The Gamer's Quarter

helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

Like the Google aesthetics of the title? It's like we have virtually infinite taste in games!

Alright, the purpose of this thread is not serious. It's totally arbitrary. It isn't going to be definitive or accurate or maybe even representative. But I like year-end lists and I like compiling things. Plus, they're a neat way to reflect back on the year that was. We'll be like a Mirror Shield, but even more gimmicky!

Just as with any good arbitrary activity, there are rules here, and strict ones. Not following the rules will result in castigation, and hopefully ostracization.

RULES
1. Each contributor lists FOUR [4] games. There are no also-rans. No ties. No honorable mentions. Any posts with excess games listed will not count during tabulation.
2. The criteria for each contributor's choices are: a) game originally released in 2007 (in whatever region). Major release, vc/psn/xbla, indie, snake v. apple, whatever; b) game fits individual contributor's definition of "best." That's right, no illusion of objectivity here. You can pick a game just to help it out, or to screw with the compiled list; c) game has been played by contributor. Honor system, folks.
3. Rank your games from 1-4. Your top-ranked game will receive 4 pts, your lowest-ranked game will receive 1 pt. '1' is the designation for the top-ranked game, with '4' the designation for the lowest.
4. I will total up the list every 4-5 days so that we can see what our list is looking like.
5. If you want to change your list after it's posted, just say so and post a new list.

So let's get started! I'll go first.

Sound good?

Oh, and The Orange Box is NOT 1 game. It has 3 possible choices.
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

1. Team Fortress 2
2. Mario Galaxy
3. Pac-Man Championship Edition
4. Planet Puzzle League
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SuperWes · Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 11:08 am Post subject:

Hey! I did this at the other place, but here it is again!

1. Uncharted
2. Halo 3
3. Rock Band
4. Phoenix Wright 3

-Wes
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dhex · Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 11:24 am Post subject:

1. stalker
2. hl2: episode 2
3. bioshock
4. portal
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

1.Portal
2.Shadowrun
3.Team Fortress 2
4.Everyday Shooter
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aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

1. Portal
2. KOF XI
3. Pac-Man Championship Edition
4... is pending. I'll get back to you on this. Maybe.
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

1. Pac-Man Championship Edition
2. Uncharted
3. Virtua Fighter 5 Online
4. Portal
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david · . Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 170 Location: b, md

1. Proatl
2. Johnny Chung Lee's Wiimote Head Tracking
3. -
4. sexy
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

1. space giraffe
2. marathon:durandal
3. stalker
4. something that isnt portal because im sick of hearing about it
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Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 3:35 pm Post subject:

1. Skylathe 600km Shooting
2. Dethbus
3. Highway Speed
4. Unnamed Christmas game
5. Assassinatrix Adventures/Freestyle Box 2007
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

Winged, I'm not counting that until you read the rules and get your act together.
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Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 4:21 pm Post subject:

Rules are made to be broken.
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Ethoscapade · . Joined: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 276

1. portal
2. knytt stories
3. kororinpa
4. civilization: beyond the sword

The Great Unwashed · Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 6:35 pm Post subject:

1. Team Fortress 2
2. Stalker
3. Mass Effect
4. Portal

I really want to put Knytt on there but I can't justify it.
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aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

I keep wanting to put Braid on there, but it keeps not being out yet.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Pac-Man C.E. does get an honorable mention from me BTW. It's a solid choice, it's just that 4 is ... so few!
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Neal · . Joined: 13 Nov 2006 Posts: 36 Location: Tennessee

Even though I don't post here nearly as much as I'd like I am going to throw mine in anyways....

1. Portal
2. KOF 11
3. Lunar Knights
4. Hotel Dusk
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

What's with you fags* not putting Super Mario Galaxy in your top fours?

1. Mario Galaxy
2. Knytt Stories
3. Portal (haven't played it)
4. Team Fortress 2 (haven't played it)

Honorable Mention: Pacman C.E. (haven't played it)

*YEAH, 'FAGS'

The Great Unwashed · Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 11:59 pm Post subject:

Just didn't find Mario Galaxy that exciting, that's all. Good game though, most polished thing I've seen in ages and the controls were amazing, but I guess I've just moved on?
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aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

There are a lot of things I might put on the list. Trying to limit this to things I've spent a good deal of time playing, though, and that really stood out to me. I haven't bought (therefore haven't played) many games this year, since, you know, money. What I have played, I've mostly played in bursts here and there.
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Cossix · . Joined: 14 Nov 2007 Posts: 87

1. Uncharted
2. Ratchet and Clank Future
3. Call of Duty 4
4. Portal

I really really want to put skate on this list every time someone asks for the top 10 but it just doesn't fit. Also the Darkness because I never shut up about it but it also doesn't fit. Also Persona 3.

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

1. Crackdown
2. Mario Galaxies
3. Bioshock
4. Halo 3

This was a tough list, looking at my "media consumed log", a few of my favorites were actually '06 games I got late, like Twilight Princess and Chibi-Robo.

Surprised Crackdown isn't getting more love.

Portal would probably be there if I had played it.
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SuperWes · Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 8:21 am Post subject:

Hey guys, lets fuck the top 4 and do a top 10/top whatever instead, eh?

I'll get on it later...

-Wes
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

Wes, my parade is going to be really soggy if you keep up that attitude.

This is supposed to be arbitrarily brutal about exclusion! You don't have to feel guilty about not having enough spots! No one has enough spots! Moderation was kind of the point.
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SuperWes · Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 8:37 am Post subject:

helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

wes, this is just like when anyone asks you what a good game for [system] is and you say 46 games afterwards.

but fine, 5-10 don't count if you want to list them. Only the first 4 do.

hey the three of you who listed Uncharted: would someone write about it in the games i'm playing thread? I'm very curious.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 8:53 am Post subject:

wes, you need some discipline.

(there's nothing wrong with hard choices. it's just another part of life)
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

Here's where we're at so far! I'll update it again after the weekend.

Portal 30
Team Fortress 2 12
Uncharted 11
Super Mario Galaxy 10
Stalker 9
Pac-man C.E. 8
KOF XI 6
Knytt stories 6
Kororinpa 5
Bioshock 4
Crackdown 4
Halo 3 4
Skylathe 600km shooting 4
Space Giraffe 4
Dethbus 3
Hl2: e2 3
Johnny Chung Lee’s Wiimote... 3
Marathon: Durandal 3
Ratchet and Clank Future 3
Shadowrun 3
COD 4 2
Highway speed 2
Lunar Knights 2
Mass effect 2
VF 5 Online 2
Civilization: beyond the sword 1
Everyday Shooter 1
Hotel Dusk 1
Picross DS 1
Planet Puzzle League 1
Rock Band 1
Unnamed Christmas game 1

Sorry, David, but just because JT brought sexy back in 2007 doesn't mean it was released this year. And now you're as heartbroken as GLaDOS.
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david · . Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 170 Location: b, md

Who's JT?

I just meant, sexy, like ... maybe I should have written sexiness but I didn't like how that looked as much.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

It's interesting that 5 of the top 10 so far are PC games (basically).

Dhex: this video is awesome.
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SuperWes · Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 2:02 pm Post subject:

Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

1. Crackdown
2. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
3. Portal
4. Bishock

Of course, no. 1 should be Dwarf Fortress, except that as a constantly updating piece of software that hasn't even hit alpha yet, it hasn't really been released and while the massive update that came out late this year was certainly akin to a "new release", I couldn't really justify putting it on the list. It's in my heart though.

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

1. Call of Duty 4
2. Portal
3. Knytt Stories
4. Space Giraffe

Christ, BioShock needs to fuck off sharpish. I'm sick of even hearing about that overblown piece of software.
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

I am tempted to retro-edit it up to 1.

Or give it all four places.

dhex · Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 3:21 pm Post subject:

helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

elvis.shrugged · . Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 108 Location: Stratford, CT

1. Super Mario Galaxy
2. Kororinpa
3. Ghost Squad
4. Planet Puzzle League

SuperWes · Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:21 pm Post subject:

The Great Unwashed · Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 11:24 pm Post subject:

It's interesting that you two haven't got a room in a motel, had a huge argument where you ended up uncomfortably close to each other, then spontaneously embraced and had mad, frantic sex, for Christ's sake.
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

They have very adept wives, wives wary of the dangerous sponaneity inherent to hotel room arguments.
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kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

I got portal. New list:

1. Crackdown
2. Mario Galaxies
3. Portal
4. Bioshock

Bioshock really is there just because of the ambience; come to think of it the "loot every corpse for items" mechanic was annoying.

Admitedly I haven't played Portal that much yet; but based on writing and my fondness for Norbacular Drop I think its place is pretty secure.
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simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

I think I may have played some games, but I don't quite recall what they are. Been PC-less since April now.

1. Every Extend Extra (wikipediasez the EU and Australia got it this year. I got it this year too.)
2. S.T.A.L.K.E.R., even though I feel like it's the one that killed the computer.
3. Mario Galaxy
4. Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn (haven't actually played it yet, but I'm assuming it's the same as the gamecube one so that's fine)
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david · . Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 170 Location: b, md

SuperWes · Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 3:11 pm Post subject:

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

When was the last time Play didn't hand out a 10?
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SuperWes · Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 7:57 pm Post subject:

Lasa · . Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 128

1. Super Mario Galaxy
2. Earth Defense Force 2017
3. Fire Pro Wrestling Returns
4. Crackdown