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Community Choice! Game of the Year Round 1: The Bat and the Bastion

Posted on Monday, December 5 @ 19:11:57 Eastern by Daniel Bischoff

You guys know how this goes! GameRevolution will be publishing our Game of the Year picks soon and your nominations in each category will be called out in each of those post.

But enough about us! We want to let the world know what the GameRevolution community thinks! That's why we're going to tournament style our way down to one game to rule them all. Your nominations for Game of the Year will enter and only one will leave... maybe a little bruised, a little beaten, but all the better for it. Let's get to it with the first round!

Bastion

From GameRevolution's Review:

Bastion advances video games as art. In the same breath, it can challenge your thumbs and make you wonder about the possibilities of its world. It feels like a retail game; it feels like a straight shot to the summer gaming drag; it feels like the beginning of something bigger.

Batman: Arkham City

From GameRevolution's Review:

When a game gives you the ability to silently dispatch a number of firearm-wielding hoodlums, grapnel hook and glide to a completely different location, and then enter fisticuffs with a group of 20+ gangsters, you can't help but fall in love. I put the controller down and said, "I am vengeance, I am the night, I am the Batman."

GO TO THIS FORUM THREAD TO CAST YOUR VOTE!

Related Games: Bastion, Batman: Arkham City

Tags: Community, Game of the Year, Batman: Arkham City, Bastion

Comments

Nick_Tan
Joined: Jul 2006

Posted: Dec 5th, 2011 at 8:59 pm
I vote for Batman with a Bastion narrator.

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UghRochester
Joined: Jun 2006

Posted: Dec 5th, 2011 at 9:08 pm
You got to go to the forum and cast your vote, Nick. Gosh!

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SweetHat
Joined: May 2011

Posted: Dec 5th, 2011 at 11:06 pm
I CHOOOOOSE Sandwich.

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tinymhg
Joined: Jun 2011

Posted: Dec 6th, 2011 at 10:20 am
That should get a TPS nomination.

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Klandathu
Joined: Apr 2008

Posted: Dec 6th, 2011 at 1:44 am
Just out of curiosity, is there any particular formula or pattern you guys use to determine the match-ups?

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Dec 6th, 2011 at 1:04 pm
Every contender was taken from the community's nominations for Game of the Year. I organized the tournament to maximize exciting rounds throughout with two heavily favored games for the final battle.... so basically I stacked it to make it as interesting as possible.

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metalimi
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Dec 6th, 2011 at 4:41 am
I think we all know where this is going to end up :/

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tinymhg
Joined: Jun 2011

Posted: Dec 6th, 2011 at 10:21 am
Duke Nukem!

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Squiggy
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Dec 6th, 2011 at 6:25 am
I hope the match-ups are decided fairly. IGN (haha, yeah) totally rigged their "Best Zelda Ever" vote tournament like no other.

But you guys aren't IGN, and you don't pit the most popular games against obscure crap like the CD-i titles in the first round to guarantee that the popular ones win and drive more site traffic/revenue.

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Dec 6th, 2011 at 1:05 pm
I honestly thought bastion and batman was a good match up and it turned out that they went 8-8 at first... that was my last count.

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