(9)Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars vs (2)Resident Evil 4 2015

Ulti's Analysis
Undertale going on its crazy run partially blinded people to Super Mario RPG also making a crazy run of its own, and even though it winning three matches was predictable the second it beat Oblivion, the match here against Resident Evil 4 was its coming out party. Mario RPG's prediction percentages may not be Undertale level, but they were still drastically low and Mario RPG needs to be given all the credit in the world for the run it made this year.

As fate would have it, all those warning signs that Resident Evil 4 showed us leading up to this match were quite relevant. yoblazer makes one call every contest against the grain that pans out, and for this contest it was Mario RPG beating Resident Evil 4. His logic was that old games would embarrass new games in a fair bracket, and he was proven right tenfold as this contest progressed. There were signs all over the place that this was coming, but when the match itself happened and Resident Evil 4 never even came close, eyes were opened.

Even the standard SMRPG European percentage bleed did nothing to spare RE4 from getting thoroughly embarrassed here. All it did was turn a 57-43 beating into 54-46 overnight, but then the morning vote came and the burial continued. This wasn't just any game, either. This was Resident Evil 4, which is on the short list of being among the objectively greatest games ever made. And it just went out there and got its ass absolutely plowed for 24 solid hours.

There was a host of "this is why GameFAQs gets made fun of" topics, but really, this loss is on Capcom. Their business philosophy basically amounts to "throw as much shit on the wall as possible", and among the 2398432984 Resident Evil games they've made, they struck gold with Resident Evil 4.

How did they follow it up? In typical Capcom fashion. Go play RE5 and RE6 and see for yourself just how awful that company is. It sucks that RE4 had to be the game to sacrifice so that Capcom could get its comeuppance in this contest, but certain things need to be done for the greater good. RE4 getting pasted and making more people aware of how shit Capcom is counts as "the greater good". There is not one Capcom series that they have not completely run into the ground, and no one should ever buy games from those idiots ever again. Resident Evil 4 may not have deserved this beating, but Crapcom certainly did. That, the old > new theme, and Mario RPG getting its own bandwagon going spelled doom for RE4 before this match ever begun.

Even more alarming here is how 55-45 against RE4 was such a high number that the winner of MGS/MGS3 was likely also completely screwed. Mario RPG this contest was just on a whole different level.