Top 128: 6/16 - Bracket Gold & Silver

[This Old Neon]

Welcome to the "BEST GAME EVER!!!" Project Top 128 Brackets!

You can vote for 1-4 games in this bracket. Vote carefully—you can't change your votes after submitting them. The top 4 games at the end of the week will advance to the Top 64.

6 - Pokémon [Gold/Silver] Version - 1999 - GBC
27 - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - 2011 - Multiplatform
38 - Excitebike - 1984 - NES
59 - Wario Land 3 - 2000 - GBC
70 - Robotron: 2084 - 1982 - Arcade
91 - Opoona - 2007 - Wii
102 - Mega Man 2 - 1988 - NES
123 - R-Type - 1987 - Arcade/TG16

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

[VictorViper]

I could easily use all four votes here, but this bracket contains the one game to rule them all. Robotron 2084 is the BGE. Full stop.

[Sharecrow]

I could easily use all four votes here, but this bracket contains the one game to rule them all. R-Type is the BGE. Full stop.

There, I fixed that for you.

[Kong Wen]

If only I could vote for 5 games here.

Skyrim - great, huge open-world, nearly perfect fantasy sandbox
Opoona - charming, original RPG with lots of character (original RPGs are hard to come by)
R-Type - seminal shooter
Robotron - incredibly gameplay-innovative
Mega Man 2 - perfect action-platformer, peak of the series, great music

One or more will have to go, depending on how high I raise the bar for myself.

[VictorViper]

I could easily use all four votes here, but this bracket contains the one game to rule them all. R-Type is the BGE. Full stop.

There, I fixed that for you.

You know I adore R-Type but there are scant few games I'd be willing to boost against Robotron. Best. Game. Ever.

[SkyPikachu]

Pokémon Gold/Silver
My first Pokémon experience. I love the series and this will always have a special place in my heart.

[Humphries90]

Pokemon Silver is still the best Pokemon game.

Skyrim. My third favourite Elder Scrolls game, but still magnificent in its own right.

Would have liked to give a sympathy vote for Opoona. It was a cute little gem on the Wii. Sadly I didn't complete it, I must have got distracted by something else. Would like to go back and give it a proper go one day. Considering I only played a little bit of it, I often think about it randomly. Must be the name.

[Kong Wen]

If only I could vote for 5 games here.

Skyrim - great, huge open-world, nearly perfect fantasy sandbox
Opoona - charming, original RPG with lots of character (original RPGs are hard to come by)
R-Type - seminal shooter
Robotron - incredibly gameplay-innovative
Mega Man 2 - perfect action-platformer, peak of the series, great music

One or more will have to go, depending on how high I raise the bar for myself.

Alright, I pulled the trigger. I had to cut Opoona from the team, merely because, like Humphries, I haven't given it enough attention/time. That's something I really ought to remedy sooner rather than later.

[Niahak]

Alright, I pulled the trigger. I had to cut Opoona from the team, merely because, like Humphries, I haven't given it enough attention/time. That's something I really ought to remedy sooner rather than later.

Totally fair. I'm not sure it's really BGE material, and I'm happy it made it to 128 (even if that's just because I nominated a small number of games...). Plus, the competition here is pretty tough!

Re-reading the review I wrote back in the day, it seems I've more or less always felt this way, so it's not just nostalgia. I love how the game presents itself as a kid-oriented story and turns that on its head a few times... or suggests that kids can handle betrayals and some outright manipulation. It'd be nice to see more games try something completely out-there like Opoona did.

[evildevil97]

I would've given Skyrim a vote if it wasn't a buggy mess on the PS3. It bugged me out of the Companions questline, and for that, I will never forgive it!