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Originally Posted by Flyboy
I still think that the popularity of a game should have a direct impact on its ranking, for better or for worse. It's hard to imagine that a group of hardcore adventure gamers have somehow all overlooked the best game ever. It's probably more likely that it was overlooked because it looks like crap or never got decent enough reviews to make it onto our radars in the first place. If one crazy guy with horrible taste was desperately in love with a movie called Biker Zombie Chicks From Mars that was in such limited release that no one else actually saw it, should that rank higher than Citizen Kane and the Godfather because he's the only person to list it? Something doesn't quite add up.
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You've just (re)discovered why the method only makes sense when there is a lot of lists to work with (which minimizes the occurences like this).
(On a side note, this would be a beautiful world if indeed only horrible movies were getting limited releases.)
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And on the other end of things, if one person has played something that they felt was really horrible, shouldn't a game that several people felt was equally horrible place lower on the list since it is more universally considered to be rubbish?
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It should, and it does. Have you read the link? (Actually just the first chapter will suffice.)
