Honestly guys… I'd do almost anything to go back to the Xbox 360 days.
The Xbox 360 changed my life for the better and it sucks that I'll never get to relive all of my positive experiences with it. I've been an Xbox fan since a little while after the 360 launched and I witnessed so much greatness during these years. The Glory Years.
A Friday Night after school gaming sesh with the boys. Halo 3 and eventually Reach Multiplayer back in the day. Your parents ordering pizza for yous and sometimes your friends if they are over. Bags of Nacho Cheese Doritos and Mountain Dew. Having a wide range of games and exclusives. Xbox Live Gold. Midnight Releases. Blockbuster. All different kinds of take out but I'd say pizza and the Xbox 360 go hand in hand. Games were only $60 CAD, Xbox Live was $60 CAD. Microsoft Points. Xbox Live Private Chats on the 360. Special/Limited Edition Xbox 360 Consoles like the Xbox 360 Halo 3 Special Edition. Machinima on YouTube. The G4 channel with shows like X-Play. Xbox Gaming Magazines that would come with disc that have a bunch of demos and trailers on them. E3 being the biggest gaming event of the year. The crappy mic head piece that your 360 might've came with. Games and Xbox Consoles coming with 2 days + worth of Xbox Live Gold. We would get tons of physical copy releases. Xbox actually cared about us fans and they kept feeding us so good. Indie games had their own section and were highlighted much more than these days on the Xbox Marketplace. I could go on and on about Xbox 360 nostalgia.
Xbox/Microsoft were so unbelievably locked in during the 2000s and early 2010s. The Xbox 360 was Xbox's Golden Age and it's unfortunate that not everyone got to experience the hype and the original games that inspired so many games today. They kept releasing nonstop bangers and their exclusives were some of the best games that ever came out. So so so many games…
Games like BioShock, Left 4 Dead, Call of Duty WaW/BO1 & 2, Halo 3, 3 ODST and Reach. Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas, Borderlands 1 & 2. GTA 4. Gears of War 1, 2 and 3. Oblivion. Skyrim. Castle Crashers, Alan Wake, Dead Space 1 & 2, State of Decay, Resident Evil 4 and 5. Castleminer Z. Minecraft. Telltale's The Walking Dead. ALL the Indie games they had. Doritos Crash Course. Dead Rising 2. Perfect Dark Zero.
The list goes on. I could sit here and list hella Xbox 360 bangers. I've been on a nostalgia grind lately and there's so many memories I wish I could relive.
I miss those chill Friday nights. Just coming home from school and gaming until a little over midnight. Sometimes ALL night.
Easier and happier times..
Posted by D4RKxV0ID
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Wasn’t nostalgia originally diagnosed as a form of depression for soldiers returning home from WW2? A little nostalgia is cool, but I would think more about the future rather than the past if you can.