Each game is seeded based on its performance in the two opening rounds of pools. Every game in the Upper Bracket has defeated multiple other games in 1-on-1 polls to get to this point. These are still the best of the best.
Polls are updated weekly, typically on 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!
This is a rough way to open the week. Two phenomenal narrative gems going head to head. Both of these games deserve to go deep, and either one of them should rip up the lower brackets upon arrival...
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I love both of these games, but Torment wins on the strength of its incredible cast of characters, all of whose stories are told in near-literary quality dialogue and prose, and on the utter uniqueness of its setting. Planescape is a weird campaign and Torment captures the breadth and scope of that weirdness in a way unlikely ever to be duplicated. Its genuine emphasis on INT, WIS and CHA as vital stats for uncovering the whole story, as well as its flexible alignment system that shifts with your behavior instead of being pre-selected, are welcome innovations, and Mark Morgan's haunting soundtrack is the icing on the cake. Most importantly, though, this game asks questions that transcend video games - "What can change the nature of a man?" - and offers no trite or easy answers to those questions, and sometimes offers no answers at all. For that, I'm not sure there's a game that could make me vote against it.
