Halo 4 (Co-Op)

• And now a Halo game I have not beaten before. Played the first few missions a few years ago when I played through the rest of the series but had enough Halo and fell off it. Glad to have finished it this time with my wife, playing with her has certainly been the highlight of going through the series
• Thought this was just okay, probably a 6-7 out of 10 if I was rating it. Definitely not bad but did not find myself wanting to dive back into it like the other Halo's. Appreciated the newer enemies but felt like I was walking through the same environments over and over. It was like the issues I had with Halo 1 and 2 were recreated here
• The Didact was pretty cool, was looking forward to a potential first boss fight in the series but was disappointed we didn't get that
• Watching Cortana use her hands to move data around on a fake screen will never get old to me. Also, Master Chief's undying desire to save his AI girlfriend is hilarious 

Mega Man 8

• Had an urge to play this for some reason, I've always loved the look of this game and it's always had a certain allure to me with it being the PlayStation/Saturn entry of the mainline series
• Loved a lot of the music. Frost Man and Aqua Man stages being some of my favorites
• The collecting of bolts and the power up store was fun. The internet said to use energy saver and I bought it and really have no idea what it did. Faster charge shot was sweet though
• Was flying through the game until the first Wily stage with the surf board Jump! Jump! Slide! part. Replayed that level probably 15 times until I figured out a better way to do it
• Overall just had a ton of fun playing this game, could definitely see myself replaying it one day 

Halo Reach (Co-op)

• After playing this game again I think I have to say that 3 is my favorite with Reach in 2nd
• Disappointing that after Halo 3 co-op letting each person be their own character you have to both be the same guy again
• The mission variety was nice as long as you don't think about how many times you have to clear a landing zone. Nice variety of environments too
• So thankful I sacrificed my life for an AI chatbot

Halo 3 (Co-op)

 You were the Arbiter and I was Chief...

• Kept telling my wife how I kinda wanted to just skip Halo 2 and play Halo 3. Was actually proven right by how fantastic Halo 3 is. What a game. 
• My wife mentioned how every mission feels like the final mission and that's a good description. All the missions are pretty diverse, along with the environments, and they have you traversing to different locations instead of being stuck in the same structures.
• Having the 2nd player be their own character instead of us both Master Chief was a fun addition
• Beyond honored to have served alongside Chips Dubbo
• Get this bullshit SD card of Cortana out of my helmet NOW! Why the fuck does an AI even have a body? Why does she act like she's in physical pain during these cut scenes? 

Halo 2 (Co-op)

• Beat this alone not too many years ago so I don't think my thoughts are too different now
• Certainly an improvement over Halo 1 but man, I thought Halo 1 was a slog (and maybe it was alleviated a bit with the new remaster we played) but god DAMN this is a slog. So many of the same environments over and over. One mission near the end was one big room, followed by a small hallway that was a 90 degree right angle turn into another big room. This repeated at least 3-4 times
• I fuck with the Arbiter, don't get me wrong, but I didn't want to do any of his missions and just wanted to get back to the Chief missions. I appreciate the desire to tell the story but I don't really give a fuck, I'm sick of shooting at aliens that look exactly like my ally aliens and sick of running through the same alien environments over and over.
• Can I get some more ammo?! Holy shit
• Punching the hell out of that prophet in his floating wheelchair was pretty funny
• The whole Gravemind thing...whatever, dude