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There was a tie for first place in the finals, so the top two games will have to duke it out this week to see which one deserves the sole honour of the Best Game You’ve Never Played (Ever).

• You can vote for one game.
• The top game will be crowned the official “BEST GAME YOU’VE NEVER PLAYED (EVER)!!!”
• You can’t change your votes once they’ve been submitted, so click carefully. Voting closes on Saturday at midnight ADT.

VOTE HERE

Final Tie-Breaker:
Panzer Dragoon Saga (1998, Saturn)
Planescape: Torment (1999, PC)

Well, Actual Best Game Ever, you had a good run.

Rob

Yeah, I'll vote for Planescape: Torment this time.

I legitimately haven't played either of these games, and while Panzer Dragoon Saga is a tragedy for basically being inaccessible and unplayable right now, that doesn't mean it's also good. Torment is critically acclaimed and Pluvially acclaimed running on a tested and true engine and boasting some of the best writing in the medium. Without having played it, credit where it's due.

Panzer Dragoon Saga is a bucket list game for me. To this day I am hungry to play it. Still, there is no way it's getting my vote. As I mentioned in the chat, this is a game that has simply lost too much to the fog of time. It's touted as a masterpiece by a tiny group of lucky folks who have tried it, yet gets little interest from the wider gaming population beyond being a rare curiosity. At this point, it's known more for the fact that the source code went missing/got destroyed than anything else. It is SEGA's Mother.

Torment, on the other hand, is a game that gets played to this day. It has a reasonably large contingent of vocal supporters with a huge critical consensus behind it. And that's not even touching on the ways it changed western RPGs going forward.

Easy choice for me.

I’ll have to abstain. I don’t know much of anything about either of these games

Panzer Dragoon Saga defeats Planescape: Torment 8-6 with one abstain.

The Official "BEST GAME YOU'VE NEVER PLAYED (EVER) EVER!!!" is:
Panzer Dragoon Saga (1998, Saturn)

Well, I've definitely never played it!

Likely to remain that way. RIP.