Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1325

Lightning Strikes posted...

Also honestly Allen should have removed RE2 or just not done separate PS4 or Xbox polls, the only (timed) exclusive in either is Death Stranding.

I for one welcome RE2 winning multiple polls

Lightning Strikes posted...

That's a fiasco alright - weakest GOTY of the decade in strength, quality and general reception enabled pretty much because 2016 lacked big RPGs and Action Adventure games. To be really brutal about it it pretty much won through genre bias.

Anyway I do agree KH3 should have been in the PS4 poll specifically at the expense of CTR. It's a remaster, no need to have it. But I'm fine to drop a game that would probably come third (maybe even fourth behind Outer Worlds) for better games, yeah. There is merit in curating the options to cull lower quality games with more name recognition. I just don't think the CTR is the game to replace it and KH3 did still get good enough reviews so it had a fair reason to be there.

Also honestly Allen should have removed RE2 or just not done separate PS4 or Xbox polls, the only (timed) exclusive in either is Death Stranding.

And on the subject of Death Stranding....How big of a Flop is that game?

When you consider how f***ing strong an Exclusive Sony game was last year in God of War and here you have what is one of the more hyped up PS4 games, a Kojima game and one supposedly a ton of fanboys love and all the European gaming journalists are having a fit over

You'd think a game like that would do well on Gamefaqs but nope..noone gives a s*** about it.

Eh, I think it was pretty obvious from the onset that Death Stranding would be the definition of a "Love it or hate it" game.

Yeah I did not love or even 'get' DT. It's just not enjoyable for me. I have played every single MGS game multiple times, I like Kojima's weird stuff sometimes but not DT.

PC poll today:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7832-

Looks like Borderlands 3 got completely shut out of the GotY polls this year, just like KH3 did.

Borderlands 3 still has a chance if there's a Stadia poll.

seriously Allen???

Re2 again?!?!?

RE2 could literally win 4 polls during this entire set of GotY polls, and that isn't even counting the overall GotY poll (or any Final Vote polls). This is assuming RE2 makes it into the Remasters/Remakes poll. Once you include the overall GotY poll or any of the Final Vote polls, RE2 might be able to win as many as 5 or 6 polls.

RE2 winning so many polls is bad because it means having to pull some of the second place finishers from some of these polls to be included in the overall GotY poll. Otherwise, we would have far less than the 8 games that would normally appear in the overall GotY poll.

Allen is really phoning in GOTY this year

LusterSoldier posted...

RE2 could literally win 4 polls during this entire set of GotY polls, and that isn't even counting the overall GotY poll (or any Final Vote polls). This is assuming RE2 makes it into the Remasters/Remakes poll. Once you include the overall GotY poll or any of the Final Vote polls, RE2 might be able to win as many as 5 or 6 polls.

RE2 winning so many polls is bad because it means having to pull some of the second place finishers from some of these polls to be included in the overall GotY poll. Otherwise, we would have far less than the 8 games that would normally appear in the overall GotY poll.

Sekiro is a very very strong 2nd to be fair.

Team Rocket Elite posted...

Borderlands 3 still has a chance if there's a Stadia poll.

This might be the funniest thing I've seen in weeks.

Really I think it's time to retire system-specific polls and bring back the genre polls (though maybe tone the number of genres down a bit). System just does not matter anymore outside of Nintendo.

It will be funny if the GOTY poll is just Resident Evil 2, Fire Emblem, and Disco Elysium with no need to do a final poll though.

Lightning Strikes posted...

Really I think it's time to retire system-specific polls and bring back the genre polls (though maybe tone the number of genres down a bit). System just does not matter anymore outside of Nintendo.

It will be funny if the GOTY poll is just Resident Evil 2, Fire Emblem, and Disco Elysium with no need to do a final poll though.

Shouldn't we have another poll afterwards where people can vote for which version of RE2 they played? Are you voting for RE2 as GOTY for PC, Xbone or PS4?

If this year's gonna be all about RE2, might as well have a bonus poll with only the original vs. the remake.

The original wins with 56%

Having a snubs bonus poll would be nice. Borderlands 2 won GOTY, after all...

We could have a GOTD poll with all the GOTY winners

(which BOTW would dominate but still)

LeonhartFour posted...

We could have a GOTD poll with all the GOTY winners

(which BOTW would dominate but still)

we probably will. And yeah BOTW easily wins but I’d vote for Mass effect 2 personally.

Mobile poll today:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7833-

Last year's Mobile poll already set records for lowest vote totals in the GotY polls (excluding 1999) and this year's poll should be even lower still.

RIP Pokemon Masters

My understanding is that people who have tried Mario Kart Tour largely dislike the game so it's kinda funny how it's going to make the overall GotY poll.

The only Metacritic score I see for Pokemon Masters and Mario Kart Tour are for the iOS version of the game. In fact, Pokemon Masters has a slightly higher Metacritic score than Mario Kart Tour and doesn't make it into this poll. Pokemon Masters has a 62 Metacritic score, compared to a 59 for Mario Kart Tour.

where is Resident Evil 2

I mean people don't like Pokemon Masters either but since people also dislike Mario Kart Tour it's a fair fight. Dr. Mario World got snubbed as well. I'm not really sure what people thought of that game.

Wow, no Magia Record. That's the real travesty!

(Watch Magia Record)

Looks like this year's Mobile poll will end up with better vote totals than last year's Mobile poll. Last year's poll had only 4007 votes with the top game being Dragalia Lost, with Fortnite and PUBG Mobile as the second and third place games. This year's poll doesn't look as strong on paper (due to 2 less games compared to last year), along with lacking Pokemon Masters, but it's still on track to beat out last year's poll in vote totals.

Last year's poll had 466 votes at the end of the first hour, while this year's poll has 534 votes by the same point in time. At the very least, we are expected to get at least 4500 votes and might even break 5000 as well.

Mario Kart is a significantly bigger name than Dragalia Lost. Perhaps the difference is being made up voters having a familiar name to vote for.

It was also the first actually good year for mobile games since like 2014 as well, helped largely by Apple Arcade. Sayonara Wild Hearts and What the Golf are both legit.

Which makes it even more of a bummer that Mario Kart Tour, widely considered to be a bad game, is beating both of them on brand strength. It's going to make the final poll potentially having four games in it even more bizarre.

Question... What's the earliest time in a year a contest has ever been announced or happened?

Advokaiser posted...

Question... What's the earliest time in a year a contest has ever been announced or happened?

Uhh Villians contest in 2005 was announced in April or something early. Almost all contests are like July - September for announcements

I feel like Character Battle VIII took place in the early part of the year.

*checks*

Yep, the first match in 2010 was January 16.

Indie poll today:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7834-

LusterSoldier posted...

Indie poll today:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7834-

More people need to play Baba Is You

linid0t posted...

More people need to play Baba Is You

very interesting and addictive at first but after a while it just gets annoying and boring. It’s a unique and interesting game for sure but nothing amazing

Legitimately surprised Untitled Goose Game is running away with this after how well Disco Elysium did in the PC poll. I guess it is more "indie" in a sense.

Disco Elysium doing only slightly better in today's poll compared to the PC poll could be explained by Disco Elysium being a PC exclusive for now. The game is scheduled to come out on PS4 and Xbox One sometime this year, but it remains PC exclusive at the time of the GotY polls. That really hurts it in a poll where most of the games are multiplatform.

Lightning Strikes posted...

Legitimately surprised Untitled Goose Game is running away with this after how well Disco Elysium did in the PC poll. I guess it is more "indie" in a sense.

Nintendo game that was also a timed exclusive

Untitled Goose Game is also significantly more well known because of memes.

Just realized Sky got snubbed as well.

You know, from the creators of Journey...

LeonhartFour posted...

I feel like Character Battle VIII took place in the early part of the year.

*checks*

Yep, the first match in 2010 was January 16.

Wow, that musta been announced around December, then!

If we take into account the period between contest announcement and nominations being officially opened, that means... we could start nominating in February at the earliest, right?

We were doing vote-ins in the middle of December, so I imagine nominations were probably early December. TRE would probably be able to provide exact dates.

Character Battle VIII Nominations opened on Nov. 18, 2009.

WhiteLens posted...

Untitled Goose Game is also significantly more well known because of memes.

Absolutely. If you were to take this result at face value versus the PC poll, you would think Goose Game would be a legit GotY contender. However, I'm of the opinion that it's mainly doing this well because it's what so many here automatically think of when they think of '2019 indie game'. That's not to say that it will get blown out come the final poll - this is too impressive a result - but I also wouldn't expect it to contend with RE2.

VR poll today:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7835-

We had a VR poll last year and while the vote totals were bad, they were better than the Mobile poll from last year.

MetalmindStats posted...

Absolutely. If you were to take this result at face value versus the PC poll, you would think Goose Game would be a legit GotY contender. However, I'm of the opinion that it's mainly doing this well because it's what so many here automatically think of when they think of '2019 indie game'. That's not to say that it will get blown out come the final poll - this is too impressive a result - but I also wouldn't expect it to contend with RE2.

Untitled Goose Game winning 2019 GotY because people on this site don't play new games anymore and experience them more through cultural osmosis than anything else would be the most GameFAQs thing ever.

Untitled Goose Game got absolutely smashed in the Switch poll, but I wouldn't be surprised if it improved relative to Three Houses in the combined poll/

KamikazePotato posted...

Untitled Goose Game winning 2019 GotY because people on this site don't play new games anymore and experience them more through cultural osmosis than anything else would be the most GameFAQs thing ever.

True!

I actually didn't realize it already tanked in the Switch poll, though, so I suppose it's not going anywhere in the true GotY poll without off-site support.

There have been loads of polls showing that an overwhelming majority of GameFAQs play numerous new games per year, we can stop repeating that they don't now. Though that does make the site's obsession with the 90's even more alarming.

Also, on the subject of Indie poll strength changes Outer Wilds did much better on Disco Elysium than in the PC poll too. I can't help but wonder if in addition to Untitled Goose Game and Outer Wilds getting stronger, Disco Elysium got weaker because people don't think of Disco Elysium as an indie game. It is a shame because Disco Elysium seems like a much more logical third place than Untitled Goose Game... Though the actual third would be Sekiro.

Lightning Strikes posted...

Though that does make the site's obsession with the 90's even more alarming.

I mean they just don't make games like they used to

Lightning Strikes posted...

There have been loads of polls showing that an overwhelming majority of GameFAQs play numerous new games per year, we can stop repeating that they don't now. Though that does make the site's obsession with the 90's even more alarming.

I think what's hurting modern game strength is also the rise of indie games during the 2010s. This means you have more games competing for our time spent playing games. As a result, the biggest games struggle to get high playrates (for a modern game, anything above 50% playrate is considered high) and you need high playrate to make up for the lack of nostalgia on any modern game.

Remakes/Remasters poll today:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7836-

Of particular note is Resident Evil 2 not being in this poll. This suggests that Allen doesn't consider it to be a proper remake and would also imply that it should be allowed into the next GotD contest. However, Link's Awakening did make this poll, which would provide possible evidence of being disallowed in GotD.

Resident Evil 2 got snubbed.

LusterSoldier posted...

This suggests that Allen doesn't consider it to be a proper remake and would also imply that it should be allowed into the next GotD contest. However, Link's Awakening did make this poll, which would provide possible evidence of being disallowed in GotD.

nah it just means he didn't want it to win again

vote for FFVIII Remastered