So, why exactly is it important that I vote? I don't really want to join yet another site. Does the sims get something special for it? Do I? Just wondering.
If the Sims is in the top 4 it can win a square in the Walk of Game in the Metreon. It's a pretty spiffy achievement.
Games/Characters EverQuest 36.2% Final Fantasy 27.4% StarCraft 24.9% Lara Croft (Tomb Raider) 24.0% The Sims 23.2% Pac-Man 20.0% Tetris 20.0% Civilization 17.4% Doom 16.3% Grand Theft Auto 16.1% Half-Life 15.6% Resident Evil 14.9% Donkey Kong 12.6% Mortal Kombat 12.2% Pong 11.2% Samus Aran (Metroid) 11.1% Street Fighter II 10.9% Castlevania 10.8% Pitfall Harry (Pitfall!) 10.8% Madden NFL 10.8% Frogger 10.8% Myst 10.8% Space Invaders 10.8% Fox McCloud (Star Fox) 10.8% Quake 10.7% Lifetime Achievement John Carmack (Doom, Quake) 47.1% Will Wright (Sim Series) 43.0% Sid Meier (Civilization, Pirates!) 40.6% Toru Iwatani (Pac-Man) 40.3% Peter Molyneux (Populous, Fable) 29.0%
Notice how John Carmack is at the top of the Lifetime Achievement list while his game Quake is at the bottom of the Games/Characters list? Doom is midway between. Are Doom and Quake somehow evolutionary or revolutionary?
Final Results...? Okay these results look COMPLETELY off.. Games/Characters StarCraft 41.5% EverQuest 38.9% Final Fantasy 38.5% Half-Life 22.2% Doom 21.6% Civilization 19.6% Grand Theft Auto 19.5% Tetris 18.7% The Sims 17.9% Pac-Man 17.4% Resident Evil 15.5% Mortal Kombat 13.2% Lara Croft (Tomb Raider) 13.1% Street Fighter II 12.5% Donkey Kong 11.9% Quake 11.7% Samus Aran (Metroid) 11.6% Castlevania 9.7% Myst 9.2% Pong 8.0% Space Invaders 6.7% Madden NFL 6.4% Fox McCloud (Star Fox) 5.7% Frogger 5.7% Pitfall Harry (Pitfall!) 3.2% Lifetime Achievement John Carmack (Doom, Quake) 56.8% Sid Meier (Civilization, Pirates!) 43.4% Toru Iwatani (Pac-Man) 37.6% Will Wright (Sim Series) 37.5% Peter Molyneux (Populous, Fable) 24.8%
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but HOW THE HECK did The Sims drop to 9th Place in the course of 10 days? That's physically impossible.
I thought the Sims was still in 5th place when I voted Monday morning. Maybe it was wishful thinking but I'm certain they hadn't dropped as low as 9th. I'm forced to agree. Something is screwy about the count. Also, the John Cormack numbers really confuse me, although what I know about the gaming industry could be written in large letters on a 3 x 5 card.
Alright the results are in: Game Winners: 1. StarCraft 2. Final Fantasy 3. Lara Croft 4. Everquest Lifetime Achievement: 1. Sid Meier 2. John Carmack
Okay, I'm OFFICIALLY calling this vote a sham The votes here are totally off. Go look here and here. During a period of ten days from when I posted the last stats of votes and closing, these were the rankings of Will Wright, The Sims, and The Winners. The first set of stats will be marked as (A) and the Second set will be marked as (B) Starcraft: (+2 Change) (A) 3rd Place, 24.9% (B) 1st Place, 41.5% Final Fantasy (-1 Change) (A) 2nd Place, 27.4% (B) 3rd Place, 38.5% Lara Croft (-9 Change) (A) 4th Place, 24.0% (B) 13th Place, 13.1% Everquest: (-1 Change) (A) 1st Place 36.2% (B) 2nd Place 38.9% The Sims: (-4 Change) (A) 5th Place, 23.2% (B) 9th Place, 17.9% Sid Meier: (-1 Change) (A) 3rd Place, 40.6% (B) 2nd Place, 43.4% John Carmack: (0 Change) (A) 1st Place, 47.1% (B) 1st Place, 56.8% Will Wright (-2 Change) (A) 2nd Place, 43.0% (B) 4th Place, 37.5% Correct me if I'm wrong, but with such a drastic shift with Lara Croft, something is WRONG here. Go look at a few other games above The Sims. Something is DRASTICALLY wrong. Will dropped 2 whole places in two days! Toru Iwatani even jumped a spot here. I really want to see the final tallies here because I don't like this one bit. Having The Sims taking this huge tumble is one thing, but the stats jump here is so drastic, it raises my eyebrow. When I have a moment, I'll check for a 5% margin of error and see how off the stats could be (range-wise).
I don't know if it still does, but back when I was playing Tomb Raider, there was a huge online community similar to the TS2 community. I wonder if they had a last-minute push for votes?
