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| Topic | Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1331 |
| HaRRicH 03/30/20 1:04:18 PM #160: | The Mass Effect trilogy, two games in and heading toward the finale in 2011-2012, was the closest thing I've seen to seeing a modern legend on the terms of hype and fandom that FF7 and LoZ:OoT had. This should have been the original Star Wars trilogy of our medium. Then we saw Mass Effect 3 come out. It completely forfeited 2012's GotY-championship it had waiting on it, originally just taking second to Borderlands 2 but then afterward taking third to Xenoblade too. Three years later, we figured out Undertale was capable of being rallied...but its bandwagon couldn't catch on as well as it did without an opponent to rally against either, and ME3 was THE game to make that perfect storm happen. ME3 clearly hurt the brand in a major way. You couldn't deny that the first and second games made big impacts and had fans, but they were all working toward the same story and ME3 threw it away for a bunch of people. Now, Andormeda had some legitimate hype from people hoping Bioware learned some lessons and would be ready to grow from them... https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/5911-which-newly-announced-title-at-e3-this-year-are-you-most https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/6206-which-scheduled-2016-game-are-you-most-looking-forward-to https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/6581-which-scheduled-first-quarter-game-are-you-most-looking https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/6623-which-scheduled-march-release-are-you-most-looking-forward ...pretty good numbers! ME-fans recognized there was a stinker of an ending but that the series was big enough with plenty of high points that quite a few of them saw some value in giving a second chance. Then it was proven to be clearly rushed and people got tired of giving it a second chance. Again, major damage to the brand -- half the series now consists of blunders of the generation. I recently had it framed for me like this: I showed an offline friend the bracket a few days ago, and he was big into ME1 and ME2 before hating ME3 and skipping ME:A. My friend asked me not only why was Mass Effect 2 a one-seed in this contest, but why was it even in the contest at all. He stopped looking before seeing ME3 also made it into the contest, which is probably best for him. I expect ME2 to still have strength. RE7's numbers don't worry me really -- I'm giving RE7 the benefit of the doubt. We've also seen ME2 do well last year in a multi-way poll, including beating its 2010 GotY runner-up SMG2 worse than it did in 2010 and beating one of its potential upcoming opponents in RE2 (though it is not clear which RE2 was more in the forefront with voters on this poll)... https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7514-whats-your-all-time-favorite-2-game ...but one-on-one in a contest, I don't think we've ever seen what ME2 could have been before the damage was done. This is also the first contest we've seen ME2 in since Andromeda came out. It can still win the division, but I don't trust it. Sticking with RE2 > ME2. --- O P E R A T I O N O U S T : Nominate SHEIK! https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/ssb/images/0/0d/Sheik-Victory3-SSB4.png ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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