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So uhh....

Let's just say It comes out before the next character battle.

How much does it boost Him?
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Nominate Ogre Battle 64 for the Game of the Decade contest!

From: PartOfYourWorld | #100
because a 4.5 month wait from contest announcement to the first match would be brutal and ridiculous.

Hey, TRE, what's the longest wait from contest announcement to first match we've ever had, while we're on the subject?

(Excluding the Quote Contest, of course)
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Don't think it's been much beyond 2 months, if that. Personally, I hate these month-long nomination period we have now and wish we'd go back to nominations being open less than 1 week. Like, I'd be so happy if I got back tonight and found that nominations were closed, even though I still have 7 open nominations.
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Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast.

Yeah, I'd liked it better when we had a much shorter nomination period. We don't need more than a week. The majority of them are made during that span of time anyway.
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Paper Mario

A masterpiece of storytelling

This is what Nintendrones actually believe

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From: Lucid Faia | #105
Paper Mario

A masterpiece of storytelling

This is what Nintendrones actually believe

Ohio State fan, using the word "Nintendrones" unironically...

You're the worst person ever, aren't you?
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Hmmmm? I wouldn't rank Paper Mario as one of the all-time greats, but it had a story that I cared about and wanted to see to the end of.

That's good enough for me.
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But you're a fan of the Mother series. I shouldn't have even taken that post seriously.

My bad.
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*facepalm*

Lucid, sometimes you make me embarrassed to be a Buckeye.
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Nominate Ogre Battle 64 for the Game of the Decade contest!

Paper Mario: TTYD is better than the original, and is probably a top 10, maybe even top 5 Gamecube game.
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Well the latest Bacon could wait would be the beginning of November though a two month wait would be quite long. I'm going to go with beginning to mid-October depending on how long the nomination period lasts.
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Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru.

I suppose you guys think that "Go, Dog. Go!" is a literary triumph.

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From: charmander6000 | #096
With nominations on just this board that's pretty good. That means at least 667 people have filled out a nomination form, never knew so many people came to this board even if we take into account that some people may have been rallied to nominate.

People from board 8 probably spread this around to other boards.
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Gamespot Villains NIT Contest: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/56211203
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GameFAQs will have its fifteen-year anniversary in the beginning of November...so if this is a month-long contest, I'd expected it to end on whatever day that is. If it's a two-month contest though...eh, that'd be more open as long as it's before the GotY-polls.
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From: Lucid Faia | #113
I suppose you guys think that "Go, Dog. Go!" is a literary triumph.

No, but Cat in the Hat is pretty ****ing awesome.
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Guru winnah Explicit Content, that's quis.

Woah woah woah, I'm cool with pedophile jokes, Pryor is an idiot jokes (well, not really jokes in his case), all sorts of jokes.

But nobody insults "Go, Dog, Go!" and gets away with it.
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Nominate Ogre Battle 64 for the Game of the Decade contest!

The Series Contest was around 2 months wasn't it? I remember people giving up hope that we were actually going to have it.
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Dr. Football beat me, Yesmar in the 2010 Guru Contest!

Oh and Fall 2006 was around 2 months too. Noms went up during Zelda Vs. Metroid, and the contest didn't start until late September.
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Dr. Football beat me, Yesmar in the 2010 Guru Contest!

From: WarThaNemesis2 | #117
But nobody insults "Go, Dog, Go!" and gets away with it.

There's nothing wrong with it. I had a copy when I was a kid.

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Had?

HAD?
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Nominate Ogre Battle 64 for the Game of the Decade contest!

Hey, TRE, what's the longest wait from contest announcement to first match we've ever had, while we're on the subject?

(Excluding the Quote Contest, of course)

I'm not sure off hand. I have it written down but it'll probably be a few hours before I can check.
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Congrats to Dr_Football for winning the Character Battle 8 Guru Contest!

PAST TENSE

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Ideally, nominations and bracket making should take one month.

Noms - one week. They should be up on the front page immediately. I really don't care if it's announced to B8 first.

Bracket making - three weeks. Plenty of time to argue. Heck, plenty of time to fill out the bracket, leave it alone for a week, and then check it again to see how crazy you were a week ago. I try to do this every contest.
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From: Lucid Faia | #113
I suppose you guys think that "Go, Dog. Go!" is a literary triumph.

Why are you making this all about us saying Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi games are masterpiece stories? All you said was that Majora's Mask was the only time Nintendo made a storyline worth taking seriously this decade, and I simply replied that those storylines are worth taking seriously, because they are. They're fun, simple, and I actually care what happens.

Now if you were to ask me the last time Nintendo made a game with a masterpiece story, I'd respond somewhere in the general "Never" category.
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From: LeonhartFour | #125
Now if you were to ask me the last time Nintendo made a game with a masterpiece story, I'd respond somewhere in the general "Never" category.

Sounds like somebody never played Brawl...

...oh, wait.
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Nominate EPONA here: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/55150177

See, now I feel silly for forgetting that one
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Or Melee! Now that game is an excellent work of postmodern literature. It has no protagonist, no plot, and no semblence of a linear structure- in fact, no structure at all.
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Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast.

When talking about video game stories, the bar is set pretty damn low. Either they are paper thin, bare bones plots that gives the creators an excuse to do crazy ideas with the gameplay or they devolve into overblown, bloated, pretentious messes(or maybe that's just MGS2/4). Either way, Paper Mario falls in-between the two. It never takes itself TOO seriously(this is a Mario game, after all), but its endlessly humorous, clever, has a countless amount of fun characters, and keeps the player engaged in the central plot(especially with the post-chapter intermission/interludes with Peach/Bowser).
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My favorite video game stories are the ones that work a lot with atmosphere instead of trying to hard to be literary with the characters and with messages and stuff. OOT, for example, creates a really engrossing atmosphere that makes the player care about its world, while having a really thin plot. The ultimate goal is to draw emotion out of the player.
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Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast.

From: red sox 777 | #086
Have we had any word on whether slightly updated remakes are allowed?

...Kind of. I sent a feedback ticket in the day nominations started, and just got an answer in the past few hours.

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The relevant part of my question:

"There seems to be some confusion regarding the eligibility of remakes of games that would otherwise be ineligible due to being released before 2000. For example, Chrono Trigger shows up as a game that can be nominated, due to the DS port/remake it received. Similarly, Super Mario 64 falls under a similar situation, as I'm sure many other games do.

Personally, I've assumed that regardless of that, that none of these games are truly eligible, falling under the "re-release" exception, however, given that a number of these games, such as the aforementioned Chrono Trigger and Super Mario 64 remakes introduced some changes, whether it be new content such as dungeons in the former, and additional characters in the latter, has caused discussion over whether that is enough for them to be considered separate enough that they qualify for entry in the contest."

And the answer:

"That will probably be a case-by-case decision made after all nominations are in."

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So, hard to say. It sounds like there is a point where a remake will be considered different enough to count, but I'm not sure where that line will be.
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You figure he could've at least commented on CTDS and SM64DS!
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I sent in a question asking about the Gamecube version of Resident Evil and got:
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Remakes are acceptable - it's emulations that aren't.

So wheeeeeeee. Nominate it.
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From: FFDragon | #133
I sent in a question asking about the Gamecube version of Resident Evil and got:
Message From GameFAQs on 09/03/2010
Remakes are acceptable - it's emulations that aren't.

So wheeeeeeee. Nominate it.

And Metroid Zero Mission!

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And Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes!
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Hmm yeah MGS1 would be nommable wouldn't it... I'm already not nominating 2 and 3 as I think they'll get in anyway... not much room to drop other noms.

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MGS1 would be nommable in that regard I mean
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Yeah, but I think it would end up doing somewhat poorly. I really don't think most remakes will do as well as their originals. I don't think they'll act like proxies like some people seem to believe.
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Yeah I can see a lot of people either being offput by it or consider it "cheating" almost or in the contest unfairly and won't vote for it because of that...
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From: LeonhartFour | #132
You figure he could've at least commented on CTDS and SM64DS!

Yeah, my question was more in general, only bringing those two up as examples, but I hoped they'd get an answer. Personally, I don't think CTDS would count, if it does, then I have to believe almost any remake with any additional content would make it, at which point, "case-by-case" doesn't seem to be necessary because it would only really leave re-releases, which are specifically excluded, or ports, which are already mentioned and stated to count as one entry, so you could just point to the original versions and say they aren't eligible based on that.

I also still don't think SM64DS counts, however, I admit I'm a lot less sure about that. I think there's definitely a chance it could count now, which is more than I'd have said before getting a reply on that.
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From: LeonhartFour | Posted: 9/3/2010 5:51:39 PM | #138
Yeah, but I think it would end up doing somewhat poorly. I really don't think most remakes will do as well as their originals. I don't think they'll act like proxies like some people seem to believe.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1179

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From: FFDragon | #141
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1179

How freakin' old is this poll?
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Based on the poll number, late 2002-early 2003.
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I do plan to try another contest based on this one... letting the board nominate and make a bracket (of however many) of the games that missed the cut in the actual bracket. I just hope I can attract some people into the contest, the Gamespot Villain one is just not getting a lot of support.
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Have you people actually played SM64DS? There's a lot different than the original. Trust me, I actually got all 150 stars in the game. Yeah, the game controls like ass, but the game is more SM64 1.5 than an enhanced port like CTDS. It's definitely closer to the REmake side of things.

Also, again restating that the Paper Mario games have some kickass stories that blow away 75% of most jRPG stories.

Finally, don't think I saw it stated in this topic yet, but nominations are announced on the front page.
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Yeah, among things added to SM64DS a bunch of stars from the original were also either deleted or changed dramatically, mostly to make the game easier IMO.
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Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru.

Just noticed that there is a link to the nomination page on the homepage. This should really boost nomination totals.

By the way, when do we expect this contest to start? I think it'd have to start by the beginning of November by the earliest to avoid delaying the GOTY polls by too much, otherwise, we're talking mid-January.

The contest starting time depends a lot on what the contest format will be and how many games will be in the bracket. Here are several possible contest formats and what I think should be the latest possible date for the contest to start:

128 games, 1v1 contest with 12 hour matches - No later than October 10th
128 games, 4-way contest with 24 hour matches - No later than October 10th
64 games, 1v1 contest with 24 hour matches - No later than October 10th
64 games, 1v1 contest with 12 hour matches - No later than November 10th
32 games, 1v1 contest with 24 hour matches - No later than November 10th

For first 3 contest formats, the contest would end on December 11th. This would allow for some regular polls before Christmas arrives. Since the Christmas poll will definitely be "What did you get for Christmas (or another December holiday)?". And after that, we get into several days of "Got Console?" polls, with the GotY polls starting on January 1st.

For a contest with a format of "64 games, 1v1 contest with 12 hour matches", I don't know when the contest would switch over to 24 hour matches. If the 24 hour matches start for the first time in the semifinals, the contest ends on December 12th. If the 24 hour matches start for the first time in the quarterfinals, the contest would end on December 14th. Not much of a difference.
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