A winner is me. The ghost raccoon has officially turned me green. I am contented.

Ah yes, I do have a problem with sending poor unsuspecting people essays. Both in the PM system and on the forums. Sometimes I just really get going and forget that people have lives and don't have time to read a novel from me. :P

I have a preliminary list that I found, but it needs some work, I haven't updated it in years. I need to at least figure out where BotW and Odyssey fit on the list. And Ultimate. And Three Houses. Shit, actually I've got a lot of work to do on this.

I barely had any time to play anything this year, there'll be like only 2 new entries in my list

I'm in.

I have a set scoring system that I devised to try and take time and nostalgia into account. I score the following out of 10 then take an average:

Initial Score:

Score I gave or would have given the game when I first played it

Modern Score:

Score I give it based on modern standards

Emotional Connection/Nostalgia:

This really is a personalisation score. Some games I simply remember fondly even though I know they're objectively not better than others, some games I just really like the setting or certain characters.

Amount of time played:

The amount of time I personally devoted to playing the game.

I find this helps balance my list as I go down and change the modern and emotional scores every year. I actually have around 200 games ranked in this way from doing this exercise in previous years, lol.

K I'll participate this year. I'll actually change my list up dropping and adding decent amount of games.

You may have noticed that I often do the same thing; it's all good! I mean my last Democratic debate commentary was what, 10 or 12 paragraphs long? I enjoy expressing myself too. I get it.

My fantasy career way back when was that I was going to be a writer. People told me I lacked what it took, but just look at me now!

I like the "emotional connection/nostalgia" aspect of this. I can't possibly gauge things like that in a tangible score because I find it's subjective enough to change sometimes from day to day for me. It is the only metric I use though. I mean what else matters, frankly, other than what a game means to you? Anyone who uses a different metric to determine their favorite games is a fraud who just wants to be popularz, IMO. My list will be completely non-objective, to that end. A favorites list to me is exactly that. It's not a list of the 50 objectively best-designed games evar, it's a list of games that have meant the most to me and/or brought me the most joy.

I'll get started on my list then.

Won't be a new-new game on it though, nothing this year has earned that. Well, except Link's Awakening, but I already have the original on it so that doesn't count. I'll have some returning games, maybe some new old games, who knows. I don't have Photoshop anymore, I want to make some banners, so I'm going to look for a nice free app.