GameFAQs Contests
Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1190
FFVII
Remake will definitely boost the game. When released it will be one of
the biggest games this gen and sell millions. It's timed exclusive on
PS4 but it will come out on other platforms probably X1 and PC. I think
it might be enough to actually beat OoT/Link. I mean if KH can boost
Square characters so much imagine what FFVII Remake can do. --- ... |
It's
interesting to see how Nintendo's conference was the most hyped up a
few days ago but is now getting crushed today. Ryu and Mario Maker just
couldn't compete with Sony's big surprises or even Microsoft's Rare
Replay. --- M E N: nominate Metal Man in 20XX! http://i.imgur.com/Dr4NAeq.png |
When
this poll was scheduled to happen today, I was concerned that this site
would have an irrational hate for Microsoft and refuse to put Microsoft
above Nintendo despite Nintendo looking really weak this year. The
correct option is currently winning today, but even 27% of the site had
Nintendo over Microsoft instead (with Sony still in first place). I still need to work on completing trend charts for both polls that happened yesterday. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
HaRRicH posted... It's interesting to see how Nintendo's conference was the most hyped up a few days ago but is now getting crushed today. Ryu and Mario Maker just couldn't compete with Sony's big surprises or even Microsoft's Rare Replay. That's not true. After the Smash direct and the Mario Maker showings at the World Championships on Sunday, Nintendo was standing really strong. It was their digital event that was a letdown. --- *2, *8,070,446 Kuroko no Basket *3, *6,495,240 Naruto |
I
agree had the Smash direct and Mario Maker at the World Championships
been part of E3 I wouldn't be surprised if it gave Sony a run for its
money here. --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB9%20BOP.xls Congrats to raytan for winning the Guru Contest |
Would
it have made much of a difference? In the end both of the games/content
for those were still shown in their E3 Direct. Nintendo's only real
problem is they didn't have much of anything new to show and and
"wasted" a good chunk of their time on developer diaries because they
evidently had nothing else to even show. |
Poll updates and trend charts from yesterday's night poll: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KtVIRGohgRQS6RYjxw9G-jOxGt6ZG6WwO28uMwzO0kk/pub?gid=1335221599 This poll started at 10:33 PM EST on the night of June 15th and ran until 12:53 PM on June 16th. Overall, that was a 14 hour, 20 minute poll. Judging from the vote totals here, I'd estimate this poll ends up with about 23000 votes in a full 24 hour poll. As for the trend charts, the Power Hour time period ran from 10:33 PM to 11:33 PM. After the Power Hour ends, the poll enters the FNV and runs from 11:33 PM to 6:03 AM. The BSV and DSV were calculated the way they normally would be calculated. The trends for this poll echoes a flashback to the 2013 version of this poll, in which the "A - Nailed it" option gets off to such a hot start because the site was so euphoric when Sony laid the hammer on Microsoft for confirming the lack of DRM features in the PS4. Since the "A - Nailed it" option started off with such a hot performance at the start of the 2013 poll, it had no where to go but lose percentage for the entire poll. Even during the worst time period (morning vote) for "A - Nailed it", it was still kicking the teeth out of the "B - Looking good" option. In this year's poll for grading Sony's E3 performance, the "A - Outstanding" option starts off with a really strong board vote and Power Hour due to the FFVII remake announcement, along with other high profile game announcements. After the Power Hour ended, "A - Outstanding" lost about 8% for the rest of this poll. About 4% of that loss went to the "B - Good job" option, while "C - Okay" gained about 3%, and the last remaining 1% were the scraps that "D - Bad" and "F - Terrible" were fighting over. "A - Outstanding" had a slightly below average night vote and a terrible morning vote here. "A - Outstanding" was not overly dominant in this poll and it could only ride the early vote on route to build up a 378 vote lead over "B - Good job" at 11:48 PM. After 11:48 PM, "B - Good job" made an attempt to pull off a comeback and used the early part of the night vote to get the lead under 300 before "A - Outstanding" would use the later part of the night vote to stall out "B - Good job". 7:03 AM was the last time that "A - Outstanding" had a lead of at least 300 votes or more over "B - Good job", because "B - Good job" would go on to use the morning vote to made a serious push at a comeback. "B - Good job" was on pace to complete the comeback, but it was halted when a new poll got put up at 12:53 PM. At the pace that "B - Good job" was cutting into the lead, even an extra 30 minutes would have resulted in a lead change. "B - Good job" had trends that were the exact opposite of "A - Outstanding". It had a terrible board vote and Power Hour, average night vote, and strong morning vote. "C - Okay" had a bad board vote and Power Hour as well. It had a good night vote and an even better morning vote. "D - Bad" and "F - Terrible" had the most consistent trends overall in this poll. "D - Bad" performed best during the early morning vote, while "F - Terrible" did best during the night vote. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Poll updates and trend charts for yesterday's day poll: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ro9CsihTvRJCTpkSzk7j5oip9D1MvWRMaX6_CLm_itE/pub?gid=1816165680 Trend charts were handled by setting the Power Hour to ran from 12:53 PM to 1:59 PM. The DSV ran from 1:59 PM to 2:29 PM, while the ASV and SNV were calculated as they normally would be. As for the vote totals in this poll, I'd put an estimate of 22000 votes had this poll ran for a full 24 hours. "A - Amazing" and "B - Looking good" both started off with a bad board vote and Power Hour. They both performed best during the ASV and SNV. "C - Unimpressive" performed worst during the board vote and Power Hour. It had a pretty good DSV, although that was only a 30 minute time period. It dropped off during the ASV and then performed good during the SNV. "D - Bad" had fairly consistent trends for most of this poll before finishing this poll with a bad SNV. "F - Awful" performed best during the board vote and Power Hour. After the Power Hour ended, it dropped off somewhat and maintained consistent trends for the rest of this poll. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
FFVII own 2 of the top 10 PS4 boards at the moment. this is amazing. It's like good old times. |
LeonhartFone posted... Whoa, cn sighting. I never come to this board in the off season, but FF7 remake is B-I-G! Not just as a fan, but big for the contests too, as the game and characters were headed toward contest irrelevance. I wonder if this will impact a game contest in any meaningful way. I doubt FF7 would have been a top 5 game anymore without it. It may not even have been the strongest FF entry. |
M13_SF posted... FFVII own 2 of the top 10 PS4 boards at the moment. Where do you find the list of top PS4 boards? |
Top PS4 boards: http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps4 I'm not sure if you've seen this poll before or not: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/5728-all-of-the-other-final-fantasy-games-aside-which-is-better-vi-or-vii --- No amount of rallying would let me beat raytan7585. Congrats to raytan7585 for winning the CB9 Guru Contest! |
Team Rocket Elite posted... I'm not sure if you've seen this poll before or not: I've linked to creativename to that poll before, through a email I sent him a while ago. That poll generated a lot of discussion in the contest stats topic, much more than a usual poll would normally receive. I even tracked poll updates and trend charts: Poll updates - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PiUsAZucUJE0wRACvE2HXrZl8nw6V40KF2z5w1RyAp4/pub Trend charts - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PiUsAZucUJE0wRACvE2HXrZl8nw6V40KF2z5w1RyAp4/pub?gid=1 It was an exciting poll, for sure. FFVII found itself down by 269 votes from the early vote and used the night vote and morning vote to claw its way back into the match, resulting in a wire-to-wire poll for roughly 14 hours before FFVI pulled away in the final 2 hours of the poll. FFVII won more than half of the hours (14 separate hours) and still lost. On the day after that poll happened, I made this excellent post in the contest stats topic: -LusterSoldier- posted... Yesterday's poll does have some problems that prevents it from being a reliable poll to use when analyzing an actual contest match. The biggest problem is clearly the wording of the poll question. The question for yesterday's poll was worded in a way that suggests you can only vote in the poll if you have played both games. Those who have only played FFVI or only FFVII are not very likely to vote in that poll. Since FFVI and FFVII both have pretty high playrates of their own (63.17% for FFVI and 70.83% for FFVII), there is going to be a ton of overlap between people who have played FFVI and those who have played FFVII. Probably at least 50% of this site has played both games. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
You
guys still speculating about the imaginery ff7 boost? By the time we
get to 2017/2018, our POTD probably won't even bring in 10000 votes. --- Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of man. |
Imaginary? you think FFVII Remake won't boost the game and its characters? I agree it won't be out for a while. 2017 seems likely, coinciding with its 20th anniversary. The game has been in development since early 2014, so it's definitely coming. I doubt SE will allow this game to go through development hell. As for the poll votals, hopefully this is as bad as they will get. Maybe we will see a rebound when big games come out in the future. 2016 seems like it will be a great year for games. --- ... |
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/5911- FFVII Remake dominating today's poll. Also, FFVII's trends seem to be different in this poll than I would normally expect to see from the game. It actually had a very strong early vote where it had nearly 50% at the end of the first minute in this poll. It has since fallen below 44% by the time the freeze kicked in. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
That's
impressive. There are some good games on that list and yet FFVII is
winning easily. I guess all the 'haters' who probably never played FFVII
are excited all of the sudden for the Remake. --- ... |
The
vote totals on this poll are pretty good so far. We've got 2460 votes
at the end of the first hour, which puts this poll on track to finish
between 24000 and 27000 votes. For comparison, average vote totals are
currently around 21000 right now. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
I didn't expected that people would want FF 7 so much. I mean it is a JRPG I thought people wouldn't mind so much anymore. --- Why do we exist?What happens when we stop existing? |
abdou posted... As for the poll votals, hopefully this is as bad as they will get. Maybe we will see a rebound when big games come out in the future. 2016 seems like it will be a great year for games. To be fair, the quality of those games have nothing to do with the votals of this site. Advancement of technology have made alternative forms of gameplay guides much more accessible, such as gameplay videos and graphical walkthroughs. Most of the time, i would rather go to youtube and look for the trailer or walkthrough. Just to give you a better understanding of the decline, one year ago, we were still getting around 30k votal, now we are simply averaging around 20-21k. We lost 10k of votals within a year, that is crazy if you ask me. --- Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of man. (edited 6/18/2015 10:21:00 AM)report |
Bump --- No amount of rallying would let me beat raytan7585. Congrats to raytan7585 for winning the CB9 Guru Contest! |
Give it one more go of BELIEVE? We still remember......September 1, 2013 --- September 1, 2003; November 4, 2007; September 2, 2013 NEVER FORGET. (edited 6/20/2015 1:54:10 AM)report |
Regarding
FF7 vs RBY, wouldn't RBY be the clear favorite? That is, without the
Remake, or the upcoming PS4 port. I don't see this as a close match. I think FF7 might still have more "raw" strength than FF6 - that is, if everyone voted once. But polls aren't truly democratic. Those who vote in bunches (stuff votes), or who can leverage their choice via rallies, have always been against FF7. It needs to be thousands of votes ahead in raw strength to win, which is hard these days. And even it's raw strength is barely higher than FF6's. This makes sense as FF6 has been ported to handhelds, and of lesser significance, to mobile. FF7 until the PS4 port has had almost nothing of significance. Cloud and Sephiroth had the KH boost but that was ages ago and has probably long since faded Hell even the port isn't a remaster or anything - it should still be significant but only because at least it's something a noteworthy number will actually play. Regarding the Remake boost: if the game receives an under 80% Gamerankings score it will be considered a flop. 80-85% a disappointment, but there should still be a fair boost. 85+% and a very large boost. 90+% and Cloud could become a top 5 character again. |
Unless
the remake comes close to matching the magic of the original, Cloud
will get a bigger boost from the pre-release hype than he will from the
game actually being released. This is his version of Twilight Princess. But yeah, unless vote totals improve, FFVII and its characters will still be very susceptible to rallies, so I don't expect it to win the upcoming Games Contest or anything of the sort. --- http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab48/Leonhart4/Squall_zpsma2rn6k5.jpg http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab48/Leonhart4/Yuna_zpslustvph4.jpg |
-Zelmor- posted... abdou posted...As for the poll votals, hopefully this is as bad as they will get. Maybe we will see a rebound when big games come out in the future. 2016 seems like it will be a great year for games. 10k in a year, damn. Raw strength on this site is going to hold so little weight in the big matches. Such a shame. But, this site would be close to dead if not for the huge message board community. |
Cloud will always be number 1 in our hearts. --- NP: Majora's Mask 3D ~ Denzo http://i.imgur.com/AC5JKt3.jpg |
creativename posted... -Zelmor- posted...abdou posted...As for the poll votals, hopefully this is as bad as they will get. Maybe we will see a rebound when big games come out in the future. 2016 seems like it will be a great year for games. I don't think so. Site traffic is strong. It's just thatgthe main page is barely visited today due to google searches being what leads people here. --- *2, *8,070,446 Kuroko no Basket *3, *6,495,240 Naruto |
Luster, do you have average monthly votals for the last several years? --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] [NO raytan NO PEACE] |
Although
I keep track of average yearly votals, I don't keep track of this for
each month. But this is something I can figure out. How far do you
want me to go back in terms of average monthly votals? --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Question: What do people think of the relative strengths of: Fallout 3 Fallout: New Vegas Batman: Arkham City Minecraft Skyrim Hearthstone Counter-Strike (any) Dota 2 Destiny Starcraft 1 + 2 Just wondering, don't think any would win the contest, but I might pick a couple to place really, really well. --- Currently Playing: Some random stuff Something something something raytan something something guru something something |
Persona 5 leading MGSV, even if only for the moment, is mildly surprising |
Wow...that's
really impressive from P5. It seems people are not too excited for
MGSV for some reason. Personally it's my most anticipated game for 2015,
even more than Fallout 4. --- ... |
Persona is second? Damn! --- Why do we exist?What happens when we stop existing? |
I guess because MGS 5 will be open world and has miscro transactions which is the first time that do that some people are angry? --- Why do we exist?What happens when we stop existing? |
This is an okay result from Persona but it should be expected at this point. http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/5467-whats-your-all-time-favorite-4-game Luster: Eh, come to think of it, average yearly votals are good enough. As far back as you have, I guess. VeryInsane: We've got a direct match for Fallout 3 > Arkham Asylum: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/4165-north-division-round-3-fallout-3-vs-batman-arkham-asylum Skyrim is almost certainly stronger than Fallout 3. New Vegas should be a good bit weaker than Fallout 3. Starcraft 1 probably won't impress but shouldn't be terrible. Everything else you listed is probably worthless outside of rallies. Minecraft and probably Counterstrike would at least have a decent playrate I guess? This really isn't the right community for either to do well, though. With rallies, of course, the sky's the limit. --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] [NO raytan NO PEACE] (edited 6/22/2015 7:05:19 AM)report |
I
don't think New Vegas would be that far off from 3, actually. And in a
head to head matchup New Vegas would RSFF some votes from 3. 3 probably
wins, but New Vegas is pretty comparable. It would be like... FF10 vs.
FF6 closeness. Fallout 3 vs Skyrim is interesting. I think Skyrim is beginning to cool off, while Fallout hype for Fallout 4 is very real. I might pick Fallout over Skyrim right now. Most of the others are probably meh outside of rallies. Mainly picked them because they all have big subreddits/outside sources. I think Minecraft the game is much stronger than the characters, should be interesting. --- Currently Playing: Some random stuff Something something something raytan something something guru something something |
Oh well it was nice while it lasted. --- Why do we exist?What happens when we stop existing? |
Bump. --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] [NO raytan NO PEACE] |
Bump --- No amount of rallying would let me beat raytan7585. Congrats to raytan7585 for winning the CB9 Guru Contest! |
this place could really use a contest --- ... |
So
today's poll is having some early technical difficulties with the poll
rarely showing up on the homepage for the first 6 minutes or so. That
explains the vote totals being so low at this point so far. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
I
almost posted about that. Was wondering if it was just me, at first I
just thought the poll forgot to change, but then I would very rarely get
the new one. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? GotD (219/384) Melee v FFX |
The
Nintendo board vote once again pushes Splatoon out to an early lead
during the board vote, but The Witcher 3 manages to tie it up by the
third minute in this poll and eventually pushes ahead of Splatoon by the
time the freeze kicks in. I expected The Witcher 3 to win this poll. I guess Splatoon will drop off even more over the next several minutes and we might even see Bloodborne overtaking it as well. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
-LusterSoldier- posted... The Nintendo board vote once again pushes Splatoon out to an early lead during the board vote, but The Witcher 3 manages to tie it up by the third minute in this poll and eventually pushes ahead of Splatoon by the time the freeze kicks in. and Batman! |
Safer_777 posted... I guess because MGS 5 will be open world and has miscro transactions which is the first time that do that some people are angry? I think a lot of people have left the series after Solid Snake's story was told. --- M E N: nominate Metal Man in 20XX! http://i.imgur.com/Dr4NAeq.png |
Bump --- No amount of rallying would let me beat raytan7585. Congrats to raytan7585 for winning the CB9 Guru Contest! |
Polls for the next several days: 7/2/2015 - Got 3DS? 7/3/2015 - Got Vita? 7/4/2015 - Got PlayStation 4? 7/5/2015 - Got Xbox One? 7/6/2015 - Got Wii U? 7/7/2015 - Got Smartphone? 7/8/2015 - Got Tablet? 7/9/2015 - Got a gaming-quality PC? 7/10/2015 - I don't know. Probably an original poll idea. 7/11/2015 - Got PlayStation 3? 7/12/2015 - Got Xbox 360? 7/13/2015 - Got Wii? That's right, we're going to have another round of "Got Console?" polls. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! (edited 7/1/2015 7:44:59 PM)report |
That's exciting...-_- --- ... |
Surprised so many people have the New 3DS when it doesn't really seem like it will ever be worth the upgrade. |
Maybe the 3DS became "worth it" to buy after the new 3DS came out? --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB9%20BOP.xls Congrats to raytan for winning the Guru Contest |
