orangecrush

We are down to the final 4 games:

#1 Rock Band 2 (multi)
Vs.
#4 GoldenEye (N64)

#2 Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES)
Vs.
#27 Legend of Zelda (NES)

Please discuss or predict any of the matchups. Full Brackets here: DVDTalk Video Game Tournament

orangecrush

Interesting that only 1 of the final 4 games is multi-platform.

chess

More interesting that just about the only way to knock out a Nintendo game is with another Nintendo game (or Tetris).

Rock Band is a no-brainer over Goldeneye, but I don't know if I can vote for Mario over Zelda or vice versa.

I guess in a pinch, I'll go with Mario.

taffer

Zelda all the way!

I don't care about either Rock Band (hate party games) or Goldeneye (revolutionary for consoles but crap compared to PC FPS).

Mario 3 is good, but Zelda is simply better.

fumanstan

Voted for Mario 3.

Didn't vote on the other one, since both are overrated.

superdeluxe

Goldeneye and Mario.

Ugh.

jdpatri

Rock Band 2 - Two years and I'm still basically playing the same game. Other than my frequent returns to play Civ and Civ IV, no other game has kept me coming back for more and more and more. I don't understand how people dismiss Rock Band as a party game since I spend 80% of my RB time playing solo on career mode.

Mario 3 - Zelda isn't even the best Zelda game. Mario 3 is my favorite Mario. Mario advances.

Tarantino

I feel the opposite...most of my best videogame moments are those shared with friends, making Goldeneye and Rock Band my two all time favorite games. I couldn't care less about the other two.

= J

edstein

Rock Band 2 - Overated but, still better than Goldeneye
Mario - Might as well get the confetti and championship hats made up.

Maxflier

Rock Band 2 - as others have said, overated but better than the alternative
don't care

PopcornTreeCt

GoldenEye
Zelda

dino88

Agreed. I haven't been paying attention to this tourney, so I don't know what other games have been knocked out, but only Zelda would make my personal list...and go figure, it has the least amount of votes.

Michael Corvin

Same vote for me as well and I'm also baffled at those that consider RB2 merely a party game. Those people must not have actually played the game.

bunkaroo

Picked Zelda just because. I can't believe Ocarina of Time didn't make it this far.

PopcornTreeCt

Poor graphics. No storylines. Same four, five or six buttons used.

I like Rock Band 2. It's grown on me, but how it made it to the top 4 boggles the mind.

Michael Corvin

Haven't we been using the "Same four, five or six buttons" (essentially 4 face buttons and two triggers) since the SNES though? How is that a slight on the music genre? Hell, Zelda & Mario 3 only had two buttons, they must suck ass!

I don't see an absence of a storyline that much of an issue either. Zelda's storyline could fit in a fortune cookie. "Link must rescue Princess Zelda from Ganon." Real deep stuff right there. You could change the names to Mario, Peach and Bowser and have the same story. Or Mario, Pauline & Donkey Kong.

In each of these examples(Mario, Zelda, & Donkey Kong), it's all about the gameplay not the story. Rock Band is all about the gameplay, not some generic story... see Guitar Hero. That's how it's made it into the finals. It has far more replay value than even the greatest of games and this tourney was about 'Favorite' not 'Best.'

chess

Or Link to the Past for that matter.

Hell, I'm amazing nothing from the SNES made it. It seems like Super Metriod, Super Mario World, or Link to the Past should still be around.

orangecrush

To be fair, Super Mario World only lost by 1 vote to SMB3.

Bandit03

Damn Zelda is getting its ass kicked

orangecrush

One more day to vote

Goldberg74

slop101

I don't think there's a smiley with a big enough eye-roll to respond to your ridiculous post. Oh yeah, just because someone disagrees with your opinion, it must be because they haven't played it. Please.

Tarantino

Someone who has actually played Rock Band would know that there is a lot more to it than merely being a 'party game'.

That's not opinion...that's fact.

= J

fumanstan

Why are you so insecure?

I'd have to agree with Corvin and Tarantino, Rock Band or any of the musical games aren't just party games. It's just one aspect of it, just like some FPS games aren't just multiplayer online games.

Jeremy517

Whether RB is a party game or isn't a party game isn't really a question of opinion though. The sheer number of people who play it outside of party situations makes it conclusively not a party game. If the number was a lot lower then it might be up for debate as to whether it is just a party game or not, but in this case, it isn't just a party game. Some people might play it only at parties, but that doesn't mean that it is only a party game.