In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Oliver Wong
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on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:52:20 -0500
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> "The Ghost In The Machine" <ewill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, flatfish+++
>> <flatfish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote
>> on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:03:36 -0500
>> <P7Yfh.16$6p1.9@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:52:04 -0500, Oliver Wong wrote:
>>>
>>>> For the curious, the 12 bundled games are:
>>>>
>>>> # Creatures: Internet Edition
>>>> # Majesty
>>>> # Candy Cruncher
>>>> # Mindrover
>>>> # NingPo MahJong
>>>> # Hyperspace Delivery Boy
>>>> # Software Tycoon
>>>> # Postal 2: Share the Pain
>>>> # Soul Ride
>>>> # X2: The Threat
>>>> # Gorky 17
>>>> # Cold War
>>>>
>>> Never heard of em'.
>>> They are going to go broke with a lineup like that.
>>>
>>> Maybe they should market it as a "retro game computer" ?
>>>
>>> They could target the baby boomers with ad copy like "remember your first
>>> game of pong?"
>>> Relive the good old days with Linux games!!
>
> I've heard of Creatures (not my thing), Hyperspace Delivery Boy (low
> budget game, FWIR), Postal 2, X2, and Cold War. Of that list, Cold War is
> the most interesting to me. They claim that this package has a $350 value,
> but I think they just took the price of each individual software package and
> summed them up. The value is, of course, completely subjective, and to me,
> it would be closer to $50. That is, I'd essentially be willing to pay $50
> for Cold War plus 11 "bonus" games.
I've not heard of any of them, frankly. One might play
"guess the genre" (Candy Cruncher sounds like a silly/fun
2D scroller, for example; X2: The Threat is probably a
turn-based game with lots of artwork), but that's all I
can do without further research. :-)
>
>>
>> Top games according to http://games.ign.com/topgames/ .
>>
>> 1. Halo 3. Xbox 360.
>> 2. Legend of Zelda: Twilight Pincess. Wii.
>> 3. Gears of war. Xbox 360.
>> 4. Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Wii.
>> 5. WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2007. PS2.
>> 6. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas. Xbox 360.
>> 7. Lost Planet: Extreme Condition. Xbox 360.
>> 8. Mass Effect. Xbox 360.
>> 9. Call of Duty 3. Xbox 360.
>> 10. Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings. Nintendo DS.
>
> Interesting. I didn't think the Xbox360 would do so well.
Neither did I; it's a little annoying. :-)
> I wonder what
> metric they are using to rank these games.
I wonder that myself. The list does not explain or provide a link.
Each game is individually clickable (not obvious unless one mouses
over the title in the list, since they're not underlined).
> The fact that classics like
> Half-Life 2 or Neverwinter Nights are not present on the list indicate this
> is probably a list of "top 100 recently released games", which would explain
> the strong bias towards the most recently released platforms like X360 and
> Wii.
I'd say that's a good guess, absent more info.
>
>> It is possible that all Xbox360 games can be played on a modern
>> Vista-capable PC (and I know Halo 3 has a variant for Windows), but the
>> highest ranking PC game is
>>
>> 68. Medieval II: Total War. PC.
>>
>> Nexuiz and Unreal Tournament are not on the list.
>>
>> Platform counts:
>>
>> Xbox 360: 30
>> Wii: 24
>> PlayStation 2: 16
>> PlayStation 3: 9
>> Nintendo DS: 6
>> GameCube: 4
>> PC: 4
>> PlayStation Portable: 3
>> Xbox: 2
>> Nintendo 64: 1
>> PlayStation: 1
>>
>> Pretty impressive for a modified PC which was initially offered as a
>> loss-leader. :-)
>
> That's one way of looking at it. Another is that it's somewhat
> disappointing for a christmas launch of a product chrissened with the name
> "PlayStation 3". You'd think it would live up to the legacy established by
> the PS2...
PS3 has had problems in production, with short supplies.
>
> I'm surprised that the PC and the DS ranked so lowly, though, which
> makes me question again what metric was used to rank them.
Aye.
>
>>
>> The top 10 games of 2005 do offer Linux variants.
>> DROD: Journey to Rooted Hold, Professor Fizzwizzle, and Tribal Trouble
>> indicate Linux as one of the OSes. Some of the rest might be
>> playable in WinE but there's no way this site would know. :-)
>>
>> http://www.gametunnel.com/articles.php?id=412
>
> Hmm... given that their number 1 game of 2005 is "Oasis", I suspect that
> the award name is a misnomer. This isn't a list of the top 10 games of 2005,
> but the top 10 *independent* (i.e. not backed by a professional publisher)
> games of 2005.
Oops.
>
> According to GameRankings (whose metric is a weighed average of the
> aggregation of other game review sites -- i.e. GameRankings is to VideoGames
> what Rotten Tomato is to Movies -- and is detailed at
> http://www.gamerankings.com/itemrankings/help.asp), top 10 games of 2005
> are:
>
> Resident Evil 4 for GC
> Resident Evil 4 for PS2
> Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory for XBOX
> Ninja Gaiden Black for XBOX
> Civilization IV for PC
> God of War for PS2
> Forza Motorsport for XBOX
> Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for XBOX
> Mario Kart DS for DS
> Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for PC
>
> AFAIK, none of these are available for Linux, and only 2 are available
> for PC, with the majority going to the XBOX, followed by the PS2 and PC.
>
> 2006 was slightly better for PCs: they still had 2 games in the top 10
> list, but those two games ranked 4th (Company of Heroes) and 5th (Oblivion)
> instead of 5th and 10th. Then there's 4 PS2 games, 3 X360 games, and a Wii
> game. The top PS3 game, "Resistance: Fall of Man", ranks 13th on the list of
> top games of 2006. The second best PS3 game, Ridge Racer 7, ranked 139th.
>
> (I'm sorry I can't directly link to these results, as the site seems to use
> POST instead of GET, but you the form to make these POST requests is located
> at http://www.gamerankings.com/itemrankings/simpleratings.asp and it should
> be fairly intuitive how to construct the appropriate queries).
>
> - Oliver
>
>
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