Backloggd Canon Ballot List
BALLOT SUBMISSION IS NOW CLOSED, THANK YOU EVERYONE!
READ THE RESULTS HERE!
per the comments in this thread I'd like to start collecting each of these "ballots" as it were to put together our own Gaming Canon for the site. just for fun and shit. basically what I'm saying is I'll do the spreadsheet leg-work if people want to submit these. 100 is a nice round number to aim for in terms of number of ballots, but it's not a hard threshold or anything. I'd also really love if we could, once the list is complete, get a blurb for each to contextualize each. would give a lot of really great reviewers a chance to contribute to something lasting for the site, if they're interested.
general submission vibe: if you had a personal 10 games that you feel define the medium, what would they be? there's a variety of avenues here: could be progenitors of gaming trends, peaks of their genre, unique titles that use the medium in interesting ways, and landmark titles in terms of popularity. could just be a top 10 as well. just has to be 10 games! no ordering either.
feel free to comment with suggestions and such, or to "submit your ballot". one ballot of 10 games per person. I'll use the first game on your list as "representative" here by default, but if you want a different one lmk. it won't affect the results but it's just for fun.
if you'd like to recommend a particular person to write blurbs, fill out this form: https://forms.gle/weZ8gxZWi64c2LKL6
READ THE RESULTS HERE!
per the comments in this thread I'd like to start collecting each of these "ballots" as it were to put together our own Gaming Canon for the site. just for fun and shit. basically what I'm saying is I'll do the spreadsheet leg-work if people want to submit these. 100 is a nice round number to aim for in terms of number of ballots, but it's not a hard threshold or anything. I'd also really love if we could, once the list is complete, get a blurb for each to contextualize each. would give a lot of really great reviewers a chance to contribute to something lasting for the site, if they're interested.
general submission vibe: if you had a personal 10 games that you feel define the medium, what would they be? there's a variety of avenues here: could be progenitors of gaming trends, peaks of their genre, unique titles that use the medium in interesting ways, and landmark titles in terms of popularity. could just be a top 10 as well. just has to be 10 games! no ordering either.
feel free to comment with suggestions and such, or to "submit your ballot". one ballot of 10 games per person. I'll use the first game on your list as "representative" here by default, but if you want a different one lmk. it won't affect the results but it's just for fun.
if you'd like to recommend a particular person to write blurbs, fill out this form: https://forms.gle/weZ8gxZWi64c2LKL6
129 Games
Archagent
Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together
EarthBound
Silent Hill 2
Castlevania
Fallout
Dragon Quest
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream
Yume Nikki
Pathologic
Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together
EarthBound
Silent Hill 2
Castlevania
Fallout
Dragon Quest
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream
Yume Nikki
Pathologic
Detchibe
Katamari Damacy
Tarotica Voo Doo
Return of the Obra Dinn
WTF: Work Time Fun
Ape Escape
Bad Milk
GeoGuessr
Alter Ego
Roommania 203
Myst
Katamari Damacy
Tarotica Voo Doo
Return of the Obra Dinn
WTF: Work Time Fun
Ape Escape
Bad Milk
GeoGuessr
Alter Ego
Roommania 203
Myst
Hot_Anarcocoa
Pac-Man
Tetris
Super Mario Bros.
The Legend of Zelda
Metroid
Dragon Quest
Street Fighter II
Wolfenstein 3d
Yume Nikki
Kentucky Route Zero
Pac-Man
Tetris
Super Mario Bros.
The Legend of Zelda
Metroid
Dragon Quest
Street Fighter II
Wolfenstein 3d
Yume Nikki
Kentucky Route Zero
Yeahlookiehere
The Wonderful 101
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
Disco Elysium
The Last Guardian
Spelunky 2
Rain World
Super Metroid
Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection
Sin & Punishment: Star Successor
Live A Live
The Wonderful 101
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
Disco Elysium
The Last Guardian
Spelunky 2
Rain World
Super Metroid
Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection
Sin & Punishment: Star Successor
Live A Live
YSTMaster
Final Fantasy IX
Moon: Remix RPG Adventure
Fatal Frame III: The Tormented
Tetris: Effect Connected
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
Earth Defense Force 5
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Live A Live
Romancing SaGa 2
The Bouncer
Final Fantasy IX
Moon: Remix RPG Adventure
Fatal Frame III: The Tormented
Tetris: Effect Connected
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
Earth Defense Force 5
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Live A Live
Romancing SaGa 2
The Bouncer
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I know mine was more than 10 games, but if I had to limit it to just 10, it would be (in no particular order)
Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together
EarthBound
Silent Hill 2
Castlevania
Fallout
Dragon Quest
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream
Yume Nikki
Pathologic
Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together
EarthBound
Silent Hill 2
Castlevania
Fallout
Dragon Quest
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream
Yume Nikki
Pathologic
hope this isn't meant to be ordered:
katamari damacy
tarotica voo doo
return of the obra dinn
wtf: work time fun
ape escape
bad milk
geoguessr
alter ego
roommania 203
myst
katamari damacy
tarotica voo doo
return of the obra dinn
wtf: work time fun
ape escape
bad milk
geoguessr
alter ego
roommania 203
myst
I love these kind of communal effort lists. Submitting mine for consideration as well: My ballot
Ah heck, I love stuff like this... Here's my ballot. Thanks for organizing this!
here's my list
This is great! Here's mine:
https://www.backloggd.com/u/TehDarkside/list/sight-and-sounds-but-for-games-actually-/
https://www.backloggd.com/u/TehDarkside/list/sight-and-sounds-but-for-games-actually-/
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Killer list, here's mine: https://www.backloggd.com/u/MagneticBurn/list/sights-n-sounds-games-as-art/
thanks for all of the ballots everyone! glad to see everyone excited to contribute.
Looking forward to the Pu·Li·Ru·La sweep. Here's my list.
Here's the list I did:
https://backloggd.com/u/87th/list/sights-and-sounds/
https://backloggd.com/u/87th/list/sights-and-sounds/
Harder than I thought it would be to narrow down to 10. I tried to aim for historical significance for the most part:
Pac-Man
Tetris
Super Mario Bros.
The Legend of Zelda
Metroid
Dragon Quest
Street Fighter II
Wolfenstein 3d
Yume Nikki
Kentucky Route Zero
Pac-Man
Tetris
Super Mario Bros.
The Legend of Zelda
Metroid
Dragon Quest
Street Fighter II
Wolfenstein 3d
Yume Nikki
Kentucky Route Zero
Use Super Mario Bros. to represent my list since I think that's probably the most historically significant game. (Only reason I omitted Pong was because I don't think the actual S&S list included the Lumierre Bros. lol)
Here's mine. Let me know if you need any help with processing the data, love this kind of stuff.
thanks for the continued ballots!
@chump for sure, still deciding how I wanna handle data collection/parsing. will probably dump these all to individual text files and then use a python script to hoover them all up and spit out tallied results as a csv that I can plop into google sheets. past that... would love to look at things like which developers got the most on the list, how well each decade of gaming is represented, jp vs usa vs euro vs other development location, that kind of thing. will figure out more once we lock in the final ballot count
@chump for sure, still deciding how I wanna handle data collection/parsing. will probably dump these all to individual text files and then use a python script to hoover them all up and spit out tallied results as a csv that I can plop into google sheets. past that... would love to look at things like which developers got the most on the list, how well each decade of gaming is represented, jp vs usa vs euro vs other development location, that kind of thing. will figure out more once we lock in the final ballot count
Took me a bit of thinking. https://www.backloggd.com/u/HotPocketHPE/list/sights-and-sounds-type-list/
I did the thing: https://www.backloggd.com/u/DeltaWDunn/list/sight-sound/edit/
@HPE was surprised for a second to not see mhfu on there but honestly I couldn't lock down a mh for my list either. couldn't justify it to myself for some reason...
@DeltaWDunn thanks for the submission! is the list still private? I checked the list tab on your profile and couldn't find it
@DeltaWDunn thanks for the submission! is the list still private? I checked the list tab on your profile and couldn't find it
MHFU is too weird of an appeal for me to list it, and the series being so iterative makes it difficult to put a specific other game down. If anything, I would probably put P3rd or Freedom 1. Also put my list under Doom, it's definitely my "top pick."
@HPE yeah that's exactly it, there's not really on particular entry that sums up the strengths of the entire franchise well. p3rd mechanically is probably the closest for me (though I've only got about 20 hours in 3u and have barely touched 4u) but the lack of g rank is sort of a killer. also updated it so it's under DOOM now
Sorry. I just made it public.
Sorry to be a bother, I should've asked for it originally, but could I have Ecco as my top pick? Nothing against Adventure, it's just that I like being the Ecco person.
Pangburn
1 year ago
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LukeGirard
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