The Hotness
Games|People|Company
Eclipse
Gunship: First Strike!
Mage Knight: Board Game
Midnight Men
Agricola: Die Bauern und das liebe Vieh
Hawaii
Star Wars: Battle of Hoth
Wiz-War
Ora et Labora
Rex: Final Days of an Empire
Snowdonia
Barbarian Prince
The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game
Twilight Struggle
War of the Ring
Agricola
7 Wonders
A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (second edition)
Dominion
7 Wonders: Cities
Kingdoms
A Few Acres of Snow
Risk Legacy
Arkham Horror
Through the Ages: A Story of Civilization
Thunderstone Advance: Towers of Ruin
1812: The Invasion of Canada
Dixit: Journey
Elder Sign
D-Day Dice
The Castles of Burgundy
Le Havre
Kingdom Builder
Sid Meier's Civilization: The Board Game
Race for the Galaxy
Cosmic Encounter
Dominant Species
Dungeon Petz
Battlestar Galactica
Power Grid
Mansions of Madness
Last Will
Twilight Imperium (third edition)
Nexus Ops
Agents of SMERSH
Puerto Rico
Star Trek: Fleet Captains
Kairo
Core Worlds
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
%name%
Games That Fell Out Of My Top 100 in 2006
Stephen Glenn
United States
Virginia Beach
Virginia
designer
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
Recommend
5 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
In November of 2005 I compiled a list of my top 100 games . I will be posting my updated list for 2006 here, hoping to get more comments (comments are fun and I didn't get alot of them at blogger.com)

This list will preface that much larger list which is coming very soon. These are games that fell out of my personal top 100.

Note: These are all (imo) still very good games. Some games fell, others rose, and some new games were added. After the dust settled, these were the titles that just missed the cut.

Your Tags: Add tags
Popular Tags: favorites [+] [View All]
1. Board Game: Go [Average Rating:7.77 Overall Rank:41]
Stephen Glenn
United States
Virginia Beach
Virginia
designer
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
#15
2005

I just couldn't justify this being on the list any longer. Despite its brilliance and depth, the entry fee is just too high.
 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • 12 comments [Hide]
[wailing winter winds]
United States
Hillsboro
Oregon
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
Wow, bounced all the way from #15 within one year. That fell faster than Taylor Hicks...
 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • Posted Tue Sep 26, 2006 10:14 pm
    • Choose your Dice
      • Roll
      • Comment (Optional)
    • Reply
    •  
    • Quote
[wailing winter winds]
United States
Hillsboro
Oregon
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
By the smiley, I'm guessing that he knows who Taylor Hicks is, and was just jokingly referring to my note about his drop into eventual obscurity.
 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • Posted Wed Sep 27, 2006 1:19 am
    • Choose your Dice
      • Roll
      • Comment (Optional)
    • Reply
    •  
    • Quote
Randy Cox
United States
Clemson
South Carolina
designer
1024x768 works just fine - Don't Wide the Site!
badge
The Back Alley gets no respect.
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
Who is Taylor Hicks? Really. I won't put a smily face, because I have no idea.
 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • Posted Thu Sep 28, 2006 6:57 pm
    • Choose your Dice
      • Roll
      • Comment (Optional)
    • Reply
    •  
    • Quote
Stephen Glenn
United States
Virginia Beach
Virginia
designer
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
I'm pretty sure he (or she?) is the newest American Idol.

Now, go feel good about yourself.
 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • Posted Thu Sep 28, 2006 7:23 pm
    • Choose your Dice
      • Roll
      • Comment (Optional)
    • Reply
    •  
    • Quote
Randy Cox
United States
Clemson
South Carolina
designer
1024x768 works just fine - Don't Wide the Site!
badge
The Back Alley gets no respect.
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
Ah. That 'splains it. I've never seen American Idol, unless Chuck Barris' Gong Show counts from 1976.
 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • Posted Thu Sep 28, 2006 8:01 pm
    • Choose your Dice
      • Roll
      • Comment (Optional)
    • Reply
    •  
    • Quote
2. Board Game: Dungeons & Dragons Adventure Game [Average Rating:6.30 Overall Rank:3918]
Stephen Glenn
United States
Virginia Beach
Virginia
designer
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
#23
2005

This isn't the right graphic. I couldn't find a listing for the basic D&D RPG. Anyway, that's what this is supposed to be.

Again, it's hard to justify the presence of a game that I haven't played in 25 years and am unlikely to ever play again. 'nuff said.
 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
Jon
United States
Vancouver
WA
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
I'm having a hard time trying to figure out what exactly you're ranking in your top 100 lists. It can't be the top 100 games you're currently enjoying because then D&D wouldn't have been on the list. So what does your top 100 list measure?
 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • Posted Tue Sep 26, 2006 10:50 pm
    • Choose your Dice
      • Roll
      • Comment (Optional)
    • Reply
    •  
    • Quote
Stephen Glenn
United States
Virginia Beach
Virginia
designer
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
It's mostly what I'm enjoying (or would like to be enjoying) right now. Go and Dungeons and Dragons were probably the two biggest violatons of consistency there. That's one reason I removed them.
 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • Posted Tue Sep 26, 2006 10:57 pm
    • Choose your Dice
      • Roll
      • Comment (Optional)
    • Reply
    •  
    • Quote
Jon
United States
Vancouver
WA
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
Actually, the "would like to be" makes sense. Thanks for the explanation!
 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • Posted Tue Sep 26, 2006 11:01 pm
    • Choose your Dice
      • Roll
      • Comment (Optional)
    • Reply
    •  
    • Quote
3. Board Game: Breakthrough [Average Rating:6.60 Overall Rank:4205]
Stephen Glenn
United States
Virginia Beach
Virginia
designer
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
#47
2005

A wonderfully elegant and simple 2-player abstract by Dan Troyka. I wish I got a chance to play it more often.
 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • 0 comments
4. Board Game: Phutball [Average Rating:5.81 Unranked]
Stephen Glenn
United States
Virginia Beach
Virginia
designer
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
#64
2005

There's no image listed for this one. It's a two-player abstract played with a Go set. It "simulates" a soccer game and is probably one of the best-themed abstracts out there (unless that's an oxymoron).
 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • 0 comments
5. Board Game: Memoir '44 [Average Rating:7.56 Overall Rank:61]
Stephen Glenn
United States
Virginia Beach
Virginia
designer
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
#65
2005

I suspect I'll get my ears boxed for this one. Yes, it's gorgeous and can even be quite fun. But I don't find myself reaching for it as much as I used to -- and I never played it a great deal to begin with.
 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
[wailing winter winds]
United States
Hillsboro
Oregon
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
Sorry for being boorish, but I find that that paragraph goes perfectly with the selected image.
 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • Posted Wed Sep 27, 2006 12:02 am
    • Choose your Dice
      • Roll
      • Comment (Optional)
    • Reply
    •  
    • Quote
Stephen Glenn
United States
Virginia Beach
Virginia
designer
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
Nice!
 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • Posted Wed Sep 27, 2006 1:09 am
    • Choose your Dice
      • Roll
      • Comment (Optional)
    • Reply
    •  
    • Quote
6. Board Game: Across the Board [Average Rating:6.69 Overall Rank:4332]
Stephen Glenn
United States
Virginia Beach
Virginia
designer
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
#75
2005

Not a bad little horse-racing/gambling game. With alot of players you can really get into the spirit of the game and almost make it an event. Trouble is, you have to have several like-minded people who are in the mood for such an "event."
 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • 0 comments
7. Board Game: Lines of Action [Average Rating:7.17 Overall Rank:1241]
Stephen Glenn
United States
Virginia Beach
Virginia
designer
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
#87
2005

This is a clever little abstract, but I rarely play it for the sake of *playing* it anymore, if that makes any sense. Most times I would introduce it to my students to show them a much more interesting game that could be played with a checkers set.
 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • 0 comments
8. Board Game: Tanbo [Average Rating:4.55 Unranked]
Stephen Glenn
United States
Virginia Beach
Virginia
designer
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
#91
2005

I may love the idea of this one more than the actual game. Little seeds sprouting and fighting for room. It can take quite a long time to play out, but it has an epic scope and is fascinating to watch. This game feels like I want Go to feel.
 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • 0 comments
9. Board Game: New England [Average Rating:6.61 Overall Rank:792]
Stephen Glenn
United States
Virginia Beach
Virginia
designer
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
#94
2005

Sorry, Alan. Something had to go. I love tile-laying games and I love *this* tile-laying game. However, when the opportunity to play a tile-laying game presented itself, there were others that I reached for first, and New England just drifted farther and farther away, like a lover leaving on a train. Farewell...farewell...

If it makes you feel any better, Sante Fe Rails made the new list.

And that's it, folks.
 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
Kochenbowls
United States
Tucson
Arizona
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
Now here's a game you don't hear much about anymore. Hmmmm, potential GL? "Games you dont hear much about anymore?"

Who knows?

ninja
 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • Posted Wed Sep 27, 2006 2:00 am
    • Choose your Dice
      • Roll
      • Comment (Optional)
    • Reply
    •  
    • Quote
Darrell Hanning
United States
Jacksonville
Florida
Love women in action movies and shows. It all started with Diana Rigg, in the Avengers.
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
I'm having an increasingly difficult time integrating thematic imagery (corn, pilgrims, barns, etc.) with abstract game mechanisms (such as the clever but utterly unsullied-by-reality bidding mechanism in this game). I might have first noticed this problem, when I realized New England did nothing for me - even on the first playing.

Either I'm reaching my fill of clever mechanisms solely for the sake of cleverness, or my loved ones might soon need to spoon-feed me my ice cream.

Why, I ask myself, did Oasis seem fun, where New England did not?
 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • Posted Wed Sep 27, 2006 4:18 pm
    • Choose your Dice
      • Roll
      • Comment (Optional)
    • Reply
    •  
    • Quote
0 comments [Hide]
Front Page | Welcome | Contact | Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | Advertise | Support BGG | Feeds RSS
Geekdo, BoardGameGeek, the Geekdo logo, and the BoardGameGeek logo are trademarks of BoardGameGeek, LLC.