5punk

Dear bummers. Some may have noticed some lists of games have appeared on the front page (hopefully, they hadn't actually appeared at the time of writing). The first being games we're currently playing, the second being ones we're trying out, and the third being the old favourites. This third list has had me thinking, since there's only space for ten games on it. What should our all-time 5punky top ten games be? For reference, here are the various game of the year winners (taken from the Wiki):

5punk Game of the Year

2006 - Call of Duty 2
2007 5punky Game - Team Fortress 2
2007 Best Game - Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
2009 - Burnout Paradise
2010 - Minecraft Beta
2011 - Battlefield 3
2012 - Guild Wars 2
2013 - Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
2014 - Payday 2

Best First Person Shooter

2007 - Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Best MMO/RPG

2007 - Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Best Real Time Strategy

2007 - Supreme Commander

Multi Player Game of the Year

2007 - Team Fortress 2
2009 - Burnout Paradise
2010 - Battlefield Bad Company 2
2011 - Battlefield 3
2012 - Planetside 2
2013 - Dota 2
2014 - Chivalry

Player-driven persistent-world MMOG set in space award

2006 - Eve Online

Single Player Game of the Year

2007 - Portal
2009 - Dragon Age: Origins
2010 - Mass Effect 2
2011 - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
2012 - FTL: Faster Than Light
2013 - Bioshock Infinite
2014 - Wolfenstein TNO

Time Vacuum of the Year

2009 - World of Warcraft

Dog Pants wrote:This third list has had me thinking, since there's only space for ten games on it. What should our all-time 5punky top ten games be?

I honestly don't think we can do a singular top 10 all time 5punky games, it's very hard to rank these, and generally we find at least one game a year that grabs us and fills us with glee, which would deserve to go on, but would push off an older game.

As the front page can only do ranked lists of 10 items, we might be better off doing a top 10 5punky games for Year XXXX, and revise it every Janurary.

I rarely do top tens, especially with games. There were things that were good at the time, but there place is in the past - City of Heroes, CoD UO and CoD 4, Battlefield 2, Supreme Commander etc etc. Like Buzz said something will always come along and usurp them. I am quite anti-nostalgia though, so that might colour my view.

The first two lists are pretty clear and have a definitive purpose for new 5punkers, whilst I'm not sure of the purpose of the best of all time list. If it was best/most played of each genre, maybe have it random, it might be of better use.

Yeah, fair points. It started as a way of communicating what we're playing at the moment, but I found that it was a blurred line. I think I got carried away with the hall of fame (although it would be nice to have somewhere, just maybe not as a top ten).

A top approx 200 games of all time...

Having the game awards with Grimmie art up front with revision in the new year would work better imo.

Good idea. Putting a page up or an FP article is easy enough.