GameFAQs Contests

Didn't know there were music game fans on the board. I actually like music games, though I don't own any. Maybe I should get Guitar Hero 2 once I get my PS2 sometime? Nah, save up for Rock Band 2 when I own a PS3, that's probably the better idea, right?

Trying to construct GameFAQs' Best Games of the Decade:

1) Super Smash Bros. Brawl
2) Super Smash Bros. Melee
3) The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
4) Final Fantasy X
5) Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
6) Kingdom Hearts
7) Resident Evil 4
8) Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
9) Kingdom Hearts 2
10) Pokemon Gold/Silver
11) Final Fantasy IX
12) Half-Life 2
13) The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
14) Fallout 3
15) World of Warcraft

Okay, after #15 I couldn't quite think of what else, and even then the order here may be a bit fuzzy.

Well, the lists are out in force today.....
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Dr_Football had the best 127-hit combo on B8. I don't know if my health bar will ever recover.
Calintares made tons of geolocation x-stats!

From: LeonhartFour | #049
Oh, you've got LMS on your ignore list, huh?

As well he should if he's going to start posting useless lists from magazines no one cares about or asked for. A normal functioning person stops doing something if 50+ people yell at him about it.
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There's no point in hiding!

We should be getting back to actual contest discussion though, and not some talk about which game is overrated or not, followed by me spitting out tons of random lists at you. Of course, it's quite clear now that most GameFAQs users don't really care for the truly next-gen stuff, but whatever. I had some questions to ask:

1) How do you nominate characters? And what priority should I give to nominating characters? FYI I would personally prefer nominating characters who got screwed over in this contest (e.g. Vincent).

2) Ngamer64 was talking about rumors of a games contest coming soon, except using the new format (128 1vs1). What is the general favorite for contest champion in such a situation? I'm assuming it's Pokemon RBY, but I'd personally just back Brawl...I'd probably pick Mario 64 over Melee now (if only because of personal favorites...plus Melee apparently got hammered almost as badly by Ocarina's SFF despite having less reason to do so).

The favorite would naturally be Ocarina of Time, the defending champion.
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Dr. Football was not stopped by any of us, and won the Guru Contest.

Oh yeah, I forgot to add:

128 1vs1 12-hour poll contest, with Ocarina of Time and Final Fantasy VII removed into a winner's bracket.

Oh yeah, Red Sox is in the same Fantasy draft team as me, he was a fan of pokemon trainer Red, so i can get on board with this.
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Dr_Football wrecked my bracket with his awesome goals.

Tell me if you actually want to see any of these characters return next year.

Banjo
Claptrap
Geno
Guybrush Threepwood
Jak
Marcus Fenix
Neku Sakuraba
Niko Bellic
Prinny
Soap MacTavish
Thrall
Travis Touchdown
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Not Wylvane
Dr Football Factor'd.

I want to see Neku just from a personal fan perspective, but we don't really need to see any of them ever again, no.
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Dr_Football is the best Guru winner ever created.

Fenix afer Gears 3 MAYBE, but the rest aren't up to scratch.
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Dr_Football wrecked my bracket with his awesome goals.

Geno and Marcus Fenix are the only ones from that list that I think deserve to return.

...and Claptrap, but that's just personal bias.

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I didn't even enter the Guru, and yet Dr_Football is in my signature.
Go figure!

Gears 3 has been hinted by CliffyB to come out April 2011. I was hoping for this November to truly confirm 2010 as the best year in gaming ever, but that's the way its gotta be.

Although Marcus Fenix is clearly inferior to the awesomeness of Cole Train.
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The day Dr. Footballl blessed us with his presence was the greatest day of our lives
But for him, it was Tuesday

Cole from inFamous?
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Dr_Football wrecked my bracket with his awesome goals.

From: voltch | #063
Cole from inFamous?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTAVTkQx72w
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The day Dr. Footballl blessed us with his presence was the greatest day of our lives
But for him, it was Tuesday

Good arguments for Fenix. Dunno if Gears 3 is going to be as big as a lot of other games, but it's worth giving him another shot.
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Not Wylvane
Dr Football Factor'd.

From: Not_Wylvane | #058
Tell me if you actually want to see any of these characters return next year.

Guybrush Threepwood
Marcus Fenix
Thrall

Only ones who deserve to come back.
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1) Super Smash Bros. Brawl
2) Super Smash Bros. Melee
3) The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
4) Final Fantasy X
5) Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
6) Kingdom Hearts
7) Resident Evil 4
8) Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
9) Kingdom Hearts 2
10) Pokemon Gold/Silver
11) Final Fantasy IX
12) Half-Life 2
13) The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
14) Fallout 3
15) World of Warcraf

Well it is not as bad as I first thought...
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GameFaqs is NOT the place to go for relationship advice.Nobody here gets any action unless it is their right or left hand.Including me.~Dawn and Dusk~

LMS wasn't that bad during the contest, even if he is a little too list-happy today. Then again, he's still pretty young. I like the guy.

I'll post the last list tomorrow. So far it sounds like I did a good job predicting who should stay and go in the next bracket since there's been nobody against my rankings otherwise besides keeping Marcus Fenix around for a potential Gears 3 boost.

The next list is gonna be a bit tricky to decide which characters stay and go, so good to get the easy stuff out of the way at least!
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Not Wylvane
Dr Football Factor'd.

Well I went to sleep. I'm back, I guess.

Fact or Fiction:

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning would be weaker than any game that made the bottom quarter of the games contest's bracket.

We should've seen StarCraft's bomb in the games contest coming from a mile away, because not only was it stuck behind the overrated half division in '04 but going by lists, its critical acclaim was falling like a rock (same true for Metroid Prime and slightly true for Half-Life. Though those same lists also had a resurgence of GTA games...).

Diddy Kong should be considered a Western character because he originates from a game whose development was spearheaded by British guys.

warhammer online would give prince of persia a good match imo
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Albion Hero is the Cream of Dr_Football fanboyism

I was talking only about the bottom quarter of the bracket. And surely it wouldn't be SO weak...maybe on Silent Hill 2's level or something?

To be fair, I don't see any non-WoW MMORPG having any strength here, not even FF11 or Everquest.
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Not Wylvane
Dr Football Factor'd.

One more thing to say:

If you hate the whole "artsy action adventures" trend, guess which game started it.

Hint: Said game is widely called the best game ever (in fact winning this site's contest), and the trend of starting "artsy action adventures" is one of the reasons why.

Online, I downloaded it to my system 13.69% 332
Online, I had a boxed game shipped to me 15.38% 373
At a game store (GameSpot) 43.59% 1057
At an electronics store (Best Buy) 10.76% 261
At a department store (Wal-Mart) 9.81% 238
Other 6.76% 164
TOTAL VOTES 2425

LOL, SBAllen misspelled "GameStop". Doesn't seem to be hurting GameStop's performance here based on this:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3126

GameStop is doing a little worse this time, mostly at the expense of downloadable games gaining more popularity and buying online is doing better. GameStop should die overnight.


Also, I noticed this:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3861&region=EUR
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3861&region=ASI
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3861&region=OCE

LOL, I wonder if GameStop stores exist in some countries in Europe, Asia, and Oceania. If GameStop doesn't exist outside of North America, it could be that the GameSpot misspelling is helping out GameStop with doing better in those regions.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ!

operates 6,200 retail stores throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Austria, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, Portugal, and in Sweden

The GameStop page on Wikipedia apparently says that. So GameStop might not die as badly overnight as I might be expecting of it.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ!

I sure hope most people didn't buy FF13 at Gamestop. Pretty much every major B&M store as well as Amazon had gift cards for it in its first week!
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Not Wylvane
Dr Football Factor'd.

It would be funny to see MGS4 triple Warhammer Online, just to go and say "lol Gamespy!"

Because on their 10 best games of 2008 feature, MGS4 was 9th and Warhammer Online was 2nd (and SSBB didn't even make it, and Fallout 3 was #1).

Speaking of which, has anybody here played Warhammer Online?

From: Not_Wylvane | #073
To be fair, I don't see any non-WoW MMORPG having any strength here, not even FF11 or Everquest.

FF11 might have a bit of strength due to the brand votes, but thats about it.
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http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3861&region=EUR

And man, it must be rough being a gamer in Europe if the main way they get games is ordering online. I'd hate to not have a game store I can just go to pick up games.
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Albion Hero is the Cream of Dr_Football fanboyism

And I'm trying to move there soon, huh? Meaning that...no, surely Europe is a better place for video gaming than India is, right? Even then, I can just ask batches of friends, right?

From: BlAcK TuRtLe | #067
Wait, so there are people who don't have LMS ignored? He is one of the lucky few to grace my ignore list, for his asperger-inspired, contentless posts.

You're clearly only influenced by the New England Journal of Medicine's recent Aspergers study. It's something like the #2 most common childhood mental disorder behind ADD now and tending upward fast.

ADD vs Aspergers, 12 hour day match, who wins?
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"As always Ulti, I bow to thou wisdom." -Meeks54

ADD vs Aspergers, 12 hour day match, who wins?

Probably ADD. It appears to be more common than Aspergers.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ!

Okay, so the consensus is that anti-voted characters do worse in 128 1vs1 12-hour polls contests, which is funny considering how they benefit from 4-ways. Meaning that Sephiroth is likely still stronger than Snake and that Snake was just bandwagoned, plus that MASTER CHIEF IS NOW A LOW MIDCARDER AT BEST!!!

You just can't ignore anti-votes, they're a part of the character's strength.
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Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru.

Aspergers is more popular to have, though. You now see kids all over the internet claim to have Aspergers as an excuse for having ****ty social lives rather than taking the blame for their poor personalities, their lack of effort, or whatever the hell is really at fault. I'd probably still take ADD because of the casuals, but I wouldn't be surprised if Aspergers gave it a good fight. At the very least, I expect it to dominate the board vote!

And I buy most of my games online these days. Let's face it, online just has better deals. Even though Amazon's video game Gold Box deals usually suck ass, their regular prices are usually great, they have good pre-order bonuses for big games ($20 certificate for video games for pre-ordering Galaxy 2, aw yeah), and they're pretty quick if you make use of Prime trials (though $90/year for regular Prime is a bit extreme). It's a shame my Prime trial is about to run out.

Anyway, for the last mock bracket list, I'm keeping Fenix and ditching the rest. Here's the last group, and the most iffy of the bunch. Tell me which you want to see return and which you want to get booted.

Arthas Menethil
Balthier Bunansa
Captain John Price
Cid Highwind
Crash Bandicoot
Darth Revan
Donkey Kong
Ezio Auditore da Firenze
Falco Lombardi
Heavy
Isaac
Jecht
Ken Masters
Kratos Aurion
Lloyd Irving
Magus
Miles Edgeworth
Nathan Drake
Ness
Prince of Persia
Proto Man
Ramza Beoulve
Ratchet
Ridley
Roxas
Shadow the Hedgehog
Simon Belmont
Spy
Zidane Tribal
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Not Wylvane
Dr Football Factor'd.

If I could cut the list in half, here's the half I'd want to keep the most:

Arthas Menethil
Captain John Price
Crash Bandicoot
Darth Revan
Donkey Kong
Ezio Auditore da Firenze
Jecht
Kratos Aurion
Nathan Drake
Proto Man
Ridley
Shadow the Hedgehog
Spy
Zidane Tribal
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Dr_Football had the best 127-hit combo on B8. I don't know if my health bar will ever recover.
Calintares made tons of geolocation x-stats!

As awful as Prince looked this contest, he's got a new high-profile Sands of Time trilogy game coming out, as well as the blockbuster movie hitting this summer. Give the guy a Sands of Time picture once, and I bet he can really make a go of things.
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Tell me which you want to see return and which you want to get booted.

A lot of those depend on the situation (how many from the series are already in, how much room is left). Personally I would rather build a list of 200+ characters then start eliminating from there.
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Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats
Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru.

Juggling 200+ names at once would be a pain, though I'd probably just divide them based on company and debate then, like take all the possible Nintendo characters and argue who should be in the bracket, then all the Square-Enix characters, and so on.

But I like this idea of just splitting up the bracket, remove the stinkers, and then decide who to plug in.
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Not Wylvane
Dr Football Factor'd.

From: Not_Wylvane | #086
And I buy most of my games online these days. Let's face it, online just has better deals. Even though Amazon's video game Gold Box deals usually suck ass, their regular prices are usually great, they have good pre-order bonuses for big games ($20 certificate for video games for pre-ordering Galaxy 2, aw yeah), and they're pretty quick if you make use of Prime trials (though $90/year for regular Prime is a bit extreme). It's a shame my Prime trial is about to run out.

I don't buy online due to being paranoid. I've ordered 2 games online in my life, 1 from ebay, and 1 from an import store. Neither I ever got. So I know stuff like Amazon is more secure, but I've been burned so I'm scared of doing it again.
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Albion Hero is the Cream of Dr_Football fanboyism

I'd much rather buy from Amazon than the pawn shop that Gamestop has become.

Amusingly enough, the first game I tried to buy online was Chrono Trigger from eBay circa 1998 and I never got it, but that's pretty much the only bad experience I've ever had with online buying.
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Mustache...and Football...

I've never had a problem buying games online; Amazon, eBay, and Steam have treated me fine in the past.

Knocking on wood though.
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Dr_Football had the best 127-hit combo on B8. I don't know if my health bar will ever recover.
Calintares made tons of geolocation x-stats!

Well I've bought stuff on Steam, but thats because you get it instantly... I don't feel safe about receiving it in the mail, because once you order from them, they really don't have any obligation to deliver it to you. Its an easy way to steal money from people
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Albion Hero is the Cream of Dr_Football fanboyism

I've bought a load of games online, especially older ones. Never had any problems. Then again, I'm a European!

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Currently Playing: Final Fantasy XIII
You're pretty good, Dr_Football.

gamestop is non-existent over here, you'd think they'd expand abroad but over here GAME has got to be the biggest retail game store followed by gamestation.
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Dr_Football wrecked my bracket with his awesome goals.

I buy online games that have good prices.For used games I go to my local store.
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GameFaqs is NOT the place to go for relationship advice.Nobody here gets any action unless it is their right or left hand.Including me.~Dawn and Dusk~

I bought Shadow Hearts 1 and 2 online, and I got my DS online (thanks to my prize money for the 10th Anniversary Contest). No problems for me.
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"The great GF...Dr_Football."
"...GF? I...? Using my powers...It is you humans...I fear..."

I only buy in-store these days when I absolutely must have the game on day one or if there's a neat pre-order bonus. Buying from Amazon always seems cheaper, and I've never had a problem with a game not arriving and/or working properly.
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Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world!

In the UK the group continues to trade on the high street as both GAME and Gamestation. The company plans to maintain and grow Gamestation as a separate brand[15], as its image is that of a store for "gamers".[16].

From wiki. GAME = Gamestation. I've had a load of annoying experiences with them in the past, the worst being when I bought a used Wii and they hadn't taken the parental lock off of it. They thought it was me who was making some mistake so I had to argue for ages till they eventually apologised. The Wii works fine now, at least. I purchase from a local independent store when I buy RL... I know the people there fairly well (they're a bit Zelda mad; they have a huge metal model of Link in the front window >.>).

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Currently Playing: Final Fantasy XIII
You're pretty good, Dr_Football.