#BGE2020 - Round 1 - Pool 50

[This Old Neon]

Welcome to the first round of #BGE2020 pools!

Each game is randomly seeded into pools using the set generator at Random.org. There's no seeding, no ranking, and no preference or prioritization.

The results of the pools will determine how each game stacks up in the elimination rounds, coming later this year.

HOW TO VOTE

Voting is ranked, but it's not super intuitive, so listen up.

• You have 6 total votes to distribute.
• You can only select up to 3 options.
• You can only give each option up to 3 votes.
• NOTE: The number you pick is not the RANK of your choice (i.e. 1st, 2nd, 3rd), but the number of VOTES you're giving it.
• The more votes (bigger numbers) a game gets, the better for that game.

EXAMPLES

• You could pick three games and order them by giving them 3, 2, and 1 votes.
• If you like three games equally, you could give them 2, 2, and 2 votes.
• If you only like two games, you could give them 3 and 3 votes (or 3 and 2, etc.).

This gives you a lot of granularity for how you assign your votes and thereby a lot of influence over which games can do well. Use your power wisely!

If you have questions, ask before voting!

[Sharecrow]

I had to go with Life Force and Skies of Arcadia here. Life Force is a great Gradius spin-off and with two player co-op it’s oodles of fun. Plus it doesn’t send you back to checkpoints when you die like Gradius does. Don’t get me wrong - it’s still a hard game. But great nonetheless.

Skies of Arcadia is one of the best JRPGs I’ve ever played. It’s fun and engaging. Easy to beat but really hard to master.

[Kong Wen]

A point each for Earthworm Jim and Ecco the Dolphin, which each did some new stuff with the omnipresent platforming genre at the time.