Draugoth
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Stray Is The Highest-Rated Game On Steam In 2022 Above God Of War
The power of the cat!
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Stray Surpassed God of War as The Highest-Rated Game On Steam In 2022
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YeulEmeralda
Linux User
Dog people seething.
Gamerguy84
Member
Well shit. This game was nowhere on my radar ever but I keep hearing all this good about it. I will pick this up soon ish
Stuart360
Member
There are a lot of cat lovers in the world it seems. I didnt like the game much to be honest. Too linear and basic. In fact there are loads of those types of games on PC from Indie and AA devs that dont get a look in. They dont star a cat as the main character though lol.
I even caved in and bought the game after pressure from Gaf. Thankfully i managed to find a very cheap key for it.
I even caved in and bought the game after pressure from Gaf. Thankfully i managed to find a very cheap key for it.
Magic Carpet
Gold Member
Power Wash! Wash away all the stress of the day!
Hendrick's
If only my penis was as big as my GamerScore!
ZoukGalaxy
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Stuart360
Member
Unlike console gamers, PC gamers dont look down on Indies and AA games. If a game is good and fun them its good and fun.
That list is actually amazing to see. Do a similar list on console and it will be all COD and Fifa.
Plus the list is to do with user ratings, its nothing to do with sales, or player numbers.
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Sleepwalker
Member
Excluding GOW, that list looks like a bunch of trash at first glance. (Not saying they are)
GigaBowser
The bear of bad news
This is why the industry has gone to hell
A point and click cat adventure that
Captain Toad
would like over GOW
names are for friends
Member
God of War is normie shit and while I haven't played Stray, running around an abandoned futuristic city as a cat and trying to figure out wtf is up seems like a lot more fun than a bad videogame, at least on a surface level.
//DEVIL//
Member
What is really sad is that gow was the highest rated game on steam. Some people have no taste lol. ( Not saying it's a bad game but to me it's an 8 at best if I am being nice ).
Also, wish Gow 3 was released on PC. That game destroys GOW in every department aside from the outdated graphics ( yet the art style in 3 is miles better than GOW)
And now a cat game is highest rated game ? Okay lol I am out.
Also, wish Gow 3 was released on PC. That game destroys GOW in every department aside from the outdated graphics ( yet the art style in 3 is miles better than GOW)
And now a cat game is highest rated game ? Okay lol I am out.
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N30RYU
Member
Stuart360
Member
Agree 100% about GOW3, it was in my top 10 best games of the 360/ps3 gen, maybe even top 5.
I also agree with your 8/10 for GOW reboot. Its a good solid game but nothing more, god knows how it gets the praise it does (well i'm sure we can guess why lol).
Plus the list is only for 2022, and a lot of PS gamers also game on PC so he he. I mean Powerwash Simulator is no.3, sometimes you have to take this Steam stuff with a grain of salt, i mean look at Garfield Kart (Steam/PC users will probably get what i mean lol).
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JimmyRustler
Member
Elden Ring not in that list? What?
Stuart360
Member
Its got very good user reviews ('very positive' i think last time i checked), but it had technical problems for some users, especially lower end users, and technical problems + Steam = outrage.
bender
What time is it?
Console gamers hate good and fun games.
SoloKingRobert
Banned
Stuart360
Member
Well no but you read this forum and a lot of them have no appreciation or respect for Indies and AA games. Not all of them obviously, but a lot dont. You will be hard pressed to find a PC only gamer that thinks the same.
bender
What time is it?
Vocal minority =/= "a lot". Generalizations are dumb. Any given platform has the same percentage of idiots just like you'd fine in any grouping of skin tubes. Don't converse with idiots.
Now back to the list. Spent some time with PowerWash Simulator and while I can understand the appeal, the simulation is poor as there are no fluid dynamic. If you were really going to power wash any object, you'd start from the top and work your way down. You'd also never clean a ground surface before cleaning the object(s) on that surface. Maybe the "Simulator" in this instance is more akin to Goat Simulator but as it sits, it's more like having a resizable magic eraser.
64gigabyteram
Reverse groomer.
it's this overwhelming obsession with AAA and sony that kills their respect for Indies. i don't doubt
SlimySnake
plays quite a lot of fun games but it's kind of hard to tell when almost all of his posts these days are complaining about how games aren't "next-gen" enough (which i can understand, but still...)
Captain Toad
Banned
All that list tells me is that Steam user ratings mean absolutely nothing. Half that list is complete nonsense games.
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Elder Legend
Banned
Clintizzle
Lord of Edge.
How the fuck is God of War rated above Wobble Dogs...
Jim Ryan hates me.
Jim Ryan hates me.
It's also got almost 400k reviews while nearly everything on that list doesn't get past 50k (most are way lower but gow blows it out).
What does #53 in top 250 tag mean? is there a proper top rated 250 list with different weighting on the review count?
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Aaron Olive
Member
So far, Stray has been my indie game of the year, wishing for continuation in a future project.
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tommib
Banned
All that list tells me is that PC gamers don’t give a shit about AAA standardised culture and just want to have a good time. God of war is the exception that confirms the rule.
Good on Stray. Game is adorable, elegant and we need more of that.
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Here is the full list. The weighting seems questionable at the lower review counts. Comparing that to steam top concurrent game counts makes for pretty amusing assumptions.
steam250.com
Top 250 best Steam Games
Helping you find good games on Steam: impartial games rankings compiled from Steam gamer reviews.
steam250.com
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SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
Eh. I have spent hundreds of hours playing indie games like FTL and Hades. I just dont think the current crop of indie games are good or even worth playing. I am sorry but Im not playing a cat simulator. Kena had cross gen graphics but PS2 quality gameplay. I treat them just like AAA games from Ubisoft, EA and Activision. If they dont have engaging gameplay they arent worth playing.it's this overwhelming obsession with AAA and sony that kills their respect for Indies. i don't doubt
I dont mind the Cupheads, Inside, and Into The Breach, but too many of the indie games feel like cheap shovelware devs make when they know they cant make a competent third person shooter. They settle for 2D graphics but then forget to include good 2D gameplay. I dont think any 2D indie game has ever beaten a retro 2D mario game in level design in 15-20 years of trying. 99.99% of them are simply not fun to play.
As for my current views of the industry, I havent played a decent game since HFW so yeah, I am not really having a lot of fun. the most fun i have had is recently when i went back to TLOU2 to compare the recent TLOU gameplay leak and found myself engaged in fantastic combat. So yeah, 1 game in 6 months shows the industry is in a pretty bad state. What have Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, EA, Activision, Ubisoft and Take2 released since HFW and Elden Rings in February? Nothing. It's been a whole lot of nothing for a good 6 months, and I am not about to settle for cat simulators.
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64gigabyteram
Reverse groomer.
That's not as much of an insult as you might think- PS2 had masterpiece after masterpiece for its entire generation while with PS5 i don't really see much i want to play. There's Returnal which will be getting a PC version soon thank god, and that's about it. The massive amount of hype i had for GT7 slowly died off when Sony bungled it the way they did (genuinely went through the 5 stages of grief over the microtransactions, i'm not even actually joking), never gave a shit about GOW after the reboot, don't care about Miles Morales (which is on PS4 anyways), Horizon looks generic, so on so forth. It's just pure apathy on my side. If more games had PS2 quality gameplay, stories, music, and dare i say visuals (because it's more interesting to look at a game with an art direction besides just immense detail and realistic lighting) i think the industry would be in a better place
Javthusiast
Banned
Omnipunctual Godot
Gold Member
Honestly, I'm a couple of hours in and it's been pretty boring. It's hard to describe, but everything feels very "on rails."
3liteDragon
Member
MidGenRefresh
*Refreshes biennially
Remember people, it's a nonsense game not worth your time if it doesn't fit the template:
Third person perspective Cover shooting Slow walking sections CLIMBING Loads of cutscenes Bombastic set pieces that are nothing more than a glorify QTE sections with illusion of player's control
bender
What time is it?
Remember people, it's a nonsense game not worth your time if it doesn't fit the template:
Stray just needed to add cover to its' shooting.
MidGenRefresh
*Refreshes biennially
Stray just needed to add cover to its' shooting.
He said half the list. I'm sure the didn't mean Stray as it's his avatar. Stray is THE REAL™ game.
bender
What time is it?
True. I'm a bit confused by that. We've got:
1. Cat game.
2. Angry game.
3. German game.
4. Physics game.
5. Single player Carcassonne game?
6. Mirror's Edge meets Anime but not Anime game.
7. Dunking on Jonathan Blow game.
8. I'm just going to assume this is what happens if Genital Jousting, Will Wright's Spore and the Human Society had a baby.
9. Outerspace Craft 'em up.
10. Craft 'em up in the ocean.
I'd never heard of 5, 8 or 9. I'll check out 5 though. Looks neat.
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Fess
Member
It’s actually extremely useful since you can filter it however you want, remove any reviews from someone who has only played a few hours and you can sort for recent reviews to see if an update has broken/improved something etc.
Metacritic user scores are trash in comparison since anyone can go in and post a 10 or 1 without even having touched the game.
And critics review have issues too, critics are rating versions that barely even day 1 buyers get to see since games are always updated, and critics never return to update their reviews.
Result: A bad pre-launch review version will forever hurt a game even if it turns into the best game ever a day after launch.
And a great pre-launch version will forever help a game even if it turns into a devilish monetizing trap a day after launch.
Whitecrow
Banned
Your definition of videogame is outdated.
Consoles and PCs are a medium of entertainment and expression.
The days of having only games with characters running and jumping or slashing bushes with swords are long gone.
Also, you dont need to understand the appeal of something that doesn't appeal to you, just understand that each person have different needs and tastes. We are all different.