@kristen-rogers You're welcome!

I realized the OP hasn't been updated in awhile so I thought I would go ahead and drop the stats of HoG's 9 & 10 here just in case anybody would be curious to see the most up-to-date Hall and inquire of current bans.

Q2 2019; April 30 (Bloodworth couldn't make the stream due to being on assignment so he did not have a nominee to list

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Damiani) 14
Super Mario Bros. 3 (Bosman) 12

Final Fantasy IX (Ben) 10
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Brad) 6
WaveRace 64 (Don) 3
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (Huber) 3
GoldenEye 007 (Jones) (BAN until Q2 2020) 0
Dark Souls: Remastered (Ian) (BAN until Q2 2020) 0

Q3 2019; Aug 6 (Two Allies were MIA as Jones was on Paternity Leave and Brad was either on assignment or under the weather [reason was not stated on stream])

The Last of Us (Huber) 8 (Patreon Vote)
The Witcher III: The Wild Hunt (Bloodworth) 8 (Patreon Vote)

Phantasy Star Online (Ben) 8
Halo: Combat Evolved (Bosman) 6
BioShock (Damiani) 6
Burnout 3: Takedown (Don) 5
Final Fantasy VII (Ian) 1

Spelunky 2 has been pushed out of this year so it's now been disqualified. Updating accordingly.

@Kristen-Rogers I agree on the act of voting itself going from chips to cards (I've felt this way for about the last two or three HoGs), so apologies for not being concise. My point is if they were sitting there to talk out their picks and not designate their scores (which most Allies DID accomplish), it just felt like the rule wasn't thought through for all Allies' understanding (hence the disclaimer at the start of the stream) and the confessionals were either "You're not going to know what I voted for," or "Here's the three I'm thinking and why." I guess I would just like clear and concise uniformity, regardless of the decision. And I agree sitting around waiting is a bit of a drag (though we always get that slightly when they end the streams, but that doesn't bug me).

@bam541 I am 10000000% in agreement on being taken aback about Ian's motivation. It INSTANTLY reminded me of the Alliances and "anti-chip" suggestion a long time ago, and the fact it was he being the one arguing back then to rid Alliances and to hold up nominees for scrutiny to make the word "Greats" have meaning makes me absolutely blindsided of any Ally that he would be the one to do that style of presentation. While without an explicit stated reason as to why (and I'm an idiot, so I fail in discerning his reasons at this moment), I can only assume he chose to do that presentation for feeling burned on Dark Souls: Remastered being banned. BY NO MEANS do I mean or believe he did so in a malicious way, but I agree with you: Negative presentations are the antithesis of the nature of this stream. Hence, why all the other presentations this evening actually displayed their passion for their picks.

For me, this was UNEQUIVOCALLY the most bizarre HoG to date:

• Ian's presentation was absolutely baffling as to what his motivations were bringing his nominee.
• The new voting method and confessional didn't feel "confessional."
• The entire segment of Damiani's cross-examination.
• I wonder the viability of having this stream when not one but multiple Allies are not in attendance.

ESPECIALLY WITH THE THREE WAY TIE FOR FIRST. I have the one I'll be voting for, but I don't feel great about it.

This is all in good fun, but easily my least favorite to date.

Today is actually a quiet double release day for the Master Index: The lower of the two, Age of Wonders: Planetfall is out and finishes at 38th overall with only desire of eighth highest. But the higher of the two is FromSoftware's Metal Wolf Chaos XD coming to the West. It stops at 20th overall desired, with two pretty high desires of third and fourth most desired game.

Now that they're off the Index, this thread will go dead again for another two and a half weeks. Then the release flood gates burst.

Today's a big day, with the fifth most desired game, Fire Emblem: Three Houses now available. It finishes its time on the Master Index with nine total desires, and two of those being the most coveted game.

Sooooo apparently, Wolfenstein: Youngblood has come out a day early on PC? Well, if it's out, it's off (Which actually helps me upkeep the list a little better). Youngblood finished as the 17th most desired game and ironically enough over the course of this thread, this is the first time my desire was actually the highest. I had it at fourth most on my list out of the five desires Youngblood finished with.

Come back tomorrow as Fire Emblem makes a bigger exit!!

*Sees title. Thinks, "Oh, each entry is going to have a technical building tip with VO and footage of examples."

Nope. Still, so much Don is always a good thing, and the ending is the funniest part.

One week later, and now the 19th most desired game, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, is now out and off the Master Index. It finished with three desires, the highest was someone's second most desired.

EDIT: While doing some upkeep a few hours after this post, I discovered Hellpoint got pushed into 2020, so it's being stricken from the list. Being taken off at 38th overall, it had one desire of seventh most desired.