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#4 Bad Pick - Final Fantasy X > Chrono Trigger (2015)
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/6147-best-game-ever-day-25-round-3-chrono-trigger-vs-final

Now rest assured that I was far from alone in believing Chrono Trigger would fall early in this contest, whether it was to Final Fantasy X or Super Smash Bros. Melee the round after that. Final Fantasy X was actually the Guru favorite this round, and Melee was the Guru favorite the next. There was a lot of reason to be skeptical of Chrono Trigger coming into 2015. The characters had been slowly waning in popularity over the years. Magus literally lost to a bag of sand in 2008. Crono had suffered a few early round exits, against Vincent in 2007, against Missingno in 2010, and against Pikachu in 2013. The game itself had struggled in 2009 compared to 2004, losing to Super Mario 64 twice, including once with Yoshi's Island in the poll.

Well, something happened to Chrono Trigger in the interim because it came out with a vengeance in the first couple of rounds, while Final Fantasy X underwhelmed against Half-Life in round 1 and could barely manage 55% on Mega Man X in round 2. I came into this match expecting the worst, and it still somehow exceeded my expectations. Chrono Trigger was doubling Final Fantasy X at the freeze, and then it jumped up to over 68% on the second update! This was basically that moment in SC2K3 when Cloud doubled Sonic and you realized, "Holy crap, he could actually beat Link." People had been talking about it, but you didn't really believe it until that moment. That was what this was. That was when people started thinking that Chrono Trigger could actually be more popular than Ocarina of Time.

Unfortunately, we know the rest of the story and it never got the chance to prove itself because, once again, Melee fans are the worst because they have the biggest inferiority complex of any gaming fanbase.

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