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Topic	Game of the Decade: 2010-2019 Contest Analysis Crew - Part 1
Master Moltar 03/25/20 9:01:48 PM #4:	Round 1 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild vs. The Outer Worlds Moltars Analysis New Contest time! And whats better than starting a Contest with some Zelda domination. Spoilers BotW is the heavy heavy favorite to win this contest, barring some sort of rally. The only thing worth seeing here is how badly it will crush its competition. Outer Worlds more like Outta this Contest. Moltars Bracket: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Moltars Prediction: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 79% ____________________________________________________________________________ transiences Analysis Hey, it's a contest! It's a real weird feeling for a contest with COVID-19 shutting down life everywhere around me. Everything around me has been cancelled to the point that I've kind of shut down mentally as well. Hopefully it only takes me a day or two to get back into the spirit of picking Nintendo games to beat other games! Speaking of Nintendo games, here's your contest winner barring a rally. Sorry to be anticlimactic, but that's just life with the biggest Zelda game of the last 20 years. I'm not convinced that it would 100% beat Majora's Mask just because it didn't come out during the site's glory years, but Breath of the Wild is probably further ahead of second place than any other entity in contest history. (Well, except for gimmicks like the Years or Rivalry brackets that everyone has since dropped out of their memory.) Part of that is because Breath of the Wild is a killer game, but the other part is the competition. With other classic series' like Metal Gear, Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts dead or dying, Nintendo is the only company that makes games that feel like an event. It's too bad that FF7 Remake didn't come out last year because it might have been the only game with a puncher's chance of dealing with the Zelda/Smash/Mario triumverate. Anyway, I'm getting way ahead of myself here: Outer Worlds had a moment there where it felt like it would claim the mantle that the Fallout series vacated after the disaster that was Fallout 76, but it just wasn't good enough to resonate with enough people to break through the malaise that we have for pretty much any new IP. It could have been an interesting pick in, say, the second match today, but against Breath of the Wild, it'll do well to get to 20%.Others may point to its decent showings in GOTY polls, but I don't really believe in it, especially since it was a best Xbox game poll against Sekiro which is largely seen as a Playstation game. transience's prediction: Zelda: Breath of the Wild with 83.78% ____________________________________________________________________________ Leonharts Analysis Man, its hard to believe were having Game of the Decade 2 when it doesnt even feel like the original was all that long ago! There are some similarities and some differences between this contest and the last one. Its similar in that we really have no feel for 75% of the games in the contest. As such, there will probably be several matches where theres a pretty strong board consensus that we get wrong because we all tend to default to the majority opinion when we have no idea (so I apologize in advance for all the times my analysis topic will mislead you in this contest!). Allen also made the move to keep Nintendo out of certain regions of the bracket. In this case, its mostly the lower half of the bracket thats free of the heavy hitters. In the first contest, it was Fallout 3s division, and it was pretty fun overall, so I have high hopes for some of those divisions here, too. As far as differences go, Allen didnt go out of his way to put games from the same series in the same divisions like he did in the first Game of the Decade. Now we normally dont like SFF stuff, but in a couple cases, it led to some really debatable and fun matches. Melee/Brawl is the most famous one, but we also had cool stuff like KH1 vs. KH2, although Shadow of the Colossus robbed us of seeing MGS2/MGS3/MGS4 facing off with each other! But for the most part, they were SFF duds, like FFX/FFIX and Halo 1/Halo 3, so were probably better off without it. But the biggest difference is that this contest has an overwhelming favorite in Breath of the Wild. The first contest was split between people picking FFX, Melee, Brawl, or Pokemon (and some people havent learned their lesson from the first contest, it seems!). We havent even seen Breath of the Wild in a real contest poll and weve already anointed it the champion. We havent seen something like this in a long time. We wont really get a good idea of what Breath of the Wild is made of for quite a while because its got a fairly weak division overall, so as long as it isnt drastically underperforming relative to expectations, there isnt much to worry about for a while. The Outer Worlds is a game that came out in the same timeframe as a game called Outer Wilds. Im not sure that was a good idea! Not that it really matters which game was here because Zelda would curbstomp it either way! Leonharts Vote: Breath of the Wild Leonharts Prediction: Breath of the Wild with 80.80% _________________________________________________________________________ Kleenexs Analysis Hello Contestfolk! It feels like it's been such a long time since the last contest, but in reality it was only a little over a year ago since the end of CBX. This time around, instead of a bunch of known quantities getting beaten to a pulp by Zelda (RIP Squall), we have a bunch of unknown quantities getting ready to be beaten to a pulp by Zelda. Fun! Were starting things off with our presumptive champion in Breath of the Wild. Im writing this before looking at Guru brackets or anything, but I have to imagine like 90% of us have BotW winning this thing, right? There arent too many other viable options, and BotW is still a beloved game by most, even 3 years after its release. Certainly, it wont be stopped by The Outer Worlds, which is not, in fact, Outer Wilds, but instead the other game that came out last year around the same time. How big does Zelda go here? GameFAQs tends to enjoy Fallout games to an extent, but The Outer Worlds doesnt have the same clout or name recognition or really anything that makes me think itll do even slightly well here. Kleenexs Prediction: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild with 80.25% ____________________________________________________________________________ Guests Analysis - paulg And the contest begins! No point in analyzing this match since it's a given that Zelda: Breath of the Wild is winning its division and is the favourite to win the whole contest outs <cite>Master Moltar posted [p:936230524] in Game of th... [t:78506026]...</cite> <quote> Round 1 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild vs. The Outer Worlds Moltars Analysis New Contest time! And whats better than starting a Contest with some Zelda domination. Spoilers BotW is the heavy heavy favorite to win this contest, barring some sort of rally. The only thing worth seeing here is how badly it will crush its competition. Outer Worlds more like Outta this Contest. Moltars Bracket: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Moltars Prediction: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 79% ____________________________________________________________________________ transiences Analysis Hey, it's a contest! It's a real weird feeling for a contest with COVID-19 shutting down life everywhere around me. Everything around me has been cancelled to the point that I've kind of shut down mentally as well. Hopefully it only takes me a day or two to get back into the spirit of picking Nintendo games to beat other games! Speaking of Nintendo games, here's your contest winner barring a rally. Sorry to be anticlimactic, but that's just life with the biggest Zelda game of the last 20 years. I'm not convinced that it would 100% beat Majora's Mask just because it didn't come out during the site's glory years, but Breath of the Wild is probably further ahead of second place than any other entity in contest history. (Well, except for gimmicks like the Years or Rivalry brackets that everyone has since dropped out of their memory.) Part of that is because Breath of the Wild is a killer game, but the other part is the competition. With other classic series' like Metal Gear, Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts dead or dying, Nintendo is the only company that makes games that feel like an event. It's too bad that FF7 Remake didn't come out last year because it might have been the only game with a puncher's chance of dealing with the Zelda/Smash/Mario triumverate. Anyway, I'm getting way ahead of myself here: Outer Worlds had a moment there where it felt like it would claim the mantle that the Fallout series vacated after the disaster that was Fallout 76, but it just wasn't good enough to resonate with enough people to break through the malaise that we have for pretty much any new IP. It could have been an interesting pick in, say, the second match today, but against Breath of the Wild, it'll do well to get to 20%.Others may point to its decent showings in GOTY polls, but I don't really believe in it, especially since it was a best Xbox game poll against Sekiro which is largely seen as a Playstation game. transience's prediction: Zelda: Breath of the Wild with 83.78% ____________________________________________________________________________ Leonharts Analysis Man, its hard to believe were having Game of the Decade 2 when it doesnt even feel like the original was all that long ago! There are some similarities and some differences between this contest and the last one. Its similar in that we really have no feel for 75% of the games in the contest. As such, there will probably be several matches where theres a pretty strong board consensus that we get wrong because we all tend to default to the majority opinion when we have no idea (so I apologize in advance for all the times my analysis topic will mislead you in this contest!). Allen also made the move to keep Nintendo out of certain regions of the bracket. In this case, its mostly the lower half of the bracket thats free of the heavy hitters. In the first contest, it was Fallout 3s division, and it was pretty fun overall, so I have high hopes for some of those divisions here, too. As far as differences go, Allen didnt go out of his way to put games from the same series in the same divisions like he did in the first Game of the Decade. Now we normally dont like SFF stuff, but in a couple cases, it led to some really debatable and fun matches. Melee/Brawl is the most famous one, but we also had cool stuff like KH1 vs. KH2, although Shadow of the Colossus robbed us of seeing MGS2/MGS3/MGS4 facing off with each other! But for the most part, they were SFF duds, like FFX/FFIX and Halo 1/Halo 3, so were probably better off without it. But the biggest difference is that this contest has an overwhelming favorite in Breath of the Wild. The first contest was split between people picking FFX, Melee, Brawl, or Pokemon (and some people havent learned their lesson from the first contest, it seems!). We havent even seen Breath of the Wild in a real contest poll and weve already anointed it the champion. We havent seen something like this in a long time. We wont really get a good idea of what Breath of the Wild is made of for quite a while because its got a fairly weak division overall, so as long as it isnt drastically underperforming relative to expectations, there isnt much to worry about for a while. The Outer Worlds is a game that came out in the same timeframe as a game called Outer Wilds. Im not sure that was a good idea! Not that it really matters which game was here because Zelda would curbstomp it either way! Leonharts Vote: Breath of the Wild Leonharts Prediction: Breath of the Wild with 80.80% _________________________________________________________________________ Kleenexs Analysis Hello Contestfolk! It feels like it's been such a long time since the last contest, but in reality it was only a little over a year ago since the end of CBX. This time around, instead of a bunch of known quantities getting beaten to a pulp by Zelda (RIP Squall), we have a bunch of unknown quantities getting ready to be beaten to a pulp by Zelda. Fun! Were starting things off with our presumptive champion in Breath of the Wild. Im writing this before looking at Guru brackets or anything, but I have to imagine like 90% of us have BotW winning this thing, right? There arent too many other viable options, and BotW is still a beloved game by most, even 3 years after its release. Certainly, it wont be stopped by The Outer Worlds, which is not, in fact, Outer Wilds, but instead the other game that came out last year around the same time. How big does Zelda go here? GameFAQs tends to enjoy Fallout games to an extent, but The Outer Worlds doesnt have the same clout or name recognition or really anything that makes me think itll do even slightly well here. Kleenexs Prediction: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild with 80.25% ____________________________________________________________________________ Guests Analysis - paulg And the contest begins! No point in analyzing this match since it's a given that Zelda: Breath of the Wild is winning its division and is the favourite to win the whole contest outs</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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