Results[]
Friday, April 3, 2020
Ulti's Analysis[]
| Division | Division 4 |
|---|---|
| Match # | 30 |
| Match Date | Friday, April 03, 2020 |
| Oracle Expectations |
Overwatch - 52.59% 48 for - 18 against |
| GameFAQs Prediction |
Overwatch - 72.66% |
| User Votes |
Overwatch - 5115 Death Stranding - 3811 |
| Anonymous Votes |
Overwatch - 3809 Death Stranding - 3452 |
One of my favorite gimmicks from The Show this year was yoblazer crapping all over Hideo Kojima and Death Stranding every chance he got. Granted, anonymous inside sources have hinted that he didn't even play Death Stranding, but who even cares? The game is a bucket of literal piss grenades. I am in no way joking about that one, either. You can actually throw your own piss at enemies. I know a lot of people expect me to rant and rave over Blizzard winning matches this year, but I have a changeup for you on this one.
The better game won this match. Yeah I said it. Me, probably the biggest Blizzard hater on the entire internet, agree with this result. This is not a defense of Overwatch, either. It's an awful (very awful) ripoff of Team Fortress 2, it began the loot box plague, the designers and artists are SJWs, and the player base is laughably awful. I've brought this up before, but in Overwatch you can get banned for picking off-meta heroes and Blizzard completely lied about it. No surprise to anyone who pays attention to their nonsense, but the reason this happens is because the report system is automatic. If a bunch of players report the same person, they're automatically suspended and oftentimes banned. For playing a video game for fun.
And Death Stranding is still worse. This was a debated match pre-contest, because everyone knew it would be garbage versus trash. It's hard to pick these fodder matchups, especially when there is no metadata to draw from, but Overwatch was a well known brand name. That's likely the only reason it won. Death Stranding is absolute trash, and the game is so bad that I've stopped feeling bad for Konami screwing Hideo Kojima over. They clearly knew something.
For the unaware, Death Stranding is about a guy delivering packages after a plague hits, also known as the gaming version of Door Dash. I get that this is topical, but the game is a gigantic world with nothing in it, and way, way, WAY too many dumb mechanics. The irony of all ironies is that the game is completely lacking of any action whatsoever, but when action finally shows up it always happens at the wrong time. Jim Sterling has a good perspective on it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hy87yKfXn0
Adding to how bad the game is is how incredibly overhyped it was. "Finally, Hideo gets to make a game without the tyranny of a parent company!" Yeah, turns out this dude was a hack the entire time and needed an editor to pull his one or two good idea from his hundreds of bad ones. Hideo Kojima is the Vince Russo of video games, and Death Stranding is the new Shadow of the Colossus. It is an overhyped, terrible video game with bad mechanics, a lifeless world, and an awful fanbase. Yes, some video games prove the medium is an art form. Your game is not one of them. Go away.
I mean come on, Death Stranding has me happy that a Blizzard game won a contest match. Do you guys understand how impossibly bad a game has to be to pull that off?
Ctes's Analysis[]
This was a fun match in the sense that both games had a chance of being really bad on this site. It was essentially a matter of what game would be anti-voted the least, neither is particularly liked here. It’s been a long time since anything from Blizzard had success here. The only real success anything had is probably when Diablo reached the semi-finals of the contest. The games have never been fodder here, they’ve just not been as good as they’ve on a lot of other sides, despite stuff like World of Warcraft having some of our most popular FAQs.
Both Overwatch and Death Stranding did just alright in their respective Game of the Year polls. Not fantastic, but both looked like something that could win a match if they got the right one. Overwatch just barely beat DOOM, which looked like a beast not many days prior, but was also fresh off the release of DOOM Eternal. Both of them were behind Final Fantasy XV, Uncharted 4 and Pokemon Sun and Moon, which doesn’t sound too great. Death Stranding was just behind Bloodstained and just ahead of Devil May Cry 5, which by their recent results looks good enough. It was then behind Sekiro and Resident Evil 2.
The polls suggested that would be somewhat close, so you had to go with your gut feeling of how they’d do in a contest setting. They’re both games that I’d expect to do better in multi-ways polls, because they have their supporters, it’s just not that many. The percentages seem to agree. Overwatch is past the days where it got all too much attention, it’s probably not disliked too much at this point if it ever were. Death Stranding is a lot more recent, but it also a lot more our type of game.
It can be argued that the match came down to something like Death Stranding being disliked more, but I don’t think that’s what it is. Look at the prediction percentage? It came down to bracket votes. I don’t think Overwatch being the top option mattered any, that would’ve only mattered when making the bracket since the games are side by side now. Overwatch was probably favored by quite a bit because it’s the more known name. The match is close enough and the votals low enough. I think bracket votes decided this one and it doesn’t matter all that much, because the winner was never getting past Xenoblade even before Xenoblade exceeded expectations.
Safer777's Analysis[]
So a Tactical FPS Multiplayer vs...something? Look pretty sure nobody knows what exactly is DS. Seriously. It is something for sure but I am not sure why. DS is one of these games that you either love it or hate it. Me I have seen reviews and I guess I don't like it? Seems like a complicated walking simulator? Look sorry for its fans but let's be real the game is weird as hell. Kojima knows for sure how to keep people guessing but man. It was his first game after the MGS series too. But let's be realists. If DS wasn't by Kojima nobody would care for it. People just gave it good reviews and it got a lot of hype because of his name. Sure the game has some interest things but it mostly sucks. I mean the main premise is that there is a guy that delivers packages. And that is. Have fun walking with nothing to do from destination to destination. Even the combat, what little there is, can be avoided. As I said above if it was from any other developer the game would be ignored, but nope it is from HK and he did really good with the MGS franchise but here? Most say no.
So for the match. This was somewhat in doubt. To tell the truth we don't like games like Overwatch here BUT against DS...nobody knew what to expect. Even for the crew not all went with Overwatch. However they all predicted a close match and it was somewhat close. Pretty sure DS is damn weak. Overwatch is damn weak too but against this it did fine? Look this match is strange. The prediction percentage was high for Overwatch so I guess few people got confused or something.
Tsunami's Analysis[]
Hoo boy. This was going to be the battle of the bad. On the one hand, GameFAQs hates the eSports scene. MOBAs get the brunt of their animosity because of what Draven did in 2013, but all of those types of games with teams and stuff are really not their thing. So the idea of Overwatch being worth anything was laughable. But its opponent was Death Stranding, a highly anticipated, recent game that had disappointed immensely. There was a topic on the board during this match titled "I thought it was popular....", that started thusly (emphasis added by me):
- Why, why must you lose Death Stranding. I haven’t played it, but before it came out people wouldn’t shut up about it. Well apparently it sucks.
Yes, yes it does. Prerelease hype is possibly one of the worst predictors of contest strength ever. I hate to go back to the same examples over and over again but Lightning managed 36.14% on Sonic the Hedgehog while FFXIII was only out in Japan, then proceeded to get literally last place in a vote-in for Rivalry Rumble, failed to take advantage of Nintendo SFF to dispatch famed choker Donkey Kong in 2013, and only managed 34.38% on Dante in 2018 (which is admittedly probably more impressive than the loss to an LFFed Donkey Kong, but still looks bad compared to the Sonic match). Meanwhile FFXIII and its many sequels and spinoffs have yet to make a Games Contest, including this one. The fact that FFXIV, an MMORPG, is in this contest and FFXIII isn't is perhaps the biggest indictment of the game imaginable. So even though the idea of Overwatch having strength here was ridiculous, it was still expected to win this match, and it did, with an ease largely facilitated by the registered voters no less. Or maybe they were the ones rallying? This day clearly had a vote spike from the previous one. There hadn't been any talk of rallies, though, so it clearly wasn't evident enough to set off any red flags with the hypersensitive board.
Surprisingly, it was this match, not the big upset that also occurred on this day, that knocked off the last remaining perfect bracket. We know this with 100% certainty because the last remaining perfect was a Guru.