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Kakadu18 on 21 January 2022
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mZuzek said:
Jaicee said:

Thanks for hosting, space raccoon. Another job well done! *pets the top of your head*

Commentary: There are too many Nintendo games!

I think my job here is done.

EDIT: Well okay, maybe not quite. I note that two, count 'em TWO, original IPs made the top 20 once again, and just wanted to take credit for that because The Last of Us (ranking in 20th place) actually lost five votes this year compared to last year (when it also placed 20th), so the fact that it's still in the top 20 is very likely owed to my moving it up to second place on my list. Otherwise, it would've been overtaken by Majora's Mask, making 15 out of the top 20 titles Nintendo games and 19 sequels. Same principle with The Last of Us Part II: it moved up ten ranks this year despite getting the same number of votes probably because I moved it up to #1 on my list. So YaY me! My impact on this site is actually visible this year!

I think you should consider that this year had fewer overall lists to account for, so a game having the same amount of votes means it already did better than last year. You're right about The Last of Us though, had it been your #18 like last year, it'd have fallen behind Majora's Mask by just a couple points. Part II would have gotten the same position if you had it at #2.

And speaking on some of this stuff, I think the gap between Super Mario Galaxy and the games next to it is interesting. In sheer amount of votes (34), it's closer to Breath of the Wild (40) than it is to Ocarina of Time (27). However in the actual points tally, while it has a big lead on Ocarina of Time, Breath of the Wild's lead on it is almost three times bigger. In fact, Galaxy's lead on Ocarina is about the same as Ocarina's lead on Wind Waker, despite the difference in votes between those being only 1. Everything after Wind Waker gets really close.

I checked the rankings a few times while I was compiling lists and the only game that never budged was Breath of the Wild, whereas Mario Galaxy moved around a lot before getting that big lead.

As for the games that missed out on the top 100, FFVIIR and StarCraft were within any one vote of making it in - as in, even a vote at #50 would have been enough - and all games down to Xenoblade X at #131 were within one vote of making it in, though that'd require an increasingly high vote the lower the ranked game is.

So Galaxy was generally ranked lower than BotW. That means BotW's supremacy is still undisputed.