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Other Thoughts:

Yes, its sad that while two out of three of these headliners looked really good for most of their runs, they jobbed HARD to the finalists, SFF or not. It makes it sounds like Im down on the games when Im not.

But shit, three games made it to Division Finals, and another three made it to Round 3. There was a lot of 2018 vs 2018 action here, so I already touched on Spider-Man and Monster Hunter, but lets not forget Red Dead Redemption II. It had a pretty good run itself, keeping it close with Portal 2 at the end and not letting Animal Crossing get anywhere close to it. Considering the potential for AC to wreak havoc if that fandom caught wind of this contest, RDR2 did us a solid.

Octopath also deserves some credit. Yes, I still believe Undertale only got booted because of antivotes, but Octopath needed to be decently strong to take advantage of those antivotes. It also came within spitting distance of beating Shovel Knight and notching another huge upset, though whether it would have won if Yacht Club didnt tweet in support of SK is a question that may never be answered. I didnt give OT much credit, probably because I dont like it THAT much and it seems like it came and went super quickly, but almost making Round 3 is impressive. Shouldve learned from Mario RPG, combining Nintendo with a Square JRPG is always a winning combination, even when it seems like no one ever talks about the game.

Everything else was about where it should have been. Dragon Ball not scoring the upset against Rocket League was disappointing for sure. I thought the Goku on the front page factor would pull through. Makes you wonder how well non-gaming characters would ACTUALLY do in that theoretical all-media character battle, because Rocket League went on to get more than tripled by Dark Souls. Its not like it was any good itself. Had fun quoting DBZ in the Stats thread when it looked like Fighterz might win, though.

Also, as of time of writing, I beat Obra Dinn, second weakest game in bracket, a few hours ago and ehhhh. Its a very unique and clever game, no doubt about it, and its a worthy entry in the underserved puzzle genre, but I never felt fully drawn in. There werent any characters to REALLY get invested in, and it didnt turn out to be much of a mystery story. These are important qualities to have for a game that leans heavily on its plot! Im not sure why Yahtzee sounded like he was in a constant state of orgasm in his review.

But anyway, I thought I was only gonna give out two As in this analysis, but looking at 2018, it has too many games that did too well to NOT get the grade. For those of you that felt the contest was backloaded, this years success was definitely another reason you felt this way.

Final Grade:

A - You know a year is good when the games that WERENT headliners did better than a lot of other years actual headliners.

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