Great work as always. Have to give it a closer look later.

I admit, I never player any Paper Mario. TTYD is generally named as the best, so maybe I should give it a try. It is on Nintendo Online N64, right?

Awesome work once again mZuzek! Thanks for everything.

Now, there's of course plenty I could say about all this. What I noticed most is, like everyone did, the brilliant debut of Metroid Dread at #16! With 24 people voting. Very impressive, I might have to get that game sooner rather than later. Mario dominates the top 10, but I guess that's expected with such a long series of unique and recognisable games. Then, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild really is still the victor by a landslide; 40 votes out of 67 compiled lists, and probably most of them have the game at the top or near the top of their lists. I also noticed I was the only voter for quite a few of the games on my own list, even some near my top or some that are well known. Like, no one else voted for Duck Hunt or MediEvil, I'm saddened. What is funny though, is that I think I'm solely responsible for the top 2 of the 'mobile' list, since I noted I played Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic and Prince of Persia also on mobile.

However, there's also a few crimes here. I already mentioned MediEvil, and it's as low as #521. People, people, people, people. Anno 1602 at #435, again I'm the only voter. People, people, people, what has come of this world. Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic at #173 is also much too low, but at least there's a couple votes for that one.

But then, the greatest crime of all, is that The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, a game that's only 24 years old this year, is at the shockingly low #3 spot. Should be way, way, way higher obviously.

I jest, I'm happy to have read everyone's game-stories, and I really tried to read every one of them. I'm happy to have written my own, and I hope everyone liked reading mine as well. It was a fun time, so thanks again mZuzek!

First of all: thanks mZuzek for organizing the event, it is one of the highlights on this site in my opinion.

More to the details:

One Must Fall: 2097 made the list! It sadly didn't made my list this year (only 50 titles is REALLY limiting), but I am happy to see it is still represented. Thank you whoever put it in their list.

I am apparently the only one voting for Battle for Wesnoth, it seems not enough people played it. It is free guys!

Gylt is a little indie gem, that kinda dies with the Stadia exclusivity. It is totally worth it. You can buy it separately, without a Stadia subscription.

Beyond Good & Evil is a great game, again didn't made it in my list of 50, but @Veknoid_Outcast represented it, thank you very much.

King's Bounty II is again a game only I voted for. I hope more people will pick it up in the future. As I learned, it's history is connected to 3DO and Heroes of Might and Magic, which explains why I like it. There are definitive similarities to the Heroes series, but also with only one hero it allows for a much more focused story. I should play older entries in the King's Bounty series, this was the first time I got aware of it.

Radiant Historia is a game I already have but resides still in my backlog. I totally need to play that to form a proper opinion.

Phoenix Point was apparently only voted by me. For everyone enjoying X-COM, that is the game from the guy who invented X-COM initially in the 90s.

Rhythm Heaven Fever (which is to me as a european known as Beat the Beat: Rhythm Paradise) is a game I liked on the Wii, but again, only 50 spots isn't enough. Thanks for @green_sky for including it.

Romance of the three Kingdoms has too many games. I played XIV as the first game in the series this year, and it instantly made my list. But I see the series represented with four different games, only one of which got two votes.

People start to see the light on some of my favorite games though, there was a second vote each for Star Wars: Dark Forces, Pandora's Tower and Heroes of Might and Magic III. Thank you all for playing and liking games that are not that mainstream, but also totally worth it. Child of Light got even four votes, a total gem of a game.

I on the other hand played A Short Hike for the first time and totally loved it and I am now the second one voting for it. Same with Spiritfarer, which deserves more than two votes.

After that we get into the area of more mainstream games, which probably everyone knows anyways.

Maybe we should each pick a game that only one of us had in it's list, and play it this year. Because it probably is a worthy game making one of the exclusive 50 spots in a list, but not well known enough. For me that might be Radiant Historia, or maybe Wizardry 8. Or Alpha Centauri, also a game I wanted to try for some time. Not sure yet, but at least one of these I should play over the course of the year.

Nah, it's a GameCube game.

Thanks for hosting, space raccoon. Another job well done! *pets the top of your head*

Commentary: There are too many Nintendo games!

I think my job here is done.

EDIT: Well okay, maybe not quite. I note that two, count 'em TWO, original IPs made the top 20 once again, and just wanted to take credit for that because The Last of Us (ranking in 20th place) actually lost five votes this year compared to last year (when it also placed 20th), so the fact that it's still in the top 20 is very likely owed to my moving it up to second place on my list. Otherwise, it would've been overtaken by Majora's Mask, making 15 out of the top 20 titles Nintendo games and 19 sequels. Same principle with The Last of Us Part II: it moved up ten ranks this year despite getting the same number of votes probably because I moved it up to #1 on my list. So YaY me! My impact on this site is actually visible this year!

Hmm, will be hard for me then to try it. Maybe the original Paper Mario then, to at least dip into the series.

I tried to get the DS version, but all I found went for over 200€. I wished they'd bring it to modern systems.

What do you mean with *original* IPs, because I am lost here? One apparently is Last of Us, what is the other?

Bold: It's god damn fun.

Also thanks for all the work you did here. Really appreciate it.