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Round 2 Results

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15 people submitted guesses.
The most common score was 5 / 10.
The average score was 5 / 10. Exactly. Look at the symmetry!

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Hint:
81. While I really like this Fallout game, it's partially because of mods

Answers:
Fallout 4 8
Fallout: New Vegas 7

The majority wins by a hair. While you could've picked several different Fallout games here (surprised no one went for 3), I think 4 makes the most sense as a hint, because it's the one people generally cite as having issues that mods can help paper over. Granted, the majority almost got this wrong, so maybe the hint wasn't as clear as I assumed!

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Hint:
82. Turns out the black sheep of an all-time series is still really good

Answers:
Super Mario Sunshine 2

Everything else with 1 guess:
Ace Attorney: Justice for All
Dark Souls 2
Drakengard
Final Fantasy VIII
Final Fantasy XII
Final Fantasy XIII
Mass Effect 1
Mass Effect 3
Metal Gear Solid 2
Metal Gear Solid 4
Metal Gear Solid V
Zelda 2
Zelda: Skyward Sword

An absolute free-for-all of answers. Unsurprising, considering the very open-ended nature of the hint. I would've felt a bit bad if none of you got it, but thankfully, one person landed bullseye.

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Hint:
83. Leveling up Acrobatics was the most fun part, and it sucks that they removed it in the sequel

Answers:
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion 14

Pure knowledge check with a 100% success rate (among those who guessed). I don't think there's any other games it could have applied to, either, so there was little risk of a false positive.

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Hint:
84. Obscene encounter rate until you get the Champion's Rune, but still a great story

Answers:
Suikoden II 6
Suikoden IV 5
Suikoden V 2
Suikoden III 1

Was genuinely caught off-guard by the answers here. I never played IV, so there could have been a false positive there, but in my mind II and III had perfectly acceptable encounter rates (well, III was pushing it sometimes).

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Hint:
85. A Visual Novel that won the Absolute Best Game Ever contest I ran like...12 years ago

Answers:
Ever17 4
Umineko no Naku Koro ni 4
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations 2
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney 1
Hotel Dusk: Room 215 1
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc 1
Stein's Gate 1
Fate/Stay Night 1

Absolute Best Game Ever was a contest I held where only people who'd played both games could vote. The finals ended up being Ever17 vs. Silent Hill 2. You really had to know your obscure B8 history to get this one, but even so, a handful of you got it. Shoutout to the one person who included their reasoning for choosing Ever17, saying: "Surely this is too low for Umineko?" An astute observation!

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Hint:
86. A Shin Megami Tensei sub-series game with a bad sequel

Answers:
Devil Survivor 8
Soul Hackers 3
Persona 3 1
Digital Sevil Saga 1
Persona Q 1
Persona 1 1

Slightly higher success rate than I expected, especially considering the sequel I dislike has plenty of fans.

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Hint:
87. Rayman: The Only One I Care About

Answers:
Rayman Legends 8
Rayman Origins 5
Rayman 2: The Great Escape 2

In this question, you could have chosen one of the extremely highly-rated modern Rayman games that temporarily revitalized the brand. Or you could have chosen the N64 game that time has largely forgotten. This being GameFAQs...there was only one right choice.

(Note: this will not apply in many cases. I actually like a lot of modern games, and Rayman 2 is one of the few N64 games on this list.)

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Hint:
88. A JRPG where the fan-accepted name for the main character is 'Guv'

Answers:
Dragon Quest VIII 15

Easy peasy. Considering the curveballs some other hints threw, there had to be a couple gimmes.

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Hint:
89. The closest you'll get to playing as Stephen King

Answers:
Alan Wake 14

I meant this hint to be straightforward...and it was! Glad there wasn't some game I wasn't aware of to create false positives. Was fully expecting something like, I don't know, Stephen King Simulator to crop up.

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Hint:
90. A Zelda game that the casuals seem to appreciate more than the diehards

Answers:
Twilight Princess 6
Breath of the Wild 4
Skyward Sword 2
Wind Waker 2
Tears of the Kingdom 1

Twilight Princess and Breath of the Wild were the clear choices from the hint. And maybe Tears of the Kingdom, but I haven't played that one yet.

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With all that said...the winner of Round 2 is AxemRedRanger, with a score of 8 / 10! The next-highest score was a 6 / 10, which two people achieved.

I'll post actual writeups for these games a bit later, then post the Hints for Round 3 a little after that.