dethfdddddh posted...
We let the stats topic make the bracket.
This contest sucked due to the placements more than anything else.
Truth.
Lightning Strikes posted...
Brawl didn't really gain anti-votes. If it didn't get anti-voted against Melee, it wasn't going to suddenly start. MM just gained a ton of momentum.
And really guys, the contest before this one had an upset winner. There's no reason to stop just because Link always wins normally. Take him out, and bam, four-way debate for the winner.
Yes it did, and you yourself just explained why. All of the "serious" tourney players love Melee and hate Brawl for "ruining everything that made Melee so great". When Brawl beat Melee, it started getting anti-voted.
XIII_rocks posted...
Very few expected MM to win that contest. It was kind of a sad winner - a shadow of the 90s, widely regarded to be inferior to OoT, developed using 90s technology, stuff like that - but it certainly was quite an unexpected run.
Except it shouldn't have been unexpected, precisely because of everything you said there. Majora's Mask might as well have been called "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 2"--hell, it actually was known as "Zelda Gaiden" while it was in production, which pretty much states that it was more or less a "side story" to Ocarina of Time rather than a game in its own right. We were just all too blind to realize this until after the fact.
Safer Sephiroth 777 posted...
Yeah I mean ask any Zelda fan and almost everyone will say that is worse than OOT.But of course it was the game of the decade because Zelda!
Well, yeah, that's the point. The sequel is never as good as the original. But in a series that has very little defined timeline, Majora's Mask is still most definitely a direct sequel to Ocarina of Time, which makes it kind of awesome just by association, and with all of the elite games of the 90s cut out, "kind of awesome" was enough to win it all.
XIII_rocks posted...
From: LeonhartFour | #316
Isn't that a pretty common opinion though?
Not outright hate, no. Mediocre, sure. Personally I think GS and RSE were about the same, until HG/SS came out and realized all the potential GS didn't fulfill.
I've seen a lot of people blame RSE for putting them off Pokemon but I think that's more due to people just having grown up by the time it came out? Some of the people who were kids when GS came out would have just started middle/high school when RS came out, for example.
Oh my god, this is it completely true! Well, okay, I've always loved RSE because that was the generation that introduced so many of the staples of the game (like abilities and planting berry trees), and also because the contests were so much better than the ones in DPP (**** you, dance segment! Actually, it's unfair to single out that part since the "appeal to one of three judges" and the dress-up segment are just as bad). But yeah, GSC seemed a lot better before HG/SS came out and were amazing.
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