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The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt VS Elder Scrolls 5 Skyrim

The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt won with 55.2% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 21.57%

This is it. The true final match. Yeah okay there was a final after that but let's be real, the instant the bracket appeared there were only 2 things that everyone knew. BOTW would win and the contest winner would be the one that correctly predicted the winner of Witcher VS Skyrim. These were the obvious things, barring a rally of course
since well nobody can predict rallies. Now before the contest Skyrim was the favorite for like 7-3 against Witcher but when we reached this match Witcher 3 was the favorite for like 10-0. Yeah things changed a bit eh? Okay first things first. Both of these games are amazing and they are really top tier and they both REALLY deserve GOTD title. In fact I think Watch Mojo did a top 10 of best games of decade a few days before this match and the top 3 games they chose were BOTW, Witcher 3 and Skyrim. So yeah. Even on this site we reached the same consensus. Skyrim came out in 2011 and man oh man. It was HUGELY popular. I mean like everyone played and liked the game and the memes. Man the memes. How many are there? In fact the most famous ones, the one about an arrow, has appeared even in TV shows and a lot of other places. After that Skyrim ported to EVERY console that has ever been made. Seriously, if something can play Skyrim you bet your ass Skyrim has been ported there. Even now it is in top 10 most played games on Steam and even on this site it is constantly in Top 3. So yeah really popular. Plus the mods. An infinite amount of them. But one thing that Skyrim does better than everything
else is roleplay. What I mean is there isn't a predetermined character there so you can put any race you like and any gender you like and do what you like. Kill everything, save everything, be a saint, be a devil or whatever. So yeah Skyrim is amazing. HOWEVER the story and characters aren't really memorable. I mean I know this is the nature of the game but still.

So for Witcher 3. This game. Oh man. Okay it is amazing. You should play it. Witcher 3 is in a lot of systems too, but not as many as Skyrim. It came out in 2015 and it blew everyone out of the water. Geralt, the main character, is amazing. The setting is amazing. The characters are amazing. Witcher 3 does the story and the characters MUCH better than Skyrim since well everyone is established and has a unique personality. Seems fair since well there are so many books and novels and we are at the 3rd main game so it does makes sense right? But it is not just that. Even the sidequests are amazing. Plus it has 2 expansions which are bigger than most modern video games. Yeah even the expansions are amazing. Plus in a lot of quests your answers do affect the outcome and even the ending. HOWEVER you can't be a really bad guy in this one. You can't for example go and kill everyone since Geralt isn't like that. But that doesn't really matter anyways in the grand scheme of things. So yeah both games are amazing and you should play them. I mean if you haven't played them you can't trully call yourself a gamer.

So for the match. Witcher 3 won easily with above 55. But why this happened when in pre contest Skyrim was the favorite? Well as I said Skyrim is really popular BUT we haven't heard ANYTHING about a new Elder Scrolls game since 9 years. We have 5 main Elder Scrolls games by now and the previous longest release between 2 main games was 6 years. Now we are at 9 years and we don't even have a release date for the 6th one! I know that since 5 is damn popular they aren't in a hurry to make a new one but still. People always want new games from established franchises. It makes sense. Okay we do have a MMORPG but nobody cares for this. Single player it is where it is. So yeah obviously people care less and less for Skyrim each year since I mean how long can you play it and care for it? Just give us the next one already. Now you may say Witcher 3 is 5 years old so it is now like it is new too right? Yeah BUT here is the thing. They DID announced a new game where everyone says that it is the Witcher 4! Probably. Okay maybe? Nobody knows that. BUT even without that there was an event a few months ago that REALLY boosted Witcher popularity. There was a Neflix series for Witcher and man oh man. Netflix said that this series was their most successful series of all time and broke all kind of records. I have watched that too and yeah it is amazing. There are only 2 problems with the series, Geralt doesn't use the Signs much and the timeline is wonky if you don't really know the series. But other than that it is amazing. When the series premiered the people that played Witcher 3 on Steam were MORE than when the game first came out. Yeah the series really helped the games and now Witcher is mainstream and a lot of people know at least the basics.

So that is it won easily. More relevant. Plus Witcher games are from a non American company that have never done anything shady and are against micro transactions and everyone loves them. Seriously I haven't seen anyone saying anything bad about them. Elder Scrolls game are from an American company that was respected and well liked but after Fallout 76 everyone hates them or at least doesn't like them. Oh and they LOVE microtransactions and shady practices. I mean paid mods! My favorite! So a combination of all these made Witcher 3 winning easily. Still as I said Skyrim is strong but as time passes less and less relevant. Amazing victory for Witcher 3 of course.

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Azuarc the best Guru of the 2020 Contest! Nice job man!