Category: Ranks
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BigNerdGaming’s 2024 Honorable Mentions
With each video game that I play, I am thinking about if it will be in my top ten at year end. I love playing video games, and it’s a great way for me to think about the games that I enjoyed the most in a given year. In recent years, we have seen an…
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The 2024 Nerdys: All Of My Dumbest Video Game Awards
I love year-end awards. I love ranking stuff. I love finding ways to honor the video games that I loved the most this year. My actual 2024 awards will feature top 10s for multiple categories that will allow games that even I may have forgotten about in stretches to be honored. Yet THAT STILL ISN’T…
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The Twenty Biggest Winners From The Game Awards
After watching The Game Awards, one word kept crossing my mind. I thought about writing my blog post on the event as soon as it finished and starting with that word, but I didn’t want to be a prisoner of the moment. I wanted a few days for things to simmer. I wanted post-Geoff clarity…
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BigNerdGaming’s Top 10 Indie Games of 2024
I am not making this list because indie games are “lesser” than AAA games, so they need to be segregated into their own category. I am making this list because indie games are often more remarkable than their AAA counterparts, and they deserve to be highlighted for that. Almost all of the most unique experiences…
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AndresPlays Top 10 Games of 2024
Editor’s Note: This is the first ever post on Big Nerd Gaming not written by Westen! I want to thank Andres for using this platform to share his top 10 games of 2024. You can find him on Twitter, Bluesky, and Threads at the attached links. Stay Tuned for more end of year content on…
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My Top 7 Games of 2024 That I Didn’t Finish
Completing a game isn’t everything. Over the years, I have had many games that I really liked or even loved that I didn’t finish. Sometimes, the game was just a bit too long, and I felt fine calling it quits after 50-60 hours. Occasionally, a game is awesome but doesn’t have difficulty settings, and I…
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The Five Biggest Surprises From The Game Awards Nominations + My Thoughts on DLC As Game Of The Year
It’s here! We have finally reached Game of the Year season. As great as it is playing all of these awesome video games all year, debating and ranking them is almost as much fun. This is part one of my Game Awards content this week. Tune in later in the week for my famous (in…
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My Top 25 Moments From Metaphor: ReFantazio
It’s back! After putting together a list of my top 25 moments from Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth back in March, I have decided to do the same thing for Metaphor: ReFantazio. While I’m not sure if Metaphor’s moments quite live up to Rebirth’s, this is still a huge story heavy game with tons of amazing…
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Big Nerd Gaming’s Top 10 PS1 Games
Today’s post is the next one on my journey to releasing my top 50 games of all time. I find that it’s much easier to segment games off first, which is why I’m slowly ranking my top 10 games on each system before I release the full list. This has been a great feature when…
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My Ten Biggest Disagreements With Game Critics This Year (So Far)
One of my biggest “hot takes” is that game critics do a pretty good job overall. If you look at games that don’t have stupid, made-up controversies around them, the critic and consumer consensus is relatively in line for a lot of games. But of course, even for a game critic defender like me, disagreements…
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