Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1366

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Oh hey, a Super Mario RPG playrate poll. This should be interesting because of its relative obscurity in Europe.

So much high playrate. Didn't expecting that.

I finally went through the Super Mario RPG playrate poll to look at the Geolocation results.

US - 65.79%
Canada - 73.01%
Mexico - 70.94%

Pretty high results for all 3 major countries of North America.

Brazil - 64.07%
Colombia - 62.50%
Ecuador - 60.00%
Chile - 76.74%
Argentina - 35.42%

Results from the most notable countries in South America show that Mario RPG does quite well there too, with Argentina being the major outlier. Other South America countries likely have a sample size too small to draw any conclusions, especially Venezuela with that country's political situation.

UK - 32.06%
Ireland - 50.00%
Australia - 46.29%
New Zealand - 33.33%

Results from the other English speaking countries are much lower than the US/Canada, though Ireland and Australia fare the best while the UK does the worst and New Zealand only slightly better.

Norway - 48.84%
Denmark - 34.38%
Sweden - 60.46%
Finland - 43.75%
Netherlands - 44.72%
Germany - 47.26%
Austria - 58.34%
Poland - 34.43%
France - 52.59%
Italy - 35.10%
Spain - 38.00%

Now we get to mainland Europe and these are all the notable countries with higher playrate numbers than the UK. Sweden and Austria come the closest to matching the US playrate. The lowest playrates in Europe are mainly seen in Eastern Europe.

Asia playrates are among the lowest in the world, which isn't too surprising. Only South Korea and Japan have very high playrates for Mario RPG, but the voting base in those countries are mostly foreigners.

no shoes covid surge

Save for 2 weeks ago, I haven't touched my only pair of shoes/sneakers in several months.

I actually had to literally dust 'em off.

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Nearly 80% of the site has watched Lord of the Rings in its entirety.

Gandalf for CBXI

I'm surprised it's not higher, but I don't think that means he'd do particularly well.

Leonhart4 posted...

Gandalf for CBXI

Legolas and Aragorn would do better, imo.

Aragorn maybe

Legolas absolutely not

I don't see how Gandalf doesn't win easy

yeah I would definitely vote for Legolas, he is awesome.

Legolas is great but he doesn't beat Gandalf on a site that's 2% female.

LOL..good point

Leonhart4 posted...

Legolas is great but he doesn't beat Gandalf on a site that's 2% female.

Are we really still 2% female? What’s the latest data on that?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/5410-are-you-male-or-female

I didn't realize we haven't run this poll in 7 years, but I can't imagine the number is above even 10% regardless. If anything, I think it's more likely that number has gone down.

45% of the voters said they built their own PC

that's crazy. GameFAQs userbase has gotten OLD , we are like all in our 30s. I doubt we have many females or teenagers still using this site.

I built my first PC when I was like 13 (in 1999)

Leonhart4 posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/5410-are-you-male-or-female

I didn't realize we haven't run this poll in 7 years, but I can't imagine the number is above even 10% regardless. If anything, I think it's more likely that number has gone down.

The percentage for "Female" has been slowly going up over the history of the poll, but mainly because some of our existing male users discovered that they are transgender and make the transition to being female. When you have a relatively static userbase, even a very small number of male users transitioning to female would clearly have an effect on the results of the poll.

YouTube poll time!



Fun fact: Many people in the comment section agree that the Wii was a really good part of their childhoods.

Whippersnappers

Really? The Switch truly is a GOAT-level system.

UltimaterializerX posted...

Really? The Switch truly is a GOAT-level system.

It really is very powerful, but someone argued that the Switch has recency bias and that the next Nintendo console will put it behind since it suffers from many issues (mainly drifting).

Most Nintendo systems suffer hardware problems. That isn't why people enjoy them =p

Yeah, that’s pretty much what I would expect from just about any poll between those four systems done damn near anywhere.

AxemRedRanger posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/8249-which-nintendo-console-is-your-all-time-favorite

BoomerFAQs

Having the old school systems in the field throws that poll way off as it is.

But yeah, of course GameFAQs would skew towards the Cube in comparison to other places.

Ya go my New Pokémon Snap.

Also, is that the real title for the NieR game?

It is. If you know the series, it's on brand.

When is the next contest?

OFool posted...

When is the next contest?

Most likely next year. We seem to have settled into a pattern of a contest once every other year.

every other year makes sense I guess, we have had too many contests as it is

the wait is long though

I think it's been closer to once every 1.5 years, so a fall contest this year is still feasible.

abdou posted...

we have had too many contests as it is

impossible

Everyone get prepared for the Summer of the 90's!

Really hoping for that, though I doubt we get another games before characters.

Super Castlevania IV for Game of the 90's!

I know it has more hidden potential than people give it credit for.

Nobody was willing to believe me back in 2010 when I said that FFVI would beat FFX 1v1.

I think a lot of people would've taken VI over X!

Final Fantasy 6 (2004g) VS Final Fantasy X (2004g)

Final Fantasy 6 has a strength of 43.34.
Final Fantasy X has a strength of 40.55.

Final Fantasy 6 wins with 53.22% of the vote!
A win of 5,244 with 81,467 total votes cast.

lol x-stats

abdou posted...

every other year makes sense I guess, we have had too many contests as it is

😳

good thing SBAllen doesn't listen to me.

Playrate poll for FFVI:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/8414-

lmao there's an actual poll of the day board now?

pjbasis posted...

lmao there's an actual poll of the day board now?

It's existed for years now!

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in just a couple of days we'll celebrate the 17th anniversary of SFII LOST?!

LeonhartFour posted...

in just a couple of days we'll celebrate the 17th anniversary of SFII LOST?!

I’m still mad about this!

A Link to the Past "plain"-rate poll today...!