#BGE2020 - Round 1 - Pool 232

[This Old Neon]

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!

[Kong Wen]

I voted for GTA III here, the first good big open world 3D sandbox in the series. Nice city, too.

[Claytone]

Continuing to evaluate Xenoblade as I play it. It's certainly pretty good so far, but I can't give full votes til I've beaten it. Kirby: Planet Robobot was also the first Kirby game I really liked in years. I played it while I was waiting for just about all my belongings to arrive in Seattle right after college (they'd been shipped from my Atlanta apartment and parents' home in Chattanooga only a day or two before my flight). I think my first trip to the nearby Target involved me getting bathroom and hygiene necessities, a garbage can, plasticware, some microwaveable dinners, an air mattress... and Kirby. When I wasn't walking around the city to get my bearings, I spent my hours playing that and watching Netflix on my laptop in my empty, echoey apartment. Fond memories of the very beginning of my adult life.