{"id":716,"date":"2012-08-27T12:05:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T12:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=716"},"modified":"2012-08-27T12:10:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T12:10:40","slug":"top-100-games-of-my-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=716","title":{"rendered":"Top 100 Games of MY Time!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In discussing my top 10 favourite games with a friend last week, we both realized that 10 was a number far too small to encompass our lives in gaming.\u00a0 After thinking up a quick list of ten games each of us would never be able to live without, it was quickly followed\u00a0by several\u00a0exclamations of\u00a0&#8220;OHHHHH, I forgot about so-and-so!!\u00a0 Dammit!&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0It was suggested that it would make more sense to have a top 100, instead of only showing love to a measly ten games.<\/p>\n<p>Would that even be possible, though?\u00a0 I mean, I know I own upwards of 550 games, and I still have a couple hundred more on my wishlist&#8230;\u00a0 I don&#8217;t own these games merely for show &#8211; I&#8217;ve played them all, and had enough time to go through and finish most of them at some point.\u00a0 Still, would I actually be able to narrow it down to a hundred, then sort from there?<\/p>\n<p>After that little chat with Greg, I thought I&#8217;d challenge myself to come up with such a list!\u00a0 One that I&#8217;d put my heart and soul into, and one I could complete and say &#8220;Yeah&#8230;\u00a0 that looks about right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As with other top-whatever lists,\u00a0this one will undoubtedly\u00a0stir some debate.\u00a0 Mine is especially odd to the casual observer;\u00a0you&#8217;ll notice that very few RPG&#8217;s made\u00a0my list,\u00a0and a handful of critically panned titles will show up from time to time&#8230;\u00a0 this *is* my list, however, and for one reason or another, in my 29 years, I&#8217;ve spent more time on the games in my next hundred posts than I have on the others in my collection.\u00a0 I\u00a0was able to find\u00a0that special\u00a0<em>something<\/em> about them that I couldn&#8217;t help but fall in love with.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_717\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ppic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-717\" class=\"size-full wp-image-717\" title=\"ppic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ppic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ppic.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ppic-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-717\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I&#8217;m not exactly going out on a limb in saying this, but I&#8217;m pretty sure some of these folks will make an appearance.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Top 100 Games of MY Time!!!\u00a0 Whoo!!\u00a0 Stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In discussing my top 10 favourite games with a friend last week, we both realized that 10 was a number far too small to encompass our lives in gaming.\u00a0 After thinking up a quick list of ten games&#8230; 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