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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land Shigeru Miyamoto? Geez, what has that guy done? Well, besides pretty much everything, not much. No wonder Time readers voted the following people in front of Miyamoto for the most influential people of the year:
Poor old BioShock didn’t get GOTY love from those who call Kotaku Tower their home, but the game’s disembodied presence Andrew Ryan was Time’s Person of the Year in 1969. That is, according to Something Awful’s recent Photoshop Phriday that called for a suitable replacement following Vladimir Putin taking the 2007 “honour.” The real winner of Time’s POTY were “Middle Americans.” A handful of other video game characters also “won” in the contest’s other entries, the kind of folks who are generally associated with this year’s “best of” awards. The water damage on the cover is a nice touch, but an era appropriate Time cover would have been even better.
Time Magazine’s Person of the Year [Something Awful]
TIME has posted their top ten video games of 2007 for all to see. And because they’re TIME, we’ll write about it. We’re not sure if we agree that their #1 pick Halo 3 is “the perfect hardcore first-person combat simulator” that has been perfected like “a pebble that has been rounded over the centuries by the gentle splashing of the ocean waves,” but we certainly appreciate the poetic diction. The list has all your expected big players. Here it is in full: 1. Halo 3 2. The Orange Box 3. Rock Band 4. Super Mario Galaxy 5. BioShock 6. Call of Duty 4 7. Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass 8. Mass Effect 9. Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation 10. God of War 2
Now go ahead and do the obligatory duking it out for the honour of your favourite games in the comments.
Top 10 Video Games [TIME]
