Darashiva on 15 January 2018
| TK14 said: The one game per franchise rule is kind of unfair, tbh. You should just have us vote for the franchises with the best music rather than singular games, in that case. All 3 Xenoblade games have great OSTs for example, but since people can only pick one of them on their list, they may not all get recognized. Similarly, multiple Zelda games would be on my list, and for that franchise in particular people are having to pick just one game out of more than a dozen fantastic options, thus decreasing the likelihood of any single one of them scoring as high as they probably would otherwise. Conversely, a singular game (ie. the only one in a franchise) with a great OST, like The World Ends With You as an example, has an advantage. This rule very clearly favors games that are part of smaller/shorter-lived franchises, and harms larger franchises that have multiple games worthy of voting for. By your rules: 1. Xenoblade Chronicles 2 2. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3. The Last Story 4. Fire Emblem: Awakening 5. Kid Icarus: Uprising 6. Super Mario Galaxy 7. Mario Kart 8 8. Pokemon Sun/Moon 9. Splatoon 10. ARMS My actual top 10: 1. Xenoblade Chronicles 2 2. Xenoblade Chronicles 3. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 4. The Last Story 5. Xenoblade Chronicles X 6. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker 7. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword 8. Fire Emblem: Awakening 9. Kid Icarus: Uprising 10. Super Mario Galaxy |
It is exactly for that reason that the rule is in place. If it wasn't most of the list would be filled with nothing but Zelda, Final Fantasy, and a handful of other series, while less popular series would get completely overlooked. And judging by the votes I've gotten so far, there is most definitely going to be no shortage of Zelda or Xenoblade in the top 50.
