Board 8 > GameFAQs Best Year in Gaming Contest

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SBAllen
03/20/17 1:10:04 PM
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This topic is to informally announce the next big GameFAQs contest. This contest aims to determine the Best Year in Gaming.

The way this contest will work is that we'll take each year in gaming from 1985 (release of the NES in America) through 2016, along with some wildcard entries from prior years (more on that below) and enter them into a bracket with 1 vs 1 matches between years. The game releases for a given year will be based upon the first NA release of a game only (so for example, Final Fantasy Tactics would be considered a 1998 release despite coming out in 1997 in Japan). Users will vote in the PotD as usual and the winning year will move on.

Since it's unlikely for most people to know which games came out in which year, we will be highlighting the most popular releases for each year in the artwork for the contest as well as providing lists with written writeups for popular games from each year as well. Of course, the users of this board will be more than welcome to create artwork and game writeups when we reach that point.

Circling back to the bracket. We chose to go with the most popular years on our site (1985-2016) as the foundation of a 32 year bracket. But we don't want to neglect the older years that brought some really important games to the industry, so we'll be doing a kind of battle royale to allow four of the older years to make it into the bracket in wildcard battles. Thus, the final bracket will be a 36 entry bracket with four wildcard entries trying to battle their way in for the first four matches.

More information will come as we prepare to formally announce the contest on the site, but I just wanted to give b8 the information first. As always, try to have fun with this thing!
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transcience
03/20/17 1:10:34 PM
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hahaha I am actually making a list about this right now dammit
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The Mana Sword
03/20/17 1:10:49 PM
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spoilers 1998 wins

edit: also I looked at the topic real quick and thought it said best ass in gaming and thought yoblazer was about to lose it
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transcience
03/20/17 1:12:48 PM
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this will probably end up being depressing because 91-01 will assassinate the rest of the bracket due to our huge nostalgia blind spot
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The Mana Sword
03/20/17 1:13:39 PM
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can we get an entry for the first quarter of 2017? because it's probably better than a lot of the full years in this!
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paulg235
03/20/17 1:14:56 PM
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Sounds good on paper, let's see it in execution. The late 90's will probably dominate, though.
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The_Ctes
03/20/17 1:20:07 PM
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Cool. Hadn't thought of that idea.
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yazzy14
03/20/17 1:20:16 PM
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I'll be interested to see how the artwork works out. Don't want to flood a picture with stuff from a whole year but if you get a picture with just a game or two it might influence your vote that way.
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Snake5555555555
03/20/17 1:22:00 PM
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Sounds okay, 2012 was a really excellent year in gaming but i don't know if It can hold up to earlier years.
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charmander6000
03/20/17 1:22:05 PM
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This is a good idea. Even if 1998 would be the favourite other matches will be interesting.

How will the seeding go? Hopefully it won't be chronologically.
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RPGlord95
03/20/17 1:24:03 PM
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Standing in line....

Allen will you be on The Show this season?
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ChaosTonyV4
03/20/17 1:25:40 PM
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1998 is gonna dominate.
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TVontheRadio
03/20/17 1:27:12 PM
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is there a subreddit dedicated to 2014 for a rally that will infuriate people
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profDEADPOOL
03/20/17 1:27:55 PM
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Oh god
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pjbasis
03/20/17 1:28:06 PM
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Alright I can live with this.

I like the idea as a mini contest for sure. At this point I'll take one of these regularly over what we got.
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LOLIAmAnAlt
03/20/17 1:28:20 PM
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Seems fun!
And also really short
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GranzonEx
03/20/17 1:29:05 PM
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2001 here we go
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WiggumFan267
03/20/17 1:29:09 PM
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Oh. Years. Well, ok. No nominations then huh
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pjbasis
03/20/17 1:30:43 PM
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This gonna start anytime soon? How is it gonna be seeded?
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Bridgecar
03/20/17 1:30:48 PM
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The Mana Sword posted...
can we get an entry for the first quarter of 2017? because it's probably better than a lot of the full years in this!


If its in the some kind of battle royale, I could see it making it in
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SBAllen
03/20/17 1:31:04 PM
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RPGlord95 posted...
Standing in line....

Allen will you be on The Show this season?

Maybe
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mnkboy907
03/20/17 1:31:09 PM
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I already know I'm just going to be disappointed by the results.
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Xuxon
03/20/17 1:31:55 PM
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i don't have any attachment to years the way i do characters, games, or even quotes. but it seems like most people are for it so hey, contest.

TVontheRadio posted...
is there a subreddit dedicated to 2014 for a rally that will infuriate people

no, 2009 is when LoL came out.
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SBAllen
03/20/17 1:32:18 PM
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pjbasis posted...
This gonna start anytime soon? How is it gonna be seeded?

My current timeline has the battle royale on 4/10, entry period starting 4/14 and contest running through most of May.
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CasanovaZelos
03/20/17 1:32:58 PM
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This before consoles? Interesting...
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HaRRicH
03/20/17 1:33:06 PM
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This will be fun -- thanks SB!

1998 gon' give it to ya.
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MartinFF7
03/20/17 1:34:01 PM
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I'd like to believe that, once again it'll come down to FF7 (1997) vs. OoT (1998).

But 98 is so strong. Xenogears immediately comes to mind for me for that year... and FFT, MGS, Starcraft, Half-Life... struggling to think of 1997 besides FF7 and maybe Goldeneye? Damn.
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Janus5k
03/20/17 1:36:05 PM
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The Mana Sword posted...
edit: also I looked at the topic real quick and thought it said best ass in gaming and thought yoblazer was about to lose it

Oh good, I'm not alone
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Anagram
03/20/17 1:36:33 PM
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Interesting idea.
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HaRRicH
03/20/17 1:38:41 PM
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So...even though I really wanted and liked the game contests having their eras mixed up a bunch, I'm not sure if I want that for this contest in the same way. Would it really be better to mix them up here than, say, four divisions like:

09-16
85-92
93-00
01-08
(plus whatever with the wildcards)

Just predicting big numbers from the 90s.
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On_The_Pence
03/20/17 1:44:31 PM
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The Mana Sword posted...
edit: also I looked at the topic real quick and thought it said best ass in gaming and thought yoblazer was about to lose it

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On_The_Pence
03/20/17 1:45:43 PM
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What year will tumblr rally?
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HaRRicH
03/20/17 1:46:33 PM
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MartinFF7 posted...
I'd like to believe that, once again it'll come down to FF7 (1997) vs. OoT (1998).

But 98 is so strong. Xenogears immediately comes to mind for me for that year... and FFT, MGS, Starcraft, Half-Life... struggling to think of 1997 besides FF7 and maybe Goldeneye? Damn.


1997's ace in its sleeve against 1998:

https://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/6134-best-game-ever-day-21-round-2-banjo-kazooie-vs-castlevania
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The Mana Sword
03/20/17 1:46:38 PM
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-hotdogturtle--
03/20/17 1:51:18 PM
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So everything after, like... 2005 is gonna be super fodder. Interesting.
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HaRRicH
03/20/17 1:56:20 PM
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-hotdogturtle-- posted...
So everything after, like... 2005 is gonna be super fodder. Interesting.


2012 VS 1998 would be alright with me though.
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trdl23
03/20/17 1:58:26 PM
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2015 might be a dark horse in this. If a rally happens, it'll be there.
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GranzonEx
03/20/17 2:00:09 PM
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Save us Geralt of Rivia the Butcher of GameFAQs contests
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FigureOfSpeech
03/20/17 2:14:36 PM
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damn I will not be able to vote for my birth year :(
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greengravy294
03/20/17 2:19:04 PM
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Are you fucking kidding me you deleted the Super Saiyan Nappa AND Pokemon cookies stickies??????????
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VeryInsane
03/20/17 2:25:47 PM
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Rooting for 2010 but yeah 98's got this
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ExThaNemesis
03/20/17 2:25:53 PM
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ugh this sounds awful. Thanks for a new contest at least though.
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RPGlord95
03/20/17 2:28:41 PM
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SBAllen posted...
RPGlord95 posted...
Standing in line....

Allen will you be on The Show this season?

Maybe

Then it could be the best contest!
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NowItsAngeTime
03/20/17 2:31:04 PM
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Interesting idea, guess I'll find my favorite games from each year or something.
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swordz9
03/20/17 2:40:37 PM
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Was hoping for a console one or something. Can't really see 98 losing with Pokémon and Zelda among other things. Late 2000s to present are going to be sadly slaughtered despite having many incredible games because nothing beats nostalgia power aside from mega rallying I guess
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NowItsAngeTime
03/20/17 2:40:55 PM
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Oh also this may be a silly question but we're going off North America release dates right?
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WhiteLens
03/20/17 2:44:42 PM
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NowItsAngeTime posted...
Oh also this may be a silly question but we're going off North America release dates right?

SBAllen posted...
The game releases for a given year will be based upon the first NA release of a game only (so for example, Final Fantasy Tactics would be considered a 1998 release despite coming out in 1997 in Japan).

Yes
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