Going to take a final, and I might not be back before the other topic hits 500.



*Creativename's websites*

Everything you could ever imagine:
http://www.sc2k5.com
http://www.sc2k4.com

Summer 2002 Contest Information:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/taxonomy/term/1

Summer 2003 Contest Information:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/taxonomy/term/2

Spring 2004 Contest Information:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/taxonomy/term/3

Summer 2004 Contest Information:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/taxonomy/term/4

Summer 2005 Contest Information:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/taxonomy/term/5

Sortable Table for Every Contest Match:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/node/19



*Extrapolated Standings*

Explanation of Extrapolated Standings:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/node/11

Simple Explanation of Extrapolated Standings:
A = Strongest Character
B = Character Weaker than A
C = Character Weaker than B
To figure out a character's Xsts Percentage ---> [(CvB)(BvA)]/50 = CvA
To compare how C would do against B ---> [(CvA)/(BvA)]*50 = CvB
To figure out how B would do against A ---> [(CvA)/(CvB)]*50 = BvA

Summer 2002 Extrapolated Standings:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/node/13

Summer 2003 Extrapolated Standings:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/node/14

Spring 2004 Extrapolated Standings:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/node/15

SFF Adjusted Spring 2004 Extrapolated Standings:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/node/16

Summer 2004 Extrapolated Standings:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/node/17

SFF Adjusted Summer 2004 Extrapolated Standings:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/node/18



*Solarshadow's Sites*

Summer 2002 Contest:
http://solarshadow2002.tripod.com

Summer 2003 Contest:
http://solarshadow-stats.tripod.com/2003/index.html

Spring 2004 Contest: (not currently updating)
http://solarshadow-stats.tripod.com/sp2004/index.html



*Old Stats topics*

Summer 2002 Contest:
http://solarshadow2002.tripod.com/page1.html

Summer 2003 Contest:
http://solarshadow-stats.tripod.com/archive/topic1p1.html
http://www.angelfire.com/games5/sum_contest/Page1.htm (See note)

2003-2004 Off-Season:
http://membres.lycos.fr/shindohikaru/stats1.htm (See note)
Note: Don't use the links in the topic to browse through the pages, change the page number in the URL.

Spring 2004 Pre-Season:
http://sc2k4.com/archive/04SpringPreSeason1.htm
http://sc2k4.com/archive/04SpringPreSeason2.htm
http://sc2k4.com/archive/04SpringPreSeason3.htm

Spring 2004 Contest:
http://sc2k4.com/archive/04SpringStats1.htm
http://sc2k4.com/archive/04SpringStats2.htm
http://sc2k4.com/archive/04SpringStats3.htm
http://sc2k4.com/archive/04SpringStats4.htm
http://sc2k4.com/archive/04SpringStats5.htm
http://sc2k4.com/archive/04SpringStats6.htm
http://sc2k4.com/archive/04SpringStats7.htm
http://sc2k4.com/archive/04SpringStats8.htm



*Match Pictures*

Summer 2002 Match Pictures:
http://sc2k4.com/frog/view.php?gid=15

Summer 2003 Match Pictures:
www.angelfire.com/games5/heroicmario0/contestpictures.htm

Spring 2004 Match Pictures:
http://sc2k4.com/frog/view.php?gid=17

Summer 2004 Match Pictures:
http://sc2k4.com/frog/view.php?gid=18



*Miscellaneous*

Creativename's Page of Links:
http://sc2k4.com/links.php

MMXcalibur's Contest Sites:
http://prophetchallenge.hyperboards2.com/index.cgi
http://www.freewebs.com/mmxcalibur/

Poll Vote Total Updator:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/node/25

All Time Top 25/Top 10 Lists:
http://www.rpgdl.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3251

!yawA tsoP
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Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best. Game. Ever." Contest
"If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh!" -Magus Zeal

First? Tag.
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"ertyu is actually a language. For example, 'dum' is ertyunese for 'godly'." - Topaz Kitsune
Nominate Christian for SC2K5!

Here's something I thought you guys might be interested in. I've taken each game from Nintendo's "Big Three" series (Mario, Zelda, Metroid-okay, Pokemon is more popular than Metroid, but we'll ignore that for now) and averaged out all the scores of the GameFAQs reviews for each of them. The numbers in parantheses beside each score represents the number of reviews that game has.

Mario:

Super Mario Bros.- 9.20 (75)
Super Mario Bros. 2 (Japan)- 8.15 (20)
Super Mario Bros. 2- 8.54 (43)
Super Mario Land- 6.77 (30)
Super Mario Bros. 3- 9.67 (51)
Super Mario World- 9.28 (39)
Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins- 8.10 (29)
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island- 9.33 (33)
Super Mario 64- 8.98 (51)
Super Mario Sunshine- 8.33 (69)

Series average: 8.64

Zelda:

The Legend of Zelda- 9.49 (59)
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link- 8.24 (42)
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past- 9.38 (50)
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening- 8.94 (35)
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time- 9.03 (69)
The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask- 8.20 (55)
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons- 9.10 (30)
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages- 9.39 (31)
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker- 8.71 (84)
The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap- 8.67 (42)

Series average: 8.92

Metroid:

Metroid- 8.61 (36)
Metroid II: Return of Samus- 7.83 (35)
Super Metroid- 9.59 (49)
Metroid Fusion- 8.44 (61)
Metroid Prime- 9.23 (95)
Metroid Zero Mission- 8.46 (54)
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes- 8.89 (62)

Series average: 8.72
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Now, I suppose I should comment on this a bit...the biggest surprises for me are the original Zelda being the highest-rated game of its series (I consider it to be the worst...) and Oracle of Ages scoring higher than A Link to the Past.

Also note how Metroid Prime has way more reviews than any other game on this list.

I've also gotten the ratings for every Mega Man game (even the X series...), if you guys are interested.
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"Thank you, Mario. But our princess is in another castle."
-Toad in Super Mario Bros.

Huzzah!
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Hi,I'm partystar. ^_^
Or maybe I'm Leonhart. That's for you to decide.

I'm going to cry when I see the results tomorrow.

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“If history is to change, let it change. If the world is to be destroyed, so be it. If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh.”

wah i got one wrong already!

No doubt for Sephiroth to advance to next round.

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FFVI says "A Love Between Human and Esper".
Current Score: 3/3 Now: Dr. Wily vs Ultros

If Bison is down to Albedo come morning, do you think Board 8 will be flooded by a 'OMGWTF SF2 Character is losing to an obscure RPG character!?!>!>@>!?##@?!'

I sure hope so.

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RIP: Tnote827 - 4/4/05
Fighting Illini (37-2): #2 in the nation, #1 in our hearts

Wasen't Ryu vs KOS mOS close during the early vote?

If by close, you mean it took Ryu 5 minutes to get over 60%, then yes.
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Can't keep a good man down, baby!

Bring 'em out, bring 'em out, bring 'em out, bring 'em out.....
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Serious Reminder: Vote for Dr. Wily
"What awaits each person in Heaven is eternal peace, divine rest, and $10,000 cash." --Cartman

Nice 500th post.
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Hi,I'm partystar. ^_^
Or maybe I'm Leonhart. That's for you to decide.

I thought so. =)
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Serious Reminder: Vote for Dr. Wily
"What awaits each person in Heaven is eternal peace, divine rest, and $10,000 cash." --Cartman

I wonder if NotRamirez can break 85%...
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BtT: 3:43.45 | HRC: 51,246.1 ft OV aaaargh
Or, the Katamari thing. It's like getting high, withought the death part. - Link the Midgit

HaRRicH, never rap again.

~*ST*~
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Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best. Game. Ever." Contest
"If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh!" -Magus Zeal

The question is...Will Sephiroth still be at the same level he was at in 2004? He hasn't been anywhere close to the same level in consecutive years.
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Hi,I'm partystar. ^_^
Or maybe I'm Leonhart. That's for you to decide.

By the way, Phediuk, you're a headcase for gathering that data. You're also my kind of guy, given that I've always liked people who gather stats just because they like to gather stats.

Which is, like, 100% of the people who post over on RPGDL. Those guys are insane.

~*ST*~
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Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best. Game. Ever." Contest
"If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh!" -Magus Zeal

I cant wait for another FF game/RPG comes around that people just fall in love with so they will finnaly let the FF7 go.
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Vote for Robotnik, he isnt a woman or a giant slug or a .... hand.

I cant wait for another FF game/RPG comes around that people just fall in love with so they will finnaly let the FF7 go.

Early indications tell me that FFXII won't be the one. Vaan looks to be one of the most unappealing main characters the series has churned out yet.

Yes, that's right. Early signs tell me that Fighter > Vaan
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Hi,I'm partystar. ^_^
Or maybe I'm Leonhart. That's for you to decide.

Sephiroth... same level...?

Knowing him, he'll get what he was expected to get Vyse on Ramirez, break 80% on Vergil, exactly double Liquid, let Bowser get 35%, and beat Ganon by one vote.
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BtT: 3:43.45 | HRC: 51,246.1 ft OV aaaargh
Or, the Katamari thing. It's like getting high, withought the death part. - Link the Midgit

Bring 'em out, bring 'em out, bring 'em out, bring 'em out.....

It's hard to yell with them barRELS in ya mouth!

Had to finish it off....
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Graduation: April 30, 2005 "There are only 10 kinds of people in this world, those that read binary and those that don't."

I cant wait for another FF game/RPG comes around that people just fall in love with so they will finnaly let the FF7 go.

Ever since Sakaguchi left Square-Enix, I've been quite torn on how good a new Final Fantasy will come out to be. FF12 looks good, but it won't be a new FF7, especially when they are deadset on milking FF7 until there's nothing left.

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“If history is to change, let it change. If the world is to be destroyed, so be it. If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh.”

...it's hard to yell whe-- *is promptly smacked by Ulti*
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Serious Reminder: Vote for Dr. Wily
"What awaits each person in Heaven is eternal peace, divine rest, and $10,000 cash." --Cartman

Why talk about Vaan, when we can talk about Ashe.

I dont know a single thing about her character but Ive already fallen in love with her.
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Vote for Robotnik, he isnt a woman or a giant slug or a .... hand.

No wonder why the collective intelligence is such a joke. Look at the music we listen to.

~*ST*~
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Get the X out.

That's Square's fault for firing him in the first place. It's no coincidence that they have produced absolute crap ever since.

~*ST*~
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Get the X out.

When exactly did Sakaguchi get the can?
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Vote for Robotnik, he isnt a woman or a giant slug or a .... hand.

Hey, rap fan through and through, what can I say? No shame.
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Serious Reminder: Vote for Dr. Wily
"What awaits each person in Heaven is eternal peace, divine rest, and $10,000 cash." --Cartman

Of course it is. But that's, unforunately, how things work over in corporate Japan. You screw up once and you're pretty much done. What is fortunate is that he's back in business with a lot of former Square employees over at Mistwalker and Akira Toriyama is signed on as the character designer for Blue Dragon, and one other exclusive Xbox 360 RPG. I cannot wait; Sakaguchi is a genius, after all.

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“If history is to change, let it change. If the world is to be destroyed, so be it. If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh.”

When exactly did Sakaguchi get the can?

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. Square-Enix also lost Uematsu and Amano, for big names.

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“If history is to change, let it change. If the world is to be destroyed, so be it. If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh.”

My opinion with Mistwalkers will be on hold until I can play their first game (be it on the DS or XBox 360). I was in love with Monolith Soft, but something changed when they went to Namco as now they cant make a good game.
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Vote for Robotnik, he isnt a woman or a giant slug or a .... hand.

Sounds very similiar to a situation involving Gunpei Yokoi.
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Vote for Robotnik, he isnt a woman or a giant slug or a .... hand.

After some difficulties, cn should have a working copy of the Extrapolated Standings Calculator (XSC) in his hands. Unfortunately, it requires the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) to run, so if you don't have at least the JRE 5.0 and you want to use the XSC, head on over to this site:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp
click on "Download JRE 5.0 Update 3," and follow the instructions. This is also spelled out in the readme packaged with the XSC, but it couldn't hurt to give you guys with slower modems a head start.
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Proud supporter of Ghaleon, Kefka, Bowser, Ultros, Liquid, Ocelot, and Wily!

Oh, and the JRE is around 15MB.
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Proud supporter of Ghaleon, Kefka, Bowser, Ultros, Liquid, Ocelot, and Wily!

Sounds very similiar to a situation involving Gunpei Yokoi.

It is pretty much the exact same thing, except this was far worse. I was utterly shocked to hear that Sakaguchi was being fired from Square-Enix. The man saved that company with Final Fantasy. You just don't fire the Father of Final Fantasy.



Yeah, I'm still bitter about that.

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“If history is to change, let it change. If the world is to be destroyed, so be it. If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh.”

I dont see how it is worst. Both guys created the iterm that made Nintendo and Square respectively filthy rich. Hell, without FF and Game Boy both these companies would be dead in the water.
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Vote for Robotnik, he isnt a woman or a giant slug or a .... hand.

Err, the Game Boy wasn't exactly Nintendo's sole savior. Don't get me wrong, the Game Boy has been a large part of Nintendo's success, but they would still be a very successful company without it. Yokoi was a great man, brilliant even. But while Nintendo managed to press along, Square hasn't been the same since.


I mean, the term "Final Fantasy" was called that for a reason. It was Square's final game they were going to make before closing shop.

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“If history is to change, let it change. If the world is to be destroyed, so be it. If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh.”

1) I assume Yokoi inspired/made the Game Boy...what'd he do to get fired?
2) I never thought about where Nintendo'd be without the Gameboy...WOULD they have really gone down without it? I know it's been HUGE for them, but I didn't think they relied on it to that degree.
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Serious Reminder: Vote for Dr. Wily
"What awaits each person in Heaven is eternal peace, divine rest, and $10,000 cash." --Cartman

Without Gameboy Pokemon might never of been made. A Nintendo with Pokemon is a very different Nintendo.

1) I assume Yokoi inspired/made the Game Boy...what'd he do to get fired?

He created the Virtual Boy. Eventually he left Nintendo and went on to create the Wonderswan, and soon after he was tragically killed in a car accident. =(

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“If history is to change, let it change. If the world is to be destroyed, so be it. If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh.”

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. Square-Enix also lost Uematsu and Amano, for big names.

FF:TSW can be blamed for a lot of bad things that have been happening to S-E. They invested money into motion pictures and when FF:TSW bombed...that sent S-E into a downward spiral from which they haven't recovered.
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Today's subliminal thought is:
Contest Stats: 3/3 Next Winner: Dr. Wily

Yokoi was also reponsible for Fire Emblem and Metroid. He worked in R&D1 (Intelligent Systems).

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“If history is to change, let it change. If the world is to be destroyed, so be it. If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh.”

True, at the time Game Boy didnt have the same impact. But where would Nintendo be today without it?

The old fossil of Nintendo while he lead Nintendo to great heights, also brough them down hard by A) Firing Yokoi, B) Alienating every third party developer that existed.

I feel bad for Iwata, because I think I know what he is doing, but he is having to make up for the mistakes the old fossil made. Also on that note, Miyamoto needs to retire. I love the man and his work, but he cant in his mind realize that production value matters and America is the most important market. Aonuma is a brillant man who seems to GET IT.
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Vote for Robotnik, he isnt a woman or a giant slug or a .... hand.

Heh, almost makes me wish the Tomb Raider movies flopped; maybe the games would have turned good.

Buuuuurn.


For shame about Yokoi.
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Serious Reminder: Vote for Dr. Wily
"What awaits each person in Heaven is eternal peace, divine rest, and $10,000 cash." --Cartman

HM:
What is fortunate is that he's back in business with a lot of former Square employees over at Mistwalker and Akira Toriyama is signed on as the character designer for Blue Dragon, and one other exclusive Xbox 360 RPG.

I didn't know about this. Thanks for the info HM. I'm eagerly awaiting this game now.

NewLib:
True, at the time Game Boy didnt have the same impact. But where would Nintendo be today without it?

Yeah, exactly. It's been the big daddy of their profitabiliy for a while now.
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Also on that note, Miyamoto needs to retire. I love the man and his work, but he cant in his mind realize that production value matters and America is the most important market.

Miyamoto does not need to stop doing what he's been doing. There's no one in the industry who is as brilliant and incredible as that man. I look up to him more than anyone else.

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“If history is to change, let it change. If the world is to be destroyed, so be it. If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh.”

Saying Yokoi quit is not exactly true. After Virtual Boy, Nintendo demoted him to the point where he had no control over anything. They basically said we are going to keep you on the payroll to do nothing. They forced him to quit.
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Vote for Robotnik, he isnt a woman or a giant slug or a .... hand.

That's usually what happens in corporate Japan. You are given a position that has no bearing on big company issues, but you still get to mess with some things that usually will never amount to anything. But he quit, Nintendo never said that he was fired. Of course, it wasn't like he had much choice.

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“If history is to change, let it change. If the world is to be destroyed, so be it. If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh.”

HM, you dont know how hard it is for me to say that about Miyamoto. He doesnt even have to quit, but give up some control. Like it or not, he is not letting the Nintendo developers evolve.
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Vote for Robotnik, he isnt a woman or a giant slug or a .... hand.

There hasn't been a damn thing wrong with anything that Miyamoto has done as of late. Not a damn thing.

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“If history is to change, let it change. If the world is to be destroyed, so be it. If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh.”