Maf Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 A lot of these corporate Twitter accounts are corny but I like the Devolver Digital one 😆 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shinymcshine Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 BAFTA Video Games Icons: https://www.bafta.org/media-centre/press-releases/bafta-most-iconic-character-poll-results I'll just leave the link to the Top 20 (above) in case anyone wants to avoid spoilers (or simply don't care). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfnick Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 Lot of recency bias there. Very surprised with 1-3. Especially 2 not being 1. Really didn’t realise 3 was that big either. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maryokutai Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 Was nice to scroll through, but when I arrived at 10 I realised that even BAFTA doesn't know the definition of 'iconic' anymore. Edit: I think 1 is warranted simply for the fact that said character pierced through the walls of the gaming space in the 90s, but not in the same way classic mascots did (magazine covers, music videos etc.). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfnick Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 Yea to be fair I’m probably mixing up iconic with popular a bit myself so makes a bit more sense then. And like you say, did more for a wider reach when you think back to the time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shinymcshine Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 Okay - I'll break cover : I had no idea Ellie from TLoU had a surname !? Don't recall it ever being mentioned in the games or TV show. On the Wikipedia entry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maryokutai Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 Yeah, that was one of those 'did I know that or didn't I?' moments for me. But looking at the list again and some of the questionable picks in there (I erroneously blamed BAFTA when it was actually just a poll) I realised it's also super console centric. Gordon Freeman and Doom Guy, for example, should absolutely have been in there over some of those by-definition-not-iconic characters form the last five years. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 eh, I feel like the crowbar is more iconic than the Freeman. Maybe even Alyx is more iconic. I think you've got to have a Street Fighter character, like Ryu. It's also one of those series which has endured through generations (albeit dips in popularity with 3 initially, and V) 2B has become iconic, bigger than the series she comes from. Constant guest appearances in everything. The Baldurs Gate III crew are excellent but it's definitely too early to call any of them iconic though they are all great designed characters. I don't know if any BG character is iconic, Minsc maybe, but only to old people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HandsomeDead Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 I think it's a funny list. It says it's a poll from 4000 people from around the world but who around the world is keeping an eye on BAFTA polls? Lara as no.1? Sackboy there at all? These are mostly British games industry types. I bet Manic Miner was no. 21. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shinymcshine Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 4 minutes ago, HandsomeDead said: I think it's a funny list. It says it's a poll from 4000 people from around the world but who around the world is keeping an eye on BAFTA polls? Lara as no.1? Sackboy there at all? These are mostly British games industry types. I bet Manic Miner was no. 21. You mean "Miner Willy"...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HandsomeDead Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 Listen, I got into gaming in the early 90s. I only messed around with some of these computer games a little. I'm 40 and this stuff feels like it's before my time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 Professor Oak a famous researcher but not an iconic one 😭 Mr Zurkon snubbed again no Oscar, no bafta, no respect 😭 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 I can’t believe my man Chadley didn’t make it in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfnick Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 Bit late to this and don’t know if it’s been brought up before but there’s talk of Epic store and others coming to Xbox. https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/phil-spencer-says-hes-open-to-bringing-stores-like-epic-and-steam-to-xbox-consoles/ One thing I can’t get my head around is how would this work? Does that mean that any game available on Xbox I could instead buy on Epic at a cheaper price? How could this ever be a good thing for Xbox? Why would I ever buy a game from them if that was the case? Plus any game I buy on Epic would then be available to me on PC. The Xbox store becomes redundant at that point. So where do they get their cut? Do they add it to the Epic store price - negating the benefit of having it there or what? I can’t get my head around it. The fuck is going off over at Xbox? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maryokutai Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 Yeah, maf posted it in the Xbox thread, we just all kind of glanced over it because of other stuff happening at the same time. Not to play vigilante mod but it's probably the better spot to discuss it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nag Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 I'm not commenting because I really don't care... But I care enough to let you all know that I don't care.🥰 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfnick Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 Ah, I missed that sorry. Fuck it, will just wait and see if anything comes of it then discuss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiofloyd Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 Broken Roads reviews: PC Gamer - 64% Eurogamer - 2/5 Think someone had this for Fantasy Critic last year. Dodged a bullet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nag Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 18 minutes ago, radiofloyd said: Think someone had this for Fantasy Critic last year. Dodged a bullet. @HandsomeDead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HandsomeDead Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 I lost enough for the delay as it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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