GameFAQs Contests

Holy s*** these polls have been boring.
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Current Let's Play: Harvest Moon: Magical Melody - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3609787
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Why people keep their consoles and games I don't understand. You done playing with them you sell them.
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Why do we exist?What happens when we stop existing?

You can always go back and replay those games, or play older games you may have just heard about.

Or just emulate them in an age where it's pretty easy and affordable to do so on your TV.
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Current Let's Play: Harvest Moon: Magical Melody - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3609787
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-LusterSoldier- posted...

Out of the polls above, the lowest vote total had 27.50% less votes than the highest vote total. If that trend remains true for the current string of polls, the lowest vote total for this year's "Do you still own" polls should be 26480 votes, which is definitely possible if the vote totals drop off even more for the last 2 polls.

And what did you know, my prediction was off by less than 200 votes. Today's poll should get higher vote totals than yesterday's poll, though.


Not_Wylvane posted...

Holy s*** these polls have been boring.

Today's poll should be the last of these polls.
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Not_Wylvane posted...

Holy s*** these polls have been boring.

As if this isn't the case for most polls of the day.
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raytan: Champ without picking the champ

Having collections is awesome.

Having someone look through your stuff and say "whoa you have this!" or something is great.
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I have finally put up every single 2013 contest match into its own category on the Board 8 wiki.


http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Category:2013_Contest_Matches
http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Contest_Matches
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Safer_777 posted...

Why people keep their consoles and games I don't understand. You done playing with them you sell them.

Replaying games is awesome...but to each his own.
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Play Pac-Man World 2.

Bump
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No amount of rallying would let me beat raytan7585.
Congrats to raytan7585 for winning the CB9 Guru Contest!

Final Fantasy always win
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Seriously. As soon as I saw that Final Fantasy was one of the options, I knew it would win. Even if I think Star Wars would be a better representation of the genre.

I voted for Pure Sci-Fi because I think Metroid and StarCraft fit under that, no?
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Play Pac-Man World 2.

Boy, I sure wish Final Fantasy would stop winning all the damn time.
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Current Let's Play: Harvest Moon: Magical Melody - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3609787
Prev: http://lparchive.org/author/mega64

Yeah, I can't stand how Lightning has won every contest since her debut.

Final Fantasy wins again.
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I still find it bizarre that Allen didn't put Dark Souls II in this poll: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/5386
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Uh why is MGSV doing so poorly?

Because it's not really MGSV.
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Dark Souls II impressing.

Really, everything's impressing considering you gotta imagine FFX doing well here regardless.
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Current Let's Play: Harvest Moon: Magical Melody - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3609787
Prev: http://lparchive.org/author/mega64

Nanis23 posted...

Uh why is MGSV doing so poorly?

Ground Zeroes is not the real MGSV. It's a prequel to the real MGSV, which is known as Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

I assure you that Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain will perform much better in the upcoming hype polls.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
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Ground Zeroes is a freaking demo.
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nearly a month in, and we aren't even 1/4 of the way through this thread
more like this topic's gonna take 4 months to fill up amirite

So, Twitch Plays Pokemon.

Are we gonna see Zapdos, Pidgeot, and Omastar next contest?
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You can retire this thread now. We are never getting another contest

Not happening unless Bacon officially announces that contests will be permanently discontinued.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
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3-way games contest, calling it

Today's poll has the potential for some weird trends if other websites actually rallied in this poll. The potential is there for sites like Reddit, 4chan, and the TPP chat to rally for this poll. We could see higher than normal vote totals.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
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I want to see a best item contest, just to see what a Helix Fossil would do in that setting.
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Agent Triple Zero at your service!
I may be the greatone, but raytan is a greatguru.

This poll needs an "Other: I'd selfishly time travel back to a certain point in my life and make different choices" option.

I guess "recent past" would be the best substitution option for that?
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ffmasterjose posted...

I guess "recent past" would be the best substitution option for that?

Yes, that would be the best option for you.
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-LusterSoldier- posted...

Not happening unless Bacon officially announces that contests will be permanently discontinued.

Then what will you do with your life?

oh yeah let's check out this new formatting stuff

Bump
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Congrats to raytan7585 for winning the CB9 Guru Contest!

zzz bump
hey how about that top 100 lol

IIRC he said he would need several weeks to get everything ready and it hasn't quite been a month yet.

He gave us enough info to figure out the vast majority of what's on the list, though.
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........bump

My prediction for the top 100:

B - Bioshock, Bioshock Infinite, Batman Arkham Asylum, Batman Arkham City, Borderlands 2
C - Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Castlevania Symphony of the Night, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
D - Dragon Age: Origins, Devil May Cry, Devil May Cry 3, Diablo II, Demon's Souls, Dark Souls
E - Earthbound
F - Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy IX, Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy Tactics, Fire Emblem, Fire Emblem Awakening, Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas
G - Goldeneye, Grand Theft Auto V, Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto Vice City
H - Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Halo, Halo 2
K - Kid Icarus Uprising, Kingdom Hearts
M - Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 3, Metal Gear Solid 4, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, Metroid Prime, Mega Man X, Mother 3
O - Okami
P - Pokemon RBY, Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver, Pokemon X/Y, Portal, Portal 2, Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney, Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney Trials and Tribulations, Perfect Dark, Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door
R - Red Dead Redemption, Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 4
S, Mario - Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, Super Mario World 2 Yoshi's Island, Super Mario 64, Super Mario Galaxy, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Super Mario RPG
S, Other - Super Smash Bros. Melee, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Super Metroid, Shin Megami Tensei Persona 3, Shin Megami Tensei Persona 4, Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne, Shadow of the Colossus, Secret of Mana, Skies of Arcadia, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Street Fighter II, Suikoden II, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic, Starcraft
T, The - Link to the Past, Link's Awakening, Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword, Link Between Worlds, Elder Scrolls Oblivion, Elder Scrolls Skyrim, Last of Us, World Ends with You
T, Other - Tetris, Tales of Symphonia, Tales of Vesperia, Tales of the Abyss
U - Uncharted 2
W - World of Warcraft, Warcraft 3
X - Xenogears, Xenoblade

It's formatted like that since he gave us a pie chart showing how many games on the top 100 started with each letter.
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SA and VC over III?
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##LongLiveraytan

Probably, III is the type of game people forget they love until someone mentions it.

It's also older
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Congrats to raytan for winning the Guru Contest

The PS2 GTAs are among my most uncertain picks but I do think VC and SA are more likely than III. Was more concerned about God of War.

Also, I think GTA gets some revenge here; Golden Sun shouldn't do well in this format. A lot of people like it and have fond memories of it, but I can't see many picking that or its sequel as a top 5 game.
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I think some of the lesser/divisive Square titles might get the boot due to the change from 10 to 5 noms. There's a ton of people that put Square on a pedestal and probably nominated stuff like FF8 and Chrono Cross last time but simply don't have enough room this time. DetroitDJ also hints at something like this happening:

DetroitDJ posted...

So far, for example, some of my snubs would be:

Franchise-Starters (the original games in many major franchises didn't make it)
Square-Enix games (given Square's overwhelming presence)
Cult darlings (smaller budget games that are well-renowned anyway)
Modern Hits (hits from the past couple years that still didn't make it)
Major franchises (major franchises that were totally shut out)
#3s (for some reason, the third installments of many big franchises didn't make it even while #1 and #2 did)

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Link to where he said that?

And huh, just noticed he posted this on twitter a month ago:

https://twitter.com/DDJGames/status/432387160193249280

Sounds like a pretty good result for Crono.
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AxemRedRanger posted...

Link to where he said that?

And huh, just noticed he posted this on twitter a month ago:

https://twitter.com/DDJGames/status/432387160193249280

Sounds like a pretty good result for Crono.

Chrono Trigger confirmed
for 2nd to Resident Evil 4

More like Pokemon RBY

Those plucky underdogs strike again.
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BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB9%20BOP.xls
Congrats to raytan for winning the Guru Contest

though seriously, this is going to start rolling out by next week right

New tweet:

https://twitter.com/DDJGames/status/442323346601308160

so yes.
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winning game got 217. runner-up got 214 votes?
hmmmm

"Not yet, but I'll be there for Titanfall or Dark Souls II this week" has managed to end up with 0 votes at the freeze. It's not the first time a poll option has received 0 votes at the end of the freeze, but it rarely ever happens.
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https://twitter.com/DDJGames/status/442884257912848384

I guess if we've already waited this long, another week won't hurt too much!
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At this point I'm underdog voting for FFVII every match. Even if it's not really the underdog, it's likely to put up a horrifying performance which will cause us to lose all hope in its showdown with OOT (and..........maybe RBY), so it is effectively the underdog.
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