Week in Gaming: The more you hate Game Of The Year lists, the stronger they become

By Kate Gray

Old man 2015 is stumbling to a close, and you can almost taste the broken New Year’s Resolutions already. But the end of a year doesn’t just mean Christmas, frantic shopping and miserable weather – it’s also Game Of The Year time, the most magical time of all, when everyone gathers around a keyboard to share in the hatred and vitriolic responses to a bunch of people talking about things they like. It’s wonderful.

But I’m not here to ramble on about why getting angry at lists is stupid – I’ve already done that. So I’ll ramble instead about why lists are great instead.

An entire website has been founded on the list feature, and it’s hardly surprising that people still visit Buzzfeed like it’s some kind of daily pilgrimage to find out Which Harry Potter Character’s Bum Is Most Like Yours and Are You A Horse?

We like quizzes and lists. They organise everything into a neat, easily digested little packet of word-nuggets. We like making them, too, because, yes, it’s sometimes less work as it means you don’t have to stitch all the little disparate paragraphs together, and it’s also pretty fun to rank things you like.

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Source:: techradar.com – Gaming