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Boo > Moogle --- raytanFEAR |
***PIKACHU*** Headcrab Koopa Troopa Moblin Moogle Boo Metroid ReDead East Charizard Kremling Jigglypuff Goron Goomba Metool Chocobo Waddle Dee South YOSHI Heartless Gerudo Claptrap Slime Prinny Bulbasaur Brigand West Squirtle New Age Retro Hippie Shy Guy Klap Trap... how about Kremling instead? Or maybe the bee? Octorok Cactuar< Toad Big Daddy --- raytan stole my sig 'cause he's awesome at predicting GameFAQs contests! Grrrrrrr, I will get my revenge! |
Kremlings
are already in the bracket. And that nobody remembers what Zingers are
called is probably a good reason not to put them in. Would still
probably be better than Klaptrap, though. Unless we're getting Claptrap
vs. Klaptrap, there's not really any point to having the latter. Even
Reptites or something would probably be better! Thinking Yoshi is the only threat in that bracket at all to an all-pokemon Final Four, but I guess that's just the nature of this format. Would take Bulbasaur to win that division, though. --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] [NO raytan NO PEACE] |
Polls for the next 4 days: 10/4/2013 - I don't know. Probably an original poll idea. 10/5/2013 - Why are you visiting GameFAQs today? 10/6/2013 - By the end of this year, which of the next-generation consoles do you plan to own? 10/7/2013 - Over the course of your life, how many different Pokemon have you caught? I am really hyped up for the poll on October 5th, because of this: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/3562 "I'm just here for the Poll" will have very extreme trends as it starts out with a ridiculous percentage with the board vote and then bleeds percentage for the entire poll. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Hey
you never know, Pokemon might experience an anti-voting for what they
did this contest, so Charizard might lose to Goomba, Pikachu to Koopa
Troopa and then Yoshi wins it all! --- "The people who play Final Fantasy 7 actually have lives and dont NEED polls" ~MajinUltima raytan: Champ without picking the champ |
Maybe
we can remove species that have obtained character status, for example
in Pokemon, none of the starters, legendaries and Smash guys are
allowed, no green Yoshis in the picture etc. Might make Mario enemies too unopposed and Yoshi probably doesn't get hurt too much. --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB9%20BOP.xls Congrats to raytan for winning the Guru Contest |
But
how do you define "character status"? Mario enemies have character
status too, they are playable in Mario Sports games, so you'd have to
ban them all as well. You could just say no one from a prior contest, but that's not fair to characters like Slime, who definitely fit the theme. --- "The people who play Final Fantasy 7 actually have lives and dont NEED polls" ~MajinUltima raytan: Champ without picking the champ |
Just make it a generic enemy contest to bar all the obvious strong guys like the Pokemon and Yoshis. --- Play Pac-Man World 2. |
Doesn't
work. You fight Pokemon in the wild, so they count as generic enemies.
You'd only be banning Toad, Yoshi, Goron, Gerudo, Zora etc. Actually Zora are enemies in some games, but I figure the popular version is from OoT. --- "The people who play Final Fantasy 7 actually have lives and dont NEED polls" ~MajinUltima raytan: Champ without picking the champ |
I still don't think Pokemon should count. Probably because all of them are "playable". And no Mario enemies being playable in spin-offs does not count. --- Play Pac-Man World 2. |
Oh? That's a rather arbitrary decision. --- "The people who play Final Fantasy 7 actually have lives and dont NEED polls" ~MajinUltima raytan: Champ without picking the champ |
Karma Hunter posted... Metroid games aren't strong, I'm not sure why anyone would expect metroids themselves to be top three material. Man this is probably the sad reality. I think I just remembered Metroid Prime finishing in the top 10 in the Game of the Decade x-stats and how Samus seemed to perform better in 2010 and 2013 than she did before (well...it was probably only 2010, I'm for some reason tempted to throw 2013 in there as well but it was probably only because I expected alpha-DmC to kill more of Samus's strength than it seemed to do). Or perhaps I think that a close win over Half-Life 2 and a close loss to Fallout 3 indicate an extremely strong game since both those games are ranked in the top 5 in unikgamer lol. Speaking of which, I still firmly think last contest indicated that the top quarter of the GOTD bracket was overrated in the stats, likely due to Fallout 3 overperforming against Brawl, which itself likely happened because of Fallout 3 being a "more defining Game of the Decade" or something. --- Play Pac-Man World 2. |
swirIdude posted... Oh? That's a rather arbitrary decision. It's just my gut, okay? I know next to nothing about Pokemon anyway. --- Play Pac-Man World 2. |
Your lack of knowledge is well documented. Anyway, you COULD make that decision but it's highly arbitrary and will lead to complaints. Plus, popular character boost votals and this contest would struggle in the votal department. --- "The people who play Final Fantasy 7 actually have lives and dont NEED polls" ~MajinUltima raytan: Champ without picking the champ |
I need help on a game 4.13% 16 Reading and posting on the boards 26.61% 103 Just browsing, reading reviews, looking at games 15.76% 61 All of the above 9.56% 37 I'm just here for the Poll 43.93% 170 TOTAL VOTES 387 Only 43.93% at the freeze? Back when we had this poll in 2009, that option ended up with 34.27% in the final results. I expect "I'm just here for the Poll" to have some extreme trends, so it will probably finish with a lower percentage compared to the 2009 poll. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
LOL, percentage increase for "I'm just here for the Poll" on that recent update. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
"I'm
just here for the Poll" should be a lot stronger now. People who are
looking for other stuff on the site don't go through the front page as
much anymore making every other option weaker. However, people who come
for the poll will still seek out the poll on the front page so it should
lose the least amount of strength. --- No amount of rallying would let me beat raytan7585. Congrats to raytan7585 for winning the CB9 Guru Contest! |
That's
what I assumed before this poll started. "I'm just here for the Poll"
has only lost about 3% since the board vote. It's holding up extremely
well with the night vote so far. I expect a huge collapse when the
morning vote starts. Team Rocket Elite posted... "I'm just here for the Poll" should be a lot stronger now. Not only is that option stronger now, but "Reading and posting on the boards" is also doing much better in this poll because most of the people who regularly vote in the poll happen to be registered users who know where to find the poll. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
oh yeah, PoTD discussion time! what was that about a constant 40k baseline? |
-LusterSoldier- posted... That's what I assumed before this poll started. "I'm just here for the Poll" has only lost about 3% since the board vote. It's holding up extremely well with the night vote so far. I expect a huge collapse when the morning vote starts. And because who the hell is using GameFAQs FAQs nowdays anyway GameFAQs biggest advantage over other sites is that it got a board for every game and a very active community for popular games |
1337gamerpr0 posted... oh yeah, PoTD discussion time! I admit some of the recent polls have been terrible lately. Such as the 3 polls related to Steam, which all got under 30000 votes. Thank god most of those polls will never be re-run in the future. Hopefully by the end of this month, we'll be back to averaging closer to 40000 votes a day. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
As
of 5:10 AM, "I'm just here for the Poll" has just surpassed a 1500 vote
lead on "Reading and posting on the boards". At this point, I can't
possibly see "I'm just here for the Poll" blowing a 1500 vote lead to
"Reading and posting on the boards" unless we have an epic collapse
soon. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
I wonder how many votes "im just here for the poll" would get during contest season |
It
took until 6:40 AM for "I'm just here for the Poll" to lose an update
to "Reading and posting on the boards". It was only a 3 vote cut,
though. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Luster analyzing regular polls, offseason is officially here. --- Congratulation to the 2013 CB9 Guru winner, raytan! But hey, at least I'm #4! Current Let's Play: Knights of Pen and Paper (see quote) |
Not_Wylvane posted... Luster analyzing regular polls, offseason is officially here. Oh god... it's already been 3 weeks since it ended. Contests make the time pass by so much more slowly..... --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsbvaQcuW9k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3EAmdg3xls |
Not_Wylvane posted... Luster analyzing regular polls, offseason is officially here. It took this long to get a poll worth tracking poll updates for because we've had 3 weeks of terrible polls all related to video games. Since the start of the TDZ, "I'm just here for the Poll" has been consistently gaining percentage. I'm guessing when the morning vote finally kicks, it will start losing percentage again. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Since
11:10 AM, "I'm just here for the Poll" has been consistently losing
percentage after gaining percentage consistently between 4:00 AM and
11:00 AM. I think it will end up losing another 1% to 2% over the
remainder of this poll. "I need help on a game" and "Just browsing, reading reviews, looking at games" have been eating up most of the lost percentage from "I'm just here for the Poll". --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Gamefaqs with another "screw modern gaming" poll result. Probably both today's poll and yesterday's poll, really. If so many people are here solely for the poll of the day, that means they're not using the site to check out, seek help for, or discuss new games. "Reading and posting on the boards" probably isn't going to be a very new game-friendly group either. Not that I'm complaining! --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] [NO raytan NO PEACE] |
AxemRedRanger posted... Gamefaqs with another "screw modern gaming" poll result. Today's poll has much different results than this poll from 2006: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/2375 In that poll, 45.61% of the site was interested in a PS3 despite the monster price tag of $499/$599. But in today's poll, only 32.49% of the site is interested in the PS4 despite a much more reasonable price tag of just $399. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Hey, I just noticed this: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/20-gamefaqs-competitions/67384180 Looked neat. Figured some here might be interested. --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] [NO raytan NO PEACE] |
Poll updates and trend charts for yesterday's poll: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AgBWiYjlMLwYdHJfUzJKYmpNMGQ1WGlrdV9FRTJXbWc&gid=1 The results of yesterday's poll explains everything that is wrong with the inability of the PotD to bring in much higher vote totals despite SBAllen's claims that traffic is much higher today than it was 5 years ago. When we had this poll in 2009, "I need help on a game" got 15.04%. Yesterday, it got just 6.86%, less than half of what it got in 2009. Also, "All of the above" dropped from 13.19% in 2009 to 9.06% yesterday. At the same time, "I'm just here for the Poll" went from 34.27% in 2009 to 38.94% in yesterday's poll. "Reading and posting on the boards" also went from 21.39% in 2009 to 25.43% in yesterday's poll. Some of our polls would probably have much different results if the people who bypassed the site's home page actually voted in the poll. These people would probably have a slightly different taste in games compared to the current audience that still votes in these polls, which could certainly affect our match results in the contests. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
"I
need help on a game" started off the poll with a very terrible board
vote and Power Hour. It did slightly better in the night vote, but even
that was still terrible. The early morning vote and late morning vote
was better than the night vote, but still below average. "I need help
on a game" continued the trend of slowly getting stronger as the poll
went on, similar to the classic FFVII trends from 2008 and earlier
contests. "I need help on a game" performed best during the last few
hours of the poll, where it got over 10% for the final 7 hours. In the
final hour of the poll, "I need help on a game" turned up the heat and
got over 14% in the final hour. Near the end of the poll, "I need help
on a game" managed to win a single update over "I'm just here for the
Poll". "Reading and posting on the boards" started out somewhat bad with the board vote, but I'll blame that on "I'm just here for the Poll" dominating the board vote. After the board vote ended, "Reading and posting on the boards" recovered very nicely to finish over 30% at the end of the Power Hour. This would be the only hour that "Reading and posting on the boards" got over 30%. "Reading and posting on the boards" had a fairly average night vote overall, but it did collapse at the start of the TDZ and did terrible from 4:00 AM to 10:00 AM. It performed slightly better during the late morning vote and day vote, but it still slightly worse than its night vote. Finally, it performed worst during the last 7 hours of the poll. "Just browsing, reading reviews, looking at games" easily performed worst in the board vote and Power Hour. It had a below average night vote and early morning vote. The late morning vote and day vote was fairly average overall. It performed best during the last few hours of the poll. Overall, the trends were very similar to "I need help on a game", but they were less extreme here. "All of the above" had very balanced trends over the course of the entire poll. Nothing to see here. "I'm just here for the Poll" had a strong board vote and Power Hour, although I was surprised it didn't do better during those time period when compared to the night vote and morning vote. "I'm just here for the Poll" continued to remain strong during the night vote. At the start of the TDZ, "I'm just here for the Poll" started during slightly better compared to the early part of the night vote. The early morning vote was slightly better than the the night vote. After 11:10 AM, "I'm just here for the Poll" finally started going down in percentage consistently and lost a total of 3.17% after this point in time. After 2:00 PM, "I'm just here for the Poll" never got a single hour over 35% and also managed to get below 30% in a single hour. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Hahaha @ Xbox One. Next gen's going to be at a slow start apparently. Hopefully it'll mean a rise of PC gaming. --- Congratulation to the 2013 CB9 Guru winner, raytan! But hey, at least I'm #4! Current Let's Play: Knights of Pen and Paper (see quote) |
AxemRedRanger posted... Hey, I just noticed this: Haha http://i.imgur.com/otMrAt7.jpg (Credit to VideoboysaysCube) |
None
of Them is doing over 4% better than it did 4 months ago. A lot of that
can probably be blamed on Xbox One's already meager support collapsing
even further. You know what? Master Chief losing to Magus wouldn't be embarrassing enough at this point and I've got an alternative who both might be around Magus's strength by now and would bring things full circle for Chief. Master Chief vs. Isaac, who ya got? --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] [NO raytan NO PEACE] |
Isaac is surprisingly strong. I don't really think it would be out of left field for him to beat Chief in a 1v1. ...I don't think it would be out of left field for him to beat Magus either so take that as you will. --- Welcome to the League of Stickies. |
Chief would beat Isaac. He's still stronger than his 2k3 match vs Felix --- "The people who play Final Fantasy 7 actually have lives and dont NEED polls" ~MajinUltima raytan: Champ without picking the champ |
I've
got respect for Isaac, but he desperately needs an SSB appearance.
Golden Sun 1/2 are getting older and older, and Dark Dawn sort of
sucked. --- Black Turtle did a pretty good job. |
Isaac's
a lot stronger than 2k3 Felix. Isaac 2k3's hidden behind lots of SFF
(Samus/Isaac and Link/Samus, both of which were never accounted for),
and his later showings absolutely prove it. --- Welcome to the League of Stickies. |
On
that note, I think Geno's time is pretty much up. SMRPG's getting older
and older, and with him not having anything else in his corner... I
doubt he has much strength left (to be fair, though, he's gotten a lot
of bad draws). --- "Divine judgment for an evil soul! Sacred Penance! Rest in peace." - Estellise Sidos Heurassein, Tales of Vesperia |
In
retrospect I don't think Squall even was a bad draw for Geno, other
than Squall being way out of his league. (Though we definitely didn't
need see Squall/Geno twice.) If Terra only got 28.5% on Dante, Geno getting 25.16% on Squall sounds about as good as could be reasonably expected. And I don't think Chief is stronger now than in 2003, actually. He used to be but he's dropped considerably. 46% on Yuna in a day match is already unimpressive considering Chief's day power. But Yuna was also being hurt by Not-Chief LFF. Probably more substantial LFF than that too, considering it was two female Japanese characters mostly on Sony systems both with prominent ass in the match pic. Chief might not get much over 40% on Yuna in a 24-hour 1-on-1 match. Now, what did Chief do in 2003 after that Felix match? http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/1343 Regardless of whether Yuna could beat Aeris now, Yuna certainly doesn't beat 2003 near-elite Aeris that threatened Sonic the Hedgehog. Given that, calling Chief 2013 as strong as Chief 2003 might actually be generous to current Chief. --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] [NO raytan NO PEACE] |
AxemRedRanger posted... None of Them is doing over 4% better than it did 4 months ago. A lot of that can probably be blamed on Xbox One's already meager support collapsing even further. I noticed this as well, but I'll blame that on the E3 hype dying off. The last time we had this poll, Xbox One still had a lot of restrictions in place. A few weeks later, Microsoft finally backed off and removed most of the restrictions of the Xbox One. Now they've also taken away the requirement that you need Kinect hooked up to use the Xbox One. Also, if you compared this poll to the previous poll we had before E3 started, you'll notice that interest in the PS4 has dropped as well. In the poll from 5/30/2013, 38.19% of the site wanted to get a PS4 by the end of this year. In today's poll, interest in the PS4 has dropped to 34.39%. Interest for the Xbox One was at 9.87% on 5/30/2013, which has dropped to 7.27% in today's poll. Interest in the Wii U is nearly identical between both polls. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
A lot of people want to buy a Wii U. That is the most strange. --- GameFaqs is NOT the place to go for relationship advice.Nobody here gets any action unless it is their right or left hand.Including me.~Dawn and Dusk~ |
Safer_777 posted... A lot of people want to buy a Wii U. That is the most strange.I don't think it's strange really. Though I suppose I'm the sort that generally buys a Nintendo console in addition to either Sony/Microsoft console each gen. That said, I have no interest in the Xbone whatsoever. --- Common sense seems more uncommon. |
Is there a character that has fallen worse than Master Chief? |
Responder posted... Is there a character that has fallen worse than Master Chief? Arguably Magus. --- "Divine judgment for an evil soul! Sacred Penance! Rest in peace." - Estellise Sidos Heurassein, Tales of Vesperia |
L-Block. --- Congratulation to the 2013 CB9 Guru winner, raytan! But hey, at least I'm #4! Current Let's Play: Knights of Pen and Paper (see quote) |
Draven in the future. --- Feel free to mercilessly mock me -SBAllen |
Play Chrono Cross --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png ##LongLiveraytan |
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