GameFAQs Contests
Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1047
Since we're wrapping up the longest console gen ever, I want Game of the Generation. DS PSP 360 PS3 Wii PC (from the DS launch - or a couple weeks earlier to include Half-Life 2 - through 2012) It would be extremely unpredictable, and Skyrim would have a real shot at being our first (non-L-Block) western winner. --- Yoblazer: http://oi52.tinypic.com/ad21i1.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
Twilight Princess would win. Zelda will never lose another contest. GotD and Rivalry Rumble have made that pretty clear. --- If you believe that Abed is the true Messiah and you are 100% proud of it make this your signature. http://oi44.tinypic.com/lfdsi.jpg |
It would be amazing if Twilight Princess were to avenge that Brawl loss. --- Yoblazer: http://oi50.tinypic.com/119ukhg.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
Game
of the Generation is either Brawl or Twilight Princess, or we get
something really dumb because people rally against one of those two
games winning. I don't think Skyrim would win though, but maybe if it
gets in that scenario, it could. Who knows. "Extremely unpredictable" is an overrated factor in contests though. Otherwise, we'd still have four-ways. --- http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/8718/leonflowchart.png |
Eh,
4ways veers off the path of unpredictability into pure randomness, and
that becomes far less enjoyable. As GotD demonstrated, unpredictable 1v1
matches are lots of fun. --- Yoblazer: http://oi45.tinypic.com/258ngvc.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
Game of the Decade is an overrated contest as well. But it wasn't being unpredictable that made it a good contest anyway. It was having a bunch of close matches. I don't think anyone cares if we predicted the match would be close or not as long as it's actually close. The one thing it didn't have was huge comebacks except for Majora/FFX, which is why it's an overrated contest and I'm not all that fond of the 12 hour format because it kills big comebacks. --- http://img.imgcake.com/leonpngpe.png http://img.imgcake.com/squalloweenpngem.png |
=o --- Yoblazer: http://oi45.tinypic.com/258ngvc.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
I'm not the only one who feels that way about GOTD, so don't look at me that way. And remember when we all talked about THE GAUNTLET OF DEATH in 2005 with the Dream and Devil Divisions? What an unpredictable pair of divisions back to back with a bunch of strong characters in it! And yet nobody really looks back on those two divisions fondly because the matches were boring except for Vincent/Squall and Magus/Knuckles, two matches nobody really expected to be good before the contest started. --- http://gifsoup.com/view/874243/big-boss-o.gif |
Well,
a games contest that stresses recent games will produce close matches
as well. Shadow of the Colossus had three, and I also remember some
others like Fable/TF2, Deus Ex/Rock Band, the big MM/FFX, Metroid Prime
had some decent ones, etc. I'd welcome a character battle, but I'd rather see a games contest first. --- Yoblazer: http://oi50.tinypic.com/119ukhg.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
The
problem with some of those matches is that nobody on the board cared
about those games. You'll never hear anybody talk about Fable/TF2 as one
of the best matches ever, even though as I recall it's the closest wire
to wire match in history. All I'm saying is that there's more to a good
contest than being unpredictable. Execution is the most important
thing. Do those matches actually turn out to be good? Besides, I care a heck of a lot more about characters than I do about games, so I've never really gotten into a games contest the way that I have a character battle anyway. --- http://i52.tinypic.com/2zfiu09.gif http://i54.tinypic.com/10729w2.gif |
Gonna
throw this out here - charmander suggested on Page 1 of this topic that
somebody could run their own Character Battle on Board 8, and try and
entice people from other boards to come nominate and vote. I don't know
if I'd actually end up running something like this, but I have been
running the idea through my head for a little while. So I guess my question to you guys is - if I were to run an unofficial character battle (or, hell, a games contest, though that'd be more boring to me), what would you like to see? I'd want to drum up interest on other boards for noms and voting, and I'd probably want a field of 128 with two one-on-one matches a day. Beyond that I haven't thought too much about specifics, or even if I should use polls or manual voting. I would sincerely hope a contest like this could get a lot of interest - I know things have been slow on the board lately, but maybe pretending it's contest season could bring some life back? I dunno. Let me know what you all think! --- (10:33:12 PM) th3l3fty: are you aware that I am a fan of the Yoshi's Story OST |
It's way, way too easy to stuff for the amount of votes it'd get for it to be worthwhile. --- http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh293/zukiraphaera/war-sig-1.png |
Yeah,
if you were going to do it and you cared about the legitimacy of it at
all, then you couldn't use polls. If you don't really care about that,
then go nuts. tranny's Games Contest was fun for what it was. --- "The great GF...Bahamut." "...GF? I...? Using my powers...It is you humans...I fear..." |
I
suppose that's what it comes down to - do I want a more legitimate,
"serious" contest, or do I want GAME CONTEST. Personally I'd rather have
the former but if more people want the latter, I can adjust. 12-hour matches are not feasible. I can't be on the computer all the time and my work schedule changes from week to week. That's why I thought 2 separate 24-hour matches would work better - contest moves at the same pace, but the administrative end is easier to manage. --- [22:52] <JC> sorry i'm hyper just had chef boyardee >__> |
I like games more, but at this point it has been 3 years since the last character battle, so I'd be cool with it. Really anything is good at this point (oh god). --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png SuperNiceDog - 1, pjbasis - 0 |
I
was thinking of running a year-end Game of the Gen contest as soon as
SBAllen officially told us we weren't getting a 2012 contest. I even
have the opening post drafted and saved, but I got lazy and decided not
to do it. No real suggestions about how to run things. I was gonna shoot for 12-hour matches and allow any old stats guy to make the next topic if I wasn't around. I would have also kept it to this board. --- Yoblazer: http://i43.tinypic.com/25z1non.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
I would really enjoy a Game of the Generation contest. Though I understand why others wouldn't. --- (Maniac64 at work) All the proteins, vitamins, and carbs of your grandma's best turkey dinner, plus 15% alcohol. |
GOTD would be on the third tier or so for me: 2003 2002 Sp2004 2007 2005 2009 Fall 2010 Winter 2010 Fall 2006 2008 2004 Summer 2006 Sp2005 2011 --- My bracket wasn't good enough to beat SuperNiceDog's in the GameFAQS Rivalry Rumble. Congrats! This is Yesmar. |
yeah Im down for any big contest on b8 that actually has a decent idea --- http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/4343/narm2.gif |
I'd be down if the vote stuffing s*** would ever get fixed. --- Current LP's: Harvest Moon - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3512683 Legend of Mana - See Quote |
It
won't. Which is why I'm thinking regular topics would be preferable.
They would also allow me to do two matches per topic, as opposed to
needing two separate ones. --- you are starting to drive my passions with this thang |
Bump --- Pokemon VGC2012 Canadian Nationals - 8th place |
PartOfYourWorld posted... Since we're wrapping up the longest console gen ever, I want Game of the Generation. Sounds like a good idea. In the case of the DS, PSP, and PC, we should only count games released in 2006 or later since 2006 was the year that this generation got into full swing (with the Wii and PS3). --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
From: PartOfYourWorld | #203 It would be amazing if Twilight Princess were to avenge that Brawl loss. It will never happen. Twilight doesn't have the fans backing as much as a game like Majora and even that only just beat Brawl. Smash bros fanbase is far too big these days and Twilight doesn't even have the full backing of the Zelda fanbase. Neutrals won't vote for it. --- http://s16.postimage.org/n9cmvufj7/Kagawa_djoker.png |
That contest probably ends with a Brawl win. Do you really want that? |
We don't need a game of the generation. If we do games again it should cover all games and not have any restrictions. --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png SuperNiceDog - 1, pjbasis - 0 |
From: The_Djoker | #225 It will never happen. It was 53/47 last time, and Twilight Princess wasn't Zelda's "final last hope." We've seen much wilder things. If you pit them in a contest final, you can't simply discount LoZ to reverse three percentage points. IMO, a game of the gen contest has at least three realistic winners. Brawl Skyrim TP or SS (combined if you think one Zelda winning is the same as any other) That's about the same variety as in a Link-less Character Battle, which could have either Cloud, Mario, Snake or a Pokemon that catches a rally wave. --- Yoblazer: http://oi45.tinypic.com/2zguly0.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
From: PartOfYourWorld | #228 which could have either Cloud, Mario, Snake or a Pokemon that catches a rally wave. Samus could win if she doesn't run into Mario! --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png SuperNiceDog - 1, pjbasis - 0 |
I
think she'd have a better shot than Snake if not for Mario, but it's
hard to envision a scenario where Mario loses early (Cloud's probably
the only one who can beat him) and Samus avenges him. If Cloud is strong
enough to beat Mario in a semifinal, he'll probably beat Samus in the
final. --- Yoblazer: http://8board.webs.com/ariel.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
I'd
probably take Pokemon insanity before Snake, simply because no matter
what gap one thinks there is between Snake and Samus/Mario, there's no
way it's close to as big as what it was in 2006, where Snake's
significantly better performances led to a decisive loss. --- http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh293/zukiraphaera/war-sig-1.png |
Tomorrow
will be quite interesting, because we might possibly have 2 polls
running at the same time. Back in 2008, we had 2 polls running at the
same time on Election Day. One of those polls was a contest match,
while the other poll was a US election poll that ran for about 9 hours
(the poll didn't start at the same time as the contest match). That was
the last time we ever had 2 polls running at the same time and it was
the only time that Bacon ran 2 polls at the same time. Prior to that,
we had several occasions while CJayC was in power where we had 2 polls
running at the same time. That usually happened during an ongoing
contest. If we actually had a contest going on right now, we could have gotten 2 polls running at the same time on the Wii U launch date, where the second poll is a "Got Wii U?" poll located below the contest match. But since we have no contest right now, we might end up having just one poll tomorrow with the poll being related to the US elections. However, it would be a full 24 hour poll instead of that 9 hour poll we had on Election Day in 2008. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
Thinking of making a mock bracket, probably Link-less though I could make one with Link as well. What have been the biggest new characters (since 2010) lately? --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/Rivalry%20BOP.xls Congrats to SuperNiceDog for winning the guru contest. |
Tomorrow's poll: I have no idea. It will be an original poll idea. It's possible that tomorrow's poll will be a US election day poll, but the poll question will not use the same wording as one of the previous election day polls. Also, it's possible that tomorrow's poll will not be related to the US elections, but we might get a second poll later in the day (like in 2008) where a second poll is put up along side the scheduled poll for tomorrow. This means that the US election day poll will run for less than 12 hours. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
If it's not an election poll, it'll probably be a Halo 4 poll. --- Pokemon VGC2012 Canadian Nationals - 8th place |
From: PartOfYourWorld | #201 Since we're wrapping up the longest console gen ever, I want Game of the Generation. DS - Probably Pokemon Black or something dumb PSP - uhhhhhhh...... Birth By Sleep? 360 - Tales of Vesperia is literally the only exclusive on that system worth playing PS3 - MGS4 Wii - Twilight Pricess PC - Skyrim --- `•.,¸¸,.•´¯`•.,¸¸,.~*ST*~.,¸¸,.•´¯`•.,¸¸,.•´ This poll confirms what we knew all along: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3990 |
Team Rocket Elite posted... If it's not an election poll, it'll probably be a Halo 4 poll. I totally forgot about Halo 4. Damnit, Halo 4 messing up the trend of GameFAQs running an election day poll in every single presidential election since the PotD first started in 1999. Well, I guess we could still get an election poll, but the poll would start sometime after 12:00 PM EST, whenever Bacon gets around to putting up the poll. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
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UltimaterializerX posted... From: PartOfYourWorld | #201Since we're wrapping up the longest console gen ever, I want Game of the Generation. This generation isn't over yet, why even want a contest of it right now? I know its at it's peak though. 360 and PS3 probably still have some titles to release I guess. --- From MrStarkiller to MrLogickiller | Moxie Salamance | The Social Network | Period | Bad Luck Brian | Totally Worth It |
Epic poll today. I'm going to track poll updates for this poll. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
Early voting pushing hard to The Islamic Shock! --- http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh293/zukiraphaera/war-sig-1.png |
Nice
vote totals with this early vote. I figure anything related to
politics would suck at bringing in the votes, just because there's a
sizable minority that doesn't care about politics. The most interesting part about this poll would be the trends later tonight when Asia and Europe are voting in full force. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
I'm from India *_* --- From MrStarkiller to MrLogickiller | Moxie Salamance | The Social Network | Period | Bad Luck Brian | Totally Worth It |
Holy s*** a one on one match. I came --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png SuperNiceDog - 1, pjbasis - 0 |
From: -LusterSoldier- | #243 The most interesting part about this poll would be the trends later tonight when Asia and Europe are voting in full force. Nah, pretty sure Obama's going to dominate in the rest of the world, too. --- Guess who I am! http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs3/1345748_o.gif |
I
think Obama would dominate Asia and Europe more than he dominating the
US vote. Note how Romney is doing about 3% better in the US compared to
the overall results so far. Now, it's still early in the poll and
those US numbers could even out later on. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
Aw I was hoping for one of those push into the 80s things. --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png SuperNiceDog - 1, pjbasis - 0 |
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=4895®ion=CA Might be the first 10 minutes, but I do know Canadians overall support Obama 80/20. --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/Rivalry%20BOP.xls Congrats to SuperNiceDog for winning the guru contest. |
Obama losing half a percent on that update. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
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