GameFAQs Contests

(1) Fallout 3
(16) inFamous

(8) Rock Band 2
(9) Deus Ex

(5) Batman Arkham Asylum
(12) Psychonauts

(4) Team Fortress 2
(13) Fable

(3) Uncharted 2
(14) Legend of Dragoon

(7) Halo 3
(10) Super Mario Sunshine

(2) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
(15) Ninja Gaiden

---
Yoblazer: http://i38.tinypic.com/2s024p4.jpg
Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world!

From: PartOfYourWorld | #151
2) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
(15) Ninja Gaiden

lmao
---
~ Ange
no heroickrauss bullying topic i see. feels wrong, board viewing experience feels lesser

Ninja Gaiden would not be happy about that, so yeah, I imagine that would probably send the entire site offline.

http://newsburglar.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/ninja-gaiden-revenge-468x.jpg

http://img815.imageshack.us/img815/4450/ninjady.png

---
DFF

So Brawl pulled it off in the end, huh? Crazy stuff.

This leaves me wondering: if Brawl and KHII can defeat their predecessors, despite not being as highly regarded... what in blazes happened to Halo 3?!?

---
Resident Evil 4 > Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Don't kid yourself. It's happening!

From: TheCodeisBosco | #155
So Brawl pulled it off in the end, huh? Crazy stuff.

This leaves me wondering: if Brawl and KHII can defeat their predecessors, despite not being as highly regarded... what in blazes happened to Halo 3?!?

Halo 1 is that much better clearly!

Also, KP has won a testicle. Even though he didn't want to and was willing to temporarily sacrifice one of his. Use it well.
---
http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n231/sihp/waluigi.gif

Despite being the conclusion to the story, Halo 3 is not "The last big Halo game". Since then we've had ODST, Halo Wars, and Reach. Halo Reach in particular was heavily hyped.

What did Halo 3 do? Well, it wasn't the first online Halo game (that was Halo 2). The story makes no sense if you haven't played the previous games. Even if you're just in the mood for an online shooter for the 360, Gears of War and Modern Warfare had that base covered.

So basically, Halo 3 was the sequel to Halo 2...and that was really all it was. It's bigger and better, but in the end it's just another Halo game, and if the sales of Black Ops are any indication, casual shooter players are quick to jump on the next big thing. In the end, Halo 1 is the only game in the series with that hardcore fanbase.
---
http://card.mygamercard.net/Mach+Tornado.png

Kingdom Hearts also probably wasn't able to take advantage of any 1st Game Factor, since the mainline part of the series only has two games.
---
"Ahem! There is *sand* on my *boot*!"--Kefka
Dr. Football beat me, Yesmar in the 2010 Guru Contest!

KHII gained .16% that hour.
Awesome ASV.

Replace Galaxy with Super Mario Bros 3. SMB3/TP would be interesting..
---
The Gamer In Me
"Oh boy, I always wanted to be a pedo." - Janus5000's response to sleeping with Misty for the night

By the way, Mario 1/Zelda 1 still bamboozles me. Give it another couple of years, and I'll take Zelda 1 again hoping this time the percentage of NES voters on the site has dropped to a low enough percentage for the post-N64 Zelda franchise advantage to pull through for Zelda 1.

I'm gonna have to agree with Blazer here. No video game in the tournament(s) gets more respect votes than SMB1. Hell, I probably prefer Zelda 1 just a little bit more, and in their first match I voted for SMB without thinking twice. It is THE video game of all time to tons of people. It's impressive that LoZ is as close as it is to it.
---
"Ahem! There is *sand* on my *boot*!"--Kefka
Dr. Football beat me, Yesmar in the 2010 Guru Contest!

From: AxemPink | #159
KHII gained .16% that hour.
Awesome ASV.

But look what it's up against.
---
Yoblazer: http://i38.tinypic.com/2s024p4.jpg
Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world!

(1)Fallout 3
(16)inFamous

(8)Rock Band 2
(9)Deus Ex

(5)Batman Arkham Asylum
(12)Psychonauts

(4)Team Fortress 2
(13)Fable

(3)Uncharted 2
(14)The Legend of Dragoon

(6)Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
(11)Street Fighter IV

(7)Halo 3
(10)Super Mario Sunshine

(2)Halo: Combat Evolved
(15)Future Contest Winner NINJA GAIDEN

---
Resident Evil 4 > Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Don't kid yourself. It's happening!

TheCodeisBosco
Posted 12/16/2010 3:53:26 PM
message detail

So Brawl pulled it off in the end, huh? Crazy stuff.

This leaves me wondering: if Brawl and KHII can defeat their predecessors, despite not being as highly regarded... what in blazes happened to Halo 3?!?

Simple, Halo franchise is very clearly 1 > 3 > 2. Kingdom Hearts 2 was also better recieved as it fixed a lot of issues with the first game (less kiddy, no Gummy Ship).

Brawl on the other hand improved vastly on Melee, both in terms of number (and quality) of characters, graphically, sound track etc. About the only thing Brawl did wrong from Melee is that it trended the engine towards a more balanced and fun party style fighter, which pissed off the competitive players who memorized all the little "tricks" (wavedashing for instance) and didn't feel like adapting to the new game engine. Same thing as what happened to Street Fighter 2 (and what will probably happen with MvC3)

TheCodeisBosco i like ur sig. RE4 shuld win e.z.
brawl suks, im srry. i dont understand how it won. the people who voted for brawl probably never played melee, or never got good enough to understand how GREAT of a game it rly is.
---

Despite being the conclusion to the story, Halo 3 is not "The last big Halo game". Since then we've had ODST, Halo Wars, and Reach. Halo Reach in particular was heavily hyped.

What did Halo 3 do? Well, it wasn't the first online Halo game (that was Halo 2). The story makes no sense if you haven't played the previous games. Even if you're just in the mood for an online shooter for the 360, Gears of War and Modern Warfare had that base covered.

So basically, Halo 3 was the sequel to Halo 2...and that was really all it was. It's bigger and better, but in the end it's just another Halo game, and if the sales of Black Ops are any indication, casual shooter players are quick to jump on the next big thing. In the end, Halo 1 is the only game in the series with that hardcore fanbase.

Kingdom Hearts also probably wasn't able to take advantage of any 1st Game Factor, since the mainline part of the series only has two games.

Good points all around! All things considered, Halo 1 also probably got quite a bit of respect voting as well - at least a fair amount more than KH.

About the only thing Brawl did wrong from Melee is that it trended the engine towards a more balanced and fun party style fighter

Maybe it's just me, but honestly, I feel like Melee's a bit more fun when it comes to party-style multiplayer. In that game, items were actually really fun to use - I love Brawl to death, but man, the developers absolutely dropped the ball with the items in that game.

As far as Brawl improving on Melee... I definitely think it did in a number of aspects, though Melee definitely has the edge in a few areas. Brawl's single-player is a million times better, as is the soundtrack; and as great as Melee's visuals were for the time, I think Brawl managed to better utilize its hardware. I'd say Melee has slightly better multiplayer, though, and modes like Event and Break the Targets were a lot better too.

TheCodeisBosco i like ur sig. RE4 shuld win e.z.

Should win? Don't worry, man - it WILL win!

---
Resident Evil 4 > Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Don't kid yourself. It's happening!

Ooh, here's a fun statistic. I had been going through the summaries of old matches on the wiki, and when I got to Master Chief's win over Spy in the first round of this winter's contest, I saw the note that MC was the first to have a prediction percentage above 90% yet fail to double his opponent since DK in 2002. In the matches in question, DK got 61.96% against Bub and Master Chief got 60.22% against Spy. Well, we have a new standard for an overwhelming bracket favorite failing to overwhelm. Despite a prediction percentage of 92.21%, World of Warcraft got just 58.55% against Animal Crossing in round one, making it the first entrant in a contest to break 90% prediction percentage while failing to break 60%.

This is just too awesome. I think WoW might actually have to surpass Halo as king of the anti-votes for that one. It's pretty obvious that there were a lot of people who didn't want WoW to win but picked it in their brackets anyway because they knew how big the fanbase is--essentially, the same reason Halo and its main character always get high prediction percentages, high seeds, and low votals.
---
Currently playing: Kirby's Epic Yarn

I think Call of Duty probably already usurped Halo's throne there. It's just that if Halo was the King, World of Warcraft is the Divine Emperor.

I was hoping KHII would put up a better fight ;0

at least its not getting crushed with the Zelda ASV

Twilight Princess is an amazing game but, where are all the FF and SQ-E fanatics?
In the end, Nintendo is such a powerhouse!

BTW. I'm UPSET by Galaxy losing out too, when is clearly a far superior games in all terms save scale and story.
---
---
http://forthefuturety.wordpress.com

KH2's ASV is starting to kick in a bit, finally.
---
"I can set you free, mate."
"My freedom was forfeit long ago!"

Very interesting prediction percentage stuff, Tsunami! I always enjoy seeing new incites on stats like that. Not only is World of Warcraft seriously overestimated, but I think Animal Crossing was vastly underestimated... in fact, same with Paper Mario.

if Brawl and KHII can defeat their predecessors, despite not being as highly regarded... what in blazes happened to Halo 3?!?

Well, it's not like it would totally unpredictable for those three things to happen; I had Halo > Halo 3, Brawl > Melee, -and- KH2 > KH1. I can't say for sure... the other arguments are better, but I will throw in my two cents: Brawl and Melee were very hyped releases compared to their predecessors... both Halo and Halo 3 were majorly hyped. And, I think the fact that GameFAQs doesn't like shooters that much would suggest they would be more likely to vote for an "original". I wouldn't be surprised if Gamespot voters would favor Halo 3.

---
"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. So...what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Pretty safe to say that Zelda's likely to win this by now.


Anyways, I wanna be able to get some attention on the next match, FFX vs. FFIX. Generally, this is what I believe to be a pretty important match. A victory for FFIX here would complete the bracket chaos (since why not?), and besides, i'd love to see the delicious raeg that'd come with such an upset.

If FFIX is to win, it needs both a match pic advantage (dunno what pics are being used yet for this match) and rallying (and plenty of it) to be able to get probably around between 50-51% and beat it.

I'm confident that this can be possible for FFIX, but only if we get prepared and start as early as possible (the bigger the lead by the end of the hour, the better).

Now then......who's with me?

Oh, and lol at Portal possibly winning the fight afterwards.

FFIX will get owned dude
---
29/11/2010. Never forget. http://64.210.151.102/image.html?u=12565&dateline=1210104981

I'm confident that this can be possible for FFIX

It's not. Your confidence is misplaced.

Any place you can rally for FFIX, as soon as they see the poll, more likely than not they will vote for FFX instead.
---
lol opinions

Zelda gonna beat Brawl, believe

pretty sure I'd take TP over FFX at this point too.
---
xyzzy

How much is Brawl worth in FFXII? It should be nowhere near fodder. Has anyone considered that Portal may actually be pretty close to the favorite at this point?

Eh. Portal is projected to get less on Skies of Arcadia than what RE4 got on Vice City
---
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

FFX still gon' win
---
Support Morrigan Aensland (Darkstalkers) for Character Battle IX!
http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/9302/banner5morrigan2.jpg

Hahaha, it's amusing to see a reaction of the SSB match from my facebook feed.

"I don't care what happened to the poll. Brawl freaking sucks. Nuff said."
---
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v252/whitelens/ls_wii_small.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v252/whitelens/mnls_pin_small.png

Twilight Princess the favorite to win now?

It's still Brawl with the possibility of FFX, but we'll just have to wait until the quarter-finals.
---
If you think my account was named after White Len, please note that my account was created in '03 and Melty Blood: ReACT came out in '04.

From: KingVDV | #182
Twilight Princess the favorite to win now?

The favourite to win today's match maybe. It seems as though everyone's forgotten about Brawl's domination last year. The fact that it basically validated what it did last year (slightly above Melee in strength) means that nothing will stand in its way, barring some weird FFX resurgence.
---
http://i49.tinypic.com/2ry672r.jpg

I just realized something.......

You can vote once as a guest, and then vote again after logging in. 2 votes for a person.

But eh, I doubt it'll affect things much.

*sighs*
---
"I can set you free, mate."
"My freedom was forfeit long ago!"

TP suddenly seems like a legit threat to Brawl. Wonder if RE4 hurt it in those 4-ways.
---
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g320/HowDisturbing/stayawhile.jpg
Fight like dragons, have no fear, swords are made of STEEEEEEEEL~

Melee has better items?

Maybe you forget, but Brawl brought back the BUMPER.

All of TP's matches look kind of weird now in retrospect. I doubt RE4 has a close match with it 1-on-1.
---
Support Squirtle (Pokemon R/B/Y) for Character Battle IX!
http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/8463/banner2squirtle.jpg

From: ancara | #185
I just realized something.......

You can vote once as a guest, and then vote again after logging in. 2 votes for a person.

But eh, I doubt it'll affect things much.

Well that's considered vote stuffing...and I think GameFAQs has a built-in system to discount votes coming from the same IP Address.

From: Janus5000 | #187
TP suddenly seems like a legit threat to Brawl. Wonder if RE4 hurt it in those 4-ways.

If that's really the case than FFX better watch out against RE4.
But, still the 4-ways would show that Brawl is still more favored because it would be taking votes from TP during that match.
---
Why must people hate on Tidus? I mean you'd complain too if all you did was walk on a super-long straight-forward path.

Heh

Maybe http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3500 is the match that was most accurate for RE4 Vs. Twilight Princess >_>

It got about the same against RE4 there as it is getting against KH and KH and RE4 were pretty much 50-50 in all their matches together that year
---
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

Notional odds to win in my mind:

1/2 Brawl
8/1 FFX
8/1 Twilight Princess
12/1 RE4
16/1 Shadow of the Colossus
20/1 Majora's Mask
100/1 Wind Waker
200/1 MGS3
250/1 Fallout 3
300/1 Metroid Prime
750/1 FFIX

---
I predict and analyse the Game of the Decade contest here:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/56817040

KH2 hurts TP, this is kiddy SFF

that's why it rocked that match
---
xyzzy

(I've actually believed this to a certain extent but I'd never make an argument for it)
---
xyzzy

From: Janus5000 | #187
TP suddenly seems like a legit threat to Brawl. Wonder if RE4 hurt it in those 4-ways.

From now on when someone suggests something other than FFX beating Brawl, I'm just going to respond with this link:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3505
---
http://i49.tinypic.com/2ry672r.jpg

Have people forgotten how bad the Kingdom Hearts characters looked last contest? I guess the extent of the KH collapse is notable, but this isn't exactly coming out of nowhere, and it doesn't mean Twilight Princess is now a real threat to win.

Bioshock doing as well as it did on KHII makes a lot of sense given this performance, too. Bioshock breaking 43% looks like it was mostly KHII dropping.

From: Kotetsu534 | #192
Notional odds to win in my mind:

1/2 Brawl
8/1 FFX
8/1 Twilight Princess
12/1 RE4
16/1 Shadow of the Colossus
20/1 Majora's Mask
100/1 Wind Waker
200/1 MGS3
250/1 Fallout 3
300/1 Metroid Prime
750/1 FFIX

How do you have SotC so high? It should be between MP and FF9. And Fallout 3/MGS3 should probably be switched and TP set equal to RE4.
---
http://i49.tinypic.com/2ry672r.jpg

Probably because SoTC could get a bandwagon after it beats MGS3.

But uh, it should probably be under the Zeldas, at least. I don't think the bandwagon is going to be that effective.
---
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

20/1 on Majora's Mask are delicious odds. Could be a real bolter as things go on. It's as close as you can get to Ocarina of Time.

Well actually, Bandwagons at least have the element of unpredictability so, well, I guess it's right. I mean, it's more likely than Wind Waker, Metroid Prime, or any other lower tier Nintendo title when other higher tier Nintendo titles are in play.
---
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.