/jp/ - Otaku Culture

There's a new update at vndb. It now features a bayesian rating system (simply put, it makes sure games with only 3 '10' votes don't suddenly become the highest rated, but instead the score is lowered towards average because of the lack of votes), and it is finally possible again to sort games by rating.

The 50 highest rated games currently on vndb:
1 Umineko no Naku Koro ni 9.26 (248)
2 Ever17 -the out of infinity- 9.20 (411)
3 Fate/stay night 9.03 (542)
4 Clannad 8.96 (291)
5 Sharin no Kuni, Himawari no Shoujo 8.89 (85)
6 Tsukihime 8.86 (465)
7 Little Busters! 8.59 (78)
8 Gyakuten Saiban 3 8.55 (105)
9 G-senjou no Maou 8.54 (53)
10 Saya no Uta 8.53 (391)
11 Sengoku Rance 8.45 (95)
12 Cross†Channel 8.44 (146)
13 Gyakuten Saiban 8.40 (143)
14 Higurashi no Naku Koro ni 8.40 (73)
15 True Remembrance 8.39 (201)
16 Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru 8.37 (20)
17 Planetarian ~Chiisana Hoshi no Yume~ 8.36 (291)
18 Baldr Sky: Dive 1 “Lost Memory” 8.35 (19)
19 ef - the latter tale. 8.27 (24)
20 Yume Miru Kusuri 8.25 (367)
21 Eve: Burst Error 8.23 (30)
22 11eyes ~Tsumi to Batsu to Aganai no Shoujo~ 8.21 (45)
23 Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai 8.19 (19)
24 Fate/hollow ataraxia 8.15 (45)
25 Kira☆Kira 8.14 (124)

Since Knox is in effect we should be able to make some better theories. etc

1. The criminal must be someone mentioned in the early part of the story, but must not be anyone whose thoughts the reader has been allowed to follow.
2. All supernaural or preternatural agencies are ruled out as a matter of course.
3. Not more than one secret room or passage is allowable.
4. No hitherto undiscovered poisons may be used, nor any appliance which will need a long scientific explanation at the end.
5. No Chinaman must figure in the story.
6. No accident must ever help the detective, nor must he ever have an unaccountable intuition which proves to be right.
7. The detective must not himself commit the crime.
8. The detective must not light on any clues which are not instantly produced for the inspection of the reader.
9. The stupid friend of the detective, the Watson, must not conceal any thoughts which pass through his mind; his intelligence must be slightly, but very slightly, below that of the average reader.
10. Twin brothers, and doubles generally, must not appear unless we have been duly prepared for them.

I hope so.

Simply fabulous.

>Dante, Warlock of Contradictions
hurr