GameFAQs Contests
Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 904
Not_Wylvane | Posted 8/26/2010 8:30:39 PM | message detail |
So
basically what you're saying is that the Driver series would do better
in North America than it would in the rest of the world. So If Tanner gets a day match, he'll win for sure! --- Wylvane McBonesII is a horrible user. |
LeonhartFour | Posted 8/26/2010 8:33:08 PM | message detail |
Hey, that Gamespot Villains Contest started today, if anyone cares. --- Support Morrigan Aensland (Darkstalkers) for Character Battle IX! http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/9302/banner5morrigan2.jpg |
charmander6000 | Posted 8/26/2010 8:45:45 PM | message detail |
Anyone find it funny that a larger than normal portion of Americans fall asleep with the tv on. --- Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru. |
red sox 777 | Posted 8/26/2010 8:48:05 PM | message detail |
No, America is the country where the average child spends more time watching TV than in school through age 18. --- Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast. |
-LusterSoldier- | Posted 8/26/2010 9:01:18 PM | message detail |
FarmVille
poll today. Hopefully this will silence any hope of getting FarmVille
rallied in a contest to go deep into the contest. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ! |
charmander6000 | Posted 8/26/2010 9:03:22 PM | message detail |
You only need a small percentage of people to rally hard. >_> --- Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru. |
Not_Wylvane | Posted 8/26/2010 9:06:53 PM | message detail |
lmao Farmville doing abysmal here. --- Wylvane McBonesII is a horrible user. |
LeonhartFour | Posted 8/26/2010 9:08:57 PM | message detail |
It's all about the rallying potential! --- Support Barret Wallace (Final Fantasy VII) for Character Battle IX! http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/3834/banner1barret.jpg |
-LusterSoldier- | Posted 8/26/2010 9:13:03 PM | message detail |
Going
to be hard to rally when there aren't very many diehard FarmVille fans
on here, and not very many more users on here that have actually played
FarmVille in the past. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ! |
LeonhartFour | Posted 8/26/2010 9:13:26 PM | message detail |
All it takes is one to alert the Facebook world! Just one! --- "I can set you free, mate." "My freedom was forfeit long ago!" |
Lieutenant Kettch | Posted 8/26/2010 9:16:39 PM | message detail |
From: LeonhartFour | #060 23 potential ralliers so far. It has good odds! --- Dr Football and Snake have won this round, but Sephiroth will rise again! |
PartOfYourWorld | Posted 8/26/2010 9:19:13 PM | message detail |
From: red sox 777 | #054 Is this a recent stat? Can't imagine it to be true with computers playing a more prominent role in everyone's lives over the past decade. --- Yoblazer: http://i32.tinypic.com/zlf1w7.gif Watch and you'll see... some day I'll be... part of your world! |
red sox 777 | Posted 8/26/2010 10:05:22 PM | message detail |
Is
this a recent stat? Can't imagine it to be true with computers playing
a more prominent role in everyone's lives over the past decade. I'm not sure how recent it is, but it actually only amounts to about 3 hours of TV a day, so it's not as much as it seems. Kids are only in school half the days of the year, and not at all before kindergarten typically. --- Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast. |
red sox 777 | Posted 8/26/2010 10:06:52 PM | message detail |
Good
luck rallying Farmville from 90-10 down. If rallying was that powerful,
World of Warcraft would have won the last games contest. --- Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast. |
LeonhartFour | Posted 8/26/2010 10:07:33 PM | message detail |
World of Warcraft ain't got nothin' on FarmVille, I tells ya! --- "Stay with me until the end. Please." "Not until the end. Always." |
red sox 777 | Posted 8/26/2010 10:08:26 PM | message detail |
I
mean, really, Farmville wouldn't even win a Games Contest held on the
Facebook front page. I'll all but guarantee that SMB3/SM64/OOT at least
would beat it (and probably a ton of other games too). --- Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast. |
LeonhartFour | Posted 8/26/2010 10:09:06 PM | message detail |
I won't stand for all this slander and these egregious lies! --- "The great GF...Bahamut." "...GF? I...? Using my powers...It is you humans...I fear..." |
red sox 777 | Posted 8/27/2010 12:32:19 PM | message detail |
If GameFAQs held a Best. Book. Ever. contest, which book would win? We'll restrict it to works of fiction. --- Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast. |
charmander6000 | Posted 8/27/2010 12:39:44 PM | message detail |
Maybe Lord of the Rings. I don't think GameFAQs users are into books, so after LotR, Harry Potter and books we're given at school I don't see any others being worth anything. --- Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru. |
LeonhartFour | Posted 8/27/2010 12:40:49 PM | message detail |
A Best Book Contest would flop due to lack of interest. --- Support Otacon (Metal Gear Solid) for Character Battle IX! http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/1950/banner4otacon.jpg |
red sox 777 | Posted 8/27/2010 12:48:00 PM | message detail |
Yeah, I think Lord of the Rings would be the favorite to win also. --- Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast. |
-LusterSoldier- | Posted 8/27/2010 8:47:58 PM | message detail |
Poll of the Day: Brought to you by Yahoo! http://image.com.com/gamefaqs/images/promo/poll_yahoo.gif That image is covering the poll question and you can't really see it unless you use Adblock Plus on it or you highlight the question. But it's weird that the ad says "Brought to you by Yahoo!" when I don't see Yahoo hosting the poll question on their site to let site visitors to vote in the poll directly from Yahoo. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ! |
red sox 777 | Posted 8/27/2010 8:49:18 PM | message detail |
It just means Yahoo is paying Gamefaqs to put their name on the poll- just advertising. --- Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast. |
-LusterSoldier- | Posted 8/27/2010 8:54:06 PM | message detail |
If
that is true, then it's a shame. Because Yahoo hosting Poll of the Day
questions on their site could really boost vote totals. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ! |
red sox 777 | Posted 8/27/2010 8:56:12 PM | message detail |
No thanks to Yahoo hosting Gamefaqs polls- that would mean Crono would no longer be elite or anywhere near elite. --- Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast. |
-LusterSoldier- | Posted 8/27/2010 8:57:23 PM | message detail |
Yahoo
doesn't have to host the contest matches on their site. I would be okay
with them hosting regular polls, but not contest matches. Can't wait to see how the ad will affect vote totals on the next poll (if the ad is present on the upcoming poll) since the ad is purple and makes it hard to see the poll question. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ! |
LeonhartFour | Posted 8/27/2010 9:30:05 PM | message detail |
Mario could beat Link with Yahoo's help, maybe! --- "I can set you free, mate." "My freedom was forfeit long ago!" |
red sox 777 | Posted 8/27/2010 9:38:44 PM | message detail |
I
think Link would have a very good shot at taking down Mario even on
Yahoo. The way I see it, the Nintendo fanbase is going to favor Link
overwhelmingly everywhere, so it'll be up to people who aren't
Nintendo fans to turn it around for Mario. There's plenty of people who
aren't Nintendo fans of course, but among gamers, they're probably not
going to split much better than 50/50 for Mario. Among non-gamers Mario
probably wins fairly big, but the problem is that most non-gamers are
simply not going to vote in such a poll. They know who Mario is, don't
know who Link is, and don't really care about either. Mario would probably be the favorite, but I'll take Link as an upset. --- Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast. |
-LusterSoldier- | Posted 8/28/2010 6:50:07 AM | message detail |
No thanks to Yahoo hosting Gamefaqs polls- that would mean Crono would no longer be elite or anywhere near elite. The only benefit to Yahoo hosting GameFAQs polls is a huge boost in vote totals, which I mentioned earlier. We are in a time where vote totals on regular polls are sucking. The last time a poll broke 80000 votes was Poll 3993. Poll 3956 is the last poll to break 90000 votes and Poll 3934 is the last one to break 100000 votes. Since Poll 3993, the average vote total for all the polls from 3994 to 4015 is 68579.14. Ideally, 80000 should be around the average vote total per poll and it's way below that based on the last 3 weeks alone. Unless Yahoo or another high traffic site starts hosting GameFAQs polls (contest matches are excluded from this), vote totals will likely continue to suck badly. Contest matches wouldn't need to be hosted on other websites because they already get much higher vote totals than regular polls. I expect that once a new generation of consoles are released, the increased site traffic resulting from that will help out vote totals on regular polls. And that won't be happening until at least 2012 or later. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ! |
LinkMarioSamus | Posted 8/28/2010 8:59:35 AM | message detail |
Mario did better against Freeman at Gamespot than Link did, though that probably isn't such a good indication. And why is Link more popular within the Nintendo fanbase? Doesn't the Mario series (even just limiting it to platformers) have more, uh, "killer quality games"? IMO the Mario series has 6 games that could are Best Game Ever material (then another if you want to include spin-offs), whereas the Zelda franchise has only 2, and a third one just behind. |
red sox 777 | Posted 8/28/2010 12:08:31 PM | message detail |
Who knows why? Probably because Link is just a more appealing character than Mario. --- Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast. |
LinkMarioSamus | Posted 8/28/2010 5:20:03 PM | message detail |
I suppose that's true, especially in the current state of the gaming industry. |
Not_Wylvane | Posted 8/28/2010 9:40:04 PM | message detail |
From: -LusterSoldier- | #079 Are you more interested in the fluff polls than you are contest stuff or something? I think it's more traffic slowing down here right now because there haven't been any major releases in the past few months. Wait until Fallout: New Vegas pops up and we should see a boost in poll numbers then. --- Wylvane Not_Wylvane is a horrible user. |
-LusterSoldier- | Posted 8/28/2010 9:49:13 PM | message detail |
Are you more interested in the fluff polls than you are contest stuff or something? When is no contest going on at the moment, then I take interest in the regular polls (if there are any interesting ones). But I do care about the contests as well. I think it's more traffic slowing down here right now because there haven't been any major releases in the past few months. Wait until Fallout: New Vegas pops up and we should see a boost in poll numbers then. I know vote totals are generally caused by the amount of traffic this site receives each day. Fallout: New Vegas isn't going to be released until October 19th and until then, Metroid: Other M is the only other game release that could be big enough to boost vote totals. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ! |
LinkMarioSamus | Posted 8/28/2010 11:21:57 PM | message detail |
Speaking of which, can't wait to see how weak Other M is here. |
Denzokuken | Posted 8/30/2010 3:28:27 AM | message detail |
I wonder if Samus will now drop in popularity because she speaks. --- I've never had a signature before... then Dr_Football looked, narrowed his eyes, and I had one. |
LinkMarioSamus | Posted 8/30/2010 4:02:34 AM | message detail |
So
far I still like her voice (in fact I've been trying to impersonate
Samus for the last few weeks in preparation for playing through Zero
Mission and Super Metroid before starting up Other M), though it look
like she speaks too much, plus the voice may be monotonous but I don't
remember it being so. Seeing a section of cutscene where a young Samus
is yelling at Adam and somebody else (in Gametrailers' review) gives me
nightmares though. I may have to get the game just to see what that's
all about. I probably shouldn't talk about Other M again until I actually get the game. |
Not_Wylvane | Posted 8/30/2010 9:26:30 AM | message detail |
Interesting poll at LL. Which game is better? Super Mario Bros. 3 40.61% 469 Super Mario World 51.26% 592 Neither are good games. 8.14% 94 TOTAL VOTES 1155 Hope they ban those 94 voters IMO. --- Wylvane maplejet is a horrible user. |
charmander6000 | Posted 8/30/2010 10:20:01 AM | message detail |
Looks like time will be the end for all popular games. --- Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru. |
neonreaper | Posted 8/30/2010 10:22:52 AM | message detail |
*pokes head in* (in fact I've been trying to impersonate Samus for the last few weeks in preparation for playing through Zero Mission and Super Metroid before starting up Other M) ah --- Buster: It's so watery... and yet there's a smack of ham to it! Lindsay: It's hot ham water! |
-LusterSoldier- | Posted 8/30/2010 8:54:42 PM | message detail |
The
poll that is about to come up in a few minutes will be a "Which
scheduled September release are you most looking forward to?" poll. I
haven't bothered looking into seeing what future polls I can figure out. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ! |
vcharon | Posted 8/30/2010 9:07:20 PM | message detail |
I really hate the Yahoo advertising, it makes the polls ugly. --- Gamespot Villains NIT Contest: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/56137255 :> |
Big Bob | Posted 8/30/2010 9:08:52 PM | message detail |
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Big Bob | Posted 8/30/2010 9:09:50 PM | message detail |
Nevermind, I'm an idiot. Just found it odd that they would release FFXIV on PC long before its console release. --- http://card.mygamercard.net/Mach+Tornado.png |
ZFS | Posted 8/30/2010 9:19:08 PM | message detail |
Civilization V GOTY --- There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. |
LeonhartFour | Posted 8/30/2010 9:35:55 PM | message detail |
How long is it going to take Bacon to fix how the Yahoo thing covers up the poll question? --- "I can set you free, mate." "My freedom was forfeit long ago!" |
-LusterSoldier- | Posted 8/30/2010 9:40:21 PM | message detail |
I found these messages (one of them is mine) about the Yahoo thing covering up the poll question: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/573081-hellhole/56154086/620352579 http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/573081-hellhole/56154086/620465862 http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/573081-hellhole/56154086/620477973 --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ! |
Ngamer64 | Posted 8/30/2010 10:58:08 PM | message detail |
Final results of said ULTIMATE 2D PLATFORMER SHOWDOWN over on LL. Which game is better? Super Mario Bros. 3 41.50% 896 Super Mario World 49.42% 1067 Neither are good games. 9.08% 196 TOTAL VOTES 2159 It was the result I expected based on SMW's big gains from 2004 to 2009, but still thought 3 would be able to keep it closer than that. --- You should search B8 for Dr Football, cool dude and 2010 Guru champion! thengamer.com/guru | thengamer.com/xstats | board8.wikia.com |
charmander6000 | Posted 8/31/2010 6:43:55 AM | message detail |
How long is it going to take Bacon to fix how the Yahoo thing covers up the poll question? What? It's not and it never has. --- Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru. |
Not_Wylvane | Posted 8/31/2010 7:26:21 AM | message detail |
Covers it up for me, though it's probably because I'm using Adblock. --- Wylvane _Panuru_ is a horrible user. |
