Top 20 Best of Lists 2007
The best of list (2006/2007 edition) to end all best of lists! Thanks to everyone who contributed. Coming up next - the top 10 list of the best of lists about the best games of whenever. [permalink]
In nonsensical order:
Top 20 Top Whatever List
1. Remakes 100
2. Edge Magazine’s The 100 Best Videogames Ever
3. 2007 IGF Winners
4. Edge Magazine’s The Best Indie Games of 2007
5. Game Tunnel’s Top 100 Indie Games
6. Game Tunnel’s 2006 Game of the Year Awards
7. 50 Really Good Indie Games
8. Top 10 Doujin Shmups
9. 1UP’s 101 Best Free Games 2007
10. Best of Casual Gameplay 2006
11. Paul Eres’ Favorite 20 Indie Game Picks
12. Echo’s Favorite Indie Games
13. The 10 Worst Games of All Time
14. Wired’s Best Indie Games 2007
15. Art Games: Best Indy Titles
16. The Top 1 Greatest List of Lists in the World Ever
17. NeoTeo.com’s Top 10 Freeware Adventure Games
18. IGN’s Top 10 Adventure Games
19. Top 10 Adventure Games IGN Missed Out in Their Top 10 Adventure Games List
20. Top 21 Linux Games of 2007
Remakes 100 (1)
Top 100 games as voted for by various members of the community.
Edge Magazine’s The 100 Best Videogames Ever (2)
A poll of Edge magazine readers and industry experts to find the top 100 games of all time.
2007 IGF Winners (3)
Main Competition finalists and winners of the 2007 Independent Games Festival, selected from a field of 141 entries.
Edge Magazine’s The Best Indie Games of 2007 (4)
Edge Magazine’s list of finalists in the IGF Student Competition.
Game Tunnel’s Top 100 Indie Games (5)
Game Tunnel’s Top 100 indie games, based on 458 panel reviews from the last 3 years.
Game Tunnel’s 2006 Game of the Year Awards (6)
Top Independent Games of 2006, based on game submissions to Game Tunnel.
50 Really Good Indie Games (7)
A list of games compiled by TIGSource forum members.
Top 10 Doujin Shmups (8)
Top 10 doujin shmups as selected by Postman (of Shoot the Core).
1UP’s 101 Best Free Games 2007 (9)
An annual list of 101 free games considered the absolute best, by the editors of Games For Windows.
Best of Casual Gameplay 2006 (10)
Paul Eres’ Favorite 20 Indie Game Picks (11)
A list consisting twenty of Paul’s favorite games.
Echo’s Favorite Indie Games (12)
A list consisting twelve of Echo’s favorite games.
The 10 Worst Games of All Time (13)
The ten worst games of all time, as selected by Mr. Emru Townsend.
Wired’s Best Indie Games 2007 (14)
A list of the best five games from 2007, as selected by Clive Thompson.
Art Games: Best Indy Titles (15)
A list of twenty-seven art games, as compiled by Mentisworks.
The Top 1 Greatest List of Lists in the World Ever (16)
A list of lists considered by Oddbob as the greatest ever.
NeoTeo.com’s Top 10 Freeware Adventure Games (17)
NeoTeo.com’s article about ten of the best freeware adventure games, in Spanish. (translated)
IGN’s Top 10 Adventure Games (18)
Ten of the greatest graphic adventure games of all-time, as chosen by IGN.
Top 10 Adventure Games IGN Missed Out in Their Top 10 Adventure Games List (19)
Top 21 Linux Games of 2007 (20)
Or Worst 21 Linux Games of 2007.
see also:
- Freeware Indie Games for Linux
- cly5m’s favorite games
- SourceForge.net 2007 Community Choice Awards
- Adrenaline Vault’s Top Casual Games of 2006
- Top Ten 8 and 16-bit Games That Deserve Next-Gen Remakes
- A Guide to the World of Indy Adventure Games
Anonymous said,
August 8th, 2007 at 2:54 am
Why can’t they ever say : “My favorite” or “Our favorite” instead of “THE top X beat games EVER!!!”. I certainly don’t agree with most of this list.
Paul Eres said,
August 8th, 2007 at 3:10 am
Actually my list (coming soon) does say favorite.
Anonymous said,
August 8th, 2007 at 3:44 am
Glad to hear it paul.
Ian said,
August 8th, 2007 at 4:12 am
It truly is the hallmark of a small mind to argue over semantics. For your own piece of mind, just assume there is an implicit IMHO after everything you read or hear.
Patrick said,
August 8th, 2007 at 6:15 am
I’m real bummed out to see Play With Fire, a very innovative, slick game I worked on, get wholly overlooked by these lists. For christs sake, somebody review it!
Paul Eres said,
August 8th, 2007 at 6:53 am
Hahaha, give me a free copy and I’ll review it Patrick.
haowan said,
August 8th, 2007 at 7:19 am
The link to Play With Fire doesn’t work, Patrick.
Derek said,
August 8th, 2007 at 8:28 am
“A list of games compiled by a small section of the community.”
Now that is a hell of a recommendation!
“It truly is the hallmark of a small mind to argue over semantics.”
By “small mind,” you mean people who don’t necessarily appreciate hyperbole for the sake of attention-getting? Oh wait, semantics, yes. I’ll stop arguing, then…
Anonymous said,
August 8th, 2007 at 8:48 am
You should consider different music for your game video. You may want to consider making a different game instead… or maybe just stop? might be better for you and all of us.
You could just start off by not whining; babysteps.
Tim W. said,
August 8th, 2007 at 9:00 am
@Derek: Alright, fixed. Sowwy…
Echo said,
August 8th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
I have only one thing to say:
“Lol”
btw, I also have a favourites list that didn’t seem to make the cut, heh.
Echo said,
August 8th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
Oh wait - hey, it did!
Patrick said,
August 8th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
Costik went and changed the node URL on me: here, now Play With Fire.
Super profundo on the early eve of your day.
Patrick said,
August 8th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
Yeah, apparently this blog doesn’t take HTML.
http://www.manifestogames.com/node/614
Alec said,
August 9th, 2007 at 4:52 am
Uh…
Why are you such an asshole, Tim?
haowan said,
August 9th, 2007 at 9:03 am
Cut the guy some slack Alec, it was probably unintentional. Why the aggression?
Echo said,
August 9th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
Yeah, relax Alec. He could say the same thing to you - there’s no need to be so cantankerous all the time.
alec said,
August 9th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
What aggression? I’m honestly curious…
Also, I don’t run an indie game blog… so if I’m perceived as being “cantankerous” by the folks that get kicks out of hating me on a regular basis, at least it won’t make much of a difference in the grand scheme of things.
haowan said,
August 9th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
You could phrase your “honest question” much more nicely IMO. IIRC English isn’t Tim’s first language but whatever, I’ll let him fight his own battles.
alec said,
August 9th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Battles?
I thought the whole purpose of this post was to jokingly insult people.
haowan said,
August 9th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
Aha, ok. I see what you did there now.
Tim W. said,
August 9th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
Well, Derek did correct me and I’ve made the correction, but in your case Alec I still can’t figure out what I’ve done wrong.
I get called names many times, just as often as I receive kind words from a lot of people… so I’m used to the flak by now.
The list is supposed to be helpful, and it’s a joke post as well. (re: no. 16 - 20). Mayhaps you didn’t find the irony? It wasn’t targeted at you surely, and there’s no venom at all in the post.
I would have apologized to anyone who feel offended about their list being in this post, and removed it upon request. Even a list on my site is in it, so I’ve no idea why I deserve that kind of remark. Maybe it’s random? Anyway, in the end I’m not flustered by it.
Tim W. said,
August 9th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
It’s a joke, and there’s no insult. Or perhaps one of your list was mentioned? I fail to find anything belonging to you listed actually…
alec said,
August 9th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
I agree, I see no reason why you should care.
I think the post and the following comments are entirely ridiculous.
Tim W. said,
August 9th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
Ooh, you have no idea how much I care about the scene. Heck, the only motivation I have to post five times a day is because of you guys, the community, the developers - everyone (even MDickie!). You can bury me in a grave filled with indie and freeware games when I pass on, and I’d be eternally grateful to you for the kindness.
I was planning on sending an email to you and discuss about what happened (assuming that there was anything I did which offended you in any way), but I don’t think you’re going to be a reasonable gentleman with your response. I’m hoping that I’m wrong though.
Kon-Tiki said,
August 9th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
Hahaha, “Top 10 Worst Games” =D Two things about that:
(You better make it. These things’re funny =D )
1) It’s made in 2006 and covers games from all times, so it belongs in that next list you’re going to make
3) I can’t count
We can expect that next Top 10 list of lists of games from whenever, now can we?
Paul Eres said,
August 9th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
It was intended to be ridiculous — it was a joke entry. The purpose was to make fun of all these lists in a lighthearted way. I think you may have misunderstood Tim’s intentions.
alec said,
August 10th, 2007 at 8:10 am
I’m not unreasonable. But I guess you’re not willing to see that.
That’s cool, you can hate me if you want.
Knock yourself out.
alec said,
August 10th, 2007 at 8:13 am
Paul, did I ever say I thought it wasn’t a retarded joke?
I love how people are taking my comments seriously, as if there’s even something to attack in Tim’s post.
Its all in good fun, same spirit as the original light-hearted post.
Anonymous said,
August 10th, 2007 at 9:06 am
who said anything about hating you?
no one is ganging up on you, i’m sure that’s what haowan meant.
seriously alec, you come around, voice your harsh opinion without reason - even i think you’re being unreasonable here.
i can see why you’re not a popular figure around the scene, and it definitely has nothing to do with running an indie game blog.
http://www.bit-blot.com/forum/index.php?topic=13.msg1701#msg1701
Paul Eres said,
August 10th, 2007 at 9:27 am
It’s hard to interpret tone and intention online. I didn’t understand that you meant your comment lightheartedly, sorry for overreacting.
I don’t know of anyone who hates you though, I don’t have anything but admiration toward you myself (especially after I saw the level editor for Aquaria).
Anonymous said,
August 10th, 2007 at 11:41 am
alec: don’t swap your day-time job programming for a gig as a stand-up comedian. you have zero talent when it comes to sharing any joke whatsoever.
keep telling people to fuck off whenever you can, and you’ll go far in life.
asshole.
Kon-Tiki said,
August 10th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Alec, I didn’t understand what you were talking about in the beginning, and the more you go on about it, the less I understand it, as it seems like it keeps getting twisted and warped the more it goes on. Just drop it, and next time you make a joke like that, put a disclaimer near it, although I honestly don’t think that making a sniding remark like that is funny, not even when intended as a joke. If you REALLY can’t keep yourself from making such weird jokes, then at least put a disclaimer up, so we understand it’s meant as one.
Alec said,
August 18th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
Sweet, more hating. <3
Anyways, I respect Tim. His original unedited post took a joke dump on TIGS, so I felt I’d take a joke dump on him. I thought it was a mutual respect thing, and since his posts on TIGS are usually so crazy random, he’d get it. My bad!
In terms of being cantankerous, yeah, I tend to get pissed when people try to force their beliefs on me without respecting mine. That’s bullshit. There’s no doubt I could have handled that Linux thread better, but I was really pissed that people weren’t even trying to relate to our situation. Do I regret the way I acted? Oh hells yes.
But I’m young and stupid. Maybe in the future I’ll be able to handle it better. At least, I’d hope so.
In the meantime, I’ll stick to being my optimistic, depressed and occasionally cantankerous self.
Am I interested in being “popular”? No. But getting along with people is important, and I’d hope to make new friends in the scene. I don’t want to be someone that offends people without reason, but I’m still going to speak my mind like everyone has the right to.
Actually, for anyone that would like to have a discussion rather than just flinging shit at me, my msn is zaphire@mts.net :]