Best of Glitchwave: A selection of top 100+ (incomplete and played in progress)
I've decided to play the best games of Glitchwave along with my friends, in the chronological order of game release dates. The selection I've made takes up several rules:
-The top 100 of the default Glitchwave chart(weighting 3) are included
-The top 12 of 'all-time' best games are included from 1986 onwards, in all weighting variants. For example, I'd include the top 12 from the year range 1970-1986, then the top 12 from 1970-1987, then the top 12 from 1970-1988, etc.
-Compilations in all the charts as well as the individual constituents of those compilations are included
-Expansions in all the charts count that the base game is included, even if it isn't in the charts
-I will always attempt to play the game as originally released in the region(for example, Zelda 1's FDS release), but may either hack or change the version if I feel like the knowledge of the language is essential to me
-Games with no specific month on release date count like they're released in the transitory moment between june and july of that year(basically June 31st)
I've devised the mechanism of point 2 myself after seeing what was a frustrating lack of old classics in the all-time charts and a heavy imprinting on new and "flavour-of-the-month" games, and I think it's a great way to add some weight and endurance for classic games. I picked a top 12 of each of these years rather than top 10 because 12 is a magic number for me that manages to encompass desired and cool titles that are "just short" of a top 10. And I took 1986 as a starting point because it just seems like a nice year: It saw the release of "Zelda", "Metroid" and "Dragon Quest" which defined enduring, epic games with a grand scope, fidelity, progress-saving and ending, and which was more or less a watershed year where games have adopted a mechanical and narrative progression which is familiar to our standards today.
This list will be perpetually incomplete because I want to surprise myself with all the new games added to my list. But it will definitely document the ones that I have completed or are in the immediate future playing, and there's tons of interesting titles to plow through in here anyway.
-The top 100 of the default Glitchwave chart(weighting 3) are included
-The top 12 of 'all-time' best games are included from 1986 onwards, in all weighting variants. For example, I'd include the top 12 from the year range 1970-1986, then the top 12 from 1970-1987, then the top 12 from 1970-1988, etc.
-Compilations in all the charts as well as the individual constituents of those compilations are included
-Expansions in all the charts count that the base game is included, even if it isn't in the charts
-I will always attempt to play the game as originally released in the region(for example, Zelda 1's FDS release), but may either hack or change the version if I feel like the knowledge of the language is essential to me
-Games with no specific month on release date count like they're released in the transitory moment between june and july of that year(basically June 31st)
I've devised the mechanism of point 2 myself after seeing what was a frustrating lack of old classics in the all-time charts and a heavy imprinting on new and "flavour-of-the-month" games, and I think it's a great way to add some weight and endurance for classic games. I picked a top 12 of each of these years rather than top 10 because 12 is a magic number for me that manages to encompass desired and cool titles that are "just short" of a top 10. And I took 1986 as a starting point because it just seems like a nice year: It saw the release of "Zelda", "Metroid" and "Dragon Quest" which defined enduring, epic games with a grand scope, fidelity, progress-saving and ending, and which was more or less a watershed year where games have adopted a mechanical and narrative progression which is familiar to our standards today.
This list will be perpetually incomplete because I want to surprise myself with all the new games added to my list. But it will definitely document the ones that I have completed or are in the immediate future playing, and there's tons of interesting titles to plow through in here anyway.
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Yeah I would have to consider for really plot-heavy games that predecessors would be in.
I think it's time to add Pirates
Alena_03
1 year ago