Reasonable said:
Just what I was going to say. I meant to cover the MGS4 vs Gears 2 but that's pretty much it. You're putting an online, more casual (in terms of likliyhood to bother voting for it) fanbase vs a hardcore fanbase for the 4th installment of a very fiercly followed franchise. TBH I think Gears 2 vs Uncharted 2 would have been a more interesting contest than against MGS4. I think part of the issue with this H2H for exclusives is that outside of Halo and perhaps Gears I just don't think there's a core franchise for 360 that has a heavy, dedicated fanbase. Mass Effect is multi-platform now and was on PC anyway, for example, Bioshock is multi now, etc. Really I think if you take a step back and look at the libraries and franchises its pretty obvious for the big guns which way the voting is going to go. That's why I think it'd be better to pitch lesser known titles against each other. |
Yeah, Gears of War 2 and Uncharted 2 are fairly similar games too. They also have the same number of games in the franchise and they all released at similar dates.
And I think you explained it much better than I did, the majority of people who play Metal Gear Solid have been dedicated fans since day one. The game itself was announced as being the last main entry in the franchise as well.
Not to mention the game itself was absolutely amazing, I am a huge Metal Gear Solid fan, the average score of all the numbered games is a 94.5 on metacritic which is the highest for any game franchise I believe.
Anyway, there are many factors which determines why a game wins a poll. As you said, the games have performed how you expected them to perform, people need to stop pretending that the VGChartz community is biased because a game on their preferred platform isn't winning.
