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Ridley being re-sized so drastically seems weird to me, but then again how much different is Bowser?
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I might do another failpack next.
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Does Mario lose without Odyssey?

Poor Samus, still an impressive result though.
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Pikachu's Smash fame probably does him no favors against the King of Nintendo (sorry Mario).
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Is Samus still doing better against Mario than she did against Cloud in her last 1v1 loss?
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That's what I was thinking too.
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Charizard is the favorite?
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4.
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Well Magus is notorious for being a "fraud".
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Noble Nine dead and buried in the ground this contest, I'm loving this more and more.
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Just came up with this idea on a whim.
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I dunno, he probably wouldn't have broken 40% on Cloud in 2010 or earlier! Also I wasn't completely serious.

As a joke, rank the following characters in order of hypothetical contest strength:

Jar-Jar Binks
Frank Underwood
Trumpy
Det. Dwayne T. Robinson
Adam Malkovich
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Chrono Trigger boost is real.
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INTERWEBUSER posted...

LinkMarioSamus posted...

Forget MGS5, that series has been all but abandoned.

Meanwhile Nintendo is still making Metroid games, something people weren't even sure of three years ago.

So to answer your question about Samus vs. Snake, MGS is dead while Metroid isn't. There you go.

Metal Gear Survive was released this year and received comparable reviews to Federation Force.

And Survive is hated an unreal amount. It has become the symbol of everything wrong with Konami.

But it seems you don't count Samus Returns because it's a remake.
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Forget MGS5, that series has been all but abandoned.

Meanwhile Nintendo is still making Metroid games, something people weren't even sure of three years ago.

So to answer your question about Samus vs. Snake, MGS is dead while Metroid isn't. There you go.
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I mean, if Snake has supposedly dropped, I don't even want to think about how much Auron has.
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What if Lex gets a Jesse Eisenberg pic?
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All this arguing just over what's possibly the most plot-critical sex scene ever.
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I played Brawl a ton the year it came out and then largely got tired of it afterwards.
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Actually that's what I went with too.
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up
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I'm not entirely sure about Terminator 1 being one of my favorite movies (the 2nd one though, oh my), but it's amazing James Cameron was able to direct a movie with so much mayhem on such a tight budget, while at the same time finding room for a fair amount of character development.

Probably wouldn't say it's better than 2001, Alien, Blade Runner, or Robocop though. All you guys want is fast-paced action from your old movies argh. Seriously, the fact that the oldest movie in your top 10 is from 1985 is a bit of a disgrace.

For comparison purposes, last year there was a survey in Britain (specifically through Sky network) about the best science-fiction films of all time. I remember the top 20, so here goes:

1) Back to the Future
2) Blade Runner
3) Aliens
4) Return of the Jedi
5) The Empire Strikes Back
6) E.T.
7) Alien
8) The Matrix
9) Avatar
10) Jurassic Park
11) Men in Black
12) Ghostbusters (1984)
13) Star Wars
14) Terminator 2
15) The Force Awakens
16) The Terminator
17) Rogue One
18) Close Encounters of the Third Kind
19) I, Robot
20) Planet of the Apes (1968)

All things considered, I still have a hard time fathoming Independence Day being only a spot below 2001. Though I understand that both films have different enough appeal, but I don't want to seem like I hate popcorn cinema! I mean I probably prefer Raiders of the Lost Ark to 2001.
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Ah good point.
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Will Master Chief be disintegrated? Will Lex find Shepard's kryptonite?
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Okay I just remember last time I "played through" Melee (aka deliberately erased my data just to unlock every character and stage again, largely because I had never done it myself) that I took a break from the game for a few weeks and then was able to just jump right back in one day and finish the one event match where you are Luigi and have to fight Dr. Mario and Nurse Peach, which is supposed to be really hard (which it is, but yeah).
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I don't know if I should be concerned that we all talk so much about female characters' breasts and behinds, or that I'm possibly turning into an SJW worrying too much about things like this.

All joking aside, I know it's in good fun, but Samus has other notable things besides big breasts. How does she even fit those in her armor, come to think of it?
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Pirateking2000 posted...

Sephiroth may be able to bust a solar system, but he doesn't have nearly enough power to take out the entire Super Mario Galaxy.

Tifa thought the third time would be the charm and got overconfident. Doesn't help that Samus got over her wangst phase from Other M and has Returned to form (see what I did there?).
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Dunno I've never had a problem with Melee being faster and I don't play fighting games.
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EpsteinBarr posted...

And in the end, gamefaqs is proving to primarily be a Nintendo board. As a fan of Samus too, I really dont understand her huge popularity other than the bad ass chick in armor.

The overall Metroid legacy probably does wonders to help her, and this is something that will never really be tarnished. Samus has starred in two games often considered to be among the best ever made, something which few characters can really claim.

Also I think Samus gets by somewhat on because in spite of her lack of mainstream popularity, she's very recognizable to anyone with a passing familiarity to Nintendo - which is pretty much the entire demographic of a site like this. I know when I was in school I just started talking about Samus to a friend and he knew who I was talking about.
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KamikazePotato posted...

LinkMarioSamus posted...

Assuming the Sephiroth-Tifa ratio from 2010 stays, what does Mario get on Samus?

It's not. Sephiroth is weaker now (overall, not specifically weaker than Tifa).

I also get the feeling Sephiroth is weaker overall too, but was just asking hypothetically. And Mario being worth 57% on Samus doesn't seem so unbelievable. Samus is not some bastion of popularity (I guess on this site and to some extent among hardcore/retro gamers as a whole she is, but I mean in general). I dunno, if Samus does better than 43% on Mario (assuming Mario doesn't score SFF), then it won't be by much.
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red sox 777 posted...

Looking at the dramatic decline in Vincent's strength over the years relative to Aeris gap over the years, maybe Sephiroth has just fallen below Tifa now and Samus is still stronger indirectly. Then they'll have to argue rSFF in Tifa/Sephiroth to deny rSFF in Mario/Samus!

Still think Vincent's decline was because Square Enix stopped pushing him so much after a while (remember when he got his own game and he inspired Cloud's wardrobe in Kingdom Hearts 1?). Sephiroth and Tifa should be more emblematic of the game as a whole and hence haven't dropped as much.

I dunno, sometimes you just have to actually analyze character popularity instead of just hoping for character strength to remain static through contests. Like Donkey Kong's 56-44 win over Leon is roughly what I would expect without having any idea of their past contest histories, especially because Resident Evil doesn't really seem like the site's kind of thing beyond a possible nostalgia factor.

Speaking of which, in hindsight maybe Magus really was that strong in 2003 and 2004 and he just dropped a fair bit in 2005. That was the same year Frog almost lost to an ancillary Kingdom Hearts character pre-KH2 and Crono barely broke 60% on Master Chief. Meanwhile Crono was neck-and-neck with Mario the prior two years. Magus doing well in 2003 just seems like Early Installment Weirdness for the contests.
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Assuming the Sephiroth-Tifa ratio from 2010 stays, what does Mario get on Samus? Like 57%?

I could believe that considering Mario is a much more popular series than Metroid and Mario is huge while Samus has only starred in TWO games in the past decade. I think in my second chance bracket I chickened out and picked Cloud > Mario just because of Luigi losing to Tifa.

However that means that Samus gets only like 53% on Sephiroth, making it unlikely for her to beat Cloud. Maybe FFVII just hasn't declined that much since 2010. Cloud didn't have any particularly reliable matches to gauge his strength from in 2013. I guess his failure to double Frog looks pretty bad but who even knows?
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I get stuck after fighting Alucard's doppelganger.
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This place isn't as much of a dumpster fire for discussion as YouTube is.
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The one time I saw Gravity I was kind of disappointed (though I don't think I hated it), and I haven't been particularly interested in giving it a re-watch.

Maybe a little bit.
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CaptainOfCrush posted...

Except Samus.

First of all, she at least has continued exposure through Smash. Second of all, she just got a well-received new game. Third of all, she has a great enough legacy that someone like Cloud or Crono just doesn't approach.
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Snake's last two matches before this contest were giving Draven a small scare and breaking 45% on Link.

From that to breaking the Noble Nine, wow. How the mighty have fallen.
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Yeah I was worried about Zelda beating Snake. At least I took Zelda over Sonic in the losers bracket?
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Vlado posted...

"Western" AAA companies are too busy pushing globalist divide and conquer agenda (muh feminism, muh minorities, and other SJW nonsense) through games to bother writing good stories. Plus, when you push globalist agenda, creative talent flees, so even if you wanted to write a good story, there's no-one competent enough to do it.

At this point anyone who actually thinks this is a bigot in disguise.
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About Ripley, I think she really wants to just survive herself. And she might not be thinking straight at the time.

Alien, Aliens, and Terminator 2 are probably among my top 5 films of all time. But Alien was not very well-received on release, so again don't worry if you didn't like it.
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Seconded, Gravity and Interstellar have become notorious for how much post-release backlash both films have gotten.

Though that seems to be more or less par for the course for modern blockbusters.
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Dark City is one of the movies I most want to see.

Scarlet, one of the writers was David S. Goyer, whose credits range from The Dark Knight Trilogy to Blade: Trinity and Batman v. Superman. You know who to blame.
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