GameFAQs Contests
Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 439
| charmander6000 | Posted 4/8/2007 7:28:49 AM | message detail |
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All 1500. I'm one of the 838 people who took poll #1. Really. 6.95% 5154 I remember that poll. GameFAQs = a bunch of liars. --- The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. ~Joe Stalin, comment to Churchill at Potsdam, 1945 |
| H__RR____H | Posted 4/8/2007 7:36:24 AM | message detail |
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Yeah, I remember that well...and I doubt we had 100 of the original
voters vote for that, much less 100 who voted in every one of them. Did anybody see the swing in today's poll? In the first hour of it, AIM had something like 37% to MSN's 27%...but now, dayum, the tides have almost been reversed and there's still plenty of day-light to go... ...and I'm calling it now: I blame it on Easter. --- Damn, most of my dates involve mocking and/or beating up people like you and your bride-to-be, so I really have no advice --Horatio |
| Ngamer64 | Posted 4/8/2007 7:48:53 AM | message detail |
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Yeah, was about to say the same thing. StarCraft has nothing on this
MSN comeback... I got my vote in early last night and AIM was cruising
along at 41%, 10 hours later MSN is the one with the 37 to 28 advantage. Not that I didn't realize how easily MSN dominates Europe and Australia, I just thought our North American AIM support would overwhelm the other continents. Though I guess there's still plenty of time for a comeback... --- thengamer.com/xstats = lol x-stats Still smarting from the beatdown Rufus applied in the Guru Contest! |
| H__RR____H | Posted 4/8/2007 7:51:40 AM | message detail |
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Did MSN win the messengers-poll last time too? I was thinkin' AIM won it last time. --- Damn, most of my dates involve mocking and/or beating up people like you and your bride-to-be, so I really have no advice --Horatio |
| H__RR____H | Posted 4/8/2007 7:57:54 AM | message detail |
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I just checked myself...not only has AIM beaten MSN everytime, the only
time it lost was to ICQ...and that was when AIM was split up into two
options. Now though, if AIM doesn't get its act together, MSN's going
to storm away with this. Here's the most recent poll similar to this I
found: Poll 1832 (11/27/2004) What instant messenger system do you most often use? 25965 46.33% AIM 1084 1.93% ICQ 109 0.19% Jabber 18474 32.96% MSN 3297 5.88% Yahoo! 7116 12.7% I don't use IM TOTAL VOTES: 56045 --- Damn, most of my dates involve mocking and/or beating up people like you and your bride-to-be, so I really have no advice --Horatio |
| H__RR____H | Posted 4/8/2007 8:00:01 AM | message detail |
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Oh, and it's also weird seeing anything related to Google come in last
on a popularity poll, but Google Talk is making it happen! --- Damn, most of my dates involve mocking and/or beating up people like you and your bride-to-be, so I really have no advice --Horatio |
| Ngamer64 | Posted 4/8/2007 8:51:28 PM | message detail |
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Much as I like my AIM, I tend to forget that I'm techy enough to be
using a two year old modified version of a three year old version of
the program. So at first I can't understand why AIM has constantly been
losing ground in recent years, and then I remember what the current
build looks like. *shudders* Yeah, if I were just getting into the IM
scene tonight, I very much doubt I'd select that Triton crap over MSN's
cleaner interface. To be fair though, I think AIM would have had a decent shot at the win today if this weren't Easter... I can imagine plenty of Americans traveling around with the family today and not getting a chance to pick up a game or get online. But to me, the real sea change from 2 years ago is that overall IM attendance has declined a good 6%. What the devil? I always saw instant messaging as the way of the future when it came to online communication, and just assumed that with the younger generations it would be as natural a part of being online as browsers are for us. Seems that with the rise of social networking, there's no need to IM your friend when you don't need any special software to post a note to the facebook/myspace/e-mail accounts he checks twice an hour. Or else, I guess it could just be that 100% of teenagers have their own cell phone on them at all times, all of which can use text messaging. --- thengamer.com/xstats = lol x-stats Still smarting from the beatdown Rufus applied in the Guru Contest! |
| HaRRicH | Posted 4/8/2007 9:47:02 PM | message detail |
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CJay needs to have a poll asking what is everybody's favorite way of
electronic communication. There are messenger-programs, e-mail
accounts, unlimited texting, public forums, profile sites, and probably
more I'm forgetting about. This poll, however, should only happen after THE DAMN CONTEST. --- This is my main account, but I see all the cool people doing it...... HaRRicH |
| LordOfDabu | Posted 4/8/2007 10:02:53 PM | message detail |
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I expect that cell phones have replaced IM for a lot of people... more so than websites (facebook/myspace). But maybe not. I actually use Google Talk the most (as do most of my RL friends that use IMing) as it's built right into g-mail but it looks like in the grand scheme of things I'm in the vast minority on that. :( Still, I never would have anticipated MSN besting AIM in the poll, especially after I saw the votes last night. I don't think any of my friends use it, which may be why I'm so surprised. --- "Professor Planet, mathematical hero. Going to take epsilon down to zero." Math board: http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/gentopic.php?board=576216 |
| Haste_2 | Posted 4/9/2007 1:51:46 AM | message detail |
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Well, it looks like we're not even gonna have a late-starting Spring
Contest (starting May, like with Sp2K5)... well, surely there's the
Summer Contest to look forward to, at least. --- "Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So...what is a party?" "Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think." |
| therealmnm | Posted 4/9/2007 5:44:10 AM | message detail |
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I'm a Yahoo Messenger guy. I use all three, but most of my friends and
myself have shifted towards Yahoo. There are only a few people I talk
to regularly that predominately use MSN. --- Currently playing: God of War 2, Fable, Ultimate Spiderman, FFVI Advance |
| HaRRicH | Posted 4/9/2007 7:56:50 AM | message detail |
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I'm an MSN guy and have been for years; I only hop on AIM when I wanna
talk to GameFAQs people off of the GameFAQs forums, and I've simply
stopped using Yahoo at least a year ago..... --- This is my main account, but I see all the cool people doing it...... HaRRicH |
| UltimaterializerX | Posted 4/9/2007 9:07:33 PM | message detail |
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From LordOfDabu Posted 4/9/2007 1:02:53 AM #209 I expect that cell phones have replaced IM for a lot of people. I agree. ~*ST*~ --- 2/4/2007 - SUPER BOWL CHAMPION COLTS!! Now Playing: Disgaea 2, Final Fantasy, FF6A |
| Team Rocket Elite | Posted 4/9/2007 10:14:11 PM | message detail |
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2/12/2005 - Which game company do you hate the most (or like the least)? http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1909 I know it's not exactly the same question. But ouch at Sony. --- Rufus Shinra 18 decimated me in the Summer 2006 Guru Contest. Support Wario for the Summer 2007 Contest! |
| Ngamer64 | Posted 4/10/2007 3:16:03 AM | message detail |
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Yes, this Sony result is mighty sad. But if I were an
anti-Nintendo/anti-Zelda fellow, what I'd find even more disturbing
would be yesterday's result. That was the one where, on a weekday, a
poll revolving entirely around Final Fantasy VII (and featuring
'Square' in the title) could only manage 83,667 votes. 83k! Come on
now, that's only 3000 more users than were reeled in by Contra 4 days back, and is well below the interest level we saw for Japan or IM programs or the other last few polls. *mouth continues to water for that OoT/FF7 rematch* --- thengamer.com/xstats = lol x-stats Still smarting from the beatdown Rufus applied in the Guru Contest! |
| H__RR____H | Posted 4/10/2007 10:53:56 AM | message detail |
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I wish tomorrow would ask who the voters dislikes the most, just to see
if there's much difference between the perception and the truth of the
GameFAQs demographic. Microsoft is doing much better for itself now, too...though EA keeps the hate alive! --- Damn, most of my dates involve mocking and/or beating up people like you and your bride-to-be, so I really have no advice --Horatio |
| ZFS | Posted 4/10/2007 11:11:58 AM | message detail |
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That was the one where, on a weekday, a poll revolving entirely
around Final Fantasy VII (and featuring 'Square' in the title) could
only manage 83,667 votes. 83k! Come on now, that's only 3000 more users
than were reeled in by Contra 4 days back, and is well below the
interest level we saw for Japan or IM programs or the other last few
polls. I think you're looking into that way too much, personally. --- "Listen to my story. This may be our last chance." -- Tidus |
| HaRRicH | Posted 4/10/2007 1:54:20 PM | message detail |
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It's interesting and worth pointing out...but it's not making me more
confident in FF7 losing strength here, either. I figure that, at best,
it's a small sign that LoZ would do better against FF7 in a rematch,
but I like to think we have more telling signs than that already. --- This is my main account, but I see all the cool people doing it...... HaRRicH |
| Ngamer64 | Posted 4/10/2007 5:43:12 PM | message detail |
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Oh, am I? Am I really? Because I seem to
remember that there was a time when anything, and I mean ANYTHING FF7
sent this site into a fanboy frenzy, and that it was consistently
reflected in the polls. Let's test my memory, shall we? November 2005, the site's Top Ten games are revealed, each with a small writeup and accompanied by 10 day-long polls, all run back to back. Should give us an excellent idea of if seeing "Final Fantasy VII" in a PotD title used to result in huge voter interest, eh? Results! FF3/6 - 67,428 Halo - 60,833 MGS - 64,883 Goldeneye - 73,866 Melee - 70,432 Mario 3 - 79,710 Link to the Past - 69,021 Chrono Trigger - 68,796 Ocarina - 72,740 FF7 - 81,770 Now answer me this. Insert that identical Contra poll into this scheme a few days ahead of FF7, say in LttP's place. Does it attract 78,653 voters? OR, in comparison to every other game we've seen, is Final Fantasy VII just no longer on a whole different playing field when it comes to capturing the interest of GameFAQs? --- thengamer.com/xstats = lol x-stats Still smarting from the beatdown Rufus applied in the Guru Contest! |
| HaRRicH | Posted 4/10/2007 9:23:55 PM | message detail |
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Again, worth pointing out, and seeing your last post is a nice
compliment to it. I just think that there are more telling signs
already out. I'm not saying to ignore this seemingly-trivial piece of
potential evidence, but it seems rather minimal despite the case you
bring up because vote totals is a sketchy thing to judge by... ...it's another brick in the LoZ:OoT > FF7 upset wall, sure, but it's a rather small and broken brick. *goes back to listening to Pink Floyd* --- This is my main account, but I see all the cool people doing it...... HaRRicH |
| UltimaterializerX | Posted 4/11/2007 9:11:47 PM | message detail |
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OOT or TP > FF7 is a very real possibility these days. ~*ST*~ --- 2/4/2007 - SUPER BOWL CHAMPION COLTS!! Now Playing: Disgaea 2, Final Fantasy, FF6A |
| HaRRicH | Posted 4/11/2007 9:14:28 PM | message detail |
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SARCASTICALLY BOLD PREDICTION: LoZ:TP doesn't stand a ****ing chance against FF7. It would be doing phenomenal to match CT's percentage against it. --- This is my main account, but I see all the cool people doing it...... HaRRicH |
| LegendarySnake | Posted 4/12/2007 12:11:25 PM | message detail |
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Hmmm...I'd like to see a poll about how widely Twilight Princess has been played so far before I'd even think about taking it over FFVII. --- "I never felt truly alive until I was staring death in the face." "I'll die...after I kill you." |
| HaRRicH | Posted 4/12/2007 12:37:51 PM | message detail |
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I feel like that in regards to a LoZ:TP/LoZ:LttP match, which is still
being generous. LoZ:TP is huge, certainly, but it's only been out for
about five months! No doubt it's going to be strong, but the fact that
practically all of us are in agreement that it is NOW in the Super
Seven is already hyping the game's strength to a bizarre new dimension,
and I cannot imagine any other way to overhype the game's strength than
to be saying LoZ:TP > FF7 is a real possibility. It'll keep getting stronger as the Wii sales go on, especially since LoZ:TP is a launch game with a well-respected brand name and beloved fanfare; hell, if TP is really better than OoT, then TP > FF7 could happen once the Wii is more established. As is though -- and for quite awhile longer -- it's not, and I hope nobody's forgetting just how popular and loved a game OoT is already. CT being re-released and Magus having his own multi-platform spin-off right after 2k4 wouldn't have caused so much overestimation as this LoZ:TP talk is causing. --- This is my main account, but I see all the cool people doing it...... HaRRicH |
| Ngamer64 | Posted 4/12/2007 1:33:37 PM | message detail |
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Hey HaR, I saw how you were sad because you didn't think you'd gotten any points in Top 100 Users. Well, cheer up! http://board8wiki.com/User:Ngamer#Some_Nice_People_Have_Said_Things And to stay on topic, tranny made a really good bracket which shows how awesome (and unfoddery) Games would be this year, even if you limited yourself to titles released after 1/1/2000! http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs9/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=34644837 So be sure to predict that if you haven't yet. --- thengamer.com/xstats = lol x-stats Still smarting from the beatdown Rufus applied in the Guru Contest! |
| HaRRicH | Posted 4/12/2007 2:21:04 PM | message detail |
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Ah, I was being facetious about that list, but thanks Ngamer. --- This is my main account, but I see all the cool people doing it...... HaRRicH |
| swirIdude | Posted 4/12/2007 2:32:55 PM | message detail |
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I don't think I've ever seen the Stats topic so inactive. --- ENTER THE KAIBA CAVE! The sonic demo is awesome. Its a total reminder that bad things can always get worse. ~red13n |
| swirIdude | Posted 4/12/2007 2:38:50 PM | message detail |
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And sorry to AKJ and Ed Bellis and swirl... but keep up the good work and you'll be in next year! Curses! Foiled again! --- ENTER THE KAIBA CAVE! The sonic demo is awesome. Its a total reminder that bad things can always get worse. ~red13n |
| trannyscience | Posted 4/12/2007 2:41:49 PM | message detail |
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ha, I missed out on beating Bellis because I didn't sign up for The Contest That Never Was. --- "Mash up ice with a spoon? Tennessee gets dumber by the day." - Explicit Content |
| Ngamer64 | Posted 4/12/2007 7:33:02 PM | message detail |
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It's like being haunted by the ghost of a ghost! (...of a bad idea in the first place.) --- thengamer.com/xstats = lol x-stats Still smarting from the beatdown Rufus applied in the Guru Contest! |
| swirIdude | Posted 4/13/2007 8:46:07 AM | message detail |
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I didn't stand a ghost, of a chance! --- ENTER THE KAIBA CAVE! The sonic demo is awesome. Its a total reminder that bad things can always get worse. ~red13n |
| UltimaterializerX | Posted 4/14/2007 2:29:09 AM | message detail |
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Me either! ~*ST*~ --- 2/4/2007 - SUPER BOWL CHAMPION COLTS!! Now Playing: Disgaea 2, Final Fantasy, FF6A |
| HeroicTronBonne | Posted 4/14/2007 11:16:13 AM | message detail |
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Something relevant on Board 8 needs to happen. Very soon. --- The Angel of Death and Leader of the Anti-NATION WWEGSB Hardcore Legend and Board 8er Masa/Hiko |
| HaRRicH | Posted 4/14/2007 12:59:27 PM | message detail |
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Si. --- This is my main account, but I see all the cool people doing it...... HaRRicH |
| LeonhartForever | Posted 4/14/2007 3:04:57 PM | message detail |
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Lopen and I, equally popular on Board 8? I don't believe it! --- "I'm only here to see how the story plays out. Any self-respecting leading man would do the same." - Balthier |
| therealmnm | Posted 4/14/2007 7:44:29 PM | message detail |
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lol internet popularity --- Currently playing: God of War 2, Fable, Ultimate Spiderman, FFVI Advance |
| HeroicTronBonne | Posted 4/14/2007 8:49:18 PM | message detail |
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therealmnm is correct --- The Angel of Death and Leader of the Anti-NATION WWEGSB Hardcore Legend and Board 8er Masa/Hiko |
| LeonhartForever | Posted 4/14/2007 8:51:19 PM | message detail |
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I have to talk about something to pass the time these days! This place is dead. --- "I'm only here to see how the story plays out. Any self-respecting leading man would do the same." - Balthier |
| HeroicTronBonne | Posted 4/14/2007 8:53:05 PM | message detail |
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Lets about SSBM. I really need some competition. --- The Angel of Death and Leader of the Anti-NATION WWEGSB Hardcore Legend and Board 8er Masa/Hiko |
| PortugalTheMann | Posted 4/14/2007 9:23:36 PM | message detail |
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Which of the three next-gen systems do you now own? Vote Accepted All three 3.86% 34 360 and PS3 2.38% 21 360 and Wii 12.6% 111 PS3 and Wii 1.48% 13 Just a 360 16.12% 142 Just a PS3 3.63% 32 Just a Wii 27.01% 238 None of them 32.92% 290 TOTAL VOTES 881 No love for the PSWii? --- Explicit Content. V-Tokens: 847 |
| LeonhartForever | Posted 4/14/2007 9:24:17 PM | message detail |
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I was vote 32 for the PS3! --- "I'm only here to see how the story plays out. Any self-respecting leading man would do the same." - Balthier |
| consolefreak | Posted 4/15/2007 8:02:51 AM | message detail |
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| consolefreak | Posted 4/15/2007 8:05:34 AM | message detail |
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No love for the PSWii? Indeed. Pretty weird that it's beat by PS360 --- The blood of the weak shall be the ink with which we scribe great Yawgmoth's glorious name. - Stronghold Architect, journal (MTG) |
| Lady Ashe | Posted 4/15/2007 8:20:56 AM | message detail |
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From ZFS The only game I can really think of that I don't know anyone, be it critics or fans, who likes it is Devil May Cry 2. But, hey, it's exposure! Can't hurt too much. me ~~~ Ashe. The Cream of Final Fantasy Fanboyism. http://www.board8wiki.com/Lady_Ashe |
| Ngamer64 | Posted 4/15/2007 9:29:17 PM | message detail |
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Didn't update the list with that Contra result from the other day, but
went back and did it now. Came out to a pretty impressive 56.70%, good
for 15th all-time. It's of course way behind Mario 1/3 and Zelda 1 when
talking NES titles, but is right in line with the original Final
Fantasy (58.50%), which I think is nothing to sneeze at. Full update at http://board8wiki.com/Have you played While I was there I went ahead and applied the update for these latest Got Console numbers from yesterday. That's all ready to run at http://board8wiki.com/Got Console Now for a trend watch! * The Wii is up to 42.64% ownership, which is an improvement of 0.57% since the last poll in February. * The 360 scored a 35.79%, which is actually DOWN 0.38% from the poll taken 3 days after Christmas. I'm thinking that was just due to a few more Gears players being on the site to check FAQs... still, 0 growth in 4.5 months is a little strange. * The PS3 scored a 12.17% this time, an improvement of 1.46% from its previous best ownership way back in November of '06. Seems pretty clear that we can chalk this movement up to the European launch. A very nice gain, but let's not throw the console a party just yet... keep in mind that it's currently still trailing the Virtual Boy by over a full percentage point. --- thengamer.com/xstats = lol x-stats Still smarting from the beatdown Rufus applied in the Guru Contest! |
| UltimaterializerX | Posted 4/15/2007 9:41:07 PM | message detail |
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The PS3 might be fine if good games ever come out on it. ~*ST*~ --- 2/4/2007 - SUPER BOWL CHAMPION COLTS!! Now Playing: Final Fantasy, FF6A, Castlevania: Lament of the Innocence |
| HaRRicH | Posted 4/15/2007 10:11:00 PM | message detail |
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MGS4, FF13, and an official announcement of FF7 being remade could come
out tomorrow, and the PS3 is still going to be in last place here at
the site until it hits a price drop...or FF7's rerelease arrives. --- This is my main account, but I see all the cool people doing it...... HaRRicH |
| PortugalTheMann | Posted 4/16/2007 4:06:12 PM | message detail |
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It was hard for me to shell out the 400 for a 360, and that was with a
decent list of games behind it already out... so yeah, and price drop
would be about the only thing that could do it for me. --- Explicit Content. V-Tokens: 847 |
| wavedash101 | Posted 4/16/2007 4:08:09 PM | message detail |
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Ugh guess we are gonna have to wait until the fall for a character contest >_> --- Our shields cannot withstand wavedashing of this magnitude! Annoying posters! I am the great wavedash! [no u cru] |
| HaRRicH | Posted 4/16/2007 7:35:31 PM | message detail |
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Here's something I've been thinking about: (7/15/05) http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=2062 (1/8/05) http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1874 (1/10/05) http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1876 (1/12/05) http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1878 (9/5/06) http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=2492 (3/19/07) http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=2695 (1/3/07) http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=2620 (1/8/07) http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=2625 (1/12/07) http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=2629 (1/13/07) http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=2630 (1/14/07) http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=2631 I remember how 2k5 was dubbed the year of the Nintendo Boost, and Mario certainly soared that year...not to mention that Nintendo already had a stranglehold on the handheld industry before the DS. Now, with Nintendo coming from accepting the Gamecube's reputation to fighting hard with the Wii for first in sales, how much better accepted LoZ:TP was accepted than SM64DS both in general terms and how well they performed in their GotY polls, and that there are already more people with a Wii in four months than the DS in seven months... ...I just think this'll mean a lot more than "LINK WINS AGAIN GAWD" -- this year could be incredible for many more Nintendo characters on GameFAQs, LoZ-related or otherwise. --- This is my main account, but I see all the cool people doing it...... HaRRicH |
