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FFXIII is Christmas season in Japan... latest American trailer said Spring 2010. Man, 2010 is gonna be a big year, at least it will make up for this crummy year.
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Oh...damn, yeah, this year's REALLY taking a hit then. Do we even have any PC-games to look for?
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Nominate DOC LOUIS (Punch-Out!!):
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=49774975

From: HaRRicH | #252
Oh...damn, yeah, this year's REALLY taking a hit then. Do we even have any PC-games to look for?

I'd say Sims 3 is probably the biggest PC game, not counting Dragon Age which is also coming to consoles... and Sims 3 would be pathetic in a goty poll
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I wonder if Fallout 3: GotY Edition will be eligible

if it is, it'll probably win goty lol
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GameFAQs has an iPhone and a Mac version of The Sims 3 listed. I wonder if it would still be eligible for the PC GotY poll?
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OF course. Mac = PC, since most of the bigger PC games go there as well, and Iphone is pretty much nothing but simple ports of popular games.
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2009 sux

Bayonetta all that matters on consoles later this year

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From: ZFS | #257
2009 sux

Bayonetta all that matters on consoles later this year

I'm a DMC fan but that game doesn't even interest me. It just seems like yet another crappy Sega action game.
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Forget Sega, it's being made by the dude who created DMC. All I need to know.

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From: ZFS | #259
Forget Sega, it's being made by the dude who created DMC. All I need to know.

Oh seriously? I just wrote it off when I saw it since I figured it would be just another crappy action game from Sega (their expertise these days)
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aw yeah

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I notice two things in that pic:

A) HOLY CRAP STRIPPERIFIC OUTFIT. Seriously, it's almost like there's a competition between developers by now.

B) Truly, the girl knows the meaning of showing some leg. :P

If FO3 got in again, it wouldn't do nearly as well as it did in last year's GotY (or even in BGE2). I can't think of any ports, rereleases, or expansions that were on-par or even close to when they were first released outside of maybe WoW. Here's the best example I can find (and it's not hard to find others):

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1134
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1489

GTA:VC went from nearly getting GotY over the then-respected MP to a 72-28 beat-down from SW:KotOR despite being packaged with GTA3. So yeah, RE5's not taking diddly off of a FO3:GotY-edition.
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Nominate DOC LOUIS (Punch-Out!!):
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=49774975

The big GotY poll (the one with like ten entrants, not three) might be terribly skewed. RE5, SFIV, and Modern Warfare 2 will very likely be the biggest games of the year (outside of Pokemon), and they'll all be duking it out in the multi-console poll. I hope SBAllen realizes that all three should get into the real poll, but then again, I really don't care much so disregard this post.
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I wonder if Dragon Age can make any noise too. Bioware games typically do pretty well in the goty polls
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Dragon Age is that the game with the hilariously awful trailer

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From: ZFS | #267
Dragon Age is that the game with the hilariously awful trailer

The trailer is stupid, but the game isn't. Its a super ambitious rpg that Bioware is coining a "Massively Single Player RPG" with 800+ hours of gameplay.
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It's like Bioware said, "Let's put out some big number we could never hope to accomplish."
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Haha 800 hours of gameplay really. The PR matches the trailer at least!

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From: ZFS | #270
Haha 800 hours of gameplay really. The PR matches the trailer at least!

They say there are 8 origin stories, one per race, and each is 80-100 hours of gameplay.
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Then again, they already did it with BG2, pretty much. Not an impossible task for them. :P

That's about 750 hours too long tbqh

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800 hours? Well that's one game I won't be playing, as I have essentially zero probability of finishing it.
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Krahenprophet he come to town to win the Gamefaqs Contests.

All will be forgiven if we get KotOR 3 before I'm middle-aged.
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What if they make it the day you turn 40?
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From: PartOfYourWorld | #275
All will be forgiven if we get KotOR 3 before I'm middle-aged.

the old republic imho
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From: MyWorldIsCrono | #277
the old republic imho

That's so bad, it loops back to good again. :P

XFD, a Minesweeper poll. Well, at least there was no Atari poll and yesterday was the last day of the console polls.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
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I take it back. I want a Game Boy poll instead.
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"But you have been given freedom. Freedom to be...outside."
"Krahenprophet is lightning...the rain transformed."

I'm rather surprised at how high the Minesweeper playrate is. I knew it wouldn't be beating Tetris's playrate of 97.36%, but the Minesweeper playrate as of the 12:45 AM update is 87.88%. This is just barely beating out games like OoT and the original Sonic the Hedgehog. I was expecting Minesweeper's playrate to be lower, like around around 50% or so.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
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Why should it be surprising that people voting on an internet site have played a game that comes with every PC. I don't know why you'd think that so few people have actually played the thing. I hate Minesweeper, but I've played it.
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"The great GF...Krahenprophet."
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I would be surprised if it didnt have any amazingly high playrate.
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I don't know why you'd think that so few people have actually played the thing.

You think 50% is too low?


Also, Minesweeper's trends should be interesting to see how the playrate varies from each voting period. Wonder if it will have a good night vote or a good day vote. A trend chart for this poll could look something like this:

Time | Minesweeper playrate
EBV | 88.42%
PHV | 88.00%

With the other time periods being filled out later.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
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Seeing as how Minesweeper is on every PC, 50% is very low. I'd expect nearly anyone who owns a PC to have tried it at least once
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I was surprised at how low it was when I woke up.
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Congratulations to Krahenprophet for winning the guru contest

How do you all think chinatown wars would do on a best of 2009 so far poll

since its technically highest rated game of 2009!
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How do you all think chinatown wars would do on a best of 2009 so far poll

It'll flop, though for DS it would hold its own.

since its technically highest rated game of 2009!

It's made from Rockstar I think they paid enough people to get the highest rating.
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Congratulations to Krahenprophet for winning the guru contest

Great, a series of polls about these games.
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Turnabout Krahenprophet
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I had a feeling this would occur before yesterday's poll ended. There should be a few more polls about the built-in Windows PC games.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
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Trend chart for yesterday's poll:

Time | Minesweeper playrate
EBV | 88.42%
PHV | 88.00%
FNV | 87.24%
BSV | 85.22%
DSV | 85.51%
ASV | 86.06%
SNV | 87.49%

The trends are certainly a interesting thing to look at. The highest playrate that Minesweeper had in the poll was during the board vote. This was when "I've never played Minesweeper" was at its lowest percentage of the poll. Minesweeper's playrate dropped after the board vote. Due to the very strong board vote and Power Hour, Minesweeper's playrate keep falling for most of the poll. When the ASV arrived, Minesweeper was starting to run out of gas and during the middle of the ASV around 6:00 PM or so, Minesweeper's playrate started to increase again but only by a very small amount. The BSV was just brutal here and the DSV was almost just as bad. The ASV was a slight improvement over the DSV but Minesweeper really recovered in the SNV. Board vote, Power Hour, and both of the night votes were good for Minesweeper but looked horrible elsewhere.

Another thing, with Minesweeper's playrate falling for almost 3/4ths of the poll, it has trends that I would call "Anti-Classic FFVII trends". While the classic FFVII trends dictates that FFVII starts the match with its lowest percentage in the board vote and rises for the entire match, Minesweeper's playrate was doing the opposite here, starting with its highest playrate and falling for most of the poll.

These trends probably aren't going to give an accurate idea of what kind of trends Minesweeper would show when placed into a future Best Game Ever contest.

Here's what Minesweeper's playrate looked like at the end of each voting period:

EBV | 88.42%
PHV | 88.00%
FNV | 87.49%
BSV | 86.95%
DSV | 86.38%
ASV | 86.29%
SNV | 86.35%
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
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Darn it, Luster. You're turning into LinkMarioSamus with this stuff.
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Darn it, Luster. You're turning into LinkMarioSamus with this stuff.

At least figuring out Minesweeper's trends would be relevant in the event it ever made it into a future Best Game Ever contest. I never personally cared for the stats that LinkMarioSamus posted and while some users in here didn't like him, I didn't pay any attention to the stats he posted.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
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I don't think it's that important. It's overanalysis at its finest.
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Okay, whatever you think.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
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It's not important and no one actually cares, but he's not gonna stop, so might as well just ignore it.
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KrakenProphet is IN-DE-STRUCTABLE.
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I don't think I'm the only one who thinks this. Analyzing regular, boring POTDs just reminds me how much we need a contest.
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"But you have been given freedom. Freedom to be...outside."
"Krahenprophet is lightning...the rain transformed."

*shrugs*

It's better than just bumping the topic in the off-season, and they're better than LMS's numbers. I'll skim LS's posts like those because they're a little interesting, though there's no need to take them too seriously...so I don't. No biggy.
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Nominate DOC LOUIS (Punch-Out!!):
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=49774975

I'm just surprised how much effort you're willing to invest in analyzing these kinds of POTDs, Luster.
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Krahenprophet he come to town to win the Gamefaqs Contests.

Analyzing regular, boring POTDs just reminds me how much we need a contest.

At least when the contest was still in progress, I could still discuss the contest. Now that the contest has ended, the only thing to analyze the trends for are regular PotDs. At least you can look forward to nominations for the next contest being opened again in about a month from now. Most PotDs don't have anything interesting for me to look forward to, so I will rarely be posting trends for a regular PotD.
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