[The King]

Absolute objective morality probably takes third place.
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[handsomenattou]

[handsomenattou]

[diplo]

As far as I can tell, this thread is not IGN's Most Important Videogames of All Time. It is people choosing the games they like the most from each year. It doesn't seem to make any claims of objectivity or of being a serious pursuit of an impregnable canon (which is what The Greatest Works are almost always couched in).

In conclusion, The Best Game Ever Made

[The King]

I would place myself firmly in Diplo's camp if I thought there was actually an opposing camp.
All the 'Greatest X' talk is fairly tongue in cheek stuff we're playing at because we ran out of years.
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[analogos]

[The King]

[handsomenattou]

[handsomenattou]

[lucky lipstick]

i like games

[lucky lipstick]

my favrit game is bioshoc... when i play dis game i feel very tired of breathe... it has all the devols of sadness.

[handsomenattou]

I cried when Aeris-chan died :'(

[Felix]

[Ronnoc]

I mean, if you don't think Tetris is a timeless classic, Tetris is a timeless classic.

[T.]

[boojiboy7]

I can't really get into 3d ninja gaiden, which oddly i find kinda sad.

[CubaLibre]

[gooktime]

People don't like SF4 because it's very slow & dry, risk-reward for nearly any offensive is fucked up. I've put a ton of time into it and it changed the fighting game scene locally from half a dozen guys in someones front room to a steady 50+ tournament turnout but I'm absolutely in the camp that it's weaker than ST.

That said I'm always confused when people complain about links and the execution barrier as that side is definitely way easier than most fightcons (see: the enormous reversal window)

[lucky lipstick]

dog days is actually pretty fun to play despite the fact that it is constantly calling attention to how horrific and stupid the actions of the player characters are.

it succeeds at several other things aside from being a piece of trite game criticism and i would rank it far above no more heroes just based on that alone.

[klj5j6li]

[gooktime]

I'm with you on sloppy input detection; a lot of it (in SF4 at least) is down to the shortcuts, which ties in with what I was saying before. They made it as easy as possible to mash out a reversal dp.

[BotageL]

Wow, 2010 already? Let's see...



Whew, that was easy!
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[8128]

deadly premonition for goty 2010
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[kthorjensen]

[armed police catrider]

sooooo Demon's Souls 2010?

[Sniper Honeyviper]

[death parade]

Vanquish was GOTY 2010. It did something genuinely transformative to the cover shooter genre. Contrast that with Dog Days which does very little with it at all and rides on the non-ludological elements heavily to generate interest. Vanquish made leaving cover in style the core element; other previously trite concepts like bullet time were re-purposed to create an insane, churning world of danger and excitement. There's actual vision there as to how this should all work beyond going through the motions of move and shoot. The player is given a toolbox of weapons, actions and routes to string together as they please and the result is something so visceral that I could play it for 15 minutes, pause and leave the controller perfectly satisfied and only then realise my hands were shaking from the adrenaline rush. I haven't thrilled like that since I was a kid fumbling for coins to slam in before the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles machine counted me out for ten.

Admittedly, the single player campaign falls off before the end just a little. It looks so good though - in it's own way, it looks as good as Kayne and Lynch 2. The implausibility of a near-future super-structure in Earth orbit was a small price to pay for that kind of techno-industrial consistency.

Love the Mikami tropes also: self inflicted gunshot wounds, POTUS, infeasibly stoic smartarses who can survive anything and insane QTE melee attacks. Something about the tone of the enemy design (and that easter egg) reminds me of Contra Hardcorps.

[Moogs]

[death parade]

Apparently being exposed to hardcore Ninjas might have corrupted us. We used to call it that back then and it's good shorthand for that particular phase of the franchise. That TMHT coin-op might well be my GOTY for 1989 but it has to be an actual arcade cabinet that I'm pumping 20p coins into. It loses atmosphere if it's emulated.

[Baseballkappe]

The greatest game of all times is Smash T.V. because it is an amazing satire of videogames and the way they mirror and promote the consumer society.

[RT-55J]

Results in the first post updated

Total game count: 1127

Now I just need to import all the data to the wiki...

[Baseballkappe]

Also NARC.

Total Carnage sucks though.

[Dracko]

[diplo]

2010:
deadly premonition
super meat boy
limbo (sorry h8rs)

[RT-55J]

So I've been importing all of the voting data into the wiki, and I'm about halfway done (up to 1994).

Link: http://wiki.selectbutton.net/sb:recommended:goty

You can fix any errors I made and change your votes. More importantly, you can comment (positively or negatively) on individual games and stuff. Clicking the "filter" button next to one of your posts might be a good place to start.

(Probably should have used this format in the first place, but whatever.)
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[klj5j6li]

I can't edit wiki articles but you have "1985" listed instead of "1994"

[Rud31]

[RT-55J]

I would like to apologize here for not ever making a frontpage post about this thread. Since I'll be leaving soon (Mormon mission!), somebody else will need to wring some statistics out of the data in this thread and write some stuff to go with. I've uploaded my (horribly formatted) data spreadsheet to Google Docs (Original .xlsx file) in case somebody is willing to take up this challenge.

Also, for those who are curious here's a list of the top vote-getters, which I'm referring to as "sacred cows" because um

[Mr Mustache]

The list should probably include a Marathon game, right?
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[negativedge]

cycle doesn't post enough anymore, mustache

[Gorblax]

ATTN RT-55J: Please allow the voting for Game of the Year 2011 to begin.
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