Category: Ranks

  • My Top 25 Moments From Metaphor: ReFantazio

    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…

  • Big Nerd Gaming’s Top 10 PS1 Games

    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…

  • My Ten Biggest Disagreements With Game Critics This Year (So Far)

    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…

  • My 10 Biggest Winners from Gamescom 2024

    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,…

  • BigNerdGaming’s Top 10 Game Boy/Game Boy Color Games

    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.…

  • BigNerdGaming’s Top 10 SNES Games

    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.…

  • My Top 10 Most Anticipated Video Games For THIS FREAKING WEEK

    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…

  • My Top 15 Most Anticipated Games For the Rest of 2024

    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…

  • BigNerdGaming’s Top 10 Games From The First Half of 2024

    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…

  • My 15 Biggest Winners from Summer Game Fest Week

    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…