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Game of the Decade Contest Analysis Crew - Part 5
Whoever
put Ashnard on the image for Path of Radiance really runis it chances
for winning. Not that it would beat Pokemon, but at least putting Ike on
the cover would've helped a little bit. --- BFC: 2492-6375-2047 (Sonic) |
Yeah, I dunno what was going through Ulti's head with this picture, but whatever. Wouldn't have made that much of a difference. --- This is the kind of **** that allowed the Bhopal incident to happen. 5,000 dead Indians. Want that on your damn conscience, Square apologists? |
Ulti obviously wanted No Mercy to look as bad as possible after it burned him for calling it to 70-30 Fire Emblem last round! --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
Super Smash Bros. Melee 71.39% 29350 The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind 28.61% 11763 TOTAL VOTES 41113 Perfect Dark 44.57% 21350 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 55.43% 26548 TOTAL VOTES 47898 Crew Predictions - 66/74 What Happened: Melee smashed Morrowind and CoD4 won the warfare with PD. Why it Happened: Morrowind has some low-midcard strength, which explains why Melee didn't triple it or anything crazy. CoD4 really has fallen off since 2009 looking at it's past two performances. What will Happen: Melee has R2 easy Crew Prediction Challenge - points Moltar - 65 Tran - 65 Kleenex - 62 AKJ - 62 Lopen - 62 Leon - 62 Guest - 57 Crew Accuracy Challenge - Tran gets the point for Melee and he also gets the point for CoD4. Moltar - 11.5 Tran - 11 Guest - 11 (GfK: 1, BT: 2, CM: 2, Kotetsu: 1, dragon: 1, NGamer: 1, Ultima: 1, TRT: 1, Greyfeld: 1) AKJ - 10.5 Kleenex - 9 Leon - 9 Lopen - 9 --- Moltar Status: 72 Points - Vote: Perfect Dark Contest Analysis Crew Archives: http://thecrew.speedrunwiki.com/ |
see this, Leonhart? I told you there was a reason to be worried about this match! Prime gonna wreck HL2 Not sure where this train of logic is coming from, unless you're saying a practically Nintendo FPS losing to a non-Nintendo FPS means a Nintendo FPS is going to beat a non-Nintendo FPS! Well, who knows. Either way, LOL Galaxy, what a joke I suppose if FFXII rocks Portal or something, I'd worry about HL2's chances! Yes, that's an even greater stretch, but whatever! --- "I couldn't stand a day without a past or future. I need to live each moment to keep fighting here and now." |
Final Fantasy XII vs. Grand Theft Auto III who've you got? And FFXII winning that would be stupid. Lol GameFAQs. --- Currently Playing - Zelda: Majora's Mask Next Games Up - Super Smash Bros. Melee, Resident Evil 4, Okami |
The crew chose low for Pokemon.Come on crew,it is Pokeymanz!We all love them right? --- GameFaqs is NOT the place to go for relationship advice.Nobody here gets any action unless it is their right or left hand.Including me.~Dawn and Dusk~ |
SSB Brawl vs Valkyria Chronicles The SSB series underwhelmed us in its last outing, despite scoring an awesome pic advantage. Well this time around it looks even MORE awesome in the match pic, plus its facing off against a much weaker opponent. I'm picturing an enormous blowout for tomorrow, the kind that might even cause a few "lol tourneycrabs. Brawl is going to 60/40 Melee" threads to pop up across the board. But the people who create those topics will be super wrong, and here's why: 1. kiddies to the rescue! well, more like North Americans, but yeah- Brawl went from 85% in NA to under 74% in Europe. it's hard to overstate what a big deal minimizing the non-North American votes is for this series 2. Valkyria Chronicles is awful. yeah yeah, SmartVoterFAQs and don't bet against jRPGs and all that junk, but this game making it to R2 is still a total freak occurrence All in all you've got to imagine Brawl's got a strong chance at the tripling. I'll say... it does it! Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 75.91% --- thengamer.com/guru | thengamer.com/xstats | board8.wikia.com If I were you I'd search B8 for The Show, the cool Ng/yoblazer Contest podcast! |
Persona
4 only got 22% on Brawl in '09 - unless you think Valkyria Chronicles
> Persona 4 (which is crazy, surely), an impressive performance from
Brawl is >78%, especially in a day match. --- I predict and analyse the Game of the Decade contest here: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/56817040 |
But
according to last year's stats Disgaea > Persona 4! And the bottom
quarter of the bracket might be overrated in the stats... --- Currently Playing - Zelda: Majora's Mask Next Games Up - Super Smash Bros. Melee, Resident Evil 4, Okami |
East Division: Round 2 - Match 76 – (7) Valkyria Chronicles vs. (2) Super Smash Bros. Brawl Moltar’s Analysis Valkyria Chronicles Round 1 - 52.41% on Disgaea Get out Disgaea and never come back Brawl Round 1 - 83.26% on Mario Kart DS Such beautiful SFF Well this is an easy one. Valkyria had a close match with Disgaea, and we know that’s weak. Melee and Disgaea were in the same group in 2009, and Melee still tripled it with 2 other Nintendo games in the poll. Brawl should put up great numbers in this match even if we factor in VC being a bit stronger and Brawl being at Melee’s level (or stronger because Brawl > Melee choo choo). Moltar’s Bracket: Brawl wins Moltar’s Prediction: Brawl - 78% Lopen’s Analysis Valkyria Chronicles more like Balkryia Chronicles. 'go my Brawl' xfd Uhhhh no really this one is easy, nothing to see here. I'll vote Valkyria Chronicles though cause I'm a man of taste. Lopen's prediction: Brawl with 75.54% Transience’s Analysis Brawl time. Can it outdo Melee's percentage? It should. Day match, weaker game. Valkyria won't get killed because it's very loved amongst the right people, but if Melee outdoes Brawl's percentage then we've got a very clear favourite next round. Brawl should be able to go for a tripling here. transience's prediction: Super Smash Bros. Brawl with 74.85% Leon’s Analysis Congratulations, Valkyria Chronicles, you won the fodder free-for-all of the contest, and your reward is the privilege of getting totally slaughtered by one of the three contenders to win the contest! Brawl should tear this one apart. Even with Wind Waker in the poll, Melee still put up 76.25% on Disgaea, the game VC just beat. I fully expect Brawl to put up a quadrupling here, especially since it’s Smash vs. cult game in a day match. Yikes. It could even beat it worse than it just beat Mario Kart DS, and I wouldn’t be surprised. In fact, I think there’s a good chance it’ll do just that. Leonhart’s Embarrassing Confession of the Match: Honestly, I’ve barely played Smash Bros. at all for the last couple years now, and I used to play those games like crazy. I guess I got burnt out (No, that doesn’t mean Brawl is a bad game. I tried to go back to playing Melee and couldn’t do that either). Leonhart’s Vote: Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Leonhart’s Prediction: Super Smash Bros. Brawl with 85.00% |
Kleenex’s Analysis Round 2 of THE SHOWDOWN. Melee did alright yesterday (though to be honest it was a little bit under what my expectations were), and Brawl will probably be alright here. Valkyria's only in this match because Disgaea is worse, not because Valkyria is strong. I imagine that VC is probably a little weaker than Morrowind, so Brawl should look to outdo what Melee did in its match. Shouldn't be the end of the world if it does, but you nev-i mean LOL WII MELEE IS GOING TO 60-40 BRAWL Kleenex's Prediction: Super Smash Bros. Brawl with 74.67% Applekidjosh’s Analysis It's time for Brawl to come out the gates swinging and show us it has the balls to take out Melee in the divisional final! Valkyria Chronicles is lucky to even be in round 2, and Brawl didn't get a big enough meal from that SFF match last round. It's hungry. Hungry enough for the tripling! AKJ says Brawl > Valkyria with 75% Guest’s Analysis - Kotetsu So Super Smash Bros. Brawl broke 82% on MKDS and Valkyria Chronicles fought its way to 52% against Disgaea. Persona 4 only got 22% against Brawl in '09, and I can't imagine that Valkyria Chronicles could do better than it in a day match. So by rights Brawl should be hitting the high 70s or the low 80s, but I suspect Valkyria Chronicles might be a little more resilient than the stats imply, because it's got a win under its belt and it's a fantastic niche title. Super Smash Bros. Brawl with 76.49% Crew Consensus: Brawl gets an easy win today |
Leon, shooting for the moon --- "if only there were some way I could have sex" - Smartmuffin |
isnt 85 worse than a quadrupling? like a quintupling? --- GranTurisMo - God's Tiniest Man - Great Thorn Monkeys! Member of the merSHINEsess Nation since 7/15/09 |
Are
people forgetting that Melee tripled Disgaea with Wind Waker and Fire
Emblem in the poll or do they think Melee is going to break 60% on Brawl
without SFF? VC is not very strong guys. --- BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls GotD Bracket: 76/84 Today's Matches: Pokemon DPP & SSBB |
Yeah, 83.33% is a quintupling. --- :D |
lol taking those fourway polls to be that accurate --- add the c and back away iphonesience |
You don't even need them. This isn't a good result for Brawl unless you think VC is somewhat close to Morrowind, and I don't! --- DFF |
I think Brawl and Melee are about equal and I nailed percentages on both of them! --- add the c and back away iphonesience |
Bacon should just fastfoward to the Melee/Brawl match and get it over with, because this is the most obnoxious thing ever. --- This is the kind of **** that allowed the Bhopal incident to happen. 5,000 dead Indians. Want that on your damn conscience, Square apologists? |
yup. we knew it would be pre-contest though. --- xyzzy |
Are
people forgetting that Melee tripled Disgaea with Wind Waker and Fire
Emblem in the poll or do they think Melee is going to break 60% on Brawl
without SFF? VC is not very strong guys. I would bet Fire Emblem's presence there hurt Disgaea. SSBM and Wind Waker already SFFed Fire Emblem to death and didn't leave many Nintendo votes left, so a lot of the people that liked FE enough to actually vote it were SRPG fans. Remove FE and a disproportionate amount go to Disgaea. |
Southeast Division: Round 2 - Match 77 – (1) Super Mario Galaxy vs. (8) Pokemon R/S/E Moltar’s Analysis Super Mario Galaxy Round 1 - 74.79% on Beyond Good and Evil Galaxy finally looking good. Pokemon RSE Round 1 - 50.77% on Grand Theft Auto IV Fortunate it had that beastly ASV. In 2009, Galaxy beat DPP. It wasn’t a killing, but it beat it with ease. I think RSE is weaker than DPP, so I’m not going to give it much of a chance here. It barely being GTAIV showed that Galaxy isn’t going to kill it here unless Galaxy is actually of good strength now. Actually, I’m kind of hoping that’s going to happen. Galaxy had a good Round 1, but that was against bottom of the barrel fodder. This is going to answer whether it’s the same disappointment we saw back in 2009 or a new beast entirely. Moltar’s Bracket: Galaxy wins Moltar’s Prediction: Super Mario Galaxy - 60% Lopen’s Analysis Somehow that Pokemanz game no one actually likes advanced over GTAIV. The answer of course lies with “GTA.” Against a game people won't actually anti-vote that also happens to be Nintendo, expect it to fold like a butter type vs a hot steel type. Now if you're paying attention to my bad pokemetaphors, I guess that makes butter ice typed... Pokemon solves all our mysteries for us! The thing to watch here is how well it can do so we can keep that GALAXY > TWILIGHT PRINCESS BELIEVE hype going. This match... this match. Oh yes, keep an eye on it. This here is what you'll call domination. Lopen's prediction: SMG with 67.31% Transience’s Analysis Galaxy beat Diamond last year. RSE is most likely weaker. Galaxy would not struggle with GTA4. nuff said, really. transience's prediction: Super Mario Galaxy with 62.89% Leon’s Analysis Man, two Nintendo games in a night match. What is Europe going to do with itself? There really isn’t anything interesting to say about this one. Galaxy did as expected in tripling Beyond Good & Evil in round one, and R/S/E used the ASV to overtake and defeat GTAIV in a match that absolutely butchered the casuals in terms of prediction percentage. PokeFAQs is going to have a hard time pulling the upset here though. Galaxy already got 55% on D/P in the last Games Contest, and all indications are that R/S/E is the weakest generation. It could be interesting to see how high Galaxy can go here, but it doesn’t really matter since Twilight Princess is going to turn the tables around and slaughter it next round anyway. Man, why in the world did Bacon have to give one of the most potentially interesting games a completely boring path? What a waste. Leonhart’s Embarrassing Confession of the Match: As much as I hate to admit it, Bowser Jr. had some pretty cool boss fights in the Galaxy games. Doesn’t make up for how awful he was in Sunshine and every other game though! Leonhart’s Vote: Super Mario Galaxy. Leonhart’s Prediction: Super Mario Galaxy with 62.44% |
Kleenex’s Analysis Galaxy did okay last round, but it's probably still pretty weak. Relatively, anyway. Reagardless, it's not gonna lose to Pokemon tonight. I really don't know what kind of numbers to put down for this match, though. I think there's a big range to look for here, but I guess I'll base it on what GTA4 got on Galaxy last year with maybe a bit of SFF adjustment, even though I don't think that Galaxy will do a great job of SFFing Pokemon, if at all. *looks at last year's poll* Whoops, nevermind. Kleenex's Prediction: Super Mario Galaxy with 64.57% Applekidjosh’s Analysis Alright, first of all this is a pretty lol match pic. I don't even really understand the Emerald one, if you sent Groudon out against Kyogre the field effect would change to sunny! Craziness. Mario Galaxy did well against BGE but didn't exactly look like a contest winner or anything. It's going up against the weakest Pokemon, that barely scraped through round 1, and Mario also has probable SFF going for it. All this in my mind says "about 62" and a quick glance through the Oracle topic makes me think I'm not completely crazy so maybe I'm actually learning! AKJ says some dumb 3d Mario game > awesome Pokemon game with 62% Guest’s Analysis - Mr3790 After missing last Sign-ups I am back to look at this match real fast. As much as I would love for RSE to win here, it will probably lose. SMG beat the stronger DPP after all. However, I don't think SMG will do that well at the same time. It is not that strong at all, maybe even weaker than last time. So I will sink low at: Super Mario Galaxy: 54.21% Until next time, Mr3790 Crew Consensus: Galaxy takes out one of the Pokeymanz |
huh, I went pretty high and you guys went even higher. guest probably has this. --- add the c and back away iphonesience |
pokemon flop gsc is screwed --- This is the kind of **** that allowed the Bhopal incident to happen. 5,000 dead Indians. Want that on your damn conscience, Square apologists? |
nooooo --- "oh god do not search google images for "shaved bear" without turning safesearch on first" - Dauntless Hunter |
Those are some high predictions! --- DFF |
That weren't high enough! --- DFF |
Super Mario Galaxy vs Pokemon R/S/E Mario's always been The King of SFF in our Character Battles, but his games have never displayed the same kind of Nintendo-crushing ability. I don't think Super Mario Galaxy is going to be an exception to that rule, especially considering it didn't slam D/P into the ground when given a similar opportunity in 2009. ...and yet I DO think Galaxy cruises out to a pretty high percentage by the time the dust settles on this poll, just because these two games are on entirely different strength tiers. I've always maintained that SMG would perform much better 1v1 than in the Pokemon-favoring 4ways, and I stand by that, and I've always said that R/S/E is way on the bottom of the Pokemon dogpile, and I stand by that as well. Additionally I feel that the "GotD" title is a major help to Galaxy while doing almost nothing for R/S/E. Galaxy to crack 60 without too much of a problem, book it! Super Mario Galaxy - 63.11% --- thengamer.com/guru | thengamer.com/xstats | board8.wikia.com If I were you I'd search B8 for The Show, the cool Ng/yoblazer Contest podcast! |
Mine was! --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
LOPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN --- This is the kind of **** that allowed the Bhopal incident to happen. 5,000 dead Indians. Want that on your damn conscience, Square apologists? |
Bracket vote vs Pokemon board vote though I'm not too sure if RSE goes up or down I'm hoping down. Death to that bad Pokemon game. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
"hm I had 62 let's check" "61.79 wow okay" --- Porre either became an aristocratic mercantile state or a placid direct democracy depending on if the lady who ran an inn was able to serve people beef jerky. |
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Pokemon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum 64.79% 21339 Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance 35.21% 11599 TOTAL VOTES 32938 Valkyria Chronicles 23.56% 11912 Super Smash Bros. Brawl 76.44% 38647 TOTAL VOTES 50559 Crew Predictions - 68/76 What Happened: Pokemon had no trouble with FE, and Brawl took VC out easy. Why it Happened: FE might have looked good in R1, but No Mercy is super weak, and once FE faced respectable competition in DPP, it got beat easily. Then, Brawl tripled a game as weak as Disgaea, not a surprise. What will Happen: Brawl. Next. Crew Prediction Challenge - lol KP Moltar - 67 Tran - 67 Kleenex - 64 AKJ - 64 Lopen - 64 Leon - 64 Guest - 58 Crew Accuracy Challenge - Moltar gets the point for DPP and Kotetsu gets the point for Brawl. Moltar - 12.5 Guest - 12 (GfK: 1, BT: 2, CM: 2, Kotetsu: 2, dragon: 1, NGamer: 1, Ultima: 1, TRT: 1, Greyfeld: 1) Tran - 11 AKJ - 10.5 Kleenex - 9 Leon - 9 Lopen - 9 --- Moltar Status: 78 Points - Vote: Galaxy Contest Analysis Crew Archives: http://thecrew.speedrunwiki.com/ |
Man, Galaxy, why must you suck so much with one of the greatest pics ever? --- "I couldn't stand a day without a past or future. I need to live each moment to keep fighting here and now." |
Twilight Princess vs Dragon Age I realize that F-Zero GX's fanbase is tiny, but still, I'd have never expected Dragon Age was capable of hanging 70% on anything Nintendo. You can officially chalk me up as impressed by that Round One performance- plus DA fans had to have been excited to see Uncharted 2 redeem the 2009 GotY crop with that solid victory over Street Fighter. There's no doubt that this is going to be a significant step up from the legitimately awful opponent Twilight Princess beat up on a few weeks back. And yet... I get the sense that it's not REALLY going to matter. By which I mean that I would love DA's chances to earn a respectable defeat (and perhaps even get people talking up the [doomed] Galaxy > TP bandwagon) if this were a Night Match. In fact I just glanced at the percentages and- holy smokes, TP did 14% worse in Europe than North America. Didn't realize Zelda had become as disliked over there as Smash! But yeah, it's not going to matter since TP lucked out with another Day Match and should be able to ride this cool, artistic match pic to something around a doubling. I'll throw my hat into the ring for something just a touch under. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - 64.83% --- thengamer.com/guru | thengamer.com/xstats | board8.wikia.com If I were you I'd search B8 for The Show, the cool Ng/yoblazer Contest podcast! |
Wow, so much for that. Galaxy sux after all! --- DFF |
You would think that Europe would be all over Zelda, with its elves, fairies, talking trees, magic wands, and what not. |
From: gearoflongtime | #187 Hey, Dragon Age has plenty of the fantasy s*** too! --- And I certainly do not agree with my words being taken out of context. - Vlado |
Southeast Division: Round 2 - Match 78 – (5) Dragon Age: Origins vs. (4) The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Moltar’s Analysis Dragon Age Round 1 - 69.21% on F-Zero GX F-Zero deserves better Twilight Princess Round 1 - 79.38% on Shenmue TP showing that it’s got this division wrapped up TP will have no trouble here. Dragon Age seems decent, but we’re talking about Twilight Princess, one of the strongest games in the bracket. Dragon Age will be doing good for itself if it can hit the mid-30s against Zelda. Moltar’s Bracket: Twilight Princess wins Moltar’s Prediction: Twilight Princess - 67% Lopen’s Analysis Zzz matches keep coming. I'd love to give DA:O a chance here, but barring sparkly vampire backlash this site loves Zelda far too much for DA:O to beat well... anything this side of Wand of Gamelon. It did respectfully in the GotY polls, but 2009 was a kinda weak field. It'll do alright. If TP beats Galaxy's percentage against the bad Pokemon game I'm going to throw in the towel on that upset... and well, it probably will, knowing my upset track record this contest! Bleh. Lopen's prediction: Twilight with 58.10% Transience’s Analysis This is one of the most boring matches of the contest. Dragon Age is legit, but not enough to matter. It's probably about equal to Assassin's Creed 2 or God of War 2, and GOW2 got slammed by Wind Waker. TP is stronger than Wind Waker. We'll get to good matches eventually. Really. transience's prediction: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess with 65.24% Leon’s Analysis Dragon Age was one of the few PS3 games not to disappoint in round one, putting up nearly 70% on F-Zero. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean too much here because it doesn’t have much of a chance to win. In fact, it’s probably going to get rocked here. Twilight Princess is stronger than people seem to think. I’m surprised so many people seem to think so little of this game’s strength. I guess because of how it failed to live up to the hype or something. But honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if it pushes for the doubling here. Dragon Age is a pretty strong new game, but it’s not THAT strong. TP put up 60%+ on FFXII and HL2 last year, and I’m not putting Dragon Age into that group until it proves otherwise. Leonhart’s Embarrassing Confession of the Match: I actually didn’t mind the Wolf Link parts of Twilight Princess. I mean, they weren’t stellar or anything, but it was an interesting concept. Leonhart’s Vote: Twilight Princess. Leonhart’s Prediction: Twilight Princess with 65.01% |
Kleenex’s Analysis Even with Ocarina of Time and Link to the Past absent from the bracket this year, ZELDA is still a force to be reckoned with. All three games so far have shown that they're not to be trifled with. Twilight Princess especially. Dragon Age made a joke out of F-Zero last round, but I'm still not entirely sold on the 2009 games yet. I think it's more likely that F-Zero is really just that weak. ZELDA should have a field day with Dragon Age. But maybe I'll be surprised. Kleenex's Prediction: Twilight Princess with 66.90% Applekidjosh’s Analysis last round we saw the voters say "What's Dreamcast?" en route to a Twilight Princess more than tripling. However, Dragon Age looked pretty damn impressive itself, considering F-Zero should've at least had SOME Nintendo franchise voting going on. And yet that won't even matter at all going up against TP. There are only two possible outcomes of this match: TP does normal or really well and everyone just goes on with their day TP does poorly and people start hyping Galaxy > TP Of the two, the latter would be a lot more fun... I'll go with that. AKJ says Twilight Princess > Dragon Age with 60% Guest’s Analysis - Ultimaphazon Jeez, round 2 sure is boring. Continuing the streak of easy matches where the winner was never going to be in doubt, we have Twilight Princess, which gets to slaughter Dragon Age: Origins. In the first round, TP put up 80% on Shenmue, while DA:O got close to 70% against F-Zero GX. While that performance from DA:O looks pretty good on paper, we have to remember that racing games are among the absolute weakest genres on GameFAQs. I would probably take Shenmue to beat F-Zero, that's how little faith I have in the genre. I think TP should reach the doubling here, considering it should be stronger in a day match than it was at night. Predicition: Twilight Princess with 68.25% Crew Consensus: Zelda wins, nothing new here |
Score one for the Guest! --- The 3DS will be $200 or I'm closing my account - Ngamer64 |
Hey
Moltar, after seeing all these games that looked good in r1 against
fodder fall apart against real competition i'd like to raise my
prediction for Kingdom Hearts II by 7% please. --- "The power of accurate observation is commonly called Dr. Football Factor by those who have not got it." |
Also raise my prediction for the winner of GS/GTA by 3.5% please. --- "Dr_Football runs alongside balefire watching marshmallows stop existing" |
Southeast Division: Round 2 - Match 79 – (3) Bioshock vs. (6) Kingdom Hearts II Moltar’s Analysis Bioshock Round 1 - 68.91% on Star Wars Battlefront II Biorockin’ the competition Kingdom Hearts II Round 1 - 63.81% on Halo 2 KH the superior 2. Bioshock is unlucky here. It’s a good game that has solid strength, but it’s up against Kingdom Hearts, which has two games that can compete with some of the strongest games in the bracket. I think Bioshock has gotten stronger since 2009, so it’s going to at least look better than Halo 2 did and not get killed. Still, the winner of this match isn’t in any doubt. Moltar’s Bracket: Kingdom Hearts II wins Moltar’s Prediction: Kingdom Hearts II - 59% Lopen’s Analysis Kingdom Hearts will it win the proverbial game of Kingdom Darts against the vile... Kingdom... Biosh...arts... Uhhhh... yes, yes it will. The demolition of Halo 2 last round should be all you need to convince yourself. Wouldn't expect Bioshock to do much better than ALMIGHTY HALO after all. Right? Right? Of course I'm right. Lopen's prediction: Kingdom Hearts 2 with 65.31% Transience’s Analysis Bioshock is pretty popular, but I don't think people fully understand how big KH is on this website. Both are top 10 games in this contest and have an outside shot at being top 10 overall, not just for the decade. KH2 went even with RE4 and did pretty damn good on Twilight Princess. Bioshock lost to Portal which lost to Fallout 3 which lost handily to MGS4. Bioshock has the advantage of having a night match but it's not a very big one. That game is also day-heavy. I would pick Bioshock over MW2 without much trouble, so if KH2 beats it worse than KH1 beats MW2 then we've got a favourite going into round 3. transience's prediction: Kingdom Hearts II with 60.41% Leon’s Analysis Now here’s an upset I saw a couple of people talking about (well, mostly ngirl) that I didn’t really understand the hype for. I know some people think KH has lost a step since last time after watching Sora and company lay eggs in the last Character Battle, but there’s still a pretty big gap between “Equal to RE4” and “Equal to Halo 3.” No amount of KH drop or BioShock 2 boost is going to cover that. Sure, BioShock put up an impressive number on Battlefront II, but KH2’s 64% on Halo 2 just confirmed to me that the gap is still just too wide for it to make up. I mean, it’s not like Battlefront II is going to be KOTOR level or anything, and that game lost to Halo 1. Sure, Halo 2 is likely the weakest of the three, but I doubt any of them are far apart. BioShock could impress a bit here since KH is terrible at night, but it isn’t really night-oriented either. Leonhart’s Embarrassing Confession of the Match: Roxas is awesome. I was even able to enjoy 358/2 Days’ plot because of how much I like Roxas. Leonhart’s Vote: Kingdom Hearts II. Leonhart’s Prediction: Kingdom Hearts II with 58.57% |
Kleenex’s Analysis A lot of people were going nuts after Bioshock massacred Battlefront II last round. Some were even talking about Bioshock having a chance against Kingdom Hearts II. But let's be realistic here - Battlefront II is ass. This game is weak. Bioshock is alright, but it has never been in the same tier as Kingdom Hearts and it likely never will be. This is just wishful thinking. KH2 is going to do just fine here. It's not going to be a blowout to the tune of what we saw ZELDA do yesterday (Bioshock isn't that weak), but this will be another in a long line of comfortable, easy, boring wins. Kleenex's Prediction: Kingdom Hearts II with 59.99% Applekidjosh’s Analysis Both of these games had good showings in Round 1, except Halo 2 is at least one order of magnitude stronger than Star Wars Battlefront 2. That's really all that needs to be said here. AKJ says KH2 > Bioshock with 62.01% Guest’s Analysis - Chaotic Mind Bioshock looked great last round when it neared 69% on a Star Wars game. However that's not enough to compete with Kingdom Hearts II, which put up about 64% on Halo 2. I would take Halo 2 to 60-40 Battlefront II at least, probably more than that. Give me Kingdom Hearts II here. Kingdom Hearts II - 62% Crew Consensus: KH2 should have no problems winning tonight. |
Kingdom Hearts II vs BioShock I've had the KH2 > KH1 upset since day one and still feel good about it, but MAN have the matchups so far ever been unfair. 2 gets a day match but has to defeat the mighty Halo ASV followed by losing the sunlight advantage against a tough up-and-coming series, while 1 gets to feast on Castlevania's atrocious day vote followed by gorging itself on the new most anti-voted franchise on the site! I hope no one is fooled into calling 1 the easy favorite by the time both final numbers are in. But anyways, yup, expect KH2 to struggle a bit in this one. Why? Well, because... * older games have been performing the best this season, but of the newer crop BioShock is about the best SmartVoterFAQs candidate around. as in here's a game that grew into a "big deal" almost entirely from positive word of mouth, got ported to the PS3 and did well, spawned a sequel that did well, has a third entry that people are excited for, and has been praised as a legit GotD candidate all the while * Europe loves Square, but they just don't "get" the Kingdom Hearts series specifically. KH's massive ASVs aren't just "the kiddies"- they're mainly fueled by that continent falling asleep and North America taking over for the final 6-7 hours of day matches. it's hard to overestimate what a disadvantage losing that voting block is for this franchise * DANG, that Big Daddy match pic flat out rocks! also love the BS logo; easily one of the best match pics all year That should spell a very respectable loss for Bioshock, in the range of Kingdom Hearts II - 58.91% --- thengamer.com/guru | thengamer.com/xstats | board8.wikia.com If I were you I'd search B8 for The Show, the cool Ng/yoblazer Contest podcast! |
Ugh, looks like my original prediction probably would've won the accuracy point. Goddamnit. Sorry Moltar, but please return my prediction for GS/GTA back to what it was originally. --- "The power of accurate observation is commonly called Dr. Football Factor by those who have not got it." |
