Board 8 > Your First Thought 16: "how did this get into Game of the Decade 2?"

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Previous results:
1) Strongest non-Noble Niner: Zelda (Tifa, Squall, Bowser)
2) Weakest Noble Niner: Sonic (Crono, Sephiroth, Mega Man)
3) Fodder Line: Vyse (Isaac, Pac-Man, Revolver Ocelot)
4) Strongest Western Franchise: Witcher (Mass Effect, Elder Scrolls, Fallout)
5) Strongest Indie: Shovel Knight, Undertale (Hollow Knight, Cuphead, Stardew Valley)
6) Biggest GotD2 Snub: Pokemon Go (Skyward Sword, Smash 4, Mario 3D World)
7) TJF/"The Jug Factor": Tifa (Morrigan Aensland, Tina Armstrong, Jill Valentine)
8) Strongest Pokemon not in a Contest: Blastoise (Bulbasaur, Charmander, Greninja)
9) Most unpredictable character: Kefka (Alucard, Donkey Kong, Magus)
10) Game series with most inconsistent strength: Final Fantasy (Pokemon, Mario, GTA)
11) Most disappointing performance of GotD2: Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Tropical Freeze, Undertale, Dragon Age)
12) Game series you wish was stronger: Donkey Kong/Country, Resident Evil, Phoenix Wright, Trails
13) Character that always disappoints: Tidus (Magus, Cecil Harvey, Donkey Kong)
14) A joke that stopped being funny: L-Block (GFNW, Weighted Companion Cube, CATS)
15) Character I am sick of seeing in contests: Link (Guybrush Threepwood, Lloyd Irving, Draven)

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Dying Light
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Subnautica

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Subnautica

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Both Bayonetta games. I can see one or the other, but not both.

Dying Light

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Heavy Rain.

I honestly forgot that it came out in 2010 and not like 2008 or something.

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Slay the Spire

One of a very small number of games in the bracket I'd never heard of.

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Fate Grand/Order

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Persona 4 Golden

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Destiny

Seriously, not only was it garbage in the past two contests, but it has a sequel that has much higher reception. Why even bother nominating the first one?

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Fate Grand Order
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INSIDE

caps

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hylianknight3 posted...

INSIDE

caps

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Even though I love it, Dead Space 2

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Dying Light

It's just an OK Western AAA game. It's not big enough to force its way in ala Rockstar's games, It doesn't have the indie darling status of Obra Dinn or INSIDE, nor does it fit the profile of games that GameFAQs likes enough to nominate even if they're not super popular (Trails in the Sky for example)

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Pokemon HGSS for me.

There were two other way more popular Pokemon games to choose from, Allen chose the oddball.

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Persona 4 Golden

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INSIDE

junk_funk posted...

Pokemon HGSS for me.

There were two other way more popular Pokemon games to choose from, Allen chose the oddball.

Which two were that? BW2 and what?
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Edith Finch

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Slay the Spire

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Return of the Obra Dinn

aka the only game I hadn't previously heard of
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Crusader Kings 2

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Dying Light

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th3l3fty posted...

Dying Light

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Outer Worlds

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Return of the Obra Dinn

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The Talos Principle

Probably the first one to come to mind because I've started playing it since the contest ended.

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persona 4

Leonhart4 posted...

The Talos Principle

Or that Obra Dinn game, I've never heard of them


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Street Fighter V.

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The Witness

and I mean that in a positive way, seeing as I nominated it!

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Obra Dinn

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First thought now was Crusader Kings 2

First thought when the bracket came out was Persona 4 Golden

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Hbthebattle posted...

Fate Grand Order

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Final Fantasy XV, which is ridiculous because it obviously deserved to be in and won matches, etc. But the game flopped so badly in the main community I hang out in that I tend to forget that its GameFAQs reception is actually okay.

If I'd thought about it then P4G would be a much better answer.

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Dying Light

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Fate/Grand Order

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Destiny. Very hated game, yet somehow got in the contest.

Fate/grand order
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Fate/Grand Order

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Dying Light, which I only remember for being shocked at it being in the contest and refusing to learn anything else about it.

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ghost trick

i'm impressed it made it

Obra Dinn

The same could be said about all those other small scale indies that were on a similar strength level.

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Dying Light

I generally enjoyed the game but it's not even remotely in the GotD discussion.

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The DANA one.

If I'd thought about it more I would have picked FGO or Crusader Kings.


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Destiny

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