Console Game Poll vol. 3 - Vote for the best 5th Generation Console Games (PS1, Saturn, N64, Jaguar, GBC, etc.) here! (Ballot Deadline: November 8th)

i think i was mixing it up with fighting force as well!!! i was def thinknig of thrill kill though, which notably never came out and onyl appeared on pirated discs.

I thought Thrill Kill looked familiar - the studio that made it later made Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhggSrdcta4

Actually fuck it, have ODB drunken master

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIwQd4wVGgY

voted!

I did mine. Surprising #1.

Two write-ins: The New Tetris, and Sin And Punishment

Funny: I was in Japan in 2005 and I was balefully eyeing the extremely expensive copy of Radiant Silvergun in a game store there, and they had Sin And Punishment right next to it (same developer) and the clerk convinced me it was a great game, worth buying, I'd never heard of it, I took it home, took a hot knife to the "don't play this outside of Japan" cartridge tabs and yeah that game is amazing

My extremely basic ballot is almost entirely N64-slanted. Not to say I had no experience with contemporaneous PS1 games; I have fond memories of hanging with my best junior high bud watching him play through FFVIII (yes, 8), and trying my hand at the occasional Jet Moto or Bushido Blade match, but I never had any deep, first-hand experiences with PS1 games that weren't ported to other consoles; your Residents Evil and Tonys Hawk, etc. I often wonder if my tastes these days would be very different had we been a PS household.

Also I didn't nom or vote for any of them, but I also have fond memories of renting weird N64 also-rans like Hybrid Heaven and Body Harvest from Blockbuster video, and being somewhat confounded by them

basic. that's what i was looking for. not normcore. thank you zchyrs. you have all my initials, along with the consonants of my first name. you gotta take it from here. i'm counting on you!

I did a bunch of PS1 games at the time, and enjoyed them-- weird things like Siphon Filter and Driver were enjoyable. Going back in present-day to PS1 is less rewarding than N64, though... I still really enjoy, say, Banjo-Kazooie but have no idea where I had the patience for FF7 and Metal Gear Solid when I was young

xp KM I will do my best at whatever it is you are handing off exactly

oof thank, that's a load off. huuuuuge load. i will take a first shot at an outline of an inventory, but you are a saint!

so my experience with this gen was my first three years or so of college and one of my roomies at the time was a guy from Thailand who shipped over something like 5 or 6 hundred bootleg Playstation and Saturn discs so we played A LOT of random games. BUT! I never had an N64 so I'm completely shut out there.

can we do custom rankings, as long as we stay within:
- 1680 or less total ballot points
- 40 or less individual games
- 80 or less maximum weight for any game(s)?

like could i submit a ballot with 10 games only and give them all 80, or 5 80s and 3 50s and 2 10s or whatever? or does this make it harder for tallying?

important note, fgti had three write-ins, not two -- the other is einhander. i am noting this because einhander is awesome and i can't believe we forgot it and i might need to change my ballot now that i have remembered it!

also i will note that i replayed mgs not that long ago (i replayed 1, 2, 3, 4 and PW before 5 came out because i live like that) and it held up imo! is gamecube emulation up to snuff these days? i've wanted to try twin snakes for a while...

can we do custom rankings, as long as we stay within:
- 1680 or less total ballot points
- 40 or less individual games
- 80 or less maximum weight for any game(s)?

like could i submit a ballot with 10 games only and give them all 80, or 5 80s and 3 50s and 2 10s or whatever? or does this make it harder for tallying?

― chihuahuau, Sunday, October 25, 2020 6:39 AM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i'd like there to only be one game at 80 because i don't wanna do split first-place votes, but i think i'd be okay with doing "tiers" after that. but if you have less than 40 games you'd have less than 1640 points, if that makes sense? sorry my brain hasnt caught up today (or for the past week lol).

Oh yeah I forgot Einhander was a write-in. My favourite Squaresoft game of that generation! Not quite as good as Treasure at its best but a extremely immersive and rewarding shmup imo

> i'd like there to only be one game at 80 because i don't wanna do split first-place votes, but i think i'd be okay with doing "tiers" after that

cool, i'll make sure to have only one pick for gotg then

(the exception to having one first-place game would be an entirely unranked ballot)

also: i have 6 ballots so far! thanks to the early ballot-senders; knowing what is almost definitely in the top 77 or so means i can start prepping images now, which is a massive help in getting the rollout going without too much delay.

2 weeks left for ballots!*

*i would like to see it but i don't expect to but seriously please try lol

ALSO if we called it right now there would be (imo) a #1 SHOCKAH. not a game i would have guessed would sit #1 at allllll. i doubt it'll last, but, wow imagine!

considering a write-in vote for the Chu Chu Rocket commercial, which at least in my circles was a much-loved video clip in the RealVideo era:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga62uiXbEjI

oh wait i keep forgetting Dreamcast is next round!

has anyone ever played or seen a 3DO in real life?

in big box display kiosks, yes

pretty sure i gawked at one at a Circuit City or such, once? but it might have been a CD-i.

just looked up a list of top 3DO games and the screenshots were not exactly inspiring. "Lucienne's Quest" looks like an okay sprite-based JRPG, might see if i can get that to run on my SNES mini.

if i saw this in some random pile of used 3rd party controllers, i would never recognize it as the 3DO controller:

https://i.imgur.com/FctffH3.jpg

lol look at this actual 3rd party 3DO controller!

https://i.imgur.com/slki0ZF.jpg

oh shit, Samurai Shodown was on 3DO

i never got to play samurai showdown, except twice in an arcade (different times).

if i have my facts straight:

- the best version of it was on 3DO
- the game itself cost hundreds of dollars (?), like all 3DO games (?)

i could be wrong on that, but i distinctly remember thinking "i would have to save up for the price of a whole new system, just to buy a new game. i cannot do this."

I had a friend who had a neo geo. that's something.

whoa. like, a standup arcade unit?

no the commercially available console.
ALTHOUGH! When I was real young, I had a family friend who had a side hustle buying and placing arcade games and pinball machines in laundromats and bars so he always had cabinets in his garage. When we went over to their house, like once a week or so, me and their kids would just play that shit into infinity. Joust, Frogger, Pinbot, Super Pac Man, Galaga, Burgertime...

my dad brought home a 3DO around 1999 because someone at work had discarded it (out of pique?)

it had the then-definitive version of star control 2 (the basis for the now-definitive freeware remake), a good version of alone in the dark (i'm not sure i don't prefer this to silent hill), and OFF-WORLD INTERCEPTOR, an on-rails car combat game with a lot of elaborate cutscenes, each one framed and mocked by totally inexplicable mst3k-style silhouettes in what i like to think was a last-minute decision by developers who'd suddenly realized their cutscenes were dumb

it also had gex lol

the best selling 3D0 Game

3DO, sorry

my fave detail in tim rogers' piece about playing mortal kombat with his antisocial buddy was where the antisocial buddy says gex should be voiced by dennis leary instead of dana gould

loool

"these aliens are more wobbly than Gabby Hayes, believe me bubbeleh"

oh whoops, i confused dennis leary with dennis miller
NB: Gex should have been voiced by dennis miller

gilbert gottfried imo

When I do my ballot Gex is getting big numbers, pretty sure the Neo Geo was imaginary

I remember seeing a neogeo for sale as a kid and I think it was 500 quid in early 90s money or something like that

it existed! i played it! it was amazing at the time! minimal ghosting and clean bright colors!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8I-q98jApA

was i right that 3DO games were super expensive? or was that neo geo games?

Neo Geo games were stupid expensive. I think $250 a pop! They were essentially just standup cabinet boards. Mostly they seem to have retained or increased in value.
https://videogamecritic.com/neogeoinfo.htm

i think that was neo geo games! since they were basically like little arcade boards or something. 3do was just on a cd so i can't imagine them justifying charging that much (unless i'm mistaken)

but i definitely remember neo geo carts being like 100 or 200 bux new

xp i agree w/ forks

geez i really just typed everything forks typed just slower and less informatively lol

let's start a podcast!

hey, i think they were both informative. thanks for confirming!

haha another podcast that is just what the world needs right *hides messy binder labelled "podcast plans"*

but no pressure of course. but if you don't vote for marvel puzzle quest, i'm not sure it's going to make the rollout ;)

If I only want to vote for 30 games, what do I do with the empty cells and their weighted points?

All good! I just ignore the blank lines.

Anyone else? DJP?

Also, I think I've sent a response email to everyone who voted/whose ballot I put in the sheet. Does anyone not have a response?

djp: if you wanna just write your ballot out and email it i can assign the points too (or if karl already sent the spreadsheet that's cool too)

general note: good lord the #1 thru #5 or so games have switched order so many times in the past 48 hours i genuinely have no idea how its going to end even if we get only one more ballot! whoooaaaaahhhh

I was worried for a while because I didn't get an answer but just saw your e-mail so it's all good

i had to look at the mall again to make sure i didn't miss anyone, and i missed one! it wasn't yours tho, i just forgot to email you :)

person who i missed: you should have an email now too!

I am going to be off work in an hour, can I throw you a ballot then?

Once again I have not looked at ILX for a while and I would have said "of course" but you have since sent it so I will say "it has been counted!"

If anyone out there is reading this who also wants to do a last-minute ballot: I'll give you until tomorrow at noon(ish) (EST) before I for-real-for-real close the polling!

👍🏾

Will, that is an ace d/n btw!

sent a wee last minute ballot

haha thank you the timing between the "put total landscaping on the end of things" thread and the "listen to all of the kompakt total releases in order for no particular reason" decision i made last week was serendipitous

with jim's we have 24! so happy we got over 20 (still open to any others til noon btw)

ok that's a wrap then! I am gonna set it up tomorrow and tonight, hoooopefully ready to go thursday (or maybe even tomorrow!)

DieHARD GamePOLL - Console Poll, vol. 3 - 5th Generation RESULTS