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Despite talk/hype of these Smash trailers all over the internet, I haven't heard anyone bring up Mario in any of them. Yoblazer https://imgur.com/gByqgPg |
CaptainOfCrush posted... Mega Man - got Smash since the last contest. He was already announced for Smash 4 in 2013. |
Eh, Mario's been in almost all the Smash trailers, but the most notable thing he's done in any of them is get impaled by Ridley. It wasn't even particularly memorable like Luigi's cameo in the Belmont trailer was. |
Mario's
always going to get tons of games that have his name in them - that
isn't really what I'm talking about. As I said earlier, he's still the
biggest face for Nintendo, but he used to be pretty much the ONLY face.
That is not the case anymore. Nintendo uses many of their other
characters to generate online hype, especially for Smash. Yoblazer https://imgur.com/gByqgPg |
CaptainOfCrush posted... heroicmario posted...Outside of Link, are we really confident in where *anyone* ranks? I just don't know how much I trust Snake 1. His entire series is looking awful this contest, even with MGSV. Out of everyone in the N9, his series looks the worst; even FFVII is looking better. Snake better hope Smash Ultimate hype will counteract his series falling apart. 2. After Mewtwo is exposed as a fraud, I'm having a hard time taking anything Snake did in 2013 without a grain of salt (not really sure how to delineate when his Draven rallying started, but the entire contest went wild after Draven beat X in the second round). He & Liquid looked awful in rivalry rumble in 2011. 3. I feel Snake gains strength from being the anti-Link rallying point, but him and Link not being in the main bracket means I haven't seen much talk about Snake. It certainly doesn't help him if his first match is a now debated match against Zelda. congrats to BKSheikah the BYIG guru |
LeonhartFour posted... Eh, Mario's been in almost all the Smash trailers, but the most notable thing he's done in any of them is get impaled by Ridley. https://media.giphy.com/media/bEH6uQUUVFWpjETjYa/giphy.gif This alone was pretty damn memorable. Agent Triple Zero at your service! This line reserved for the true greatone, the 2018 Guru Contest winner. http://thengamer.com/guru/bracket.php?id=40 |
I
would imagine Mario Odyssey to be a much bigger deal for him than Smash
Bros. The quality, reach, and reception that game has received has been
the biggest since Galaxy back on the Wii. It feels like Mario sort of
missed people on the Wii U (even if NSMBU and 3D World were great), and
the Switch with Odyssey has brought the mainline games to a more
respectable prominence than before. Sort of the difference between
GameCube Mario and Wii Mario. I think that's more likely to rekindle
some goodwill, rather than whatever he does in a trailer. Also, l feel
like we're overstating Smash Bros. trailer hype a little bit. I don't
think a character can count on a rise or fall entirely on the basis of
whether or not they did a cool thing in a trailer for a couple of
seconds. It's why I don't think Kirby disproportionately has benefited
from the Smash hype. |
Yeah, Kirby was already a monster without it. |
Yeah,
Mario and Luigi's real claim to fame in any of these trailers is
getting roasted, haha. I'm not going to lie, I don't think Mario walking
with a scowl is something super memorable. It totally missed me until
you GIF'd it! (edited 11/13/2018 10:35:43 PM) |
LeonhartFour posted... Yeah, Kirby was already a monster without it. I can buy this, along with whatever collective Smash Bros. Boost is in play. But Kirby poofing away on his little star cannot possibly turn him into Mr. Noble Nine can it is this where we are at (edited 11/13/2018 10:37:03 PM) |
characters
like mario and link aren't gonna boost because of smash because they're
characters in active series already popular with the base. the
diminishing returns there are pretty tiny. when those active series produce widely praised, must-have games though, that's what gives a boost. or should, anyway. "Maybe it's a tentacle, molesting the planet itself. - Aschen Brodel. |
There
is no time line in contest history where Mario would have ever lost to
Samus, Solid Snake, Mega Man, or Sonic the Hedgehog in a fair 24 hour
1v1 match. None. Not one year, not one match, I don't care about what
boost the other characters have ever gotten. Those characters all
boosted from Nintendo, and all would all have their Nintendo support
siphoned off to Mario in a hypothetical 1v1 match. We've already seen
Mario beat the piss out of three of them, and Sonic would be lucky to
break 42%. The dude hasn't gone anywhere, he's just been SFFd by Link
every single year. I'm pretty sure losing to Crono in 2004 was the only
fair loss Mario has ever had. Everything else is weird Link-related SFF. We can even throw Mega Man X on the list, too. Dude has top ten strength, right? Mario's beaten his ass from pillar to post. I don't give a rat's dick what any of the LOL x-stats say, either. Manalytics > analytics. Mario would beat any of those clowns. Except for Zelda apparently! Although Mario did beat her in a LOL 4way once. Mario is a titan. It's just that titans can't beat gods. Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best Game Ever" Contest http://www.twitch.tv/ultimaterializerx ; https://imgur.com/dsnL40n |
Mario
has never faced Pikachu, though Mario 3/RBY makes me think that one
could be interesting. Pokemon does not have the standard Nintendo
fanbase, meaning the SFF is very minimal these days. Pretty sure Mario
wins that one though. Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best Game Ever" Contest http://www.twitch.tv/ultimaterializerx ; https://imgur.com/dsnL40n |
I've never taken any of those characters to beat Mario either, but I wouldn't make a chest-thumping post like that about it. Yoblazer https://imgur.com/gByqgPg |
Kirby > Mario this year book it |
LeonhartFour posted... Kirby > Mario this year have we not suffered enough |
INTERWEBUSER posted... @_Dog_ posted...@INTERWEBUSER posted...Did your old dogpoop account get banned or something?show hidden quote(s)pjbasis posted...GotD 2 is gonna be great because even the Nintendo/Square entries are bound to be pathetically weak too. </red herring> The Big Problem with the Pokemon anime: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/217-pokemon/75265633 |
heroicmario posted... CaptainOfCrush posted...This might be the strongest Zelda we'll ever see. She really doesn't need to drum up this power against Aeris next round, but man, what a sight to behold. It's a miracle that Aeris is even winning considering the trends we've had. The Big Problem with the Pokemon anime: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/217-pokemon/75265633 |
65% update for Geralt there. The night vote is here... he's cut 70 the last half hour too. i7 7700k, RTX 2070, 12gb DDR4 Playing: Red Dead Redemption 2 (PS4), Fallout 76 (PC) |
FSABot posted... 65% update for Geralt there. The night vote is here... he's cut 70 the last half hour too. Geralt's gonna be 3-0 against Smash characters if he keeps this up. congrats to BKSheikah the BYIG guru |
Today
is the most shocking day of the contest so far. Zelda's a monster
here, and yet Aerith is somehow winning too? I picked Aerith > Fox
but lost all hope before today. Does Captain Toad and Waluigi really
scare Jill Valentine like that? Glad to see the upper half of Division 6 is finishing competitively the way it deserves. I can't remember the last most competitive three rounds of a contest were to compare to this. CasanovaZelos 11/13/2018 7:37:23 PM#479 posted... I wonder if people actually include Sheik and Tetra when they think of Zelda as a character. We always gets pictures of Princess Zelda, and I feel like that makes us forget her more complex portrayals. Agreed -- Sheik >> Zelda, but I don't vote for Zelda like she's Sheik. Nominate METAL MAN for 20XX! https://imgur.com/Dr4NAeq |
heroicmario posted... I would imagine Mario Odyssey to be a much bigger deal for him than Smash Bros. The quality, reach, and reception that game has received has been the biggest since Galaxy back on the Wii. It feels like Mario sort of missed people on the Wii U (even if NSMBU and 3D World were great), and the Switch with Odyssey has brought the mainline games to a more respectable prominence than before. Sort of the difference between GameCube Mario and Wii Mario. I think that's more likely to rekindle some goodwill, rather than whatever he does in a trailer. Also, l feel like we're overstating Smash Bros. trailer hype a little bit. I don't think a character can count on a rise or fall entirely on the basis of whether or not they did a cool thing in a trailer for a couple of seconds. It's why I don't think Kirby disproportionately has benefited from the Smash hype. This I've brought this up before, but it took a year for BotW's best received trailer to hit 10m views on youtube Mario Odyssey did it in two weeks It's hard to overstate just how well received Odyssey was. It's the best selling Switch game (IIRC), a strong goty candidate, and just in general is considered to have taken the mario formula to a new level. It's no guarantee that the big drop from 2013 will be reversed, but if anything can do it, that game can. Shine on, you crazy diamond. |
KanzarisKelshen posted...
A "strong goty candidate" that won no major goty awards🤔 PLAYSTATION 4: Best Console Ever | ROCKSTAR: Best Developer Ever Trolling (v.): Posting an opinion that differs from yours |
Galaxy got SFFd big time by Breath of the Wild in GOTY awards. Black Turtle did a pretty good job. |
KamikazePotato posted... Galaxy got SFFd big time by Breath of the Wild in GOTY awards. Plus big open world games that last forever simply resonate alot more with the modern Game Media. Witcher 3 took the majority of awards in 2015, no real big open world games in 2016 and Red Dead will take them all this year. Zelda was alot more what the media looked for in a Goty. i7 7700k, RTX 2070, 12gb DDR4 Playing: Red Dead Redemption 2 (PS4), Fallout 76 (PC) |
Bayonetta by the hour: 20:00 | 51.68% 21:00 | 49.06% 22:00 | 52.49% 23:00 | 48.64% 00:00 | 50.82% 01:00 | 51.70% 02:00 | 50.47% 03:00 | 47.49% 04:00 | 45.19% Geralt's really flying now. Bayonetta currently leads by 104 votes. Based on the last 5 hours, Geralt wins by 7 votes. Based on the last 2 hours, Geralt wins by 975 votes. Based on the last hour, Geralt wins by 1125 votes. Based on the last 30 minutes, Geralt wins by 1830 votes. (edited 11/14/2018 1:10:25 AM) |
Geralt is like the anti-CBX A modern western character with strong, exciting trends who can win matches Too bad he’ll not escape the division alive. If all else fails use fire. |
INTERWEBUSER posted... KanzarisKelshen posted... Yes it did? Who is the arbitrator of what counts as major? I just decided to change this sig. Blaaaaaaargh BKSheikah |
squexa posted... His entire series is looking awful this contest, even with MGSV The correct phrase here is "because of," not "even with." You felt your sins weighing down on your neck. |
snake_5036 posted... squexa posted...His entire series is looking awful this contest, even with MGSV Black Turtle did a pretty good job. |
snake_5036 posted... squexa posted...His entire series is looking awful this contest, even with MGSV Never played MGSV. I thought the critical reception was pretty good? Or is this another one of those Skyward Sword situations. congrats to BKSheikah the BYIG guru |
Metal
Gear Solid 5 is great. Its just a pretty big departure from what the
longtime fans enjoyed (with it being a big open world game instead of a
linear one) so it alienated some of those fans. i7 7700k, RTX 2070, 12gb DDR4 Playing: Red Dead Redemption 2 (PS4), Fallout 76 (PC) |
People
started out liking it until they realized it was unfinished and the
first 3 hours after you escape the hospital is what you're gonna be
doing for the rest of the game with very little variation. There's hardly any story in the game, minimal cutscenes, the main missions (aside from skulls and sahelanthropus missions) are exactly the same as the side missions except Kaz yells about Cypher at the end during main missions, people were pissed about misleading advertisements before release (don't remember specifics but the MGSV board went on about it forever), there's absolutely nothing memorable from the game at all (there's nothing in the game like the MGS3 codecs, or MGS2's dumb ending, etc), microtransactions, general disdain toward Konami, nothing in the game is on the scale of the Ground Zeroes base (Ground Zeroes is a perfect showcase of what Phantom Pain's outposts, bases, and creative challenges could have been), people thought the big twist was pretty stupid (i know MGS has a lot of stupid things, but in general most people didn't like it or see it as necessary whatsoever), likely lots of other things I'm forgetting. You felt your sins weighing down on your neck. |
Bayonetta by the hour: 20:00 | 51.68% 21:00 | 49.06% 22:00 | 52.49% 23:00 | 48.64% 00:00 | 50.82% 01:00 | 51.70% 02:00 | 50.47% 03:00 | 47.49% 04:00 | 45.19% 05:00 | 48.59% Bayonetta recovered a bit the past hour, but Geralt still won it. Bayonetta currently leads by 81 votes. Based on the last 2 hours, Geralt wins by 605 votes. Based on the last hour, Geralt wins by 241 votes. Based on the last 30 minutes, Geralt wins by 31 votes. |
06:00 | 51.17% Bayonetta currently leads by 100 votes. Based on the last 3 hours, Geralt wins by 242 votes. Based on the last 2 hours, Bayonetta wins by 74 votes. Based on the last hour, Bayonetta wins by 247 votes. Based on the last 30 minutes, Bayonetta wins by 260 votes. |
Best match of the contest so far. Gonna come down to whoever has the better day vote I guess. i7 7700k, RTX 2070, 12gb DDR4 Playing: Red Dead Redemption 2 (PS4), Fallout 76 (PC) |
HaRRicH posted... I picked Aerith > Fox but lost all hope before today. Does Captain Toad and Waluigi really scare Jill Valentine like that? I said from the start that there's no way Aerith loses to Jill, which gave Fox a very small margin of error regardless of what she did. |
07:00 | 46.19% Geralt won that hour quite comfortably and has nearly taken the lead. Bayonetta currently leads by 37 votes. Based on the last 3 hours, Geralt wins by 231 votes. Based on the last 2 hours, Geralt wins by 227 votes. Based on the last hour, Geralt wins by 719 votes. Based on the last 30 minutes, Geralt wins by 995 votes. |
squexa posted... snake_5036 posted...squexa posted...show hidden quote(s)His entire series is looking awful this contest, even with MGSV Its gameplay is pretty good, but its story is trash and unfinished. I'm serious, there is no ending, things just stop happening. From what I hear the collector's edition has some sorta thing showing you what would have happened in the final mission if they didn't decide to cut it from the game. Oh and also Big Bauer talks about as much as Quiet. Rally for Kirby in Character Battle X! He is the true hero of Nintendo! |
Just woke up to a 3-vote match. Nice. "Someday I'll catch up, and then you'll all be surprised!" BKSheikah has the power. He is the one. |
FSABot posted... Metal Gear Solid 5 is great. Its just a pretty big departure from what the longtime fans enjoyed (with it being a big open world game instead of a linear one) so it alienated some of those fans. Ah, that reminds me of the recent discussion about Dark Dawn. Biggest problem with that game was that it had multiple points of no return, while the first two games kept the entire map open and even had some cases where something would open up later to make backtracking easier. "Someday I'll catch up, and then you'll all be surprised!" BKSheikah has the power. He is the one. |
And Geralt finally takes the lead, with a big update. Up 17 now. i7 7700k, RTX 2070, 12gb DDR4 Playing: Red Dead Redemption 2 (PS4), Fallout 76 (PC) |
Geralt takes the lead. |
LeonhartFour posted... HaRRicH posted...I picked Aerith > Fox but lost all hope before today. Does Captain Toad and Waluigi really scare Jill Valentine like that? Also considering how easily Donkey Kong manhandled Leon Kennedy, it makes sense Waluigi and Captain Toad would scare Jill like that. Congratulations Squall for proving my suspicions right that you and your game dropped a lot. Looks like needing Undertale rallies just to barely break 60% on a GTA game was an omen. Speaking of which, so it seems Aerith is projected to get around the same % on Shovel Knight that San Andreas got on the game. Maybe Shovel Knight is actually kind of okay-strength wise for a newer indie title on this site? I was just asking because direct extrapolation from 2015 results has San Andreas doing slightly better against Mario RPG than direct extrapolation from GOTD has doing against FFX, which seems plausible. All I'm saying is that Shovel Knight is a pretty big deal (I couldn't go without hearing about it when it came out), and that perhaps this site's bias against newer games and indie games is the only reason why the character loses to Captain Toad and the game can't break 40% on GTA. "Nothing I could do!" -Darksydephil |
Evillordexdeath posted... Geralt takes the lead. This would be excellent, I wound up picking Geralt to win this half division largely because picking Ryu Hayabusa or Riku to win it didn't feel right. My hunch actually paid off for once! Would make up for Squall's screwjob. "Nothing I could do!" -Darksydephil |
Just
in time for the morning, though it looks like US is almost 50/50 while
Canada is slightly going for Geralt. The next couple of hours will
decide who wins. CBX - Today's Winners: Zelda, Aerith, Bayonetta, Auron Score: 122/160 |
I
wonder how many times Geralt has to rise during the day while losing
the US vote til people stop looking at that as a metric to predict his
daytime performance. Geralt, like any other Western AAA character,
starts off badly so he has no where to go but up the rest of the match.
He's much more likely to hit 51% then lose at this point. i7 7700k, RTX 2070, 12gb DDR4 Playing: Red Dead Redemption 2 (PS4), Fallout 76 (PC) (edited 11/14/2018 5:51:01 AM) |
Updated state records through round 2: 94-2: Arizona 93-3: Florida 92-4: Illinois 91-5: Georgia, Texas 90-6: California, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New York, Virginia 89-7: Alabama, Louisiana, Michigan, Oklahoma, West Virginia 88-8: Indiana, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina 87-9: Arkansas, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Washington, Wisconsin 86-10: Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, South Dakota 85-11: Iowa, Minnesota 84-12: Alaska, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah 83-13: Nebraska, Nevada, Wyoming 82-14: Kansas, New Hampshire 81-15: Kentucky 80-16: Maine 79-17: Rhode Island 78-18: Hawaii 76-20: Delaware, New Mexico, Vermont 70-26: North Dakota This is the number of times they've voted for the winner. As you can see it seems to be mostly based on population, which is a little boring. Still, it's fun to look at. Arizona has taken the lead (only missed Shovel Knight and King Dedede). Congrats to BKSheikah, the new Guru champ! Not that I'm bitter or anything... |
Bayonetta
has slowed down the bleeding a little, but she needs to start making
(even small) gains fast before this gets out of hand for her. Used to be TheOneAboveAll. Forgot my password and had no way to recover it. |
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