Results[]
Saturday, April 18, 2020
Ulti's Analysis[]
| Division | Division 7 |
|---|---|
| Match # | 91 |
| Match Date | Saturday, April 18, 2020 |
| Oracle Expectations |
Batman: Arkham City - 55.25% 46 for - 4 against |
| GameFAQs Prediction |
Batman: Arkham City - 48.68% |
| User Votes |
Batman: Arkham City - 5183 BioShock Infinite - 3445 |
| Anonymous Votes |
Batman: Arkham City - 4305 BioShock Infinite - 2965 |
Ready for a joke?
What do you get when you take the original Bioshock, put it in the sky instead of at the bottom of the ocean, make the writing worse, and insult the intelligence of your players?
You get what you fucking deserve.
Bioshock Infinite is not a bad game, but it's not a good one. Terraria wasn't able to take advantage of the newfound weakness in this series, but Batman certainly was. The two Arkham games have always performed well on this site, and scoring a 60-40 beating over a Bioshock was the latest example of this. The Batman games aren't likely to ever be top tier on this site, but they are solid midcarders that can beat most games before getting to the heavy hitters in brackets.
Arkham Asylum made one contest, and Arkham City has made two. In those three combined contest appearances, Batman made round 3 in two of them. In the outlier, 2015, Arkham City had to go against a 90s all-star in Mega Man X. If you go and look at that contest's bracket, there are several fourpacks it could have won.
To the point. We're long past time for character battles, if they even continue, to allow for any character that's ever been in a video game. Provided there are no licensing issues and such. It's just dumb to have a character battle on a video game web site without Batman, Joker, Spiderman, Thanos, Wolverine, and all the rest of it being eligible. It's the only way to make them unpredictable again, too.
Ctes's Analysis[]
Heading into round 2, this was expected to be a somewhat close match. Batman: Arkham City was the heavy favorite both before and during the contest, but the first round saw Batman get a very narrow win, lower than we expected, while BioShock Infinite scored higher than we thought. Of course, everyone expected Xenoblade Chronicles 2 to be better than Terreria, but both Xenoblade 2 and Batman were likely better than we thought. I’m sure a few additional people would have taken this upset, if the first Xenoblade had not just looked insane a few days before this match.
The lesson was learned today. Xenoblade 2 was one of the games screwed the most over by bracket placement, as some had expected, and Terraria was just straight up awful. Batman: Arkham City won easily enough today that suddenly The Last of Us reaching the division finals didn’t seem like as big a lock at it was before, although that had more to do with its own match. BioShock Infinite actually ends up looking decent enough in the x-stats. The decline of that franchise could’ve been a lot worse, but there’s still far up to how well the original two did a decade ago.
Safer777's Analysis[]
This match is strange. We all thought that BAC did bad in Round 1 since it score less than 55 against Xenoblade Chronicles 2 BUT after we see that the original Xenoblade Chronicles did amazing we all think that XC franchise is actually decent now! Maybe even good! As for BI I do think it is a good game. It got amazing critical reception but it seems that it faded really fast from the gamers consience. Also this series seems to be dead now, since the last main game came out 7 years ago. I do wonder why? All Bioshock games sold well and really good critical reception. Eh whatever. As for the BA games the general consensus is:BA1 good, BA 2 perfect, BA 3 decent, BA really bad. Yeah strange how things change.
So for the match. Well I don't think people were expecting BAC to lose. I mean as I said nobody really cares for the Bioshock games now since even the company seems to have abandon them. And BAC did won with higher than it did in Round 1. I do believe that XC2 has to be in the top 5 strongest Round 1 games that lost.
Tsunami's Analysis[]
Well, my Arkham City > The Last of Us upset loves this result...but my Three Houses > Xenoblade Chronicles not-upset is scared shitless! (No, I still don't know why I picked Arkham City > Last of Us, and it's a moot point because I wouldn't have picked Dark Souls over the Last of Us, either, so I'd have lost the R4 points either way.) Arkham City did better against BioShock Infinite than against Xenoblade 2. Is Xenoblade 2 any good? I might have to check it out. The first one seemed like it was promising from a story aspect but I just couldn't get past the janky battle system. Give me a traditional turn-based RPG any day, but failing that, if you're going to give me an ARPG, give me a goddamn attack button!
So, yeah, turns out BioShock isn't that strong any more. 2013 certainly provided some hints with Big Daddy losing to Lloyd Irving and the Infinite characters not being worth much of anything, but the series' decline was hidden by both games in the bracket (the original and Infinite) being in the SMRPG quarter. BioShock had a close loss to Division 8 champ MGS3, while Infinite had a decent match with Fallout: New Vegas, which in turn broke 41% on RE4. Arkham City is, apparently, still fairly decent, and I expect it to give a good match next round.