Marino

Twenty Twenty-Four 0

Pay no mind. Just keeping track of what new games I play this year. This may or may not possibly might have something to do with Game of the Year stuff eventually maybe. If you missed my Best of 2023, then...well...click that link you just passed. I

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Best of 2023 12

Twenty Twenty-three. Lots of talk about being the best year ever. So, is it? No. No, it's not. It's a year stacked with *good* games, sure. And, compared to the last few years, it's stellar, but that's a low bar. I feel like many of the "big" games d

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The Zelda Top 10 3

Zelda is my favorite series. I've been with it since the very beginning in 1987. As of this writing, Tears of the Kingdom came out about four months ago, so I've had some time to think about where it falls on my list, but I've never written it down a

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GOTY of the Years 2

This is a running list of my Games of the Year. Are they the best games? Maybe not. Probably not even. But, they're mine. So, where do we start? Well, my first gaming experience was thanks to a TI-99/4A that my mom had for transcribing/dictation work

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Best of 2022 6

Twenty twenty-two. In terms of games, not a stellar year if you ask me. There was certainly some good stuff out there, but the big tentpole releases were few and far between. Admittedly, some of this could be a "me problem". I've been in a funk since

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The Best Alphabet 1

Had the silly idea to make a list of the favorite game from my collection starting with each letter. I have over 1500 games now, so some were difficult (nearly 200 start with S) and some were easy (only 2 games start with Q). I'm missing some numeri

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Playdate Collection 0

After playing one nearly three years earlier at PAX West 2019, I finally have one at home. What a weird thing.

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Marino's Top 100 Games of All Time 12

Collection as of April 16, 2022 I've kinda wanted to do this for a long time just as a personal experiment. I doubt anyone will care about my list, but I wanted to see what I would come up with. I had a birthday yesterday (April 16), so it felt like

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Best of 2021 1

Twenty twenty-one. Better year than 2020, but still a steaming pile of hot garbage as far as years go. It wasn't the best year for games either. Not terrible, but definitely not one for the record books. That seems to be standard for "year after new

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Factory Sealed Retirement Plan 9

With the recent absurdity surrounding grading factory sealed games that sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars, I decided to compile a list of sealed games in my collection that will definitely, assuredly, without a shadow of a doubt let me retire

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Guilty Treasures 7

As a moderator and occasional staff member, I've done the math on this. After Danny has tackled Guilty Treasures for all the full-time staff members, friends of the site, Cool Baby, the Oakland Athletics, several F1 drivers, and an assortment of surp

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Xbox Series X Collection 2

Feels weird making this into a list considering there's basically no reason to purchase games on this system with Game Pass. Games attained through Game Pass don't go on this list.

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Best of 2020 2

Fuck Twenty Twenty. Who even needs a preamble on these things? Let's get this shit done. [Obligatory Spoiler Warning] Mentions This was my second game. I'm a real cool guy.Kentucky Route Zero - It didn't click with me. I feel bad because I made it to

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PlayStation 5 Collection 1

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Top 25(+1) Games of the 2010s 5

First of all, yes I know the decade doesn't technically end until December 2020. No one cares. Call this list "Best Games from January 2010 to December 2019" if you want. As if we all weren't sick of lists at this point, I know. But, I did this for a

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Best of 2019 8

Twenty Nineteen certainly wasn't a bad year for games, but for the majority of the year, I felt like I was just going through the motions with many of the games I was playing. Nothing really stood out until the very end, and I was debating whether I

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Conceptualized: The 100 Best Concept Wiki Pages 5

As of the creation of this list, there are 8610 concept pages on Giant Bomb. Concept pages have always been the wildest part of the wiki partially because it's the place things go when they don't fit in any other category. A lot of them are basic stu

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Best of 2018 5

As we continue to barrel down the pothole-laden highway of this nightmarish timeline, it's nice to know there are still some great games coming along at a regular pace. They allow us at least a momentary escape. I played twenty-seven games this yea

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Best 4-Disc Games That End on Disc 2 15

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Best of 2017 15

Twenty seventeen. In the immortal words of Eric Pope, "oofa doofa." Luckily, this nightmare of a year also had a slew of amazing games for us to temporarily escape from everything else. I played twenty four games this year, but it was relatively easy

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My Console 25

We're gonna play the game, the...

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Switch Collection 5

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PlayStation Long Boxes 12

I am on a [very slow] quest to obtain a copy of every game that was released before the original PlayStation converted to regular-ass CD jewel cases. A total of 104 games were released in the various versions of what have become known simply as "lon

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Best of 2016 4

Overall, twenty sixteen was a bonafide shit show. Luckily, there were some good games to distract us from some of the real world nonsense that we had to endure this year. I played over thirty games this year, and strangely had a hard time picking out

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S-Rank'd 8

Remember this? The Giant Bomb achievement tracker is long gone, but here's a list of games that would've qualified for an S-Rank (i.e. getting every trophy/achievement in the game). Some PlayStation games don't have a platinum, but if I got all of 'e

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Best of 2015 9

This list certainly didn't turn out how I would've expected at the start of the year or even six months ago. First off, no Fallout and no Metal Gear. A franchise I'd never played before took the #1 spot. A dancing game is in the top 3. A Pokémon game

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Favorite Wikis by Marino 9

I've created over 3800 pages over the years here at Giant Bomb. About 800 of them came from the years I spent documenting EverQuest stuff on the site. Many of them are for games or developers which did not have a page, so I felt obligated to add one.

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Best of 2014 9

It's been a weird year. Despite all the delays, broken-ass games, and utter disappointments, there were still some great games this year. In my preliminary list, I had twenty games, and whittling them down ended up being harder than I thought it woul

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A Return to Kombat? 49

The dawn of a new generation.I've been a fan since the beginning of Mortal Kombat and I probably know way too much about it. Does anyone else remember rat.org from about 20 years ago? Entering info and creating pages for the original actors that port

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Xbox One Collection 1

I actually pre-ordered an Xbox One on the first day they started offering it on Amazon (during E3), but I did not get it until Christmas. Despite my age, my mother is still somewhat obsessed with Christmas and always wants to have that one "big" gift

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Best of 2013 14

We're contractually obligated to do this, right? And, yeah, The Last of Us is not on my list. I played the first few hours of it and wasn't really enjoying the game part of it. I love Uncharted, so...I don't know. I DON'T HAVE TO EXPLAIN MYSELF TO YO

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Wii U Collection 12

I bought a Wii U on Black Friday...2013. Why? I don't know. I wanted to play Super Mario 3D World I guess. And turns out the GameStop I went to was sold out of it actually. Perfect. But I figured it was probably my last chance to get one of the Zelda

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Top 25 Games of the Generation 37

I've whittled it down to the Top 25, and I think that's the best I can do. List can include games from: Nintendo DS PlayStation Portable Xbox 360 XBLA PlayStation 3 PlayStation Network (PS3/PSP) Wii PC (from 2005 forward) Only one game per franchise

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PlayStation 4 Collection 15

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Best of 2012 0

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Top 10 System Start-Up Sounds 4

A few of us were talking about this in the Olympic Olympiad chat. At the time, I said the Dreamcast had the best one, but after going through them all, I think the PlayStation has the best. It's just...sort of magical. That echo of the orange swirl i

Mac Collection 0

In June 2012, I decided to jump on the Mac bandwagon by picking up one of the new 13" MacBook Pros. I didn't really get it to play games (obviously), so I was somewhat surprised by not only how many of my Steam games already worked on Mac, but also j

E3 2012 Most Anticipated Games 0

The Top 10

Games I've Played That Don't Exist 0

E3 2005 All of the ones that I can currently remember occurred during the ten E3's I went to between 1997 and 2006. Sometimes at E3, you play something that just never materializes on store shelves. Shockingly, there's even a few situations where it'

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Character Wishlist: PlayStation All-Stars 2 23

This list was originally a wishlist for Battle Royale. I had about 30 ideas, but only four of them ended up being playable characters (Sir Daniel, Sackboy, Spike, and Nariko). I'm hoping that in a couple years we'll get a second game in the series, s

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