KiwiFarms' Best Game Ever Bracket

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My one gripe is Castlevania making it this far. None of the games in that series deserve to make it on the entry bracket of a "Best Game Ever" poll. That said I'm excited for total Deus Ex victory in a couple days. LFG my fellow augs. :semperfidelis:
 
Mario RPG lost by more than expected but it was an obvious loss nonetheless, unfortunately.

Die Oberste Direktive said:
My one gripe is Castlevania making it this far. None of the games in that series deserve to make it on the entry bracket of a "Best Game Ever" poll. That said I'm excited for total Deus Ex victory in a couple days. LFG my fellow augs. :semperfidelis:
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Any random Castlevania >Deus Ex.

WarrenZHarding said:
May this be the round the nintentards finally go down in flames.
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Mario 64 will reign supreme :smug:
 
herefortheactualthreads said:
if the game you dislike wins then we all get sucked into a black hole and doompost in heaven / hell / wherever the fuck the soul goes if it makes out lol
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You fuckers didn't vote for Metroid Prime and now look at the fine mess you got us into
Berserk Godhand.webp
Otis Mallebrok said:
It was an open nomination? Why didn't you nominate bloodborne? Off with your balls, nigger
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To be fair I didn't nominate anything because I didn't even realise this was happening due to all the spergs in CH freaking out over what is allowed to be posted.
Gayest Sex vs Mario 64 is a tough one for me, but I have to give it to Mario because it's still eminently playable as is in current year while DE has not aged with grace and memes aren't enough to carry it to the final.

Metal Gear Solid beats Majora easily because it doesn't matter how old I get Gray Fox will always be the coolest thing I ever saw in any video game. A cornered fox is more deadly than a jackal, niggas.
 
Megaton Punch said:
I'm also surprised at how old these games are skewing. Maybe this tournament in particular is attracting an older crowd, but I've always gotten the feeling that KF's average age is like mid 20s. No goddamn way is a 25 year old voting for Max Payne.
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Excepting Tetris (the objectively correct choice), the remaining games were all released in the five-year window of 1996-2001 (widely considered to be the dark ages of gaming). Very grim.
 
Calandrino said:
Excepting Tetris (the objectively correct choice), the remaining games were all released in the five-year window of 1996-2001 (widely considered to be the dark ages of gaming). Very grim.
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The dark age? The tech in that era was certianly in a strange, transitory state with the switch to 3d, but the amount of talent from that era was absolutely amazing. To say nothing that the 6th Gen that followed it was probably the golden era of gaming that came out of the lessons learned in that late 90s period. If an era of gaming was the dark ages...Id consider it to be now. It follows a much better time and is personified by a general lack of competency and customer understanding/appreciation. Not that we dont get good games on occasion, but the industry is the worst Ive ever seen it in practically every way apart from red line go up.
 
Calandrino said:
Excepting Tetris (the objectively correct choice), the remaining games were all released in the five-year window of 1996-2001 (widely considered to be the dark ages of gaming). Very grim.
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96-01 is when gaming started to go mainstream. Before that, gaming was for kids and nerds. The early 3D era, as shitty as it was, saw an explosion of popularity that even the normiest of normies remember with nostalgia. There are ten times as many people who consider Final Fantasy 7 instead of 6 to be their "childhood FF", even among people old enough to have played both as kids.

I don't agree that it was the dark ages, but it probably was the ugliest era in gaming after the NES came out.
 
Megaton Punch said:
96-01 is when gaming started to go mainstream. Before that, gaming was for kids and nerds. The early 3D era, as shitty as it was, saw an explosion of popularity that even the normiest of normies remember with nostalgia. There are ten times as many people who consider Final Fantasy 7 instead of 6 to be their "childhood FF", even among people old enough to have played both as kids.
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in America they sold 30 million NES's, it was in like 1 in every 3 houses, I don't think gaming has ever been niche from the 80s onward. The first 3d consoles sold way worse aside from the PS1
 
Megaton Punch said:
96-01 is when gaming started to go mainstream. Before that, gaming was for kids and nerds. The early 3D era, as shitty as it was, saw an explosion of popularity that even the normiest of normies remember with nostalgia. There are ten times as many people who consider Final Fantasy 7 instead of 6 to be their "childhood FF", even among people old enough to have played both as kids.

I don't agree that it was the dark ages, but it probably was the ugliest era in gaming after the NES came out.
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It's arguably the best period in gaming history. Really, '94-'04 was the best period, just a straight decade of pure classics & masterpieces.
 
SSj_Ness (Yiffed) said:
Really, '94-'04 was the best period,
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I'm fairly confident I'm older than you (but not by as much as I previously thought based on your "I was born around 1988" choice of Golden Age years) and it's really hard to say for me. I think Mario Wonder and Sonic Mania are the best 2D Mario and Sonic games so far. Sure, I've beaten Mario 1-4 and Sonics 2 and 3 (1 isn't very good) a hundred times, but the new stuff is just so good. But we've also got gacha slop, Last Year's Sports Game But With Model Swaps And Even More Microtransactions, battle passes, and that's about 1% of what sucks shit about modern gaming.

But then, '99 +/- 5 had Superman 64, Chef's Luv Shack, Charlie's Angels, and about 5000 games that are so bad they wrap around through the So Bad It's Good category and back into the desolate wastes of So Bad It's Worse Than Nothing. So it's not like there existed a period where most games weren't shit. They were just shit in a different way.
 
Megaton Punch said:
I'm fairly confident I'm older than you (but not by as much as I previously thought based on your "I was born around 1988" choice of Golden Age years) and it's really hard to say for me. I think Mario Wonder and Sonic Mania are the best 2D Mario and Sonic games so far. Sure, I've beaten Mario 1-4 and Sonics 2 and 3 (1 isn't very good) a hundred times, but the new stuff is just so good. But we've also got gacha slop, Last Year's Sports Game But With Model Swaps And Even More Microtransactions, battle passes, and that's about 1% of what sucks shit about modern gaming.

But then, '99 +/- 5 had Superman 64, Chef's Luv Shack, Charlie's Angels, and about 5000 games that are so bad they wrap around through the So Bad It's Good category and back into the desolate wastes of So Bad It's Worse Than Nothing. So it's not like there existed a period where most games weren't shit. They were just shit in a different way.
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Give or take a couple years, yeah. I haven't played Wonder yet but I don't think Mania is better than Sonic 2, it's pretty close but it's less original, that's the main weakness of it.

Some new stuff is good, but no Mario I've played has reached the heights of SMB3 or Chrono Trigger, some stuff released after rival them, but not much has in the last 20 years and it's getting less likely anything ever will over time.

Superman 64s have always existed and always will. I may even concede that the average quality of games has actually increased, but there were many more higher highs back in the day. This is almost certainly bias, but I think even shitty games were more endearing back then, and at the very least we're never woke.
 
SSj_Ness (Yiffed) said:
Give or take a couple years, yeah. I haven't played Wonder yet but I don't think Mania is better than Sonic 2, it's pretty close but it's less original, that's the main weakness of it.

Some new stuff is good, but no Mario I've played has reached the heights of SMB3 or Chrono Trigger, some stuff released after rival them, but not much has in the last 20 years and it's getting less likely anything ever will over time.

Superman 64s have always existed and always will. I may even concede that the average quality of games has actually increased, but there were many more higher highs back in the day. This is almost certainly bias, but I think even shitty games were more endearing back then, and at the very least we're never woke.
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The originality crisis is both real and a force of nature. It's barely even possible to produce something truly novel these days. It's all been done, which means it all blends together. Sure, great games still exist, but even they are just previous games but better.

I wouldn't say the highs were higher, but I'd say the lows were less low. You can play Island Dizzy or Bart vs the Space Mutants and still have an ironic kind of fun with them, but I've never been so disappointed in a game as when I saw the globohomo flag complete with No Whites Allowed stripes applied to Aloy's face as an excuse for garish war paint. Say what you will about Fester's Quest, but Uncle Fester never turned to the camera and said "I hate white people and I love to fuck children".

At least I don't think he did. I haven't seen every episode of the show.
 
Megaton Punch said:
I wouldn't say the highs were higher, but I'd say the lows were less low. You can play Island Dizzy or Bart vs the Space Mutants and still have an ironic kind of fun with them, but I've never been so disappointed in a game as when I saw the globohomo flag complete with No Whites Allowed stripes applied to Aloy's face as an excuse for garish war paint. Say what you will about Fester's Quest, but Uncle Fester never turned to the camera and said "I hate white people and I love to fuck children".
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All of the stuff like that is really just an extension of pricks desperate to turn multiplayer games into social spaces through monetized cosmetics, and then people start expecting it in every game so it bleeds in. That all really ramped up in the late 2000's but it goes back to shit like sprays and different optional player models in the old games. Everything bad about games ever is made worse and accelerated by online multiplayer though
 
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