GameFAQs Contests

Yeah, I never mentioned how surprised I am RE4 held up this well, actually -- I thought KH2 would take it down due to LoZ:TP. Good show, RE4.
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Shorthand, do you speak it?!

Hey guys i wont be on as much as before. My main computer has finally kicked the bucket, so i can only use my sibling's comp when shes gone to work, so i wont be posting as often as before.
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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." -Magus

And, seeing as I might not be in tomorrow night...

Zen Analyzes the Match Pic!

Because Final Fantasy II has awful box art.

MGS4: Hey, I think I submitted this one with a different logo! Damn MK8 snatchin' mah snakes. Anyway, this is a pretty good pic. It showcases Old Snake pretty well and he has a gun which is EXTREME. Wait, I just realized, if gun pics garner votes and sword pics garner more votes, wouldn't KP's item pic get FFVIII an assload of votes for having the Gunblade in the pic? My god. He's created a monster.

Portal: Hey, I made this! I didn't think it'd get through because it was made in G-Mod, not Portal, but we finally got a cake/Cubey pic! That should get votes from... people who vote based on picture. And I don't think many people do that (anymore, at least). But it does get the baker vote. And maybe the crazy robot women vote, but that didn't help GLaDOS much last contest.

Fallout 3: Hey, it's that one pic I did to see if Fallout 3 will function well without the Brotherhood of Steel! ...And it might not! But the pic sure does look scenic! And dogs everywhere will attempt to sniff Dogmeat's butt leading to many votes cast in Fallout 3's favor.

Halo 3: "Hmmm, I wonder if any of my games are going to get to round 3 of this contest.... Probably not. Oh well. Not like I have enough character to get upset."

ADVANTAGE: CAKE
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The cake looks awesome. THAT is a Portal pic, IMO.

Something that baffles me though, while the SMB/LoZ/MM/Tetris pic looked incredible and brought tons of nostalgia with it, WHAT THE HECK IS THE ZELDA ENEMY? It looks like a kamehameha, from where I'm standing.

From: KanzarisKelshen | Posted: 5/22/2009 10:56:20 PM | #254
The cake looks awesome. THAT is a Portal pic, IMO.

Something that baffles me though, while the SMB/LoZ/MM/Tetris pic looked incredible and brought tons of nostalgia with it, WHAT THE HECK IS THE ZELDA ENEMY? It looks like a kamehameha, from where I'm standing.

OH BOY! I'M SO HUNGRY, I COULD EAT AN OCTOROCK.

At least I think those are octorocks. Right?
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Really? Out of the four I don't really like the SMB/LoZ/MM/Tetris picture.
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BGE2 - Today's Match: LoZ: TP > RE4 Points: 151/232

I think it's pretty cool, and I believe everyone associates common enemies with their games.
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You're kidding, right? The tetris text is hard to read, and Legend of Kamehameha has the weirdest pic ever, but the nostalgia makes me want to fire up four simultaneous emulators just to play all those awesome games.

http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/7200/r3pokemonrby42.png

Snake may or may not be hiding in it, waiting to steal everyone elses' stuff.

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I don't know its name (I always want to call it an Octorok, but it can't be), but it's probably the first enemy you see in LoZ; it depends on if you go left or up/right once the game starts.
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Winner.
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yessss the gunblade will combine sword and gun voters into one giant explosion of votage
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OH BOY! I'M SO HUNGRY, I COULD EAT AN OCTOROCK.

At least I think those are octorocks. Right?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwLdhygtbYs

Uh... yeah. Octoroks.
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Oh man, awesome. I thought the water-guys that kept re-appearing were the Octorocks.
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Shorthand, do you speak it?!

From: KamikazePotato | #259
http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/7200/r3pokemonrby42.png

Snake may or may not be hiding in it, waiting to steal everyone elses' stuff.

So thats whats inside those boxes.
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Ah, you know it's funny, these people, they go to sleep. They think everything's fine, everything's good... They wake up the next day and they're on fire.

Aww yeah. Te best part of that pic is easily the Orange Box.
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Hands down.

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Cardboard box awesome alert

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From: Shoenin_Kakashi | Posted: 5/22/2009 11:12:25 PM | #265
So thats whats inside those boxes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_FoUcDSFxs
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KP, that is an AWESOME pic. It's so very simple, yet it's really deep, and one look at each item tells you what game it is. Thumbs up!

Thanks!

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Looks like KHII managed to cut about 1000 votes and will finish with the lead in triple digits. Not too bad.
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Division 8: Round 2 - Match 47 – Super Smash Bros. Brawl vs. Grand Theft Auto IV vs. Call of Duty 4 vs. Super Mario Galaxy

Moltar’s Analysis

Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Round 1 - 47.05% vs. Grand Theft Auto IV, Street Fighter IV and Persona 4

Not bad, Brawl. Not bad.

Grand Theft Auto IV
Round 1 - 26.20% vs. Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Street Fighter IV and Persona 4

Well, at least it didn’t disappoint.

Call of Duty 4
Round 1 - 35.79% vs. Super Mario Galaxy, Pokemon D/P and Team Fortress 2

Wow

Super Mario Galaxy
Round 1 - 28.47% vs. Call of Duty 4, Pokemon D/P and Team Fortress 2

Augh

I have CoD4 > Brawl in my bracket. I figured that Galaxy and Brawl would split and allow for CoD4 to take first. With Brawl being stronger than Galaxy, it would be the one to advance out of the two.

Not going to lie, I was feeling pretty awful about this until the second match of the last division, when CoD4 blindsided Galaxy. Brawl did about as expected, but no doubt Galaxy disappointed. The fact that it split hard with D/P, which should have some decent strength if the other Pokemon games say anything, tells me that Brawl is not only going to beat it, but it may even dish out some SFF.

So the top two are CoD4 and Brawl, but the order they place in is the question. If the Brawl/Galaxy split is close, CoD4 takes it. If Brawl crushes Galaxy, it wins. What’s more likely is some kind of middle-ground. CoD4 should be able to put up a percentage close to what it got in R1, as I don’t see GTA4 hurting it much more than TF2 did. Hell, GTA4’s performance looks even worse after SF performed bad in all its matches (and Persona 4 you know is weak) so I’m really not expecting much from it, especially now that a better-received “mature” game is here.

To conclude, I think CoD4 takes first in a close one. Even though Galaxy got beat last round, it’s still a strong game that will hinder Brawl. Both games draw from a very similar audience in the Wii fanbase, and while Brawl has the casual love, Galaxy gets a lot of respect, which should keep it from falling too low.

Moltar’s Bracket Says: CoD4 > Brawl

Moltar’s Prediction is: CoD4: 32% - Brawl: 31% - Galaxy: 22% - GTA4: 15%



Heroic Mario’s Analysis

Today's match is all about what Call of Duty 4 does. It could either take a dominating first place because of the Brawl/Galaxy split, or it could bomb specatcularly and not even advance. Normally, I wouldn't give much tought to the latter, but after seeing RE4 hang with TP, despite its round 1 performance, I wouldn't rule it out as a possibility. It can't hurt that every Mario game has looked significantly better than their round 1 performances.

But despite how much I'd like to see both Nintendo games move on here, I can't feel confident enough to pick it. I could see it happening, but predicting it would be bias more than anything. Instead, I'm going to stick to a middleground and go with Brawl over COD4. The way I see it, COD4 isn't going to head into this match completely at full strength. Say what you want about GTAIV, but it appeals to the exact same fanbase as COD4. It should sap away enough votes to make sure that Brawl squeaks out a close win, even when it's losing votes to Galaxy.

oh well here's to hoping that galaxy takes 50% of the votes best game here tbqh

Super Smash Bros. Brawl -- 30%
Call of Duty 4 -- 28%
Super Mario Galaxy -- 24%
Grand Theft Auto IV -- 18%

Bracket: Call of Duty 4 > Super Mario Galaxy
Favorites: Super Mario Galaxy > Smash Bros. Brawl

Lopen’s Analysis

Another brief one coming. I'll just say that I don't think that Galaxy suffered too much from SFF with Pokemanz DP last round. I mean, thinking about it, THE CALL OF DUTY has every reason to beat SMG legit. In the GotY poll, in a match that potentially bestows massive overlap, between it, Halo 3, and SMG, it came within what, 10%? I think THE CALL OF DUTY is legit, here.

Of course, no one here is going to question it can beat SMG again, they're going to question whether it can beat Brawl. This upset gets a big two thumbs up from me. Two Nintendo titles on the same system are gonna have some splitting issues, methinks. I also don't think Brawl has a huge advantage over Galaxy in the first place. Look at how Halo 3 did against Fallout 3 last round for example, then compare that with Fallout 3 vs SSBB and Halo 3->CoD->SMG... and uhhh, yeah that's a lot of extrapolation and GotY use, but I'm just sayin the evidence is there. THE CALL OF DUTY should potentially have enough gas to take Brawl straight up, and the SFF implications are just gravy methinks.

Lopen's prediction:
THE CALL OF DUTY - 31.07%
Super Smash Brothers Brawl - 27.70%
Super Mario Galaxy - 24.14%
GTA4 - 17.09%



Transience’s Analysis

It's nice to see Resident Evil 4 go toe to toe with Nintendo and Square. Sure, it's not winning, but it's able to compete with some of the mid-high tier Square and Nintendo games. Can you say that about any other game this contest? This reminds me a lot of 2004 -- Nintendo and Square utter domination, "all Zelda final four", etc etc, only to end up with the few games that could stop the onslaught of Zelda, Mario and Final Fantasy. Square and Nintendo always dominate the early rounds. RE4 looks like it can go somewhere now that it's an independent entity in a sea of Nintendo.

Now then, tonight's match... COD4 should be the favourite. It beat Galaxy handily last round, and the overlap between the two biggest Wii games should be greater than the overlap between Galaxy and Pokemon. The Wii audience on here seems pretty sparse these days, so I'm not really sure if they can pull in big enough numbers unless Brawl just pounds Galaxy into the ground, something that doesn't seen that likely given Galaxy's warm reception.

But I'm going with Brawl anyway.

This contest has shown something to me: it's not a Nintendo decline, it's a Wii decline. TP is looking much weaker than in 2006 and Galaxy had probably the worst performance of round 1. This makes Brawl look really bad.

But here's the thing -- we've seen Brawl post-shift already, and it did pretty well compared to the others. It beat MGS4 and Fallout 3. It probably would have handled Galaxy. It's still one of the most talked about games on the site. Its release was so huge that Galaxy was an afterthought. You don't need to own a Wii or even like the Wii to have played it.

On the other side, you've got COD4 and GTA4, the two biggest casual draws of this new generation. Both sold like crazy, both get eaten up by casuals, and there's probably a vote split there. COD4's gotta prove it to me here. I'm not taking it for first until it can beat a game I respect. That game will be Brawl.

transience's prediction:

Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 35%
Call of Duty 4 - 31%
Super Mario Galaxy - 20%
Grand Theft Auto 4 - 14%

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What an excellent picture. Bacon is a communist if he does not use it.
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Leonhart’s Analysis

Super Smash Bros. Brawl: Brawl won its first round match without much of a problem, but it wasn’t an overly tough fourpack. It scored 64% on GTA IV, which is pretty good, I figure. Of course, this match is all about how the LFF falls between Brawl and Galaxy. SSBB would have to be a beast to beat CoD4 despite Galaxy, and I don’t think it’s a beast. However, I have been a big proponent from the beginning that Brawl beats Galaxy straight up, and the first round only seemed to confirm that to me. Despite my love for Galaxy, it’s nothing special, and this site loves Smash Bros. Sure, Galaxy is a mainline Super Mario platformer, but we’ve seen SSB as a series stand up to SMB as a series. Sure, you can blame that on hype and say it may not do it again, but that still says a lot about how much this site loves Smash Bros.

Grand Theft Auto IV: Grand Theft Auto IV has no chance here unless Brawl and Galaxy LFF horribly, which I suppose is possible but unlikely. Brawl put up 65% on GTA IV in round one. RBY did that to Majora’s Mask in round one, and the Zelda game couldn’t make up the difference when you added GS to the mix. Zelda also being Nintendo could’ve hurt its chances, but I think the difference is just too much for GTA IV to make up and contend.

Call of Duty 4: One of the biggest shockers of the first round was watching Call of Duty 4 open up a can on Mario Galaxy from the very beginning of the match and never letting up. You can probably expect more of the same here because if Galaxy was getting LFF’d by D/P last round, then you can only imagine what adding a game of equal or greater strength will do. Call of Duty 4 should be an easy first place here, setting up a solid divisional final of Brawl/CoD4/MGS4/Fallout 3.

Super Mario Galaxy: Man, did Galaxy drop a stink bomb last round or what? It’s like the rest of the series took it personally because the other Mario games have been the star of the second round. Of course, it looks like the series gets to end on a bad note again as I expect Galaxy to fall short yet again. The possibility that it could beat Brawl is out there, but it couldn’t beat Twilight Princess being hindered by another Zelda when Galaxy was as strong as it will ever be. I think Brawl would give TP a good fight, if not beat it, so I don’t expect Galaxy to best Brawl here. I won’t complain if it does because I do love me some Galaxy.

Leonhart’s Vote: One of the best 3-D platformers ever, Super Mario Galaxy!

Leonhart’s Prediction:

Super Smash Bros. Brawl – 28.25%
Grand Theft Auto IV – 15.73%
Call of Duty 4 – 33.03%
Super Mario Galaxy – 22.99%



Ed Bellis’s Analysis

Call of Duty 4 already manhandled Galaxy, and it will soon do so to Brawl. Wii games and next-gen Nintendo really haven’t done all that well in the contest, whereas CoD4 managed to impress last round. Brawl… it might take first. It’ll be close!

(…god that was halfassed)

Super Smash Bros. Brawl with 33.80%
Grand Theft Auto IV with 17.17%
Call of Duty 4 with 34.55%
Super Mario Galaxy with 14.48%



Guest’s Analysis - BlAcK TuRtLe

Super Smash Bros Brawl

Stronger than Melee. Anybody wanna fight about it?

Grand Theft Auto 4

I maintain that this is the strongest GTA until something changes my mind.

Call of Duty 4

Well, I had to get SOMETHING right in this bracket

Super Mario Galaxy

lol harrich

Analysis:

I'm like 5th from last in the Guru, but I called this half division perfectly, and that makes me happy.

There's not a whole lot to say here. Pre-contest, nobody believed me when I said CoD was going to take first place in the first and second round, and nobody believed me when I said that Brawl was going to wind up considerably stronger than SMG. Well, let's not get too far ahead of ourselves, but I think it's safe to say that this little gem is this year's Pikachu, in that it was a seemingly obvious pick that noone wanted to take.

Enough gloating, let's look at the numbers:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3474
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3475

As you can see, Call of Duty beat Galaxy pretty hard with just a third tier Pokemon game there. Now we will have the 2 biggest (only worthwhile) Wii games splitting pretty hard with eachother. We could realistically see CoD break 30% again. As for Brawl/Galaxy, it just seems to me that Brawl was far more impressive and has way more reason to win. People will cry "hype to hate" until the cows come home, but the fact is that nobody outside of those professional Smash players with no lives give 2 damns about Brawl's supposed "flaws". They see better graphics, more characters and much more fun mechanics as a vast improvement, which is why I'd take Brawl over Melee both directly and indirectly.

And once again people will bring up the 2007 and 2008 Game of the Year polls, but I think those have been debunked enough to this point that not even LinkMarioSamus will bother trying to pull anything useful out of them.

TuRtLe's Prediction: CoD4 33%, Brawl 28%, GTA4 21%, Galaxy 18%
TuRtLe's Bracket: CoD4 > Brawl
TuRtLe's Vote: Brawl



Crew Consensus: CoD4 > Brawl is the consensus, though Tran and HM hope to benefit by going against the majority with Brawl > CoD4

That Portal pic is hilarious!

Well it seems that RE4 will take 2nd place in the match after all, resulting in yet another two-pointer for me. Nuts. Why did I overestimate Half-Life and underestimate all of the post-OoT Zeldas and post-FFVII Final Fantasies? And I have MGS going to the finals.

TP wasn't THAT impressive, though. It proved it has good strength, but considering it's OoT 2.0/LttP: Third Time's The Charm, it might have been a disappointment. I sure expected a 3% difference between it and KHII, at least, even considering how the KH series has redeemed itself like no other in this contest.

LAST HALF HOUR OF THE MATCH FTW! (caps)

looks like RE4 has a slightly better day vote than FFX. good to know for the potential semifinal showdown.
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*Watches the closing moments of the matchup*

Finally, my bracket gets something vital right!
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The Palace of Wisdom Hardcore Legend and Board 8er Masa/Hiko

10 minutes until Galaxy officially screws my bracket!
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Hey, first Guru eliminations after this match!
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let's go galaxy

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Hard to believe that KH2 dies here, considering how well it did the other round.
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go go galaxy


Youre not going to win, or hell even rank at this point







but still beat cancer!
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Ah, you know it's funny, these people, they go to sleep. They think everything's fine, everything's good... They wake up the next day and they're on fire.

C'mon, lets see some Call of Duty 4 dominance here.
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Brawl time
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl 40%

6
Grand Theft Auto IV 6.67%

1
Call of Duty 4 13.33%

2
Super Mario Galaxy 40%

6
TOTAL VOTES 15

Close the poll!
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yeahhhh board vote
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Moltar Status: complete global saturation
Match 47 - Bracket: CoD4 > Brawl - Vote: Galaxy (163/240)

g'bye Galaxy
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl 34.62%

18
Grand Theft Auto IV 11.54%

6
Call of Duty 4 15.38%

8
Super Mario Galaxy 38.46%

20
TOTAL VOTES 52

SMG aww yeah.
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Uhhh...Wow, Brawl.
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Oh man Galaxy had the lead for like 10 seconds there

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I know Brawl is gonna go down from here, but its legit
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Gotta love this board vote.

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Yeah, Brawl is legit. Which kinda blows.
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That's some board vote for Brawl.
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http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3491&region=NAM

So much for NA loving KHII

Also every region had a different result.
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BGE2 - Today's Match: SSBB > GTAIV Points: 159/240

Super Smash Bros. Brawl 37.16% 136
Grand Theft Auto IV 14.75% 54
Call of Duty 4 24.04% 88
Super Mario Galaxy 24.04% 88

there it goes.
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