DooM losing to Super Mario Bros in Title Fight?!

[Alacritan]

What the hell is THIS? (http://archive.gamespy.com/titlefight/matches/0501.shtml?voted=1)

Everybody better start voting DooM, because this is ridiculous. Who would even bother comparing the two? SMBIII is a rehash of a rehash of a crappy old console game, whereas DooM was the original kick ass 3d FPS (Wolf 3d and System Shock weren't popular or good enough). DooM still kicks most new FPS games asses. Games like Breed and UT2 and PC Halo. So go vote DooM!

[GOD Macktruck]

ouch this is a tough one here. i can't decide so i want vote

: ) :

[Alucard]

old skool mario kicked ***

[Alacritan]

Get your console propaganda out of here! This is a PC only website you damn commies.

[tom10167]

I voted for Super Mario Brothers 3. Thanks for the link. I'm surprised you're 20, I would have figured you for <16.(no offense)

It's just that most older people appreciate the old school video games. SMB3 was revolutionary, the whole idea of a "game map" was never really seen before this, it had an awesome plot, cool sounds, lots of colors, and a really catchy scheme to it. Run, jump, stomp. FPS games are so blah, they're really all the same, Wolfenstein 3d gets the credit for that field, and I'd say SMB3 gets the credit for sidescrollers. So yeah, I vote SMB3.

[Alacritan]

SMB3 wasn't revolutionary. It was the THIRD game in the series. The addition of a 'game map' is hardly revolutionary. And it had no plot, mediocre sounds seen in two previous games, the same music and mostly the same look as the other games in the series. DooM was THE FPS game that made everyone take notice. And DooM has better music by far. I can't believe anyone would try to tell me E1M1 wasn't better than all of the Mario music combined. I burned the DooM soundtrack onto CD and listen to it in my car.

[9mmCensor]

Originally posted by Alacritan
Get your console propaganda out of here! This is a PC only website you damn commies.
close enough... hail Doom

[illwillchill]

I voted for Super Mario Bros 3.

There's also a poll for greatest game at http://www.gamefaqs.com/

Vote for SMB3 :cool:
http://s87459733.onlinehome.us/smb3.bmp :attn: :attn:

Get your console propaganda out of here! This is a PC only website you damn commies.

computers are used for console game design http://s87459733.onlinehome.us/dunno.gif

[tom10167]

Also, ROMs pWN j00r 14/\/\3 @55!!1

[Shishio]

Mario 3 is a legendary game. It should be in history books. Do you guys remember that movie about the Nintendo contest with mario 3 in it? The warlock or whatever it was called?

[Supertrucker]

the wizard, fred savage and christian slater.

i voted for smb3, wolfenstein was a good game but i never got into doom

[_slh_]

Mario 3 here

[Dracknem]

The guy comes on to get Doom votes and ends up just getting more Mario 3 votes. Mario 3 > Doom. I love the Mario series, have beaten all the games countless times, but still play.

[Oni]

Originally posted by Alacritan
Get your console propaganda out of here! This is a PC only website you damn commies.

This is an information forum. Not a PC only forum. :rolleyes:

While Doom help create a genera, Mario has been with me since like, 1989, when I got my NES. So I have to vote for the plumber.

[Mustanley]

I voted Doom. I spent many more hours on Doom then SMB3, not to say SMB3 wasn't great in it's own right. BTW, Doom is winning the poll now.

[deRusett]

I voted SMB3, though Doom was a great game, I had ben playing the MSB series for near 7 years before I touched DooM.

its funny how that comment was not brought up, DooM is 5 years the Junior of SMB3 in todays world thats like Comparing Age of Mythology to WarCraft 2,

[Krowa 02]

Ummm, mario 3 is deffinetly more fun because you can play it through more than once.

[TheGhengisKhan]

DOOM IS WINNING!!!!!

Yea, and my vote helped :D

[Alacritan]

How many times have I played through Doom? Too many to remember. Before I even had the full version, I played through Knee Deep in the Dead (Episode 1) numerous times. What's to stop you from playing Doom more than once? I still play it occasionally.

[Mr. Chambers]

what's really upsetting is that Zelda 64 lost to D2... :(

[AC Slater]

Originally posted by Mr. Chambers
what's really upsetting is that Zelda 64 lost to D2... :(

How is that upsetting? The Ocarina of Time is an awesome game but it doesn't have the staying power of Diablo 2. You can only go through Zelda so many times before it gets old but for some reason you can go through and kill the same monsters over and over 100000000000000 times and it is still fun because there is always that chance that a super awesome item will drop. The hardest battle is Half Life vs Diablo 2. Both of those games have eaten so much of my time, but Diablo wins in my book.

[Alacritan]

I can't give Blizzard that much credit for Diablo. Sure, they were good games, but the dungeons were randomly generated and so were the weapons. They only really had to design half the game. Half-Life was purposefully designed every step of the way through the game. You didn't have any awesome cinematic scripted moments in Diablo 2, the levels were well thought out and except for the Xen(sp?) levels, they were all awesome. It felt like playing a movie with HL. I can't wait till someone ports HL to the HL2 engine cause I'll play through it again (and maybe someone can replace the end levels). The real decision will be DooM or Half-Life. I'd be happy with either of them. Top two games ever in my book. The Father of FPS games and the Prodigal Son.

[Penguin4x4]

Originally posted by Oni


This is an information forum. Not a PC only forum. :rolleyes:

While Doom help create a genera, Mario has been with me since like, 1989, when I got my NES.

Same here, (strangely enough, exactly the same :eek: ) I have to go with DOOM on this one though. While SMBIII was not a rehash, IMO at least, I give my vote to Doom. :)

[SniperXX]

Originally posted by Alucard
old skool mario kicked ***

I agree I voted Mario also. :cool:

[wannaoc]

I think the main reason is:

Young people these days really don't know how crucial Doom was to gaming and some probably didn't know what it was until Doom 3 was announced. Its kind of like the "Know your roots" T-shirt that shows a Nintendo controller instead of an Atari. Thats just an old computer farts look at it though.

Doom got mine.

[deRusett]

wannaoc, from your reasoning us "old computer folk" then should apreciate Mario before doom since Mario is 5 years older, has had the brand name, and staying power though more then 20 years. which is quite the feet for a game. Nintendo definatly has THE Most known games

Mario, and Zelda are probably the longest running series followed closely by Finalfantacy.


Alacritan
Designing a Random Map builder and item placer is much more complicated then building strait maps and picking locations, I give props to companies with Random Gerators over competly coded games, if you can have a bug free random game that requires much more skill to program then a tried tested aproved game.

as for the Father of FPS games would Castle Wolfenstine not have that title? isn't it older? and did have alot of Popularity in its day,

[Alacritan]

First of all, there was the occasional bug with Diablo 1's map generator. I can remember where the first or third level wouldn't have any exit. You'd reveal the whole map and no staircase down to the next level.

And sure, while it may be a fairly significant feat for it's time, there is no true game design in random map generators. Can you remember any particular moment in Diablo I or II as f****** awesome? Not really. It was fun, but there was no standout moment of greatness. HL was full of 'em. And really, if you want to compare technological advancements, HL beats Diablo I and II with ease. Especially Diablo II since Blizzard couldn't even be bothered to increase the resolution past 800x600. HL had near seamless level changes, the most advanced scripting for it's time by far, the first 3d moving mouths in computer games to my knowledge. It all added up to a far more memorable gaming experience.

And DooM is the father of FPS games because it made them enormously popular. Wolf3d never achieved the same ridiculous popularity that DooM did.

[deRusett]

Originally posted by Alacritan
First of all, there was the occasional bug with Diablo 1's map generator. I can remember where the first or third level wouldn't have any exit. You'd reveal the whole map and no staircase down to the next level.

And sure, while it may be a fairly significant feat for it's time, there is no true game design in random map generators. Can you remember any particular moment in Diablo I or II as f****** awesome? Not really. It was fun, but there was no standout moment of greatness. HL was full of 'em. And really, if you want to compare technological advancements, HL beats Diablo I and II with ease. Especially Diablo II since Blizzard couldn't even be bothered to increase the resolution past 800x600. HL had near seamless level changes, the most advanced scripting for it's time by far, the first 3d moving mouths in computer games to my knowledge. It all added up to a far more memorable gaming experience.

And DooM is the father of FPS games because it made them enormously popular. Wolf3d never achieved the same ridiculous popularity that DooM did.

I would say it was DooMs time of release that gave it the upper hand with Gamers, When Castle Wolfenstien was released the Majortiy of Machines did not have hard drives, and were mono cromatic, DooM came out in the first PC boom when the 486 was the norm, allowing it to be played by the masses.

[KfistoRok]

Lets see. Doom which influenced the Columbin incident or SMB3? Umm Mario pls. :)

Plus Mario set the standard for fun in games. Doom was just one of the first good first person shooters.

[AC Slater]

Originally posted by Alacritan

And sure, while it may be a fairly significant feat for it's time, there is no true game design in random map generators. Can you remember any particular moment in Diablo I or II as f****** awesome? Not really. It was fun, but there was no standout moment of greatness. HL was full of 'em. And really, if you want to compare technological advancements, HL beats Diablo I and II with ease. Especially Diablo II since Blizzard couldn't even be bothered to increase the resolution past 800x600. HL had near seamless level changes, the most advanced scripting for it's time by far, the first 3d moving mouths in computer games to my knowledge. It all added up to a far more memorable gaming experience.



uhhhhhhhh.......Diablo 2 and Diablo 2 LoD both can run at 800x600. Diablo 2 wasn't intended to do that but people found out a way to do it a few weeks before LoD was released. And of course I remember parts of Diablo 2 that were f****** awesome. Finding awesome items or even just seeing Diablo, Mephisto, or Baal for the first time and beating them were pretty good rushes of adrenaline.

I'm not saying Half life is trash by any means, but to me Diablo 2 was and is more fun.

[SpaceyWilly]

well I am torn myself, but I think my vote goes to mario here.

While I'm sure Doom was a great game, I happen to be of the age where when these two games were "happening," I a was about 5 years old. So, needless to say, Mario is the game I spent more time with out of these two games, and thus it gets my vote.

If it were Mario vs. Diablo II or Starcraft (the two games which got me into PC gaming) then my vote would go elsewhere.

[Falcon-K]

voted for SMB3! :)

[OC Noob]

Wolfenstein is definitly the father if a father of FPS is ever named. Doom may have been bigger, but Wolfenstein wasn't small by the standards of the day. At that time PC gaming was VERY weak and 3d cards were crappy 2d cards, most of which were onboard.

It was the first mainstream real 3d game. Me and all my friends jaws just dropped when we loaded the demo off a 3.5 floppy. For its time it was a big deal and evolutionary while Doom was just revolutionary.

Gotta give props to #1, because if not for ID making Wolfenstein they may have never made Doom. We maybe playing 3rd person shooters only instead of the classic 1st person shooters.


As for Mario vs Doom, thats a tough one. Both were freakin great in different ways. It would be easier to decide if they weren't so different.


ps does anyone else remeber getting 3.5 floppies with game demos at the local computer shop back in the day? How about 5.25 floppies on the C64 like River Raider? Possibly even cassette tape games on the Trash 80 Color Computer?

[deRusett]

I never got Demo's :( we got lots of games, but had to pay for them.

[TheFrag]

SMB3. It was not just a rehash..... that is such a n00b comment I am just going ot ignore it...

[TollPhree]

Zelda on NES omg that best game ever EVER!
half life was awsome too =)
doom was ok

[TollPhree]

Anyone remember that tank game on the giant floppys? I played on thoes.. scarry =( but was best came.. or hell this tank game called bozo i think was on my mac classic =P BOOYAA! Can any of you remember when macs were like da bomb *sigh* are mac costs 4,500 doller and is slower then my cell phone =P lol I went to a computer shop along time ago to sell it and said 50.. i said 50 bucks for it? they said no 50 dollers and they will toss it for me =) lol

[funnyperson1]

Mario 3 is easily a better game than Doom.

I tried to vote for it at least, but Gamespy may have gipped me out of my vote with their stupid you need to login, then youre alreay logged in :mad:


Oh and Half-Life was better than DII for me. Considering I spent nearly 50-60 hours beating the game on all difficulty levels and probably a lot more than that playing CS.

I played DII mostly for the Story or to play with my friends. I have revisited it sevearl times since then. But Half Life definately got my vote.

At least I am happy with the Final Four...thank god Halo didn't make it.

[TheGhengisKhan]

I just wanna see the final 2 be Doom Vs. Half-Life...

It just seems to make more sense than SMB3 vs HL

[ajrettke]

I'd say SMB3, even though Doom was a great game, I don't know how many times my heart skipped a beet playing that damn game! But SMB3 was an revolutionary. It seemed the piller in which all other NES games were held to. And my memory is somewhat shady, but wasn't it the first game to cost over 50 dollors (atleast for a console)?

Now D2 or half-life.....that's a draw in my book, both have inovation and staying power....CS and LoD.....heh too many hours spent on those 2 to even think about it!

[Alacritan]

Originally posted by KfistoRok
Lets see. Doom which influenced the Columbin incident or SMB3? Umm Mario pls. :)

Plus Mario set the standard for fun in games. Doom was just one of the first good first person shooters.

Well, it's good to see that some people are dumb enough to believe the sensationalism that the media churns out. So since I have Doom installed on my computer, am I more likely to go on a killing spree?

And Pong and Pacman and Galaxian and 1942 weren't fun? There is no such thing as a 'standard for fun in games'. SMB3 was more of the same in the Mario series. So if anything, Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. set the standard. SMB3 just added a map and a couple of power-ups. DooM is the reason the FPS genre exists today. Nobody made FPS games after Wolf3d, it was DooM that made it happen, and it was years beyond anything else in technology and gameplay. When was the next good FPS game released that wasn't running the DooM engine? Quake and Duke3D in 1996.

[Alacritan]

Originally posted by ajrettke
I'd say SMB3, even though Doom was a great game, I don't know how many times my heart skipped a beet playing that damn game! But SMB3 was an revolutionary. It seemed the piller in which all other NES games were held to. And my memory is somewhat shady, but wasn't it the first game to cost over 50 dollors (atleast for a console)?

Now D2 or half-life.....that's a draw in my book, both have inovation and staying power....CS and LoD.....heh too many hours spent on those 2 to even think about it!

Diablo 2 had 0 innovation. It was Diablo with added graphics and more weapons and special moves. Even graphically it wasn't much better than Diablo. And SMB3 was NOT revolutionary. It was a big improvement on the Mario series, but it was 90% the same as the previous two games, so it was hardly revolutionary. The original Mario Bros was revolutionary.

[wannaoc]

Alacritan you may want to edit that first post before an admin sees it. That type of thing is not allowed here even though I agree with you but in a much less aggressive way. But I think (and hope) he was joking. :)

[bluediamond]

Mario 3 gets my vote!!!!!

[Panzerknacker]

voted Doom1 of course. No way nintendo will win form ID software. Too bad D2 is losing from Half-Life. Also too bad that people were using vote-bots, cause that made D2 win from Starcraft, and Starcraft would have had more change against D2 (and is a greater game in my opinion).

[funnyperson1]

If you can say that Mario 3 is only a rehash then you obviously haven't played all three games.

Mario one was a tight game for its time.

Mario 2 was just really wierd, really if you wanted to track progress Mario 2 digressed greatly from the direction that SMB1 and SMB3 took.

Mario 3 was just the ultimate NES game. It improved the graphics, options, length, difficulty, and overall fun over Mario1 and it surely dominated Doom for fun quality.

Not only that Mario was fun for everybody...My dad and I used to play multiplayer all the time when I was like 6. Not to mention all my friends back in the day.


But to be honest...you had to have played back in the day to understand.

With both of these games it depends on whether you played it when it came out, especially with Doom.

Last year I tried playing Doom (I wasn't allowed when I was small) and to be honest it wasn't that impressive. It failed to scare me, and shooting monster after monster with no plot just wasn't that much fun to me. But I bet if I had played hours of Doom when it came out I would have pooped my pants.

Just like a lot of you don't seem to have played SMB3 when it came out. I have tried to show friends the glory, and the truth is that after playing Sonic, and SMB for SNES and Mario 64, SMB3 seems less impressive.

Both of these games go back to the roots, and I love it. Personally I don't mind much who wins, but Mario 3 IMHO is the better game.

[OC Noob]

Originally posted by Alacritan


Well, it's good to see that some people are dumb enough to believe the sensationalism that the media churns out. So since I have Doom installed on my computer, am I more likely to go on a killing spree?

And Pong and Pacman and Galaxian and 1942 weren't fun? There is no such thing as a 'standard for fun in games'. SMB3 was more of the same in the Mario series. So if anything, Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. set the standard. SMB3 just added a map and a couple of power-ups. DooM is the reason the FPS genre exists today. Nobody made FPS games after Wolf3d, it was DooM that made it happen, and it was years beyond anything else in technology and gameplay. When was the next good FPS game released that wasn't running the DooM engine? Quake and Duke3D in 1996.

I'm pretty sure you have it backwards, with out Wolf, the FPS genre wouldn't exist. I'm pretty sure people wouldn't NOT make other FPSs if Doom never came out. Just because you really like it doesn't mean it was a bigger milestone then the original FPS and I'm not saying Doom wasn't very important to the genre, but I'd say the game that invented the genre is more important and would be the father of the genre if ever there was a father of the FPS.

Besides, ID wouldn't have made Doom as good as it was if not for the things they learned from developing Wolfenstein.

Anyone know if Heretic was pre or post Doom?

[Oni]

Originally posted by OC Noob


I'm pretty sure you have it backwards, with out Wolf, the FPS genre wouldn't exist. I'm pretty sure people wouldn't NOT make other FPSs if Doom never came out. Just because you really like it doesn't mean it was a bigger milestone then the original FPS and I'm not saying Doom wasn't very important to the genre, but I'd say the game that invented the genre is more important and would be the father of the genre if ever there was a father of the FPS.

Besides, ID wouldn't have made Doom as good as it was if not for the things they learned from developing Wolfenstein.

Anyone know if Heretic was pre or post Doom?

I believe it was post Doom, but before Quake.

[deRusett]

Yes Doom Was before Quake, Quake would not have been such a success had it not been for the MP world, Quake IS what FPS is about it was a nice shooter game, it made people want to play eachother instead of the Computer.



side note, could Nintendo not be given credit for the first FPS game? anyone care to challenge DuckHunt as not being the First FPS?

Originally posted by funnyperson1
If you can say that Mario 3 is only a rehash then you obviously haven't played all three games.

Mario one was a tight game for its time.

Mario 2 was just really wierd, really if you wanted to track progress Mario 2 digressed greatly from the direction that SMB1 and SMB3 took.

Mario 3 was just the ultimate NES game. It improved the graphics, options, length, difficulty, and overall fun over Mario1 and it surely dominated Doom for fun quality.

Not only that Mario was fun for everybody...My dad and I used to play multiplayer all the time when I was like 6. Not to mention all my friends back in the day.


But to be honest...you had to have played back in the day to understand.

With both of these games it depends on whether you played it when it came out, especially with Doom.

Last year I tried playing Doom (I wasn't allowed when I was small) and to be honest it wasn't that impressive. It failed to scare me, and shooting monster after monster with no plot just wasn't that much fun to me. But I bet if I had played hours of Doom when it came out I would have pooped my pants.

Just like a lot of you don't seem to have played SMB3 when it came out. I have tried to show friends the glory, and the truth is that after playing Sonic, and SMB for SNES and Mario 64, SMB3 seems less impressive.

Both of these games go back to the roots, and I love it. Personally I don't mind much who wins, but Mario 3 IMHO is the better game.


SMB2 was more Nintendos Show off of the new Graphics model using a Popular brand name, IE the Mario Serires it showed off its "new Graphcis" which led the way to many more exciting looking games, SMB3 was Nintendo going back to SMB1's gameplay but merging what it had learned along the way.

[OC Noob]

Originally posted by deRusett
Yes Doom Was before Quake, Quake would not have been such a success had it not been for the MP world, Quake IS what FPS is about it was a nice shooter game, it made people want to play eachother instead of the Computer.


He was answering my question about wether Heretic was before or after Doom.


lol, Duckhunt.

[-=Ambush=-]

This discussion is almost moot since the winner will lose to Half-Life


Have a nice day:)

[funnyperson1]

You're right...Duck Hunt was the first FPS :). (at least that I can think of)

To be honest Duck Hunt is one of the few real FPS because when else did you feel more like the actual first person holding the gun in your HAND. Not to mention the dog laughing right at you :p.


And yes Ambush, you probably are right. If it is between SMB3 and Half-Life I may just withold my vote because I love both games that much.

[deRusett]

Originally posted by -=Ambush=-
This discussion is almost moot since the winner will lose to Half-Life


Have a nice day:)

I don't believe this discussion is mute, since this discussion is about which is better SMB3 or DOOM, as well as Game inovation, who wins in the overall Gamespy battle really makes no difference to the discussion, its not like us debating can change what some one has already voted for,

any discussion after the vote, is moot by your logic

[OC Noob]

Actually, when I was very young we had a system that had pong and a light gun. There was a little cursor that would go across the screen like a skeet and you would shoot it.

That was well before Duct Hunt.

Although, something just seems wrong with calling those games FPSs. maybe its the 3d environment that makes it a FPS since you can look at the environment 360 degrees as if you are looking through the shooter eyes in Wolfenstein. Where as, Duck hunt and the skeet game have static 2d point of views.

[deRusett]

The title of the Genre is First Person Shooter, Not First Person 3D shooter,


thus giving DuckHunt, and I supose your Skeet shooter game, claim to being the first FPS games,

[AC Slater]

lol, Super Mario Bros 3 beat DooM by 2 votes

[tom10167]

Now that I think about it, that poll was pretty ridiculous. That's basically saying, what do you like more, First-person shooters or sidescroller games?

:shrug:

http://maxpages.com/homeofmario/The_truth_about_SMB2 - Got closure?
"Mario 2 was just really wierd, really if you wanted to track progress Mario 2 digressed greatly from the direction that SMB1 and SMB3 took.

[illwillchill]

Originally posted by AC Slater
lol, Super Mario Bros 3 beat DooM by 2 votes

wow my vote and the vote of the members here actually counted :o

[funnyperson1]

Originally posted by tom10167
Now that I think about it, that poll was pretty ridiculous. That's basically saying, what do you like more, First-person shooters or sidescroller games?

:shrug:

http://maxpages.com/homeofmario/The_truth_about_SMB2 - Got closure?
"Mario 2 was just really wierd, really if you wanted to track progress Mario 2 digressed greatly from the direction that SMB1 and SMB3 took.

Thank you :)


wow my vote and the vote of the members here actually counted

Yup, actually in a way, Alacratin posting this here is probably what lost the poll for Doom. Think about how many more people posted here saying they voted for SMB3:D .


For the final showdown, I don't really know. I love Mario, but I love Half Life. That said, I think Half-Life will win if only because Game-Spy's audience is too young to have played SMB3. Much like how Halo should have been dominated by Quake and Goldeneye but won because Gamespy audience is too n00b.

I'm not saying Half-Life shouldn't win...I'm just saying it should be just as close as this Doom poll.

[Oni]

Originally posted by AC Slater
lol, Super Mario Bros 3 beat DooM by 2 votes

http://24.36.38.95/macros/rockon.jpg

Close match, to say the least, but I think the better game won.

As for SMB v. HL, well, I think funnyperson1 put it best.

[Tatuya]

Doom and HL always have my vote; afterall, doom was my first pc game :) And to all those who love mario, SNES' Super Mario Allstars has all the 2d super marios (or you can just get an emulator and roms :rolleyes: )

ADDED: Sweet, 1st on the third page :beer: :clap:

[illwillchill]

I wish the poll was separated into PC and console games.

I think the "best game poll" they have at gamefaqs.com right now is more legitimate and more exciting than the one on gamespy.

the current battle is between final fantasy and pitfall, and it looks like the ff fanboys are in full force LOL

www.gamefaqs.com

Im predicting Legend of Zelda to beat SMB 3 in the championship
(if the fanboys I mentioned earlier dont foul up the polls)

[tom10167]

Oh got the very first Zelda versus SMB3. I really wouldn't know what to pick.
:(


I'd pick SMB3 though.
:)

[funnyperson1]

I finally gave in and voted for SMB3...why? Because it should be closer than this. Super Mario Brothers doesn't deserve to be raped simply because it came out ten years before its competitor.

This should be a close battle between two of the biggest juggernauts the gaming industry has ever seen. Instead SMB3 is being swamped by endless hordes of 12 year old CS hackers. For shame.

[deRusett]

I agree, if Gamespy even touched on a fraction of the real gamers out there SMB3 would be much higher,

those who are still playing games after puberty, and have learned there is more to live then one genre.

HL was a good game, and this race should be close, but since FPS is the most popular PC Genre and gamespy is a PC gaming site mainly any other game has no chance, if you look at how the show down played out you see many great games not make it because of not so great newer games being paired with them

[funnyperson1]

Originally posted by illwillchill
I wish the poll was separated into PC and console games.

I think the "best game poll" they have at gamefaqs.com right now is more legitimate and more exciting than the one on gamespy.

the current battle is between final fantasy and pitfall, and it looks like the ff fanboys are in full force LOL

www.gamefaqs.com

Im predicting Legend of Zelda to beat SMB 3 in the championship
(if the fanboys I mentioned earlier dont foul up the polls)

I don't know, GameSpy made you login to your account before voting, and it seems that gamefaqs is only using cookies.

Seems to me a script would be very easy to write. I mean how does a big site like Gamespy only get 10k votes for the best games and gamefaqs gets 50k for each game. Me sense some cheating.


I agree, if Gamespy even touched on a fraction of the real gamers out there SMB3 would be much higher,

those who are still playing games after puberty, and have learned there is more to live then one genre.

HL was a good game, and this race should be close, but since FPS is the most popular PC Genre and gamespy is a PC gaming site mainly any other game has no chance, if you look at how the show down played out you see many great games not make it because of not so great newer games being paired with them

I don't even think its an issue of console vs. pc. I just think its age..period. How else does Halo beat Quake, how does Starcraft lose to DiabloII.

[Radical]

Wow, SMB3 won by only 2 votes! I was kind of surprised that DOOM was beating it, but I dont mind since I wanted SMB3 to win anyway.

EDIT: I guess I was kind of late on that one..:rolleyes:

[N1vek215]

yeah i noticed that, TWO VOTES!!!! RECOUNT RECOUNT!!!!!!!!!!!! ;)

[blackjackel]

Ive played and beat both, and i can beat super mario 3 in less than 30 minutes, no lying!! no kidding!!!

anyways i vote supermario 3, i think its a much funner game, and its replay value is through the roof, i'd rather play supermario 3 rather than doom 3 anyday

[Shoeby]

That was a tough match, I would have voted for doom had i found the site in time. Oh well. =P I'm surprised half life won it all though. My girlfriend told me it sucked and she's huge into games (Can't get her hands off UT2k4 atm) I dunno what I would have picked for the greatest game of all time though if I had one choice.