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Round 1: P is for Picking your favourite games!

You can vote for 0-9 games in this poll. Pick as many or as few as you like, but vote carefully—you can't change your votes after submitting them. The #1 ranked game at the end of the week will move on to Round 2.

1982 - Donkey Kong Jr. - Arcade/A2600
1987 - After Burner II - Arcade
1993 - Syndicate - PC
1994 - Monster World IV - Genesis/MD
1995 - Earthworm Jim 2 - Genesis/MD
1996 - Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire - N64
1997 - Einhänder - PS1
2011 - The Stanley Parable - PC
2012 - Natural Selection 2 - PC
2012 - Super Hexagon - PC

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

Argh, I thought I had picked up a copy of The Stanley Parable on sale, so I was all ready to try it out this week, but lo and behold, it's still sitting there on the wishlist with a $17 grin on its face. Alas.

If I can't vote for that, it'll have to be between Super Hexagon (which is a rare "perfect game"—a union of bare-bones design that does just as much as it needs to do without getting in the way and a catchy gameplay concept) and Einhander.

Kong Wen wrote:Argh, I thought I had picked up a copy of The Stanley Parable on sale, so I was all ready to try it out this week, but lo and behold, it's still sitting there on the wishlist with a $17 grin on its face. Alas.

Cmon man, it was in a Humble Bundle a few weeks ago!

Spore wrote:

Kong Wen wrote:Argh, I thought I had picked up a copy of The Stanley Parable on sale, so I was all ready to try it out this week, but lo and behold, it's still sitting there on the wishlist with a $17 grin on its face. Alas.

Cmon man, it was in a Humble Bundle a few weeks ago!

I don't watch closely enough! I trust my TONe peeps to post when there are good bundles out there!

EDIT: Actually, I think I was the TONe peep who posted about that bundle, and then the deal was finished by the time I had gone home to buy it.

I voted for Star Wars. I don't think it's the best game ever, but for the time it blew my mind. Hard as balls though.

OK, not being able to vote for anything else in good conscience, I settled on Super Hexagon, which is a great and deserving game. I had the idea of setting up a couple monitors with this and Pinball Arcade on them and having a pseudo-arcade night sometime this fall.

Having gona back to Einhänder recently, I was disappointed to find it didn't hold up as well as expected. After Burner, meanwhile, is coming up on its 30th anniversary and is every bit as exciting and enjoyable as it ever was. Tough bracket for me in general, but only one BGE contender here for my tastes.

Holy shit I can go on and on about Super Hexagon. It hits so many perfect levels of attention, reaction, and execution. The style is really good too. It's a pretty take-no-prisoners style.

It goes just fast enough that you can't take it all in, it mixes up the setpieces at different difficulties very well, it's got the least amount of wait between runs ever, it's got totally fair gameplay, it's got gameplay that makes you not just pass each setpiece, but pass it well, because squeaking through one is just going to make the next harder.

Playing the hardest difficulty for me is to enter a trance-like state.

I fucking love super hexagon.

Forscyvus wrote:Holy shit I can go on and on about Super Hexagon. It hits so many perfect levels of attention, reaction, and execution. The style is really good too. It's a pretty take-no-prisoners style.

It goes just fast enough that you can't take it all in, it mixes up the setpieces at different difficulties very well, it's got the least amount of wait between runs ever, it's got totally fair gameplay, it's got gameplay that makes you not just pass each setpiece, but pass it well, because squeaking through one is just going to make the next harder.

Playing the hardest difficulty for me is to enter a trance-like state.

I fucking love super hexagon.

Yep, it's one of those exceptionally rare games with absolutely no fat. I am awful at it, but I appreciate it as a masterpiece of design and implementation. As far as I know, it's an original idea, too (I could be wrong).

Tight poll in this group! I'm very surprised to see Syndicate barely ahead of the pack, despite having a tremendously good time gaussing parades and cavalcades with my friend.