Board 8 > IGN Best Video Game of All Time contest

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Leonhart4
09/16/21 8:03:03 PM
#201:


We got the best of both worlds in a Nintendo game made by Square

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MechanicalWall
09/17/21 1:45:30 PM
#203:


Made a different thread before finding this one lol.

Anyway this was what I posted in that Op:

Just looking at it, I have some gut reactions:

1) seeding is absolute fucking trash. How are ALL of your 1 seeds and most of the 2s gonna crash and burn by R2? Feels like IGN has 0 grasp of what their readers are actually interested in; Journey as a 2 seed makes me wonder if this was run through RNG.

2) there's like 0 rhyme or reason to the winners so far.

Zoomers have kinda been running circles around 'boomers' (Burnout 3 > Chrono Trigger, Apex > Super Metroid... yikes) but then you see stuff like San Andreas > RDR, WoW > Fortnite, or Mario 3 wrecking shit in general, and it makes me scratch my head.

Definitely different from GFaqs in that Nintendo is really poorly, with Mario 3 and BotW being the only quarterfinalists (and against each other at that); JRPGs got btfo with P5, FFVII, and CT getting wrecked in R1 and Pokemon losing in R2.

Then there's just random shit like RotTR beating Half Life 2 or Skyrim vs ACIV being a 58-42 match that doesn't make much sense from any lense.

If I'd tried to make a bracket for this tournament I'd have been slaughtered lol. There isn't a cohesive culture over there like there is on GFaqs, probably because these are run on like 4 sites
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Surskit
09/17/21 2:27:28 PM
#204:


MechanicalWall posted...
San Andreas > RDR, WoW > Fortnite, or Mario 3 wrecking shit in general
As far as zoomers are concerned, San Andreas has become one of the premiere meme games and you can find clips from it basically everywhere on the Internet. Fortnite is the big thing of the moment so it'll draw considerable backlash. Mario 3 being above an older Nintendo title, an anime game, and Hades isn't what I'd call wrecking shit either.

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Leonhart4
09/17/21 2:42:08 PM
#205:


why is this round lasting for four days

these matches are already over except for Titanfall/Bloodborne

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MechanicalWall
09/17/21 2:54:07 PM
#206:


Surskit posted...
As far as zoomers are concerned, San Andreas has become one of the premiere meme games and you can find clips from it basically everywhere on the Internet. Fortnite is the big thing of the moment so it'll draw considerable backlash. Mario 3 being above an older Nintendo title, an anime game, and Hades isn't what I'd call wrecking shit either.
P5 has pretty considerable clout in a lot of circles; going 70-30 with it considering the results in other matches ain't nothing to sneeze at, even if Mario 3 would be favored to win
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Diegui
09/18/21 12:44:09 PM
#207:


Leonhart4 posted...
why is this round lasting for four days

these matches are already over except for Titanfall/Bloodborne
the polls have been closed for a while
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pjbasis
09/18/21 2:47:14 PM
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andylt
09/18/21 2:53:15 PM
#209:


pjbasis posted...
I love how people born in the 90s are boomers
We are all boomers or zoomers now. No inbetween!

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andylt
09/20/21 2:15:43 PM
#210:


Next round is up!

https://www.ign.com/articles/ign-best-video-game-of-all-time-bracket-vote-round-4-results-winners

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swordz9
09/20/21 2:21:42 PM
#211:


GoW vs Witcher 3 is good enough to be the finale. Shame it isnt
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XIII_rocks
09/20/21 2:38:48 PM
#212:


Good insta results so far for this round

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MechanicalWall
09/20/21 3:00:59 PM
#213:


Lol

Gg to everyone who picked the GoW>Witcher 3 upset in last year's contest



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LinkMarioSamus
09/20/21 3:10:48 PM
#214:


Weird to see Call of Duty decimation considering how poorly the franchise fares in this site's contests. I suppose CoD isn't as memetically hated as much as it once was nowadays, but still.

World of Warcraft winning its fourpack elicited similar reactions from me. I was under the impression the game was subject to a lot of hype backlash due to its popularity in similar fashion to stuff like GTA and Halo.

Results like Burnout > Chrono Trigger and especially Apex Legends > Super Metroid sadden me somewhat and the latter especially feels like holding a best movies contest where Taxi Driver is a 1 seed and gets offed in Round 1 by some 2010s movie. In the end though, let people like what they want to like. I'm just a weirdo under the age of 30 who finds older games more interesting than newer ones for the most part.

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swordz9
09/20/21 4:24:58 PM
#215:


CoD4, GoW, Batman and Bloodborne were my votes for this latest set. GoW vs Witcher 3 was an extremely hard choice though. Rest were really easy
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ctesjbuvf
09/20/21 5:05:00 PM
#216:


I'll probably have to live with a GTA finale, but man God of War vs. BotW would redeem a lot of terrible results.

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Leonhart4
09/20/21 5:20:18 PM
#217:


We've reached the point in this contest where the only game left I have played is Zelda

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swordz9
09/20/21 5:22:41 PM
#218:


You should change that. The new God of War and The Witcher 3 were amazing.
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Diegui
09/20/21 10:26:26 PM
#219:


witcher 3 getting btfo by nu god of war lol. witcher destroyed god of war on gamefaqs
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azuarc
09/20/21 11:40:31 PM
#220:


Please tell me the finals aren't going to be GTA vs GTA.

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XIII_rocks
09/20/21 11:49:00 PM
#221:


I'd be fine with gta finals here but V winning over San Andreas would be kind of lame

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KCF0107
09/21/21 12:45:30 AM
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People acting like San Andreas and V aren't fantastic games...
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KamikazePotato
09/21/21 1:07:48 AM
#223:


I would take God of War to win the tournament at this point.

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Team Rocket Elite
09/21/21 1:09:26 AM
#224:


We need an X-Stats update so we can compare division,
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Congrats to azuarc for winning the GotD 2020 Guru Contest!
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ctesjbuvf
09/21/21 2:37:28 AM
#225:


KCF0107 posted...
People acting like San Andreas and V aren't fantastic games...

No, I just really like the other two games that are clearly making top 4. Also, same franchise finale is kinda lame.

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Safer_777
09/21/21 9:39:06 AM
#226:


If a GTA game wins then I will be happy. Yeah yeah BOTW is a fantastic game, sure BUT GTA made sandbox games popular and how many sandbox games we have because of this? Infinite amount. So yeah GTA for me.

Also why it is called sandbox by the way?

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swordz9
09/21/21 10:06:00 AM
#227:


I just voted against them because I havent played a GTA game in ages, but like what they were up against. Would be cool to see BotW kicked out this round, but Im not gonna get my hopes up
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ctesjbuvf
09/21/21 10:09:25 AM
#228:


It's not. All four leaders are almost doubling their opponents on instagram, so the final four will without a doubt be San Andreas, God of War, GTAV and BotW.

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swordz9
09/21/21 10:13:48 AM
#229:


Guess Ill be rooting for the GTA game in that match then. Hopefully GoW can win the whole thing.
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LinkMarioSamus
09/21/21 10:26:36 AM
#230:


Is it just me or have games from the early '10s not done that well here? IGN sure picked some good 1 seeds.

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MechanicalWall
09/21/21 1:30:09 PM
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LinkMarioSamus posted...
Is it just me or have games from the early '10s not done that well here?
Except for Arkham City apparently , which wouldn't have been my pick for a game with THAT much staying power.

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CaptainOfCrush
09/21/21 3:12:56 PM
#232:


I'm dating myself kinda hard here, but how does one even check the ig results >_>

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Leonhart4
09/21/21 3:15:17 PM
#233:


CaptainOfCrush posted...
I'm dating myself kinda hard here, but how does one even check the ig results >_>

Do you have an IG account? If you do, click on their profile picture and it'll take you to their stories, and you can vote.

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KamikazePotato
09/21/21 3:52:20 PM
#234:


CaptainOfCrush posted...
I'm dating myself kinda hard here, but how does one even check the ig results >_>
Wow, look at this boomer cringe

*dabs*

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LinkMarioSamus
09/21/21 3:58:24 PM
#235:


MechanicalWall posted...
Except for Arkham City apparently , which wouldn't have been my pick for a game with THAT much staying power.

To be fair, its first two opponents were '90s games, and then fellow 2011 game Dark Souls. Granted, Batman bowled all over them, but still.

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MechanicalWall
09/21/21 4:17:55 PM
#236:


And I guess Red Dead (2010) just barely lost to San Andreas, one of the strongest games in this bracket
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LinkMarioSamus
09/21/21 5:13:05 PM
#237:


True, but then New Vegas just got punked all over by San Andreas. Not to mention Mass Effect 2 getting destroyed by Halo 2 and Uncharted 2 getting pasted by GTAV.

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Cavedweller2000
09/23/21 3:08:31 PM
#238:


Round 5 (also known as the semi final) is up:- https://www.ign.com/articles/ign-best-video-game-of-all-time-bracket-vote-round-5-results-winners

On YouTube GoW is smashing GTA whilst BotW has the slight advantage over GTA

Fun fact: I just beat GoW for the first time not 1 hour ago.

Brilliant game. But I'm also in the middle of watching all the MCU for the first time and my brain is frazzled due to the large crossover in mythology between the two lol

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swordz9
09/23/21 3:41:57 PM
#239:


Voted GoW & GTA
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Diegui
09/23/21 3:48:08 PM
#240:


the poll is not up on instagram yet. i can't vote there
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LinkMarioSamus
09/23/21 4:31:19 PM
#241:


How would GTAV/Arkham City even go on this site? Surely GTA wins right?

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charmander6000
09/23/21 5:10:44 PM
#242:


Based on GotD, GTAV should win without too much trouble.

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XIII_rocks
09/23/21 5:57:29 PM
#243:


GTAV/GoW final?

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Leonhart4
09/23/21 6:49:26 PM
#244:


XIII_rocks posted...
GTAV/GoW final?

Yep. Winner will be determined based on who wins between Zelda and San Andreas since the results are similar

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StartTheMachine
09/23/21 9:19:22 PM
#245:


God of War being in the finals I can actually get on board with.

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squexa
09/23/21 10:17:04 PM
#246:


Im kind of surprised by how strong GoW is, considering it didn't make top 5 in IGN's GotD poll.

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azuarc
09/24/21 3:01:07 AM
#247:


Voting in these matches is so easy when half the games are GTA.

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calimelee
09/24/21 8:24:45 AM
#248:


Leonhart4 posted...
Yep. Winner will be determined based on who wins between Zelda and San Andreas since the results are similar
zelda is beating gta v on twitter, youtube and ign, losing only on instagram
san andreas is losing on every social media platform
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Team Rocket Elite
09/27/21 4:49:22 PM
#250:


Finals:
https://www.ign.com/articles/ign-best-video-game-of-all-time-bracket-vote-finale-results-winners
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