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Match 9: Mass Effect 2 vs. Resident Evil 7: biohazard

Mass Effect 2 14507
Resident Evil 7 8543

Finally, on Day 3 of the contest we had a match with relatively even proportions between registered and unregistered voters. ME2 scored 63.11% with registered voters and 62.39% with unregistered voters. Which is not all that impressive for a 1-seed! The stats topic was discussing whether disappointing later entries in the Mass Effect series soured the voters on 2, but this seems like the exact opposite of what normally happens. Maybe with casual voters who aren't familiar with either game, the series name plays--in which case Resident Evil 7 was the perfect entrant to take advantage of this, as RE1-4 were all fairly highly regarded--but usually the more entries a series has, the higher rated its oldest entries get. Pokmon is the best example of this, where obviously you have the people who say that everything after Gen 1 (or sometimes Gen 2) is trash, and then you have a backlash where there are others that say that the series didn't even start getting good until Gen 3 and the first two generations are unplayable, but generally speaking the later generations grow in stature each time a new generation is released after it. I was really surprised that the Gen 5 games didn't make it in; I figured that with Gen 8 being out already, they could be really strong, since usually the rule of thumb is that the two most recent generations are "trash" and everything older is at least passable (though I'm not sure if Gen 8 has given Gen 6 this boost yet). Though the only game to get in is actually Gen 4, so yeah. (Good choice, too; I'm personally of the opinion that the second half of Gen 4 was when Game Freak decided to finally bother making their plotlines actually engaging instead of just a throwaway to hang the monster collection on. I guess they sort of put some of the lore into Diamond/Pearl, too, but they just did it so much better in Platinum!)

So this result had everyone calling for ME2's demise as early as next round. Certainly possible, but it seemed a tad premature.

Match 10: Fallout 4 vs. VVVVVV

Fallout 4 16532
VVVVVV 6518

It wasn't just Mass Effect 2's own performance that had people calling for its head, however. While it was busy going roughly 5-3 on RE7, Fallout 4 was going 5-2 on VVVVVV. After the first two days, there was a perception that we'd suddenly turned into IndieFAQs, and this helped prove that we had to look at things on a case-by-case basis. VVVVVV was thought to be another strong indie game, but maybe we should've looked at its protagonist's CBIX showing and second-guessed it. Yes, Characters =/= Games, and VVVVVV is the type of game that I'd expect to be stronger than its protagonist, but Viridian nearly got sextupled by Big Boss. Managed to finish in second place anyway, 53.81% on Peacock, but still. Even if you want to chalk it up to the fact that MGSV was just coming out in 2013 so Big Boss didn't have an old man pic, it's not a great look. And on the topic of releases near contest time, Fallout 4 came out during the 2015 Games Contest and Fallout 3 was already a GotD semifinalist, so it was supposed to be a real threat again in 2015. If only it could have delivered!

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