Results[]
Saturday, April 18, 2020
Ulti's Analysis[]
| Division | Division 7 |
|---|---|
| Match # | 92 |
| Match Date | Saturday, April 18, 2020 |
| Oracle Expectations |
The Last of Us - 69.45% 50 for - 0 against |
| GameFAQs Prediction |
The Last of Us - 75.20% |
| User Votes |
Diablo III - 3207 The Last of Us - 5425 |
| Anonymous Votes |
Diablo III - 2591 The Last of Us - 4679 |
The Last of Us taking out the trash and ridding this contest of Activision-Blizzard, the single worst company in human history. Not just gaming, either. The worst company period. Nothing will ever be worse, either, because there are still legions of idiots actually defending these people. See when Monsanto or Enron or Wells-Fargo or any other evil company gets caught acting as companies tend to act, the public turns on them. Activision-Blizzard gets caught being human trash cans constantly, yet out come the legion of sycophants to defend this garbage every single time.
Blizzard will never get back to what they were in the 90s, folks. Get over it, accept it, and stop kissing the ring. Activison will never, ever allow that company to have things like "good ideas" ever again, and any time they're booted from one of these contests it's one of the best days of said contest by default. Blizzard has been trash for 20 years now. Deal with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7E31Z8e_RY
If you want a good comparison to how much I absolutely fucking hate this company, it's comparable to how much EDP pretends to hate the Philadelphia Eagles. I say "pretends" because EDP is clearly acting for the camera to get views. I'm not acting. I genuinely and truly hate every single thing about Activision-Blizzard, because that company in no way deserves to be in business.
Independent of complete financial collapse of the company's assets, at least the public is finally starting to see the trash that is Blizzard for what it is -- indefensible human waste. To that end, thank you Last of Us for excising the final Blizzard tumor from this contest, though I will say when one compares this result to Dark Souls pasting Rocket League, it was very difficult to imagine a world in which Last of Us would be able to compete in that match.
Allowing anything from Blizzard to get above 0% on you is bad enough, but 37%? That's a pretty big problem, and this match happened two weeks before the big leak that broke the internet.
Don't worry, we'll talk about it at the appropriate time. For now, it was time to celebrate! Good riddance Blizzard, and fuck you forever. No company will ever be worse.
Ctes's Analysis[]
If you were one of the many board 8’ers with The Last of Us as the division winner in your bracket, but you had not yet lost hope in round 1 when Dark Souls clearly looked stronger than it was five years ago, this was the match where it became clear you were losing 8 points. The Last of Us underperformed quite a bit relative to what we thought. It was quite apparent that the game was not as strong as it was back in 2015. Dark Souls looked stronger than then, and the gap wasn’t too big to begin with. It was a sealed deal, and suddenly it looked more likely The Last of Us would drop to Batman: Arkham City than beat Dark Souls.
I do think Diablo III is stronger than board 8 is ready to give it credit for though. The Last of Us probably doesn’t benefit from the contest title as much anymore as it would have had years back. Naughty Dog is in a weird place and the delay of the sequel probably doesn’t help much. Remember that this match happened before the leaks came. The Last of Us was huge when it came, but probably less so now, as it already hasn’t aged too well on some levels. Against something like Diablo III, it probably doesn’t gain much help from the forced voting here. Diablo is a bigger franchise name. Blizzard is in a bad place these days, but Diablo III is before things went downhill and a lot of the issues with Blizzard doesn’t apply to Diablo III. It was a fine game that simply didn’t reach previous series high. It ends up looking a good big better than I think much board 8’ers would have guessed it would. The Last of Us was fine today, even if perhaps a little bit weaker than in 2015. It just didn’t look like it could beat the boosted Dark Souls.
Safer777's Analysis[]
So D3 wasn't well received by the fanbase ESPECIALLY at the start where you could buy items in game from other players by spending real money! And this was legal too! However after the huge backlash they removed this option pretty fast which shouldn't have been in the game from the start. Diablo 2 seems to be the best Diablo game too. Plus after they announced this mobile Diablo game EVERY hardcore Diablo fan was dissapointed. I mean Diablo was always considered a PC series and to see a gatcha mobile game? Damn! Although that game isn't still out but it will suck. Now for TLOU is considered a GOTD by me and a lot of others. The game is excellent. The story and characters are top notch. Seriously. Play it you haven't.
So for the match. Well obviously TLOU would win here, everyone predicted that based on Round 1 results. And it did as expected so what else to say? Just play the damn game.
Tsunami's Analysis[]
The Last of Us winning this match was never in question; faulty as the 2015 X-Stats may be, they suggest it to be slightly stronger than Diablo II. Now, Diablo III was not a terribly well-received game at all, so I'd expect the strength gap between Diablo II and Diablo III to be tremendous. We're only a few matches removed from a "III" losing to a game that its "II" beats handily in those X-Stats. I'm going to drag them out again:
- The Last of Us (2015g) VS Diablo 2 (2015g)
The Last of Us has a strength of 27.36.
Diablo 2 has a strength of 27.23.
The Last of Us wins with 50.24% of the vote!
A win of 289 with 60,875 total votes cast.
Portal 2 (2015g) VS Kingdom Hearts 2 (2015g)
Portal 2 has a strength of 23.30.
Kingdom Hearts 2 has a strength of 34.22.
Kingdom Hearts 2 wins with 65.96% of the vote!
A win of 19,426 with 60,875 total votes cast.
Diablo III is worth 36.72% on a game that Diablo II is worth 49.76% on, but KH III is worth 37.64% on a game that KH II is worth 65.96% on. ...How? This isn't even about KH3 losing that match anymore, though I am still baffled by that; the idea of KH3 being worth less on KH2 than Diablo 3 is on Diablo 2 (pre-SFF adjustments) is alien in its own right. I'm sure there will be a lengthy diatribe on this PCA anyway since I think this is the last Blizzard game to leave the contest, and I have to say...Bobby Kotick could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot someone and not lose any supporters. That's really all I can liken it to; Blizzard has its consumers by the balls.
The "Disney just buys Squeenix" idea I proposed last round is looking better and better all the time. Someone has to save them from themselves, and the idea of Square's properties being part of the Disney/Marvel/Star Wars stable is oddly appealing. Though given what happened when they tried to have Kingdom Hearts characters as walkarounds at the theme parks, they might need to work out a few kinks.
Costumed Moogles might be fun, though, assuming that any of the younger fans would even know what a Moogle was.
Tsunami notes: These write-ups were done in a big burst, and by the time I could see the replies to the KH3-Portal 2 write-up I'd already posted this group. I edited in the following:
I have discovered that, yes, KH3 really was that big a disappointment. Upon doing some research of my own, I discovered that, no worries, "the kiddies" would know what Moogles were. They were in KH3. Part of the problem was that they were the only Final Fantasy characters in KH3, though the inevitable rerelease only a year later is said to have more. Good lord Square Enix really needs to be saved from themselves.
Doesn't change what I said about Blizzard, though. If Square fans were half as blindly loyal as Blizzard fans, KH3 beats Portal 2 easily and actually might be a sexy upset pick against Persona 5. Square releases a game and then makes you pay full price for what amounts to the same game with DLC, and their fans are rightfully pissed. They've been doing this over and over, too, with Kingdom Hearts. But Blizzard splits a single game into, essentially, four full-priced games on a regular basis, and their fans wouldn't have it any other way. Heh, I guess I see why the idea of Japanese and Western games of the same genres SFFing each other is so foreign. It's because the Japanese games' fans have working brains.
...Huh. Kind of unfortunate that that rant had to be in a match where the winning game was Western too. I'm not a fan of The Last of Us's entire genre, but I hear it's a really great game!