GameFAQs Contests

Also, for my trend charts, the names of some games have been shortened a bit to better fit into the spreadsheet.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ!

Once again, Luster is on top of things. Nicely done.
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Wylvane
Coffee Ninja is a horrible user.

Toshiba has announced a glasses-free 3D TV:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11467352

Virtual boy to be added to virtual console confirmed!
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I think the bigger issue with 3DTV is getting it so people can watch without glasses. It's possible, but it requires a precise viewing angle to get it to work, which may not always be possible, especially when you have large groups of people. The 3DS can get away with it because it's a handheld designed to be looked head-on, but you can have all kinds of different viewing angles with TV's, so unless TV manufacturers can figure out how to achieve the 3D effect in most of the possible viewing angles, I can't see this tech really take off the same way HDTV has.

Also, the bracket is up.
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Wylvane
WVI is a horrible user.

3D as it is now is a fad, and will probably die off once the novelty wears off (same reason why Move and Kinect will fail). There will always be a niche, but by 2012/2013, people will be sick of it.

If they can perfect the technology though, it probably will catch on.

I never got the 3D-hate against just the premise of it. I can't say anything about how it may give you headaches since I've never suffered that, but people have always responded positively to better and improved special effects and it's a big step toward virtual reality, something I suspect all of us discussed as a kid wondering if we'd ever be fortunate to be a part of.

Besides, movies are responding quite well to it -- since Avatar came out December 18th last year, seven movies have been the #1 movie at theaters for twenty of the forty-two weeks we've had since then. For technology in its infancy, the market's shown that most people want it. Theaters are going to continue improving on it, which will make televisions continue to improve and the demand for the televisions increase, which will make the demand for gaming consoles to embrace it increase (especially once the 3DS hits since a handheld will already be doing it), which I think will make everything else from PCs to cell-phones start embracing it in due time. Soon, you're just not going to be able to avoid it...

...and why would you? If you weren't trained to 2D television all your life, I'd think you'd naturally want this instead of flat imagery. If South Park and other comedy-sources hadn't made such blatant comparisons with Avatar and Dancing With Wolves/Pocahontas, I really doubt it would have gotten such hate; not to say the plot's complicated /original/good, but people seem to be holding that against 3D, and that's unfair. People like Albion are still mad about how people once tried to do 3D...and yeah, there were pretty bad ways back in the day; whoever thought red-n-blue glasses were the key to 3D wasn't very good with ideas. This isn't that kind of 3D, and I can't wait to see what 3D is like without glasses.


I don't get why people are still resisting removing limitations from your screen. If you don't feel like it's ready at this time, fair enough...but if you're just against the premise of 3D, then I'm unsure why you've got a grudge against it.
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T H E S T A B L E
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New tidbit:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/56627436

So we might have to wait until tomorrow for a bracket.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ!

just gimme DMC3 vs God of War already!
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Nipaa~

Well, Bacon just said there's a very slight possibility we could get the bracket today, but it's highly unlikely.
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"Stay with me until the end. Please."
"Not until the end. Always."

that involves trusting bacon, no way am i taking my chances on those odds.
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Hau hauu, omochi kaeri!

If anything had gotten delayed by the higher ups even a day or two longer than it already did this contest wouldn't have happened until 2011.

The higher ups tried to keep us down, but Bacon our savior defeated them!
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At least Dark Link is more of a character than L-Block...Kinda. ~Zen
you mean, he's got LINES? ~voltch

I don't get why people are still resisting removing limitations from your screen. If you don't feel like it's ready at this time, fair enough...but if you're just against the premise of 3D, then I'm unsure why you've got a grudge against it.

I'll defend 3D when it doesn't cause people to stop shooting on film.
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"Ahem! There is *sand* on my *boot*!"--Kefka
Dr. Football beat me, Yesmar in the 2010 Guru Contest!

Another major thing about not trusting 3D to become the standard is that we've already gone through a 3D phase like back in the 60s. It was just a fad then, why do we think it won't just be another fad now? I can understand it being a novelty, something you might want to see when going to a movie theater, but is it something people will really want to bother with every time they watch tv or play video games? I'm not so sure.
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Yeah, I doubt it'll catch on, but it's a natural progression from the HDTVs we got at the beginning of the last decade. The big TV makers know they can't sell people on even higher resolutions (1080p will likely stay the standard until TVs become the size of a living room wall or something), so they've gotta innovate somewhere else.
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just wait until they try to incorporate smell into TVs.

conker vs that boss, phew man, I need a gas mask.
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Hau hauu, omochi kaeri!

I'm against the stupid glasses, not 3D itself. My other issue is I don't watch enough TV to care.
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I hate the glasses just cos i look stupid wearing glasses over glasses.
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Nyuu~

According to Bugs Bunny, Smell-O-Vision was supposed to replace television ten years ago!
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"But you have been given freedom. Freedom to be...outside."
"I am lightning...the rain transformed."

what does Bugs know, he prolly got his digits wrong.
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Uguu~

Bugs made a transposition error, we should have another 40 years for that.
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At least Dark Link is more of a character than L-Block...Kinda. ~Zen
you mean, he's got LINES? ~voltch

Besides, movies are responding quite well to it -- since Avatar came out December 18th last year, seven movies have been the #1 movie at theaters for twenty of the forty-two weeks we've had since then.

Whoa, it's hard to believe that Avatar was only 10 months ago. Anyway, I'll like 3D when it has no glasses, and doesn't put most of the screen out of focus.
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Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast.

Another major thing about not trusting 3D to become the standard is that we've already gone through a 3D phase like back in the 60s. It was just a fad then, why do we think it won't just be another fad now? I can understand it being a novelty, something you might want to see when going to a movie theater, but is it something people will really want to bother with every time they watch tv or play video games? I'm not so sure.

Video game consoles began as a fad too before Nintendo took off. All that needs to happen for 3D to work is to get rid of those glasses.
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Good Times,
Great Memories

The 3DS is the way to go then.
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Nyuu~

:O

Topic 911 - Emergency bracket release.
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WOMG.

zomg
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*Shakes Fist*

call does coppers

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Interminable Hiatus > Icehawk
RUSTY ~ your messiah

[This message was deleted at the request of the original poster]

Wylvane force has hired new members.
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At least Dark Link is more of a character than L-Block...Kinda. ~Zen
you mean, he's got LINES? ~voltch

where are the bold predix?

anyone here wanting to take San Andreas over anything serious?
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Nyuu~

OMG, the division names have been revealed. Go here:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3842

Once on that page, click on "Next Poll" to view the next 7 matches.

So we have these division names:

North Division
Northeast Division
East Division
Southeast Division
South Division
Southwest Division
West Division
Northwest Division
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ!

From: -LusterSoldier- | #480
So we have these division names:

North Division
Northeast Division
East Division
Southeast Division
South Division
Southwest Division
West Division
Northwest Division

SB looks like he's pushing for the bracket to happen today...come on!
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What do Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, and Twilight Princess have in common? EPONA!
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Creative names!
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"if only there were some way I could have sex" - Smartmuffin

Was hoping the division names would reveal the final 4 one-seeds. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
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A pro isn't someone who sacrifices himself for his job. That's just a fool. - Reno, FFVII
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At least the division names suggest that the games won't be organized based on some gimmick like genres or systems.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ!

I suppose with games, getting division names would be a bit more difficult.

Not impossible though.
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"I couldn't stand a day without a past or future. I need to live each moment to keep fighting here and now."

From: -LusterSoldier- | #484
At least the division names suggest that the games won't be organized based on some gimmick like genres or systems.

This is true, so that's one positive to take from this.
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"I can set you free, mate."
"My freedom was forfeit long ago!"

time to take information that means nothing and make it mean something! generic names gives me hope that there isn't any kind of bracket-making gimmick like division by year.
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xyzzy

interesting info

how do you find this stuff out Leon
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~ Ange

damn, preempted by Luster
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xyzzy

From: -LusterSoldier- | #484
At least the division names suggest that the games won't be organized based on some gimmick like genres or systems.

Yeah thats what it seems like
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~ Ange

I discovered the division names, not Leon. If you want to know where I discovered this at, check out this post:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/56571119/626058459
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ!

ah sorry Luster
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~ Ange

What no N-Gage division? Awwwwww man >_<
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Ngamer64: Zylo, you're making less sense every day. Dr_Football > Me

now it at least makes sense how the division names were found (I just really couldnt imagine Leon going through that much work)
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~ Ange

From: SuperAngelo128 | #494
now it at least makes sense how the division names were found (I just really couldnt imagine Leon going through that much work)

It takes no effort! We've been able to find out division names this way for a while now. Just have open a match from last year's contest that shows the bracket, and just occasionally refresh to see if the names have changed.

I'd actually been doing this (secretly), but alas, it was done while I was gone!
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ah I see

well Im obviously way behind
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~ Ange

at least this confirms the bracket isn't done chronologically.
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I've never had a signature before... then Dr_Football looked, narrowed his eyes, and I had one.

Hopefully less than 2 hours from now, we will have a bracket.
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Luster Soldier - Popular at school. --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~

Go go Bacon bracket
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"Hold on a minute! That testimony stinks!"
"Witness! You can't just say 'Hello' and expect us to get anywhere! I want you to testify!"

let's do this
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xyzzy