2014 Together Retro Calendar

[dsheinem]

Anyway, guys, how do we get from our big-ass list of games down to lean 12 month calendar that we can all feel pretty good about?

Probably by giving it more than 4 days to develop. I am sure other folks will chime in, weigh in over the next couple of weeks. There's not a great urgency to finalizing everything in the next few days or anything...

Yeah agreed totally. I'm just looking for direction here. Not finalization.

Well, I assumed AJ was tallying endorsements and, if there are games that have clear "front runner" status within a genre, they would go on the calendar. If there were games that are contested, we'd vote.

[noiseredux]

I think the front runners are Deus Ex and PSO.

[Violent By Design]

I'm voting against Deus Ex, not interested in it at all.


More so than the games, how do we decide what genres will be represented this year?

I also think the RPG and Shoot em up clubs should be ignored. That's their thing, I don't even post or lurk in the shoot em up section.

[dsheinem]

I think the front runners are Deus Ex and PSO.

not clear ones...look at the spreadsheet. those seem like vote candidates for now.

again, give it more time. i need to get my lobbying group together.

[noiseredux]

More so than the games, how do we decide what genres will be represented this year?

the way I figure it is if an FPS game gets the most votes, then FPS is one of the genres picked. That sort of thing. Let the games' popularity dictate the genres picked.

[alienjesus]

Some of the most popular suggestions so far:

Ikaruga - 5 votes
The Lost Vikings - 5votes
Ultima IV - 4 votes
Metal Gear - 4 votes
Monster World - 4 votes
Castle of the Winds - 3 votes
Dungeons & Dragons - 3 votes
Knights of the Round - 3 votes
Powered Gear - 3 votes
Final Fantasy XI - 3 votes
Deus Ex - 3 votes
Shock Troopers - 3 votes

Everything else has 1 or 2.

[noiseredux]

Some of the most popular suggestions so far:

Ikaruga - 5 votes
The Lost Vikings - 5votes
Ultima IV - 4 votes
Metal Gear - 4 votes
Monster World - 4 votes
Castle of the Winds - 3 votes
Dungeons & Dragons - 3 votes
Knights of the Round - 3 votes
Powered Gear - 3 votes
Final Fantasy XI - 3 votes
Deus Ex - 3 votes
Shock Troopers - 3 votes

Everything else has 1 or 2.

is that only from your spreadsheet then? PSO definitely had a lot more backing than 1 or 2.

[dsheinem]

again, more time is needed...

maybe take nominations for another week, ask for endorsements for one week past that, then see where we are in terms of consensus/voting needs.

[alienjesus]

Some of the most popular suggestions so far:

Ikaruga - 5 votes
The Lost Vikings - 5votes
Ultima IV - 4 votes
Metal Gear - 4 votes
Monster World - 4 votes
Castle of the Winds - 3 votes
Dungeons & Dragons - 3 votes
Knights of the Round - 3 votes
Powered Gear - 3 votes
Final Fantasy XI - 3 votes
Deus Ex - 3 votes
Shock Troopers - 3 votes
EDIT: Phantasy Star Online

Everything else has 1 or 2.

is that only from your spreadsheet then? PSO definitely had a lot more backing than 1 or 2.

My spreadsheet as of it being updated on page 13.

In checking back to be sure, I have realised that Violent posted in favour of PSO in the time it took me to do the update, so I didn't count that. As far as I can tell though, his is the only one I've missed - putting it at 3 votes, the same as FFXI. Not exactly an obvious leader in popularity.

For what it's worth, Trails in the Sky had 4 votes, but I'm under the impression that's off the agenda now due to it not actually being a retro game.


Either way, this is just a look at whats been popular so far. I'm in no way intending for this to be used in decision making already.

[noiseredux]

Trails is off, yeah.

PSO was me, SpaceBooger, Violent, BoneSnapDeez so 4 votes so far.