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exquisite tea posted:Based on Microcline's explanation I'm guessing that people who tend to rank more games on their GOTY list get matched more often than those who only list 5-6 each year. Honestly I'm having a little trouble getting into it myself, as I've gotten older I've grown to dislike open world games.
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drat I’ve already played all of Microline’s recommendations except for Hardspace: Shipbreaker Which has just finished downloading 
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I write all the games I play down on a piece of paper. Then I put a little tick mark next to it if I've finished it
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Okay but who doesn't like Doom (1993), my overlapping social group is literally everyone!
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I'm okay with that though, talking to lots of different goons is really neat
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Only problem with the data's recommendations is it (very understandably) can't take into account honorable mentions as I've already played all but one of its recs, just didn't rate them on my lists. But it is hilarious how its imagined social group consistently reflects my real life social group. Zaggitz and Regy best buds and gaming pals.
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Microcline posted:
Lol played and loved all of these *except* FFXIV, which friends have been trying to get me to play for ages. I'm sure I'd love the story and world, I just can't get over MMO gameplay and monthly fees. I feel old because of it. I keep a lot of lists so my 2024 is looking like this: Currently playing Baldur's Gate III Alan Wake 2 Persona 5 Strikers Things I need to get back to, in order of importance Pentiment Yakuza 4 to present Trails in the Sky SC + series Dishonored 2 Kentucky Route Zero Bomb Rush Cyberfunk Planescape: Torment Manifold Garden Tales of Arise (I want to like this but I just don't) Things from this thread I want to play this year AC6 Octopath II Slay the Princess Lies of P (apparently) Star Ocean The Second Story R Elsinore Switch games in progress SMT III Nocturne Tokyo Mirage Sessions Okami FFVIII Remastered Metroid Prime Remastered Please come out this year and soon Silksong Balatro
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Working on a personal top 50 games of all time list and really struggling to remember back to the old school mac gaming days lol. I'm sure there's games out there that I've spent significant time with that for the life of me I can't remember at all lol
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GORILLA DOT BAS GAME OF ALL TIME
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fridge corn posted:Working on a personal top 50 games of all time list and really struggling to remember back to the old school mac gaming days lol. I'm sure there's games out there that I've spent significant time with that for the life of me I can't remember at all lol I have to recommend this book, it's so cool: Secret History of Mac Gaming
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fridge corn posted:Working on a personal top 50 games of all time list and really struggling to remember back to the old school mac gaming days lol. I'm sure there's games out there that I've spent significant time with that for the life of me I can't remember at all lol Lode Runner Carmen Sandiego Prince of Persia
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webmeister posted:Lode Runner I've already got two of those noted down  Never did play much of Lode Runner tho
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StrixNebulosa posted:I have to recommend this book, it's so cool: Secret History of Mac Gaming drat that book looks so cool
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fridge corn posted:I've already got two of those noted down Marathon whatever that overhead multiplayer tank game was
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Other old school mac games I'm considering for the list: Mission Thunderbolt Dark Castle Glider Kid Pix Manhole
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That was a really cool list Microcline! Thanks for putting that together. I haven't been able to check everyone who got matched with me, but your recs in my entry were spot on! Most of them are on my radar. Final Fantasy 15 (or 16? I lose track) I might have to wait on. I don't have a PlayStation. One of them I have played and love to death - Xenoblade! I saw you grabbed data from last year's lists which was a cool touch. If you'd gone back 2 years I'm almost positive Xenoblade would have been on there. I couldn't imagine not ranking it. One of your reccs was a game I know nothing about! Psychonauts 2? Huh. I real quick looked it up and sure I like platformers. Maybe it would work on my Deck? As I said in my list, I'm looking for more games to play on Deck!
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Psychonauts 2 works on Deck, but apparently you have to do some fuckery for widescreen & proper control prompts
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lordfrikk posted:I like to keep track of what I've read, watched, played etc. so last January I started my own backlog/game catalogue web app in Python (Django) as a way of getting into web dev. It can track individual sessions but currently all the tracking is manual. This is both good because I can track any platform and any game, but it's also bad due to the overhead. Right now there is no mobile app but I plan to learn to how make one. It's also open-source but it's a huge mess that I wouldn't actually recommend. 
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quote:Mysticblade Never played, never played (any of the games in the series, actually), never played, finished, never played. 1/5, huh? Jossar posted:Hmmm... Weirdly enough, this looks a lot like my list from last year. I think I'm the only one who put Shadowverse on their list this year, I put OSRS on my list this year and while I didn't put it on my list this year, I had Anbennar as #1 last year. Micro, is this using just data from this year or the previous year as well? Can't explain the horror games, I don't play them though.
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The other cool resource for old mac games is this website: https://macintoshgarden.org/quote:Welcome to The Macintosh Garden You know it's a good website because its UI looks old and functional
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Belgian Waffle posted:I'll contribute towards our journey to page 69 by begging shamelessly for a GOTY probe. mods...?
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Microcline posted:welcome Didn't play, won't play, bought but haven't played, downloaded but it left Gamepass, barely started. Pretty good, but it's funny that it recommended 3 GotY winners, 1 runner-up, and CrossCode.
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quote:StrixNebulosa I enjoyed Yakuza 1 but not 0 and ADHDed my way away from 2. I'd like to return to the franchise at some point but no rush. I don't enjoy Disco Elysium. It's well-written and clever and it's just not a game I mesh with? I have no interest in Hat in Time. Hades is pretty good but I really suck at it. West of Loathing seems neat but I refuse to play it due to crimes by its dev.
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Honestly I've soured on West of Loathing even without the dev crimes.Its a relatively long comedy game without much variety to it's jokes.
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Microcline posted:Endorph
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My recommendations that I haven't played are Octopath 2, Breath of Fire 3, and Sea of Stars. The year of the RPG from Japan continues...
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Bolo Myst Escape Velocity
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The recommendations are really neat. The only one I haven't played yet though is Bg3 and that's on the docket later this year. I really appreciate the effort though! Is it using prior year data? Kind of seems like it is but only people's top tens?
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Microcline posted:DemoneeHo Those recommendations are all games that I do actually wanna play and haven't yet, so thats pretty accurate. How does everyone feel about Hitman 2? Better or worse than its prequel or sequel?
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Microcline posted:TriffTshngo J-Ru is my kyodai. As far as those recommendations: was already planning on XB3, played ME2 15 years ago, and I can never get into metroidvanias that aren't actually just Metroid, unfortunately, so I'm probably gonna pass on Timespinner. The other two... yeah that's not happening. Interesting to see this kind of thing though. Mega props for the effort.
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DemoneeHo posted:Those recommendations are all games that I do actually wanna play and haven't yet, so thats pretty accurate. Hitman 2 is so bad it got delisted (It's a good game, mostly for refining and polishing the mechanics of the 2016 game, but you can only play it as part of World of Assassination now)
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all of the new Hitman games own extremely a lot
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Yeah, Hitman 1, 2, and 3 (the new trilogy, 2016 onward) all used the same mechanics and gameplay style as a base and the levels from 1 were playable in 2, and both again in 3, so they eventually just rebranded the client for 3 to be a big umbrella for all of the maps and all the bonus stuff and extra modes they've been putting out since. They're all real good.
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The data is obviously flawed because it should recommend Octopath Traveler 2 to everyone. There was just an awesome 90-minute speedrun of it at AGDQ where the runner beat the secret extra boss blindfolded. You can even watch it without spoiling anything because the run completely skips 99% of the story.
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Microcline posted:teo4512 A bit off for me unfortunately. 30XX and Dead Cells have never really seemed appealing to me. While I know of Afterimage I've not been in a metroidvania mood lately but maybe one day. I never heard of Perfect Tides before (either that or I overlooked all discussion about it). It seems like it could be fun but I'd rather wait a bit before picking another story-focused game that may explore a character's personal issues immediately after playing In Stars and Time last week. Patrick's Parabox pretty much hits the bullseye but I already played it. Still, that's a pretty interesting set of data to analyse I must say.
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ToxicFrog posted:I did something similar, but since web apps and mobile apps are anathema to me I ended up writing command line tools (actually wrappers around the Taskwarrior todo-list manager) for both books and games. I make no attempt to track time played, though, just the dates for "added to backlog" -> "started playing/reading" -> "done"; mostly I use it for writing down my thoughts about stuff I've finished (or DNFed), rummaging through my history for things to recommend to friends, and looking at long-term trends like "what breakdown of genres did I read this year". I've started cobbling things together on the command line but I couldn't push it past a toy phase. Django being ancient and super reliable is very helpful for someone just starting out as I can avoid some costly mistakes upfront, and fix the small mistakes as I learn more. It's really interesting seeing all the various ways how people approach their backlog, from just a vague pressure in the back of their mind to obsessively categorizing everything in a spreadsheet and everything in between.
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Booky posted:and thats so many rpgs....!!! It's running into two limitations here. The first is that there are a few games here like Undertale (2015), Stardew Valley (2016), and Breath of the Wild (2017) that don't tell much about a user (because everyone has played them) but the recommender thinks are mutual niche interests. The second is that if there isn't a backbench of 3-5 good matched users it tends to result in one person yelling their favorite sicko games. Lavatein posted:Oh hey, I guess that's almost my name! I had you misspelled in a previous year so you matched with your past self over Dance Cube. Here's the corrected version: Lavatein Your closest match is Lonegar based on a shared interest in: Higurashi When They Cry Your top 5 recommendations are: Final Fantasy VII Remake, Wooden Ocean, Trails to Azure, Lenna's Inception, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot It still probably doesn't have a great read though as none of the matches share more than one game in common and FFVIIR is the only recommendation by more than one person. It also shows how the "strongest match" doesn't always determine the recommendations (especially when all 10 of the matches are fairly weak) as Lonegar hasn't listed any of those. exquisite tea posted:Based on Microcline's explanation I'm guessing that people who tend to rank more games on their GOTY list get matched more often than those who only list 5-6 each year. It's using everything from 2018-2023 so some users are matching on as many as 60 games. This makes them overrepresented but also makes them fairly reliable at giving and receiving recommendations because both matches and recommendations are based on multiple hits. Next year I'll probably make the script a bit more verbose with things like how much data it has from a given user, how strong the matches/recommendations are, and who's contributing to each recommendation
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Jerusalem posted:To be fair, you'd probably only enjoy Prey if you like games that are just goddamn excellent and an absolute blast to play, and make your life better for having experienced them. Sounds like poo poo!!!!
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haveblue posted:Bolo fuuuuck. now you just took me back.
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