MISAO SOUP 2015

I just finished voting, so where the hell's my free cookie, you cheap ba*tards? :P

Also, what the hell, why is Red Syndrome the only nomination for “Most Puzzling Game” this year? Surely there has to be a lot more choices to choose from than just that. Jesus…

author=InfectionFiles
I also don't understand how the "Horror" games nomination has only one actual Horror game that is also a puzzle game lol

April is a Fool and Virtual Grappi are the best horror? Lmao, right.
I get Grappi, I guess? but it's definitely more trippy/weird than actual horror. Is there a surreal nomination?
Or do people just vote games into every single category?

Uh it doesn't say "Best Horror" it says "Most Horrific," DUH. They don't have to be any good!

ETA:

author=Liberty
Because some eager beavers jumped in before there was a fully realised list. Yeah, we were gonna add some more promising stuff but nope, eager little beavers decided to leap into the voting before it officially began.

Wait, how did said beavers get the ability to vote before y'all were ready?

author=Sooz

author=Liberty
Because some eager beavers jumped in before there was a fully realised list. Yeah, we were gonna add some more promising stuff but nope, eager little beavers decided to leap into the voting before it officially began.

Wait, how did said beavers get the ability to vote before y'all were ready?

I'm gonna assume that kentona left the gate open to the wood yard when he was checking the wood supply. It only takes a second for hungry little beavers to run on in and gobble the wood all up.

(Seriously, you guys find stuff very fast that you were never meant to find - like the time we pre-loaded the stuff for RPG Maker 2003 re-release and suddenly there was a topic about it asking what was up with the new icons. Quick off the mark, you bunch.
Nessy and I's conversation went legit like this:
"We'll preload it and they won't even know."
"Nessy, they're gonna know."
"No, they won't realise."
"Okay, sure. But they'll find it. We've some sharp people here."
"It'll be fine. They won't realise."
"Okay then."
:a few hours pass:
"Nessy... they found it."
"What?"
"There's a topic about the icons already."
"HOW THE FUCK DID THEY SEE IT SO QUICKLY!"
"Welp."
:Nessy pulling her hair out and making frustrated noises and swearing her ass off:
:Me laughing:
:kentona popping into the thread all confused because we forgot to tell him about it:)

I mean, the page does say "At midnight on 12/31 all the nominations are tallied up, etc etc". And you know there's going to be a few people sitting there with an itchy trigger finger.

author=SgtMettool
I mean, the page does say "At midnight on 12/31 all the nominations are tallied up, etc etc". And you know there's going to be a few people sitting there with an itchy trigger finger.

Which would have been fine but I don't think we can see the nominations before that point, so when kentona saw that there was one freaking puzzle game nominated... and that a few of the nomination categories were a bit sparse... well... we tried.

Well, this year we did have Ib and Witch's House added to the site, so they actually qualified for the Misaos. XD

You know what? I'm gonna post my list here because some of the games deserve at least to be checked out (in addition to the ones on the official list).

author=Liberty
Well, this year we did have Ib and Witch's House added to the site, so they actually qualified for the Misaos. XD

Ib and Witch's House added in 2015? But I just checked both games, and both were uploaded in 2014 with no new uploads in 2015, so they don't qualify for 2015 Misaos...

author=Liberty
Damn. Last year really, really flew by, didn't it?

Yes, yes it did

Well, I mostly played older games this year (and weaker newer ones, I guess) so I can't comment much on the nominees. Well, except that...

a) Hope Final Fantasy one isn't the eventual winner, because that's far too boring an outcome.

b) Best Level/Dungeon/Puzzle Design is at least one category too many, as evidenced by Red Syndrome currently being on top. That was the last RMN game I played, and it had very good whole dungeon design due to the unique "Syndrome is spreading" element, and needing to push it back, and the key/barrier element wasn't bad, either (though Iron Gaia: Virus did that one much better back in the day.)

However, the level design (as in, the levels you're going through) was extremely artificial, always feeling like a game arena and not part of a station people actually lived and worked on. I think it might be a good idea to separate it into "Best Level Design" and "Most Functional Level/Puzzle Design", or something.

c) Given that horror games appear notably underplayed/undernominated this year, what if we schedule an annual event at and around Halloween to shine the light on all the currently released, Misao-eligible horror-themed games? This might include a list on the main page, pumpkin review events and all the other good stuff. As a side effect, it might also encourage people to a) make more of them, b) put more effort into them, and not just make "abandoned mansion running slow-walking simulators" that appear to make up the absolute majority so far.