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I'm surprised Dark Void is doing so poorly. Especially since Bayonetta looks like generic tripe action game #1242 and Dante's Inferno is trying way too hard to appeal to pseudo-intellectuals
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Yeah, I just changed to taking Soap to round 3. Modern Warfare/Call of Duty is a lot bigger than Mass Effect, and Ness is just weak despite being Nintendo. And, nowadays, being from Nintendo and in Smash games is no longer enough to guarantee you a decent amount of strength like it was back in 2005-7. This isn't NintendoFAQs anymore, really. No confidence at all in this pick though.
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6 years later, Crono's quest to defeat Sephiroth -- Round 1: Missingno
'Till shade is gone, 'till water is gone, into the shadow with teeth bared....

No need for Dante's Inferno when God of War III is a couple months later. Game is shameless.

Don't get me wrong: God of War 3 is where it's at, but Dante's Inferno can hold me over until then (plus, Dead Space was so good).
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I've never understood why people will hold out on a good game just because a similiar one is coming out later. Its not like Dantes Inferno is going to take you 3 months to beat, anyway.
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BTW, I got dates mixed up: February 2010 for Dante's Inferno so no bother pointing that out.
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The problem with Dante's Inferno is that it looks horribly derivative. God of War is pretty good, but I don't need to play what will no doubt be a much worse clone of it set to the Divine Comedy.

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a) MW2 is 10 times more popular than CoD4
b) Soap is a major character in both games (one would argue THE main character) as opposed to MacMillan's one-shot Ghillie-suit appearance
c) CoD4 proved itself to be pretty damn strong
d) lol big daddy/ness/geno

Ten times more popular how? I haven't seen a poll anywhere that says so yet, unless you want to pull another Guitar Hero argument.

and CoD4 wasn't THAT great in the last game contest. It did okay but it was nothing special, really.
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Bayonetta should have a chance at taking the lead overnight. In the vote-in polls, Bayonetta had a good night vote, so this should likely be the case today as well.
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I haven't heard of any of these besides Bayonetta, which this board has been over-hyping. Hopefully the game will spawn some good hentai.

Which serves as the perfect segue into suggesting myself for the crew. I'm off-kilter enough from popular opinion yet not as trollish now as some of the more controversial choices. Plus I could probably convince Moltar to rig me on.
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Not Wylvane

I'd support Wylvane, actually, assuming you don't suicide mid-way.
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glad to see that heavy rain is now cutting bayonetta

heavy rain is gonna be the better game no question
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I haven't heard of any of these besides Bayonetta, which this board has been over-hyping. Hopefully the game will spawn some good hentai.

No, I want you to read that last sentence to yourself and rethink your life.
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Let's get the main character of R.U.S.E. into the contest next year.

whatever R.U.S.E. is
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theres already a lot of hentai of it
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for R.U.S.E.?
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maybe but i was talking about bayonetta
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It's weird to know people up to date on video game-based hentai.
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Psh, forget Wyvlane, let's not forget which guest was the only person to get FF7/OoT correct (and who might take Cloud to win this one just for th hell of it)!!
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From: HaRRicH | Posted: 12/19/2009 2:33:53 AM | #318
It's weird to know people up to date on video game-based hentai.

Don't remind me. Knowing people like this on a gaming forum is to be expected, but some of my closest friends keep up with that junk.

Me: (Half-kidding) "How about you watch porn with real women, and not cartoons. Or I dunno, go out and talk to real girls? Maybe you'll stop being single and actually learn what you're doing in bed before I start collecting SS."

Them: (And may God take me now if I'm making this up) "But porn isn't normal."

This was yesterday. According to hentai addicts, porn is not normal but cartoons are. Awesome.
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From: HaRRicH | #318
It's weird to know people up to date on video game-based hentai.

you'd probably be surprised at the amount of lightning hentai back in 2006
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Hey Ulti, why don't you root for the patriots?
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Haha, whoa. I'll stay away from judging as best as I can, but that's an unusual community...!
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well GoW is in first for today's poll, more interestingly Bayonetta is showing signs that her game may be picking up some steam, Heavy Rain doing really well too considering it does not scream casual at all and WKC is kinda disappointing here.
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I assumed Dante's Inferno was a Devil May Cry spinoff.

"oh well"
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Shows what I know.

From: HaRRicH | #311
I'd support Wylvane, actually, assuming you don't suicide mid-way.

I've got a spare account this year just in case.

Gotta give credit to the people who claimed Bayonetta = Dante.
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Not Wylvane

N9 died the day L-Block beat Link, Cloud, and Snake in the same poll.
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wtf is "R.U.S.E."
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Disagreed!


Speaking of which, we argued for awhile about whether four-ways could count as "truly" beating a Noble Niner since they weren't losing in the format we originally named them in: the one-on-one format. However, this format isn't the same either since matches are only half as long and we haven't seen how the trends will be affected yet. Not that there are many opportunities to see it happen this year anyway, but if Sonic ends up biting the dust early (or if Missingno/Zack pull some wilder shenanigans than I think is possible), are we going to agree that it's a loss to the Noble Nine?

I wand to say it depends on how bad the loss is...but there's little doubt Auron can beat Sonic one-on-one as of last year and L-Block ended up beating four Noble Niners handily despite being four-ways, yet most of us still consider it intact. Is anybody going to make excuses if somebody drops the ball this year?
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I don't think the Noble Nine has mattered in years. if Ganondorf beats Sonic I probably won't even realize it's anything noteworthy.
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No need for Dante's Inferno when God of War III is a couple months later. Game is shameless.

As badass as GOW3 may look, Dante's Inferno has all kinds of potential to capitalize on some amazing environments and monster designs if done right.
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I don't think the Noble Nine has mattered in years. if Ganondorf beats Sonic I probably won't even realize it's anything noteworthy.

I can get behind the theory that the Noble Nine isn't truly broken till one of them loses 1v1. Too many variables to consider in 4 Way Matches. Therefore, the N9 is still kind of relevant.
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Also, for what it's worth, Sonic's the only Noble Niner to lose to somebody outside of the Noble Nine both twice in the same year (Auron and Kirby) and in two contests in a row (2007 to L-Block, 2008 to Auron and Kirby). If Sonic fails this year for the third time in a row and in this format, honestly, he's gotta go.
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It's all about the prestige, tranny!
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prestige went away when they all got crushed by a tetris block!
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There went the contest's prestige, not (entirely) the Noble Nine's!
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I still retain that L-Block was the freshest and most hilarious thing to happen to the contest. Every joke entry since then however has failed to live up to that thing's path to glory.
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Then it got trounced by ? Block. ? Block is the strongest character ever conceived!
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Aww yeah who else is taking Sub-Zero to win two matches in a row??!

Come on guys!

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Strongest Character Ever: ? Block or Jay Solano?

In my mind, there's the Stupendous Six or whatever clever adjective you want to give, and then Crono, Mega Man, and Sonic are pretty much equal to Vincent, Squall, and Auron. Of course, there's still L-Block, but I doubt we'll ever see anything of that magnitude ever again, even if we find a joke character even stronger than L-Block (and I think Missingno does have potential to be stronger than L-Block, but I'm still giving him only a ~5% chance against Crono, and that's me being optimistic).
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Also, for what it's worth, Sonic's the only Noble Niner to lose to somebody outside of the Noble Nine both twice in the same year (Auron and Kirby) and in two contests in a row (2007 to L-Block, 2008 to Auron and Kirby). If Sonic fails this year for the third time in a row and in this format, honestly, he's gotta go.

Gotto go? Then the whole Noble Nine thing disappear. You can't just remove one character. If you remove Sonic you have to remove Crono as well since Sonic won over Crono, and Crono have won over Mario, Snake and Mega Man so they also have to go. Mario hae won over Cloud so he also have to go, and Cloud have won over Sephiroth and Link so they also have to go.

Then all we have left is Jay Solano > everyone else since they would've lost to Link. N-Gage power!
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Why don't we just have whoever (if it ever happens) defeats a Noble Niner 1v1 under circumstances we all agree were fair replace that member in our coveted stable?
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Who did best against Link, 2003 Cloud, L-Block, or Jay Solano?

I think ? Block is the only one that can legitimately be considered the strongest character ever, since it beat L-Block a day after it beat ****ing Link. Probably a good thing we'll probably never see it in another contest then, since people will start complaining, "Aw man, ? Block wins the contest every year! I hope Bacon takes him out so we can finally see Weighted Companion Cube win a contest!"

I don't know where I'm going with this.
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Not Wylvane

I guess I didn't insinuate well that Sonic (or any other member) failing to defend the Noble Nine would mean the end of the Noble Nine's reign. I have no interest in finding new members to replace them, I just want to see how long these nine guys can really hold on between their strengths and bracket-luck since 2002. They haven't had a chance to fairly lose their status in over three years despite some close and controversial losses, so let's see what they got nowadays.

Another fun-fact about Sonic: he lost to two characters outside of the Noble Nine in GameSpot's contest too...Bub & Bob. Completely unfair to mention for numerous reasons? You betcha', but it's true (and I still think MC could have beaten him too).
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I've also got a good question: outside of the day-half of Solid ****/Bowser, have we ever seen a Noble Niner lose half of a poll to a non-Noble Niner in a one-on-one setting? I know we've never seen a Noble Niner behind half-way through the poll until four-ways hit and I think Bowser was the only one who had taken advantage of the other half.
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I don't think so. Ryu and Tifa came the closest, but I'm pretty sure neither were ahead at noon.
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Yeah, Tifa was competitive from 1-7 AM and 8-12 PM, while Ryu was doing well from 3-6 AM and 10 PM to 3 AM.
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Cool then, guess Bowser has himself a unique position in contest-history where he could (not would) have ended the Noble Nine in this format back then. What a set of circumstances that would have taken though: Solid **** in the day-time after the Villain Contest? That's as favorable as it gets.


I've heard Fawful/GlaDOS be mentioned as a close match but haven't seen much discussion for it. I get that GlaDOS is weaksauce, but I don't know if I'd take Fawful to break 42% on Falco last year (GlaDOS got 42.72%). I get that Falco looked a lot worse in R2 compared to Vincent than R1, but that doesn't matter so much as where Fawful stands to Falco. Falco is the "cool guy" in the Star Fox series and top-tier in SSBM and SSBB. Fawful is a rival/villain from the three M&L-games...

...which brings me to another point: have we ever seen much strength come from a handheld-only character? Phoenix Wright is the strongest one I can think of, and he has a series named after him and a popular fad. Miles does poorly while Godot didn't do well in the vote-in, Agent J sucked, Isaac isn't much while we haven't seen Felix since 2003, and most of the Pokemon we've seen are associated with the SSB-series or jokes. We know most handheld-games can't compete with console-games (settle down, RBY-fans) and their track records in the GotY-polls aren't very good either, so there is a lot of reason to be skeptical of Fawful here.

Heck, have any Mario RPGs done much here besides SMRPG? The most Paper Mario can say is it arguably kept MP from advancing earlier this year, but MP was a flop in the contest anyway. PM:TTYD was doubled by MP2:E in the Gamecube-GotY and SPM was tripled by MP3:C in the Wii-GotY (which was quadrupled by SMG before it fell off). M&L:SS barely beat GS:TLA in a GBA-GotY (where FFTA doubled everything) and M&LPiT could only beat PW:AA in a DS-GotY (when MK:DS impressed in 2005). Even then, though we know SMRPG is respected here, we've seen Geno fail to impress several times, and he's playable!

Again, I get GlaDOS isn't strong, but she did well enough against Falco and I do believe in GameFAQs getting a little Vlave-influence this year thanks to Gordon. Whether or not that's passed around to Valve in general or kept to himself, well, he'll probably get most of however much it is, but I recall there was a rally for Spy in the vote-in polls and Portal is part of the Half-Life universe so that's a minimal x-factor I'll put in her corner as well. I don't see Fawful having any kind of x-factor other than "it's Nintendo!"...and that's not enough when I don't see a reason for him to make this a close match in the first place.
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there is no way that Bowser would have ended the Noble Nine in a 12 hour format. there are going to be more votes cast from the night during the daytime. we aren't going to have the exact same voting patterns, or even anything similar. I would expect the first two weeks to kind of baffle us until we can track down the trends.

which reminds me that someone needs to track down creative so we have said data! (though maybe it's better not to have it -- you know, for excitement's sake)
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Of course the trends will be different, I'm not arguing otherwise (and still think Solid would have won)...but that would have made it closer match unless we'll be taking the half-day polls completely at face value.
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