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The Big Adventure Gamers “VS - There Can Be Only One” Tournament
| Poll: Would you like to have a group stage before direct knock-out duels? Total Votes: 32 |
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| Group stage before the direct elimination duels | 22  |
| Immediately start with the knock-out rounds (128 - 64 - 32...) | 10 |
Edit: I just realised that in the Top 100 there is Infocom Text Adventures listed as one game. I suggest we split it up, because counting all of them in one vote is unfair on the other games. It would be like counting all Lucasarts or Sierra games at once, and if I were stuck on a desert island with ‘one game’ I would always cheat and pick the bundle.
Spider and Web
Curses
Vespers
9:05
Christminster
Anchorhead
Planetfall
The Lurking Horror
Trinity
Starcross
Zork
Suspect
Plundered Hearts
A Mind Forever Voyaging
Bureaucracy
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Colossal Cave Adventure
Of course they should be counted as separate games, but unfortunately until now there weren’t any nominations for text adventures, thanks Oscar for mentioning them. I would like that we have at least few of them in the tournament.
Regarding the group stage, as it is currently winning the poll, I thought that when we divide games into groups everyone vote only once for each group by giving (for ex.) 7, 5, 3, 2 and 1 point to the games they prefer most in that group and at the end of voting the games with the most points (probably 4 of them) would advance to the knock-out round.
I would like to ask moderators (TimovieMan? 
) what would be the best way to organize this into threads in a way that will not clog the forums with multiple parallel threads?
My idea is that we have a separate topic for each group, but that at the same time only 2 or 3 of them be active. For example on day 1, thread for group A is opened, then on day 3 we open the thread for group B and finally on day 6 group C topic is opened and they lock the group A thread and so on… If it’s too complicated any other solution is welcome, this was just an idea.
If we use the Top 100 as a starting point for this Tournament, shouldn’t we also take the recent AGGIE award winners (both the critic and user vote winners would be my preference) also one of the 128 fixed positions?
I’d propose to take the ones since 2011, which is exactly the year the Top 100 was compiled.
I know this leaves less choices for this running vote to get 29 additional games, but I guess that makes only sense as the AGGIE winners were at least polled by a fairly large number of users or came out as winners from the AG writing staff.
I wanted to add votes for text adventures:
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Colossal Cave Adventure
Zork
@subbi Yes, that’s a reasonable proposition, especially since it seems that all of these games would nevertheless finish with enough votes to qualify, but this way we also acknowledge the value of AGGIE awards. And since it seems we would have a group stage, a number of 128 is no more written in stone (though it’s still preferable), but if there are 1-2 games that would be left out and have the same number of votes at the end of voting, there would be no problem to include them and just have 2 groups with one more game each, but I think it won’t come to that.
For 2011. both Portal 2 and The Book of Unwritten Tales are already on the list.
2012.
Critics: The Walking Dead
Users: The Walking Dead
2013.
Critics: Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Users: Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller
So now we have these 14 games qualified:
Resonance
Primordia
The Cat Lady
Botanicula
Edna and Harvey: The Breakout
Gray Matter
To the Moon
Blackwell Epiphany
Discworld
Kentucky Route Zero
Lost Horizon
The Walking Dead
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller
And these games are still waiting for official qualification:
3 votes:
Danganronpa
Danganronpa 2
Deponia
Flight of the Amazon Queen
Jouney Down
Memoria
Night of the Rabbit
Overclocked
The Legend of Kyrandia 2: The Hand of Fate
The Moment of Silence
The Whispered World
2 votes:
Colossal Cave Adventure
Corpse Party
Dear Esther
Gobliiins
Space Quest 5
Starship Titanic
Tales of Monkey Island
The Adventures of Willy Beamish
The Dagger of Amon Ra
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
The Inner World
The Lost Crown
The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Rose Tattoo
The Next Big Thing
Zero Escape: Virtue’s last Reward
Zork
1 vote:
09:05:00 AM
999: Nine Persons, Nine Hours, Nine Doors
A Mind Forever Voyaging
Anchorhead
Ankh 2: Heart of Osiris
ASA A Space Adventure
Below the Root
Broken Age
Bureaucracy
Ceville
Christminster
Cosmology of Kyoto
Cruise for a Corpse
Curses
Dark Seed
Death Gate
Dreamweb
Edna and Harvey: Harvey’s New Eyes
Gateway
Gateway 2
Gobliins 2
Goblins 3
Gone Home
Heroine’s Quest
Hopkins FBI
Jake Hunter Detective Story: Memories of the Past
Journey
KGB
King’s Quest 3
King’s Quest 7
Moebius
Myst IV
Myst V
Omikron the Nomad Soul
Out of Order
Papo & Yo
Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations
Planetfall
Plundered Hearts
Quest for Glory
Riddle of the Sphinx
Sam and Max Season 3
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments
Spider and Web
Starcross
Stick it to the Man
Suspect
The Lurking Horror
The Omega Stone
The Talos Principle
The Valiant Hearts
Time Hollow
TimeQuest
Trinity
Vanishing Of Ethan Carter
Vespers
Virtue’s Last Reward
Voyage
Woodfruff and the Schnibble of Azimuth
My number one choice is Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.
My other choices are…
The Whispered World
Hector: Badge of Carnage
The Inner World
The Stanley Parable
Alone in the Dark 1, 2 & 3
Tales of Monkey Island
Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse
Runaway (trilogy)
Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh
The Black Mirror (trilogy)
Ceville
A Vampyre Story
Deponia: The Complete Journey
The Next BIG Thing
Broken Sword 5 - The Serpent’s Curse
The Night of the Rabbit
Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller
The Raven - Legacy of a Master Thief
Jolly Rover
Gone Home
Secret Files (quadrilogy)
I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream
Harvester
Haunted
Also…
Randal’s Monday
The Talos Principle
Valiant Hearts: The Great War
I can’t believe that I forgot the Stanley Parable….
Also…
Oknytt
The Dream Machine
Valiant hearts
If we use the Top 100 as a starting point for this Tournament, shouldn’t we also take the recent AGGIE award winners (both the critic and user vote winners would be my preference) also one of the 128 fixed positions?
I’d propose to take the ones since 2011, which is exactly the year the Top 100 was compiled.
I know this leaves less choices for this running vote to get 29 additional games, but I guess that makes only sense as the AGGIE winners were at least polled by a fairly large number of users or came out as winners from the AG writing staff.
Didn’t most of those already get voted for anyway? 
Also, I forgot to vote for Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations, and Phantasmagoria.
The truth can’t hurt you, it’s just like the dark: it scares you witless but in time you see things clear and stark. - Elvis Costello
Maybe this time I can be strong, but since I know who I am, I’m probably wrong. Maybe this time I can go far, but thinking about where I’ve been ain’t helping me start. - Michael Kiwanuka
I’m also adding a vote for The Stanley Parable
Didn’t most of those already get voted for anyway?
Also, I forgot to vote for Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations, and Phantasmagoria.
Well, for now Brothers have 3 votes and Walking Dead two, so if they stay like that, they are receiving wild cards
Indeed, the Walking Dead was in grave danger of not making the cut. See what I did there? 
But I guess it is fair that TWD gets selected given it won both the critic and user vote back in 2012.
[EDIT: This post has been messed up by Subbi.]
He he in short here should be written that I’m voting for Alone in the Dark 1&2 and Space Quest 5. And that we have 3 new additions to the list:
Deponia, Night of the Rabbit and The Whispered World.
Wow this looks like loads of fun 
Thanks Bogi for organizing it.
Here are my votes for the games that are not in the tournament yet.
Gone Home
Omikron the Nomad Soul
Valiant Hearts: The Great War
Broken Age
Beyond Two Souls
Adding some votes:
Stanley Parable
Danganronpa
Zork
Oh dang….I accidently edited Bogi’s post above rather than quoting it…..
One of the perks of being a Mod, but is there anyway of correcting/undoing it?
My apologies Bogi, I didn’t mean to screw up your post.
Oh dang….I accidently edited Bogi’s post above rather than quoting it…..
One of the perks of being a Mod, but is there anyway of correcting/undoing it?My apologies Bogi, I didn’t mean to screw up your post.
(LOL, almost did the same with your post just now. Good tip: always look for the [ quote] tags )
As soon as you see you fouled up, hit backspace twice (i.e. go back two pages in your history), copy the original text, and re-edit it to paste it back in.
The truth can’t hurt you, it’s just like the dark: it scares you witless but in time you see things clear and stark. - Elvis Costello
Maybe this time I can be strong, but since I know who I am, I’m probably wrong. Maybe this time I can go far, but thinking about where I’ve been ain’t helping me start. - Michael Kiwanuka
I’m happy to add my vote to The Walking Dead and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons to help secure their place beyond just the Aggie Awards rationale. Both are good games that warrant a spot.
I’ll also add some votes to…
King’s Quest 3
Space Quest 5
The Dagger of Amon Ra
Journey
Broken Age Part 1 (I hesitated to nominate this as it’s incomplete, but so is Kentucky Route Zero which is already in)
And I’ll nominate…
Photopia
Still making up my mind about others.
I’d love to see some text adventures get in, but I’m sorry to say I haven’t played most of the noteworthy ones (aside from Photopia) so I am not much help. I grew up with Scott Adams’ Spider-Man and various freeware ones but I don’t think those are good enough to warrant nominating. I’ve played a little of Zork 1 and A Mind Forever Voyaging but not enough to get a proper sense of them. I feel like I would be nominating them for token reasons, so I won’t. Hopefully some folks with more of the noteworthy text adventures under their belt can help move the best ones forward.
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