Vote For Iwata's Best Game

My mistake - it's actually 6-4 in favour of SONM. To be fair, I have yet to vote...

I can't see that .gif, but I'm assuming it's saying something like, "No it's not, I've voted!" If not, it ought to be.

With about a couple of days to go before the deadline shuts on this vote, and with the contributors standing at 6 from both GNamer and SONM (and me finally finishing processing the votes!), know this: people have voted for exactly 64 different games. Spooky!

Total of 120 games voted for (including duplicates). Hopefully that means some clear placings.

I'm guessing that SMG, Earthbound, and Pokémon GSC will all rank in the top ten - the latter two because of their "Iwata-ness", and SMG because it always ranks highly.

Spoiler:

All of them are in mine! Highly ranked, too.

I voted for one of those Balla

Galaxy, natch.

Of course as it has perfect controls.

One hour left!

I just sent my votes! Eight all together.

What's the final vote count, Sir Zero?

I already got my votes in the earlier hours of the morning, I'm really intrigued to see how this turns out.

Seventeen votes snuck under the wire, with eleven received here and six from SONM. Processing these is going to take ages, and we're going out at the weekend... ulp.

A very respectable turnout! No rush Zero - enjoy your weekend!

SONM continue to disappoint.

Well, maybe that's a bit unfair - some randomers coming in and asking them to vote? And I probably take some of that blame too!

A good turn out it seems, can't wait to see two of mine come 64th & 63rd then one of them turning up in the Wii U vote later this year.

In total 72 different games are represented. The top ten is as good a mix of 'Iwata The President' and 'Iwata The Programmer' as I could have hoped for, I reckon. Really looking forward to having everything ready!

Let's begin. *bows*

Tenth Place:

Ninth Place:

That's a very strong start & also nice touch adding the Iwata's involvement as well as the weird video thing.

A strong start to our countdown! I'm liking the added information and video links Zero.

I have to disagree with the first commenter - I don't think Smash 4 renders the old Smash games obsolete. I still enjoy playing Melee to this day, and Brawl's story mode is a better single player experience than Smash 4's efforts. Still, I'm happy to see Smash 4 included as it's a belter of a game.

Good start with two big games but I do agree with Jay though to me Melee still is the best and maybe we will see that later.

JayMoyles wrote:

I have to disagree with the first commenter...

JayMoyles wrote:

I don't think Smash 4 renders the old Smash games obsolete. I still enjoy playing Melee to this day, and Brawl's story mode is a better single player experience than Smash 4's efforts.

I didn't mention Brawl, as I completely agree with you.  Nothing in SSBU's single-player hand comes close to the SSE.

Regarding Mêlée, well, if you say so - but I find that harder to understand.  At the top level, with the wave-dashing and the SHFFLing, I understand that it's a completely different game.  Otherwise?  

While Brawl was washed-out and slowed down in comparison, U sped back things up and reintroduced the colour, to the point where Mêlée's advantage there has been eroded.  U has more characters, more stages, fewer out-and-out clones, more trophies, more music, more items, obviously it's shinier...  Unless you absolutely love Pichu, that stage with the turtle, or the half-dozen platforming efforts in Adventure Mode, I'm afraid you've lost me.


As for the vote, that is a very strong first showing.  I doubt that (in my eyes anyway) the higher choices will be able to keep up the pace.  And those things in SMG2 do really unnerve me.

More stuff and being shiny doesn't make things better, the core gameplay in Melee I find more enjoyable myself. I can't speak for Jay on that though but I know from going to Timewarp and they've had consoles set-up SMASH4 does get played but like Mario Kart as well everyone then goes play MK64 or Melee not SMASH4 or MK8 as there more FUN to play the older two there.