Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1185

#201 | JJH777 | Posted 1/8/2014 10:11:38 PM | message detail
Hmm disappointing ALBW performance. I hope they do a 3-way poll between GTA, TLOU, and ALBW.
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#202 | Big Bob | Posted 1/8/2014 10:49:12 PM | message detail | (edited)
I'm amazed The Last of Us is doing so well considering the Uncharted games were never a bastion of strength.

I think GTA is as weird as it's always been - hardcore voters, hardcore anti-voters. Put it in a poll with a bunch of other strong games and it performs fine. Put it in a poll with a bunch of weak games and it gets embarassed by Ni No Kuni. Or... hell, maybe NNK is actually kind of strong?
#203 | -LusterSoldier- (Topic Creator) | Posted 1/8/2014 10:53:28 PM | message detail
GTA's performance in the PS3 poll was not legitimate since the poll was excluding the 360 owners of the game from voting for GTA since they don't have the game on PS3. You can see from this poll that GTA is now pulling in about 38% against TLoU after originally getting about 30% on TLoU in the PS3 poll.
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#204 | Nanis23 | Posted 1/8/2014 11:11:24 PM | message detail
I dunno I voted GTA V in the PS3 poll though I played it on 360
#205 | Not_Wylvane | Posted 1/9/2014 3:09:53 AM | message detail
Not really surprised. TLoU is sweeping GotY everywhere else, and people actually, you know, like the game.

I'm more surprised that Zelda's against GTAV, but that may be Mario hurting it.

Also, hahaha mobile games and hahaha Ys doing well against Phoenix Wright. Probably the most impressed I've ever been from a 3.93% performance in a poll.
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#206 | Safer_777 | Posted 1/9/2014 4:02:00 AM | message detail
I voted GTA 5 myself in all the polls that it was present. Also funny enough that GTA 5 is fighting for 2nd place again! In PS3 poll it barely managed to finish 2nd, can it do the same here again? And of course Last is winning.
Is Last that good? Seriously? I don't have a PS3...
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#207 | KamikazePotato | Posted 1/9/2014 7:56:11 AM | message detail
People wouldn't talk about Uncharted and The Last of Us if they weren't by the same developer. Entirely different games.
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#208 | ZFS | Posted 1/9/2014 7:59:47 AM | message detail
Sux Zelda isn't winning. Not even close! GameFAQs still not into the portables.
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#209 | The Mana Sword | Posted 1/9/2014 8:00:38 AM | message detail
Zelda could still win the final poll.

Probably not but weirder things have happened!
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#210 | ZFS | Posted 1/9/2014 8:03:48 AM | message detail
Oh, that's right, there's a final GOTY. Hmm, maybe it could. No Mario should help.
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#211 | KamikazePotato | Posted 1/9/2014 8:06:00 AM | message detail | (edited)
The Last Of Us is almost beating Zelda + Mario's % combined, so that would be something.
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#212 | charmander6000 | Posted 1/9/2014 8:05:25 AM | message detail
The Last of Us should have this. Zelda would need almost all of SM3DW's votes to catch up and at best the other eliminated options would evenly split between the two games.
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#213 | KamikazePotato | Posted 1/9/2014 8:05:38 AM | message detail
Also none of you here would be sad about this result if you had played the game !
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#214 | -LusterSoldier- (Topic Creator) | Posted 1/9/2014 8:08:01 AM | message detail
ZFS posted...
Oh, that's right, there's a final GOTY. Hmm, maybe it could. No Mario should help.


Giving all of Mario's votes to Zelda would barely put it ahead of TLoU, so not having Mario in tomorrow's poll is unlikely to change the winner here.
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#215 | ZFS | Posted 1/9/2014 8:08:21 AM | message detail
Really doubt Last of Us is nearly as good as Zelda! Good story only carries you so far!
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#216 | KamikazePotato | Posted 1/9/2014 8:10:15 AM | message detail
I loved TLOU's gameplay.
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#217 | ZFS | Posted 1/9/2014 8:10:29 AM | message detail
I would expect certain votes -- PW, Ys -- to be more likely to vote for Zelda than Last of Us. Zelda being the only Nintendo option should help, too, more than you might think! Still probably won't win, but it should be pretty close.
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#218 | The Mana Sword | Posted 1/9/2014 8:19:09 AM | message detail
My interest in TLOU is pretty close to zero, I just don't like those kinds of games. If I had a PS3 I'd probably try it just to see what all the fuss is about but something about it would have to hit me pretty hard to compete with Zelda.
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#219 | -LusterSoldier- (Topic Creator) | Posted 1/9/2014 8:31:34 AM | message detail
-LusterSoldier- posted...
2511 votes at the end of the first hour. So this poll will finish between 24000 and 27000 votes.

It is weird this poll will get even lower vote totals than the 3DS and PS3 polls.


Actually, it seems as though we're going to get somewhere between 28000 and 29000 votes instead. Vote totals for this poll got off to a slower start than I had expected and that resulted in underestimating the final vote totals here.
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#220 | Kotetsu534 | Posted 1/9/2014 8:37:43 AM | message detail
I will say that The Last of Us is, by some distance, the most intense and exhausting western game I've ever played (that's single player, at least). I played it on Hard difficulty, and the closest comparison I can make is to a much more serious Resident Evil 4. Even when there's dips in the intensity, there's a pervasive sense of forboding and decay. I thought I couldn't be overwhelmed by big-ticket "AAA" productions, but it did. Every other game that stuck with me this year was either a small indie production or for the 3DS (foremost among them, Zelda).

Wherever Naughty Dog goes next, I'll likely follow, and there's not many developers I'd say that about today.
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#221 | 1337gamerpr0 | Posted 1/9/2014 9:02:57 AM | message detail
wait how many games are in the final poll?
also dat Zelda day vote giving % like crazy
#222 | LinkMarioSamus | Posted 1/9/2014 9:12:37 AM | message detail
Ha, Zelda struggling with GTA.
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#223 | AxemRedRanger | Posted 1/9/2014 10:59:10 AM | message detail
There should be three games in the final poll. So Zelda, Last of Us, and GTA V.

If it's sufficiently close between the top two (almost certainly Last of Us and Zelda) there might be a final final poll with just them, which happened for 2008.
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#224 | -LusterSoldier- (Topic Creator) | Posted 1/9/2014 11:10:10 AM | message detail
The only way we get a "Final, Final Vote" is if Zelda or GTA V somehow wins tomorrow's poll.

What happened in 2008 was that MGS4 won the 9-way GotY poll, then Brawl won the 3-way poll. So a third poll was needed to decide the winner of the overall GotY that year.
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#225 | swirIdude | Posted 1/9/2014 11:46:24 AM | message detail
The only way we get a "Final, Final Vote" is if Zelda or GTA V somehow wins tomorrow's poll.

Which could happen. TLOU and GTAV are more likely to leech each other than Zelda.
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#226 | HaRRicH | Posted 1/9/2014 12:02:25 PM | message detail
Don't look now, but GTAV looks like it's about to take second place.


Not only are TLoU/GTAV more likely to leech off of each other, but Nintendo tends to do better with fewer options as well. Still, LoZ:LBW would have to absorb almost all of SM3DW's vote (or 2/3 of SM3DW+PW:DD) to really compete tomorrow...that's a tough goal.
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#227 | lightning-02 | Posted 1/9/2014 1:39:57 PM | message detail
Kotetsu534 posted...
I will say that The Last of Us is, by some distance, the most intense and exhausting western game I've ever played (that's single player, at least). I played it on Hard difficulty, and the closest comparison I can make is to a much more serious Resident Evil 4. Even when there's dips in the intensity, there's a pervasive sense of forboding and decay. I thought I couldn't be overwhelmed by big-ticket "AAA" productions, but it did. Every other game that stuck with me this year was either a small indie production or for the 3DS (foremost among them, Zelda).

Wherever Naughty Dog goes next, I'll likely follow, and there's not many developers I'd say that about today.


I was getting some serious RE4 deja vu while playing TLOU as well, I'm surprised the comparison isn't made more often.
#228 | ctesjbuvf | Posted 1/9/2014 1:59:13 PM | message detail
Zelda should at least beat GTA big time in a top three poll, though I think The Last of Us got this.
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#229 | Safer_777 | Posted 1/9/2014 2:18:29 PM | message detail
GTA 5 is second! Yeah!
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#230 | abdou | Posted 1/9/2014 3:18:43 PM | message detail
man the last of us beating even zelda ..and to think I was bored halfway and never finished the game oO
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#231 | -LusterSoldier- (Topic Creator) | Posted 1/9/2014 9:00:15 PM | message detail
Grand Theft Auto V 0% 0
The Last of Us 0% 0
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds 100% 1
TOTAL VOTES 1
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#232 | charmander6000 | Posted 1/9/2014 9:00:54 PM | message detail
dat board vote
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#233 | -LusterSoldier- (Topic Creator) | Posted 1/9/2014 9:00:55 PM | message detail
That Zelda board vote in action.
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#234 | charmander6000 | Posted 1/9/2014 9:01:57 PM | message detail
Zelda drones always know when to step up/
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#235 | ZFS | Posted 1/9/2014 9:02:34 PM | message detail
ZELDA yes
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#236 | ProphetProfit | Posted 1/9/2014 9:05:08 PM | message detail
ZFS posted...
ZELDA yes

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#237 | -LusterSoldier- (Topic Creator) | Posted 1/9/2014 9:10:38 PM | message detail
Slight percentage increase for Zelda on that update.
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#238 | KamikazePotato | Posted 1/9/2014 9:10:53 PM | message detail
That GTA board vote
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#239 | pjbasis | Posted 1/9/2014 9:10:55 PM | message detail
Would have voted Bioshock Infinite but nooo!
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#240 | Big Bob | Posted 1/9/2014 9:11:54 PM | message detail
Would have voted Fire Emblem but nooo!
#241 | charmander6000 | Posted 1/9/2014 9:12:24 PM | message detail
Despite almost 30% being available GTAV has only gone up 3%.

Then again Zelda is taking 19% for itself.
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#242 | pjbasis | Posted 1/9/2014 9:14:03 PM | message detail
#243 | -LusterSoldier- (Topic Creator) | Posted 1/9/2014 9:16:47 PM | message detail
2 straight 1 vote cuts for TLoU. Only 21 more cuts like those to take the lead over Zelda.
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#244 | charmander6000 | Posted 1/9/2014 9:17:38 PM | message detail
Zelda has an 8 point lead in the US, but Canada is countering giving TLoU a 12 point lead.
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#245 | -LusterSoldier- (Topic Creator) | Posted 1/9/2014 9:33:39 PM | message detail
I have a spreadsheet set up for the poll updates today:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AgBWiYjlMLwYdGEwVlRnV3FIUC05SjQ2VWpNVHQzN2c
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#246 | Dilated Chemist | Posted 1/9/2014 9:48:13 PM | message detail
Ugh, why is TLOU losing here?

I'm sure the new Zelda game is good but TLOU is amazing.
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#247 | TheOceIot | Posted 1/9/2014 9:49:15 PM | message detail
Dilated Chemist posted...
Ugh, why is TLOU losing here?

I'm sure the new Zelda game is good but TLOU is amazing.


Gameplay.
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#248 | Dilated Chemist | Posted 1/9/2014 9:49:59 PM | message detail
TLOU gameplay was great.
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#249 | KamikazePotato | Posted 1/9/2014 9:50:11 PM | message detail
TLOU had better gameplay than Zelda did!
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