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That sounds like a good benchmark, though Pac is iffy because old school SFF makes him crumble to almost every heavy hitter more than he should.
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Didnt pac man beat Ocelot too? And I'd hardly call Ocelot fodder..
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That sounds like a good benchmark, though Pac is iffy because old school SFF makes him crumble to almost every heavy hitter more than he should.

Yeah, wasn't the thing about Vyse that he'd be relatively consistent in strength no matter who he faced? Pac-Man wouldn't be a good barometer if he faced Mario.
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Brawl did well for me, but not enough to net me the Guru win over Krahenprophet, so kudos to him.

*again

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Yeah, perhaps someone else would be better. Kefka is around Pac's level but more consistent. Would he be a good measure?
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Well I certainly wouldn't wanna take Kefka in a rematch against Pac-Man...and I'd probably take Pac > Niko (Ness beat CJ soundly when GTA was still strong here) and Pac > Fenix (they both barely beat Ocelot and Pac's far more known while Fenix somehow looked worse last year).

They may fall in the same category, but I they're not equals.
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Hard to believe this will be our eighth character contest, not counting the Villains Contest.
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Brawl did well for me, but not enough to net me the Guru win over Krahenprophet, so kudos to him.

Indeed. It's very much OUR contest this time, though. The number fits us well, after all. All we need is a good gimmick for the contest itself!
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For it being our contest, we sure don't get much say-so in the matter!
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From: KanzarisKelshen | #308
Indeed. It's very much OUR contest this time, though. The number fits us well, after all. All we need is a good gimmick for the contest itself!

alright female villains gogogo
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Brawl did well for me, but not enough to net me the Guru win over Krahenprophet, so kudos to him.

Is phoenix wright too strong for the fodder line?
though i hope when bacon was talking about format changes it's something like bringing back the 16 man divisions, or heck going for 32 man divisions.
though i still think 8 was the best.
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128-character 1v1 contest with two polls a day?
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Brawl did well for me, but not enough to net me the Guru win over Krahenprophet, so kudos to him.

That could be a sweeeeeeet system. All the fun of 1v1, all the perks of a 4way bracket.
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The only way for two matches to work will be either the poll rotates (like it did during Hayabusa vs. Jill 1) or if the ad is removed though that may not happen since the revenue that could be made from the contest bringing in new people may not outweigh the revenue made from that ad.

I still think tag-team will be the way to go.
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Congratulations to Krahenprophet for winning the guru contest

it's just the logistics of a tag-team are well hard to gauge.
how do you decide who partners up with who?though when i think about it, having the entire casts go up against each other would make for some sweet match pics.
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It makes me wonder if SBAllen has a bizarre contest idea that nobody's come up with yet.

I'm interested to see what he's pulling out of his ass. I hope it's more unique than something like tag-team.
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Brawl did well for me, but not enough to net me the Guru win over Krahenprophet, so kudos to him.

Some heavy hitters in this November poll! Here's how things look 40 minutes in:

Which scheduled November release are you most looking forward to?
Assassin's Creed II 14.61% 677
Band Hero 1.01% 47
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 28.13% 1304
Dragon Age: Origins 13.48% 625
Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2.76% 128
God of War Collection 4.62% 214
Left 4 Dead 2 12.13% 562
New Super Mario Bros. Wii 18.27% 847
Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 0.65% 30
Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles 4.34% 201
TOTAL VOTES 4635

Excellent showing for CoD. Slightly disappointed in L4D2's number, but it's not too bad considering the #1 option is SFFing it within the genre. Plus there's going to be a $30 million ad campaign kicking in next week which ought to help boost its profile quite a bit.

Now to see if Mario does anything with this day vote against all these mature options, or if it instead drops all day past the power hour, Galaxy-style.

EDIT - Oh wow, didn't even notice what a big number had been posted by Dragon Age. Very nice!

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Nice performance for CoD. After how CoD4 got defeated by Galaxy easily in the 2007 GotY poll, this CoD game might just have a chance at winning this year's GotY poll based on how well it's doing.
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RE was at like 2% with the board vote. Worst board vote ever, seriously. SHAME.
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EDIT - Oh wow, didn't even notice what a big number had been posted by Dragon Age. Very nice!

its too low :( I was hoping for 2nd place
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Mario is starting to die already. It finally lost an update to Assassin's Creed II at 12:50 AM. Mario lost the 12:50 AM and 12:55 AM updates, but managed to win the 1:00 AM update. Not sure how much longer Mario will be holding off Assassin's Creed II now that the night vote is going to kick in soon.

Mario's max lead on Assassin's Creed II is 175, at the time of the 12:50 AM update. Mario is now holding a 162 vote lead.

RE was at like 2% with the board vote. Worst board vote ever, seriously. SHAME.

RE's percentage from 12:05 AM to 12:25 AM: 2.51%, 3.48%, 4.22%, 4.62%, 4.81%

Then RE's percentage started dropping again from that point in time.
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Yeah I'm thinking that AC will take over Mario at night. And if Mario has another Galaxy type day vote, AC might actually beat it out.
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aww yeah Dragon Age cut both AC2 and Mario that time

here we GO
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aww yeah Dragon Age cut both AC2 and Mario that time

It happened first at 12:55 AM though.

Anyways, Mario got the lead up to 180 and that was at 1:10 AM. Mario and AC2 are stalling each other for now.
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From: voltch | Posted: 10/30/2009 10:50:28 AM | #315
it's just the logistics of a tag-team are well hard to gauge.
how do you decide who partners up with who?though when i think about it, having the entire casts go up against each other would make for some sweet match pics.

Well...this is pure speculation, but Ceej took a look at x-stats for 2k5, right? If so, is there anything precluding Sballin' from doing the same thing to try and design a tag team bracket? Like, say, Link would get paired with Bonk to compensate, while Luigi might get to play with Knuckles. 'Course, it doesn't completely work because two decent vote draws don't equal a huge one by any stretch, but there's no reason to assume SB couldn't try to make it as fair as possible instead of half-assing it.
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Just to toy with the idea of a tag-team contest, I'm taking the characters who advanced to R3 last year and pairing them with who they advanced with, then arranging them into hopefully an interesting division. Keep in mind most of these teams are stronger than most teams we would likely see in a "normal" scenario since these are R3-pairings and little fodder is involved. How would you handle a division like this?


Link + Zack VS Duke Nukem + Altair
Squall + Sora VS Kirby + Master Chief

Sephiroth + Kratos VS Samus + Ganondorf
Crono + L-Block VS Solid Snake + Zero

Auron + Sonic VS Mega Man + Weighted Companion Cube
Mario + Mega Man X VS Vincent + Gordon Freeman

Liquid Snake + Luigi VS Dante + Leon
Cloud + Mewtwo VS Pikachu + Alucard
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Link + Zack VS Duke Nukem + Altair

Frontrunner team to win the contest right there if it ever happened. Take the two biggest fanbases out there, the strongest contest force ever, and add a solid midcarder for a perfect win.

Squall + Sora VS Kirby + Master Chief

ARGH, if only Squall + Sora didn't use the exact same fanbase...their power is basically the same they'd have normally, while the other team would have two different fanbases to draw from. Unless a miracle happen, Kirby + MC take it easily, even when their opponents would utterly stomp them normally.

Sephiroth + Kratos VS Samus + Ganondorf

The power of combined fanbases should pull on through here. Granted, Kratos isn't THAT far away from Seph, but he's different from him in a way Samus isn't from Ganon.

Crono + L-Block VS Solid Snake + Zero

Godddamn, what a ridiculous pair of teams. Honestly don't know how this could go. If L-Block doesn't get voke jotes en masses, Solid and Zero probably win, but who knows what happens here?

Auron + Sonic VS Mega Man + Weighted Companion Cube

Holy crap, another ridiculous set of pairings, though both sides are much weaker. At a glance, even Sonic's horrible 4way star power isn't enough to turn the tide, since you're pairing the weakest noble nine member and probably the third strongest near elite against a stronger noble niner and a weakish joke. Gimme Team Sonic Fantasy here (argh, that name).

Mario + Mega Man X VS Vincent + Gordon Freeman

Assuming somewhat different fanbases, Mega Mario is probably the Number 2 or 3 team here.

Liquid Snake + Luigi VS Dante + Leon

Same fanbase on one side, weak character on the other one. Tough one, but I'll go with Liquid Luigi.

Cloud + Mewtwo VS Pikachu + Alucard

Hahaha, this isn't even debatable.
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finally, Assassins Creed takes the lead over Mario. And with that, i go to bed
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Yeah I'm thinking that AC will take over Mario at night.

It finally overtook Mario after about an agonizing 5 hours. It took the lead over Mario at 3:53 AM (well, 4:53 AM if it wasn't for the fact that today's poll lasts 25 hours due to the clocks going back 1 hour).
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Aww yeah, Assassin's Creed finally cut CoD.
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Once again, GameFAQs disappoints me with its taste. Really, AC2? After the first one? Psh.

Also, despite the controversy, Modern Warfare 2 is still a lock to win GotY. I don't see much competition for that one.

So in the meantime, let's go ahead and predict console GotY winners!

DS: Tough one, since it's down to Platinum VS Spirit Tracks. Considering how late it's coming out and the lukewarm reception I'm expecting, I'll call the upset and say Platinum, though I'd still imagine Spirit Tracks as the easy favorite.
PSP: Dissidia.
Wii: New Super Mario Bros Wii.
X360: Halo 3: ODST.
PS3: Uncharted 2.
PS2: Did anything actually come out for PS2 exclusively? Wouldn't be surprised if this category finally went away, but if it doesn't, I have no damn clue.
Multi-console: Modern Warfare 2, though this should be the most competitive category easily between RE5, AC2, and Borderlands, even though none of them will come close.
Downloadable: Depends on whether Ballad of Gay Tony counts. If it does, I'd pick it. If not, I'm not sure since I can't recall any big-name games getting hype this year on the level of Braid, World of Goo, and Mega Man 9.

I think F3 will be MW2 > Uncharted 2 > NSMBW. Could change if SBAllen decides to put two multiplatform games in the final poll, in which case I could see one of the games I listed in the F3.
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Brawl did well for me, but not enough to net me the Guru win over Krahenprophet, so kudos to him.

the only noteworthy thing today is NSMB sucking, but even then, the writing's been on the wall for years.

multiplat also has SF4 and Arkham Asylum. SF4 will likely do as bad as it always has, but Arkham Asylum could make some noise. it's between RE5 and MW2 though. MW2 should be the fave, but it also isn't even out yet (at least not legally) so I'll withhold judgment. hype backlash can be brutal.

final 3? MW2, Uncharted 2, ODST. Uncharted 2's going to do really damn well, I'd say, but it'll take a FPS split to give it the win. worst GOTY year since 2005.

let's go game of the decade
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I wonder how the downloadable GOTY will go. Shadow Complex, Splosion Man, Trials HD, Trine, Fat Princess, MVC2. I'd bet on Shadow Complex as being the most popular unless a name like MVC2 makes it in and blitzes things.
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I forgot Shadow Complex and MVC2. I think MVC2 has the advantage being more familiar, but voters might prefer new over old.

Was the first GTA4 DLC in the GotY poll?
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Brawl did well for me, but not enough to net me the Guru win over Krahenprophet, so kudos to him.

Lost and the Damned is 2009. it's possible that we'll get the new 2-for-1 disc in the multiplat poll, but I wouldn't expect it to do much.

we could get something like Contra Rebirth in the downloadable section though.
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there's also that awful Turtles remake. I trust fans to turn their backs on that piece.
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don't forget fallout 3 dlc.
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. it's possible that we'll get the new 2-for-1 disc in the multiplat poll

Thats 360 exclusive, so if anything it'll be on the 360 poll
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Between today and this poll:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3565

CoD4:MW2 is looking in fine shape to take GotY this year just based off of the hype. CoD4 would have come much closer to SMG in 2007 if it wasn't for Halo 3, and ODST is going to be smashed far worse by CoD4:MW2 this year in all likelihood. Then again, I think CoD:WaW was hyped too and followed CoD4 first, yet it didn't finish far past Soul Calibur 4 in last year's multi-platform poll. They have to meet the hype this year.


As for the Wii-GotY, I've not heard people really talk about NSMBW other than "IT PLAYS THE GAME FOR YOU," it's currently losing to AC2, it's not like NSMB did great for the DS (barely beat a FF3-port and only got a thirteenth of what LoZ:TP got in the overall-GotY), and SMG was arguably the weakest 3D-Nintendo game in BGE2. I don't think it's a lock NSMBW wins the Wii-GotY unless it has a great reception. I still expect Punch-Out, WSR, and even the Metroid Prime Trilogy to make some noise since it's a weak year for the Wii, and I almost expect NSMBW to be upset until further notice. I'm probably disrespecting NSMBW, but I need more reasoning to back it more.
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Well, according to those who've played it, it's all kinds of awesome, and its "ZOMG CRAP FOR N00BS TOO GOOD FOR THIS POS!" original reception is being replaced with real hype. Time will tell if it really works out for NSMB, but it isn't looking bad by any stretch.
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Yeah, NSMBW is finally gaining some hype, and the stigma about the whole automatic gameplay is dying down now that people realize it's there so they can make the game harder without alienating the casual crowd. Hype is slowly building, and some are even comparing it to games like SMB3 and SMW.

Of course, I think its chances of even making the final GotY poll are 50/50, but it should be a lock for winning Wii GotY here just because of how god damn weak its competition is. I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see NSMBW break 50% in that poll, and in a contest setting I'd consider NSMBW around Paper Mario's strength.
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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'll be surprised to see NSMBW break 50% -- say what you will about the competition, but SMG and SSBB only got ~57% in their polls and the original WS almost broke 10% on LoZ:TP when it had ~81%. Still, cool to hear NSMBW has some actual traction for its hype now.
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NSMB Wii is the only option. Wii Sports Resort has no chance and Punch-Out is just too niche. what else is there? Madworld? Little King's Story?

hell, look at the top 10 Wii games right now. NSMB Wii is #1 and it's not even out. some Naruto game and Lego Star Wars game are in the top 10. hell, Zombies Ate My Neighbours is in there.
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on that note, expect the Wii to get absolutely hammered this year in SOTY. I could see it losing to the DS.

(though the DS sucked, too)
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http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3362

That's last year's SotY-poll, and the Wii got destroyed despite having the GotY (SSBB) and one of the best-selling Wii games (MKW). The Wii will definitely look worse compared to the consoles (as it has every year since it came out), though I don't know about how it'll compare to the DS.


Another poll we haven't talked about for the GotY-period that was introduced last year: the best new IP. I've heard talk about games like Borderland, Infamous, and Madworld through-out the year, though I don't know enough about most of them to take the talks seriously for this category...plus I'm sure there are plenty of games I've missed. What could make it into such a poll? Would Dissidia count here?
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best new IP

Batman Arkham Asylum, if it counts
Blazblue
Borderlands
Brutal Legend
Demon's Souls
DJ Hero, if it counts
Dragon Age
inFAMOUS
Madworld
Shadow Complex
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oh, and Scribblenauts too
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system of the year could be close this year. PS3 has probably objectively beaten the 360 as far as big exclusive titles go, but the 360 has a bit of a bias going for it since 80% of the big games are multiplatform and it has a built in lead, making the PS3 essentially useless unless you really want to play Killzone 2 or Demon's Souls or Uncharted 2. I'd say the 360 wins it by 5% or so, but it could be close. Uncharted 2's making big waves right now.
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I wondered about DJ Hero and Batman, too. I'd personally give DJ Hero the benefit of the doubt for having a new "controller" and tackling a music-angle neither GH nor RB could really do, but I suspect SB won't feel the same way. I'm pretty sure B:AA won't work though since Batman is older than any video game and has had games before.
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