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What an excellent comparison; let's start this doomed hype train immediately. Honestly, I have my doubts about Sheik being at Zelda/Gdorf's level, but I bet she has enough pop to advance a few rounds. That's good enough for me, fanboyism and nostalgia aside.

I'm actually somewhat confident Bacon would let her in. He brought in X and let us have our fill of joke characters that CJayC wouldn't consider in a million years.
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Sheik would be nice to see in a contest...and she would bring up the interesting possibility of rSFF if she ever faced Zelda. Sheik is bad-ass in LoZ:OoT and is the better side of the two in the SSB-series, so I wonder if something crazy could happen there.

Wouldn't wanna count on that, but Sheik would do fine in a contest. I imagine she'd be a bit below Zelda.
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I generally agree, but I wouldn't be surprised either way. Vincent's strength coupled with the realization that OoT is top dog around here now makes me think Sheik has big upside. I wonder why we all forgot to toss Sheik's name around when Ocarina beat FFVII this year.
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I wonder, would Shiek even count as a separate character? She's far, far closer to Super Sonic than Mega Man X. If not, then maybe Bacon could be convinced to replace "Zelda" with "Zelda/Shiek" for contest purposes, although that's creating an obvious spoiler reminiscent of the Villains Contest.






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Yeah, I've been wondering for a long time now: is that considered spoilers by Gamefaqs? And if not, why is the FFVII spoiler still considered one?
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Link he come to town to dominate all other characters and trample them down with his sword of more votes.

Shiek would be interesting. And the fact Roxas/Sora are both allowed, I see no reason Shiek wouldnt
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I don't think "Sheik is Zelda" counts as a spoiler anymore. Nintendo has spent the better part of ten years acknowledging it. Also, the canonical story (as far as I remember, anyway) states that Zelda doesn't simply dress up and get a tan, but uses magic to become an entirely different person. Bacon has been pretty liberal with the characters he'll allow in, so I'm hoping this can be another such case.
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The fact zelda/shiek are the same character in brawl/melee is like trying to argue that samus becoming a girl is a spoiler
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Wait, SAMUS BECOMES A GIRL?

...are you saying that Samus was at one point a man?
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From: Cyclo_Reaper | #056
Shiek would be interesting. And the fact Roxas/Sora are both allowed, I see no reason Shiek wouldnt

Sora and Roxas, though the same, are still two different physical beings, even though he was unconscious, Roxas has been physically standing with Sora. Sheik and Zelda can't really pull that off, as when one of the two exists, the other ceases to be.

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Well, there are sadly plenty of people who insist that both Samus and Sheik are male.
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Link he come to town to dominate all other characters and trample them down with his sword of more votes.

From: WarThaNemesis2 | #059
Wait, SAMUS BECOMES A GIRL?

...are you saying that Samus was at one point a man?

oops phrased that wrong >_> Should be that Samus is actually a girl
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From: red sox 777 | #061
Well, there are sadly plenty of people who insist that both Samus and Sheik are male.

In Samus's case, it's due to ignorance. Sheik's case is more due to complete ambiguity. I'm sure Nintendo has confirmed that she is indeed female, but even they have never been that clear about it. But heck, if anything, I just consider such ambiguity to be more of a reason to let Sheik in.
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I see lots of fanfiction where Sheik's male and hooks up with Link. You're welcome for that image.

While we're on the Zelda kick, how would Toon Link do? He is a different character than regular Link, and though he's a Link he doesn't have nearly the same appeal. I'd figure Toon Link would be strong, but wouldn't stand up to most of the near-elite like Vincent/Squall/Auron.

At least we'd probably have a Link lose for once!
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Brawl did well for me, but not enough to net me the Guru win over Krahenprophet, so kudos to him.

He'd probably be a midcarder. Against DA ONE TROO LINK in that fourway Link poll, he managed to end in third place in front of Young Link, and would have been second if it hadn't been for joke votes. Plus, Toon Link was still the number 2 character on his sole contest appearance in 2003.

Hmm...speaking of Links, what would the Link hierarchy be? I'm thinking Classic Link>Dark Link>>Toon Link>=Young Link, with CD-i Link being an outlier due to joke votes.
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Nathan Drake boost next contest, book it.
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From: charmander6000 | #066
Nathan Drake boost next contest, book it.

its tough to not be stronger then his last apperance
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Nathan Drake did what Ansem couldn't do: let CATS avoid completely losing his first time. Did so in style, actually...

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3265

...between Uncharted 2, the new PS3-deal, and the holiday season, he damn well better boost.
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That said, letting Nathan Drake's sequel win this poll shows us just how much people care about these games.
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Bump
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I thought strength would be second last, with charisma in last.
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Unsurprising that Intelligence is first, though still hilarious.

Neat that Bacon chose the SPECIAL stats. I know SPECIAL from the Fallout games, but what other games has it been in?

Hey, this topic is slow.
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Brawl did well for me, but not enough to net me the Guru win over Krahenprophet, so kudos to him.

I remember reading about em once on Fallout wiki. They're only in Black Isle games, and not even all their games. Fallout and like one or two others
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Filipinos believe they're more agile than intelligent.

I still find it hilarious that 30% chose Intelligence.
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Brawl did well for me, but not enough to net me the Guru win over Krahenprophet, so kudos to him.

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Bump.
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Message From HaRRicH on 10/03/2009

Is there any word yet on the annual Character Battle for this year? This is by far the latest we've gone without even a nomination-form, and there's not a lot of time left in the year!
Message From GameFAQs on 10/06/2009

There will be one.


SB stands by that we will have a Character Battle this year.
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talk isnt worth much if there isnt action to back it up
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True, but he's standing by it this late in the year, so we may be seeing something soon if he's honest.
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Personally, instead of Game of the Year polls, maybe he could do a 32-game bracket for "Best game of 2009"?

I'd like to see Modern Warfare 2 win when it has to get more than 50% of votes at a RPG gaming site.

From: Big Bob | #080
Personally, instead of Game of the Year polls, maybe he could do a 32-game bracket for "Best game of 2009"?

I'd like to see Modern Warfare 2 win when it has to get more than 50% of votes at a RPG gaming site.

That could be fun. Hell, narrow it to 16 games, which wouldn't be that hard, and we could do this in two weeks, which is how long GotY usually lasts anyway.
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Brawl did well for me, but not enough to net me the Guru win over Krahenprophet, so kudos to him.

It would be nice in a lot of ways, but I'd rather see a bunch of games first over each system's GotY-award than just select sixteen games. Maybe if something like that was done after the preliminary GotY-awards to decide the overall-GotY, that'd be cool...but let's give a lot of games chances on their system/platform first like usual.
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Time for a four-way:

Bowser
Gordon Freeman
Liquid Snake
Ryu Hayabusa
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I'll be surprised if Bowser doesn't win that. He's no Falco Lombardi, and the other guys are no Vincent.

Bowser > Gordon

Also, remember Marth's two matches last year. A pretty comfortable win as the lone Nintendo character, and a disgraceful loss as soon as Lucario (who's fodder, anyway) was thrown in.
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Gordon + Valve Rally. How much stronger would that make him?
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If Gordon could get ~37,000 votes in sixteen hours like at GameSpot for any given match on top of his general GameFAQs-strength, it's hard to imagine him ever being eliminated. It would probably be a matter of getting Gordon in a GameFAQs-match that's important enough for Steam to feel the need to get behind...and considering Gordon's only made R3 once here and wasn't even close to advancing with Samus and Vincent in the match, plus with Gordon likely already owning GameSpot's "Best Game Hero Ever" title at that time, I doubt they're going to get too involved.
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Still, if Gordon winning at GameSpot will raise general interest for him and his series, I wonder how it would affect him at GameFAQs. Probably not a lot, but when the biggest gaming website crowns you the All Time Greatest Game Hero, some people will take notice.
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Hay guys I'm back for a visit! What's going on?

...oh wow this topic seems deader than I can ever remember it being in my 6 years on this board. When are we going to get something to liven it up?
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Oh here let me try.

This is the HENRY AARON Topic!
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Still, if Gordon winning at GameSpot will raise general interest for him and his series, I wonder how it would affect him at GameFAQs.

I was about to bring that up eventually. About how Gordon winning on GameSpot might affect him on GameFAQs and give him a strength boost here.
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The good news is that this coming Character Battle will NOT, repeat NOT, be a 4-man format like the last two battles. I know that this will make many people happy and hopefully make it worth the wait. Stay tuned for more details about the new format (one that we haven't used before!) and more about the timing of the battle.

Tag-team or 8-way, you decide.
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Three-ways or five-ways.

Don't ask me how.
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Dang, so much for our hopes of a 1v1 All Fictional Characters bracket.

3/5/6/7/8-ways... nah, I don't see it. SB's clearly got something different up his sleeve that he's excited to unveil; I don't think "lol let's add FOUR MORE!" would qualify.

Tag Teams: this is certainly looking a heavy favorite at this point. However...

Another idea that's been thrown around is an "elimination gauntlet." Basically the idea is something along the lines of: we'd have 128 characters, but R1 would be an 8-way battle where everyone votes which of the 8 they want eliminated. And then the two characters with the most votes that day get the boot. With things turned around like this, suddenly heavy spotlight guys like Link/Cloud/Mario will have to be very nervous, as anti-voting can sink you super quick.

The elimination style format sounds weird, but I actually wouldn't rule it out, just based on how SB appears really determined to shake things up this time around.

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I've been for a gauntlet for ages, though I don't know if I'd like one like that. Still, hey, what-ev. I'm in wait-n-see mode before I say too much -- nobody really expected four-ways when SB got antsy in 2007.
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Man 4 years ago we would've been laughing at Gordon and invoking GFNW. He's come a long way.

I'm heartbroken about the CB starting so late :(

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Delaying the CB makes sense, so I can live with it. We had Gamespot's hilarious contest to tide us over anyway, which if nothing else gave us a decent winner that really distinguishes the site from GameFAQs.

I can only imagine what the new format will be. Either it'll be genuinely interesting and shake up the contest, or it'll be completely stupid and infuriate many people here and I'll laugh at them for taking the thing so seriously. Either way, I win.
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Brawl did well for me, but not enough to net me the Guru win over Krahenprophet, so kudos to him.

Come on, you've got to give the credit to Valve/Steam and not the GameSpot voters for Gordon's win. If they do the same thing here, it's very possible that Gordon could win the entire thing.

Gordon was hanging close with Link before Steam rallied him. Steam merely boosted Gordon to huge levels, but he's still legitimately strong and still had a solid chance of winning even if Steam didn't get involved.
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Brawl did well for me, but not enough to net me the Guru win over Krahenprophet, so kudos to him.

Hmm...when could the nomination period start? SB mentioned he wanted to begin the battles mid-January to avoid excessive holiday breaks, so...the end of November, maybe?
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i wonder, will the gamespot contest cause huge shifts in the bracketmaking or will B8 stick to 7 years worth of pure hard data?
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