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Topic	Game of the Decade: 2010-2019 Contest Analysis Crew - Part 1
Master Moltar 03/28/20 3:09:42 PM #151:	Round 1 Borderlands 2 vs. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Moltars Analysis Former GotY winner Borderlands 2. It embarrassed itself in 2015 with a Round 1 loss to EarthBound, so we already know not to have high expectations for it here. Bloodstained isnt the kind of game Id pick to capitalize on Borderlands 2 weakness, but its not going to get blown out here either. Its fresh in peoples minds and did okay in the 2019 PS4 GotY poll. This should be a close-ish one, but I think Borderlands 2 is still remembered, liked, and popular enough to be the favorite. Moltars Bracket: Borderlands 2 Moltars Prediction: Borderlands 2 55% ____________________________________________________________________________ transiences Analysis I've had bad feelings about this one for a while. Is the 2012 GOTY still liked? It got worked by Earthbound in 2015 in a SNES-friendly environment. It's up against the spiritual successor to a PS1 classic, one that people on this website are really into. Bloodstained didn't do great in its GOTY poll, but hey, at least it made the poll! The much anticipated Borderlands 3 didn't even make it. It's stuck with Kingdom Hearts 3, and let me tell you, I wouldn't want to be on KH3's level. The more I think about it, the more I feel like Borderlands 2 is just going to wilt when up against any kind of competition. That game has been passed by bigtime. I'm going to go against my bracket and just admit that I have no faith in Borderlands. There's no real evidence either way on this one, but I'd rather have a game that people kinda care about to an old FPS multiplayer classic. I hate to go against the power of double-counted bracket votes, but here we go. transience's prediction: Bloodstained with 54.61% ____________________________________________________________________________ Leonharts Analysis In the previous writeup, I talked about what a weak year 2015 was for gaming here, but 2012 was the low point of the last decade. The fact that Borderlands 2 won at all tells you all you need to know there! Even in the Game of the Generation poll that was held right after it won in 2012, it got crushed by everything except Call of Duty (remember when that was popular here for like 6 months? What a wild time!). Its our most fraudulent Game of the Year winner ever. It was easily beaten by Earthbound in 2015, and I really want to take it to lose here, too. Bloodstained did pretty well in GOTY voting, although I heard the Switch version was an utter disaster, which may hinder its effectiveness a bit here. Im still going to take Borderlands 2 to win, but I think itll be closer than a lot of people expect. Leonharts Vote: Borderlands 2 Leonharts Prediction: Borderlands 2 with 53.15% ____________________________________________________________________________ Kleenexs Analysis I waffled back and forth on these two for a while when I was making my bracket. Borderlands 2 was our game of the year back in 2012, so clearly it should win this easily, right? Maybe not. The series has been in a few contest matches before, and none of them have been particularly impressive. BL1 struggled with a non-Symphonia Tales game (and we all know how good those are now), and BL2 got convincingly beaten by EarthBound (which is less damning but still not a vote of confidence). And let me tell you, for whatever reason people seem to love Bloodstained. I dont quite get it myself. I mean, I do get it, but I have a ton of issues with the game, but thats irrelevant. I think Im going to stick with my bracket and say Borderlands still takes this home, but I dont feel very good about it at all and will not be shocked in the slightest if this is our first seeding upset of the contest. Kleenexs Prediction: Borderlands 2 with 51.50% ____________________________________________________________________________ Guests Analysis - Sir Chris I have had to listen for years as people called Borderlands 2 the weakest Game of the Year winner on GameFAQs. Maybe it is, but I want to go big on it because I have belief that it is going to show that it is a great game. Okay, so actually it is one of my favorite game of the decade and I am biased in favor of it. I actually wanted the Dragon Quest write up but someone took that from me, so here we are. I am a bit torn, indies have been tearing it up so far but I haven't really heard anything about Bloodstained, so my ignorance is probably going to make me underestimate it a bit. I guess I'll go with something I feel is relatively safe and move on with my day! Borderlands 2 - 64.50% ____________________________________________________________________________ Crew Consensus: Most of us are on the border with Borderlands, but transience is banking on the upset. --- Moltar Status: hype Contest Analysis Crew Archives: http://thecrew.speedrunwiki.com/ <cite>Master Moltar posted [p:936380359] in Game of th... [t:78506026]...</cite> <quote> Round 1 Borderlands 2 vs. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Moltars Analysis Former GotY winner Borderlands 2. It embarrassed itself in 2015 with a Round 1 loss to EarthBound, so we already know not to have high expectations for it here. Bloodstained isnt the kind of game Id pick to capitalize on Borderlands 2 weakness, but its not going to get blown out here either. Its fresh in peoples minds and did okay in the 2019 PS4 GotY poll. This should be a close-ish one, but I think Borderlands 2 is still remembered, liked, and popular enough to be the favorite. Moltars Bracket: Borderlands 2 Moltars Prediction: Borderlands 2 55% ____________________________________________________________________________ transiences Analysis I've had bad feelings about this one for a while. Is the 2012 GOTY still liked? It got worked by Earthbound in 2015 in a SNES-friendly environment. It's up against the spiritual successor to a PS1 classic, one that people on this website are really into. Bloodstained didn't do great in its GOTY poll, but hey, at least it made the poll! The much anticipated Borderlands 3 didn't even make it. It's stuck with Kingdom Hearts 3, and let me tell you, I wouldn't want to be on KH3's level. The more I think about it, the more I feel like Borderlands 2 is just going to wilt when up against any kind of competition. That game has been passed by bigtime. I'm going to go against my bracket and just admit that I have no faith in Borderlands. There's no real evidence either way on this one, but I'd rather have a game that people kinda care about to an old FPS multiplayer classic. I hate to go against the power of double-counted bracket votes, but here we go. transience's prediction: Bloodstained with 54.61% ____________________________________________________________________________ Leonharts Analysis In the previous writeup, I talked about what a weak year 2015 was for gaming here, but 2012 was the low point of the last decade. The fact that Borderlands 2 won at all tells you all you need to know there! Even in the Game of the Generation poll that was held right after it won in 2012, it got crushed by everything except Call of Duty (remember when that was popular here for like 6 months? What a wild time!). Its our most fraudulent Game of the Year winner ever. It was easily beaten by Earthbound in 2015, and I really want to take it to lose here, too. Bloodstained did pretty well in GOTY voting, although I heard the Switch version was an utter disaster, which may hinder its effectiveness a bit here. Im still going to take Borderlands 2 to win, but I think itll be closer than a lot of people expect. Leonharts Vote: Borderlands 2 Leonharts Prediction: Borderlands 2 with 53.15% ____________________________________________________________________________ Kleenexs Analysis I waffled back and forth on these two for a while when I was making my bracket. Borderlands 2 was our game of the year back in 2012, so clearly it should win this easily, right? Maybe not. The series has been in a few contest matches before, and none of them have been particularly impressive. BL1 struggled with a non-Symphonia Tales game (and we all know how good those are now), and BL2 got convincingly beaten by EarthBound (which is less damning but still not a vote of confidence). And let me tell you, for whatever reason people seem to love Bloodstained. I dont quite get it myself. I mean, I do get it, but I have a ton of issues with the game, but thats irrelevant. I think Im going to stick with my bracket and say Borderlands still takes this home, but I dont feel very good about it at all and will not be shocked in the slightest if this is our first seeding upset of the contest. Kleenexs Prediction: Borderlands 2 with 51.50% ____________________________________________________________________________ Guests Analysis - Sir Chris I have had to listen for years as people called Borderlands 2 the weakest Game of the Year winner on GameFAQs. Maybe it is, but I want to go big on it because I have belief that it is going to show that it is a great game. Okay, so actually it is one of my favorite game of the decade and I am biased in favor of it. I actually wanted the Dragon Quest write up but someone took that from me, so here we are. I am a bit torn, indies have been tearing it up so far but I haven't really heard anything about Bloodstained, so my ignorance is probably going to make me underestimate it a bit. I guess I'll go with something I feel is relatively safe and move on with my day! Borderlands 2 - 64.50% ____________________________________________________________________________ Crew Consensus: Most of us are on the border with Borderlands, but transience is banking on the upset. --- Moltar Status: hype Contest Analysis Crew Archives: http://thecrew.speedrunwiki.com/</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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