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| hailEC | Posted 10/10/2008 6:36:10 AM | message detail |
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Man Cloud's voting trends are just ridiculous... I would love to see him and L go at it straight on. --- all hail ec your lord and savior |
| charmander6000 | Posted 10/10/2008 7:35:59 AM | message detail |
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Midna is doing much better than expected. Right now she's getting 26%
on Cloud. It will go down through the day, but in the end she'll be
above my expectations. --- Board 8 BOP: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB7%20BOP.xls Character Battle 2008: Points 67/88 Today's Match: Cloud > Midna |
| PartOfYourWorld | Posted 10/10/2008 8:03:04 AM | message detail |
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Turtle, how is it that you can make me feel like I lost the bet with one stupid statement? --- Yoblazer: http://i33.tinypic.com/16hnm05.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
| LeonhartFour | Posted 10/10/2008 8:59:59 AM | message detail |
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Cloud's consistently getting low 60 updates now, so he should make a good push for 60% by the end. --- Squall Leonhart's Path to the CBVII Championship Round 1: 1st place, 57296 votes, 45.06% |
| ffmasterjose | Posted 10/10/2008 9:08:58 AM | message detail |
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The return of SquareFAQs confirmed Link is so screwed --- 69/88 points - The Great GameFAQs Character Battle VII NP: Cloud Strife > Midna | http://www.thengamer.com/guru/bracket.php?id=0 |
| MyWorldIsCrono | Posted 10/10/2008 9:09:50 AM | message detail |
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ffmasterjose (#455) cloud is doing worse then expected though --- http://card.mygamercard.net/geothermal/Albion+Hero.png http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n4/tellie1218/Obama_for_President_550.jpg |
| hailEC | Posted 10/10/2008 9:10:04 AM | message detail |
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uhhh --- all hail ec your lord and savior |
| ffmasterjose | Posted 10/10/2008 9:11:22 AM | message detail |
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That would be my bad attempt at a joke. I'm looking at the same match everyone else is :D --- 69/88 points - The Great GameFAQs Character Battle VII NP: Cloud Strife > Midna | http://www.thengamer.com/guru/bracket.php?id=0 |
| HaRRicH | Posted 10/10/2008 9:12:02 AM | message detail |
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1) This is a good match to show that people need to honestly shut the
**** up and stop acting like you know everything. I would mention
names, but I strive to be above that. 2) On a completely unrelated note, I hate that I missed this: L-O-L B-T. 3) Is axel much above where Agent J was expected last year? Can we get some statistical comparison please? 4) More seriously, I didn't think Axel would be in the match, but I didn't think he would be this out of the match. Midna's impressing too...fun stuff. --- NRT winners: Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow, Star Fox 64, Donkey Kong Country 2 Remember these games! |
| MyWorldIsCrono | Posted 10/10/2008 9:13:05 AM | message detail |
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1) This is a good match to show that people need to honestly shut
the **** up and stop acting like you know everything. I would mention
names, but I strive to be above that. What else is there to do during boring matches in the contest discussion board then talk about future matches? --- http://card.mygamercard.net/geothermal/Albion+Hero.png http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n4/tellie1218/Obama_for_President_550.jpg |
| LeonhartFour | Posted 10/10/2008 9:27:41 AM | message detail |
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There's a difference between discussion and pretentious claims that you
know what's going to happen and whoever disagrees with you is an idiot. --- Squall Leonhart's Path to the CBVII Championship Round 1: 1st place, 57296 votes, 45.06% |
| HaRRicH | Posted 10/10/2008 9:33:14 AM | message detail |
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Bingo. --- NRT winners: Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow, Star Fox 64, Donkey Kong Country 2 Remember these games! |
| LeonhartFour | Posted 10/10/2008 9:40:02 AM | message detail |
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At least Cloud hasn't lost his massive day vote, like Link seemed to
have. It'll be interesting to see how Zack's FFVII day vote compares to
what Link does. --- Squall Leonhart's Path to the CBVII Championship Round 1: 1st place, 57296 votes, 45.06% |
| MnMZero | Posted 10/10/2008 9:43:11 AM | message detail |
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lol Axel And no, I'm not ragging on you BT. You made valid arguments about the GH fanbase, but you forgot about the age-old saying around here: games =/= characters. You actually thought that Guitar Hero fans really gave a damn about the characters? Really, to me, all of the characters suck (well, maybe not Clive). GH would have been better off with create-a-character. Sure, a Judy Nails might have a few fans here and there, and an Axel Steel might have a few fans, and a Grim Ripper might have a few fans. But for the masses of GH fans, it's really hard for people to care that much about the characters? Sure the GH fanbase is large enough for them to support its characters over characters that really suck, but in a poll with Cloud? No, there's nothing wrong with this poll. Cloud is dominating accordingly. Edgeworth has his few, but diehard fans. Axel Steel is sucking because nobody cares that much. And Midna is taking the Zelda/Nintendo diehard fanbase. --- Proud Supporter of Zero |
| PartOfYourWorld | Posted 10/10/2008 9:45:41 AM | message detail |
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You actually thought that Guitar Hero fans really gave a damn about the characters? Eh, I doubt Guitar Hero fans would even care enough about the game to give it a meaningful showing in any games contest. --- Yoblazer: http://i33.tinypic.com/16hnm05.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
| MnMZero | Posted 10/10/2008 9:49:10 AM | message detail |
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1) This is a good match to show that people need to honestly shut
the **** up and stop acting like you know everything. I would mention
names, but I strive to be above that. Wow, that's a bit overboard. That's the point of this topic. If you think you have a good argument, there's nothing wrong with saying it. This contest wouldn't be any fun if you couldn't make bold arguments with the chance of them being correct. I'd rather have a topic with people making bold arguments over everyone holding back. --- Proud Supporter of Zero |
| LeonhartFour | Posted 10/10/2008 9:49:54 AM | message detail |
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Again, big difference between boldness and arrogance. --- Squall Leonhart's Path to the CBVII Championship Round 1: 1st place, 57296 votes, 45.06% |
| MyWorldIsCrono | Posted 10/10/2008 9:55:10 AM | message detail |
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Obviously BT and I were wrong about this one, but there were people who
thought Falcon had a chance that would be shot down as well, yet that
turned out to be true. Thinking characters have a shot that are upsets
are fine. If you guys all think Midna was a lock, BT and I could think
Axel was a lock. It shouldn't just be one sided. --- http://card.mygamercard.net/geothermal/Albion+Hero.png http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n4/tellie1218/Obama_for_President_550.jpg |
| MnMZero | Posted 10/10/2008 9:55:52 AM | message detail |
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Eh, I doubt Guitar Hero fans would even care enough about the game to give it a meaningful showing in any games contest. You think Guitar Hero would be doing this bad in a games contest? I don't see how. Since Guitar Hero II released, the game hasn't disappointed in a poll yet. I'm not saying it would be a powerhouse, but it would definitely hold its own. I thought Guitar Hero III did rather well in the multi-platform GotY poll, nabbing second with Rock Band in the poll. And it's not like the rest of its competition wasn't decent (Orange Box, CoD4, Bioshock). There's nothing that suggests that GH would bomb in a poll like Axel is doing. --- Proud Supporter of Zero |
| MyWorldIsCrono | Posted 10/10/2008 9:56:56 AM | message detail |
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Not to mention GH boards on Gamefaqs are some of the most popular, part
of my reasoning for thinking Axel would do well. Maybe they don't care
about the characters of it, but I wouldn't see the games fans being so
apathetic about the game itself. --- http://card.mygamercard.net/geothermal/Albion+Hero.png http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n4/tellie1218/Obama_for_President_550.jpg |
| PartOfYourWorld | Posted 10/10/2008 10:03:12 AM | message detail |
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It may do well; maybe I'm underestimating its fanbase. However, I have
a very hard time seeing a game that casual pick up a win unless it was
matched up against something relatively niche (or relatively niche and
relatively old). --- Yoblazer: http://i33.tinypic.com/16hnm05.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
| HaRRicH | Posted 10/10/2008 10:10:03 AM | message detail |
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Wow, that's a bit overboard. That's the point of this topic. If you
think you have a good argument, there's nothing wrong with saying it.
This contest wouldn't be any fun if you couldn't make bold arguments
with the chance of them being correct. I'd rather have a topic with
people making bold arguments over everyone holding back. Leonhart's covered my thoughts on it. I'm all for varying arguments, but make them arguments instead of spewing dumb stuff and being 100% behind some uneducated guesses. I can't remember anything specifically bad about Albion's arguments -- it was mainly a BT-thing for me... ...but if he wants to say GH would take on SSBM while ignoring that this is GameFAQs, then assume people care about their characters like they do the game, then justify it by getting a few upsets correct last year, then treat everyone else like they're ridiculous for not jumping on the upset? I'm going to give hell back if and when they're wrong because he would have done the same to us. GH3 (or the series in general) would do well enough in a contest though. --- NRT winners: Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow, Star Fox 64, Donkey Kong Country 2 Remember these games! |
| MyWorldIsCrono | Posted 10/10/2008 10:12:35 AM | message detail |
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Hochi is kinda quiet after his Cloud > Axel pick --- http://card.mygamercard.net/geothermal/Albion+Hero.png http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n4/tellie1218/Obama_for_President_550.jpg |
| MnMZero | Posted 10/10/2008 10:13:29 AM | message detail |
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Why? It's done just as well as any other kind of game does in those
polls, and its actually beaten some big name franchises in those polls.
We already know it has a large widespread fanbase. Why would it
suddenly be unable to win a match against anything non-fodder? You act
like we're talking about Wii Sports here. GH has plenty of hardcore-type fans as well as those who casually play it. I don't see why it should be treated any differently. --- Proud Supporter of Zero |
| hailEC | Posted 10/10/2008 10:50:35 AM | message detail |
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Because GH is the pinnacle of casual gaming. Moreso than Mario, Zelda,
whatever. People who don't play any other video games play Guitar Hero.
I know people with 360's just for rockband and guitar hero. They don't
own a single other game. GameFAQs isn't the general gaming audience,
and I'd be pretty damn stunned if they really got behind Guitar Hero
and pushed it to a victory against any half-decently respected game
around here. No doubt it would do better than Axel or any of it's characters... that's not even a question. I'd say having it in a games contest would be worthwhile, but unless it got an extremely favorable match-up it's not going anywhere. --- all hail ec your lord and savior |
| MyWorldIsCrono | Posted 10/10/2008 10:51:37 AM | message detail |
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And I know people with a Wii only for SSBB. Your point? Any popular
game can be casual at low levels of competition, but Guitar Hero is as
hardcore as it gets at high levels of competition. --- http://card.mygamercard.net/geothermal/Albion+Hero.png http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n4/tellie1218/Obama_for_President_550.jpg |
| hailEC | Posted 10/10/2008 10:53:40 AM | message detail |
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If you can't make the comparison yourself, I'm not going to bother. You
don't listen to reason and enjoy following your own ass-backward logic
to the death. --- all hail ec your lord and savior |
| vcharon | Posted 10/10/2008 10:55:38 AM | message detail |
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None of the Noble 9 have stomped the competition... it isn't that type
of internet anymore. Also, Cloud is doing better than I personally
expected. I didn't think we'd see any 60% scores at all, but Cloud will
probably make a real push for it. He still has a long time to get there. I'm hesitant to mention anything about SquareFAQs... because even though Nintendo looks weak, Cloud beating Link is actually the farthest thing from my mind concerning this contest. I just want to know if any real character is going to be able to top the jokes. I think Cloud has to work about Cube/Block/Sandbag more than Link right now. --- :> |
| MyWorldIsCrono | Posted 10/10/2008 10:56:04 AM | message detail |
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You are the one who thinks just because a game can be casual, its ONLY
casual. Show me a casual guitar hero player who can 5 star Ttfaf on
Expert. Please. --- http://card.mygamercard.net/geothermal/Albion+Hero.png http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n4/tellie1218/Obama_for_President_550.jpg |
| TestIcicles | Posted 10/10/2008 10:57:32 AM | message detail |
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that might be the dumbest thing ive ever read, but i forget all the other posts ive read of yours so --- mmm test icicles |
| HaRRicH | Posted 10/10/2008 11:25:00 AM | message detail |
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Personally, I don't think GameFAQs attracts that kind of GH-player very
much in comparison to other expert-level players for other
games...though this is admittedly a guess on my part. It just seems
like for every expert-level GH-player you could find here, you could
find at least two for SSBM, two for SSBB, two who have beaten FF7 ten
or more times, two who have tackled a MGS game on Extreme, and somebody
who can name every moveset in Street Fighter 2. GameFAQs has a strong enough showing of GH-fans -- honestly, GH3 should have beaten Halo 3 last year and competed with CoD4 if Rock Band wasn't in its poll, and GH already clearly beat the other music-genre games in a poll last year before GH3 came out -- but I wouldn't rely on their hardcore fans here. I would figure and GH game or the series would be a one-and-done type of game/series in a contest though. It would be screwed over if it faced somebody strong in the first round, yet it would probably have an easier route than most to get to the third round or better. Some good matches would come from it, but I would expect it to falter against standard classics here while abusing games with more niche-fanbases. --- NRT winners: Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow, Star Fox 64, Donkey Kong Country 2 Remember these games! |
| capri | Posted 10/10/2008 11:27:42 AM | message detail |
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I am a first-time poster on these topics. I am just wondering what the consensus from the "experts" is on tomorrow's match. I have Mewtwo > Pac-Man, but I can't help but feel like I probably screwed up. I'm in the 91st percentile right now, and don't want to fall too far (Never finished higher than 60...) --- O's, Stroh's, and Natty Boh's! |
| HaRRicH | Posted 10/10/2008 11:38:44 AM | message detail |
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I originally had Mewtwo > Pac-Man, but i switched to Mewtwo >
Ness. I think EB's fanbase will resist Pokemon SFF and Ness's
SSB-support should be relatively unhindered by Mewtwo. If CF can kill
Diddy Kong with it, Ness should be able to resist Mewtwo with it. Who knows with Pac-Man though. Since three Nintendo icons have killed Pac-Man before, I assume two lesser-known Nintendo characters in the same poll won't do him any favors either. IAlso, I trust this format doesn't do Pac-Man a lot of good since the idea is that he benefits from a lot of apathetic votes; with more options, there are less apathy to be up for grabs. I won't be surprised if Pac-Man wins, but I'm giving it to Ness. This is a make-or-break match for me about him though; this will say a lot about his support in the fanbase. --- NRT winners: Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow, Star Fox 64, Donkey Kong Country 2 Remember these games! |
| transience | Posted 10/10/2008 11:50:17 AM | message detail |
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these GH arguments are dumb. like, really dumb. comparing the GH series
to its characters is seriously the stupidest thing you can do. is GH
casual? sure. does GF hate it? no. would it be "turbofodder" in a Game
Contest? no, not like this. seriously, you're comparing an avatar you
don't control from a rhythm game to a fairly popular series. sure, some
of the arguments sucked -- "most popular series in the world right now"
-- but it's still a game that could beat fodder. as for Pac-Man, I think people are gonna get the same Pac/Ocelot feeling when they see the match picture: "oh crap Pac-Man's gonna win" --- xyzzy "Man...tranny gets bored, the rest of us suffer." -satai |
| transience | Posted 10/10/2008 11:51:53 AM | message detail |
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aww yeah Axel beat Edgeworth in an update today Edgeworth, tomorrow Link --- xyzzy "Man...tranny gets bored, the rest of us suffer." -satai |
| Guess how many teens | Posted 10/10/2008 11:54:09 AM | message detail |
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The problem with Guitar Hero is that is has no emotional value and is too new. Imo games that combine those two aspects will never do good in contests, wether it's games/characters/4way/2way. People just don't care about it enough(yet) --- [[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[ -Red |||||||||||||| -Green ]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] -Blue |
| Master Moltar | Posted 10/10/2008 12:01:45 PM | message detail |
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transience (#484) I always felt uneasy about Ocelot, and the pic was just the "final nail". Mewtwo > Ness I feel pretty good about, pretty much for the reasons Har mentioned. With three other Nintendo characters there, each catering to a different part of the fanbase (we got Pokemon, Smash, old-school, casual, hardcore, even Wii fans), I see Pac-Man taking third. He won't collapse because there isn't another big Nintendo name there, but I think Mewtwo and Ness are fine. --- Moltar Status: augh Axel/Cloud/Midna/Miles - Bracket: Cloud > Midna - Vote: Midna (69/88) |
| transience | Posted 10/10/2008 12:02:43 PM | message detail |
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I wonder if Midna has any kind of chance beating Mewtwo if Ness moves on tomorrow. --- xyzzy "Man...tranny gets bored, the rest of us suffer." -satai |
| HaRRicH | Posted 10/10/2008 12:05:30 PM | message detail |
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I was wondering how the Mewtwo/Midna/Ness split would work, too. I
wanna see how tomorrow goes before I say much there, but there's room
for upsets. --- NRT winners: Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow, Star Fox 64, Donkey Kong Country 2 Remember these games! |
| Zylo the wolf | Posted 10/10/2008 12:11:07 PM | message detail |
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Nah don't worry Pac-Man supporters, he will be far away from Ness to make the match even interesting..... At least I think so. --- Ngamer64: Zylo, you're making less sense every day. The 2008 Guru contest winner > Me |
| Janus5000 | Posted 10/10/2008 12:58:13 PM | message detail |
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Hmm. I guess I can take consolation in knowing that Axel didn't get buried alive by Cloud during the day. --- http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g320/HowDisturbing/stayawhile.jpg Stay a while and breathe me in. |
| TestIcicles | Posted 10/10/2008 1:06:09 PM | message detail |
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eh Midna did poorly enough last year that I think Mewtwo is pretty damn safe from losing regardless of Ness being there. --- mmm test icicles |
| MyWorldIsCrono | Posted 10/10/2008 1:22:29 PM | message detail |
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seems axel is getting asv lol --- http://card.mygamercard.net/geothermal/Albion+Hero.png http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n4/tellie1218/Obama_for_President_550.jpg |
| KleenexTissue50 | Posted 10/10/2008 1:27:46 PM | message detail |
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Why is Edgeworth increasing with the ASV while Cloud decreases. <_< --- CB7 Score: 70/88 http://www.rosebride.com/lyn/otakon2k6/chronotrigger.jpg || http://64.81.113.250/a-kon-12/000177.jpg |
| MyWorldIsCrono | Posted 10/10/2008 1:29:05 PM | message detail |
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KleenexTissue50 (#494) Uh... he's not. He's very slow decreasing --- http://card.mygamercard.net/geothermal/Albion+Hero.png http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n4/tellie1218/Obama_for_President_550.jpg |
| BlAcK TuRtLe | Posted 10/10/2008 1:34:34 PM | message detail |
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I never said that this was a 100% certain victory for Axel, I just felt
like this was a match comparable to Ocelot/Pac-Man where the result
seemed obvious to me and Board 8 got burned. Obviously it didn't turn
out like that. What still gets me is how good Midna is doing here. I'd have never thought she'd be above the fodder line after her showing last year, and TP having another year to fall into irrelevancy. PartOfYourWorld Posted 10/10/2008 11:03:04 AM message detail Turtle, how is it that you can make me feel like I lost the bet with one stupid statement? Little Mermaid is a girly movie. Real men don't watch girly movies. --- I want adventure in the great wide somewhere... I want it more than I can tell! - Belle http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/3949/beautyandthebeast21024uh9.jpg |
| BlAcK TuRtLe | Posted 10/10/2008 1:37:42 PM | message detail |
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I was wondering how the Mewtwo/Midna/Ness split would work, too. I
wanna see how tomorrow goes before I say much there, but there's room
for upsets. I doubt it. Unless Mewtwo lays an absolute egg, he shouldn't have much trouble. He held up well enough against Bowser, so he should have no trouble with Midna. --- I want adventure in the great wide somewhere... I want it more than I can tell! - Belle http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/3949/beautyandthebeast21024uh9.jpg |
| MyWorldIsCrono | Posted 10/10/2008 1:37:48 PM | message detail |
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I don't think Cloud is getting 60%... he's already losing in percentage. --- http://card.mygamercard.net/geothermal/Albion+Hero.png http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n4/tellie1218/Obama_for_President_550.jpg |
| satai_delenn | Posted 10/10/2008 1:39:37 PM | message detail |
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But Cloud has a good night vote, doesn't he? Here's hoping he goes up just enough to hit 60% during the SNV. --- Attention, all yoctograms! (It's x2) DIE! |
| vcharon | Posted 10/10/2008 1:40:23 PM | message detail |
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Cloud > Link --- :> |
