GameFAQs Contests
Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1261
I mean there was some stupid s*** said. Those people got what's coming. --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png My bracket got DP'd |
I don't think anyone has linked to this page yet: http://www.destructoid.com/undertale-wins-gamefaqs-best-game-ever-poll-327437.phtml That's another site taking about the GameFAQs contest. As for what's happening on Tumblr with today's poll, I do see several posts related to today's poll, but none of them have a huge number of notes. So I don't think Tumblr is having any noticeable effect on the results for today's poll. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as DpObliVion, Guru Champ! |
It's
too bad neither article mentioned that Undertale would have lost the
first round if not for the rallies, though one of them at least
mentioned there was a fandom. LeonhartFour posted... also KH2/TP felt like more of a fluke than KH2/Melee did Good point. Not the most convincing reasoning, but there's no better argument to explain TP doing better than Melee. On another note....do you know what's missing, x-stats-wise? Geolocation x-stats for Game of the Decade. --- Congrats to DpOblivion, blasting me into oblivion in Best. Game. Ever. 2015. |
http://kotaku.com/undertale-is-tearing-gamefaqs-apart-1747991599 http://www.gameplanet.com.au/news/g5672305e56772/Undertale-wins-GameFAQs-Best-Game-Ever-poll/ http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/undertale-is-about-to-be-voted-the-best-game-ever-and-the-internet-is-furious/0160479 http://www.gamerevolution.com/manifesto/undertale-is-apparently-the-best-game-ever-made-35699 http://nymag.com/following/2015/12/indie-video-game-undertale-voted-best-ever-gamers-pissed.html http://www.destructoid.com/undertale-wins-gamefaqs-best-game-ever-poll-327437.phtml List of sites I can find that reference the contest. There's more on non-English speaking sites. --- Black Turtle did a pretty good job. |
>modern journalism Ugh. Also, it's a shame that only the contests pop votals now. --- This is a signature. |
Does anyone know the url for the Demon's Souls round 1/2 picture? creative's site doesn't have it. --- Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best Game Ever" Contest Congrats to DpOblivion in the guru! |
http://img.gamefaqs.net/images/bge20/56.jpg --- http://i.imgur.com/3DwCNLJ.gif What DpOblivion did to me in the Guru Contest, in GIF form |
It's funny to see how Mass Effect 3 is ignored in half of those links when they're talking about Undertale's big wins. --- DpObliVion wins the contest and fills you with determination. My bracket had a bad time. |
Yeah, considering that was the most important one! --- http://i.imgur.com/3DwCNLJ.gif What DpOblivion did to me in the Guru Contest, in GIF form |
LeonhartFour posted... http://img.gamefaqs.net/images/bge20/56.jpg I just emailed this link to creativename, along with all of the match pictures from the final. Still waiting on him to add the match pictures from the final. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as DpObliVion, Guru Champ! |
All
of the missing match pictures have been added to the gallery. In
addition, the missing poll updates for all of the grudge matches have
been added, so you can now look at full poll updates for those matches. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as DpObliVion, Guru Champ! |
Thanks guys. --- Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best Game Ever" Contest Congrats to DpOblivion in the guru! |
Wow, a bit under 55% of gamefaqs don't wanna play Undertale. Abouf half of those to spite the fanbase. What do you guys think about this? --- Give me kuribo's shoe or give me death! - transcience Mario 3 > Pokemon R/B/Y/G - Vote quality over nostalgia! |
Just give it a few months; some of that 55% will come around. Some may come around years later, and some may never come around. --- This is a signature. |
_Dog posted... Wow, a bit under 55% of gamefaqs don't wanna play Undertale. Abouf half of those to spite the fanbase. That's usually what the anti-contest options score as a total, anyway. My opinion doesn't change because of other people. --- Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best Game Ever" Contest Congrats to DpOblivion in the guru! |
There's
still a few issues with the contest pic gallery. There's a duplicate
Kingdom Hearts 2 pic in between the Round 3 and Round 4 pics, and
there's some pics from this contest in the Character Battle IX gallery. --- Agent Triple Zero at your service! DpObliVion is the new greatone. Congratulations to our Guru overlord. (edited 12/17/2015 11:53:41 PM)report |
nopenopenopenop posted... Just give it a few months; some of that 55% will come around. Some may come around years later, and some may never come around. Yeah, some people will come around...and some people will feel less strongly later on. This is a pretty polarizing time to ask. 25.36% of the site playing Undertale is still better than I thought it might be. --- DpObliVion wins the contest and fills you with determination. My bracket had a bad time. |
Man is every site against us? If you see the comments most people are salty against us. --- Why do we exist?What happens when we stop existing? 124 Gurus were better than me in BGE 2015 contest! But the best of all was DpObliVion! Congrats! |
Honestly
if you ran this poll and there was no contest I would say more than 55%
of the site would not be interested in the game. --- Congrats to DpObliVion for winning the guru. |
I
originally found this gem last contest during the Draven fiasco, but
now that Undertale has done its thing, I feel it needs reposting: Message From KamikazePotato on 09/23/2011 Just letting you know that it is not a joke/invalid nomination. We're using the established game of Charles Barkley Shut Up and Jam Gaiden, where Charles Barkley is the main character and Michael Jordan is a recurring antagonist. The game and the characters in it fit all the rules of the contest, as well as the spirit. Message From GameFAQs on 09/26/2011 Wouldn't really call them "historical characters" Message From KamikazePotato on 09/26/2011 I think might be confused about what kind of game Shut Up and Jam Gaiden is? It's not a normal game. Charles Barkley has magic basketball powers and is traveling a post-apocalyptic world that was destroyed by a chaos dunk. Michael Jordan is the agent of an oppressive government, working to stop Barkley at every turn. They aren't just the Charles Barkley and Michael Jordan lifted from a random sports games - they're basically entirely different characters, like how games like Castlevania and Dynasty Warriors take generous liberties with Dracula and Lu Bu. I won't press the issue again after this if it still gets shot down, but they really do fit all the rules of the contest. In a weird sort of way, but yeah. Message From GameFAQs on 09/26/2011 I know the game - but entries like that lead to two possibilities: 1) It gets almost no votes, and goes out in the first round despite all the nominations, while keeping a better entry off the bracket, or 2) it becomes a /b/ rally point, winning and knocking out more popular entries, but alienating the majority of voters and leading to less people being interested in the contest (See: the latest GameSpot contest). Keep in mind he let B.J./Hitler into that contest and they did in fact get a big 4chan rally, although it wasn't enough for them to win a match. SBAllen seriously thinks Charles Barkley is worse for our site than Hitler. And he's also fine with letting in an indie RPG with progressive themes about a white/yellow person (and monsters) that not only "knocks out more popular entires" but actually won the entire friggin' contest. Yet he won't even give the indie RPG about black people a chance. Wow, I guess Undertale really is a SJW game after all! No Barkley. No Peace. --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] [NO DpObliVion NO PEACE] (edited 12/18/2015 8:01:28 AM)report |
And yet we had Missingno, L Block, Nidoran F, Bidoof , Midgar Zolom etc Well two of them were actually strong, but other joke characters sucked --- 3DS FC : 3411-1762-0066 |
AxemRedRanger posted... I originally found this gem last contest during the Draven fiasco, but now that Undertale has done its thing, I feel it needs reposting: ...Brilliant. --- FC 5026-4424-6331 Congratulations to BGE3 Guru Champion DpOblivion |
I can't even understand this? --- Why do we exist?What happens when we stop existing? 124 Gurus were better than me in BGE 2015 contest! But the best of all was DpObliVion! Congrats! |
Nanis23 posted... And yet we had Missingno, L Block, Nidoran F, Bidoof , Midgar Zolom etc I'd say Magikarp has some respectable strength too --- Congratulations to DpObliVion, the 2k15 BGE Guru champ! |
spooky96 posted... Nanis23 posted...And yet we had Missingno, L Block, Nidoran F, Bidoof , Midgar Zolom etc Yeah 36% on Mega Man is pretty good If he was against something weaker he could have won and who knows, maybe catch a bandwagon --- 3DS FC : 3411-1762-0066 |
Yup, Magikarp's definitely something which can catch a bandwagon and well there's your new best character ever. --- Congratulations to DpObliVion, the 2k15 BGE Guru champ! |
If
we use the CT/Melee registered user numbers to compare FFX with Melee
through CT and the fairer version of FFX/KHI from 2009, KHI is projected
to get 43.98% on Melee. KHII got 44.7% on Melee this contest. The KHI/KHII match from GotD indeed suggested it was stronger but some of that was probably SFF. TP/KHII really seems like a fluke. If you plug KHII/Bioshock from GotD into KHII/Melee, Bioshock is projected to get 39.09% on Melee. MGS3 got 42.3 on Majora's Mask. Setting Melee = Majora's Mask, Bioshock is projected to get 46.21% on MGS3. That's not far from the 47.97% it actually got this contest and Bioshock probably did benefit from the ME2 and Starcraft rallies - just not by the ridiculous amounts some were thinking. That also puts Silent Hill 2 at 30.16% on Melee. Which is pretty damn good after how weak it used to be but isn't ridiculously high or anything. --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] [NO DpObliVion NO PEACE] |
_SecretSquirrel posted... There's still a few issues with the contest pic gallery. There's a duplicate Kingdom Hearts 2 pic in between the Round 3 and Round 4 pics, and there's some pics from this contest in the Character Battle IX gallery. Do you know which files these are? --- www.gamefaqscontests.com www.gamefaqscontests.com/gallery |
I
remember when we were talking that if FF 7 get's a remake it would gain
much strength. Yet not only it got one but Cloud got on Smash too but
it still loses to OOT 41-59 on bonus poll and in a normal match it would
be around 43-57. I don't get it. --- Why do we exist?What happens when we stop existing? 124 Gurus were better than me in BGE 2015 contest! But the best of all was DpObliVion! Congrats! |
Obviously FFVII was just a lot weaker before the announcement It went from 50/50 with FFVI to 60/40 ;) --- Congrats to DpObliVion for winning the guru. |
AxemRedRanger posted... If we use the CT/Melee registered user numbers to compare FFX with Melee through CT and the fairer version of FFX/KHI from 2009, KHI is projected to get 43.98% on Melee. You have no idea how glad I am that you asked SBAllen about the registered voting stats involving Smash. --- Congrats to DpOblivion, blasting me into oblivion in Best. Game. Ever. 2015. |
Using
the registered user results for Melee/FFVII, plus the Melee/SMRPG and
FFVII/OoT matches, we could obtain a better projection of what SMRPG
should have actually gotten on OoT. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as DpObliVion, Guru Champ! |
Melee
rallying probably boosted it through the bonus polls. As with
Undertale, some of the rallied people were likely coming back on their
own. --- Ralliers' determination can't even hold a birthday candle to the blazing flame of DpOblivion's winning spirit! |
I've
tried making adjustments for spillover by removing the first 3 hours of
votes and the percentages on Melee/SMRPG don't change that much when
removing the first 3 hours. The only notable change from removing the
first 3 hours of votes is FFVII/OoT, where OoT falls from 59.18% to
58.31% by removing the first 3 hours. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as DpObliVion, Guru Champ! |
I
don't think we're gonna get any useful data out of Super Mario RPG's
semifinal and bonus matches due to all the other craziness going on.
Personally, I'd rather just accept we don't have anything better than
Game of the Decade stats there, assume Majora's Mask/MGS3 still goes
about the same way as it did then (It was a day match so that's slightly
too high on Zelda but not really worth caring about), and adjust
accordingly. That's probably not going to say good things about that
quarter of the bracket but we knew it was weak going in. Ocarina of Time/Link to the Past: SFF or no? --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] [NO DpObliVion NO PEACE] |
It's
not too hard to adjust that bottom quarter based on GOTD RE4 since it
looked to be pretty stable. That's probably the most favorable outlook
for that quarter. OoT/LTTP might have had some SFF but I don't make arbitrary adjustments. If I can find a number that adds up based on other things, then I'll roll with it. Otherwise, no. --- http://i.imgur.com/3DwCNLJ.gif What DpOblivion did to me in the Guru Contest, in GIF form |
creativename posted... _SecretSquirrel posted...There's still a few issues with the contest pic gallery. There's a duplicate Kingdom Hearts 2 pic in between the Round 3 and Round 4 pics, and there's some pics from this contest in the Character Battle IX gallery. The files seem to be broken, but you can still see the thumbnails here. http://www.gamefaqscontests.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=15 http://www.gamefaqscontests.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=16&page=14 --- Agent Triple Zero at your service! DpObliVion is the new greatone. Congratulations to our Guru overlord. |
LeonhartFour posted... It's not too hard to adjust that bottom quarter based on GOTD RE4 since it looked to be pretty stable. That's probably the most favorable outlook for that quarter. I think Paper Mario in general has weakened this year. TTYD gets 35.74% on Zelda:WW this year. TTYD was projected to get 39.27% on Zelda:WW in GotD. TTYD was one match away from a direct matchup with both those x-stats. Therefore, I don't agree with a constant RE4. But maybe Wind Waker increased and FFVI is a monster... who knows? I would try a constant MGS3. Of course, I need to actually finish my x-stats spreadsheet first to see the numbers.... --- Congrats to DpOblivion, blasting me into oblivion in Best. Game. Ever. 2015. |
Charmander,
do you still have the mock-bracket predictions based on how the more
recent THE LIST suggested? It seemed to be doing okay pretty late in
the bracket, and that was before MGS3 > MGS1. --- DpObliVion wins the contest and fills you with determination. My bracket had a bad time. |
Haste_2 posted... TTYD gets 35.74% on Zelda:WW this year. TTYD was projected to get 39.27% on Zelda:WW in GotD. TTYD was one match away from a direct matchup with both those x-stats. Therefore, I don't agree with a constant RE4. But maybe Wind Waker increased and FFVI is a monster... who knows? Majora/Wind Waker SFF --- http://i.imgur.com/3DwCNLJ.gif What DpOblivion did to me in the Guru Contest, in GIF form |
Also
you're basically saying RE4 and Paper Mario fell in proportion to each
other and MGS3 somehow became the most popular game in the series at
some point while remaining constant. --- http://i.imgur.com/3DwCNLJ.gif What DpOblivion did to me in the Guru Contest, in GIF form |
What is the record for posts for a single match in the stats topic? In this contest and ever? --- Why do we exist?What happens when we stop existing? 124 Gurus were better than me in BGE 2015 contest! But the best of all was DpObliVion! Congrats! |
Safer_777 posted... What is the record for posts for a single match in the stats topic? In this contest and ever? I think we went throught something like 6 stats topics during LSD. For this contest, I think it was 3 or 4. (edited 12/19/2015 9:56:54 AM)report |
Charmander,
do you still have the mock-bracket predictions based on how the more
recent THE LIST suggested? It seemed to be doing okay pretty late in the
bracket, and that was before MGS3 > MGS1. Chrono Trigger losing to Melee and SMRPG defeating RE4 and MGS3 really killed it though. As mentioned before FFT cost THE LIST a lot of easy points too. Here's a list of what it got incorrect, as a reminder; higher ranking is the winner, no ranking=auto lose, if both have no ranking then the higher seed wins. Round 1 Persona 3 > Dragon Quest VIII Planescape > SSBWiiU Portal 2 > Sonic 2 Diablo II > GoldenEye 007 Skies of Arcadia > LoZ: Twilight Princess Baldur's Gate II > Banjo Kazooie Deus Ex > Final Fantasy IV Perfect Dark > MGSV Bloodborne > Final Fantasy XII World of Warcraft > Chrono Cross Round 2 The Last of Us > Kingdom Hearts II Planescape > Mass Effect Super Mario Bros. 3 > Pokemon RBYG Portal 2 > Uncharted 2 Fallout 3 > Undertale Final Fantasy Tactics > Super Mario 64 Persona 4 > Skies of Arcadia GTA: San Andreas > World of Warcraft Round 3 Super Mario Bros. 3 > Portal 2 Super Mario World > Fallout 3 Final Fantasy Tactics > Persona 4 GTA: San Andreas > Super Mario RPG Round 4 Chrono Trigger > SSBM Super Mario Bros. 3 > Super Mario World Final Fantasy Tactics > Skyrim Resident Evil 4 > GTA: San Andreas Round 5 Chrono Trigger > Final Fantasy VII Super Mario Bros. 3 > Final Fantasy Tactics Metal Gear Solid 3 > Resident Evil 4 Round 6 Chrono Trigger > Super Mario Bros. 3 Round 7 Chrono Trigger > LoZ: Ocarina of Time By my calculations the final score would have been 230/448 which would have placed it tied for 133 in the guru --- Congrats to DpObliVion for winning the guru. (edited 12/19/2015 10:13:57 AM)report |
Thanks
char. It's interesting to see how it could have still placed in the
leaderboard or even won prize money if it wasn't for the rallies. CT
without rallies would have gotten up to 120 more points for that
bracket...maybe 56 or 24, but at least 8 for beating SSBM. Pokemon RBY was probably going to beat SMB3, though I'd like to see how the users voted there. If RBY just had a super first hour and SMB3 was gonna win their match, it could have beaten Sonic 2, SMW, and SM64 (or FFT) too. That's a possible 30 extra points there. Likely? Eh, I thought SMB3 was going to lose to any of its major Division 3/4 competition pre-contest, but I'm not ready to say SMB3 definitively would have lost against RBY without that rally. SMW > FO3 > Undertale would have been another safe 6 points without rallies. CT's 8, 24, 56, or 120 points + SMB3's 0, 6, 14, or 30 points (sorry Sonic 2, no chance) + SMW and FO3's 6 points CT needed to win the championship for THE LIST's bracket to really have a chance; the final leaderboard ranged from 358 to 266, and generally I would expect better scores from predictions with CT winning it all than predictions with Undertale winning it all. Still, with a CT championship and Undertale falling to FO3, THE LIST's bracket would have had a score of 356...maybe more if SMB3 survived RBY, possibly boosting its score as high as 386/448. Or maybe FF7 beats CT and SMB3 still loses to RBY, keeping THE LIST's score at 244/448. THE LIST had its gaffe with FFT...but it and the board both messed up with SMRPG, and if you remove rallies then it looks like THE LIST really could have had a great bracket outside of those mistakes. I'll blame the lower vote totals for this because this probably would not have happened if 2005's THE LIST had a chance a year later with a games contest. --- DpObliVion wins the contest and fills you with determination. My bracket had a bad time. |
Seeing
how there were lots of games which seemed to disappoint us, it wouldn't
be out of the question for a bunch of games to all decline. Thing is,
for now if a match lines up with x-stat predictions it's usually a safer
bet to assume that the x-stats were right than a bunch of
conspiratorial-sounding nonsense. How on earth do the Paper Mario games decline in popularity while Super Mario RPG doesn't? Did Sticker Star really turn off that many people? --- "Nothing I could do!" -Darksydephil |
LeonhartFour posted... Also you're basically saying RE4 and Paper Mario fell in proportion to each other and MGS3 somehow became the most popular game in the series at some point while remaining constant. I'm not saying absolutely that PM and RE4 fell, but always remember Shadow and Tidus. There's nothing wrong with the idea of Paper Mario falling.... the fact of the matter is that SMRPG beats Paper Mario 63/37. TTYD beat ToS because TTYD was likely underrated in the GotD stats, AND ToS was clearly overrated in the stats.. TTYD had room to (drop) while still beating ToS. We don't know that MGS ws stronger than MGS3 at the time of GotD, anyway. Even though MGS3 got 61% on ME2, a constant MGS3 puts ME2 pretty close to ME1. X-stats, constant RE4 Super Mario RPG - 48.45% Metal Gear Solid 3-46.20% Metal Gear Solid-44.48% Bioshock-44.33% Oblivion-44.16% Resident Evil 4-43.09% Grand Theft Auto V-41.47% Shadow of the Colossus-41.32% Metal Gear Solid 2-39.26% Chrono Cross-38.04% Mass Effect 2-36.37% Fallout: New Vegas-36.10% The Witcher 3-35.96% Starcraft-35.56% Paper Mario-35.45% Earthbound-35.28% GTA: San Andreas-34.38% Silent Hill 2-34.19% Resident Evil -33.96% Red Dead Redemption-33.69% World of Warcraft-31.91% Bioshock Infinite-31.82% Shenmue-31.23% Borderlands 2-29.20% Mother 3-28.18% Shovel Knight-26.62% Bayonetta 2-24.26% Team Fortress 2-22.57% Splatoon-18.62% Binding of Isaac-18.58% Destiny-18.14% Virtue's Last Reward-15.22% Heh. I knew SH2 was going to be close to RE in the stats, but higher than it? Love it! (Granted, Bioshock overperformed a bit....) I'll post the stats assuming a constant RE4 in a minute. MGS3 as a constant might cause things to be too low. I'll post those stats in a minute. --- Congrats to DpOblivion, blasting me into oblivion in Best. Game. Ever. 2015. (edited 12/19/2015 1:42:10 PM)report |
If you want to make RE4 stronger just make MGS2=SotC, it accurately predicted MGS3/MGS --- Congrats to DpObliVion for winning the guru. |
Assuming a constant MGS3. Super Mario RPG-44.36% Metal Gear Solid 3-42.30% Metal Gear Solid-40.73% Bioshock-40.58% Oblivion-40.43% Resident Evil 4-39.45% Grand Theft Auto V-37.97% Shadow of the Colossus-37.83% Metal Gear Solid 2-35.95% Chrono Cross-34.83% Mass Effect 2-33.30% Fallout: New Vegas-33.05% The Witcher 3-32.92% Starcraft-32.55% Paper Mario-32.45% Earthbound-32.30% GTA: San Andreas-31.47% Silent Hill 2-31.31% Resident Evil -31.09% Red Dead Redemption-30.84% World of Warcraft-29.22% Bioshock Infinite-29.13% Shenmue-28.59% Borderlands 2-26.73% Mother 3-25.80% Shovel Knight-24.37% Bayonetta 2-22.21% Team Fortress 2-20.66% Splatoon-17.05% Binding of Isaac-17.01% Destiny-16.61% Virtue's Last Reward-13.93% The numbers here are probably too low, but Chrono Cross's four-pack lines up well. --- Congrats to DpOblivion, blasting me into oblivion in Best. Game. Ever. 2015. |
