I honestly don't know anyone who has enjoyed Civ VII and my sample group is made up of people that really love strategy games. It's such a mess compared to past entries in the series. I am surprised to see it in a top 20.
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Civ 7 was a fucking disaster that is DOA due to the unoptimized code, shotty UI implementation, and extremely egregious monetization compared to previous installments
Honestly this list reads like the person who picked the games doesn't actually play games and just listed the most popular/ most talked about games, but to make it not that obvious they asked that one "weird" person groupchat they were invited to once that is full of actual gamers to provide like 3 games for the list lol
So all the big names plus a tohou style arknoid and a geometry wars meets robotron type deal.
I personally wasn't awwed by avowed like some others were. But putting assassin's creed at number one seems, well lazy. I kinda get why they didn't include Claire obscura, given the recent backlash, but it was at least a better game than assassin's creed. And ghosts of yontei being in the middle? Yeah, sorry ars. Gunna hard disagree with ya.
(I know you're not the author, I'm just screaming into the ether
It's not #1, it's alphabetical. 😉
Makes more sense now. Still wish CO:E33 got at least a mention though. But I fucking love that game.
Yeah, weird how he skipped the universally acclaimed game of the year.
In the article linked.
You know what? That makes this list many times better!
You know I was just thinking the other day about how badly Ars Technica needs to put out an article of their top video games because if anyone is an expert or can provide valuable ideas to the gaming industry it has to be the absolute garbage nearly tabloid and usually written by AI that never qualifies as real journalism from Ars Technica. I'm not sure if their goal has been to be the complete asses of tech news but they hands down take the cake and then providing this great list only solidifies them into the echos of history that literally no one will ever remember once they go bankrupt and no one cares to archive any piece of their trash of a site.
Boy, you really seem to hate Ars. I consider them one of the better tech publications, though gaming is generally not their wheelhouse.