#3. Fallout: New Vegas - 38 points
Votes
#1: 1 (Hazz3r)
#2: 3 (Shoulderguy, paulmci27, MiserablePerson)
#3: 4 (Brandon_Reister, JDINCINERATOR, E_Zed_Eh_Intern, Zanarkand)
#4: 3 (TokyoSlim, Nimbat1003, DIPSET)
HM: 3 (Sazime, bard91, Hanabi)
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Release date: October 19 [US], October 22 [EU]
Developer: Obsidian Entertainment
Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
Genre: Action role-playing
Platform(s): PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Windows
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Yeah just to be clear, voting is not open yet, this post is just so we can establish the rules beforehand, so don't panic :) I was however hoping to get it started sometime in the next couple weeks. And I would definitely leave voting open for a longer period than usual, considering the effort it will take to rank our games (I've narrowed my own list down to 52 games now and I'm paralyzed).
@Brannox Indeed, the only games eligible are the ones who made our Top 25/20 lists for each year. Basically the games that @Shoulderguy posted above.
I found it interesting to revisit my own votes for each year, as I sometimes looked at a game and thought "Don't think that one will make my top 15" only to see it was my second favourite for a given year... Or the other way around, an old honorable mention getting me more excited than the rest. There's also games I hadn't played at the time, that now really have a chance of making my list.
So I gathered all the eligible games into one big list, and out of curiosity highlighted the ones I have personally played, and I got 90! So I'll have to pick 20 out of those 90, this is going to be more heartbreaking than ever!
@chocobop I'm not in favour of tiers because I think ranking the games is something most people enjoy, and only splitting them into 3 or 4 groups wouldn't be as satisfying (and agonizing). We would also probably end up with a lot more draws, if there's only 3 or 4 different amounts of points a game can receive.
Having the points decrease linearly from 25 to 6 is almost the same as what I'm suggesting, except it would remove the distinction between HMs and the games that made your top 15. And the top game getting a bigger point bump over second place. I find it "cleaner" to have the points range between 5 and 25 rather than 6 and 25 too, just OCD things :)
@sazime Hard to tell now if we'll end up with a top 25, or a top 50, or more. Will depend on how many people vote, how the votes are spread, etc.
I'm hoping for a top 50 but we'll see how it pans out!
Since we're approaching the end of our GOTY 2010 reveal, it's time to think again about what's next: the Game of the 2010s!
As we discussed before, the only games eligible would be those who made the top 25 of each year (with only a top 20 in the case of two years).
I agree that voting for only 5 or 8 games would be pretty limiting, with such a wide range of beloved eligible games. I feel like a sweet spot would be 15 or 20 games.
I'm afraid to go higher than that because some people would then struggle to provide a full list (there are years when people tell me they can only name one or two games).
With that said, I'm suggesting the following: you will rank your top 15 games + 5 optional honorable mentions. Hopefully this is an achievable number for everyone.
In terms of scoring, I want to do things a bit differently. We could say #1 gets 20pts, #2 gets 19pts, ... until #20 gets 1pt. However, that means the #1 spot gets 20 times more points than the last spot. In other words, a game could get 19 honorable mentions and be ranked below a game that got a single #1 spot. Doesn't feel right.
In order to curb this difference, I'd like to suggest the following:
How does all of that sound?
#4. Super Mario Galaxy 2 - 33 points
Votes
#1: 2 (Phbz, tokeeffe9)
#2: 5 (Axel, Kaminski, HappyGaming, Jamicov, NeoCweeny)
#3: 0
#4: 0
HM: 3 (naltmank, Shoulderguy, El Shmiablo)
Information
Release date: May 23 [US], June 11 [EU]
Developer: Nintendo
Publisher: Nintendo
Genre: Platforming
Platform(s): Wii
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#5. God of War III - 32 points
Votes
#1: 4 (Sentinel Beach, DIPSET, Scotty, El Shmiablo)
#2: 0
#3: 3 (naltmank, Nimbat1003, robert7lee)
#4: 0
HM: 3 (JDINCINERATOR, Crepe, Brannox)
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Release date: March 16 [US], March 19 [EU]
Developer: SCE Santa Monica Studio
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Genre: Action-adventure, Hack and slash
Platform(s): PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3
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#6. Civilization V - 24 points
Votes
#1: 1 (Sazime)
#2: 1 (Brandon_Reister)
#3: 4 (Crepe, bard91, Capnbobamous, Exist 2 Inspire)
#4: 0
HM: 3 (GageBlackW23, Zanarkand, HappyGaming)
Information
Release date: September 21 [US], September 24 [EU]
Developer: Firaxis Games
Publisher: 2K Games
Genre: Turn-based strategy, 4X
Platform(s): Windows, OS X
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#7. Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver - 22 points
Votes
#1: 2 (FF7Cloud, Zindenga)
#2: 1 (naltmank)
#3: 1 (Lotias)
#4: 1 (Jamicov)
HM: 3 (Shoulderguy, GageBlackW23, Hazz3r)
Information
Release date: March 14 [US], March 26 [EU]
Developer: Game Freak
Publisher: Nintendo
Genre: Role-playing
Platform(s): Nintendo DS
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