Well I guess Ill have to give my list.....
All games listed in alphabetical order......
Since most are sports games theres not much to really say about them...... I just think they are the games that represent that sport the best that Ive played this year........


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Aconcagua (2000 Sony) - Sony PlayStation - Adventure
A really neat point and click adventure game that most people have never heard off..... It was released only in Japan and only recently had a fully fan translated English patch released...... Really good game and the puzzles arnt to hard either.....


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Blitz: The League (2005 Midway) - Sony PlayStation 2 - Sports (Football)


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Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball (2003 Tecmo) - Microsoft Xbox - Sports (Beach Volleyball)


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Madden NFL 2003 (2002 EA Sports) - Nintendo Gamecube - Sports (Football)


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Major League Baseball 2K6 (2006 2K Sports) - Sony PlayStation 2 - Sports (Baseball)


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MLB Power Pros 2008 (2008 2K Sports) - Sony PlayStation 2 - Sports (Baseball)


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I wondered what happened to BlackBloodRum……..
My Summer Car (2016 Amistech Games) - Steam - Simulation


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NASCAR: Dirt to Daytona (2002 Infogrames) - Nintendo GameCube - Sports (Racing)


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NBA Live 2003 (2002 EA Sports) - Nintendo GameCube - Sports (Basketball)


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NFL Blitz (1998 Midway) - Nintendo 64 - Sports (Football)


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NHL Hitz 2003 (2002 Midway) - Nintendo GameCube - Sports (Hockey)


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Rumble Roses (2005 Konami) - Sony PlayStation 2 - Sports (Wrestling)


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Shane Warne Cricket '99 (1998 Codemasters) - Sony PlayStaion - Sports (Cricket)


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Spider-Pig...... Spider-Pig..... Does whatever a Spider-Pig does........
Spider-Man (2000 Activision) - Nintendo 64 - Action


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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 (2003 EA Sports) - Nintendo GameCube - Sports (Golf)


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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (2000 Activision) - Sega Dreamcast - Sports (Skateboarding)


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World Soccer: Winning Eleven 6 Final Evolution (2003 Konami) Nintendo GameCube - Sports (Soccer)

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00:03-00:50 WRC Generations
Best Rally game out there currently. Well if we don't count Richard Burns Rally.
Lots of Countries and Stages. Pretty good physics and simulation. Only problem is Awful sound design.

00:50-01:50 S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
Super immersive Open World game. With Compass and Visibility markers off its a blast to play. Lots of fun sidemissions also where you have to use your braincells and don't just run blindly from point to point.
Decent AI that flanks you, ambushes or hides in cover when things go bad. ~90 hours in currently

01:50-02:49 Red Dead Redemption 2
Played it earlier in the year. At first i didn't really like the story, but it started to get interesting after the prologue in few hours. Still havent finished it or anything. played about ~30 hours so far. Definitely will return to it when other games run out.

02:49-03:55 Warhammer Return of Reckoning
Well yea. What can i say. Still hooked to that oldschool MMORPG. Great RvR battles and lots of new content added by the team also.

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03:55-04:48 Warhammer 40K: Speed Freeks
Super fun vehicle combat PvP game with Orkz. Free to play. Currently it has very small playerbase as the developers don't advertise this game during early access. They are working on polishing and adding new stuff before the full release.

04:48-05:55 Green Hell
Pretty hardcore survival game. Immersive though. Playing with a friend. lost in the jungle, always hungry.

05:55-07:05 GTA Vice City Definitive Edition
Since the latest patches it's been really good. If you dont mind the plastic faces, then its pretty much the classic game now with modern graphics. Nostalgia for me. THe best story in GTA games imo. Gameplay and car physics is not as good as in GTA IV though.

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For next year i'm waiting for the Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. Hopefully it delivers and i can immerse myself into that world again. Heroes of Might and Magic: Old Era might be good also, but since its Ubisoft published i don't have super high hopes.

Lets see what happens in 2025!

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Doom and Chex Quest on GZDoom at 4K 144Hz with all of the settings at 11. lol

Factorio: Space Age, Vampire Survivors, Stardew Valley, Fallout 3, Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic), and Valheim were my most played games this year. I also played through Portal: Revolution, although that was pretty short.

Didn't get a chance to play any games, been too busy waiting for my software to compile on Gentoo.

Kidding!

I've mostly played older emulated games like NFS MW and the re-released Red Dead Redemption, etc.

Played Hera on a stream in Age of Empires2: DE. A group of four of us practiced for weeks to prepare. Everyone was assigned a civ. I probably played 100 games as Scillians. It was 1v4 and we still lost! lol but it was a great time. We had each chipped in for our buddy's birthday to get a one-on-one trainig session for him, turned out that Hera was cool enough to offer a game as well. Heres the video if interested https://youtu.be/mZvWfoCRmVU?si=0jbeLGVwCEwV6j5d

Other than that Baldurs Gate 3, Skald, the 'game' of setting up dosbox games to play and then not playing them that much, and will probably round the year out with sone Dungeons of Dredmore and Caves of Qud.

When you're scrolling up from the bottom of the page I can recognize a lot of the posters before I can see the name.

Edit: That's what you get for fixing only parts of a sentence.

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Modded Minecraft. That's it, that's the response.

Off-topic, but when will Liam add Bazzite to the list of OSes?

This was a year under the auspice of the 4X for me:
Ranked (and being part of the best games I played in 2024 until Thea) :Conquest of Elysium 5, Shadow Empire, Dominion 6,Wizards and Warlords, Lightracer Spark, Thea the Awakening, The Pegasus Expedition, Civilization 6, Humankind, Shadow of the Forbidden Gods, Endless Legend, Interstellar Space Genesis
I was mostly disappointed by the more renowned 4X that I found too classical

My best games of 2024 not in the 4X genre are Factorio and Tales of Maj'Eyal, the latter being my first roguelike (real roguelike, sharing some code with Rogue), pillars of Eternity 2, Suzerain, Crimson Gray and Lacuna

I have to say that I don't remember everything I've completed this year without cheating by looking at my list, but I know that I really enjoyed Loco Motive – the last game I finished. Excellent adventure game that is quirky and has several

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playable characters (namely three). At first you cannot switch between them – first the victim's attorney, then an author of private detective novels, then a secret agent on her first mission. Later you can freely switch between them. There is even a *redacted for heavy spoilers* like in Day of the Tentacle.

I've replayed The Spirit and the Mouse and the second time was as good as the first. I've written several (?) posts in the Weekend Players' Club threads about the game, but here's a short repeat: it is a 3d platforming collect-a-thon without dying with cute characters and a fun story with some sad moments thrown in. After new regions of the village unlock, you can go back to the previous regions and collect remaining light-bulbs that are hidden throughout the world that can be used to unlock character upgrades and pretty fountain illumination.

Since I'm lazy I'll probably just drop a link to my Steam yearly review thingy when that's out. Since you know, I was gaming exclusively on Linux all year.

For me it would be Huntdown. I wish games like this came with mod tools so that I could expand the life of it on my own.

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Technobabylon and Speed Dreams immediately spring to mind as games that I had an amazing time with. The demo for Ichima-san was a lot of fun and after I work through my backlog a bit more I'm gonna pick up the full game. I've played quite a bit of Fallout New Vegas with the Tale of Two Wastelands mod, though I would've liked it if I could just add Mothership Zeta to New Vegas without needing the rest of Fallout 3. Also played some Starbound with the Frackin Universe mod, which is ginormous. The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood was interesting, but I think I'm too stupid to properly appreciate it. And last but not least I've also been playing a bit of Alwa's Awakening, which is very charming.

In working through my backlog there were also a fair few games that I'm not as positive on, but that will have to wait for another forum topic.