Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1323 GameFAQs Contests

Team Rocket Elite posted...

I wonder if it will get more votes or less votes than Mobile.

Seems like it will get more than Mobile. The Mobile poll had 87 votes at the freeze, compared to 101 votes for this poll at the same point in time.

LusterSoldier posted...

Oh wow, a VR GotY poll today. I was expecting the GotY polls to largely follow the same schedule we had last year, which meant a Remake GotY poll if last year's schedule held up. I guess I can't rule out a Remake GotY poll just yet.

But what remakes have come out in the last year? I can only think of Pokémon Let's Go! crushing everything.

VR Poll with more votes than Mobile poll is so weird to me
Especially consdiering how people are more open to Mobile gaming nowadays

Well on mobile you have to scroll so far down to get to the poll that I literally never see it unless someone points it out to me and I go check the days poll. And I'd guess mobile gamers are more prone to visit the site on mobile rather than desktop

Just checked. Granted you would scroll fast but in terms of a full screen being classed as 1 page, you have to scroll down to the effective 7th page to see poll of the day. It's also displayed below the promoted from the web links that I would associate with bottom of a web page so stop scrolling.

Basically you have to know it's there and actively go looking for it to find it. Even then you might think it's not there due to ad placement

Yeah, the poll is placed way too far down on mobile. Same thing goes for the actual game titles while visiting them individually; the name, franchise, cover and release date are displayed near the bottom of the screen.

ShatteredElysium posted...

on mobile you have to scroll so far down to get to the poll that I literally never see it

yeah this is the worst part about the mobile site

i missed a PotD or two when i didn't have internet yet a week ago because i never saw the poll while i was browsing with mobile data

Final Fantasy X is now as old as Mario 1 was during the first Character Battle in 2002.

Tetris Effect has been showing off its classic L-Block trends in today's poll, as you can see here:

https://i.imgtc.com/Hx0ahsQ.png

Tetris Effect started the poll near 35% and has been losing percentage all day.

Pokemon Let's Go snubbed from the remakes poll.

I looked up the Metacritic scores for all of the games in today's poll:

85 - 428: Shibuya Scramble
82 - Burnout Paradise Remastered
84 - Dark Souls Remastered
83 - Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
80 - Dragon's Crown Pro
80 - Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate
91 - Shadow of the Colossus
75 - Shenmue I & II
82 - Spyro Reignited Trilogy
85 - Yakuza Kiwami 2

For comparison, Pokemon Let's Go had a 79 Metacritic score (going by the Pikachu version). That puts it below every game in this poll except for Shenmue I & II. We know that Allen does factor in critic scores when choosing the games for the GotY polls, but the GameFAQs user scores and GameFAQs popularity could very well have caused Pokemon Let's Go to miss out on this poll. Still, we got to see it in the Switch poll already.

Well Spyro winning does give more context of how Spyro did better in this CBX

@SBAllen What the f*** are you doing? no, really, what the f*** are you doing?
Why are Let's Go not in the poll??!!?

Because critics (correctly) evaluated LGPE as a C-grade game? Do Drones really need yet another Nintendo game in the finals? It’s already a given that SSBU will win this site’s completely meaningless GOTY poll, even though no critic has given it a single award.

Nanis23 posted...

@SBAllen What the f*** are you doing? no, really, what the f*** are you doing?
Why are Let's Go not in the poll??!!?

Read Luster's post two posts above your rant.

swirIdude posted...

Nanis23 posted...

@SBAllen What the f*** are you doing? no, really, what the f*** are you doing?
Why are Let's Go not in the poll??!!?

Read Luster's post two posts above your rant.

I did
He still screwed up

INTERWEBUSER posted...

Because critics (correctly) evaluated LGPE as a C-grade game? Do Drones really need yet another Nintendo game in the finals? It’s already a given that SSBU will win this site’s completely meaningless GOTY poll, even though no critic has given it a single award.

SSBU won't be eligible for GotY awards from most sites because it was released too late in the year. A lot of sites have a cut-off date for when a game must be released in order to be considered for a GotY award in the same year it released. This date is usually December 1st, and SSBU came out 6 days later. This doesn't mean that SSBU is completely ineligible for GotY awards, as some sites will consider it for a GotY award in 2019.

GameFAQs is different because our GotY awards aren't considered true GotY awards (they mean absolutely nothing). Winning GotY on GameFAQs also isn't some badge of honor either. And besides that, GameFAQs runs their GotY awards through a series of polls.

https://gotypicks.blogspot.com/

SSBU has won at least 3 GotY awards so INTERWEBUSER's claim that it has not won a single award is incorrect.

What a shock that the gimmick account lied!

KoopaTV also gave GOTY to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate!

But, yeah, we see the practices of media outlets considering a year to only be 11 months long to be illegitimate on their part. I'd say GameFAQs's polls are more legitimate since they happen in January.

Overall GotY poll today:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7471-

SSBU off to a strong start. Probably falls quite a bit from here.

Ain't gon' be no final poll

God of War and RDR2 should both go up from here and gain most of what SSBU loses overnight. RDR2 showed off a good night vote in both of the previous polls it was in.

SSBU under 40% already, and we're not even out of the Power Hour yet. Maybe there is hope for a final poll if SSBU can continue bleeding percentage like this. Only problem is that the percentage lost would have to go mostly to God of War to make the battle for first place close enough to run a final poll.

Team Rocket Elite posted...

https://gotypicks.blogspot.com/

SSBU has won at least 3 GotY awards so INTERWEBUSER's claim that it has not won a single award is incorrect.

Thanks, I stand corrected. It won zero GOTY awards from major media outlets.

And even if you go by that blog, which appears to list every possible no-name site it could find, 3 GOTY awards out of ~300 is 1% share. Which makes this site such an outlier in its extreme fetish for all things Nintendo.

So what?

56% on God of War huh
hopefully that torpedoes any more silly talk about Smash Ultimate winning a GotD 2. Good luck even beating Skyrim.

I guess Allen just didn't consider Let's Go to be remakes, though there have been cases of him just missing stuff (see Into the Breach). Also regarding VR getting more votes than Mobile, mainstream Mobile dev is pretty bad these days, with a lot of acclaimed developers quitting Mobile. You still get gems like Florence and Donut County (which is also on PC and console) but they are getting fewer and far between. Which is a shame because when used correctly the platform has a lot of potential.

AxemRedRanger posted...

56% on God of War huh
hopefully that torpedoes any more silly talk about Smash Ultimate winning a GotD 2. Good luck even beating Skyrim.

Nah God of War just looks legitimately great here. The series used to have a lot of strength and this looks like the strongest of all of them. Ultimate doesn't beat Breath of the Wild either way though.

You can't tell me with a straight face that 56% (and falling) on an LFF'd PS4 exclusive (even a strong one) is a respectable result for a game that was supposed to potentially challenge Breath of the Wild. Based on this result, Smash Ultimate would get crushed by 2015 Skyrim, and chances are it wouldn't seriously contend to beat even current Skyrim without rallies. This result is so bad it actually makes me question whether Ultimate is even the third strongest game of the 2010s, though to be fair, it will probably improve relative to God of War by the time GotD 2 rolls around.

Melee is a powerful game today, seventeen years after its release. Brawl was GotD-material from the moment of its release in 2008. SSB4 decimated its competition in 2013 before still proving itself to be strong in the next BGE-contest. SSBU had huuuuuge hype here and seems to have largely hit the mark with it upon release.

It's probably not beating LoZ:BotW and it'll probably get stronger since it's only a month old with interesting DLC ahead, but really I don't see a reason to question Ultimate's strength in a 2020 contest outside of today's poll. Even then, it seemed to me beforehand that GoW and RDR2 were both exceptionally well-received and I'd consider RDR2 to be exceptionally hyped as well. I'm comfortable saying they're looking impressive here more than believing Ultimate looks disappointing.

Since when have Polls been a good indicator of contest strength?

As terrible as I think this looks for Ultimate, I'd still call it the favorite for at least #3 of the 2010's, simply because if not for its existence Smash 4 would be in the conversation for that spot. We never got to see Mario Odyssey without SFF though!

AxemRedRanger posted...

As terrible as I think this looks for Ultimate, I'd still call it the favorite for at least #3 of the 2010's, simply because if not for its existence Smash 4 would be in the conversation for that spot. We never got to see Mario Odyssey without SFF though!

Judging by galaxy strength. Don’t expect odyssey to do anything.

Also people are underrating god of war. This game is a beast. It could easily be the strongest Sony game of the 2010’s.

Smash u was never ever going to challenge BOTW and anyone thinking so we’re being deluded.

Just look at what botw did to GOty last year.

Put persona 5 in this poll and it gets even more votes than GoW. It would be a lot closer to smash as well.

I voted for GoW btw. Smash is good but you’d hAve to be a Nintendo fanboy to vote for it. God of war is an gotg calibur game. A masterpiece.

INTERWEBUSER posted...

Team Rocket Elite posted...

https://gotypicks.blogspot.com/

SSBU has won at least 3 GotY awards so INTERWEBUSER's claim that it has not won a single award is incorrect.

Thanks, I stand corrected. It won zero GOTY awards from major media outlets.

And even if you go by that blog, which appears to list every possible no-name site it could find, 3 GOTY awards out of ~300 is 1% share. Which makes this site such an outlier in its extreme fetish for all things Nintendo.

But this is user votes. Not a staff gamefaqs list. Those sites award goty from their staff.

Either way let’s be real. As much hype smash got. It’s not goty material. It’s jyst a really good smash game. Neither brawl or melee or 4 won any goty or barely any. It’s a party fighter. That’s the bottom line.

LusterSoldier posted...

INTERWEBUSER posted...

Because critics (correctly) evaluated LGPE as a C-grade game? Do Drones really need yet another Nintendo game in the finals? It’s already a given that SSBU will win this site’s completely meaningless GOTY poll, even though no critic has given it a single award.

SSBU won't be eligible for GotY awards from most sites because it was released too late in the year. A lot of sites have a cut-off date for when a game must be released in order to be considered for a GotY award in the same year it released. This date is usually December 1st, and SSBU came out 6 days later. This doesn't mean that SSBU is completely ineligible for GotY awards, as some sites will consider it for a GotY award in 2019.

GameFAQs is different because our GotY awards aren't considered true GotY awards (they mean absolutely nothing). Winning GotY on GameFAQs also isn't some badge of honor either. And besides that, GameFAQs runs their GotY awards through a series of polls.

How many goty awards would it have won it if was illegible? Cmon.

I wish they would hurry up and do the contest prizes. It looks like the winner hasn't even logged on since the middle of December

Well for starters I never believed Ultimate would beat BotW. However, I fully believe that God of War is just strong. It beats Persona 5, and it's probably the strongest non-Nintendo game since Skyrim other than Witcher 3. After all, Ultimate is doing substantially better than 4 would on RDR1, by all accounts it should be stronger than 4. Yes, GoW is keeping it close, but Ultimate still looks very strong against everything else.

GoW is just good, and there is some precedent for this.

Yuri_LowelI posted...

Smash u was never ever going to challenge BOTW and anyone thinking so we’re being deluded.

Well, as someone who was "delusional" back in 2010 for saying FFVI would beat FFX directly, I'm not calling this a checkmate in favor of BotW just yet. Smash Ultimate has a lot of ground to build itself up still. Remember, BotW came out in March; Smash came out in December. Unless this turns out to be another Brawl (by losing strength for the next couple of years), I wouldn't rule it out.

While God of War is probably a legitimate midcarder (albeit LFF'd in this poll) and the votes of people who vote in contests but not GotY polls likely skew towards Smash Ultimate, that still doesn't excuse this terrible result. Just for kicks, I added the other games' votes to Smash/GoW based on their probable ratios as follows:
- RDR2: 75% to God of War
- MHW: 67% to God of War
- Celeste: 75% to Smash
- Spyro: 50% to each
- Luigi: 90% to Smash
- Beat Saber: 75% to God of War
- Dragalia Lost: 80% to Smash

As of the 4:00 PM (PT) update, those percentages would result in God of War actually beating Smash Ultimate one-on-one, with 50.93% (4,583 votes) versus only 49.07% for Smash (4,416 votes). If you change RDR2 to a 2/3rd / 1/3rd split, Smash at least beats God of War, but only with 50.71%. Granted, it's not a perfect comparison, due to all the factors that can affect votes one-on-one versus a many-way poll, but that doesn't excuse the very real possibility of Smash outright losing a one-on-one poll.

Yeah Smash may have gotten lucky as SBAllen tends to take the top three for the final GotY poll so unless God of War keeps it very close Smash likely takes the overall trophy without a 1v1 match.

No the final should be smash v god of war. We’ve had god of war and red dead in 2 polls now. Don’t need it in three.

1v1 would be a lot more interesting for a final poll (plus RDR2 probably holds God of War back).

Since DroneFAQs would never allow a non-Nintendo product to win a multi platform POTD, regardless of its merits, anyone want to bet on the over/under for System of the Year?

Switch over or under 70%?

INTERWEBUSER posted...

Since DroneFAQs would never allow a non-Nintendo product to win a multi platform POTD, regardless of its merits, anyone want to bet on the over/under for System of the Year?

Switch over or under 70%?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/6954-

Switch should win System of the Year again based on last year. And no, Switch isn't getting over 70% in a multi-platform System of the Year poll. Only one system has gotten over 50% in this poll, and that was the PS1 in the 1999 System of the Year poll.

Your claim of DroneFAQs seems to hold little merit on this site based on these polls:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/4963-
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/5384-
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/6573-

If this site really was DroneFAQs as you claim, then the Wii U should have won all 3 of those polls. In fact, the Wii U never got above 10% in any of those polls. DroneFAQs would make sense if the site was blindly supporting Nintendo even during their worst f*** ups, but we can see that's not the case as the site abandoned the Wii after Nintendo's epic collapse in E3 2008 with their press conference and then the site never really got on board with the Wii U later on.

3-way final GotY poll today:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7472-

SSBU also got the first vote in today's poll.

Looks like we are getting a Final Poll since SSBU unexpectedly choked in the group poll.

Team Rocket Elite posted...

Pokemon Let's Go snubbed from the remakes poll.

It’s not a full remake is it. It’s a partial remake.

WHy the f*** is RDR in there again?

Should just be GoW vs Smash. Allen scared smash is gonna look really bad or something? Or scared GoW might actually beat it? Lol

LusterSoldier posted...

INTERWEBUSER posted...

Since DroneFAQs would never allow a non-Nintendo product to win a multi platform POTD, regardless of its merits, anyone want to bet on the over/under for System of the Year?

Switch over or under 70%?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/6954-

Switch should win System of the Year again based on last year. And no, Switch isn't getting over 70% in a multi-platform System of the Year poll. Only one system has gotten over 50% in this poll, and that was the PS1 in the 1999 System of the Year poll.

Your claim of DroneFAQs seems to hold little merit on this site based on these polls:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/4963-
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/5384-
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/6573-

If this site really was DroneFAQs as you claim, then the Wii U should have won all 3 of those polls. In fact, the Wii U never got above 10% in any of those polls. DroneFAQs would make sense if the site was blindly supporting Nintendo even during their worst f*** ups, but we can see that's not the case as the site abandoned the Wii after Nintendo's epic collapse in E3 2008 with their press conference and then the site never really got on board with the Wii U later on.

It will be a joke if switch wins system of the year.

Smash winning goty is fine. It’s to be expected on this site. Higher number of Nintendo fans.

But seriously no way in hell should switch be winning system of the year. It’s had an average year