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A Blast From The Past...Literally!

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In today's episode, we reminisce our favorite games, losses, frustrations, and experiences with our first Nintendo console...

In the history of gaming, we are at an interesting crossroads. On the one road, we will call it the road of “Ideas,” we are headed in the right direction. We have new and innovative games pitched to the community on a yearly basis at all of the hottest conferences, and the hype is really heavy. One of my favorite game styles that has come out of that innovative work has been the advent of the Online Multiplayer Looter-Shooter (LS for short). In an LS game, you generally get the chance to portray a more powerful version of the universe’s best soldiers, and you traverse a wide variety of terrains and maybe even planets, conquering and protecting in the name of the greatest good, all while hoarding all the best, most priceless, most epic loot you can acquire so that you can recycle the whole process again, by equipping your best gear, going out into the unknown world, destroying the bad guys and taking all their cool stuff. The first stand-out game that really kickstarted this game style was Destiny 1. Sure, there were other games before that that did these things, but Destiny began shifting the LS from just any other game to a single game-as-hobby model. I probably put well over 3000 hours into the first game over its 3 year life-span (and I even still switch it on every once in a while to run my favorite strikes and raids in-game). Destiny succeeded at creating a rich, full world, with a variety of locations, enemies, and loot. They created literally an entire solar system of worlds for players to explore and discover, and they built onto it for 3 solid years, and millions of players devoted their gaming time weekly to exploring, playing, and looting that world. It was something special, something that had been lost with the new generation of console and the ever-expanding online multiplayer title collection being force into our hands. Now, 5 years after the release of Destiny, we have a wide variety of loot-based games. You can even enter into some of these worlds for totally free and loot incredible weapons, stunning cosmetics, and even items that reward you with real world loot like exclusive replicas and jackets that signify you as one of the best of the best. That’s the first road we’ve got. The innovation of real hobby gaming. The second road in this cross section is the road of quality. In the past 2 years we have seen the release of 3 major Online LS games that promised greatness but had varying levels of delivery.