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Round 1 Bloodborne vs. Call of Duty: Black Ops

Moltars Analysis

At the start of the decade, GameFAQs was kind of into shooters like Halo and Call of Duty. Now? lol

Bloodborne has decent strength, and I expect it to either hold up or have gotten stronger since 2015 since it has remained in the public eye since then. With the decline of CoD on this website (I mean Halo: Reach is around Life is Strange in strength if you want some sort of comparison), Bloodborne should win this match handily.

Moltars Bracket: Bloodborne

Moltars Prediction: Bloodborne 70%

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transiences Analysis

Man, talk about a nice way for Bloodborne to shine going into a big match. This is like the Horizon/Fortnite matchup. Bloodborne is probably somewhere near Horizon's level, maybe a little higher. People who love this game, really love it. It's got that whole game of the decade thing going for it just from the incessant fanbase around it.

But going up against a Call of Duty, even the one that's aged the best, is going to be nice. I always wonder if we hit this weird bit of nostalgia for Call of Duty, where people remember the good old days before battle royales and free to plays and games as a service. But then I remember that this audience is all in their 30s and that when we talk about nostalgia, we talk about the 90s, not 2007+.

transience's prediction: Bloodborne with 72.56%

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Leonharts Analysis

Weve got to be one of the few gaming sites out there where something like CoD: BlOps would be a 15 seed in a Game of the Decade contest and a heavy underdog to Bloodborne, but here we are! Bloodborne put up a decent showing on Final Fantasy XII in 2015. It was recently a free PS+ game, too, so that might have helped extend its reach recently. I got it through there and even tried playing it for 30 minutes before quitting!

also CoD: BlOps is fun to say

Leonharts Vote: Bloodborne

Leonharts Prediction: Bloodborne with 59.99%

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Kleenexs Analysis

I sort of wish I waited to see how Sekiro did before I wrote this one, but oh well. Not that Im worried about Bloodborne losing to Codblops, but I really dont have a great judge of where the non-Dark Souls Souls sames stand. Losing to Final Fantasy XII back in 2015 doesnt make it look very strong, thats for sure. And that was the year the game came out. Im not sure how well it has aged. Again, its not in much danger of losing this match, and certainly not against a non-Modern Warfare CoD game, but I think Bloodborne should be feeling lucky it got enough nominations for a 2 seed. If you start dropping it down a few more, it gets a lot of potentially dangerous matchups (perhaps like the one its going to have next round!)

Kleenexs Prediction: Bloodborne with 63%

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Guests Analysis - ctes

This a match where we all picked Bloodborne right away and never looked back. Call of Duty is way past its prime, with it declining in a similar fashion to Assassin's Creed. It's basically just a question of how much it loses by. Call of Duty's best entry went from looking alright against Smash games to be blown to pieces by Super Metroid. I don't think it'll be destroyed quite as badly here despite it being Black Ops and not Modern Warfare, but I think Bloodborne has enough recognition to make it look really bad. In any case, Call of Duty is probably too unknown a quantity at this point to say much about Bloodborne's chances of getting past Fire Emblem the following round.

Bloodborne - 73.46%
Call of Duty: Black Ops - 26.54%

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Crew Consensus: CoD cant beat this Bloodborne boss fight.


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