Board 8 > Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1327

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SBAllen posted the fucking bracket: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78438456

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I didn't realize just how little games I have fucking played the past decade 0O

I have only 'finished" exactly 12 games from the bracket, and played (for at least few hours) around 10 more.

All I know Zelda gonna win..always safe bet.

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abdou posted...

I didn't realize just how little games I have fucking played the past decade 0O

I have only 'finished" exactly 12 games from the bracket, and played (for at least few hours) around 10 more.

All I know Zelda gonna win..always safe bet.

I'm 25% into analysing the bracket and only finished 1 game. I don't think there's any regular here that is less disconnected from this decade than me. Maybe @Advokaiser ? Not sure.

It's because everyone's older now so they have less time in their lives to dedicate to playing video games due to various other responsibilities, hth

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ZeldaTPLink posted...

I'm 25% into analysing the bracket and only finished 1 game. I don't think there's any regular here that is less disconnected from this decade than me. Maybe @Advokaiser ? Not sure.

Hmm... Let's see:

Finished:
1._Undertale
2._VVVVVV

Played/Halfway:
3._Super Meat Boy

Barely played/Tried:
4._The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
5._Super Mario Odyssey
6._Mario Kart 8 (Deluxe)

Impressive! I've played more games this decade now than I had played from the 2000's back in GotD1! And that's without taking into account other games that didn't make the cut, such as I Wanna Be The Boshy (finished), To The Moon (finished), and Smash 3DS (played).

You know, this makes me feel way better! Especially considering my Guru pick. I feel satisfied.

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Advokaiser posted...

Hmm... Let's see:

Finished:
1._Undertale
2._VVVVVV

Played/Halfway:
3._Super Meat Boy

Barely played/Tried:
4._The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
5._Super Mario Odyssey
6._Mario Kart 8 (Deluxe)

Impressive! I've played more games this decade now than I had played from the 2000's back in GotD1! And that's without taking into account other games that didn't make the cut, such as I Wanna Be The Boshy (finished), To The Moon (finished), and Smash 3DS (played).

You know, this makes me feel way better! Especially considering my Guru pick. I feel satisfied.

Well I found 2 games in div 3 that I finished I think you won.

If you want to get technical, I've finished zero games in the bracket.

RE2 and Pokemon Gold I've finished the originals. FFXIV ARR I completed through to the end of Heavensward which was the end of the game when I quit but I assume they mean the entirity including Stormblood and Shadowbringers and I did recently restart.

Hearthstone I sank considerable time into but that isn't really a game you can finish.

Played to at least Halfway
Tales of Berseria
Fire Emblem Awakening
Mass Effect 3
FFXIV (although when I stopped playing, it was technically the end)
Nier Automata

Own but not played (or barely played / less than 3 hours)
Monster Hunter World
Dragon Quest XI
Trails in the Sky
Resident Evil 7
Fallout 4
Borderland 2
Horizon
Doom
Bloodborne
SSB Ultimate
Bayonetta
Undertale
DMC5
Overwatch
Dragon Age Inquisition
Death Stranding
Witcher 3
Destiny
Fallout New Vegas
Dark Souls 3
Nioh
The Talos Principle
Persona 5
Heavy Rain
Civ 5
Portal 2
Street Fighter 5
Dark Souls
Dragon Ball FighterZ
Metal Gear Solid V
Batman Arkham City
BioShock
Diablo III
Zero Escape: VLR
Skyrim
Mario Kart 8
Uncharted 4

Own but watched someone else in the house play through (some I've played a little)
Ni No Kuni
Final Fantasy XV
Mass Effect 2
GTA V
Persona 4
South Park Stick of Truth
The Last Of Us

Yes. I have a problem with buying shit and not playing it.

ZeldaTPLink posted...

Well I found 2 games in div 3 that I finished I think you won.

=(

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Let's make the full list

Played but did not finish:

Tales of Berseria

Finished:

Undertale
Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
Portal 2
Danganronpa 2

The lower divisions are actually a bunch of empty.

You actually tried more games than I did, but I played all of my 5 to the end or very close to the end.

If my hype for playing games determined exactly how many games I'd played, I'd easily cover like 75% of the field.

I already have Portal 2 in my Steam backlog (and my brother to play it with) and I'm pretty hyped to play it, but the hypest game in there is definitely Xenoblade Chronicles.

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I've played all the indies that made it in so that's something right

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I feel like I didn't play a lot of these games but I feel like I've played a ton compared to most of the board.

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Reading some posts on this board shows me exactly how this site still has so much love for classic games: It's not nostalgia or old age, the majority of this site's users just genuinely haven't played any games past the SNES era. >_>

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Beaten VVVVVV, Super Mario Galaxy 2, and Portal 2.

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Most of the AAA new stuff just doesn't appeal to me anymore. I have no real interest in indie games either. Wouldn't mind playing the new Fire Emblem or Tokyo Mirage Sessions but i'm not buying a Switch for like 2 games.

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Finished

Bravely Default
Mass Effect 2
RE 7
Fallout 4
Borderlands 2
Horizon Zero Dawn
RE 2
Fire Emblem Awakening
Deus Ex Human Revolution
Dead Space 2
Octopath Traveler
GTA 5
XCOM 2
Red Dead Redemption
Dragon Age Inquisition
The Witcher 3
Mass Effect 3
Fallout New Vegas
God Of War
Persona 5
AC Black Flag
Tomb Raider
Yakuza 0
Batman Arkham City
The Last Of Us
Skyrim
Pokemon HG/SS
Divinity Original Sin 2
Nier Automata

Wonder who has beaten the most games out of the GOTD list?


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LinkMarioSamus posted...

Beaten VVVVVV, Super Mario Galaxy 2, and Portal 2.

Wow 3 more games than I would have expected

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probably SHINE

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time for this topic

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I would probably take KHII over everything in this bracket except BOTW, Ultimate, and Pokemon.

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Portal (2015g) VS Portal 2 (2015g)

Portal has a strength of 24.72.
Portal 2 has a strength of 23.30.

Portal wins with 52.87% of the vote!
A win of 3,497 with 60,875 total votes cast.
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Team Rocket Elite posted...

Portal (2015g) VS Portal 2 (2015g)

Portal has a strength of 24.72.
Portal 2 has a strength of 23.30.

Portal wins with 52.87% of the vote!
A win of 3,497 with 60,875 total votes cast.

Eh, I'm not trusting any game that was in Undertale's division.

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This will only be worth one point but is anyone picking Rocket League to win a match?

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WarThaNemesis2 posted...

I would probably take KHII over everything in this bracket except BOTW, Ultimate, and Pokemon.

KHII probably would have beaten GSC in 2015, so you're asking an awful lot out of HGSS here.

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If we get to submit match pics for Division Finals I fully expect Dragonborn vs. bunch of Dragon type Pokemon match pic.

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I have Nier beating Pokemon how clueless am I

Just dont think the pokmon games amount to anything

ZeldaTPLink posted...

I have Nier beating Pokemon how clueless am I

Just dont think the pokmon games amount to anything

I have this as well. To be honest anyone picking Pokmon here may as well go all in with it.

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I refuse to trust post-GSC, arguably even post-RBY, Pokemon ever again for anything. This includes remakes. I don't think FireRed and LeafGreen would even be half as strong as RBY and I don't think HGSS will be close to GSC either. I didn't think at all when I picked Nier over it!

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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/6866-have-you-ever-owned-pokemon-gold-silver-or-crystal

I think it's fair to say that those who played GSC also played HGSS. Maybe not all. Also, what will be their mindset when voting; will voters stop and think "is this the better game of the decade" or ignore the contest title all together.

Also also, keep in mind this site is stuck in the past. Older games tend to do better than newer games.

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learn your lesson from the first GOTD

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That's an incredibly unsafe assumption. A lot of people quit Pokemon altogether between GSC and HGSS. HGSS is popular among the current Pokemon fanbase but we are not the reason RBY and to a lesser extent GSC are so strong.
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Being the only Pokemon game in the bracket helps too.

Was GSC the only one last decade? I don't remember.

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SwiftyDC posted...

Being the only Pokemon game in the bracket helps too.

FFXV to the finals

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SwiftyDC posted...

I think it's fair to say that those who played GSC also played HGSS.

I haven't.

HGSS came out during that slump where me (and most people) stopped playing pokemon.

LeonhartFour posted...

FFXV to the finals

FFXIV better shot.

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SwiftyDC posted...

Being the only Pokemon game in the bracket helps too.

Was GSC the only one last decade? I don't remember.

Nah, D/P/P and R/S/E were both in it, too.

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Again, maybe not all.

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also I don't think HG/SS being the only Pokemon game in the bracket is actually a good thing

it's an indictment that most of this site stopped caring about Pokemon a long time ago

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Or SBAllen saw all the pokemon games got a shit ton of noms and said nope, only you get in. We don't know.

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I don't think any fanbase contributes as little to the strength of their series as the hardcore Pokemon fanbase does. Those games live and die on casual players and nostalgia.

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I mean whatever you've gotta tell yourself to justify your pick man but I wouldn't pick a game to go to the finals based on a conspiracy theory

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I doubt I'm going to stick with Pokemon to the Finals. This board always sways me. I am picking it over Nier though.

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Isn't all this just a theory anyway, nobody really knows how this will play out. Did you have MM winning it all last Decade? Gotta be different to win it all!

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We're all just theorizing here! This is probably the least amount of info we've had about a contest in forever.

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LeonhartFour posted...

I mean whatever you've gotta tell yourself to justify your pick man but I wouldn't pick a game to go to the finals based on a conspiracy theory

It's not just pokemon, though. This entire bracket feels like some heavy interference from Allen to keep the usual stuff out in favor of dozens of indies.

ZeldaTPLink posted...

This entire bracket feels like some heavy interference from Allen to keep the usual stuff out

Like what

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KamikazePotato posted...

Like what

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14VeTf4Po-9bCVUQB4wSYMfi0SJ02Lf-TwYmpLCHeJgQ/edit

Bit annoyed Valkyia Chronicles 4 didn't make it in.

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or those are games that didn't get enough nominations

we are missing nothing by not having those games, not even Skyward Sword (which isn't popular among the Zelda fanbase) or Smash 4 (which has been completely forgotten by the fanbase since Ultimate came out)

like none of the games on that list would be particularly popular so I wouldn't say Allen deliberately kept games out as much as people only had 10 noms so they weren't going to nominate their 2nd or 3rd favorite Pokemon or Mario game

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I mean let's be honest when does gameFAQs suddenly decide they do not want to flood the bracket with Nintendo entries.