HaRRicH posted...


Also, Scott Pilgrim VS the World totally robbed Super Meat Boy with its movie fame and I would enjoy a rematch between them!
That's not fair to beat up a game that's basically ceased to exist.
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Yuri_LowelI 4/5/2020 9:12:24 PM#252
BlAcK TuRtLe posted...
People that think Heavy Rain is worth any measure of strength are probably the most currently delusional group in this topic. The game would easily lose to most of the indies polluting the bracket. Indies have small dedicated fanbases, noone gives a s*** about a C-Tier studio game that added absolutely nothing to gaming.


is it your hobby to spout embarrassing crap? Dont hide when persona decimates this division
Yuri_LowelI 4/5/2020 9:13:22 PM#253
ninkendo posted...
what I'm getting out of this is that more people should play Ys VIII

on ps4

switch port is horrible
Yuri_LowelI 4/5/2020 9:13:56 PM#254
HaRRicH posted...
If Dark Souls 1 also gets that much unique support from registered voters, that'll be a difference-maker in close matches.

Dark Souls 1 is going to be a mother f***ing Beast
BlAcK TuRtLe 4/5/2020 9:14:58 PM#255
Yuri_LowelI posted...
is it your hobby to spout embarrassing crap? Dont hide when persona decimates this division
Says the random NEWSER with a Persona sig
"Like Darth Maul, the bastard child of Michael Flatley and hellboy" - trancer1
lol xstats
pjbasis 4/5/2020 9:27:26 PM#256
I can easily see Heavy Rain being horribly weak. Name recognition doesn't mean anything when no one likes you.
Yuri_LowelI 4/5/2020 9:27:41 PM#257
BlAcK TuRtLe posted...
Says the random NEWSER with a Persona sig

just dont hide as the contest goes on

not a new user. I just come here during contest time. Have been since 2005.

Yuri_LowelI 4/5/2020 9:28:31 PM#258
pjbasis posted...
I can easily see Heavy Rain being horribly weak. Name recognition doesn't mean anything when no one likes you.

a lot of people do like it. And were not talking about an antivoted casual game like fortnite here.

Mylunch 4/5/2020 9:28:51 PM#259
pjbasis posted...
Name recognition doesn't mean anything when no one likes you.

Sad Ulti noises
I didn't remember Stats topics being so heated.
Formerly cool
transcience 4/5/2020 9:49:46 PM#261
this topic used to be vicious back when people actually cared who won these things. nowadays it only really gets snippy when we get users who suck at posting their thoughts.
add the c and back away
iphonesience
LeonhartFour 4/5/2020 9:54:40 PM#262
Rollthebones2 posted...
I didn't remember Stats topics being so heated.


you should read the Stats Topic circa 2005
BlAcK TuRtLe 4/5/2020 10:03:44 PM#263
The worst I saw this topic was the Undertale and Draven runs
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lol xstats
GoldSlime35 4/5/2020 10:08:14 PM#264
pjbasis posted...
How many wins does Assassin's Creed have before this? I can only think of Ezio winning R1 in 2013.
Kotetsu534 posted... Ezio beat Simon Belmont (in 2010) and Tails and Bomberman (in 2013). Assassin's Creed II beat ICO in GOTD.

Probably more noteworthy is that Ezio went up against Zelda twice in 2010 and 2018 - first time he got 38%, 2nd time 25%.

Altair has a few wins as well.
HaRRicH 4/5/2020 10:13:22 PM#265
PM'd ya BT.
ctesjbuvf 4/5/2020 10:22:04 PM#266
Yeah, Altair beat Guybrush, Isaac and Lucario in round 1 of 2008 and then Marth and Lucario in round 2 while finishing behind Duke. Got 4th in round 3.

He beat Liquid Snake in 2010.

Then beat Ratchet and Shulk in pre-Smash Shulk in 2013.

All those were easy wins.

Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.
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LeonhartFour 4/5/2020 10:24:35 PM#267
Altair also beat Liquid Snake in 2010 and beat Shulk/Ratchet in 2013. Didn't make the contest at all in 2018.
HaRRicH 4/5/2020 10:24:59 PM#268
And 2005-2007 or 2008 was a f***ing nightmare for trying to have a nuanced conversation.
LeonhartFour 4/5/2020 10:26:33 PM#269
I think 2006 and 2008 were fine! 2007 only became a mess because of L-Block. I distinctly remember 2005 being a really rough one where people argued for entire topics about whether it was stupid to think Dante even had a chance of beating Vincent.

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4/5/2020 10:28:25 PM#270
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/2122-tournament-quarterfinal-mario-vs-samus-aran

Cast a 13 year long shadow.
Link isn't the only one who kicks ass.
Congrats to Advokaiser for winning the CBX Guru Contest!
BlAcK TuRtLe 4/5/2020 10:31:51 PM#271
To this day I don't understand why that of all matches caused such a furor. "IT'S FREAKING MARIO" is a perfectly succinct summary of what happened there.
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lol xstats
Yuri_LowelI 4/5/2020 10:32:00 PM#272
BlAcK TuRtLe posted...
The worst I saw this topic was the Undertale and Draven runs

dont forget 2010. You were unbearable in that contest. Being the only Brawl fanboy
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HaRRicH posted...
And 2005-2007 or 2008 was a f***ing nightmare for trying to have a nuanced conversation.
I blame myself for being so immature. Wish I could turn back the clock on that one for sure.
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BlAcK TuRtLe 4/5/2020 10:36:36 PM#274
Yuri_LowelI posted...
dont forget 2010. You were unbearable in that contest. Being the only Brawl fanboy
That was probably the best time to be in this topic
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lol xstats
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transcience posted...
this topic used to be vicious back when people actually cared who won these things. nowadays it only really gets snippy when we get users who suck at posting their thoughts.
Hey, I'm still always in it to win it! I imagine that's the case for most of us, though time has tempered the argumentative edge we all used to have. It's pretty "live and let live" among the fogies here.

2005 Stats - Arena
2020 Stats - Campfire
HaRRicH 4/5/2020 10:53:15 PM#277
Most of us have more things going on in our lives now, most of us have played fewer games in this decade than the last, most of our information that made us so smart has grown outdated to varying degrees, and we've made more bonds or at least learned a greater understanding of one-another over time.

I like that Arena to Campfire comparison.
LeonhartFour 4/5/2020 10:54:36 PM#278
ctesjbuvf 4/5/2020 11:12:31 PM#279
LeonhartFour posted...
Brawl > Melee for life

Loved being on this side of it. I don't think we were too few but it felt so.
Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.
2007 was a tale of two stats topics.

Topics during L-Block matches, and topics during Pikachu matches.
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SuperNiceDog 4/6/2020 12:07:21 AM#281
During Games 2015, I remember hoping so hard that Starcraft 1 would beat Mass Effect 2. It was so close too *cries.



2015 Games I agree with Ulti, it's one of the top 4 contests we've ever had. I'm not sure I agree with him that it was the overall best, but it was damn good
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SuperNiceDog 4/6/2020 12:09:46 AM#282
I still feel that the 2015 Games contest was much better than 2018 Characters. Notice how very few people even reference matches from 2018 Character Battle any more, even though it was fairly recent. There were a lot of close matches too. It just didn't seem to matter that much for some reason...

I think because there's been so many character battles already that they all kinda blend together. Games contests are just more special. We care about the games more than the characters.(GAMEfaqs)
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ctesjbuvf 4/6/2020 12:11:55 AM#283
Eh, of course a games contest is referenced more during a games contest.
Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.
SuperNiceDog 4/6/2020 12:14:24 AM#284
ctesjbuvf posted...
Eh, of course a games contest is referenced more during a games contest.

Sure, it makes sense. Tifa vs Luigi was a fairly epic match from 2018, that's the one I remember. Still, I barely remember it without looking it up.
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SuperNiceDog 4/6/2020 12:15:02 AM#285
LeonhartFour posted...
Brawl > Melee for life

I voted for Meele
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Kotetsu534 4/6/2020 2:02:48 AM#286
I'm sure I remember some wild warring after that 2008 poll where RBY and GSC got 50% combined against Majora's Mask and MGS. Was PokeFEAR real? Well...
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Safer_777 4/6/2020 2:39:23 AM#287
Woke up, checked the results. As expected.
So why we exist? What happens when we stop existing?
ZeldaTPLink 4/6/2020 3:20:00 AM#288
MoogleKupo141 posted...
It’s a Roguelike rpg that uses cards for battle, totally single player. Not Hearthstoneesque at all.

That sounds like epic turbofodder to me.
Yuri_LowelI 4/6/2020 5:10:32 AM#289
SuperNiceDog posted...
I voted for Meele

because you have good taste.

LeonhartFour 4/6/2020 5:19:43 AM#290
I guess I'm also skeptical of Meat Boy after we just saw Isaac bomb.
Nah Meat Boy and Isaac are totally different. Sonic Mania's probably no Nioh either.

Super Meat Boy was basically the vanguard of the indie boom, the developers are even effectively the leads of the Indie Game documentary. It will be up there. Isaac was always going to be mid-range at best and we just underestimated Nioh, Super Meat Boy should be only behind the indie elites.
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The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth over Nioh was always a harrowing choice, one I paid for. Now I'm sitting at 36 points.
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SwiftyDC 4/6/2020 5:50:58 AM#293
More people need to play Ys VIII.
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shane15 4/6/2020 5:56:27 AM#294
I'm hopefully looking good until the Rocket League/Dragonball showdown. Ended up going with Goku but not confident at all now.
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I had Civilization winning against AC up until the eleventh hour. Glad I changed that! My last-minute bracket changes usually blow up in my face, so this is a nice change of pace.

I'm pretty shocked at how dismal Sonic Mania looks here, though, since that game seemed to really help the Sonic crew in the last Character Battle. Meat Boy isn't setting the world on fire either, but I don't think Ys and Slay the Spire are that far apart; I could easily see Sonic dropping this in R2.
The music was thud-like.
The music was... thud-like.
BlAcK TuRtLe 4/6/2020 6:21:03 AM#296
TheCodeisBosco posted...
I had Civilization winning against AC up until the eleventh hour. Glad I changed that! My last-minute bracket changes usually blow up in my face, so this is a nice change of pace.

I'm pretty shocked at how dismal Sonic Mania looks here, though, since that game seemed to really help the Sonic crew in the last Character Battle. Meat Boy isn't setting the world on fire either, but I don't think Ys and Slay the Spire are that far apart; I could easily see Sonic dropping this in R2.

Not even a high quality, faithful and fun release can save the Sonic franchise from 2 decades of some of the worst video games ever made

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lol xstats
transcience 4/6/2020 6:42:35 AM#297
http://thengamer.com/stats/0151-0200/Stats%20and%20Discussion%20Pt192/

I haven’t reread this yet but this is my memory of what a truly contentious stats topic looks like.
add the c and back away
iphonesience
transcience posted...
http://thengamer.com/stats/0151-0200/Stats%20and%20Discussion%20Pt192/

I haven’t reread this yet but this is my memory of what a truly contentious stats topic looks like.
Not my finest hour for sure.
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Lightning Strikes posted...
Super Meat Boy was basically the vanguard of the indie boom
Why would this matter for its GameFAQs strength? Bastion, another major vanguard of the indie boom, barely beat an opponent that was already pitifully weak in 2015, let alone now. On the other hand, Ori and Hollow Knight certainly weren't involved in said vanguard, yet they're the only two indies that have strongly exceeded expectations so far.

TheCodeisBosco posted...
I'm pretty shocked at how dismal Sonic Mania looks here, though, since that game seemed to really help the Sonic crew in the last Character Battle.
I think lots of us drew the wrong conclusion from the list of characters who boosted. The likes of the Sonic crew, DK, Crash, Pac-Man, and Castlevania characters all had new games (Smash for the last few) to enhance their strength, so that was the natural explanation for why they climbed. However, it now seems clear that their jumps were largely due to the extra apathy votes flying around from voters forced to pick in every single match, as some had suspected without confirmation. That doesn't totally explain why Sonic Mania itself is seeing such a small benefit from the apathy vote, but I don't think many voters love the likes of the Sonic and DKC series even independent of their nostalgia for them.
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