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Battle of the Arcades Games Poll
VON:
Maybe this poll will hurt some feelings, but I really don't care. You make me play Zaxxon and Mappy and you're going to hear about it. I'm also interested to see which games don't get votes, because I'm fairly certain some of these titles are objectively awesome.
Everyone gets three votes, and please detail why you chose the titles you did.
My picks: Zaxxon (with a big #1 for worst game), Mappy, and Q*bert.
Zaxxon and Q*bert get my vote primarily because I don't engage well with the isometrics. In Zaxxon, I can't gauge my vertical position unless I'm firing, which is stupid, and in Q*bert, the board is constantly inverting on me, which obviously makes things less fun.
Mappy is just slow for me and ultimately not a rewarding gameplay experience. Some players probably get a little excitement when they hammer all the kitties and Goro with one of the microwave doors for a big bonus, but I just don't care. I just want the game to be over. I'm so bored of jumping on trampolines.
I will revisit some of the BotA games for my personal enjoyment after the tournament is over. I will never play Zaxxon, Mappy or Q*Bert again unless they appear in future tournaments.
(Sorry Ken. I know how hard you work to setup the BotA and I hope you don't take this criticism of your game selection to be an attack on you. Different strokes for different folks. And, for what it's worth, I also find Elevator Action incredibly tedious and slow, and Rally-X on Medium is just painful. After Zaxxon and Mappy, there was some serious competition for my third vote.)
SanTe:
Rally-X, Gravitar, and Zaxxon for me, in that order. And they all just barely beat out DK3 (boring shooter).
I got my fill of Zaxxon on my Commodore 64 as a kid. It was a great port, and strangely I think it's better than the arcade version, more fun somehow. Well, as fun as Zaxxon can be.
Rally-X just isn't fun to me. I never saw it BITD, but there was a rip-off of it for the C64 called Radar Rat Race. Basically the same game. I played it a lot since it was one of the few games I had at the time. Didn't like it then, don't like it now, so Rally-X just brings up bad memories.
Gravitar I've tried once or twice and it just isn't interesting or enjoyable to me at all. I know it has its fans, though, and this may be one of those titles that I'd grow to like a lot if I put time into figuring it out and not sucking so bad at it. Defender are Stargate are like that for me. Played a game of Defender at Dorky's in Tacoma a few nights ago and busted 10k for the first time in my life. I was thrilled, but not enough to want to play again. It's always been a one-and-done game for me, just like Gravitar.
--- Quote from: VON on February 16, 2014, 10:57:36 am ---And, for what it's worth, I also find Elevator Action incredibly tedious and slow
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It is for the first couple of buildings. After that it gets faster and more interesting, but it also gets stupid hard. If you enjoy overcoming stupid hard, stick with it and just grit your teeth through the first couple of buildings. I know you do the same for the first four levels of DK and that takes a lot longer.
Kudos to Ken for all he does in helping to organize BOTA, acquiring and fixing the selected games, and hosting practice sessions along with the event itself for the Pacific Northwest team. It's a ton of work. I don't want to see any hurt feelings either, but I think we can acknowledge that with 30+ players and 12 games in each BOTA it is always going to be impossible to please everybody. I felt like I hit the jackpot with the first BOTA because there wasn't a single game I disliked, but I knew then that the law of averages would catch up in the future. It's all good.
VON:
--- Quote from: SanTe on February 16, 2014, 12:35:21 pm ---Kudos to Ken for all he does in helping to organize BOTA, acquiring and fixing the selected games, and hosting practice sessions along with the event itself for the Pacific Northwest team. It's a ton of work. I don't want to see any hurt feelings either, but I think we can acknowledge that with 30+ players and 12 games in each BOTA it is always going to be impossible to please everybody.
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Indeed. And I didn't mean it when I said:
--- Quote from: VON on February 16, 2014, 10:57:36 am ---Maybe this poll will hurt some feelings, but I really don't care.
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Obviously I care, but this poll's intent is not directed at anyone or any game in particular. I was just curious, and I do hope it produces some interesting numbers.
One of the Battle's best features is that it forces me to play EVERYTHING, and, regardless of how I feel about any one game, I need to at least try and get better for my team. In some cases the BotA experience has even opened my eyes to games I previously disliked, or thought I disliked - Phoenix was like this for me last year, that game is alright.
So, thanks to Ken, Steve, Richie, Doc mack, all the players, and anyone else I am forgetting. Tournaments can be charanging, but in the end, fun always wins out in the BotA <-- I can promise you this.
--- Quote from: Scoundrl on February 16, 2014, 12:59:59 pm ---Its ok Brian..err I mean Ross.... Not everyone can be positive and not everyone knows a good game when they play it.
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Love it.
marinomitch13:
I find that most games I do not initially like. However, as I acquire skills and knowledge of them, and begin to master their distinct and different nuances of gameplay, they become more enjoyable. Breaking down games into their more fundamental pieces (both in terms of skills and strategies) and working your way up, mastering each component one at time, becomes fun for me when looked at in that light. I guess, in that sense, I'm more into enjoying the *method* behind mastering games tan necessarily the games themselves (though there are exceptions) -which helps when some games seem to royally suck at first.
TheSunshineFund:
I voted for Dig Dug, Mappy and Descent. Kappa
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