Board 8 > Game of Gen 8 - Nominations

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• You have 20 individual nominations to use toward any 8th generation game.
• There is currently no set amount of nominations needed to achieve placement in the bracket. Participation will be monitored and I will review the counts on Wednesday to determine what the amount should be set at.
• There are currently 64 open spots in the bracket. This will not change.
• As always, computer, arcade, and other types of games which don't specifically fit into generational identification are still eligible. Computer and arcade games released from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2020 are eligible.
• Since we're at the point of some games being released on multiple generations of consoles at the same time (Most stuff released recently has not been exclusive to gen 9, for example), games which released simultaneously for generation 8 and generation 9 consoles are not eligible for nomination. There will be another current generation contest following this, so that's where these games can be nominated.
• As well, Any games which may have been eligible for this bracket, but have already appeared in a prior contest, are not allowed. I don't think anything applies, but just being cautious.
• Possibly an unpopular rule: Switch is being removed from this generation to be used for the next contest. I can give a thorough explanation if someone really wants one, but it just kinda makes the most sense based on the timing of everything, so allow me to change the canon of real life just a little bit here.
• No compilations, side versions, or direct ports of prior gen games. All versions of Pokmon Sun and Moon are counting as the same even though Ultra Sun and Moon are technically better. And don't you dare nominate one of those lame-ass "remaster" collections of a bunch of Ubisoft 360 games.
• Games released exclusively in Japan (or some other non-English country) can be nominated, though they are completely eligible to be nominated for future generations as well, so long as their first worldwide appearance was in that separate generation. This was thrown in just in case people wanted to nominate Ace Attorney two generations ago. I have no idea if anything from this gen fits into this.
• No nomination changing after a game is locked into the bracket. This one won't come into effect until Wednesday, but I think it's kind of lame that we can take nominations away once they're set. You can still change your other nominations at any point, and you can put a nomination toward anything locked in for the sake of granting a higher seeding, we just can't be removing nominations from "safe" games.

• PlayStation 4
• Wii U
• XBOX One
• Nintendo 3DS
• PlayStation Vita

Boy the Switch really makes the eligibility rules complicated

but something like Baba Is You or Hades is NOT eligible (simultaneously released on Switch)

Oh, that's awkward, I always thought the Switch version of Baba came out later (I also thought that it was on other consoles besides Switch, huh...).

Carefully having to sidestep around the bizarre fact that some stuff like Outer Wilds is eligible, but something like Baba Is You or Hades is NOT eligible (simultaneously released on Switch)

Hades came out on PC before Switch

I didn't want to nominate Disco Elysium because of the awkwardness surrounding the fact that The Final Cut is really the definitive GOAT version of the game and it didn't come out until after the eligibility period

1. Batman: Arkham Knight
2. Bloodborne
3. Detention
4. Doki Doki Literature Club!
5. Doom Eternal
6. Dusk
7. The Evil Within 2
8. God of War
9. Hitman 2
10. The Last of Us Part II
11. Little Nightmares II
12. Observer
13. Outlast II
14. Red Dead Redemption 2
15. Resident Evil: Revelations
16. Resident Evil: Revelations 2
17. Resident Evil 2
18. Resident Evil VII: Biohazard
19. Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
20. Until Dawn

• Since we're at the point of some games being released on multiple generations of consoles at the same time (Most stuff released recently has not been exclusive to gen 9, for example), games which released simultaneously for generation 8 and PlayStation 5 and/or XBOX Series X consoles are not eligible for nomination. There will be another current generation contest following this, so that's where these games can be nominated. Games which released simultaneous with the Switch are eligible.

1. Blasphemous
2. DOOM (2016)
3. DOOM Eternal
4. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
5. Fire Emblem Awakening
6. Fire Emblem Fates (Conquest, if I have to be specific)
7. Hollow Knight
8. Kid Icarus: Uprising
9. Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain
10. Metroid: Samus Returns
11. NieR Replicant (PS4)
12. Persona 5
13. Persona 5 Strikers
14. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
15. Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked
16. Super Smash Bros. For Wii U
17. Tales of Berseria
18. Ys VIII: The Lacrymosa of Dana
19. Ys IX: Monstrum Nox
20. Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D

Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked

These don't count

I've not played but I thought this was an enhanced port?