Best Games of 2007

Oh, and Peggle!

Peggle was this year?

Did anyone play that Half-Life Peggle they put out?

I _thought_ peggle was this year. Wikipedia agrees, but no guarantee there.

Eurogamer's top 50 list has been going up ten at a time (they've just hit number 21). I'm really enjoying it so far, because its not just some dumb press release style list, but they're still debating the merits of the games. So far though, the results do feel a bit random (I assume they're using an average from all their reviewer votes to place the games?)

i got half life peggle yes, a sort of demo that came with the orange box. Thought it was great.

I finally tried out Peggle a few days ago (was too lazy to get it when it was download-only). Damn you, Popcap, for stop making small changes to old game formulas and making it still work!! (I'm looking at you, Rocket Mania) But yeah, that is a pretty awesome game. I also laugh at the completely unnecessary unicorn mascot.

There's a great "making of Peggle" article here: http://www.popcap.com/extras/makingpeggle/big_idea.php

By the way, all Popcap games bought through their website are half price (usually $10) until Jan 3.

Eorogamer gets to their top ten...
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=89793

I'm very happy to see S.T.A.L.K.E.R. in there, which I've just recently started, and have so far been impressed by for its unique feel

B.O.R.I.N.G.

after the fact, but fire emblem for the wii is AWESOME

tell me more dude! I got doubles for Lego SW AND mario sonic olympics so I want to know what I should exchange for

Basically, it's Final Fantasy Tactics on steroids. Crazy depth and customizing; I've got twelve hours logged in game time (more like twenty in real time, given how often I have to reload after losing an "expendable" guy) and I've just gotten past 'Part 1'. A quick peek at gamefaq suggests there's four parts; I'm being pretty thorough and expect this to last me through March.
Control is regressive in the extreme (you could play this game on an nes controller), graphics are pretty eh... not even great for a gamecube. None of that matters: the plot is engaging, the dialogue is way better than most RPGs and the characters are fun. All of which is to say it's more poorly written than your average superhero comic, but leagues ahead of the teen angst in FFLIX: Rebirth of the Hair Gel.
Combat is nicely adjustable to allow for great flexibility in engagement; you can fight each individual battle or put it mostly on autopilot. It's my first Fire Emblem game, so I don't know if it's emblematic (ahem) of the series or if I just caught on; I do think (based on your other comments on this board) that you'd love it.

I started playing the Gamecube Fire Emblem while visiting my parents/siblings for xmas, and I am so bummed that I can't finish it, because it really, really is awesome.

Anyway, my year end lists for the consoles I played enough games on to make a decision...

Top 5 360:
- Mass Effect
- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
- The Orange Box
- skate.
- Stranglehold

Top 5 360 Arcade:
- Pac-Man C.E.
- EXIT
- Every Extend Extra Extreme
- Sensible World of Soccer
- Super Puzzle Fighter II HD Remix

Top 5 Nintendo DS:

- Dementium: The Ward
- Front Mission
- Glory Days 2
- Picross DS
- Hotel Dusk Room 215

Top 3 PS2:

- Persona 3
- Odin Sphere
- GrimGrimoire

Top 2 PC:

- Football Manager 2008
- Desktop Tower Defense

I forgot to put the DS games in order. It'd go Picross, Front Mission, Hotel Dusk, Glory Days 2, Dementium (although I'd switch it for NYT Crosswords easily)

I haven't heard of Dementium, Front Mission or Glory Days 2.

Dementium is a survival horror game for the DS that doesn't really do anything new for the genre except introduce the handheld format to it, which is awesomely effective if you play it at dark with loud headphones. it is spoooooky. i bet silent hill origins is as good or better for the psp, but i have no psp.

front mission is an old squaresoft turn-based robot strategy game for the SNES that they ported to DS, and added an entirely new campaign to. i loved the old one (played a hacked translation on my copmuter about 6 years ago), and am loving the new campaign (which you can play immediately, without playing the first campaign... a nice gesture to those of us who played their first one illegally)

glory days 2 is... really fucked up. it's like a WWII shmup controlled by the stylus. it's really, really fun and innovative and cool and hard in later levels. it also has a B42-type mechanic where having more bases = they lose guys more quickly, but you can also just take out their dudes to drop their numbers.

I'm not sure I like portal guys

it's cool n all but it's not very fun

You obviously weren't as high as I was when I played it.

I wish people could be that honest on ILM!

I don't even look at ILM anymore.

Dude OMG how can u say you don't like Pand aBear he's a genius omg you suck you should go listen to our limp bizket albums tool.

Speaking of things that are great when you're high...

I really really drank the koolaid on portal but then it might as well have been made for me.
I'm sadface that I never beat Fire Emblem.

how far in are you cozwn ?

I completed it

Oh.

I thought it was pretty cool, although doesn't really have a replay factor for me.

I liked the puzzles, and I liked the adroableness. It's no saviour to mankind or anything like peopel said, but it's intensely... likeable?

I just thought it was an amazing application of game physics, and very funny and well-written.

yeah, I don't want to come across all challops and it was definitely very charming and I loved how they managed to inject some real warmth into the sterility of the design but the gameplay ultimately left me a little cold
: /

was it that you didn't like the portal mechanic, or the application of it?

like.. if the portal gun was worked into half-life 2 in a good way would it be awesome or meh?

I love the portal gun and if they worked that into HL officially it wd be rad (there's already an unofficial mod isn't there?)

I think my problem is maybe that I have very conservative views when it comes to first-person games; it's cool tht they innovated and all but I think there's pt of me tht doesn't want innovation here;

I dunno tht seems a weird thing to say; especially when i. it really is quite a fresh take on the first person (and has in its way had immediate influence cf. mirrors edge) and ii. the game is so slight to be innoffensive

gawd any of tht make sense? basically I just didn't want to load it up

basically you don't want to play any game that doesn't involve shooting people in the head

not true; crotch is fine too