Video Games Polls 9-Month Report
It's been 3 months since my last report and I've polled over 500 more games since then so I wanted to post an update on the top 10 games across each of the four options included in my polls, plus a couple other new categories.
馃弳 Most Played
Games with the highest percentage of "Yes" votes:
The Dinosaur Game (2014, AKA Chrome Dino Game) - 93.9%
Pac-Man (1980) - 93.4%
Wii Sports (2006) - 87.7%
Tetris (1985) - 86.9%
Pokemon Go (2016) - 82.9%
Minecraft (2011) - 81.1%
Angry Birds (2009) - 80.1%
Stardew Valley (2016) - 79.3%
Space Invaders (1978) - 78.5%
Animal Crossing: New Horizons (2020) - 74.1%
馃弳 Most Known but Not Played
Games with the highest percentage of "No" votes:
Raid: Shadow Legends (2018) - 85.8%
Final Fantasy XI (2002) - 82.1%
Halo Infinite (2021) - 77.6%
Baldur's Gate (1998) - 76.1%
Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (2000) - 75.8%
Call of Duty (2003) - 75.2%
Counter Strike 2 (2023) - 74.9%
Valorant (2020) - 74.7%
Donkey Kong 3 (1983) - 74.5%
The Last of Us: Part II (2020) - 74.4%
馃弳 Most Watched
Games with the highest percentage of "I watched someone play it" votes:
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy (2017) - 54.2%
I Am Bread (2015) - 51.3%
Octodad: Dadliest Catch (2014) - 47.0%
Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach (2021) - 45.6%
Phasmophobia (2020, Early Access) - 41.3%
P.T. (2014) - 41.0%
PowerWash Simulator (2022) - 40.4%
Slender: The Eight Pages (2012) - 38.4%
Raft (2022) - 38.3%
The Convenience Store (2020) - 38.1%
馃弳 Most Obscure
Games with the highest percentage of "I've never heard of it" votes:
Just, Bearly (2018) - 96.9%
Anito: Defend a Land Enraged (2003) - 96.6%
That Damn Goat (2023) - 96.5%
Star Seeker in: The Secret of the Sorcerous Standoff (2020) - 96.4%
Mr. Robot and His Robot Factory (1983) - 96.1%
Quando Fuori Piove (2018) - 95.9%
Turovero: The Celestial Tower (2017) - 95.8%
I am Magicami (2020) - 95.8%
Weird and Unfortunate Things are Happening (2020) - 95.5%
The Unholy War (1998) - 95.2%
馃弳 Most Balanced
Games with the most even spread of votes:
Human Fall Flat (2016) - 19.3% Yes | 28.5% No | 26.1% Watched | 26.1% Never Heard
Kerbal Space Program (2015) - 21.9% | 31.1% | 24.5% | 22.5%
The Henry Stickmin Collection (2020) - 19.3% | 29.2% | 22% | 29.5%
Ib (2012) - 24.1% | 26.8% | 19.2% | 29.9%
Superhot (2016) - 24.9% | 25.1% | 30.5% | 19.5%
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (2010) - 25.8% | 31.1% | 20% | 23.2%
Limbo (2010) - 30.2% | 28.7% | 23.9% | 17.1%
Wobble Dogs (2022) - 18% | 25.4% | 25.2% | 31.3%
Slay the Princess (2023) - 30.2% | 27.4% | 26.1% | 16.4%
Baba Is You (2019) - 26% | 32.9% | 19% | 22.1%
馃弳 Most Votes
Games with the most number of votes:
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011) - 4,329
Flight Rising (2013) - 4,132
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (2004) - 4,053
Final Fantasy XV (2016) - 3,056
Zero Escape: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (2009) - 2,844
Dark Souls (2011) - 2,823
The Dinosaur Game (2014, AKA Chrome Dino Game) - 2,758
QWOP (2008) - 2,636
Dragon Age II (2011) - 2,576
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2006) - 2,398
*I did not take most Pok茅mon games into consideration since I handle those polls a little differently.
Check out my results spreadsheet for an alphabetized list of all poll results plus some other stats.
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HELLO EVERYONE I HAVE SOME THINGS TO SAY ABOUT ASTRID!!!
(Discussion and sharing of thoughts encouraged even if they're opposing viewpoints, please join me in the sandbox)
In working on Dear Brother's timeline, I've been revisiting a lot of the canon even around the Skyrim era, and I find Astrid so much more compelling and sympathetic nowadays. I used to dislike her a lot, because I was coming fresh off of Oblivion and also hadn't deep-fried my brain in lore yet. I was playing the Skyrim DBh with @orfeoarte last night and we got to talking about her again, specifically about how she's probably having a crisis of faith during the game.
Like, in thinking about the entire Dark Brotherhood questline from Astrid's perspective ... she's the matron of the last Sanctuary. They haven't had a Listener since 4E188 - that's 14 whole years without a religious leader, organizational leader, or any of the Black Hand for that matter. (As far as I can tell, Rasha sounded like a Speaker from Cheydinhal, and he lasted until 4E189 according to Cicero's journals.)
Basically, up until this point, Falkreath stayed functional due to Astrid's leadership alone, and Astrid herself went through that bearing the knowledge that their gods had probably abandoned them. That's a lot to deal with. Imagine the absolute inner turmoil of turning your back on the Brotherhood's religion, because there's no point in holding to a spiritual leader that refuses to lead. Maybe Astrid had spent a few of those 14 years mourning, wondering why she'd received no guidance; but eventually, she had to amputate that part of herself and move on because no one else was going to do it for her. She would've needed to focus on the survival of the order that was left, rather than cling to the ashes of the one that was dead and gone. Besides, the latter seems to have collapsed in on itself because the Hand couldn't even agree on how to move forward, so why would she follow their lead?
All that being said, 14 years pass, Astrid keeps it together, keeps the last remaining family together ... then suddenly out of fucking nowhere, Cicero shows up with the Night Mother herself, spouting the old ways. A bit jarring, a bit poor taste - it's not his fault, he has no idea what this Sanctuary might have been through. He hasn't interacted with family members at all for these 14 years, and he probably expected them to be exactly as he remembered them. And then, barely any time into Cicero's arrival, the Night Mother finally chooses someone, and it's Astrid's newest recruit.
Like, how dare she, after all these years of abandonment? Wouldn't that infuriate you? In Astrid's eyes, the Night Mother hasn't done shit for her. No wonder Astrid's immediate reaction and tone is basically "are you fucking kidding me" followed by "I need time to process this." It makes a lot of sense that she resists the return to tradition, both from a leadership level and from a personal level. No wonder she shatters through Tenet 1 in front of Cicero and everyone, no wonder she tries to get you removed from the equation, too.
Extremely interesting character right there!!! I am spinning her on the microwave plate-- ..... ....... ah, well, uh. I suppose the Penitus Oculatus did that already, poor choice of words.
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Through playing through the Civil War questline and in general thinking about the Great War, I find the perspectives in Skyrim very interesting
We obviously interact with many Great War veterans throughout the game (Ulfric, Galmar, Rikke, although others such as Noster Eagle-Eye who are less important to the story). Notably these are all Nords from Skyrim (duh Eve, the game is literally called Skyrim), but I think that's telling when examining the perspective characters like Galmar in particular have.
The idea that the Empire bent the knee to the Dominion doesn't make sense when you look at the fact that the Empire was on its last leg by the end of the war, many parts of Cyrodiil had particularly hit hard by the Thalmor invasions (Anvil, Bravil, the Imperial City). But this point makes more sense knowing that the Dominion never set foot in Skyrim during the war, Nord soldiers were incredibly important to helping the Empire retake the Imperial City. But the Nords never saw their homeland destroyed, there's a good chance many of them do not know how close total defeat was for the Empire.
Although I imagine there are citizens of Cyrodiil upset about the White-Gold Concordat, they are the ones who watched their civilians and cities be destroyed. The Nords can have this opinion because they weren't in the thick of it the same way. I think it would have been cool to see more characters from Cyrodiil who would have lived through the war and hear their thoughts on the civil war.
Just some ramblings, I've been thinking a lot about the Great War lately
also I am in the camp that the White-Gold Concordat is based on a bluff. Between the oblivion crisis, eugenics, and harder time reproducing, no way the Dominion have enough people
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skyrim has been my go-to game for about a year now, but i've recently started playing morrowwind, and, well... it's not as simple as "morrowwind good; skyrim bad", there's a reason i've played so much skyrim and loved it! but there's a lot of places where morrowind excels while skyrim utterly flounders. they almost don't feel like games from the same series. they are both amazing, but the venn-diagram of what they're good at has surprisingly little overlap. and then there's oblivion, which in some ways is a bridge between the two and in other ways a total outlier
idk man, i just want a game with the stupendous vibes of skyrim, the story writing of oblivion, the quest design and world building of morrowind, and the batshit insane freedom and depth of daggerfall. is that too much to ask?
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