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@AFCC The community fought tooth and nail to get Sony to reconsider but in the end they went through with it anyway without so much as an apology or even an acknowledgement. We "let the servers shutdown"? Yeah, no. Not even close.

Anyway, GG, y'all. Nathan's not my first pick for favorite character, and his games don't exactly thrill me the same way they seem to thrill everyone else, but I can't say he doesn't deserve it. Dude's got charisma aplenty and captures the spirit of an adventurer like Indy to a T.

@ShogunRok What a damn shame.

Are there any ways to conduct a poll that lessen the chances of this kind of thing happening?

@Soaphie Gravity Rush 2 came out the same year as Horizon.

And I don't know what that has to do with character quality.

I honestly expected Snake to stomp this round.

Huh.

@sea_cucumber After all the drama this stirred up, the "big" (as big as big can be in a tiny community for a niche franchise) names in GR's community decided not to promote the poll anymore. A lot of these voters probably relied on these big names to remind them that this thing even existed, so your assumption that they only voted once and never checked again is most likely accurate.

@sea_cucumber If you're implying that Kat used bots in Kat v Kratos, I highly doubt it. After the suspiciously sudden rise in Kratos votes, the GR twitter community rallied again because they were nervous that votes after the deadline could somehow affect the end result. One such person who brought attention to this is a particularly big artist in the community with over 20,000 followers, so it doesn't surprise me that she was able to get an extra 200 votes off of that. If there had been bots on top of all that, I bet she'd have stayed on top of that matchup the whole way through.

@sea_cucumber Don't forget that one of them can turn into a black hole.

And a miniature tornado.

And teleports.

And can kick so hard she blows up the immediate area.

And whose regular kicks can kill mechs.

And has an angry girlfriend on telepathic speed-dial.

And--

Alright, I gotta know 'cuz I'm curious: where did this sudden influx of Aloy voters come from?

@naruball The game got near-zero marketing, and releasing so close to a heavy hitter like RE7 and a surprise hit like Yakuza 0 didn't help.

Being Kat is suffering.

@1W1NG3D4NG3L There's always low retention rates for this sort of thing but it'll still undoubtedly resort in new members.

@LieutenantFatman Maybe I'm just hard to please, then, because this "far above-average" personality still falls really short of anything I'd consider good. Or entertaining.

Like, 2B's a character who shows far less personality — or, really, much of any emotion — than Aloy and yet she's what I'd consider a good, interesting character, because there's always a hint of something lying just beneath the surface, and then you get to the big plot twist and you can suddenly see the double-meaning behind every dismissive comment and every insistence that emotions are prohibited. In contrast, whatever personality Aloy is supposed to have doesn't end up coming off as intentional, just... underwritten.

But that's just my opinion, and you know what they say about those.

Yeah, no. After all the drama in the comments that happened last poll, none of the big names (and I use "big" relatively considering how tiny the community is) on GR twitter are gonna promote the poll anymore, so you can stop blaming them for THIS particular matchup.

Anyway, voting for Kat, obvi. Aloy's about as interesting as a plank of wood. Replace her with one and it'd probably do just as good a job of killing robo-dinos.

Her game's fun tho.

@LuckyLand I agree, to a point. Uncharted to me stands out as one of the few games on the scene that has legitimately good writing and deserves all the hype it gets in that regard. And the music really sells the global adventure feel. Reminds me of Indiana Jones.

But gameplay wise? Yeah. The games are totally generic and forgettable. Set pieces are cool and I really enjoy them, but they're not a replacement for mechanical depth.

So I guess what I'm trying to say is the Uncharted games are pretty okay and I'm glad I got the Nathan Drake Collection on sale.

@YeYa Oh, I wasn't aware they cut Kratos's poll time shorter than Kat's. No wonder she won. Vote was rigged after all.

/s

This is the only way your "shorter poll time" argument could hold any water. But they both got the same amount of time. And Kratos only got a huge surge in votes pretty late into the poll, which is suspect, since going off of trends, the bulk of the votes for these polls happens in the first day or two. So either a) Dad of War Twitter finally banded together and voted, but too late, (or, as you would put it, a bunch of "fanboys" unconnected to the poll raided the poll) or b) foul play was involved — maybe ghost accounts, maybe bots.

No matter which way you slice it, it's safe to assume these new votes he got weren't "actual users." Don't believe me? Look at Kratos's vote counts in his matchups prior to Kat v Kratos. Nowhere near what he got in the end.

It's fine if Kratos's social media helped pull in a few extra hundred votes. I mean, what's fair is fair, right? I just don't see why you're pretending like Kratos fans did any different. The attempt might've failed, but they tried all the same. Besides, don't you think it's a little silly to be throwing that word, "fanboys," around in a tournament where fans get together to vote for their favorite characters?

Welp, I'm going off on a road trip starting this weekend, so at least I'll be spared from even considering downloading this.

Eh. Wasn't expecting to see this game anytime soon, so this isn't exactly a shocker. I can wait.

And maybe during that dev time they can change their minds on the whole "no third-person" thing?

Maybe?

Please?

All these choices have been pretty easy and they don't look like they'll be getting any harder in the end.

So, question, should Ellie vs Crash and Drake vs Sephiroth have a recount due to the shorter deadline (Friday instead of Wednesday) given to those polls on account of a holiday?

Y'all know the poll's been over and done with for the past few days, right?