#BGE2020 - Round 1 - Pool 151

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What is the best game?

Poll ended at 26 Apr 2020 00:59

Atelier Iris 3: Grand Phantasm (2006, PS2)
2
6%
Crimson Clover (2011, PC)
0
No votes
Death Knights of Krynn (1991, PC)
3
9%
Lemmings (1991, SNES)
3
9%
Onslaught (2009, Wii)
2
6%
Point Blank (1994, Arcade/PS1)
2
6%
Tetris 99 (2019, Switch)
17
50%
The Hunt for Red October (1990, GB)
2
6%
Ys Origin (2006, PC)
3
9%
Yukon Trail (1994, PC)
0
No votes
 
Total votes: 34

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#BGE2020 - Round 1 - Pool 151

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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! :neon:
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Death Knights of Krynn gets the automatic gold-box vote from me! Fucking amazing games.

Also voted for the capable Tetris 99, which mainly gets points for being Tetris. I would vote for TetriNET over this one if they were stacked up against each other, since that's where it stole most of the online stuff from.

Finally, cast one vote to Ys. I would have voted for one of the PC versions of Lemmings, but I never spent any time with the SNES one.
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For some reason I always thought Lemmings was a playstation franchise, which I now realize makes no sense.
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The Shoemaker wrote: 19 Apr 2020 23:46 For some reason I always thought Lemmings was a playstation franchise, which I now realize makes no sense.
It actually does make sense, in a way! Psygnosis was acquired by Sony in 1993 and started working on the original PlayStation with/for them. Obviously, before that, there was no PlayStation, so either way.
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Kong Wen wrote: 20 Apr 2020 00:16
The Shoemaker wrote: 19 Apr 2020 23:46 For some reason I always thought Lemmings was a playstation franchise, which I now realize makes no sense.
It actually does make sense, in a way! Psygnosis was acquired by Sony in 1993 and started working on the original PlayStation with/for them. Obviously, before that, there was no PlayStation, so either way.
Interesting! That would add up then.
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Is this a very niche round (only heard of lemmings, Ys origin and Tetris 99)

Surprised by Tetris 99 doing so well as a "freemium" game
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SkyPikachu wrote: 21 Apr 2020 08:08 Surprised by Tetris 99 doing so well as a "freemium" game
It's a Tetris game.
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Kong Wen wrote: 21 Apr 2020 13:27
SkyPikachu wrote: 21 Apr 2020 08:08 Surprised by Tetris 99 doing so well as a "freemium" game
It's a Tetris game.
I guess everything else has 3 or less votes while Tetris has 17 so just the huge gap is what's shocking me.
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