I have lost all interest in ranking and scoring video games, it doesn't matter at all. And even if I did, an overly-convoluted system with a foregone conclusion makes it not worth the effort.
Speaking personally, it's a lot of effort to vote. Having it in a survey format or similar would make it easier.
These plus the thread is super late.If you could just give a list I probably would. Not sure why I need to describe why I like a game rather than just give a list.
This has actually been the first time in a quite a while that I had been able to buy and play a ton of new games, with it not being uncommon for lots of people to buy and play more games as a result of not being able to go anywhere or do much else (which has also contributed to ongoing hardware shortages).There was a pandemic. Not sure how many people had the chance to buy and play a ton of new games.
Hell, even though I wasn't hit too hard economically, I still spent most my gaming time this year playing Destiny 2. So it's not like I have much to contribute.
Full disclosure, most of my rankings outside of my personal #1 do tend to be pretty arbitrary any given year. I tend to only give more thought to what to place where for the lower-ranked choices as a result of points assignments outlined in the rules, which usually tends not to matter all that much when the overall results do indeed tend to be foregone conclusions.I have lost all interest in ranking and scoring video games, it doesn't matter at all. And even if I did, an overly-convoluted system with a foregone conclusion makes it not worth the effort.
This has actually been the first time in a quite a while that I had been able to buy and play a ton of new games, with it not being uncommon for lots of people to buy and play more games as a result of not being able to go anywhere or do much else (which has also contributed to ongoing hardware shortages).
I hope you don't mind if I steal this expression
I never look at sticky'd topics. I didn't even realize it was a thing.
This. I'll participate in a GOTY discussion when it isn't so tiring or political. Hopefully this year won't be like that.I don't care about it, and TLOU2 is probably going to win anyway.
I thought about voting but I'm lazy. I don't want to write about why I liked a game, just let me vote lol
Understandable. Personal circumstances will result in significantly variable experiences, even with sales figures being what they are. I could be better off in all of this nearly a year into it (what I can commit to this hobby being one of the few bright spots), yet acknowledge that many others have it much worse.A lot of people I know lost a fair bit of their disposable income.
A lot of others (with fair degree of overlap) have to spend more of their 'free time' caring for their kids, now that they don't got to school or have after school activities.
Between the loss of money and time, a lot of people lost gaming time, they didn't gain it.
Just my anecdotal experience.
Exactly why I never wanted the annual "Most Anticipated" threads I'd work on to be stuck up there 😄I used to run a message board. Ironically stickied threads almost always die on a vine. It makes sense - if it's a topic people are actually interested in there's no need for a sticky because all the replies will push it to the top. Stickied threads need to be stickied because the vast majority a posters don't care about the topic. That's the reason my eyes always skip past those topics. That's also why creators of popular threads should never want their topics stickied. It's a death sentence.
I don't care about lists in general and certainly not about a GOTY one. That being said, out of curiousity I clicked on the stickied thread (they really do become invisible huh?) and good lord that voting format! So, you mail a pinprick of your blood and a lock of hair to a PO box and then you get a ballot delivered by a magic owl and you have to fill it out by the light of a full moon and I stopped reading after that. Wow.
If you could just give a list I probably would. Not sure why I need to describe why I like a game rather than just give a list.
*The owl flies in through the window bathed in the light of the full moon. She lands on her perch and unfurls her talon releasing the magic scroll. The witch at the desk takes it and recites the incantation to unlock the scroll. She reads it aloud. "The Last of Us Part 2."*