Board 8 > FOURPACK OF FUN: Walking Dead/Life is Strange, AC: New Leaf/Stardew Valley

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No powerhouses here, but each of these games were able to hold many players' attention spans for at least a year.

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Up.

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New Leaf deserves to be the heavy favorite here because of NintendoFAQs (plus all these other games likely have a few dissenters), but Stardew winning the fourpack is (just barely) within reach, so I fanboy picked it.

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AC > Stardew

The Walking Dead puts down Life Is Strange pretty easily, I think, but I'm not sure what happens with the rest of this. I took Animal Crossing > Walking Dead but I wouldn't be surprised if any other result happened here, Stardew Valley is a really tough one to make a call on

Life Is Strange looked pretty terrible in 2015 and Chloe looked even worse in the last Character Battle, so I have no confidence in it.

I guess I take Animal Crossing by default but I have no strong feelings about the other three.

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5 years ago, I would have said Walking Dead wins easily over LIS. With the way Telltale has gone, I dunno now. And as a PC gamer, I have an unfair slant toward Stardew Valley vs Animal Crossing, considering I know a ton of people who play SV, and I've never heard anyone outside the board even mention Animal Crossing.

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ACNL > TWD easily

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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/6071-best-game-ever-day-6-fallout-3-vs-life-is-strange

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/6070-best-game-ever-day-5-uncharted-2-vs-the-walking-dead

Uncharted 2 was doubled by Sonic 2. Fallout 3 may not beat Metroid Prime anymire or break 45% on Brawl anymore, but I don't think TWD is a gimme here.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/6074-best-game-ever-day-6-super-mario-world-vs-animal-crossing

This could make AC:NL the favorite thus far on the surface, but also we have question marks here since Underrale beat ME3 that same day as this and LiS's matvh. I'm also not banking on there being a lot of Nintendo SFF between a '90s console platformer and a '10s handheld build-a-town simulator.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/6574-best-of-2016-game-of-the-year

Among our weakest years, but Stardew did better than some other indies too.

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HaRRicH posted...

Uncharted 2 was doubled by Sonic 2.

Tainted by rally spillover as the rest of those matches are. Sonic 2 was in the low 60s before the rally kicked in.

Fallout had over 80% on Life Is Strange before Undertale's rally. Mario World had 85% on New Leaf, but you can chalk that up to SFF.

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regardless this just tells me nobody deserves to win this and maybe Stardew Valley actually will win it

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HaRRicH posted...

Uncharted 2 was doubled by Sonic 2.

63-37 in Sonic's favor before Undertale kicked in. At any rate, I personally don't see The Walking Dead as a serious contender for winning this fourpack, but it shouldn't need much to trump Life is Strange.

HaRRicH posted...

This could make AC:NL the favorite thus far on the surface, but also we have question marks here since Underrale beat ME3 that same day as this and LiS's matvh. I'm also not banking on there being a lot of Nintendo SFF between a '90s console platformer and a '10s handheld build-a-town simulator.

New Leaf was under 16% on Super Mario World before Undertale kicked in, and Tom Nook's 2013 results should definitively prove that it's not that weak on its own merits. Plus, New Leaf's fanbase is not exactly independent from most other Nintendo games. It's also worth noting that X appeared to SFF Isabelle and Kirby appeared to SFF Phoenix in 2018, even though both those pairs have further separated appeal than SMW and New Leaf.

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MetalmindStats posted...

It's also worth noting that X appeared to SFF Isabelle

I mean that's really based on nothing because Isabelle has no other data points to compare

Kirby/Phoenix definitely appears to be an anomaly based on other results though

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