GameFAQs Contests
Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 905
red sox 777 | Posted 9/3/2010 8:59:40 PM | message detail |
I
don't care as much for this contest, but if we have a full games
contest or a full character battle, I would greatly prefer the 24-hour
matches to start no later than the final 8 (and for games, final 16
since there is just so much potential for matches between elite games
in such a contest). --- Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast. |
LeonhartFour | Posted 9/3/2010 9:15:03 PM | message detail |
Yeah,
I'd rather switch back to 24 hours for the Elite Eight or even the
Sweet Sixteen because even just doing 24 hours for the Sweet Sixteen on
only takes two weeks. --- Support Morrigan Aensland (Darkstalkers) for Character Battle IX! http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/9302/banner5morrigan2.jpg |
HaRRicH | Posted 9/3/2010 9:27:17 PM | message detail |
I
imagine we could persuade SB into full-day matches for the Elite Eight
-- that's only four days more and gives each division-winner more time
to shine. Maybe not this contest though...I'm sure it's all scheduled
already. --- http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/3492/eponaharr.jpg Nominate EPONA here: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/55150177 |
Haste_2 | Posted 9/3/2010 10:08:05 PM | message detail |
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 More like 256 games, 4-way contest!!! *hides* Man, I don't know why I feel like acting so silly all the time lately. By the way... did anyone here ever bring up the idea of a "game of the decade" contest before SBAllen announced it? --- "Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. So...what is a party?" "Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think." |
LeonhartFour | Posted 9/3/2010 10:08:52 PM | message detail |
From: Haste_2 | #154 I know I did after we had that "Game of the Decade" poll after all the GOTY polls last year, and maybe even before then. tranny has mentioned it before, too. --- Support Morrigan Aensland (Darkstalkers) for Character Battle IX! http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/9302/banner5morrigan2.jpg |
PartOfYourWorld | Posted 9/3/2010 10:11:46 PM | message detail |
Can't recall, but I'm sure someone must have. Anyone get the feeling that voters might be hesitant to vote a more recent game (mainly looking at Brawl here, but who knows) as Game of the Decade? I'm starting to think that the more established games from nearly a decade ago may have the edge, and that they'll show it unless Bacon decides to include chronological brackets again. That would be the worst idea ever, by the way. --- Yoblazer: http://i29.tinypic.com/dqhyf5.jpg Watch and you'll see... some day I'll be... part of your world! |
LeonhartFour | Posted 9/3/2010 10:12:49 PM | message detail |
Yeah, I'm hoping Bacon doesn't try to do themed divisions of any kind. Just do it straight up by nominations for once. --- "Spoil it for me. I'm never going to play that game so I want to know if he's going to be another Auron or another Sin." - Soul about PW/Jecht |
PartOfYourWorld | Posted 9/3/2010 10:14:54 PM | message detail |
Can
you imagine if we had ANIMAL MASCOT DIVISION next to SPACE MARINE
DIVISION in the CBs? Actually, that might be funny for a year (or a
minute!). --- Yoblazer: http://i33.tinypic.com/ml36gl_th.gif Watch and you'll see... some day I'll be... part of your world! |
UltimaterializerX | Posted 9/3/2010 10:22:07 PM | message detail |
Themed divisions would suck so much. Do you guys realize the last non-gimmick 1v1 contest we had was over 7 years ago? --- "Trying to act like you know somebody you've never interacted with makes you look like a total idiot." -Leonhart4 |
LeonhartFour | Posted 9/3/2010 10:29:27 PM | message detail |
I'm
assuming you mean by non-gimmick, you mean just a straight up contest,
nothing silly like setting up SFF matches (a la 2004) or removing
characters. Then yeah, every contest since the first two has had some sort of weird theme/gimmick to it. --- "The great GF...Bahamut." "...GF? I...? Using my powers...It is you humans...I fear..." |
LOLContests | Posted 9/3/2010 10:29:38 PM | message detail |
2002, 2003, and the two mini-contests are actually the only non-gimmick contests we've ever had. Possible not even Sp2005 if there really were company caps like some people thought, and Ceej changed his rules to make Ansem a Square character. --- "Ahem! There is *sand* on my *boot*!"--Kefka Dr. Football beat me, Yesmar in the 2010 Guru Contest! |
red sox 777 | Posted 9/3/2010 10:30:07 PM | message detail |
Anyone
get the feeling that voters might be hesitant to vote a more recent
game (mainly looking at Brawl here, but who knows) as Game of the
Decade? I'm starting to think that the more established games from
nearly a decade ago may have the edge, and that they'll show it unless
Bacon decides to include chronological brackets again. That would be
the worst idea ever, by the way. Probably not. 2001 still feels modern to most people on Gamefaqs- the thing is the vast vast majority of the site started gaming before 2000. Actually, 2000 games from the old generation may be somewhat hurt- I'd feel somewhat strange about crowning an N64 game the Game of this Decade. --- Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast. |
LOLContests | Posted 9/3/2010 10:30:08 PM | message detail |
2004 had the Company Caps as a gimmick. --- "Ahem! There is *sand* on my *boot*!"--Kefka Dr. Football beat me, Yesmar in the 2010 Guru Contest! |
LeonhartFour | Posted 9/3/2010 10:30:27 PM | message detail |
Well, the mini-contests were sort of a gimmick in and of themselves, though the Series Contest less so. --- Support Otacon (Metal Gear Solid) for Character Battle IX! http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/1950/banner4otacon.jpg |
PartOfYourWorld | Posted 9/3/2010 10:30:53 PM | message detail |
From: UltimaterializerX | #159 We probably aren't doing 4ways with this one, but if you also consider the 12-hour format a gimmick, that's one we'd better be hoping for, because 24 hour matches will feel like an eternity now. We've got a real good thing going with the last format and I hope it sticks. That said, chronological divisions would be the absolute worst theme for this contest. We've had two games contests and have still never seen what a game from the early 90s would do against a game from the mid-to-late 00s. According to all of our contest data, Pac-Man would get absolutely demolished by a game like CoD4, but if those two games ACTUALLY MET in the first round, we darn well know a ton of people would side with the Pac upset. That's the largest appeal of a games contest, and we've still never seen it. Now obviously, we can't get Pac-Man vs. CoD in this one, but we can still get games two generations and a decade apart. In the first round. 1v1. And we better. --- Yoblazer: http://i29.tinypic.com/dqhyf5.jpg Watch and you'll see... some day I'll be... part of your world! |
LeonhartFour | Posted 9/3/2010 10:30:57 PM | message detail |
From: LOLContests | #163 Oh right, I forgot about that, too. --- Please sign up to support the 2010 Nomination Rally Tournament winners! http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/55967577 |
LeonhartFour | Posted 9/3/2010 10:31:54 PM | message detail |
From: PartOfYourWorld | #165 Yeah, the same people who thought Pac-Man could beat Metroid back in the first Games Contest. --- "Why must we always choose between certain death and probable death?" "I'm in an epic battle to the death, FIGURE IT OUT YOURSELF!" |
red sox 777 | Posted 9/3/2010 10:33:34 PM | message detail |
Well,
if you want to go the other way, replace Pac-Man with something like
Zelda 1. There'll be a huge range of modern games that some will take
to beat Zelda 1 and others will take to lose to it. And Chrono Trigger vs. Super Smash Bros. Melee would be such an amazing match. I have to see this. --- Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast. |
PartOfYourWorld | Posted 9/3/2010 10:33:47 PM | message detail |
Technically, 2002 and 2003 had 64-entrant 1v1 24-hour matches as a gimmick. THE THINGS YOU APPEAL CONSIDER GIMMICKS. --- Yoblazer: http://i44.tinypic.com/5nw45i.jpg Watch and you'll see... some day I'll be... part of your world! |
LeonhartFour | Posted 9/3/2010 10:34:20 PM | message detail |
Or we could go with Bacon's example of why mixing old games with new games is a bad idea: Mario 1 vs. Halo! seriously could he have picked a worse possible example --- Support Seifer Almasy (Final Fantasy VIII) for Character Battle IX! http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/9342/banner3seifer.jpg |
ZFS | Posted 9/3/2010 10:35:08 PM | message detail |
Yeah, people can side with Pac-Man all they like, but COD4 would wreck that match hard. --- There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. |
red sox 777 | Posted 9/3/2010 10:36:59 PM | message detail |
Well,
Mario 1 would crush Halo, so that wouldn't be an interesting match but
for a different reason than Bacon had. Pac-Man vs. Halo would actually
be really interesting- no one hates Pac-Man, and tons of people hate
Halo. --- Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast. |
UltimaterializerX | Posted 9/3/2010 10:37:19 PM | message detail |
From: PartOfYourWorld | #165 Actually this is a great point. I don't consider Winter 2010 a gimmick contest at all, and it's my favorite format for what we do on this site. But before that little gem of an idea (no sarcasm), you have to go back to Summer 2003. Jeez. --- `·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.~*ST*~.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.· http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3217/3015062728_6b27f9a6ae.jpg |
red sox 777 | Posted 9/3/2010 10:38:17 PM | message detail |
I
liked the idea of 4-ways when it was unveiled in 2007. But it turned
out to be a pretty bad format, and should not have returned for a
second (and third) contest. --- Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast. |
LeonhartFour | Posted 9/3/2010 10:38:29 PM | message detail |
I'd be surprised if Halo lost to Pac-Man. Sure, it's not strong, but Pac-Man's a fodder game, I'd imagine. Halo won't lose to everything. --- "Spoil it for me. I'm never going to play that game so I want to know if he's going to be another Auron or another Sin." - Soul about PW/Jecht |
UltimaterializerX | Posted 9/3/2010 10:38:59 PM | message detail |
I
can sort of understand a second character contest with it, because the
first one worked out well. But ruining games 2009 with that crap was so
bad. --- You have her sympathy. You have her tears. She only tries to take all your fears. |
LOLContests | Posted 9/3/2010 10:38:59 PM | message detail |
COD4 would beat Pac-Man down, but it wouldn't be horrible, IMO. Probably not any more than a tripling at the worst. Halo would also beat it fairly safely, even with anti-votes, although it would be hilarious to see during the dead hours. --- "Ahem! There is *sand* on my *boot*!"--Kefka Dr. Football beat me, Yesmar in the 2010 Guru Contest! |
UltimaterializerX | Posted 9/3/2010 10:39:19 PM | message detail |
Pac-Man would destroy Halo. --- `·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.~*ST*~.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.· http://rpst.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/socialism_vs_capitalismashx.jpg |
red sox 777 | Posted 9/3/2010 10:39:46 PM | message detail |
Pac-Man
just seems like the perfect game to take advantage of Halo's
weaknesses. Universally known, universally liked a little bit, very few
fans who love it a lot. --- Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast. |
LeonhartFour | Posted 9/3/2010 10:41:22 PM | message detail |
I dunno. The game did horribly in both Games Contest appearances (though you can make SFF/LFF excuses). I mean, would you guys really pick Pac-Man to beat KotOR or Okami? I wouldn't. --- "Look at the sunrise, and smile." - Regaro |
LOLContests | Posted 9/3/2010 10:44:40 PM | message detail |
And do you guys think that MC scores 60% on DK in 2005 before anti-votes? Because that's a pretty comparable situation. But I mean, this is lol Halo here. Who knows? Any excuse for Pac-Man to impress is fine by me. --- "Ahem! There is *sand* on my *boot*!"--Kefka Dr. Football beat me, Yesmar in the 2010 Guru Contest! |
UltimaterializerX | Posted 9/3/2010 10:45:29 PM | message detail |
Pac-Man the character would probably beat Master Chief, too. --- "Oh look some anime-watching virgin nerds who can't get girls are attacking Ulti for stating his opinion, typical." -As I Desire |
LeonhartFour | Posted 9/3/2010 10:45:44 PM | message detail |
It's
not that I think that much of Halo. I'd pick a boatload of games to
beat it in the upcoming Games Contest (heck, any of the games in the
series). I just think Pac-Man is weak. I don't think it'd get the
respect the character does. --- Please sign up to support the 2010 Nomination Rally Tournament winners! http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/55967577 |
Ngamer64 | Posted 9/3/2010 10:45:55 PM | message detail |
I
think I'd take.... Pac > Halo in a night match, Halo > Pac in a
day match, and... guess I'd side slightly to Pac over a full 24 hours. But I don't think the CoD franchise is hated enough to pull the trigger on the Pac upset there. --- You should search B8 for Dr Football, cool dude and 2010 Guru champion! thengamer.com/guru | thengamer.com/xstats | board8.wikia.com |
red sox 777 | Posted 9/3/2010 10:46:20 PM | message detail |
I mean, would you guys really pick Pac-Man to beat KotOR or Okami? I would not. I suppose it's intuition vs. transitivity then. --- Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast. |
LeonhartFour | Posted 9/3/2010 10:46:37 PM | message detail |
From: UltimaterializerX | #182 Eh. You people are just looking for any excuse to sell MC short. I mean, it's understandable, but MC's not fodder yet. --- "But you have been given freedom. Freedom to be...outside." "I am lightning...the rain transformed." |
ZFS | Posted 9/3/2010 10:48:29 PM | message detail |
Halo
beats Pac-Man pretty easy. People just have a weird thing with Halo
where they pick to win, it doesn't, and suddenly they will never be
wronged again and it now loses to Pong or something. --- There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. |
PartOfYourWorld | Posted 9/3/2010 10:51:16 PM | message detail |
Chief
is a sinking ship, and while Pac-Man might be a weaker character than
Hayabusa, he's the perfect character to upset Chief. Anyway, I'm not sure if I'd ever take Pac-Man the game over Okami or KotOR, but the very fact that I have to consider it at all should tell you something. In terms of observed strength, isn't that analogous to asking whether anyone would take Tails over Tifa or something? --- Yoblazer: http://i44.tinypic.com/5nw45i.jpg Watch and you'll see... some day I'll be... part of your world! |
LeonhartFour | Posted 9/3/2010 10:52:58 PM | message detail |
From: PartOfYourWorld | #188 Yeah, it does tell me something. I'm just not sure what yet. --- Support Morrigan Aensland (Darkstalkers) for Character Battle IX! http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/9302/banner5morrigan2.jpg |
PartOfYourWorld | Posted 9/3/2010 10:55:37 PM | message detail |
From: LeonhartFour | #183 What respect? He gets ragdolled by every Mario character he comes across. Heck, even Mewtwo took him to school. But pit him against Ocelot, and he can shock the lot of us. Pac-Man the game vs. Halo or CoD or Uncharted is essentially the same thing, except that the game might have been hit with even more old school/Nintendo SFF than the character. Unlikely upset? Of course. Close to impossible? I don't think so. --- Yoblazer: http://i44.tinypic.com/5nw45i.jpg Watch and you'll see... some day I'll be... part of your world! |
LeonhartFour | Posted 9/3/2010 10:57:15 PM | message detail |
From: PartOfYourWorld | #190 Of course he does. Those are characters who are respected and well-known as well. Pac-Man gets respect for being one of the original video game "icons," as it were. Stick him against another icon, and he's sure to fold. I don't think people view games the same way though. I mean, it got doubled by the original Metroid, of all things. --- "The great GF...Bahamut." "...GF? I...? Using my powers...It is you humans...I fear..." |
ZFS | Posted 9/3/2010 10:57:45 PM | message detail |
Impossible
is the exact word I'd use against Call of Duty. That would be ugly,
make no mistake about that. Halo is something else, though. That's a
little more plausible. --- There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. |
LeonhartFour | Posted 9/3/2010 10:59:12 PM | message detail |
I agree about CoD4. If CoD4 can rock Galaxy and D/P, Pac-Man's got no chance, I think. --- "Spoil it for me. I'm never going to play that game so I want to know if he's going to be another Auron or another Sin." - Soul about PW/Jecht |
yoshifan823 | Posted 9/3/2010 11:02:40 PM | message detail |
I
think that, over time, you're gonna see Halo improve, as more and more
people get away from the "lol console shooter" and "lol xbox" and "lol
casual gaming" (according to my definition, Halo is casual gaming for
sure) mindsets, because the series is still coming out with new (and
what looks like better) games, and Halo is eventually gonna be seen
much like Goldeneye is, which is a game with a single-player campaign
that... exists... and multiplayer that provided so many people good
times. Master Chief is a completely different story, especially because the later games are getting away from him as a character. Anyone who is picking Pac-Man to beat Halo is being ridiculous, because at this point, Pac-Man isn't gaining any more fans (unless a new Pac-Man: CE game comes out), because the games he's been in over the last... Well, since Ms. Pac-Man, really... have been mostly crap, with a few exceptions that never really gathered large fanbases (Pac-Man Vs. and Pac-Man: CE). --- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Guru winnah Explicit Content, that's quis. |
red sox 777 | Posted 9/3/2010 11:03:08 PM | message detail |
Yeah,
no chance against COD4. Halo is quite another story, and I really
wouldn't be surprised if the original Metroid beat it too. It's a
Nintendo game from one of Nintendo's mid-level series, against THE
ENEMY. --- Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast. |
LeonhartFour | Posted 9/3/2010 11:10:26 PM | message detail |
And
it's not even that I'm pro-Halo or pro-Chief. I'm one of the few around
here who nailed both Subby > Chief and Hayabusa > Chief. I just think people are grasping because it's Halo. Again, not that I blame them. I'm that way with certain things myself, but Pac-Man has just looked so bad in both of its appearances, and Halo at least looked decent against Diablo 2 and KotOR. --- Support Otacon (Metal Gear Solid) for Character Battle IX! http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/1950/banner4otacon.jpg |
yoshifan823 | Posted 9/3/2010 11:13:13 PM | message detail |
Ooh, Leon's post reminded me of something. Odds that an MK game gets in? Which one? How does it do? I'd say we're gonna get Deception if we get any of them (though if there were any justice, it'd be Shaolin Monks), and I think MK is starting to trend back up. --- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Guru winnah Explicit Content, that's quis. |
LeonhartFour | Posted 9/3/2010 11:15:56 PM | message detail |
I dunno. I'd be kinda surprised if a 3-D MK got in. They're just not as popular as the 2-D games were, but who knows. Kinda hoping we get Sonic Adventure 2 in just so we can see how 3-D Sonic looks. --- "Look at the sunrise, and smile." - Regaro |
PartOfYourWorld | Posted 9/3/2010 11:18:23 PM | message detail |
The
point I'm trying to make here is that yes, Pac-Man would be a huge
underdog against a Halo or CoD game. But he would still get support
because games are different than characters and because these games are
so much different from each other and untested against each other. Going by the game contest stats, what is Pac-Man to CoD? It's probably like fodder to a respectable midcarder - like The Boss to Luigi or something. Would anyone even dream about taking Boss over Luigi? No, it's ridiculous. Would people take Pac-Man over CoD? Yes, despite all the numbers, because many people would see the slim possibility there, and THAT is why chronological restrictions are such a bad idea. Stop dissecting the example and look at the principle. >_> --- Yoblazer: http://8board.webs.com/ariel.jpg Watch and you'll see... some day I'll be... part of your world! |
LeonhartFour | Posted 9/3/2010 11:19:51 PM | message detail |
Well, if people would provide better examples...! --- "Why must we always choose between certain death and probable death?" "I'm in an epic battle to the death, FIGURE IT OUT YOURSELF!" |
