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SE5: One-Offs - Round 2, Bracket 1/2

Posted: 03 Feb 2016 16:25
by This Old Neon
Welcome to the "BEST GAME EVER!!!" Project's fifth Side-Event: One-Offs!

You can vote for 2 games in this bracket. Vote carefully—you can't change your vote after submitting it. The top 4 games at the end of the week will advance to the final round.

1987 - The Magic of Scheherazade - NES
1992 - Star Parodier - TGCD
1999 - Planescape: Torment - PC
2010 - Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective - DS
2014 - Shovel Knight - Multiplatform
2014 - Destiny - PS4
2015 - Splatoon - Wii U
2015 - Bloodborne - PS4

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

Re: SE5: One-Offs - Round 2, Bracket 1/2

Posted: 03 Feb 2016 16:30
by Kong Wen
I voted for Destiny and Planescape: Torment.

I explained my continued support for Destiny in some detail during the previous round, and I'm more than happy to make the same case here:
Kong Wen wrote:I've explained my love of this game in some incomplete detail in this post earlier in the competition.

That all applies here.

But above and beyond that, for the specific purposes of this one-offs side-event, it's also worth noting that Destiny set the record for the biggest launch of a new IP in video game history. While a lot of that was certainly hype, the player base has been holding up quite well, hitting 25M over a year after release and even becoming the most-watched console game on Twitch.

Until the eventual inevitable sequel, this game is pretty much the archetypal one-off. It also happens to be a really entertaining game.
My second vote was a closer call between Torment and Bloodborne, but in the end I opted for the former because Bloodborne is a Demon's Souls game. :)

Re: SE5: One-Offs - Round 2, Bracket 1/2

Posted: 03 Feb 2016 22:56
by SkyPikachu
Oh shit didn't see Splatoon :( oh well

Re: SE5: One-Offs - Round 2, Bracket 1/2

Posted: 04 Feb 2016 02:30
by evildevil97
For shovelry!