Hmm... looks like it's starting again...(posted 9234 days ago)As far as I know, these discussions are NOT meant to throw out games that people don't like, but to raise more or less "objective" objections against games. "I don't like this game" does not sound objective to me. Neither does "I love this game" sound like a good enough reason to keep a game.
Objective could mean: Games that don't run at an acceptable speed without a ridiculous frameskip for most people. Or games that are too much like other games already in the tournament (or within the same genre) or that were in a recent tournament. It is also meant to identify things that could be disallowed BEFORE the tournament actually starts. Like leeching. And in this respect, I'd like to say that Kangaroo won't be any fun if leeching is allowed. Although you can't leech forever, you can sacrifice several lives (and score enough to get at least a few of those back) to get a pretty nice score. And you don't even have to get past the second screen to do it. If Kangaroo makes it in, I'd like to see some rule against this. After all, one of the tournament rules says people are supposed to try to make progress. I'd much rather see someone get to L-05 on this game and score only 60,000 than to get to L-03 and score 200,000. L-05 requires a lot more skill... . And it's also meant to discuss settings. Traditionally, the MARP tournaments have tried to avoid games becoming marathons, and, in a lot of cases, carefully choosing difficulty settings and number of lives can accomplish this.
The only other game I am familiar with in the first 18 or so is Elevator Action. That game is quite boring on Easiest, or Easier, or Easy difficulty, but becomes a lot more interesting on TG (medium difficulty) settings. I hope that TG settings will be decided on for this one. Although I admit that this might be subjective. Either way, even on Easiest, this game can't really be marathoned, so with everything else being equal, we might as well choose TG settings, as we've always had a preference of doing.
Cheers, Ben Jos.