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I can't say I know anyone who is a Kirby fan, but I don't do Smash Bros. so who knows.

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wheresoever you go, go with all your heart

Yoshi is a kickass dinosaur who turns enemise into ammo, is awesome in Mario Kart and the sports games, and is the star of the best game ever. He should be more popular!
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Time to wander around
Aimlessly

Hmm... The JENOVA divsion is just... It's just plain awful. The only thing that even seems remotely interesting in that division is a couple of fodder vs. fodder matches.
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"Here I go! Divine judgment for an evil soul! Sacred Penance! Rest in peace." - Estellise Sidos Heurassein, Tales of Vesperia

Ahh, crap, I forgot Crono vs. Missingno.
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"Here I go! Divine judgment for an evil soul! Sacred Penance! Rest in peace." - Estellise Sidos Heurassein, Tales of Vesperia

Awful, and I'll still care more about it than any other division. Crono...........
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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....

Mega Man did in 2002. In 1st and 2nd round, I think it was the only time he was the strongest character in the contests lol.
PSN: Poolwizard1986

The Jenova division has three pretty intriguing matches in a row: Crono and Missingno, Soap MacTavish and Big Daddy, Ness and Geno..
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From: YoboD | #052
Yoshi is a kickass dinosaur who turns enemise into ammo, is awesome in Mario Kart and the sports games, and is the star of the best game ever. He should be more popular!

Hey hey hey.

Yoshi fanning is my job. Lay off.
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Guru winnah Explicit Content, that's quis.

Yoshi was awesome before Yoshi Story came out and rammed him in the ass
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Ah, you know it's funny, these people, they go to sleep. They think everything's fine, everything's good... They wake up the next day and they're on fire.

Man if somehow Geno > Ness which is unlikely since Geno has no recent games. Ill have a good chance to be near top of leaderboard.
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PSN: Poolwizard1986

So who takes Prince of Persia to win over Thrall?

SAMUS > LINK GUYS
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

Though we were all caught off guard by Kefka impressing against Arthas, I can't help but remain suspicious of him. And what of Terra, whose sole win was in the lol female bracket?
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"Here I go! Divine judgment for an evil soul! Sacred Penance! Rest in peace." - Estellise Sidos Heurassein, Tales of Vesperia

Kefka was a surprise? He was the favorite?
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PSN: Poolwizard1986

Kefka was a surprise? He was the favorite?

I'd say it's more along the lines of how much he got on Arthas. I expected it to be closer than it actually was.
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"Here I go! Divine judgment for an evil soul! Sacred Penance! Rest in peace." - Estellise Sidos Heurassein, Tales of Vesperia

Kefka was the favorite with brackets outside the board. Not that many people on Board 8 expected Kefka to win.
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"Those whose memories fade seek to carve them in their hearts..."
"All dreams are but another reality. Never forget..."

From: The n00b Avenger | #061
So who takes Prince of Persia to win over Thrall?

SAMUS > LINK GUYS

I was about to ask this. I don't think even cel shaded beach bum Prince loses to Thrall (after Arthas, does anyone really want to argue for Thrall?), so it does hint at Link getting anti-voted. It's very, VERY hard to believe that Thrall can avoid the quadrupling otherwise.
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Link getting anti-voted?

Snake to finish what he started last year!

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KrahenProphet lived up to his name.

Cloud's got this.
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If you're seeing this sig, I'm not on my computer!

Not with that FF7 stigma that never goes away he doesn't!

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KrahenProphet lived up to his name.

But DISSIDIA BOOST!
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If you're seeing this sig, I'm not on my computer!

Zidane's got this.

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KrahenProphet lived up to his name.

The first and last match of every contest is routinely screwy.
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"B8 really needs to get over its fascination-yet-claim-they-don't-care-at-all relationship with Ulti." -KamikazePotato

And Samus can jump almost as high as Frog himself.

Samus would be lucky if she could kill Metroids as good as Frog!


Well, she broke 46% on him last year. Doubt she can make up the remaining distance though, and it's possible Link affected things in that match (although it's very unusual for the bottom character in a Triple SFF ladder to stand up well like Samus did.....usually the SFF is magnified and the character at the bottom of Triple SFF gets annhilated).

Indeed, this is an excellent point. The year of that last match was a very flukish year for Mario, who was stronger than her when he'd never been before. That was probably the only year he ever thrashes her outright like that.

Doubtful anyone would take her to win in the future, but Samus probably wins in 2k3 at least, when Mario was rather pitiful.
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The first and last match of every contest is routinely screwy.

Not to mention 50% of the matches in-between...
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That's one hell of a power hour. She's already down 2% from it
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

I would never vote for Samus over Mario, not in a million years. Samus is cooler, but Mario has the better games and would easily beat her in an actual fight between the too. Plus if Samus were a Square character she would be going Squall's way by now.

Frankly beating Snake and SFFd Sephiroth (while being SFFd!) was stupid enough. Make sure that cybernetic woman never does anything like that again. (why do I feel bad junking Samus like this?)

Oh hey, good to see Samus doing well.

SMAUS!!1!
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And then the car wash cost five dollars.
Pokemon Platinum: 1719 9497 5082

Match XXXIV: (8) Niko Bellic vs. (9) Jill Valentine

Information

Name: Niko Bellic
Game/Series: Grand Theft Auto IV
Previous Contest: 2008
Performance: 3rd in round 1

Name: Jill Valentine
Game/Series: Resident Evil
Previous Contest: 2008
Performance: 4th in round 2

Analysis

The amount of discussion this match got was miniscule. Even though people thought the match would be close it seems that everyone sided with the same person. Jill Valentine is the very safe bet in this match though at the same time people wouldn’t be shocked if Niko pulled off the upset. Now that Resident Evil 5 is out I feel that Jill is a clear step above him.

Had the match occurred last year Niko may have had a chance. Since then the release of Resident Evil 5 has come which will definitely give her a boost. Niko was only able to barely defeat Kefka while Jill somehow defeated a MGS4 Ocelot after losing to him in the previous contest. Resident Evil 5 may have not lived up to its hype, but there is still quite a large fanbase for it.

Grand Theft Auto IV may be a bit older now, but by the time Niko’s first match came the game had already gone through its forgotten stage where most people weren’t treating it as the Holy Grail. Since then The Lost and Damned has been released and while Niko only makes a couple of appearances the entire story is based on his actions from Grand Theft Auto IV. The boost may not be very large, but it may keep any drop that he may have since 2008 down to a minimum.

Looking at the guru 93% of the brackets have Jill winning, which is pretty bold considering a large portion of the people on the board think that she’ll win with less than 55%. Like I said Jill is the safe bet, but I also said the same thing in her first meeting with Ocelot which burned 75% of the board. I just don’t see Jill losing this match without looking like a choker.

charmander6000’s Bracket: Jill Valentine > Niko Bellic

charmander6000’s Prediction: Jill wins, 55.89% - 44.11%

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Board 8 BOP: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB8%20BOP.xls
Character Battle VIII - 24/32 - Today's Winners: Samus and Jill Valentine

Next thing you know, we'll find out that GTA is in the Liquid Snake/Kefka/Duke Nukem mold of impressing when there are no expectations laid on and disappointing when there are expectations. I'm voting for Jill mostly because she looks quite hot in that pic (and yes, I did mean "that" kind of hot).

Samus is cooler, but Mario has the better games and would easily beat her in an actual fight between the too.

what
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"Eet's game time..."

Samus will never beat Mario on this site.
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Nominate Red XIII for the Character Battle VII!
He's the Lion with a fire tail from Final Fantasy VII.

I actually got everything in DK64 twice. Not the best game, but still decent for a platformer.

I voted for Mario in 2005 despite having Samus > Mario, and I'll vote for him today. Mario's such a badass character, no matter what **** you throw at him he keeps charging through, never giving up, always going through hell to rescue Peach or save the Mushroom Kingdom or whatever the hell he's doing simply because he's a nice guy. And even when he's not saving the Mushroom Kingdom, he's playing a variety of sports, practicing medicine, or throwing some crazy-ass parties. I'd vote for Mario over anyone on this site bar Luigi. To me, he's just as awesome today as he was when I first played Super Mario Bros.

Kirby has a very simply-yet-appealing design. His games may not be strong here, but you could say the same thing about Mega Man. Even in the Kirby games, Kirby is portrayed as kind and always cheerful, matching his happy-go-lucky exterior, which masks how deadly he can be. Plus he can absorb enemies' powers, which gives him the ability to do some awesome stuff. He's also made by HAL, who does Smash Bros, which means they give special treatment to Kirby at times. Plus Kirby's one of, if not the main character of Subspace Emissary, and his series has a large presence in Brawl.

A shame Samus won't be breaking 80% this year, though this is still a fantastic performance for her. She's still as strong as ever!
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Not Wylvane

Samus has always been bad in the vote total department, she may even miss 50k.
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Character Battle VIII - 24/32 - Today's Winners: Samus and Jill Valentine

Look, I'd vote for 5 Mario games over any Metroid title. And I'd vote for 2 MGS titles over any Metroid game, too. And I'd only vote for Ocarina of Time, Super Mario 64, and Super Mario World over Final Fantasy VII at this point.

Varia Division: Round 1 - Match 34 – (8) Niko Bellic vs. (9) Jill Valentine

Moltar’s Analysis

Niko
This punk…I know better this time around.

Jill
I’d give her a Jill sandwich if you know what I….wait what

This match could have been a good trap match back in 2008. We had the untested, fresh off of GTA4 character, Niko, and the “Hey I lost to Ocelot last year” character, Jill. However, 2008 not only showed that Niko sucks, but also that Jill still has fight left in her. While Niko was out in R1 thanks to Duke, Jill beat Ocelot in the rematch to move on to Round 2.

Since then, GTA4 has faded away, and RE is looking really good (at least Wesker did). There should be no question about this match today. Jill’s easily got this.

Moltar’s Bracket: Jill > Niko

Moltar’s Prediction: Niko: 40% - Jill: 60%



Lopen’s Analysis

Well Niko looked bad last year, till we saw Kefka, now he looks good. That is, until we saw Duke, now he looks bad... maybe? Who knows. I'm still liking Jill to take this one-- more reasons for Kefka to boost (much better pic, Dissidia 4REAL) from last year, and Duke "got blown out by Charizard" Nukem can only be so strong unless you want Charizard to go beat up NNers.

Jill sportin her crack addict picture might hurt her, but I don't think it makes a huge difference. Not enough for Niko to win or even come all that close. Helps that Wesker looked really good and I've heard "certain somethings" as it relates to Jill Valentine and the franchise, as well.

Lopen's prediction:
Jill with 56.78%



Transience’s Analysis

Today's match probably deserves more talk than it's gotten. Jill has been stronger historically, but Niko has had two new episodes of DLC this year, has the better picture and is better during the daytime.

But am I going to pick Niko? Hell no. Like Kefka, I won't burn myself on something GTA4-related until it gives me a damn good reason to. Niko lost to Duke Nukem and we all saw how that went the other day. He also lost to Marth.

I feel pretty good about this match after seeing Wesker give Ken all he could handle. Yeah, Wesker is front and center in RE5 while Jill is.. well, not exactly the Jill of old. Street Fighter is probably going to have a down year, too. Still, that's more than I can say about GTA lately. I don't think Tommy Vercetti even made the bracket (I'd have to check, but I don't recall hearing his name), and GTA sucked it up in the Game Contest. So yeah, Jill walks pretty easily.

transience's prediction: Jill Valentine with 59.92%



Ngamer’s Analysis

Fantastical writeup coming soon!

Ngamer Says: Jill > Niko, 57.93%



Kleenex’s Analysis

Yikes. Jill is that group with Ocelot and Kefka - the characters who alter their performances wildly from year to year just to mess with brackets. Normally, this would make me wary her picking her here, but after pondering it a bit, I think she takes this pretty easily. Niko didn't exactly impress last year, no really cares about GTA4 anymore, and Jill's got a fancy new RE5 release coming out in a month.

I have a hard time trusting either of these characters, but I just can't help but feel that no one actually cares about Niko Bellic, and I don't think I'm wrong there. Both these guys burned me last year, hence my distrust, but I'm siding with Jill just because she seems to have more fans. She'll probably go and lose by 27 votes or whatever it is, but hey, what can ya do?


Bracket: Jill
Favorites: Jill
Prediction: Jill with 57.31%

Red Sox’s Analysis

Kratos failing against Tails today suddenly made this match a lot more interesting. Jill only did about 1% better on Kratos last year than Tails is doing today. Nonetheless, Niko is pretty weak, barely finishing ahead of Kefka last year. He’s also a character I would expect to be considerably weaker this year than last, when he was fresh off of his game. GTAIV was somewhat big then, now it seems to be mostly forgotten.

Stats-wise, this match is projected to be fairly close, but because I’m expecting Niko to be weaker this year, I think Jill will probably take it handily. There’s also a chance that Kratos fell since 2008, and Jill has always had some strength, especially recently as Resident Evil has looked very good the past couple of years.

Prediction: Jill with 57.00%
Upset Potential: 15%
Upper Bound: Jill with 65%
Lower Bound: Niko with 52%



Guest’s Analysis - Luis_Sera89

Jill is always good value in GameFAQs contests. When she's not losing by identical values in two ridiculously close matches, she's inexplicably usurping Ocelot in a match she lost only 12 months previously for seemingly no reason. And now here she is in 2010, in an 8/9 match-up against an opponent of debateably similar strength. Fun times await?

Possibly not. In his one appearance to date, Niko was disapointingly underwhelming. Never really putting up a fight in a first round 4-way he easily lost to Marth and Duke, finishing only marginally ahead of Kefka. The Kefka that sucked like anything in any match prior to this year that is. The fact that GTAIV didn't exactly start any fires in the following games contest shows that he probably just isn't all that popular. Cetainly less so than Vercetti back in his heyday, and comparable with CJ. He could have an interesting match with Ness.

Jill is somewhat above that level though, and I see her having her first somewhat comfortable match since... well, Sheena? There are a number of factors against her - it's a day match, which RE characters traditionally aren't thrilled with, and she doesn't have her more recognisable RE1 or 3 artwork (not that I'm complaining, I probably prefer her stuff from the Russia arc of Umbrella Chronicles), but then I just think "Good Lord, Wesker", and can't help but believe that RE as a series is continuing it's little upswing in fortunes on the site as a whole. I'm not expecting Jill to recieve as much of a boost from RE5 as Chris and certainly Wesker have and will get, but it should be enough to at least achieve status quo and pick up a solid win. I just don't have much faith in Niko to pull off much of anything.

The winner here gets the right of being fed to Samus, who is slaughtering the Prince as I speak, but assuming Jill wins as expected, it should at least give us a bearing as to her strength after a few dodgy years. There doesn't look to be any real SFF along her/Samus' path.

Jill with 55.7%



Crew Consensus: Jill takes Niko down to Raccoon City

Crew curse, don't strike now, PLEEEEAAAASE!
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Niko > Jill confirmed.
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Not Wylvane

After CJ screwed me over by flopping to NESS, I can't trust GTA protagonists not named Tommy Vercetti anymore.

Strange picture for Jill though. Its the the trademark RE1 style or the sexy RE3 one :/
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Yeah, you lost your virginity. Just like a homeless guy staring into the window of an office building means he got a job.- Colonel Alloy

I still can't shake the feeling that Jill's going to pull an Ocelot and lose a match she has no reason to lose.
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"The great GF...Bahamut."
"...GF? I...? Using my powers...It is you humans...I fear..."

I do hope Jill doesn't lose this one.
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"Fondly we think we honour merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men."- Alexander Pope

yeah whoever picked that Jill picture is an ass.

You will soon laugh at yourselves for doubting the RE5 BOOSTED Jill Valentine!
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Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world!

Also, I thought I'd let you all know, I failed at my PoP speedrun.



PRINCE OF PERSIA SPOILARS





I've got 2 Bosses, 2 Ferile Grounds and Ahriman left to beat, but I need to go out.






/SPOILARS

Augh.
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It's so easily doable as well!

Let's just get these next two matches out of the way so we can get to the good stuff!
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"But you have been given freedom. Freedom to be...outside."
"I am lightning...the rain transformed."

Heavy > Roxas BELIEVE

Roxas thinks he can outsmart me. Maybe.

Maybe.

I have yet to meet one that can outsmart bullet.
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Heavy's got my vote!

But yeah, I do want to get to those FFX battles coming up. The winner is pretty much guaranteed to be in the third round, so thats six points you'd lose by guessing both wrong(aka going with Wright and Tidus).
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Yeah, you lost your virginity. Just like a homeless guy staring into the window of an office building means he got a job.- Colonel Alloy

Samus with 96.31%.
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