GameFAQs Contests
Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1041
From: Lopen | #449 http://www.finalfantasygirls.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/brahne.jpg --- SuperNiceDog be rollin' http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/8516/whatisdesiresig.gif |
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Well most attractive character is such a bad contest idea that I fully support people voting Link for the laughs. --- Congratulations to SuperNiceDog, Guru Winner, who was smart enough to pick your 7 time champion, Link. |
Link will still win. I mean look at this: http://www.hemmy.net/images/games/linkcosplay01.jpg --- SuperNiceDog recommends the following SuperNiceGame: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=77WDL08B |
Link vs Zelda in a Most Attractive Character match... can Zelda win? --- http://raptr.com/badge/cf898f37d9c30ef120ada6c35e636ad3/fs.png http://myanimelist.net/signature/RyanSaotome.png |
Well most attractive character is such a bad contest idea that I fully support people voting Link for the laughs. But it's not THAT bad of an idea! It will be new and different. You get to look at attractive people. Who knows exactly who will win. Popularity doesn't mean everything because conceivably people can look at an attractive unknown and say DAYAM *vote*. Sure I'd rather see a Best Game Ever III or CB9 with a bracket that actually makes sense, but where's the guarantee of that? I'd take most attractive character over "hey here's Snake > Squall 5 etc." --- My weapons are USELESS against SuperNiceDog! |
Most attractive provides the opportunity for...exploitative match pics. TJF alone would result in higher votals! --- XIII_rocks, the cream of XIII fanboyism. The guru champ isn't such a SuperNiceDog, he made me change my sig! |
Why
don't they go random tag teams. Snake/Link vs Cloud/Mario. Confusion
and anger would ensue once people realised the person they love is with
someone they hate. Or not. .... --- www.youtube.com/blitzking900 |
Most attractive would totally have a Giygas victory. --- "Go get me Jared...from Subway!" -- CM Punk Gurus vs. SuperNiceDog is not even worthy of the Rivalry Rumble. |
Most Attractive Character, huh? Man, if you thought Guybrush did bad in a normal contest...! --- "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 |
Hey
creativename just wondering why are you so confident that fictional
characters will do well on gamefaqs? Looking at the Gamespot contest
seems like they didn't do THAT well. Joker only got 55% on Ganon over
there so over here Ganon would 60-40 him at least. |
Ehhh, I'd rather see the fictional character inclusion contest, or a new game contest over an attractive character contest. --- - |
CP724 posted... Hey creativename just wondering why are you so confident that fictional characters will so well on gamefaqs? Looking at the Gamespot contest seems like they didn't do THAT well. Ganon got 55% on the joker over there even so he'd probably get 60-40d over here. http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3740 Which would put Joker around Mewtwo level --- http://raptr.com/badge/cf898f37d9c30ef120ada6c35e636ad3/fs.png http://myanimelist.net/signature/RyanSaotome.png |
From: CP724 | #2260 I'm confident because this site's demographics are perfectly in line with the main popularity base for superheroes and action movie characters. Of course, the appeal for these characters is incredibly wide. But if there was a main target demo for superheroes and action movie (e.g. Star Wars) characters, this site hits it. And Batman is the most popular American pop culture character of the last century. He would no doubt be among the most popular characters and I would bet on him to beat Link. Gamespot is trash, there results mean nothing and correlate in no way with gamefaqs, you cannot compare at all. Kerrigan is strong there for goodness sake. Ganon would not 60-40 Joker on this site - I'd be pretty confident Joker beats Ganon here. Joker is a very popular character in his own right and again, perfectly hits this site's demo. Remember, the VG originating thing is a fairly quirky delimiter, added by CJayC and Bacon has stuck with it (although Dracula, Zeus and Adolf push it). Also don't forget even Santa almost hit 40% on Link and Santa is obviously not close to the 10 most popular non-VG originating fictional characters. That Santa hit that number on Link, is a very bad sign for VG characters. It's largely math. The non-VG character field is so wide-spanning. The 128th strongest non-VG originating fictional would crush the 128th strongest VG character. Completely crush them. Much deeper field for obvious reasons - there's so many possible characters from so many areas, rather than just video games. And it would make sense that the top non-VG characters are stronger than the top VG characters. Santa, a non-top 10 fictional relying almost entirely on "lulz" votes, doing better than some of the top 9 VG characters would do on Link supports this. --- www.gamefaqscontests.com www.gamefaqscontests.com/gallery |
A new games contest is the next best route. Although people constantly complain about Link and obvious winner and all that, and OoT is the obvious winner there as well. But it would certainly beat any character contest which didn't include fictionals. With a good bracket a games contest could generate many good and exciting matches. I believe the vote totals for the character contest with fictionals would be higher than for a games contest though, because the games contest wouldn't reach beyond the site. A fictional character contest would probably generate interest and actually drive traffic and vote totals up. --- www.gamefaqscontests.com www.gamefaqscontests.com/gallery |
Batman isn't relying on the strength of his games to beat Link. I'm pretty sure you've been told that a few times now. --- SuperNiceDog was not so nice to my bracket. Congrats to SuperNiceDog for winning the Rivalry Rumble Guru Contest! |
This
contest allowed public domain characters and historical representations
of real people to be in the contest. So I think the next Character
Battle should allow characters like Dracula and Zeus into the contest,
in order to test out the site's reaction to these characters being in a
contest. It would be an intermediate step towards allowing any
character from a video game to be in a Character Battle. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
Team Rocket Elite posted... Batman isn't relying on the strength of his games to beat Link. I'm pretty sure you've been told that a few times now. Well I know that, but Creative has said time after time they'll gain strength from their games. Like he thinks Nightcrawler will be strong since he was a playable character in some old X-men game. If he sees that the games do bad here, maybe he'll start thinking that maybe Batman isn't invincible on this site. --- http://raptr.com/badge/cf898f37d9c30ef120ada6c35e636ad3/fs.png http://myanimelist.net/signature/RyanSaotome.png |
They
will. A good game isn't going to hurt them. It's just not a very
important factor when trying to take out Link. Batman either gets tons
of power from his non-video game works or Link will beat him. Maybe if
it's close, a good game could be the tipping point but just about
anything can change a really close result anyways. --- SuperNiceDog was not so nice to my bracket. Congrats to SuperNiceDog for winning the Rivalry Rumble Guru Contest! |
The
thing is, people always vote based on franchise, regardless of what the
contest is, this contest showed that beyond the shadow of a doubt. If
we do best game, Mario Galaxy 2, Final Fantasy 7, Zelda OOT, and Pokemon
GSC will be top 4. If we do a best music contest, SMB level 1-1, the
Zelda overworld theme, FF's overture, and Pokemon RBY's battle theme
will be top 4. If we do best quote, it will be "There's no gettin' offa
this train that we're on", "The Princess is in another castle", "I like
shorts because they're comfy and easy to wear", and "It's dangerous to
go alone, take this". If we do a most attractive female character,
it'll be Peach, Tifa, Zelda, and Lopunny. And so on. As long as these four franchises are allowed to compete in any form they will always win. The only way to get interesting results is to completely change the nature of the contest. Which, to be honest, I have no good ideas for. --- http://terosclassicgaming.blogspot.com/ - Watch me beat "NES Megaman 2" http://www.backloggery.com/tero - My backloggery |
If we do best game, Mario Galaxy 2, Final Fantasy 7, Zelda OOT, and Pokemon GSC will be top 4. Mario Galaxy 2 and Pokemon GSC are definitely not Top 4 games. Series power helps but there are plenty of Mario, Zelda and Pokemon games that are far from invincible. --- SuperNiceDog was not so nice to my bracket. Congrats to SuperNiceDog for winning the Rivalry Rumble Guru Contest! |
Anyway,
I do feel if there were as many Batman fanboys as Creative says there
are, they'd blindly vote for the games even if they haven't played them.
You need that kind of loyal fanboyism to take out Link. --- http://raptr.com/badge/cf898f37d9c30ef120ada6c35e636ad3/fs.png http://myanimelist.net/signature/RyanSaotome.png |
Everyone
is so caught up on trying to find a "Link killer" that we're forgetting
the main point of bringing the fictionals on board in the first place:
to make things fresh and exciting again and to give us better contests
in general. If Cloud really has fallen in the last two years, then Link
could be at a point where he can damn near 60/40 anyone, including
Cloud. Even if Batman can barely muster 40% on Link, he may still be
able to beat EVERYONE ELSE. It's not as though losing to Link makes the
entire idea a failure. --- Yoblazer: http://8board.webs.com/ariel.jpg Watch and you'll see... SuperNiceDog own me... in the Guru! |
So
I think the next Character Battle should allow characters like Dracula
and Zeus into the contest, in order to test out the site's reaction to
these characters being in a contest. Who did you have in mind? Considering Adolf bombed as a joke vote, Dracula seemed just along for the ride, as Alucard's moderate strength was enough to claim the division, and Zeus didn't amount to much either. Gotta make sure one of these intermediates can actually make a contest! If we do best game, Mario Galaxy 2, Final Fantasy 7, Zelda OOT, and Pokemon GSC will be top 4. Huh? If we do a best music contest, SMB level 1-1, the Zelda overworld theme, FF's overture, and Pokemon RBY's battle theme will be top 4. ... If we do a most attractive female character, it'll be Peach, Tifa, Zelda, and Lopunny. Speculation. Popular franchises do pretty well because they're popular for a reason and have widespread familiarity, but that's no guarantee. You cannot be so confident that Mega Man music or chicks from other series couldn't succeed in your listed examples. --- My weapons are USELESS against SuperNiceDog! |
Batman
taking out Cloud is something I could see as reasonable. I wouldn't
take it, but it wouldn't shock me either. But yeah, Link is just out of
anyones range at this point, which is why its best to retire him. --- http://raptr.com/badge/cf898f37d9c30ef120ada6c35e636ad3/fs.png http://myanimelist.net/signature/RyanSaotome.png |
If we do best game, Mario Galaxy 2, Final Fantasy 7, Zelda OOT, and Pokemon GSC will be top 4. Mario Galaxy 2 and Pokemon GSC are definitely not Top 4 games. Series power helps but there are plenty of Mario, Zelda and Pokemon games that are far from invincible. Or some other game from those franchises. The specific game wasn't the point. There's no way we're going to see something like Psychonauts or Okami placing high, as much as people would like that to happen. Speculation. Popular franchises do pretty well because they're popular for a reason and have widespread familiarity, but that's no guarantee. You cannot be so confident that Mega Man music or chicks from other series couldn't succeed in your listed examples. I'll grant Mega Man and maybe Sonic as possibles in the music contest but to be honest I'm pretty sure people will vote based on familiarity in the end. Mega Man has no music track that is as iconic as the Mario, Zelda, or FF themes, Skull Castle 1 from Mega Man 2 would likely be the pick from that series and it only appears in a few games. Sonic has the same problem with his music, he'd probably get Green Hill. Castlevania's Vampire Killer is probably a bigger threat than both, because it does show up extremely often. Actually, I might be down for the music contest, now that I think about it more, but GF would clearly never do it anyway, they won't even let you link to youtube videos of game music. The one about female characters was something of a joke. That contest would probably be fairly susceptible to joke picks (but then maybe Lopunny would do well because of that). --- http://terosclassicgaming.blogspot.com/ - Watch me beat "NES Megaman 2" http://www.backloggery.com/tero - My backloggery |
IngmarBirdman | Posted 12/21/2011 3:17:34 AM | message detail | quote Who did you have in mind? Considering Adolf bombed as a joke vote, Dracula seemed just along for the ride, as Alucard's moderate strength was enough to claim the division, and Zeus didn't amount to much either. Gotta make sure one of these intermediates can actually make a contest! I have nothing in mind outside of the characters from this contest that would normally be ineligible for a regular Character Battle. I'm not that familiar with characters outside of those that have been featured in a GameFAQs poll (or contest). --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
I'm
confident because this site's demographics are perfectly in line with
the main popularity base for superheroes and action movie characters. Of
course, the appeal for these characters is incredibly wide. But if
there was a main target demo for superheroes and action movie (e.g. Star
Wars) characters, this site hits it. And Batman is the most popular American pop culture character of the last century. He would no doubt be among the most popular characters and I would bet on him to beat Link. Gamespot is trash, there results mean nothing and correlate in no way with gamefaqs, you cannot compare at all. Kerrigan is strong there for goodness sake. Ganon would not 60-40 Joker on this site - I'd be pretty confident Joker beats Ganon here. Joker is a very popular character in his own right and again, perfectly hits this site's demo. Remember, the VG originating thing is a fairly quirky delimiter, added by CJayC and Bacon has stuck with it (although Dracula, Zeus and Adolf push it). Also don't forget even Santa almost hit 40% on Link and Santa is obviously not close to the 10 most popular non-VG originating fictional characters. That Santa hit that number on Link, is a very bad sign for VG characters. It's largely math. The non-VG character field is so wide-spanning. The 128th strongest non-VG originating fictional would crush the 128th strongest VG character. Completely crush them. Much deeper field for obvious reasons - there's so many possible characters from so many areas, rather than just video games. And it would make sense that the top non-VG characters are stronger than the top VG characters. Santa, a non-top 10 fictional relying almost entirely on "lulz" votes, doing better than some of the top 9 VG characters would do on Link supports this. --- Sounds legit, I was just thinking fictional characters not from games that everyone knows would have fairly static strength across most game sites. I'm a bit skeptical that they'd be a lot stronger here than on Gamespot. Maybe Kerrigan over there is just their version of Link and Darth Vader getting 40% on her is actually really good, heh. |
It's
not reasonable to expect voters to spend 6 to 10+ minutes to listen to
two songs before voting so a music contest wouldn't work. --- SuperNiceDog was not so nice to my bracket. Congrats to SuperNiceDog for winning the Rivalry Rumble Guru Contest! |
And then there's still the legal issues associated with hosting copyrighted music on this site for the purpose of a contest. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
Ugh.
Why the hell do people want to remove Cloud and Mario from a contest?
Just removing Link gives us a very unpredictable final few matches
already. There's no need to remove anyone other than him. --- "Thank you, thank you, no applause necessary, just send money..." SuperNiceDog rolled over his competition. |
From: CP724 | #478 With the incredibly low vote totals of this contest Link wouldn't even have got 30% on a majorly rallied Kerrigan (as in the level of rallying she got for that contest) --- Starcraft is my life, so without it I wouldn't exist. - Artosis Congratulations to SuperNiceDog for winning the 2011 Guru contest. |
BEST idea: Retire Link, ADD FICTIONALS. Holy crap what an amazing contest we have! --- http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v712/ExTha/10and14.jpg "What about the lion from Lion King?" - SuperNiceDog |
Ugh.
Why the hell do people want to remove Cloud and Mario from a contest?
Just removing Link gives us a very unpredictable final few matches
already. There's no need to remove anyone other than him. Because they think Cloud always wins for some reason. Mario is just unlucky to get grouped in the same option. --- SuperNiceDog was not so nice to my bracket. Congrats to SuperNiceDog for winning the Rivalry Rumble Guru Contest! |
I'm
really surprised at these results. If this is what the average voter
thinks then how the heck was Link the strongest he's ever been? --- Starcraft is my life, so without it I wouldn't exist. - Artosis Congratulations to SuperNiceDog for winning the 2011 Guru contest. |
I
don't mind that the last option is most voted. He may opt to relegate
former winners to a Champions match. At that point the contest is
Snake's to lose, but it should open things so we have more matches
between our near-elites. --- My weapons are USELESS against SuperNiceDog! |
Hey
uhh am I looking at things wrong or is this poll about what to do with
Link outdrawing every single actual match we just had? --- Yoblazer: http://i44.tinypic.com/5nw45i.jpg Watch and you'll see... SuperNiceDog own me... in the Guru! |
It's currently ahead of even Red/Blue vs Cloud/Sephiroth. I guess the contest really was turning away voters. --- SuperNiceDog was not so nice to my bracket. Congrats to SuperNiceDog for winning the Rivalry Rumble Guru Contest! |
That's horrible. Poor SBAllen. --- Yoblazer: http://oi52.tinypic.com/ad21i1.jpg Watch and you'll see... SuperNiceDog own me... in the Guru! |
I like that yes for removing Link has 49.99%. He's over-powering being over-powered and I love it. --- The King of GameFAQs Brawl posting from his phone. http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/board8/images/8/8b/ViviffChampS1.jpg |
A "get rid of Contests altogether" option would sadly be winning --- Hey, its that SuperNiceDog! Guru 2011 winner |
PartOfYourWorld | Posted 12/21/2011 4:09:26 AM | message detail | quote Hey uhh am I looking at things wrong or is this poll about what to do with Link outdrawing every single actual match we just had? Team Rocket Elite (Moderator) | Posted 12/21/2011 4:12:06 AM | message detail | quote It's currently ahead of even Red/Blue vs Cloud/Sephiroth. I guess the contest really was turning away voters. I guess this poll is bringing in some good votals here because it shows that most of this site has a strong opinion over the current state of the contests. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
PartOfYourWorld posted... Everyone is so caught up on trying to find a "Link killer" that we're forgetting the main point of bringing the fictionals on board in the first place: to make things fresh and exciting again and to give us better contests in general. You want to make things fresh and exciting? Limit each series to only 3 characters. That way we get new entrants instead of minor Nintendo/Square people and random Pokemon. OR, we could have an entire contest of only characters who debuted in this millennium. That would be unpredictable and exciting for sure. |
It's
not reasonable to expect voters to spend 6 to 10+ minutes to listen to
two songs before voting so a music contest wouldn't work. Most of the songs in the contest would probably be fairly short, and to be honest the majority of people would probably not vote for a song they've never heard before. And then there's still the legal issues associated with hosting copyrighted music on this site for the purpose of a contest. It's so readily accessible there's no need for them to host it, they could just put the name that the song is commonly known by and any google search will turn it up. GF keeps their hands clean. Nevertheless I'm sure it would never happen anyway. --- http://terosclassicgaming.blogspot.com/ - Watch me beat "NES Megaman 2" http://www.backloggery.com/tero - My backloggery |
From: FateStayAlbion | #2308 No. Pay more attention. I've said time after time that Batman will gain like zero strength from his games, and mocked the notion that most of Batman's strength would come from his games (because that's utterly comical yet I've actually seen it stated). If Batman had never appeared in a video game he would perform almost no different. You're very confused with my Nightcrawler example. I've used Nightcrawler in the context of - is he one of the 128 most powerful non-VG originated characters? Very possibly not. But, he'd absolutely annihilate the 128th most powerful VG character. Relative to the top tier non-VG characters, Nightcrawler isn't strong at all. Relative to comparable level VG characters (e.g. Professor Layton, Claptrap), he's a complete monster. From: FateStayAlbion | #2352 Haha. Not even Zeldrones are that dronish. And Superman would be decent strength, probably top 10-20 among fictionals, despite being known for the worst game ever. Clearly game strength is going to have zero correlation with character strength. Now some characters would have decent strength from games alone. For instance, Batman and Spider-Man would probably be decent mid-carders based on their video games alone even if they'd never had a pop culture existence - they've had popular games that sold millions and have good character design. But their actual strength is virtually unchanged by whether the games exist or not, because they are way above that. The marginal strength added from their games existing is almost nil. From: -LusterSoldier- | #2307 These types of characters would not be strong. You need characters that have major modern commercial success from their own brands. Characters that are strong in pop culture. Zeus is a nothing. Dracula is not quite a nothing, but he isn't anything of note. From: ViviffTheMobile | #2410 Almost all of that is from the "remove everyone" option. The remove just Link option currently has the lowest votes of anything. From: PartOfYourWorld | #2353 Exactly. It's the best possible contest idea for a contest that would be exciting and unpredictable. Even a hypothetical games contest with a great bracket would be far more predictable. --- www.gamefaqscontests.com www.gamefaqscontests.com/gallery |
creativename posted... From: Ngamer64 | #1809 What new Contest would you to see GameFAQs host in 2012? * A new regular Character Battle * A Character Battle, but with former winners removed (Link, Cloud, etc) * A Battle featuring ANY Characters who've been in video games (eg Batman, Darth Vader, Gandalf) * A new Best Video Game Contest (from all eras) * Best. System. Ever. I like! Well done. Okay, submitted this as a PotD suggestion. I'll let you know what SB says about it (if anything). --- thengamer.com/guru thengamer.com/xstats board8.wikia.com Best Show ever? Our interview of Guru Champ SuperNiceDog! |
From: ejm5446 | #2453 Weaksauce new fodder and junk may excite you, but it surely won't excite anyone else :) --- www.gamefaqscontests.com www.gamefaqscontests.com/gallery |
From: ejm5446 | #493 This does little more than eliminate a dozen or more Final Fantasy characters that can win matches and draw votes. Their replacements would likely be fodder, so we'd know more or less how they would do in a contest. We're honestly starting to tap the bottom of the barrel for new characters with good potential power (unless you want to bring a new RBY-era Pokemon in every time, something you seem to be against). OR, we could have an entire contest of only characters who debuted in this millennium. That would be unpredictable and exciting for sure. It could be unpredictable, but I don't know about exciting. Auron should run through it easily, and all but the top few entrants would be fodder. People here are generally unenthusiastic about the idea of fodder battling fodder over and over. Fodder is fodder for a reason - most people don't care about it. --- Yoblazer: http://i43.tinypic.com/25z1non.jpg Watch and you'll see... SuperNiceDog own me... in the Guru! |
BGE4 FFVIII > FFX --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/pjbasis.png b SuperNiceDog - 1, pjbasis - 0 /b |
Heard it here first --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/pjbasis.png b SuperNiceDog - 1, pjbasis - 0 /b |
