(4) The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (13) Dead Space 2
(5) Portal 2 (12) Borderlands
(6) God of War 3 (11) LA Noire
(3) Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (14) Fallout: New Vegas
(7) Dark Souls (10) Sonic Colors
(2) Mass Effect 2 (15) Super Meat Boy
~2~
(1) The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (16) Saints Row: The Third
(8) Starcraft 2 (9) Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
(5) Super Mario Galaxy 2 (12) Battlefield 3
(4) Final Fantasy XIII (13) Mario Kart Wii
(3) Bioshock (14) Xenoblade Chronicles
(6) Batman: Arkham City (11) LittleBigPlanet
(7) Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (10) Assassin's Creed
(2) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (15) Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
~3~
(1) Super Smash Bros. Brawl (16) Left 4 Dead
(8) Donkey Kong Country Returns (9) Street Fighter IV
(5) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (12) Dragon Age: Origins
(4) Grand Theft Auto IV (13) New Super Mario Bros. Wii
(3) Assassin's Creed 2 (14) Mortal Kombat
(6) Gears of War (11) Tales of Vesperia
(7) Resident Evil 5 (10) Bayonetta
(2) The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (15) Heavy Rain
~4~
(1) Fallout 3 (16) Braid
(8) Devil May Cry 4 (9) Team Fortress 2
(5) Halo 3 (12) Sonic Generations
(4) Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (13) Wii Sports
(6) Red Dead Redemption (11) Mass Effect
(3) Batman: Arkham Asylum (14) Lost Odyssey
(7) The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (10) Marvel vs. Capcom 3
(2) Portal (15) Dead Rising
Notes:
- I opted not to pick portable games because of how they conflict with this generation. It seems like a big problem until you realize that you’re really just sidelining Pokemon which doesn’t have a great chance to go far in this bracket anyway. Newer Pokemon games have never done all that well. Please don't get into a big argument about this!
- If you held this when the console generation actually ends, you could have a much stronger field – Diablo 3, Bioshock Infinite, FF13-2, Mass Effect 3, maybe Assassin's Creed 3, etc etc.
I could get behind such a contest. I’m not sure who wins, let alone some of the stickier midcard matchups.
Looking through that you realise how samey same a lot of the games here, there's an awful lot of representation from a small number of companies. You've got a lot of the more creative entries that provide a bit more variety being fed to round 1 defeats (Valkyria Chronicles, Sonic Colors, Xenoblade, Heavy Rain, Braid, Wii Sports, MvC 3, LBP)
Just feels like it could get tedious with so much Bethesda, Bioware and established Nintendo in the second round with mostly first person adventures/shooters filling the rest of the spots.
The selections pretty good anyway. By my count 15/64 are new IPs, that strikes me as pretty low compared to previous generations.
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__Smurf__ posted... Just feels like it could get tedious with so much Bethesda, Bioware and established Nintendo in the second round with mostly first person adventures/shooters filling the rest of the spots.
3 Bethesda is a lot? New Vegas won't win round 1. And unless I miss my count, there's only 3 Bioware games total in the bracket, two of them underdogs-by-seed in R1.
Still, the bracket just reminds me of GotD with stuff removed, and the major titles of 2011 added in.
the SNES totally lacked in new IP and no one seems to care about that. this gen has had a good amount of new IP, just not in the last couple of years because the console generation has gone on so long.
(5) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (13) New Super Mario Bros. Wii
(3) Assassin's Creed 2 (6) Gears of War
(7) Resident Evil 5 (2) The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
(1) Fallout 3 (9) Team Fortress 2
(5) Halo 3 (4) Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
(11) Mass Effect (3) Batman: Arkham Asylum
(7) The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2) Portal
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Super Smash Bros. Brawl Fallout 3
WINNER: SKYWARD SWORD
When in doubt, you go Nintendo (Zelda, NSMBWii). When Nintendo isn't around, you go with the popular RPG (Oblivion). I don't trust either Western stuff or Brawl to seal the deal, so that limits me to two games. I went with the one that doesn't run into Brawl until the finals.
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Nah, but I expect it to be closer than the last two polls. If Zelda can keep it within 55/45, then I think that result can be flipped in an actual match (think Link vs generic Nordic guy/dragon). If SS is close to winning or does somehow pull off the win (not expecting this), then no Western game will even present a challenge, and it'll only need to worry about TP and Brawl. If Skyrim maintains its 60/40 margin, then even a contest setting might not be enough.
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you have way more respect for Wii games then I do. okay, it's more like Zelda respect, but even Zelda is crippled with Wii-itis. I don't think this is similar to the Majora's Mask situation at all.
I think Zelda is gonna get kinda embarrassed next week.
You think a Western game is taking it on GameFAQs? A western game couldn't even take it on G4 once Ninty's fanbase got involved. It's either Brawl or a Zelda game, and Zelda has the better track record in finals.
From: transcience | #025 you have way more respect for Wii games then I do. okay, it's more like Zelda respect, but even Zelda is crippled with Wii-itis. I don't think this is similar to the Majora's Mask situation at all.
I think Zelda is gonna get kinda embarrassed next week.
We'll see. I think Nintendo typically does better as the number of entrants in a poll decreases (and you can't get any lower than 1v1). Take last year: SMG2 did much better relative to ME2 and God of War in the final 3-way poll than it did in the 11-way right before it. If we get some kind of final GotY 1v1 poll (a la Brawl vs MGS4), I expect Zelda to score far better than 40%.
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It's in the equation here because it only has one challenge on its way to the finals. If it beats Skyrim, it's in the finals. If Brawl is its opponent, it can certainly win. If it faces TP, then yeah that's probably too much to deal with, but TP has to reverse an identical situation with Brawl that it had last year. Hard to bet on that happening when it didn't happen the first time.
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From: transcience | #017 man, that is a Nintendo-fear bracket there Bartz. this isn't old Nintendo, this is Wii Nintendo!
I believe in gameFAQs Nintendofear. And they've shown that when they can't vote for OoT, they will pick a surrogate.
That being said, I predicted the bracket pretty quickly and without checking gotd results. Probably got a few things mixed up(no idea where the Mario Wiis lie).
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SS doesn't beat Skyrim if it can't do it here. This isn't Call of Duty -- Skyrim will be as strong in the contest as it is in the GOTY polls. SS is cute, but it doesn't beat Brawl if TP can't. It wouldn't even do all that well against Portal 2.
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Skyrim lost to Zelda on G4, a site friendlier to Western games (and not as friendly to Nintendo) as this one. Unless Skyrim puts down a serious 60/40 hurting in the final GotY poll, then there's a real chance of Zelda reversing in an actual contest match with Link's picture on the front page. I'm not expecting 60/40, not in the final poll with the number of entrants drastically cut.
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From: transcience | #033 time to drop a bomb: I'm not convinced Skyward Sword even makes the final.
In this bracket or in final GotY voting? In this bracket, it can certainly lose to Skyrim. I'm just not banking on it and will only change my mind if Skyrim gives it an easy beatdown in the final 3way.
From: TimJab | #034 what's weird about the skyrim/saint's row matchup?
I'm wondering that as well.
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I mean in this poll. I'm not 100% convinced it beats Batman and Portal. it likely does but I'm just not convinced on a Wii Zelda with motion control gimmicks in 2011.
I see no way it beats TP or Brawl, and I'm not sure if it beats Galaxy.
Losing to Skyrim, Batman, and Portal is a pretty big stretch, one only plausible if OoT makes the poll and does well. How can those two games be that much stronger than Uncharted 3?
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why do you think Uncharted 3 is strong? Batman's been way ahead of it for a long time. I agree that it's a stretch - "drone" voting as you've said would come into play - but Galaxy 2 wouldn't have made top 3 past year and SS has been less than impressive thus far.
UC2 seems pretty noticeably weaker than Batman and definitely weaker than Portal. a doubling? I think you're right, but I could see it being like 60/40. Batman is pretty monstrous. would you agree that today's performance is better than Zelda's yesterday?
No. Uncharted was one of the biggest releases of the year. Batman is dealing with scrubbier stuff here; there's nothing else in this poll that comes close to challenging its hype and reception in the gaming community. Batman's performance is impressive, sure, but nothing that Zelda couldn't outdo. It's crushing stuff that is probably a lot weaker now (CoD, AC) than two years ago. If these games had a sliver of the strength their older better brothers did, they wouldn't be losing to Deus Ex.
Rounds 1 & 2 SMG over H:R SS over Portal 2 U2 over GoW3 ME2 over Dark Souls Skyrim over SC2 SMG2 over MKW BAC over Bioshock MW2 over AC SSBB over SF4 COD4 over GTA4 AC2 over GoW TP over RE5 FO3 over TF2 MGS4 over Halo 3 BAA over ME TES4 over Portal
Round 3 onward Skyward Sword Mass Effect 2 Skyrim Modern Warfare 2 SSBB Twilight Princess Fallout 3 Oblivion
Skyward Sword Skyrim SSBB Fallout 3
Skyrim SSBB
SSBB
I think you will find, by Zelda standards, that Skyward Sword isn't very strong.