Summer Hit List

The summer months have never been big in gamedom. The amount of titles released across the board are low, quality often following suit. There’s the occasional diamond in the rough, a title so big that a timeframe can’t contain it. By and large, there’s crap. Gamers are lucky enough to find one fantastic game a month. To the voracious gamers out there, that’s hardly enough entertainment to last an entire quarter, possibly longer. 

This year’s anemic offering began with June. A month that possessed only a single title capable of tickling my fancy (by scaring the shit out of me). For years I, and other gamers, have used the sun’s attempt at semi-global heat stroke to play ketchup, I mean catchsup, uhh…catch up on mountainous stacks of molded plastic. Games that remain hugged in impossibly-tough-yet-incredibly-thin plastic, adventures attempted, yet unfinished. Deeds unfilled, itchy nostalgia and word-of-mouth discs wasting away on shelves.

These are on my Summer Hit List:

Nostalgia:

• Paper Mario & The Thousand Year Door

Unopened:

• Borderlands DLC Pack
• Epic Mickey
• Pilotwings Resort

Unfinished:

• Kirby’s Epic Yarn
• Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds
• Mortal Kombat
• Pokemon Black
• Super Mario Galaxy 2
• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
• The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
• Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars

Upcoming:

• Deus Ex: Human Revolution (August 23)

Word of Mouth:

• Dragon Age: Origins – Ultimate Edition

I’m expecting to clean up at least half the list before Q3 rolls in full force. We’ll see how it goes. What’s on your list? Leave a comment or drop me a line to your blog post.