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Originally Posted by stevencassidy13
@SH, not to suggest you are trying to stack the deck in your favor, but you currently have 11 out of 13 first places in your suggestions...
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No offense taken, I was aware of that.
I do have some opinions on what the contest needs:
1. Games are as easy to jump in as possible, no complex systems to understand.
2. Games that can have a lot of score variance between sessions.
3. Games that aren't
too much luck/randomness based
For example, I like 1943 better than 1942, but it also has a bonus worth 100k at the end of each carrier that
may or may not appear. That's a possibility of getting 11 of those bonus items, 1.1 million points. This is a lot to leave up to chance when a typical game tends in the 2.5 - 3 million range if you make it to the end.
1942 has none of that. It's also definitely simpler than Donpachi, and will appeal more to the 80s arcade players on this site.
The other games are the same, pick up and play. I could give in depth explanations of my choices if you want, but I think they become evident if you play them, then compare to the ones currently on the list.
Last year was barren for competition until Dec. 31 (I'll admit that I was greatly irritated by that), which
in my opinion defeats the entire purpose of having a year long contest. I definitely did not like that and hope that doesn't happen again. Maybe choosing simpler games will help get people into it more, I don't know. But nobody was discussing the games at all anyways so I figured I'd throw out suggestions.