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[DoPo]

Did we all collectively smack our heads again? GameFAQs does these things fairly regularly. I'm a little baffled as to why I'm seeing topics and articles about it as if it were something new or noteworthy.

Yeah, this is slightly different. It's the 20th anniversary of GameFAQs...

...yeah, that probably makes it way more legit. Even if they both never, ever claimed it was. And indeed, have continually claimed the opposite.

But apparently, it's all, like, the absolute objective truth it was supposed to be voted for.

 

[RedRockRun]

I'm so tired of hearing about this game. -long drawn out sigh- Please pleeeeeaaaase just go away! Go back to reading Homestuck or something. Just stop talking about how Undertale is the pinnacle of Western Civilization.

 

[SweetShark]

I'm so tired of hearing about this game. -long drawn out sigh- Please pleeeeeaaaase just go away! Go back to reading Homestuck or something. Just stop talking about how Undertale is the pinnacle of Western Civilization.

Why? Is Homestuck bad?
I had plans to read it.
And yes, I know it is about Alien Trolls or something, but it must be a reason why even Namco had them in a game.

 

[Tsun Tzu]

It's Gamefaqs.

Why do we, on the Escapist, care?

With that obvious bit of edgy criticism aside; I haven't played the game yet. I'll reserve judgment on its quality until I get around to doing so, but I'm supremely hesitant to label it "Best Game of All Time" simply as a matter of course.

I mean. At face value, the game looks jank as hell.

And fans inflating expectations so much is liable to disappoint maaaaaany people once they finally play.

Ya know. Like hype does. All the time.

 

[Dalisclock]

Is it really that good?

I didn't enjoy Earthbound that much, so I'm curious if this game is like the epitome of story telling or something.

Undertale is basically a perfect version of what it was. A quirky, witty homage to classic JRPGs and with some desconstuction and meta commentary plus a more engaging way of doing the classic turn based "combat". It's also dirt cheap and not that long so I'd just go for it. Earthbound is what it always gets compared to but it's very much it's own thing. The endings (all three of them) are some of my favourite endings to games ever even though with one of them you're gonna have a bad time...

I'm actually willing to go a little farther and say it's pretty much Mother 4, or at least as close to Mother 4 we'll probably ever see, since Itoi has already said he's done with the series after Mother 3. It's more similar in tone to Mother 3 but with graphics similar to Mother.

Earthbound is Mother 2, for those not familiar with the series, but since the first and third game weren't released in the US(as far as I know) and Mother 2 was, hence "Earthbound".

 

[Vigormortis]

As a side note, it's kind of interesting how in this thread people discussing the competition are actually calling it something different and thus distorting the meaning. The competition is not about the "greatest game of all time". That implies a level of seriousness that the original title "Best. Game. Ever." does not.

It is, once again, something for fun. Moreover, the very description of the contest dispells any notion that this is in supposed to be "like all real, guyz! For realzies"

don't forget: This is not a contest to see which game is your favorite, or even which one is the best rated. It's all a big popularity contest, and visitors who have never visited GameFAQs before will be sure to stop in and vote.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/bge20

So, should have Undertale won? Is it, like, the bestest game? Umm, yeah, that poll is entirely the wrong thing to look at for answers.

Even if it was real, would it matter? It's an opinion poll on the internet. When have those EVER mattered? When have they EVER been accurate representations of anything?

The best response to this whole affair is either:

A: Agree with the GameFAQs community and say, "Good choice."
- or -
B: Disagree with the GameFAQs community and move on.

I'll go with option B, personally. Everyone else is free to choose whichever one they wish.

And everyone please take note that "freak the fuck out" is not one of the options. ;D

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

Fandoms are always the worst thing.

Undertale is good, in my opinion, it is very good at what it does. However, I still put it in the same mental camp as Portal. Both are exceedingly good in what they do, but there's not that much beyond that. Undertale does have some commentary on games, but it's nothing we haven't seen before (MGS 2/Spec Ops). Rather, it's a bit like The Stanley Parable to me, where it's very effective at the current time and could very well last into the next few years in influence, but I can guarantee that two years from now, it will be "that one neat game".

I certainly don't think it is the best game ever basically. Good on tobyfox, but this is a bit silly. As much as Zelda leaves me lukewarm, I still think it is more deserving due to the fact that it still remains interesting and engaging this many years down the line, and that so many games (Journey, and Undertale itself) take stock from it's structure(which is taken directly from Joseph Campbell, but I think that's something that works especially well with games).

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

Yeah, remember when The Escapist community voted Skyrim the Greatest Game of All Time?

That was a dumb thing that happened.

Recent games are fresh and haven't been analyzed properly yet, so they win stuff and give us all something we can look back on and laugh at in a few years time.

Proving once and for all that the people on Gamefaqs don't know shit about ass.

Well, with that comment the only think you proved is the same...about yourself.

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[DoPo]

As a side note, it's kind of interesting how in this thread people discussing the competition are actually calling it something different and thus distorting the meaning. The competition is not about the "greatest game of all time". That implies a level of seriousness that the original title "Best. Game. Ever." does not.

It is, once again, something for fun. Moreover, the very description of the contest dispells any notion that this is in supposed to be "like all real, guyz! For realzies"

don't forget: This is not a contest to see which game is your favorite, or even which one is the best rated. It's all a big popularity contest, and visitors who have never visited GameFAQs before will be sure to stop in and vote.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/bge20

So, should have Undertale won? Is it, like, the bestest game? Umm, yeah, that poll is entirely the wrong thing to look at for answers.

Even if it was real, would it matter? It's an opinion poll on the internet. When have those EVER mattered? When have they EVER been accurate representations of anything?

The answer to all of these is "No". What's annoying in this case, however, is that GameFAQs themselves never claimed it did matter, the contests have been historically meant to be ultimately insignificant. And this has not even been a secret.

Yet, now this one apparently matters. Now, this one has retroactively been made to count as something significant. Now this one is somehow an accurate representation of...something.

Now this one is apparently divorsed from any context and instead it exist as some sort of fever dream conjured up from the minds of people who "don't know shit about ass"[footnote]to borrow a phrase that another poster eloquently used[/footnote]. And those fever dreams get heavily painted with whatever view[footnote]that is in fact completely irrelevant to even the imagined contest, much less the actual one[/footnote] that person decides to inject into it.

It's a mockery of the entire tradition. It's random people taking something that doesn't or shouldn't concern them, bastardizing the concept to its antithesis, then go on to paint it even blacker.

 

[Orga777]

Well. It is Gamefaqs. I don't really want to take anything they say into consideration with their poorly executed tournament brackets.

 

[BarkBarker]

All time? the people who voted have played every game known to man? Props. In all seriousness though, these are always hype of the time, just like any BLANK of the BLANK.

 

[SweetShark]

Also we see the whole voting wrong.
The results shows how many think Undertale is the best game ever.
NOT Undertale is the best game ever.
It just happened many others which NEVER played Undertale just think cause of the charismatic characters think is the best game.
But being a voter of Undertale, I hope the biggest percent of voters, voted it cause they play it.

 

[Buckets]

I watched the Jim Stirling squirty play for a bit and it doesn't really look like the type of game I would play, it's probably fine but I don't really want to try it, the combat? looked a bit weird and it's retro graphical style doesn't really interest me.
If it's been voted the best game ever, that seems a bold statement because over my vast gaming career (from C64 onwards) I have played some truly amazing games which I would consider could fit that category better.

 

[RaikuFA]

I'm so tired of hearing about this game. -long drawn out sigh- Please pleeeeeaaaase just go away! Go back to reading Homestuck or something. Just stop talking about how Undertale is the pinnacle of Western Civilization.

Why? Is Homestuck bad?
I had plans to read it.
And yes, I know it is about Alien Trolls or something, but it must be a reason why even Namco had them in a game.

It's another series that Tumblr has gotten their hands on and declared theirs and no one elses. Just like what they did with Undertale and Steven Universe.

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

I think it's important to note that Undertale didn't win Best Game Ever.

It won Best. Game. Evar.

I feel a lot of people are missing that bit on context.

 

[Blitsie]

Well if the poll did one thing, it finally got me playing and I'm absolutely loving it. Maybe I'm just blind but I very rarely hear people mention its soundtrack, its right up there with To The Moon and NiER as one of the most enchanting scores ever. I wouldn't consider it game of the forever haha but its definitely something worth being loved by many people.

Also

Spoiler: Minor Papyrus the skeleton spoiler

Who knew getting friendzoned by a skeleton could sting so much T_T

 

[SweetShark]

I'm so tired of hearing about this game. -long drawn out sigh- Please pleeeeeaaaase just go away! Go back to reading Homestuck or something. Just stop talking about how Undertale is the pinnacle of Western Civilization.

Why? Is Homestuck bad?
I had plans to read it.
And yes, I know it is about Alien Trolls or something, but it must be a reason why even Namco had them in a game.

It's another series that Tumblr has gotten their hands on and declared theirs and no one elses. Just like what they did with Undertale and Steven Universe.

As long I won't talk about them in Forums, I am alright then.
I guess you forgot to mention FNAF. When a person wanted to create a crossover with FNAF and Undertale, get a lot of sh*t sadly...
So awesome idea btw.

 

[SweetShark]

As a side note, it's kind of interesting how in this thread people discussing the competition are actually calling it something different and thus distorting the meaning. The competition is not about the "greatest game of all time". That implies a level of seriousness that the original title "Best. Game. Ever." does not.

It is, once again, something for fun. Moreover, the very description of the contest dispells any notion that this is in supposed to be "like all real, guyz! For realzies"

don't forget: This is not a contest to see which game is your favorite, or even which one is the best rated. It's all a big popularity contest, and visitors who have never visited GameFAQs before will be sure to stop in and vote.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/bge20

So, should have Undertale won? Is it, like, the bestest game? Umm, yeah, that poll is entirely the wrong thing to look at for answers.

Even if it was real, would it matter? It's an opinion poll on the internet. When have those EVER mattered? When have they EVER been accurate representations of anything?

The answer to all of these is "No". What's annoying in this case, however, is that GameFAQs themselves never claimed it did matter, the contests have been historically meant to be ultimately insignificant. And this has not even been a secret.

Yet, now this one apparently matters. Now, this one has retroactively been made to count as something significant. Now this one is somehow an accurate representation of...something.

Now this one is apparently divorsed from any context and instead it exist as some sort of fever dream conjured up from the minds of people who "don't know shit about ass"[footnote]to borrow a phrase that another poster eloquently used[/footnote]. And those fever dreams get heavily painted with whatever view[footnote]that is in fact completely irrelevant to even the imagined contest, much less the actual one[/footnote] that person decides to inject into it.

It's a mockery of the entire tradition. It's random people taking something that doesn't or shouldn't concern them, bastardizing the concept to its antithesis, then go on to paint it even blacker.

A very good idea that would made the whole contest more meaningful is the winner would be drawn by a well-known artist or something similar.
Now...the whole thing is just a thing to have fun for a small moment. I enjoy it, but now we musr move on.

 

[DoPo]

Now...the whole thing is just a thing to have fun for a small moment. I enjoy it, but now we musr move on.

Yeah, that's pretty much it. The contest is to have fun for a while. And we are supposed to do that. Then, indeed, move on.

And yet, here we are, with people who complain about it being, of all the things, too serious.