Tag: Harold Halibut
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BigNerdGaming’s Top 10 Moments of 2024
Welcome to the last part of my three part series on the top moments of 2024! These are the big ones. When I look back on 2024, these are all the moments I will remember most. I’m excited to share them with you! After getting some feedback, I made all the headlines a bit more…
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BigNerdGaming’s Top 40 Moments of 2024: #40-26
I’ve been doing tons of lists for the end of the year. This might be my craziest. This is part one of three this week, going over my top 40 moments of 2024. I love video game moments because they can encapsulate such a wide variety of experiences. A lot of these are big story…
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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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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 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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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 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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Harold Halibut Review: Worth The Wait
There are some games, even some I absolutely loved, where the credits hit, and I immediately skip them and move on to something else. And then there are the games where the credits roll, and I end up sitting there and just taking it all in. I become lost in thought, reflecting about what just…
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Gaming Round Up: Ultros, Unicorn Overlord, and Harold Halibut
I promised a list of my top 10 games with a Metacritic score of 76 or under today, but that project ended up being a bit more labor intensive than I anticipated, so that list will now be coming Tuesday. Instead, here is another gaming round up with some of the things I have new…
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