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Topic	All 25 Best Game of the Year Tournaments discussed here, one time only!
ZeroSignal620 03/15/21 3:56:34 PM #57:	Best Game of 1998 https://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?1&tid=459669 Ran: July 2015 Overall top seed: Metal Gear Solid 1 seeds: MGS, Final Fantasy Tactics, Ocarina of Time, Pokemon Red/Blue Final Four: MGS, FFT, Banjo-Kazooie, Pokemon Red/Blue Ultimate Loser: Clock Tower II - The Struggle Within Championship: Pokemon RBY defeated FF Tactics 24-22 1998, an incredible year for gaming, and I finally run a tournament for it 16 years later. I was back from a mission and back from vacation, so once July hit, it was ON! Metal Gear Solid led the pack in nominees to secure the overall top seed, while the rest of the bracket was filled with classics from the Nintendo 64 and PlayStation. We also had a few get in from the PC, Game Boy, and even the Saturn! All in all, it shaped up to be an interesting and solid tournament. Also in a rare first time moment, Hellnight became the first non-American released game to appear in a tournament; I allowed its entry since the contest was retroactive. Round 1 went as expected, with only one seed below #10 winning a contest match; with a low seed of #11, Marvel vs Capcom dominated Fallout 2. Also in typical fashion, both 1998 wrestling hits WWF War Zone and WCW/nWo Revenge crapped out in round 1 to #10 seeds Space Station Silicon Valley and Einhander (as a fan of late 90s/early 2000s wrestling games, the better choices did win here). Finally, Panzer Dragoon Saga became the first Saturn game to reach the third round. Two major upsets occurred in round 2; the first being Yoshi's Story beating #2 seed Gran Turismo in sudden death, and the second one we'll discuss shortly. Metal Gear Solid dominated its region, blowing out Liero, Street Fighter Alpha 3, and Panzer Dragoon Saga before having a good 17-12 finish against Half-Life. Final Fantasy Tactics scored 80% on some Minigolf game before having fairly close bouts with Need for Speed III and F-Zero X before escaping Resident Evil 2 with a 9-8 win in the Elite Eight. Pokemon made easy work out of Daytona USA 2 and Soulcalibur before having a close match with Starcraft; the Starcraft match was nothing compared to Pokemon having to face Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped in the Elite Eight. Crash gave Pokemon a scare for two days, but ultimately RBY advanced with a 34-30 victory. So that other upset I said we'd discuss? It happened in Ocarina of Time's division. To this day, I'll never understand what happened, as one of the most highly acclaimed titles of the past 23 years missed the finals. So who beat OoT? Was it Banjo-Kazooie? Spyro the Dragon? Hell, was it Tomba? It was 1080 Snowboarding. Don't get me wrong, 1080 is fun to play. But an 8-7 victory over Ocarina of Time was definitely out of nowhere. I think a lot of it was anti-voting for the sake of anti-voting and Link ended up paying for it. With the top seed in that region gone, it was fair game for nearly anyone else. The end result was Banjo-Kazooie beating Spyro by 1 vote in overtime, and then nearly doubling Baldur's Gate for the last Final Four spot. Every match at the end was a hard hitter. Final Fantasy Tactics and Metal Gear Solid fought to the very end with Ramza and crew escaping Solid Snake by three votes. On the other side of the bracket, Banjo-Kazooie gave Pokemon a hard time, but would still come up short, losing 17-20. This of course sets up another shot for Final Fantasy in the championship, but it wasn't meant to be as Pokemon RBY gets the narrow victory by a score of 24-22. It goes without saying that Zelda and Pokemon might have had an epic match if I did this right after 1998 ended. The only problem with that is... 1) GameFAQs didn't have message boards until November 1999 2) The GameFAQs Contests Board didn't exist until Summer 2002 But it still had its moments. The low votals weren't the greatest the first few rounds, but it picked up once the Elite Eight hit. With that, I was done for a few months and didn't worry about another GotY until January of 2016... Rankings So Far 2008 2013 2011 2009 2000 2001 2010 1999 2003 2002 2004 2007 1998 2014 2012 2005 2006 --- Formerly known as Raven 2 https://twitch.tv/ZeroSignalX <cite>ZeroSignal620 posted [p:951739012] in All 25 Bes... [t:79297411]...</cite> <quote>Best Game of 1998 https://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?1&tid=459669 Ran: July 2015 Overall top seed: Metal Gear Solid 1 seeds: MGS, Final Fantasy Tactics, Ocarina of Time, Pokemon Red/Blue Final Four: MGS, FFT, Banjo-Kazooie, Pokemon Red/Blue Ultimate Loser: Clock Tower II - The Struggle Within Championship: Pokemon RBY defeated FF Tactics 24-22 1998, an incredible year for gaming, and I finally run a tournament for it 16 years later. I was back from a mission and back from vacation, so once July hit, it was ON! Metal Gear Solid led the pack in nominees to secure the overall top seed, while the rest of the bracket was filled with classics from the Nintendo 64 and PlayStation. We also had a few get in from the PC, Game Boy, and even the Saturn! All in all, it shaped up to be an interesting and solid tournament. Also in a rare first time moment, Hellnight became the first non-American released game to appear in a tournament; I allowed its entry since the contest was retroactive. Round 1 went as expected, with only one seed below #10 winning a contest match; with a low seed of #11, Marvel vs Capcom dominated Fallout 2. Also in typical fashion, both 1998 wrestling hits WWF War Zone and WCW/nWo Revenge crapped out in round 1 to #10 seeds Space Station Silicon Valley and Einhander (as a fan of late 90s/early 2000s wrestling games, the better choices did win here). Finally, Panzer Dragoon Saga became the first Saturn game to reach the third round. Two major upsets occurred in round 2; the first being Yoshi's Story beating #2 seed Gran Turismo in sudden death, and the second one we'll discuss shortly. Metal Gear Solid dominated its region, blowing out Liero, Street Fighter Alpha 3, and Panzer Dragoon Saga before having a good 17-12 finish against Half-Life. Final Fantasy Tactics scored 80% on some Minigolf game before having fairly close bouts with Need for Speed III and F-Zero X before escaping Resident Evil 2 with a 9-8 win in the Elite Eight. Pokemon made easy work out of Daytona USA 2 and Soulcalibur before having a close match with Starcraft; the Starcraft match was nothing compared to Pokemon having to face Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped in the Elite Eight. Crash gave Pokemon a scare for two days, but ultimately RBY advanced with a 34-30 victory. So that other upset I said we'd discuss? It happened in Ocarina of Time's division. To this day, I'll never understand what happened, as one of the most highly acclaimed titles of the past 23 years missed the finals. So who beat OoT? Was it Banjo-Kazooie? Spyro the Dragon? Hell, was it Tomba? It was 1080 Snowboarding. Don't get me wrong, 1080 is fun to play. But an 8-7 victory over Ocarina of Time was definitely out of nowhere. I think a lot of it was anti-voting for the sake of anti-voting and Link ended up paying for it. With the top seed in that region gone, it was fair game for nearly anyone else. The end result was Banjo-Kazooie beating Spyro by 1 vote in overtime, and then nearly doubling Baldur's Gate for the last Final Four spot. Every match at the end was a hard hitter. Final Fantasy Tactics and Metal Gear Solid fought to the very end with Ramza and crew escaping Solid Snake by three votes. On the other side of the bracket, Banjo-Kazooie gave Pokemon a hard time, but would still come up short, losing 17-20. This of course sets up another shot for Final Fantasy in the championship, but it wasn't meant to be as Pokemon RBY gets the narrow victory by a score of 24-22. It goes without saying that Zelda and Pokemon might have had an epic match if I did this right after 1998 ended. The only problem with that is... 1) GameFAQs didn't have message boards until November 1999 2) The GameFAQs Contests Board didn't exist until Summer 2002 But it still had its moments. The low votals weren't the greatest the first few rounds, but it picked up once the Elite Eight hit. With that, I was done for a few months and didn't worry about another GotY until January of 2016... Rankings So Far 2008 2013 2011 2009 2000 2001 2010 1999 2003 2002 2004 2007 1998 2014 2012 2005 2006 --- Formerly known as Raven 2 https://twitch.tv/ZeroSignalX</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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