Nintendo didn’t change anything, because JoyCon Drift isn’t real, remember?

Including Nintendo. Especially Nintendo.

Legends.

But betwee those two, I like Battle Network better (but wish it didn’t have random battles).

I have edited my comment with my list for your data gathering pleasure.

Nintendo.

At this point, the ONLY reason to buy Nintendo is exclusives (that cannot be emulated). But they make it pretty easy to not buy their stuff anymore.

I am compelled to disagree that Banjo Kazooie holds up better than The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time for 1998. That’s crazy talk.

I am interested in doing this but do not have the time currently. Ill come back to this later.

EDIT: Here is my own list, limited to games I have actually played. I guess this would be my “Game of the Year” list for the following years, again, from games I have played. Although I tried hard to limit it down to just one game.for each year, sime year were more stacked than others (and this really hurt sometimes). If multiple games are listed, they are considered close to equal in the order they are listed, with first being the highest and each subsequent being like half a point below its previous.If its not on this list, either I didn’t play it, or I don’t consider it to be equal to or better than what I put here:

• 1981 - Defender
• 1982 - Q*bert
• 1983 - Fortress of Narzod
• 1984 - Knight Lore
• 1985 - Super Mario Brothers
• 1986 - The Legend of Zelda
• 1987 - Dungeon Master
• 1988 - Snatcher (the later SEGA CD version is objectively better in nearly every way)
• 1989 - Tetris
• 1990 - Super Mario World
• 1991 - The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
• 1992 - Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf
• 1993 - Brandish 2: The Planet Buster
• 1994 - Super Metroid, Policenauts
• 1995 - Panzer Dragoon
• 1996 - Yu-No: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of This World
• 1997 - GoldenEye 007, Quake II, Mega Man Legends
• 1998 - The Ledeng of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Metal Gear Solid, Half-Life, Panzer Dragoon Saga
• 1999 - Silent Hill, Shenmue, System Shock 2, Age of Empires II, Dino Crisis
• 2000 - The Operative: No One Lives Forever, Vagrant Story
• 2001 - Halo Combat Evolved, Silent Hill 2, Shenmue II, Super Smash Brothers Melee
• 2002 - Metroid Prime, Resident Evil (Gamecube remake), The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Steel Battalion, Panzer Dragoon Orta, MechAssault, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell
• 2003 - Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy, F-Zero GX, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 (yeah, it released in 2003)
• 2004 - Halo 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II, Need for Speed Underground 2
• 2005 - TimeSplitters: Future Perfect, Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie (unironically a peak game in 2005), Star Wars Republic Commando,
• 2006 - The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Battlefield 2142, Metroid Prime Hunters
• 2007 - Halo 3, Metroid Prime 3 Corruption, Project Gotham Racing 4
• 2008 - Super Smash Brothers Brawl, Rock Band 2, Mirror’s Edge
• 2009 - Demon’s Souls
• 2010 - Halo Reach, NieR (Gestalt), Battlefield Bad Company 2, Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker, Infinity Blade (yes, the mobile game)
• 2011 - Dark Souls, Minecraft, Portal 2, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Earth Defense Force Insect Armageddon
• 2012 - Forza Horizon
• 2013 - Battlefield 4
• 2014 - Dark Souls II, Halo 2 Anniversary (Campaign, as part of Master Chief Collection), Destiny, Danganronpa Trigger Happy Havoc, Danganronpa 2 Goodbye Despair,
• 2015 - Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain, Yakuza 0, Life is Strange
• 2016 - Dark Souls III, Factorio, Divinity Original Sin II, Stellaris (its very different now, in a better way IMO)
• 2017 - NieR Automata, Doki Doki Literature Club!, The Coma: Recut,
• 2018 - Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition, Super Smash Brothers Ultimate, Forza Horizon 4, Deep Rock Galactic, Kingdom Come Deliverance
• 2019 - Risk of Rain 2, Code Vein, Death Stranding
• 2020 - Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur’s Gate III, Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth, Genshin Impact (it was fun for a while)
• 2021 - Valheim
• 2022 - Elden Ring, Goddess of Victory NIKKE (I am completely serious with this pick)
• 2023 - Metroid Prime Remastered, System Shock Remake (I actually backed this game on Kickstarter at one of their higher tiers)
• 2024 - Helldivers 2
• 2025 - Elden Ring Nightreign
• 2026 - (I haven’t played any games that released this year that were good enough to be in this list)

You know, writing this all out, gaming really does suck these days. The 90s-10s were absolutely STACKED with bangers.

Morrowind. Its older (should easily runnwell on your rig), and its combat mechanics are more similar to table-talk rpgs (an attack might look like it should hit, but the game internally rolls dice to see if it beats enemy armor etc.), but its an immensely better RPG experience compared to Skyrim.

OpenMW is the most recommended way to play since its a reimplementation of the game engine, fixing various bugs and improving compatibility with modern computer systems while adding some modern features like shadows for terrain and more optimized lighting.

And don’t even get me started on gaming news and influencers, who seem like they love to hate.

Literally every gaming news media outlet and “influencer” when the topic is Xbox:

Disappointed RE1 is getting a remake to turn it into yet another Modern Action Shooter Slop game instead of keeping it Survival Horror.

RE1 was already remade, and it was literally the perfect remake too.

Even if Concord was free, it still would have had less players than Highguard. Nobody wanted to play Concord, at least some people wanted to play Highguard.

Such a shame this game fell off so hard. Previous team didnt do enough for the game. Should have made it F2P, probably would spike the playerbase

Yeah but now ConcernedApe is making Clint marryable, and he truly deserves the fattest of Ls for that one…

(/s, obviously)

Everything was direct download on Myrient. It was also pretty fast for a free site.

It is a free demo, so its not that crazy. Will be interesting to see the number when people have to buy the game.

The name just makes me think of the “evil X” memes:

Evil Autism be like: “Yes hello, I would love to have a pleasant conversation. Oh, nothing too niche and specific? No worries!”

They made Leon hotter by asking women on the dev team for feedback on his design, thus crafting the Ultimate Hot Leon, or something.

Also, more people buying and playing video games now compared to the past.

Meanwhile Marathon’s server slam is down by more than 50% from yesterday, dropping from ~150k to ~55k.

“Dont worry, its a Thursday, just wait until the weekend.”

Nah bro, it dropped to its lowest concurrent player count on a Friday. That bodes horrendously badly for its future. And I mean, good. Its a skinwalker anyway (though I really love the artstyle, Graphic Brutalism has always been a favorite of mine since it started popping up in the late 2000s, its not a Marathon game, and my love of its art style isnt enough to carry it alone).

So are they going to do the same thing against EA, ActiBlizz, Epic Games, etc etc? Or is this just “Valve has the most money and we want money and dont actually care about this issue” yet again?

He might want to think

In that case, you got a lot of options.

Helldivers 2 would probably be a good fit. It doesn’t have a lot to learn for a player to do well, and if one player is a min-maxing nuisance it won’t really effect the rest of the player’s experience. It’s a cooperative third person shooter. Its hard for one player to take over everything, especially at the higher difficulties.