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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26428 Points : 25263 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: The GNamer Forum Awards 2021 and Five Years of Switch (Thanks For Voting!) Mon 21 Feb 2022 - 20:22 | |
| You can even go for an old game's port on NSO if you really want. Dunno why you would, but you could.
Four sets of votes apart from mine so far, thanks gents! (Including one fine fine set of honourable and dishonourable mentions.) Keep 'em coming! |
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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26428 Points : 25263 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: The GNamer Forum Awards 2021 and Five Years of Switch (Thanks For Voting!) Fri 25 Feb 2022 - 18:44 | |
| LESS THAN ONE WEEK TO GO (barring extensions) and... er, still four sets of votes apart from mine. Quick reminder! |
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Treesmurf Dry Metal Baby Princess
Posts : 4195 Points : 4197 Join date : 2013-01-17 Age : 34 Location : Manneh
| Subject: Re: The GNamer Forum Awards 2021 and Five Years of Switch (Thanks For Voting!) Sat 26 Feb 2022 - 9:15 | |
| Hello, I will send mine over the weekend, I just have to narrow 32 down to 10... |
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masofdas The Next Aonuma
Posts : 23993 Points : 24392 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 34 Location : VITA Island
| Subject: Re: The GNamer Forum Awards 2021 and Five Years of Switch (Thanks For Voting!) Sat 26 Feb 2022 - 9:21 | |
| I had my 30+ on a spread sheet, then did like a rank of X game is better than Y but not as good a Z, using a points system, then put in order. |
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Buskalilly Galactic Nova
Posts : 15039 Points : 15217 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 34 Location : Nagano
| Subject: Re: The GNamer Forum Awards 2021 and Five Years of Switch (Thanks For Voting!) Sat 26 Feb 2022 - 10:22 | |
| I might do it at some point. Feel weird doing it with NMH3, BF and MD still unplayed but oh well. BotW and MK8 arent gonna be dethroned by those anyway! |
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masofdas The Next Aonuma
Posts : 23993 Points : 24392 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 34 Location : VITA Island
| Subject: Re: The GNamer Forum Awards 2021 and Five Years of Switch (Thanks For Voting!) Sat 26 Feb 2022 - 10:41 | |
| BF? My head goes to Battlefield
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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26428 Points : 25263 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: The GNamer Forum Awards 2021 and Five Years of Switch (Thanks For Voting!) Sat 26 Feb 2022 - 15:06 | |
| Bowser's Fury. Neither that nor Dread have made my top ten personally. (Then again, neither has MK8D...) - Treesmurf wrote:
- Hello, I will send mine over the weekend, I just have to narrow 32 down to 10...
See what you've got to do is keep a rolling top 25 on you at all times. |
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masofdas The Next Aonuma
Posts : 23993 Points : 24392 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 34 Location : VITA Island
| Subject: Re: The GNamer Forum Awards 2021 and Five Years of Switch (Thanks For Voting!) Sat 26 Feb 2022 - 15:16 | |
| Ahh didn't think about BF due to it being an expansion, could see the whole package making someone's Top 10 as SM3DW is a great game.
Should I tell him MK8D didn't make mine either? I did put higher than I thought on my Top 30 Switch games, just when I put it against most other games, all I was thinking played on Wii U vs something new & shiny on Switch.
That it might be an unfair ranking best on the game's actual quality, yet as I said a few posts back on something like Final Fantasy IX (Played on PS1), I didn't even rank it though it is my Number 11 Game of All-Time.
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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26428 Points : 25263 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: The GNamer Forum Awards 2021 and Five Years of Switch (Thanks For Voting!) Sat 26 Feb 2022 - 15:20 | |
| - masofdas wrote:
- Should I tell him MK8D didn't make mine either? I did put higher than I thought on my Top 30 Switch games, just when I put it against most other games, all I was thinking played on Wii U vs something new & shiny on Switch.
That it might be an unfair ranking best on the game's actual quality... This is pretty much my take. It's an excellent game, one of my top ten of all time in fact - but it's not an excellent Switch game. It's an excellent Wii U game with a handful of additions that barely change that view (does anybody still play Battle Mode these days?), and all-new albeit slightly worse games should be prized more highly in this particular vote. This view may change this year when the new tracks come out, but based on its content at the end of Year 5 Of The Switch it wouldn't make my top thirty Switch games. That said... that's our take on it, and if other people want to go 'banging game, on Switch, gonnae vote' then that's also a valid call! |
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JayMoyles Galactic Nova
Posts : 15889 Points : 15055 Join date : 2013-01-21 Age : 31 Location : The Shibuya River
| Subject: Re: The GNamer Forum Awards 2021 and Five Years of Switch (Thanks For Voting!) Wed 2 Mar 2022 - 14:59 | |
| My votes are in. |
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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26428 Points : 25263 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: The GNamer Forum Awards 2021 and Five Years of Switch (Thanks For Voting!) Wed 2 Mar 2022 - 20:52 | |
| Which brings it up to... seven. Hopefully some people drop their votes in tomorrow, because even considering that we're missing a few people to voting fatigue and/or Elden Ring, that's less than I'd expect. I'm open to an extension if needed! (You'll get a one-day extension anyway, I'm busy tomorrow evening.) |
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The Cappuccino Kid Mani Mani Statue
Posts : 6728 Points : 6888 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 105 Location : East of Mombasa
| Subject: Re: The GNamer Forum Awards 2021 and Five Years of Switch (Thanks For Voting!) Thu 3 Mar 2022 - 8:49 | |
| A vote for Sonic Mania is a vote for Ukraine |
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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26428 Points : 25263 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: The GNamer Forum Awards 2021 and Five Years of Switch (Thanks For Voting!) Fri 4 Mar 2022 - 20:25 | |
| Okay, nobody's asked for an extension so I'm just going to go ahead and do the awards. I'm assuming that attention has started to flag, so I'll do them in blocks. - Tenth Place:
Monster Hunter Rise (3 votes, 16 points) You said:“Myself and the lads at Monster Mash enjoyed the big budget Monster Hunter World on PS4, but we did feel it lacked some of that immediateness of past MonHun games. Rise dealt with that complaint and then some. The minute-to-minute gameplay is as snappy as it's ever been with the new wirebug moves breathing new life into some of the weapons. Some of the tweaks to the structure of the game going from World to Rise were much appreciated to boot. Roll on Sunbreak!” “The best Monster Hunter game, which says enough already, and where wirebugging around is one of the most satisfying traversal mechanics ever put to buttons.” I said: My only surprise is that this is so low, a surprise substantially mitigated when you look at who voted and who didn't - and the fact that one person gave their MonHun vote instead to Generations Ultimate. Anyway, I can fully see why this is up there. Get past the major initial hurdles and there's a game that even Ol' Lonesome over here enjoyed.
- Ninth Place:
Animal Crossing: New Horizons (3 votes, 17 points) You said:“Weirdly I've come away from this a little disappointed so the fact it's still in my top 10 is testament to how good it is, the classic Animal Crossing charm is there but now with the opportunity to make it truly your own perfect paradise. The wholesome content we all needed and still do.” “The right game at the right time, it was the ideal island escape at a time when everything in the world was well and truly fucked. So many of my lockdown memories are about iron ore, Emporer butterflies and manically rushing to any Twitter randomer’s island to sell my turnips for a 879% mark-up. I’ve drifted away from it since its first anniversary, but for those first 365 days New Horzions was as essential to me as smacking kitchen pots together on my front porch at 8pm on a Thursday, or having Zoom quizzes with folk I’d absolutely cross the street to avoid in real life.” I said: 'The right game at the right time' indeed. As a result of that time, I spent longer on this game and enjoyed it more than its predecessors. It's still a game that asks you to keep coming back and, for a while, didn't provide enough to make that worth the return trips - but then it released a fair chunk of new content, so fair play to 'em. I'd have been astonished if this hadn't made it.
- Eighth Place:
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2 votes, 17 points, 1 first) You said:“Pretty much a perfect remake of a perfect game. The original is my favourite game of all time and this is faifthul enough to it, with enough quality of life improvements, to equal my nostalgia. This is the Link's Awakening new players should play." I said: One of two games I didn't see placing, that owes its placing almost entirely to one (over?)enthusiastic first-place vote. Hey, the fewer voters, the more chances there are for minor upsets like this! I rankle slightly at a remake of an old game, that feels very much like an old game, placing so high on a best-of-Switch award - but I did enjoy my time with LoZLA moderately well, and it did feel like a full remake, and it's one of the best-looking games on Switch.
The most confusing part of these votes (apparently) lands on Sunday, probably. I'm spending tomorrow forcing The Lady into the lions' den of my grandparents. |
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OrangeRakoon Disciple of Greener
Posts : 1556 Points : 1560 Join date : 2015-05-06 Age : 32 Location : Reading, UK
| Subject: Re: The GNamer Forum Awards 2021 and Five Years of Switch (Thanks For Voting!) Fri 4 Mar 2022 - 22:29 | |
| Yess the boi made it! I totally get the "but it's an old game" angle in a ranking of specifically Switch games, but in a world of frivolous barely-remasters Link's Awakening feels much more deservedly revisited than most. It does genuinely open up the game to a new audience and manages a fine balance of faithfulness to modern quality of life. Plus, as you say, its new art direction is a delight! I get it being a surprise entry then, but I hope it's not a begrudged one!
Monster Hunter being down in 10th though... now that is a surprise I will begrudge! Curse that Generations split vote - and I can further hypocritically complain that Generations isn't a Switch game but a 3DS one! |
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Buskalilly Galactic Nova
Posts : 15039 Points : 15217 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 34 Location : Nagano
| Subject: Re: The GNamer Forum Awards 2021 and Five Years of Switch (Thanks For Voting!) Sat 5 Mar 2022 - 7:55 | |
| Oh. I was gonna try and send you some the now, but oh well. |
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Treesmurf Dry Metal Baby Princess
Posts : 4195 Points : 4197 Join date : 2013-01-17 Age : 34 Location : Manneh
| Subject: Re: The GNamer Forum Awards 2021 and Five Years of Switch (Thanks For Voting!) Sat 5 Mar 2022 - 11:37 | |
| Definitely a couple of shocks there with number 10 being where it is and number 7 actually being in the top 10, I realise that sounds more of a diss than intended but I did have my fun with it, ultimately if I did include a Zelda remake in my votes it would have been Skyward Sword HD but Link's Awakening certainly feels much more suited to the Switch.
Monster Hunter Rise was great and nearly made my top 10 but just fell short, I think if I'd have played it in multiplayer I'd have been much more in to it, it still however firmly held its place in my Switch for a good couple of months, I even return to it occasionally now and will probably be up for Sunbreak.
Animal Crossing was in my votes and rightly so, I think it's placement is fair, the series has definitely made a few steps forward with New Horizons but it also took a few missteps that meant it didn't reach its full potential. |
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JayMoyles Galactic Nova
Posts : 15889 Points : 15055 Join date : 2013-01-21 Age : 31 Location : The Shibuya River
| Subject: Re: The GNamer Forum Awards 2021 and Five Years of Switch (Thanks For Voting!) Sat 5 Mar 2022 - 12:55 | |
| I'm surprised Link's Awakening made it too, but I guess that's the virtue of a lower voting turnout! I didn't end up ranking MHR as highly as I thought I would have. Once I started going through my top 10, I realised there's some bloody good games on Switch. Still, I thought it might have charted a bit higher than it did. I'll give the Mash lads some stern words tomorrow for missing the deadline. |
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Buskalilly Galactic Nova
Posts : 15039 Points : 15217 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 34 Location : Nagano
| Subject: Re: The GNamer Forum Awards 2021 and Five Years of Switch (Thanks For Voting!) Sat 5 Mar 2022 - 12:58 | |
| I was busy. Elden Ring, innit. |
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JayMoyles Galactic Nova
Posts : 15889 Points : 15055 Join date : 2013-01-21 Age : 31 Location : The Shibuya River
| Subject: Re: The GNamer Forum Awards 2021 and Five Years of Switch (Thanks For Voting!) Sat 5 Mar 2022 - 13:17 | |
| So was I. |
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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26428 Points : 25263 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: The GNamer Forum Awards 2021 and Five Years of Switch (Thanks For Voting!) Sun 6 Mar 2022 - 17:52 | |
| Honourable Mentions- Games, Series, Companies:
The 35 and 99 series for Nintendo Switch Online “Three really smart twists on classic games that I previously thought I was kind of done with. A real shot in the arm for Super Mario Bros., Tetris and PAC-MAN respectively, and a shiny golden nugget in amongst all the keech that is Nintendo Switch Online.”
Banjo-Kazooie in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate “This was so good, what a highlight this announcement was. The euphoria across social media was unlike anything else I can remember.”
HAMSTER Arcade & NEOGEO Archives “There’s several companies who deserve a round of applause for their commitment to re-releasing their old material, usually for fair prices. In particular, you really have to say ‘fair play’ to HAMSTER Corp for releasing something new every week for the last five years (without a break, I think?). I’d be destitute if I’d bought everything I truly wanted, but their range of all-time stoaters, long-forgotten early ‘80s forebearers and eclectic and unpronounceable Japanese arcade exclusives is seriously admirable from afar. They're going to be doing Console Archives next, which might make my cock and balls explode.”
Nintendo Labo “I thought this was going to be a Wii-style revolution and change the face and course of gaming. Instead, it merely became a really enjoyable and quirky engineering tool that sadly offered too little to do once you’d finishing constructing it. Like for most folk, Labo just ended up taking up a bit too much of my shelf space. Still, I thought the idea behind it was utterly sensational. I’ll remember my time with the first Toy-Con set really fondly.”
Microsoft “They might not have been my favourite games on the planet, but it’s really nice to have the Oris on Switch, as well as Banjo in Smash. Good Guy Microsoft wins another fan. (Tunic next please.)
- Other Switch-related stuff:
Nintendo’s Spotlight @ E3 2017 “This was the one that revealed Rocket League in its first thirty seconds, suddenly announced Metroid Prime 4 in the middle, and then ended with that first Jump Up Superstar video for Super Mario Odyssey, the one where you could see what Cappy could truly do, the one where Cappy possessed the body of the Goomba, the Bullet Bill and the T-Rex. I was buzzing about this show for days. It made me feel really optimistic about the Switch at a time where there was still a little bit of the Wii U’s stink about the place.”
Whoever’s creating Nintendo’s cover art these days “Breath of the Wild. Mario Tennis Aces. Super Mario Party. Kirby Star Allies. ARMS. And loads more! Some of Nintendo’s most attractive and memorable box art ever has been designed over the last five years.”
The eShop “The Switch has really been my introduction to the world of indie gaming. Over half of my top games are smaller downloadable titles, that feel perfectly at home on a handheld machine. It could do with curation and character, sure, but there’s some amazing stuff on there.”
NSO Retro Content “I know this is an unpopular opinion to the wider Internet, but I've really enjoyed dipping into the NES, SNES, N64 and Mega Drive content in the NSO offering. Playing some of the games online with folks as well has been a grand time and worth the price of admission in my eyes.”
HD Rumble “It’s still really nice when used well. Eastward’s train tracks were a recent highlight.”
Hybridisation “You can play it on the telly and on the loo? Genius!”
- My thoughts:
First off, a big big thanks to Cappa. He essentially saved this category, with a raft of Honourable Mentions - and saved my opinion of my own communication, by not including any specific single games in that list! (Appreciation too to those who tried to submit specific single games, they'd be a cause for much gratitude on another day - just not this time.)
Besides not dealing with a bunch more games, the reason I asked for that was to highlight other Switch-related things that might have gone under the radar in a sea of more games. I think they did that. I'd forgotten about that Switch Spotlight, where they revealed Metroid Prime 4 and sent us all mad! (About that, Nintendo/Retro...) I definitely don't think enough people, including myself, appreciate Nintendo cover art: nice to have a spotlight (ha) shone on that too. I might need to have another look back through my collection. We even got some praise for NSO, which is... rare.
Finally: how good is the Switch's hybrid aspect? Really really good, IMO. Unless you're Mas. Still, he's got an OLED now: hope springs eternal!
More rankings tomorrow, probably! |
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masofdas The Next Aonuma
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| Subject: Re: The GNamer Forum Awards 2021 and Five Years of Switch (Thanks For Voting!) Sun 6 Mar 2022 - 18:02 | |
| Don't think Tunic has that much to do with MS, not even coming to Game Pass but is a timed exclusive. Likely similar deal to Death's Door, which it was on Xbox for a few months then came elsewhere (also when it arrived on Game Pass)
And a good bunch of honourables in general. Yeah, I might play some more Switch portable, but so many good games coming to the System that I'll be playing on it regardless on TV or portable. |
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Buskalilly Galactic Nova
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| Subject: Re: The GNamer Forum Awards 2021 and Five Years of Switch (Thanks For Voting!) Mon 7 Mar 2022 - 12:24 | |
| - Balladeer wrote:
Finally: how good is the Switch's hybrid aspect? Very! I still get annoyed if I play a good game on my PS4. You mean I can't play Elden Ring on the train? Or tucked into my bed? Or on the toilet? Outrageous! |
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masofdas The Next Aonuma
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| Subject: Re: The GNamer Forum Awards 2021 and Five Years of Switch (Thanks For Voting!) Mon 7 Mar 2022 - 12:43 | |
| Remote Play could sort that |
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JayMoyles Galactic Nova
Posts : 15889 Points : 15055 Join date : 2013-01-21 Age : 31 Location : The Shibuya River
| Subject: Re: The GNamer Forum Awards 2021 and Five Years of Switch (Thanks For Voting!) Mon 7 Mar 2022 - 13:58 | |
| I should clarify that I'm not praising NSO as a whole with my honourable mention - I don't think the quality of Nintendo's online play infrastructure is at a level where I'd pay for it - but the retro content specifically as that's been a nice surprise and some good gap-filler games have come from dabbling with that. |
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The Cappuccino Kid Mani Mani Statue
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| Subject: Re: The GNamer Forum Awards 2021 and Five Years of Switch (Thanks For Voting!) Mon 7 Mar 2022 - 15:04 | |
| I don’t have anything to say about Monster Hunter Rise, but it’s good to see New Horizons eeking onto this list. In my opinion there’s a cluster of six games that are so far ahead of anything else on Switch, and Animal Crossing is definitely in that cluster. I put it in sixth on my own list. Most other consoles don’t have five games that I’d consider to be better than New Horizons.
Link’s Awakening being here surprises me. No offense to anyone, but I thought the first four dungeons of it was pretty boring. Not so boring that I gave it a dishonourable mention, but boring enough that it sat on my proverbial trade-in pile for a couple of years. I didn’t give it a second thought when I part-exchanged it for my OLED Switch a few weeks back.
I thought there was a lot to say about the Switch for honourable mentions, I didn’t need to think too hard about any of those either. Hope there’s more dishonourable mentions, they’re the best bit about any of these votes The Switch’s hybrid aspect has totally changed the way I play games, for sure. I’ll be very unpleasantly amazed if Nintendo don’t follow up the Switch with another hybrid system. |
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