| the_dengle said: I've got it. Make it so you can vote for 10 games if you want, but no more than 3 games for a single console. So even the most hardcore Sony or Nintendo fanboy will be encouraged to think of 4 games from other consoles they liked, while most lists will wind up with 2-3 games from each console. ^ This prevents users like MBP above from stacking the vote with games from a single console, while he would still be allowed to vote for only 3 games if he honestly doesn't believe that any game from another console is as good as the 4th- or 10th-best 360 game. So he doesn't have to support other consoles' games, but he is encouraged to do so. |
But then you're not really voting for your favourite games of the generation. Also, to make a top 10 list from that rule, you're going to have to have owned at least 4 consoles this generation - some people literally only use 1-2 machines for gaming, so their lists just don't count or they're only allowed to list 3-6 games? That doesn't particularly seem fair either.
I don't know how you'd deal with this, really. Separate lists? Working out the mean (i.e. assigning points from 10 to 1 based on people's votes, then dividing by how many votes there were)?
To me, imposing restrctions on 'what' you can vote for seems like the least productive way to do things, because then the list isn't really your favourite games of the generation, it's your favourite games for each respective console you own of the generation, which is going to differ between person to person.
