Now Introducing: The Escapist's Top Games!

[John Funk]

Now Introducing: The Escapist's Top Games!

Do you ever wrack your brain at night trying to figure out what games the Escapist community is enjoying on Steam, PSN, and Xbox Live?? Well, wrack no longer - just peek at the Escapist's Top Games list!

The Top Games list can be found user profile [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/top_games] - so if you haven't updated your information already, what's taking you so long?

The top ten Xbox 360 games is really nothing surprising, being essentially all the system's top games:

1 Halo 3
2 Call of Duty 4
3 Call of Duty: WaW
4 Batman: Arkham Asylum
5 Gears of War 2
6 Left 4 Dead
7 Fallout 3
8 Rock Band 2
9 GTA IV
10 Mass Effect

Whereas we get some more diversity on Steam (looks like all our Valve fanboys take a break every now and then to play Killing Floor or Audiosurf):

1 Team Fortress 2
2 Left 4 Dead
3 Counter-Strike: Source
4 Garry's Mod
5 Audiosurf
6 Half-Life 2
7 Killing Floor
8 Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II
9 Portal
10 Source SDK

But it's the PS3 list that just astounds me. Yeah, you have big titles like LittleBigPlanet and Call of Duty 5, but... Noby Noby Boy? Really? Huh. I guess you guys have some strange tastes, PS3 fans:

1 Call of Duty®: World at War
2 Linger In Shadows™
3 SUPER STARDUST™ HD
4 LittleBigPlanet™
5 GTA IV
6 inFamous
7 NOBY NOBY BOY™
8 Battlefield 1943™
9 PAIN
10 echochrome™

There you have it. Some surprising, some not-so surprising. But it's hard to get accurate data without a sufficiently large sample size, so add your profile data. Right now. I can wait.

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[Pebsy]

a list for the wii would be nice, then again... there isnt that many great things out for it

 

[Torque669]

Wheres Fat Princess and Batman on the Playstation list? Thats really suprising.

And whats Linger in Shadows?

 

[Anton P. Nym]

Well, that decides it; I'm definitely getting Dawn of War II for my new computer now... this list reminds me that it's also in Games for Windows Live and can rack up Gamerscore on my Live account.

Thanks for the nifty list! Out of curiosity, how often does it refresh?

-- Steve

 

[coldfrog]

So at least half of the PS3 games that are played the most are downloadable. I feel... disappointed at that. Yet at the same time I can't talk since I play a lot of downloadable games on the 360, but I dunno.

Whatever makes it worth it for you though. Now lets all see if we can make Rock Band higher!

 

[Amnestic]

Hell yeah Audiosurf.

Is Killing Floor really all that awesome? I have to admit it looked a bit so-so average when I took a peak at it. It being that high though...

 

[AmrasCalmacil]

Mass Effect is 10th?
Stay where you are, Mr. Funk, I'm coming for you.

I kid though, the Escapist seems to have good taste in games by my reckoning, I just wish my computer was better so I could actually bother getting DoW2.

 

[Sparrow]

I sense flames in the distance. This will not end well.

On a side note, do that many people still play Halo 3?

 

[Ranooth]

Go gmod! Go gmod! Go gmod!

Surprised its even on there!

 

[Amnestic]

I sense flames in the distance. This will not end well.

On a side note, do that many people still play Halo 3?

Didn't Bungie/Microsoft 'recently' release a statement saying that they get on average 1 million unique users playing Halo 3 every day? Something along those lines as memory serves. Wouldn't surprise me

 

[Kross]

Out of curiosity, how often does it refresh?

Should refresh at least once a day.

 

[Virgil]

a list for the wii would be nice, then again... there isnt that many great things out for it

When Nintendo figures out this new-fangled internet thingie that all the kids are talking about these days, I'd love to add them in

Wheres Fat Princess and Batman on the Playstation list? Thats really suprising.

The PS3 list is less accurate than the others in terms of finding out *when* games were played, since they don't directly provide any time-related info. I'm still trying to make that more accurate.

Thanks for the nifty list! Out of curiosity, how often does it refresh?

The lists refresh every few hours, but the bulk of the game profile data only refreshes once a day.

 

[Anton P. Nym]

On a side note, do that many people still play Halo 3?

Yep. Indeed, six months ago the billionth game of Halo 3 online multiplayer [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/89860-Halo-3s-One-Billionth-Game-Played] got matched up, and the pace hasn't seemed to slacken over time.

-- Steve

 

[thenumberthirteen]

LINGER IN SHADOWS!!!??? Wow that's unexpected. I mean it's not really a proper game, more of a strange mind trip that defies explanation.

 

[Aura Guardian]

Not bad. No Wii list is a bit disappointing.

 

[Random Argument Man]

Bah, it only confirms that Steam users loves Valve's games, Xbox players loves popular mainstream stuff, PS3 players varies a bit.


Edit: There! Edited so I wouldn't have any other emails about the PC/steam argument.

 

[Torque669]

Wheres Fat Princess and Batman on the Playstation list? Thats really suprising.

The PS3 list is less accurate than the others in terms of finding out *when* games were played, since they don't directly provide any time-related info. I'm still trying to make that more accurate.

Well It is a bit silly for that. But it must have taken some work. And if it refreshes itself. That will be very good. Great idea though. Thumbs up to you *Thumbs up*

 

[Adinoman]

Hardly shocked by the XBox360 games but I hadn't even heard of most of the PS3 games. I couldn't believe that Resistance 2 didn't make that list, that game was awesome

 

[Anton P. Nym]

Bah, it only confirms that PC users loves Valve's games

Um, not even that. It just confirms that people using Valve's STEAM service like Valve's games, which makes it even less useful as a guide to PC gaming preferences as an overall platform. However, it is interesting to see which Valve games they're playing so I wouldn't write it off entirely.

-- Steve