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Welcome to the second round of #BGE2020 pools!

Each game is randomly seeded into pools using the sequence 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... realistically in early 2021.

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!

Dragon's Trap is lovely. Gyruss is a great tube-shmup. Knytt deserves a little love. I find Conker incredibly overrated. Kind of a turd game that is largely buoyed in the collective nostalgic consciousness by the fact that it was a risqué humour game on a kid console.

I went all in for Dragon’s Trap even though I haven’t beaten it. It’s a solid game and lovely to look at.

Kong Wen wrote: ↑18 Oct 2020 23:02I find Conker incredibly overrated. Kind of a turd game that is largely buoyed in the collective nostalgic consciousness by the fact that it was a risqué humour game on a kid console.

I'm a huge N64 fan, but I have to say that Conker's Bad Fur Day is definitely overrated. The single-player story mode is awful. Even when I was a kid I thought the game was terribly unfunny. I have had fun with the multi-player modes over the years, but even then it is not in my personal top 10 multi-player games on the system.

Kong Wen wrote: ↑18 Oct 2020 23:02 Dragon's Trap is lovely. Gyruss is a great tube-shmup. Knytt deserves a little love. I find Conker incredibly overrated. Kind of a turd game that is largely buoyed in the collective nostalgic consciousness by the fact that it was a risqué humour game on a kid console.

Dragon's Trap is lovely, and Conker was *so* bad. You're absolutely right. I played it on Rare Replay and had an extremely mediocre time. Jokes didn't land either, which might've saved it. Dreadful.

Claytone wrote: ↑19 Oct 2020 23:17

Kong Wen wrote: ↑18 Oct 2020 23:02 Dragon's Trap is lovely. Gyruss is a great tube-shmup. Knytt deserves a little love. I find Conker incredibly overrated. Kind of a turd game that is largely buoyed in the collective nostalgic consciousness by the fact that it was a risqué humour game on a kid console.

Dragon's Trap is lovely, and Conker was *so* bad. You're absolutely right. I played it on Rare Replay and had an extremely mediocre time. Jokes didn't land either, which might've saved it. Dreadful.

They didn't land at the time as an adolescent either, so this isn't just a stuffy old dude who missed a cultural moment kind of thing.