GameFAQs Contests
Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 996
Yay Zelda is beating Mario. I was worried that wouldn't happen on a different site, but the Nintendo fanbase pulls through. --- 90s games > 00s games |
Joy. It's probably not just the fanbase's preference at this point, though, but also sales. At this point, among serious American gamers, 3-D Zelda rivals if not beats 3-D Mario's sales. I wonder if gamefaqs' apathy about New Super Mario Bros. Wii is shared by the populace of other major gaming sites? It wouldn't surprise me considering how 2-D platformers were largely neglected for about a decade. If so, Zelda would probably have a shot at winning at any of these places. --- Black turtle beat me, o noes! |
Nah on average Zelda series would always win over Mario series. --- BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls Congratulations to Black Turtle for winning the guru contest. |
Looking for charmander's answer on this post: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/58664378/651203289 BT already gave his answer on that post, but maybe there's something that you could add that BT didn't mention. --- Luster Soldier - Popular at school. ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ |
Mario outperformed Link against Freeman at Gamespot, no? So Castlevania and Metroid are looking like pieces of trash right now. Lol Halo > Mario. Uhhh...that's all I have to say. --- Currently Playing - StarCraft Upcoming - Baldur's Gate II, Okami, Resident Evil 4 |
~Be prepared for LMS the annoying to come back~ Well, according to GamesRadar, Wind Waker > Mario 3 > Galaxy > LttP > SM64 > Twilight Princess So I guess the Zelda series having the best game out of both franchises...yeah. EDIT: No, the Zelda series is winning because of all those Ocarina of Time drones. I remember back when GMUN (or someone) posted a link to a "Best Games Ever" poll that was taking place on another site, and Ocarina was easily in 1st there. Then again, that doesn't explain why Zelda allowed Halo to post 45% on it...oh right, godd'mn Halo fans. --- Currently Playing - StarCraft Upcoming - Baldur's Gate II, Okami, Resident Evil 4 |
It
comes down to US/Canada being two different markets, it's like going
through the polls and being surprised every time Germany and
Netherlands have different results. It makes sense going by real life.
While people did own an Xbox, let's just say the Gamecube was probably
closer to the PS2 than the Xbox. I was pretty shocked to find out the Xbox was close let alone winning over the Gamecube. Then again it was no where close to the shock of finding out that the PS won and demolished the N64 --- BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls Congratulations to Black Turtle for winning the guru contest. |
Looks like Canadian GameFAQs agrees with me on the PS/N64 though http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3539®ion=CA http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3541®ion=CA --- BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls Congratulations to Black Turtle for winning the guru contest. |
Whoa,
Assassin's Creed doubling Call of Duty? Not sure if that says good
things about AC or bad things about CoD (and by virtue, Castlevania). --- "So cold. I am always by your side." "There ain't no gettin' off of this train we on!" |
Castlevania hasn't done anything in years. --- BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls Congratulations to Black Turtle for winning the guru contest. |
LeonhartFour posted... Whoa, Assassin's Creed doubling Call of Duty? Not sure if that says good things about AC or bad things about CoD (and by virtue, Castlevania). It just says that AC is legit. I think it has the potential to become a really big series, even here, if they stick to it. I'm pretty disappointed that Altair didn't stay as the main character of the full series, since if they built that series around him, he could easily be the strongest Western character here after a few games. --- http://myanimelist.net/animelist/RyanSaotome |
If they stick with Ezio, he has a higher ceiling than Altair anyway. --- Support Morrigan Aensland (Darkstalkers) for Character Battle IX! http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/9302/banner5morrigan2.jpg |
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So was a Kirby or F-Zero game announced for 3DS or something? |
Yes for Kirby. No for F-Zero. They didn't mention Mother either, which would probably perform better in this poll than F-Zero would. It makes sense, though; no point in asking about dead or finished franchises. --- Black turtle beat me, o noes! |
For
no reason I found out that four of the first round matches in G4's
contest involved a series that was far newer than its competitor
emerging victorious (Call of Duty, Gears of War, Mass Effect, and
Uncharted were the victors in said cases). --- Currently Playing - StarCraft Upcoming - Baldur's Gate II, Okami, Resident Evil 4 |
I'm sure F-Zero could beat Mario Party. |
It just occurred to me we haven't had a Star Fox game since Command (the 3DS remake notwithstanding) Come on Nintendo, get it together. --- Game of the Decade? More like Guru of the Decade mirite? |
At least Star Fox is still getting a game, even if it is a remake. We haven't had an F-Zero game since GX. Not even a DS game! --- Wylvane Guru Contest Winner Black Turtle is a wonderful user. |
I'm sure F-Zero could beat Mario Party. Of course, but the Mario Party series isn't dead, so it deserved the spot more IMO. --- Black turtle beat me, o noes! |
The Mario Party series is dead now! --- Currently Playing - StarCraft Upcoming - Baldur's Gate II, Okami, Resident Evil 4 |
Not as dead as F-Zero --- BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls Congratulations to Black Turtle for winning the guru contest. |
Wasn't
there that attempted F-Zero "reboot" of sorts with that GBA game,
post-GX? With the new main character and all; I think it had a bad Fox
cartoon to accompany it. --- "I submitted brackets on all [224] of my accounts so they would get the 10 free Karma for beating SBAllen's score." - Luster Soldier |
Something like that. It wouldn't surprise me if Captain Falcon draws more strength here from that one Falcon Punch clip from that cartoon than from all of the F-Zero games combined, though Smash Bros. trumps both, obviously. --- Black turtle beat me, o noes! |
F-Zero
GX couldn't even break 31% on Dragon Age that went to get doubled by
Twilight Princess and given the opponent I wouldn't be surprised if the
game got a bunch of apathy votes from Nintendo fans that know where
Captain Falcon came from, but never played any of the games. --- BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls Congratulations to Black Turtle for winning the guru contest. |
From: pjbasis | #067 F-Zero couldn't beat the sand on Kefka's boots. --- "The great GF...Bahamut." "...GF? I...? Using my powers...It is you humans...I fear..." |
It
saddens me my favorite Nintendo series are always so weak. My three
favorites are Mother, F-Zero and Advance Wars, yet they always seem to
be at the very bottom of the popularity polls. --- http://myanimelist.net/animelist/RyanSaotome |
It
doesn't help that Nintendo forgets about Mother (not releasing anything
in North America) and F-Zero (and that Mario Kart has the racing genre
locked up). As for Advance Wars, like Fire Emblem strategy games aren't for everyone. --- BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls Congratulations to Black Turtle for winning the guru contest. |
Mario Party can't beat the sons of submariners. or something...whatever... |
From: charmander6000 | #078 Which is silly, because F-Zero and Mario Kart are completely different. Damn, I feel like playing F-Zero X now --- Game of the Decade? More like Guru of the Decade mirite? |
Donkey Kong's poor performance here after DKCR did well in Wii GOTY is slightly disappointing. Hmmm. Vivi, Winter 2010: Chaos Round 1 --- Defeated (10) Donkey Kong, 30113 [56.29%] - 23379 [43.71%] Chaos Round 2 --- Defeated (2) Altair, 41571 [55.79%] - 32944 [44.21%] Donkey Kong vs. Altair next character battle. Both have had some reason to boost since then (Brotherhood and DKCR), perhaps DK moreso but he lost to Vivi by more anyways. Considering Donkey Kong's losses to Vercetti, Master Chief, and Kratos in the past, Altair is clearly the next logical step. Make it happen, Bacon. --- Black turtle beat me, o noes! |
I don't see DKC working in 3D. --- BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls Congratulations to Black Turtle for winning the guru contest. |
I've considered Mario Party dead since Wii Party landed. Is there something I'm missing? Does anybody want to take this poll particularly seriously for contest-strength? I don't really wish to since there are other factors in the way (some of these are already very likely for 3DS, the 3D-effect may be better used in some series than others, yada yada yada), but the options are pretty similar to this... http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3998 ...without LoZ and Mario taking 52.24% of the votes. That's quite a lot of pressure released off of these other high-tier options like SSB/Pokemon/Metroid, so I don't really know how much more/less accurate this poll is. I'm not sure which I'd rather believe more, for example: Pokemon beating Mario or losing to SSB? --- http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/3492/eponaharr.jpg Nominate E P O N A. |
I've considered Mario Party dead since Wii Party landed. Is there something I'm missing? I've pretty much considered it dead since Smash Bros took over as the big party game of the Nintendo consoles. Mario Party was really big back on n64, but I never heard much about it at all on GC. And do they even make it for Wii? --- http://myanimelist.net/animelist/RyanSaotome |
They had one for the Wii in 2007. I've not seen it since, though Wii Party has since been released. --- http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/3492/eponaharr.jpg Nominate E P O N A. |
I'm not sure which I'd rather believe more, for example: Pokemon beating Mario or losing to SSB? It's possible Pokemon is being hurt by the fact that the latest set of games only came out a month ago. Most people probably aren't worrying about when the next set of Pokemon games will be out yet. --- BlAcK TuRtLe crushed my bracket and it didn't even take three days. Congrats to BlAcK TuRtLe for winning the GotD Guru Contest! |
TRE Public Account posted... I'm not sure which I'd rather believe more, for example: Pokemon beating Mario or losing to SSB? It's possible Pokemon is being hurt by the fact that the latest set of games only came out a month ago. Most people probably aren't worrying about when the next set of Pokemon games will be out yet. Plus, people have wanted portable SSB for a long time. Portable Pokémon is a luxury we've had since since it existed. Honestly, I have no idea why we never saw a port of SSB to DS at least, Nintendo has to know that would've been instant +3 billion dollars. --- "I submitted brackets on all [224] of my accounts so they would get the 10 free Karma for beating SBAllen's score." - Luster Soldier |
I'm not sure which I'd rather believe more, for example: Pokemon beating Mario or losing to SSB? Probably the latter. The Legend of Zelda just crushed Mario in that poll, I think. --- 90s games > 00s games |
I'm not ready to take Pokemon over Smash Bros. And it'll never beat Mario Bros. in a Series Contest. Never. --- "I couldn't stand a day without a past or future. I need to live each moment to keep fighting here and now." |
I'm not ready to take Pokemon over Smash Bros. And it'll never beat Mario Bros. in a Series Contest. Never. It won't beat Mario, and I really doubt it could even break 40%, but I would laugh pretty hard if it did. I wouldn't take Pokemon over Smash Bros. either; it still lost to Metroid in 2006. However far it's come since then, Smash Bros. is still pretty far above Metroid. --- 90s games > 00s games |
I mean, it's not like we'll ever get another Series Contest anyway, so anything we say is pretty much meaningless conjecture. I do kinda wonder if Super Mario Bros. could somehow manage to beat Final Fantasy now. Final Fantasy in general probably hasn't been as strong as it was in 2006 since then. --- "I can set you free, mate." "My freedom was forfeit long ago!" |
Never. This site will be Zelda vs. Final Fantasy in perpetuity. Besides, Nintendo is weaker now than in 2006 too. Plus, I insist that Cloud was a much better picture for FF than Ashe. --- 90s games > 00s games |
That's
true, but which has fallen more, I wonder. I suppose you could argue
it's pretty similar since Link/Cloud 2006 and Link/Cloud 2010 were
virtually identical results. And yeah, FF's picture in the SMB match wasn't the best. --- Support Seifer Almasy (Final Fantasy VIII) for Character Battle IX! http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/9342/banner3seifer.jpg |
Well,
you first have to note that Final Fantasy had a crap picture against
Mario; I believe it featured Ashe, when FFXII wasn't even released yet.
Maybe it's not the popular opinion, but I think "series" are more
inconsistent and volatile in poll than games or characters, since it's
more difficult for someone to envision how well they truly feel about a
series. Also, I find yesterday's poll very interesting as comparing Metroid and Pokemon. It looks like their series 2006 match, really. I guess Pokemon really is past its prime now, if Pokemon ever actually gained more of a popularity advantage since then? --- "Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. So...what is a party?" "Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think." |
Plus
oftentimes you might just view a franchise as being weak even if it has
games and/or characters you really like. Metroid and Civilization come
to mind for me, and I'm sure Half-Life could fit into the same
discussion. Those franchises often take way too long between
installments. --- Currently Playing - StarCraft Upcoming - Baldur's Gate II, Half-Life 2, Resident Evil 4 |
Pokemon
doesn't have anything to hype to for now. Guess we'll have to wait for
the RSE 3DS remakes! Don't think Pokemon is dropping off any. It did
great in the last character contest, and people were overestimating GSC
last contest anyway. Still, I'd probably pick Pokemon over Metroid in a rematch. Mario > FF sounds tempting, but I don't think I'd bite. FF might have fallen, but Mario's recent games haven't been that impressive here either. --- Wylvane Guru Contest Winner Black Turtle is a wonderful user. |
It's going to be hilarious when people underestimate RBY because GSC is *only* equal to Resident Evil 4 before SFF. --- http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh293/zukiraphaera/war-sig-1.png http://i.imgur.com/FII1z.gif |
I'd take Super Mario Galaxy 2 over anything FF has put out since FFX pretty easily. We're not picking FF12/13 > SMG2, right? We'll just see in which generations does who have the advantage: NES era - Mario easily SNES era - Mario PS1 era - FF easily PS2 era - FF easily PS3 era - Mario FF easily wins the two generations that this site seems to care the most about, so it would still win, though it would likely do worse and may even fail to break 51%. --- Currently Playing - StarCraft Upcoming - Baldur's Gate II, Half-Life 2, Resident Evil 4 |
http://www.g4tv.com/deathmatch/best-franchises-2011/results/ Based on how much some of the round two numbers changed from when I last checked to the end of the round, I'm suspecting either very heavy rallying or cheating. In particular, IIRC The Elder Scrolls was at 58% at one point but it ended up losing with 40% to...Starcraft. And we all know the Starcraft fanbase would never care enough about an internet poll to do such a thing! ROUND THREE At the moment, Zelda has 64% on Grand Theft Auto, Mass Effect has 64% on Resident Evil, and Assassin's Creed got 64% on Call of Duty last round. WHICH 64% DO YOU THINK IS BEST? --- Black turtle beat me, o noes! |
