GameFAQs Contests
Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1019
Eh,
at least this isn't the disaster it coulda been. Ya know, if Snake
actually does the unthinkable (or comes close), this will be the second
straight time that Crono looks great in the stats despite a R1 exit. --- Yoblazer: http://i43.tinypic.com/25z1non.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
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Dude, holy crap. Crono near 40% with THAT picture advantage. No offense Zen, but Liquid looks like crap. Not your fault, there are NO good Liquid pictures, but.... jesus. Our closest match is going to be a Waluigi win, isn't it? --- `·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.~*ST*~.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.· http://oi53.tinypic.com/ifbxwl.jpg |
Great (and pretty realistic) scenario for Crono: This ends at 60/40 Snakes challenge Cloud/Seph but come just short (52/48) Cloud/Seph challenge Link but come just short (52/48) Link crushes Mario (62/38) Unless Mario/Bowser somehow struggle in a match before the finals, that should put Crono at #5 in the stats. Heck, depending on how close the Snake/Cloud/Link matches are and how badly Link beats Mario, he could end up at #4, higher than anyone in the bracket's top half. ...good lord when did I become red sox --- Yoblazer: http://i43.tinypic.com/25z1non.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
This match makes me think Snake beats Cloud, actually. --- "There is no better video game company out there right now than Square-Enix." -Denzokuken |
In
a way Solid/Liquid is disappointing, because their pairing was supposed
to have greater synergy than Crono/Lavos. Cloud/Sephiroth should be
safe. And, yeah, Crono could overperforming slightly due to pic
advantage, though. This ends at 60/40 Snakes challenge Cloud/Seph but come just short (52/48) Cloud/Seph challenge Link but come just short (52/48) Link crushes Mario (62/38) It looks about right, except I think Mario will do much better than that... as long as the Skyward Sword doesn't have any major effect. It seems that new releases can have a significant effect on SFF at times, even if the said character hasn't changed much. We saw how Mario resisted SFF for the most part against Link back in 2007 at the time Mario Galaxy was released. --- "Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. So...what is a party?" "Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think." |
Crono/Lavos getting crushed in Europe has Crono always been weaker in Europe? --- .... |
Yes. The original SNES version of Chrono Trigger was never released in Europe. --- Pokemon VGC2011 US Nationals - 54th place Pokemon VGC2012 NW Regional - 16th place |
http://oi44.tinypic.com/spueyd.jpg Till next year, C --- Yoblazer: http://i33.tinypic.com/ml36gl_th.gif Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
Nobody commented on how atrocious Pac-Man/Crash vote totals were? 23,000 votes holy crap that's bad --- http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/8516/whatisdesiresig.gif |
Hey that's the Twin Snakes pic I wanted! And I don't think this means Snake has much of a chance against Cloud, at least not the Link-destroying Cloud I imagined he would be. |
Are
Pac-man and Crash typically bad vote draws? Regardless of it you like
them, I would have expected them to draw in votes just because everyone
knows them. --- Pokemon VGC2011 US Nationals - 54th place Pokemon VGC2012 NW Regional - 16th place |
From: TRE Public Account | #212 I think this pretty accurately displays the difference between "knowing" and "caring." --- "Hold on a minute! That testimony stinks!" "Witness! You can't just say 'Hello' and expect us to get anywhere! I want you to testify!" |
Wow, Crono is actually going even in the ASV with Snake. --- http://raptr.com/badge/cf898f37d9c30ef120ada6c35e636ad3/fs.png http://myanimelist.net/signature/RyanSaotome.png |
Whoa, Solid/Liquid starting to bleed percentage pretty badly now. Kinda weird how Raiden/Vamp beat Frog/Magus's ASV and it looks like Crono/Lavos are beating Solid/Liquid's. --- http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab48/Leonhart4/Squall.jpg |
Yesterday's chart: Time | Crashtex | Pacblink | Votes 0:05 | 31.04% | 68.96% | 654 1:00 | 34.27% | 65.73% | 4138 2:00 | 33.55% | 66.45% | 2569 3:00 | 37.65% | 62.35% | 1822 4:00 | 37.08% | 62.92% | 1416 5:00 | 39.95% | 60.05% | 1239 6:00 | 41.26% | 58.74% | 1219 7:00 | 37.07% | 62.93% | 1408 8:00 | 34.99% | 65.01% | 1852 9:00 | 38.44% | 61.56% | 2115 10:00 | 35.75% | 64.25% | 2073 11:00 | 37.27% | 62.73% | 2066 12:00 | 37.27% | 62.73% | 1940 Crash does much better after those first two hours, but that opening vote killed him pretty badly. --- "So cold. I am always by your side." "There ain't no gettin' off of this train we on!" |
You
know, I just realized that Nightmare, Siegfried, and Ramza have all had
matches with Riku. Siegfried and Ramza performed nearly equally on him,
but Nightmare outdid both of them by 5%~ or so. I think the main thing that's giving me pause here is the lack of 1-on-1 data for Nightmare. In both of his appearances, he was put into a "Noble Nine vs. two other fodder characters" first round, followed by "Noble Niner vs. two pretty strong characters" in the second round. His performances from round to round kind of vary as a result. Still, he put up 43%~ on Riku in 2007 and about the same number on Frog in 2008. He got 30%~ on Snake and Samus in their first round matches, but he went down a good bit on them from round 1 to round 2, so it's hard to say. This match keeps giving me pause. Honestly, FF rivalries haven't looked that great this contest, so I don't know if I'm more worried about Ramza/Delita winning just because they're FF, or if I'm just worried that Nightmare is overrated. --- "Why must we always choose between certain death and probable death?" "I'm in an epic battle to the death, FIGURE IT OUT YOURSELF!" |
Keep in mind Ramza had a night match with Riku. Also IIRC all the KH characters looked worse than before in 2010. --- Pokemon VGC2011 US Nationals - 54th place Pokemon VGC2012 NW Regional - 16th place |
I'm
very confident in the Soulcalibur duo. Ramza is barely recognizable as
is, and only people who've actually played FFT would know who Delita is.
Nightmare and Seigfried are both fairly recognizable, even if you
haven't played their games. Also: RAMZA LOST TO HOGGER. --- Xbox Live: Mach Tornado PSN: HeyGuysItsGhoul |
So who should I chose here? sigfried/night or ramza/delita? Okay next. Hitler/William whatever(wtf game is that?) or Sora/Riku? --- http://i.imgur.com/FuUSV.gif |
Siegfried/Nightmare
is the favourite but it's hard to get a good read on their strength.
Barring shenanigans, Sora/Riku should be way stronger than
Blazkowicz/Adolf especially in a day match. --- Pokemon VGC2011 US Nationals - 54th place Pokemon VGC2012 NW Regional - 16th place |
It
feels lame being one of the perfect brackets that got busted by
Crash/Cortex losing. By the time I realized I was underestimating
Pac-Man, it was too late, and the brackets were locked in. At least I
had the chance to correct myself with the battle pick. =P Anyway, Soul Calibur V is a couple of months away from its release, and I was already feeling safe about picking Nightmare/Siegfried before I even realized this. The dudes with big swords will be fine. |
I'm
not worried about the Ramza match... pic factor should be heavily in
favour of the SC guys, and fighting rivalries have done well so far
(well, Ryu/Ken and Sub-Zero/Scorp, anyway). Nightmare also looks to be
the strongest of the four with ease. --- Praise the Black Turtle, Game of the Decade Guru Champ. (Well, I never promised creativity, did I?!) |
It's
a pure fodder match but I think you have to side with Nightmare. Higher
seed, playrate of Soul Calibur games over FFT, appearance advantage,
while everything else seems about equal. Could fluctuate depending on
how people perceive the rivalry. The potential for an upset or close
match is there relative to the other R1 matches though. --- "Ovelia ... SPOILERS IN THE KEYWORDS WOOPS" - Vormav |
Crono
above 40%.Didn't expected that.It seems people still like his
game.Amazing.Also it is fun that if what Part said comes out Crono will
be top 5 even though he lost in the first round!And in the previous
contest he lost on the first fround and he was still top 10!Amazing for a
guy that loses in the first match,eh? --- 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~ |
Hitler/William whatever(wtf game is that?) This makes me sad that people don't even know one of the most played and influential games in the industries history. "Wolfenstein 3D is a video game that is generally regarded by critics and gaming journalists as having both popularized the first-person shooter genre on the PC and created the basic archetype upon which all subsequent games of the same genre would be built." --- http://raptr.com/badge/cf898f37d9c30ef120ada6c35e636ad3/fs.png http://myanimelist.net/signature/RyanSaotome.png |
Warned for threatening to castrate someone over the 7.5 review. Way to ****ing go mods. --- Yoblazer: http://oi52.tinypic.com/ad21i1.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
This makes me sad that people don't even know one of the most played and influential games in the industries history. "Wolfenstein 3D is a video game that is generally regarded by critics and gaming journalists as having both popularized the first-person shooter genre on the PC and created the basic archetype upon which all subsequent games of the same genre would be built." Is B.J. Blazkowicz supposed to be an immediately recognizable name or at least immediately connectable to Wolfenstein. --- Pokemon VGC2011 US Nationals - 54th place Pokemon VGC2012 NW Regional - 16th place |
It's influential, sure, but how widely was Wolfenstein 3-D actually played back in the day? From the same wikipedia article Albion quoted: "By the end of 1993, sales of Wolfenstein 3D had reached over 100,000 units, vastly exceeding the shareware game sales record set by the developer's earlier Commander Keen series and providing id with a significantly higher profit margin than sales of the retail counterpart, Spear of Destiny." Over 100,000 units? Oh my! And from what I can tell, the levels released as shareware only consisted of the first of six episodes (which contained 10 levels each), where you don't even fight Hitler. I would think Doom is probably a lot stronger than Wolfenstein 3-D, and it's contest history isn't exactly great: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1615 http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1640 http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3455 I don't think this pairing is going to have much legitimate strength. --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] |
Over 100,000 units? Oh my! Thats only the shareware version. Its probably millions if you combine all the tons of re-releases it has had over the years. I would think Doom is probably a lot stronger than Wolfenstein 3-D, and it's contest history isn't exactly great: It is stronger. I'm not saying Wolfenstein 3D will be strong, but its just sad people don't know the game that created the most popular genre in gaming these days. --- http://raptr.com/badge/cf898f37d9c30ef120ada6c35e636ad3/fs.png http://myanimelist.net/signature/RyanSaotome.png |
Not knowing who B.J. Blazkowicz is isn't the same as not knowing what Wolfenstein 3D is. --- Pokemon VGC2011 US Nationals - 54th place Pokemon VGC2012 NW Regional - 16th place |
Great (and pretty realistic) scenario for Crono: This ends at 60/40 Snakes challenge Cloud/Seph but come just short (52/48) Cloud/Seph challenge Link but come just short (52/48) Link crushes Mario (62/38) Unless Mario/Bowser somehow struggle in a match before the finals, that should put Crono at #5 in the stats. Heck, depending on how close the Snake/Cloud/Link matches are and how badly Link beats Mario, he could end up at #4, higher than anyone in the bracket's top half. It's usually not particularly impressive for Crono to finish ahead of Mario in the x-stats if Mario has to face Link directly. Crono should beat Mario in that situation. Although, in this contest, he's saddled with Lavos as a partner, so that would indeed be very impressive. I think the main problem with that scenario is that Cloud/Seph vs. Snake/Snake isn't going to go like Cloud/Snake. Sephiroth really completely outclasses Liquid, the Snakes would be doing very well to avoid an Ulti-style blowout in my opinion. --- 90s games > 00s games |
From: FateStayAlbion | Posted: 11/16/2011 4:27:30 PM | #226 You don't need to be sad. They're just video games. --- http://i.imgur.com/FuUSV.gif |
From: TRE Public Account | #231 Bingo. I know of Wolfenstein. I'd never heard of this guy because this contest. --- "Why must we always choose between certain death and probable death?" "I'm in an epic battle to the death, FIGURE IT OUT YOURSELF!" |
TRE Public Account | Posted 11/16/2011 3:22:39 PM | message detail | quote Are Pac-man and Crash typically bad vote draws? Regardless of it you like them, I would have expected them to draw in votes just because everyone knows them. Crash is a bad vote draw, don't know about Pac-Man. In the last Character Battle, Hayabusa/Crash had the worst vote total for a night match in that contest. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as BlAcK TuRtLe, Guru Champ! |
From
the looks of it, vote trends have stayed very static today. Really
makes you wonder how Frog and Magus got their asses kicked by
Raiden/Vamp during the ASV hours. --- "Claire likes to say 'You can be part of the problem, or part of the solution.' But I happen to believe you can be both." - Phil Dunphy |
I can only think that perhaps Raiden/Vamp draw mostly on the MGS4 playership, which should be a bit younger. --- Praise the Black Turtle, Game of the Decade Guru Champ. (Well, I never promised creativity, did I?!) |
I'm glad somebody mentioned that B.J.-Adolf was Wolfenstein 3D, because I thought it was actually a Bionic Commando rivalry. What? Hitler's is the final boss of Bionic Commando. Or at least he is in Japan. |
Crono's day vote has always been better than Frog/Magus's. --- 90s games > 00s games |
From: GloriousSweater | #227 That's nothing compared to this site modding people for saying everyone who helped cover up the Penn State nonsense should be fired and then properly punished. Only on GameFAQs does an institution that's likely raped 40 kids (or more) get held in higher standing than those who want the perpetrators properly punished for it. This site's moderation staff is no longer defensible. --- `·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.~*ST*~.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.· http://www.animea.net/images/db/987/056knuckles.jpg |
http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/%281%29Solid_Snake_vs_%282%29Squall_Leonhart_2010 Hmm... --- "Ovelia ... SPOILERS IN THE KEYWORDS WOOPS" - Vormav |
Okay, does Canada hate Solid Snake or do they love Crono? Because he's almost winning there. --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] |
http://image.com.com/gamefaqs/images/rivals/rivals-29.jpg http://image.com.com/gamefaqs/images/rivals/rivals-30.jpg http://image.com.com/gamefaqs/images/rivals/rivals-31.jpg http://image.com.com/gamefaqs/images/rivals/rivals-32.jpg Ramza/Delita got their crappy boring art, and that pic still worries me. They just look... so RPG. And Nightmare looks like a big mound of wtf yet again. Doesn't anyone know how to make this guy resemble a... guy? --- Yoblazer: http://oi52.tinypic.com/ad21i1.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
Really disappointed my FFT pic wasn't chosen. It's way better than that one. --- Black Turtle did a pretty good job. |
I
can't make up my mind about Squall Seifer for the Oracle. Are people
going to anti-vote them like they did FF7? Seems to me this match could
be anywhere between a 70-80% win, depending on whether they are
anti-voted and whether BlowoutFAQs makes its return here. --- "Ovelia ... SPOILERS IN THE KEYWORDS WOOPS" - Vormav |
Huh. With those pics, Sora-Riku versus Hitler and Who Cares might be close. |
Canada loves Chrono Trigger. --- 90s games > 00s games |
Loves Chrono Trigger, is Canadian --- If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate. - Zapp Brannigan |
From: KamikazePotato | #244 what was your FFT pic? --- ~ Rivalry Rumble Oracle Challenge ~ Rank - 32nd Today's Prediction: Snakes - 62.28% |
Can
we forget about the rivalry factor after today's match? Surely one of
the best rivalries in gaming would be doing better against a complete
non-rivalry if it existed. --- http://img.imgcake.com/nio/2bigwigpngut.png |
