Best Video Game Tournament Round 1c: Resident Evil 2 (20) vs Grand Theft Auto III (109)

[Chris]

Resident Evil 2
Release Date: January 25, 2019
Platforms: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Genre: Science-fiction survival horror

VS

Grand Theft Auto III
Release Date: October 22, 2001
Platforms: PlayStation 2, Microsoft Windows, Xbox, Mac OS X, Android, iOS, Fire OS
Genre: Action-adventure

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[Barry Poppins]

As far as this particular version of Resident Evil 2 is concerned... Grand Theft Auto III is far and away superior.

 

[Kiffy Lube]

RE II remake was dope, stop hatin' new things.

 

[Chris]

GTA baybeee, even the outdated gameplay is still fun af

 

[Lady Redfield]

RE2 remake, don’t y’all make me come for you on this one.

 

[Keith]

Another fine match. RE2 by a hair. For some its one the great games of modern times maybe ever.

 

[TeaDrinkingLimey]

GTA III

Good times as a kid.

 

[Spitfire]

I would have expected myself to say GTA III, but on thought when I played the remake it really was a lot more fun that I expected it to be.

 

[Marty McFourth]

This would have been harder for me if it was the original Resident Evil 2. The Remake was good, but not one of my top RE games.

Grand Theft Auto III is my choice. It was highly influential for it's time, and Rockstar really broke ground with their game design & ideas. Not my favourite GTA, but it is so significant and important.

 

[Barry Poppins]

I think because it's newer, people are tending to gloss over a lot of the problems that RE2make has and just are voting it because "oh shiny new game".

 

[Chris]

I think because it's newer, people are tending to gloss over a lot of the problems that RE2make has and just are voting it because "oh shiny new game".

So what about the match-ups where the old games beat the new games in the tournament? I was also told that people who voted against Destiny for Streets of Rage 3 were "protest voting" when I think people might just be voting for which game they think is best in both cases

If any bias exists, I'd say nostalgia wins out in 2020 vs "shiny and new" any day tho, for every entertainment medium.

 

[Chris]

Though to that point, the nostalgia for the original RE2 could be why the remake is rated so highly

 

[Barry Poppins]

So what about the match-ups where the old games beat the new games in the tournament? I was also told that people who voted against Destiny for Streets of Rage 3 were "protest voting" when I think people might just be voting for which game they think is best in both cases

If any bias exists, I'd say nostalgia wins out in 2020 vs "shiny and new" any day tho, for every entertainment medium.

Older games have been around longer and therefore their problems are pretty apparent, no?

 

[Chris]

Older games have been around longer and therefore their problems are pretty apparent, no?

Yes, so does this mean any recent game that wins over an older game only won bc their problems were ignored?

 

[Barry Poppins]

Yes, so does this mean any recent game that wins over an older game only won bc their problems were ignored?

It probably means the newer games weren't that good or as good as the older ones to begin with.