Vote for earthbound today!!!!Save the face of gaming!

[Kamino]

Come on everybody. Go to www.gamefaqs.com and vote for EARTHBOUND in the poll. we as gamers cannot allow this to pass, doom beating earthbound...it's a crisis! pitch in and help!

[anagrama]

I've just voted. For Doom
If you think that yet another solid-but-hardly-revolutionary SNES RPG is a more important landmark in the evolution of videogaming than Doom, then you're even crazier than the typical Gamefaqs user.

[Kamino]

this is a crime!
One of the greatest rpg's ever created..(coming from someone who isnt an rpg fan) over yet another shooter! doom wasnt the revolution in any case, wolf3d was....
cmon people. i know we can do this. we can get enough votes up for earthbound! its only behind by four thousand.

[Cmosfm]

Sorry...I voted for Doom also. Doom is a classic, it's brilliant! Still fun to play today.

Earthbound? nah, good game but no where near Best game ever. My money's actually on Super Mario World or Sonic 2

[bluberry]

You see, there's the problem. Doom WAS the revolution. Noone cared that much about W3D. It wasn't that great a game. Doom, on the other hand, completely set the genre on fire, mostly because it was a good game. I love how the levels are mazes more than just shooting rampages, something that few FPS games today even do. And besides, technically W3D wasn't the first... wasn't there a game on the 2600, an adventure game, where you could shoot crossbow arrows in FP?

Besides, Earthbound blew chunks. I hated the graphical style and the music, and personally the story wasn't great, just a bit weird.

[anagrama]

this is a crime!
One of the greatest rpg's ever created..(coming from someone who isnt an rpg fan) over yet another shooter!

Doom = yet another shooter?

Let me take a wild guess here: You're too young to remember the impact Doom had upon release, right?
No-one who is able to remember the first time they saw it could possibly describe it as 'yet another shooter'. Yes, Wolfenstein was there first, but it was Doom that changed everything. Earthbound is, well, just 'yet another rpg'.

[Kamino]

i dont think doom OR eartbound deserve the title of best game ever but earthbound sure is a hell of a lot better than doom, if it had been doom 2 i mightve picked doom 2 but not doom 1

[AB Positive]

if it was chrono trigger or FFIII against Doom, I'd go with those, but Earthbound? Good, interesting, original but I wouldn't put it in the 'groundbreaking' category.


Wolf3D did it first but Doom was the one that caught on and spread like wildfire. Doom did everything better and got people into the FPS genre which exploded like so much demon viscera. Doom should win this round, and this is from a FPS hater.


-AG

[portnoyd]

I also voted for Doom. Earthbound is shit by comparison. It's no contest.

dave

[Chunky]

Doom should win this round, and this is from a FPS hater.

Ditto, Doom voted!

[Bratwurst]

There's a reason they say 'Doom-clones' and not 'Wolf3D-clones!'

[o2william]

Catacombs-3D was the first texture mapped 3D action game, although it followed Hovertank, which had scaled sprites but flat shaded walls.
The catacombs engine looked similar to [Wolfenstein 3-D], but it was quite different internally, and had more error conditions.

Doom and the few 3D action games that came before it are kind of like Computer Space and Pong. Sure CS came first, but Pong was the one that made the biggest impact. Doom changed the focus of the entire gaming industry, not to mention what it did for the shareware market. I think it would be hard to overestimate its importance.

[Cmosfm]

There's a reason they say 'Doom-clones' and not 'Wolf3D-clones!'

The man's got a point...

...anyways, I'm surprised Earthbound even made it this far. Like has already bee said, good game but no where near the top 20 for best. game. ever. Actually there's lots of games missing from the list. The Simpsons made it that far? Damn, as Arcade games go Simpsons wasn't the best, it was good and it was the best Simpsons game ever but that's not saying much.

[Kamino]

man what i want to know, is, where's toejam and earl in this contest? the original tj&e that is. or harvest moon SNES? or PANZER DRAGOON? dammit. a lot of classics missing. i dont recall seeing PUNCH-OUT!! in there either

[Captain Wrong]

What I wanna know is why would someone get worked up over a poll on a fanboy infested game site anyway? Good for gameFaqs tho. I'm sure their traffic is through the roof.

[Oobgarm]

What I wanna know is why would someone get worked up over a poll on a fanboy infested game site anyway?

I DEMAND you get off my wavelength, Cap'n.

[Kamino]

this whole contest is messed up anyway. No virtual boy games were represented!

[ManekiNeko]

It's a GameFAQs poll. They're about as meaningless as the points in a game of Who's Line Is It Anyway. Don't let it twist your undies in a knot.

JR

[WiseSalesman]

Earthbound was a piece of JUNK. I'm not even that big of a doom fan, but I definitely picked it over earthbound.

[Gamereviewgod]

Come on, this is like the 4th new post on this contest. This should just be one thread and it's getting a bit annoying now.