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[elyusion]

did some intense backloggd research, and it seems video games didn't get good until 1993 (first year with 5+ games that are rated 4/5 stars or above)

these are the games btw

i'm putting a star by the games i've played and like :3
1. mega man x
2. castlevania: rondo of blood
3. super mario bros. 3 (the snes port)
4. day of the tentacle
5. super mario all-stars
6. doom
7. the legend of zelda: link's awakening 🟊

... after typing that i wanted find out during which year did games get REALLY good (what year has the entire first page of games with 4/5 or above), and the answer to that is 2021.

for the curious

1. disco elysium
2. outer wilds echoes of the eye
3. outer wilds archaeologist edition (wtf that's the same game twice?)
4. mass effect legendary edition
5. the binding of isaac: repentence
6. the great ace attorney chronicles
7. final fantasy xiv: endwalker
8. mass effect 2
9. tsukihime: a piece of blue glass moon
10. library of ruina
11. the binding of isaac: repentance (...? this one say's it's for afterbirth, the higher one is for rebirth)
12. the legend of heroes: trails through daybreak
13. lost judgement
14. resident evil 4 vr
15. crosscode: a new home
16. deltarune chapter 2
17. death stranding: director's cut
18. devil may cry 5 + vergil
19. gothic the chronicles of myrtana: archolos
20. metroid dread
21. jack jeanne
22. psychonauts 2
23. ghost of tsushima
24. castlevania: aria of sorrow 🟊 but it's specifically the port in the advance collection
25. scarlet hollow
26. it takes two
27. the elder scrolls v: skyrim - anniversary edition
28. judgement
29. nier replicant
30. honkai 3rd impact: outerworld traveler
31. cruelty squad
32. final fantasy vii remake intergrade
33. inscryption
34. before your eyes
35. demons roots
36. slow damage
37. blazing hope
38. spiritfarer
39. super mario 3d world + bowser's fury
40. metro exodus: enhanced edition
41. mass effect 3
42. hitman 3
43. nioh 2
44. rhythm doctor
45. neo: the world ends with you
46. little nightmares ii
47. imposter factory
48. sound voltex: exceed gear
49. final fantasy: pixel remaster
50. honkai impact 3rd: the phantom of the theater
51. echo
52. super mario 64 plus
53. metroid dread: special edition
54: blasphemous: wounds of eventide
55. devil may cry 5 deluxe edition + vergil
56. super metroid redux
57. honkai impact 3rd: hacked
58. virche evermore: error:salvation 🟊
59. touhou mystia's izakaya
60. umineko no naku koro ni saku: nekobako to musou no koukyoukyoku

good thing i started making a list. it includes dlc and ports and stuff! i'm not sure if that all counts. now let's see what happens if i filter it to only include main games

...

then there is no year where games are REALLY good, unless i lower my standards to 30 games that are 4/5+ instead of 60. 1993 is still the first year of ~good~ gaming though, because it just removes super mario all-stars (collection of ports) and super mario bros. 3 (the favorite from that quartet of ports).

let's say i lower it to 30 community-decided best main games. then the first year of great gaming is 2023.

click if you dare

1. baldur's gate 3
2. alan wake ii
3. resident evil 4: deluxe edition
4. the legend of zelda: tears of the kingdom
5. in stars and time
6. pikmin 4
7. armored core vi: fires of rubicon
8. theatrhythm final bar line
9. pizza tower
10. octopath traveler ii
11. misericorde: volume one
12. chants of sennaar
13. hi-fi rush
14. the talos principle ii
15. super mario bros. wonder
16. sakura no toki: sakura no mori no shita wo ayumu
17. void stranger
18. lies of p: deluxe edition
19. bomb rush cyberfunk (es oomf)
20. lies of p (??)
21. like a dragon gaiden: the man who erased his name
22. blasphemous ii
23. little goody two shoes
24. street fighter 6
25. the cosmic wheel sisterhood
26. tloz tears of the kingdom deluxe edition (???)
27. undertale yellow
28. peaks of yore (me playing snes games)
29. gravity circuit
30. sanabi
31. a space for the unbound

could actually be true, could be recency bias. backloggd was created in 2019, if that means anything. in my perfect world i would love to see how the ratings would look if everyone who has ever touched a single video game was made to participate in rating.

while i'm here: it's link time babeyyyy

dumping every video game-related link i have right here, right now.

Actual Games
- hatching the tamagothi may or may not be a game. try this if it doesn't work anymore. tag yourself?
- here is a personality quiz that's probably nice, i don't know; i couldn't complete it because i don't know my love language LOL
- email is easy, in which you are shown email addresses and asked if they are valid or not. easy enough! (i got 9/21)
- fuck it. four-way pong.
- stimulation clicker, which i'm proud to say i 100%'d
- oh yeah, i beat therapy with dr. albert kreuger the other day. it was pretty darn alright
- almost forgot! just 2 hours ago i played highnoon, a text adventure game from 1970. it's quick to play! try it out :]

Articles
- pick your poison: evil harukanaru toki no naka de review, good harukanaru toki no naka de review, and neutral (mine!) harukanaru toki no naka de review. kimimi's review is so kind and beautiful that i felt like i needed to seriously edit my review or write a new post commenting on hers, but later i read koorinokoro's review and i started doubting if i even have taste at all T_T iirc she doesn't like angelique either TT_TT i haven't looked into what she DOES like, but it's probably better i don't know. for her sake more than mine.
- your gay games are illegal again
- am i actually playing final fantasy or what?
- how do i tell my friends that i'm a fascist?

Misc.
- thread of infamous visual novel cgs and their origins
- bujingai: the forsaken city's page on backloggd, which i happened to stumble across. i read the start of the top review and my jaw dropped. i'm scared to look up where else that bastard has been. (here he is, by the way. don't click until you've seen the aforementioned review! spoilers!!)
- oh shit! is a pac-man clone for msx made in 1985. this is the death sound. (i suggest you check and make sure your volume isn't too high before you hit play.)

Comments

[javert]

Fascinated by how many of the CGs include extremely tiny food... After a while you start to wonder if they were doing it on purpose 😭

[elyusion]

I didn't notice until you pointed it out?? 😭😭 I would assume they messed up drawing from reference, but I don't know how you could make that mistake unless your model is huge or you have them "eating" toy food for dolls....... If it was on purpose, the hell kinda fetish.........

[javert]

LMAO a fetish for miniature food wouldn't even surprise me honestly?! At this point... My first thought was that maybe it had become an inside joke or something, but assuming a lot of these are serious VNs, that seems unlikely...