GameFAQs Contests
Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1024
Yeah that Fable match was pretty mediocre. Now this match was pretty interesting and generated lots of good discussion to boot! http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3462 --- 2002 Link, 2003 Cloud, 2004 Link, 2005 Link, 2006 Link, 2008 Link, 2010 Link, 2011 Cloud. Link 6, Cloud 2 |
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Well, it was in the direct aftermath of Deus Ex fans complaining that their game wasn't winning by enough! And 12-hour matches aren't as memorable to begin with, so whatever! --- http://i.imgur.com/fe05x.png http://i.imgur.com/stNJf.png |
Looking forward to the bonus match being a repeat of this. http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1750 --- Current Let's Play: Final Fantasy IV (FF2US) http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3445328 |
I
mean, it's obviously better when two strong characters have a good
match - Sonic/Crono 06 and Snake beating Sephiroth are my two favourite
matches despite not being close in the end. They're worth more points
so more is on the line, etc, I get it. But weak characters having close
matches is still amazing fun. It's more fun for the excitement of it, though. Not the discussion that you get from it but the F5ing for the next update. THAT is what you don't forget, THAT is a contest memory. Not "hmm, was there LFF in this match" --- http://i45.tinypic.com/2jdhsno.gif |
red sox 777 posted... He is pretty far out of reach if you want a decent chance of him losing. But all the 1% chance of losing talk is absurd. 10-20% sounds about right for a normal contest, whether you think that is too small is up to you. Yeah after all 20% of the gurus does not have Link wining this contest (supposedly one of the most predictable ever)!!! --- Link's is pretty much the video game equivalent of the Jesus story. -- Yoblaser |
From: red sox 777 | #401 Yes, because it was a completely unexpected result. When Link produces a completely unexpected result, then we can talk. --- http://i52.tinypic.com/2zfiu09.gif http://i54.tinypic.com/10729w2.gif |
You
know, Link probably can't get 88% on Ganondorf anymore because of the
anti-voters. Darn it. Cloud better win this contest so we can avoid
tarnishing the good legacy of Link/Ganon 2004. --- 2002 Link, 2003 Cloud, 2004 Link, 2005 Link, 2006 Link, 2008 Link, 2010 Link, 2011 Cloud. Link 6, Cloud 2 |
Samus/Crono/Vincent/Pikachu 2008 still the best match ever IMHO --- I wish I could wear skirts and dresses :( -GMUN |
Squall/Luigi forever --- "Why must we always choose between certain death and probable death?" "I'm in an epic battle to the death, FIGURE IT OUT YOURSELF!" |
From: red sox 777 | #407 Like anyone would anti-vote Link by voting for Ganondorf. It's more likely people will bandwagon on Link just to try to make him hit 90%. --- Current Let's Play: Final Fantasy IV (FF2US) http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3445328 |
But it'd be so much more fun to see if angry Link fans decide to anti-vote Cloud by voting for Sephiroth in the bonus match! --- 2002 Link, 2003 Cloud, 2004 Link, 2005 Link, 2006 Link, 2008 Link, 2010 Link, 2011 Cloud. Link 6, Cloud 2 |
From: red sox 777 | #411 Yeah, we already saw that in 2003. I'll pass. --- "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!" |
Of course, if we do have a rival vs rival bonus match, it just makes it even more depressing that Mario/Sonic didn't get in. At least we'll finally get a pseudo-match between the two. --- Current Let's Play: Final Fantasy IV (FF2US) http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3445328 |
Thanks
Wylvane, I hadn't even considered the possibility of getting any real
1v1 matches this year. But now that you brought it up, I realized we
have a good chance of not only getting 1 match, but getting a good
match- Cloud vs. Sephiroth, for the first time 1v1 since 2004. --- 2002 Link, 2003 Cloud, 2004 Link, 2005 Link, 2006 Link, 2008 Link, 2010 Link, 2011 Cloud. Link 6, Cloud 2 |
Bonus match needs to be winner vs. Mario/Sonic Cloud/Sephiroth wouldn't be a good match. --- http://img.imgcake.com/leonpngpe.png http://img.imgcake.com/squalloweenpngem.png |
We
have so few good 1v1 matches these days that our standards are lowered.
Seeing any Noble Niner 1v1 match honestly makes me pretty happy these
days. --- 2002 Link, 2003 Cloud, 2004 Link, 2005 Link, 2006 Link, 2008 Link, 2010 Link, 2011 Cloud. Link 6, Cloud 2 |
LeonhartFour posted... Bonus match needs to be winner vs. Mario/Sonic Make it happen, SB. --- http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/3492/eponaharr.jpg Nominate E P O N A. |
Link just fired off a 91% update. Should finish over 83%. Might well not drop below 70% before the SFs. --- Praise the Black Turtle, Game of the Decade Guru Champ. (Well, I never promised creativity, did I?!) |
I
think he's going to get at least 84% his U.S. percent is crazy. Though I
guess Samus had a way higher U.S. percent and still didn't rise that
much. --- Starcraft is my life, so without it I wouldn't exist. - Artosis |
LeonhartFour | Posted 11/27/2011 3:12:14 PM | message detail Bonus match needs to be winner vs. Mario/Sonic We still need to come up with a solution for the 24-hour break between the last semifinal match and the final match of the contest. If we are going to do a bonus match, it would be best for us to do it during that 24-hour break so we can keep the casual voters interested in the contest while they wait for the final match. Also, we need something to keep them interested so vote totals don't suck in the final. The only problem is doing a bonus match before the final would mean that we don't know the winner of the contest yet and I'm not sure if Bacon would give us a second bonus match for the same contest. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as BlAcK TuRtLe, Guru Champ! |
The poll before the final match should be WHO ARE YOU VOTING FOR IN THE FINALS?! --- "Stay with me until the end. Please." "Not until the end. Always." |
LeonhartFour posted... The poll before the final match should be WHO ARE YOU VOTING FOR IN THE FINALS?! would be hilarious for Cloud to win this pool only to lose the next day for the real match =) --- Link's is pretty much the video game equivalent of the Jesus story. -- Yoblaser |
A
third place match would be cool. I'd like to see what Trainers or
Fighters(or Samus, but wouldn't be as interesting) can do to Cloud/Seph. --- *huggles* |
I
believe the bonus should be the bad guy from the 1st rivalry vs the bad
guy from the 2nd rivalry.So I guess either Bowser vs Ganondorf or
Bowser vs Sephiroth.Either that OR what would you want for the next
contest and what would you suggest for it to be better.The options for
that should be provided by one guy from Board 8. --- 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~ |
Jeez, over 83% and still skyrocketing. It might go to 84% at this rate. At least Arthas doesn't look as bad now. --- http://raptr.com/badge/cf898f37d9c30ef120ada6c35e636ad3/fs.png http://myanimelist.net/signature/RyanSaotome.png |
I'd be cool with a Bowser/Ganon-match; that'd be a fairly close battle we've needed to see for years. http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=4317 This is the best poll we have with them both right now. It's enough in Ganon's favor to feel pretty safe, but I'd still enjoy seeing Bowser get a clean shot at being Nintendo's #1-villain. --- http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/3492/eponaharr.jpg Nominate E P O N A. |
There must be a bit of SFF going on here. Okami plays similar to a zelda, but damn I thought Ammy would hold up better. --- "I am riding the Poke-wave, using the metaphorical Surf and hopping on my Blastoise, all the way to Mario vs Bowser." - RPGLord |
Yeah. When I came back home and checked, I expected to see Link at least fallen a little bit from when I left, instead he has risen... choked on kiwi fruit a bit. --- :> |
At least Arthas doesn't look as bad now. The final xstats will probably have Arthas tripling Vyse / Galatians or Sol / Ky. Then the whole top division will look like crap after Link finishes with Mario. --- "Ovelia ... SPOILERS IN THE KEYWORDS WOOPS" - Vormav |
That's a powerful day vote right there. --- 2002 Link, 2003 Cloud, 2004 Link, 2005 Link, 2006 Link, 2008 Link, 2010 Link, 2011 Cloud. Link 6, Cloud 2 |
Link
is ****ing beasting here. I totally expected Link to beast on Arthas -
but not on Ammy. Very impressive. 10% -15% chance of him losing sounds
about right. He doesn't look beatable by Cloud/Sephiroth right now. But
of course, as always, things can change. Regarding a strong field being our best option - once again, accepting characters who've starred in games is the solution to this. If one of us (e.g. Ngamer) could make the bracket, we could have a stacked field of 64 characters. Nominations should be in play but not the end-all, be-all - nominations allow junk characters to get it. The bracket should be nomination influenced, but hand-picked. And people talk about "Noble Nine". The X-Men and Star Wars alone would have a bunch of Noble Nine level or borderline NN level characters. And that's just two things for god's sake! People simply fail to understand, that the majority of characters who would do well in this contests are disallowed. The 64th strongest disallowed fictional character would obliterate the 64th strongest video game character. Because the sheer DEPTH available when allowing fictional characters would be unreal. In terms of "Noble Nine", there are a lot more than nine fictional characters who would be at that level of sheer strength. A lot more. From: Achromatic | #1701 Who are you, why should I account bet you, and what is your "list"? I don't account bet anyway, it's dumb - I don't even have any alts. I'd be talking money, and of course that would only be old regulars that I know I could trust. --- www.gamefaqscontests.com www.gamefaqscontests.com/gallery |
I will agree that the 64th strongest fictional character would beat the 64th strongest videogame character. Though I'm not sure how many X-Men characters would be Noble Nine level. --- "nah, it's not my team if I drop pitchers for merely being horrible" -War13104 |
From: creativename | #433 X-Men would have potentially one. Nobody else other than Wolverine would be that strong. Forget Magneto, Gambit, or anyone else like that. Now that I think about it, IGN (or some other similar site) had a "Baddest Character Contest," and Solid Snake won. And it was all-inclusive, so he ended up beating characters like Wolverine and Goku along the way, and he won most of those very, very easily. His closest match? Naked Snake. As much as I'd love to see someone like Batman or Jack Sparrow dominate a contest, I think you're overestimating how strong they would be, honestly. In the GameSpot Contest, there was a sizable contingent who strictly opposed having non-video game characters in a contest on a video game site. There's a sizable contingent on Board 8 alone who oppose having them in our contests, so they would exist in our contests as well. Batman beating Link isn't as easy as you're making it out to be. --- http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2011/8/22/2094c2de-bae8-4f5b-9f27-67eaff0aaeaf.jpg |
I think you guys are overrating fictional characters. GameFAQs is going to be biased towards video game characters. Honestly besides Wolverine none of the X-Men are getting close to the noble nine. --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/Rivalry%20BOP.xls Rivalry Rumble: 43/48 Today: Link/Ganondorf |
Batman doesn't even break 43% on Link here. --- Believing oneself to be perfect is often the sign of a delusional mind. Small words, from a small being, trying to attack what it doesn't understand. |
As
for our 64th strongest character in 2008 I calculated it as 2008 Kefka
so that means someone as a low midcarder or around the fodderline. I
personally have a hard time believing we'll have more than 32 fictional
non-fodders. --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/Rivalry%20BOP.xls Rivalry Rumble: 43/48 Today: Link/Ganondorf |
I don't think we necessarily WOULD have more non-fodder fictional chars in a tournament. I think they are out there though. --- http://img.imgcake.com/drakeryn/alecjpguz.jpg |
From: LeonhartFour | #2155 Magneto couldn't be borderline NN level? Come on. From: LeonhartFour | #2155Now that I think about it, IGN (or some other similar site) had a "Baddest Character Contest, Well that's beyond meaningless to GameFAqs and you should know that. From: LeonhartFour | #2155or Jack Sparrow dominate a contest, Jack Sparrow wouldn't be that strong. From: LeonhartFour | #2155Batman beating Link isn't as easy as you're making it out to be. Think you'd be surprised :o) --- www.gamefaqscontests.com www.gamefaqscontests.com/gallery |
Well it's pretty safe to say Amaterasu is getting SFF'd here. Okami is basically a Zelda game. --- GameFAQs isn't going to be merged in with GameSpot or any other site. We're not going to strip out the soul of the site. -CJayC |
From: creativename | #440 He could, but he wouldn't. Think you'd be surprised :o) I doubt it. --- "Why must we always choose between certain death and probable death?" "I'm in an epic battle to the death, FIGURE IT OUT YOURSELF!" |
And
the whole reason I brought up the IGN contest is the fact that video
game sites will favor video game characters. It's just that simple. --- "But you have been given freedom. Freedom to be...outside." "I am lightning...the rain transformed." |
Do
we think Batman would be the strongest fictional here? Strong,
definitely - not sure about Link-slayer. My guess is you'd need a strong
personality to take down Link, via contrast, so maybe Han Solo? --- "Ovelia ... SPOILERS IN THE KEYWORDS WOOPS" - Vormav |
From: creativename | #440 You'd be surprised on how wrong you are. --- - |
LeonhartFour posted... video game sites will favor video game characters. It's just that simple. Bingo. There'll be a "When in Rome"-effect. --- http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/3492/eponaharr.jpg Nominate E P O N A. |
Sherlock
Holmes would take down Link. He seems like someone who would be really
popular on this site only problem might be that he doesn't really have
any amazing games everything he has is mostly other mediums. --- Starcraft is my life, so without it I wouldn't exist. - Artosis |
Even
if they ever let fictional characters in, they'd be too antivoted to
beat any NN level characters I'd imagine. Most people don't want
fictional characters in a video game contest. --- http://raptr.com/badge/cf898f37d9c30ef120ada6c35e636ad3/fs.png http://myanimelist.net/signature/RyanSaotome.png |
From: creativename | #440 I don't think it decides their strength, but your whole argument is "these non-fictional characters would be way stronger because they have so much to draw on and are so popular to the general public" when we have seen that that is not true in multiple cases on multiple gaming websites. This isn't to say that somebody like Batman or Vader wouldn't be really powerful on Gamefaqs, or even challenge Link, but you are really overconfident in your estimate of their strengths and your suggestions that this somehow solves Link's dominance. --- http://img.imgcake.com/drakeryn/alecjpguz.jpg |
If
we get fictional characters (which I support), then I support having a
contest for just them, or splitting the bracket in half with original VG
characters on one side. A) Seeding would be a mess, since there's strong fictional characters like Ash Ketchum and Santa Claus who would get low seeds, since no one would think of them when they think of fictional characters from video games. A lot would depend on how the contest was worded. B) If VG characters were a lot more popular, there would be a lot of anticlimactic and wasted matches. I care way more about seeing how non-VG characters compare to each other than they compare to who we have now. There's tons of non-VG characters to draw from. I don't see the point in just getting a handful of comic book/Star Wars guys in. It just eliminates a lot of potentially interesting matches and wildcards. C) People might anti-vote someone like Ash, against a "real" VG character, further ruining matches. In terms of depth, Star Wars might have a lot at Noble Nineish levels (Vader, Luke, Han Solo, Yoda), but I don't see any X-Men besides Wolverine. It think that belief shows a lot of tunnel vision on X-Men fans' part. A lot of people are not into comic books, and no one else from the series has close to the name recognition/iconic nature of Wolverine. This is all Noble Nine on a non-VG character scale, which I would personally place as slightly lower than our current one. The Simpsons probably has a tremendous amount of depth as well, albeit more for midcarders. I would not be surprised if someone like Maggie or Santa's Little Helper could break the fodder line (in terms of Base Batman, or whatever the term would be for non-VG guys.) 10-20 characters from it could break the fodder line, IMO. --- "What's wrong with bootblacking? We like it very much!" This is Yesmar. |
