Qualifying Poll 9/10: Seven Seas

[This Old Neon]

You can vote for 1-3 games in this poll. Vote carefully—you can't change your votes after submitting them. The top 3 games at the end of the week will earn a spot in the Top 128.

1989 - Sword of the Samurai - PC
1989 - SimCity - AST/PC
1990 - Mega Man 3 - NES
1994 - Marathon - PC
1997 - GoldenEye 007 - N64
2008 - Mega Man 9 - Multiplatform
2011 - Rayman Origins - Multiplatform
2014 - Ultra Street Fighter IV - Multiplatform

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

[Humphries90]

Got to go with the multiplayer classic, Goldeneye. So many good memories with my friends and family playing that game. The single player was great too.

[evildevil97]

Mega Man 9 vs 3.... I'd actually go with the revival. MM3 is the second best NES MM game (next to 2), but MM9 refined so much. And gave us a damn woman.

[Kong Wen]

I agree that Mega Man 9 is better than Mega Man 3. Neither is as good as Mega Man 2. I'm not a big fan of this bracket overall. I think Ultra Street Fighter IV absolutely deserves a vote as the current pinnacle of the entire fighting game genre. Sword of the Samurai is cool, but I don't have enough experience with it to cast a vote. SimCity is a good and important game, but I don't personally enjoy it enough to give it a soft vote in this round. And that's that for this bracket for me.

[Sharecrow]

I agree that Mega Man 9 is better than Mega Man 3. Neither is as good as Mega Man 2. I'm not a big fan of this bracket overall. I think Ultra Street Fighter IV absolutely deserves a vote as the current pinnacle of the entire fighting game genre. Sword of the Samurai is cool, but I don't have enough experience with it to cast a vote. SimCity is a good and important game, but I don't personally enjoy it enough to give it a soft vote in this round. And that's that for this bracket for me.

I voted for Mega Man 3 and 9. Wanted to say, though, that I'm one of the few that feels like these are both better than 2 though, for someone who has mixed feelings about Mega Man in general, take that with a grain of salt. Mega Man 3 had some neat new perks, including sliding and Rush, and I just loved the boss rush at the end that even brought in the prequel's bosses.

Edit: Also Proto Man and generally better bosses IMO. Mega Man 9 is better still just from being such a matured entry to the series and so polished and awesome. I started playing it again recently just due to seeing it in polls over and over and voting for it. I missed it and wanted more

Edit 2: Mega Man 2 did have better music but that's the only real superiority I see in it over 3. Not enough to change my overall conclusion as 3 had pretty good music too.

[Kong Wen]

I agree that Mega Man 9 is better than Mega Man 3. Neither is as good as Mega Man 2. I'm not a big fan of this bracket overall. I think Ultra Street Fighter IV absolutely deserves a vote as the current pinnacle of the entire fighting game genre. Sword of the Samurai is cool, but I don't have enough experience with it to cast a vote. SimCity is a good and important game, but I don't personally enjoy it enough to give it a soft vote in this round. And that's that for this bracket for me.

I voted for Mega Man 3 and 9. Wanted to say, though, that I'm one of the few that feels like these are both better than 2 though, for someone who has mixed feelings about Mega Man in general, take that with a grain of salt. Mega Man 3 had some neat new perks, including sliding and Rush, and I just loved the boss rush at the end that even brought in the prequel's bosses.

Edit: Also Proto Man and generally better bosses IMO. Mega Man 9 is better still just from being such a matured entry to the series and so polished and awesome. I started playing it again recently just due to seeing it in polls over and over and voting for it. I missed it and wanted more

Edit 2: Mega Man 2 did have better music but that's the only real superiority I see in it over 3. Not enough to change my overall conclusion as 3 had pretty good music too.

Sliding and Rush are a couple of the reasons I feel like Mega Man 2 was better than 3. One of my problems with the Mega Man series as a whole has been that the pure shooting & platforming gets diluted with more mechanics with each subsequent entry. The bosses are fine in 3, but I like MM2's bosses more overall. I also feel like the stage design is a LOT better in MM2 than 3. The one weakness I can point out in MM2 is the weird (unbalanced?) boss weapon/weakness cycle.

[Sharecrow]

I agree that Mega Man 9 is better than Mega Man 3. Neither is as good as Mega Man 2. I'm not a big fan of this bracket overall. I think Ultra Street Fighter IV absolutely deserves a vote as the current pinnacle of the entire fighting game genre. Sword of the Samurai is cool, but I don't have enough experience with it to cast a vote. SimCity is a good and important game, but I don't personally enjoy it enough to give it a soft vote in this round. And that's that for this bracket for me.

I voted for Mega Man 3 and 9. Wanted to say, though, that I'm one of the few that feels like these are both better than 2 though, for someone who has mixed feelings about Mega Man in general, take that with a grain of salt. Mega Man 3 had some neat new perks, including sliding and Rush, and I just loved the boss rush at the end that even brought in the prequel's bosses.

Edit: Also Proto Man and generally better bosses IMO. Mega Man 9 is better still just from being such a matured entry to the series and so polished and awesome. I started playing it again recently just due to seeing it in polls over and over and voting for it. I missed it and wanted more

Edit 2: Mega Man 2 did have better music but that's the only real superiority I see in it over 3. Not enough to change my overall conclusion as 3 had pretty good music too.

Sliding and Rush are a couple of the reasons I feel like Mega Man 2 was better than 3. One of my problems with the Mega Man series as a whole has been that the pure shooting & platforming gets diluted with more mechanics with each subsequent entry. The bosses are fine in 3, but I like MM2's bosses more overall. I also feel like the stage design is a LOT better in MM2 than 3. The one weakness I can point out in MM2 is the weird (unbalanced?) boss weapon/weakness cycle.

Arent the Mega Man 2 bosses all in 3 (albeit through a Dark Mazter or something who is mimicking them) after the main game but before Wily? If memory serves... If so I don't see how MM2 could have bosses as a strength unless you strongly prefer MM2 weapons. You get all of the bosses and more in MM3 the way I see it.

[Kong Wen]

Arent the Mega Man 2 bosses all in 3 (albeit through a Dark Mazter or something who is mimicking them) after the main game but before Wily? If memory serves... If so I don't see how MM2 could have bosses as a strength unless you strongly prefer MM2 weapons. You get all of the bosses and more in MM3 the way I see it.

Not in any meaningful sense. They don't look like them, they barely behave like them, and you don't get to use the same versions of their weapons.

[Claytone]

Voted for both Mega Man games and nothing else. I like Street Fighter, but not *that* much, and I stopped voting for games based on influence/importance several rounds ago.

[Kong Wen]

Mega Man 9, Rayman Origins, and Ultra Street Fighter IV will advance to the Top 128.