The GWJ JRPG Club Version 2.5 HD Remaster: Now Voting for our Q2 2024 game!

Not much change as this round wraps up -- but Fell Seal does edge toward the top of the pack. Radiant Historia and Tales of Berseria hang on, but each of them has less than a majority of the votes (12 people voting, so far), so the writing is on the wall. If things hold, we'll have a four-way round of ranked choice voting.

Current Standings:
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark - 9
Persona 4 - 8
Radiant Historia - 5
Tales of Berseria - 5
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Suikoden II - 4
Atelier Sophie - The Alchemist and the Mysterious Book - 4
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III - 4
Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth - 3

This round closes at 9 p.m. U.S. Eastern! (Roughly 2 hours 10 minutes from the time of this post).

Atelier Sophie can never quite catch a break. Too bad, I think it's my favorite of the ones I've played.

Mr GT Chris wrote:

Atelier Sophie can never quite catch a break. Too bad, I think it's my favorite of the ones I've played.

Those games really hold their prices--I think the cheapest that I have seen on the consoles is $30. With a pretty tall pile, I need a little more of a discount, even on one of the older games, to bite. Maybe it will happen soon as I noticed that Square finally gave up and dropped I am Setsuna and Lost Sphear below the $20 mark recently after holding on for a really long time.

All right, on to ranked choice voting! Since I'm a bit late posting this, we'll have this round of voting run until Monday morning, rather than Sunday night like I previously said. Our finalists are:

Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
Persona 4
Radiant Historia
Tales of Berseria

Here's how it works:

  • Vote for as many games as you'd like, ranked with the one you're most interested in playing first, second-most-interested second, etc.
  • If any game has a majority right away, it wins! If it doesn't, we eliminate the game with the least first place votes, then repeat the process. (Tiebreaker: 2nd place votes; 2nd tiebreaker: overall votes)

My list:
1. Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
2. Radiant Historia
3. Persona 4
4. Tales of Berseria

My votes:

1. Radiant Historia
2. Persona 4

My vote:
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark

1. Persona 4
2. Tales of Berseria

1.) Radiator Historian
2.) Fell Seal: A Robot's Mark

1. Radiant Historia
2. Fell Seal: Arbiter’s Mark
3. Persona 4

Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark

1. Tales of Berseria
2. Persona 4

1. Tales of Berseria
2. Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
3. Persona 4

hbi2k wrote:

1.) Radiator Historian
2.) Fell Seal: A Robot's Mark

Good stuff hehehe.

My ranked choice:

1.Radiant Historia
2.Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
3.Persona 4

1. Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
2. Radiant Historia
3. Tales of Berseria
4. Persona 4

hbi2k wrote:

1.) Radiator Historian
2.) Fell Seal: A Robot's Mark

Are you counting these or are you being a Harriet Tubman Jeopardy judge?

Stele wrote:

Are you counting these or are you being a Harriet Tubman Jeopardy judge? :)

I had to Google that. That's hilarious.

hbi2k wrote:

1.) Radiator Historian

If this does not win this turn, someone should renominate it next quarter, and then I would nominate Radiata Stories, just for maximum confusion

bobbywatson wrote:
hbi2k wrote:

1.) Radiator Historian

If this does not win this turn, someone should renominate it next quarter, and then I would nominate Radiata Stories, just for maximum confusion :)

I used to own that on the PS2! I don't recall if I ever did beat it. Might have to check any personal notes of the time, if any still exist.

I have it too, never even booted it up!

I think I played 30 minutes of it at some point. I have almost no recollection of it.

I played quite a bit of Radiata Stories back on PS2, never completed it though. I don't remember much about it though, just that there was a choice that caused a big story split.

Fell Seal Arbiter's Mark.

Been fingers crossing on this one for a while now!

Malkroth wrote:

I played quite a bit of Radiata Stories back on PS2, never completed it though. I don't remember much about it though, just that there was a choice that caused a big story split.

I remember finishing the game and thinking "meh". I remember that the final boss sequence took forever.

Congratulations to Malkroth, our 5th finisher of FFVI!

One more day for voting! Here's where things stand right now:

Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark - 5
Radiant Historia - 4
Tales of Berseria - 2
Persona 4 - 1

12 votes total, 7 needed to win.

Voting will close tomorrow morning!

Voting closes tomorrow morning!

Drumroll please ...

Our Q3 2022 game will be Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark!

Voting data below:

Spoiler:

Round 1:
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark - 5
Radiant Historia - 4
Tales of Berseria - 2
Persona 4 - 1

Total votes: 12
Needed for majority: 7
Leader has majority: No

Knocked out: Persona 4

Persona 4 had wide support -- it was on 8 people's lists -- but it was also near the bottom of 8 people's lists. So, its elimination doesn't really change things. Tales of Berseria picks up P4's single first-place vote (from Forlorn Hope) and, where people had P4 in second place (bobbywatson, Mr GT Chris), they had no 3rd-place votes. So, no game really moves up.

Round 2:
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark - 5
Radiant Historia - 4
Tales of Berseria - 3
Persona 4 - 1

Total votes: 12
Needed for majority: 7
Leader has majority: No

Knocked out: Tales of Berseria

No surprise here: Tales of Berseria is eliminated next. It, too, was in last place on a handful of ballots. But its elimination does two interesting things. First, there are no more games left on Forlorn Hope or Mr GT Chris's ballot, so the threshold for a majority goes down by 1. Second, it leads to Fell Seal moving up to first place on Malkroth's ballot, sealing the deal.

Round 3:
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark - 6
Radiant Historia - 4

Total votes: 10
Needed for majority: 6
Leader has majority: Yes

Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark wins!

New thread to come later today. Happy Monday, everyone!

Man wouldn't it be nice to have a political voting system like this....

LastSurprise wrote:

New thread to come later today. Happy Monday, everyone!

Here's the link to existing GWJ Fell Seal thread. It's only a couple pages long but there's some good tips and class discussion in there, if you want to link it.

When your thread is up I'll probably post in that one to get anyone else who didn't finish to join us for the quarter.

I did not expect Persona 4 to get eliminated so early…

Just subbing to the thread. I literally finished Fell Seal a few days ago.