Topic: Another Definitive Best Game of All Time Megapoll (Quarter finals)

List 1 (1988-1993)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project (NES)

List 2 (1993-2002)
Max Payne (PS2)

List 3 (2002-2004)
Max Payne 2 (PS2)

List 4 (2004-2008)
Metroid: Zero Mission (GBA)
Left 4 Dead 2 (360)

List 5 (2008-2018)
Limbo (PS3)

List 6 (2018-2022)
Monster Hunter World (PS4)

Some weird choices here imo. Also anyone who likes Jak2 can jog on

RESULTS
A weird round for sure, due to the fact that the games were grouped by platform there were many more abstains than the previous two round, and also we got our first game that didn't get any votes at all: I'm sorry for Metroid Prime 2!

Most of these results don't surprise me, altough I had expected the difference between Horizon and Spider-Man to be this big.

Group 1
Winner: MegaMan 2 (NES) (14 votes)
Runner-up: Ninja Gaiden (NES) (7 votes)

Group 2
Winner: ICO (PS2) (14 votes)
Runner-up: Max Payne (PS2) (11 votes)

Group 3
Winner: Metroid Prime (NGC) (17 votes)
Runner-up: Max Payne 2 (PS2) (13 votes)

Group 4
Winner: LittleBigPlanet (PS3) (17 votes)
Runner-up: Left 4 Dead 2 (360) (9 votes)

Group 5
Winner: Limbo (PS3) (15 votes)
Runner-up: LA Noire (PS3) (15 votes)
@kyleforrester87 was the tiebreaker here!

Group 6
Winner: Horizon: Forbidden West (PS5) (17 votes)
Runner-up: Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales (PS5) (11 votes)

Thanks for voting everyone!

the fall of Max Payne... sad day it is.

ROUND 2.4 (the penultimate, now sorted by publisher)

List 1 ("Bandai Namco")
Tales of Berseria (PS4)
Oddworld: Abe's Odyssee (PS1)
Outcast (PC)
Pong (Arcade)
Ridge Racer Type 4 (PS)
Soul Calibur 2 (PS2)

List 2 (Japanese darlings Capcom and Sega)
Resident Evil (PS1)
Resident Evil 2 (PS1)
Sonic & Knuckles (MD)
Sonic Adventure 2 Battle (NGC)
Streets of Rage (MD)
Streets of Rage 2 (MD)

List 3 (Konami)
Pro Evolution Soccer 2 (PS1)
Suikoden 5 (PS2)
Pro Evolution Soccer 2007 (PS2)
PT (PS4)
Silent Hill 3 (PS2)
Suikoden (PS1)

List 4 (American Juggernauts Activision, EA and Microsoft)
Overwatch (PS4)
Spider-Man 2 (PS2)
Spyro The Dragon (PS1)
Space Quest (Mac)
SSX3 (PS2)
Ori & The Will of the Wisps (X1)

List 5 (Remaining Japanese publishers)
Ratchet & Clank (PS2)
Octopath Traveler 2 (PS5)
Parasite EVE 2 (PS1)
Secret of Mana (SNES)
Xenogears
Steins;Gate (PSP)

List 6 (Nintendo)
Paper Mario & The Thousand-Year Door (NGC)
Pokémon FireRed/LeafGreen (GBA)
Pokémon Red/Blue (GBC)
Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire (GBA)
Pokémon X/Y (3DS)
Super Mario 64 (N64)

I first wanted to sort all games for this round by metacritic score, but it really didn't make sense, since all of them fall in the 85-90 rating. It would have been the same as a random sorting. So I switched up plans some minutes ago and made a sorting based by publisher (kinda). I could easily group the American publishers, but I had to do some randomization to figure out which Japanese ones I put together. Hope it makes for an interesting round.

Tagging lists will be coming later, back to my daytime job for now.

@CthulhuFhtagn Both games ending up in second place was a sad sight to be sure.

2) Resident Evil 2 (PS1)
3) Silent Hill 3 (PS2)
5) Parasite EVE 2 (PS1)

List 1 ("Bandai Namco")
Pong (Arcade)

List 2 (Japanese darlings Capcom and Sega)
Resident Evil 2 (PS1)

List 3 (Konami)
PT (PS4)

List 4 (American Juggernauts Activision, EA and Microsoft)
Ori & The Will of the Wisps (X1)

List 5 (Remaining Japanese publishers)
Ratchet & Clank (PS2)

List 6 (Nintendo)
Super Mario 64 (N64)

May PT be blessed with a litany of votes. There’s definitely a part of me that feels it’s the GOAT.

My votes for 2.4.

1. Pong
2. Streets of Rage 2
3. Silent Hill 3
4. SSX3
5. Steins;Gate
6. Paper Mario

1. OMG 2 of my picks again. I have to go with Soul Calibur 2. What a game!
2. Streets of Rage 2
3. Pro Evo Soccer 2
4. SSX 3
5. Parasite eve 2
6. Super Mario 64

ROUND 2.4 (the penultimate, now sorted by publisher)

1 - Soul Calibur 2 (PS2)
3 - PT (PS4)
4 - SSX3 (PS2)
5 - Ratchet & Clank (PS2)
6 - Paper Mario & The Thousand-Year Door (NGC)

@somnambulance I agree. I could live with PT winning this whole poll.

Even less for me on these ones

List 2 - Resident Evil 2 (PS1)

Not sure anything I've voted for has gone through yet either 😄

List 1 Pong
List 2 Sonic Adventure 2 Battle
List 3 PT
List 4 Spyro The Dragon
List 5 Nothing for me
List 6 Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire
That last list was a difficult one for me, Ruby and Firered are my favourites from the series but I'm going with Ruby as it was my first and that always going to be hard to beat.

Round 2.4

List 1: Pong
List 3: PT
List 4: Spider-Man 2
List 5: Ratchet & Clank
List 6: Pokémon FireRed/LeafGreen

@Kidfried
List 6
Pokemon X/Y 3DS

List 1: Soul Calibur 2
List 2: Streets of Rage 2
List 3: Nope
List 4: Nope
List 5: Nope
List 6: Super Mario 64

@Kidfried I could live with PT winning the whole thing.

ROUND 2.4
List 1: Soul Calibur 2 (PS2)
List 2: Sonic Adventure 2 Battle (NGC)
List 3: PT (PS4)
List 4: Spyro The Dragon (PS1)
List 5: Ratchet & Clank (PS2)
List 6: Super Mario 64 (N64)

List 2: Sonic & Knuckles (MD)
List 5: Ratchet & Clank (PS2)

Yikes, this is easily the least I've been able to vote for in a round. So much I've never played, especially with the heavy Nintendo presence and the fact that there are so many ancient games this time around. Oh well.

2.4

1. Pong
2. Streets of Rage
3. PES 2

And that's all I got this round thanks

List 1 - Oddworld: Abe's Odyssee (PS1)
List 2 - Resident Evil (PS1)
List 4 - SSX3 (PS2)