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Whats a better measure for the quality of games, critics or sales?
Related: Sales charts for Germany, 1995 to 2001:
http://kultcds.com/Upload/Charts/

>> No.3523003

>Die Fugger 2
Wow rude

>> No.3523008

>Have a N.I.C.E Day
You too Germany :)

>> No.3523035

>>3522991
>Whats a better measure for the quality of games, critics or sales?
Critics, but the most objective measure IMO is how the games are remembered several years later after the release. But it's not perfect too.

If we judge everything by sales alone, the highest quality games there are FIFA and Madden. Even if you disregard sports, you will still wind up with a list of massively overhyped games.

>> No.3523071

>>3522991
Personal taste trumps all. Sales numbers and critics just indicate overall trends. They're only good for judging what's popular in aggregate.

>> No.3523151

Hugo 4 confirmed GOAT

>> No.3523248

>>3522991
Compared to burgerstanis, Germans have an actual culture in addtion to higher IQ.

You can trust them to have good taste in games.

>> No.3523257

>>3523248

Their tastes are just as generic as everywhere else in the world, 1st places are filled with sports games like FIFA and NHL.

>> No.3523260

>>3522991
How much fun you had playing the game

>> No.3523298

>>3523257
OP here. Have you looked at the charts over at the page? You rarely see a sports game in first place and when one is there, it doesn't stay for long. Games like Anno 1602, Starcraft and Settlers 2 (I see a bias for RTS here) stay for ages.

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>>3522991
>Sonic & Nuckles Collection
>Nuckles

honorable mention:
>Schleichfahrt
kek

>> No.3523732

OP here again.
>>3523248
Germans gravitated towards more comfty games, for 1996 and 1997 that would be Settlers 2, in 1998 it was Anno 1602 and in 1999 RCT. In 2000 was split between The Sims, Diablo 2 and Red Alert 2, so it seems at that time the scheme of comfty games was over, with a little fallback to Commandos 2 in 2001.