Bottom 768 — Week 12 — Poll 12

[This Old Neon]

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!

[Niahak]

In a week with not a lot of games I care about, this is kind of a hard decision to make!

Ogre Battle 64 is a great game very much in the vein of FFT, and I found it better than the SNES Ogre Battle (which is already pretty good). And it also has the anti-trope (character recruitment spoiler)

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"strong dad who can join the party, but doesn't take over things"

which is always great. Alignment management was a pain though!

Scorched Earth was one of the best shareware games, and as an easily redistributable game was pretty popular among my friends (and fun enough on one's own, against computers, too).

I think I'd give a slight edge to Ogre Battle 64, but Scorched Earth deserves better than many games in this bracket IMO.

[Kong Wen]

In a week with a lot of games I care about, this is kind of a hard decision to make!

Ogre Battle 64 is a great game very much in the vein of FFT, and I found it better than the SNES Ogre Battle (which is already pretty good).

Scorched Earth was one of the best shareware games, and as an easily redistributable game was pretty popular among my friends (and fun enough on one's own, against computers, too).

I think I'd give a slight edge to Ogre Battle 64, but Scorched Earth deserves better than many games in this bracket IMO.

I feel the same pain, which is why I haven't even voted yet. Scorch is the definitive artillery shooter. Someone slapped Worms onto it and created a whole franchise, but Scorch is the OG (it may not be the first, but it was certainly the most influential).

OB64 is definitely all-around a better-executed game, more stuff, more beef, but Scorch is way more influential and impactful. I think only 64 people even ever played OB64...