Topic: Team Microtransactions (MTX) PS3 Library Deliberation Thread

@Ralizah and that is a wrap!

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Don't worry. To be honest, even though not a lot of the team had played any of the games, it was an easy week. The list contained a lot stand out games that were easy to place. It was just then a quick research on others to see where they place (plus we had two sports franchises which helpes as the fan base did all the work for us!)

Foxy has more than pulled her weight so far. Especially that one week when most of the team was AWOL.

sorry guys, i did manage to put my scores in earlier in the week, but thurs/fri was exceptionally busy at the office to have time look at the rest that nobody played. the list looks ok to me. i think certain sports games can be important/influential, regardless if they are annual or not, because sometimes they introduce new features, or overhaul the game into a different direction. i've no specific knowledge of the 2K MLB games (US sports don't interest me) though, but the fact it critically and commercially got left behind by Sony's MLB:The Show series probably says more than enough.

I know it was locked in, it you guys have got to reconsider Mercs 2.
Mercs 2 is one of the worst sequels ever made. It did everything worse. The way the aiming, driving, and whatnot was worse. It added awful quick-time events when you hijacked a vehicle and trying to take over tank requires to figure out a new button mashing method it’s so hard. The dialogue went from witty to bland and uninteresting. When I played the final mission, it ended with a quick time event scene, obscured by a helicopter because the game glitches. It’s a hard pointless.

@Jaz007 @leucocyte seems to be the only one of us who played Merc 2. I personally never even played the 1st

Great work getting those results in. Bravo.

@ZeD @Jaz007 - i haven't played the original mercenaries either, and i rented mercenaries 2. my memory of it is not that great, but i do remember it wasn't particularly polished, quite a few bugs, terrible AI, ropey graphics and i did consider rating it as unimportant. but it did give you an open-world freedom (one of the first on PS3 that i can remember and you could do it all in co-op as well) to go around and destroy everything or set the world ablaze, jack helipcopters, etc. which did offer some fun, before its mission design got a bit repetitive. reviews seem to hover around 6-8, so i err'd on the more optimistic side and gave it an 'existing' rating, even if its ambition was marred by its execution.

@leucocyte @Jaz007 , so are we happy with the current position or we moving down by one?

@leucocyte @ZeD I’d prefer at least nor important, especially because the first was so so much better, but it’s not my call to make so if you guys don’t want to move it down I’ll accept that.

@Jaz007
Ok, as you have played the original and have something to compare it too, I will take your thoughts into account and drop it down as @leucocyte already gave some good points on it as a stand alone game.
Thanks peeps!

@ZeD

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14uRdE72JtbW4N3dPmgzaf...

New Phase version of the sheet is live. I just re-purposed the one we've been using. Once we get the names, you can fill out the user scores page. We can explain the basic rule set we've been using at that point to the other teams, yeah?

Also, I changed it slightly. Unsorted games are in the "Unsorted" column to make the "Existing" section easier to keep clean. Otherwise, it's the same as always.

@Ralizah good work. I'm looking forward to this!

@Ralizah sounds like a plan.
This list isn't too bad as there are a lot of franchises here so we just need to work out the order of those.

@ZeD I've played all but one need for speed games. Most Wanted by Criterion is on another level and is one of the best games from last gen.

I've played a number of the 2k basketball games intermittently. Strangely the best one for me was 2k5 the gen before - it was amazing for a gamer and not necessarily basketball fans due to a mode they have long since ripped out. It was a single player rpg mode. Anyway I can probably rate the earlier games in that franchise.

I will take the nascar games if you want. A series I haven't played but will look into over the next week.

@themcnoisy ill update the spreadsheet tomorrow morning with all the names on.
Even if we start this week, it will make it easier next week.

Basically on our spreadsheet we have a score tab. Place 1 to 5 next to the game in ypur name column. The average of all scores puts that game in the preliminary category.
Once scores are in, ant without are the obscure ones that need researching

@ZeD sweet. Will get on it tonight.

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I have updated the spreadsheet below with all your names on the User Score tab. This is how we have been doing it around here for the past few weeks;
1) Spend a few days populating the User Scores (1-5)
2) The average of each game is taken and that will be that games preliminary placement
3) Any games without scores become the next focus
4) Any franchises will require one person to look at them all. Use metacritic and the fan base to work out placements.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14uRdE72JtbW4N3dPmgzaf...

@ZeD I haven't played a huge amount of the games but have added my scores for those I have...

@RogerRoger Sorry, my bad I should have stated that 😆
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy same for me. It is because of the big franchises. I think this is why we are doing this group effort