Tuesday, July 2nd, 2002
Stats and Analysis Edit
Poll 941
Division North Division
Match # 2
Match Date Tuesday, July 2nd, 2002
Vote difference 20,987
GameFAQs
Prediction Morrigan - 42.28%
(7,087 brackets)
Yes I know I know, Spyro the Dragon is a far more well-known and more mainstream franchise than Darkstalkers, and GameFAQs isn't all that high on fighting games...but in all honesty, how many of us would get blindsided like this if this match was never run back then and was run today instead?
First of all, we've seen, plenty of times throughout the years, that GameFAQs just doesn't care much for platformers. The classic Mario entries do really well for themselves in contests, and after that...at the very best, Super Mario Galaxy is on the low end of being a high midcarder (and that's probably being WAY too generous), and that is from the same franchise! Maybe next would be some classic Mega Man and Sonic titles, then Sonic Adventure 2...what's the similarity there? That's right, they're all from long-running, iconic franchises that were big names on their systems. For however mainstream characters like Spyro, Crash, Banjo, etc. may have been, they were largely overshadowed on their systems. This generally happened to platformers following Super Mario 64's release, and the only reason why the board gets so blindsided is because the board is arguably the greatest gathering of fans of platformers all through the ages. I definitely see myself sooner joining that crowd than the platformer-ignorant GameFAQs.
Second of all, we also know that Marvel vs. Capcom 2 is NOT fodder today, and if it isn't today it likely wasn't back then either. Marvel vs. Capcom 2, which I'd sooner imagine to be Morrigan's main source of popularity than I would her own Darkstalkers franchise, would likely smoke any Spyro game with astounding ease. With Marvel vs. Capcom 3 being only about half a year old and Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 on the way, we should probably try to get Morrigan back into a contest. Seriously.
Third of all, we know about TJF, but its impact was quite possibly magnified by the low votals of this contest. Then it's magnified even further because Spyro just doesn't look like a character someone could really get attached to, even if everyone knows him.
All this combined together to allow a largely unknown character to double someone who was far more mainstream. Since then, Morrigan has never appeared in a contest again while Spyro actually has, and Spyro lost to pre-Brawl Ridley. Lol, why did we allow Spyro back in one more time while Morrigan has never been seen again? Technically I should be talking about that for Morrigan's next match, but meh.
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