What’s higher: leaderboards or mechs?

Together with your assist, I am on a mission to reply the largest query: what’s the best things in video games? With a wholly sensical face-off between two things each week, we’ll surely soon discover the absolute best thing.

Last week, you decided that dinosaurs are better than drifting. Honestly, I’m shocked. When we eventually decide the single best thing (which I imagine all video games from then on will be about, because why be less than the best?), we’d better hope it doesn’t involve driving because it won’t be nearly as fun without drifting. You make the decisions, we all have to live with the consequences. So think carefully as I now ask: what’s better, leaderboards or mechs?

Leaderboards

I’m not very competitive. I’m less competitive than you, that’s for damn certain. But sometimes… I will be consumed by a determination to utterly destroy a friend’s score or time. I see them above me on the leaderboard, and I want to topple them. I see them beneath me on the leaderboard, and I want to stamp them even further down. A simple list of numbers and numbers can drive me to play again and again, pushing myself to become better and climb higher.

From arcade video games by way of roguelikes, all types of run-based video games can really feel a lot extra satisfying with a leaderboard. Positive, they’re enjoyable in themselves, however the problem and rivalry of leaderboards elevate them. It is like seasoning meals. And if one thing could make something higher, may it not itself be the perfect factor?

Mechs

For millenia, people have gazed upwards on the evening sky and questioned: “What if I obtained to experience round inside a very huge steel me?” Positive the mech is wildly impractical as a weapon, however are we even human if we not want to kick buildings aside inside an enormous steel effigy of ourselves? And does the vulnerability of the mech, which some would name design flaws, not mirror our personal vulnerablity? The mech is an exterior ego, an idealised versi- ah look, I identical to the massive stomps and the massive weapons, okay.

Large mechs! Small mechs! Future mechs! Historic mechs! Fantasy mechs! Dieselpunk mechs! Meat mechs! Flying mechs! Lithe mechs! Mechs who’re your best possible mate! Mechs fused with the soul of your useless mom! I’m right here for all mechs. They’re versatile too, becoming into technique video games, sims, first-person shooters, platformers, visible novels, RPGs, and all the pieces between. Anyplace you’ve gotten an individual, could not you’ve gotten a mech? And would not it’s higher when you did?

Which is best?

Leaderboards and mechs may each be thought-about the salt of video video games, on this definitely-not-spurious comparability I’ve drawn. However reader pricey, I am afraid you possibly can solely maintain one in your gaming desk endlessly.

Which is able to it’s? Title your winner and make your case, and we’ll meet again subsequent week to see who gained.