Aestheticisms Posted June 16, 2019 Share Posted June 16, 2019 (edited) I. How does the realistic ceiling for each genre compare at the international level? (This question applies for competitive tournaments as well as world-record speedruns, where there may be clear gaps among even top-ranked players and several orders of magnitude in "domination" between subsequent tiers.) Lowest skill cap: https://www.strawpoll.me/18152626 Highest skill cap: https://www.strawpoll.me/18152623 Please do vote in both surveys above, so that we can examine each end of the spectrum. II. For reference - here are some arbitrary examples, based on my attempt at a rough classification: adventure & VN: Ace Attorney, Dear Esther, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Myst board: Backgammon, Catan, Chess, Diplomacy, Go, Othello, Scrabble, Risk, Shogi card: Baccarat, Blackjack, Bridge, Magic: The Gathering, Mahjong, Poker, Yu-Gi-Oh! fighting: Dead or Alive, Mortal Kombat, Super Smash Bros., Street Fighter, Tekken fight-person shooter: BioShock, Call of Duty, Counter-Strike, Doom, OverWatch, Quake logic & puzzle: Angry Birds, Bejeweled, Minesweeper, Portal, Sokoban, Sudoku, Tetris open-world: Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Grand Theft Auto, Legend of Zelda, Minecraft programming: AtCoder, Codeforces, Google Code Jam, Project Euler, SPOJ, TopCoder racing & sports: FIFA, Madden NFL, Mario Kart, Need for Speed, NBA, Wii Sports rhythm: Cytus, Dance Dance Revolution, osu!, O2Jam, Rock Band, StepMania, Taiko RPG: Diablo, Fallout, Final Fantasy, Persona, Pokémon, Runescape, World of Warcraft simulation: Europa, Microsoft Flight Simulator, Roller Coaster Tycoon, The Sims strategy: Age of Empires, Civilization, Dota, League of Legends, Red Alert, StarCraft third-person shooter: Fortnite, Gears of War, Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, Touhou III. Aggregate ranking methodology: I deliberately made two separate polls for statistical reasons (which are slightly subtle, as simply reversing the order in one won't necessarily match the other's results). Essentially, there is bound to be representation bias, since more popular genres that people are familiar with will tend to receive more superlative nominations. There is a way to control for the varying sample sizes, and I will reveal it with an updated ranking once more data is collected. Thanks! Edited June 16, 2019 by Aestheticisms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
