Greatest Video Game Hero contest

[Azathoth]

If you find Gamespot an enjoyable source of news and reviews than more power to you, I however do not find them such. In my book they share a place with IGN (whose sins I consider just as bad, if not worse).

Well, their reviews are often funny and well-written, but what you have to remember is that they are just personal opinions, and should always be supplemented by the User Reviews, which are probably better indicators of the quality of a game.

I only use IGN to find the status of extremely obscure games (canceled? released? coming out xx/xx/200x?) that barely have a page in Gamespot. What have they done?

Despite stacking the deck it's still possible to win in any environment. Though many of your examples of classics winning I don't find valid since many characters still have adaptations today. (Lara Croft, The Prince, Snake ect). My original point is that it's unfair to pair up characters who haven't seen video game releases in decades with modern giants as it creates a "David versus Zeus" environment in the voting. Perhaps I didn't provide enough explanation on that point, if so that's bad on me.

But this is The Greatest Hero of All Time Competition. The Gamespot staff can't just say "Lol, everyone who visits our site is 12 so we should only include characters from the last decade." That just wouldn't be fair. Of course, one could argue that the Greatest Hero of All Time, just like Greatest Game of All Time, is an inherently fallacious concept, but where's the fun in that?


And finally, the 4chan vote doctoring - how is that any different from what is going on in Afghanistan right now? One of these days, that site is going to destroy an entire national election somewhere just for the lulz.