GameFAQs Contests
Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 997
I
hope that the MvC3 bomb while MK9 does well will convince more
developers that you can't just release a barebones fighting game anymore
in this day and age. You need lots of single player content as well --- http://myanimelist.net/signature/RyanSaotome.png http://i54.tinypic.com/2m7ivxz.jpg |
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MvsC3
wasn't really considered a bomb though, from what I understand. Maybe
if you don't have internet-access and friends, but I've understood the
fighting community's been behind the game because the engine's good and
the single-player content never meant very much to them. --- http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/3492/eponaharr.jpg Nominate E P O N A. |
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HaRRicH posted... MvsC3 wasn't really considered a bomb though, from what I understand. Maybe if you don't have internet-access and friends, but I've understood the fighting community's been behind the game because the engine's good and the single-player content never meant very much to them. Well maybe not bomb sales wise as much as bomb expectations wise. It was really hyped all over gaming sites, but now you don't really hear much about it anymore outside of from hardcore fighting game fans. Yet MK9 comes out of no where with little hype and people like it more, so that makes MvC3 look even worse comparatively. --- http://myanimelist.net/signature/RyanSaotome.png http://i54.tinypic.com/2m7ivxz.jpg |
Still, I don't think MK-characters will see as big of a boost as some MvsC3-characters. I guess we'll see! Though another notable Amaterasu boost would, like...put her near Leon's level. Going from narrowly beating Ada to beating Leon would be...something. --- Black turtle beat me, o noes! |
MK
characters won't boost as much because they're already pretty well
known. The more well known MvC3 characters (like Ryu) probably won't
boost much, but someone like Ammy will probably benefit nicely. --- "I couldn't stand a day without a past or future. I need to live each moment to keep fighting here and now." |
LeonhartFour posted... MK characters won't boost as much because they're already pretty well known. The more well known MvC3 characters (like Ryu) probably won't boost much, but someone like Ammy will probably benefit nicely. I think someone like Dante may boost, since he's being introduced to a new audience. Enough to get him over Ryu, at least. --- http://myanimelist.net/signature/RyanSaotome.png http://i54.tinypic.com/2m7ivxz.jpg |
Epic poll alert for the next poll. Here are the polls for the next 3 days: 5/14/2011 - What do you do for a living? 5/15/2011 - How tall are you? 5/16/2011 - Do you leave your computer on when you're not using it? I was unable to provide trend charts for the "What do you do for a living?" poll when it was ran last year, because I had a power outage from about 12:30 PM to 5:20 PM on the day of that poll. This time around, I can do trend charts for that poll. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as BlAcK TuRtLe, Guru Champ! |
I think I can speak for everyone except for red sox when I say we'll survive without the trend charts. --- "I couldn't stand a day without a past or future. I need to live each moment to keep fighting here and now." |
LOL at Leon. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as BlAcK TuRtLe, Guru Champ! |
Thanks
Luster, your meticulous data collection is appreciated. I am
interested in the trends for the height and employment polls, though of
course neither of them are as interesting as the truly fascinating soda
polls. --- 90s games > 00s games |
Hmm,
I'll track poll updates for the height poll, but I don't think there
will be any interesting trends there. The employment poll will have
more noticeable trends. I can also use the employment poll to get an
idea of what time period the "Grade School" option does best in
(normally the ASV on a school day) when the poll happens on a weekend. As for the issue of "Female" getting vote stuffed by 4chan's rallying in the Male/Female poll, I predict that 4chan rallied about 500 votes for Female. The rallying died off shortly after 2:00 AM. Male averaged 93.38% of the votes from 2:30 AM until the end of the poll. Using the final results for the poll, I had to figure out how many votes to take away from Female to set Male at 93.38%. Which was about 500 votes. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as BlAcK TuRtLe, Guru Champ! |
GameFAQs either has a lot of tall people or a bunch of liars. --- BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls Congratulations to Black Turtle for winning the guru contest. |
Or, you know, a LOT of guys. 6 foot is pretty common among American males. --- http://www.nbc.com/parks-and-recreation/exclusives/ron-dancing-animated.gif |
Average
height of US males (according to wikipedia) is 5' 9.5" factor in that
the rest of the world is on average shorter, let's go with 5' 9" since
that's what the poll has. Height is skewed towards short people so it's expected that more than 50% of the population should be higher than 5' 9". The poll currently has 65% of GameFAQs over that average, now factor in girls and young high school kids and that percent goes even higher. --- BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls Congratulations to Black Turtle for winning the guru contest. |
charmander6000 | Posted 5/15/2011 1:00:06 AM | message detail | quote GameFAQs either has a lot of tall people or a bunch of liars. Azp2k32 | Posted 5/15/2011 1:03:38 AM | message detail | quote Or, you know, a LOT of guys. 6 foot is pretty common among American males. Exactly. Over 90% of the site are guys, so that really skews the average quite a bit. That's because girls are generally a few inches shorter than guys and most girls are shorter than guys. Trend charts for yesterday's poll: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tpsWt8nzYhe42Tb8BqL6wHA&gid=1 With that being a weekend poll, it would be interesting to see what time period "Grade School Student" did best in. That happened to be in the DSV. "Grade School Student" had a terrible Night Vote and started to recover after 6:00 AM. Grade School Student's percentage kept going up during the day until about 6:00 PM. After that point, the percentage just stalled for the last 6 hours of the poll. "College Student" started out very strong with the board vote and Power Hour, and still had a fairly good Night Vote. Though its percentage was still going down during the night. College Student collapsed when the Morning Vote came. It didn't rebound until after 12:00 PM when it managed to start going up in percentage again. This only lasted for about 5 hours, as College Student was going down in percentage again after 5:00 PM and this continued until about 10:30 PM when it started going up again. College Student did do well in the ASV and SNV, but it still couldn't compare to the good Power Hour and FNV it had. "Graduate Student" was terrible in the Power Hour. It had a good Morning Vote, but that can be blamed on Europe. "Part-Time Work" was best in the board vote and still had a good Power Hour and Night Vote as well. "Full-Time Work" had a very terrible board vote and the Power Hour was still bad for it. It did better in the Night Vote, but it dominated the Morning Vote (along with Grade School Student). Full-Time Work began to drop off around 12:30 PM and was going down in percentage from that point. The last 6 hours of the poll acted as an SNV for Full-Time Work "Looking for work" was best in the Night Vote, but it also had a good board vote and Power Hour. "Nothing, I'm happy" had a good board vote, Power Hour, and Night Vote. --- Luster Soldier - Popular at school. ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ |
Bump. *Hopes for June 1st Announcement for a Contest starting July 1st.* --- Black turtle beat me, o noes! |
GameFAQs either has a lot of tall people or a bunch of liars. Or, it's self-selection striking again. You're more likely to vote in a height poll if you're tall. Short people can and do just abstain; they don't need to lie. --- 90s games > 00s games |
Considering that the poll easily managed to out vote the gender poll I disagree. --- BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls Congratulations to Black Turtle for winning the guru contest. |
Hmm?
It's a more interesting poll; there's a lot of factors that go into
votals. Self-selection in our polls is patently obvious: it's the same
reason why if you ask Board 8 for SAT scores, the median winds up being
1400/1600 or something like that. --- 90s games > 00s games |
Gender
polls have often been the highest vote totaling polls outside of
contest matches, it doesn't get that simplier and really everyone has an
answer. If shorter people were abstaining in large numbers then the
vote total should have reflected that. --- BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls Congratulations to Black Turtle for winning the guru contest. |
How
on earth can you guess how many votes the height poll would have had
without abstentions? I reckon that both the gender and height polls get
high votals because they're things everyone can relate to- but one
could easily be more interesting than the other. --- 90s games > 00s games |
Gender
polls have often been the highest vote totaling polls outside of
contest matches, it doesn't get that simplier and really everyone has an
answer. If shorter people were abstaining in large numbers then the
vote total should have reflected that. Age polls have better vote totals than gender polls. http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3864 http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3870 http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=4271 http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=4333 In both pairs of polls, the age poll had higher vote totals than the gender poll. Last year's age poll would have been the Link/Cloud match in vote totals around 12:07 AM (on the second day), but it ran out of time to get more votes. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as BlAcK TuRtLe, Guru Champ! |
We'd all take Amaterasu to beat Cecil, Dissidia boost or no, right? Shadow vs. Knuckles Who would you take? --- Black turtle beat me, o noes! |
Knuckles. I've always thought Shadow would have a chance though. --- "I couldn't stand a day without a past or future. I need to live each moment to keep fighting here and now." |
Knuckles --- ~Ange literally threw a fit when elite user LordEmbok denied my friend request |
X-stats wise they're probably close-ish, but Knuckles shouldn't have a problem taking it. How on earth can you guess how many votes the height poll would have had without abstentions? I see it as that there is a certain percentage of potential voters that come to the site and vote if they can relate to the question. Questions like gender and age have high vote totals because everyone can relate to it and based on the vote total height probably falls into the same range. I don't see a reason why potential voters wouldn't vote in an age/gender poll, if they aren't going to vote in those types of polls I doubt they'll vote for any kind of polls. --- BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls Congratulations to Black Turtle for winning the guru contest. |
Because
gender is boring. Everyone knows male will win in a landslide. That's
probably why the height and age polls have outperformed it in votals. --- 90s games > 00s games |
Pay
close attention to this POTD! This will determine which Ninja Turtle we
should support when the time comes for the Fictional Character Battle! --- "I couldn't stand a day without a past or future. I need to live each moment to keep fighting here and now." |
This sounds like an interesting poll for tracking trends for. Because gender is boring. Everyone knows male will win in a landslide. That's probably why the height and age polls have outperformed it in votals. The weight poll outperformed the gender poll in vote totals. So weird that gender polls get lower vote totals than the age polls. It's so much easier to vote in a gender poll than an age poll. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as BlAcK TuRtLe, Guru Champ! |
I think that helps prove my point that few people are abstaining from voting in the height poll. --- BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls Congratulations to Black Turtle for winning the guru contest. |
Pay
close attention to this POTD! This will determine which Ninja Turtle we
should support when the time comes for the Fictional Character Battle! Leonardo it is, apparently. Hopefully we won't get a Fictional Character Battle, though! --- Black turtle beat me, o noes! |
The march to the All Fictional Character Battle rolls on! Early results: Who is your favorite Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle? Donatello (purple, bo staff) 26.61% 1785 Leonardo (blue, katana) 32.23% 2162 Michelangelo (orange, nunchaku) 20.37% 1366 Raphael (red, sai) 20.78% 1394 TOTAL VOTES 6707 Really stunned with Don's strong showing here. I always figured Leo would win this without too much trouble, but I expected it to go Mike > Raph > Don, since Donatello was always the least popular turtle amongst my friends growing up. But maybe because he's the "nerdy" choice he overperforms at GameFAQs? --- thengamer.com/guru thengamer.com/xstats board8.wikia.com You should search for The Show, the cool podcast featuring Guru Champ Black Turtle! |
If NerdFAQs is a real factor, then it can only mean good things for Otacon! </NRT plug> --- "I couldn't stand a day without a past or future. I need to live each moment to keep fighting here and now." |
Maybe because he's the awesome choice. --- Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. |
Oh
yes, forgot how he was always the best choice in the games because he
had the longest reach. That's probably helping him a good deal on this
site as well. --- thengamer.com/guru thengamer.com/xstats board8.wikia.com You should search for The Show, the cool podcast featuring Guru Champ Black Turtle! |
Time to rally for Turtles in Time next Games Contest --- "I couldn't stand a day without a past or future. I need to live each moment to keep fighting here and now." |
Turtles in Time too good --- Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. |
Ngamer64 posted... The march to the All Fictional Character Battle rolls on! Boo. LeonhartFour posted... Time to rally for Turtles in Time next Games Contest Yay. --- http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/3492/eponaharr.jpg Nominate E P O N A. |
Speaking
of TMNT, it's worth bringing up the three other polls GameFAQs has
about them again; the series is technically undefeated here! http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1547 http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=2789 http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3192 I still wouldn't want to bet on TMNT4:TiT doing great, but it could be okay. --- http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/3492/eponaharr.jpg Nominate E P O N A. |
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Gender
polls have often been the highest vote totaling polls outside of
contest matches, it doesn't get that simplier and really everyone has an
answer. If shorter people were abstaining in large numbers then the
vote total should have reflected that. So far, this is the highest known vote total outside of contest matches: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=2576 That poll was a few days after the Fall 2006 contest. Besides that poll, I think this the second and third highest vote total outside of a contest match: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=2932 http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3424 --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as BlAcK TuRtLe, Guru Champ! |
Did you just spend the last four hours looking at polls? --- BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls Congratulations to Black Turtle for winning the guru contest. |
I've been looking at polls, but not continuously for the past 4 hours. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as BlAcK TuRtLe, Guru Champ! |
The results for IGN's Zelda game contest have been revealed for round 3. Here are the results: Ocarina of Time - 21338 [76.53%] Wind Waker - 6543 [23.47%] Majora's Mask - 14739 [50.25%] Twilight Princess - 14591 [49.75%] Ocarina of Time crushes Wind Waker badly with SFF, while Majora's Mask upsets Twilight Princess to reach the final round. This result also means Twilight Princess > Link to the Past in the final x-stats. The contest is located here: http://www.ign.com/tournaments/greatest-zelda-game The voting for the final round hasn't started yet. --- Luster Soldier - Popular at school. ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ |
This result also means Twilight Princess > Link to the Past in the final x-stats. Success! --- "I couldn't stand a day without a past or future. I need to live each moment to keep fighting here and now." |
I guess Majora's Mask being fairly strong (relative to non-OoT Zelda games, anyways) isn't something unique to gameFAQs. --- Black turtle beat me, o noes! |
I wonder how badly OoT is going to kill it though. --- "I couldn't stand a day without a past or future. I need to live each moment to keep fighting here and now." |
Uh,
Twilight Princess has magically gained over 150 votes while Majora's
Mask gained 0 and TP has suddenly replaced MM in the finals. Also, I
voted Majora's Mask in the Finals but now that TP has replaced it I have
the option to vote again, but only for OoT. wut --- Black turtle beat me, o noes! |
AxemPink posted... Uh, Twilight Princess has magically gained over 150 votes while Majora's Mask gained 0 and TP has suddenly replaced MM in the finals. Also, I voted Majora's Mask in the Finals but now that TP has replaced it I have the option to vote again, but only for OoT. wut IGN does what Gamefaqs doesn't --- http://myanimelist.net/signature/RyanSaotome.png |
