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archbrix on 16 August 2011
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Michael-5 said:

You killed Mass Effect pre-maturely, you know it, and you did it just so Bioshock could come above it.

I did not kill ME prematurely.  I never voted against it once until towards the end of the game.  But obviously I voted against it when it and the other games left were a threat to Bioshock winning, which is what I felt should win.  THAT'S HOW THE GAME IS PLAYED.  What you're saying is equal to a football coach saying, "Well, we would have won the game... if only the other team hadn't scored so many touchdowns on us."  Seriously, what kind of logic is that?

... and at the end of voting, people like you made sure to vote every 3 hours to garentee their game a position.

Yeah, it's called passionately defending what you believe should win.  Granted I happened to have the last couple of weeks pretty free and was able to vote a lot, but again, others were free to do the same, and many did.

It's allowing bias, and I'm really curious to see which game people respect the most. If I made a poll right away, how would I know which games to include?

Again, just make a thread where everyone posts their top 5 favorite games just once, tally up the five most mentioned games in the thread and put them in a poll for a final vote.  Simple.

I'm not a fan of Bioshock, but it came 4th, and your not the only one who voted for it. I have no hate for the franchise, just when there were only 10 games left, I felt Bioshock was the worst. I was being fair, and although you did play within the rules, you did sqew the results. It's like playing basketball and shooting against your team. It's within the rules, but not sportman conduct.

First off, I couldn't care less what your opinion of Bioshock is.  Yo John, for example, stated that he loved Bioshock, but loved Mass Effect more.  When he voted down Bioshock, he did it because he wanted Mass Effect to win, and I respect that.  I never said you were not being fair, I'm saying I didn't skew the results AT ALL.  Not even a little bit.  And your basketball analogy is horribly incorrect.  Instead, it's exactly like saying you recognize the opposing team's best player as a threat, but refuse to have your best player guard him because you should respect his abilities because he's good.  That's not how you win games, that's dumb.  One more time with feeling... IT'S AN ELIMINATION THREAD, not the "Everyone guess Michael's favorite game thread".  If that many people wanted Bioshock gone, it would've been gone, plain and simple, no matter what I did.  You just can't bring yourself to see that, making silly excuses instead.

The thing that's so ironic is that you call my method unsporting, when it is you sir, not I, who is demonstrating that trait in spades with your hissy-fit about your favorite game not winning.  It's one thing to voice your disappointment with the results like many of the other players have done; I'm disappointed my favorite didn't win, too.  But it's quite another to say, "No, it didn't come out the way I wanted", cry foul and arrange a do-over until you get your desired outcome.  That's just childish...