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Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 929
charmander6000 | Posted 10/26/2010 2:49:54 PM | message detail |
I'm
not sure where you get the impression that people didn't love LBP. It's
got an 8.9 rating from over 2000 users here on GameFAQs, which is a lot
more than GTA3 can say. I'm sticking with LBP and if I get it wrong, my
battle entry is pretty much dead. Stupid MM9.... GTAIII has one of the highest reader review scores on GameFAQs. --- BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls GotD Bracket: 10/12 Today's Matches: ToS & GoW |
TheKoolAidShoto | Posted 10/26/2010 2:52:18 PM | message detail |
From: ExThaNemesis | #048 I got Warcraft 3 personally. Me and you have quite a few differences, going by the Guru. I think somebody on B8 has a good chance of winning this, so good luck ExTha(and everybody else)! --- Around here, I'm the father, the son, and the Holy ****ing Spirit all rolled into one - Red Crow |
red sox 777 | Posted 10/26/2010 2:52:42 PM | message detail |
I
think there isn't quite as much of a need to go for super long streaks
as it seems at first, because most people aren't going to end up
banking the super long streaks they get. Even if someone gets 30
matches in a row right, they may miss the 31st instead of banking. It's
probable that the longest streak in the bracket challenge will be
longer than the longest successfully banked streak in the battle
challenge, even though the Battle Challenge allows you to change picks
as the contest progresses. --- Nominate Crono so he can get a higher seed and avoid being fed to Clinkeroth early in the contest. |
Lightning Strikes | Posted 10/26/2010 2:53:25 PM | message detail |
From: SuperAngelo128 | #041 It's basically the inverse of ToS. Weak power hour and night vote, stronger pre-morning vote, about the same morning vote, strong day vote then weaker from the ASV on. ToS would probably benefit from a day match based off of last year, where GoW was leading when a night match would have ended. However a night match does give ToS the benefit of an early lead whil a day match would do the same for GoW. Gonna be a hard one to call. --- Something something something ^Poorly disguised anti-caps sig |
Not_Wylvane | Posted 10/26/2010 2:57:49 PM | message detail |
Yeah,
there's no doubt some people will get a huge streak going and blow it
by gambling on a close match or getting screwed over by a huge upset no
one saw coming. But there's already a ton of people getting big streaks
going, and even if 10% of them bank now, it'll take a lot to catch up
with them, especially while they're starting new streaks. You really have to be ballsy here to have a solid chance of winning. Of course, you still have a **** chance of winning because it's so damn easy to get screwed over. You could multiply the odds of winning each match and see if it's worth maintaining a long streak based on those odds. And guess who's running a project for finding out such odds! --- Wylvane KJ456 is a horrible user. |
ExThaNemesis | Posted 10/26/2010 2:57:57 PM | message detail |
From: red sox 777 | #053 bingo. There's really no need to try and go all out from round one on. It's better to just save up some points to fall back on because if you go really far and then lose a long, long streak because you didn't want to bank, you're in such terrible shape. --- http://i974.photobucket.com/albums/ae229/yungflyerz/67106910.jpg |
fyrael | Posted 10/26/2010 2:59:07 PM | message detail |
GTAIII has one of the highest reader review scores on GameFAQs. And we should judge popularity by the opinions of sixty people who decided to write reviews over thousands of people who didn't bother? Dunno about that. |
TheKoolAidShoto | Posted 10/26/2010 3:07:03 PM | message detail |
I
can't imagine the frustration of getting 40 right then ****ing up the
41st. The later rounds aren't gonna be easy pickings with MP/who the
**** knows, KH/KH2, MGS4/MGS3, Brawl/Melee, whatever Crystal is doing,
and the big finale. Way I see it, you have so many Round 1 matches that
aren't ZOMGWHOISGONNAWIN toss-ups, you gotta take advantage of them. --- The 3DS will be $200 or I'm closing my account - Ngamer64 |
AppreciateTrees | Posted 10/26/2010 3:07:22 PM | message detail |
Anyone know what pic WC3 is going to get?? The goblin one or creepy gray hair guy one? Either way Morrowind will have a pretty dull looking picture XD --- "Of course I'm going to rig the contest in my favor." - SBAllen |
TheKoolAidShoto | Posted 10/26/2010 3:13:26 PM | message detail |
http://image.com.com/gamefaqs/images/gotd/gotd-18.jpg Intimidating Goblin vs Boring box art! Perhaps the Goblin will scare off people and they will vote for Morrorwind! --- And I certainly do not agree with my words being taken out of context. - Vlado |
AppreciateTrees | Posted 10/26/2010 3:15:28 PM | message detail |
Oh okay, cool.. That goblin is badass! I'm not banking anymore! --- "Of course I'm going to rig the contest in my favor." - SBAllen |
Team Rocket Elite (Moderator) | Posted 10/26/2010 3:16:11 PM | message detail |
Score-Brackets-% Right 12------737--------43.69 11------3921------42.26 10------7839------43.14 9--------8488------46.16 8--------5519------43.79 7--------2785------42.62 6--------1185------46.50 5--------448--------45.98 4--------219--------53.42 3--------70----------52.86 2--------36----------55.56 1--------19----------21.05 0--------48----------0.00 Knowledge didn't seem to help one way or the other this time. The top 8 tiers are had roughly the same prediction percentage although the higher tiers were slightly worse than the lower tiers. All the 0 brackets managed to get the match "right". 21 people fell off the Top 50 this time. Former first place Hello_Melo, former third place Singletrac, Evil_Mr_Catbert, darkhunter35, Cartman86, Legend87, 92_56_43, somberfox, goken_82, 6nefarious9, JellyJedi, BobTheBlobII, Karasuquote, Damrias, dvijencpurohit, nightmunkey102, GBALoser, Zotman5, favre99, Carto21 and bantha_fodder50 did not have Tales of Symphonia taking out Resident Evil 5. --- "Let me believe what you've always believed! That living is wonderful!" "Thank you so much... Thank you for loving me." |
Safer Sephiroth 777 | Posted 10/26/2010 3:21:49 PM | message detail |
Man
a seed 3 and people didn't trusted it...Now either Resident Evil 5 is
weak or TOS is strong.Probably RE 5 is weak,even weaker than all the
other RE games!And I don't understand why,it was a really good game! --- GameFaqs is NOT the place to go for relationship advice.Nobody here gets any action unless it is their right or left hand.Including me.~Dawn and Dusk~ |
NoDicePwn | Posted 10/26/2010 3:23:05 PM | message detail |
I'm
really shocked so many people went RE5. The bracket was tailor made for
God of War and Tales of Symphonia to have their rematch.. --- http://i56.tinypic.com/o5thna.jpg http://i51.tinypic.com/33kbvba.jpg |
AppreciateTrees | Posted 10/26/2010 3:30:33 PM | message detail |
I'm
really shocked so many people went RE5. The bracket was tailor made for
God of War and Tales of Symphonia to have their rematch.. SBAllen is the one who made the bracket right? And he got it wrong.. Actually I'm not sure, did he make the bracket? --- "Of course I'm going to rig the contest in my favor." - SBAllen |
Justin_Crossing | Posted 10/26/2010 3:31:37 PM | message detail |
From: AppreciateTrees | #065 Do you think that he randomized Halo and Halo 3 in the same bracket, Brawl and Melee, KH and KH2, etc. --- ~Acting on Impulse~ |
AppreciateTrees | Posted 10/26/2010 3:31:53 PM | message detail |
Or wait maybe I heard he banked on ToS/RE5, not lost. --- "Of course I'm going to rig the contest in my favor." - SBAllen |
pjbasis | Posted 10/26/2010 3:34:01 PM | message detail |
Console RPG vs. PC strategy + Warcraft anti vote |
Justin_Crossing | Posted 10/26/2010 3:35:26 PM | message detail |
From: pjbasis | #068 uh excuse me it's the WoW antivote not the warcraft iii antivote --- ~Acting on Impulse~ |
ExThaNemesis | Posted 10/26/2010 3:36:21 PM | message detail |
From: AppreciateTrees | #067 nah he definitely got the pick wrong too. --- http://i974.photobucket.com/albums/ae229/yungflyerz/67106910.jpg |
BlAcK TuRtLe | Posted 10/26/2010 3:37:26 PM | message detail |
From: pjbasis | #068 WoW beat a fairly mainstream RPG in Tales of Symphonia last year, and only lost to Oblivion by a bit. Oblivion is guarenteed to be 4 times stronger than Morrowind, while Warcraft 3 shouldn't be much weaker than WoW. I can't see Warcraft 3 losing that match. I'm more worried about No Mercy/Fire Emblem. --- http://i49.tinypic.com/2ry672r.jpg |
BlAcK TuRtLe | Posted 10/26/2010 3:38:32 PM | message detail |
From: Justin_Crossing | #066 He actually came out and said that he was doing that on purpose, to promote diversity in the later rounds. Which I can't really argue with, since unlike 2004, these SFF matches are really interesting. --- http://i49.tinypic.com/2ry672r.jpg |
ExThaNemesis | Posted 10/26/2010 3:40:03 PM | message detail |
Didn't Morrowind perform pretty solidly last year? The reason I went with it is because we just saw Arthas lose to Kefka. I know, Game =/= characters, but seriously. He lost to Kefka. --- http://i974.photobucket.com/albums/ae229/yungflyerz/67106910.jpg |
pjbasis | Posted 10/26/2010 3:40:10 PM | message detail |
People who anti vote WoW are gonna anti vote III "Warcraft" means mmo with rabid fanbase I didn't know warcraft was a strategy series until I looked it up and neither will they |
ExThaNemesis | Posted 10/26/2010 3:41:21 PM | message detail |
Yeah,
Morrowind held up pretty well with MGS2/FFX in the poll last year. It
should be close, and like I said Arthas just lost to Kefka last year. --- http://i974.photobucket.com/albums/ae229/yungflyerz/67106910.jpg |
NoDicePwn | Posted 10/26/2010 3:42:41 PM | message detail |
Yeah,
Morrowind held up pretty well with MGS2/FFX in the poll last year. It
should be close, and like I said Arthas just lost to Kefka last year. Arthas would obliterate any Morrowind character, so I don't see how this is a factor at all. --- http://i56.tinypic.com/o5thna.jpg http://i51.tinypic.com/33kbvba.jpg |
pjbasis | Posted 10/26/2010 3:44:35 PM | message detail |
Not to mention the casual WoW fans probably never touched one of the strategy games. I wouldn't be surprised if Morrowind proves to be closer to Oblivion than Warcraft III is to WoW. Won't even be that close. |
BlAcK TuRtLe | Posted 10/26/2010 3:45:21 PM | message detail |
From: ExThaNemesis | #073 Yeah, but I think that was more Kefka than anything, judging from how he looked through Bowser. From: pjbasis | #074 I would make the argument that people anti-voting WoW are people that played and enjoyed the actual Warcraft games, and were disappointed that Blizzard gave us that pile of garbage instead of a new RTS. And if you haven't heard of Warcraft before WoW came out, you're plain ignorant. Warcraft 2 was by far the most popular RTS until Starcraft came out, and tonnes of people played it. --- http://i49.tinypic.com/2ry672r.jpg |
Justin_Crossing | Posted 10/26/2010 3:46:12 PM | message detail |
From: pjbasis | #077 http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1129 long time ago but uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh --- ~Acting on Impulse~ |
NoDicePwn | Posted 10/26/2010 3:46:36 PM | message detail |
Not
to mention Warcraft created the the RTS genre, iirc. The original
Warcraft was liek 1993 and I don't think any RTS games came out before
that. --- http://i56.tinypic.com/o5thna.jpg http://i51.tinypic.com/33kbvba.jpg |
BlAcK TuRtLe | Posted 10/26/2010 3:46:54 PM | message detail |
Also,
Warcraft looked great in the series contest, certainly better than any
of WoW's individual performances. Clearly the other games in the series
have some strength. --- http://i49.tinypic.com/2ry672r.jpg |
IngmarBirdman | Posted 10/26/2010 3:47:49 PM | message detail |
Seems
like folks are voting accordingly with "of the decade" ... Acclaimed
and (somewhat moreso) niche games are overperforming so far - Deus Ex,
Legend of Dragoon, Mother 3, Okami, Tales of Symphonia, God of War -
versus fan favorites like Rock Band 2 and TF2. Too early to be
conclusive obv but I feel better about Melee > Brawl. --- "I skate when I want to!" -Benjamin Franklin (http://thengamer.com/guru/bracket.php?id=264) |
pjbasis | Posted 10/26/2010 3:49:15 PM | message detail |
Yeah ignorant of PC gaming. And I think lots of others are going to be too. You really think anti-votes from a hardcore fanbase are gonna matter that much? Anti-votes only work against things that are deemed "undeservedly popular" by a large group. WoW fits that bill. |
SuperAngelo128 | Posted 10/26/2010 3:49:50 PM | message detail |
From: IngmarBirdman | #082 God of War I see --- ~Ange |
BlAcK TuRtLe | Posted 10/26/2010 3:50:18 PM | message detail |
From: NoDicePwn | #080 There was a couple of crappy, lower end RTS games before it, but it was by far the first mainstream and half-way decent RTS. --- http://i49.tinypic.com/2ry672r.jpg |
IngmarBirdman | Posted 10/26/2010 3:50:43 PM | message detail |
(somewhat moreso) niche I had a preface :-( --- "I skate when I want to!" -Benjamin Franklin (http://thengamer.com/guru/bracket.php?id=264) |
BlAcK TuRtLe | Posted 10/26/2010 3:51:08 PM | message detail |
From: IngmarBirdman | #082 If anything that would make Brawl beating Melee more obvious. Brawl is undoubtedly the better game, and did way more for the series. --- http://i49.tinypic.com/2ry672r.jpg |
pjbasis | Posted 10/26/2010 3:55:10 PM | message detail |
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1129 No should cite this poll anymore. The question is asking PC gamers for PC games. Besides 8 years old it's a skewed viewpoint altogether. Willing to bet Morrowind gets most of its fans from the Xbox, which also at the time was considerably less popular. |
pjbasis | Posted 10/26/2010 3:55:44 PM | message detail |
spellcheck missing the "Noone" ah well |
NoDicePwn | Posted 10/26/2010 3:57:28 PM | message detail |
I
don't see why it matters that its a PC poll. It was still on the
frontpage of the site and its not like you're ineligible to vote for
morrowind if you played the Xbox version. --- http://i56.tinypic.com/o5thna.jpg http://i51.tinypic.com/33kbvba.jpg |
BlAcK TuRtLe | Posted 10/26/2010 3:57:55 PM | message detail |
From: pjbasis | #088 Aside from Halo and KotOR, no other X-box game has become retroactively stronger. That poll has a convincing enough difference to seal it for me, and that poll was long before WoW increased the Warcraft fanbase 100-fold. --- http://i49.tinypic.com/2ry672r.jpg |
transients | Posted 10/26/2010 3:58:13 PM | message detail |
he's
right. that 2002 poll needs to be thrown out. look at the 2009 match
against MGS2 and judge it from that, not that stupid poll. --- xyzzy |
Justin_Crossing | Posted 10/26/2010 3:58:30 PM | message detail |
pj shut the hell up okay i spoke on behalf of everyone let's discuss something discussable --- ~Acting on Impulse~ |
WhiteLens | Posted 10/26/2010 3:58:31 PM | message detail |
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WhiteLens | Posted 10/26/2010 3:59:21 PM | message detail |
From: AppreciateTrees | #067 He actually got it right on his bracket and banked on it. His current score is 10 and the only ones that we know he got wrong are Rock Band 2, SMS, and Demon's Soul. Though him banking 100 points is kind of funny. --- No need for words, Just cast Luminaire and be done with it. |
NoDicePwn | Posted 10/26/2010 3:59:37 PM | message detail |
he's
right. that 2002 poll needs to be thrown out. look at the 2009 match
against MGS2 and judge it from that, not that stupid poll. Whats wrong with looking at a head to head poll where it got blown out? --- http://i56.tinypic.com/o5thna.jpg http://i51.tinypic.com/33kbvba.jpg |
transients | Posted 10/26/2010 4:00:27 PM | message detail |
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=776 a lot. --- xyzzy |
ExThaNemesis | Posted 10/26/2010 4:03:16 PM | message detail |
If anything that would make Brawl beating Melee more obvious. Brawl is undoubtedly the better game, and did way more for the series. oh good god. --- http://i974.photobucket.com/albums/ae229/yungflyerz/67106910.jpg |
pjbasis | Posted 10/26/2010 4:04:09 PM | message detail |
pj shut the hell up okay i spoke on behalf of everyone let's discuss something discussable What's more discussable than a debatable contest match coming up soon? Why the hostility? And thanks for that 2001 poll, only enforced my decision. |
Achromatic | Posted 10/26/2010 4:08:42 PM | message detail |
Geesh JC have a bit more class about you, the guy is just expressing a pretty benign opinion. --- Sir Chris |
