If there's one thing that I hope you've learned from reading my column, it's that I'm not very good on following up on the promises I make in it. See, I had planned on covering old games so that newly indoctrinated xbots would have a little list of quality library titles, but that was a crazy idea for this time of year. What is the point of going out to buy a bunch of old games when so many magnificent titles are being released right this very minute?! Well, I'll tell you, there's no point at all in doing that, so I stopped my search and instead decided to play some MMOs on the PC.

Fine, You do it Then!

Fortunately, a handful of readers wrote in to tell me of their forgotten favorites, thusly picking up my notoriously gratuitous amount of slack.

Cody wrote in with two gems:

From last summer, before all of the hubbaloo [hullabaloo?] about Halo 3 reached fever pitch and Gears of War was amping the hype machine, two games dropped that I felt compelled to play for hours upon hours... Chromehounds for its online component and Dead Rising for its single-player component.

And I will tell you this, I don't think I've had as much fun with a team or Mech company as I had with my buddies that I met in Chromehounds. Most are still on my friends list and we get together once in awhile to show how well we've pimped our hounds out.

Oh man, Cody, you just hit the sweet spot with me. Chromehounds! I totally loved that game when it came out, but I have to admit that I haven't played it in what seems like decades. I can't imagine that the online community could still be as lively as it used to be, but I'm willing to bet that there are still a few die-hard mech pilots out there mixing it up.

Dead Rising is also a very good call, though I have to admit that I haven't really played it all that much. Unfortunately, as a game reviewer, I sometimes miss out on a really good game simply because I haven't been assigned to cover it and have other games occupying my time and that is exactly what happened with Dead Rising. Still, I remember it as being somewhat similar to that Nintendo 64 treasure The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask in that certain things happen at certain times, so you have to make sure that you're in the right place at the right time. It also had lots and lots of zombies, which is always a plus.

George had this suggestion for an oldie-but-goodie:

In your article where you went back to the old games for the 360, you picked Kameo and The Outfit and panned them both. I completely and totally agree. I have one suggestion for you, Check out Fight Night: Round 3 (I think its Round 3 at least [yes, it most certainly is!]). It is and was one of the best games I've played for my 360. As a matter of fact, I've traded in every other game except Guitar Hero and Fight Night.

You can put it down for months, pick it up and be addicted to it all over again. The control scheme may seem wonky at first but once you get it, you realize that this is simply the best way to play a boxing game short of putting on gloves. I even like the controls better than Wii Boxing.

I'm done gushing, Check it out. I can almost promise that you will love it.
Oh George, you needn't promise me anything. But you are absolutely right, Fight Night: Round 3 is still a spectacular achievement even today. So maybe the PS3 version looks better, but who cares! The point here is that the gameplay is outstanding and it's the best boxing simulator yet created (though our copy editor favors the Nintendo classic Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!).