GameFAQs Contests
Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 653
| Gaddswell | Posted 2/27/2009 8:44:05 PM | message detail |
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http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3088 http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3407 Overall, about a 4% drop for the Wii since the last poll Yo posted. --- http://www.court-records.net/manga/4koma/(eng)4koma2.png Hail FastFalcon, our new guru overlord! |
| MarioSuperstar | Posted 2/27/2009 8:56:24 PM | message detail |
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Keep in mind that this poll only had 3 options. --- *is Dranze* Through fire, justice is served because FastFalcon05 owned my bracket. |
| M_e_g_a_6_4 | Posted 2/27/2009 9:01:04 PM | message detail |
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First: 1 Metal Gear Solid 3 8 Final Fantasy IX 4 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas 5 Metroid Prime 3 Kingdom Hearts 2 6 Super Smash Bros Brawl 2 Super Mario Galaxy 7 Zelda: Wind Waker 1 Metal Gear Solid 3 5 Metroid Prime 6 Super Smash Bros Brawl 2 Super Mario Galaxy 1 Metal Gear Solid 3 6 Super Smash Bros Brawl Second: 1 Mario 64 8 Metal Gear Solid 4 4 Super Smash Bros Brawl 5 Final Fantasy 6 3 Resident Evil 4 6 Super Mario World 2 Metal Gear Solid 7 Goldeneye 8 Metal Gear Solid 4 4 Super Smash Bros Brawl 3 Resident Evil 4 2 Metal Gear Solid 4 Super Smash Bros Brawl 2 Metal Gear Solid I think I'm the only one on this board who thinks MGS4 and Brawl are underestimated juggernauts that are around the level of OoT or FF7. I don't know, maybe it's because this generation overall blows the last two out of the water or something. Oh yeah, I should nominate Bioshock and Oblivion. --- http://l33trappacat.blogspot.com/ |
| KamikazePotato | Posted 2/27/2009 9:01:43 PM | message detail |
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...around the level of WHAT --- FastFalcon believed in Snake. I didn't. |
| M_e_g_a_6_4 | Posted 2/27/2009 9:04:24 PM | message detail |
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Pokemon, **** yeah. --- http://l33trappacat.blogspot.com/ |
| Gaddswell | Posted 2/27/2009 9:06:55 PM | message detail |
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Not that bad at all for Valkyrie Profile. --- http://www.court-records.net/manga/4koma/(eng)4koma2.png Hail FastFalcon, our new guru overlord! |
| BlAcK TuRtLe | Posted 2/27/2009 9:08:13 PM | message detail |
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This will be a great contest (if we ever get a damn bracket) simply
because of the large volume of unknown, likely strong new games, and
several notable snubs from BGE2004. I have no idea what to think on a
lot of the matchups posted involving unknown games (and even some
rematches) --- Like Darth Maul, the bastard child of Michael Flatley and Hellboy. -trancer1 |
| charmander6000 | Posted 2/27/2009 10:15:29 PM | message detail |
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Well considering that over half the field will be newcomers we'll probably have our most unpredictable one vs one since 2003. --- Board 8 BOP: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB7%20BOP.xls Congratulations to FastFalcon for winning the guru contest, you are the best among the best. |
| MyWorldIsCrono | Posted 2/27/2009 10:16:06 PM | message detail |
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From: charmander6000 | #108 And If Bacon is a winner and makes it 4way, this is gonna be so much fun --- http://card.mygamercard.net/nxe/albion+hero.png http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2009/02/sf4franken06.jpg |
| M_e_g_a_6_4 | Posted 2/28/2009 8:05:49 AM | message detail |
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From: MyWorldIsCrono | #109 He will. And the whining will be hilarious. Shame he didn't do this last year between Brawl's release and Nintendo's decline. It'd be much more gratifying fanboy-wise. Though I guess I can justify that with titles like Fallout 3, Call of Duty 4, and Bioshock doing well against some beloved GameFAQs favorites. --- http://l33trappacat.blogspot.com/ |
| Yesmar | Posted 2/28/2009 8:38:11 AM | message detail |
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Agh. 4-Ways are to GameFAQS contests what the Final 3 is to Survivor. The majority of people who care don't like it, it's anticlimactic, but the people in charge keep doing it anyway for some reason. --- FastFalcon owned me in the Guru Contest! |
| MetricTrout | Posted 2/28/2009 8:54:18 AM | message detail |
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The 1 vs 1 format for character contests is played out, the switch to a
4-way format was a brilliant move on SBAllen's part. However, the games
contest needs to be 1 vs 1 because with so many newcomers and games
which can potentially grow/decline in strength, it does not suffer from
the predictability that a character contest would. Either way, the bracket needs to come out tomorrow. I will not have access to the Internet for most of the month of March and I want to make a prediction. |
| LeonhartFour | Posted 2/28/2009 10:03:05 AM | message detail |
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Considering Bacon is concerned with a legitimate winner for the Games Contest, then he'd better choose a legitimate format. --- FastFalcon is without a doubt the best Guru I've ever heard of, savvy? http://www.court-records.net/animation/phoenix-superobjection.gif |
| MyWorldIsCrono | Posted 2/28/2009 10:05:05 AM | message detail |
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Am I the only one who doesn't care abou it beingt "Legitimate", and only whats most fun and unpredictable? --- http://card.mygamercard.net/nxe/albion+hero.png http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2009/02/sf4franken06.jpg |
| KamikazePotato | Posted 2/28/2009 10:05:19 AM | message detail |
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We now have 164048 nominations. --- FastFalcon believed in Snake. I didn't. |
| LeonhartFour | Posted 2/28/2009 10:05:47 AM | message detail |
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Yes, you are. --- FastFalcon is without a doubt the best Guru I've ever heard of, savvy? http://www.court-records.net/animation/phoenix-superobjection.gif |
| LeonhartFour | Posted 2/28/2009 10:06:27 AM | message detail |
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And I'd rather have a good match than an "unpredictable on paper" one, honestly. --- FastFalcon is without a doubt the best Guru I've ever heard of, savvy? http://www.court-records.net/animation/phoenix-superobjection.gif |
| Meeks54 | Posted 2/28/2009 10:07:03 AM | message detail |
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From: MyWorldIsCrono | #554 Yes, you are. We have been over this before. Fun needs to be secondary since we only do this every 5 years apparently, it is much more important finding out what games are more popular, than having a 4 way where the WoW vote stuffers can win. --- Gunner is, what is the word... passionate. but i think that MichaelWClark dude is far crazier than anything Gunner has posted. Posted by Mark Milton |
| MyWorldIsCrono | Posted 2/28/2009 10:08:39 AM | message detail |
| -shurg- I just find stuff like SFF matches and all
the whining about stronger characters losing as part of the fun of
these things. I've gotten tired of the pure 1v1 matches that are so
predictable --- http://card.mygamercard.net/nxe/albion+hero.png http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2009/02/sf4franken06.jpg |
| LeonhartFour | Posted 2/28/2009 10:10:45 AM | message detail |
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Yeah, because we haven't had hypothetical Game Contests divisions
listed in this very topic that weren't very unpredictable and still
one-on-one. Oh wait, we have. --- FastFalcon is without a doubt the best Guru I've ever heard of, savvy? http://www.court-records.net/animation/phoenix-superobjection.gif |
| MyWorldIsCrono | Posted 2/28/2009 10:12:05 AM | message detail |
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From: LeonhartFour | #120 In your opinion they might have been unpredictable. In my opinion, they're still pretty predictable compared to 4ways. --- http://card.mygamercard.net/nxe/albion+hero.png http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2009/02/sf4franken06.jpg |
| Meeks54 | Posted 2/28/2009 10:13:27 AM | message detail |
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From: MyWorldIsCrono | #559 We have not had a one on one match in 3 years now. How are you tired of them? Yes, the last one we had was ultra predictable, but every time Link and Cloud meet is. That is not a fault of the 1 on 1 format, since Link kills him in 4 ways as well. The worst thing about 4 ways is watching the same winner dominate the same second place for a couple matches in a row. --- Gunner is, what is the word... passionate. but i think that MichaelWClark dude is far crazier than anything Gunner has posted. Posted by Mark Milton |
| LeonhartFour | Posted 2/28/2009 10:14:03 AM | message detail |
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Sure, sure. --- FastFalcon is without a doubt the best Guru I've ever heard of, savvy? http://www.court-records.net/animation/phoenix-superobjection.gif |
| MyWorldIsCrono | Posted 2/28/2009 10:15:23 AM | message detail |
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From: Meeks54 | #122 Well, I stopped paying attention to these contests after 2004 due to it being too boring and predictable in 1 on 1. The 4ways renewed my interest, and thats why I want them to stay. --- http://card.mygamercard.net/nxe/albion+hero.png http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2009/02/sf4franken06.jpg |
| LeonhartFour | Posted 2/28/2009 10:16:03 AM | message detail |
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Well, if it gets you bored and outta here, then that's all the more reason to have a one-on-one! --- FastFalcon is without a doubt the best Guru I've ever heard of, savvy? http://www.court-records.net/animation/phoenix-superobjection.gif |
| MyWorldIsCrono | Posted 2/28/2009 10:19:03 AM | message detail |
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I honestly didn't even know the 2006 and Series contests happened till I saw results afterwards. --- http://card.mygamercard.net/nxe/albion+hero.png http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2009/02/sf4franken06.jpg |
| transience | Posted 2/28/2009 10:19:32 AM | message detail |
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oh my god, are we having a fourway vs. twoway argument again? time for World of Warcraft "arguments" --- xyzzy STREET FIGHTER 4, SON http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvPKGSk13zo |
| WoWfaqs | Posted 2/28/2009 10:22:07 AM | message detail |
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who wants sum --- WoW > FF7 |
| MyWorldIsCrono | Posted 2/28/2009 10:22:43 AM | message detail |
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WoW isn't doing anything except maybe a round 1 win. --- http://card.mygamercard.net/nxe/albion+hero.png http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2009/02/sf4franken06.jpg |
| MetricTrout | Posted 2/28/2009 10:23:01 AM | message detail |
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Am I the only one who doesn't care abou it beingt "Legitimate", and only whats most fun and unpredictable? For characters, yeah. No one cares about video game characters, and the 1 vs 1 format has become stale there. But for the games contest, there very little reliable data anymore, which mean that it will become unpredictable either way. |
| Meeks54 | Posted 2/28/2009 10:25:40 AM | message detail |
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From: MyWorldIsCrono | #609 If it is "legitimate" one on one, then yes. If it is 4 way, watch the vote stuffing commence. I would say OoT and FF VII would be immune, but everyone else including CT and ALttP might be in trouble if that happens --- Gunner is, what is the word... passionate. but i think that MichaelWClark dude is far crazier than anything Gunner has posted. Posted by Mark Milton |
| MyWorldIsCrono | Posted 2/28/2009 10:30:29 AM | message detail |
| I'm one of the biggest WoW fanboys here, but after
seeing some of the previous polls, I don't think even in 4ways that WoW
will be too dangerous. Sure, stronger then 1v1, but I don't think it'll
be able to beat anything at higher level of competition --- http://card.mygamercard.net/nxe/albion+hero.png http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2009/02/sf4franken06.jpg |
| red sox 777 | Posted 2/28/2009 10:48:24 AM | message detail |
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1 on 1 is not very predictable, and has shown no trend of movement
toward predictableness, even if 4-ways are more so. Observe how the
2005 and 2006 contests were far less predictable than 2004- the
incredible success of the x-stats and ultra-predictable summer 2004
contest were a result of CJayC deciding to give us just about every SFF
match possible, not the format. Unpredictability is good, sure, but only while the contest remains interesting from the point of view of predictors. If we just flipped a coin for each match, I'm sure we could far outdo 4-ways in unpredictability, but that wouldn't be a very interesting contest, would it? I would care much more about Crono beating Mario 1v1 than him beating Mario with Link and Samus in the poll....legitimacy is closely tied to fun, for me. --- Hobbes: What's the point of attaching a number to everything you do? Calvin: If your numbers go up, it means you're having more fun. |
| ZFS | Posted 2/28/2009 10:59:08 AM | message detail |
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I see Albion has struck again! --- Enough expository banter! Now we fight like men! And ladies! And ladies who dress like men! |
| voltch | Posted 2/28/2009 11:42:16 AM | message detail |
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urgh,4 ways=LFF feast,4 mario games in a match would be horrible. so huh how bout this 8 pack? 1 Final Fantasy X 8 Tetris 4 Final Fantasy VIII 5 Majora's Mask 3 Final Fantasy VI 6 Halo 2 Resident Evil 4 7 Call of duty 4 --- Pearl FC:3953 0978 7217 |
| transience | Posted 2/28/2009 11:48:15 AM | message detail |
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Final Fantasy Zone FF10 > RE4 > FF6 --- xyzzy STREET FIGHTER 4, SON http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvPKGSk13zo |
| ZFS | Posted 2/28/2009 12:00:01 PM | message detail |
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1 Final Fantasy X 8 Tetris 4 Final Fantasy VIII 5 Majora's Mask 3 Final Fantasy VI 6 Halo 2 Resident Evil 4 7 Call of duty 4 --- Enough expository banter! Now we fight like men! And ladies! And ladies who dress like men! |
| voltch | Posted 2/28/2009 12:16:41 PM | message detail |
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with the consencus being LTTP>VI and VII>OOT,VIII>MM is likely? --- Pearl FC:3953 0978 7217 |
| red sox 777 | Posted 2/28/2009 12:47:13 PM | message detail |
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1 Final Fantasy X 8 Tetris 4 Final Fantasy VIII 5 Majora's Mask 3 Final Fantasy VI 6 Halo 2 Resident Evil 4 7 Call of Duty 4 --- Hobbes: What's the point of attaching a number to everything you do? Calvin: If your numbers go up, it means you're having more fun. |
| MarioSuperstar | Posted 2/28/2009 2:05:15 PM | message detail |
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1 Final Fantasy X 8 Tetris 4 Final Fantasy VIII 5 Majora's Mask 3 Final Fantasy VI 6 Halo 2 Resident Evil 4 7 Call of duty 4 --- *is Dranze* Through fire, justice is served because FastFalcon05 owned my bracket. |
| PartOfYourWorld | Posted 2/28/2009 2:11:02 PM | message detail |
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X > VI, but I'm tempted to take RE4 over VI. --- Yoblazer: http://i43.tinypic.com/8zkzm1.gif Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
| RPGuy96 | Posted 2/28/2009 2:13:16 PM | message detail |
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I'm tempted to take RE4 over VI and X, really. Not sure what I'd end up picking there. --- Mustache...and Green... http://backloggery.com/rpguy96 |
| voltch | Posted 2/28/2009 2:16:10 PM | message detail |
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would anyone here really take VI over starcraft?cos Halo is pretty much on that level. --- Pearl FC:3953 0978 7217 |
| KamikazePotato | Posted 2/28/2009 2:16:30 PM | message detail |
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FFX>Tetris FF8>Majora's Mask FFVI>Halo RE4>CoD4 FFX>FF8 RE4>FFVI FFX>RE4 --- FastFalcon believed in Snake. I didn't. |
| KamikazePotato | Posted 2/28/2009 2:19:25 PM | message detail |
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FFVI came within striking distance of A Link to the Past. It gets by Halo easily enough. --- FastFalcon believed in Snake. I didn't. |
| PartOfYourWorld | Posted 2/28/2009 2:20:47 PM | message detail |
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Halo isn't broad enough to touch a main FF title. I doubt any Xbox game could. --- Yoblazer: http://i43.tinypic.com/8zkzm1.gif Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
| M_e_g_a_6_4 | Posted 2/28/2009 2:26:04 PM | message detail |
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From: Yesmar | #111 I like the 4-ways and the F3! F3 brought us an epic "brain vs brawl" showdown in Cook, our first unanimous decision over two goats in Fiji, the entertaining non-player outscoring the player with the horrible jury speech, and some random UTR woman nearly winning the game. From: Meeks54 | #118 It's a GameFAQs contest, dude. The 20 or so people in this topic are the only ones that really give a **** about "legitimacy," whatever the **** that means. It wasn't a 1-1 contest that had a contest so huge that the entire ****ing internet rallied an underdog to victory in a poll that reached nearly 200k votes. 4-ways have proven to be more popular and more integral in bringing in outsiders to the site and clicking on those wonderful ads that keeps GameFAQs afloat, so don't be surprised if your precious Game contest and any future contests continue to be 4-ways or other "bastardized" formats that aren't 1v1. --- http://l33trappacat.blogspot.com/ |
| M_e_g_a_6_4 | Posted 2/28/2009 2:26:53 PM | message detail |
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And I call World of Warcraft getting the biggest upset of Round 1 and promptly losing in Round 2. --- http://l33trappacat.blogspot.com/ |
| MarioSuperstar | Posted 2/28/2009 2:28:45 PM | message detail |
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oh yeah i forgot FFX > FF6 --- *is Dranze* Through fire, justice is served because FastFalcon05 owned my bracket. |
| M_e_g_a_6_4 | Posted 2/28/2009 2:29:13 PM | message detail |
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1 Final Fantasy X 8 Tetris 4 Final Fantasy VIII 5 Majora's Mask 3 Final Fantasy VI 6 Halo 2 Resident Evil 4 7 Call of duty 4 Higher seed wins every time except for FF6 > RE4. --- http://l33trappacat.blogspot.com/ |
