2015 vs 2005

Ulti's Analysis
2015 was another entrant where people worried about rallies due to Undertale, but this was from people not knowing how rallies actually work. Undertale is now in the Portal slot. It'll make contests, but it's in the permanent 13-15 seed range and probably won't ever win a match again. And that's fine. We had our fun.

2015 was predictably demolished, which is a damn shame. Witcher 3 won something like 3275 game of the year awards, Fallout 4 is in there, Xenoblade Chronicles X is in there, Metal Gear Solid 5 is in there, and most importantly, MOTHER FUCKING BLOODBORNE is in there. Bloodborne is the closest thing we have to a perfect video game in the modern era. I'll save my full rant for the review, but it's pretty damn good and you are sorely missing out if you haven't played it yet. Any real gamer needs to.

That said, 2005 is just better. We'll forget Shadow of the Colossus exists and just look at everything else. When the debates were happening for this match, I took one look and went "Resident Evil 4 can carry 2005 all by itself, even if it's in a weakened state". Lo and behold, here we are. Resident Evil 4 carrying fools and taking names. Still the best game in that series, even if it did kinda sorta ruin that series.

Devil May Cry 3 is arguably the best single player action game ever made, even today. Soulsborne is technically multiplayer, so we'll cheat there. God of War is in 2005, which is such a damn fantastic series. I love how angry Kratos is and how he just murders everything in front of him. Can't wait for him to murder all of the Roman gods, too. Guitar Hero 1 sucks, but I loved it anyway. Man, and this year even has We Love Katamari, Fire Emblem 8, Phoenix Wright 1, MOTHER FUCKING ADVANCE WARS DUAL STRIKE (best game in the series, bitches), and oh yeah, the best of all the Fire Emblems. Path of Radiance. Ike's story is the best story told in that entire series, and FE9 has the gameplay to match. I still replay 9/10 once a year, and it never gets old. It's the perfect video game, and anyone who likes SRPGs needs to play it at some point.

All that said, I did my best to make round one interesting for you guys but holy shit did this contest suck. Even with the one good match we had, this was the worst round one we've ever had and I doubt we'll ever do worse. We had what, 4 matches within 60-40 and most were triplings or worse? Jeez man. At least this was one of those 32 entrant deals instead of some 64 entrant contest. Can you even imagine a 1v1 64 entrant contest as bad as this one?