"Was Master Chief's prediction percentage 38.42% before the fix? "

It was 38.1% IIRC, if you want I can double check.
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Vincent's vote trend seems to fall in line with how FFVII normally does. It's weaker during the first night vote, good with the day vote, and then carries that on into the second night vote. At best, I could see Squall and Vincent going even with the day vote, but there's nothing here that suggests Squall is actually the favorite.

Well, the winner is the one who takes the day vote, and I just see Squall taking it. Vincent's on a roll right now though.


And I don't think his optional status is hurting him much at all, to be honest. Although Tifa beating Squall by more than this isn't something I would consider unlikely. Hell, Tifa's voting patterns tend to have her performing better during the night than during the day. Heh.

If he wasn't optional, I could see him being pretty close to Vincent.

What?! I didn't bring that up. I was commenting from what transcience had said. I don't know the whole mess surrounding -- I'm assuming some argument broke out -- but I was just commenting on how ridiculous that sounds.

I'm the one (only one) supporting that thought (before the match started). Snake's percentage on Sora was ridiculously high, certainly after Sora overperformed against Alucard.


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157.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeees.

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Yep, 38.1%. Just checked.
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I had a mental orgasm just now. :)

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Squall: ...Flower.

Don't seem to want to get to far away from 150, do they? :P Ah well, bedtime.
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Vincent WILL break 60% on Dante.
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Squall bites back again. Though that was more just Vincent sucking on that update.
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Damn. Vincent only had 97 votes that update. He's dropped off a lot within the past two updates.

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"Also, I believe Dirge of 3-headed dog not an RPG (correct me if I am wrong here) so it might turn off some FF fans."

Vincent + DMC gameplay = Win, as far as I'm concerned. It's clear that even the most devout FF fans will dip into other genres and that being action oriented (KH, anybody?) won't stop them from loving it if it's a good game.
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You know, this match (assuming this continues) and Kirby/Bowser are making serious cases for Mario/Samus being much closer than most of us dare to think.
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How about Kerrigan, The King of all Cosmos and Manny Calavera. The nominations heavily favored the board this time around, it lasted much shorter than the other nomination periods, and was only on the main page for a few days, for most of it there was simply a link from Ceej on this board.

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I don't know why I forgot about Dirge... I wouldn't doubt him being up the strongest character aside from Cloud and Link.

You don't know how happy I would be to see that. Hail to the Immortal Badass. <3

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Vincent + DMC gameplay = Win, as far as I'm concerned. It's clear that even the most devout FF fans will dip into other genres and that being action oriented (KH, anybody?) won't stop them from loving it if it's a good game.

5+ million copies sold. I'd say you have a point. <_<;;

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Vincent surpassing Sephiroth? Yeah, I wish.
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"You know, this match (assuming this continues) and Kirby/Bowser are making serious cases for Mario/Samus being much closer than most of us dare to think"

Actually Mario vs. Zero made me think Mario/Samus was goign to be a lot closer than any of us expected before the tournament started. I'll be disapointed if Smaus wins comfortably, even though I'll be breathing very easily.
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you know, I find the name "dirge of cerberus" to be awful. also, I'm quite skeptical about Square doing a DMC ripoff. show me a good game and I'll believe, but a character does not make a game to me.
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Vincent surpassing Sephiroth? Yeah, I wish.

You may as well say Samus as well then, because Sephiroth has been dropping like a rock since the beggining of these.

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Well, you better hope it's more KH than "The Bouncer." There is an inherent risk of sucking when creating a game that's outside of a company's specialty (obviously Square = RPG). Remember Ergheiz?

I'll probably play it because I love DMC style game, I eat up the DMC's, I ate up GoW, and I will continue to do so, provided the games don't suck.

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20 vote lead? Ouch.

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I've seen 0 evidence to indicate that FF is at any sort of low point since then. The only character to noticably underperform their 2k3 mark since then without fair reasoning is Sephiroth, and if you've heard what I've had to say in the past then you know there's a chance that had a reason behing it too.

Link beat Cloud after losing to him. That, and Sephiroth.

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Yeah, the thing that worries me about DoC was that KH, while fun, wasn't exactly the epitome of a perfect battle system or merciful camera. And other forays into different genres have ended up flat on their face (The Bouncer). In other words, while I'll probably get it since I'm a Vincent mark, I'll have to see it to believe it.

Oh, and nice gain from Vincent there.
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lead = gain >_>

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You may as well say Samus as well then, because Sephiroth has been dropping like a rock since the beggining of these.

Well, since 2003, anyway. He went up from KH just like Cloud and Squall. Vincent wins this update.
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Square knows damn well that they cannot make something FFVII suck. In multiple interviews, they talk about how they're putting far extra effort into this compilation than other games for that reason.

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every time I get my hopes up, Vincent runs 20 votes ahead again. dammit, I want a close match.
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Link beat Cloud after losing to him. That, and Sephiroth.

Er... I thought that Link made it fairly clear that he had boosted in 2004, and that Cloud didn't appear to have dropped at all. <_<

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Link beat Cloud after losing to him.

You can make the case that Cloud did the same, and that everyone from Zelda has encountered a boost. So seph would be your only arguement.

For the record I have Cloud > Link. Though, I'm starting to doubt it with this Nintendo frenzy.

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It's still close. Even a 300 lead can easily be wiped out during the heavier voting hours.

consolefreak doesn't exactly make it habit to verify the results beyond their face value...
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I think DoC will be a rather bad game, actually. I've read some bad reviews on Advent Children, and I'd wager Square put a lot more time, money and effort in the movie than in DoC.

Also, action is simply not their property and the previews on DoC have been very sceptical.
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You know, Sephiroth's going to remove that decline business when he beats the winner of the main bracket without a lot of trouble.

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Yeah, the thing that worries me about DoC was that KH, while fun, wasn't exactly the epitome of a perfect battle system or merciful camera.

I think I'm the only person who enjoyed that battle system, and the camera wasn't RE bad, though not great.

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Square can put all the effort they want in, but the fact remains that they've never made an action game that's any good. they're going to need to make it with good gameplay or they're screwed, FF7 or not.
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I think DoC will be a rather bad game, actually. I've read some bad reviews on Advent Children,

First, the two don't have much to do with each other. The biggest criticism the movie has gotten is that people who have not played FFVII will not enjoy it as much as those who have (Surprise, surprise!) Other than that, there hasn't been much negative thoughts on Advent Children. The people who saw it at Venice gave it a standing ovation through the credits. There's been far more good than there has bad about the movie.

and I'd wager Square put a lot more time, money and effort in the movie than in DoC.

Advent Children isn't bad, so there doesn't appear to be a problem now does there?

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Actually, it looks like Dirge of Cerberus will be more 3rd person shooter than DMC... There is even supposed to be an optional first-person view. I doubt it will play like DMC if you can play it in first person...
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Another increase by Vincent, though the updater didn't register it. Still looking to be very close...
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"How about Kerrigan, The King of all Cosmos and Manny Calavera"

77 and one seed above Vincent with his 24
22 and tied Vincent
19 and quite a bit behind Vincent

Vincent was a 5 seed and had about the same level of support from the board as those last two, one of which I can assure you had a good deal of support outside of board 8 (I saw KoaC support on other boards myself) which the other did not (though he obviously had some). Just to put it into further perspective, Strider had 23 noms from the board and missed the contest all together. Vincent did not take a 5 seed based solely on this board, and if not one single person off this board nommed Kerrigan (how likely is that?) then it's fair to assume nearly twice his support came from off B8.
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SC2K5's updater missed an update.
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"Remember Ergheiz?"

Nope :p
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You can make the case that Cloud did the same, and that everyone from Zelda has encountered a boost. So seph would be your only arguement.

There's also Tidus, Aerith and Squall (although Squall got SFF'd, his performance against Samus was very
impressive). Anyway, Sephiroth is more than enough evidence on his own.

I thought 2k3 being FF's year was obvious?


For the record I have Cloud > Link. Though, I'm starting to doubt it with this Nintendo frenzy.

I have Cloud > Link as well. I think Link breaking 55% is a lot more likely than Cloud winning at this point though.

consolefreak doesn't exactly make it habit to verify the results beyond their face value...

Yeah, because you know me so well, don't you.

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"Link beat Cloud after losing to him"

Evidence shows clearly that eithre Link increased or the entire field (not jsut FF but EVERYTHING) decreased.
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It's Ehrgeiz, dammit!

"God Bless the Ring"

Horrible battle system, though the RPG mode was actually tolerable. <_<
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"Remember Ehrgeiz?"

I actually liked that game. *Ducks bricks*
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Yeah, because you know me so well, don't you.

You think that Ganondorf has decreased. So, yeah.
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For the past few matches, the updater has been missing updates and adding them to the next for a few updates in the early morning. Most people are asleep so I don't know if I'm the only one that has been noticing it...
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193 vote lead.

Damnit Squall, I haven't slept for a bit over 24 hours. Quickly, lead!

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Squall: ...Flower.

There's also Tidus, Aerith and Squall (although Squall got SFF'd, his performance against Samus was very
impressive). Anyway, Sephiroth is more than enough evidence on his own.

1) Y HALO THAR FFX, I won't even bother arguing that I don't think Tidus dropped.
2. Y HALO THAT 2k3. I won't even bother arguing how retarded the name Aerith is.
3) Y HALO THAR CLOUD, and Y HALO THAR MR. VALENTINE AKA MR. UNKNOWN. I won't even bother arguing how we don't have solid stats on Squall.

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