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PS3 NES Genesis Gamecube Xbox 360 Wii U Dreamcast Wii Xbox |
The plague of the console contest returns and Ngamer's not even around to perpetuate it! --- http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab48/Leonhart4/giphy_zps1fe99c19.gif |
We actually have enough consoles now to do a mini-bracket without stretching things! NES Gameboy SNES Genesis PS1 N64 Dreamcast PS2 GBA Gamecube Xbox DS PSP X360 Wii PS3 3DS WiiU PS4 XB1 Bracket of 16 with 4 byes (NES, SNES, PS1, PS2). Boom! --- "What's the matter with bootblacking? We both like it very much!" This is Yesmar. Congrats to CBIX Guru Winner *Raytan*! |
LeonhartFour posted... The plague of the console contest returns and Ngamer's not even around to perpetuate it! If you'd like, we can get back to having Luster analyze each day's poll instead. --- Current Let's Play: Mother 3 - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3652080 Previous: http://lparchive.org/author/mega64 |
There are no winners. Only losers. --- http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab48/Leonhart4/giphy_zps1fe99c19.gif |
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/6-gamefaqs-announcements/69897368 one step closer to the quote contest! --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] [NO raytan NO PEACE] |
Hello
all. I haven't posted in here for a long time, though it's probably
less time than it feels like. Link/Draven/Shepard was on my last
birthday after all. I don't really have anything to say. In years past
I always said a lot of Luster's analyses were interesting but
truthfully I'm not that interested, at least now. Even if we could go
back to the halcyon days of soda polls and age polls they are less
interesting without contest polls to tie them to. --- September 1, 2003; November 4, 2007; September 2, 2013 NEVER FORGET. |
We still get the age polls on a yearly basis, but it has been almost 2 1/2 years since the last Soda poll. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
We can only hope we never get another one. --- http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab48/Leonhart4/giphy_zps1fe99c19.gif |
I
feel like Soda polls are more interesting than at least 25% of contest
polls nowadays (and possibly much higher). I guess I'm too out of touch
with gaming these days. --- September 1, 2003; November 4, 2007; September 2, 2013 NEVER FORGET. |
Soon
we will get to talk about the full SSB4 cast and how much they will
boost in the next character contest (if we ever have one). --- "The people who play Final Fantasy 7 actually have lives and dont NEED polls" ~MajinUltima raytan: Champ without picking the champ |
Oh
dear no. Unless Crono makes a surprise appearance in SSB4 anyway. An
SSB4 boost is among the last things we need right now with Square
characters (poor, poor, FFVII) at historic lows. --- September 1, 2003; November 4, 2007; September 2, 2013 NEVER FORGET. |
Just rally Vivi over all of them. --- "The people who play Final Fantasy 7 actually have lives and dont NEED polls" ~MajinUltima raytan: Champ without picking the champ |
LeonhartFour posted... The plague of the console contest returns and Ngamer's not even around to perpetuate it! Rank these female villains in order of strength GLaDOS JENOVA Mother Brain Ultimecia Gruntilda Sniper Wolf The Boss Carmen Sandiego Kerrigan Cloud of Darkness SHODAN Splash Woman --- http://i.imgur.com/RHvCiY3.png |
Where is Whitney's Miltank? --- http://lpix.org/1741946/Untitled.png War, you are an amazing person, and my life has been bettered by reading this topic. - MrSmartGuy |
GLaDOS The Boss Sniper Wolf JENOVA Mother Brain Whitney's Miltank Kerrigan Ultimecia SHODAN Carmen Sandiego Gruntilda Splash Woman Cloud of Darkness --- "The people who play Final Fantasy 7 actually have lives and dont NEED polls" ~MajinUltima raytan: Champ without picking the champ |
FranzyvonKarma posted... Where is Whitney's Miltank? too OP banned from this contest --- http://i.imgur.com/RHvCiY3.png |
SBAllen responded to a topic and said that he's thinking of a 2015 contest: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/69896485/793970929 --- http://i.imgur.com/0Xtvv3Y.png |
swirIdude posted... Soon we will get to talk about the full SSB4 cast and how much they will boost in the next character contest (if we ever have one). I bet Shulk will end up as high as Ratchet-level! Holy crap was 2012 a weak year if Borderlands 2 and Xenoblade were 1 and 2 on this site, considering how horrible their characters did. --- Current Let's Play: Mother 3 - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3652080 Previous: http://lparchive.org/author/mega64 |
Games =/= Characters, didn't FFVI teach you that? --- "The people who play Final Fantasy 7 actually have lives and dont NEED polls" ~MajinUltima raytan: Champ without picking the champ |
I don't know what to believe since the characters are now stronger than the game! --- Current Let's Play: Mother 3 - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3652080 Previous: http://lparchive.org/author/mega64 |
Tomorrow's poll (in less than 20 minutes from now): Have you ever played the original Legend of Zelda? This will be quite an interesting poll (not for the trends though), because we haven't had a playrate poll for the original Zelda since 2007. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
so we will probably get one for original Final Fantasy as well I expect the playrate for FF to be lower than ever, it seems FF is only getting less popular on this site as time goes on --- ... |
Not
necessarily. Zelda 1 probably got a poll today because it's the 27th
anniversary of its U.S. release. And we had a playrate poll for the
original FF as recently as December 18, 2012, for the 25th anniversary
of its Japanese release. FF1's playrate there was marginally better (by less than 1%) than it had been in 2006/2007. In comparison, Zelda 1's playrate will probably end up a bit under 2% worse than it had been in 2006/2007. --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] [NO raytan NO PEACE] |
Zelda 1's playrate has dropped to 75.28% in yesterday's poll. I just updated this page with the new playrate: http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Have_You_Played The playrate for yesterday's Zelda 1 poll is listed near the bottom of that page. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Fortunately,
there isn't gonna be a character contest anytime soon, otherwise seeing
Link 62-38 Cloud in a massacre would be unsettling. --- The cycle of life and death continues. We will live. And they will die. |
Good thing that probably won't happen since Cloud would likely end up losing to Snake or maybe Mario before reaching Link. --- Current Let's Play: Mother 3 - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3652080 Previous: http://lparchive.org/author/mega64 |
Samus vs Cloud QFs? lol |
Silly
me, I take back what I said. Before he could face the juggernauts like
Link and Snake, he would have already lost to Pokemon in round 2 or 3. Cloud vs Blastoise, anyone taking Cloud? --- The cycle of life and death continues. We will live. And they will die. |
Next character contest there are 2 mistakes we won't make again: 1. Choosing Dante to win in round 2 2. Choosing FFVII to beat gen 1 Pokemon --- http://i.imgur.com/0Xtvv3Y.png |
I
still love how Squirtle beat Cloud and a LFFed Pikachu beat Sora, yet
Charizard couldn't beat a LFFed Mega Man. That's my second-favorite
moment of the contest (after Vivi > Mario). --- Current Let's Play: Mother 3 - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3652080 Previous: http://lparchive.org/author/mega64 |
Bump --- No amount of rallying would let me beat raytan7585. Congrats to raytan7585 for winning the CB9 Guru Contest! |
I'm
gonna go ahead and predict that Link still won't 60-40 Cloud. As weak
as Cloud has become, Link has also looked pretty awful outside of his
showdown with Draven. Only got 53% on Snake. --- September 1, 2003; November 4, 2007; September 2, 2013 NEVER FORGET. |
red sox 777 posted... Oh dear no. Unless Crono makes a surprise appearance in SSB4 anyway. An SSB4 boost is among the last things we need right now with Square characters (poor, poor, FFVII) at historic lows. Did you see that Chrono Trigger won this mini contest thing run by DDJ? http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/top10/2704-the-top-100-games-of-all-time-according-to-gamefaqs-10-to-1 Was kind of cool and very surprising imo. --- 9/2/13-The Hero of GameFAQs fought bravely but fell to an unrelenting horde supported by a corrupt tyranny. R.I.P. Hero of Time, 7 time CB Champion, Link |
Chrono Trigger is the type of game where people either love it or haven't played it. --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB9%20BOP.xls Congrats to raytan for winning the Guru Contest |
I
am tracking poll updates for today's poll. I actually do have poll
updates for the 2010 poll (which does have some pretty strong trends),
but somehow I never tracked poll updates for the 2011 or 2012 polls. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Trend charts and poll updates for yesterday's poll: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AgBWiYjlMLwYdGx2SWd4bkdxbWVFeDl6ckVUdHRKVlE&gid=2 I also included the poll updates from the 3/26/2010 poll, although I never tracked poll updates for the 3/3/2011 or the 6/18/2012 polls. When discussing the trends, I will be focusing mostly on the trends in yesterday's poll. "Downloaded it" performed worst during the board vote and Power Hour. It also had a bad SNV as well. Outside of the Power Hour and SNV, it was fairly consistent for most of the poll. "Boxed game" performed best during the night vote and early morning vote, but it performed below average outside of the night vote and early morning vote. "A game store" performed best during the board vote and Power Hour. It dropped off during the night vote and performed worst during the night vote and the entire morning vote (until the ASV kicks in). While it wasn't as good as the Power Hour, "A game store" also performed well during the ASV and SNV. Compared to the 2010 poll, the trends for "A game store" were less extreme in yesterday's poll. The main reason for "A game store" performing badly with the night vote is because of the wording used for the poll option. The poll option lists "GameStop" as an example of a game store, but the option was worded in such a way that makes a lot of voters assume that this option applies only to GameStop and no other game stores. And since GameStop is mostly a US thing, this option was going to perform badly with the night vote. GameStop does exist in several other countries outside the US, such as Spain, Italy, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Ireland. But for the most part, it's a US thing and whatever countries GameStop does exist in outside of the US is not enough to have a significant impact on the trends during the night vote. "Electronics store" performs best during the board vote, Power Hour, late morning vote, and the SNV. It performs worst during the night vote and early morning vote. "Department store" has the most balanced trends in this poll, though it performs best during the board vote and SNV, but worst during the night vote and late morning vote. "Other" performs horribly in the board vote and Power Hour. It does best during the night vote and late morning vote. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
I
am definitely going to track poll updates for this poll. Based on the
results so far, this poll has the potential to be a heated affair
between "A desktop/tower computer" and "A laptop computer" for most of
this poll. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
1
hour into this poll and "A laptop computer" has a 6 vote lead on "A
desktop/tower computer". This is shaping up to be a very good showdown
between these 2 options. I believe there will be some noticeable trends
in this poll. I am predicting that "A desktop/tower computer" will have a good morning vote as people are more likely to vote from a desktop computer if they are voting from a computer at their workplace. However, "A mobile phone" could also be expected to have a good morning vote from people voting while at work. This poll also finished the first hour with 3021 votes, putting it on track to finish between 29000 and 32000 votes. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
dat laptop power hour |
Welp,
this poll has just spiraled out of control over the past 20 minutes
since the Power Hour ended. "A laptop computer" had a 6 vote lead on "A
desktop/tower computer" at the end of the Power Hour. 20 minutes
later, "A desktop/tower computer" now has an 88 vote lead on "A laptop
computer". Looking at the updates, that was caused by "A laptop
computer" falling off a cliff in terms of vote intake, while "A
desktop/tower computer" continues to maintain a rather stable vote
intake. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Think very carefully about the post you just made, Luster --- The cream of XIII fanboyism. "The cool thing about XIII going to China is being able to vote in the GameFAQs poll from China." - Luster Soldier |
Someone bring LMS back to the topic please. --- Current Let's Play: Mother 3 - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3652080 Previous: http://lparchive.org/author/mega64 |
I've
had nothing worth mentioning. Best I can come up with is...serious
disappointment in this site for FFVII's decline. A big fat WTF to the
site is in order. --- Play Pac-Man World 2. |
There is a 0% chance FFVII loses to anything FF ever --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png ##LongLiveraytan |
Probably. But Chrono Trigger is another story! --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] [NO raytan NO PEACE] |
Trend charts and poll updates for yesterday's poll: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AgBWiYjlMLwYdExSWXdObW9UOUF4cWlMdU4yczh3bHc&gid=1 I'll start by talking about "A laptop computer" first, because it had more interesting trends (compared to "A desktop computer"). "A laptop computer" started out with a very good board vote and Power Hour. But the most surprising thing was what happened immediately after the Power Hour came to a close. With the flip of a switch, "A laptop computer" began to collapse as soon as the Power Hour ended. "A laptop computer" had a 6 vote lead on "A desktop computer" at the end of the Power Hour. At the end of the second hour, "A laptop computer" found itself behind "A desktop computer" by 161 votes and it just continued to go downhill for the rest of the night vote. "A laptop computer" had a bad night vote, but it performed worst during the final hour of the night vote, in addition to having a bad early morning vote. "A laptop computer" was bleeding percentage for the entire night vote (it lost a total of 3.78% during the night vote) and continued to bleed percentage until 9:00 AM (its lowest percentage of 37.59%). After 9:00 AM, it went through a 3 hour period where its percentage was all over the place (quickly gaining 0.20% before falling back down to 37.59% over a 2 hour period). After 12:00 PM, "A laptop computer" finally started to put together an actual trend of gaining percentage. During the 4 1/2 hours after 12:00 PM, it managed to gain 0.49% to reach 38.08% before experiencing more difficulty in gaining percentage. It wasn't until after 9:30 PM that "A laptop computer" started to gain more percentage again, which would continue for the last 2 1/2 hours of the poll. After the horrible early morning vote, "A laptop computer" had a very average late morning vote and ASV, but it did manage to do slightly better near the end of the poll. The Power Hour was the only hour during the entire poll that "A laptop computer" managed to win over "A desktop computer". Looking at just the US trends, it seems like the bad night vote was mostly caused by the non-US countries. It took until 4:10 AM for "A laptop computer" to fall below 41% in the US (at this time, the worldwide percentage was 39.66%). Where as the percentage bleeding in the morning vote was more of a US thing. "A desktop computer" had the opposite trends compared to "A laptop computer". It had a bad board vote and Power Hour. Out of the 24 hours in this poll, the Power Hour was the absolute worst hour for "A desktop computer", with the 9:00-10:00 PM hour being the second worst hour. Once the Power Hour ended, it began to perform much better during the night vote. It performed best during the morning vote, but even the morning vote wasn't as strong as I was expecting. I assumed most workplace computers would be desktops, so that's why I assumed "A desktop computer" would have a good morning vote for that reason alone. Based on what I saw from the morning vote, that theory turned out to be incorrect. Of course, that requires enough voters to be voting from a computer at their workplace during the morning vote to create a noticeable trend during this time period. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
"A
tablet computer" started out with a bad board vote and Power Hour. The
first minute of this poll was extremely terrible for "A tablet
computer", mostly because it's difficult to quickly navigate to the
homepage when the new poll goes up, so tablet computer voters took
longer than usual to put in their vote. The night vote was just as bad
as the Power Hour. "A tablet computer" performed best during the early
morning vote, but then it performed worst during the late morning vote.
The ASV was the best overall time period for "A tablet computer",
although it dropped off slightly during the SNV. "A mobile phone" started out with a good board vote and Power Hour. "A mobile phone" had a horrible first minute for the same reason as the tablet computer voters, but it quickly recovered after that first minute to finish with a good board vote. "A mobile phone" dropped off slightly during the Power Hour, but even the Power Hour was quite good. It performed very well during the Power Hour, though it was slightly worse than Power Hour. The early morning vote was the best time period for "A mobile phone", followed an average late morning vote. The ASV and SNV were the absolute worst time periods for "A mobile phone". "A game system" had the most consistent trends overall, although it performed best during the night vote and had a horrible board vote. "Another device" had a very good board vote, but dropped off very sharply after the freeze. The night vote, late morning vote, and SNV were the worst time periods for "Another device". --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
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