Desert Island Video Game Draft Playoffs - Round 2 (#4 Tetsujin vs. #5 Insomniacal Fan)

Whose video games would you rather have on your island?

  • Tetsujin

    Votes: 9 50.0%
  • Insomniacal Fan

    Votes: 9 50.0%

  • Total voters
    18
  • Poll closed .
Maybe that's a good thing, though? The initial draft was about your gaming taste, but the playoff voting is kind of supposed to be about the gaming tastes of others
For this reason alone I never really cared about the playoff voting. In fact it's part of why I sat this out only to get sucked in 5-6 rounds in and ultimately made my own list.
 
Maybe that's a good thing, though? The initial draft was about your gaming taste, but the playoff voting is kind of supposed to be about the gaming tastes of others, and a top-5 tiebreaker really distills a list down to the most prized elements within it. I voted for Tetsu originally, but I may very well have voted for your top-5 in a tiebreaker. A top-15 with Baldur's Gate III and Red Dead Redemption 2 is a stronger list for their presence, yet there remains a lot to consider when the list contains 13 other games. But a top-5 that might feature those two games suddenly becomes potent, because there's much less to consider alongside those two games.
Maybe for some folks! The desert island draft concept is something that we do for fun, and this particular desert island draft is certainly a testament to the fact that people have a wide variety of activities that they consider fun.
Purely out of curiosity, what would be your 5 choices if you had to take on Tetsujin?
If I had to, and if I was trying to win, then the game becomes market research. I would have compiled the list of user feedback across multiple forum threads; then I would weight it by the metrics of popularity (game sales), look at the key demographics of likely voters "Hmm, Löwenherz, a likely voter, liked the C&H reference, probably Gen X or geriatric Millennial. What have I got for that?"

For me personally, that's not fun (and kinda gross tbh), so I would have preferred to forfeit.
 
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Kinda just an overall issue with democracy in general: the worst form of government except all the others.
There's quite a bit more to democracy than merely voting. Different rules can result in different democracies being affected by different sets of issues.

Even in the cases where a vote is supposed to actually matter; coin tosses (or other random methods) are used to resolve ties for most elected offices in most states in the US.
In which case for future drafts two options could be - wrasslin' tournament style - a draw means both are out and their next scheduled opponent gets a bye. If the final I guess it would need some kind of OT, which would be other option: Sudden Death - the next person to get a single vote wins.
I like the coin toss better than giving the next opponent a bye (skipping a round kind of cheats the opponent, and it can break down if there are multiple ties in the bracket, you could end end up with the entire tournament being surprise decided in the first round by a few lucky ties), but this would be an acceptable method to me. You need some way to resolve ties at lower rounds in a tournament format.

I would suggest that if the top level finals matchup ends in a tie, that everyone just accepts the tie. That seems more satisfying than either a minigame or a coin toss.
 
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To be fair, previous drafts often used the mini-playoff format. Since there was no established rule, no rules were being "changed". It seems like the coin flip was being insisted upon by you alone.
Multiple folks expressed uncertainty about what the tiebreaking rules actually were, so I don't feel like the precedent was very powerful. Seemed more like a clean slate to me.

I was aware that I was the only person advocating for the coin toss, but I was open to other ideas (nobody else provided); I just didn't think the mini-draft was acceptable. Several expressed a preference for the mini-draft, but nobody stated an objection to a coin toss. That's often what consensus building is. I'm satisfied with the outcome.
 
If I had to, and if I was trying to win, then the game becomes market research. I would have compiled the list of user feedback across multiple forum threads; then I would weight it by the metrics of popularity (game sales), look at the key demographics of voters … For me personally, that's not fun (and kinda gross tbh), so I would have preferred to forfeit.

If you wanted to implement a modicum of acceptable research and strategy without getting all dark web social engineering data miner on us, take the five that got the most likes:

1: Baldur’s Gate 3
2: Red Dead Redemption 2
3: Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor
4: NFL Blitz
5: Civilization IV

You don’t need access to my search history to pick five games from a group of 15.

"Hmm, Löwenherz, a likely voter, liked the C&H reference, probably Gen X or geriatric Millennial.

I prefer “Xennial” thank you.

Will accept Oregon Trail Generation as well.
 
If you wanted to implement a modicum of acceptable research and strategy without getting all dark web social engineering data miner on us, take the five that got the most likes:

1: Baldur’s Gate 3
2: Red Dead Redemption 2
3: Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor
4: NFL Blitz
5: Civilization IV

You don’t need access to my search history to pick five games from a group of 15.



I prefer “Xennial” thank you.

Will accept Oregon Trail Generation as well.
No shade to anyone who wants to play this game. It's just not what I signed up for
 
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