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Welcome to the first round of #BGE2020 pools!

Each game is randomly seeded into pools using the set generator at Random.org. There's no seeding, no ranking, and no preference or prioritization.

The results of the pools will determine how each game stacks up in the elimination rounds, coming later this year.

HOW TO VOTE

Voting is ranked, but it's not super intuitive, so listen up.

• You have 6 total votes to distribute.
• You can only select up to 3 options.
• You can only give each option up to 3 votes.
• NOTE: The number you pick is not the RANK of your choice (i.e. 1st, 2nd, 3rd), but the number of VOTES you're giving it.
• The more votes (bigger numbers) a game gets, the better for that game.

EXAMPLES

• You could pick three games and order them by giving them 3, 2, and 1 votes.
• If you like three games equally, you could give them 2, 2, and 2 votes.
• If you only like two games, you could give them 3 and 3 votes (or 3 and 2, etc.).

This gives you a lot of granularity for how you assign your votes and thereby a lot of influence over which games can do well. Use your power wisely!

If you have questions, ask before voting!

Populous and Ultima IV for me. Ultima deserves lots of credit for being outstanding old school RPGs. And IV is one of the better ones... Populous is fun to play but terribly hard to master IMO. Later levels get tough but it’s a good robust challenge not a cruel one.

I only voted for Ultima here (max votes). IV was one of my fave early RPGs. It's got interesting design, before video game RPGs were really flattened into the kind of standard forms they show up in nowadays.

I didn't get that far in the King's Quest series, so I can't vote for VII, and I'm not a big fan of the arcade Wonder Boys.