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Looks like Theme Park would have a crazy night vote.

I would think so, but I never bothered to do trends for that poll.
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so what do you guys talk about nowadays
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Not much! Most of what we say lately has the subtext of "contest plz."
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Today's poll result is weird. PS3 ownership was at 40.97% in the last "Got PS3?" poll and now it's only at 28.57% (fourth poll option).
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Some people might sell their old PS3 to get a new one that plays PS2 games.
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I had to compare Nintendo Power's top 20 games on each Nintendo system to the contest.

NES - Uh, according to this list Zelda 1 > Mario 3 > Mega Man 2 > Mario 1, and it's "Nintendo" Power; look how well that all worked out Also according to this list Super Mario 2 wrecks Final Fantasy 1's face...yeah, in our dreams.

Game Boy - Tetris > Link's Awakening > Pokemon RBY > Oracle series > Pokemon GS. Not so on this site!

SNES - So if these "Nintendo" Power guys could put FF6 in 3rd, then why did it look so bad on a site normally biased towards the FF series? And Chrono Trigger losing to Super Metroid...in our dreams. Mega Man X > Final Fantasy IV...once again, in our dreams. (Actually, according to this list FFIV should lose to Secret of Mana, and Yoshi's Island and Super Mario Kart both lose to Contra III...hahahahahaha)

N64 - Mario Kart 64 ahead of GoldenEye...look how well that worked out. Star Fox 64 ahead of Majora's Mask...in our dreams. Perfect Dark failing to make it might've foreshadowed it's collapse, though, I guess.

GBA - Fire Emblem is 15th on this list. OOPS

GCN - It may be "Nintendo" Power, but according to them RE4 > WW > SSBM > MP > SCII > SMS. Resident Evil 4 and especially Wind Waker > Melee...in our dreams! Goes to show you how much this site cares about shooters in comparison

DS - The original Phoenix Wright was nowhere to be found. (Justice for All was 9th though)

Wii - So...Super Mario Galaxy was the unanimous decision for 1st. Yeah...look how well that worked out at GameFAQs, and goes to show you how little we care for 3d platformers, and how much we care for LoZ and SSB. And Twilight Princess ahead of Brawl...look how well that worked out.

It must be known that according to their top 100 list in 2005, Wind Waker beats every Mario game (then again Resident Evil 4 was ahead of everything except for Ocarina, OOPS). Also, according to them, Super Mario Sunshine > Final Fantasy VI > Majora's Mask > Melee > Punch Out > Soul Calibur II > Super Smash Bros. > GoldenEye > Chrono Trigger. OOPS. ESPECIALLY ON THE SUPER MARIO SUNSHINE AHEAD OF SSBM PART!!! And I'd have to admit that SSB64 beating GE and CT would be worse than it defeating StarCraft.

Actually, according to Wikipedia some sites considered Super Mario SUNSHINE to be on the same level as the classic Mario titles at the time of its release; to say nothing of most critics saying that Galaxy is on the same level (which is very much true IMO).

What the...? I got modded for THAT?
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Hey look, a Got Genesis poll, didn't we get that last month?
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Nah, it's a "Got Genesis add-ons?" poll, really. I'm one of those unfortunate saps who wasted money on an add-on, but at least it was on the Sega CD, not the 32X.
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It seems the "Never had one" option might do better this time then last time around though, when it got like 49%
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Less lousy Genesis polls, more contest announcements.
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So, how about that Michael Jackson's Moonwalker? I predicted it would win this poll simply because it would get the joke vote. Well, it's winning, but only has a 211 vote lead on Streets of Rage. Too bad I missed the first 1 1/2 hours of this poll, so I don't know what Michael Jackson was doing during that time. It probably won't survive the night vote.
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Well, so much for that. Michael Jackson lost the lead to Streets of Rage on the most recent update. Michael Jackson's lead had maxed out at 302 at 2:15 AM. Streets of Rage cut off about 100 votes in just 30 minutes, but Michael Jackson turned it into a stall-out for another hour before Streets of Rage made a second push to try and come back.
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For reference:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3198


Chakan is the only returning option, which is getting last place in both polls. Good thing, too -- I never could get into that game. It's also odd to see Zero Wing and Shaq-Fu fail to impress against less than stellar games yet MJ's Moonwalker may steal this...I doubt it would do this well before MJ died; it seems like an easy poll to pity-vote it. Worst of all, however, I see Altered Beast, Eternal Champions, and especially Comix Zone be destroyed here...

...unnacceptable, GameFAQs. I'm almost glad Dynamite Heddy didn't make it into the poll to face a similar fate.....
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was there ever any doubt that streets of rage wouldn't be leading this poll at some stage?
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Michael Jackson's Moonwalker is going to take the US day vote and come back, book it.
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Wow Streets of Rage must be a power house...

>_>
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Bacon must be a Chakan fanboy if he keeps on putting it in these polls when its so obscure
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I kinda wanna see a system contest now, just to see what strength exists in the sega ones.
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Well so much for that comeback.
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Michael Jackson's Moonwalker is going to take the US day vote and come back, book it.

Streets of Rage is already up 959 on Michael Jackson's Moonwalker, so that might be hard to pull off. Not exactly impossible, because "3:30 AM - 4:29 AM" was able to build up a 1772 vote lead over "9:30 - 10:29 PM" with the night vote. "3:30 AM - 4:29 AM" managed to blow a 1772 vote lead to "9:30 - 10:29 PM" over the course of about 8 hours and lost to it by 495 votes in the end. In a 10-way poll, no less. This was in the "What time do you normally go to bed every day?" poll, a poll featuring extreme trend shifts.
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http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3576&region=EUR

I'm thinking "I never owned a Genesis" is actually a lot lower then the poll shows. Europe was Genesis' strongest area, but it was named Mega Drive, so a lot of people might not know what a Genesis is in Europe
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Michael Jackson's Moonwalker is going to take the US day vote and come back, book it.

It's only stalling Streets of Rage with the day vote, but will probably not win the day vote over it.
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For reference:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=2665

Two and a half years ago (exactly, oddly enough), 87.6% of the site had played the original Sonic...76.36% of that played it on the Genesis.
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http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3577&region=US
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3577&region=CA
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3577&region=MX
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3577&region=NAM

Streets of Rage won in the US. Michael Jackson won in Canada and crushed the competition in Mexico. Overall, a 4 vote win for Michael Jackson in North America.

Brazil favored Streets of Rage, but Michael Jackson won in all of South America by a very small amount.

Europe favored Streets of Rage big time, but Michael Jackson did win in some European countries.

Michael Jackson also won in the Philippines and in Asia as a whole. And finally, Michael Jackson wins in Australia and Oceania.
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Just voted right now. Holy crap, Sonic's playrate actually went up since the last time this poll was asked. And the playrate will only improve even more with the morning vote.

While OoT and FFVII took a huge tumble when polls for those games were hosted last month, OoT only has a GameCube remake and also a Virtual Console release and FFVII has no remakes yet (the PC version doesn't count here). The original Sonic has way more remakes than either OoT or FFVII, so maybe that's why Sonic didn't fall apart since the last time we saw a poll for it.
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These silly Genesis polls are like a mockery from Allen.
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I'd like to see a poll for Sonic's best game right now, to see how well the original Sonic would hold up to the rest of the games in its series now...or really, all of the 2D-Sonic games. While the general playrate's staying up for the original Sonic, the number of people who first played it on the Genesis has taken a big hit; I wonder how much that affects the Genesis games against the 3D-Sonic games. It could be a reason why Sonic's dropping lately -- it was a lot cooler to like Sonic if you grew up with his games on the Genesis than on the Dreamcast or a Gamecube collection.

Here's the only Sonic-poll we got for games...which is eight years old:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=580
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so like where's our damn Link>Cloud character battle?
well if it's gonna be 4 way again it might be good to have no contest.
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I'd actually want to see it. It would explain why he's weakening, though it's not an explanation I want to accept over him being weak in 4ways. :(

It's about time for the character battle to start. Let's have 3 days of nominations, followed by 3 weeks of bracketmaking. Then let's get the contest started and ended before Thanksgiving.
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From: red sox 777 | Posted: 8/17/2009 11:19:35 AM | #082
It's about time for the character battle to start. Let's have 3 days of nominations, followed by 3 weeks of bracketmaking. Then let's get the contest started and ended before Thanksgiving.

This man speaks the truth. I've always missed the nomming period, but not this time!

3 days of nomming? no thanks, then we'll get nothing but obscure b8 characters
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A few days of nominations worked very well in past years! I don't think noms ever went beyond a week before 2006.
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At least Doc Louis gets in then!
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2k3 had a nomination period of about 2 days and we didn't get very many obscure characters. I'm not even sure if Board 8 was responsible for the obscure characters we did get that year.
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I'd say 2 weeks is best. It gets the word around so we have more then just b8 focused characters, which we really don't anymore of. We have enough Nintendo and RPG characters as it is. At least casuals can get more variety in here.
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I'm not completely convinced the casuals aren't the reason why we have so much Nintendo in the bracket; it wasn't Board 8's fault nearly every playable SSBB character plus Sandbag made it in last year (and I think due to many of them bombing last year and Nintendo not having any big releases since then, we can expect Nintendo's number of reps to drop some).

Anyway, I'd like the happy medium of a week-long nomination period.
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From: HaRRicH | #089
I'm not completely convinced the casuals aren't the reason why we have so much Nintendo in the bracket; it wasn't Board 8's fault nearly every playable SSBB character plus Sandbag made it in last year (and I think due to many of them bombing last year and Nintendo not having any big releases since then, we can expect Nintendo's number of reps to drop some).

Anyway, I'd like the happy medium of a week-long nomination period.

Well thats true, but I mean I doubt we'd get characters like Arthas, Marcus Fenix, Guybrush, Big Daddy, and some more of those non b8 type of characters if we had a very short nomination period. And for me, variety > having the absolute strongest characters. Plus, its less SFF matches.
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I don't know why Allen hasn't posted noms yet. He has the code, presumably, and all he would have to do is change the dates from last year.

Maybe this means he's working on a 1 vs. 1, or trying to put together a power bracket on his own, both of which would be :) :) :)

Honestly, if Allen just left up noms all year long, and got someone else/a group of people to design the bracket he would have a lot of work off of his shoulders. Ceej said back in '04 that Board 8 couldn't help design the bracket for legal reasons since they could be trying to help themselves win, but he never responded when people said they'd be willing to give up their right to prizes in order to design the bracket. I'm sure there's someone that CNET could entrust with the bracket that cares about the contest, and would be willing to forfeit their prize. Hell, do it publicly, so no one gets suspicious.
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Well thats true, but I mean I doubt we'd get characters like Arthas, Marcus Fenix, Guybrush, Big Daddy, and some more of those non b8 type of characters if we had a very short nomination period.

Oh yeah, like we need a fifth contest with Guybrush. Once again Albion reveals that he doesn't honestly care about seeing a good contest, but just seeing his favorites in it.
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From: Yesmar | #092
Well thats true, but I mean I doubt we'd get characters like Arthas, Marcus Fenix, Guybrush, Big Daddy, and some more of those non b8 type of characters if we had a very short nomination period.

Oh yeah, like we need a fifth contest with Guybrush. Once again Albion reveals that he doesn't honestly care about seeing a good contest, but just seeing his favorites in it.

Uh, I only like Arthas and Guybrush out of those.

I'm just saying I'd prefer variety instead of 2/3 of the contest being nintendo/square
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I'm just saying I'd prefer variety instead of 2/3 of the contest being nintendo/square

And there are way better non-Nintendo/Square characters to provide variety than ****ing Guybrush! Who's calling for more Nintendo/Square anyway? People mostly want to see the random Brawl/lesser Square characters replaced with stronger ones. If you want to stick with 4 ways, you have to face facts. There's not enough non-Nintendo/Square characters to give every match its maximum entertainment possibility.
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I just said Guybrush randomly off my head as a character I didn't think B8 would get in on their own
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We'll get plenty of varied characters, Albion. Remember 2003? Magus, Board 8's favorite character at the time and someone who got a big nomination rally, was a 13 seed against....Sam Fisher, a 4 seed, in the first round.
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Albion proving he doesn't know what he's talking about once again. Nominations don't need to last for weeks, plural. One week at most is sufficient as long as it gets a big banner on the front page when he puts them up or something. The vast majority of nominations will have been made within one week. I think previous nomination periods where we could track them have proved this.
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Maybe we should shift focus to the Gamespot contest

http://www.gamespot.com/greatest-video-game-hero/index.html
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Man, how the mighty have fallen...

Huge difference between Sonic in the UK and all of Europe:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3578&region=GB
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3578&region=EUR

91.81% playrate in the UK, but an 84.24% playrate in Europe. In this poll, the UK contributed 46.37% of the European votes. This huge difference would mean that Sonic's strength comes solely from the UK (and Ireland too, but that's like an extra 200-300 votes). So those who are saying Sonic is strong in Europe, you are partially incorrect there.
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