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| Topic | my 5 best and worst picks in contest history |
| LeonhartFour 03/19/20 11:55:37 AM #349: | #3 Bad Pick - Final Fantasy XII to Round 4 (2010) https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/4155-southwest-division-round-2-portal-vs-final-fantasy-xii On the other end of the spectrum is this pick! It wasn't that I necessarily believed Final Fantasy XII was popular. It had gotten crushed by Twilight Princess in the 2006 GOTY, but I mean, just about anything would have that year. Then it got saddled with TP again in 2009 and narrowly lost out to Half-Life in round 1. The issue was more that I didn't trust its competition. This was the time in our history where western games and PC games were starting to make inroads here, but it didn't feel like they had totally arrived yet. FFXII's two biggest competitors in its half of the division were western games: Portal and Mass Effect. I honestly didn't feel great about it, but I wouldn't have felt great about whatever I had taken there. But it became pretty clear just after round 1 that I was potentially in trouble. Portal had put up 70%+ on Gears of War 2, while Final Fantasy XII had struggled to put up 55% on Crisis Core. My only hope was that the Final Fantasy VII name was worth that much, no matter what you attached it to, but that was flimsy and I knew it. Well, it didn't take long for Portal to expose FFXII for the fraud it was, putting up nearly 65% at the freeze. FFXII slowly whittled away at the percentage throughout the match to make it look slightly less embarrassing, but we had never seen Final Fantasy beat down by a western PC game like this before. We were certainly entering in to a new era of these contests. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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