Scientifically calculating the game of the year | Unraveled, Ep. 6
Scientifically calculating the game of the year | Unraveled, Ep. 6
Wouldn’t it be nice if we no longer had to argue about which game deserves the GOTY crown? Good thing Brian David Gilbert has unraveled a statistical formula to scientifically calculate the best game of 2018.
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So…. Super Mario bros 3 GOTY again?
Confusion will be my epitaph
Super Mario Bros 2*
since your BCE equation uses the google searches as a factor. games that came out over the past 2 weeks won’t have as many results as games that came out in January of 2018. so you should multiply the searches by the reciprocal of how many days the game has been out. since smash came out 23 days ago, the reciprocal would be 1/23. so then multiply 1/23 to the searches and then divide your answer by the negative results times the reciprocal of the games times the funko pops
+Sleuth Bear you’re right, but it would be still more accurate. maybe you could just use search results that were created within a month of the games release and just divide those results by 30. if you see a problem with that tell me and i can try to fix the formula
Do Amiibos count as funko pops
+Bazooka Eliminator That is better but still favours the games that are hyped up on release, so are talked about for the first month or so, but then fades away. Whereas games that are culturally pervasive for a long time after release are disadvantaged, for example; games like Minecraft, that had a small following on release, but is now hugely pervasive. I don’t think that there is a proper answer, since how much a game affects someone is subjective anyway. Likely, not as many people searched about Celeste as Black Ops 4 for instance, yet the people who did search about Celeste likely, felt a much stronger impact from the game. In conclusion we are over analysing a joke. It isn’t supposed to make sense. If it did it wouldn’t be funny. 🙂 I respect your dedication to proper statistical analysis though!
+taro4012No, but an amiibo is about equal to half a Funko Pop
This series is so wholesome
11:48 you look like a fusion of Barb and Steve from Stranger Things
Wow, with that second formula Celeste got 1 QUADRILLION bdg’s! The science is finally accurate!
But BDG itself is defined in Celeste, it goes all around. Or is it BDG prime?
+ZeroUm With Brian’s work, we can mathematically conclude that 1 = 1 quadrillion. What a breakthrough!
This man is Polygon’s most valuable asset.
he is the only asset they have
Genuinely, I don’t like anything else they put out, and generally dislike the company—but their profit margins support BDG and so I’m here for it.
He is the Yahtzee of Polygon
Ever since the McElroys left, yeah.
Well, Pat and Simone
and Jeff
You should find, objectively, the best main for Smash Ultimate
souls-like being one of the negative descriptions is amazing. Eldritch, on the other hand, is just spiteful to all the Lovecraftian horrors in the audience. 8:12
Kafkaesque was definitely not a word I expected in this video.
11:32 IS THAT A “WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS” REFERENCE? HELL YEAH, BDG! Also, I love how at 1:12 when Brian asks if he looks like a fool to us, the top right of the screen pops up with “definitely a fool.” God I love these videos.
I think dark bidding is a more general phrase. But I do love wwdits
Me throughout the video: “Oh no, it sounds like Fortnite’s going to be number one. Oh god, it really looks like it.”
Me at the end of the video: “I’ve never been so upset to be right before.”
Dylan Norman fortnite didn’t come out in 2018
+Kai Martin Remember the formula collected games based on an 80% or higher rating, so it must’ve been some rating of Fortnite _somewhere_ on the internet that happened to be written in 2018, starting a chain reaction
If only he hadn’t left out the formula for if games are art….
OK, but why do I find this man so attractive?
GOTY= Gilbert of the year
12:04 *commits ritual suicide* 13:47 *is revived just to ascend again*
Idea: Make a map from all the choices you can make in all of the Mass Effect Games and how they affect each other including a listing of necessary sidequests/activities in Mass Effect 3 to get the “best” ending.
YES
I think Frames per Game makes sense to be in the numerator because you want this to be as high as possible, but Frames per Game per Gamer doesn’t make sense, because then the more # of Gamers you have the worse the score. Shouldn’t # of Gamers be in the numerator, not the denominator?
Agreed, that was my first instinct as well. # of Gamers would be higher in more influential games, it should be in the numerator. I also feel like one could develop a much more comprehensive graphics analysis, for example incorporating % of positive Metacritic reviews that mention key words like “graphics” or “visuals” and multiply that on as a coefficient. Something like that might help account for games that excelled in style and graphical achievement apart from frame rate alone.
I actually use something similar to DPM in real life when I’m determining whether something was worth it, especially when it comes to video games.
My first wage was about $10 an hour, and most games were about a full days worth of work. So if I had “fun” with Triple A game for at least 6-8 hours (Including if I replayed etc.), it at least met the minimum requirement for being “worth it”. If they were fun beyond that then it was a “bargain”. Been expanding it to other things I buy to at least feel “better” about slightly pricey purchases like better (but pricey) backpacks.
Tl;dr : If it wasn’t worth working minimum wage to get, it probably wasn’t worth it.
Money is evil and it turns people into monsters. See above comment.
Umm…. Minimum wage isn’t 10 an hour, bruh.
bdg the chest is looking good
Oh yes,
One of the best shows on YouTube. Not only is it very good but the show host’s hair looks just like mine.
9:45 This is all I think about during my undergrad research.
how did brian make me okay with watching a video in which fortnite was the scientifically chosen GOTY?