Results[]
Thursday, April 16, 2020
Ulti's Analysis[]
| Division | Division 5 |
|---|---|
| Match # | 84 |
| Match Date | Thursday, April 16, 2020 |
| Oracle Expectations |
God of War - 71.31% 53 for - 0 against |
| GameFAQs Prediction |
God of War - 79.71% |
| User Votes |
Nioh - 2432 God of War - 6649 |
| Anonymous Votes |
Nioh - 2307 God of War - 7586 |
Nioh pulled off a cute little one point upset in round 1 against The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, but we call them "one point upsets" for a reason. That reason is when the winner gets to the next round, they typically get annihilated. God of War scored a total beatdown in this one, which set it up quite nicely for its match with New Vegas. There was a small chance New Vegas could pull the upset there, so ol' Kratos had to make sure he looked good and ready in his warmup fight.
Shout out to Nioh though, no shame in losing badly here. I love that game even with its flaws, and I'm very excited to play Nioh 2 and see what direction the series takes moving forward. I also love God of War 2018 to death, so this match was a win-win for me.
Killer match picture, too: https://www.vgr.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/The-Roots-of-Jormungandr-in-Norse-Mythology-600x300.jpg
The case can be made for that image being the best and most iconic image in the history of video games. It's that good and that important. I don't know if it would be #1 on such a list of hypotheticals, but it's in the conversation. It has to be. Remember, Kratos had beaten the entire Pantheon, plus a lot of esoteric Greek stuff of myth, and those games were just done by this point. Amazing games, but a reboot was needed and it had to be bigger.
Going from Greek to Norse is such a crazy undertaking, and for it to work, the scale had to be insane. Then Jormungandr pops up and it's like.... oh. Yeah shit just got real, boys. This game is not messing around with you.
Ctes's Analysis[]
God of War looks quite dominant once again. Nioh just had a sequel right before the contest began and we’ve had a contest where anything FromSoftware has looked really good. God of War looked like it could give a lot of division favorites a good scare. Just not the one in the division it was actually in, unfortunately. God of War over Witcher 3 was a fine upset pick if you wanted something that would give you a good winning chance if it pulled through, though it required you to think The Witcher 3 hadn’t boosted much and that the Ultimate vs. God of War GotY poll could be translated to contest strength. It was always a longshot and the hope officially died today, despite God of War exceeding our expectations a little bit.
Nioh ended up looking pretty bad despite looking good coming out of round 1. Despite just getting a sequel, it doesn’t look like the game was all that big. It just turns out The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth was among the weakest things in the bracket, which we didn’t believe at the time of its match. Nioh is a good example that 2017 just has a large collection of strong games, but that nothing does well because it’s from 2017, as it seemed at times. Games like Nioh was simply in a great position to make it seem like that because it got a weak opponent the contest had led us to believe would be decent enough.
When all that is said, I do believe Nioh was perhaps SFF’d a little here. Although Nioh later came out on PC, the games were both released as Playstation 4 exclusives only about a year apart. I think they overlap a little in fanbase.
Safer777's Analysis[]
So Nioh did managed to win in Round 1 since it's sequel had come recently and it did pulled out the upset, but against GOW it didn't stand a chance. The question was how much GOW would score. The crew was between 70 and 80 and it scored in the middle. So it did really good. Almost a tripling!
So for the match. I don't think the rally that was going on for another match that was happening at the same time affected this match because you can't really vote against GOW. It is amazing game. Seriously so good that I didn't expected that. Also a friend of mine told me something that I haven't noticed too. It doesn't have a single DLC or microtransaction! Seriously! Is this the only big AAA game that hasn't anything like that? Probably. So yeah a damn strong win. Is this the strongest exclusive non Nintendo game? For sure. I want to see how far it reaches.
Tsunami's Analysis[]
Without even meaning to, I ended up bringing up a topic of discussion with my Guest Analysis of this match for the Crew: Can Japanese and Western games SFF each other? I honestly don't see why they shouldn't, but apparently people think that they don't overlap that much. I mean, this isn't exactly the best match for it since Nioh's an ARPG and God of War is a straight-up hack-and-slash AAG, but I feel like unless you're loyal to a specific company, you wouldn't be any less likely to be a fan of other games from the same genre just because they were developed on the other side of the Pacific. In a weird way, even those same people realized it in other genres, when they figured that a Mario game would be harder for "the indies" to rally against. A lot of those indies are Western in origin, you know! But for some reason, platformers are apparently the only thing that's allowed to SFF across the ocean.
(Though I have to admit I haven't played that many WRPGs, if any. I've had this copy of Skyrim sitting around for years since I got it second-hand for practically nothing and I've never actually installed it because I wanted to stream my blind playthrough and there have been other things higher on my streaming priority list. I need to play it! Maybe when this contest is over, since Skyrim's obviously going to go really far.)