gamrConnect Presents: Their 1131 Greatest Games, as of 2021

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Jaicee said:

Alrighty, I'll play that game we're all playing now. Out of my top 50 picks...

...1 made the top 10.
...3 made the top 20.
...11 made the top 100.

The 11 games I picked that also made the top 100 were: Super Metroid, Final Fantasy VI, The Last of Us, The Last of Us Part II, NieR: Automata, Portal, Portal 2, Okami, Ori and the Blind Forest, Hades, and Undertale. Last year, Celeste (another fave of mine) also made the top 100, but it was bumped out this year, apparently in favor of some more Nintendo games.

I was the sole contributor of 25 games to this year's list...so half my list consisted of unique selections, in other words. Looks like I'm tied with Mnementh in this regard. My unique selections included:

1) Butterfly Soup
2) Gone Home
3) Knights and Bikes
4) Chop Suey
5) Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams
6) Crypt of the NecroDancer
7) Cadence of Hyrule
8) Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor
9) Papo & Yo
10) Kentucky Route Zero
11) ScourgeBringer
12) Death Stranding
13) It Takes Two <-- Seriously!! You know, the GOTY winner at The Game Awards?!
14) Gato Roboto
15) Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
16) Pony Island
17) Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin
18) This War of Mine
19) Streets of Rage 4
20) The Artful Escape
21) The Shrouded Isle
22) That Dragon, Cancer
23) Deathloop <-- Yup, just me!
24) Mission: It's Complicated
25) There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension

I mean, I always kind of expect my lesbian romances and feminist type games to be more or less unique to my list, along with some quirkier, super-obscure faves of mine like ScourgeBringer, Pony Island, There Is No Game, that sorta thing...but come on now, I didn't expect to the be the only person who included Kentucky Route Zero, Hellblade, Sakuna, It Takes Two, Deathloop, This War of Mine, and Streets of Rage 4. Those are a little less obscure and have real fan bases.

I'm about 1/3 of the way through It Takes Two with my buddy and loving every minute of it. I might end up putting it on my list as well once I've completed it. what a delightful game from top to bottom; even my coop buddy I'm playing with had to stop every level or so and say 'man, this was not at all what I was expecting, it's so much more'. 

Honestly, when it won GOTY I was a little skeptical in the wake of such gems as Rivet and Clank...I mean, uh, Ratchet & Clank as well as stuff like Deathloop and Forza, but like, after playing it? I have to say it's truly something special.