(7)Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots vs (10)Kingdom Hearts II 2015

Ulti's Analysis
I know KH2 was the favorite here, but I did pick MGS4 for a few reasons. Blind fanboyism was the major one, but I also thought MGS5's release would boost the MGS series, plus I couldn't get this poll out of my head: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/2116-gear-division-final-solid-snake-vs-sora

I know games =/= characters and the picture had a lot to do with that match, but it's hard to imagine that one being practically reversed. I also thought this site was kind of over the whole Kingdom Hearts thing, what with Tetsuya Nomura's dumb ass running the series into the ground and us still not having Kingdom Hearts 3 despite having 3843 awful spinoffs. Bear in mind that the Final Fantasy series and Square in general has been trending down in large part due to the Dream Drop 358/244/1 Birth by Chain of Memories Sleeping Distance Final Mix 4.0 Prototype XE Syndrome -- "Kingdom Hearts has sucked since the original game", in other words.

As fate would have it, this site may have issues with Kingdom Hearts but this site is also really over Metal Gear Solid. I knew the honeymoon period with Snake in Brawl and MGS4 would pass eventually, but seeing it here live and in living color was really something else. The entire series looked awful in this contest, and it started in this poll. It was never close, and it took everything just to keep KH2 under 60% given how things started. It was the first in a long line of embarrassments for Metal Gear Solid, and honestly the series trending down makes some sense. I love 4, but I can see why people have issues with it. And given what would happen to 5 later on, it's clear that this site blames 4 for the series and doesn't much care about 5. Or anything else released after the PS2 era, really. Old games beat the hell out of new games in this contest, and I'm positive you can call KH2 > MGS4 an old game > new game thing.

Which kind of sucks, because MGS4 is an amazing video game and the perfect way to end Snake's story. You see him suffer so much, you grow up with him in many ways... then the events of MGS4 start happening and you eventually hit Act 4. We all geeked out like mad, to where this was going 50/50 with Brawl in Game of the Year.

How did we get from that to 41% on Kingdom Hearts 2?