A Favor Before Voting Begins

[epilogue]

Please vote for my team because I played many of them with my older brother who died of AIDS-Cancer.

His dying words were, "I may be about to die, but at least we still have the memories of playing Super Mario World, GoldenEye 007, Super Metroid, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Portal, Halo: Combat Evolved, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, StarCraft, Galaga and a yet unnamed game together."

This isn't a PJ song request thread! That trick doesn't work here. Additionally, that post is definately a port of a Pit post.

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[Jorge]

but my brother actually died of aids and cancer

Good

[tree_]

omg

[Norah]

[E.H. Ruddock]

Oh man, I have a few more of those. One where you or tryin spin me out

[Monkey_Driven]

We need to bring back the Mario Kart RM group.

[E.H. Ruddock]

It was so much fun.

[run2death]

So much rubber-banding in MK, it's kinda hard not to have fun.

[Ello Sailor]

Look at this shit. Look at it. Best game ever, not even close.

[tree_]

As the draft is winding down, I would like to hear from each Team Captain why they picked the games they did. Before voting begins please send me a few blurbs describing memories, reviews, or quick sells of the games you chose? You don't have to do it for every game or you can choose to not do it at all, but so much of gaming is the shared experience of playing. It would be great to hear everyone's stories. We haven't played every single game on the list so hearing from you may make voting easier.

I will put the blurbs in each matchup's description.

Thanks.

Done.

1. Super Mario Brothers 3 (Nintendo Entertainment System)
What can be said that everybody doesn’t already know about the greatness that is SMB3 (NES)? Nothing. Still holds up today as maybe the best, most enjoyable game of all time. This is the best no. 1 pick and everyone who voted before me was a fool not to choose it.

2. Mario Kart 8 (Wii U)
I only played the Switch version. I never owned a Wii U. Because of the rules, the Wii U version it is. This is hands down the best Mario Kart game. If you’ve ever loved Mario Kart, you should love this pick. Another steal.

3. Red Dead Redemption 2 (PS4)
Everyone thought I was a fool to choose this. Trag is coming around. “Nominating a game that no one has played yet is fairly innovative too.” Huh. Yeah, it was innovative. And smart. This will, according to my calculations, I said, BEFORE the rave reviews poured in, be revered as one of, if not THE best game of all time. Just look up a review and kick yourself for not choosing this game before me. 3rd round steal. Validated.

4. Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader (Nintendo Gamecube Entertainment System)
Star Wars games make for exhilarating experiences, when made well. This, in my humble opinion, is the best Star Wars game of all time. It improved upon everything Rogue Squadron I did well, which makes it better. 4th round steal.

5. Super Smash Bros. Mele (Game Cube)
I actually have only played this at friends’ houses. You like Smash Bros. games? Well, according to the general internet consensus, this is the best one.

6. Mortal Kombat 2 (SNES)
The best MK game. Legendary.

7. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (Game Cube)
I wasn’t the biggest fan of this. It was OK to me, at the time. But, it’s a Zelda game and it was the next best available Zelda game in this draft. Not a bad pick, I’d say.

8. Wave Rave 64 (Nintendo 64)
My most nostalgic pick, a game my friends and I used to play together as kids, making up our own rules to a tag game in multiplayer mode, laughing our little asses off, hard. And, as nostalgic as I am for this, I picked it up recently and it still holds up, unlike Tecmo Bowl. There's something about the movements of the characters that was awkward, yet made perfect sense, and you could master it with enough practice, and it was hilarious. We had more fun with this game than we did with Goldeneye 64 and Perfect Dark, which is saying a lot. It’s saying it’s better.

9. Perfect Dark (N64)
It blew my mind as a kid. It was Goldeneye, but better. The framerate drops were part of the fun.

10. Metroid Fusion (GBA)
I had to pick a portable game and this is the best available one I could think of. I never played it but I watched YouTube documentaries on history of Metroid and in-depth analyses of all the games and this one looks pretty damn cool. Vote for me.

[tragabigzanda]

1. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)
2. Mario Kart (Wii)
3. Half-Life 2 (PC)
4. Twisted Metal 2 (PS1)
5. NHL 95 (Sega Genesis)
6. The Oregon Trail (graphical version, 1985, Apple II)
7. Metroid: Zero Mission (GBA)
8. Missile Command (Arcade)
9. Rocket League (PS4)
10. Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father (PC)

[tree_]

yer a dumb thing to do

[epilogue]

Thing is... no one was going to draft it. So, it's not a steal in round 3 because it still would have been available in round 10. You way over reached for a game no one else was going to pick. And you managed to piss people off about it in the meantime which hurts your team even more.

[Monkey_Driven]

Thing is... no one was going to draft it. So, it's not a steal in round 3 because it still would have been available in round 10.

[tree_]

I see your point. If it's true that nobody was going to take it, either they are too blasted angry I chose it first to admit it OR they aren't as smart as me to calculate its true potential as greatest game of all time. Either way, I look good and you all look bad.

[CopperTom]

Honestly, I considered drafting it too. But I Wasn't going to take it before round 7.

[epilogue]

Honestly, I considered drafting it too. But I Wasn't going to take it before round 7.

Ah. Well, there you go. Tree is a genuis.

[Monkey_Driven]

Centuries from now people will look back on this draft and revere tree_'s team.

[tree_]

Weeks or days*

[CopperTom]

Centuries from now people will look back on this draft and revere tree_'s team.

But when it's time to vote, we'll all be pissed at the game since it's taking so long to install.