| To start, thanks for taking the quiz! That said, insert long response here 'cause I was really coming into the position that I put together a "pretty good" quiz, but noticed it didn't have anything totally outrageous on it...
My first thought -- in terms of inspiration, I've done all of amaranth's music quizzes, and they were what originally got me into making some of my own. That said, I started making them about a year ago, and I design them all similarly. I looked at your stats, though, and you've only done one of my other quizzes, so it couldn't be that they share quite a few songs (which I noted myself unfortunately, but read the following)...
My second thought -- the way I compiled / put together this particular quiz, was scoping around and browsing lots and lots (AND LOTS) of Top Ten Game Lists, console specific, genre specific, official postings, popular fan postings, etc... and used the most common half dozen from each or so, and tried to make sure I had more than enough of a variety in the mix so it wasn't like too incredibly overloaded with one genre or one console... so with that in mind, it's quite possible that they all sound so familiar 'cause they are all (save for maybe a few) very popular games, that appeared constantly throughout "top ten favorite" lists, and these just as commonly appear in other people's quizzes, etc... it's hard to shake the most commonly picked games of each gen, after all, since they are generally amazing games and appear quite often in other quizzes.
My third thought -- I didn't want to make a ridiculously hard quiz, and I also didn't want to pull from anything I was unfamiliar with. My personal example: if you go through amaranth's quizzes (I through VI), you can see they get harder and harder. Or at least, they did for me. Reaching more and more games I had never played, drifting farther and farther away from familiar territory (my scores descend accordingly, I believe). I was hoping to avoid any like complete out of nowhere answers, so to speak, and primarily use co |