From: Lightning Strikes | Posted: 10/21/2011 11:40:24 AM | #133
The people who tend to play cult games have a very different set of biases to the general public
Everyone is biased to a degree. A game appeals to those who like its genre and in this contest if the fans of that genre like the way the game followed through with its genre enough then they are going to vote for it.
Not all VNs made it very far, indicating that their biases are not as terrible as you argue. Would Farming Simulator 2011 win because of people biased to vote it?(http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-farming-simulator-2011/17-3554/) Not...really. Even people who are biased towards it because, let's say they are farmers who like bad games, would still vote for other games over it because the bias they have for farming games is not enough to overcome the sheer difference between the two.
You made some valid points and I get where you are coming from, but we disagree on this: you are demonizing being "biased" a bit too much. Everyone is biased towards one genre. Not all visual novel fans are biased to the point where their votes don't even matter, as proven by the bracket.
The contest isn't perfect, I agree, but the only perfect way to run a contest would be to lock all voters inside a chamber, force them to play both games before voting, then discount all votes for "C)Suicide."
I think the result is pretty fair considering Ever17 apparently appealed to fans of one genre in the best way it could and the fans were large enough in number to make it matter. I never read/played it, and frankly didn't like 999 that much. But I'm just not seeing the complaints everyone else is making.
(Not meaning for the post to come off as confrontational, so sorry if it does)