Bottom 768 — Week 10 — Poll 18

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Which of these two games is NOT QUITE THE BEST BUT DOESN'T DESERVE THIS FATE (YET...)?

562 — Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos [incl. The Frozen Throne] (2002, PC)
5
71%
719 — Dragon's Lair (1983, Arcade)
2
29%
 
Total votes: 7

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Bottom 768 — Week 10 — Poll 18

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Welcome to the #BGE2020 Elimination Round Lower Bracket!

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Warcraft III was the last Blizzard game I enjoyed. I can appreciate what Dragon's Lair is trying to do, but even independent of the actual game Warcraft III vastly increased the popularity of Tower Defense and DOTA genres (even if it didn't really create them, since both existed in different forms in Starcraft custom maps as well) so I'd probably vote for it on influence if not on its own merits.
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Dragon's Lair is actually a really crummy game. Fun and innovative animation, but designed more than anything to unfairly kill players to necessitate putting more quarters in the slot. Which is not unknown with arcade games, but Dragon's Lair took it way too far. The LaserDisc system was also unreliable and once you knew how to handle each predefined scenario, it lost all replay value.
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liu yuante wrote: 22 Aug 2023 23:40 Dragon's Lair is actually a really crummy game. Fun and innovative animation, but designed more than anything to unfairly kill players to necessitate putting more quarters in the slot. Which is not unknown with arcade games, but Dragon's Lair took it way too far. The LaserDisc system was also unreliable and once you knew how to handle each predefined scenario, it lost all replay value.
Yeah, it gets some innovation points for me for semi-popularizing full motion animation cutscenes, but not enough innovation points to overcome Warcraft III's actual good game points.
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