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Amazing OP, Rarity. And on to the list: 10. Elden Ring This is FROM's masterpiece. In scope, it's unmatched. The lore is weird and fun. It's a wonderful game to play. It has a hot witch. But, whenever I'm playing it, something in the back of my head just whispers, "Wouldn't you rather be playing Bloodbourne or Demons' Souls?" My inability to answer "No" to that voice is why it only takes the number 10 slot. 9. Fortnite My partner has loved Fortnite for years. She plays basically no other games. I used to tolerate it so we could play together, but with the arrival of Zero Build mode, I'm actually finally really enjoying it. Getting rid of the stupid houses and embracing the mayhem has made it my favourite competitive multiplayer game of the year. After all, what other multiplayer game makes jumping into the passenger seat of a truck hurtling towards you and then shotgunning the driver to death so much fun? 8. Final Fantasy XIV I can't remember where I put Endwalker last year. I think it was either 2nd or 1st. This year XIV doesn't have a shiny expansion to push it that high, but I really enjoyed the patch content and my island is looking snazzy. It remains a lovely hug to come back to when I can't think of anything else to play at that moment, and ultimately, that's what I want from an MMO. 7. Ghost of Tsushima I like Sony's narrative heavy first party games. They're fun. But generally I find they're a bit like junk food, great in the moment, but they leave no real lasting impression. Sushi Ghost is my exception to this rule. The story is nothing to write home about, but it's beautiful, and the gameplay clicks with my on another level. I played on Lethal, and every fight being a dance of death over in seconds where you've either won or your bleeding out on the floor, was everything I wanted from an samurai/ninja combat game. Also, running into an enemy base shouting something along the lines of "COME AT ME!" will never not be fun. 6. Paradise Killer PARADISE KILLER. From that weird electronic exultation on the title screen I knew that this was going to be a game I would vibe with. I like weird murder mysteries. I like strange occult poo poo. I like vaporwave. It's all of those things in an open-world island exploration game. I thought that ultimate explanation misses the mark somewhat, but the journey to that ending was such an all encompassing mood that I didn't mind. 5. Stranger of Paradise - Final Fantasy Origin Jack is the Final Fantasy protagonist we didn't know we needed. His undying need to kill Chaos sets of a game that is much deeper than it immediately lets on. Initially the lack of budget for this game is very clear, the graphics are... terrible, the between mission dialogue system is bizarre, the HDR implementation seems like it's trying to blind you in parts. If you look past that, however, you'll find a jewel of a game. The job system is great, the DLC is fun, the story is insane and somehow pulls it off. If you'd told me last year that this game would have transcended the memes and made it to number 5 on my top 10 of the year, I would never have believed you. Also, in the next DLC early next year, Jack apparently gets a gun. All is right with the world. 4. Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous In the ending I erased the premise of the game from existence. 10/10 3. Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- Reunion Crisis Core is a bad game that I love. Reunion is a less bad game that I love more. It still has Crisis Core's dialogue, and you still want to tear your hair out any time Genesis is on screen, but the gameplay is the perfect crystalisation of what the original Crisis Core could have been, and the second half of the game is still great. I can't in good faith recommend this game to people because of its first half, but as someone who already liked it, goddamn they knocked this remaster out of the park. Speaking of which... 2. Tactics Ogre: Reborn As far as I'm concerned, Tactics Ogre is one of the best games ever made. This remaster does not change that, and the orchestration and voice acting even improve it somewhat. If you liked Final Fantasy Tactics or Triangle Strategy, I recommend you this game unreservedly. (Law Route, Best Route.) 1. Lords of Infinity This game isn't out yet (perhaps making me a time travelling god from the future), but I spent a lot of time testing it (voluntarily) this year. The sequel to the choose your own adventure novellas Sabres of Infinity and Guns of Infinity, this game keeps what was good about those games while upping the complexity by an order of magnitude. The concept is that you've gone through hell in war (in the previous two games), and now you're back home on your country estate. What do you want to do with yourself? Do you want to manage an estate and try and get your finances in order (assuming you didn't pay off your debt through morally questionable means in the last game)? You can do that. Would you rather become an undercover agent in a conspiracy to overthrow the government? You can do that too. Perhaps you'd like to try and ignore all that political stuff and instead get drunk at the officers club? It's an option. Not only do you have incredible freedom given the genre, the amount of carry over of your choices between games is unbelievable, with plot threads opening or being modified by choices you made off hand two books ago. When this releases next March, anyone with an interest in the genre should play it. (After playing the previous two games because they're awesome too.) Easy List 10. Elden Ring 9. Fortnite 8. Final Fantasy XIV 7. Ghost of Tsushima 6. Paradise Killer 5. Stranger of Paradise - Final Fantasy Origin 4. Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous 3. Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- Reunion 2. Tactics Ogre: Reborn 1. Lords of Infinity CottonWolf fucked around with this message at 12:33 on Dec 27, 2022 |
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I hate to double post (I don't) but I've just gone through this thread in its entirety and its maintained its "best thread of the year in Video Games" status.
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Rarity, do you want some very simple similarity stats for lists this year? Just so people see whose lists they were must close too, some measure of who had the most distinct list, etc? I’m happy to put something simple together if so.
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exquisite tea posted:Yes do this but please put it in an ordered chart form with like an affinity % between consecutive posters rather than a graph that I will stare at for another 20 minutes and not understand!! I’m just going to make a square figure, with every poster combination having a block and that block being coloured blue to red depending on how similar their lists were. It won’t be hugely fancy, but you’ll be able to find your row and compare how close you were to every other person. CottonWolf fucked around with this message at 15:51 on Dec 25, 2022 |
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Microcline posted:PM me if you want the vote data in a csv with all of the game names standardized I was going to get Rarity’s excel spreadsheet, convert to csv myself and then read it into R, but that might be easier. I’ll send you a PM closer to the end date, thanks.
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Sir Brante was surprisingly good. I suspect there were lots of ways it could go, but I was happy with my first ending and never went back to it, perhaps I should.
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Yeah. “Weird” lists are the most fun.
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Rarity posted:Ok folks, that is it! The votes have been counted and verified and your GOTY for 2022 has been decided! Join myself and VG on Saturday 7th at 2pm GMT for a star-studded extravaganza as we countdown your top 75 Thanks so much Rarity! If I can’t get the csv from Microcline, I’ll be in touch to get your excel spreadsheet.
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ShallNoiseUpon posted:Gamers Gamers should never win.
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Games becomes the ghost forum.
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Looking forward to the wave of delays from the month that Armoured Core is announced for this year.
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Thanks again to Rarity and VG for doing this! I meant to post this yesterday, but I was trapped in travel hell for most of the day due to the transport issues in the UK, but here it is now. This is the similarity between all lists by RBO (for those that care, I used a weighting parameter of 0.7).  And here's the long list of which goon each other goon who submitted a list was closest to: code:
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If Rarity/VG can’t do this easily, I’m happy to.
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E: I was wrong. All is well!
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Games that appeared in only one list and were rated top:code:code:
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wuggles posted:This is cool! Why is not commutative? Mathematically speaking if d(x,y) is the minimum value of a metric d(y,x) should be as well right? I’d been pondering that too. But I don’t think it has to be. Imagine an scalene triangle with corners A, B and C. Let the distance between A and B be x, B and C be y, and A and C be z, with x < y < z. Then A pairs with B, B pairs with A, and C pairs with B. So the distances commute, but C being closest to B does not imply B closest to C. Escobarbarian posted:Don’t really know how the list similarity works as the person I was paired with had the same top two and then they had VS in their list at 3 whereas it was 8 in mine but then we didn’t have the other seven in common at all It’s based on both the degree of matching between the games on the list at all and positions of those games on those lists, with the p parameter determining the relative weights with lower values for p increasing the weight of the top of the list in the matching relative to everything else. Ultimately what to set p at is subjective (it can go between 0 and 1), but so thought for this a trade off of 0.7 was reasonable, so that corresponds to weighting the top of the list more, but still taking the whole list into account. CottonWolf fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Jan 8, 2023 |
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Microcline posted:I think this is the games that got 10 points rather than the games with only one #1 vote. For instance I ranked The Last Spell 9th and sirtommygunn ranked it 3rd which gives a total of 10 points. (how did so few people play it in 2022, the year of the SRPG?) The list I have is: You’re right. I just looked at my code, and I deleted the only one entry bit and replaced it with points equal to 10 rather than keeping both, when I threw it together.
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