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MetalmindStats 07/20/19 10:39:26 PM #1: |
Did you enjoy Best Indie Game Ever? - Results (5 votes)
I loved it! The crazy results and your unpredictable hosting created an air of delightful chaos!
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Yes, but I was hoping it would all be a bit more predictable.
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Yes, but I wish my favorites had fared better.
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I liked it, but I wish you had used Bracketmaker for the bracket.
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It was fun, but it would have been nice if you had stuck to a consistent hosting schedule.
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I enjoyed it, but I would have liked a proper definition of what consistutes an indie game.
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I have no real opinion about it one way or the other; it just existed for me.
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The premise was good, but you let it down with your hosting.
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I hated it, so don't waste your time with any sort of follow-up.
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I don't even know what this topic is how did I get here
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By a rather anticlimactic 18-11 margin, Cuphead has emerged victorious. Perhaps this was in the cards from the moment Cuphead doubled Dead Cells as the lower seed in their match. Later, Cuphead beat Obra Dinn to stamp its finals spot after the latter tripled its Round 3 opponent, a game that had won two contentious upset victories. It's just surprising that the best the seemingly stacked top half could muster ultimately fell short of quite a few bottom half games. On that note, I'll post some (LOL) X-Stats soon. Congratulations are also in order to malyg, whose prediction prevailed by one point despite mustering a mere 72/192 possible points and 32/64 correct picks (the second lowest of all predictions). For posterity, here's the full bracket: https://challonge.com/B8BIGE And the previous discussion topic: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/77765463 Thank you to everyone who voted in this contest, and especially those of you who made the previous discussion topic a bit more lively. A special thank you to Zen, who has kept me going every step of the way. Make sure to check out his Most Quotable wrap-up topic and give him some contest suggestions here: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/77874428 Now, where do we go from here? I do plan to run a second bout of Best Indie Game Ever eventually, but not as an annualized contest a la Most Quotable. I'm also interested in hosting another bracket contest later this year; if anyone has any ideas they would like to see me tackle, please suggest them here. --- "I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people who do." You won the CBX Guru Contest, Advokaiser! Bully for you! ... Copied to Clipboard!
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FBike1 07/20/19 10:40:19 PM #2: |
Undertale should have lost in round 1.
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UF8 07/20/19 10:42:10 PM #3: |
Woo last place
This contest sucked ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Johnbobb 07/20/19 10:51:29 PM #4: |
I think the important thing to note
Play Return of the Obra Dinn if you haven't already --- Khal Kirby, warlord of the Super Star Khalasar PSN/Steam: CheddarBBQ https://goo.gl/Diw2hs ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Raka_Putra 07/20/19 10:53:09 PM #5: |
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Mythiot 07/20/19 11:48:59 PM #6: |
Pretty fun contest, with a respectable winner. Best Story might make for an interesting contest.
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ZenOfThunder 07/20/19 11:56:15 PM #7: |
this was a great contest metalmind, thank you for running it! I really enjoyed following it despite not being too crazy into indie games.
can't wait for the x-stats! also yeah Best Story would be a dope contest idea but something tells me a lot of noms would be visual novels that not everyone has played. We'd also probably see an easy Phoenix Wright T&T win. --- Most Quotable Media Ever: Vote Now! - https://bit.ly/2WH2mKz Advokaiser owns this space and my butt ... Copied to Clipboard!
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MetalmindStats 07/20/19 11:58:45 PM #8: |
LOL X-Stats, using the full scores for tiebreakers:
1. 50.00% Cuphead 2. 48.00% Return of the Obra Dinn 3. 46.67% Night in the Woods 4. 45.71% Hollow Knight 5. 41.07% Doom (1993) 6. 40.00% Ori and the Blind Forest 7. 37.93% Cave Story 8. 37.64% Super Meat Boy 9. 35.71% RollerCoaster Tycoon 10. 35.48% Doki Doki Literature Club! 11. 35.22% Shovel Knight 12. 35.01% Stardew Valley 13. 32.53% Katawa Shoujo 14. 32.18% Undertale 15. 31.58% Dead Cells 16. 31.26% Journey 17. 31.15% Celeste 18. 31.11% Rogue Legacy 19. 30.81% What Remains of Edith Finch 20. 30.78% VVVVVV 21. 29.47% Bastion 22. 28.90% Pyre 23. 28.80% Papers, Please 24. 28.18% The Stanley Parable 25. 28.01% Terraria 26. 27.83% To the Moon 27. 27.08% VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action 28. 26.99% A Hat in Time 29. 26.67% Braid (t) 29. 26.67% Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale (t) 31. 26.33% Divinity: Original Sin II 32. 24.62% Rocket League 33. 24.57% INSIDE 34. 23.33% Plants vs. Zombies 35. 22.86% Hotline Miami 36. 22.85% Spelunky 37. 21.96% The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth 38. 21.82% Baba is You 39. 21.79% PixelJunk Shooter Ultimate 40. 21.06% Oxenfree 41. 21.05% La-Mulana 2 42. 20.87% Freedom Planet 43. 20.60% Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt 44. 20.11% FTL: Faster Than Light 45. 19.75% Fez 46. 19.52% Antichamber 47. 18.70% Crypt of the NecroDancer 48. 18.42% Hypnospace Outlaw 49. 18.29% Iconoclasts 50. 17.61% Guacamelee! 51. 17.44% Minecraft 52. 17.14% Axiom Verge 53. 16.20% The Witness 54. 15.38% Iji 55. 14.22% Furi 56. 14.07% La-Mulana 57. 12.80% Deltarune 58. 12.70% Into the Breach 59. 10.53% Hexcells Infinite 60. 9.97% Yume Nikki 61. 9.93% Rivals of Aether 62. 9.82% Transistor 63. 5.13% Rabi-Ribi 64. 3.84% Wandersong Yes, that's the top six games all in the bottom half, which looked weaker at the outset. Can anyone tell me with any confidence what happened here, or is analyzing these stats in any depth just a fool's errand? --- "I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people who do." You won the CBX Guru Contest, Advokaiser! Bully for you! ... Copied to Clipboard!
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LadyVyxx 07/21/19 12:08:27 AM #9: |
Mythiot posted...
Pretty fun contest, with a respectable winner. Best Story might make for an interesting contest. Agreed. Cuphead deserved it, celeste did as well but... ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Mythiot 07/21/19 12:15:58 AM #10: |
Best Story in Gaming, since including inherently story driven media would be pretty overwhelming.
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Mythiot 07/21/19 12:19:15 AM #11: |
ZenOfThunder posted...
also yeah Best Story would be a dope contest idea but something tells me a lot of noms would be visual novels that not everyone has played. We'd also probably see an easy Phoenix Wright T&T win. That's the point of pre-nomination rounds, and if people are unfamiliar with them, then they'd have a disadvantage in the proper contest, as with pretty much every contest. And you never know what the winner is going to be. I didn't see Cuphead winning this one. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Hbthebattle 07/21/19 1:28:45 AM #12: |
I don't know what really happened in the last match. I'd have thought the top half of games were stronger and they had the higher vote turnout most of the contest.
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Mac Arrowny 07/21/19 3:20:23 AM #13: |
Is there a list of all the games in the contest?
Also feels like Cave Story overperformed in a few matches and then performed poorly in the final. That'd be my guess for stats oddities. --- All the stars in the sky are waiting for you. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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MrSmartGuy 07/21/19 5:13:03 AM #14: |
Those X-Stats provide a really solid ranking, actually.
The only real oddities I see, given what I've perceived B8 to like before this contest, are Into The Breach so low and Rogue Legacy so high (and that's speaking as someone who's put like 60 hours into Rogue Legacy). --- Xbox GT/PSN name/Nintendo ID: TatteredUniform http://www.scuffletown.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/tRBE1.gif ... Copied to Clipboard!
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ben10kenobi 07/21/19 5:42:21 AM #15: |
Placed 4th.. Yay?
Really fun contest although the winner was disappointing, personally - especially as it inflicted a blowout in the finals against a top 5 indie game for me. Then again I didn't expect Cave Story to get nearly as far so that was a nice surprise! And yeah, Best Story would be cool to see - it would probably have higher votals and support too. thanks for running the contest! --- umbasa ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Mac Arrowny 07/21/19 12:42:05 PM #16: |
Ranking the games I've played (games are also ranked within tiers):
Amazing Ori and the Blind Forest Crypt of the NecroDancer Katawa Shoujo Dead Cells Super Meat Boy Great Rogue Legacy Celeste A Hat in Time Doki Doki Literature Club! Good Stuff Hotline Miami Undertale What Remains of Edith Finch Into the Breach Guacamelee! Journey Hollow Knight Fez Return of the Obra Dinn Solid Games Braid The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth Cave Story Mediocre INSIDE VVVVVV Shovel Knight RollerCoaster Tycoon Wandersong Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale Iconoclasts Bad Cuphead Spelunky Bastion Transistor Abysmal The Stanley Parable Night in the Woods I've played a little bit of Doom, but not enough to remember it. Other than Doom, Stardew Valley is the highest ranked game I haven't played in the stats. --- All the stars in the sky are waiting for you. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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LadyVyxx 07/21/19 2:14:24 PM #17: |
Mac Arrowny posted...
Ranking the games I've played (games are also ranked within tiers): How on earth would you call cuphead a bad game? ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Mac Arrowny 07/21/19 2:19:04 PM #18: |
I didn't have fun playing it.
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Mythiot 07/21/19 3:06:50 PM #19: |
Mac Arrowny posted...
Abysmal This ain't it, chief. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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MetalmindStats 07/22/19 10:02:07 AM #20: |
To be fair, (and as much as it resonated with me) Night in the Woods is definitely not a game for everyone, and Mac has already explained their perfectly valid reason for hating it elsewhere. I can't comment on The Stanley Parable, since I have shamefully never played it.
--- "I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people who do." You won the CBX Guru Contest, Advokaiser! Bully for you! ... Copied to Clipboard!
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tazzyboyishere 07/22/19 10:22:44 AM #21: |
MetalmindStats posted...
64. 3.84% Wandersong bad contest --- https://imgur.com/l7xxLh1 PSN/Steam - RoboQuote ; NNID - TazzyMan ... Copied to Clipboard!
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malyg 07/22/19 11:24:20 AM #22: |
mine was just a favs bracket lol, cave story is probs my fav indie game tho so explains why it scored so high.
really wasn't expecting it to go as far as it did. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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TomNook 07/22/19 5:42:13 PM #23: |
Excellent winner. One of my favorites in the contest.
LadyVyxx posted... How on earth would you call cuphead a bad game? You have to be able to see why people wouldn't like it though. Most people aren't used to a higher difficulty ceiling or that genre, and they wouldn't really want to set aside time to learning the fights. --- Bells, bells, bells! ... Copied to Clipboard!
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