GameFAQs Contests
Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1209
Series with at least 3 entrants: Final Fantasy 8-0 The Legend of Zelda 5-0 Mario RPG 1-0 (2 matches remaining) Super Mario 4-2 Pokemon 2-1 All Mario games 5-3 (2 matches remaining) Metal Gear Solid 1-1 (3 matches remaining) Mass Effect 1-1 (1 match remaining) The Elder Scrolls 1-1 (1 match remaining) Grand Theft Auto 0-1 (2 matches remaining) Resident Evil 0-1 (2 matches remaining) Warcraft 0-2 (1 match remaining) |
The
lowest seeded Final Fantasy was still a 10 so there was still some
room. What may have killed FFXIII if it was on the edge was the user
scores. I would've taken 13 over 12 a few years back, but now I'm not so sure. --- BGE3: Today's Matches SM>CoD4: MW, SMG>DQ:O, FFXII>Bloodborne, LoZ:MM>VC Points 38/44 |
In
the future, look at both games and pick whichever is oldest. If around
the same age, pick whichever is made by a Japanese company. --- Communists |
Based
on DDJ's The List, FFXIII probably had nowhere near enough nominations
to make the bracket, splitting or no splitting. Though the other
criteria would have also hurt it; its critic and gamefaqs scores would
have both been among the worst in the bracket. also this poll happened: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/5808-five-years-and-a-million-discussions-later-how-do-you-feel --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] |
Why isn't Smash in that overview? --- Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do and die. |
Because only 2 Smash games made the bracket. --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] |
In
the future, look at both games and pick whichever is oldest. If around
the same age, pick whichever is made by a Japanese company. Actually you could have made a decent bracket using the following rules - N64/PS > SNES/GEN/NES > PS2/GC/Xbox > Wii/PS3/360 > PS4/XB1/WiiU - Handheld games are placed closest to generation of release - Non-Blizzard/Valve PC games auto lose Looking over the bracket you'd get the following matches wrong... The Last of Us > Halo 3 Star Wars: KotOR > Xenogears Mass Effect 3 > Undertale Skyrim > Phoenix Wright MGSV > Perfect Dark --- BGE3: Today's Matches SM>CoD4: MW, SMG>DQ:O, FFXII>Bloodborne, LoZ:MM>VC Points 38/44 (edited 11/16/2015 7:05:51 AM)report |
I just made three simple contest rules: pick older games over newer games if release dates are within 2 years, pick Nintendo > square > the rest do not pick PC exclusives and got these matches wrong: halo 3 > last of us kotor > xenogears mass effect 3 > undertale skyrim > phoenix wright twilight princess > skies of arcadia mgsv > perfect dark you could pretty easily get two of those right using the most basic common sense and be atop the leaderboard. --- add the c and back away iphonesience |
Last of Us and Halo 3 are same gen, actually! --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] |
yeah
I think those rules are solid unless there's a clear obvious strength
discrepancy which is the case for all of those except kotor and
undertale --- http://i.imgur.com/RHvCiY3.png |
So here's my flowchart: 1) Non-Valve/Blizzard PC games autolose. 2) Always pick pre-2007 Nintendo/Square over an entry that's not one of those things 3) If it's post-2007 Nintendo/Square against something, pick the thing that's more a "GameFAQS" kind of game. 4) If it's two pre-2007 Nintendo/Square entrants or two entrants that are not them, the order of preference goes N64/PS1 > SNES/Genesis = PS2/GC/Xbox > Wii/360/PS3 > PS4/XB1/WiiU. RPGs can mess this order up a bit, so keep that in mind. --- "What's the matter with bootblacking? We both like it very much!" This is Yesmar. Congrats to CBIX Guru Winner *Raytan*! |
When x-stats fail, hail flowcharts. --- M E N: nominate Metal Man in 20XX! http://i.imgur.com/Dr4NAeq.png |
ffmasterjose posted... I'll admit when I'm wrong Nah, Bloodborne was a valid pick before the contest started. FF12 winning here was only assured after we saw all the other games that came out in 2015 absolutely tank. --- Like Darth Maul, the bastard child of Michael Flatley and Hellboy -trancer1 lol xstats |
LOLContests posted... So here's my flowchart: Just like Undertale autolost right >_> --- http://www.last.fm/user/VinnyMendoza "This is all we have... when we die.." |
Yuri_LowelI posted... LinkMarioSamus posted...How on earth do Galaxy 2 and Mario Maker do so poorly yet Galaxy 1 is such a monster? Okay I did some stat extrapolation that showed Galaxy being stronger than almost all of the GOTD field (going by its match against Dragon Age today it gets 45% on TP, which IIRC was what happened in the Game of the Generation poll, however this may be more along the lines of Dragon Age being much weaker now), that's why I referred to it as a "monster". Still would Mass Effect 1 really do so well against Dragon Age? --- "Nothing I could do!" -Darksydephil (edited 11/16/2015 9:46:55 AM)report |
Oh and seeing both Metroid games in contest matches makes me miss the series. Why did that one game have to kill it? Only so many times I can replay what games we have after all! --- "Nothing I could do!" -Darksydephil |
ffmasterjose posted... I'll admit when I'm wrong I took Bloodborne too and I don't think it was silly FFXII is pretty weak, and we had no way to know what was Bloodborne strength, besides some PotDs http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/5830-what-is-your-pick-for-the-best-game-of-2015-so-far http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/5923-now-that-the-first-half-of-2015-is-over-what-is-your-pick And they made it look...average, which is good enough to make this match debateable It's not like 55-45 is considered a blowout or anything, Bloodborne also managed to cut and stall XII a few times --- 3DS FC : 3411-1762-0066 |
But I am silly for taking WoW>Chrono Cross next match f*** this s*** the higher seed confused me --- 3DS FC : 3411-1762-0066 |
Chrono
Cross was my gut pick, then I had WoW for most of the bracketmaking
period before switching back to my original gut pick of Chrono Cross
winning two matches. --- "Nothing I could do!" -Darksydephil |
I wouldn't say WoW is hopeless or anything, but I am glad I took CC to win that four pack. --- JAK The Character Battle IX people's champ. |
Also literally only two 7 seeds are going to Round 2 so far. And some other contest trends indicate that New Vegas and possibly even StarCraft could be in trouble. --- "Nothing I could do!" -Darksydephil |
Still
thinking San Andreas has that one. Vice City and San Andreas are the
GTA games on this site that are decently respected. Every other game in
that fourpack is unknown or despised. --- Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best Game Ever" Contest "F*** Draven." -SBAllen |
So decently respected they go around losing to Golden Sun and getting almost doubled by RE4. You have a point though. Still find it hard to trust GTA against an RPG, and you can't even really say that Chrono Cross is all that less well-liked than Golden Sun. --- "Nothing I could do!" -Darksydephil |
Vice
City was putting about 44% on a Final Fantasy game before the Undertale
rally. There's no way in hell San Andreas is losing to Shovel Knight. Also, almost everyone voting for Shenmue tomorrow are dirty liars that never played the game. --- Video game companies don't care about you, so stop kissing their asses |
Golden Sun is not a weak game. San Andreas still wiped the floor with Dead Space in round 1. It's not losing to Shovel Knight unless that game has a big Tumblr following I'm unaware of. --- http://i.imgur.com/3DwCNLJ.gif |
I'm
more afraid of San Andreas defeating Chrono Cross than losing to Shovel
Knight. I guess we'll find out if Vice City's performance was due to
its strength or FFVIII's weakness --- BGE3: Today's Matches SM>CoD4: MW, SMG>DQ:O, FFXII>Bloodborne, LoZ:MM>VC Points 38/44 |
Since it looked like no one else took note of it in the last topic when it happened: Xenoblade-DKC2 set a new record for closest wire-to-wire 24-hour match, with the largest lead held by either side being 290 (by the eventual loser, no less), breaking the record of 460 set by Frog and Liquid Snake in 2004. It ranks third overall on the closest wire-to-wire matches list, behind Shadow of the Colossus > Metal Gear Solid 2 (188) and Team Fortress 2 > Fable (210), both of which were 12-hour matches. --- FC 5026-4424-6331 -- Native Vivillon type: Polar Still need Marine, Sun, Icy Snow, Monsoon, River, and Jungle |
I'm hoping this is just a Final Fantasy resurgence. Gotta make my FF7 > OoT pick feel logical --- 39/44 pts - GameFAQs' 20th Anniversary Best. Game. Ever. Contest! NP: Super Metroid/SMG/Bloodborne/Majora's Mask |
After OOT won by more than 91 that isn't happening. --- Why do we exist?What happens when we stop existing? |
Hearthstone has every reason to be completely pathetic without any rallies behind it. I don't think we can really judge FF7/OoT until round 3, when both games are up against something actually worth a damn on this site. --- sig pssssssssssst - http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/568795-soccer-challenge |
FF7
isn't going to beat OoT, but the Hearthstone performance isn't the
reason why. Honestly if I thought FF7 had maintained strength from 2009
(47% on OoT) I might have taken it to win the contest; remake hype and
all that. Pretty sure it fell off a cliff judging by CBIX though. --- Welcome to the League of Stickies. |
LoZ:MM
has about a percent less than what SSBB got in 2010 against VC, despite
the 3DS release. I think that's still within a reasonable range for a
same fanbase-match to overcome the stats in LoZ:MM > SSBB, but it's
probably not impressive enough by itself to beat LoZ:LttP -- especially
after it blew out Cave Story. Round one advantage: LoZ:LttP. --- M E N: nominate Metal Man in 20XX! http://i.imgur.com/Dr4NAeq.png |
VC
has gotten a PC release since then as well. Not saying it has gotten
stronger, just that it does have a reason to gain some strength just on
the basis that people actually know what it is now. --- http://i.imgur.com/dpIEizf.gif |
Majora
is basically doing as expected here. Not sure what else you guys were
wanting! Majora wasn't going to jump up 10% in strength just because of
that 3DS remake! --- http://i.imgur.com/3DwCNLJ.gif |
I think people are too spoiled because they just saw ALttP and OoT lay down beatdowns on turbofodder, but: 1- It's quite possible Majora is below ALttP in strength. 2- I'd take Valkyria Chronicles over Hearthstone and Cave Story easily. --- raytan stepped on me in the guru contest. |
Yeah I don't think VC is weak Especially not after that Steam release --- 3DS FC : 3411-1762-0066 |
Yeah,
I originally figured that GTA just gets anti-voted too much and picked
Shovel Knight to pull the upset there, but after seeing Vice City's
performance on FFVIII, I immediately realized that there was no way that
was happening. --- FC 5026-4424-6331 -- Native Vivillon type: Polar Still need Marine, Sun, Icy Snow, Monsoon, River, and Jungle |
Do
games even get anti-voted anymore? Seems like it stopped being a thing
since last gen, with both GTA and Halo getting some respect. Especially
since now we're in the age of yearly Call of Duty and Assassin's Creed. --- http://www.backloggery.com/whitelens | http://myanimelist.net/profile/WhiteLens http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/character/5086952/ |
You're literally asking that as Call of Duty 4 is doing 11% worse against Super Metroid than it did against Melee in GOTD. Also World of Warcraft is likely still a major anti-vote target. --- "Nothing I could do!" -Darksydephil (edited 11/16/2015 12:44:19 PM)report |
anyone who's actually played shenmue will vote for it as it is one of the best games ever and fills a niche not many games can but its playrate is so low --- Started from the bottom now we here (edited 11/16/2015 12:44:55 PM)report |
LeonhartFour posted... Majora is basically doing as expected here. Not sure what else you guys were wanting! Majora wasn't going to jump up 10% in strength just because of that 3DS remake! I wasn't expecting VC to be this strong. I actually forgot it was in GotD until yesterday. Also I was expecting MM to follow in OoT and LttP's footsteps and stomp the competition. It's past 75% though so that's good. I'm still hoping it can beat LttP but we'll have to see how it does in the next few rounds. --- http://img.imgcake.com/whatisurnameplz/kermitgifre.gif Oh yea, I guess raytan won. |
TsunamiXXVIII posted... Since it looked like no one else took note of it in the last topic when it happened: Oh no s***, that's pretty neat. --- Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best Game Ever" Contest "F*** Draven." -SBAllen |
whatisurnameplz posted... LeonhartFour posted...Majora is basically doing as expected here. Not sure what else you guys were wanting! Majora wasn't going to jump up 10% in strength just because of that 3DS remake! MM is no way near as strong as LttP though. The best game from GOTD is about a midcarder compared to some of these juggernauts. MM wouldn't even get 45 on the 3 Elite Mario games or Chrono Trigger. FFVII is a given. Majora would struggle to hit 40% on FFVII. IT's still stronger than TP though (edited 11/16/2015 1:09:34 PM)report |
LeonhartFour posted... Majora is basically doing as expected here. Not sure what else you guys were wanting! Majora wasn't going to jump up 10% in strength just because of that 3DS remake! I'm telling you people want this game to be the second strongest game in the contest or something super overrated! Agree that this is about as expected. --- satoru iwata |
Januzaj_Dragon posted... whatisurnameplz posted...LeonhartFour posted...Majora is basically doing as expected here. Not sure what else you guys were wanting! Majora wasn't going to jump up 10% in strength just because of that 3DS remake! You don't think MM can break 80% on Mario Kart, Animal Crossing, Age of Empires II, or Journey? --- http://img.imgcake.com/whatisurnameplz/kermitgifre.gif Oh yea, I guess raytan won. |
MM would lose to Age of Empires. |
Majora is doing worse on Valkyria than Super Metroid is on COD4. that's the thing that's causing dissonance. --- add the c and back away iphonesience (edited 11/16/2015 1:38:35 PM)report |
transcience posted... Majora is doing worse on Valkyria than Super Metroid is on COD4. that's the thing that's causing dissonance. Valkyria would probably beat COD4 though. |
AxemRedRanger posted... Based on DDJ's The List, FFXIII probably had nowhere near enough nominations to make the bracket, splitting or no splitting. Though the other criteria would have also hurt it; its critic and gamefaqs scores would have both been among the worst in the bracket. The fact that only 24% of people voted "it was fu i enjoyed it" Suggests it had no chance of nomination. Big difference between Having fun with a game and putting it in your top 10 of all time. |
