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Welcome to the #BGE2020 Elimination Round Lower Bracket!

Each game in the lower bracket is still seeded based on its performance in the two opening rounds of pools! Every game in the lower bracket has already been defeated by another game in a 1-on-1 poll to get to this point. This is their chance to claw their way back into the main event... but the stakes are high. The games that lose in these polls are out of the tournament for good! The games that survive will face the next crop of upper bracket losers in the next round.

Polls are updated weekly, typically on Saturday... or Sunday or Monday. Check back throughout the week to make sure you don't miss a vote!

HOW TO VOTE

This is easy. You only get one vote per poll. The game with the most votes wins. In the event of a tie, the higher seed advances, so don't get complacent!

Neutopia was a fine Zelda clone, nice and large and colourful, and I actually enjoyed it a lot back in the day when my friend next door had a TG16.

But Death Knights is a Gold Box game, great ancient tactical RPG with a lot of classic cRPG depth, party management & planning, cute little grid battles. These early games really translated tabletop pen & paper RPGs to a screen in some creative ways. Love it.

Kong Wen wrote: ↑21 Aug 2023 20:37 Neutopia was a fine Zelda clone, nice and large and colourful, and I actually enjoyed it a lot back in the day when my friend next door had a TG16.

But Death Knights is a Gold Box game, great ancient tactical RPG with a lot of classic cRPG depth, party management & planning, cute little grid battles. These early games really translated tabletop pen & paper RPGs to a screen in some creative ways. Love it.

Agree with all of this. Neutopia is a fun game - I played it on the Wii VC (which was amazingly over 15 years ago now). But the early Gold Box games were really amazing - not much story or character development, but my imagination always filled in those gaps just fine. The later games were often less fun (much as later level D&D is) because the levels come slower, but the three Krynn games were great fun. And who doesn't love manually mapping out areas on graph paper?