| Machina said: I also enjoy reading about why people pick x or y game and rank it so high, especially when it's not Final Fantasy Game #22 or Super Mario Game #54, so your first idea is good. I was actually surprised by how many of the games on your list I recognise Jaicee; there are only a handful I've never heard of. Though that's maybe because I have to browse through so many games each year to compile GOTY lists (on that subject, I see Immortality and Norco made your list this year - they're indies currently on OpenCritic's wall of fame for 2022. When I first came across them I did wonder if they'd be on your GOTY list!). I'm most curious about your Uncharted pick - it's really high on your list, but it's the only Uncharted game you picked, and it's one of the Uncharted games people tend to forget even exists. I expect it's to do with the choice of protagonists, or maybe it's more than that; either way I'm interested in reading your thoughts on it. |
It seems to be the consensus that explainers are the best route for me to go, so I think that's what I do. Not yet sure how I'm going to structure it -- as one big post or a few smaller posts or dedicating like one long post to each title in the top 10 that I link together as I go along. Doing the top 20 seems super ambitious since I'm pretty unlikely to write just a few sentences about anything I feel that strongly about, but 10 should be manageable.
Anyway, yeah I wasn't going to include Immortality when first I reached the "end" credits, but then I started discovering a bunch of hidden stuff that completely changed my perspective on it!
As to The Lost Legacy, it will be more natural to explain my feelings at length, but the most abbreviated version is that, yes, the choice of protagonists here changes the whole feel of everything to me. Though I mean something not being included in the top 50 is by no means a negative implication about it, I might add. By my standards, a hard limit of 50 games is pretty constricting anymore and forces me to be extremely picky. Were we to expand this out to a top 100 list, I guarantee you at least two more Uncharted games would be there. You'd likewise see Hollow Knight and lots of others people may feel that I've slighted.
