Results[]
Saturday, April 18, 2020
Ulti's Analysis[]
| Division | Division 7 |
|---|---|
| Match # | 89 |
| Match Date | Saturday, April 18, 2020 |
| Oracle Expectations |
Dark Souls - 74.09% 50 for - 0 against |
| GameFAQs Prediction |
Dark Souls - 72.23% |
| User Votes |
Dark Souls - 6637 Rocket League - 1989 |
| Anonymous Votes |
Dark Souls - 5692 Rocket League - 1578 |
If round one wasn't a huge warning shot, then this match certainly brought it home. Dark Souls was all business in this contest. Rocket League escaped from a great match in round one that entertained the entire board, but only one game gets to have their last match in a contest be a win so here we were. Dark Souls came close to joining that exclusive club of contest entrants that broke 80% in the first two rounds, but it was not to be. This was just another speed bump on the road to facing The Last of Us in the division finals, and Dark Souls was showing itself to be the clear favorite.
I thought further about what the strongest sports game on this site is thanks to Rocket League, and I've got my answer. I think it's NBA Jam. Remember, we're not counting fighting games, Mario Kart, or "Mario X". We're talking sports games in the more traditional sense, like Madden, NBA 2K, or Tecmo Super Bowl and such. I think NBA Jam takes it.
Does anyone actively dislike NBA Jam? Of course not. Very possibly the best announcing job ever done in a game, too. HE'S ON FIRE!
Ctes's Analysis[]
This was probably the result that made it seem like Dark Souls getting to the semi-finals was a real possibility. At least it’s the result that Dark Souls was capable of taking advantage of capable of taking care of the weakness Skyrim was about to indicate. The oracles predicted Dark Souls a fine bit lower than this. It looks really good here, and I’m surprised its prediction percentage is not higher. Perhaps both Rocket League and Dragon Ball FighterZ are casual bait to some extent? I can see that, I’m just surprised if it worked against Dark Souls of all things.
At this point of the contest, we probably overestimated Rocket League and Dragon Ball FighterZ a bit though. Being the best sports game, the best non-Mario Kart racing game and the best non-Smash fighting game sounds like cool titles, but they all mean absolutely nothing here. Rocket League is a very fun game, I can easily play if for many hours, especially if playing with friends. It’s generally pretty well liked, but is it anyone’s favorite on GameFAQs? Highly unlikely. It’ll win matches against games no one care about, and it turns out having Dragon Ball in the title didn’t make us care about FighterZ but put it against a real contest threat and it rolls over completely. That’s what happened today.
Safer777's Analysis[]
So here nothing to say really. Soulslike games do really well in this contest which I didn't really expected and DS might be the strongest of them all since you know it is the game that created the term Soulslike. On the other hand RL barely won against a DBZ figthing game. And it has football on it so yeah. We don't like sports games because real gamers don't play sports. Right? So what is the strongest sports game here? I don't know. I guess nothing? Do we even have sports games in contests?
So for the match. The only thing to notice is with how much DS would win. Above 75 would considered good and it won with above that. So yeah. Things as expected, Soulslike games are awesome, next.
Tsunami's Analysis[]
Let's just go back to laughing at the guy who said he was going to rally for Rocket League last round. This was a huge fall-off from the previous day's vote totals, and IIRC one of the main Tumblrs that started the whole Undertale fiasco in 2015 was a self-professed Dark Souls fan first and foremost. Why she decided to rally for Undertale instead of Dark Souls is beyond me, but whatever. Point is, Dark Souls is going to be filthy in this contest if it needs to be.