Your top ten most anticipated games of 2003

[A Black Falcon]

I go by how much I get from their games... sure, because of how big it is I probably have played more hours of Nintendo (first-party only here) games than Blizzard ones... but nothing from Nintendo can match, for me, the sheer brilliance (and lasting power of me playing them!) of Blizzard's RTSes... and that, to me, is enough to have me call them the best.

I'm sure years from now I won't play much NGC... some, of the really great long-lasting ones, probably... but do I think I'll quit playing occasional games of Starcraft, or even Warcraft II, anytime remotely soon? Definitely not. Nothing I have matches them in playability, variety of gameplay, and how long they last as fun games... and because of that I like them best.

Nintendo is second, of course. Third? I'm not sure... I'm tempted to say Lucasarts, as I find some of their classics are among the best games ever made (In my top 10 list, 3 are Lucasarts games -- Jedi Knight, TIE Fighter, and Grim Fandango... and a whole other bunch of games, including Sam and Max, Rogue Leader, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, The Curse of Monkey Island, and X-Wing Alliance are also really really good games...), but then I think that they haven't made a great internal game in several years. Oh well... they are still great... if mostly, now, for their history and liscences (which other developers make games based on). I hope that their currently upcoming new games, such as Gladius, RTX Red Rock, Full Throttle 2, and Sam and Max 2, change that...