Comments on: Games of My Life http://tinysubversions.com/2009/06/games-of-my-life/ Wed, 10 Sep 2014 18:53:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1 By: Shane Liesegang http://tinysubversions.com/2009/06/games-of-my-life/comment-page-1/#comment-4040 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:11:32 +0000 http://tinysubversions.com/?p=1165#comment-4040 Ahh, true. My bad. :-)

I find this exercise a lot more interesting than trying to pick a "top 10," which usually devolves into figuring out the rankings and defending choices. By making it based on personal impact, you learn more about your gaming tendencies.

]]> By: Darius Kazemi http://tinysubversions.com/2009/06/games-of-my-life/comment-page-1/#comment-4039 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:50:28 +0000 http://tinysubversions.com/?p=1165#comment-4039 Shane: I think we're close to some overlap on SM:AC and Civ, as well.

]]> By: Shane Liesegang http://tinysubversions.com/2009/06/games-of-my-life/comment-page-1/#comment-4038 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:30:53 +0000 http://tinysubversions.com/?p=1165#comment-4038 Very cool to see your list, Darius! We have very little overlap (closest being Mario 3 <-> Mario World). I'm trying to predict what metric might be the best predictor of someone's game aesthetic — my bet would be the first split in a binary tree would be the number of console games vs. computer games on the list, followed by years of distribution. (e.g. "Oh, you're mostly console games from the late 90's; you'll probably like this.")

Hopefully the reach of your blog can spread this meme — I'd love to see other people's lists and breakdowns.

]]> By: Patrick http://tinysubversions.com/2009/06/games-of-my-life/comment-page-1/#comment-4037 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:27:55 +0000 http://tinysubversions.com/?p=1165#comment-4037 You know I´ve actually played Passage pretty extensively and tried various strategies to get the high score, ultimately realizing the stochastic nature is unbeatable, and this helped me come to terms with getting married and having a kid (because the higher score you can get solo doesn´t really matter, you die anyway and its mostly random).

]]> By: Darius Kazemi http://tinysubversions.com/2009/06/games-of-my-life/comment-page-1/#comment-4036 Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:58:43 +0000 http://tinysubversions.com/?p=1165#comment-4036 "I wonder what an organized survey of game developer luminaries with similar questions would turn up?"

M.U.L.E. Lots and lots of M.U.L.E.

]]> By: mik3cap http://tinysubversions.com/2009/06/games-of-my-life/comment-page-1/#comment-4035 Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:36:57 +0000 http://tinysubversions.com/?p=1165#comment-4035 My list:

Donkey Kong
X-Com: UFO Defense
Advance Wars
Populous
Shadow of the Colossus
Quake
X-Wing
Pikmin
Tomb Raider
Resident Evil: Code Veronica

]]> By: mik3cap http://tinysubversions.com/2009/06/games-of-my-life/comment-page-1/#comment-4034 Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:30:28 +0000 http://tinysubversions.com/?p=1165#comment-4034 This is awesome data, very interesting. I wonder what an organized survey of game developer luminaries with similar questions would turn up?

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