Board 8 > Greatest Game Stories - Voting Topic

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KamikazePotato posted...

Submission received from Zylo.

Submissions can be changed at any time, so if you want to edit your choices just send me another PM.

oh man i might

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I was very adamant about not changing my list but I was reminded of a game I haven't played in ages, but most definitely should be on there.

Do I stick with my snap picks y/n

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Maybe

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It depends on what you're replacing and what you're replacing it with

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up

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KamikazePotato posted...

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I meant to start and finish Pathologic 2 before this closed.

I started it today! Finishing it is looking a bit less likely.

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Submissions received from linkhatesganon and hylianknight3.

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An appropriate pair, username-wise.

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Funnily enough, neither of you shared a single game in your votes.

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What's the highest number of games shared by two people?
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That would probably take a bit too much time to figure out as I would have to do it by hand with a lot of cross-referencing. In general though, there were a few people that voted in 'blocks', like almost all Nintendo games or almost Square RPGs. Some random games from different companies and genres overlapped as well for whatever reason. This didn't happen very often as people ended up supporting a lot of different games - I'm still getting new games voted for that no one else has supported in almost every submission.

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Submission received from UltimaterializerX.

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Nelson_Mandela posted...

So are we counting Mass Effect as one game or what

I'd say no, separate games.

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When is this going live?

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reminder that steinsgate is eligible

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pezzicle posted...

When is this going live?

voting ends tomorrow, so presumably then
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I might make some banners and weiteups but probably only for the Top 20 or so.

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Normally, I would love to do write-ups, but the very nature of this contest means you're going to be spoiling the shit out of every game anyone does one for.

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Hyped!!

Hot predix
FF VI
Umineko
Suikoden 2
AA3
Life is Strange

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List received from XIII_rocks...and what a list it was.

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KamikazePotato posted...

I might make some banners and weiteups but probably only for the Top 20 or so.

How much of the current top 10 have you played?
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I've played 27 out of the Top 30 games. Will outsource a writeup as necessary.

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Oh wow! That's an impressive ratio. I doubt I'll come close to that.
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I like playing story-centric games!

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Submission received from MetalmindStats.

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By the way I don't know if you've said what you're doing, but I would be interested in seeing a full list of the final scores even if it is literally just a list and you only do writeups for the top 25 or 50 or whatever
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Submission received from Raetsel_Lapin.

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Submission received from GANON1025. So close to 50 submissions...

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Now I feel like I have to figure out what my favorite game stories are. =x

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Submission received from azuarc. Assuming I'm counting correctly, that's 50 submission! Bring out the balloons and streamers!

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Nice!!

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That's a great amount!

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Congrats!

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Wish I'd held off a few hours so I could win the prize

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Submission received from TVontheRadio. Six hours remaining to vote!

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Submission from Great_Paul received.

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Submission received from tgs2.

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2.5 hours left. I *might* accept submissions past the deadline but don't count on it - I'm looking to get the Results topic started up tonight.

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So after looking at things, we have enough submissions for a proper Top 50 list. Wondering if I should stretch it further...theres a few big snubs that just missed the cut.

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Voting extended to 8:30 EST because of frequent GameFAQs downtime.

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I don't think there is anything wrong with your first post being a like, big list of the rest of the games and their point totals and if you want to write a small 200 word blurb about a few why not?

I think most of us want to see the entire list at some point

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I'll be posting the full points totals after the rest of the list is done. Immediately posting 140 games that DIDN'T make it would make it a bit too easy to predict what did.

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You could even do it tiered.

"Games that got 1 point"
Write a blurb if you see fit

"Games that got 2 points"
Blurb

Etc

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When will the first entry of the list be posted?
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KamikazePotato posted...

Inspired by a conversation on The Show about a potential Best Story contest, I decided to host a nomination topic maybe expecting 25 or so participants, but Board 8 really came out and showed their enthusiasm for the idea. 52 participants submitted a list of their Top 10 favorite stories, supporting 200 individual games across all submissions, producing a final list that personally speaking has a wide variety of games with excellent stories from all sorts of different genres, systems, and decades.

1. How was the list decided?
I initially weighted the voting for each Top 10 list in a +10, +9...+2, +1 way, but later changed the weighting to be more like +10, +9, +8.5...+5, +4. This helped out games that were on multiple lists but necessarily high on peoples lists, and ended up feeling much more fair.

Furthermore, I limited the final list to games with three or more supporters, as just two ardent supporters getting a game onto a list representative of all of Board 8 felt iffy. This only snubbed a few games, and that ones that were snubbed will be mentioned.

2. Why a Top 60?
Looking at how the submissions ended up, it just felt right. Any less snubbed some big names, any more and the points-per-game started to get really low.

3. The games at the beginning of the list dont seem to have many points.
The list ended up very top-heavy. I honestly could have made this a Top 30 and it would have made just as much sense, but decided to err on the side of including a lot of games, because why not? More fun that way.



Before we start, heres some fun facts!

1. Out of the 200 individual games supported across all lists, 106 were only supported by one person. Our tastes ended up being surprisingly varied! Of those 106 games, 10 received a single +4 vote (the lowest possible vote after points were weighted) from a single person.

2. Special note goes to Her Story, which received three +4 votes and nothing else. Not nearly enough to make the final list based on points, but hey, making that many lists is still praiseworthy.

3. Eight games received a single +10 vote and nothing else. They may not be the most popular kid in class, but theyre already found someone who loves them. They were:

Bastion
Bomberman 64: The Second Attack!
Lenna's Inception
Night in the Woods
Phantasy Star 2
Terranigma
The Beginner's Guide
The Longest Journey

4. Three games were featured in two submissions and would have barely made the final list if I hadnt implemented the at least three supporters rule. Sorry, but thems the breaks! They were:

Deus Ex
Sonic Adventure 2
80 Days

Special mention goes to Deus Ex, which received two +10 votes and nothing else. That...doesnt surprise me.

5. For a long time, the overall #1 spot was a tie between two games. I was disappointed when one of them ended up running away with it.

6. The Top 20 will all get banners and writeups.



Ill post some more fun facts throughout the topic if I think of some more. Without further ado, lets begin.

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Persona 3 didnt make it? WTF is wrong with board 8?

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