Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1096

#201 | 1337gamerpr0 | Posted 8/6/2013 7:51:04 PM | message detail
Karma Hunter posted...
On the contrary, post-FF7 Square has looked pretty shoddy so far. I feel like Auron should be insulated against that somewhat, but don't be surprised if Ocelot can make him look bad tonight.

Or if he has a close run with Roxas really Ocelot's kinda wacky


I thought Zidane looked fine?
#202 | Karma Hunter | Posted 8/6/2013 8:08:07 PM | message detail
1337gamerpr0 posted...
Karma Hunter posted...
On the contrary, post-FF7 Square has looked pretty shoddy so far. I feel like Auron should be insulated against that somewhat, but don't be surprised if Ocelot can make him look bad tonight.

Or if he has a close run with Roxas really Ocelot's kinda wacky


I thought Zidane looked fine?


Zidane is the lone exception. Zidane is also FF9's protagonist, which is a lot more 'old-school FF' in style and playrate. It remains to be seen if he's a fluke or whether this is less post-FF7 Square and just FF7.
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#203 | ZinsanityCraze | Posted 8/6/2013 8:12:37 PM | message detail
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I think the fact that Link wins CHARACTER battles so much is the biggest joke of them all.

The age of the joke character is endless.


This so much.
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#204 | Karma Hunter | Posted 8/6/2013 8:17:10 PM | message detail
I honestly think it's the Battle part that gets people. I remember on Samus/Tifa there were people saying they would have voted for Samus but there's no way that she can beat Tifa when she doesn't have the Power Suit.

...but then Sonic lost to Sephiroth and Kirby in the only match he's ever gotten to go Super Sonic! GameFAQs get it together
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#205 | charmander6000 | Posted 8/6/2013 8:20:25 PM | message detail
I think the picture did more damage to Samus than people think this is a who do you think will win in a fight match.
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#206 | Karma Hunter | Posted 8/6/2013 8:36:30 PM | message detail
No way to know until we start using it again
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#207 | TsunamiXXVIII | Posted 8/6/2013 8:44:09 PM | message detail
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L-block was about as good a representative for Tetris as you were going to get it, and you do in fact control it during gameplay. Of course it's a character, or at least treating it as such was funny! And it moves around, so all these complaints about it being an "inanimate object" are nonsense. It's certainly not inanimate!

Random Mario thing nobody cares about is not funny. And even if you were going down that route, there was no good reason besides the Bonus Poll to choose ? Block. You went with THAT over a Mushroom or Starman or something? Really?

Would take a sig bet over this.


Agreed. At least Starman has a face, and in some games so does Mushroom.
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#208 | creativename | Posted 8/6/2013 8:44:22 PM | message detail
Rebellion against the female bracket made Samus' results wonky...but I think ZSS played a large role as well.

I mean back in the day, Samus being a girl was *the* video game spoiler. Most players of Metroid and Super Metroid probably didn't even realize she was a girl. Lots of Melee players might not have realized either.

Nowadays this would be a small fraction of people, but the power suit definitely adds to her appeal. Without the suit, she'd be less popular - and also back then very few had ever seen ZS Samus before. So it would be an alien appearance to them, on top of getting rid of her badass power suit.

ZSS probably wouldn't hurt her nearly as bad nowadays with people actually being familiar with that version of her. But it isn't surprising it was a disaster for her the first time round.
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#209 | TsunamiXXVIII | Posted 8/6/2013 8:45:29 PM | message detail
Karma Hunter posted...
Roxas is going to have to have the performance of his life to not get SFF killed. Ocelot is about as safe a pick there as picking Ocelot to win a match gets.


Roxas did pretty well at resisting LFF from Riku! Of course, Ocelot wins anyway, because he's just plain stronger than Roxas.
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#210 | Karma Hunter | Posted 8/6/2013 8:48:24 PM | message detail
All the more reason to get ZSS pictures again! Let's throw in some Wind Waker Link pictures, too. All in good fun, of course.
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#211 | charmander6000 | Posted 8/6/2013 8:50:51 PM | message detail
ZSS has appeared since that match, though only in rotation pictures which would reduce any damage
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#212 | Karma Hunter | Posted 8/6/2013 8:52:06 PM | message detail
Yeah, so has Toon Link in very rare instances. But there's nothing quite like exclusivity, is there?
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#213 | Kibago | Posted 8/6/2013 8:52:52 PM | message detail
i'd like to see ZSS against Knuckles. give a really good measurement of the effect without putting her in any danger.
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#214 | Team Rocket Elite (Moderator) | Posted 8/6/2013 8:55:15 PM | message detail
Toon Link vs Sprite Snake vs Zero Suit Samus

You can almost make this match in SSBB!
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#215 | charmander6000 | Posted 8/6/2013 8:56:53 PM | message detail
Just make Link and Samus a level 9 CPU while Snake is a level 6
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#216 | tennisboy213 | Posted 8/6/2013 9:00:16 PM | message detail
Vote Accepted


Auron
52.94%
9 Votes

Revolver Ocelot
29.41%
5 Votes
Your Pick

Roxas
17.65%
3 Votes
Total Votes: 17
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#217 | OrangeCrush980 | Posted 8/6/2013 9:00:32 PM | message detail
Auron
56.25%
9 Votes
Your Pick

Revolver Ocelot
31.25%
5 Votes

Roxas
12.5%
2 Votes
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#218 | _SecretSquirrel | Posted 8/6/2013 9:00:32 PM | message detail
Auron
48%
12 Votes
Your Pick
Revolver Ocelot
36%
9 Votes
Roxas
16%
4 Votes


It could stay this way the entire match.
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#219 | charmander6000 | Posted 8/6/2013 9:00:48 PM | message detail
6 bullets, not enough to kill anything that moves.

Auron
50%
6 Votes

Revolver Ocelot
33.33%
4 Votes

Roxas
16.67%
2 Votes
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#220 | TheOneAboveAll | Posted 8/6/2013 9:00:55 PM | message detail
Boring match. Everything as expected.
Next.
#221 | BK_Sheikah00 | Posted 8/6/2013 9:00:56 PM | message detail
I, for one, can't wait to see all the topics complaining about Roxas not being Roxas in his pic.
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#222 | UltimaterializerX | Posted 8/6/2013 9:02:01 PM | message detail
Where is that Ocelot picture from? Ugly as hell.
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#223 | charmander6000 | Posted 8/6/2013 9:02:10 PM | message detail
The picture is close enough
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#224 | charmander6000 | Posted 8/6/2013 9:02:30 PM | message detail
Where is that Ocelot picture from? Ugly as hell.

MGS5
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#225 | _SecretSquirrel | Posted 8/6/2013 9:02:34 PM | message detail
UltimaterializerX posted...
Where is that Ocelot picture from? Ugly as hell.


It's from MGS5 trailer, I think.
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#226 | -LusterSoldier- | Posted 8/6/2013 9:03:01 PM | message detail
Judging by the way Auron dropped off after that first minute would suggest he dominated the first minute because of the bracket vote.
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#227 | Karma Hunter | Posted 8/6/2013 9:03:21 PM | message detail
Hey, Ocelot not completely folding! Maybe he'd even make this interesting for a few minutes if he didn't have his MGSV No Country For Old Men pic. C'mon, guys, let's give the guy a Major Ocelot pic next time around, eh?
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#228 | Xuxon | Posted 8/6/2013 9:04:22 PM | message detail
From: -LusterSoldier- | Posted: 8/7/2013 12:03:01 AM | #226
Judging by the way Auron dropped off after that first minute would suggest he dominated the first minute because of the bracket vote.

i really doubt that. everyone knows Auron is going to win this and doesn't need bracket votes.
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#229 | ffmasterjose | Posted 8/6/2013 9:05:02 PM | message detail
Where the HELL is that form of Ocelot from?
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#230 | Nintendoboy375 | Posted 8/6/2013 9:05:31 PM | message detail
BK_Sheikah00 posted...
I, for one, can't wait to see all the topics complaining about Roxas not being Roxas in his pic.


I'm pretty sure Allen changed the Ventus picture to one that was actually Roxas.
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#231 | NewCastlEmperor | Posted 8/6/2013 9:06:30 PM | message detail
ffmasterjose posted...
Where the HELL is that form of Ocelot from?

_SecretSquirrel posted...
UltimaterializerX posted...
Where is that Ocelot picture from? Ugly as hell.


It's from MGS5 trailer, I think.
#232 | charmander6000 | Posted 8/6/2013 9:06:55 PM | message detail
I'm pretty sure Allen changed the Ventus picture to one that was actually Roxas.

He's right this is a different picture
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#233 | Acerac | Posted 8/6/2013 9:07:55 PM | message detail
The awesome part is that on the results screen they actually have a decent picture of Ocelot.
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#234 | Xuxon | Posted 8/6/2013 9:07:59 PM | message detail
oh huh, i still had the old one show up due to caching
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#235 | TsunamiXXVIII | Posted 8/6/2013 9:08:36 PM | message detail
Wait, the original pic had Ventus instead of Roxas?
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#236 | diebuster2 | Posted 8/6/2013 9:08:52 PM | message detail
ZinsanityCraze posted...
Pizzaknight posted...
I think the fact that Link wins CHARACTER battles so much is the biggest joke of them all.

The age of the joke character is endless.


This so much.

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#237 | hylianknight3 | Posted 8/6/2013 9:09:13 PM | message detail
lol @ that old geezer in the middle
#238 | Justin_Crossing | Posted 8/6/2013 9:09:25 PM | message detail
i really like how the people quoting and laughing are all the newbies

i find it entertaining
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#239 | ZinsanityCraze | Posted 8/6/2013 9:09:41 PM | message detail
Almost voted for Auron because of that f***** up pic of Ocelot.
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#240 | Team Rocket Elite (Moderator) | Posted 8/6/2013 9:09:52 PM | message detail
Score-Brackets-% Right
55------1------------100.00
54------1------------100.00
53------10----------100.00
52------28----------100.00
51------63----------98.41
50------113--------95.58
49------176--------94.89
48------176--------88.07
47------210--------82.86
46------281--------78.65
45------406--------73.40
44------527--------72.49
43------723--------71.09
42------917--------68.38
41------1115------69.87
40------1187------74.30
39------1306------70.21
38------1256------68.07
37------1179------71.33
36------1005------65.67
35------783--------67.56
34------728--------64.01
33------611--------63.50
32------490--------59.80
31------398--------57.29
30------308--------60.39
29------236--------59.75
28------201--------57.71
27------182--------49.45
26------131--------64.12
25------93----------46.24
24------82----------36.59
23------65----------41.54
22------56----------39.29
21------48----------41.67
20------29----------44.83
19------28----------35.71
18------19----------57.89
17------14----------35.71
16------10----------30.00
15------9------------11.11
14------5------------20.00
13------6------------16.67
12------2------------50.00
11------2------------50.00
10------3------------66.67
9--------1------------0.00
8--------2------------0.00
7--------15----------0.00
6--------1------------0.00
5--------0------------0.00
4--------6------------16.67
3--------2------------0.00
2--------3------------0.00
1--------4------------0.00
0--------1------------0.00

Another pretty easy match but one person in the top 103 does get it wrong. We don't really have that sharp drop off right outside the top tiers anymore. I guess Division 6 smoothed it out. THe middle tiers were in the 70s so they did well as well.

No one fell off the Top 49.
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#241 | _SecretSquirrel | Posted 8/6/2013 9:10:16 PM | message detail
TsunamiXXVIII posted...
Wait, the original pic had Ventus instead of Roxas?


http://www.gamefaqscontests.com/gallery/albums/cb9/5201.jpg
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#242 | BK_Sheikah00 | Posted 8/6/2013 9:10:35 PM | message detail
Nintendoboy375 posted...
BK_Sheikah00 posted...
I, for one, can't wait to see all the topics complaining about Roxas not being Roxas in his pic.


I'm pretty sure Allen changed the Ventus picture to one that was actually Roxas.


I'm pretty sure the one on the front page is Ventus. Shoulderpad.
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#243 | Karma Hunter | Posted 8/6/2013 9:11:38 PM | message detail
How can you guys even tell

how is anyone even paying attention to Roxas

when hilarious old guy cosplaying as Ocelot is on the front page
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#244 | Xuxon | Posted 8/6/2013 9:11:50 PM | message detail
no, it's been changed. click this and refresh, should fix it on the main page.

http://img.gamefaqs.net/images/cbnine/battle/5201.jpg
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#245 | Kotetsu534 | Posted 8/6/2013 9:12:40 PM | message detail
It's the scarf that does it.
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#246 | charmander6000 | Posted 8/6/2013 9:13:45 PM | message detail
Updated Top 10

Top 10 Least Impressive Day Winners
1. Mr. Game & Watch – Round 1 – 10500
2. Ike – Round 1 – 11023
3. Kefka – Round 1 – 11443
4. Catherine – Round 1 – 12092
5. Ness – Round 1 – 12979
6. Altair – Round 1 – 13157
7. Gilgamesh – Round 1 – 13442
8. Magus – Round 1 – 13474
9. Ezio Auditore da Firenze – Round 1 – 13728
10. Frog – Round 1 – 14305
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#247 | Xeybozn | Posted 8/6/2013 9:14:04 PM | message detail
Kibago posted...
i'd like to see ZSS against Knuckles. give a really good measurement of the effect without putting her in any danger.

...Except that we haven't had a good match to judge Knuckles since '05 (his four-way matches all had Mario characters in them). Right now, Catherine's strength is probably exactly known than his, but since Catherine would be TJF-SFF'd by ZSS, that doesn't help either.

And yes, this is more interesting than the current match.
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#248 | Karma Hunter | Posted 8/6/2013 9:14:55 PM | message detail
Man he's really not doing that bad by Ocelot standards, even accounting for Roxas being there. What're the odds that Red's true strength is obscured by Link/MMX and MMX/Red?
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#249 | _SecretSquirrel | Posted 8/6/2013 9:14:56 PM | message detail
Both "Roxases" are now up on the GameFAQsContests gallery FYI.
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#250 | creativename | Posted 8/6/2013 9:14:59 PM | message detail
Xuxon posted...
oh huh, i still had the old one show up due to caching

Oh thanks, didn't realize this. Same thing was happening to me, I didn't realize there was a new pic. Had to go to the image url and force refresh just to see it. Added it to the gallery.
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