Category: Ranks
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My 10 Biggest Winners from Gamescom 2024
Gamescom exists in a weird place within the gaming showcase hierarchy. Despite having all the bells and whistles of Summer Game Fest, it is always clearly several notches below it in terms of the amount of AAA games that make an appearance. Oftentimes, that means indies might get a bit more of a foothold here,…
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BigNerdGaming’s Top 10 Game Boy/Game Boy Color Games
After posting my top 10 SNES games earlier this week, it is now time to move on to the next system I owned, the Game Boy! My first portable system was actually the Game Boy Color, but I played plenty of Game Boy games on it, so it made sense for these to be combined.…
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BigNerdGaming’s Top 10 SNES Games
For those who have been following the blog for a while, you may know that my plan has been to put together a top 10 list for each year up to around 1995 before doing my top 50 games of all time. I find it easier to compartmentalize these things before tackling a big list.…
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My Top 10 Most Anticipated Video Games For THIS FREAKING WEEK
I’ve been talking about the week of July 14th for a while now. If you read my “Most Anticipated Games For the Rest of the Year” list a few weeks ago, I mentioned it briefly along with my number four game, which was Dungeons of Hinterberg. But the more I’ve dived in, the more I’ve…
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My Top 15 Most Anticipated Games For the Rest of 2024
The first half of 2024 was incredible. My top 10 from the year so far could stand with several full year top 10s from the past. And we aren’t done yet. When looking ahead to the rest of the year, things seem like they are about to heat up even more than we realize. Fall…
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BigNerdGaming’s Top 10 Games From The First Half of 2024
After 2023 was one of the deepest years in video game history, it was natural to expect a bit of a drop off in 2024. That has not been the case. 2024 has been off to an incredibly hot start, with every month so far having at least a few incredible games released, and that…
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My 15 Biggest Winners from Summer Game Fest Week
In a lot of the reaction pieces that I see from things like Summer Game Fest, the winners are usually the surprises and big showings. And those are awesome and all, but these often miss the mark, in my opinion. Summer Game Fest, Xbox Showcases, State of Plays, etc, are built for the purpose of…
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My Top 10 “Video Games as Art”
Editor’s Note: This post was updated on May 16th, 2025, with some new games. Harold Halibut and Valiant Hearts: The Great War were taken off the list, but they are still tremendous games that you should check out! Also, I unfortunately still haven’t played Shadow of the Colossus. Maybe next year. It wasn’t that long…
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BigNerdGaming’s Top 10 Games of 2021
This is the next step in my journey to eventually release a top 50 games of all time list. 2021 was one of the weaker years in recent gaming history to me. The pandemic slowing down work for a while is a pretty logical explanation as to why. Despite that, there was enough good where…
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My Top 10 Games With a Metacritic Score of 76 Or Less
As I talked about in my post last week, when a game averages scores in the 7s on an aggregator site like Metacritic, it seems to have a bit of a stink on it. Gamers become wary of it and even view it as a bad score, despite the fact that almost every review scale…
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