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sundin13 on 13 July 2014
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*Sound Of Rain said:
sundin13 said:

My two cents for future games:

While this would be a little more work for everyone involved, I believe that there are some changes that need to be made (or that I want to be made) to make these games better and more fair. First of all, I think making players include a reason why they are voting the way they are would be a good course of action to generate more discussion. However, this may become a bit of a mess if it remains a free for all, so some sort of tiering system may work best, at least in the beginning. If you pitted a few games against each other each day, and only allowed one vote per day, that would encourage discussion and keep the game from being washed by over-enthusiastic fans. Doing this, you could get it so maybe the top two Nintendo games/Sony games/MS games/3rd party games made it into the finals before they started fighting each other...

A tier system? I guess that would work to eliminate bias but what if the top 2 people like are in the same round? One would have to be eliminated soon. I'd probably do it if I actually did another game where all games are counted.

Well you either have to go through the work of setting up the tiering by redoing the "best of first party" threads that you did a few years ago, or do internal tiering (say, put the top 5 Nintendo games against each other and have the top two move onto finals etc). Additionally, you could throw together similar games to see which comes out on top before throwing whoever is left into the finals.

My bigger point was that I think we should make people include a reason for voting the way they are to promote discussion.

Basically, the point of threads like this is to have fun, not to decide what series is actually the best, so implementing too many rules to make it "fair" kinda ruins that. I think that promoting discussion would make these games more fun, and if tiering is the way to do that, so be it. Overall, it doesn't really matter who wins, and it matters even less who comes in second, third etc. That forum game that I linked was probably the most fun I've ever had on forums and I got into a good number of in depth conversations about why I like/dont like certain anime...I think that is what you should strive to be. Of course it is your decision, but I think it would be the best route to go down...