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

(it was my highest-ranked fps.)

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56 - Crash Bandicoot - 147 points / 3 Votes

whatever it is, someone seems to like it about as much as i do NiD
hi!

― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, November 11, 2020 3:28 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

mystery solved. the three voters were
1. polyphonic
2. abanana
3. polyphonic

DON'T SCARE ME LIKE THAT I HAD TO GO THRU ALL OF THE BALLOTS AGAIN (and found that i didn't count one vote for one game, but thank god it would not have placed anyway)

Crash is Poochie, but the game itself is really good as regards you can make your way through most of it fairly easily, but 100% was incredibly difficult.

sorry i thought chihuahuau was saying they voted for it

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55 - 1080º Snowboarding - 155 points / 3 Votes

voted for this cuz i was a nintendo kid and this was our consolation for not getting tony hawk.

I voted for it cuz it was rad

I like that "Ten Eighty" is written on the box in case somebody comes into Blockbuster asking for "One Thousand Eighty Snowboarding"

One Thousand Eighty Snowboarding Starring Ten Eighty

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54 - Twisted Metal 2 - 156 points / 3 Votes

nswf bukkake on the back of that 1080 box, yikes

three left today! one of which i will howl "too low" about for hours

i voted for OG twisted metal (although i've always heard 2 is better, i never played it), but put vigilante 8 above them both

One of my favorite Tim Rogers bits is where he describes the box art of Twisted Metal from memory

ha i’ve only played 2 so i voted for that with a sinking feeling cuz yeah a very vulnerable franchise to vote-splitting. don’t actually know which is the best iteration but an extremely durable concept, better if less murderously executed here than in carmageddon, and probably the second-funnest multiplayer experience i’ve had on ps1.

what is the modern-day twisted metal-like game? cars morphed into soccar-players in Rocket League, but an update on the old car-weapon genre would be so much fun

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53 - Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus - 161 points / 3 Votes

never played this one, though i did vote for the first one (Oddysee)

they remade carmageddon semirecently; looked kinda shovelware. battle mode in various mariokarts has carried the torch i guess.

doing some dubious "vote-splitting" math right now which i will post at the end, and from initial glance, the oddworld duology suffered most harshly from votesplitting -- had people who only voted for oddyssey voted for exxodus instead, and those who ranked oddysssey over exxodus had flipped their votes, this game would be 31st!

also how many different ways can i spell that game's name wrong?

lol on top of the actual vote-splitting: i wanted to hunt down an oddysey before the poll but couldn’t decide which so didn’t. couldn’t remember which one a friend in middle school evangelized to me either. prob the first. looks great.

an oddworld, i mean

starring abe

hello

follow me

okay

They're all on Steam, along with Munch's Oddysee and Stranger's Wrath - separately or together for £9.99

*deep breath*

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52 - Suikoden II - 162 points / 3 Votes

TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

Jordan, I think you mean Turok: Dinosaur Hunter: Staring Turok: Dinosaur Hunter

lol

Turok: Dinosaur Hunter Total Landscaping

re Abe + Steam, yeah i picked up the first one on Steam, just as hard as I remember.

I also still have my original ps1 disk which will still freeze all day long at the point where you first get that mount to ride, and when you do the first jump with it.

damn, i found space for Suikoden II and i've barely even played it! seriously what is wrong with you all

very nearly my number one and very nearly my favourite jrpg of all time. once i figure out how i am gonna do it, i am absolutely playing this game again in the near future. the best of trad jrpg + fire emblem style games + pokemon (gotta collect all 108 stars of destiny!)

theyre foolish karl malone

should play abe on steam but was on a strict original-hardware regimen for this poll (well, a fat ps2, so original-processor at least).

how am i supposed to keep up with all the jrpgs from this period. i couldn’t vote for xenogears either. sigh, making a note.

The more I think about them the fonder I become - the fully imagined world, the lovely (fsvo) visuals, the interesting mechanics (that indeed no other game wants) - I went back and checked and I'm glad that Odyssee is my highest-rated game so far, at 7. And I'm not surprised that they've recently largely just remastered them for modern consoles.

you can watch some Let's Plays and hold the old PS1 controller, pretending to grind through all the random encounters yourself. attack! attack! spell! heal!

xp

DLH i'll make you a list at the end of what you should play in descending order of "how dare you"

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51 - Guardian Heroes - 165 points / 3 Votes

yeah i couldn't find a real magazine ad for that one either sorry everyone!

RECAP DAY 1:

51 - Guardian Heroes - 165 points / 3 Votes
52 - Suikoden II - 162 points / 3 Votes
53 - Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus - 161 points / 3 Votes
54 - Twisted Metal 2 - 156 points / 3 Votes
55 - 1080º Snowboarding - 155 points / 3 Votes
56 - Crash Bandicoot - 147 points / 3 Votes
57 - Turok: Dinosaur Hunter - 145 points / 3 Votes
58 - Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee - 144 points / 3 Votes
59 - Tekken 2 - 143 points / 4 Votes
60 - Alundra - 143 points / 3 Votes
61 - Dragon Force - 138 points / 2 Votes
62 - Einhander - 132 points / 3 Votes
63 - Die Hard Arcade - 132 points / 2 Votes
64 - Tomb Raider 2 - 131 points / 4 Votes
65 - F-Zero X - 130 points / 2 Votes
66 - NiGHTS into Dreams - 126 points / 2 Votes
66 - No One Can Stop Mr. Domino - 126 points / 2 Votes
66 - Virtua Fighter 2 - 126 points / 2 Votes
69 - Metal Slug - 119 points / 3 Votes
70 - Tenchu: Stealth Assassins - 115 points / 3 Votes
71 - Heart of Darkness - 114 points / 2 Votes
72 - Diablo - 112 points / 2 Votes
72 - WWF Wrestlemania 2000 - 112 points / 2 Votes
74 - Colony Wars - 110 points / 2 Votes
75 - Daytona USA - 107 points / 2 Votes
76 - Driver - 106 points / 3 Votes
77 - Front Mission 3 - 103 points / 2 Votes

TOMORROW: 50-26
FRIDAY: 25-1

Splendid stuff!

yah highlight of my week will

Thanks Will!

yeah, good stuff!

That's a good rollout, thanks!

7 of my ballot has shown up so far, I am not at this point worried that any of rest won't place. By this time tomorrow - that will change!

don't thank me yet -- you might get REAL MAD AT THE LATER RESULTS (although i suppose that's only 4% my fault and 96% your collective faults)!