[360] Essential 360 Games

Having also just picked up a 360 recently, I picked up Blue Dragon on the cheap without any real regret. It's simple and pretty well buried in JRPG cliche, but it's not bad, just wallows in it's unremarkableness. Also grabbed Ninja Gaiden II on the cheap, though admittedly haven't had much time to commit to it. Mostly because of priority 1 when I bought the system:

Super Street Fighter IV, which I pretty much love entirely. Hell I've put over 20 hours into it without even touching multiplayer between trials (4 out of 35 characters complete) and running through arcade with everyone (29 of 35 characters). In the same realm, also a moment 1 purchase:

Stuper Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix. HDR gives an interesting new life to Super SF2. On-line matches run very smoothly so long as both players have decent connections. The HD graphics overhaul is mostly good, though some of UDON's anatomy is kind of unsettling. Very well worth the gamer points though.

Among my other priorities I haven't yet had a chance to pick up:

Bayonetta
Blazblue Continuum Shift
Deathsmiles
Raiden IV
Raiden Fighters Aces
Tales of Vesperia
Lost Odyssey
Infinite Undiscovery

Considering on account of cheapness on Amazon ~$10

Perfect Dark
Dark Void
Bionic Commando
Velvet Assassin
Crackdown

The Dead Risings and Gears of War games may also make the cut at some point.

In the world of XBLA,

Limbo is very good, but personally I think $15 is a little steep for what you get. If it hits 800 points I'd recommend it though.

Hydro Thunder Hurricane is fun as hell.

Castlevania HoD is a bit of a let down if you're mostly a solo gamer, but I can see where it would be fun in a group.

Shadow Complex
Deathspank
Ikaruga
Earthworm Jim HD
the Q games, Rez, E4, Meteos
Worms

Are all vying for my points.

Fingers crossed for anything Cave made that either is non-region locked (Mushihimesama Futari) or that makes it to the US (hopefully Pink Sweets and Muchi Muchi Pork)

Anyways, I've forgotten/missed some stuff, but I've gone on long enough and those are the rough essentials and/or bargains for someone who has little to no interest in FPS games and their lot.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by SuperSonic

If you can find Dead or Alive 4 for under $20, I'd say go for it. You can get it used for $14.99 at Gamestop, but you might be able to find it cheaper elsewhere. Definitely a good fighting game.

So I'll say the hate people have for Blue Dragon I pretty much have for DoA4. Is it a terrible game? No, not as such, but it is probably the last fighting game I'd buy for the system. Between Super SF IV, BlazBlue, Tekken 6, Virtua Fighter 5, and even Soul Calibur IV (which is admittedly a bit weak itself) then all the awesome on XBLA like HD Remix, Samurai Shodown 2, Mark of the Wolves, KoF 98 UM, Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (if you have non tier-whoring people to mess around with, otherwise Mag, Storm, Sentinel, Cable, Psylocke blends can get tiresome super fast), even Neo Geo Battle Coliseum, all I think head and shoulders above the likes of DoA 4. At launch it may have been decent since options were few and it was pretty, but now, there's so many better choices out there if you actually like fighting games. I'd even suggest vanilla SF IV first if cost is a factor.

Well maybe it's not the last fighting game I'd consider, that's probably Samurai Shodown Sen, feh... even SamSho 6 is better than that garbage, but still it's among the last.

There's nowhere I can't reach.