VIDEO GAME CRITIC WAGER 2020

So I noticed you people like pretend betting on very superficial things like sports and movies. So why not apply the same to the next best superficial thing? Video games. Similar to fantasy football, someone devised a most foul creation: Fantasy Critic. It's basically Fantasy Football but with Video Games!!, instead of player performance we deal in Opencritic (Simular to metacritic basically) average review scores. Obviously the most important objective thing when determining a game's quality.

How it works:

This page explains it better than I can, so we pick games we think we'll do well throughout the year (and ones that might not do well). It's not necessarily about game quality or sales, but how well we think they'll pander to reviewers (websites and magazines). Which is interesting to speculate on as the games aren't out yet and there are several factors to predict. There are some pitfalls to watch out for, if a game isn't even released this year (delayed into the next year) that will count as a zero. There are ways to drop a game before it releases, but there are restrictions on such a thing. If you're feeling risky you can also counter pick someone's existing pick. Other things to note is that I've set rereleases, yearly sports games, remasters (non-remakes), etc. will not be included. The list will likely focus on new mainstream releases. Some of the rules might be hard to keep in mind, but we'll figure it out together. The main thing is to just have fun.

How to partipate:

1. Sign up for an account (Prefably make your display the same as your forum user)
2. Ask me to invite you to join this league (Post your display name and # here)
3. Create a publisher name (Basically the pretend banner your putting your games under, a fictional brand)
4. Wait for others to join up, draft order will depend on who joined first
5. We then take turns drafting, we'll probably do it passively much like a forum game than in real-time (each person will get 8 games to start)
6. Sit on our asses and wait for the games to come out and occasionally pick more up as the year goes on.

This is all done inside the system so nothing has to be organized here other than who's joining (post your display name+#). The soft deadline date for drafting will be January 1st, I can extend it depending on how the interest goes. It's mainly so we get a clean 2020 start.

Entrants---
1. Darken
2. Shinan
3. AtiyaTheSeeker
4. lordbluerouge
5. kory_toombs

THE RMN LEAGUE

Click top right, then click manage account. Or go here to find the 4 digit number.

You'll probably get Cyberpunk since you're likely second and it's not my first pick.

I think they need at least 4 reviews to count? And the lower scoring will have more leverage so... idk indies are a risk especially direct sequels (more of the same/too different). I also I think they can get just as much coverage at times too.

Might be worth nagging people on the discord to join? Should stress the only real commitment is the start of January. The rest of the year no input is needed, though it should be fun to discuss/anticipate.

Alright I'm just gonna start the drafting process. Basically your turn to draft comes after someone is done picking. Keep checking on the site to see if it's your turn as it'll loop around until everyone has a bunch of games lined up. It'll notify you via sound without even refreshing if you have the tab open I think.

Gonna go with Last of Us Part 2 for my first pick. I'm not a Naughty Dog fan but that developer is just adored by critics to the point of being oscar bait without even being a movie.

In memory serves right, you select a game, then at the bottom of the prompt is to actually draft it. When you search it you're merely making it available to select, then draft.

It does actually have a system in place for such a thing:

A snake draft means that the person who goes last in a round of drafting, goes first in the next round. So with 4 teams the first 9 games would go Team A, B, C, D, D, C, B, A, A.

So when I said loop I probably should have said ping pong back and forth.