Nick's List for 28-06-2010

Zeus Tier:
1. 30-06-2011: Deus Ex 3: Human Revolution (Zeus)
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God Tier:
2. 2011 : Star Wars: The Old Republic (Athena)
3. 27-07-2010: Starcraft 2
4. 2011 : Half-life 2: Episode 3
5. 2011 : Max Payne 3
6. 2010 : Crysis 2
7. 2010 : Portal 2
8. 2011 : Diablo 3
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Demi-god Tier:
9. 2011 : Rage (Hercules)
10. 2010 : FEAR 3
11. 2010 : Fallout: New Vegas
12. 2010 : Call of Duty: Black Ops
13. 2010 : Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam
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Messiah Tier:
14. 2011 : Fable 3 (Jesus)
15. 2010 : Rayman Origins
16. 2010 : Sniper: Ghost Warrior
17. 2010 : Dead Space 2
18. 2011 : Duke Nukem Forever
19. 2011 : XCOM
20. 2011 : Red Faction: Armageddon
21. 2011 : Bulletstorm
22. 2010 : Brink
23. 14-10-2010: Medal of Honour
24. 30-09-2010: Arcania: Gothic 4
25. 2010 : Singularity



Notes on the top few:

• Star Wars: The Old Republic is supposedly the most expensive game ever produced by EA and is in a wicked universe, so it might finally be a "WoW-killer" MMO and I'm waiting to play one, so it's really high up.
• Starcraft 2 might be our next "clan RTS" which lots of people want, so it's really high up.

Other Notes:

• MoH Beta multiplayer seems like a depth-lacking BC2 reskin (a solid MW2/BC2 feeling shooter though), but singleplayer might still be good. I'll probably cancel my preorder though since I can already play BC2 or MW1 online.
• This list is probably incomplete.
• Games which are ages away with no media releases, or which likely don't even exist, aren't included, or else "TES MMO" would be sharing Zeus Tier somehow. Also Doom 4 and a few other WinRARs which I've heard are somewhat confirmed.
• Release dates given are best estimate.

Nick's List - 16th June

I have decided to create "Nick's List" - a periodic post by me which contains a list of upcoming vidyas of interest to myself and therefore The Council. Why?

• So that I, Nicholas, can post on the blog about something semi-meaningful
• Because it is genuinely difficult to keep track of all the good upcoming games sometimes
• It acts as a forum of discussion (comments on my updated lists) about the vidyas, coherently between all Council members
  

The list will be sorted into tiers which indicate the potential for gaming excellence - as judged by myself, with welcome influence from others - for each vidya on the list. The tiers will be like so:

Zeus Tier (Z) > God Tier (G) > Demi-god Tier (D) > Messiah Tier (M)

Each tier will have a tier-leader title for the top ranked vidya in that tier, respectively:

Zeus > Athena > Hercules > Jesus
(I am aware that Jesus cannot technically coexist with the ancient Greek gods by the strictest principles of theism, but too bad.
>implying that any of them exist anyway, except for Hercules)

Be prepared for these titles and associated tier-leader titles to progressively change should I find them inadequate during the ranking process. In addition, I will attempt to rank the vidyas within each tier. The number of entries in each tier will not be set-in-stone, because, particularly in times of vidya drought, I might feel it unjust to promote relatively mediocre vidyas into the higher tiers, purely because of a lack of truly deserving ones.

Every time I play a vidya on the list after it's release, I will remove it from the list and then write a brief summary about it - less of a review than just a general flavour as to whether or not it fulfilled it's great expectations, in the minds of myself and the wider Council.

Finally, it might be hip to have other official Council lists, such as Greatest Vidyas of All Time and Greatest Films of All Time, as voted by the most members. I won't make them though. Someone else should be in charge of them, if indeed there exists anyone else who has enough time and also the desire to overcategorize such things into pretentious lists. Comment if you think I'm a dickhead and shouldn't do this list at all, but please state the reason for which you are mad though.

Sans your disapproval, expect the virginal list within a week of this post date.

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