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By the way, if anyone just stepped into this thread and is confused what’s going on, here’s a quick refresher:

We are nominating adventure games for a tournament.

  99 games from the AG Top 100 list (minus Infocom)
+ 26 more games which already got 4+ nominating votes in this thread
+  3 still open slots
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128 nominated games to compete in an upcoming elimination tournament for Best Adventure Game (or, if you prefer, Community Favorite Adventure Game).

Bogi’s organizing and can answer questions. His first and latest post are good places to catch up on what’s going on.

TimovieMan - 15 December 2014 04:19 PM

But I don’t want to vote on anything I haven’t played…

Understood, yeah, I agree and feel that’s the best policy, I’m just hoping some text adventure fans might come out of the woodwork.

I’ll add a vote for Corpse Party , still doesn’t qualify it but it’s an delightful original horror game that deserves a shot.

Somebody put a vote up for Zork, please, probably not near the best text adventure but it’s a classic.

I’ll add votes for:

Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward
Danganronpa 2
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Corpse Party
999: Nine Persons, Nine Hours, Nine Doors
Death Gate
Phantasmagoria

Regarding Zork with its 3 votes I think it’s more than fair for it to receive a wild card similar to Walking Dead that also has 3 votes, but was AGGIE awards winner. Infocom’s adventures had their place in the Top 100 list and we “took it”, so Zork as Inofom’s arguably best known text adventure and the text adventure with most votes has every right to get that wild card.
There’s even some symbolism in that the games that received wild cards to this tournament are so completely different, they lay on the two very ends of the adventure games spectrum and represent the very beginning of the genre and its newest trends.

So Zork is our 126th game that entered competition.

Only 2 more and I’ll anounce the seeding pots and the time of the group stage LIVE draw

Can I still vote for additional games?

I listed sofar the Walking Dead and Brothers for the initial list.

If so, I’ll add a vote to Tales of Monkey Island

Detective Mosely - 15 December 2014 05:27 PM

I’ll add votes for:

Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward
Danganronpa 2
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Corpse Party
999: Nine Persons, Nine Hours, Nine Doors
Death Gate
Phantasmagoria

Ok, we have a little problem now, I was typing the post and didn’t see Detective Mosely’s one, his vote made 3 games to pass the line:

Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward, Danganronpa 2 and Corpse Party.

So with Zork it gives 129 games. I think we have two possibilities, one is to try and somehow decide which game will be left out and the second one is to have a group(s) with 9 games. I think that could be even more fair and I suggest that the voting continue until tomorrow (Tuesday at 6 P.M. GMT). When it will be definitely closed.

If you think that the first option is better than let’s decide somehow which game will be left out.

TimovieMan - 15 December 2014 05:44 PM

Bogi - 15 December 2014 05:36 PM

Only 2 more and I’ll anounce the seeding pots and the time of the group stage LIVE draw

Didn’t Danganronpa 2 and Virtue’s Last Reward just make it with Detective Mosely’s votes?

Yes and also Corpse Party and now with Subbi’s vote Tales of Monkey Island

So maybe it would be better to leave this window for voting open until tomorrow at 6 P.M. GMT and we would have probably several groups with 9 games.

In that case, let me add some more votes

Overclocked
The Walking Dead (so it doesn’t just get in for honorary reasons)
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Suspect (this is probably the best text adventure I’ve ever played, to be honest.  didn’t see it on the list originally.  It was really cool and way ahead of it’s time.  It even had a clock with tons of different characters moving around the map doing various things.)

and in case any fellow fans want to give it some last minute votes and piss off all the Telltale haters:

The Walking Dead: Season 2

TimovieMan - 15 December 2014 06:59 PM

Wait, more than 128 games? Now I’m going to be really ticked off if FotAQ doesn’t make this…

Hint, hint.

It’s unbelievable

TimovieMan - 15 December 2014 06:59 PM

Wait, more than 128 games? Now I’m going to be really ticked off if FotAQ doesn’t make this…

Don’t be sad. Not even classics like Scratches or The Lost Crown made it.

Detective Mosely - 15 December 2014 06:13 PM

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

This one’s actually already included as it is #69 in the AG Top 100. No worries, it’s an easy mistake to make with so many games to keep track of.

One thing I’ve already found interesting about the nominating process is reminding myself what did and didn’t make the AG Top 100. If you’d asked me before this week, I would have thought that one of the Kyrandia games was included in the lower ranks of the Top 100, but apparently none of them were, hence my decision to nominate Kyrandia 2.

It’s also neat to learn about games I didn’t know about like Suspect or Lost Horizon.

Sefir - 15 December 2014 07:31 PM

Don’t be sad. Not even classics like Scratches or The Lost Crown made it.

Well, it’s not quite over yet.

If I understand Bogi correctly, the current plan is like this:

* Nominations will end Dec. 16 at 6PM GMT/UTC (here’s a countdown timer), so people can still vote for awhile.

* It no longer matters if we nominate a few more than 128 games to compete in the tournament. It’s OK to have a few extra candidates because…

* We’re going to start the tournament with a group round. The nominees will be divided into 16 groups containing 8 or 9 games each. (The groups containing 9 games will allow for a little overflow beyond just 128 nominees.) People will vote, probably using a points system, to select 4 games from each group to continue.

* Those 4 games that win the 16 groups will then add up to a total of 64 games, which we can use to do a whole bunch of one-on-one knockout rounds to finish the tournament and declare a winner.

Bogi, please correct me if I’ve made any errors.

No, absolutely nothing to correct Caliburn, you summed it up perfectly

Nominations
Dragonsphere
Beavis & Butthead in Virtual Stupidity
Portal (1986)
Botanicula

Votes:
Alone in the Dark 2
Colossal Cave Adventure
Gobliiins
Starship Titanic
The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Rose Tattoo
A Mind Forever Voyaging
Below the Root
Bureaucracy
Curses
Death Gate
Photopia
The Lurking Horror
Riddle of the Sphinx
TimeQuest
Trinity
Woodfruff and the Schnibble of Azimuth
Legend of Kyrandia 2: Hand of Fate