Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1353

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt vs. Super Mario Galaxy 2
Registered Vote Result:
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - 5452 (59.29%)
Super Mario Galaxy 2 - 3744 (40.71%)

Anonymous Vote Result:
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - 5408 (63.43%)
Super Mario Galaxy 2 - 3118 (36.57%)

Fallout: New Vegas vs. God of War
Registered Vote Result:
Fallout: New Vegas - 4081 (44.38%)
God of War - 5115 (55.62%)

Anonymous Vote Result:
Fallout: New Vegas - 3881 (45.50%)
God of War - 4649 (54.50%)

Super Mario Galaxy 2 does over 4% better with registered users, pretty expected from most Nintendo games.

God of War does around 1% better with registered users, but this is a much closer split than the other match.

Extra info and past results - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kFS3SfH6sAhPdS85H7BpuFIkr9SayeF7AhMw-wrEBng/pub

Alright, there officially goes my bracket. Will likely be off the leaderboard after today.

PErsona 5/Portal isn't even close to being debated. Persona 5 is just on another level to every game in its Division. Much like Witcher 3 and Dark souls.

Before this match, I thought Portal 2 would give a decently close match with P5, but this near 70-30 on Mania shut me up on that end.

Arguably puts Persona in range of Odyssey if you think Mania is close to DMCV or Shovel Knight.

LamarJackson posted...

I really hope RDR2 is able to pull this out. Portal is the one series I'll never understand the popularity for.

I'm sorry.

What’s the last day of the contest?

tgs2 posted...

Before this match, I thought Portal 2 would give a decently close match with P5, but this near 70-30 on Mania shut me up on that end.

Arguably puts Persona in range of Odyssey if you think Mania is close to DMCV or Shovel Knight.

Just going off of your post to share these polls:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/6946-best-of-2017-switch
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/6953-best-of-2017-game-of-the-year

Going off of 2017's GotY-comparisons against LoZ:BotW, it's easy to expect SMO to have suffered enough SFF to overcome Persona 5's numbers. Also though...how much SFF happened is uncertain, these are multi-way GotY-polls, Joker joined Smash like a year ago, and Persona 5 had Royal come out six months ago. These past variables could lead to something like what you're saying -- especially in a world where a Vita port of Persona 4 became a GotD-division finalist.

there go my hopes and dreams

ZenOfThunder posted...

there go my hopes and dreams

You're gonna need to rally up the furry crowd!

I hope that KingMario05 guy stands true for what he said and votes for R2D2.

I get that the people who vote against the rally are more likely to make a comment about it, but it still feels like people take Game of the Decade way more seriously than they take Character Battles. The 'backfire' votes for character rallies were more like "nah, I like X more." The backfire votes for Game of the Decade read like you insulted their mother.

KamikazePotato posted...

I get that the people who vote against the rally are more likely to make a comment about it, but it still feels like people take Game of the Decade way more seriously than they take Character Battles. The 'backfire' votes for character rallies were more like "nah, I like X more." The backfire votes for Game of the Decade read like you insulted their mother.

I almost half wonder if there might be something to having a more powerful name attached the polls. The names "Character Battle" and "Best. Game. Ever." don't really carry much prestige, but "Game of the Decade" really does.

well it depends what you're trying to rally against / for.

Persona 5 is in that group of games that have enough acclaim for it to be in the conversation for game of decade and it not be considered outlandish by mainstream gamers. Sonic Mania not so much

on the other match both games are in that conversation so i'd wager there wouldn't be as much backfire in their own communities

KamikazePotato posted...

I get that the people who vote against the rally are more likely to make a comment about it, but it still feels like people take Game of the Decade way more seriously than they take Character Battles. The 'backfire' votes for character rallies were more like "nah, I like X more." The backfire votes for Game of the Decade read like you insulted their mother.

If people were actually factoring in the prestige of the contest name, they wouldn't be voting for s***ty remakes/ports en masse

Best Game Ever absolutely carried some prestige. A lot of people even outside GameFAQs were pissed that a game that had been out for half a year won. Character Battle not so much.

KamikazePotato posted...

Best Game Ever absolutely carried some prestige. A lot of people even outside GameFAQs were pissed that a game that had been out for half a year won. Character Battle not so much.

Maybe so, but it does carry a bit of tongue in cheek tone considering the name is based off of a Simpson's reference.

Game contests have always been better from that perspective. Character battles read like some crappy fan-fiction

Outsiders have been more likely to confuse Character Battles as being who would win in a fight than to treat it as a matter of serious consideration to decide who deserves to win.

Axem_Turtle posted...

I think we can blame the declining votals for weeb crap like Persona being strong. Clearly all the people with taste left this site years ago, leaving a core of basement dwelling, Atlus shirt wearing weeaboos.

$5 says Yuri owns at least 3 waifu pillows

This site never had taste. They think Zelda is hte best thing ever.

Also we're in a timeline where 2 Persona games could be in the top 8 of a Gamefaqs contest.

shane15 posted...

Also we're in a timeline where 2 Persona games could be in the top 8 of a Gamefaqs contest.

We are also actually in the timeline where Super Mario RPG was top 4 of a GameFAQs contest open to all games.

_SecretSquirrel posted...

We are also actually in the timeline where Super Mario RPG was top 4 of a GameFAQs contest open to all games.

That one doesn't impress me because it's Nintendo on Gamefaqs.

It's not even close to top 4 Nintendo game here though. It only happened due to fantastic bracket placement.

Woke up, checked the results. Man Portal 2 is strong.

Persona was getting consistently stronger before votals dropped. Indeed P4 made it to round 3 last GotD. This makes sense as the series has gradually gotten more and more mainstream, and Persona is now one of the biggest JRPG, and even RPG, series. P5 sold over 3 million copies and isn’t stopping any time soon. It also has a 93 on Metacritic (best for a JRPG since FFIX), with Royal getting a 95 - behind only BotW, Mario Odyssey, and RDR2 this generation. No matter where you have this poll P5 will be elite, though it might be an argument of top 10 vs. top 15.

I grouse about Golden but that’s only due to the eligibility argument.

shane15 posted...

That one doesn't impress me because it's Nintendo on Gamefaqs.

Persona fanbase and Nintendo fanbase are pretty much the same sociologically.

direshall posted...

Persona fanbase and Nintendo fanbase are pretty much the same sociologically.

If that were the case then P4 would've cruised through an awful 4 pack and P3 wouldn't have scrapped a win against a civ game.

Persona is far more associated with playstation than it is Nintendo.

Sharinnegan posted...

Persona is far more associated with playstation than it is Nintendo.

Exactly

shane15 posted...

Exactly

well of course. The only persona games on nintendo platforms are the s***ty Q games

imagine if we had them on the switch how much more popular theyd be

ctesjbuvf posted...

It's not even close to top 4 Nintendo game here though. It only happened due to fantastic bracket placement.

It could have been if it ever got a proper European release! The fact that it's so strong despite being nothing in Europe is super impressive.

Persona 5 (and by extension royal) is by far the best jrpg of the decade for me personally(and yes,I played both xenoblades) and im genuinely happy that the series as a whole is seeing so much popularity now.
Its a 100 hour rpg with almost no padding and an amazing aesthetic, definitely deserves to be in the conversation for GoTD.

Leonhart4 posted...

It could have been if it ever got a proper European release! The fact that it's so strong despite being nothing in Europe is super impressive.

Oh absolutely.

shane15 posted...

If that were the case then P4 would've cruised through an awful 4 pack and P3 wouldn't have scrapped a win against a civ game.

That was before the series became mainstream. Doesn't change the fact the series is hugely pushed by the nintendo fanbase. Sony probably bought the exclusive to push nintendo fanboys to buy a PS4, that was a smart marketing move. It's easier to imagine the Fire Emblem or Xenoblade fanbase playing Persona than the Uncharted/God of War fanbase.

Playstation has always been the weeb machine and not Nintendo.

it's because Playstation usually get all the 3rd party games, s***ty "weeb" and great ones. what do Nintendo machines get other than Nintendo 1st party stuff??

I mean switch pretty much gets everything it can run

Not Persona 5 for some reason. though it will get its sequel. for some reason.

Yeah the Switch is the first console since the SNES that isn't just snubbed by third parties.

The other day I was looking at the 128 games in the bracket one by one and realized almost every multiplatform game that came out after the Switch gets a port for it, while almost every non-nintendo game that came out before the Switch ignores the Nintendo systems.

Sharinnegan posted...

Not Persona 5 for some reason. though it will get its sequel. for some reason.

Persona 5 Scramble is a spin-off. Mainline Persona games are always PlayStation exclusive

Switch is also (eventually) getting shin megami tensei v, exclusively .

Be interesting to see if devs abandon the Switch once the PS5 comes out. At the moment it's easy enough to get games running on both systems. But we saw the Wii U get left behind as soon as the PS4 started gaining momentum. The Switch might be successful but devs won't want the hassle of having to downscale their games to run on the Switch that's if they'll run at all.

I think they just abandoned the Wii U because of the Wii U.

Like it matters if the latest Cawadoody comes out on Switch

I've treated that thing as a portable indie and Hulu system that has a new Nintendo game once every eight months

I wasn't referring to stuff like COD. Nobody who owns a Nintendo system gives a damn about stuff like COD, sports games or fighting games.

I don't think the devs were even in on the WiiU to begin with.

I'm sure there were a few games that made their way over. Unless they all got cancelled.

I'm sure companies will be fine porting over their 15+ year old games for 30+ dollars even after PS5 and XSX come out.

Who's ready to pay 60 dollars to play GTAIV ON THE GO?! Implying people were playing it at all in the past decade.