GameFAQs Contests
Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1038
And
everyone will look like trash.I mean the Snakes will end up with like
25% on Link!Good times.Well whatever.By the way can anyone explain me
why this result happens?Okay I was expecting a loss sure but around
47%.Not this much... --- 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~ |
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This
is about as expected for Cloud, which is depressing. I've always felt
there was a "close match" force in operation in finals which usually
helps the weaker entity bridge the gap. No such force here and the
strength chasm between the two is being exposed somewhat. From: Sorozone | #383 The argument of "saving it" for a contest is a ridiculous head in the sand action. If people really believe a fictional duo of Batman/Joker could do something meaningful against Link go all out and push for that bonus match. If they can make it respectable we'll know its an idea of merit, if they get smashed we'll know its not worth wasting time with. The idea of holding back on this to preserve the surprise of how fictional characters fair is just...wow considering they have the potential to fall flat on their face and ruin an entire contest with it. Incredible anyone would be in support of that. --- Smurf The cream of Sonic Fanboyism. I liked smurf until he declared me worst user on board 8 - the jp |
From: Safer Sephiroth 777 | #401 The signs have been pretty clear for a long time and everyone seems to be in denial about FFVII being in terminal decline. The Kratos, Snake matches were both Playstation SFF, this is something for whatever reason people choose not to believe in regardless of how frequently it occurs. Cloud/Sephiroth had 3 SFF matches to flatter them and looked like crap against Lloyd/Kratos. The signs were there. Also if you exclude the final in 2010 Cloud/Sephiroth looked terrible in every single round. There was an oddity in how close Cloud managed to drag Link in the final which I'd credit to the losing finalist factor or whatever you want to call it. A 57-43 is far more in line with what trends were indicating. --- Smurf , The Cream of Knuckles Fanboyism |
The
playstation SFF kinda makes sense now. This contest is more or less
acting like a series/games contest and the last time MGS/FF7 met up in a
direct match, FF7 absolutely drove MGS to the ground with SFF. Not like The Snakes were impressive in the first place, scoring only 62% on them with the aid of potential SFF is downright awful. Over-performance on Kratos/Zues can be chalked up to yet another potential playstation SFF. Squall and Sora didn't look too well either(arguably the 2nd and 3rd strongest Square rivalry in this contest), they were worth what, freaking 51% on Dante/Vergil (the same DMC3 that looked god-awful in the GOTD.) |
Propose new vote counting for next contest. The character total votes divided by the number of games they appear in. --- ------ --------- |
Death of the Contests. I'm glad. Crap Votals, Crappy matches and absolutely nothing worth talking about. At least i'll get 10 Karma. --- http://gifsoup.com/view2/3219901/nakedlightning-o.gif |
From: Neosadus | #405 I'd kinda like to see an equal weighting points system based on voting per continent. I'd absolutely destroy some of the characters whose sole popularity comes from the USA. --- (\__/) Meet Ziggy,the Evil Bunny who wants to take over the world and eat the flesh of the weak. (='.'=] Put Ziggy in your sig to support his cause. |
From: __Smurf__ | #408 Or do it by each Country. Number of wins per country. --- http://gifsoup.com/view2/3219901/nakedlightning-o.gif |
Well at the very least Cloud once again becomes the only Character to Cut Link more than once in a match. --- http://gifsoup.com/view2/3219901/nakedlightning-o.gif |
save.us_gamefaqs.eu --- Fine! I'll go to the store and get your Goddamn drain cleaner! |
Well, just saw the results. Ahahahahahahahahahahaha What the hell. This is glorious! --- Something something something ^Poorly disguised anti-caps sig |
we
should simply stop having character contest. After this I highly doubt
Cloud can beat Mario or Samus and Sephiroth definitely loses to most
NNers. Nintendo is in complete control of this site. I am still OK with more games contest or series contest though...at least OoT is actually a genuinely good game even if I am not one of its biggest fans. --- ... |
Think
its just a Link thing, Samus looked very capable of jobbing to
non-noble characters lately and Mario has always been erratic in his
popularity. It would be a very interesting contest if you removed Link
now that the FFVII duo has fallen into the pack. --- Smurf, the cream of Sonic fanboyism |
I find it strange that we will end with only 1 perfect bracket.Guess it wasn't so predictable after all? --- 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~ |
There
has been some surprises like the Trainers but the contest as a whole is
easily the worst I have seen, even worse than the Villains contest.
This was a terrible contest idea from Allen and the bracket making was
even worse, he really did a poor job. --- ... |
From: Denzokuken | #2051 Link's winning in Europe too. It is close there though, which is surprising as looking at the three individual countries we can see (UK, Germany, and the Netherlands), it shouldn't be nearly that close. Guess Cloud must be crushing in France (they love their JRPGs). From: Safer Sephiroth 777 | #2056 Well, only one other contest has ever had perfect brackets, and that was the series contest. I'll give you that it was less predictable than that one, though. It did technically have an upset winner, but I'm going to chalk that up to naivety. Not sure why FF was the favourite after two years of the LAW. --- Something something something ^Poorly disguised anti-caps sig |
From: __Smurf__ | #415 If you got rid of Link then Mario would always win. Do you think GameFAQs will let SQUARE WIN AGAIN??? Never! --- SuperNiceDog hasn't won yet. |
Lightning Strikes | Posted 12/18/2011 10:02:17 AM | message detail | quote It is close there though, which is surprising as looking at the three individual countries we can see (UK, Germany, and the Netherlands), it shouldn't be nearly that close. Guess Cloud must be crushing in France (they love their JRPGs). These can be viewed as well: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=4571®ion=SE http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=4571®ion=FI http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=4571®ion=IT --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as BlAcK TuRtLe, Guru Champ! |
Yeah,
I really don't see any argument any more that Mario is the second
strongest character on the site. Last year it was debatable, but now he
definitely is. Third is interesting, though. --- Something something something ^Poorly disguised anti-caps sig |
Who said FF was favourite? It was never favourite. Also yes Link won but this is a shock. Link/Cloud 1v1 would still be much closer. I guess the rivalry factor does matter and people rate Linknan more than Clouderoth. I just hope it factors in tuesday and Mowser can do some damage. FOR ONCE...i just hope Nintendo fans don't just blindly vote for Link. Vote for the more iconic characters(certainly villain wise) I will vote for Mowser --- http://gifsoup.com/view2/3219901/nakedlightning-o.gif |
The
signs have been pretty clear for a long time and everyone seems to be
in denial about FFVII being in terminal decline. The Kratos, Snake
matches were both Playstation SFF, this is something for whatever reason
people choose not to believe in regardless of how frequently it occurs. Cloud/Sephiroth had 3 SFF matches to flatter them and looked like crap against Lloyd/Kratos. The signs were there. Also if you exclude the final in 2010 Cloud/Sephiroth looked terrible in every single round. There was an oddity in how close Cloud managed to drag Link in the final which I'd credit to the losing finalist factor or whatever you want to call it. A 57-43 is far more in line with what trends were indicating. By that logic the signs were there last contest too since Cloud got 69% on Captain Falcon and 71% on Ridley (lol), then 46.5% on Link. He always looks bad against weak nintendo and I think Link/Ganon has better chemistry for whatever reason. Cloud won't get much more than 45% next year if he faces Link though unless something ridiculous like FFVII remake is announced. |
Looked bad against weak nintendo since last year anyways. |
From: The_Djoker | #422 On this board at least, more people picked FF than Zelda. Don't know about site-wide. The line of thinking was that FF is stronger relative to Cloud/FF7 than Zelda is relative to Link/OoT. Which was true, it just wasn't quite enough. |
Thanks
Luster. It seems I was right based off of those extra three, as even
though Cloud's winning convincingly in Italy, not enough so to make up
for the rest. Must be France I think. It would be cool if we could see
their results. From: The_Djoker | #2102 It was a huge favourite in the series contest. Both in the guru and the whole site. Also "Mowser" reminds me of Mouser. We need to get this handsome fellow into the next contest: http://www.mariowiki.com/images/thumb/9/90/Mouser.jpg/200px-Mouser.jpg Look at those sunglasses. --- Something something something ^Poorly disguised anti-caps sig |
From: Xuxon | #425 I don't think more people picked FF at all. I picked FF for an upset...not as a favourite. Also how the **** Is is Cloud losing in JApan??? --- http://gifsoup.com/view2/3219901/nakedlightning-o.gif |
Damn, Link is kicking *** here. This might make me raise my percentage pick for the finals. --- http://img.imgcake.com/nio/2bigwigpngut.png |
From: The_Djoker | #427 Probably not across the whole site. But on board 8, more people picked FF. http://thengamer.com/guru/BSE/ |
Next contest idea: Games contest, mixed eras, with OoT out but WITH FFVII IN. Winner takes on OoT in a bonus match or something. OoT needs to be removed, since it can 60-40 ANY non-FFVII game on the site, considering most of the top 10 games are all Nintendo and it'll just be an SFF fest. FFVII, once the number one game on the site, definitely needs to be in to really gauge how much the game has fallen. I seriously have the feeling that the gap between OoT and FFVII (with OoT3D out and FFVII in freefall, OoT can probably now break 55-56 on FFVII) is now greater than the gap between FFVII and the second strongest Nintendo game on the site, meaning we can actually get some interesting matches. --- If an active verb shows action, then a passive verb shows passion |
From: Xuxon | #429 lol war --- (\__/) Meet Ziggy,the Evil Bunny who wants to take over the world and eat the flesh of the weak. (='.'=] Put Ziggy in your sig to support his cause. |
Man
Link is doing wonders in USA!In South America Link is under 53.5,in
Europe Link is under 50.5,in Asia Link is under 24.5(man talking about a
beatdown!)and in Oceania Link is under 52.Of course USA has the bad
taste.By the way have Clouderoth gained updates?At least it would be the
first rival team to do that.... --- 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~ |
Link is King! --- Wem-ber-ly!, Wem-ber-ly! Were the famous MAN UNITED!! and we're going to Wem-ber-ly! GE: g[Anon]dorf - ManU*AnonGE |
Safer Sephiroth 777 posted... By the way have Clouderoth gained updates?At least it would be the first rival team to do that.... http://gamefaqscontests.com/drupal/node/22?matchnum=4571&sort=time&type=ASC&num=2 They took 9 updates so far --- Link's is pretty much the video game equivalent of the Jesus story. -- Yoblaser |
Woot!So there are characters that can gain more than 50% of the votes at an update?This contest rules! --- 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~ |
Okay, two questions: 1) How well do you expect Red/Blue to do against Cloud/Sephiroth? 2) How much do you expect Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow to be worth against Final Fantasy 7? --- http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/3492/eponaharr.jpg Nominate E P O N A. |
More than 45% sounds good in both questions I believe. --- 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~ |
I
am shocked at this result and I think Cloud is weaker than ever even in
1vs 1 situations, but I am very confident FFVII is still the second
strongest game easily, FFVII would not be getting owned like this by OoT
if we ran that match today. --- ... |
Red
vs Blue's going to beat FF7 with like 55%. I don't think this is some
sorta Zelda boost or FF7 drop as much as it is the FF7 duo not being
helped by the format and being kinda weak-- they just haven't been
tested at all. FF7 probably flips that on Pokemon at least. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
this isn't OoT vs FFVII guys this is the entire Zelda series vs FFVII --- thelefty for analysis crew 2008 imo -tranny I have a third degree burn in flame-o-nomics -Sir Chris |
When
I saw the result this morning I audibly exhaled, then chuckled. That
doesn't happen very often. With Link now it's like, "Oh you!" --- http://i.imgur.com/tAfEW.gif |
In
hindsight I'm seeing that this bracket could've actually been good if
you could see the future and with some moving around in the bracket.
Put Pokemon where Link is and put Link on the other side-- suddenly it
really does look like a miracle run when it beats Mega Man, then ups the
ante and beats Cloud vs Sephiroth-- people are giving it hype to beat
Link at that point, and people like me are pulling their hair out and
fighting Pokemon the whole way. And of course there are a lot of other
things you could do like actually testing Samus and Snake, etc etc. Oh well. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
Every bracket could be tons better with hindsight. The frustrating thing about this bracket is it could and should have been much better from the start. >_> --- http://i46.tinypic.com/301k70h.gif |
From: XIII_rocks | #443 I'm pretty sure from the day the bracket was released we were calling for Sonic and Crono to be better utilized, Squall and Snake to not be fed to Cloud yet again, Mega Man not be fed to Link yet again, X not be fed to Mario yet again. --- Game of the decade? More like Guru of the decade mirite? |
Well,
yes, but with most brackets it's just "we could swap this easy match
with this difficult match" and make the decent bracket better. This bracket it's like... necessary. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
OH
wait you're talking about FF series contest..yeah that was the
favourite(and i took Zelda to win lolZ) thought you meant this contest
so ireferred clouderoth as FF. --- http://gifsoup.com/view2/3219901/nakedlightning-o.gif |
From: Lopen | #445 Sometimes its hard to put a good bracket together, because setting up one good match could ruin 2 or 3 potentially good matches. This time we had some pretty clear examples on matches that were made through sheer stupidity. --- Game of the decade? More like Guru of the decade mirite? |
But
even in this contest it is not the entire Zelda series versus FF VII.Is
Ganon in all Zelda games?No.Also not even 42% for FF VII?Man how bad
will Mario get beaten? --- 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~ |
Also
I don't think any of the things we've seen wrong with the bracket at
the start get that fixed without seeing the future. You could get a
debatable match or two but talking straight up good upsets you pretty
much need Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat in a place that most people
wouldn't have them. I guess if I designed the bracket pre-contest we would've had that cause I actually expected the fighting game rivalries to be strong. I probably would've totally wasted the trainers though. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
