Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1054

#301 | WarThaNemesis2 | Posted 6/10/2013 12:01:20 AM | message detail
People might look at Blue and go "That's Gary Oak!" at which point he makes a deep run because this contest is stupid.
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#302 | LeonhartFour | Posted 6/10/2013 12:02:11 AM | message detail
augh this contest is so stupid

all the characters I care about are boned
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#303 | WarThaNemesis2 | Posted 6/10/2013 12:02:24 AM | message detail
Crono/Sora/Gary who ya got?

Cloud/Snake/Gary who ya got?

POKEFEAR ain't got nothing on 'oh god what IF that happens?' fear.
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#304 | pjbasis | Posted 6/10/2013 12:03:08 AM | message detail
You should like stronger characters then bro.

Imagine you were a Zelda fan.
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#305 | WarThaNemesis2 | Posted 6/10/2013 12:03:40 AM | message detail
Gary was here, Snake is a loser!
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#306 | LeonhartFour | Posted 6/10/2013 12:04:07 AM | message detail
yeah imagine if I conformed with the mainstream image

I'd like Sephiroth more than Squall

if I weren't a Squall fan you know what I'd be

ashamed
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#307 | KanzarisKelshen | Posted 6/10/2013 12:04:27 AM | message detail
jacko_vdz posted...
KanzarisKelshen posted...
LeonhartFour posted...
Red's only problem should be LFF letting Cecil or Wrex by, yeah. Even with Brawl pics, that section of the bracket is pretty weak.


You know, I just realized something: if a Red underperformance occurs and it's because of sprites, I will laugh so hard I just might suffocate. People blow the 'brawl pics bawwwwww' thing way out of proportion I feel.


I fully expect Red to get brawl pics and then Blue ends up looking stronger overall.

People just don't understand how much of the Pokemon fan base don't know that Red is his official name. 50% of people who played RBY probably played Blue version and would be really confused over why he's not called Blue.

THEN throw in pictures from a spin off game where he isn't called Red either, and no one realises he's the protagonist of Gen 1. If you didn't grow up with RBY than I don't expect a lot of you to get this. I was a gamefaqs casual lurker in 2010 (didn't know of Board 8) and I thought it was Pokemon Trainer (Brawl) vs Ocelot. The pic completely changed my perception of who was in the match.

The Rivalry Rumble might of changed this a bit. I mean heck, Blue is a 12 seed. But that happened 2 years ago so who knows. At least with Blue, voters will instantly think "oh look it's the Rival from RBY!" and then vote based on who they like the best.

/rant


Voters are not that stupid. Unless you think gameFAQS consists of mongoloids, there's no way this is true.
#308 | WarThaNemesis2 | Posted 6/10/2013 12:04:49 AM | message detail
LeonhartFour posted...
yeah imagine if I conformed with the mainstream image

I'd like Sephiroth more than Squall

if I weren't a Squall fan you know what I'd be

smiling

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#309 | jacko_vdz | Posted 6/10/2013 12:06:56 AM | message detail | (edited)
#310 | LeonhartFour | Posted 6/10/2013 12:05:22 AM | message detail
wait are you saying I'd be vcharon
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#311 | WarThaNemesis2 | Posted 6/10/2013 12:05:45 AM | message detail
charon

charon never smiles
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#312 | LeonhartFour | Posted 6/10/2013 12:06:30 AM | message detail
and yet his sig
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#313 | WarThaNemesis2 | Posted 6/10/2013 12:07:51 AM | message detail
charon lied

Ramza CRYed
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#314 | WarThaNemesis2 | Posted 6/10/2013 12:09:38 AM | message detail
Leon you are offered a deal, Squall is a lock to survive Missingno (but still lose to Mario), but in exchange Cloud and Snake lose to a Pokemon character.

Do you take it?
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#315 | jacko_vdz | Posted 6/10/2013 12:12:44 AM | message detail
http://imgur.com/N3WZZGV

Cloud and Snake don't have **** on that backstory.
#316 | KanzarisKelshen | Posted 6/10/2013 12:20:25 AM | message detail
WarThaNemesis2 posted...
Leon you are offered a deal, Squall is a lock to survive Missingno (but still lose to Mario), but in exchange Cloud and Snake lose to a Pokemon character.

Do you take it?


If Charizard not making it to the finals is included in the bargain I'd take this in a heartbeat.
#317 | LeonhartFour | Posted 6/10/2013 12:28:48 AM | message detail
WarThaNemesis2 posted...
Leon you are offered a deal, Squall is a lock to survive Missingno (but still lose to Mario), but in exchange Cloud and Snake lose to a Pokemon character.

Do you take it?


Done.

Because then I can start arguing Squall > Snake and Cloud.
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#318 | Korayashi | Posted 6/10/2013 12:39:35 AM | message detail
Anybody have numbers on characters that made the bracket that weren't in the database?
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#319 | LinkMarioSamus | Posted 6/10/2013 1:57:09 AM | message detail
swirIdude posted...
I have Blue and Cecil going to Round 3.

What am I doing?


I have Corvo beating Red, hoping for Corvo to get a character design advantage.

Or more because my brother has become a Dishonored fanatic.
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#320 | LinkMarioSamus | Posted 6/10/2013 2:02:45 AM | message detail
swirIdude posted...
X-Stats give it to Marth with 50.87%. So I'm taking Phoenix, and switching to Marth if he's a badass in the SSB4 trailer.


Marth might have been SFF'd a little by Sephiroth (my theory of character design SFF), but then again he was probably benefitting from obvious winner anti-votes there so that cancels it all out.

Picked Phoenix Wright to win BTW. Also Marth is unlikely to be revealed in a trailer for a new SSB - he's always been an early unlockable character. Don't give me that crap about Snake, that was special.

(I kinda feel like mentioning how Brawl's first trailer was the first time I had heard of Snake and his series, and now I've come so far as to have beaten all four of the main MGS games)
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#321 | LinkMarioSamus | Posted 6/10/2013 2:07:11 AM | message detail
swirIdude posted...
Nathan Drake vs Pac-Man is tough. UC3 should boost him, but I can't get out of my head that he lost to CATS.


Wow Nathan Drake vs. Pac-Man is a debate? I thought that was an obvious win for Drake. Uncharted was one of the biggest franchises this generation. Last time we saw Drake Uncharted 2 just came out. Since then UC2 has become a modern classic.

I have Drake beating Fox, in the hopes that this site has shifted close enough towards regular current-gen trends and away from Nintendo. Fox has gotten nothing significant since Brawl (or maybe even Melee), while Drake has been HUGE these past few years.
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#322 | LinkMarioSamus | Posted 6/10/2013 2:10:15 AM | message detail
NewCastlEmperor posted...
KanzarisKelshen posted...
what if Phoenix boosted since '10 too? He did get UMvC3 and now Dual Destinies.

I'll hand you a potential DD boost, but on the subject of MVC: You mean the guy who, after his hype died down, is universally agreed to be comptetitively the single worst character in the entire roster to the point that he's now seen as a fighting game laughingstock? Yeah, I wouldn't factor MVC in regards to Phoenix, only his own games. (Under that silly logic of mine, the guys who'd get an UMVC3 boost are his polar tier opposites, Vergil and Zero (Dr. Doom is unaccounted for obvious reasons). And perhaps Morrigan too because of ChrisG.)


To be fair, Captain Falcon seems to have benefited a good deal from Brawl. No other explanation for how he goes from 26% on Crono to 32% on Cloud in the span of four years!
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#323 | LinkMarioSamus | Posted 6/10/2013 2:12:44 AM | message detail | (edited)
_SecretSquirrel posted...
So, Neku/Vaas/Catherine? I can't be insane for favoring Catherine, even with the seeding.


Vaas is the most mainstream of those characters, plus I have to imagine that if this site has shifted towards major open-world current-gen games like Fallout 3 and Borderlands 2 that Far Cry 3 is more this site's kind of game than TWEWY or Catherine.

But I don't know. I've just heard about how awesome Vaas is everywhere and he's practically the face of one of the most popular games of last year, so I'm counting on him to make it through.
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#324 | -Zelmor- | Posted 6/10/2013 2:12:07 AM | message detail
LMS Stats and Discussion.
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#325 | LinkMarioSamus | Posted 6/10/2013 2:14:00 AM | message detail
UltimaterializerX posted...
I picked Snake to win, because why in the hell not.


Oh god no I picked the same.
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#326 | LinkMarioSamus | Posted 6/10/2013 2:19:09 AM | message detail
General_Zimbad posted...
FFDragon posted...
Am I the only one thinking Jilly V wins her match despite being the low seed?


I picked her. I think red bird will flop and don't even know who the other guy is.


I burst with laughter at not knowing who Mike Haggar is.

Yeah I picked Jill too.

As for Pit/Cecil/Wrex...I thought Wrex was a shoo-in. Oh well, most of us are still going off of recent contest history. Seeing how that worked WONDERFULLY in Game of the Decade, I'm sticking to picking based off of Internet popularity, especially with it looking more and more like GFAQs has shifted towards major Western game franchises like Mass Effect and Uncharted.
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#327 | LinkMarioSamus | Posted 6/10/2013 2:21:35 AM | message detail
KanzarisKelshen posted...
LeonhartFour posted...
Please let Sonic/Vincent/Bowser be as epic as it looks on paper.

That is all. I've talked the bracket to death for tonight.


You think Vincent isn't going to sleepwalk to the win, Leon? That feels like such a gimme unless Sonic gets big Ninty hype from the Direct. He's practically Nintendo and has always had some overlap with the Mario series. Bowser is gonna leech him to death.


Sonic has gotten a lot of major games since then. Vincent has gotten nothing. Lol.
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#328 | KanzarisKelshen | Posted 6/10/2013 2:24:36 AM | message detail
LinkMarioSamus posted...
KanzarisKelshen posted...
LeonhartFour posted...
Please let Sonic/Vincent/Bowser be as epic as it looks on paper.

That is all. I've talked the bracket to death for tonight.


You think Vincent isn't going to sleepwalk to the win, Leon? That feels like such a gimme unless Sonic gets big Ninty hype from the Direct. He's practically Nintendo and has always had some overlap with the Mario series. Bowser is gonna leech him to death.


Sonic has gotten a lot of major games since then. Vincent has gotten nothing. Lol.


You're dumb and don't understand contests if you forget the turtle in the way.
#329 | LinkMarioSamus | Posted 6/10/2013 2:26:13 AM | message detail
I feel like picking everything Nintendo and FF to underperform.
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#330 | Not_Wylvane | Posted 6/10/2013 2:56:51 AM | message detail
LMS, who would you vote for if the finals were Link/Mario/Samus?
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#331 | LinkMarioSamus | Posted 6/10/2013 3:17:08 AM | message detail | (edited)
Samus.

The other two are not top 3 characters for me, believe it or not.
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#332 | Lopen | Posted 6/10/2013 3:19:46 AM | message detail
I'm surprised LMS hasn't called his username ironic yet

Probably because that'd be a correct use of the term
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#333 | pjbasis | Posted 6/10/2013 3:19:52 AM | message detail
But what about Other M, LMS?
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#334 | Iamthekuzalol | Posted 6/10/2013 4:08:10 AM | message detail
Hey LMS, who's your favorite character? Samus?
#335 | nintendogirl2 | Posted 6/10/2013 4:18:51 AM | message detail
Lopen posted...
I'm surprised LMS hasn't called his username ironic yet

Probably because that'd be a correct use of the term


It's like rayeeeeeeyaiiiiiiin...
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#336 | LinkMarioSamus | Posted 6/10/2013 5:21:26 AM | message detail
pjbasis posted...
But what about Other M, LMS?


I'll see about that. Planning on replaying it after I'm done with Super Metroid.
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#337 | LinkMarioSamus | Posted 6/10/2013 5:22:07 AM | message detail
Lopen posted...
I'm surprised LMS hasn't called his username ironic yet

Probably because that'd be a correct use of the term


Well I made that when I had next to no gaming exposure outside of Nintendo. Now that's slowly changing.
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#338 | LinkMarioSamus | Posted 6/10/2013 5:22:40 AM | message detail
Iamthekuzalol posted...
Hey LMS, who's your favorite character? Samus?


Pretty much, yeah.
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#339 | charmander6000 | Posted 6/10/2013 6:45:01 AM | message detail
Anybody have numbers on characters that made the bracket that weren't in the database?

Based on the list in the wiki the following characters made it without the database.

Magikarp
Missile
Raiden
Spring Breeze Dancin'
Tingle


Bit surprised Raiden didn't made it on the list, even the Mortal Kombat one is there.
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#340 | ffmasterjose | Posted 6/10/2013 8:20:36 AM | message detail
LOL, Rinoa and Aeris in the same match.

So mad that Liquid didn't make the field and who the HELL was nomming Magikarp?!
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#341 | redrocket | Posted 6/10/2013 8:39:54 AM | message detail
ffmasterjose posted...
who the HELL was nomming Magikarp?!


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#342 | Haste_2 | Posted 6/10/2013 10:02:24 AM | message detail
Ike
Proto Man
Dr. Ivo '"Eggman" Robotnik


Who do ya got? I got Proto Man at the moment, but it seems like any of them could win. I feel like the SSB factor won't be quite what it used to be.

Other difficult matches:

(8) Epona
(11) Mordin Solus
(20) Niko Bellic

(5) Booker DeWitt
(14) Gilgamesh
(23) Kaim Argonar

(6) Neku Sakuraba
(13) Vaas Montenegro
(22) Catherine

(2) Ezio Auditore da Firenze
(17) Miles "Tails" Prower
(26) Bomberman

(7) Pit
(12) Urdnot Wrex
(21) Cecil Harvey

Tharja
(14) Juliet Starling
(23) Tiny Tina

(3) Draven
(16) Chie Satonaka
(25) Jak

(2) Phoenix Wright
(17) Marth
(26) Nightmare

Spyro the Dragon
(10) Clementine
(19) Reyn


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#343 | ffmasterjose | Posted 6/10/2013 10:04:08 AM | message detail
Ike easily. Tharja/Juliet/Tiny is the three-pack of suck imo. Its pretty much deciding who will probably suck less than the other 2
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#344 | ffmasterjose | Posted 6/10/2013 10:06:17 AM | message detail
Epona in her 3 pack. GTA characters have no staying power and Niko looked like a joke 3 years ago. Gotta go with the Zelda character!
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#345 | LinkMarioSamus | Posted 6/10/2013 10:23:53 AM | message detail
ffmasterjose posted...
Epona in her 3 pack. GTA characters have no staying power and Niko looked like a joke 3 years ago. Gotta go with the Zelda character!


Who actually really cares about Epona though? She's optional in Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, and then late in Twilight Princess she loses her usefulness. Also, she hasn't been in a game in over six years. Meanwhile, Mordin is a major character in two games that performed extremely well in GOTY polls here.

Okay whatever, I think I'll just pick Epona, and also pick Sub-Zero > Garrus. Probably just had way too much faith in Mass Effect. Might as well get rid of that Nathan Drake > Fox pick as well.
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#346 | charmander6000 | Posted 6/10/2013 10:26:38 AM | message detail
In terms of latter round matches a potential Pikachu/Sora/Blue(or Fox) is killing me. I want to be one of those people that correctly calls Kingdom Hearts being weaker this year, but he may still be strong enough to win here.
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#347 | ffmasterjose | Posted 6/10/2013 10:27:33 AM | message detail
Nathan Drake > Fox pick as well.

There's a Pokemon Trainer Blue in Fox's way, and a Wolf in the same match to hold him back.
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#348 | LinkMarioSamus | Posted 6/10/2013 10:27:34 AM | message detail
In addition to all of the above changes, I now have Pit > Wrex and Red in round 3.

Sound good B8?
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#349 | LinkMarioSamus | Posted 6/10/2013 10:32:49 AM | message detail
ffmasterjose posted...
Nathan Drake > Fox pick as well.

There's a Pokemon Trainer Blue in Fox's way, and a Wolf in the same match to hold him back.


Lol Pokemon human characters.

Why are we expecting Blue to be so strong again? Rivalry Rumble? Lol I thought we all agreed to disregard that contest. Heck I picked Corvo over Red briefly before realizing that Corvo's character design likely wouldn't cut it for him.
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#350 | Not_Wylvane | Posted 6/10/2013 10:41:09 AM | message detail
Gotta go with LMS here, for once. Wolf's not going to hurt Fox nearly that much simply because nobody gives a s*** about Wolf. It'd be different if Blue was close to Fox, but that doesn't seem likely to me. Hell, I wouldn't pick Red to win if he was in Blue's place.
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