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   josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 17:56:04 JST josef

   according to wikipedia's "List of video games considered the best", there were no good video games that came out in 2021. every previous year has at least a couple of entries, all the way back. the first year you hit with no games worth mentioning, other than 2021, is 1976

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 17:58:30 JST pettter

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     @jk Looking through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2021_video_games for a counterexample and uh...

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     josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 18:04:22 JST josef

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     @pettter amazing that out of all of these 414 different games, none of them are wikipedia-certified good

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 18:04:22 JST pettter

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     @jk *certified 'considered best' but yeah.

     The two examples in the list I've read so far that I'd expect to have _someone_ considering them best based on, like, cultural backsplash, is Forza Horizon 5 and Inscryption, and maybe Mundaun, so y'know... Maybe it just truly wasn't a year for Bangers?

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 18:06:06 JST pettter

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     @jk Sable is in there, which certainly has one of the most striking aestethics and game loops that I've played, but there was enough jank for me to not really go for the 'best' label.

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 18:08:10 JST pettter

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     @jk Oh, Webbed is from 2021! Definitely a contender for 'best game when you play as a cute little spider' :)

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 18:10:02 JST pettter

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     @jk And if no one considers Wordle to be the best social-media throwaway little game tool 'look how smart I am' thingy I don't know what. Especially with how many other games sprung up in its wake.