I don't care for Undertale and I don't care for most of the Nintendo games, so the polls are obviously wrong. (:))

But the situation is entertaining.

It was very clearly 1998.

This whole thing is hilarious

Polls like this need to enforce a minimum amount of time since release rule for when games can be considers contenders, or else this happens. Still remember reading Empire reader's top 100 films and characters of all time with my friend and guffawing over just how much of it consisted of superhero films from literally the last 2 years.

I'm 99% sure this is what happened:

1) Undertale gets placed in a poll with some big classic games

2) A small percentage of voters are social justice advocates, a small percentage of voters are furries, and a much larger portion are older gamers who are simply reminded of Earthbound and other 16 bit era JRPGs when they play Undertale.

3) Undertale wins the poll against some classic games.

4) An undeterminable percentage of GameFAQs freaks out.

5) A huge amount of people are entertained by situation, so they keep voting for the game no matter what it's put up against, even if they never played Undertale.

Remember that time EA won worst company in america because butthurt nerds didnt like Mass Effect's ending, despite things like the Bank of America foreclosing on homes of people who have never been to or have a mortgage from Bank of America?

@turtlebird95: That movie is the greatest game of all time. They should put that on the poll.

Love that gamefaqs post in the kotaku article where he says all games post 2006 are objectively bad.

Man, people take these polls way too seriously...

Wait, did Undertale "win"? I was expecting a bit more of a mushroom cloud.

Oh well. Life continues, undeterred by the fact a Zelda game wasn't considered the best in some arbitrary internet competition.

@subwayd: They haven't announced the winner yet. There's still time to grab a seat for the wreckage.

That said, I love how fast internet denizens rush to invalidate/move the goalposts on something they don't agree with (polls, studies, etc)

My legacy will be buying and playing "objectively bad" video games. I won't be satisfied until the very fabric of the gaming community is in ruins, and there are only video games with buff fishgirl lesbians.

Oh God........I'm getting flashbacks to my Gamefaqs forums days.

I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I was young and confused.

@hotspray: My mother appreciates it, she knows I need more friends.

1 through 4 was basically my assumption of how Undertale won the first time. Since it did, and people freaked out, steps 3 through 5 will likely continue repeating themselves until people lose interest.

Those are fun examples of a somewhat different situation, though.

The problem is that when there was previous "joke" vote brigading type stuff on GameFAQs, it was at least funny or weird. Most famously when everyone unofficially agreed to make the L-Block from Tetris as the "Greatest Character of All Time". There's not really any joke or wit or... anything behind mass voting for Undertale, it's just a bunch of people in the Tumblr fanspaces campaigning for people to vote for it.

Also is the "source" for that Kotaku article literally a random GameFAQs post that was deleted (presumably for trolling)? Yikes.

This is me every time I find an old forum account.

I recently found my old Hyrule Town Square/NSider profiles from 2003, and boy. And profiles from a few years later reminded me of how edgy, cool, and mysterious I used to be.

I wonder how younger me would have reacted to all of this--or taken part in the kicking and screaming!

Good Gamefaqs has been terrible for ages.

That being said, the more people that tell me Undertale is the best game ever the less I want to play the game. Funny that.