Darashiva 5 days ago
I've done a summary of my top 50 in previous years' events, so might as well do that again. For anyone interested, here's my top 50.
2024 marked the first time that I had given every game in my top 50 a personal rating of 9.0 out of 10 or higher.
New Games:
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails to Azure (#48)
- A Plague Tale: Requiem (#42)
- Theatrhythm: Final Bar Line (#41)
- Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth (#24)
Which then meant that the following games fell off my list this year:
- A Plague tale: Innocence (#50 last year)
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd (#49 last year)
- God of War 2018 (#48 last year)
- Uncharted 2: Honor Among Thieves (#47 last year)
Honorable mentions:
(Games that just missed my top 50)
- Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age (FFXII was in my top 50 years ago, and the Zodiac Age version almost pushed it back in. Even right now I'm still wondering if I should put it above some of the bottom games on my list so it might appear there in the future)
- God of War: Ragnarök (Also just barely missed making it in)
Movements in the top 50:
- The biggest drops this year were Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (-6 spots to #20), Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater, Stardew Valley, Suikoden II, and Final Fantasy XVI (-4 spots each).
- Upward movements were quite small, as no game made any significant positive jumps. 8 games in total went up by 1 spot.
Platform Breakdown:
(I've played some games on multiple platforms, hence why the total doesn't add up to 50)
| PC | PS1 | PS2 | PS3 | PS4 | PS5 | Xbox 360 | NES | SNES | Switch |
| 7 games | 6 games | 4 games | 10 games | 26 games | 6 games | 1 game | 1 game | 1 game | 1 game |
- PS4 is by far the most represented platform, though that includes 11 games I originally played on a different platform, so technically the real number is 15.
- The highest ranking game for each platform is as follows, going by the platform I first played the game on:
- PC: Freespace 2 (#3)
- PS1: Final Fantasy IX (#1)
- PS2: Shadow of the Colossus (#6)
- PS3: Dark Souls (#4)
- PS4: Bloodborne (#8)
- PS5: Horizon: Forbidden West (#15)
- Xbox 360: Lost Odysey (#47)
- NES: Super Mario Bros. 3 (#45)
- SNES: Final Fantasy VI (#16)
- Switch: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (#44)
Series Breakdown:
(Series with multiple entries in my top 50)
- Final Fantasy: 9 games
- The Legend of Heroes: 7 games
- Dark Souls: 3 games
- The Last of Us: 2 games
- Horizon: 2 games
- Valkyria Chronicles: 2 games
Decade/Year Breakdown:
(going by the original EU release year)
- 1980s: 0 games (Mario 3 wasn't released in the EU until 1991)
- 1990s: 6 games
- 2000s: 10 games
- 2010s: 23 games
- 2020s: 11 games
Most represented years in my top 50 are:
- 2017 with six games
- 2016 with five games
- 2020 with four games
Developer Breakdown:
(Developers with multiple games in my top 50)
- Squaresoft / Square Enix: 8 games
- Nihon Falcom: 7 games
- Fromsoftware: 5 games
- Naughty Dog: 3 games
- Guerrilla Games: 2 games
- Nintendo: 2 games
- Konami: 2 games
- Sega / Media.Vision: 2 games
And that's all I can think to mention. Thanks for another great event, and hopefully see you again next year for the same thing.
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