(Nov 12th, 2021, 07:40 PM)Dragon Lord Wrote:

As for the PC, Monocle built me one already, just gotta save up the money for it. It's a $3,000 beast of a machine, so it'll be damn good. I can get $2,000 of that loaned through Affirm, so that helps. Just need to have enough to comfortably afford the other $1,200-ish I'll need to pay. It'll be my Christmas present to myself, so the goal is to get it by next month (even though it probably won't arrive until January-February if I buy it in December).

Quote:Do you intend to level him up at all or are you just having him chill with you? By the sounds of the rest of your team I get the feeling you finished the bulk of the game and just managed to grab an Omanyte after the fact

(Nov 16th, 2021, 12:43 AM)Moonface Wrote:

@Nightingale: Since I'm curious, what is it about Omanyte that you like so much?

(Nov 10th, 2021, 08:03 PM)Moonface Wrote:

So the Golden Joystick Awards are currently happening, and this year they've got a new public voting category called Ultimate Game of All Time, where the public can vote to name one of the following games as the best of all time:

• Minecraft
  
• The Last of Us
  
• DOOM (1993)
  
• Tetris
  
• Super Mario 64
  
• Street Fighter II
  
• Space Invaders
  
• Portal
  
• Pokemon GO
  
• Super Mario Kart
  
• Grand Theft Auto V
  
• Super Mario Bros. 3
  
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
  
• Halo: Combat Evolved
  
• Dark Souls
  
• Metal Gear Solid
  
• Half-Life 2
  
• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
  
• Pac-Man
  
• SimCity (1989)
  

This is how the shortlist was determined:

GamesRadar+ Wrote:

For Ultimate Game of All Time, we had to narrow the 1.1 million or so games released in the last 50 years into a voting shortlist of 20 titles. We did this by creating a long list of several hundred titles using existing best of all time lists from Edge Magazine and Retro Gamer magazine, plus the addition of every Ultimate Game of the Year winner from the Golden Joystick Awards (established 1983). This long list was then put to a panel of industry judges who created the shortlist of 20 you can see through the voting module.

I'm not sure on some of the games included here. OoT should absolutely be in over BotW, and I'm surprised there's nothing for Final Fantasy in the list either. I feel like Pokemon GO got in because it's just the most notable mobile game and the first of its type, but I'd rather that game have been a mainline Pokemon game rather than some mobile spin-off that is never going to be talked about as much as things like Red/Blue and such.

I haven't viewed the shortlists for their other categories yet, but I just wanted to share this one because it stood out to me, especially with how much of a monumental task it is to determine what game is the ultimate one of all. I'm not even sure myself if it can be accurately decided because of differences in genre, time, quality and impact. One game might be overall better than another but the lesser one could have made a much bigger impact in gaming overall in some way, so then how do you decide which of those two is actually the ultimate?

(Nov 24th, 2021, 03:08 AM)Moonface Wrote:

To update on this, Dark Souls received the award for Ultimate Game of All Time: https://www.gamesradar.com/dark-souls-is-your-ultimate-game-of-all-time-at-the-golden-joystick-awards/

(Nov 24th, 2021, 05:49 AM)Nightingale Wrote:

But Deus Ex, which is often considered to be the Greatest PC Game of All-Time, wasn't even a nominee...