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Round 2: Bracket 12/16 - TWELVE

You can vote for 1-2 games in this poll. Vote carefully—you can't change your votes after submitting them. The #1 and #2 ranked games at the end of the week will move on to Round 3.

1993 - [Maniac Mansion II:] Day of the Tentacle - PC
1995 - Porky Pig's Haunted Holiday - SNES
1999 - Pokémon Snap - N64
2003 - Crash Nitro Kart - GCN/PS1/XB
2003 - Spyro: Attack of the Rhynocs / Spyro Adventure - GBA
2004 - Star Wars: Battlefront - PS2
2008 - Ninjatown - DS
2013 - Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon - 3DS
2013 - Dota 2 - PC

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

Abstaining here too - have only played Pokemon Snap and though it was fun it wasn't great.

Day of the Tentacle still stands as my most favourite point & click adventure, just barely ahead of Monkey Island. Hilarious and fun to play, with a strong art style that holds up well enough today, it's a spectacularly oddball sequel to the wonderful Maniac Mansion. A no-brainer for me in this bracket.

My first double vote. Pokemon Snap (as explained in the last round) and Luigi's Mansion 2, which is one of the best 3DS games out there. I 100%'d it in 2 sittings I enjoyed it that much!

Some absolute crap in this bracket, Spyro on GBA? Ugh...

Abstaining

Ouenben wrote:Some absolute crap in this bracket, Spyro on GBA? Ugh...

Abstaining

Yeah, I voted for Maniac Mansion II because it's the only game I could describe as good. At least it is indeed very good, so it's deserving of a vote on its own merits.

Oi, forgot to post. Star Wars: Battlefront was incredible. An in your face ground war game in the Star Wars setting where the only lightsaber in sight was non-playable? Yes, please (if only heroes had stayed unplayable for the sequels). Random hostile or friendly factions on the field depending on the map ready to throw down or just get slaughtered brought a bit more personality to the standard fare. Getting to be a Stormtrooper and actually hitting what I was aiming at other than a couple of washed up moisture farmers on a desert planet always brought a smile to my face. It got a lot of flack for it's lackluster AI and I think it's fair that if you were playing a single-player game you didn't truly expect a lot of challenge in terms of true difficulty, however I also think that what it was able to deliver on every other front pushed past that. The mod tools being released on the PC was a thing of brilliance, but I'll leave that out since the mods weren't part of the original release. Beautiful game that brought a loved setting to life in a visceral way that still brings up random smiles.

I kind of wish I voted for Porky Pig just because I owned it too.

Maniac Mansion II: Day of the Tentacle has advanced to the next round. Pokemon Snap and Luigi's Mansion 2 have also advanced in a tie for 2nd place.