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Nomination check right now - 93475

Seems like that poll 2 days ago really caught everybody's attention and boosted nomination totals greatly.
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Popular at school, but not as cool as KrahenProphet, Guru Champ!

So we'll probably hit around 100k
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From: Psycho_Kenshin | Posted: 12/6/2009 6:58:43 PM | #395
For the record, I was against L-block all the way, to me a character with no character doesn't deserve to go far. But, I can enjoy some joke characters.

Link winning every year is WAY more interesting.
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Wow, the nominations jumped 40,000 in like two days. Nice.
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I think Toon Link could take on Mega Man and Crono, though I think that would be his limit.

Eh, with a new format, it's something that could wait until the next contest.
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Not Wylvane

So are people expecting Snake to drop this year?
It's been a while now since Brawl and MGS4 made an almost perfcet double boost, I'm not seeing peacewalker or Rising giving him that sort of boost at all.
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Shakes Fist!

He's gotta drop compared to where he finished last year and 2008 really was the perfect time for him...but SSBB and MGS4 are still two of the three biggest games to come out since FFX in 2001 here (LoZ:TP being the third game). I'm not worried about him dropping compared to the majority of his matches from last year.
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Drop? Nah, don't see why he would. Peace Walker should help him stay constant, and Rising might add a little to prevent the drop too. He's got no reason to ever BOOST again unless a new Smash game comes out, but the bevy of MG games should stop him from dropping for a long, long time.
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Snake will probably drop off a bit now that hype surrounding MGS has almost entirely faded. He should settle right around, or a little below, Mario/Samus. The Cronos and Mega Mans won't be much of a challenge for him.

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Samus Boost to Metroid Other M?
Sonic Boost to Project Needlemouse? <_<
A guy can dream

*Not very well hidden message: hey HM you haven't accepted me on PSN yet*

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Ha. I apparently have a lot of these unaccepted friend requests on PSN. Guess that's what happens when you don't use a system for a year!

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Still don't see how Snake will be dropping in strength this year. Metal Gear Solid 4 and SSBB may be a year older, but they are still pretty much relevant and are still played by lots of gamers. The announcement of Rising and peacemaker shouldn't help Snake much, but a very small boost from it isn't a far-fetched idea.

Also remember the monstrous momentum that Snake received last year, beating Cloud for 48 hours and actually leading against Link for 6 hours in the final that no one thought was possible should garnered enough attention for Snake and his game. Lets hope that Snake can maintain minor boost from this momentum last year.

Well, it's been almost a year and half since MGS4 and two years since SSBB. It doesn't take too long to dip in popularity after the hype has worn off from two big games like those. It doesn't mean people don't care about him anymore, but he's not constantly in the spotlight like he was in 2008. I doubt Peace Walker and Rising do much of anything for him, too. He's not in either game, but even more important than that, no one is talking about either one of those. In a way, it wouldn't be a stretch to see that Metal Gear Solid's popularity in general peaked with MGS4.

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I agree with HM, but the thing is, new Nintendo is in much worse shape. Mario will probably suffer more than Snake will, and lol Samus. Snake's next non-Nintendo competition is like Vincent or something.

Snake will be okay. debatable match with Mario, probably loses to Sephiroth, beats Samus. same as it ever was.
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xyzzy

BUY OR SELL:If's it's the traditional 1-on-1 format, Crono is gonna lose to a non-noble nine this contest.


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Sell
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Sell. Squall would really have to impress with the day vote to do it, and Vincent doesn't have what it takes to capitalize on Crono's lol day.
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BUY

The fact that he fell off so hard in a format that should help him means that I'd take Squall, Vincent, or Tifa over him 1-on-1 in a heartbeat....it'd still be close by normal match standards (53-47), but not the kind of match where it's ever in real doubt.
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If we ever go back to 1v1 I think people will notice how similar most of the characters performed between formats. With that said it'll probably be Sonic that'll break the noble nine.
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Sell, if only because I think it's much more likely for Crono to meet a N9er first. I'd easily buy it for Sonic, though.

Mario dropping? Yeah, NSMBW is no GotY here, but it's still a well-received game, and Galaxy 2's one of the bigger 2010 games coming out. Mario's still got some games backing him, so I don't see him falling. Nor do I see Snake dropping too much even though he doesn't have anything on the horizon.

Mario/Snake would still be a match I'd love to see.
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Not Wylvane

Buy. I will take Auron, Squall and Vincent to beat Crono in a 1vs1 format. Of course i will take them to beat Sonic as well.

Buy. I'll take Squall over anyone.
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I mean, if I like a character, the last thing I would want to see is how badly he would get his ass kicked in a contest.

I think people just enjoy the attention for their favorite characters. It's more about getting your favorite fodder in, than anything else... for the most part, anyway.
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Sell:I'd say sonic is the one who's gonna drop unless he gets something BIG and soon too.
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Shakes Fist!

I'll never get over Kirby > Sonic. To me that ranks up there with L-Block > Link in terms of awesomeness.
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Not Wylvane

Kirby > Sonic to me was more like the last match which anyone would give Sonic the light of day in a match, again. The only thing which would save him some face is if Kirby defeats Auron, Luigi or Mega Man or any of the sort. But that's not happening, and I'm not counting tag team possibilities.
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Wylvane, Mario was coming off of SMG and SSBB's releases last year yet he didn't look impressive (though he never really had a fair shot to impress either). If they didn't do anything for him, I don't see NSMBW and SMG2-hype doing much.
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For Sonic to be respected again, Project Needlemouse would have to be a total smash hit. We're talking about a Batman Begins+The Dark Knight combo level. Otherwise, nobody will give Sonic much respect for a looooooong time.
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What's Project Needlemouse?
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It's apparently a new 2D mainline Sonic game, which Sega is slooooooowly disclosing details about.
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Oh, I think I saw the trailer for that awhile back...good luck with that. It would have to be HUGE for Sonic, and I don't see him/Sega taking real advantage of it considering he's already had some great unique opportunities to boost in the past two years. He's been in two Olympics-games on multiple systems with Mario and was the most requested character in SSBB, yet Sonic's losing to Auron and Kirby now when once upon a time he went even with Samus. It's unfortunately very difficult to get people to care about Sonic games any more and it's not much easier to take Sonic himself seriously since the 3D-era.

Who knows though, maybe our old theory of Team Sonic sucking in four-ways is the case instead of him really dropping...but I doubt it, and it looked like he dropped between 2007 and 2008 anyway. I hope this new game does something great for him, but I'll have to see it to believe it.
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we saw how much a new 2d mega man helped him
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A 2D downloadable mini-Mega Man game that was in 8-bit style? Excuse me if I consider than and a totally new 2D game that doesn't try to be a throwback to be different.
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I blame the game not being sold in hard copy form.
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a new Mega Man doesn't have pull with anything but Mega Man fans these days. Sonic's mostly the same way. you'd need something that really caught the casual fan's eye in order for it to be a difference maker. a NES Mega Man and/or a downloadable 2d Sonic game is not that.
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From: charmander6000 | #434
I blame the game not being sold in hard copy form.

woulda sold worse then. nobody is paying 20-30 bucks for an nes game
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woulda sold worse then. nobody is paying 20-30 bucks for an nes game

Not really had Capcom not gone the cash grab route they would have made an actual game.
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Also who's to say that Mega Man didn't get a boost?
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Uhh...Needlemouse is not a downloadable game. It's intended to be a full installment AFAIK.
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Yeah, MM9 was downloadable -- this new Sonic-game looks to be released like most games. Still, like tranny said, it's going to be hard to get new fans with a game pandering to the way of the Genesis. Maybe it can invigorate old fans again, but you've gotta get them to have faith in Sonic again first. They've mostly had their hopes dashed for over a decade, so that'll be a hard task to convince them en masse.
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Needlemouse was mostly rumoured as a XBLA/PSN title.
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xyzzy

http://www.gamefaqs.com/search/index.html?game=needlemouse&platform=0&s=s

for whatever this means
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Here's another tag-team bracket made from the last update of the tally.

Division 1

1) Prinny/Morrigan
8) Gilgamesh/Vault Boy

4) Professor Layton/Knuckles
5) CATS/Happy Mask Salesman

3) Yoshimitsu/Blue Toad
6) Yuna/Big Boss

2) Darth Revan/Bowser
7) Zack Fair/Yuri Lowell

Division 2

1) Pokemon Trainer Red/Laguna
8) Gene/Gordon Freeman

4) Lyn/Squall Leonhart
5) Jack Frost/Vivi

3) Phoenix Wright/Terry Bogard
6) Albert Wesker/Isaac

2) Cid Highwind/Etna
7) Bayonetta/Miles Edgeworth

Division 3

1) Ken/Leon Kennedy
8) Green Biker Dude/Fawful

4) Archer/Maxwell
5) Proto Man/Ghaleon

3) Godot/Blue Marble
6) Boko/Goomba

2) Doc Louis/Dante
7) Captain Falcon/Tails

Division 4

1) Charizard/Magus
8) Solid Snake/Yuffie

4) Minsc/Locke Cole
5) Jecht/Guybrush

3) Dan Hibiki/Tifa Lockheart
6) Nathan Drake/Dan McNeely

2) Jigglypuff/Chun Li
7) Ike/Sniper Wolf

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I can't believe we might actually get a tag team. Yuck.
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Who would win a female villain's contest?

The Boss? Sniper Wolf?
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I haven't kept up with the topic lately. How do you guys think the tag teaming would work. Would you vote for individuals or teams?

Personally I think voting for indivivuals and then adding the votes together would make for a more interesting contest.
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I never considered adding individual votes together as a team. That could actually be fun.
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Proto Man/Ghaleon

Most awesome team ever!
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Snake is going to be fine, probably around the same strength as last year. If there are any general trends this year, I expect it will be the trend of Nintendo and Square slowly losing their grip on this site.
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Link he come to town to dominate all other characters and trample them down with his sword of more votes.

And I don't want to see Toon Link or Dark Link- yes they could definitely be (very) strong, but that's as much reason against having them as for. I don't want our new Noble Nine to be:

OOT Adult Link
Cloud
Sephiroth
LTTP Link
LoZ/AoL Link
Toon Link
OOT Young Link
CD-i Link
Dark Link

That's a worst case scenario obviously, but there doesn't appear to be any gain to having multiple Links in the contest to offset that, and I'm a huge Link fanboy.
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Link he come to town to dominate all other characters and trample them down with his sword of more votes.