Kat Bailey@The_Katbot 10 May 2023 When Greatest Games lists are being made, too much weight tends to be given to: - Console games - Games after 2000 - Prestige story games Not enough to - Competitive games - Sims - Strategy games - Anything from before the 1990s not made by Nintendo May 10, 2023 - 7:20 PM UTC 272 444 55121 ♥4,756 Kat Bailey@The_Katbot 10 May 2023 And sports games get the shortest shrift of all. NHL 94 and NFL 2K5 deserve to be on basically any Top 100 list. 50 18 5 16 ❤525 Kat Bailey @The_Katbot 10 May 2023 I think Tim Rogers' review of Pac-Man does a great job of explaining why an 80s arcade game can be special without being, like, the Last of Us. invidious.poast.org/ watch?v=GPzVITgZ... BUTTON PA 6 17 19 95 Kat Bailey ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS PAC-MAN https://patreon.com/actionbuttonAction Button Reviews PAC- MAN (1980, Arcade, Namco)Presented with an introduction, six separate stories, and an epilogue.00:0... youtube.com 405 @The_Katbot 10 May 2023 In short, we treat games too much like they're movies. They're not movies. They're a weird medium encompassing a wide array of interactions and experiences. Story can enhance them, but it's also incidental. Our elevation of prestige games speaks to a craving for legitimacy 20 Kat Bailey 126 5 13 ♥837 @The_Katbot 10 May 2023 We're obsessed with God of War 2018 and Last of Us because we can sell laypeople on them. Both great games in their own right! But I don't think they should be elevated at the expense of everything else because 1. They're big budget, 2. "Prestige" 38 17 29 557 ♥528

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Kat Bailey@The_Katbot 10 May 2023 When Greatest Games lists are being made, too much weight tends to be given to: - Console games - Games after 2000 - Prestige story games Not enough to - Competitive games - Sims - Strategy games - Anything from before the 1990s not made by Nintendo May 10, 2023 - 7:20 PM UTC 272 444 55121 ♥4,756 Kat Bailey@The_Katbot 10 May 2023 And sports games get the shortest shrift of all. NHL 94 and NFL 2K5 deserve to be on basically any Top 100 list. 50 18 5 16 ❤525 Kat Bailey @The_Katbot 10 May 2023 I think Tim Rogers' review of Pac-Man does a great job of explaining why an 80s arcade game can be special without being, like, the Last of Us. invidious.poast.org/ watch?v=GPzVITgZ... BUTTON PA 6 17 19 95 Kat Bailey ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS PAC-MAN https://patreon.com/actionbuttonAction Button Reviews PAC- MAN (1980, Arcade, Namco)Presented with an introduction, six separate stories, and an epilogue.00:0... youtube.com 405 @The_Katbot 10 May 2023 In short, we treat games too much like they're movies. They're not movies. They're a weird medium encompassing a wide array of interactions and experiences. Story can enhance them, but it's also incidental. Our elevation of prestige games speaks to a craving for legitimacy 20 Kat Bailey 126 5 13 ♥837 @The_Katbot 10 May 2023 We're obsessed with God of War 2018 and Last of Us because we can sell laypeople on them. Both great games in their own right! But I don't think they should be elevated at the expense of everything else because 1. They're big budget, 2. "Prestige" 38 17 29 557 ♥528

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