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Round 4 Mass Effect 2 vs. Resident Evil 2

Moltars Analysis

Mass Effect 2
Round 1 62.94% vs. Resident Evil 7: biohazard
Round 2 66.88% vs. Fallout 4
Round 3 55.12% vs. Horizon Zero Dawn

Resident Evil 2
Round 1 83.13% vs. Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
Round 2 57.57% vs. DOOM
Round 3 50.16% vs. Bloodborne

Putting all those results together like that makes it pretty clear to me that ME2 has had the stronger performances. 57% on DOOM and struggling with Bloodborne doesnt really impress me. Meanwhile, Mass Effect hasnt had any problems with decent competition, and has even had to weather the storm with rallying from other matches helping its opponents. Itll be close, but ME2 should be able to hold up here.

Moltars Bracket: Mass Effect 2

Moltars Prediction: Mass Effect 2 53%

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transiences Analysis

I've been searching for answers on division 2 for the last couple of months and I just don't have any. I'll be happy to put it to rest and just admit that I was really wrong about it. Mass Effect 2 started out by really bombing against a Resident Evil game -- a game that has no good poll results and is best known as a VR game. It was a nice return to form after the tragedy that was RE6, but it's still not expected to be a strong game here. We don't do new games, but we especially don't do new games after a franchise has jumped the shark. ME2 still could only muster 63%, and maybe that's a fluke, but Resident Evil 2 is from the same franchise and is much higher regarded around here.

Mass Effect 2 turned around from that match and blew out Fallout 4 by a larger percentage, which makes no sense unless you just assume one of the results is fluky (likely the Fallout 4 match, but maybe not?). ME2 then had a reasonable result with 55% against Horizon, which is probably more like 57 or 58% without the rally.

RE2, on the other hand, pulled a similar percentage to ME2/Horizon against Doom. Doom 2016 isn't awful or anything -- it's one of the true highlights of single-player FPS gaming this decade -- but it shouldn't be that good vs. RE2, a classic in the eyes of this website. You have to make some assumptions, like people mixing up Doom 2016 with Doom 1993, to give it enough credit here. The Bloodborne match is impossible to judge for a number of well-documented reasons, but even without the rally, RE2/Bloodborne is still pretty close.

Going in to the contest, the strongest case for RE2 was its 2019 GOTY win over Fire Emblem and the field. Well, Fire Emblem as a series has looked real bad this contest and Xenoblade just crushed Three Houses. Sekiro didn't impress either. It's seeming like the 2019 field is just kind of weak?

It's tough to even pick a winner here. Heck, it's tough to even judge this match. This is a January 2010 game vs. a 2019 remake of a 1998 game. "Game of the Decade" feels like a misnomer. I think ME2 deserves favourite status here, both from its results and because it's actually a game kinda sorta released this decade. We just have to hope that RE7 result wasn't a sign of things to come.

transience's prediction: Mass Effect 2 with 52.15%

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Leonharts Analysis

This is one of the more hotly debated matches of the round and one where theres no clear favorite in many peoples eyes, so I think it might be handy to look at previous results for reference:

Mass Effect 2 vs. Resident Evil 7: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7923-division-2-round-1-mass-effect-2-vs-resident-evil-7

Shepard: Im Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite poll of the contest.

Are you sure? A lot of people werent very impressed with that one!

Mass Effect 2 vs. Fallout 4: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7983-division-2-round-2-mass-effect-2-vs-fallout-4

Shepard: Im Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite poll of the contest.

Now that makes more sense. This performance far exceeded most peoples expectations and restored confidence in the games chances of winning the division.

Mass Effect 2 vs. Horizon Zero Dawn: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/8013-division-2-semifinal-mass-effect-2-vs-horizon-zero-dawn

Shepard: Im Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite poll of the contest.

Yeah, yeah, we get it, we get it. Still, this result is a bit muddled by the two-hour delay and the RE2/Bloodborne rally fest that seemed to favor Horizon. Mass Effect 2 was doing a few percentage points better up to that point. Ive talked for a while about being a big believer in the strength of 2017 games, and Mass Effect 2 beat two of them thus far.

Now if youre expecting me to really beat the joke into the ground by posting Resident Evil 2 match results and having Leon Kennedy react to them, youre mistaken! I havent played an RE game before, so Ive got nothing to draw from there! Seriously though, RE2 has looked good up to this point, with a blowout win over Danganronpa 2, an Ulti-style destruction of DOOM, and surviving the Bloodborne rally. Now were just comparing results, and I honestly like Mass Effect 2s more. I think Id take Horizon Zero Dawn over DOOM or Fire Emblem: Awakening, and Im not convinced RE2 would indirectly get a bigger number on RE7 than ME2 did.

This is also an interesting matchup because youve got one of the oldest games remaining against one of the newest (being a remake of a 90s game aside!). We generally tend to skew old if all other things are equal, and I think Mass Effect 2 has a certain nostalgic value to it that will let us get past Resident Evil 2 here. Ive liked ME2 to win the division from the outset, and I havent really seen anything to decisively convince me otherwise, so Im going to stick with it.

Leonharts Vote: Mass Effect 2

Leonharts Prediction: Mass Effect 2 with 53.86%


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