Board 8 > Best Game of 2020 Tournament **Nomination Round**

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+10 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2
+9 Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory
+8 Paper Mario: The Origami King
+7 Final Fantasy VII Remake
+6 Spider-Man: Miles Morales
+5 Hades
+4 Animal Crossing: New Horizons
+3 Doom Eternal
+2 Bugsnax
+1 Death Come True

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Bump

THPS is ineligible; I can either count the other 9 as is or you can add a new +1 and bump everything up

Tony Hawk will get his chance in the smaller port/remaster bracket with P5 Royal and Xenoblade, among others

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+10 FF7 Remake
+9 Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV
+8 Animal Crossing: New Horizons
+7 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
+6 Hades
+ 5 Murder by Numbers
+4 Resident Evil 3 Remake
+3 Bugsnax
+2 The Last of Us 2
+1 Spelunky 2

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Updated my spreadsheet!

Current 1 seeds are FF7 Remake, Hades, Animal Crossing, and Ori!

There's still two games right behind Ori so get your nominations in while you can!

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THPS 1+2 should count imo. The amount of stuff you can do in the remake vs the original makes it a totally different game.

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+10 Animal Crossing: New Horizons
+9 Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity
+8 Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time
+7 The Last of Us Part II
+6 Doom Eternal
+5 Cyberpunk 2077
+4 Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
+3 Ghost of Tsushima
+2 Assassin's Creed Valhalla
+1 Half-Life: Alyx

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If possible, I would like to swap Fall Guys snd Paper Mario on my list, then insert Kentucky Rote Zero between them (so it goes Paper Mario, Kentucky Route Zero, Fall Guys).

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jcgamer107 posted...

THPS 1+2 should count imo. The amount of stuff you can do in the remake vs the original makes it a totally different game.

It's considered a remaster of two games, not a remake.

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Resident Evil 3

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ZeroSignal620 posted...

It's considered a remaster of two games, not a remake.

Well, by some! Cole Henry of Polygon called it "a lot more than just a remake" (https://www.polygon.com/2020/9/18/21440136/). The line between 'remaster' and 'remake' has always seemed ambiguous to me, and if this is just based on something like the Wikipedia article using the word 'remaster' a few more times than it uses 'remake', I think I'll just go and edit it so that's no longer the case. Also, given that 1+2 was put together in Unreal Engine, I'd be surprised if any of the original codebase is meaningfully intact, which is what I feel like the metric would usually be?

UPDATE

After further research, including such from the THPS' own web page, I will allow THPS1-2 in the contest. It's always been a complicated issue with ports/remasters, but as stated on various legitimate sites, the game was rebuilt from the ground up, not just polished graphics on a previously released game.

I still have you guys' nominations of TH on the side, and can even message a few if you still want to nominate it.

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change mine to

+10 Half-Life: Alyx
+9 Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory
+8 Super Mario Bros. 35
+7 Paper Mario: Origami King
+6 Ori and the Will of the Wisps
+5 Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity
+4 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2
+3 Hades
+2 Animal Crossing: New Horizons
+1 The Last of Us Part II

I'll change mine to:

+10 Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time
+9 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2
+8 Animal Crossing: New Horizons
+7 Half-Life: Alyx
+6 Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
+5 DBZ: Kakarot
+4 Mortal Shell
+3 Dreams
+2 Destroy All Humans!
+1 Mafia: Definitive Edition
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Thanks for reconsidering, ZeroSignal!

+10 Ori and the Will of the Wisps
+9 Coffee Talk
+8 DIRT 5
+7 In Other Waters
+6 DOOM Eternal
+5 Journey to the Savage Planet
+4 The Pedestrian
+3 art of rally
+2 Risk of Rain 2
+1 Carrion
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+9) Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time
+8) The Last of Us Part II
+7) Animal Crossing: New Horizons
+6) Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales
+5) Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity
+4) Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town
+3) Astro's Playroom
+2) Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
+1) Bugsnax

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Spreadsheet updated to include THPS 1-2 and other recently nominated titles

I'm gonna let this go until the weekend and have the bracket ready to go next week.

Also @sergiocornaga , could you link me to February 2003? I wanted to look it up like I do the rest of the games I'm unaware of, but Google isn't cooperating with me on that one

91 games nominated so far, but only 64 get in!

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ZeroSignal620 posted...

Also @sergiocornaga , could you link me to February 2003? I wanted to look it up like I do the rest of the games I'm unaware of, but Google isn't cooperating with me on that one

The game is very anti-searchable! It was intentionally uploaded to a couple of websites under two different names, "February 2003" and "Februrary 2003", and I basically chose which title to use here at random. The most up-to-date version lives here:
https://rpgmaker2003.itch.io/februrary

Also, this page reveals that I contributed to the game, and that nominating it was probably an ethical faux pas however, I did virtually nothing towards the game and only barely warrant crediting.

+10 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
+9 Resident Evil 3 Remake
+8 Doom Eternal
+7 The Last of Us Part 2
+6 Carrion
+5 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2
+4 Ori and the Will of the Wisps
+3 Nioh 2
+2 FF7 Remake
+1 Super Mario Bros. 35

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+10 Kentucky Route Zero
+9 Paradise Killer
+8 Hades
+7 Umurangi Generation
+6 Tales from Off-Peak City Vol. 1
+5 Welcome to Elk
+4 tomorrow won't come for those without
+3 Dpanneur Nocturne
+2 The Indifferent Wonder of an Edible Place
+1 Disc Room

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^^

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Alright after getting in a little more playtime, I have reranked my list. I dropped two of my nominations that clearly weren't getting in, replacing them with cool games that other people nominated. Looking forward to the next stage!

+10 Frog Fractions 3
+9 February 2003
+8 Spelunky 2
+7 Ikenfell
+6 Kentucky Route Zero
+5 Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1
+4 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
+3 Umurangi Generation
+2 Hylics 2
+1 Paradise Killer