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<blockquote data-quote="Rygar" data-source="post: 7902458" data-attributes="member: 6756765"><p>I feel compelled to point out that the game is not widely regarded as one of the greatest games ever made, and in fact most gamers have no idea what Star Control is, much less played Star Control 2. </p><p></p><p>The author is pointing at a 2013 article about PC games, while ignoring all of the articles about "What are the best games ever" that come out routinely and pretty much never list SC2.</p><p></p><p>To make it even more interesting, when you dig into the link in the articles he's referencing which claims SC2 was frequently listed, you find that it doesn't actually link to any metrics. You then find that the poll had some rather interesting restrictions in 2013 such as "You can't name games from the last 10 years" and "You can't name games unless you can purchase them today" (Which eliminates pretty much the whole Commodore 64 library and pretty much all of the titles that defined video gaming all the way up to today). Which I think it's a fairly safe bet that the Kotaku author had absolutely no idea that computers other than the PC had ever been popular, and that the PC only became ascendant in the early 90's after the C64 largely birthed modern video gaming.</p><p></p><p>In short, this is another poorly researched article, 30 second with the source should've given this author big red flags that what he was trying to source was the typical lazy journalism commonplace in video game journalism.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rygar, post: 7902458, member: 6756765"] I feel compelled to point out that the game is not widely regarded as one of the greatest games ever made, and in fact most gamers have no idea what Star Control is, much less played Star Control 2. The author is pointing at a 2013 article about PC games, while ignoring all of the articles about "What are the best games ever" that come out routinely and pretty much never list SC2. To make it even more interesting, when you dig into the link in the articles he's referencing which claims SC2 was frequently listed, you find that it doesn't actually link to any metrics. You then find that the poll had some rather interesting restrictions in 2013 such as "You can't name games from the last 10 years" and "You can't name games unless you can purchase them today" (Which eliminates pretty much the whole Commodore 64 library and pretty much all of the titles that defined video gaming all the way up to today). Which I think it's a fairly safe bet that the Kotaku author had absolutely no idea that computers other than the PC had ever been popular, and that the PC only became ascendant in the early 90's after the C64 largely birthed modern video gaming. In short, this is another poorly researched article, 30 second with the source should've given this author big red flags that what he was trying to source was the typical lazy journalism commonplace in video game journalism. [/QUOTE]
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