Knee deep in the dead, if you choose a random game on Steam it will
be an amateur job. I'd like some place where I can choose a genre and
a game and be guaranteed a certain level of sophistication.

On Saturday, October 8, 2022 at 1:52:19 PM UTC-7, Pr. Mandrake wrote:
> Knee deep in the dead, if you choose a random game on Steam it will
> be an amateur job. I'd like some place where I can choose a genre and
> a game and be guaranteed a certain level of sophistication.

Do a search for a keyword, sort by user reviews.

You still have to possibly eliminate manually ones with low numbers of
reviews. For instance if I put in "FPS" then by user review the first couple
are 500 reviews and look a bit amateurish. The 3rd is Half-Life: Alyx VR

Really you probably want something like a magazine list say like this:
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-top-100-pc-games-2022/

You could also look here at games people here thought were the best of say 2010s.
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action/c/Cp_U3KfQPTc/m/sBalxTokCgAJ

I thought we'd done game of the year threads too, but can't find them.

- Justisaur

On Sat, 8 Oct 2022 17:47:01 -0700 (PDT), Justisaur
<justisaur@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Saturday, October 8, 2022 at 1:52:19 PM UTC-7, Pr. Mandrake wrote:
>> Knee deep in the dead, if you choose a random game on Steam it will
>> be an amateur job. I'd like some place where I can choose a genre and
>> a game and be guaranteed a certain level of sophistication.
>
>Do a search for a keyword, sort by user reviews.

Or just time-travel back to 1999. What a year for games. You all have
time-machines in the back of your shed, right?

>You could also look here at games people here thought were the best of say 2010s.
>https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action/c/Cp_U3KfQPTc/m/sBalxTokCgAJ

Alternately, you could say, "hey, I like games like "X" and "Y", what
do you think I should play next?" and I'm sure you'd get some
responses. Not that I'm saying there are any opinionated people in
this newsgroup... ;-)

>I thought we'd done game of the year threads too, but can't find them.

We didn't do one for 2021. I can't say for 2020, since I was on a
usenet sabbatical. We had a "best games of the decade" in 2019. The
last "best game of the year" was in 2018, and even then it was "new to
you", not "new to 2018" ;-)

None of which is really that surprising because:

a) I think by and large the regulars of this group are becoming less
interested in playing new releases, and

b) we're all such cheap bastards that we just wait until the game
shows up free on Epic (or wherever) before we play them, which means
the games are usually a year or two old at that point ;-). "Best game
of 2022? Ask me in 2025!" :)

Although I suspect if we did a "best game of 2022" thread, "Elden
Ring" would win hands down... if only because it seems to be the one
new-to-2022 game a lot of people here have played (and enjoyed).

On Saturday, October 8, 2022 at 6:44:13 PM UTC-7, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Oct 2022 17:47:01 -0700 (PDT), Justisaur
> <just...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >On Saturday, October 8, 2022 at 1:52:19 PM UTC-7, Pr. Mandrake wrote:
> >> Knee deep in the dead, if you choose a random game on Steam it will
> >> be an amateur job. I'd like some place where I can choose a genre and
> >> a game and be guaranteed a certain level of sophistication.
> >
> >Do a search for a keyword, sort by user reviews.
> Or just time-travel back to 1999. What a year for games. You all have
> time-machines in the back of your shed, right?
> >You could also look here at games people here thought were the best of say 2010s.
> >https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action/c/Cp_U3KfQPTc/m/sBalxTokCgAJ
> Alternately, you could say, "hey, I like games like "X" and "Y", what
> do you think I should play next?" and I'm sure you'd get some
> responses. Not that I'm saying there are any opinionated people in
> this newsgroup... ;-)
> >I thought we'd done game of the year threads too, but can't find them.
> We didn't do one for 2021. I can't say for 2020, since I was on a
> usenet sabbatical. We had a "best games of the decade" in 2019. The
> last "best game of the year" was in 2018, and even then it was "new to
> you", not "new to 2018" ;-)
>
> None of which is really that surprising because:
>
> a) I think by and large the regulars of this group are becoming less
> interested in playing new releases, and
>
> b) we're all such cheap bastards that we just wait until the game
> shows up free on Epic (or wherever) before we play them, which means
> the games are usually a year or two old at that point ;-). "Best game
> of 2022? Ask me in 2025!" :)

Rarely the free ones would make any list of mine.

> Although I suspect if we did a "best game of 2022" thread, "Elden
> Ring" would win hands down... if only because it seems to be the one
> new-to-2022 game a lot of people here have played (and enjoyed).

ER - all 3 of us, but I don't know that I'd give it that. I might actually
give that to Cyberpunk 2077, again though that's technically from
2020 barely as it's from December, still more than a year old.

New to us, or even 'I just replayed, and it's still great' is fine to me.

- Justisaur