Welcome to the #BGE2020 Elimination Round Lower Bracket!
Each game in the lower bracket is still seeded based on its performance in the two opening rounds of pools! Every game in the lower bracket has already been defeated by another game in a 1-on-1 poll to get to this point. This is their chance to claw their way back into the main event... but the stakes are high. The games that lose in these polls are out of the tournament for good! The games that survive will face the next crop of upper bracket losers in the next round.
Polls are updated weekly, typically on Saturday... or Sunday or Monday. Check back throughout the week to make sure you don't miss a vote!
HOW TO VOTE
This is easy. You only get one vote per poll. The game with the most votes wins. In the event of a tie, the higher seed advances, so don't get complacent!
Years ago - must have been 1999 or so - I had signed up to be a beta tester for Diablo II while at college. They didn't actually contact me until after the school year had ended, though, and I was back on dial-up, AOL, I think. Specifically, I was testing Diablo II online on Battle.net, and I have to say that was one of the longest dial-up downloads I think I've ever had - took > 24 hours w/o question.
Which has nothing to do with why I'm voting for it here, but I thought it was a fun anecdote.
This was an easy decision for me because it's Cave Story+ - I think the original 2004 release was much more groundbreaking, and reading over the added features I don't think any of them really added much (until the Switch version which includes 2-player co-op).
Against Diablo II, a Cave Story port doesn't really stand a chance. I've gotten sucked back into it several times, and I likely will continue to be. Offline or online, it's an addictive, fast-paced game that really hasn't been surpassed IMO.
