{"id":280,"date":"2008-01-07T15:32:09","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T20:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/280"},"modified":"2016-07-15T12:59:27","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T19:59:27","slug":"poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/280","title":{"rendered":"Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s try something here. Let’s play a little game. As I said before, I’ll probably wrap up Final Fantasy V<\/em> soon. I want to do Portal<\/em> afterwards, but that shouldn’t take long. As I hinted, I’d like to give the readers of this blog the opportunity to choose what I play after that. I still don’t want to post the contents of the Stack just yet, though. Instead, I’d like to know what kind of game commentary you want in general. I’ll try to pick the best fit from the Stack, and also bear the results in mind in future choices.<\/p>\n

First, let’s choose the genre. You can select more than one option in this one, and there’s a certain amount of overlap. I’ve listed them in order of how many there are on the Stack.
\nSorry, there are no polls available at the moment.<\/p>\n

Second, how old a game should I play?
\n

\n\t\t

What release date?<\/strong><\/p>

    \n\t\t
  • 1986-1995 (the DOS age) (36%, 10 Votes)<\/small>
    <\/div><\/li>\n\t\t
  • 1996-2002 (people start designing games for CD-ROMs, hardware 3D acceleration, and Windows 95) (36%, 10 Votes)<\/small>
    <\/div><\/li>\n\t\t
  • 2003-2006 (up to five years ago; reasonably modern) (21%, 6 Votes)<\/small>
    <\/div><\/li>\n\t\t
  • 1985 and earlier (the dawn of time) (4%, 1 Votes)<\/small>
    <\/div><\/li>\n\t\t
  • 2007-2008 (released after I started this blog) (3%, 1 Votes)<\/small>
    <\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul>

    Total Voters: 28<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

    \"Loading Loading ...<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

    Do you want me to talk about something you’re likely to have heard of, or something likely to be new to you? (Note: None of the examples listed here are actually on the Stack.)
    \n

    \n\t\t

    How obscure?<\/strong><\/p>

      \n\t\t
    • Things that I'd expect fans of their specific genres to know about, but wouldn't be surprised if others didn't (No One Lives Forever, Maniac Mansion, Lode Runner) (65%, 17 Votes)<\/small>
      <\/div><\/li>\n\t\t
    • Things I wouldn't expect you to have heard of, but it wouldn't surprise me if you had (ZPC, Amerzone, Claw) (23%, 6 Votes)<\/small>
      <\/div><\/li>\n\t\t
    • I'd be surprised if you had heard of it (Ken's Labyrinth, Symbiocom, Mimi and the Mites) (8%, 2 Votes)<\/small>
      <\/div><\/li>\n\t\t
    • Canonical works that even non-gamers have heard of (Doom, Adventure, Super Mario Brothers) (4%, 1 Votes)<\/small>
      <\/div><\/li>\n\t\t
    • Big titles that you probably know about if you're a gamer, even if you don't follow their genre, because they got a lot of coverage in the gaming press (Halo, Myst, Prince of Persia) (0%, 0 Votes)<\/small>
      <\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul>

      Total Voters: 26<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

      \"Loading Loading ...<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

      Finally, what kind of soul do you have?
      \n

      \n\t\t

      Should I play a game that I expect to be good or a game that I expect to be bad?<\/strong><\/p>

        \n\t\t
      • Choose something where you don't have strong expectations yet. (54%, 14 Votes)<\/small>
        <\/div><\/li>\n\t\t
      • Good. I want analysis of what works and why. (46%, 12 Votes)<\/small>
        <\/div><\/li>\n\t\t
      • Bad. I just want to see you amusingly rip into a game's deficiencies. (0%, 0 Votes)<\/small>
        <\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul>

        Total Voters: 26<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

        \"Loading Loading ...<\/div>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Let’s try something here. Let’s play a little game. As I said before, I’ll probably wrap up Final Fantasy V soon. I want to do Portal afterwards, but that shouldn’t take long. As I hinted, I’d like to give the readers of this blog the opportunity to choose what I play after that. I still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3699,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/3699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}