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Seems like any Marvel/DC character is going to have a decent ASV, even with Canada dragging them down.
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Whoa, really nice poll here. This says good things about that All-Fictional character contest we all want, I think.
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Not really, Marvel and DC teaming up together is just barely defeating Final Fantasy.
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From: charmander6000 | Posted: 7/28/2010 4:53:42 PM | #053
Not really, Marvel and DC teaming up together is just barely defeating Final Fantasy.

To be fair, isn't Final Fantasy the series even more powerful than Link still? If so that means guys like Batman could hit the lower and middle rungs of the Noble Nine easily.
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Again, Marvel and DC together probably isn't that much different than they would individually. People who read comics tend to read both and like heroes from both factions.

Plus, trying to downplay the fact that it's beating FF is pretty silly.
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From: LeonhartFour | Posted: 7/28/2010 4:55:29 PM | #056
Again, Marvel and DC together probably isn't that much different than they would individually. People who read comics tend to read both and like heroes from both factions.

Plus, trying to downplay the fact that it's beating FF is pretty silly.

This. Comic geeks may argue that one publication sucks and another doesn't, but almost all of them read stuff from both.
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This is who would make a better fighting poll, Final Fantasy is in an obvious disadvantage, especially consider that both Marvel and DC have been in fighting game and a fighting game featuring both companies is something that fans want.

It's like people saying that Sonic is looking good relative to Cloud in that who do you think will be in SSBB poll.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=2762

I say it's more impressive that Final Fantasy is actually winning over things like Street Fighter/Mortal Kombat.
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*fighting game poll
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It's like people saying that Sonic is looking good relative to Cloud in that who do you think will be in SSBB poll.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=2762

And that poll proves that you can't take too much from this poll, other than that 25% of people at least would want a game full of comic book superheroes.

Which means we need a fictional characters contest!
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I'm just saying that I don't want to see this poll brought up in defense that the best from those companies would go toe for toe against the best from Final Fantasy. This poll means nothing

Also since when has Metroid/Castlevania have a rivalry?
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Amusing to see how it's almost only the U.S that gives any support to the comics. Just goes to show that the american comic book market is way different than anywhere else (sadly)

of course, the US is also the country that cares the least about JRPGs, so it's par for the course for FF and Tales to do worse there.
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Final Fantasy is weaker than Zelda (or at least was in 2006.....I doubt it's flipped since then, though I guess it's not out of the range of possibility). If FF and Zelda are stronger than Link, Marvel and DC should be stronger than their strongest characters too.
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I'm just saying that I don't want to see this poll brought up in defense that the best from those companies would go toe for toe against the best from Final Fantasy. This poll means nothing

Of course, it doesn't say anything about how Snake/Batman would go, but it just says that plenty of people are interested in non-gaming origin fictional characters, and they can possibly do well here.
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Also since when has Metroid/Castlevania have a rivalry?

since the term "metroidvania" was conied, and people started arguing about which is better: Super Metroid or Castlevania SOTN.

Such a crossover would never work though, since Metroid has way to few characters.
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the fact that only 24% of the site gives a damn about comics + losing to FF/Tales, which would be a horribad versus game if it was ever made doesn't give a ringing endorsement to comics here.

LOL Albion
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24% is even lower than people who play World of Warcraft

>_>
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24% is even lower than people who play World of Warcraft

spiderman would struggle with lloyd irving tbh

Huh, Final Fantasy vs. Tales is still ahead. Looks like Marvel vs. DC made up very little ground with the ASV. Well, it's not altogether surprising considering you'd think the comic book crowd is older than average on Gamefaqs, but FF and Tales have pretty bad day votes, so......

Behold the power of Link's ASV, Batman!
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Huh, Final Fantasy vs. Tales is still ahead. Looks like Marvel vs. DC made up very little ground with the ASV.

No ASV in July!
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Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast.

Woah, close match between "Final Fantasy vs. Tales" and "Marvel vs. DC". This one will come down to the wire here.
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LOL, Ask only has 1 vote at the freeze. We should get it into a contest. It would be weaker than Tanner.
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Wow. I knew Google would be dominating this poll, but I didn't think it'd be this much.

Which is fine with me, granted.
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Not Wylvane

It's doing an amazing 10% better than it already was five years ago despite the big marketing Bing and Yahoo are shelling out lately.

Don't mess with Google.
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It'll take a while before any marketing campaign takes people away from Google, really.
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Agreed, but Google's never really advertised that I know of outside of its beginning and one commercial this Superbowl (which was better than any Big/Yahoo-commercial I can remember). Marketing could make you believe Google's having a tougher time than it did five years ago, but this poll suggests otherwise.

Then again, I don't know how easily swayed the GameFAQs community could be on search engines...but whatever, this poll suggests they can't!
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About 15 minutes left until the internet connection poll. Time to see what states have the highest percentage of dial-up users. Probably the states with a low population density (those would be the more rural states). I predict the US to have the highest percentage of dial-up users out of any country, because the large size of the country makes it more difficult to ensure that broadband access is available everywhere in the country.

But also, I'm interested in seeing whether or not cable internet is mostly a US/Canada thing. Because I have a good feeling that DSL will be the dominant form of internet access outside the US/Canada.
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I remember CJayC told us that all other internet service providers were showing 50-52% for Starcraft, and AOL was coming in at 56% for Wind Waker.
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Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast.

I predict the US to have the highest percentage of dial-up users out of any country, because the large size of the country makes it more difficult to ensure that broadband access is available everywhere in the country.

Maybe out of the eight listed countries (even then maybe not), but I bet dial-up users will win in a bunch of countries.
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I remember CJayC told us that all other internet service providers were showing 50-52% for Starcraft, and AOL was coming in at 56% for Wind Waker.

56% of AOL had Wind Waker.
56% of South Korea had Starcraft.
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Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats
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Just think: kids growing up today will have no idea what the distinctive dial-up sound is.
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Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast.

I think 65% of Korea voted for Starcraft, actually (and we were still surprised at how low it was!)
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but I bet dial-up users will win in a bunch of countries.

Except those countries would contribute very few votes (under 10 or so) overall, making it easy for an option like dial-up to win in one of those countries.
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dial-up is still popular around the world, then again this being a gaming site may bring out people who have decent connections.
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Dial-up took a big hit since last time:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=2290

LOL dial-up. I managed to steal the first vote for dial-up and first vote overall. I'm just hoping that dial-up is having a bad board vote due to dial-up users having a hard time voting in the first 5 minutes because of dial-up being flat out slow for them.
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Ew, dial-up is collapsing after the board vote. I would have expected it to go up a little bit after the board vote.

But looking at Geolocation so far, DSL is winning Europe, Asia, and Oceania right now. Although that can change quite a bit since those 3 regions have very few votes right now. Cable is winning North America and South America.
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Glad to see dial-up dying a horrible, horrible death.
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Are all the poll updates for 2k9 supposed to be down?

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The updates for the latest contest are down at the moment due to a glitch. creativename said he could restore them from a backup but it's a time consuming process that he hasn't gotten around to yet.
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Dr_Football punted my bracket across the field.
Congrats to Dr_Football for winning the Character Battle 8 Guru Contest!

Missingno strikes again!
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As those poll updates are still down (you mean the 2010 Winter Contest, right?), is there a good place where you can quickly see each match result for? (Besides moving through the GameFAQs polls themselves?)

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As those poll updates are still down (you mean the 2010 Winter Contest, right?), is there a good place where you can quickly see each match result for? (Besides moving through the GameFAQs polls themselves?)

Not that I know of.

Well, I have a spreadsheet with all of that stuff on it that's pretty accessible and readable, but it's not on the internet anywhere.
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As those poll updates are still down (you mean the 2010 Winter Contest, right?), is there a good place where you can quickly see each match result for? (Besides moving through the GameFAQs polls themselves?)

Well, it's still possible to view the poll updates if you know the URL for each match. The final match of the last contest:

http://www.gamefaqscontests.com/drupal/node/22?matchnum=3856&num=2

To view the other matches, you'll have to change the "3856" in the URL. Matches for the last contest run from 3730 to 3856.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
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I think 65% of Korea voted for Starcraft, actually (and we were still surprised at how low it was!)

Yes, I think it was that. Not 56% like charmander said earlier.

Glad to see dial-up dying a horrible, horrible death.

Yet some people are stuck on dial-up because they have the unfortunate curse of living in a very small town (like under 2000 people) where dial-up is the only option available to them.
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lol dial-up
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Huh, apparently there are no maps for today's poll. I get a 404 error page for this link:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/images/cb8/world_3988.png

No clue if it's just a glitch with today's poll, because there were maps for yesterday's poll. I know polls similar to today's poll have had maps for them. Tomorrow's poll should only have 5 options instead of 10, so we'll see if there are maps for the next poll.
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I actually started checking past poll results on Gamefaqs last contest instead of on cn' site when I only wanted the final percentages and not the trends: the reason being that Bacon added a search feature to the poll list.
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