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I think Black Ops is out of it despite it being close. The morning is looking to favour Assassin's Creed while any night push would go towards FFXIII.
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Black Ops could get the ASV when it starts up in the morning (since this is a weekend poll).
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Yeah, I don't see how you can CoD out here. FFXIII isn't exactly going to have a spectacular day showing.

There's also way more SFF for CoD, for what that's worth.

AC has a pretty good day vote.
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What the hell is going on, some sort of rally?
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I don't know what's going on right now. Care to explain?
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Wait a second... Bacon ordered these games alphabetically from A-F, ending with Final Fantasy. Based on that, I'd guess tomorrow's poll will cover G-Z. Does that mean Fable III is completely snubbed from these polls?
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I don't know what's going on right now. Care to explain?

Judging by this previous post:

NA sucks.

Hopefully FF can get the lead relatively soon and build a decent overnight advantage to hold off anything come the day.

I'm guessing he's an FFXIII supporter who is disappointed that FFXIII hasn't started killing the overnight vote yet.

Obviously I can't speak for the rest of the site, but I only voted AC:B because I didn't want FFXIII or Black Ops to win this poll and nothing else here was strong enough to potentially top those two.
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Wait a second... Bacon ordered these games alphabetically from A-F, ending with Final Fantasy. Based on that, I'd guess tomorrow's poll will cover G-Z. Does that mean Fable III is completely snubbed from these polls?

Fable isn't multiplatform.
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Oh wow FFXIII is closer to Black Ops than it is to Brotherhood.

Good job GameFAQs! No, this isn't sarcastic.
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From: MegatokyoEd | #002
Fable isn't multiplatform.

Didn't someone say it's because it's listed as a PC game to be. Perhaps Bacon mistook it for multiplatform. Either way, it's weird that it wasn't the 360 poll or on this one.
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lolFFXIII

Looks like the GameFAQs voterbase really is pretty discriminating nowadays. Votals are just as bad as they have been though.

By the way, here is a list of the Xbox 360 GotY winners since 2006:

Gears of War
Halo 3
Gears of War 2
Halo 3: ODST
Halo Reach

There's a pattern here...
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FF13 is a good game and you people are nuts.
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A Very Obvious Match: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=2122

Votals are just as bad as they have been though.

It's going to be slightly better today, since it will be the first GotY poll for this year to break 50000 votes. But still, that's pretty bad because last year's multi-platform GotY got about 75000 votes.
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I am surprised that AC is first to tell the truth.I mean nobody was expecting to be good but it was awesome.As for FF XIII I thought it would be first.I voted for Fallout myself.
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From: UltimaterializerX | #063
FF13 is a good game and you people are nuts.

It's a good game, but far from good enough to be considered a GotY contender.

Kind of surprised AC is actually winning. Top vote option, anyone?

But seriously, it's kind of crazy that AC has the strength that it has here, considering how mediocre the first title is. AC2 and Brotherhood are solid games, though (that I still need to play, damn my backlog), and I do find it interesting that AC of all series is one that is getting a major pull here.

As for the rest, New Vegas is doing respectable, but I can see why it's not winning due to how incredibly glitchy is it (yes, even for a Bethesda game). If it had more polish, it'd at least be beating FF13 if not outright winning this poll. Black Ops is actually doing respectable considering how badly the CoD series tanked in the last contest.

What this match tells me is that Mass Effect 2 should have an easy win unless GameFAQs jumps on the RDR bandwagon, which is possible.

Also, anyone else thinking there will be three days of Multiplatform games? Nice of Bacon to actually split them up, but I wish he'd do something a bit different next year just because of the sheer number of multiplatform games.
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Guru Contest Winner Black Turtle is a wonderful user.

Last contest's x-stats have ACII beating every GTA game aside from GTAIII, but RDR is likely stronger than those games while Brotherhood may be weaker. But I'm not really sure, I've heard some saying that Brotherhood is the best AC game.
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FF13's losing half of a multi-platform GotY-poll? Huh. I figured it would have given ME2 a fight, but I don't think AC:B will really compete with ME2 now. I mean, even CoD is looking decent enough here.


So, what are currently the top contenders for the new-IP GotY? From what we've seen so far, here are the biggest contenders from each poll:

Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
Fruit Ninja (haha)
Minecraft Alpha
Heavy Rain
Alan Wake
Limbo
Bayonetta

What other notable games are we missing so far? Super Meat Boy's the only one that immediately comes to mind, and it's not like it's a powerhouse by any means. It may be a battle between Minecraft and Heavy Rain.
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I would think Bayonetta or Limbo at first glance but both of those games have done pretty poorly in their polls. Heavy Rain for the sweep.

Super Meat Boy isn't a new IP.
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From: LinkMarioSamus | #069
I would think Bayonetta or Limbo at first glance but both of those games have done pretty poorly in their polls. Heavy Rain for the sweep.

Super Meat Boy isn't a new IP.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/957939-meat-boy/data

Oh snap, you're right!
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Wylvane
Guru Contest Winner Black Turtle is a wonderful user.

I knew because I randomly found that out. I was interested in Super Meat Boy because










~Super Meat Boy spoilers~

The Kid from I Wanna Be the Guy (a game which I've watched multiple LPs of multiple times) is unlockable.

~Super Meat Boy spoilers end~
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I haven't been keeping track... but with these duel multi-platform polls are they taking the top 5 placers in each poll and then putting them into a third poll?
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Shame that Bioshock 2 isn't performing that well.

So what games are we expecting in the other poll, let's see...

Mass Effect 2
Red Dead Redemption
Super Street Fighter IV
Rock Band 3

Too bad RDR wasn't in today's poll it could have had a chance here.
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The final tally for Board 8's Power Rankings:

1. Ocarina of Time - 339
2. Final Fantasy VII - 324

3. A Link to the Past - 295
4. Pokemon RBY - 284
5. Super Mario 64 - 274

6. Super Mario World - 221
7. Chrono Trigger - 216
8. Super Smash Bros. Melee - 209
9. Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 204
10. Super Mario Bros. 3 - 199
11. Final Fantasy X - 184
12. Majora's Mask - 183

13. Twilight Princess - 146
14. Metal Gear Solid - 110
15. Goldeneye 007 - 84
16. Super Mario Bros. - 62
17. Pokemon GSC - 57
18. Final Fantasy VIII - 54
19. Resident Evil 4 - 30
20. The Wind Waker - 28
21. Super Mario RPG - 27
22. The Legend of Zelda - 18
23. Fallout 3 - 10
24. Final Fantasy VI - 5
25. Final Fantasy - 1

#1 Votes:

Ocarina of Time - 16
Final Fantasy VII - 1

#3 Votes:

A Link to the Past - 8
Pokemon RBY - 7
Super Mario 64 - 2

Our top 10 consists of.....

- 8 Nintendo games and 2 Square games.
- 1 NES-era game, 3 SNES/Genesis-era games, 4 N64/PS1-era games, 1 GC/PS2/Xbox-era game, and 1 Wii/PS3/360-era game.
- 3 Mario games, 2 Zelda games, 2 Smash games, 1 Final Fantasy game, 1 Pokemon game, and 1 Chrono game.

Our top 20 consists of:

-14 Nintendo games, 4 Square games, and 2 other games.
- 2 NES-era games, 3 SNES/Genesis-era games, 9 N64/PS1-era games, 4 GC/PS2/Xbox-era games, and 2 Wii/PS3/360-era games.
- 5 Zelda games, 4 Mario games, 3 Final Fantasy games, 2 Pokemon games, 2 Smash games, and 4 others.
- 0 Western games.

Games with the highest variance in ranking among voters:

Chrono Trigger, Goldeneye 007, Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, Majora's Mask

Games with the lowest variance in ranking among voters (among games that received votes from nearly everyone):

Ocarina of Time, Final Fantasy VII, A Link to the Past, Super Mario 64, Twilight Princess

Thanks for voting!
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11. Final Fantasy X - 184
12. Majora's Mask - 183

13. Twilight Princess - 146
14. Metal Gear Solid - 110

Group should be closer.
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Random Question:

Why is Smash Bros. do disproportionately popular here? There's at least some logic behind the other games that are. Zelda and jRPGs are games that have a lot of exploration and secrets to them, so using a FAQ for them makes sense. And I guess the kind of people that like Zelda and jRPGS aren't huge fans of PC and Xbox games, so that explains the repulsion there as well. But why Smash? Was the community started on the boards here or something? That's the only real explanation I have.
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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

GameFAQs loves Nintendo.

Smash Bros is one giant Nintendo love letter.

Why wouldn't it better?
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GameFAQs loves Nintendo.

Smash Bros is one giant Nintendo love letter.

Why wouldn't it better?

This is a misnomer. Other than Zelda and Smash Bros. (and the various jRPGS) what Nintendo entrants are disproportionately popular? Mario and Metroid have never seemed excessive to me.
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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

Our top 20 consists of:

-14 Nintendo games, 4 Square games, and 2 other games.
- 2 NES-era games, 3 SNES/Genesis-era games, 9 N64/PS1-era games, 4 GC/PS2/Xbox-era games, and 2 Wii/PS3/360-era games.
- 5 Zelda games, 4 Mario games, 3 Final Fantasy games, 2 Pokemon games, 2 Smash games, and 4 others.
- 0 Western games.

Not counting Goldeneye as a Western game?
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Congrats to BlAcK TuRtLe for winning the GotD Guru Contest!

It's kind of ambiguous. It was published by Nintendo, after all.......would Metroid Prime count as a Western game? It's 1 Western game if Goldeneye counts.
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Congratulations to Guru Champion Black Turtle, who called MM > GSC when most of us were calling it impossible.

Other than Zelda and Smash Bros. (and the various jRPGS) what Nintendo entrants are disproportionately popular? Mario and Metroid have never seemed excessive to me.

None of the Metroid games in themselves are disproportionately popular here, but Samus is.
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From: red sox 777 | #081
It's kind of ambiguous. It was published by Nintendo, after all.......would Metroid Prime count as a Western game? It's 1 Western game if Goldeneye counts.

just because it was published by NIntendo doesn't mean a Japanese company developed it
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FFXIII is downright pathetic here. Why? Well, even the twelfth member of the series did pretty well for itself in the 2006 Game of the Year poll:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=2622

Then again, it was more than doubled by Twilight Princess a few days later. Still, FFXIII can't even win a poll with only 1/3 of the multi-platform games on it!


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None of the Metroid games in themselves are disproportionately popular here, but Samus is.

Because of Smash Bros., most likely.
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Brotherhood with the win. Good stuff!

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This is a misnomer. Other than Zelda and Smash Bros. (and the various jRPGS) what Nintendo entrants are disproportionately popular? Mario and Metroid have never seemed excessive to me.

Compared to the general public, yes. Mario may be the Nintendo series that's closest here to its typical strength elsewhere, but you'd still be hard pressed to find another site with 3 Mario games in its top 10. Nintendo taking 14 out of 20 of our top 20 says it all I think, for the company as a whole.

The SSB games are the biggest Nintendo games of the past 10 years, and each is the top game on its console.
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Smash Bros., but that reasoning alone won't help, or else someone like Kirby should be just as popular. It's probably also due to the design and somewhat iconic nature of Samus herself. Perhaps the fact that she's had pretty popular games since the NES days also helps.

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Because of Smash Bros., most likely.

I guess that's possible.

...The idea that Donkey Kong may have been significantly benefiting from Smash all this time and still managed to perform, well, like Donkey Kong has amuses me. Really hoping DKCR does something for the poor guy, just so that he can have 1 year where he actually pulls off a good win.

Also, FFXIII is now facing a possible loss to Black Ops. Ouch.
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Black Ops is now beating FFXIII.
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So uhh....how many games from each Multi-platform poll are going to make the big GotY poll?

Because if only two then FFXIII might not even get there. >_>
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Last year we only had one Multi-Platform poll, and only the winner (CoD:MW2) made it to the big Game of the Year poll. Dragon Age only got there because it got a second chance from the Best New Original Title poll, despite losing to AC2 and Arkham Asylum in the Multi-Platform poll.

That's...pretty stupid, actually. Ignoring for the moment that Dragon Age got 2 chances to qualify, why do we even have a Best New Original Title poll when all the other ones until the overall are based on platform? We don't have a best sequel or best remake or anything. Dragon Age did do well in the Game of the Year poll, I guess, but I'd bet on AC2 and Batman managing the exact same thing.

So I'd assume only the winners of each Multi-Platform poll this year make it to the first Game of the Year poll. Meaning FFXIII is out regardless.
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Mario may be the Nintendo series that's closest here to its typical strength elsewhere, but you'd still be hard pressed to find another site with 3 Mario games in its top 10

I wouldn't be surprised if they were. All 3 of those are absolutely huge, and they'd be popular elsewhere. SMB3 did great on Gamespy for what it's worth, and I wouldn't expect the relative popularities of the games to change much between sites. That's not the greatest evidence, but I see no reason to think that the classic Mario games would not dominate everywhere.
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Black Ops is beating FFXIII? Huh...? >_>

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So, FFXIII is bombing, the FF near-elites are standing their ground at best, and both Skyward Sword and 3DS OoT are coming out next year. Hopefully this means the Nintendo near-elites can close the gap with their Square counterparts next character battle and give us some good matches.
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Metroid Prime is pretty disproportionately popular here. On most other sites Half-Life 2 and Fallout 3 would destroy it.

I thought Mario games were extremely popular across the entire Internet, especially the SMB3/W/64 trio. Legend of Zelda isn't as much: you wouldn't see WW or TP doing as well but OoT, LttP, MM, and even the original LoZ to a lesser extent shouldn't deviate much.

As far as the Metroid series goes...I personally lump Samus into the same category as Kratos, Dante, and Ryu Hayabusa in getting more strength from character design than from the character's actual games (this fits well with what I think to, I like Samus more for her character design and the entire concept as opposed to her games or any iconicism, even though Super Metroid and Prime are among my all-time favorites and SSBM isn't too far behind either game). Next she draws strength from being iconic like Sonic, Mega Man, and Ryu from Street Fighter, then from being a Smash leech like Zelda or Ganondorf (explains why she can SFF them, too), and THEN from her games, which aren't very mainstream aside from MAYBE Other M (which was the most aggressively marketed game in the series), and I bet Metroid Prime gets a lot of strength just from being one of the best games on the GameCube, which basically seems to be GameFAQs' pet system by now. You think Resident Evil 4 or Tales of Symphonia would be as strong as they are if they were PS2-exclusives?

To be fair though the Metroid series as a whole has done very well in both 2010 contests; none of the franchise's entrants has put up any disappointing performances and they both have plenty of impressive ones of their own (such as Samus breaking 45% on a character who would destroy her on just about any other site). I think it boosted somehow, maybe due to Other M's aggressive marketing and Metroid Prime's rerelease. I would seriously pick Super Metroid to beat StarCraft now. I wouldn't be surprised if Super Metroid beat MGS4, either.
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well, pre-contest (or pre-GOTY) I said ME2 > RDR > Brotherhood > Galaxy 2 > New Vegas > FFXIII > Black Ops. looks like I was off on the bottom games by a little bit but I feel pretty good about the rest!

wonder where GOW3 and Halo fit in. I guess we're getting 3 days of multiplatform polls? that's cool, but the front half of the alphabet is pretty stacked so we might only get 2. it'd be cool if we could get Brotherhood, ME2 and RDR as winners of their respective polls and then a showdown in the finals.

if it's only 2...

Just Cause 2
Mass Effect 2
NBA Jam / NBA 2K11
Red Dead Redemption
Rock Band 3
Super Street Fighter IV
some other weakass game
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Also lol Call of Duty > Final Fantasy. Multi-way poll benefit? Actually no, Black Ops will simply die in flames just like Modern Warfare 2 did. If we held a games contest in the latter half of this year I think FFXIII will ultimately emerge as the stronger game. Not that I freaking care. Here's a division I felt like assembling:

(1) Super Mario Galaxy
(16) Thief II: The Metal Age

(8) Assassin's Creed II
(9) Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening

(5) God of War
(12) Devil May Cry

(4) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
(13) Fable

(3) Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
(14) Rome: Total War

(6) LittleBigPlanet
(11) Silent Hill 2

(7) Valkyria Chronicles
(10) Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn

(2) Metroid Prime
(15) Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
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Something silly to mention is that the '09 x-stats have Call of Duty 4 losing to World of Warcraft and Halo 2, but the '10 x-stats contradict this. However, Team Fortress 2, which Call of Duty 4 once almost tripled, now beats all three of them.

Lol CoD.
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