I don't see anything like this on Gamefaqs

So, where can I find this on GameFAQs?

It's on the front page, under the "Best Game Ever" banner.

Thanks. Let me see...
I did find this: http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/contest/bge09.html
However, I don't see the list of nominees or a place to vote

The way I see it, most of the Entries are a joke and games that should be there aren't. I mean come on: Squeenix has most of their Final Fantasy Games represented (of which only 1, 4, 6, 7 and 10 really should be there at the most), all three Halo games are up (though most feel Halo 2 was the best of the three excluding online play) and all the Zelda (only the original, LttP, OoT, WW and TP really deserve to be there at the most), Metal Gear Solid (Only the Original MGS and MGS4 should be there), Sonic (old school ones, thankfully), Mario (SMB, SMB3, SMW and Sunshine are the only ones that need be there) and even all the PS2 GTA games (all of which are practically the same--I have them all so I can say that) are there.


A few games that should be there are the Original Mortal Kombat (Which led to an explosion of many of the mature-themes games we've come to know and love), Altered Beast (Come on. Who HASN'T heard of this game?!), Street Fighter Alpha (direct sequel to the less-known Street Fighter 1), Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn (Sequel to Path of Radience and considered the best Stateside Fire Emblem since the first GBA Fire Emblem--commonly known as Fire Emblem 7 or Fire Emblem Rekka no ken), Jump! Ultimate Stars (I played this game but for obvious reasons it can't be brought to the states) and NBA Jam (again, who in the blue hell hasn't HEARD of this game?!), among others.

The way I see it, a good chunk of the listed games really shouldn't be there for a number of reasons:


Crystalis-This has gotta be a joke entry. I've never even HEARD of this game.
Gunstar Heroes-This may have been a popular game but it really shouldn't be listed.
Streets of Rage II-Being overplayed is no reason to call it one of the best.
Zelda: Link's Awakening-Seriously: Talk to anyone who actually played through the game and 8 out of 10 times they'll tell you they were done after their first (and most cases only) playthrough. Interestingly, Nintendo decided to reuse the idea in Majora's Mask (Dream-World type mechanics)
Mortal Kombat II-The original MK is much more memorable than II.
Secret of Mana-A mistake game made by Squeenix that should've died after the first. Again, this poor excuse for a game must be a joke entry.
Shining Force II-The sequel was garbage compared to the first.
Donkey Kong Country 2-Same as above.
GoldenEye 007-This game can stay ONLY if Nintendo convices Rare to let them release it on the Virtual Console.
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night-A game many felt was a step back from the other Castlevania games released at the time.
Super Mario 64-I preferred this game over both of its successors (Sunshine and Galaxy) but I believe SMW superseeds this one.
Lufia II-Not ENOUGH people know of this game for it to really deserve to be here. For those who don't know, it's the prequel to the first Lufia. An Awesome game overall though.
SMW2: Yoshi's Island: This game and every Yoshi-centric game that followed are fan-based and therefore shouldn't be here.
Perfect Dark-Not really memorable when you think about it--more so since The Xbox got a better version that blew this one away.
Zelda: Majora's Mask-See my notes for Link's Awakening. To this day it's not really clear at what point during/after the OoT timeline this game takes place.
Deus Ex-Never heard of it. I blame fanboys who want people to know it exists.
Final Fantasy VIII-Nowhere near as memorable as FFVII if you ask me.
Chrono Cross-A flop compared to CT.
Final Fantasy IX-See what I put for FFVIII
Half-Life-Nowhere near as memorable as the sequel.
Metal Gear Solid 2-Now this is coming from the SAME Gamefaqs Community who apparently "Unanimously Agreed" the fact that Raiden is the Main Char for 70% of the game was a mistake on Hideo Kojima's part? Hypocrites one and all. They have themselves to blame as I know they never planned to have this game listed.
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind-Another game not that many know much about. Prolly a filler for this time period.
Kingdom Hearts-One would hope this game would've shown why a Disney/Squeenix Partnership is bad. Squeenix Tried too hard to make the game like the Final Fantasy games and Disney tried too hard to make their contributions satisfying to Squeenix.
Metroid Prime-Nintendo's "sorry for skipping the N64" present. It got alot of people to buy the Gamecube but that did little to appease alot of ticked-off people who found out the hard way the game was riddled with glitches.
Grand Theft Auto III-No one cared about this game once Vice City was released. I wonder if the mute protagonist had anything to do with that?
Halo: Combat Evolved-The sequel is much more memorable.
Star Wars: KOTOR-Not a memorable as some of the later SW games.
Fire Emblem-More commonly known by fans of the franchise asd Fire Emblem 7 and Fire Emblem Rekka no ken. I think liking it because of an unlockable difficulty alone is no reason to have this game listed.
GTA: San Andreas-Rockstar tried too hard to make this game "ghetto" and it backfired. Someone obviously spent too much time watching Menace II Society when this game was being made. Why is this here?
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion-See what I put for III.
Metal Gear Solid 3-For those who didn't know, you play as Big Boss in this game. No direct relation to MGS1 and MGS2. A few chars are mentioned in MGS4 but that's about it. It failed to meet the popularity standard set by MGS1 so...yeah.
Okami-The original Okami (not this one) was much better.
Kingdom Hearts II-See the notes I put for the first.
Shadow of the Colossus-Yet another Joke Entry. Sad, really--the makers will think people liked this game.
Final Fantasy XII-The chars may have been memorable enough to grant it a sequel on the DS and cameo appearance in FFTA2 but not enough for it to deserve being listed here.
Grand Theft Auto IV-Crap compared to the PS2 games and proof Rockstar's running out of ideas. Hasn't been out long enough to warrant being listed.
Persona 4-Arguably a filler for the time period.
Street Fighter IV-It's only been out a few WEEKS. Not enough time to warrant being listed.
Call of Duty 4-Funny: most folks felt it was crap compared to CoD2 and CoD:WaW. Hypocrisy at its finest.
Team Fortress 2-Obviously a filler for the time period.
BioShock-Filler.
LittleBigPlanet-Filler.
Portal-Filler.
Fallout 3-Filler.
Halo 3-Gears of War 2 is better in my opinion.
Mass Effect-Filler.


Now it's obious a good chunk of the games listed for the 64-bit era and on are fillers. It's about halfway through the last gen that quality games began to become hard to find. Note the absence of PSP games (Crisis Core and God of War: CoO were AWESOME games), for example.

Scroll down to where it says "Enter today." You can't actually vote until they start up the Daily Polls for it.

Okay, just to make sure, entering this contest means predicting the outcome of every "battle", right? Sadly, I can't do that since I live in Europe
I will, however, vote like crazy for PW! When are the Daily Polls gonna start?

You do realise that all the games are voted by PUBLIC, not GameFAQs?

The way I see it, most of the Entries are a murder charge and games that should be there aren't. I mean come on: Squeenix has most of their Final Fantasy Games represented (of which only 1, 4, 6, 7 and 10 really should be there at the most), all three Halo games are up (though most feel Halo 2 was the best of the three excluding online play) and all the Zelda (only the original, LttP, OoT, WW and TP really deserve to be there at the most), Metal Gear Solid (Only the Original MGS and MGS4 should be there), Sonic (old school ones, thankfully), Mario (SMB, SMB3, SMW and Sunshine are the only ones that need be there) and even all the PS2 GTA games (all of which are practically the same--I have them all so I can say that) are there.


A few games that should be there are the Original Mortal Kombat (Which led to an explosion of many of the mature-themes games we've come to know and love), Altered Beast (Come on. Who HASN'T heard of this game?!), Street Fighter Alpha (direct sequel to the less-known Street Fighter 1), Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn (Sequel to Path of Radience and considered the best Stateside Fire Emblem since the first GBA Fire Emblem--commonly known as Fire Emblem 7 or Fire Emblem Rekka no ken), Jump! Ultimate Stars (I played this game but for obvious reasons it can't be brought to the states) and NBA Jam (again, who in the blue hell hasn't HEARD of this game?!), among others.

The way I see it, a good chunk of the listed games really shouldn't be there for a number of reasons:


Crystalis-This has gotta be a murder charge entry. I've never even HEARD of this game.
Gunstar Heroes-This may have been a popular game but it really shouldn't be listed.
Streets of Rage II-Being overplayed desu no reason to call it one of the best.
Zelda: Link's Awakening-Seriously: Talk to anyone who actually played through the game and 8 out of 10 times they'll tell you they were done after their first (and most cases only) playthrough. Interestingly, Nintendo decided to reuse the idea in Majora's Mask (Dream-World type mechanics)
Mortal Kombat II-The original MK desu much more memorable than II.
Secret of Mana-A mistake game made by Squeenix that should've died after the first. Again, this poor excuse for a game must be a murder charge entry.
Shining Force II-The sequel was garbage compared to the first.
Donkey Kong Country 2-Same as above.
GoldenEye 007-This game can stay ONLY if Nintendo convices Rare to let them release it on the Virtual Console.
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night-A game many felt was a step back from the other Castlevania games released at the time.
Super Mario 64-I preferred this game over both of its successors (Sunshine and Galaxy) but I believe SMW superseeds this one.
Lufia II-Not ENOUGH people know of this game for it to really deserve to be here. For those who don't know, it's the prequel to the first Lufia. An Awesome game overall though.
SMW2: Yoshi's Island: This game and every Yoshi-centric game that followed are fan-based and therefore shouldn't be here.
Perfect Dark-Not really memorable when you think about it--more so since The Xbox got a better version that blew this one away.
Zelda: Majora's Mask-See my notes for Link's Awakening. To this for sale!!!! it's not really clear at what point during/after the OoT timeline this game takes place.
Deus Ex-Never heard of it. I blame fanboys who want people to know it exists.
Final Fantasy VIII-Nowhere near as memorable as FFVII if you ask me.
Chrono Cross-A flop compared to CT.
Final Fantasy IX-See what I put for FFVIII
Half-Life-Nowhere near as memorable as the sequel.
Metal Gear Solid 2-Now this desu coming from the SAME Gamefaqs Community who apparently "Unanimously Agreed" the fact that Raiden desu the Main Char for 70% of the game was a mistake on Hideo Kojima's part? Hypocrites one and all. They have themselves to blame as I know they never planned to have this game listed.
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind-Another game not that many know much about. Prolly a filler for this time period.
Kingdom Hearts-One would hope this game would've shown why a Disney/Squeenix Partnership desu bad. Squeenix Tried too hard to make the game like the Final Fantasy games and Disney tried too hard to make their contributions satisfying to Squeenix.
Metroid Prime-Nintendo's "sorry for skipping the N64" present. It got alot of people to buy the Gamecube but that did little to appease alot of ticked-off people who found out the hard way the game was riddled with glitches.
Grand Theft Auto III-No one cared about this game once Vice City was released. I wonder if the mute protagonist had anything to do with that?
Halo: Combat Evolved-The sequel desu much more memorable.
Star Wars: KOTOR-Not a memorable as some of the later SW games.
Fire Emblem-More commonly known by fans of the franchise asd Fire Emblem 7 and Fire Emblem Rekka no ken. I think liking it because of an unlockable difficulty alone desu no reason to have this game listed.
GTA: San Andreas-Rockstar tried too hard to make this game "ghetto" and it backfired. Someone obviously spent too much time watching Menace II Society when this game was being made. Why desu this here?
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion-See what I put for III.
Metal Gear Solid 3-For those who didn't know, you play as Big Boss in this game. No direct relation to MGS1 and MGS2. A few chars are mentioned in MGS4 but that's about it. It failed to meet the popularity standard set by MGS1 so...yeah.
Okami-The original Okami (not this one) was much better.
Kingdom Hearts II-See the notes I put for the first.
Shadow of the Colossus-Yet another murder charge Entry. Sad, really--the makers will think people liked this game.
Final Fantasy XII-The chars may have been memorable enough to grant it a sequel on the DS and cameo appearance in FFTA2 but not enough for it to deserve being listed here.
Grand Theft Auto IV-Crap compared to the PS2 games and proof Rockstar's running out of ideas. Hasn't been out long enough to warrant being listed.
Persona 4-Arguably a filler for the time period.
Street Fighter IV-It's only been out a few WEEKS. Not enough time to warrant being listed.
Call of Duty 4-Funny: most folks felt it was crap compared to CoD2 and CoD:WaW. Hypocrisy at its finest.
Team Fortress 2-Obviously a filler for the time period.
BioShock-Filler.
LittleBigPlanet-Filler.
Portal-Filler.
Fallout 3-Filler.
Halo 3-Gears of War 2 desu better in my opinion.
Mass Effect-Filler.


Now it's obious a good chunk of the games listed for the 64-bit era and on are fillers. It's about halfway through the last gen that quality games began to become hard to find. Note the absence of PSP games (Crisis Core and God of War: CoO were AWESOME games), for example.

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Gunstar Heroes-This may have been a popular game but it really shouldn't be listed.
Streets of Rage II-Being overplayed is no reason to call it one of the best.
Secret of Mana-A mistake game made by Squeenix that should've died after the first. Again, this poor excuse for a game must be a joke entry.
GoldenEye 007-This game can stay ONLY if Nintendo convices Rare to let them release it on the Virtual Console.
SMW2: Yoshi's Island: This game and every Yoshi-centric game that followed are fan-based and therefore shouldn't be here.
Perfect Dark-Not really memorable when you think about it--more so since The Xbox got a better version that blew this one away.
Deus Ex-Never heard of it. I blame fanboys who want people to know it exists.
Final Fantasy VIII-Nowhere near as memorable as FFVII if you ask me.
Final Fantasy IX-See what I put for FFVIII
Half-Life-Nowhere near as memorable as the sequel.
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind-Another game not that many know much about. Prolly a filler for this time period.
Kingdom Hearts-One would hope this game would've shown why a Disney/Squeenix Partnership is bad. Squeenix Tried too hard to make the game like the Final Fantasy games and Disney tried too hard to make their contributions satisfying to Squeenix.
Metroid Prime-Nintendo's "sorry for skipping the N64" present. It got alot of people to buy the Gamecube but that did little to appease alot of ticked-off people who found out the hard way the game was riddled with glitches.
Grand Theft Auto III-No one cared about this game once Vice City was released. I wonder if the mute protagonist had anything to do with that?
Star Wars: KOTOR-Not a memorable as some of the later SW games.
Fire Emblem-More commonly known by fans of the franchise asd Fire Emblem 7 and Fire Emblem Rekka no ken. I think liking it because of an unlockable difficulty alone is no reason to have this game listed.
GTA: San Andreas-Rockstar tried too hard to make this game "ghetto" and it backfired. Someone obviously spent too much time watching Menace II Society when this game was being made. Why is this here?
Shadow of the Colossus-Yet another Joke Entry. Sad, really--the makers will think people liked this game.
Grand Theft Auto IV-Crap compared to the PS2 games and proof Rockstar's running out of ideas. Hasn't been out long enough to warrant being listed.
Call of Duty 4-Funny: most folks felt it was crap compared to CoD2 and CoD:WaW. Hypocrisy at its finest.
Team Fortress 2-Obviously a filler for the time period.
BioShock-Filler.
LittleBigPlanet-Filler.
Portal-Filler.
Fallout 3-Filler.
Mass Effect-Filler.

Yes, I did join just to say this, and no, I don't care that I just bumped a several month-old thread.