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Match 14: DOOM vs. INSIDE

DOOM 20674
INSIDE 3349

THIS MATCH IS IN ALL CAPS AND IT STILL HAS FEWER CAPITAL LETTERS THAN THE DQXI MATCH. WHAT IT DOESN'T HAVE IS VOTERS FOR INSIDE. EVEN BOTW DIDN'T SCORE THIS BIG A BLOWOUT.

...Yeah that's going to get annoying real fast. What's there to say, though? INSIDE narrowly took away the title of "fewest registered votes received" from The Outer Worlds, though it at least managed more unregistered votes than Fortnite. DOOM did have the most unregistered votes received, though, with RE2 second and Bloodborne fourth, behind Horizon Zero Dawn but ahead of Breath of the Wild. So it's clear that vote totals are starting to climb. On both sides; The Outer Worlds only beat INSIDE among registered voters by 5, but DOOM beat BotW with them by 449. I guess the repeated delays messed people up, so day 1 got bad votals? Literally 3 of today's 4 winners had a higher vote total than BotW did, both raw and adjusted.

Match 15: Fire Emblem Awakening vs. Deus Ex: Human Revolution

FE:A 15079
Deus Ex: HR 8948

This can only be considered a disappointing performance by FE:A. This was the game that really brought Fire Emblem into the mainstream, much to the chagrin of longtime fans who thought that IS had taken all the challenge out of it. They didn't really...sort of. Yes, they made it more accessible than it was in the Super Famicom era, but then again just about anything would be more accessible than Thracia 776. Awakening was meant to be a celebration of the series' history, and the mechanic that actually got the most flak came from Genealogy of the Holy War!

Well, no, that's not true. Second Seals really were absolutely broken, and combined with DLC that allowed for infinite grinding, Awakening really shouldn't give you much challenge unless you want it to. But the elitists were running challenge runs on the older games, so that's really nothing new. The "anyone can be paired with anyone (with exceptions)" mechanic, along with the children characters, is indeed borrowed from GotHW, and I'd say that Awakening pulls it off just as well as Genealogy did! Fates, not so much, but Fates isn't in this contest, because Fates was IS seeing dollars signs and trying to cater to their vast new fanbase of shippers, while also trying to placate their core fans by making the infinite grinding DLC less broken (and in the process, very nearly defeating the purpose of having it--making the DLC scale in level by your story progress just means that if you want to get all the children characters to their max potential, you basically have to kill all your momentum by grinding everyone up after every level.) Fates was a cash grab, pure and simple. I'm glad it's not in this contest. I mean, Awakening was also, but you basically needed the earlier DLCs to be able to beat Apotheosis. I've heard rumors of people handling it without Limit Breaker, but why would you want to?

But yeah, Deus Ex: Human Revolution was never going to be worth much of anything. The first Deus Ex has done very little in every contest it or its main character has been in, with its only win coming against Rock Band 2 and by an extremely slim margin, and Human Revolution's protagonist made the 2013 contest and...barely managed to come within 10000 votes of Vivi while failing to double a Touhou character (and that's after she had fraudulent votes removed; if they'd been allowed to stay, Adam barely even gets second place).

Match 16: Bloodborne vs. Call of Duty: Black Ops

Bloodborne 19353
Call of Duty: Blops 4679

So remember back in the Borderlands 2 write-up, how I said that Call of Duty was popular here for a very short while and then it just kind of fell off a cliff? Yeah, it really tanked. Of course, even in 2015, the X-Stats say that Bloodborne was good for 63.25% on CoD4.

2009 CoD4 is allegedly good for 69.79% on 2015 CoD4, though, so there you go, that's a huge decline. I keep expecting Bloodborne to be weaker than it is because all of these new games have titles that sound like something an emo teenager would dream up. I can hardly keep track. Bloodborne's another Hidetaka Miyazaki production, though, so I'm not surprised that it's decent. Is FromSoftware going to become this generation's Squaresoft? It seems odd to think that way given that they've been around since the mid-90s themselves, but they broke out in 2009 with the release of Demon's Souls and they've had one hell of a good decade. Given how fed-up gamers are with so many of the big names of the past--Capcom, Konami, and even Squeenix themselves--there's certainly an opening!

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