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| - After Resident Evil 4 struggled and outlasted Kingdom Hearts 2 twice, this was supposed to be an easy match even with how close it got to Twilight Princess the previous round. Twilight Princess was a lock for first, RE4 a lock for second, and MGS3/Oblivion while strong weren't supposed to get close.But a funny thing happened on the way to RE4's victory parade. Metal Gear Solid 3 turned out to be a total beast of a game, and it would come damn close to pulling off the upset here. First and foremost, Twilight Princess dominated this poll compared to its round 2 efforts. Neither RE4 nor MGS3 took a lead on it like RE4 did the previous round, which gives some credibility to the Kingdom Hearts overlapping with Zelda theory.Now as for Resident Evil 4, it was clear MGS3 was going to give it troub
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| - After Resident Evil 4 struggled and outlasted Kingdom Hearts 2 twice, this was supposed to be an easy match even with how close it got to Twilight Princess the previous round. Twilight Princess was a lock for first, RE4 a lock for second, and MGS3/Oblivion while strong weren't supposed to get close.But a funny thing happened on the way to RE4's victory parade. Metal Gear Solid 3 turned out to be a total beast of a game, and it would come damn close to pulling off the upset here. First and foremost, Twilight Princess dominated this poll compared to its round 2 efforts. Neither RE4 nor MGS3 took a lead on it like RE4 did the previous round, which gives some credibility to the Kingdom Hearts overlapping with Zelda theory.Now as for Resident Evil 4, it was clear MGS3 was going to give it trouble within the first five minutes. RE4 had bracket votes and only had a lead of 20 early, and sure enough it only took 45 minutes for MGS3 to begin building a lead. This was more or less the final blow to any hopes of RE4 making the final, but it had much more pressing matters at the moment. It was a painstaking process, but MGS3 overnight built up a 150 vote lead. RE4 cut it in half rather quickly, but MGS3 was able to recover and then hammer out some solid updates. Before long, the match seemed over. The lead reached 650 votes by morning, which was a death sentence to RE4 given how bad Resident Evil's day vote normally is. Metal Gear Solid's day vote isn't any better, but given how RE4 is a quasi-Nintendo title and a quasi-PS2 title with a strong Nintendo/PS2 presence in the poll, it had appeared RE4's luck had finally run out.However, every contest has one entry whose every match is cardiac, and that entrant for this contest was Resident Evil 4. After somehow stalling MGS3's advance during the morning vote, it began shaving away at the lead during the DSV. And when I say shaving, I mean literally. This was one of the slowest freaking comeback attempts we've ever had to watch. RE4 began stalling a 650 vote lead at around 8:30 in the morning. Come the ASV, the lead was 200, but MGS3 came out and won the early parts of the ASV and pushed it back to 250. But yet again when the match seemed over, RE4 pushed back and started shaving some more. RE4 "won" the ASV, but it took three hours to take the lead starting from down 250 votes. This wasn't earth-shattering by any means, but a lead is a lead and RE4 took it around 6. From here, RE4 began its long, looooooooooong effort to sllllllooooooowwwwwwlllllllllyyyyyy build up a lead of its own, which was actually really bad news given MGS's history of 11th hour cheating.This time however there would be no "random" MGS spikes near the end to save the day. RE4's match to the win remained constant all the way until the end of the match, giving it its third straight win by less than 1000 votes. This wasn't good for those of us that had it in the final, but it was good if you liked close matches. For the third straight round, RE4 pulled a day vote rabbit out of its ass to win a match it had no business winning. This could have created a bandwagon effort, but this was impossible given the competition next round. A Zelda, Brawl and MGS4? Not even RE4 could pull that one off, but it ended up having a damn interesting run. Not that this match itself was entertaining (taking 13 hours to swing 1000 votes rarely is), but watching RE4's antics was quite the treat, even if it was destined to end next round.
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