Main Event Quarterfinals

[This Old Neon]

The Quarterfinals feature four single-elimination brackets. Pick the best of each match-up and cross your fingers.

• You can only vote for ONE (1) game.
• The game with the most votes in each bracket will advance to the Project Semifinals.
• You can’t change your votes once they’ve been submitted, so click carefully. Voting closes on Saturday at 11:59 P.M. ADT.

VOTE HERE

Bracket 1: Time Door
Portal (2007, Multiplatform)
Chrono Trigger (1995, SNES)

Bracket 2: Brick Land
Tetris (1989, GB)
Super Mario World (1990, SNES)

Bracket 3: Dudes Who Are Also Bats
Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009, Multiplatform)
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997, PS1)

Bracket 4: ? vs !
Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988, NES)
Metal Gear Solid (1998, PS1)

[Sharecrow]

I’m going to have to think about this because of bracket 3. Castlevania: SotN and Arkham Asylum both deserve to be in the top 4.

I’m abstaining from the first poll due to not having played Portal. Second poll I’m going with Super Mario Workd since there’s stuff to do in it. The fourth poll I’m going with MGS due to its awesomeness. I like Mario 3 but never thought it was as incredible as it is made out to be. I say that without having major gripes with it. Perhaps it’s because I didn’t get to play it much when it was contemporary. So it goes.

[Ouenben]

The Quarterfinals feature four single-elimination brackets. Pick the best of each match-up and cross your fingers.

• You can only vote for ONE (1) game.
• The game with the most votes in each bracket will advance to the Project Semifinals.
• You can’t change your votes once they’ve been submitted, so click carefully. Voting closes on Saturday at 11:59 P.M. ADT.

VOTE HERE

Bracket 1: Time Door
Portal (2007, Multiplatform)
Chrono Trigger (1995, SNES)

Bracket 2: Brick Land
Tetris (1989, GB)
Super Mario World (1990, SNES)

Bracket 3: Dudes Who Are Also Bats
Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009, Multiplatform)
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997, PS1)

Bracket 4: ? vs !
Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988, NES)
Metal Gear Solid (1998, PS1)

Due to the old thread taking me to the new poll I didn't vote properly and missed first three polls.

Let it be known I vote for
1. Portal
2. Tetris
3. Symphony of the night

[SkyPikachu]

Portal
Tetris
Batman
Smb3

[Sharecrow]

I went ahead and voted for Symphony of the Night in the third poll.

Thought I’d not my personal top eight - at least at this moment. The top 15 or so churn and swap places. In no particular order:

1. Shadow Hearts: Covenant
2. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
3. Tales of Symphonia
4. Skies of Arcadia
5. R-Type
6. Shinobi (PS2)
7. Dragon Warrior VII
8. Berzerk!

[Kong Wen]

Due to the old thread taking me to the new poll I didn't vote properly and missed first three polls.

Let it be known I vote for
1. Portal
2. Tetris
3. Symphony of the night

Surely you like, looked at the polls and didn't just blindly hammer one of the buttons before the words had even loaded onto the page though?

[Kong Wen]

Bracket 1: Time Door
Portal (2007, Multiplatform)
Chrono Trigger (1995, SNES)

Bracket 2: Brick Land
Tetris (1989, GB)
Super Mario World (1990, SNES)

Bracket 3: Dudes Who Are Also Bats
Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009, Multiplatform)
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997, PS1)

Bracket 4: ? vs !
Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988, NES)
Metal Gear Solid (1998, PS1)

1. Portal - As much as I love Chrono Trigger, when I get down to the end of these events I like to try to taper off my personal preferences and start voting for what I perceive to be more tightly designed experiences. Portal introduces and then executes on a concept extremely well, and then weaves it into a thrilling narrative with a satisfying conclusion, all in a well-paced bite-sized package.

2. Tetris

3. Batman: Arkham Asylum - After much deliberating. It might not make it to my Top 25 in terms of what I love and enjoy, but it absolutely makes it into maybe my top 15 in terms of what games are perfectly balanced and well-designed. It has perfect metrovania flow, great memorable areas, the Scarecrow encounters, really nice balance between approaches to getting through areas (stealth, fighting, both), nice balance with all the tools, and GREAT smooth satisfying combat. Good acting, too. Good art/set design. So much to love about this game.

4. Boy oh boy. Super Mario Bros. 3 won in 2015, and Metal Gear Solid took 2nd place in 2012. Metal Gear deserves its time in the sun. And there are two Super Mario platformers in the Top 8? That's not right. I'll give it to Metal Gear Solid for using the nascent 3D format to start putting together the fundamentals and the language of the stealth/action genre. It's partly because of that strength that it's one of the few early-3D games that holds up relatively well today.

[The Shoemaker]

? Vs ! Is clever.

[Ouenben]

Due to the old thread taking me to the new poll I didn't vote properly and missed first three polls.

Let it be known I vote for
1. Portal
2. Tetris
3. Symphony of the night

Surely you like, looked at the polls and didn't just blindly hammer one of the buttons before the words had even loaded onto the page though?

It was late, I was tired, and quickly trying to see the results of Super metroid vs Metal gear again so clicked the bottom one to try and clear it quickly so I could see the previous poll. Didn't occur to me it would be the upcoming poll which didn't have a thread yet

[Kong Wen]

? Vs ! Is clever.

Thank you for being the first person to give my brilliant poll names the recognition they deserve.