2014 Stats: Top Tens

On 01/01/2015 at 03:03 AM by KnightDriver

A couple years ago I started keeping a statistical diary of my media consumption. It's fun to stat-up at the end of the year. I thought I'd do top ten lists for all the five categories I keep track of. Here they are.

Top Ten Most Played Video Games

1. Borderlands 2 - 119 hours
2. Earth Defense Force 2025 - 118
3. Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel - 110
4. Wolfenstein: New Order - 62
5. Paper Mario Thousand Year Door - 50
6. Enemy Front - 27
7. Mii Plaza Games - 26
8. Child of Light - 21
9. Valiant Hearts: The Great War - 15
10. Weapon Shop de Omasse - 14

Top Ten Favorite Comics

1. Batman: Dark Knight Returns
2. Watchmen
3. King Conan: The Conqueror
4. Fuse
5. Star Wars (Brian Wood)
6. Atomic Robo: Savage Sword of Dr. Dinosaur
7. Massive
8. Harley Quinn
9. Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Cry of Shadows
10. Trillium

Top Ten Favorite Books

1. American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation - Eric Rutkow
2. Halo: Mortal Dictata - Karen Traviss
3. Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks
4. The Monkey's Voyage - Alan de Queiroz
5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling
6. 100 Years of Solitude - Gabrielle Garcia Marquez
7. Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
8. The 100 Greatest Console Video Games: 1977-1987 - Brett Weiss
9. The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg
10. The Story of the Human Body - Daniel Lieberman

Top Ten Favorite Albums

1. A Dog's Life (The Albums 1967-1972) - Bonzo Dog Band
2. Live in Ancient Kourion - Iced Earth
3. Once More 'Round the Sun - Mastodon
4. The Comic Genius of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore
5. Grand Budapest Hotel Soundtrack - Alexandre Desplat
6. Le Voyage Dans la Lune - Air
7. The Satanist - Behemoth
8. Sound City Soundtrack - Various
9. Pan's Labyrinth Soundtrack - Javier Navarrete
10. Master and Commander Soundtrack - Iva Davies/Christopher Gordon/Richard Tognetti

Top Ten Favorite Movies

1. The Wind Rises
2. Gentlemen Broncos
3. The Grand Budapest Hotel
4. Guardians of the Galaxy
5. Finding Vivian Maier
6. The Blue Max
7. Sound City
8. X-Men: Days of Future Past
9. A.C.O.D.
10. The Lorax

daftman

01/01/2015 at 07:16 AM

That's a huge range and variety of media! I would find it interesting if you gave a breakdown of how many games you played for different systems. Just another statistic lol. By the way, did you actually finish The Thousand Year Door?

KnightDriver

01/02/2015 at 02:26 AM

Your wish is my command and I didn't quite finish Thousand Year Door. Time oh time, you are a bleep!

Xbox 360 35
3DS 7
PS3 7
PSP 7
DS 6
NES 5
PS2 4
Wii 4
Xbox 4
GBA 3
N64 2
PC 2
Vita 2
Genesis 1
Game Cube 1

01/02/2015 at 05:52 AM

Holy cow O_O

01/04/2015 at 03:44 AM

I love jumping around to all sorts of systems, but I did stay with 360 a lot because that's what my regular gaming buddy plays.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

01/01/2015 at 08:10 AM

The Thousand YEar Door is a great game with great music but I never finished it. Like Daftman, I'm curious if you finished it.

I really want to see Wind Rises and Grand Budapest Hotel. I have a hard time concentrating on movies though.

And was Valiant Hearts really 15 hours? Jeez.

01/02/2015 at 02:30 AM

Got close but didn't finish it. I'm going to love going back to it though. Such a great game.

Valiant Hearts can be done completely in 8.5 hours according to howlongtobeat.com, but that's probably with a guide or something. I searched hard for everything and only looked up a guide for a few things.

Cary Woodham

01/01/2015 at 02:03 PM

Hooray for The Wind Rises! That should've won the Oscar for best animated picture, not Frozen.

01/03/2015 at 04:14 AM

Yeah, really, and I actually had some hope it might get considered. Nope.

GamerFoxem

01/01/2015 at 02:39 PM

I think during the last year I can only do a top 10 games list...

01/03/2015 at 04:18 AM

I really listen to less music and see less film than I used to. Reading is really big with me though and, of course, gaming is still number one. It may be only books and games in 2015. We'll see.

Super Step Contributing Writer

01/01/2015 at 02:47 PM

We watched The Grand Exotic Marigold Hotel last night on Netflix and I kept thinking Wes Anderson directed it until I saw John Madden's name in the end credits. Then I realized I was thinking of a different motel movie.

01/03/2015 at 04:23 AM

I wonder how many Hotel movies are around. Oh, I just remembered one I've seen recently. It was Four Rooms [1995] staring Tim Roth.

C.S.3590SquadLeader

01/01/2015 at 05:29 PM

100 Years of Solitude is among the pile of books I'm trying to read through, I really have to step up my reading game.

01/04/2015 at 03:08 AM

It takes time. I figure a book takes about as long as a single player campaign in most video games. Something like 15 hours or so. That's how I think of it anyway. Of course, I'm reading War and Peace right now, so that's more like some kind of RPG campaign. I have no interest in speed reading though. That's like cheating your way through a game. You don't experience it thoroughly.

Alex-C25

01/01/2015 at 06:28 PM

I haven't played any game of this year nor can say much about comics, music and books, but my favorite movie of this year is a big tie between Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Boyhood and Interstellar. Excellent films and already in my favorites.

01/04/2015 at 03:33 AM

Haven't seen any of those yet, but I've heard a lot about them.

Blake Turner Staff Writer

01/02/2015 at 09:12 PM

The Satanist was a damn good album. So atmospheric and evil!

And huh. You really like your Borderlands...

01/04/2015 at 04:31 AM

I didn't like Borderlands at first. My friend liked it a lot so it made me try it again and I started to like it. It does frustrate me fairly often though, I've rage quit it several times. I do love the humor in it.

Behemoth is really great. I narrowed down the songs on that album to two favorites: The Satanist and Ora Pro Nobis Lucifer.

01/04/2015 at 07:09 AM

Both great tracks, but I think the last track, O Father O Satan O Son! is my favourite. It's creepy, atmospheric and awesome in all the right ways.

As for Borderlands, I don't like the pacing mainly, and I hte the bullet spongey enemies. I definitely get the appeal, but it just annoys me.

01/05/2015 at 02:24 AM

This video: http://youtu.be/2GQSIl4-oBE A prayer to Satan. Quite moving.

NSonic79

01/16/2015 at 01:27 PM

halo didn't make it to number 1?!?!?!?!?!!!

01/16/2015 at 04:47 PM

I like trees. You can hug a tree. You can't hug a Master Chief and live.

PixlBit