/v/ - Video Games

>3rd birthday is the first "good game"

Yeah, not even worth reading past that. I'll take any soulless AAA over that unholy nightmare of a shitfuck game.

>>15765020

And yet the current shitty charts keep being circulated.

Taste is one thing, but you're recommending a game to OTHER PEOPLE. So you have to come up with actual reasons other than "I like it", and if you can't - it's not going on the chart.

>I think it's pointless to modify the current charts (I heard they come from 4chan anyway?) We have to start over.

The bulk of the ones made here recreated the base style, and then were meant to have things added or removed as anons thought at the time, since some things were notorious absent due to whoever had made them originally on cuckchan getting lazy/bored. It was especially so for system that were still current at the time, but weren't kept up to date.

The revision rosters were from post-exodus anon contributions, and will generally specify 8/v/ in the title as a means of at least being differentiated. The one you posted is not one of those; that one is a direct cuckchan one (the filesize range tends to also give those away, as does visual artifacting to compress it into the 3-4 MB or however much the limit there was). There was a previous effort for fixing and adding to the PSP one, but it never left the work in progress stage due to low amounts of contributions towards what had been deemed missing. Probably on account of requiring descriptions.

>What I want to do here is to have anons CLAIM A GAME that they want to review, so that effort is not duplicated. The review should include not just a description of the game, but WHY IS THAT GAME WORTH PLAYING - why is it on the chart? If you struggle to come up with the reasons, then maybe that game shouldn't be on the chart.

Good luck actually getting people to do that, at least in enough numbers to get something decent made with them. I'm simply saying that asking for people to do more than post a name or cover/box art tends to lose people's interest in helping, even for games they love.

>>15765014

The old cuckchan wii one also had the issue of using stuff like "take with a grain of salt" as justification for the likes of Metroid: Other M being recommended. I'm really not sure how those would get cleared at the time, even then.

We should just make a wiki instead. That way anyone could recommend games.

>>15765025

That doesn't tend to happen. Instead, people screech about what they consider to be a good game, mostly for subjective reasons, and eventually that sentiment gets thrown into the greater consciousness enough that it gains its own traction, and people start looking for reasons to confirm their biases. This then leads to the consolidation of consensus, which then ultimately dictates what appears on your "best of" lists. Lists are merely an attempt to further solidify the consensus as it has already been developed, which makes it easier for any and all newfags to just hop aboard and claim ownership of that consensus. Then, these same faggots perform their little song and dance and provide fellatio to the opinions that they've so graciously incorporated into their being, for no other reason than because they want to be part of your in-group or in the case of e-celebs, so that they can build their brand around your tastes and appeal to your sensibilities and make those Patreon-bux, and eventually this creates a fucking circlejerk, whose members have no idea how to think for themselves or how they'd assess something that hasn't already been ordained by the zeitgeist as worthy or not.

Instead of making lists, you should encourage people to play games they like, to think for themselves, and to cultivate the mental faculties that are required of someone who wishes to critically analyze their own tastes, the tastes of others, and the conclusions (and discrepancies) drawn from the fruit of the discussions that are had between people who can do these things.

>>15765066

We could make "how to analyse games" informatics.

>>15765447

That chart would benefit from in-game screenshots instead of boxart. What the game looks likes tells a lot and anon can go from there depending on his taste. It should also be sorted by genre.

>>15765700

Yo, we are livin' the 90s! You don't need gameplay! Just play the one that has the cooler art!

You would be better off making a spider graph rather than just a list.

If you like Mein craft you might like Arc, Rust and No Man's sky. If you like Arc you might like Far Cry Primal. If you like Far Cry primal you might like Crysis, Far Cry 2 and so on and so forth.

Old charts are fine, they don't need to be redone unless it came post 2013/14 and most charts already were made specifically for this place.

At any rate all most would need are the few bad games on them to be trimmed and they would be great again.

>>15765003

It'd probably be more feasible just to ask anons to name their top 5 or so games for each system, and then copy/paste a review from vsrecommendedgames.wikia. It's easy to get anons to list 5 of their favorite games, but a bit much for a full review.

>>15765066

>Instead, people screech about what they consider to be a good game, mostly for subjective reasons, and eventually that sentiment gets thrown into the greater consciousness enough that it gains its own traction, and people start looking for reasons to confirm their biases.

This all just conjecture you pulled out of your ass.

>Instead of making lists, you should encourage people to play games they like

No anon, I just love playing games that I hate.

But seriously, OF COURSE you should go out and play random games just to see if you can dig up any hidden gems, the charts would be half as small if people didn't, but that doesn't invalidate the existence of charts. Charts are nice if you don't want to go through random games in your romset before you find something good, they're nice as a representation of a system's strong points, and a way of spreading the word on a game that you like. Do you just keep your favorite games a secret from other people? And the first part of your post about circle jerking is just nonsense, if you think a game sucks just tell people instead of keeping quiet and making it into some kind of conspiracy theory.

>>15765360

I like this rating system. If anyone actually gets down to writing a recommendation for a game, it should include an appropriate rating. Likewise, the chart should obviously have a legend so people know what the anons contributing actually mean.

>>15765020

>>15765025

In terms of emulate systems, having a wide spectrum of "good" is decent as long as it points out games that are HIDDEN GEMS or aren't awful; Instead of having to wade through a ton of worthless games or skipping over decent ones.