Here in the Search nav, you can.... SEARCH. Start typing a game or gamer, it will autosuggest. Press one to go, or hit Enter to get the full search results.
Below the searchbox, you'll see recent games, gamers, clubs, events, and quests you've visited.
Below that is the full site map with all of the different pages on this platform. Most of these are accessible in the other navs too. But here they're all in one place, if you're into that sort of thing.
Jump in a virtual or IRL event, tournament, or league. Participate in a Quest (a gaming challenge that you can do any time). Channel 3 has something for all skill levels, including gaming-focused daily minigames.
Go to Events below to search for real-time tournaments or other events. Quests will show you offline challenges you can complete at any time.
You may have friends here already, or you may meet your next lifelong squadmate here. Either way, Channel 3 is most fun when you find your people and can have friendly competitions and participate in challenges together.
Below you can navigate all the gamers, clubs, and causes on Channel 3.
If you'd like to create and run a Club, submit an New Club Request.
Whether it's 1 to 2, or 99 to 100, leveling up is the best feeling in the world. On Channel 3, when you participate in quests, when your post gets 1Up'd, when you crush a daily minigame, you get XP. Get 1k XP, and you level up and unlock rewards. Rewards can be custom reaction GIFs, cool backgrounds, or prize wheel spins for IRL gaming gear or in game currency.
Turbo is an optional subscription for superusers. You don't need Turbo to enjoy Channel 3. Turbo users get early access to new features, and are able to unlock more levels in a season.
On Channel 3, seasons last 3 months. They will always run January 1 - April 1, April 1 - July 1, July 1 - October 1, and October 1 - January 1.
Open channel3.gg in Chrome. Click the Install icon in the right side of the address bar:
Click Install when you get this prompt.
After installation, you can pin to the Windows taskbar alongside your other favorite apps.
Open channel3.gg in Safari. It has to be Safari.
Tap the Share button in the middle of the footer.
Tap Add to Home Screen.
Tap Add on the prompt.
BOOM. You're done. iPhones try to act like it's "just a website bookmark" because they want everyone to go through the App Store but really it functions just like an app... Full screen, moveable icon on your home screen. All of it.
Enjoy.
Install the Channel 3 app from the Google Play Store.
You have no opinion of games on this list, because you know literally nothing about them. Adding games to this list may prevent them from showing up in certain places on Channel 3.
Vs just gets booted up when there's new dlc every few months. Tired of taking it off and putting it back on. P3 is reload which is almost different enough to have its own title in the library. Almost. Balatro is in a holding pattern due to having too many other things but I pull it out now and then.
Playing
These are the games you currently have in your rotation.
I'm deliberately excluding roguelike and roguelite games, though I will accept the latter if you wipe progress or start over on a new system or something. I get to include the 100 hour jrpgs because I have played them multiple times and that makes them repeatable. This list will grow.
Replayable Games
List your most repayable games. As suggested by @dennis
We all know that the backlog is a barren wasteland from which games never return. This is your on-deck checklist for games that you actually will be playing next. This list isn't a graveyard, it's a reservation.
You actually can buy this bundle on most platforms, but p4 needs a deluxe remake treatment like 3 reload. P5 Royal still holds up and doesn't need a remake yet. Would like a complete p3 with both protagonists' paths but reload is good enough for now.
HM: super Metroid, Samus returns, Metroid prime (debated zero mission. But prime is better.)
YOUR All Star Bundle
Super Mario 3D All-Stars bundled together three of the flagship Mario 3D adventures. What trio of games would be in your bundle?
I think I'm going to cap this at 10 games. That feels like a good number of favorites. I'm leaving room for 2 others in my 1.01 version (now with 8 titles since library has been updated) because I'm surely forgetting something. I think only Ori gets to have multiple games from the same franchise either. Artificial rules but what point in a "favorites" list that's just "every Mario"?
Where's Zelda? I dunno. I love Zelda as a series and I play them all, but would I pick even TOTK or OOT to replace something on this initial 7? No. Could one of those be in the last 2 slots? Maybe
Huh, I'm pretty sure there was a comment here at one point with notes about % completion. So let's see if we can recreate it from memory, and also the list is no longer in order so apologies if this order doesn't match the order you see:
Alan Wake 2: All trophies (1 play + minor cleanup)
TMNT: Finished game (there are no sidequests anyway)
Horizon Forbidden West: All trophies (1 long play; no DLC yet)
FE Engage: Finished game and all supports and side quests. Didn't do any sort of "max level grinding" or anything, but that's not really of any use anyway
Metroid Prime Remastered: 2 full plays for 100% items and scans on Hard mode.
DQ Heroes: Finished Game, would take like 200% as long to grind trophies
Zelda TOTK: Finished Game, all shrines, a lot of side quests. Was deliberately saving side quests to do before the DLC but now that there won't be DLC, maybe revisit?
Anodyne: 100% trophies (2 plays & cleanup)
Soul Hackers 2: 100% trophies (2 LONG plays)
Alan Wake: 100% trophies (2 full plays; one on Hard, plus cleanup. DLC non-speedrun trophies too.)
Dragon Warrior 1: finished game (no sidequests exist) [REPLAY]
Ori Blind Forest: 100% item pickups (there are no formal sidequests). [REPLAY]
Chrono Cross: 100% trophies (3 plays) [REPLAY]
Ori Will of Wisps: 100% item pickups & sidequests [REPLAY]
Vampire Surviros: 100% trophies including all DLC up to August 2023
Sea of Stars: 100% trophies (1.8 plays)
Dagnanrompa 2: 100% trophies (6+ plays)
Mario Wonder: 100% everything
Persona 5 Tactica: 100% trophies (1.8 plays + extra grinding at the end of the 0.8 new game plus)
Metroid Fusion: 100% item collectiion
Oregon Trail: reached Oregon
Spiderman 2: 100% trophies (1 play with lots of sidequests and veering off course for shinies, plus a minor post-game cleanup)
A little different from your Favorites, these are the games you'd tell a friend to check out. Maybe they're underrated, maybe they're cult classics, but these are the ones you're always mentioning to people.
Separate from games that Cr3w recommended, these are games that you only tried for the first time and/or continued to play thereafter because of C3 activities. Not "I tried it before and tried again now," but truly tried for the first time.
Finally (pun intended), after several previous attempts, I beat final fantasy 2 (the actual 2, or 2j as we used to call it), and got the platinum on pixel remastered version.
It's a better game than I thought. The leveling system is weird (I used 2x boosts to reduce grind), but there's a solid game here. Look for full review when I feel less lazy.
2024 Backlog Beaten
Games from your backlog that you have beaten in 2024. Inspired by @trashdoc16
So here's the problem. I didn't play earthbound or Mario RPG as a kid and I don't have any nostalgia for them. There's a real bias here. I did play nba jam and fzero. Heck, ffv probably deserves a spot on this list but because it was never released in the US and this isn't a super famicon list I'll keep it off.
(5 minutes later trying to fill the last two spots)
You know what? That's a dumb rule and I made it so I can change it. More jrpgs more better!
(I'm going to get so much crap for this. Does @joob get bonus XP for residuals each time I use his deal with it gif? Feels like a missed opportunity.)
List and rank up to 10 of your favorite games that you could call a "collect-a-thon." These may be genre-bending and cross into other groups, but these are games where there is an overarching "gotta catch 'em all" vibe to these games. List those games that you need to collect in.
I haven't played 11 or 14 and don't plan to. 16 is on wishlist. 13-2 and 3 will be added when the librarians fix it. I don't count the mobile games or games like kh where FF characters appear.
The rest of the list just isn't worth it. Ff13-2 and 3 go here too.
4 is the first game to give us characters with their own stories. 5 and 6 expand on that a lot but need 4 to get there.
7 remake is a great modern take on a final fantasy game for someone who has no nostalgia for SNES era graphics. No experience with the original is necessary, just easter eggs (this may change with rebirth). The original drops so much because I'd rather just play this.
Tactics is great and you should play it just know that the NPCs with unique names and classes are frequently op and you should use them. The game boy titles were meh.
We need to give credit where it's due to the original, so 6th it will be.
9 is a good nostalgia trip but as a game it's just ok. 3 is very good for the complexities achieved on nes and creating the job system we'd see again in 5, T, and derivatives in 12 and 13.
X and XII are fine, they have decent stories but the game play doesn't quite keep up. A last minute memory of trying to get the ultimate weapons in x bumped it down
Final Fantasy Rankings
Put your definitive ranking of Final Fantasy Games.
Try this again after outsmarting the mobile UI that once again tricked me. Need to get a new visor so I see through its lies.
The last two spots are not available yet with your current equipment. Come back after you've played more of the game of life and you might be able to reach them then.
Top 10 Metroidvanias
Metroidvania is a sub-genre of action-adventure games and/or platformers focused on guided non-linearity and utility-gated exploration and progression. The term is a portmanteau of the names of the video game series Metroid and Castlevania.
I'm only counting JRPGs (or Western games that emulate the style) deliberately. These days every game with a tech tree wants to call itself an RPG. I'm definitely not numbering this list. It may be a little unstable for a few more days while I remember some of my old favorites.
Edit history:
11-02-2023: Initial version
11-04-2023: Finally filled the 10th slot. Chrono Trigger deserves a spot on this list. Final fantasy definitely feels overrepresented, but it can stay until I figure out something else to put there.
Top 10: RPG
As of 2022 the favorite genre for the Cr3w is Role Playing. Rank up to ten of your favorite RPGs on this list.
ME Legendary edition is not cheating. It's one game and you can't convince me otherwise.
MP is a harder choice, but Remastered is amazing.
P5 should be considered to be the Royal version.
Ori is a coin-flip but when in doubt I'm taking the earlier game because you don't get a sequel if the original isn't excellent to begin with; if the sequel clearly surpasses the original (see Persona 5 >> all previous titles) then it wins.
Mt. Rushmore
These are your top 4 games of all time. No more, no less.
This counts ff7r which is debatable. This does not count games played on multiple platforms via subscriptions unless the game was actually purchased multiple times.
Multiple Purchases
What games have you bought multiple times? Whether across system generations, upgraded versions, broken copies, digital and physical, multiple family members, whatever. List them! Inspired by @connerf
