty.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

There's so man to talk about.

[Mike]

You'll get a Call of Duty.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

All right. Top 100 Xbox games of all time. This is a fun one because prototype, I don't think you're getting.

[Mike]

That was our infamous.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That was. It was on everything.

[Mike]

I know, but it was ours because we didn't have infamous. So we claimed it. We claimed that game.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

This list is not only being compiled by ign, Mike. It's ign. It's IGN and outside Xbox teaming up.

[Mike]

Outside Xbox.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You know outside Xbox.

[Mike]

I don't know outside.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

They're a YouTube channel. I actually really like outside Xbox. I believe they're like a UK brand.

[Mike]

Okay. No, I've never heard of them. Okay.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh yeah. Shout out Outside Xbox. I used to watch a lot of Outside. Really?

[Mike]

Now I know.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. They're teaming up for the ultimate ranking of Xbox console favorites. I'll read, I'll read the first couple paragraphs. They have here of course is written by the IGN staff. What is an Xbox? Microsoft has spent 25 years trying to answer the question. But for fans, the answer is easy. Xbox evokes one eared headsets wired into the memory card slots of massive controllers with breakaway cords, a dashboard with gleaming skeuomorphic blades and avatars adorned in earned accessories that sound that plays when a hard earned achievement finally pops. Xbox means heavy duty hardware tactile sensations, friends connecting for the first time. And that's before we even get into the games. It may be the very idea of an Xbox game is coming to an end. Let me say again, it may be that the very idea of an Xbox game is coming to an end. Microsoft has Undeniably shifted its tactics with a new focus on multi platform releases. Handheld Xboxes that are actually miniature windows computers and the potential that future Xbox consoles may simply be gaming PCs. So now seems as good a time as any to look back at the entire history of Xboxes or sorry of Microsoft's journey and rank the best Xbox games with help from our friends at outside Xbox, the multimillion subscriber channel that serves up weekly videos about the video games and video game adjacent things. When we say the best Xbox games, we mean ones that most evoke that weighty sense of Xbox ness. Some are first party, most are exclusives.

[Mike]

I love hearing that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Most are exclusive that in mind.

[Mike]

We're going to hold you to that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's a very big.

[Mike]

I'm going to keep a track.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Very big qualifier.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Most are exclusives. And all of them are indelibly tied to the legacy of and fondness for a platform that's left a massive mark on gaming. These are the top 100 best Xbox games of all time. They're going to be updating this list daily with 25 games we're starting here. 100 through 70. Maybe 76. Yeah, 100 through 76.

[Mike]

Final one left for dead on this list.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yes, for sure. Yes.

[Mike]

Let's do it. Take me in.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Let's start with number 101 versus 100. There you have it.

[Mike]

80 through 100. There it was.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Is that a good 100 slot?

[Mike]

Yeah, I think that's a fun easy 100 slot. I think that's a great way to engage the reader as well. A classic, a special one that Xbox gamers hold near and dear their heart during that 360 time. Connecting so many players in the world together through a fun trivia game show. Awesome. Great one.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Right now, one somebody in chat says hi Fi Rush. Hi Fi Rush. Better be on this list.

[Mike]

It will be.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It better be on this list.

[Mike]

Now here's a fun one. You know how to capture the same feeling of 1 versus 100. The LA Clippers have that at their new arena at your seat. There are four buttons on every single seat inside the arena.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And.

[Mike]

And during timeouts or halftime they play games where you actually do trivia and like games.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I love that.

[Mike]

Really fun.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

At number 99 we have conquer Live and reloaded. Okay, makes sense.

[Mike]

That's a mic ass game.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You didn't say conquer. Conquer for sure. Makes sense on this list.

[Mike]

And Conquer Live and reloaded added Xbox online to it. So they added their own online game modes. Now Conquer Bad fur day back on my N64. The best mini games. Bless. I don't know if you ever played them. Oh yeah, the best. They had so many unique and different mini games that traversed all the time that Conker spent in this. In the campaign. From running around with raptors who would defend their nest and you have to get the raptor eggs as the cavemen and then putting in a frying pan. There was a heist game. We'd go out and rob banks. That was so much fun. Like that multiplayer suite was so awesome. And then to go to Conquered Live and Reloaded where they're like, okay, let's kind of like really focus in on this. And they made it more of like a Call of Duty almost third person shooter.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yep. Thumbs up, thumbs up.

[Mike]

Thumbs up for this. That's a crazy kind of poll, but I like it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It belongs on list though, right? I mean our best Xbox games at 99.

[Mike]

It belongs on the list.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. And I think 99 is good for it.

[Mike]

It's an 80 through 150.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Okay.

[Mike]

I could probably find a couple of games that might push this one out of the top 100. Okay, well like it's in there. It's in the back window.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

At 98 we got top spin.

[Mike]

Topspin golf. Oh no, top tops in tennis, of course. An all time classic. Hangar 13 tried to bring it back recently. Yeah. Unfortunately didn't hit it. Tennis is such a great video game sport. Sport turned into video game because you know, you understand the sport. You see it, you can play it. It's minimal.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Like look back, go back to Pong. You know what I mean? Like that's where the video game started.

[Mike]

Easy to learn, hard to master or whatever.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Infinite challenge to master.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Right.

[Mike]

The problem is, is like after a while it's tough to like make mini games to keep you engaged for a long period. That story or campaign. Right. Eventually you hit a point where you're like, okay, I need more than just the tennis, but like top spin. Great pull on the great poll. You know what? Great pull on the list.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And number 97, we got binary domain.

[Mike]

I know this game from the COVID art. I don't know this game.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, this is what I know from seeing it on shelves at Games GameStop. But I never like really picked.

[Mike]

Is it cont. Does it look like Contra when you play it? The 2D side scroller.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Shoot them up right here they write the 360 was a treasure chest full of those seven out of tens that you couldn't put down. Those rough around the edges Cult classics that kept us more than entertained for a weekend before we moved on to the next. Binary Domain is a perfect example of a third person shooter from the Yakuza developer Ryu Gakotoku Studio. I didn't know. Wow. This sci fi story didn't play out too differently from established cover shooters such as Gears of War, but came with its own unique perks. Oh yeah. Direct control over your squad mates was chief among these. With the ability to command them in six different languages via headset or the Kinect sensor. You got that Connect. A fun little gimmick that took advantage of Xbox's ultimately doomed experiment with this camera peripheral. Binary Domain may have never fully reached the heights of its lofty ambitions, but it still finds a place in our hearts. This is what I'll say. I appreciate games of this era that try to do the barker commands via headset or via Connect or whatever. I don't know if you ever played Tom Clancy's End War, but I had that. And I remember like being in my room just trying to be like a military commander.

[Mike]

I mean, a great poll is Battlefield 4, when they had you on the iPad, right. You could be the commander of the battlefield and they literally.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Or whatever they.

[Mike]

Yeah, you could just start clicking away and like sending in extra stuff. That was a crazy time back then when they're like, how do we just add more stuff onto this? I love. Right. You know what, here's the cool part about this list. Bless. That I will take away is like, these are games that I'll try now. Out of this top 100, the games that I've missed that I don't know. Yeah, I'll give them a try.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's good.

[Mike]

So I love that. I'll add this to my list. I've never tried this.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

At number 96, we have steel Battalion. We mentioned it.

[Mike]

There it is, there it is. There it is. Yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

At number 95 we got odd World, Stranger's Wrath.

[Mike]

Interesting. Okay. Stranger's Wrath was, I believe, the first person shooter one. Right. It wasn't with Abe, but where it was the 2D trying to break out of the prison. This one, I think they added. I think it became a shooter and you were like Crossbow and people with the weird little odd things. It was pretty cute.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Interesting. This is. I don't know anything about this entry, but also I'm just like not an Oddworld person.

[Mike]

Oh, really? Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oddworld didn't really come into my, I guess, like, lexicon of games that I knew of until maybe PS4 era OG PS1, right?

[Mike]

I always talk about. I had a short time frame with it, and I believe it was the Jurassic park with the little monsters biting you. Right on the first level, Tomb Raider that me and mom called the hotline for all the time. And there was Odd World, and Mom fucking figured it out. For a kid that couldn't get it done, mom, like, saw the Matrix and, like, I think, almost breezed through that video game for me.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Wow.

[Mike]

It was crazy. I'll never forget that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's really cool. My dad. My dad, who hated video games, hated them because I was obsessed with them and I didn't get great grades, so you always blame the video games. He specifically was excellent at Arkanoid. We had. We had Arkanoid on our, like, office computer in the house. And me and my sisters would play Arkanoid all the time. And then my dad would come through and fucking dominate that.

[Mike]

Cool. I love that moment.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You know what I mean?

[Mike]

I love those moments.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Number 94 is this one. Oh, wait. Oh, you didn't say this one.

[Mike]

So 95. I give a. I give a little handshake, too.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Okay, I'll go play it and check it out. I fell off. Odd word by this time. But I remember going like, oh, odd world in a first person shooter. Like, maybe I should try that. But like, 95, this is one of those where I'm like, could we have found something different? But I bet you like an Xbox exclusivity or something like that. Oh, yeah. Maybe pushed it, but I'm gonna give it a maybe.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And number 94. Mike, you're gonna kick yourself. Fusion Frenzy.

[Mike]

I knew, yeah, 94. I would put this a little bit lower on the list. Yeah, I guess. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

On the list is right.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's better than 94, I think. 90.

[Mike]

I mean, will we see brute force?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Ooh, that's a good question.

[Mike]

Fusion Frenzy on the list is a must have. Fusion frenzy at 94.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Here's. Here's what I'll say.

[Mike]

Use. Your friends are not good. If you jump into it right now, though. I. I don't.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Here's the one. I'll say I didn't think it was good when I jumped into it as a kid. My friend Stephen. Stephen Ohini and his family, they had a fucking Xbox, which is where I played Dead or Alive 3 for the first time. Which. Dead or Alive. We set a fighting game. Volleyball, you said. I never played beach volleyball. I remember. I think that was when I saw a G4 and I was like, damn, I want that game I was a freaky little kid, let me tell you. But I saw, I saw or I played Dead or Alive 3, which I think a Dead or alive should be here. But we played Fusion Frenzy after that. And when I tell you I hated this game, man, I did not like Fusion Frenzy. And so I think it's iconic enough where it has to be in that list. Little kid me is happy with this.

[Mike]

Fusion Frenzy will always be on the Xbox top 100 list. 94. Okay. I would have gone a little bit lower or higher, but I like that. Let's do it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

At 93, we have lost Planet Extreme condition.

[Mike]

I just played this game too.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, you did.

[Mike]

I always wanted to play Lost Planet. Lost Planet looked like the coolest, right. Coming off of Starship Troopers the game, never really finding a game that was like Starship Troopers the movie, I mean, and being like, I want that. And then seeing Lost Planet and they had like the weird kind of looking storm or Starship Troopers monsters. It's like I wanted that. And then I played that and I was like, you know what? We're good on that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, get on that Last Planet 2 was the one that got me in. I remember this is before I even had a PS3. And so my friend Anthony was house sitting and we went over, he was like, oh, they got a PS3 come through. And then he put in Lost Planet 2. We played the entire day. Such a fun co op experience. That was like my first third person co op game from like that era of games. Oh, I love Chad.

[Mike]

Let me know. Lost Planet. I always think of Dead Space. Bless.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Huh?

[Mike]

Did they come out near each other? Because like I remember thinking to myself like I was playing Dead Space and I remember looking at Lost Planet, but I don't remember how close they were.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I mean they're same error, same. I think they're probably around the same time a couple.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But I think that's the only thing that really links them.

[Mike]

Dead Space will always be my lost plan.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It what I'm getting like they're like very different games.

[Mike]

I know. But like I guess when you're a kid and you're looking at covers and you're thinking like, oh, shooting monster.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Somebody in chat says they had a crossover thing.

[Mike]

Oh yeah. I wouldn't be.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Which is crazy. I never would. If you're to name if this is a game showdown game and you're like, which of these games had a crossover? Never would have said Lost. Playing your back pocket. At number 92, we have Banja Kazooie Nuts.

[Mike]

And Bolts.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I don't like it being Nuts and bolts.

[Mike]

I would. I mean. Yeah. The question becomes unless is that. Well, that's the 361.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Unless rare replays on the list. Just put the entirety of rare replay as one entry.

[Mike]

I mean. Yeah, it has to be on the list.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Then I'm okay with.

[Mike]

That's the game.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I mean rare replay is fan. But like it's a weird one because that's 30 games.

[Mike]

That's all right, though. I mean. Well, then we get.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

If Tim Gettys was here, he'd be

[Mike]

mad at that Halo Master Chief collection.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. That's tough. Okay. It's tough. That's a tough one, I think. Yes. Though I'd be okay if Massive collection.

[Mike]

You'd have to tell me about Nuts and Bolts, though.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, I never played. Oh actually I played a little bit of it, but it wasn't my jam.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's basically like imagine if Banjo Kazooie still. Imagine if Benjamin Kazooie had an art style that looked almost too good, but then the gameplay was not Banjo Zooey. It's. You're putting together vehicles and driving vehicles.

[Mike]

I remember. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I. It was not what I wanted out of Banj Gazili is what I'll say. Okay. But like you boot this game up today, still looks really good.

[Mike]

Okay. I.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Art style is weird, but I still with it.

[Mike]

I'm. I am surprised. 92 with Banjo Kazooie. Nuts and Bolts.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. I would have expected this to miss the list.

[Mike]

Yes.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

At number 91 we have condemned Criminal Origins. We talked about it.

[Mike]

Talked about that. We knew it was going to be on the list. Yeah, that one. And what's the one I recently played from Rockstar? Manhunt. Right?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. Manhunt.

[Mike]

Yeah. Those were some freaky games during this time.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Super freaky.

[Mike]

Some real dark stuff. And Condemned got a couple. I think they got Condemned two and a VR title. If I'm not. If I'm not mistaken that I think they. They went kind of the distance with this one.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

At number 90 we have Castle Crashers.

[Mike]

All time.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Gotta be on there.

[Mike]

I would. I mean this is Probably a top 50 game, if we're being honest with you.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, I can see that.

[Mike]

Maybe because it is third party can be anywhere. It gets a little bit pushed. But like that's probably a top 50, if not a top 30 all time classic Xbox game with how powerful it was on the Xbox 360 Arcade. What it did. That might be.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That should probably be higher at number 89. We have Mech Assault.

[Mike]

There you go. There you go. You pulled back that out.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Mech assault.

[Mike]

Okay. I mean, well, Castle crashers above me.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, Castle crash is the first like. Oh, I don't. Yeah, that seems should be like, it should be higher. At number 88, we got Peter Jackson's

[Mike]

King Kong, an OG Xbox 360 title. I think I played a little bit of this one. I don't remember it. I just remember it being. This is one of the launch titles, the Xbox 360.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

And people liked it a lot. I remember at all.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Funny enough, I've been hearing more and more about Peter Jackson's King Kong video game lately. Yes. There was a video that I came up on one of my feeds where they're talking about how underrated this game is. Me and Tim were doing another shit list recently where it appeared like a top 10, I think best licensed games or best movie games. And this was on the list as well.

[Mike]

And it's good.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

People, People say this game is great.

[Mike]

You know what? Add this to list with Binary Domain. Yeah, I'll play that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I think that'd be, I think that'd be a good try.

[Mike]

I, I don't. Yeah. No way. I don't remember that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Okay, and number 87, we have full Spectrum Warrior. Do you know this one?

[Mike]

Interesting. I know the COVID art for this one. I never played. Wait, Full Spectrum Warrior?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Did I play Full Spectrum Warrior? Was this like a Call of Duty competitor?

[Mike]

I mean, I would assume it was. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Famously started out not as for public consumption video game, but as a training tool for the US Army. Jesus. It's a real time. Oh, never mind. It's a real time tactics game. I'm thinking of a different game.

[Mike]

Interesting.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I never, I've never even heard of this one.

[Mike]

No, I only know the COVID art to this one.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

All right, Kevin, if you can bring up gameplay of Full Spectrum Warrior as we continue over, you can get full

[Mike]

Full Spectrum Warrior right now on Steam for $10.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Okay.

[Mike]

I, I, Yeah, no, I've never. I know the COVID art. I don't know this. It's so funny because like during that Xbox360 and Xbox One, there was so many Call of Duty likes. Yeah, you know, with like you brought up with Ghost Recon gra. Like there was so many. Medal of Honor is going to be. Medal of Honor might make this list.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I can see it. We'll see a Medal of Honor next up, of course. Full Spectrum Warrior. Yeah, fast forward a little bit, see if we can find some. Look at This a cutscene? Look, both. Wait, hold on. Why do the character models look way better here? There's a lot of inconsistency between the quality of character models going on here. I feel like.

[Mike]

Okay, I'm interested in seeing what this is.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

He has what looks like a Game Boy. Yeah, sp.

[Mike]

He's got a flip Game Boys. Right?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

We're clicking through, and this is supposed to be like a strategy type thing.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And they use this to train people in the U.S. army. Huh?

[Mike]

That's crazy.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. That's wild. Okay, okay, okay, Moving on. See, I didn't say anything to that one. Super Chatter. Because he's gonna pop up tomorrow. Be like, Blessing supported the war. And I'm like, I didn't say anything. I didn't say anything.

[Mike]

You didn't say nothing.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I didn't say nothing. Number 86. We got Dead or Alive 3.

[Mike]

Here we go.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, I was expecting to go. It has to be on the list. It's got to be on there. Any other ones Dead or alive or fighting games?

[Mike]

But yeah, both. I mean, killer instinct. For sure. I feel like combats. Let's get into the Tekkens.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I think. I mean, killer instinct. Yeah, like you said, for sure. I think the other ones are two third party.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I don't know if there's other. Like, this is the Xbox, maybe. Is there a virtual fighter that's like a very Xbox caliber?

[Mike]

When they all gave them special characters, each one. Each console got a special character.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But like, I feel like the Xbox special characters sucked.

[Mike]

Was it Yoda, Right?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yoda and Spawn. Spawn for soul caliber 2. Spawn and then. Yeah, Yoda for something.

[Mike]

And then the other one got Darth Vader.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

And then the other one got Link. Right. Or Cell.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Well, first of all. Yeah, Yeah. I don't know. Okay.

[Mike]

More Dead or Alive. I don't know.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I feel C3 would have been the choice.

[Mike]

I don't think I've ever played a

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Dead or Alive game's pretty sick. Okay. I mean, it's. It's. It looks a lot like Tekken just because it's another 3D fighter. But I feel like Dead or Alive Dead or like three had a tag team mechanic. Just like Tekken tag. But Dead Life 3 felt a bit more dynamic, like when you're switching people out, like doing combos in the middle of it. Hit somebody out a window, jump after them. Like Dead or Life 3 had some flair to it that I really with. Maybe you get beach volleyball.

[Mike]

I think we might get beach volleyball.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

We're not going to give beach volleyball at number 85. We got perfect Dark Zero.

[Mike]

I love that. I mean here's the issue. I love Perfect Dark Zero. I think there are some people who like Perfect Dark Zero. I don't know if Perfect Dark Zero came out in the the best state and was the best game. I think it's just like we hold tight to it because it was the return of Perfect Dark. And Joanna Dark had a multiplayer early in the Xbox 360 era with the craze of online gaming. Like. But I don't know many people who are like, Mike, Perfect Dark is an all timer. I think I was saying that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I think this is absolutely nuts.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Perfect Dark Zero shouldn't be above Castle Crashers.

[Mike]

Yeah. I don't.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Let's start like that's where we start.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Because any game now you have to look at Castle Crashers as the bar. Is this game better than Castle Crashes? Perfect Dark Zero. I'm saying. No, no, I can say that I did, I did play a little bit of Perfect Dark Zero because it's in rare replay.

[Mike]

Yes. I respect the poll because I was one of those kids that was playing non stop Perfect Dark Zero multiplayer back in the day. I hold it near and dear my heart. But you can go back to X cast episodes. When they announced Perfect Dark, I said who the hell is this for? Yeah. Ain't nobody care about this franchise like that and it's crazy. So maybe I don't know about that one.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I feel like it could have been off the. Stayed off the list.

[Mike]

That's where if it's not on the list we wouldn't have said anything.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I think it's on the list because maybe it's the only Perfect Dark. Maybe they don't have the original Perfect Dark.

[Mike]

Well, yeah, no, that's like.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, Rare replay replay. It's a tough one. At number 84 we have Panzer Dragoon Order. I've heard good things about this one.

[Mike]

Yeah. I never played a Panzer Dragoon. Is that similar. It's like a flying.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Like a jet like on rail shooter. Okay. Yeah, yeah.

[Mike]

I never played any of these. No.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

At number 83 we have Rayman Legends. Is this a. Did this come to Xbox first? That's surprising to me.

[Mike]

I, man, I don't think of Rayman with my Xbox stuff. I played Rayman on the what PS one way back in the day. The OG Rayman.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. And so like Raymond Legends was a. That was like the Return because it was Rayman Origins.

[Mike]

And I forget which one is first 2013 Rayman Legends. I wouldn't. I did not play Rayman Legends.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

No. Chad is there. What's the Xbox association here? Because I'm reading the thing right on

[Mike]

PlayStation 4, Switch, PS3, Xbox One Legends

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

is as good as 2D platforming gets improved a real treat in the dying days of Xbox. Xbox is golden 360 era. But I'm not seeing anything here about like anything else regarding Xbox.

[Mike]

But yeah, I don't, I don't love this one. I don't love that one.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's a great game though. Like I people love this game, but it's just an interesting pick. At number 82, Steam, my buy, we have Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas.

[Mike]

This was lit back in the day.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, of course.

[Mike]

Oh my God. Vegas and Vegas 2 were some of the best online multiplayer experiences around. And also the little campaign stuff. But being able to like back up and be in cover third person, see all around you going full tactile and then like the building blocks for what Siege is now, it's like, man, it's crazy. I was playing that way back in the day and then to be able to play Seeds, it's like just like that is awesome.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

But a lot more cover based Seeds. You don't really take cover like that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

No, but like it's still like that tactical thing, right? I think that's the thing that, that, that it maintains. I never played Rainbow six Vegas and I feel bad about that.

[Mike]

Oh, you would have loved.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I would have loved this game. I just never had it or I didn't. I never had friends that talked about Rainbow six Vegas like that. I didn't. I don't think I realized how big this was until like I read the Internet more.

[Mike]

You know, it's an all timer. That's an all timer.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's cool. And number 81, we have brothers. A tale of two sons. You mentioned it.

[Mike]

Mike360 Arcade. This is when you're gonna see a lot of big ones. Brothers is Hayes Light. He's like Joseph Ferris, right?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Joseph Ferris, Yeah.

[Mike]

That's crazy.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I mean what a.

[Mike]

What a cat.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Let us all the way to split fiction.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And it takes two and stuff.

[Mike]

Do you ever think about like army of Two being the first Hazelight?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You know, I never thought about it.

[Mike]

Like I'm constantly running.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

What was the game? Oh, I don't know if this is a reference to kind of feudi that we can't make yet because we made a good point about a game that should be a. Like the next Hazelight game. Oh, but I forget, if we set it on whatever, we'll fucking ruin. Because somebody. Somebody somewhere, you might hear this in like 6 weeks again on Kind of Beauty.

[Mike]

We'll see.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But somebody said that Rush Hour would. Should be Hayes Light's next game.

[Mike]

I think it was Andy said that you and Andy.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And everybody was like, yo, that's such a good idea. They're gonna be mad that I ruined kind of Beauty. But, like, that was such a good poll. And I was like, that's such a good idea.

[Mike]

I mean, you have the building blocks with. What was the get out way out. A way out.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

A way out. Yeah.

[Mike]

Boom, there we go.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Sorry I spoiled kind of for you guys. At number 80, we got Titanfall 1. I think you're gonna see Titanfall 2.

[Mike]

Oh, banger.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

This was everything on the Xbox One especially, I believe this was like, close to early in the generations launch. This kind of carried the Xbox One for a while before we really started going like, oh, this is doomed type, you know what I mean? Like, I'll never forget driving down in the snow over black ice on the mountain pass to drive down at midnight to get this, to get the giant box. Because I still had the collector's edition. Still to this day, it's in my background. And like, this was the coolest gaming experience ever. I didn't need a campaign, Just put on online multiplayer, bouncing off the walls, jetpacking, going invisible, shooting NPCs, and also real players. That was a cool blend. They did a great job with this.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

When. I don't know if you remember when I'm going to pull in a deep reference here. Right in the early 2000 and tens, there was a mixtape that came out that was called Friday Night Lights, okay. By J. Cole. And when it dropped, everybody stopped what they're doing and they were like, oh, this motherfucker is the savior. Like, this motherfucker's the savior of rap. J. Cole's up next. Like, everything revolved around, oh, this guy's up next. When Titanfall was revealed and was coming out, Titanfall felt the way that J. Cole felt when he dropped Friday Night Lights. Like, there's gonna be a certain percentage of people in chat that understand the feeling that I'm talking about. But I almost didn't understand it because, like, I didn't have the Xbox One or whatever. So it's like, I'm not going to play this thing. But everybody online was so locked in, everybody was like, oh, Titanfall, stop everything. This is the fucking game. Right now, like, Titanfall captured an energy unlike anything I remember. Like, for a new multiplayer first person shooter, it felt crazy.

[Mike]

2014, March of 2014. The console launch November 22, 2013. So this was like a launch window type stuff here. Yeah, right around the corner. Like I said, this brought a lot of hype to the Xbox One. And I was. I was doing the Jerry o'. Connell. I got B. Like, I would literally just run to B because it was always three points, and I would just literally crouch and sit at B all day long. It was so much fun.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

And it called in your Titan back then. That was Prepare for Titanfall. And that was the coolest shit around.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Cool.

[Mike]

The coolest shit. God, we've been chasing this high ever since.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

The fact that Titanfall isn't like a mainstay.

[Mike]

I know.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

The fact that we're still not talking about, like, oh, yeah, I'm playing the next Titanfall. Like, the fact that Titanfall is annualized. I know that'd be a bad thing, but like, it should be around. I can't believe it's not like the current Call of Duty, you know, number one video game every single year.

[Mike]

All time great. It's an all time great.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And number 79, we got the Outer Worlds to.

[Mike]

Wow.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Okay, Interesting.

[Mike]

Now, I have fallen off the Obsidian RPG's. I've said that before, that I've fallen in love with their grounded game, but I have not played avowed outer worlds 2. I didn't really love outer worlds 1, and so that's kind of where it stopped me. Right. And so I don't know. I. I mean, I loved Titanfall, but

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I think Titanfall 2 is going to

[Mike]

be higher than above Castle Crashers.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Depends on you ask, I think.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I'm not mad at it, but, like, I am a little bit surprised. I. I loved outer worlds 1. I weirdly didn't love outer worlds 2, and I fell off of it. But I don't. I've not been able to locate why. You know what I mean? Like, I. I just didn't resonate this time around, but I think I could see them in the back room talking about it. Right. And being like, well, out in Outer worlds has to be on this list, or an Obsidian RPG or whatever has to be on this list. And they probably weighed out of Worlds 1 and 2 and went, it's out of worlds too.

[Mike]

I mean, if we were. Like you said, if we were in the room, let's just put ourselves last month.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, right.

[Mike]

We're going. Mike, give me, the past 20 games that they dropped out of Worlds 2 is on that. So now it's in the conversation.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

So, okay.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I think Outer Worlds, it captures the last decade of obsidian RPGs, I think.

[Mike]

So do we get Avowed?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

No, Avow is not above Outer Worlds, too. You're not going to put it up? You're not. I think this is. I don't think we get Outer Worlds one. I don't think we get Avowed. I. I think we get Knights of the Old Republic.

[Mike]

Okay, how about Pentiment? I'm trying to get, like.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, that's a good. Like, that's a good call.

[Mike]

Outer Worlds 2 right now is 79. We're trying to make the ultimate Xbox top 100.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I think you get Pentiment and I

[Mike]

go through Obsidian's games. Pentiment, Grounded, Grounded 2. Let's put Grounded 2 is.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

No, you get a ground.

[Mike]

It's super early.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Sure, sure.

[Mike]

But, like, Grounded one and Pentiment.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yes.

[Mike]

Are they making it both?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yes, I think you get both those games. Okay. And I'm sure there's some other. Like, there might be other Obsidian games that I just don't know of.

[Mike]

Well, like New Vegas.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I mean. Yeah. Right?

[Mike]

New Vegas. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Obsidian is gonna have a big presence on this list. Okay, okay. Okay. And number 78, we got Keeper. Listen, I'm shocked. I love. I love Keeper. That's kind of crazy. I love that.

[Mike]

I think this is where we get kind of. With this, we're getting heavy on the Xbox. Yeah. First party, Xbox owned. Keeper.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Great game.

[Mike]

78.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I write it down.

[Mike]

100 Xbox games of all time.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I would. I. This is one of those ones where I would have been in the room and I would have been lobbying for this, but I would have given up so quickly. I would have been like, nobody else thinks this, though. Like, I think 78.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But I. I'm not gonna convince you all. So put it at number 99.

[Mike]

If we were gonna keep it and go very minimal third party and really focus, like they said on those first two paragraphs, then Keeper might. Keeper is. Might be on the list. I mean, publish my Xbox an 80 through 150. Yeah, sure. Like. Like it's in a conversation.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Wow. Keeper, That's.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's crazy. That's awesome. I love that.

[Mike]

That. That's crazy. A video game that Lee Petty thought about during COVID while on a hike, about a game where it's like, you're just walking and it's.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Okay, listen, somebody at IGN or Outside Xbox feels the way I feel about Keeper, and I fuck with that. Hey, whoever it was, I fuck with you. I love that. Okay, at number 77, you got Jade Empire.

[Mike]

Jade Empire. That's our goat. That is our.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's our goat right there.

[Mike]

Yep, yep, yep. We ride for Jade Empire.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

One day we'll play it. Is that on your list?

[Mike]

It's on the list.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's on the list. Okay.

[Mike]

It's on my list. Oh, yeah. Jade Empires. Jade Empire's on the list.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Okay.

[Mike]

Me being wowed by Keeper in outer worlds too. Yeah. Jade Empire, though, that was a lock. That was.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, yeah. Well on your list to play.

[Mike]

Oh, it's on the list of players.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Okay. You're playing. Okay.

[Mike]

Purchased already one day.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And then we close this out with number 76, gears five.

[Mike]

Wow.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

What? How does that make you feel, Mike? Gears 5?

[Mike]

Gears 5 is a mixed bag of emotions for me. Gears 5 did so much. Gears 5 really pushed the graphics and world design of Gears. They tried to do these things with, like, larger open areas. Similar, like a Tomb Raider that you saw. Right. It's not open world, but it's open area. And you're gonna run all around and you're gonna explore a little bit more. Maybe you'll do like a side quest or like a side objective type thing, and then you'll get back on top, back on track. The other thing was, is it's Kate Diaz's story. Kate and Marcus's little twin nephew. Whoever the hell that guy is. I forget his by now, they just didn't have the pop like the OGs. And that's always going to be the problem coming off of Gears 1 through 3 and all the Gears and the, the originals, it's like that had an insane core cast that everybody fell in love with. Gears 4 and 5. I think it's like, I'm not in love with this cast right now. And then it did end on an extreme cliffhanger. And it's crazy that we're going to Gears E day when it's like Gears 5 ends and you're like, all right, like, let's get to it then. Yeah, I, I that means Gears 4 not on this list. Then Gears 5 would make the list for what it did. Gameplay wise, graphic wise, I'm in for Gears 4 not on the list.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Okay. Wow.

[Mike]

Not all.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Like, you think it's that definitive? Gears 4 will not make it.

[Mike]

Gears 4 is not on the list.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Okay. What other are do we see? Gears 1, 2 and 3.

[Mike]

Yes.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Okay. All right.

[Mike]

Judgment. I Don't know. High Busters clearly probably not. High Busters might be on my list though. High Busters might make my top 100 Xbox game list.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Mike, this is how we're gonna close this episode.

[Mike]

Damn. This game is. Damn.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I love doing this with you, man.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Well, I mean we gotta find time to come back. I might go to Greg and be like Greg, we have. We have to slash something so me and Mike can finish this because this is too good of content. I'm gonna read through the super chats and this one I want for you. Mike, we don't have much time left in the episode. In fact we're over time. Think of. If you can't think of a top ten, think of a top five to rattle off. I'm going to read these super chats and then we'll get and then we'll

[Mike]

throw to you my top five.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Jameson writes in and says Gears 5 story was great. I don't care what anyone says. Albert Soy writes in and says, hello Mike and Blessing. I am treating you two to magic pre release event at Gameway India this Wednesday or Thursday, your choice. Will you two be able to make it? No, we will not be able to make it. Me and Mike are gone.

[Mike]

Damn it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I mean you'll be. Do you know is your Thursday busy?

[Mike]

You aren't trying to make it happen?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Well, no, my Thursday's. I'll be in Oakland.

[Mike]

Albert, let's go to the next one. The next one. Blessing and I will commit to coming. We'd love that. Are you kidding me?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

We'll be in Oakland.

[Mike]

Oh my.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Literally. Not even figuratively. Literally.

[Mike]

I will be able to play so bad. It's so much fun. Who said that? Albert.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Albert. Yes.

[Mike]

Thank you for the invite.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, me and Mike will be gone on Wednesday. We would love that. But that does sound fun. I missed the pre release this last time, but we appreciate that. That's very kind of you. Kobe aren't says I think top 10 will include in no order, Halo 3, Gears 1, Fable 2, Mass Effect, COD4, KOTOR, Oblivion, BioShock, Limbo and a Force of Horizon. Skyler, Thor. See, I'm going to pause there and say Forza Horizon is an interesting one because I. I think what they'll try to do is spread out Forza Horizons through the list and I don't think that'll make sense because Forza Horizons are the exact same level of qualities.

[Mike]

Yes.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

If Forza Horizon. If like, let's say if you put it in like the number 11 or whatever numbers 11 through 14 should all just be different entries of Forza Horizon. Yeah, they're kind of. They're the same game, and they're all magnificent.

[Mike]

Wouldn't it be cool to be the Forza Horizon dj?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, I love that.

[Mike]

Wouldn't it be so much fun?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I mean, you would be a perfect fit.

[Mike]

I would love that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

We got to hit somebody up and be like, yo, how do we get snow bikes? Snow bike. Mike, radio in there.

[Mike]

Let us have some fun.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

We need to be on kind of funny radio.

[Mike]

Yeah. Oh, my God.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Come on. Have a talk radio. What if we show, like, what if

[Mike]

you keep the Ritter just a ramble. Gary Whitter GTA radio. He just rambles all day.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That'd be sick. Oh, I would love that so much. I don't know if. I don't know if we will be appropriate for the age rating for Forza Horizon, but that'd be very fun. Skylar, Thor says Microsoft flight simulator got to be on here, right? Yeah.

[Mike]

Flight sim.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Flight sim has.

[Mike]

Flight sim has. Flight sim is so much fun. What a great time.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Mike, what do you think is at the top of this list?

[Mike]

Are you ready for this? Bless.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yep.

[Mike]

Halo, do you want numbers or franchises?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, I want specific entries. No.

[Mike]

Okay. You ready for this?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

My top 10.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Mm.

[Mike]

No particular order because I'm not gonna order these right now because I'm putting numbers on them. Halo 1, Halo 3 will take up two spots.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Gears 1 will take up a spot. Kotor will take up a spot. Mass Effect will take up a spot.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Okay, that's five. Mass Effect 1, Mass Effect 1 will take

[Mike]

oblivion will take up a spot. Forza Horizon will take up a spot. Fable will take up a spot. Oh, I don't know. Sunset Overdrive will take up a spot.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

No, it will not. It would be.

[Mike]

People hold that game too high in regards Blessing. It's not, but people hold that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That game will be.

[Mike]

They're Gonna put that one through 25.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

No, Sunset Overdrive will be number 55. God, I hope number 55. I'm sniping it right now.

[Mike]

17th.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I'm not mad at that. I mean, I'm. I'm not mad at that because I don't have any horse in the race with Sunset Overdrive or not. Played the game. I just know the game.

[Mike]

They hold that game too high.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Number 55 is what I'm saying.

[Mike]

Yeah, I like that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Do you have any. Is that the fullest? Do you have one more to say?

[Mike]

I have one more by. I don't have it. On top of my head. It's so exciting. There's too many games. There's too many games as well.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I'm going to say Pentiment is at number 10. Or splinter cell chaos theory one or the other.

[Mike]

Splinter cell chaos theory one through 25.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yes. Okay. This is me repeating things I've heard Alex Van Akin say because Alex Vanaken, big Xbox fan, loves Xbox. When we were doing okay Beast, he was the Xbox Xbox guy on the crew. This loves Splinter Cell, Chaos Theory.

[Mike]

I'd be up some Splinter cells. I just finished two of them.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Have you played Chaos Theory yet?

[Mike]

There's the next one, dude. And Pandora tomorrow.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

He could not stop talking about Spies versus Mercs. Oh, yeah, like that made. That was a big factor. And so people like that. People love Spies versus Mercs. People love the kind of funny games guests they get. So much for listening and watching right here on YouTube.com kind of funny games. That's going to bring us to the end of this show. I'm going to convene with Mike and Greg Miller to figure out how we finish the second part of this once all of Igen's list is out. Because, man, let me tell you, this is some content right here. But of course, each and every weekday we get together and talk about the biggest reviews, previews and topics in video games. Live on YouTube, Twitch and all podcast services around the globe. Support us on Patreon or YouTube or Apple or Spotify with the Kind of Funny membership to get your shows ad free. And also get Greg Way, our exclusive daily show. Right after this we're doing Kind of Funny podcasts with the crew. And then after that it's going to be a fun stream. But until next time, it's been our pleasure to serve you.