Round 1: R is for Round 1: R

[This Old Neon]

Round 1: R is for Round 1: R

You can vote for 0-9 games in this poll. Pick as many or as few as you like, but vote carefully—you can't change your votes after submitting them. The #1 ranked game at the end of the week will move on to Round 2.

1991 - Earnest Evans - SCD
1992 - Kirby's Dream Land - GB
1994 - Demon's Crest - SNES
1994 - Star Wars: TIE Fighter - PC
1994 - Earthworm Jim - Genesis/MD
2004 - Need for Speed: Underground 2 - PS2
2008 - Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon - DS
2009 - Killing Floor - PC
2009 - Zeno Clash - PC
2015 - Ori and the Blind Forest - PC/X1

You are encouraged to discuss your choices and your reasons for selecting the games you did.

[The Shoemaker]

FE shadow dragon isn't my favourite title in the series, but it's still a decent entry and gave regions outside of Japan a chance to try out the first game in the series. I'm just sad the 2nd DS remake didn't make it out of Japan.

The addition of online multiplayer and a prequel tutorial story was neat as well.

[Kong Wen]

Yet another game I'm going to have to blitz this week: Ori and the Blind Forest. I was lucky enough to snag it for an accidental discount but haven't given it a try yet. It has its work cut out for it if it's going to unseat TIE Fighter as my pick in this poll, though.

[Jordan]

If it were any other Fire Emblem than Shadow Dragon, I'd give it a nod. Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon is easily the most mediocre of the Fire Emblem titles.

[Sharecrow]

Abstaining - never played any of these.

[Humphries90]

Out of those I guess Shadow Dragon. Not my favourite in the series, but it's still a good game.

[VictorViper]

Unplayed and so not voting. Kirby got my attention for a few minutes, but was/is a trash game.

[Kong Wen]

Yet another game I'm going to have to blitz this week: Ori and the Blind Forest. I was lucky enough to snag it for an accidental discount but haven't given it a try yet. It has its work cut out for it if it's going to unseat TIE Fighter as my pick in this poll, though.

Alright, I took some time to devote some attention to Ori and the Blind Forest this morning, and it's definitely getting a vote from me. Much like how Guacamelee! has taken the exploration-platformer genre and refined its combat & control to perfection, I feel that Ori has done the same with the exploration side of that equation. The world and atmosphere are a perfect blend of beauty and sublime. It's still possible that it could screw this all up, but I like what I've seen so far.

I didn't play it long enough to vote for it exclusively, so I'm also voting for TIE Fighter. This is one of the best examples of space-sim cockpit/dogfight shooting games, a genre that has kind of disappeared.

[link64]

Demon's Crest is easily my favorite game out of this listing.

[Drauks]

I didn't play it long enough to vote for it exclusively, so I'm also voting for TIE Fighter. This is one of the best examples of space-sim cockpit/dogfight shooting games, a genre that has kind of disappeared.

I'm really glad you voted for it, but with the successful crowdfunding of Star Citizen alongside a few other titles that have come out over the past year or two and including a few standbys that just wouldn't die (most noticeably the X series) the genre is starting to make a reappearance. We're still in the fight!