I suppose it may be time for the roughly inaugural games I’ve played this (last) year post. Expect this to get a lot of edits as I remember games that I played last year, and possibly even re-rank them…

I believe the way this goes is, the ones I’ve completed are in bold, the ones I plan to finish are in italics, and they are sorted alphabetically by platform. Here we go!

Wii

• Mario Galaxy
• Mario Kart Wii
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl
• Wii Fit

Yeah, so my Wii is kinda collecting dust… and I still have barely touched Mario Galaxy. I’m a horrible person!

DS

• Cooking Guide: Can’t Decide What To Eat?
• The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
• The New Super Mario Brothers
• Polarium
• Professor Layton and the Curious Village
• Tetris DS
• Time Hollow
• Trace Memory
• Trauma Centre: Under the Knife
• The World Ends With You

Pretty decent DS list this year. I should note that the entirety of The New Super Mario Brothers was played co-op (passing back and forth) with my girlfriend. Pretty fun!

360

• Assassin’s Creed
• Bionic Commando: Rearmed
• Braid
• Burnout Paradise
• Call of Duty 4
• Castle Crashers
• Eternal Sonata
• Fallout 3
• Farcry 2
• GTA IV
• Guitar Hero III
• Hexic HD
• Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
• Oblivion
• Rock Band
• Soul Calibur IV
• Super Streetfighter II: Turbo HD Remix
• Too Human
• Undertow
• Viva Piñata: Trouble In Paradise

Wow. I do a lot of gaming on 360. I guess ’07′s list was only for the quarter of the year that I actually had a 360, but still… wow. I did second playthroughs of Bioshock and Mass Effect in ’08 as well, but this list was already long enough.

PS3

• LittleBigPlanet
• Metal Gear Solid 4
• Valkyria Chronicles

Yay, PS3 debut! As you may be able to tell, I got this (for myself) for Christmas, which is why nothing’s actually finished. Valkyria Chronicles is the game I come home to at the moment though, and it’s amazing!

PC

• Beyond Good and Evil
• Civilization IV
• Left 4 Dead
• The Marriage 
• Quake 4
• Team Fortress 2
• World of Warcraft

The PC list will probably be the one most edited, as I remember games I’ve played at LAN-type environments, and little downloadable games.

Alright, now for the breakdown of my personal top 5 games that I played in 2008 (probably the second most edited list)!

5. GTA IV 

4. Trace Memory 

3. Fallout 3

2. Left 4 Dead

1. Braid

Goddamn, that was hard. Everything I finished this year was pretty awesome. Also note, if I hadn’t played Trace Memory last year (a non 2008 released game), then Farcry 2 would have been bumped up a slot and into the list.

Also, out of interest, games that I promised to finish in my Games of ’07 post but still haven’t:

• Mario Galaxy
• Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition
• Condemned
• Yoshi’s Island DS
• The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass

Maybe I should get cracking on some of these. RE4 in particular is a game that I really need to play to understand why it was so awesome. (Mario Galaxy on the other hand I believe I already kinda realise the awesomeness of.)