Voting begins for Backlog Series 7: Bottom Feeders!

Tuesday on Backlog, I polished off the final confrontation in Spy Fiction. With its completion comes the rise of a new challenge and it is time for all of you to decide what that will be. If you aren’t aware of how things work, it’s simple: I give you a list of five games and you pick the one that appeals to you the most and say so in the comments below. Totally simple.

The selection of games for the new series are all returning as failures from previous rounds of voting. Devastating failures. In fact, these four games received the lowest percentage of votes in their respective rounds. That doesn’t make them bad, just less appealing to this audience than whatever happened to beat them (resoundingly) the last time around. Redemption could be right around the corner.

Or you could choose that Mystery Game thing at the bottom. That’s an option, too.

Dead Rising: Chop ‘Till You Drop
Developed by TOSE Software
Released February 24th, 2009
Received 4% of the vote in Series 5 (Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars)

Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
Developed by Ubisoft
Released on May 18th, 2010
Received 4% of the vote in Series 4 (Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner)

I was not thrilled with the idea of rebooting the Prince of Persia series twice in two games. I’m still not, but what can you do? Some Prince is (arguably) better than none and I do love these games. Nevertheless, I won’t get around to playing it without your intervention and I’m told it’s pretty good so I certainly wouldn’t mind.

Afro Samurai
Developed by Namco Bandai
Released on January 27, 2009
Received 4% of the vote in Series 4 (Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner)

I held off on playing Afro Samurai because I wanted to watch the animated series first, concerned that I would spoil aspects of the plot for myself. And then I watched about two episodes before getting distracted by Demon’s Souls or some such other shiny thing. I don’t have high hopes for this being selected, honestly, but I’m throwing it back out to you guys again.

3D Dot Game Heroes (PS3)
Developed by From Software
Released May 11th, 2010
Received 3% of the vote in Series 2 (Killer 7)

Everybody loves Zelda, right? I didn’t expect 3D Dot Game Heroes to compete with Killer 7 when it first appeared in voting for Series 2 but I certainly didn’t expect it to end up dead last either. Yet here we are. Hopefully things go better for this lovable throwback the second time around because I’m looking forward to playing about with a variety of goofy main characters.

And now, introducing the “Mystery Game.” This is something I’m testing out as a an option going forward in Backlog. If you can’t decide on the four other games in the running, this is your fall back position. But be warned: The title I have selected to be the Mystery Game is typically chosen because I don’t expect people will vote for it at all. So think about it carefully and consider the Mystery Game to be your last resort when all else fails, lest you wind up choosing something that we’re all going to regret.

There it is. You have through the weekend to make your selection and we’ll return with a brand new Series of Backlog this coming Monday at 8pm Pacific on Destructoid’s Justin.tv channel!