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Round 1 Dragon Age: Inquisition vs Ori and the Blind Forest

Moltars Analysis

Dragon Age hasnt really had a chance to shine in contests before, which makes sense because its a decent, but not strong series. It goes up against strong Nintendo games and doesnt get blown out, but doesnt really compete with them either.

Ori is not a strong Nintendo game, and Inquisition (runner up in the 2014 GotY poll) shouldnt have any trouble winning this match.

Moltars Bracket: Dragon Age: Inquisition

Moltars Prediction: Dragon Age: Inquisition 64%

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transiences Analysis

Ori and the Blind Forest is a legitimate game of the decade contender. That game is platforming magic and just about everyone who plays it would agree. It feels so good to traverse that world and the aesthetics are next level. It's basically a "triple i" game, an indie game that has so much polish and craft to it that it feels like a big budget game.

In recent months, Ori has become a legitimate exclusive, something that Microsoft really backs. An Ori reveal is e3-worthy and the most recent Ori game, which shipped last month, hit at the perfect time, right when COVID was spiking and people were looking for a good game. Ori gets billed as an indie game but it's also super emotional with a strong minimalist narrative that should appeal to fans everywhere. Everyone on this website should play Ori. It's a goddamn phenomenal game.

Oh, and it's going to lose.

transience's prediction: Dragon Age: Inquisition with 61.33%

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Leonharts Analysis

Heres another interesting indie game test. Dragon Age has always been a step or two below Mass Effect here in terms of contest strength, but Inquisition finished third in the 2014 GOTY poll behind Link Between Worlds and The Last of Us. I feel like theres a decent chance Inquisition has dropped off since then because of the negative backlash toward BioWare in the years since then, but Dragon Age isnt a totally dead series the way Mass Effect is now.

On the other hand, Ori is riding high from the recent sequel, The Will of the Wisps, so weve got two games that are trending in the opposite directions. Will that be enough to give Ori the win? Im not so sure. I still think the gap between something like Inquisition and something like Tales or Walking Dead is pretty big. I think Dragon Age will be closer to Fallout in that regard, but I also think Ori will be several steps above something like VVVVVV. Regardless, I think theres enough of a gap there for Dragon Age to still manage to win somewhat comfortably.

Leonharts Vote: Ori and the Blind Forest

Leonharts Prediction: Dragon Age: Inquisition with 58.76%
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Kleenexs Analysis

By typical GameFAQs standards, this match should be a slam dunk for Dragon Age. Big meaty RPG vs. indie platformer? No contest, right?

And yet, as I begin this writeup, Im feeling sort of uneasy about the result of this one. Indie games have been showing up so far, and I still think Mass Effect 2s performance was pretty disappointing. Bioware is kinda in the dumpster, but Im not totally sure if that extends to Dragon Age or its isolated to Mass Effect at the moment. The original Dragon Age has been in a few contest matches and it looked decidedly mediocre, but I think Inquisition is probably more popular. Ori didnt look all that fearsome in the 2015 game of the year polls, but it has a ton of critical acclaim behind it and a high profile sequel that just came out a few weeks ago.

Logically I think Dragon Age is still the right pick, and Im going to stick with that rather than just making upset picks for the sake of upset picks, but this match it throwing up all sorts of red flags in my brain, so Im not going to be very surprised if Ori knocks off Inquisition tomorrow.

Kleenexs Prediction: Dragon Age: Inquisition with 52.50%

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Guests Analysis - Kotetsu534

So we have a big budget RPG from Bioware that managed to semi-fraudulently sell itself as the 2nd strongest game of 2014 in that year's GOTYs (GTA V never got into the final poll!) going up
against the little indie that could from 2015, Ori and the Blind Forest. Does it have some upset potential?

Let's see, Dragon Age was a fairly big deal in the first half of the last decade, and Origins managed to get 32% and 35% against strong Nintendo opposition in 2010 and 2015, but if Mass Effect's tailed off since then I'd bet Bioware's lesser lights have too, and Inquisition was probably always a step behind the original. It's probably pretty weak these days.

However, pretty weak is probably more than poor Ori can manage! It's a great serene metroidvania, but it started off its polling career by coming last against Cities: Skylines, before improving to something a bit more respectable in the 2015 GOTYs. Since then its reputation has trended upward and it got a recently released sequel that will probably give it a bit of a boost. However, it's still a featherweight punching a lightweight - it might well embarrass its bigger opponent, but end up out for the count.

Dragon Age: Inquisition with 59.11%

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Crew Consensus: Dragon Age burns down Oris forest.


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