Every year, I tend to make my own list of favourite games. I’ll parrot that list wherever people might listen; forums, livejournals, real-life conversations, and even print ‘zines have had to put up with my pre-year-plus-one ramblings at one point or another.
This year I’ve decided to break it up into a few parts to spare any potential readers from too big a burst of annual logorrhea. I’ll be spreading it out over four days:
December 25: The Oldies. These games didn’t come out in 2008 but since the order in which I get and play games is hardly, if ever, chronologically coherent, they only got to me this year.
December 26: The Publications. These are the things I read about games this year that really inspired me to think or to write. I’ve probably talked about some of them before, but it’s worth taking a trip down blogosphere lane and patting some backs unnecessarily at the same time, innit?
December 27: The Moments. Here, I’ll talk about the news and the non-news that made 2008 interesting to me.
December 28: The Lesser Mediums. I don’t know what’s worse about this title: calling them “mediums,” or calling them “lesser.” Here’s my top lists for films and records.
December 29: Questionable Mentions. Games that I’m disappointed that I didn’t get to play, and that may have placed if I had.
December 30: Dishonorable Mentions. Games that disappointed me in one way or another; things that just didn’t have everything I needed to be satisfied.
December 31: Honorable Mentions. Games that, while fantastic, would have to settle for a double-digit ranking if I were to rate them. Instead, they’re presented in alphabetical order.
January 1: The Big Ten. It took me ages to get here, but here are the ten games of 2008 that really moved me, in one way or another.
Indeed, I’ve planned a lot of writing for myself over the next few days. Hopefully, I’ll figure out how to make them post automatically on each of these days so I don’t have to come back to this terrible computer at my folks’ place every day. WordPress can probably do that, right?
Day 1: The Oldies coming soon! Be excited afraid!
