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For South Park characters i'd say Randy Marsh should be on it as he's a dude.

IMO Essentials:
Cheetara and Liono from Thundercats
Optimus Prime and maybe Megatron too from Transformers
Buzz Lightyear and/or Woody from Toy Story
K.I.T.T from Knight Rider
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (SMG)
He-Man and Skeletor

Outsiders:
Mat Tracker from M.A.S.K
Jaws (the shark)
Peter Venkman from Ghostbusters
Michael Knight from Knight Rider

I think maybe Star Wars and Star Trek characters would be better off as part of an entirely different Sci-Fi set along with things like Terminator, Predator and Xenomorph.
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Can't have DC without Supergirl. Helen Slater and Melissa Benoist's versions are both rather splendid.


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LinkMarioSamus posted...

We did have a company cap on characters for the first few contests. It resulted in a lot of strong characters being snubbed.

Better that than half a populace of low-level characters that only fans of a particular genre will have heard of. Sure i don't play every genre, but i still know who the "main" characters are from the games that don't interest me. There's no need to have the rest in place of primary characters from lesser-known games/systems; it just stacks the odds against other genres.
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creativename posted...

BarbaricAvatar posted...

Amused at all the projection going on as to my taste in games.
And "best ever" of anything is ALWAYS subjective, stop pretending it's anything else. But the variety of salty responses all but prove my point about the cabal of fanatics who can't handle people liking other things.
It's a guarantee that every contest will go one of three ways: Zelda, Final Fantasy or Nintendo in general. I'm cool with that otherwise i wouldn't frequent this site, but you're kidding yourselves if you think these contests are neutral from the outset.

Errr...you sure seem salty that people like other things than you. Like, what?

Youre free to not like Nintendo and Final Fantasy, but to get salty about people liking those things, then mock people for getting salty that people cant handle others liking different things - this is a no go bro.

And what does neutral even mean? What are you talking about?

I guess you haven't read the other responses to my initial post. I don't have a problem with people liking things, i just can't see how this contest is anything other than a fanclub which doesn't allow outsiders to take part.
Neutral means having a setup that suits everyone, not just the fans of the things oneself likes. So (for example) instead of putting everything together and then seeing the resultant whitewash consisting of Zelda, Final Fantasy or general Nintendo characters come to the finals (because those are the favoured games of this site). You'd force a situation where voters have to choose between their favourites in order to find the most popular 3 or 4 which then go into a pot with the same number of characters from other systems and genres.
Sure, the end result will probably be Link again but it would have gone through a much fairer and transparent process to get there. Rather than 1 or 2 of the popular characters from mainstream gaming losing to secondary, tertiary and lower characters from one of the three aforementioned sections simply because those games are more popular around here than shooters or slashers.
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If you ran the world, it would probably be on fire right now.

Amused at all the projection going on as to my taste in games.
And "best ever" of anything is ALWAYS subjective, stop pretending it's anything else. But the variety of salty responses all but prove my point about the cabal of fanatics who can't handle people liking other things.
It's a guarantee that every contest will go one of three ways: Zelda, Final Fantasy or Nintendo in general. I'm cool with that otherwise i wouldn't frequent this site, but you're kidding yourselves if you think these contests are neutral from the outset.
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If you ran the world, it would probably be on fire right now.

Can always count on Gamefaqs to worship anything Zelda, Final Fantasy or Nintendo.
I'm glad i didn't grow up with any of these games, i have a more balanced view of the industry as a consequence.
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You have a warped idea of what PS1 games actually look like and/or haven't played nearly enough games from the system.
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If you ran the world, it would probably be on fire right now.