Board 8 > So how good will the new contest will be you think?

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I believe it will be a bad contest and maybe even the worst. And you say but why? Becauce at least in the previous contest we had FF so we at least had something to fight Nintendo.

But now? Now we will have only FF 14 and FF 15. Good luck if they win at least 1 match.

What about Skyrim and Fallout 4? Yeah after the things that Bethesda did with Fallout 76 and became a hated company(at least for me)good luck about this too. Maybe Skyrim will win 2 matches.

MGS 5? Lol.

Fortnite? PUBG? We don't care about these here. I guess if Ninja or someone would rally then yeat but it will not happen.

So in the Final 8 we will have 8 Nintendo games. Yeah I know that I complain but hey a little competition is always nice.

Well I guess we shall see but my hopes are really low.


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I know it might be taboo here but I am kind of hoping a game turns on the Draven or Undertale style. I think it makes the contest much more interesting; who can say Link vs Draven (and Shephard) wasn't one of the best matches ever? Also, the votals are so low without them and it makes it harder to care when only generic Nintendo games are in contention. Having a rallied game upsetting the odds raises the stakes big time compared to Smash vs Zelda #10.

Yeah. When stuff hits the fan, these things are more fun.

What was the last contest? Was it years?
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LOLIAmAnAlt posted...

Yeah. When stuff hits the fan, these things are more fun.

What was the last contest? Was it years?

Character Battle X last fall. Years contest was 2017
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Safer_777 posted...

I believe it will be a bad contest and maybe even the worst.

I believe your perspective is awfully, unwarrantedly pessimistic.

To start with, yes, we have a pretty obvious Nintendo winner without mass rallies. I still hold that an intelligently-constructed bracket will have plenty of interesting matches and set-ups along the way, including a fair few between real heavy-hitters.

The truly daft part of your post is your claim that "in the Final 8 we will have 8 Nintendo games." I do agree with you that the FF games, MGSV, and BR games aren't serious top 8 contenders. I'll even concede that Bethesda's actions have utterly screwed over the Fallout series here, and that either Fallout game will be very lucky to make it past round 3.

However, your claim that "maybe Skyrim will win 2 matches" in what should be one of the weakest fields we've ever seen is, quite frankly, absurd. If the Fallout backlash has really spread so strongly to other Bethesda series, why are people (not here, but still) so hyped for Doom Eternal? Why is The Elder Scrolls VI by far the most anticipated unannounced game? Why are Skyrim Special Edition's recent Steam reviews more positive than its lifetime Steam reviews, even though Steam's userbase is well-known for mass spite-posting negative reviews in response to situations like this?

Remember that as of 2015, Skyrim was the #1 game of the 2010s, having won 3 matches against much stronger opposition than it will be facing this GotD. Since then, BotW has certainly overtaken it, and despite its lacking GotY performance, Smash Ultimate may have done the same. Mario Odyssey is a recent Mario game, so I'm skeptical at best that it could beat Skyrim, and there's no other Nintendo games in this field that will even come close to Skyrim's 2015 strength.

There's also Dark Souls, which looked respectable in 2015 and holds huge cachet among gamers nowadays; The Witcher 3, which was non-fodder in 2015, at a much lower playrate than it will have today, plus Geralt impressed in CBX; The Last of Us, which was a solid midcarder in 2015; God of War, which almost beat Smash Ultimate in GotY; and I could see the likes of Nier: Automata and Persona 5 surprising. I can't think of eight eligible Nintendo games that would likely beat any of the first four: there's BotW, Smash Ultimate, Mario Odyssey, Link Between Worlds, maybe Three Houses or Sword/Shield, and what else?

Denzokuken posted...

I think it makes the contest much more interesting

I think that past evidence suggests otherwise. Yes, we'll get some (theoretically) close and dramatic matches out of the deal, but here's the trick: once it gets the ball rolling, the Draven/Undertale type of rally bait never actually lets its opponent(s) win. If the rally bait faces something like Super Mario 64 that isn't a serious contender to knock it off, the rallies will slack, giving the illusion of a close match. If, on the other hand, we're talking about something like Link or Snake where the rally bait has to pull out all the stops to win, they will do so - and as such, I don't believe for a moment that Link would have won without the DDoS. Also, from a more selfish perspective, I hate the toxicity mass rallies inevitably produce here.

However, I'll admit my biases and hypocrisy straight-up and say that I would be (mostly) for a mass rally steamrolling this GotD, as long as Night in the Woods is somehow the mass-rallied game.

metaIslug posted...

>Splatoon

Neither Splatoon game will be any sort of serious contender on GameFAQs of all sites.
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I will probably find it to be precisely as interesting as all the previous contests. Which is to say, not terribly.

I know, I know. It is weird that I wound up hanging out with the community here.

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It will be great, here's our picks for the Finals.




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Hope it will be decent at least.

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If its not a games contest it might be slightly less terrible, but this site is too heavily Nintendo biased for any contest to really be interesting

It'll probably be pretty good.

I don't understand people who think the finals determine everything. If it's BotW vs Ultimate or Odyssey then sure it's a boring final, but if it's GotD2 there will be a ton of great debate in the early rounds between games with little data.


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if it's gotd undertale's gonna win and I'll probably die from the amount of salt on this board

Uh what contest

UltimaterializerX posted...

This field is only weak if you refuse to play games released after 2009. This gen has been fantastic.

That's more of a site-wide problem.

You know first hand that many people have moved on from GameFAQs whether it's because they found other communities or they lost interest in playing games.
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Most say that it will be good. Well I hope so.

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If there's one contest I wouldn't mind mass rallies for it would be this one.
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If BotW crushes everything that is fine, as long as the matches other than that are interesting.

People in this thread are right though, but it's not 2009 as much as 1999. GameFAQs is obsessed with the 90's, and the lack of a 90's proxy like MM was in the last GotD contest can only be a good thing.
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