C3 Game of the Decade Final Poll!

Blimey that was a slog. This is it. That wasn\'t it. THIS is it. Right here. Right now. Here. You\'re looking at it.

^That\'s it.^

Here they are, in chronological order...

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Majora\'s Mask

Shenmue II

Super Smash Bros Melee

\'But what about Brawl?!\' In the same way Shenmue and Shenmue II are the same, Brawl IS Melee. Brawl\'s comprehensive fan-service is staggering, but elementary faults such as flawed online multiplayer mean it simply doesn\'t surpass its predecessor in any meaningful way, and therefore doesn\'t warrant inclusion - not at the expense of something else. It wouldn\'t sit right on my conscience. I\'m a delicate soul.

Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

Half-Life 2

Resident Evil 4

Okami

Super Mario Galaxy

Braid

Street Fighter IV

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And that\'s your lot. A diverse collection - I\'m impressed with you all Executive decisions were made with a couple of them - I thought three Zelda games was pushing it, and I refuse to have Melee and Brawl in there when there\'s a tie! So, discuss, debate and vote for your favourite C3 multi-platform Game of the Decade (as opposed to the C3 Nintendo Game of the Decade that\'s coincidentally popped up from nowhere - surely I own this fresh and original concept?!) and we\'ll be done and dusted. If there\'s any game on this list you haven\'t tried then go treat yourself damnit! It\'ll be nothing less than exceptional.

( Edited 08.01.2010 00:34 by dartmonkey )

I understand decisions had to be made where there were draws, but if you had somehow kicked Majora\'s Mask out, I would hunt you down... and kick your ass.

So yeah my vote is pretty obvious. I also expect the result to be the same for a hypothetical \"greatest game of all time\" poll. Colon three.

PS. I still feel 2009 should have had a bit more time. Honestly I can\'t believe Street Fighter IV beat the likes of Uncharted 2.

( Edited 08.01.2010 00:44 by Toon SuperLink )

True about 2009. But I'm a busy man. Already I've been beaten to the finish line by those wiley C3 staffers. Anyone who was gonna vote probably already did. And Uncharted wasn't going to catch up. Three Zeldas is greedy. And Batman is Gears in fancy dress. So Chun-Li wins.

Had to go with Melee. Tough choice between it an Half Life 2 though. However, my pick would have been Metroid Prime but ce la vie.

Majora's Mask ftw!

I couldn't stand HL2. I'll try to give it another chance soonish, but I just couldn't get into it at all. Felt like a run of the mill FPS.

For me its between Galaxy, RE4, and Melee. I'm leaning toward Melee at the moment. No other game that I've ever played has captivated my attention so completely for such a long time.

Oh, and to all of you who voted Wind Waker over Metroid Prime:

Had to go with HL2. Yes, it might have not been the best FPS ever created, but it ushered in the Havok Physics Engine, which changed gaming forever. Without HL2, games such as L4D, TF2, Brawl, Company of Heroes, The Force Unleashed, and the soon-to-be Diablo III would never have been possible, or would never look as amazing and be as fun as they were.

Quite a few games that I truly love up there, and I haven't played all of those listed.

My faves in the list include Majora's Mask, Shenmue II, RE4, Wind Waker, Smash Melee and Mario Galaxy.

But I voted for Majora's Mask in the end, simply because I'd not played a game with so much emotion in it, and more thought has gone into it than you first realise. I loved how it was different to Ocarina of Time in that there was more emphasis on stuff to do in between dungeons and the side quests, and the way that every single character in the game had a background. They really made you want to save Termina in the end. Plus, I actually loved the 3-day time limit. It was unique and added some more thought and panic to your play time.

I've only played 3 of those games, 2 of them being the top 2, so I'm not entirely sure if my vote counts, but I must say that Majora's Mask was most splendid; most splendid indeed.

I'm torn between Mario Galaxy and Half-Life 2.

I enjoy shooters, but sometimes I get jaded and think "Why am I shooting everything, again?" I always felt like I was serving a purpose in Half-Life 2. The characters are wonderfully deep and nuanced. Good voice-acting helped that a lot, I think. There were some really neat things with the physics (like using the physics to basically weigh down one end of a see-saw so that you will be lifted up. And the awesomeness of the gravity gun in general). The story is good, but the real credit is the way the story is told. I always feel like I'm apart of the story, not just watching.

Mario Galaxy is just a ton of fun to play. Bunches of pretty colors everywhere. Cool level designs and the concept of gravity in this game is really fun. It's what a good game should strive for-fun.

I think I'm actually going to wait a little while and see which one has a better chance of winning. No need to waste my vote on a game that probably won't win. Right now, HL2 has one vote and Mario Galaxy has a whopping zero.

I'm shocked a GTA or Modern Warfare didn't make it in, and also that Street Fighter did.

Overall all the obvious contenders are in sight. It's a difficult choice, and had GTA4 or CoD:MW been in there I'd probably have gone with one of those. But of that list, Resident Evil 4 just edges it for me.

Half-Life 2, Shenmue 2 were brilliant, but RE4 was such an excellent refinement of the series. Majoras Mask probably would have been close, had I ever got round to playing it this decade.

Chose mario galaxy cause I played that game so much when I got it and bloody enjoyed it so much. However it was tough to choose because of melee, majoras mask and resident evil 4 XD

( Edited 08.01.2010 21:46 by LKR000 )

Roll-up, roll-up, get them votes in so I can kill this thing dead.

I'm having trouble deciding. Galaxy, MM, Half-Life, Braid, RE4... if I had to play nothing else til I die, which would it be? They'd all get boring eventually. Hmm.

I\'m just going to come out and say it.

Am I the only one detecting a little foulplay/manipulation with the votes? I use the Feeds section of the site which lets you know if someone has voted in a poll. I first noticed something when Shenmue II went from 3rd place to 1st place without a single vote popping up on the Feeds section.

Not a single vote has been posted for this thread for days now, and Shenmue II has gone from 8 to 11, while none of the other games have had any additional votes at all.

I love Shenmue II but if this vote ends unfairly it wouldn\'t be fair to C3 or the credibility of these threads.

On the other hand if 11 members can truthfully say they voted Shenmue II I\'d be willing to admit that I\'m far too paranoid.

EDIT: I know it\'s not my place to say Mr Monkey, but I probably couldn\'t play Braid for a week on end, let alone all time. Because eventually I\'d start trying those speed runs... and eventually I\'d start breaking things.

( Edited 13.01.2010 10:21 by Toon SuperLink )

Guests can't vote can they? Otherwise that might be it.

Bastardman said:
Guests can't vote can they? Otherwise that might be it.

It's just very fishy to me.

Damn Portal didn't make it, Voted for Mario Galaxy

I vote Melee, though it\'s certainly a toughie between HL2, Majora\'s Mask and Wind Waker. My personal game of the decade is probably Pokemon Sapphire though.

( Edited 13.01.2010 11:20 by Ikana )

Now Melee's zoomed from 5 to 12 O:
My brother tried voting on the PC as a Guest and it worked. So that means Guests can definitely vote...

I'm not sure I like that Guests can vote on Forum Polls since that way people can just vote from every internet enabled device they own.

Like right now I could go on my DS and Wii and PS3 and PSP and iPod and get 5 more votes for MM :/
(But I'm not going to)

Well if guests can vote then this poll has lost the credibility of being C3's Game of the Decade.

Super Smash Bros. Game of the decade?

Oh God.

I couldn't stand HL2. I'll try to give it another chance soonish, but I just couldn't get into it at all. Felt like a run of the mill FPS.

Thats exactly the state of mind that I had before I was played the game, but then my friend forced it onto me. My stubborness did not win out and it has turned out to be the greatest single player FPS experience of my life. Its gameplay just tires above so many other shooters, take the COD series in single player, I find them so boring because its just shooting the enemies till they stop respwaning then doing it again a few metres on it requires so little thought power. Yet HL2 has so much variety. Starts of with you runnning through the back streets avoiding the combine, moves on to a vehicle section on water involving many puzzles, then you're fighting zombies with the gravity gun (one of the best weapons ever conceived), then you're driving some go-kart through beaches with strange creatures attacking you and crap loads more stuff happens after that, the game is just constantly throwing new things at you which is something 95% if FPS games dont do.

Despite all that I voted for melee. Just wanted to say thats how you get an FPS done right.

What's with the lack of Resi 4 love? Didn't everybody completely bum it when it came out?

It still has only 1 vote? Surely more people have voted for it?

Well, it was between Mario Galaxy and Half Life 2 for me, and the former won my vote.