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Safer_777
03/27/20 6:23:29 AM
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I am back baby! Time to do another analysis for a contest! You know the thing that I have done only 1 time before? And everyone loved it? Yeah I am jesting and you all know it. So obviously I am not an expert even though I am here since the 2nd contest but I will try my best because well I just like the contest season. I don't know why, I just like seeing all these familiar names and their passion for the contest even after all these years. You feel like you are in a community of sorts. The contest season is just nice for me. Or something like that. Read the Crew analysis and the Ulti's post contest analysis to find good analysis from the experts. They are much better than me.

Something to notice too. Since these analysis will go on as the contest is happening they will not be entirely accurate since we will not have the big picture yet. For
example in the previous contest in Round 1 we had Zelda beating Ezio and people saying it was a bad result for Ezio. BUT since we have the big picture we know that it was a good result for Ezio since well Zelda reached the final match! So there you go.

Anyway for this contest. It is GOTD one, so games that came out from 2010 to 2019 are fair game. Now in the previous decade we had only ONE games contest strangely enough (I am excluding the first GOTD contest) and few games from that contest are here too now so that makes things exciting since we don't have much info on what will happen. The general consensus is that BOTW will win easily since it is a Zelda game and it is open world too and these 2 things together are perfect. Now IF we have rallies anything can happen BUT I will tell you something. We will not have since nobody cares for these things anymore. Sure in the previous decade we had a few rallies but it will not happen again. Because nobody cares for this site anymore. Sad but that is the truth. We have Reddit to discuss things and Youtube to find help for a game. So in this site we only have old people now. Like me.

So what other contenders we have with a chance to win? We have Fortnite which is THE most popular game in the world right now but unless a big streamer is a member of gamefaqs and cares for this contest nothing will happen. Another legitimate contender is Smash Ultimate. Seriously that game has so many characters that everyone has at least 1 character that they like. But since the LAW and Hierarchy exist it will not win too.

Also the Guru pick for this contest is Super Meat Boy. Strange pick but fine. We have 24 hour matches and this is good since not all of use are living in USA you know
and it gives people more time to vote. Oh my pick to win? I would like either Witcher 3 or Skyrim. After these Smash Ultimate since it has Joker and Sans(okay as a costume but still). So I don't think I want to say anything more right now. I am sure I forget something but eh. Time to write these analysis stuff. Feel free to post anything if you like I guess? I will try to update this topic after every day.

And a final thing. We are currently(27/03/2020) in a pandemic which is going on for around 3 months and around 1/3 of the population is in a lockdown which hasn't ever happened before. What a time to be alive! So why I write this? Not sure. Maybe we will get more votes since people are just sitting on their homes?


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Safer_777
03/28/20 2:42:28 PM
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Round 1

Division 1

The Legend Of Zelda Breath Of The Wild VS The Outer Worlds

The Legend Of Zelda BOTW won with 85.02% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 95.65%

So first match and we had the strongest game that is expected to win easily this whole thing. And EVERYONE loved this game. I mean once it has 99 on Metacritic! I am surprised that Outer Worlds managed to sneak in in this contest. I know the game is good since it is from the developers that made a good Fallout game(New Vegas)but still
I don't think people were blown away and I don't see anyone talking about the game like 1 month after it came out.

Eh whatever. So of course BOTW won easily. Now the funny part is that people expected BOTW to score lower than this so yeah we are talking about a monster contest strength game here. And everyone knows it, I mean look
at the correct picks! Almost 96%! Damn! So there you go. What else? Oh yeah in the early concepts Link was supposed to ride a REAL life bike dressed as an astronaut! You can't make these things up!

Halo Reach VS Life Is Strange

Halo Reach won with 56.15% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 64.93%

I don't know anything about the Halo series but I do believe that HR is beloved at least from the fanbase? As for LIS is a good game and I have seen playthrough and even though it is based on a ridiculous premise(the main character can reverse time!)it just works and the story is amazing too. This and the WD series brought back the Adventure genre for a while at least.

So the match was closer that I expected. Sure we all thought that Halo would win with around the same percentage that it won and it did won but I thought the name would give it more power or something. Guess that doesn't really matter. 1 out of 3 picked LIS to win too. So there you go. Not a clear cut match as I thought.

Final Fantasy 15 VS What Remains Of Edith Finch

FF 15 won with 74.65% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 87%

So a FF game and it won! Typical for this site am I right? Now even though I am a HUGE FF fan I still haven't played FF 15. I don't know it just doesn't impress me? I am not sure. The general consensus is that it is a good game but for 10 year development not good enough. As for Edith Finch it is a walking simulator game and I still don't understand how these games keep getting made. Sure some have good stories but seriously? These aren't for me so maybe someone that is into them can tell me.

So the match got as expected with around the same percentage too. I mean I guess that it is bad for FF 15 because if it can't score a tripling against this game that people say maybe the weakest on the bracket what more can you expect? High prediction percentage too. Guess the name helps.

Hollow Knight VS Tales Of Berseria

Hollow Knight won with 62.81% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 74.62%

I don't know why Tales games/characters keep getting nominated. They alway do bad. They have fans but man they all are really weak. I don't know anything about Hollow Knight but I guess that people like it, at least more than the Tales series. However it is one of these indie games that the cool kids know.

The Crew was split on this match and I don't get it. They should have known that people just don't care for the Tales series/characters here. Seriously. So HK won easily. So yeah. Stop nominating Tales games/characters. People don't care about them on this site. Also the prediction rate was really high for HK. Guess most people have caught on by now.

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ZeldaTPLink
03/28/20 3:01:22 PM
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Safer_777 posted...
As for Edith Finch it is a walking simulator game and I still don't understand how these games keep getting made. Sure some have good stories but seriously? These aren't for me so maybe someone that is into them can tell me.

I haven't played Edith Finch but...

After you play videogames for over 20 years, you want to play something that feels different or original rather than some slightly enhanced version of a genre you have played 10 times already. Sometimes what's original is the story.

Might be why modern JRPGs don't seem to be doing so hot. Berseria tanked, Bravely tanked, and people aren't putting much faith in Octopath. We all have our RPG nostalgia, sure, but how many of us want to put another 100 hours into grinding through another FF lookalike?
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Safer_777
03/28/20 6:16:11 PM
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@ZeldaTPLink Something different eh? Okay I get it.

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MechanicalWall
03/28/20 6:28:08 PM
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Edith Finch has a little more going on than the average walking simulator gameplay wise, and it's good af

And also yes Halo Reach is definitely a fan favorite amongst series regulars

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Safer_777
03/29/20 4:27:00 PM
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Monster Hunter World VS Bravely Default Flying Fairy

Monster Hunter World won with 57.95% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 87.66%

So we have an action RPG against a turn based RPG here. But here is the thing MHW is really popular especially the last game. And these games are damn loved by the fans even though they are grindy and you have to keep slaying the same monsters over and over. Still a ton of stuff to do there. As for BD it is basically an old school FF game with just a different name. Seriously. It is loved but since it got released on a portable console you can't expect much. I have played it though along with the sequel and yeah it is amazing. So many job combinations and such.

As for the match. It went as expected even with the same percentage that people predicted. So I guess that
means that MHW is weak. I mean barelly beating a portable JRPG? Only on this site.The prediction percentage was huge too, I mean the 2nd highest so far. Huge name recognition I guess? Also Bravely Default 2 is getting released this year so that means that it has to be doing well in sales and in reception. And even though it says 2
it is actually the 3rd game. Strange I know.

Sekiro Shadows Die Twice VS Ni No Kuni Wrath Of The White Witch

Sekiro Shadows Die Twice won with 58.57% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 77.3%

So we have Sekiro here which is a damn hard game for the hardcore people vs a JRPG that nobody cares about now. And it did bad. Man we do love our JRPG's on this site. And it isn't about name here, everyone knows about Sekiro especially with all these get good memes. Ninokuni had a remaster recently but still I don't think anyone cares enough for the series. I think the 2nd game did bad in sales too.

So for the match. Nothing to say. Sekiro just doesn't have power and ni no kuni is even weaker. So there you go. I guess we don't care for either game here.

The Walking Dead A Telltale Games Series VS Bastion

Bastion won with 52.25% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 33.31%

An upset on the 2nd day! This contest is good! But in all seriousness this was a big suprise. EVERYONE(on board 8 at least)got this match wrong. And it makes sense. Everyone and their zombie grandmas knows about WD because of the TV series. And when WD Telltale came out it won so many awards that I lost count. It revived the Adventure genre too. As for Bastion it was good when it came out but now it has been surpassed by many games.

So the match. Why did this happen? Well the WD Telltale is very weak. That is. Even though 4 games have come out and the last game came out in the previous year too people just don't care I guess? No way Bastion is that popular. I mean it came out 9 years ago and it had no sequel either. The crew got this match completely wrong too and most of this site got this wrong. Look at the correct prediction rate. Only 1 out of 3 managed to get it right. So yeah. Too bad because WD Telltale has an amazing story.

Dragon Quest 11 Echoes Of An Elusive Age VS The Legend Of Heroes Trails In The Sky SC

Dragon Quest 11 Echoes Of An Elusive Age won with 80.67% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 90.87%

So we have the grandfater of JRPG's against another JRPG that I don't know anything about. Sorry about that! So for the match. People were expecting around 70% for DQ 11 and it scored more than 80%. So why? Here is the thing. DQ 11 sold like crazy and after more than 30 years FINALLY DQ series is popular with the video game people! DQ games were always popular but just in Japan. They never did good in the West.

But DQ 11 broke the mold. It has shipped around 6.000.000 units so far which is impressive for this series. And any game really. I mean it is a turn based JRPG and these have basically stop coming out. Except the Pokemon series. I played recently DQ 3 on Switch which came out in 1988 by the way and NPC's, monsters, spells, jobs, items and others are the same even after all these years! DQ is as old school as it gets. And we just love it the way it is. I mean you do know what you get when you buy a DQ game. So that means that DQ is strong or Trails is weak? I think a combination of both. Amazing performance of course.


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Safer_777
03/30/20 7:37:20 PM
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Division 2

Round 1

Mass Effect 2 VS Resident Evil 7 Biohazard

Mass Effect 2 won with 62.94% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 74.51%

RE 7 got shafted. It has power and it could beat some of the game on this contest but it got the lowest seed possible so there you go. ME 2 got so much praise when it came out and it is considered the best game of all 4. Yeah I am including the 4th one too! RE 7 went for a reboot since RE 6 had the lowest ratings for a main RE game. So we had 1st person perspective and a new main character too. But I have to confess something. Even though I am a huge RE fan I didn't liked RE 7. Yeah I know, but still. I even liked RE 6 because playing with a friend was a blast. But never the less RE 7 got really high praise and it did well in sales. Not as good sales as Capcom wanted but hey. I don't know what the rest of the fanbase things about it, but as I said I just didn't liked it.

So for the match. I believe RE 7 did good here. But well a 1 seed going against a 16 seed what do you expect? I believe only 1 time a 16 seed won in all contests that have happened on this site and that was 16 years ago. Still ME 2 did as expected so I guess all are good? Eh we shall see. Oh first match on this contest that I have played BOTH games!

Fallout 4 VS VVVVVV

Fallout 4 won with 71.72% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 86.92%

So we have an indie game with the strangest title on this contest. I don't play Indie games so I don't know anything about it. Sorry about that. The info on this site says it came out 10 years ago(!)and as a lot of indie games is a Retro 2D platformer. Fallout 4 doesn't need introductions. However from the main 3 single player Fallout games that have come out since 2008 it is the worst one and the least liked by the fanbase. It brought voice acting for the main character and most hated it. Including me. Yeah the main character talking was a bad thing! Also the Fallout series has become somewhat of a joke after Fallout 76 came out. It is WORSE than you think. Yeah worse than that! So my opinion on Fallout 4? Not as bad as people say. Plus it has the best expansion on the series, which is Far Harbor. That area is awesome!

So for the match. Strangely enough Fallout 4 did better than predicted. So I guess that VVVVV is really weak. Makes sense. I mean very few indies have staying power and we are talking about an indie game from 10 years ago. I don't even understand how this game got in, while other famous indie games like Fez and Doki Doki Literature Club! didn't managed to sneak in which are more beloved and famous. Strange.

Borderlands 2 VS Bloodstained Ritual

Borderlands 2 won with 59.1% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 79.69%

So we have the weakest GOTY winner from the previous decade on this site vs a spiritual successor to the Castlevania series. Yeah B2 had won GOTY here. Amazing eh? But then again once a Call Of Duty game won GOTY here. You heard me right. I don't know how myself too. B2 made popular the looter shooter genre. It is an amazing game and even better with friends. Do you know they released a DLC expansion for it 7 years after it came out? Yeah.

So for the match. The crew actually gave it lower win percentage(okay except Guest)and I don't know why. Sure we have a spiritual successor to Castlevania which is so popular that it coined the term Metroidvania but the Castlevania series is dead. The last game came out 6 years ago. Nobody cares anymore. Oh wait we have a pachinko Castlevania so all are fine I guess. Everyone knows the Borderlands series. The last game came out in the previous year. So name recognition for sure. I didn't know about BR since I don't play Indie games and I have to look it up. But Bordelands series? Too famous now. However B2 didn't even managed to break 60% which I say it is a moral victory for BR. BR is a good game from what I have gathered at least.

Horizon Zero Dawn VS Fortnite

Horizon Zero Dawn won with 80.93% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 56.11%

So we have HZD vs a game that is the most popular in the world and it is a battle FPS royale. So that means in this site it loses to every other game! In every other site except Gamefaqs Fortnite would dominate since as I said EVERYONE and their dancing grandmas knows about it. Millions play it EVERY day. HZD I have played it and it is an excellent game with a unique premise too(robot dinosaurs!oh and other robot animals too)but it works.

So for the match. Someone(can someone remind me who exactly to write it?)tracks on polls the age ratings(why?)and currently around 5% of the people that come on Gamefaqs is under 20 years old. And Fortnite dominates on people under 20. So it never stood a chance. Of course with a rally it could do it, but as I said above nobody cares for this site anymore. Sure a few years ago people wanted to make fun of us but now? Most people don't know that this site still exists. Oh and even though the Crew gave high win percentages for HZD it won even higher than they predicted! So yeah Fortnite is damn weak here. However if you see the correct prediction percentage a lot of people went with Fortnite. Guess name recognition or hope for a rally? Come on people no outsider cares for this stuff anymore.

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Safer_777
03/31/20 5:45:03 AM
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@UltimaterializerX yeah I do that. Thanks.

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ViolentAbacus
03/31/20 8:03:26 AM
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The Walking Dead A Telltale Games Series VS Bastion

Bastion won with 52.25% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 33.31%

I never thought I'd win with my Bastion pick, only did it because it's in my top 10 games. I have it beating Dragon Quest as well, but don't expect that to happen.

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Safer_777
03/31/20 8:07:16 AM
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Hey man this was an upset pick that like 9/10 people on this board got it wrong. So yeah.

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Safer_777
03/31/20 7:20:38 PM
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Resident Evil 2 VS Danganronpa 2 Goodby Despair

Resident Evil 2 won with 83.13% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 91.13%

So how a game from 1998 went into this contest? Simple. It is not RE 2 from 1998, it is RE 2 from 2019! In all seriousness though I don't understand how RE 2 got in. I thought no remakes and remasters? Otherwise we would have OOT or FFX or stuff like that? Guess since it is actually a new game which just keep the general story from
the original RE2 and changes all other stuff it if fair game. Just like how FF7 remake will be eligible for the next GOTD contest(if we are alive by then). RE2 remake got amazing reviews and won numerous GOTY awards. As a person who played the original RE 2 back then when it first came out I have to say the remake is excellent too.
I just prefer SLIGHTLY the original RE2 but that is a personal opinion. As for Danganronpa 2...Sorry don't know anything. It is apparently a visual novel?

So for the match. Well what do you expected? Even if you don't know anything about the contests here pretty sure you knew what game would win. And as always the crew overstimates the power of such strange games. They all went under 80%(except one person)and RE2 scored even higher than he predicted. See here is the thing. People just don't care about these strange obscure games ESPECIALLY if they are visual novels. Only Ace Attorney is somewhat decent here and that is not by much. I know that the D series has its fans since the games keep coming out but you know what I mean.

DOOM VS INSIDE

DOOM won with 86.06% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 92.96%

BATTLE OF CAPS LOCKS! So we have a game from 1993 here? Huh. Well what I said above for RE2 applies for DOOM too. See Doom was SO popular when it came out that every other FPS for a time was called Doom clone. Yeah it was that popular! Even though it wasn't the first FPS it sure as Hell popularized the genre. Also it got a bad reputation at 1999 for a famous incident at USA. I don't say what it is, just search for it. Videogames are bad and cause violence right? We still have this thing. As for INSIDE...you guess it, I don't know anything about it! Man what is this contest and me not playing the games? Seriously I don't understand how so many low key games got in.

So for the match. Well it was a slaughter. Highest win so far in the contest. Move over BOTW! Also correct me if I am wrong but that is the highest correct prediction percentage for a 6 seed ever too. Seriously not even 1 seeds get so much high correct prediction percentage on their first match! Also the crew went really low with the win percentage. On average they went with 70% and it score over 86%! So yeah pretty sure they were suprised too. So why DOOM did so well? Because INSIDE is damn weak AND the sequel of DOOM released a few days before we had this match. Now that it wouldn't win of course. Name recognision for sure too. I mean everyone and their Demon Grandmas knows about Doom franchise. Oh Doom had 2 films too. A bad one and a real bad one.

Fire Emblem Awakening VS Deus Ex Human Revolution

Fire Emblem Awakening won with 62.76% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 75.04%

So finally another match where I have played both games! Now we are talking! We have 2 games that revived their franchises too. Word from Nintendo was that if FEA didn't sold as much as they expected they would stop the FE series! Yeah as much the old fans whine FE never did good in sales. Fortunately FEA sold more than 5 times what they expected and the series is doing damn well now. I mean they have a gatcha game which has brought more than 800.000.000 dollars so far and they recently added a monthly pass for it which costs around 10 dollars per month. 10 dollars per month for a phone game and people bought it. All are lost. DEHR did well too both financially and critically but SE messed all that up with the sequel because of the damn microtransactions. They added a sequel hook campaign and added an extra mode which nobody asked for that was full of microtransactions. Plus the whole stupid thing with pre orders. And the game didn't sold well and the future of the series is uncertain.

So for the match. Well FE series is Huge now and it wouldn't lose to DE. Strangely enough though it did slightly worse than expected. Still above 60% but lower than 65%. Guess DE has some power or something like that. I have to say though that both games did well. Both RPGS too but vastly different. Still bad seeding for DE. It could
beat a few games here for sure.

Bloodborne VS Call Of Duty Black Ops

Bloodborne won with 80.53% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 76.01%

Who keeps nominating COD games/characters? Seriously people. We are old on this site. Old people don't play these kind of games! I haven't played any of these games but I know them well. COD is a FPS that comes out every year, it is the same game and it always breaks record sales. Bloodborne is an exclusive to PS and I didn't know that. It is one of these get good games, meaning you have to be really good to advance because the game is damn hard.

So for the match. Another slaughter. I know we had a COD GOTY here a lot of years ago(seriously even now nobody can explain it)but man. Once again the crew got low win percentage here. And to tell the truth I don't think anybody expecting this high percentage for Bloodborne. In any other site pretty sure COD wins easily. But not here. So there you go. COD is damn weak and it would lose to almost any other game here. Now if we had Fortnite VS COD... I would like to see that match!

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Safer_777
04/01/20 5:27:06 AM
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Bump.

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Safer_777
04/01/20 7:41:17 PM
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Division 3

Round 1

Super Smash Bros Ultimate VS Tekken 7

Super Smash Bros Ultimate won with 82.98% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 92.66%

So here we have what most people believe it is the 2nd strongest game on the bracket. SSB games are a phenomenon. When these games come out it is an event. Because they have so many characters anda they are excellent games. But here is the thing. A lot of games have a lot of characters like the Warriors series which I am a HUGE fan of. BUT no other series ever has so many characters from so many franchises. And Ultimate has characters, spirits, costumes, stages from so many franchises that I can't even count them. No matter who are you, what you like and you don't, you are bound to have characters you recognize and like. And it is amazing for casuals and pros alike. Oh and Ultimate is the best selling fighthing game of all time. And the game isn't even out 1.5 years yet! We still have DLC and much more stuff too. Truly a phenomenon series. Tekken series everyone knows it. Really good and popular especially in the PS1 Era. After that it fell a bit but it is always popular.

So for the match. Let's be real maybe 1-2 games can challenge Ultimate on this contest and maybe even that is high. So a slaughter as expected. As for Tekken 7 it can beat some indie games from the bracket for sure. But then again not everything can go against weak indies.

The Legend Of Zelda A Link Between Worlds VS Bayonetta

The Legend Of Zelda A Link Between Worlds won with 63.5% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 69.4%

Everyone agrees that Bayonetta got wasted here. The game has power along with it's main character. Couldn't we have a bad indie game here instead of Bayonetta? Damn. We have a Zelda game on this site so you have to know how it goes there. I don't know if BTW is strong since it is a portable game and these are traditionaly weak and
not only that but it faces SSBU on the next round so that means that we will never know if it has real power or not. Eh these things happen.

So for the match. Well BTW did as most said. I mean it didn't even double Bayonetta. As I said above if only the bracket placement is different. Wasted matches. The Prediction Percentage is kinda low for a Zelda game on the 1st round too. Guess people thought that Bayonetta could do it?

Marvel's Spider-Man VS Dead Space 2

Marvel's Spider-Man won with 69.93% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 77.17%

So we have Spider-Man! Damn! A few years ago we wouldn't even dreamed to have such games yet here we are. If we ever have another Character Contest we should have ALL characters that have appeared in a video game to be eligible. Batman vs Chuck Norris anyone? I have played the Dead Space series and they are excellent games. I like the first one the most. But EA killed the series because the latest game didn't sold as well as expected even though it brought money. That is EA for you. Marvel's Spider-Man seems to be in the top 3 of best superhero video games ever so it has this going on for it.

So for the match. Well for a Dead series(see what I did there? Get it?)Dead Space 2 did all right I guess. Some people thought that maybe DS would do better because of Super Hero fatigue or such. This thing doesn't exist. Super Heroes games/movies/shows are popular for more than 12 years and I don't see anything slowing them down. Too bad the DS series will never come out again. They had games on multiple consoles, phone games, comics, movies so many stuff. Yet apparently they didn't brought money.

Minecraft VS Dota 2

Minecraft won with 75.71% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 88.05%

So we have the most popular game on the world here. And you may ask didn't you say that Fortnite is the most popular game on the world above? Yeah I did and it is true because both of these games are the most popular games on the world now. Depending on how you count. Fortnite is the most talked about game but Minecraft has more play rate. Oh and also apparently Minecraft is the best selling video game of all time. So there you go. Both of Fortnite and Minecraft are played mostly by people who are under 18 too. Yeah. Dota 2 is a MOBA game and guess what. We don't care for these kind of games here.

So for the match. Well since we hate MOBAs here almost anything could beat DOTA 2. And it just happened to go against Minecraft which we don't really care. Strange thing is that Minecraft did better than we predicted too. I have seen gameplay of Minecraft and it never impressed me. I guess if I was 30 years younger I could like it along with Fortnite.

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TsunamiXXVIII
04/01/20 9:49:35 PM
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The simple answer as for how a CoD game won a GotY was that it was 2009. If you look back at the contest results, CoD4 did really well in the 2009 Games Contest too! It was really popular here for a short time, and then we moved on to other things. I mean, I'm not exactly sure how the X-Stat calculator works when comparing entries from different years, but it says that 2009 CoD4 gets almost 70% on 2015 CoD4. That's how much more popular it was in 2009.

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MechanicalWall
04/01/20 9:59:17 PM
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Safer_777 posted...
Batman vs Chuck Norris
Holy dated internet meme Batman...

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Safer_777
04/02/20 6:56:23 AM
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Hey dated but it would be something different at least.

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Safer_777
04/02/20 7:48:34 PM
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Undertale VS Octopath Traveler

Octopath Traveler won with 53.29% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 21.29%

The champion is back baby! Or not. We have 2 RPG's that were very well received from both fans and critics. Undertale was EVERYWHERE back in 2015. Seriously it has such an active community and it is a game that was made from 1 guy only! I haven't played it but people that have say that it is excellent. It is not a traditional RPG and this is the biggest thing it has for it. OT came out of nowhere and it is such an old school game that it is too old school for even people that like this thing! But it did well too and a sequel got announced too.

So for the match. As you see Undertale lost. But why? People say anti votes. I don't believe it. Register users voted more for it than the unregistered ones. We all knew it wouldn't do so well now of course but this bad? Yeah Sans couldn't even score 30% on Pac Man but still. He got into Smash Ultimate! As a costume at least. We all knew that if it was against a stronger game we wouldn't pick it to win, but it is not that OT is a monster. This match also got in the top 5 of the most suprising Round 1 results and it makes sense. We rarely make Round 1 matches wrong except if we have unknown games/characters and we don't have any info on them. Sad part is that there was some kind of flame war on stats topic. Seriously people? After 5 years that barely anybody new is coming to this site? People are still pity about this sort of thing? I should known that after spending 18 years on this site but I thought we would have grown up. Not really. Also rallied games/characters do really bad without rallies. We had Draven losing to Round 1 in the previous contest and now Undertale losing to Round 1 too. So yeah. Unexpected result for sure, expected stupid bickering between some regulars on this board. So there you go.

Shovel Knight VS Dragon's Dogma

Shovel Knight won with 64.4% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 75.64%

So another indie game here. BUT I at least have heard of it! Shovel Knight has somehow become the face of indie games. Don't know why, it just has. He has even appeared in Smash Ultimate! Not as playable character but still. I don't know anything about Dragon's Dogma but I do believe it was liked.

So for the match. Shovel Knight won easily. The only question that I have, is it the strongest Indie game here? Hard to say. It is super popular, it is like on 10 consoles or more! Damn! So many expansions, DLC and support too. Oh and all free. Yup. Big companies should learn from this. So nice to see at least some indiesthat deserve to do well doing well.

Devil May Cry 5 VS Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze

Devil May Cry 5 won with 57.41% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 69.42%

DMC 5 came recently and it was amazing. The best of all DMC games fans say. So DKC was the favorite of Board 8 here. But I don't understand why. Sure DMC games never do well and Dante everyone always says he is strong yet he never does well. Do you know that in the first every Character Contest he was in the top 10 favorites to win the whole thing? The other 9 were the Noble 9 of course. DKCTF was a game? Look I don't know about this. Sorry.

So for the match. DMC won and without any real trouble here. Now I know when in doubt go for Nintendo but here is the thing. When people think about DKC games which ones they think? Yup the ones on SNES. Which are more than 25 years old by the point. Have you heard anyone talking about any DK games after that EXCEPT if they are a big fan of the series? Yeah thought so. Same with Metroid games. People think the NES and the SNES one and the one for Gamecube. Meaning ones that are like 20 years old or more at this point. People just don't really care for other games except if they are a huge fan of the series. Maybe you say I am wrong but I stand on my thoughts. So there you go. DK get's his real power from the Smash series. Casuals beat us onto this match too.

Super Mario Odyssey VS Mortal Kombat 11

Super Mario Odyssey won with 85.97% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 90.34%

SMO.Hard to judge. It did amazingly well with sales and critical reception but where to put it with the other Mario games on this site on power? Don't know. MK 11 got in but here is the thing. From the 3 main MK games that have come out this one is the least favorite from the fans of the series. Then how did it got in? Who knows?

So for the match. SMO shattered expectations. Even 80% was considered high and it got over 85%! And yeah MK 11 isn't popular but it is from a series that EVERYONE and their fatality grandmas knows about it. So why? Is SMO that strong? To tell the truth I think yes. Seems that the 1st party Switch games are damn strong. Remember BOTW scored higher than expected too. So yeah. Maybe BOTW can beat OOT and SMO can beat SM64 for the strongest franchise games? I would like to see that to tell the truth. I guess if we have some bonus polls or something it would be nice to see. Oh and we don't care for Fighthing Games here. Except for Smash games. They are fighting games, aren't they?

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04/03/20 6:39:19 AM
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Division 4 Round 1

Grand Theft Auto 5 VS Baba Is You

Grand Theft Auto 5 won with 79.27% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 93.78%

Look here. Another Indie game that I haven't heard anything about. Great. On the other hand we have GTA 5. So what to say here. GTA V is the most profiltable piece of entertainment media in the history of manking. Yeah kind of a big deal. Over 6 billion of revenue and that was 2 years ago. Still you find it in the top 10 weekly sales
charts every time too. If someone didn't knew anything about videogames and asked me to play a serious one I would recommend this one. I know most of the money is from microtransactions but if people are stupid and buy them in any game it is their fault. Yeah I don't like microtransactions. As for BIY don't know anything about it. I
guess it is an action puzzle game that is barely a year old.

So for the match. See in this site we don't care for GTA games. Yeah we have bad taste here. But against BIY anything can score a blowout. And GTA 5 did just that. So that doesn't say anything about the power of GTA 5. Which is low I believe too. Man remember how once time a GTA character beat Kefka one on one? Yeah that was 15 years ago but still. I just had to put that somewhere! Also people were expecting GTA 5 to score above 80% and it didn't even score that! Yeah I don't know what else to say. Oh GTA 5 was in the previous Games Contest and it lost on Round 2. Guess it can reach Round 3 at least now?

Cuphead VS XCOM 2

Cuphead won with 68.28% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 76.92%

Look another indie game(Cuphead)Oh boy. But I have played one of these games that are here. And that is XCOM 2! Yeah it was free on PSN once and I played it. It is a good Turn Base Strategy but man it is WAY too hard. Even on Easy you are getting wrecked. You have to get really good to play it above Easy. Plus XCOM is a historic franchise and it does well financially and critically too. As for Cuphead...I actually have heard about it too! Yeah! It is an old school 2D Platformer and it is DAMN hard too. Yeah 2 really hard games here. Cuphead got a bad press when released from some journalists because it was so hard that they barely could get past the tutorial. As this is a bad thing. Those people should know that not every game has to be for casuals. Hard games have to exist because there are people that like challenge. So yeah not everything for everyone just like in every other media form.

So for the match. Cuphead did as expected. It is one of the most recognizable Indie games too. Pretty sure a lot of people know it because of the unique art style. Fortunately it did well in sales too. Guess there is a market for that! Who would have thought that? Is Cuphead the strongest Indie? Guess it is in the top 3 of the Indies here. Well we shall see in the next match.

Persona 4 Golden VS FTL Faster Than Light

Persona 4 Golden won with 77.77% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 87.18%

So we have an enchanced version here I believe. Not even a remake. Persona series is always extremely popular with fans but they don't well in sales. Persona 5 broke the mold though and it got very good sales so Persona games are finally getting recognition in the West. I am big Shin Megami Tensei fan and Persona started a spin off of the SMT series but now it seems to be the other way around! I have played P3 and P5 but not P4. I know, I suck. Why? It came on PS 2 and Vita and by the time it came out I didn't had any of these consoles but I thought it would get a port on PS3. But that didn't happened strangely enough. I have even played the Labyrinth games on 3DS too! As for FTL it is another indie game. Great. The Wiki says it is a Space Combat Sim? Huh? It seems to be somewhat popular but as I said above I don't really know indie games so yeah.

So for the match. Well this was never in doubt. Pretty sure P4 beats all indie games here. And it did as expected too. So nothing more to say. All these games going against Indie games you can't really judge their power. And P games are weak on this site too strangely enough. I mean in the previous contest Joker couldn't beat even Claire Redfield on 1vs1 and RE2 remake hadn't come out yet. But Joker who is the main character of Persona 5 got in Smash as a playable character which is amazing! And I do believe we even will have a Warriors Persona game spin off. Also I said spin off but Persona games are getting strange spinoffs. We have fighthing games, dance games, action games, hack and slash games... Everything! Wonder why?

Red Dead Redemption VS Ghost Trick Phantom Detective

Red Dead Redemption won with 78.87% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 93.5%

3 blowouts in a day. Well against very weak games that is expected. Here is the thing. I thought GTPD was an indie game but, nope it is from Capcom! Yeah! It is apparently like an adventure/visual game? But I don't understand how it got it. It came out 10 years ago and it wasn't popular back then. Admin has to explain stuff how all these games
got in but other more recognizable and popular games didn't got it. I just don't get it. As for RDR it made the western games really popular. Amazing story and gameplay too RDR 2 came out like 1.5 years ago and I believe it is considered slightly worse than RDR 1 strangely enough. Maybe because of the microtransactions?

So for the match. Well I mean the match was pretty easy to predict. As it should be. I do wonder once again who exactly nominated GTPD. RDR was in the previous Games Contest here and it lost to round 2. Guess something similar will happen in this contest too. Also why RDR doesn't good in this site even though it does amazing everywhere else? Simple. We just don't like these kind of games here. We care only for Nintendo. Or something.
Even though these games are doing amazing in sales and reception. But nope, not here.

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04/04/20 12:09:30 AM
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Safer_777 posted...
Maybe because of the microtransactions?
I don't think RDR2 has microtransactions in the single player mode. Online yah.

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04/04/20 11:09:39 AM
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Yeah that is what I wanted to say.

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Xenoblade Chronicles VS Splatoon 2

Xenoblade Chronicles won with 78.43% of total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 76.62%

So we have 2 games that are both Nintendo! Amazing for this contest! I have heard of this Xenoblade game and I wanted to buy it but for some reason I never did bought it. Strange. Splatoon is a multiplayer game and is very fun and good too from what I gather. Nintendo did well with this franchise. So a JARPG vs a multiplayer game on this site. Guess who won.

So for the match. Well what to say? XC has apparently fought against S2 on some previous polls and it won there too so of course it won here too. Nothing to say, this match was pretty easy to predict and that is. XC took part on the previous Games Contest here and it lost on the 1st round against another Nintendo game too. So yeah. Weak game but against and even weaker game it won easily.

Overwatch VS Death Stranding

Overwatch won with 55.9% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 71.69%

So a Tactical FPS Multiplayer vs...something? Look pretty sure nobody knows what exactly is DS. Seriously. It is something for sure but I am not sure why. DS is one of these games that you either love it or hate it. Me I have seen reviews and I guess I don't like it? Seems like a complicated walking simulator? Look sorry for its fans but let's be
real the game is weird as hell. Kojima knows for sure how to keep people guessing but man. It was his first game after the MGS series too.

So for the match. This was somewhat in doubt. To tell the truth we don't like games like Overwatch here BUT against DS...nobody knew what to expect. Even for the crew not all went with Overwatch. However they all predicted a close match and it was somewhat close. Pretty sure DS is damn weak. Overwatch is damn weak too but against this it did fine? Look this match is strange. The prediction percentage was high for Overwatch so I guess few people got confused or something.

Dragon Age Inquisition VS Ori And The Blind Forest

Ori And The Blind Forest won with 51.91% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 37.68%

So we have an indie game here...is what I would had say but Ori came out from Microsoft apparently! DAI was really big. People were dissapointed with DA2 but EA delivered with the 3rd game. It was pretty good and it did well with fans and critical reception. As for Ori...it is a 2D platformer and is damn hard. It even got a sequel that came
out few days before the match. I hear the game is pretty good but hate to say it I haven't heard for the series before the match.

So for the match. DAI won and...Yeah okay Ori won. Here is the thing. I always get wrong matches in contests of course as everyone. In almost all of the ones that I get wrong I always think that maybe the other game/character can win. But not here. I didn't even gave a second thought. Sure DA isn't that popular now since DAI came out like 6 years ago but against a game that very few people have heard about? And DAI is an RPG too! Even the whole crew went with DAI here too. Is it possible the sequel that recently came out gave it a small boost that needed to beat DAI? DA series was never strong here, I mean we had the 1st game in a contest before and it lost to 1st round too. Another thing here is that DAI actually won a few hours too so the match ended pretty close at the end. For me a game/character that wins with less than 53% is pretty close so as you see here the match was pretty close but Ori was never in danger. Man sad to see that DA series doing that badly. And I heard that DA 4 will be big on microtransactions too so even worse when it comes out.

Fire Emblem Three Houses VS South Park The Stick Of Truth

Fire Emblem Three Houses won with 66.66% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 79.41%

So 2 RPG's here. Everyone knows about FE series. It almost got cancelled a few years ago and now it is bigger than ever. FE3H got universall acclaim from both critics and fans. I still haven't played it, but one of those days... As for SP...if you are a fan of the series you have to play that game. It is basically a long episode. The writing and the humor is exactly like the series. And it makes sense. I mean the writers of the show took part in the making of this game.

So for the match. Well it was never in doubt. However I do believe SP did good here. Supposedly FE3H is damn strong since it was big when it came out and still is but it barely scored a doubling. The main character from FE3H got into Smash! Like almost every other FE main character it seems. If SP was vs another weak game it would have won for sure. But that is how things are. I am a huge SP fan. I still remember when a friend of mine brought the South Park movie on my house on 2000 and like 10 people were watching it and I couldn't believe what I saw. I mean they have stuff like this in USA that is for children? After that I managed to find the 1st season and I was hooked. I have been a fan almost 20 years now. And I still can't believe the show is going on!

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04/05/20 6:15:02 AM
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04/05/20 1:44:08 PM
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Look sorry for its fans but let's be
real the game is weird as hell.
That's why I'm a fan. It's very hard to recommend but it definitely scratches an itch for people who want a different kinda game

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04/05/20 7:53:49 PM
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Division 5 Round 1

The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt VS Assassin's Creed Odyssey

The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt won with 84.07% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 90.99%

The W3 is one of 2 games that can reach the finals, with the other beeing Skyrim. At least that is what we thought before the contest started. As for AC series you all know the series. This series had a game coming out every year but each game getting lower and lower sales so Ubisoft decided to stop making them for a while. So they decide to
soft reboot the series with Origins and make them MUCH more combat oriented AND heavy loot based. Bassically they became action rpg's. With levels and all. I mean the previous games had combat and loot too but they never really matter. I mean you could just sneak around and kill everyone with 1 hit anyways. You can't really do that now
though. As for the W3...Okay it is a game that basically every other open world action RPG compares it to see how it stands out to it. Yeah it is that good. It made the Witcher series REALLY popular and now everyone and their Magician Grandma knows it. I mean we even got a Witcher Netflix series and it was ACTUALLY good! And damn popular too! So yeah the Witcher series is everywhere now.

So for the match. Well we have 2 action rpg open world games and of course the much popular one won. But it didn't simply won, it scored way too high. I didn't even expected to score above 77% myself and it scored more than 84%! Also the W3 is one of my favorite games of all time. BUT in this match I voted for ACO. Why? It takes place in Greece which is my country and barely any game take place there so I had to support it. I mean it was amazing to visit cities and landmarks that I recognize and have visited. For Americans that doesn't mean much since a lot of games take place in USA but it is different for me. So anyways W3 is DAMN popular now. I do believe thought that ACO could beat some indie games here. Which isn't saying much but hey.

Mass Effect 3 VS Starcraft 2 Winds Of Liberty

Mass Effect 3 won with 60.63% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 63.67%

So we have 2 games that I want to say some things about. ME3 was amazing for me. The first multiplayer game that I played online a LOT and made some friends and we played together and man it was amazing. I now can see why people like online games and playing with friends. The single story was amazing too. BUT. But! The ending of ME 3. Oh man. Now I know that it was impossible to put all our choices on an ending that most would like. I get that. But man when people finished the game and saw the ending...Okay I haven't seen more anger against a company. It was chaos. NOBODY was happy with the ending. Things were so bad that some people made a class action lawsuit against Bioware (or considering to do it, I can't quite figure it out). The point is that everyone was angry so Bioware made a DLC ending that was free. Yeah they tried to made a better ending due to angering fans! It made things much better at least, but of course a lot of people were still angry. So yeah. ME3 is known for this thing unfortunately. As for S2...the first S game was big. Really big. Like BIG! Especially in Korea. It started getting tournaments in 2002 and man people that were taking part in these tournaments were celebrities. And not like the bad thing, the one that everyone respects and recognizes them. I mean the tournaments were on TV and there were HUGE crowds even so many years ago! I don't know why it happend but it did. As for S2...well it is popular but it came in 2010 which is more than 12 years after the first. So yeah. Also S1 was the ONLY 16 seed EVER in ALL contests that managed to beat a 1 seed in its very first match. We haven't seen this more than one time and we shall never seen it again because the seeding is much better and no rallies too.

So for the match. Well ME3 would never lose since as I said S2 isnt' as popular as S1 plus we don't really core for exlusive PC games on this site anymore. Strange thing is that ME3 did better than predicted. People thought that even 57 would be high and it broke 60. So yeah. We don't care for PC games anymore as I said.

Stardew Valley VS Destiny

Stardew Valley won with 71.17% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 67.34%

So we have another indie game here. But this indie game has one of the biggest communities ever. The game is just a slice of life game. So many things to do and there are like a million mods for it. It is basically like an animal crossing game. Meaning there isn't a single goal or a big bad or something. You just play, relax, and have fun.
And do things at your own pace too. So really good game and so many people like it. On the other hand we have Destiny. Seriously. Who keeps nominating Destiny and its characters? Yeah we had a Destiny character on the previous Characters Contest too. So nothing bad nominating characters and games you like BUT even the people that play Destiny don't like like it much! At least when it first came out. So yeah who exactly nominated it? Was it a trollish attempt or something? I just don't get it.

So for the match. Well we have an indie game that is beloved against a game that almost nobody likes. So what did you expected? SV dominated. So people stop nominating bad games/ characters. At least the other games we have seen so far had something going on for them. Destiny has nothing. Let it go.

Super Mario Galaxy 2 VS Return Of The Obra Dinn

Super Mario Galaxy 2 won with 87.25% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 94.16%

So here is the thing. SMG2 lost on the previous game contest against ME? I don't believe it. I thought people were made a mistake but no, it is actually true. I don't understand why. Sure ME was more popular back then but the SMG games are so popular with fans and critics. They both have 97% on Metacritic which is amazing for 2 games
of the same series. As for ROTOD...It is an indie game and once again I do wonder how it got in, while other games like Pokemon Go didn't.

So for the match. Slaugther of course. Remember when I said that Skyrim of Witcher 3 would reach the final match? After this performance SMG 2 is a contender too. I mean we all knew that it would win
but this high? Highest win of the contest too! Yeah it dominated. I know that ROTOD is damn weak but still this is amazing performance. Well we shall see I guess.

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04/06/20 6:39:59 AM
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@MechanicalWall So something COMPLETELY different eh?

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04/06/20 7:42:08 PM
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Fallout New Vegas VS The Stanley Parable

Fallout New Vegas won with 79.4% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 90.15%

So another Fallout game here. It is considered the best Fallout game that came out since the reboot in 2008 though and it faced an indie game. SP was amazing with it's clever writing but basically it is a walking simulator. So yeah.

So for the match. Well I am dissapointed that FNV didn't even managed to break 80% here. And no, don't
tell me that SP haw power. Seriously. But maybe I am overthinking this. I mean almost 80% has to be amazing right? Yeah that is probably it. So obviously really easy match to predict and nothing else to say. You can't judge game powers vs indie games.

Dark Souls 3 VS Dishonored

Dark Souls 3 won with 69.93% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 84.73%

So Dark Souls is the Dark Souls of the Dark Souls series! Yeah I am kidding. DS is a series that is really good and DAMN hard and it's name became synonymous with hard games from other series. For example Cuphead is the Dark Souls of Platform games and such. So yeah DS series is really popular and of course made popular the get good meme. Dishonored is a cool game. I have played it. It is a stealth game but you have cool powers to use too and cause mayhem. The sequel isn't as good as the original strangely enough.

So for the match. Well D is damn weak as everyone expected. I also think that DS3 isn't as well liked by its fans as the previous 2 games. But still name recognition and a weak opponent and it made it score a big victory too.

The Binding Of Isaac Rebirth VS Nioh

Nioh won with 56.53% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 43.55%

So in this match the whole crew got the match wrong as most of Board 8 too. And it is easy to see why. A really popular indie game vs a game that is damn hard and new too and we don't really care for these games here. TBOIR was in the previous contest too and of course got crashed there. But it had a much stronge opponent there too. Nioh is one of these get good games and maybe the hardest of them all. It is hard for sure but yeah you have to be really patient to play it and beat it.

So for the match. Well Nioh won relativy easy. So why? I do believe that even though these 2 games are weak the sequel for Nioh came out a few days before the match and people say it is as good if not better than the original. So it gave it the slight push to beat the indie game. And TBOIR seems that isn't as popular as we thought. Eh. The prediction percentage wasn't as low as I thought though.

God Of War VS The Talos Principle

God Of War won with 84.92% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 94.81%

So we have GOW here. No not the one from 2005, the one from 2018. Why they couldn't add something to the sequel to differentiate it from the first game in the series I am not sure. GOW is excellent. Very different from the original trilogy too. The original trilogy was linear action adventure without character development and such. Kratos
was always angry and was killing everything on sight. But GOW changed all that. We even moved from Ancient Greece to Ancient Scandinavia! Makes sense since Kratos killed all major Greek Gods so we had to change scenery! But man this game is huge with a lot of stuff to do, random loot, side bosses, side quests,amazing character development, exploration and optional areas and so much more. Seriously if you haven't played the game just play it. It is way too good. As for TP...it is a walking simulator?

So for the match. Okay the only question was how much GOW would win. And it won with really high percentage. Almost 85%. So yeah amazing performance. I do believe it is the strongest Sony exlusive game. But it is the strongest Western game here? Well we shall see.

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04/07/20 8:38:22 AM
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04/07/20 10:46:44 AM
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Talos principle is actually a philosophical puzzle game type thing. Idk I didn't play it but it was made by the Serious Sam people so wrap your head around those guys trying to make something 'philosophical'

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04/07/20 7:58:24 PM
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Division 6 Round 1

Persona 5 VS Heavy Rain

Persona 5 won with 78.29% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 89.19%

Persona is damn popular here even though their characters do damn bad in these contests. Actually the P games do bad though. All P games do extremely well with critics and fans but not that good in sales. But Persona 5 changed this. It did damn well in sales, it broke records actually. Plus Joker got even in Smash as a main character! Damn! Also the Persona 5 cast appears in many spin off games. Strange but yeah. In fact a Persona Warriors spin off will come out sooon. I shall buy it since I am a huge Warriors fan and a Persona fan too. As for the HR game it is like an adventure/visual novel kinda style game? Look it is strange. It is known nowadays for the memes though. Hey at least it is widely known unlike some games in this contest.

So for the match. Well P5 won easily. I mean as I said HR is known even though for wrong reasons but still. P4 did really good a few days ago too. P5 did 0.5% better than P4 too! So nothing else to say. P series off to a good start.

Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag VS Sid Meier's Civilization 5

Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag won with 56.44% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 63.47%

So AC 4 is considered the best of the old AC games, before Ubisoft soft rebooted the series. As a fan of the AC series that have played all games I can see why. It made pirates damn cool and the whole ship combat mechanic was expanded so much from AC 3 that almost all AC games have it and it is super fun to defeat all other ships and
collect loot and upgrades. Serious fun here. As for the CIV series CIV 4 is actually my most played game of all time. Yeah for real. I still play it occassionaly because the fans have made so many mods that I have lost count. Amazing game. But I haven't even touched CIV 5 and CIV 6. Okay I played a bit of CIV 5 but I just can't get into it
because when you have played CIV 4 for thousand of hours you can't just change. However the CIV series is considered the best turn based strategy series too. And yeah all games are amazing even though I play only 1 of them. But man the CIV games are damn weak here.

So for the match. Even though there was some fear that AC would lose, I never thought of that. Sure the series sucks now on this site but the CIV games are extremely weak here. We saw that ACO got demolished by Witcher 3 but Witcher 3 can even reach the final match. It is a damn strong game. AC series was popular on this site back then on the AC 2 era and its direct sequels but after that we abandoned it. Still at least it got a win which is more that I can say for a lot of franchises here.

Sonic Mania VS YS 8

Sonic Mania won with 62.74% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 77.32%

A Sonic game finally! I thought the last good Sonic game was back in the 90's? Or not. Still nice to have at least 1 Sonic game here. I have played only the Sonic games back on Mega Drive so I don't know anything about them after that, but I do know that almost all of them suck. As for YS...it is a JRPG but I haven't heard of the series
and I find it strange because apparently there are at least 8 of them? Damn! They must have a lot of fans! Or at least I think so? Well they made so many of them so someone has to be bying them!

So for the match. This match was never in doubt but Sonic managed to dissapoint! Classic Sonic. I mean people thought that even a doubling would be bad for Sonic Mania and it scored even lower than that! So yeah. People just don't care for the Sonic games I guess.

Super Meat Boy VS Slay The Spire

Super Meat Boy won with 68.96% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 80.35%

So we have the Guru pick here and it won a match! Believe me that is a rare feat. SMB is one of these get good games. Strange how many are in this contest. People are hardcore it seems! STS I didn't knew it all and I saw a review for it by accident and man it is amazing! Yah a card game but not the 1vs1 and stuff like that. No you go to dungeons, make your deck, random battles, random loot, stuff like that. It is a sort game but you are meant to play it many games and get items/characters/loot/cards, all the good stuff.

So for the match. Well SMB won. STS is really good but since it is still new it doesn 't really have a dedicated fanbase like the SMB game. So once again congrats to the Guru pick!

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Whiskey_Nick
04/07/20 7:59:16 PM
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Sonic Mania and Sonic Generations are both great Sonic games

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Safer_777
04/08/20 7:06:00 AM
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Hey as I said I don't play them but still nice to see like 2 Sonic games in the last 20 years to be good!

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04/08/20 7:54:52 PM
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Portal 2 VS Tomb Raider

Portal 2 won with 65.29% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 79.97%

Portal and Half Life are these PC games that EVERY PC gamer raves about. Of course these have come in consoles but still they are primarily known as PC games. Also both portal games have appeared a lot in the games contests. As I said the Portal series is popular but I do believe they haven't released another game for some years. Well I guess either company doesn't see much money from this series otherwise why not made another one? Tomb Raider is here too! Oh it is the TR from 2013, not the one from 1996. Okay I know they are reboots but can't these companies add something to differentiate the titles of the same series? Mortal Kombat got rebooted a few years ago too BUT at least they named it MK9 because it was actually the 9th main game! I mean seriously. I have played the TR trilogy and it is fun but they tend to blend together since they are basically the same games, one on an island, one on show and one on jungle. Very similar which I guess it is good if you like it but still.

So for the match. TR got a bad draw. Sure it isn't as it used to be but it could beat some other games here, and not just some indies too. Plus Lara Croft isn't what she used to be. Of course like 25 years ago that the 1st TR game came out we had barely any main female hero and she became extremely popular for a while. For 2 big reasons! Okay other stuff too. But mainly these 2 big reasons. She was in magazines, giving interviews, various events, movies, weird merhandise anything really. But they kept messing the games and eventually the TR games just stopped coming out. So the Reboot was a huge success but not anything different than a ton of other games. Also from the new trilogy the 1st TR game is considered the best and the 3rd the worse strangely enough. So yeah Portal 2 was always going to be the winner. Still I would like to see at least a doubling here but eh.

Kingdom Hearts 3 VS Disco Ellysium

Kingdom Hearts 3 won with 68.06% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 83.35%

Oh man we have KH 3. When the KH series was first announced and we got details, EVERYONE was saying the same thing. Lol Disney AND FF characters together? Joke game? But when it came out oh man. Oh man. The game was amazing. Nobody expected to become so famous. So of course a sequel came out 3 years after the original. This was in 2005. Then a spin off game. Okay fine. Another spin off. Then another. Then another. There are so many spin offs and remasters that I have lost count. FINALLY after 14 years KH 3 came out but by then nobody cared. And it makes sense. I mean people want always sequels from a series, not spin offs. Sure maybe 1 here and there helps but not as many without main games like the KH series! Out of all KH games KH 2 is considered still the best. I had played it back in the day and even know if you ask me one KH I recommend my
first thought is KH 2. That game is amazing. I haven't played KH 3 but a friend of mine played it. When I asked him about it he said there are no FF characters and I thought he was joking. I mean a KH game without FF characters? Yeah sure. This is like having a Smash game without Mario or Link. But guess what. Just GUESS! Yeah NO FF characters in KH 3! Okay seriously? Oh wait it has MOOGLES so all are fine! Yeah a huge dissapointment to put it lightly. As for DE it is an RPG but not one in the traditional sense. I don't know who to describe it, but basically it has NO combat and it has perks and dialogue choices and such but depend on how much you have raised each of the 4 unique skill tress of the protagonist and their sub trees. It is weird, I mean an RPG without combat? But not only works, it works damn well! Plus it even won some GOTY award! Yeah you heard me correctly! And the game is barely 6 months old!

So for the match. No matter how people are dissapointed by KH3 it wouldn't lose to DE because even though it is popular and good I don't think it has a huge fanbase or something. If there was a strong indie game here then I do believe it would lose. Yeah KH sucks. Also the KH series has the more convoluted story ever, maybe tied with the MGS franchise. So it barely scored a doubling and that is decent. Probably.

Animal Crossing New Leaf VS Street Fighter 5

Animal Crossing New Leaf won with 66.51% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 68.88%

AC series is a series that I just can't get into it why people like. You don't have a clear goal. You just play, do some stuff, relax and have fun. Maybe that is the point. Not everything has to be super serious right? As for SF 5...Okay SF series made the Fighthing games popular ESPECIALLY SF2. The game was so famous that we had like 10 upgraded versions on it which I do believe is some kind of record. I mean we even had an updated version of SF2 that came on Switch and it had new stuff too! Damn! SF series is always popular but Capcom messed with SF 5 big time. When SF 5 came out it didn't even had an Arcade mode. Yeah a fighthing game without an Arcade mode! And no story videos too. Exciting! Basically it had nothing. They kept adding stuff via DLC. You know stuff that should be in the game from the START? Oh and they added 24 DLC characters. That you have to pay for. What I want from games! To not having anything when I buy them! Oh and they also added in game advertising. You heard me. Basically on loading screens and on the costumes of the characters they had logos of companies and such! Because when people play SF they want to see Ruy advertising Mc Donald's. I mean it makes sense right? So damn.

So for the match. A strange thing happened. A new AC game out recently and it is DAMN popular. So the AC series is now the strongest it has ever been! What is going on? At least I can say that since this series is geared towards younger players it teaches them than when they grow up they will be consantly in debt, so it prepares them for real life! So yeah ACNL won pretty easy. I mean a doubling against one of the main game of the top 3 figthing game series is amazing.

Red Dead Redemption 2 VS Dying Light

Red Dead Redemption 2 won with 81.4% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 94.02%

So a few says ago we had the original RDR game and now we have its sequel. General consensus is that RDR 2 is the weaker game. On the other hand we have a zombie game. However I have played it and it is damn good. At least for me. A friend of mine got it too and he has played it for like 200 hours. The game is pretty fun with all the
random loot and such. Don't expect anything extraordinary too of course. The sequel was supposed to come on this year
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04/09/20 7:07:16 AM
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04/09/20 6:45:24 PM
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Division 7 Round 1

Dark Souls VS Hotline Miami

Dark Souls won with 82.99% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 92.81%

Dark Souls is the Dark Souls of videogames! Okay I jest. But DS when it came out it made the get good meme famous. It is a hard game. Like real hard. You know one of these games that apparently people now don't care because they have the gatcha games/MMO's/Casual games? Yeah things don't work like this. People always want something different. Sure hard games like DS aren't for everyone but for people that like stuff like that it is excellent. Plus we all know some challenge in our games right? Well these games offer a LOT of challenge and that is a good thing. Plus after the great success of DS so many clones followed. As for HM...another indie game that I don't know anything about it. Yeah sorry once again. I do believe it is fairly popular and a lot of copycats followed it though.

So for the match. Obviously DS trashed HM easily. Duh. The only real question is how much would score. And I do believe it scored excellent. I mean almost 83% is amazing no matter what game does that against what game. Also I do believe from the 3 DS games the first one is considered the best strangely enough. Well that is.

Rocket League VS Dragon Ball Figther Z

Rocket League won with 51.66% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 61.29%

Now we had the first real match of the contest. This match was pretty close for around 7 hours with lead changed and all that! Just like a real contest! In this match Gurus were split on which game would win as the Crew too. And it makes sense. Both games are really weak. RL has Football which americans don't care about and DBZ is a fighthing game which this site doesn't care about. Plus no info in either on these games too. I went with DBZ myself because of name recognition. But I was wrong.

So for the match. As I said it was realy close for like 7 hours and then RL just passed ahead and never looked back. So why it won? Well I do believe that it is more popular because actually it is a really fun game. It is about Football true BUT you have CARS playing Football! Yeah you use them to ram the ball, you can jump in the air and do a lot of tricks too. Plus you don't really have to know the rules, just ram the ball! As for DBZ it is one of countless DB fighthing games, nothing special. Still we got a good match for like 7 hours at least.

Yakuza 0 VS The Witness

Yakuza 0 won with 77.39% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 85.87%

Man the Yakuza series. It is my favorite franchise of the 7th and 8th generation. The series is excellent. It follows the story of Kiryu which is an Ex Yakuza and tries to live a normal life but he just can't. He gets always pulled back in the Yakuza world. These games are mainly played for the story. The story is always good in these games.
Of course they always have a TON of twists and you don't even know who the Big Bad at least like the final chapter and Kiryu always goes What? when he finds out. And there is always a guy that you beat him by punching him really hard then in a cutscene he pulls a gun and someone dies but never one of the main characters. It is a Yakuza
tradition by now! Still it is awesome. There are 7 main games in the series that follow Kiryu. I was lucky to play the games in chronological order, meaning I started from Yakuza 0 and went up from there. Also these games(except Yakuza 0 which is a prequel)take place always in the year they come out. For example Y1 came out in 2005 and the story takes place in 2005, Y2 came out in 2006 and the story takes place in 2006 and so on. So you see these characters getting old and stuff like that. Now this series was always niche, meaning it did okay sales but it was never popular. Sega released Yakuza 0 in 2015 which is a prequel and it is the best place to start too since you learn about the characters. And man Y0 is the best game of the series. Having played all of them(except Y6)I agree too. Just play Y0. So what exactly are these games? They are like Brawler games, meaning you go around and punch dudes in the face. Also the world is small, like 1 area of a city and it sounds that it is small BUT there are always a TON of stuff to do. And so many minigames. I haven't seen another game that offers so many minigames which you just can ignore all of them if you want and no problem. But no, you just want to play them because they are so good. I mean I played Pool and Baseball which otherwise I wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole. But not here! Yeah I raved enough but this series is excellent. So that is. As for TW...I don't know anything about once again. It is kind of a puzzle interactive game?

So for the match. Okay Yakuza series is weak here but it wouldn't lose again such a game. The funny thing is that the Crew had Y0 win by less percentage than that. So it beat expecations easily. So was Y0 strong or TW weak? Okay hate to say it but TW is just extremely weak. Once again I do wonder how games like this got in.

Metal Gear Solid 5 The Phantom Pain VS Dead Cells

Metal Gear Solid 5 The Phantom Pain won with 72.51% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 86.9%

So MGS 5 is the last MGS game that the creator of the series worked before getting kicked out of the company. Now I don't know anything about MGS series but I do know they always have ridiculous stories and twists that can give the Kindom Hearts franchise a run for its money. DC is another indie game. It is fairly popular but that is.
The thing I don't understand is that 3 of the crew guys gave MGS 5 a 55% prediction percentage victory. Okay people seriously? I know you are experts but we are talking about MGS series here. You know a series that is HUGE here? Or at least it was. Even the strongest indie game here wouldn't beat it. At least I think so. I know that people were dissapointed with MGS 5 because I heard even the story wasn't finished or something but still.

So for the match. MGS 5 won easily. Well of course. DC may be fun and all but at the end it is just a metroidvania indie game and we have already hundreds of them since apparently it is the most popular genre to make games of. So did MGS 5 redeemed itself here? Hard to say. It did score a big victory against a well regarded indie game at least.

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04/10/20 7:14:00 AM
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04/10/20 6:53:39 PM
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Batman Arkham City VS Xenoblade Chronicles 2

Batman Arkham City won with 54.46% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 71.32%

Another Superhero game and it too won its match! Superheroes are awesome. I have played 3 of the Arkham games and I have to say that City is really the best. It is amazing. All 3 of them show how Batman games should be, the 2nd one is just slightly better. As for XC2 I only know it because of the controversy with the boob slider. So what was that? Basically you could costumize the character but she was 13 years old and you could make her tits big or small too! Yeah! I know it is strange but it is a game. Just relax and have fun? Anyways that is. Also it is an Action RPG. Strange thing to know about a game but I always like when in US news you can see everything but if a girl has big tits everyone there says think of the children!

So for the match. Well BAC did won BUT it did worse than expected. I mean 4 of the crew had it above 60% and it couldn't even score 55 here. So why is that? I guess that XCL2 is strong because I do believe the series is more known now. Plus Batman 4 was real bad and I even myself refuse to play it too. So it made the series look bad. Still it won.

Bioshock Infinite VS Terraria

Bioshock Infinite won with 67.67% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 75.19%

So I don't know about the Bioshock francise but a friend of mine bought the trilogy a few weeks ago and from what I saw they are damn good and brimming with atmoshphere. As for Terraria people nick named it a 2D Minecraft so that is. Plus the game is excellent from what I hear too. Indie of course. Plus it has amazing sales so it has to
be good right? I think the Bioshock franchise is on ice now too. I mean we haven't had a new game for 7 years which I don't get it. Good sales and amazing critical reception but that is?

So for the match. Some people thought that Terraria could do it but I never even thought of that. Bioshock is still a strong name and indie games as we saw don't have serious power. Even more so on this site. So that is.

Diablo 3 VS Zero Escape Virtue's Last Reward

Diablo 3 won with 69.01% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 86.3%

Diablo series is HUGE on PC! Diablo 2 is still played on PC, 20 years after it came out! A friend of mine bought D3 for XBOX and he has put so many hours on it that I have lost count. These games are all for the loot and the levels, since D3 hasn't even a traditional level cap. I never liked these kind of games but eh. So Blizzard announced a Diablo gatcha game a few years ago and man oh man I haven't seen more dissapointment in a room from a video game announcement. I mean it was extremely bad. It was so bad that the game isn't still out. I don't understand the fans. Sure Diablo series was always for hardcore gamers on PC but they do know that mobile games earn more money per year now than the traditional games right? I mean every company would be an idiot to not relase gatcha games of all their franchises. Still Diablo series is still popular and they announced a new traditional Diablo game a few months ago. So this ZEVLR is a visual novel game I believe? And it got into the previous Game Contest too? Damn!

So for the match. Obviously Diablo 3 would win. But it would be nice to win with above 70% at least. I mean it faced a visual novel game. Also I do believe that Diablo 3 wasn't liked when it first came out because it simplified things from Diablo 2 and also you could sell items you get in game for real money to other players and it had even an auction house provided by Blizzard in game too! Yeah it lasted around 1 year but that is 1 year too many.

The Last Of Us VS Crusader Kings 2

The Last Of Us won with 81.85% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 94.14%

TLOU is one of these games that people say it is one of the best games of all time and almost everyone agrees. It is excellent from a story perspective because the gameplay isn't anything special. But still it is an amazing game. Just play it if you haven't done it by now. Yeah it is a post apocalyptic game with zombie like enemies but don't
let that fool you. CK2...I haven't heard it. It is a Real Time Strategy game and these games are always timesinkers and it seems that the fans are really dedicated but we all knew that it would really weak.

So for the match. People thought this would be the biggest blowout on the contest and I agreed too, but it wasn't like that in the end. Still a huge victory as expected of course. But as I said many times against such weak games you can't judge a game power.

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04/11/20 6:03:12 PM
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Division 8 Round 1

Elder Scrolls Skyrim VS Subnautica

Elder Scrolls Skyrim won with 84% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 95.12%

So we have Skyrim here. It is one of the Top 5 games on the Decade everywhere and on this site too. The real question is what place does Skyrim get's in this contest? I have it reaching the finals but I do believe Witcher 3 can beat it. Witcher is extremely popular now especially with the Netflix show. And even the company announced a Witcher 4 game even though they had said that Witcher 3 would be the last. And they would have been stupid to not release more games, I mean seriously. As for Skyrim...it has to be in every console that has come since 2011. Seriously this thing is everywhere. Everyone that plays videogames have heard it, the memes, the mods, everything. 9 years have passed and this thing isn't slowing down. I mean the company hasn't even show a gameplay video of ES 6 and why they should rush to make another game? I mean this thing
still sells like crazy and people constantly play it. I mean even on this site after 9 years it is still the number 2 most popular game.As for Subnautica...another indie game. Joy.

So for the match. The only thing that mattered is if Skyrim would score under 80% because that would mean it is weak now, or if it scored above 90% because that would mean it is the strongest game here. But nothing happened, so Skyrim did as expected. So that is.

Fate/Grand Order VS Journey

Journey won with 66.2% of the total votes. Correct prediction percentage was 62.65%

So we have our first gatcha game here! I don't understand how it got such a high seed here and we don't have other gatcha games like Pokemon Go or Dokkan Battle. But then again I always see F/G to be on the top of the Ios board so I guess it has to be popular. I do play some gatcha games like everyone else(if someone says he doesn't play or played at least 1 they are liars). I know they are the cancer of gaming since now every game and their gatcha grandmother has microtransactions but the fault is the people that buy them, not the companies that put them in. Journey is an indie game BUT when it came out it prooved that yeah even Indie games can win GOTY! Yeah it won some GOTY even though it is a walking simulator basically. But hey the art direction and the style were really good so that is.

So for the match. We all knew that Journey would win. Sure nobody talked about Journey after the year that came out but F/G is a gatcha game so no way we would let such a game win a match. So even though Journey is really weak it won with a doubling. Even casuals got this match right even though the seeding was higher for F/G .Nice?

Final Fantasy 14 Online A Realm Reborn VS Crypt Of The Necro Dancer

Final Fantasy 14 Online A Realm Reborn won with 71.53% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 82.73%

So we have a MMORPG! But not a random one, a FF one. When FF 14 first came out it was SO bad. Like really bad. So bad that basically SE offerend an apology, disbanded the team that made it and started working on it again. After some time they came out with Real Reborn and killed the original FF 14 in real life and in lore too! Yeah that
world got destroyed. But then something happened. RR was amazing! Seriously they did such good job that everyone was surprised. So even though we have the original version of FF 14 coming out 10 years ago and RR coming out 7 years ago the game is played by thousands upon thousands of players and new stuff keep coming out on regular intervals. Yeah they managed to make one of the worst lauched MMORPG into one of the best MMORPG's ever! Damn! As for Crypt it is something of a rhythm based game. I don't know how it works exactly but I do know it has amazing music plus it has to be popular because last year a Zelda spin off came out that uses the mechanics of Crypt! Yeah and it was really good and nobody really expecting that!

So for the match. Well FF14 has FF in its name and is against an indie game so of course it would won. And it did good I do believe. I don't think anything can be said. I am just happy that we do have a MMORPG going on Round 2.

Uncharted 4 A Thief's End VS Mario Kart 8

Mario Kart 8 won with 58.85% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 55.86%

This match was somewhat debatable but I don't see why. Has ever Uncharted games/characters do good here? No. We have MK 8 here(seriously how many MK games are out? Damn!) and even though it seems that after so many games MK series would have fallen over actually it is doing extremely well! I am shocked too. But then again when so many sequels of a game come out it is bound to be good and sell well. As for the Uncharted series I do believe that U2 is still considered the best. But all of them are good anyways.

So for the match. Well MK did as most of Board 8 expected. A hard win. Seems casuals got it somewhat right too even though the highest seed was U4. So that is. We just don't like games like Uncharted here people. When you will learn?

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04/12/20 8:02:58 AM
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Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver Version VS Night In The Woods

Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver Version won with 81.96% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 91.55%

So we have finally a Pokemon game! But it is a remade of the Gen 2 which came out in 1999. And even though we had 4 generations since 2010 the one from the 2nd generation got in even though it barely count since it came out in 2009 in Japan but later in other regions. As I guy who has played all main Pokemon games multiple times for me
the 2nd generation is the best. And I was so happy to see HG/SS with all the QOL upgrades. Gen 1 is special for everyone so it is above criticism and most pokemon fans agree that the 2nd generation is the best. On the other hand we have an indie game that I haven't heard anything about. Of course.

So for the match. Well HG/SS would win easily of course. The only thing that mattered was the final percentage. I do believe it did bettern than expectations since the average prediction was a bit lower than 80 so there you go. Well even though the latest Pokemon games seems to mess up the series since there are way too many complaints to count, they actually sold extremely well, they have sold more than 16 millions and the games are like 6 months old only. And this sales chart is old. So yeah people love their pokemons.

Celeste VS Rayman Legends

Rayman Legends won with 50.45% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 37.67%

Best match of Round 1! Yeah strange to say that, but it was. We had an indie game vs a non indie game. I don't know Celeste but it is a platform game with good story actually and people seem to like it. As for RL it is another platform game too so we have a fair match? Rayman was the mascot and the focus of Ubisoft before they became
big with the Assassin's Creed series and they shifted focus there. Oh and also Rayman gave us Rabbids! You know the characters that EVERYONE loves?

So for the match. As you can see the match was EXTREMELY close. Celeste was around 52.4 after the first 5 minutes and after 4 hours it was around 51.7. But no problem since it was winning in USA a lot. But it kept losing percentage and after about 13.5 hours RL got the lead. But then Celeste got it back. The games kept goint like that for a while and we had even a few ties. But then RL got the lead and we all say well USA is waking up and Celeste there wins by 53 so it would be over. But a curious thing happened. Even though the match ended and RL won Celeste's percentage in USA stayed at 53! So why this matters? Because most of the people that come on this site are Americans so the game/character that wins in USA wins the match. Sure we had a few cases where something won in USA and eventually lost the match but the percentage on USA was lower, like 51. Not 53 like here. I can't explain it. I guess RL won in the States that have the most people or something? Anyways very good match. Oh and also the whole Crew got the match wrong as most of the site it seems. And it made sense. Even though RL is from a series that most have heard, Ubisoft doesn't care for that anymore. So we all backed Celeste. Eh still at least we got a good match so that is fine.

Divinity Original Sin 2 VS Hearthstone Heroes Of Warcraft

Divinity Original Sin 2 won with 69.22% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 58.46%

Here we have DOS 2 which is maybe the best RPG that came out in the last 10 years. It is turn based and there are many customizations options, dialogue choices, combo moves, loot, so many stuff to do that seriously you can do anything. You hear that in many games but DOS 2 really does that. I do believe it is the only game that you can trully kill everyone on the map and still complete it. Sure you will lose most of the quests but the option is there. Just buy it if you like RPG's especially turn based ones. You can even change difficulty on the fly if you have problems plus there is a Magic Mirror on your base that you can change EVERYTHING for your characters except genders.
So no problems if you think you made a wrong build or something. Money is somewhat tough to find but you can steal from everyone with a dedicated thief build. Which you can change any time anyways! Plus we got the the Definite Edition which adds even more stuff and it is all for all consoles so you don't have any excuse to not play it. On the other hand we have Hearthstone which is a card game. Card games are slightly liked better than gatcha games on this site so there. HS had been in the previous game contest which got owned easily so I guess almost every game could beat it here.

So for the match. Well DOS 2 won easily. And it did really good. As I said we don't really play games like DOS 2 here which is a shame. Also forgot to mention something DOS 2 is an indie game! Okay mostly. The first game got made via Kickstarter. And also you do know how many microtransactions does DOS 2 has? Zero. Strange how the big companies say that the current model of making full games and selling them is unsustainable which a few years ago it was, you know, the NORMAL thing to do? But not anymore. Yeah money is good but make a good game at least first? Still nice win for DOS 2. The correct prediction percentage was kinda low too. I guess people went with the game that they have heard about?

NieR Automata VS Bayonetta 2

NieR Automata won with 68.41% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 81.08%

You gotta feel sorry with the Bayonetta franchise here. Both games had so much bad seeding matches! If you could switch some seedings from the other divisions they both could win at least a match. As for the NieR franchise it got REALLY popular with the NieR Automata game. Before that barely anyone has heard of it because it is a spin off
from the Drakengard series which even fewer people have heard of it. So why this NA game did that good? I have played it and the gameplay isn't anything special. So why? Because the art and the story are really good. Sure you do control androids and you fight machines but they ask philosophical questions like what is human, what is an
android, what is a machine, does anything matter? I mean the main characters who are 3 of them know they are just advanced machines and their purpose is to die fighthing the machines and they know it they still have complicated personalities. Same with the machines. Sure most seem like the berserk type but there are others who just like to live in peace. But how are these things happening since all these things are just created, not born naturally? These things you do wonder along with the other characters. I mean others think only the missions, others want other stuff, other
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04/12/20 6:42:56 PM
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So end of Round 1. From here on I will not write much into the matches because I already analyzed the games so not much else to say. If something is strange I shall say it. I just want to have some opinions on Round 1 matches.

Octopath Traveler>Undertale=This was a suprise for me and most of us. We knew that Undertale without a rally wouldn't do much but we though that it would at least beat Octopath Traveler because that game isn't strong either. If Undertale was facing a strongest game we wouldn't pick it but it seems we all got dunked on.

Ori>Dragon Age 3=This is another huge suprise. Sure DA isn't what it used to be but let's be real, how many people know Ori and how many know DA? The difference is vast. I still believe that since Ori 2 came recently it helped Ori win plus EA announced that DA4 would be a live service game which NOBODY likes.

Rayman Legends>Celeste=I put this match here because it was the best of Round 1 plus a suprise too.

Also Nioh's win and Bastion wins were unexpected but well you could say something for their matches too.

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Safer_777
04/13/20 6:14:07 AM
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So up. Well I have to keep doing this!

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04/13/20 7:19:13 PM
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Division 1 Round 2

The Legend Of Zelda Breath Of The Wild VS Halo Reach

The Legend Of Zelda Breath Of The Wild won with 84.66% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 90.7%

Round 2 baby! And a huge win from BOTW. Now I did expected HR to break 20%. Sure we don't care about Halo anymore but still. But man BOTW did almost the same win percentage as it did in Round 1! After so many years and I still can't understand why people really like the Zelda games above all the rest so much. They are really good games yeah but man the story is almost always the same plus the personalities of the characters sucks. I mean the main guy doesn't even talk! And I can't think any other big franchise where the main character doesn't talk. And no Persona and Dragon Quest don't count. I mean big franchises that everyone knows. You hear that people like good stories and characters but I guess since these series/characters are so old and they were that way from the start it doesn't really counts here.

So for the match. Well BOTW dominated. The crew had BOTW under 80% which I expected too but no, almost 85%. It seems the only thing that can beat a Zelda game is another Zelda game. Or a rally.

Final Fantasy 15 VS Hollow Knight

Final Fantasy 15 won with 50.42% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 51.49%

Look at this percentage. This is a disgrace. Seriously. FF 15 barely won and it all thanks to FF7 Remake which came out a few days before this match so people go to various gaming sites to find info about the quests and such. If this match had happened like 15 days ago HK would win no doubt about that. I do know that FF 15 wasn't exactly the super game that everyone expected since after 10 years you don't really care(except if it is FF7 Remake of course). I am a huge FF fan too and even I refuse to play FF 15.

So for the match. After 5 minutes FF 15 was ahead by 53 so fine. But after 20 minutes it was losing! After like 1 hour it got the lead but it never had above 51. So yeah. This is a disgrace as I said above. FF 15 lost a lot of hours to HK too. FF7 Remake to the rescue! Even the whole crew had FF 15 above 54 but yeah. Now I do believe there were 2 reasons this happened. FF 15 is weak and HK is strong. Also the prediction percentage was low here. I mean half the people here didn't had FF 15 winning? I mean I just don't get it. Maybe people really believed in HK or something.

Monster Hunter World VS Sekiro Shadows Die Twice

Monster Hunter World won with 55.8% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 53.33%

Another debated match here. Even the crew was split here. Both games did as expected in Round 1. I mean no matter which game you picked to win you would be fine because as I said they have similar strengths and did as expected in Round 1.

So for the match. Well even though the match was really debated and we thought it would be close MHW won easy actually and even broke 55 too. So I wonder why. I do believe that we just like MHW better. That game had even an expansion and it was very well received too. So in the end both games did fine. Fine to see a MH game in Round 3! Also these matches are always nice because we don't really know who will win. So there you go. Also once again a prediction percentage in the middle.

Bastion VS Dragon Quest 11 Echoes Of An Elusive Age

Dragon Quest 11 Echoes Of An Elusive Age won with 71.91% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 64.8%

Even though the previous match was really debatable and you could even had doubts for FF 15's match this one was set in stone. Bastion suprised everyone with one of the lowest predictions in this contest for Round 1 but that was it. DQ 11 is damn popular. The best DQ game ever, the one with the most sales ever and the one where the main character came into Smash Ultimate! And his name is Hero. Yeah plain name but it says all you need to know. As a huge DQ fan I do agree that DQ is damn excellent. Sure as old school as it gets but that is a good thing. Hey if it works, don't fix it right?

So for the match. Well people expected DQ 11 to win with around 70 and it did just that! So yeah. Nice showing and it seems it is a lock for the division finals too.

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Safer_777
04/14/20 7:00:53 AM
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04/14/20 6:21:48 PM
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Mass Effect 2 VS Fallout 4

Mass Effect 2 won with 66.88% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 58.12%

So this match was debatable and the Crew was split too. Wait really? I mean you couldn't ask for a more easy match. Sure ME Andromeda put ME franchise on ice with how poor it was received but still everyone says that the game isn't that bad actually. I have played all ME games and yeah the game wasn't that bad. Plus nice to see a whole different galaxy although we will never see how things will end. As for Fallout 4? Almost everyone doesn't like it as much as the previous games. Especially with the paid mods. You know mods that we always had for free now we have to pay for them. Seriously? Also better not talk about Fallout 76. EVERYONE hates it. Sure people play it but then again people play anything. Even gatcha games. Before F76 came out people were saying<Yeah Fallout series is amazing! I really like it>. After F76 came out people are saying<Fallout series? Seriously? People care for this thing anymore?> So yeah.

So for the match. ME 2 won with a doubling. Pretty easy. I mean as I said it is almost impossible to find someone that puts F4 above F3 or FNV. ME2 on the other hand is still pretty strong and in the top 5 space games ever. So yeah.

Borderlands 2 VS Horizon Zero Dawn

Horizon Zero Dawn won with 55.08% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 28.57%

This match I was shocked by the result. I mean HZD is an exclusive and B series is the one that made the looter shooter genre famous. We even had B3 coming out a few months ago too and it was very well received. HZD hasn't anything new in years. So yeah I thought pretty easy match. But no.

So for the match. Well HZD won with relative easy. But why? I am not sure myself and I don't understand. Is it because the game is better? You can't really compare them though. Is it more popular? Once again I say no. So why this happened? I guess here in Gfaqs we don't like B series even though we had B2 as our GOTY the year it came out. You heard me right. We had B2 as our GOTY! Things change eh? Still I have played both games and both are excellent in their own way. B2 for the loot and the wacky world and HZD for the story and the amazing world. The prediction percentage was very low too so I am not the only one that got this thingy wrong.

Resident Evil 2 VS DOOM

Resident Evil 2 won with 57.57% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 64.53%

Hey battle of the reboots/remakes/games that have the same title as their predecessors? Seriously companies change the titles! Remind me of Rambo movies where the 4th Rambo movie is called... Rambo! So when people talk about Rambo you have to ask if they mean the first movie or the 4th movie even though the 1st movie had another title but EVERYONE just calls it Rambo. Ahem.

So for the match. Once again the Crew was split. That is 2 splits on the same day! In 1st round both games faced really weak opponents and did similar percentages. So I believe that RE 2 won because RE 3 came out recently plus we don't like FPS here. Still nice match. These matches that are debatable are always nice to see them. The prediction percentage was high too so few were fooled.

Fire Emblem Awakening VS Bloodborne

Bloodborne won with 57.9% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 48.8%

When I was making my bracket I didn't even thought about that. Easy FE victory. We are talking about FE series which is a core Nintendo franchise, has like 10 characters in Smash AND it was the game that saved the FE series. On the other hand we had one of these get good games which are damn hard AND it is a PS4 exlusive too! Sure FEA was on a portable console but still. Also this is the first match on this contest where we had a successful rally! Yeah it finally happened! It was for Bloodborne and it brought around 1500 extra votes. But as you can see Bloodborne would have won without this rally too.

So for the match. I am not sure why B won. Are these kind of games that popular here? Sure we are on a gaming site and we are hardcore I guess but still? I mean FEA? The game that saved...yeah you know. So not sure. I don't think anyone knows for sure. I guess people just don't like the FE franchise as I thought. What else could it be?

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MechanicalWall
04/14/20 6:55:36 PM
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Dark Souls and Bloodborne are very bandwagon-y type of games, they get stronger year to year bc of strong word of mouth and strong communities. The nature of co-op and the obscure lore keeps these communities together when most would have moved on after all these years.

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Safer_777
04/15/20 7:40:49 AM
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Really? Seems strange but I guess you know your stuff.

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04/15/20 7:04:00 PM
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Division 3 Round 2

Super Smash Bros Ultimate VS The Legend Of Zelda A Link Between Worlds

Super Smash Bros Ultimate won with 64.06% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 74.96%

So maybe the 2nd strongest game here again a Portable Zelda game. Yeah no need to analyze stuff much right? I will say one thing only. This match is the biggest loss for a Zelda game ever! History here people!

So for the match. Obviously Smash would win. BUT the crew overestimated Smash. Most had it above 70%. I mean yeah it is Smash VS one of the weakest Zelda games here, but it still is a Zelda game! So yeah even when Zelda games/characters lose they still overperform!

Marvel's Spider Man VS Minecraft

Marvel's Spider Man won with 57.65% of the total votes. Correct Predicition Percentage was 31.61%

So most just picked MSM and it makes sense. Minecraft is the biggest game in the world and the game with the most sales ever and it is out for barely 10 years. BUT it is too casual for this site so yeah it never stood a chance without a rally of some kind.

So for the match. Of course MSM won BUT the crew overestimated it. Everyone had it above 60 yet it finished lower than that. So I guess it is a sign of MSM beeing weak because let's be real I don't think we really care for this game here. It just faced an easy opponent and it won. In every other site pretty sure Minecraft would win I do believe.

Octopath Traveler VS Shovel Knight

Shovel Knight won with 50.36% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 18.86%

So yeah as you can see from this result an EXTREMELY close match. 201 votes difference. So for this match the whole crew went with SK here. Plus they had it above 60 too! So the reason was that OT won against Undertale who was the previous champion via anti votes or something so people would vote normal here and they would favor SK because somehow SK has become the face of indie games. I mean he even got into Smash so you know that you have made it when you get into Smash! But here is the thing. Sure SK is the face on indies but OT is damn good. Not only it is popular and well liked but it prooved that people really care for the Old School games and that game is really old school. There is always a market for that. People just don't want constant MMO's, FPS, Battle Royale and such. They just want to play an old school game and have fun. Plus OT has a unique story. There are 8 characters and each has 4 Chapters to them BUT the other party members just don't exist in their story until the secret final chapter. So for example you can have a character getting trapped and that is since the other characters aren't there for the story, just for the gameplay battles. So theoritically you can just pick a characater and finish all their chapters and just 1 chapter of the other characters and you would have beaten the game.

So for the match. Well in the 5 minutes SK was already ahead. After around 6 hours SK was still ahead by like 330 votes. There was even a rally attempt for SK on Reddit but it didn't took off. So yeah tough match but still we all thought SK had it. BUT then someone posted a rally on Reddit for OT and that one took off. So OT started cutting and after around 14 hours OT pulled ahead and started gaining. So we had a real close match. Eventually OT pulled ahead with like 200 votes. But then SK started cutting again. An exciting match! So like 1 hour before the end of the match we had a tie! Now that is amazing! But then something amazing happened. With like 1 hour to end the match the Official Twitter of the company that made SK started rallying on Twitter! Yeah! NOBODY expected that! So after this rally SK managed to win with 200 votes. So yeah the rally was effective! Really close wire to wire match. And the thing is that NOBODY thought this match would be so damn close! We all thought that OT was weak and SK is strong. Turns out these games are really close in strength. Strange to see an official rally decide a match but hey it happened. Rallies are always good at least for me. So yeah. I would like to see a strange game like SK winning the whole thing but alas. Still really excited match. Also SK would won without the rallies but with a similar percentage I believe. Also lowest correct prediction percentage of the contest so far. If OT had won I believe it would be less than 10%.

Devil May Cry 5 VS Super Mario Odyssey

Super Mario Odyssey won with 71.31% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 76.5%

Well after the previous super exciting match we had a simple match. People were expecting SMO to score around 70 and it did just that. DMC was lucky that it faced a damn weak Nintendo game(how many times you hear that on this site?)and well it got owned.

So for the match. Well SMO won easily as expected. But to tell the trutn I did expected to score under 70 here. Sure the best Mario game in some time but DMC 5 is the best DMC game ever too. Then again it is freaking Mario. So the question is that what place does SMO holds in this contest? Top 5 for sure. Guess at the end of the contest X-Stats will say us. Hey they still work right?

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04/16/20 7:10:04 AM
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04/16/20 7:06:59 PM
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Division 4 Round 2

Grand Theft Auto 5 VS Cuphead

Grand Theft Auto 5 won with 60.26% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 80.61%

I don't know why but there was an indiefear with Cuphead. Sure it is an amazing indie game and very recognizable because of the art style but man we are talking about GTA 5 here. If GTA V was facing a middle tier Nintendo game then yeah sure, but against an indie? Not really. I mean the whole crew had GTA 5 under 55 too! Of course it won with more than 60.

So for the match. There was a fear as I said but GTA 5 managed to win easily. I don't think indies are as strong as people say. I mean it is just a general thought but indies cover a myriad of genres and such so you can't just it is an indie game and that is. I mean even the biggest indie game of all time which is Minecraft did really bad. So yeah. GTA 5 seems to be weak but it just faced weak opponents. Or maybe we love GTA here? Of course not.

Persona 4 Golden VS Red Dead Redemption

Persona 4 Golden won with 50.83% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 31.05%

Extremely close match and I didn't expected that. Even the crew had P4G winning by less than 55 and it made sense. The both faced weak games on the 1st round and RDR is HUGE! Like really huge. The sequel isn't even out for 6 months and it has sold already tens of millions of copies. P4G is an updated version of P4 and it is on Vita! Yeah a Vita game reached round 3! What are the odds of that?

So for the match. Even though it says P4G pretty sure people just see P4 and voted for it. I mean I didn't even knew that P4G is on Vita, I just saw Persona 4 and voted for it. Also another match where the winner lost in USA but still won the overall match. I do believe there were some rallies too but it seems they didn't affected much. Still really close match but strangely enough RDR never took the lead. P4G at the 5 minute mark was winning by 56 too and see how close it ended. Overall nice match even though P4G was never in serious danger. Still seems that RDR is stronger than we thought because on this site we LOVE persona games/characters even though they are doing bad. Until this contest at least.

Xenoblade Chronicles VS Overwatch

Xenoblade Chronicles won with 73.32% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 38.68%

Boob Slider! Oh that is in the sequel, sorry about that. We all thought that XC would win but nobody expected such a big win. Man Death Stranding has to be damn weak. So yeah I don't know what else to say.

So for the match. XC dominated here. Seriously that high? Even the whole crew had it around 66 too. So yeah. I don't know who the XC franchise got so strong but it did! Or they face really weak opponents? Too bad we didn't had Hentai rallies here. Overwatch has to be the AAA game with most Hentai ever. Probably? Still amazing win of XC. And for a while it was a Wii exlusive too!

Ori And The Blind Forest VS Fire Emblem Three Houses

Fire Emblem Three Houses won with 62.24% of the total votes. Correct Prediction Percentage was 59.21%

So after the suprise win of Ori there was some scepticism here. Sure Dragon Age was far weaker than we expected but still it is not that FE3H dominated on the first round match. So we had to see what it would do in this match if it could be redeemed at least.

So for the match. FE3H won and it did as expected I guess? Look we all thought before the contest that it would win the division but now? I don't think anyone still expects that. Seems strange because FE3H is on Switch and it is the FE game with the best critical reception from both fans and critics plus FE is a core franchise. Also how many FE characters are in Smash? Seriously. Also Ori is a franchise now and I think it is not an indie game? I am not sure about that. Still when a game does decent and in the previous match a game does amazing where people were expecting to be the other way around you know you did something wrong. Anyways at least FE3H won.

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