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Ngamer64 | Posted 10/7/2010 4:47:08 PM | message detail
-LusterSoldier- | Posted 10/7/2010 5:14:44 PM | message detail
speaking of awful acronyms, anyone seen or emailed creative yet? wouldn't want to miss any updates!

I told Ngamer yesterday to contact creative and he already did that.


Yup, creative wrote me back, he's getting his bracket in tonight and will have everything set up to grab updates by the 20th.

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LeonhartFour | Posted 10/7/2010 4:47:35 PM | message detail
What happened to all the poll updates from the last Character Battle anyway?
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Eeeevil Overlord | Posted 10/7/2010 4:47:43 PM | message detail
Yeah, not that I'm in any kind of position to be offering advice but if I was, I'd happily give it. Much rather have a small number of people do slightly better than they would've done and not have myself look like a...well, someone who takes the competition element slightly too seriously.
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UltimaterializerX | Posted 10/7/2010 4:47:53 PM | message detail

From: LeonhartFour | #152
What happened to all the poll updates from the last Character Battle anyway?


Good, it's not just me. It asks me to log in, or something?
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UltimaterializerX | Posted 10/7/2010 4:49:03 PM | message detail
There's a difference between taking this too seriously and opening yourself up to having an identical bracket as someone else is all I meant. I'm not giving my opinion on everything, you know.

To answer the original question, GSC will be a damn beast.
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LeonhartFour | Posted 10/7/2010 4:49:38 PM | message detail
The odds of having an identical bracket with someone else on this board is pretty low.
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Eeeevil Overlord | Posted 10/7/2010 4:50:36 PM | message detail
Noone's going to have an identical bracket in here though surely, because everyone overanalyses different parts of the bracket so they come up with different off-the-wall upset picks everyone else steers clear of <_<.
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UltimaterializerX | Posted 10/7/2010 4:52:52 PM | message detail
Well I have a few upsets I want to keep to myself until guru day. Nothing wrong with that.
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LeonhartFour | Posted 10/7/2010 4:53:37 PM | message detail
Nah, nothing wrong with that. I don't reveal my entire hand either.
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transients | Posted 10/7/2010 4:54:07 PM | message detail
I do. I change my mind anyway, and most people won't do the things that I'm thinking of doing!
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red sox 777 | Posted 10/7/2010 4:54:15 PM | message detail
If we didn't give advice/our opinions, this topic wouldn't exist. I think we've moved past the days of 2004-2006 when people (especially Ulti) were in imminent danger of having identical brackets. 128-entrant contests have solved that problem.

The term "SFF" is too vague that it barely applies anymore. Same company? Same game genre? Same platform? Same generation? It can apply to any or none of those.

SFF applies to entrants from the same fanbase. It could be any of those or none; all that matters is the fanbase overlap.
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transients | Posted 10/7/2010 4:54:34 PM | message detail
speaking of which, is anyone taking Baldur's Gate 2? I can't come up with any kind of a read on that game, but if Dragon Age is so popular I have to believe that BG has a shot too.
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LeonhartFour | Posted 10/7/2010 4:54:47 PM | message detail

From: transients | #160
I do. I change my mind anyway, and most people won't do the things that I'm thinking of doing!


So you're still picking PW > MKWii?
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LeonhartFour | Posted 10/7/2010 4:55:26 PM | message detail

From: transients | #162
speaking of which, is anyone taking Baldur's Gate 2? I can't come up with any kind of a read on that game, but if Dragon Age is so popular I have to believe that BG has a shot too.


I don't know a thing about Baldur's Gate. I went with SoA out of fanboyism and the fact that it's the higher seed.
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transients | Posted 10/7/2010 4:55:43 PM | message detail
Mario Kart Wii gon' lose
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UltimaterializerX | Posted 10/7/2010 4:56:39 PM | message detail

From: transients | #162
speaking of which, is anyone taking Baldur's Gate 2? I can't come up with any kind of a read on that game, but if Dragon Age is so popular I have to believe that BG has a shot too.


Baulder's Gate 2 has less than 1% chance of winning that match.

And yeah, I'll never forget telling people Zero would make the final four (as a joke) in 2004 and people going along with it.
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ZFS | Posted 10/7/2010 4:56:57 PM | message detail
The only problem with Baldur's Gate 2 is that I don't think that many people played it. I almost think Skies of Arcadia has a higher playrate, at least on this site, than BG2.

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LeonhartFour | Posted 10/7/2010 4:57:04 PM | message detail
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3473

To this?

I'm not sure Mario Kart Wii goes that low even with TP in the poll!

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3355

Oh cool, near identical percentages!
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ZFS | Posted 10/7/2010 4:57:18 PM | message detail
But as far as which gets more praise and love, BG2 definitely wins there.

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Xuxon | Posted 10/7/2010 4:57:31 PM | message detail

From: transients | #165
Mario Kart Wii gon' lose


whoa someone else has this!
transients | Posted 10/7/2010 4:58:13 PM | message detail
bad people vote MKWii over Phoenix Wright

we'll ignore the fact that MKWii has sold 100 copies to PW's 1
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LeonhartFour | Posted 10/7/2010 4:58:43 PM | message detail

From: transients | #171
bad people vote MKWii over Phoenix Wright


Well, I agree!

But that doesn't change what's going to happen in that match!
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ZFS | Posted 10/7/2010 4:59:12 PM | message detail
Went with PW, too!

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UltimaterializerX | Posted 10/7/2010 4:59:43 PM | message detail
The one match I keep going to is the Smash duel, personally. It decides the contest, but I have no clue who wins. Brawl is way more popular but Melee gets way more respect. Brawl also stands up to Nintendo better (which I would assume means standing up to... itself) and has the mathematical edge. But if the Smash community has ANY say in who wins, Melee takes it.
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LeonhartFour | Posted 10/7/2010 5:00:20 PM | message detail

From: UltimaterializerX | #174
But if the Smash community has ANY say in who wins, Melee takes it.


Define "Smash community."
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Eeeevil Overlord | Posted 10/7/2010 5:00:21 PM | message detail
"bad people vote MKWii over Phoenix Wright"

Comfortably over 50% of GameFAQs poll voters are bad people :(.
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UltimaterializerX | Posted 10/7/2010 5:00:54 PM | message detail
You guys love getting burned by Phoenix every contest, huh?

cwutididthur?
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LeonhartFour | Posted 10/7/2010 5:01:55 PM | message detail
I haven't been burned by Phoenix yet!

Well, as far as picking him to win anyway!

*grumble grumble* Stupid Bomberman *grumble grumble*
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personx9 | Posted 10/7/2010 5:01:56 PM | message detail
Who do you guys think would win in the Fallout 3 vs Half-Life 2 match and the Kingdom Hearts 1 vs Kingdom Hearts 2 match?
red sox 777 | Posted 10/7/2010 5:01:56 PM | message detail
Define "Smash community."

People who prefer 1v1s to 4-ways in Smash. Sorry, but this is so true- among that group, Melee probably wins 80-20 or something.
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UltimaterializerX | Posted 10/7/2010 5:02:19 PM | message detail

From: LeonhartFour | #175
Define "Smash community."


See that's the thing, casuals far outnumber the tournament guys and prefer Brawl, and a lot of tournament people will vote Brawl anyway because of the hacks.

The only thing I'm sure of is the winner will smoke FFX. Square will never again win a close final on this site. JRPGs and Square get too much hate now.
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LeonhartFour | Posted 10/7/2010 5:02:29 PM | message detail

From: red sox 777 | #180
Define "Smash community."

People who prefer 1v1s to 4-ways in Smash. Sorry, but this is so true- among that group, Melee probably wins 80-20 or something.


How big is said community?
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Xuxon | Posted 10/7/2010 5:03:11 PM | message detail
PW got 4th-place-effected there. He did well enough in the character battle for me to take his game over an awful, awful MK game.
ZFS | Posted 10/7/2010 5:03:57 PM | message detail
Fallout 3 should take Half-Life 2. I almost want to take Fallout 3 over Melee, but I don't think it has the umph to take out a major Nintendo game.

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LeonhartFour | Posted 10/7/2010 5:04:05 PM | message detail

From: Xuxon | #184
PW got 4th-place-effected there. He did well enough in the character battle for me to take his game over an awful, awful MK game.


Characters =/= Games

The character is a meme, the game is not
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LeonhartFour | Posted 10/7/2010 5:04:40 PM | message detail
I mean, if you want to see pure Ace Attorney power, this is it: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3747
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ZFS | Posted 10/7/2010 5:05:21 PM | message detail
all i see is pure big boss power

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transients | Posted 10/7/2010 5:05:26 PM | message detail
regarding Skies, is it really all that popular? I haven't seen anything but a huge downward turn from Vyse in recent years. I don't even think SOA made last year's contest. I think it should probably be the favourite but I don't know. I just can't gauge BG2.
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red sox 777 | Posted 10/7/2010 5:06:05 PM | message detail
How big is said community?

I don't know, but I think it's pretty substantial, and includes a fair number of "casual" players. In a match with say, OOT or FFVII, I'd guess Melee would get more total votes from this group than the other.
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LeonhartFour | Posted 10/7/2010 5:06:18 PM | message detail
No, Skies of Arcadia isn't popular. It got tripled by Wind Waker back when it was as popular as it's going to get.

I just don't know anything about Baldur's Gate.

From: ZFS | #188
all i see is pure big boss power


Well, that's hard to miss, of course
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personx9 | Posted 10/7/2010 5:09:00 PM | message detail
Also what about the MGS4/MGS3 match? I don't know how popular each MGS game is individually, but I usually hear more good things about 3.
ZFS | Posted 10/7/2010 5:10:07 PM | message detail
I would be very surprised (and disappointed) if MGS4 managed to beat MGS3. In a lot of ways, MGS3 has become the central game of the series.

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transients | Posted 10/7/2010 5:11:02 PM | message detail
Baldur's Gate 2 is why Dragon Age exists. (Dragon Age would murder SOA.) it put Bioware on the map. I just worry about its PC roots.
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LeonhartFour | Posted 10/7/2010 5:12:31 PM | message detail
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=2794

That's the only poll with BG in it from the last 5 years, and it's from 2007.

I don't know what to make of it.
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Liwakip | Posted 10/7/2010 5:13:04 PM | message detail
Define "Smash community."

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Xuxon | Posted 10/7/2010 5:13:31 PM | message detail
picking Skies over BG2 feels like picking Laharl over L-Block felt before the 2007 contest (not that i expect similar results). very weak vs who the hell knows.
ZFS | Posted 10/7/2010 5:16:22 PM | message detail
The only reason I'd be hesitant to pick Baldur's Gate 2 is because we're on GameFAQs. If this was on another site, I think BG2 would rock that match pretty hard. I dunno, it might do it here, too, but I don't think ol' FAQs is as in tune with PC games.

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ZFS | Posted 10/7/2010 5:17:30 PM | message detail
Then again, it is Skies of Arcadia. Tough one.

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LeonhartFour | Posted 10/7/2010 5:17:59 PM | message detail
I dunno. SoA/BG2 feels like Vyse/Laharl and Laharl/Neku. Just go with the higher seed because that's what most people in this contest will do.

Same with VC/Disgaea.
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