…for making me indulge in a grand retrospective. Click for gigantor version:
I saw his beautiful chart and had to make my own, which is both uglier and better. It was fun to think about all the weird stuff I played, and the big sad gap that represents higher education and life on the North American frontier.
One thing that’s interesting is that you can watch whole genres slide into suckage – first fantasy, then science fiction, then modern stuff. As it loses its shine, I switch to new systems, which are invariably less awesome.
Thank John Harper…
Love it! I may have to steal your format for my 2003+ chart.
Apparently, Baby Wars was the most awesome game you played. I find this unlikely yet cool.
I am guessing you never played Baby Wars.
I struggled a little with “More Awesome/Less Awesome”, but tried to stick closely to what the experience of play was like at the time. TFT and Wizard are now much more awesome, but at the time I was a little too young to really get them fully.
I’m “surprised” by two things:
1. That James Bond ranks so low on the fun scale. Most people I know speak about that game only in superlatives. Never played it myself.
2. That you played so much GURPS and had so much fun with it. I didn’t know that.
Yeah, GURPS delivered for years and years. James Bond is a tiny ball because I only played it a small amount, and it was never fun.