Maybe this time instead of a list we can do a matrix
my nomination for 1980 is Rogue
I am an iconoclast
I would like to see this but with books
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Iām down to list.
I also think sometime it would be fun to do a ābest levelā list where everyone gets to say only one single level/stage/mission from one video game. But thatās another thread for another time.
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The problem I have of lists like this is that I never really attach āthe year of releaseā to most games mentally, so it innevitably involves lots of looking shit up for me to make one. Also because I am always playing/reading/watching older shit removed from the immediacy of its own time.
Like, for example, is Shenmue 1 100% the best game of whatever year it was released in? Most definitely, but I donāt exactly remember that year (I am pretty sure it is 2000 in the US but barely 1999 in Japan) and I only came to this idea this year, so I feel weird about saying āthe best game of 2000ā with that in mind, because it doesnāt really have anything to do with 2000 for me. It is one of my best games of 2019, and I think playing it bookended by almost 20 years of my life is actually kinda an important reason for that.
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This is of course to say I will attempt to participate and probably fail.
are these two things supposed to be related or
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@T and I maintain a half complete spreadsheet of every interesting game of the 10s Iāll just pull a game for each year of this decade and phone in the rest
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2010 Mount and Blade Warband
2011 Dark Souls
2012 Waking Mars/English Country Tune
2013 868 Hack/The Yawhg (this was a bad year for games)
2014 Hadean Lands/Nidhogg (this was a great year)
2015 Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
2016 Quern/Videoball
2017 Cinco Paus/Gorogoa
2018 Six Ages
2019 Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice but Iāll still change my mind at the last minute because this year has been extraordinarily good for games
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wherein its revealed that I have boring midbrow tastes in games and all my elitism was for naught
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868 hack is not better than papers please
and 2015 has some pretty stiff competition
and frankly the only big budget action games you have being fromsoft is not the best look
Papers Please was firmly a game that was interesting to read about but a chore to play, and I donāt like the centrist optics of it where it displaces and whitewashes a thing happening in america into jokesy soviet kitsch.
After having made a point of playing more big budget action games this year I can say with 100% certainty that AAA action sucks for the most part
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la noire was the best game of 2011 to me so i thought i was not qualified to post a list but i looked at CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED GAMES OF 2011 on wikipedia and they almost all suck ass
the idea that it has to be designated American in the first place and proceed from that perspective seems somewhat galaxy brained to me
but please do let me know what are the big budget action games I missed or ignored, maybe thereās something out there that doesnāt feel awful
the kind of āha ha soviet russia!!!ā aesthetic it cultivates is very much in the wheelhouse of american hacks though
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titanfall 2, Wolfenstein 2, and Siege, just for shootersā¦
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yeah, I see it, but as someone who doesnāt spend that much time getting red scared I think the monotony and bureaucratic nightmare are fair game if youāre gonna come up with such great sound design
maybe if they came out during less competitive years
(2016 is currently, by a long shot, the most interesting year in video games this decade, with 33 games making it to my spreadsheet)
beyond: two souls
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