BannedEpisode
Member
Here's looking forward to this years allotment.
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
NeoGAF Games of the Year 2011 Awards (Up: bunch of extra data, check it out!)
- Thread starter timetokill
- Start date
Our top 5 is pretty close. If I had played more of Ghost Trick it might have been identical.
cr_blah_blah
Member
I don't have a hipster list but I have a regular one? But my list is so mundane it circles back to hipster, like a Cosby sweater.
CecilRousso
Member
If none of the games on your GotY list had dinosaurs in it, ask yourself: does it really count?
Look at this fuckin' amazing screenshot. If Dark Souls doesn't have a single triceratops in it, is it really as hardcore as this game?
What game is that?
Killer Yakuza B
Member
Hey there, that's astute, why don't we get together and call ourselves an institute?
More Fun To Compute
Member
I dunno but I appear 23 times in the hipster nerd references and 10 times in the other file. Chris Remo has a similar ratio of 18 to 6 but since he is referenced less I guess that makes him more of a hipster than me since he is into things before they are popular but less of a nerd since he doesn't go with the nerd herd.
charlequin
Banned
Regular edition treats all games equally in terms of comparing taste; hipster nerd edition weights games higher for similarity purposes the fewer total lists they appear on. (In other words: the hipster list will show you people whose niche taste is similar to your niche taste.)
King of Dragon Pass (now on iOS).
jim-jam bongs
Member
For the people who have a real smartphone, there is a possibility of an Android version if the iOS release does well enough:
http://kingofdragonpass.blogspot.com/2011/09/android-update.html
It wasn't planned initially because the Android Market wouldn't accept apps as large as the game, but the restriction has since been lifted.
Yeah, I mean if you have a real smartphone at least you can browse GAF while you wait.
jim-jam bongs
Member
Pfft I'm too busy playing knock-offs of all the games that were big in the App Store like a year ago.
Users with similar selection to fernoca:
Mr. Robot had quite many similaraties to my list:
Mr. Robot:
- Mr. Robot
- Chip N Chance
- mugen812
- CyReN
- Vire
- Exterminieren
- thebeeks
- Chittagong
- stonedwal
- matm666
Mr. Robot had quite many similaraties to my list:
Mr. Robot:
- The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
- Portal 2
[*]Just Dance 3
[*]Patapon 3 - Mortal Kombat
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
[*]Fight Night Champion
[*]Dead Space 2 - Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (console/PC version)
- Kirby's Return to Dreamland
- The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
- Mortal Kombat
- Portal 2
[*]L.A. Noire - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
[*]Pokémon: White Version / Black Version - Kirby: Return to Dreamland
- Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure
[*]FAST: Racing League
[*]MotoHeroz
To be honest I'm not real invested in the smartphone arena. I got the iPhone 4 (and a MBP) early last year to do some small contract type work. That's all over now, so I sold the MBP but I still have the phone and I've come to like it. Bear in mind my previous phone was some laughably cheap flip-phone, which was some kind of nerd sin I guess.
All it has done is make me want an iPad; I might jump in on one with the iPad 3 and go back to a cheap phone upgrade cycle. I do three things on my phone: play games, browse GAF and do normal phone/text things. Two of those would be much more awesome on the iPad. I just want one that has a higher resolution screen, because I've been totally spoiled by the phone.
jim-jam bongs
Member
I actually had zero interest in phones too until I started working on rich mobile-web and apps at my last job, you know what it's like when you have access to all these cool toys to play with and the time to play with them. I'm going to take my Macbook back from the person I loaned it to this year because she isn't using it now so I might end up having to get an iPhone or Touch for work too.
I'm not ready for a tablet yet, the pricing and tech is just so volatile right now that I know I'd get "wtf that one is way better than mine and cheaper too"-syndrome really hard about 2 weeks in. They are a lot of fun though, I went to a client-meeting last year where they had a Microsoft Surface with iPad integration via QR codes. You could put the tablet down on the Surface and drag things towards it to copy data across, very cool. All their business cards had funky QR codes on them too, when you put them down on the Surface they'd bring up a little radial-menu with the person's details around the card.
semiconscious
Gold Member
can't say i'm surprised
...RadarScope1
Member
Awesome effort on this. Really love the additional break downs. This is what makes GAF great. Kudos to the organizers and great list GAF!
Rahxephon91
Banned
Regular
Hipster
Hipster
Why didn't you play more/finish it, if you don't mind my asking?
Also, finish it.
I was happily playing through it, one chapter at a time, on the train every morning... until I reached the stealth section. Something about it really rubbed my sleep-deprived brain the wrong way.
Cheesemeister
Member
This graph shows the accumulation of votes over all users' contributions; it is not scaled for actual time. The top clusters of games are labeled. The vertical black bar at the 77% mark indicates where voting stood at the original deadline. Total vote accrual data and an uncompressed version of this graph have been added to the download link in post 4.
Cheesemeister
Member
Hmm, maybe this needs a title change so people know there's yet more data. Or maybe this thread inactivity further shows that the deadline should not be extended.
2011 is old news. We've moved on.
jim-jam bongs
Member
If you want my opinion (who doesn't?) the thread has been killed by people posting their similarity lists.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Oh good, the handheld lists are now up! I've been looking forward to these. *checks* I support all of the results! Good job, GAF! ^_^
Super-glad that Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars, Tactics Ogre, Radiant Historia, Trails in the Sky, and Corpse Party are getting the recognition they deserve. I hope other people try them out as a result.
Super-glad that Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars, Tactics Ogre, Radiant Historia, Trails in the Sky, and Corpse Party are getting the recognition they deserve. I hope other people try them out as a result.
Cheesemeister
Member
I actually had that thought last year, TBH. I think it's fine data to have, but it's really very personal and applies only to the person in question. It doesn't make for good group conversation.
jim-jam bongs
Member
Yeah. I mean if I was really interested in any of the lists posted I could look 'em up myself, which I did for my GAF buddies already.
Nizz
Member
I know I'm late as hell but what a great, great job with the OP. A lot of love went into it and it shows. And cool, Portal 2 was my favorite game of 2011 (with Dead Space 2 just behind it)!
So glad it won game of the year. I've been playing through it again these past couple of nights and I still love it.
So glad it won game of the year. I've been playing through it again these past couple of nights and I still love it.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
This is kind of why I tried to list games that I discovered on my similarity list (interesting to, well, hopefully somebody), rather than listing my similarity list (interesting to absolutely nobody)
carbonbased
Member
i know i have said it before, but the voting should be pushed back further if anything. i propose that the overall length of voting be shortened (which would keep interest higher), but with the starting date held a little bit later than it has been in the past. something like a voting window of january 1-31 would be awesome. a schedule such as this might also allow you to implement some sort of requirement that each person delve into the reasoning behind their top couple choices, as was discussed briefly in the voting thread. it could be as fun and simple as something like requiring each person to include three sentences talking about their number one pick. i know i personally wanted to delve into the nitty gritty of why i voted for what i did, but i barely had time to sneak my ballot in as it was (which included a botched first place vote on my part). a slightly delayed voting window and an obligation to include some context would both be great for encouraging introspection. hell, in hindsight i should have dug up previous quotes of mine on the games i voted for and attached them to my post (as i think Tain did).
i purchase almost all of my games in steam sales, with this past winter sale and some end-of-year indie bundles accounting for a huge proportion of my favorite 2011 titles. there is also the fact that many of us give and receive games as gifts during this period. even a tiny bit more time to absorb all the gaming goodness the holidays bring would be much appreciated.
not that any of this stuff matters in the end, but the gotys you guys run are easily one of the forum's highlights. i would love to see your threads stickied next year too!
Extending the deadline was great. Look at the number of messages and the views, this thread was much more successful than last year.
You and Timetokill have done a fantastic work overall, I'm just not sure the before/after deadline extension was the stat which interested people the most. Giving more time didn't change a lot of things at the end of the day, as your graph shows, but it allowed people to put a little more thoughts in their lists and a good bunch of after-extension posts were great to read.
carbonbased
Member
guilty. the similarity stuff would probably be better served as its own separate thread full of info swapping and circle jerking.
Haunted
Member
I agree, that's certainly not the point. Especially not just putting it there without further comment, it makes slightly more sense if there's at least some discussion of what someone noticed on / discovered based on the list(s). If I post one next year I'll add a comment to that effect.
Cheesemeister
Member
It gives higher weighting to obscure titles to help in finding other users with your niche gaming tastes. I've added a note to the OP, post 5.
Zombie James
Banned
Yeah, thread title change would have been nice. I was looking forward to the extra stats.