GameFAQs' Own 'Best. Game. Ever.' Contest Launched

XtremeLeader writes "Just days after GameSpy releases its Best All-Time Game competition, GameFAQs answers with a much more interactive Spring 2004 Contest to vote for the best games (you need a GameFAQs account to view the page). Unlike the GameSpy awards, however, this is completely gamer controlled. It begins by a registered user submitting their choices for favorite games (one per system, with more than a few systems), of which any game you want can be nominated. Voting ends at the beginning of March, and the polls are slated to begin late March/early April. The top 64 nominations will be accepted and placed into a series of polls that we get to vote on. Hopefully, this one doesn't have great games like Chrono Trigger thrown into the potpourri category."

Comments

Chrono Trigger

[Anonymous Coward]

As I browsed through the Gamespy game nomations, I kept wondering to myself "Where is Chrono Trigger" only to be offended when it made the misc. category. I was similarly offended that they would list all quake games, but not Half Life.

Other Great Games

[Nasarius]

Also listed on that GameSpy page are Star Control II and X-COM, surely two of my favorite games of all time. SC2 doesn't have a ton of replay value (though I've played through it at least 3 times), but I still play X-COM every once in a while.

Final Fantasy 7

[oskillator]

Considering that Final Fantasy 7's Cloud and Sephiroth, who have been in exactly one game (the same one, in fact), topped GameFAQs's "favorite character" contest last year, barely beating out Mario and Link, who each have an enormous legacy of beloved games, I think FF7 is pretty much a shoo-in.

(GameFAQs's user base is primarily RPG-oriented, which makes sense considering that RPGs are the games you usually go to FAQs for, and console-oriented, which is largely arbitrary.)

Re:Goldeneye is my pick

[theMerovingian]

I agree. We used to have this elaborate cardboard and blanket shield that we would put up next to the TV, so that we couldn't look at the other players' screens to determine their location. I can't imagine going to such lengths over any other game.

It was pretty competitive, and really defined what a fun video game should be. If you don't agree, you might set off the proximity mine that I put down earlier.

Re:I hate

[Pluvius]

GTA3 is one of my favorite games, and I am 22. The correlation might work one way, but that doesn't make it work the other way. I'm actually insulted by the suggestion that it does work the other way. Just because I'm old and embittered compared to the young punks that are now playing video games doesn't mean that I can't appreciate progress.

Anyway, if anyone cares:

PlayStation - Final Fantasy 8
Genesis - Phantasy Star 4
Master System - Phantasy Star
Sega CD - Lunar: The Silver Star
Nintendo 64 - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
NES - Dragon Warrior 4
Super Nintendo - Chrono Trigger
Turbo CD - Ys Books 1 and 2
TurboGrafx 16 - Military Madness
DOS/Windows - Planescape: Torment
Macintosh - Marathon Infinity
MSX - Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
Dreamcast - Soul Calibur
PlayStation2 - Grand Theft Auto 3

(Notes: Picked FF8 instead of FF7 or MGS because I figured it would be underrepresented. Picked Lunar because I haven't played Snatcher or Dark Wizard. Planescape: Torment is my favorite game in general.)

Rob

for Web/Online only game - Grow

[HomerJ]

Be sure to pick Grow Can you make everything GROW! and get 20,000 points?

Re:Good idea.

[robson]

When you come up with the perfect voting system, please let us all know. We'd love to apply it to things like American Politics.

Well, I've got a better one for you, at least: Condorcet's Method.

Re:Good idea.

[Aerion]

The only problem is that it's using the bracket system. There's always a bracket where two really good games/characters go at it and knock one out. Who's to say that if that game were placed in another bracket, it could have either lasted longer or win it all.

This is one of the advantages of a double elimination bracket over a single elimination bracket. Of course, a major disadvantage is that double elimination requires twice as many matches and can take more than twice as long (with 8 or 9 rounds required for a 16-entry bracket instead of 4 rounds).

But, as has been pointed out by nearly everybody, there is no perfect voting system, and no really good way to narrow down a pool of 64 extremely dissimilar video games to just 1 winner.

I think it'll be fairly interesting just to see what the top 64 are.

You do realize...

[Incoherent07]

According to the announcement on the front page of GameFAQs, the contest starts in the beginning of April. For those of you not aware of this, CJayC occasionally does something really off-the-wall to GameFAQs on April 1. Anyone else thinking what I'm thinking?

Best. Game. Ever. == Best. April. Fools. Day. Scam. Ever.