Videogame Deathmatch Round 2 NB *Read op before voting*

Sparks43

Round 2 now underway

Following on from last week please cast a vote in all 4 matches

To the representatives of the games please post why your game should be chosen over your opponent

Best of luck to all

Rules

No Discussion
Vote for each match in the poll (4 in all)
Matches decided by most votes
This round closes when the poll does next Monday




Match 1: Boulder Dash vs Ico
Match 2: Super Mario World vs Bubble Bobble
Match 3: Half Life vs Metal Slug
Match 4: Resident Evil vs Mario Kart Double Dash

OwaynOTT

Match 4: Resident Evil

The lack of votes for a game that lets you battle it out on top of a gamecube for a frenzied balloon popping experience, is shocking.

No other kart racing game comes close to Double Dash and I cannot think of another multiplayer game, apart from Bomberman maybe, that is the case of so many fun induced comas.

The visuals are on par with the Wii version that came out a good few years later and when you compare it to Mario Kart64, the jump in looks was shocking.

Okay it has flaws, as the best driver will not always win due to people hanging back and collecting stars and mushrooms but that can even add to the fun. And it isn't a basic racer either, there is variations to play around with - car size, drivers combinations, weapons, weight and cuteness.

It also has features that were missing in Mario Kart Wii which bugged me a lot. Can't have just four player battle modes any more, random feature gone and no option to play more than four races in one league.

Is Double Dash better than Resident Evil? No probably not but is Resident Evil better? One is a highly innovative game, the other is just one in a series of games. But Double Dash is the pinnacle of the Mario Kart series and to fairly judge these games against each other, you have to compare the two franchises. Both have started of a genre of games, or at least made them a mainstream success, be it survival horror or kart racing.
The questions you need to ask yourself before you vote is:

-Which series over the last 15-20 years have I played more?
-enjoyed more?
-went back to again and again?

Mario Kart Double Dash is pure fun distilled into a little tiny disc.

Retr0gamer

Match 4: Mario Kart Double Dash

Mario Kart's elastic band AI needs to die in a fire.

o1s1n

Match 4: Mario Kart Double Dash

A vote for Metal Slug is a vote for monkeys with submachine guns!



A vote for Half Life is a vote for Hitler!

A vote for Metal Slug is a vote for this -

(I'd put NSFW tags, but come on, it's from a NES game!)

http://www.encyclopedia-obscura.com/gameshorror.html

Steve X2

Match 4: Resident Evil

o1s1n wrote: »

A vote for Metal Slug is a vote for monkeys with submachine guns!



A vote for Half Life is a vote for Hitler!

A vote for Metal Slug is a vote for this -

(I'd put NSFW tags, but come on, it's from a NES game!)

http://www.encyclopedia-obscura.com/gameshorror.html

It's up against Half Life, I love Half Life.
But I've played Half Life maybe 2 times in the last year. I've played Metal Slug 2 times in the last week.
So Metal Slug gets my vote.


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Jack burton

Match 4: Mario Kart Double Dash

Metal Slug is a great game...But not as great as Half Life.

Make you vote as a free man!

CiDeRmAn

Match 4: Mario Kart Double Dash

A vote for Freeman is a vote for all bespectacled heroes everywhere, like me!

OwaynOTT

Match 4: Resident Evil

A vote for Double Dash satisfies the principle of utility. Maximise the happiness folks, maximise it to the maximum!

Sparks43

Match 3: Metal Slug

A vote for Boulder Dash is a vote for Common sense in its truest form

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but Boulder Dash lives on.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Ico and the abyss.

Let every Member know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of Boulder Dash.

And so, my fellow Boardsies: ask not what your Boulder Dash can do for you - ask what you can do for Boulder Dash.

CiDeRmAn

Match 4: Mario Kart Double Dash

Sparks43 wrote: »

A vote for Boulder Dash is a vote for Common sense in its truest form

And yet, of 20 votes cast, only 4 have voted for your beloved Boulder Dash...
20%, that means that 80% of retro gaming experts, that's the us, feel that Ico, my choice for greatest game, is superior...

Wow Sparks43, sucks to be you!

Sparks43

Match 3: Metal Slug

Bumpy last chance too vote

If any match ends in a tie then Boulder Dash replaces both :pac:

Jack burton

Match 4: Mario Kart Double Dash

Remember people, be a free man!

o1s1n

Match 4: Mario Kart Double Dash

A vote for Half Life is a vote for gingers.

Jack burton

Match 4: Mario Kart Double Dash

and cool little beards

CiDeRmAn

Match 4: Mario Kart Double Dash

Don't you know it....

Come on Sparks, must be time to put Boulder Dash out of it's misery!

Sparks43

Match 3: Metal Slug

Semi finals coming soon


My bed is calling me so i cant get the thread done tonight :eek:

OwaynOTT

Match 4: Resident Evil

It's a fix!

o1s1n

Match 4: Mario Kart Double Dash

Half Life has one more vote than Metal Slug?!

Feckin' ginger lovers

Andrew76

Match 4: Mario Kart Double Dash

o1s1n wrote: »

Half Life has one more vote than Metal Slug?!

Feckin' ginger lovers

I'm surprised you didn't enlist the help of some other boardsie's from elsewhere on the forum to vote for MS.

o1s1n

Match 4: Mario Kart Double Dash

Ah balls! Didn't think of that! Could have gotten the girlfriend to vote!

Jack burton

Match 4: Mario Kart Double Dash

o1s1n wrote: »

It was an error. An error in earlier freelook FPS games. I can remember playing Duke 3D and Quake inverted. Didn't think anything of it at the time, but looking back now it's just silly.

Then Half Life came along like a shining beacon and showed us the real way to play FPS.

Well it did for me anyway. Once I started playing that, the thought of inverting a mouse was laughable.

Just saying....:D

o1s1n

Match 4: Mario Kart Double Dash

Heh

Half Life DM Multiplayer is my favourite FPS game of all time. If it was up against most of the other games it would have been that all the way.

Just so happens that it unfortunately went up against Metal Slug!