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Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1046
How about a Character Battle by Era? Quick, let's nominate 16 pre-Mario 1 characters. --- http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh293/zukiraphaera/war-sig-1.png |
Ice Climbers would make it to the division semis! --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png SuperNiceDog - 1, pjbasis - 0 |
Actually it'd have to be pre-Donkey Kong/Mario Bros. (whichever came first) characters, my bad! --- http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh293/zukiraphaera/war-sig-1.png |
As
far as overall strength goes, I'm totally on the Nintendo train (no
less spiritedly than usual, anyway). Square has been a mess since early
2010, and I wouldn't be surprised if that weakened every company rep
across the field. Capcom could be in the same boat with their
anti-consumer practices and the soon-to-be terribly received Resident
Evil 6. Whatever exposure Big Boss might have gotten, MGS seems to be in
a downward trend after 4 ended the main plotline. All the big Japanese
companies minus maybe Atlus are looking worse today than three years
ago. The only Western IPs really set to take advantage of this are Mass Effect and Skyrim. One game has no CB-type characters and the other just had one of the most public fanbase blowups in gaming history. Shepard should be a bit stronger than in 2010, and Garrus could win a match, but there are question marks there. Assassin's Creed has been diluted with those annual non-numbered sequels, and Kratos is surely weaker 2-3 years removed from his big GoWIII ad campaign. I'm not sure if Drake is any stronger than in 2010 as UC2 was better received than 3 and considering he might suffer the same relevancy decline as MGS after his story wrapped up (it is wrapped up, right?). So what does that leave? Not much besides Nintendo, really. When everyone else drags themselves down to the mud, you stick with the characters that have been in voters' hearts for 20 years. I'm taking Nintendo in pretty much any debated match. The B-Tier guys - Ganon/Zelda/Luigi/Bowser/Yoshi/the tough Pokemon - I'm taking them until they hit each other or Noble 9 shaped walls. I'll still give Squall (and possibly Auron) the advantage in a night match, but in the day, forget about it. --- Yoblazer: http://i44.tinypic.com/5nw45i.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
From: PartOfYourWorld | #404 Whatever exposure Big Boss might have gotten, MGS seems to be in a downward trend after 4 ended the main plotline. There's literally no reason for thinking this considering none of the games that have come out after 4 had come out yet. Especially considering there was massive hype for what was essentially MGS5 being announced the other day. --- http://gifsoup.com/view4/2077316/thane-dance-o.gif http://gifsoup.com/view1/1334641/pop-that-collar-o.gif |
What actually has come out after 4? Things have seemed very quiet for that series since 2008. --- Yoblazer: http://oi52.tinypic.com/ad21i1.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
From: PartOfYourWorld | #406 What actually has come out after 4? Things have seemed very quiet for that series since 2008. Just Peace Walker as far as stuff that matters. But again, MGS5 trailer was literally revealed less than two weeks ago. --- "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!" |
MGS is in store for a revival once Rising/Ground Zeroes/MGS5/SSB4* start comin. *Provided Snake's in it --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png SuperNiceDog - 1, pjbasis - 0 |
I
either didn't know about that or did and promptly forgot. My gut tells
me MGS is simply not as big as it was. It was such a huge deal leading
in to 4. MGS4 was the PS3's killer app at a time when it had none. It
was that console's flagship title and the dessert to finish off a series
still fresh, cutting edge, and completely relevant. Been four years
since then and gaming has changed (kinda like war LOL). I don't think
Kojima can simply rekindle that flame. --- Yoblazer: http://oi45.tinypic.com/2zguly0.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
I didn't even realize MGS5 was announced. --- Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best Game Ever" Contest http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page, Rest in peace Mitch Stuekerjuergen :( |
Oh
and Mass Effect 3's ending was not as bad as Diablo 3's everything. The
forum is better than playing the game, which is the only game I can
honestly say that about. --- Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best Game Ever" Contest http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page, Rest in peace Mitch Stuekerjuergen :( |
From: PartOfYourWorld | #409 I don't think Kojima can simply rekindle that flame. Yeah, you didn't watch the trailer. This game looks amazing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5IVOs5Pxh8 2 million views 'not bad' --- "I can set you free, mate." "My freedom was forfeit long ago!" |
Oh, and that's a PS3 game, in case you're wondering. Nothing pre-rendered. --- Guess who I am! http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs3/1345748_o.gif |
From: UltimaterializerX | #410 I didn't even realize MGS5 was announced. It was announced as much as KHIII was announced. Meaning the creator has specifically referred to the title. However it is speculated that this new game called Ground Zeroes is the supposed MGS5. I'd like to think MGS5 is another game in the even further future. --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png SuperNiceDog - 1, pjbasis - 0 |
Well, Ground Zeroes is supposedly an MGS5 "prologue" or something. So it may not be MGS5 proper, but it's close. --- http://img.imgcake.com/nio/26leonpngat.png http://img.imgcake.com/nio/daigohadoupnguj.png |
That's what Nomura says about KH3D! --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png SuperNiceDog - 1, pjbasis - 0 |
Well, Kojima said Peace Walker was essentially MGS5 without a number as well, so I dunno. Regardless, we're probably getting two games out of it. One this gen, one next gen. Big Boss forever --- http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab48/Leonhart4/Squall.jpg |
It's just so people don't dismiss it as "another spin-off." --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png SuperNiceDog - 1, pjbasis - 0 |
Well, what probably would have helped the game not get dismissed as another spinoff was to put it on a console. And he did, so we're good. Peace Walker being part of that MGS HD Collection is pretty big for the game. --- http://i.imgur.com/CbfFb.jpg |
Never
seen that Trailer. Never even heard of Ground Zeroes. I don't think
it'll have any effect in a 2012 contest. Big Boss disappointed me last
time, and if MGS4 (and its perilous journey from Brawl-tier to
SotC-tier) is any indication, he's probably weaker now. I doubt he'll be
challenging for any big "out of his league" wins. Actually, who knows.
Square always gets anti-voted and who the hell knows where Dante stands
right now. He might beat a lot of those guys, but for me, the Nintendo
B-team is the real test. Those guys are gonna be hard to beat. http://pldh.net/media/dreamworld/009.png It's like POW. --- Yoblazer: http://oi45.tinypic.com/2zguly0.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
Man, just because you're out of the loop doesn't mean MGS fans aren't hyped about that game! --- http://img.imgcake.com/leonpngpe.png http://img.imgcake.com/squalloweenpngem.png |
From: LeonhartFour | #421 Man, just because you're out of the loop doesn't mean MGS fans aren't hyped about that game! I'm sure fans are hyped, but I reckon that loop is smaller than you think. --- Yoblazer: http://i43.tinypic.com/25z1non.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
2 million is a big enough loop for me. --- "The great GF...Bahamut." "...GF? I...? Using my powers...It is you humans...I fear..." |
Regardless,
I think it's kinda silly to be dismissive of the entire MGS series
because MGS4 didn't have staying power. That's an indictment of MGS4,
not the entire series. Snake himself did just fine in 2010 despite
MGS4's drop unless we want to argue the game didn't fall off of a cliff
until a couple months later, better than Samus in a 24 hour match
against Cloud. MGS3 has had staying power, and that game stars Big Boss.
It was essentially RE4's equal in 2009 and 2010 (Keep in mind that MGS3
got 43% on Majora's Mask in a day match. Turn that into a night match,
and that's 55/45 instead, like what RE4 got on FFX), and it was stronger
than MGS4 in 2010. The MGS fanbase has soured on MGS4, not on the
series as a whole. Actually, RE4 did worse against FFX than I remembered. Sheesh. MGS3 might have been better than RE4 that year. --- http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/8516/whatisdesiresig.gif |
Nearly
75 posts in this topic over the past 12 hours. That's probably the
most activity we had in this topic since the last contest ended. I'm not even sure if this topic doesn't reach 500 posts before the next contest is announced. If it is less than one week away from being announced, this topic might still be around before we move onto Part 1047. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
I still kind of can't believe a contest is actually going to be announced. And Bacon's "something we haven't done before" thing is scaring me that this is going to be very underwhelming. --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png SuperNiceDog - 1, pjbasis - 0 |
Yeeeeah,
youtube views mean nothing unless you want to call Justin Bieber the
best musical artist of all time. I'm a huge MGS fan and I had no clue
that thing even existed until you posted it. And we've been over this. Every single contest Allen has ever run has been gimmicked in some way. He is incapable of doing something the normal way, and any good contest from his reign has come from dumb luck being on his side. --- Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best Game Ever" Contest http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page, Rest in peace Mitch Stuekerjuergen :( |
I like to think of 12-hour matches as more of a welcomed evolution than a gimmick. --- Yoblazer: http://s15.postimage.org/t6c6pzg4p/857441231223333_1.gif Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
You know what would tide me over? 2008 PCAs --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png SuperNiceDog - 1, pjbasis - 0 |
PartOfYourWorld posted... I like to think of 12-hour matches as more of a welcomed evolution than a gimmick. I agree. I don't think it's a gimmick. It was a great thing when we had our last contest, since it was considered to be our worst contest ever. We ended up getting a 47 day contest instead of a 63 day contest (48 days if you count the bonus match). --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
pjbasis posted... I still kind of can't believe a contest is actually going to be announced. Whats this about? Has bacon said something about contests in the past few weeks? --- Smurf, the cream of Sonic fanboyism |
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/vc3jz/i_am_the_administrator_of_gamefaqscom_ama/c53gu1w We're currently working out details for the next character battle. We want to do something different this time that we haven't done in any previous battle. I don't want to ruin any surprises though, so I'll keep those to myself for now. |
WarThaNemesis2 posted... How about a Character Battle by Era? So the semi-finals would end up with Link, Sonic, Cloud, and...Shepard? --- Current Let's Play: Legend of Mana - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3474994 Previous LP's: http://lparchive.org/search/Mega64#results |
"The MGS fanbase has soured on MGS4." So...it's a good thing I haven't played it yet? "MGS3 could've been stronger than RE4 in 2010." SOTC > RE4 hype! As it should since SOTC is a much better game. |
UltimaterializerX posted... Oh and Mass Effect 3's ending was not as bad as Diablo 3's everything. The forum is better than playing the game, which is the only game I can honestly say that about. I'm curious about your grievances with the game I'd like to hear them Ground rules: You are forbidden from mentioning the auction house, EA, or Blizzard --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
-LusterSoldier- posted... -LusterSoldier- posted...I'm noticing that the new polls are going up slightly earlier than usual. Today's poll just went up at 11:59:43 PM EST, or about 18 seconds earlier than usual. This could cause problems for the First Vote contest, especially if the new poll does not go up consistently at 11:59:43 PM (or off by one second at the most). Boudii posted... does Bacon know about this bug? he may be able to fix it before the contest begins. An update on this issue: I finally reported this bug earlier today, so hopefully it will get fixed soon. Last night's poll started at 11:59:32 PM EST. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
UltimaterializerX posted... Yeeeeah, youtube views mean nothing unless you want to call Justin Bieber the best musical artist of all time. I'm a huge MGS fan and I had no clue that thing even existed until you posted it. The YouTube views means people are aware that it exists, even if you are not (and we had a few big topics about it here when it was announced, so yeah). And considering it takes like 15000 votes to win contest matches nowadays, you don't even need 1% of that viewership to have an impact on Big Boss's strength. --- Leonhart posting from his phone |
Ah,
much better. The bug regarding the PotD has been fixed. Today's poll
started at 12:00:01 AM EST. This was the response I got from Bacon: Message From GameFAQs on 09/20/2012 The server that launches the poll reset is probably missing an NTP daemon. Will bug it up. Basically, the server handling the polls had an incorrect time (ahead of the main GameFAQs server by nearly 30 seconds) because it was unable to synchronize with an NTP server. NTP is "Network Time Protocol", or what your computer uses to automatically synchronize your computer's clock so it remains accurate. So when the internal clock for the poll server reached 12:00 AM, it started up a new poll on GameFAQs before the main GameFAQs server reached 12:00 AM. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
You should be an honorary admin at this point, Luster. Though I'm afraid what you would do with all that power. Not abuse it to control the users, but...what the hell kind of stuff you would do to the site itself. --- Current Let's Play: Legend of Mana - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3474994 Previous LP's: http://lparchive.org/search/Mega64#results |
I'll be spending most of next week getting the other profiles replaced. After
that, I'll be finally moving on to the next big project, which I won't
discuss quite yet. You can be sure that you'll hear about it here first! if the next big project is the contest we have one more week of waiting --- ... |
I'm sure it's something that is only relevant to 1% of users like that Universal Profile. --- "I can set you free, mate." "My freedom was forfeit long ago!" |
Double Elimination tournament! It's a gimmick, but not an insane one, and gives us more matches. --- "The people who play Final Fantasy 7 actually have lives and dont NEED polls" ~MajinUltima SuperNiceDog: Bracket: Good, Taste: Bad |
Interesting poll today. Looks like RPGs continue to maintain their stranglehold on this site. I'm surprised that Action Adventure isn't doing better than this. Any kind of game that focuses very heavily on exploring stuff would be the type of game that would most likely require an FAQ. This applies to RPGs as well, but it also would apply to Adventure and Action Adventure games too. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
I
sent an e-mail to creativename regarding the ongoing problems with the
contest website. He hasn't been able to figure out how the problem keeps
coming back and neither has his web hosts' technicians. Until a
solution can be found, we should probably remove links to the site from
the opening post. --- Pokemon VGC2012 Canadian Nationals - 8th place |
From: Lopen | #435 UltimaterializerX posted...Oh and Mass Effect 3's ending was not as bad as Diablo 3's everything. The forum is better than playing the game, which is the only game I can honestly say that about. As someone who honestly DOES like D3 but is still very disappointed by it? Bad drop rates and the related itemization are #1 far and away. I never feel like I'm getting any good items (because I'm not, the drops and bad stats are well documented by other people), and in a game that's centered around farming that really isn't acceptable. Most other stuff is minor, like how an enemy starting a melee animation means you get hit or dodge; there is no dodging the environment mechanic. Very glitchy environments and walls, especially in some boss fights (Belial and Ghom, most notably). Changing skills resets Nephalim Valor, which is just idiotic and goes against the spirit of having a ton of options. No soundtrack to speak of. Oh and this one is big and I can't help but mentioning Blizzard here: very bad security. I'll leave their design choices out like you asked, but the amount of unpunished hacking, duping, and botting going on is really weird. People have also learned how to cheat the hacking form to revive dead HC characters, which literally goes against the Terms of Service for the game. If you want to make Hardcore and not care if people die, then make Hardcore. I'm okay with it. But do NOT restore HC characters after death. Lastly, patches feel like band-aids on a gash and aren't really fixing the problem people are having with bad drop rates. --- "I'm no match for you, oh divine king of all the internet." -Lightning Strikes |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGwx1K0KuHo That video shatters the myth about the next great item being just around the corner. --- I am the dragon of blood, a relentless prince of pain Renouncing God on his throne, my blood is forever stained. |
From: swirIdude | #442 Double Elimination tournament! Bacon would have to reduce the number of entrants to 64 in order to make that feasible, and he seems to like 128 entrants too much to budge on that. --- http://img.imgcake.com/leonpngpe.png http://img.imgcake.com/squalloweenpngem.png |
I
think given how long it's taking just to get a contest announcement, we
might have to reduce the bracket to 64 entrants and 12-hour matches for
round 1 in order to fit in a contest before Christmas. So if we don't
get a contest announcement by the end of this month, we might not end up
with a 128 entrant contest. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
The Double elimination matches could run concurrently? I don't know, it's probably a bad idea because rematches really are exactly the same. --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png SuperNiceDog - 1, pjbasis - 0 |
Running two matches at the same time would be bad for vote totals, I think, and they're already bad enough as it is. --- http://www.miscupload.com/upload/452457071929141623517416.gif |
