Comment on Oblivion remake is... really making it apparent how outdated Bethesda is in its approach to making games

• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Correct, you don’t know that. You can speculate on releases, like I did with Pony Island 2, and get counter picked as a punishment for the risk. As long as it’s in the site’s database, it’s fair game. I drafted “Unannounced 3D Mario Game” this year, but then I picked up “Unannounced 3D Donkey Kong Game” after the draft for 1 in-game dollar (no one else put in a bid for it), as a hedge, since the rumor was that either a Mario or a Donkey Kong game would be made by the Mario Odyssey team for the Switch 2 launch. No one counter-picked Mario, so I’m allowed to drop it. The “season” is a calendar year. We do our draft early in January, and typically the first release of the year will be like halfway through the month, and the score that each game earns is whatever score it has at the stroke of midnight on January 1st.

  Because we don’t know every release a year in advance, A) this game got a lot harder starting back in 2022, because that’s when game marketing cycles got way shorter, and B) some of the best reviewing games of 2025 probably won’t even be announced until this coming June.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “Unannounced 3D Mario Game”

    Ahhhhhh OK, I see…

    Do you guys curate this yourself, or is there a website or something that facilitates it?

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They have their own database. If there’s a release or a rumor they don’t know about, you can suggest one, but they ask you to cite your sources. If it’s got a Steam page and you provide that link, they’ll basically add it right away, which is what happened when I got Total Chaos added. Fantasy Critic also gives league commissioners a lot of power to house rule just about anything.

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      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Neat. Thanks for the info!

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