I've only played Oblivion once on Xbox a long time ago, so it'll be new for me going through it, but everyone's recommended it.

First I started playing LA Noire again. I forgot how hard it was sometimes to tell if the suspect is lying or not, lol. Game's really fun though, I forgot how fun it was looking for clues and interviewing suspects. I seem to recall the game being kind of short, though. So far I've gotten all the question/clues found and I just made it to the traffic division.

I recommend waiting until you've completed the main questline or are high level before touching the Shivering Isles.  While it's still personally the best add-on to any game ever made, I believe it's level adjusted to your level when you're there, but the rewards don't level with you as I recall.  Got an awesome element shifting sword that never loses its charge at like level 5 or something and lost its use before I even got to the second Oblivion gate.

Knights of the Nine you can do whenever, its rewards weren't all that special, and the questline itself wasn't either.

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Though there was a big battle in the clouds in your full crusader outfit at the end which was fun.

Yeah, the game is hard!

Also, about it being "short", since the game is episodic I like to think of it as a TV show (well, that and the TV talents all throughout the plot ) so it's a good, like, 2 seasons. Long enough for me

Streets of Rage (Genesis)

Going to attempt an entire run-through without losing a life.

Yeah, some of the side missions are actually kind of cool, like pursuits. Some of them involve previously encountered characters, which gives them depth (as re-offender perps!). I really enjoy sometimes just driving around that 40's L.A. just because the music relaxes me

It's a better game than I originally anticipated. This + RDR made me a Rockstar believer, and now the next games on my queue are GTAV and Max Payne