Favorite Video Game Tournament (Pokémon Wins! + Condorcet)

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League of Legends
Bioshock
Bioshock: Infinite
Chrono Trigger
Portal
Braid
World of Warcraft
Half-Life 2
The Walking Dead
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Final Fantasy VI
Advance Wars
Knights of the Old Republic
Psychonauts
Starcraft II
Minecraft
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

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Bloodbowl: Chaos Edition

I thought mith said no digital versions of tabletop/board games?

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edited to include 3 LoZ games

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9. Final Fantasy IV // Final Fantasy VIII
10. Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
11. Pokémon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum // Pokémon Snap
12. Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island vs. New Super Mario Bros. Wii
13. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
14. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening // The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

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I specifically voted it in because of The Reckoning.

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15. Doom
16. Guitar Hero II
17. Mario Party 2
18. Persona 3
19. Rayman Origins
20. Sonic the Hedgehog 2
21. The Sims 3
22. Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos

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yeah MP2 is 1000% the best in the series.

anything post-3 has been shitty

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Group 1:
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
Unreal Tournament 2004

Group 2:
Donkey Kong Country
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

Group 3:
Banjo Kazooie
NetHack

Group 4:
FTL: Faster Than Light
The Walking Dead

Group 5:
Counter-Strike
World of Warcraft

Group 6:
Secret of Mana/Seiken Densetsu 2
Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty

Group 7:
Left 4 Dead 2
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos

Group 8:
Bioshock: Infinite
Star Wars: Battlefront II

Group 9:
Star Fox 64/Lytat Wars
Tales of Symphonia

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people voting for goldeneye are clearly doing it for nostalgia's sake because it's a pretty shitty game in retrospect

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Ugh. This is the problem with it being "favorite", not "best": I can't yell at people for being wrong because if it's really their favorite then oh well >_>

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Portal
Mass Effect 2
Sid Meier's Civilization V
Team Fortress 2
Half-Life 2
Tetris
Bastion
FTL: Faster Than Light

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SO WHY NOT DO IT IN TWO LOL M I RITE

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bc if you dont youre dumb

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Match 9:
League of Legends

Match 10:
Kingdom Hearts

Match 11:
Psychonauts

Match 12:
Chrono Trigger

Match 13:
Super Mario Bros. 3

Match 14:
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest

Match 15:
Braid

Match 16:
Banjo-Kazooie

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man

people voting for GH2 make me really sad

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Match 17:
Pokémon GSC

Match 18:
Super Mario World

Match 19:
Super Mario 64

Match 20:
Super Smash Bros. Melee

Match 21:
Mario Kart 64

Match 22:
BioShock

Match 23:
Grand Theft Auto V

Match 24:
Diablo II

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ugh Bioshock is losing to the original SSB

kill me

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so many fucking n64 fanboys

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
The Last of Us
Final Fantasy VI
Sid Meier's Civilization IV
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Portal 2
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

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roller coaster tycoon is a shitty game and an even shittier sim game and it's beating easily the best final fantasy and one of the best JRPGs

-ugh-

Doom vs OoT, OoT was just as innovative as Doom was for its time and holds up against the test of time much better

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I'm not even a fanboy I hate most of the games. But FF3 is genuinely a great game.

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Match 33:
Portal

Match 34:
Team Fortress 2

Match 35:
Half-Life 2

Match 36:
Bastion

Match 37:
Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald

Match 38:
Chrono Trigger

Match 39:
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest

Match 40:
Perfect Dark

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KOTOR losing to a mediocre Zelda game is the worst.

it was KOTOR II, not KOTOR

KOTOR II sucked

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oh shit though I am disagreeing with your opinion I hope the opinion police don't show up yo

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counterpoint: Majora is an underrated masterpiece.

This. My favorite of the series, and I will be sad when it gets crushed in the next round. (But not *too* sad, I like OOT too.)

Also, Melee is a much better game than SSB. I haven't played Brawl, but from what I've read (and seen in the admittedly biased documentary) it is dumbed down mechanically.

Both of these points are correct.

oh shit though I am disagreeing with your opinion I hope the opinion police don't show up yo

eh. KOTOR II was mechanically a great game, but it being incomplete was really disappointing

Yeah, it just wasn't

finished

which...made it a bad game :\

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Match 49:
Portal

Match 50:
Bastion

Match 51:
Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings

Match 52:
Super Mario Bros. 3

Match 53:
Super Mario 64

Match 54:
Diablo II

Match 55:
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

Match 56:
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

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Match 57:
Portal

Match 58:
Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings

Match 59:
Super Mario 64

Match 60:
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

Bonus Match 1:
Bastion
Chrono Trigger

Bonus Match 2:
Frogger

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It's the same repetitive stuff over and over again with the only change being speed.

And yet, people still play it today.

It's that formula that creates the game.

You're making the argument that solid repayability outweighs a solid one-time experience and I just don't think that's inherently true. You could make arguments both ways, but to say that one game is better than another because you can play it over and over instead of just once seems poor.

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Tetris being replayable and presenting a new challenge every time basically just makes it Bejeweled.

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You could say that about any game that randomly starts, no?

...yes.

Which seems to be the key thing you're trumpeting here... that it is random and the difficulty slightly increases each level.

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Match 61:
Portal

Match 62:
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

Bonus Match 3:
Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings

Bonus Match 4:
Super Mario Bros. 3

Bonus Match 5:
JezzBall

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Match 63, Final:
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

Third Place Match:
Portal

Fifth Place Match:
Super Mario Bros. 3

Bonus Match 6:
Pac-Man

Bonus Match 7:
The King of Fighters '94

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what a terrible/boring fucking final 4 btw

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pokemon is not even a good game, it is fucking

bonkers

that it won

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8>13>14>3>1>7>4>9>11>6>5

8. Portal 2
13. The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
14. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
3. League of Legends
1. Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings
7. Portal
4. Mario Kart 64
9. Super Mario 64
11. Tetris
6. Pokémon Red/Blue/Yellow/FireRed/LeafGreen
5. Pokémon Gold/Silver/Crystal/HeartGold/SoulSilver