(5)Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain vs (4)Dark Souls 2015

Ulti's Analysis
I knew this was coming after how bad the Metal Gear Solid series looked in round 1, but it didn't make it any easier to watch. I quite literally have MGS5 on next to me, and my file is at 270 hours as of this writing. I absolutely adore that game and love the gameplay, and I really though pre-contest that people would love the game as much as me and boost the series as a whole. I picked all five games to make it to round 3, and I really think that could have happened if Konami didn't suck. And yes, I know MGS5's faults quite well. I'm not denying them. But the gameplay is really good enough to where those faults shouldn't matter much.

Obviously we didn't have a contest where all 5 games made it to round 3, and Dark Souls handed Kojima's final project a swift and quiet exit from this contest right here in round 2. It was never ever close en route to Dark Souls getting an easy 55-45 win, and I just kind of sat here doing the Big Boss salute in honor of our fallen hero.

Eventually I'll play Dark Souls, and I'm sure it'll blow my doors off when I do (it is on the KP Approved List™, after all!). It'll make this writeup look pretty hilarious in retrospect in a few years, but for now? We mourn.

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