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Re: Best FIRST Game EVER?
It will be very, very hard for a game to top 2013's Ultimate Ascent - the game had the perfect mix of difficult design constraints, strategic diversity, offensive protection, defensive strategy, and possibilities for iteration. There was basically no robot that year that truly mastered every single game task - you absolutely had to compromise on at least some portion of the game (and the less compromising you did, the more you risked sacrificing effectiveness in some aspect of the game). If we played the game again, we still wouldn't know what the "right" design was - nothing was unbeatable.
2012 and 2016 are, of the games I've played, those closest to 2013 in quality. 2012 was almost as good, but ultimately annoyances with ball variation and the coopertition bridge make it a smidge worse than 2013, plus there was a bit less diversity in design. The 2016 game is very, very good - perhaps time will tell that it is up there with 2013 among the best games ever. I'm very happy with it, but it remains to be seen just how much strategic depth it has.
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