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BlAcK TuRtLe posted...

Nacho/Lalo situation will likely wrap up next season, leading to the situation Saul references at the beginning of Breaking Bad

I'm thinking tonight will focus on Saul/Kim and Lalo/Fring storylines.

What situation is that? (Been a long while since I watched BB...)

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My regrets are trusting Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem way too much just because they're Nintendo and had new games recently come out. Being a Nintendo game helps a lot but that only goes so far unless it's Zelda or a main line Mario.

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Yeah, interesting stuff.

I think the only way I can win is if Three Houses > P4G, which...is very unlikely to happen without a rally or three.

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Make sure it's a Cat 5e or a Cat 6 cable.

Regular Cat 5 cable is NOT sufficient for Gigabit speeds. Probably doesn't matter for your purposes, nor am I certain that you can even buy regular Cat 5 anymore. But just figured you should know since I ran into this myself lately when I moved.

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Yuri_LowelI posted...

WHat should be the Bonus Poll?

GOTD 2010's vs Majoras Mask Winner of 2000's

I'd like to see a bunch of bous polls

FF7 vs BOTW
CT vs OoT
Smash Ultimate vs Smash Melee

Winner vs MM is probably a certainty

I'd love to see Hollow Knight vs Shovel Knight but that's just me.

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Galaxy (either one) > Odyssey

Odyssey is a really fun game but I found it slightly underwhelming.

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The way I see it is, put all the contenders in one big poll. Which ones garner at least, lets say 3%, of the total votes? Those are your "objective" best games of the decade.

It's not an attempt to alienate or invalidate anyone's opinion. I bet you could find 1 person out there who legitimately thinks nearly every game released in the past 10 years was their Game of the Decade.

"Objective" is trying to get at the larger picture of cultural impact. It's why Mario 64 is beloved and objectively a GotD 90s, while Banjo-Kazooie isn't (even though it's a better game ;) )

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UltimaterializerX posted...

The objective games of the decade: Skyrim, Dark Souls, Dota 2, Clash of Kings, GTA5, Fortnite, Red Dead Redemption 2, Smash Ultimate, Breath of the Wild, CoD: Black Ops, Witcher 3, Undertale, Bloodborne, Mass Effect 2, Mass Effect 3, Mario Odyssey, Super Meat Boy, The Last of Us, Doom, Overwatch, Borderlands 2, Shovel Knight, Hearthstone, Stardew Valley, Persona 5, Dragon Quest 11, Horizon Zero Dawn, Hollow Knight, NieR Automata, God of War, and REmake Evil 2.

The answer is whatever you want from that list, but it is absolutely one of those games. And trust me, there are things on there I detest, but the story of gaming this decade cant be told without them.

(Minecraft and League both came out in 2009.)

That's a pretty good list, that probably cover like 95-98% of people's choices!

In looking over our nominated games,
I could see arguments for adding Ori, Xenoblade, Galaxy 2, Portal 2, and Arkham City.
I could see arguments for removing Clash of Kings (I'm assuming you meant the mobile game Clash of Clans?), Undertale, Mass Effect 3 (since 2>3 to most people), and REmake Evil 2.


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Leonhart4 posted...

Not what anyone is actually arguing. We like using accurate data to make predictions in future contests, as well as seeing how all the entrants stack up against each other. Not the same thing as saying it should be as predictable as possible.

It's also interesting, because we have historical data, to see how this changes over time.

If we ran the exact same contest from 2002 again, we might get the same final result of Link winning but we wouldn't get the same outcomes by the same percentages in all 63 (or however many) matches.

Actually, that WOULD kind of be neat...20th Anniversary Throwback Character Battle...

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Heropon_Riki posted...

Predictable contests are boring though. The bracket challenge is fun in the first place because you can only predict accurately to a certain extent.

How is this contest predicable, other than BotW wins? Lots of matches we aren't sure of, plus, it's not like there were any perfect brackets after Round 1. There HAVE been contests in the past there were very predictable and had quite a few people perfect for a long time; this is not one of them.

The other thing about rallies, back in the day they just plain were less noticeable because we had actual trends. Before and After School votes, night votes, etc. That WAS exciting to see the affect of the After School vote as all the "kiddies" came home and propped up characters.

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UltimaterializerX posted...

The game Im rallying for is going to lose (and might have won had I never bothered!), and I still love this stuff. Contests are always more fun where theres madness and nonsense.

That there are people who would rather we have a dead site entirely just blows my mind.

I understand your point, but have these contests actually brought any lasting new traffic to the site?

I know everyone here loves the contests, but Board 8 sometimes feels like it's so in it's own little bubble in regards to these things.

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UltimaterializerX posted...

This is how every close match has been for 20 years.

I'm a different person than I was 20 years ago, so I'm not worried about what I felt then versus what I feel now. Also, the nature of social media and fandom has changed drastically in that time.

I find it somewhat ironic that THIS topic, which loves to analyze and obsess (and I mean that mildly) over data, X-Stats, and relative strength within a franchise, would be okay with rallies. Think of all the conversation about how X result isn't "true" and has to be adjusted because of XYZ rally factor. How we never had a match between C and D because JKL getting rallied ruined it.

I know it's all silly stuff. And maybe a large part of the analysis fun IS just getting to argue these factors. (It's not a controlled experiment after all.)

I wonder what the results would look like if these were just polls without an actual contest and prizes. Take bracket votes, and the herd mentality of trying to win, out of play because that's certainly affected voting over these last 2 decades. What changes? Is the LAW still the LAW? (Yes of course but I bet some other things might change.)

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I'll never understand how "who can rally on bigger, more important social media platforms" makes a GameFAQs contest more fun. It just makes me care a whole lot less about the results.

Yes, yes, I know. Save yourself about telling me about how rallies are in the rules and all that.

This is the equivalent of bringing in a ringer.

On an unrelated note, I know this has already been said about RE2 and MK8, but I suppose we're supposed to be considering the original Shovel Knight and not the far, far superior Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove? While SK is a fine game, it's really the added campaigns of the other Knights that elevate the entire package.

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Both Celeste and Rayman Legends are great games. Rayman is the slightly better game but both are tremendous platformers.

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ZeldaTPLink posted...

It isn't just gameFAQs though. This is a popularity contest first and foremost, so an indie game with a small playrate has an uphill battle against a mainstream industry game. Those games would be losing in most other sites.

Yes, that's still certainly true.

shane15 posted...

Never used these contests as a means to find new stuff to play. They have however put me off games even more.

I can't remember if I played Undertale before, during, or after THAT contest. But I'd have to think that infamous run got many people to check out that game that knew nothing about it beforehand.

I think if a "no-name"/indie game DOES win a poll, that should be enough for people to take notice. Hollow Knight and Ori are both FANTASTIC Metroidvania style games. Major studios literally could not do them any better.


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Advokaiser posted...

I know, man, it's just funny to hear someone say "who knows about all these fodder games!". XD

Kills me too to have all these great games "trashed" because they're not worth anything in a contest. Smaller stuff like The Talos Principle, The Witness, and The Stanley Parable are all legitimately great games that more people should play.

I know this is GameFAQs, so as a general rule Nintendo > RPGs > Everything Else, but I hope the tiny bit of extra exposure gets some people to give some of these "other" games a try.

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It looked like Link had about 66.66% or so before the rally. BotW is likely to get, what, 75-80%, on Reach?

Our vote totals are pretty low...so yeah, it could very well swing the result, which would kind of suck. On the other hand, that's characters and this is games. I could understand a Halo fan picking MC over Link. I'm not a Halo guy but is Reach really that well regarded, especially against a game like BotW?

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https://tiermaker.com/list/video-games/gamefaqs-game-of-the-decade-2-320611/478107



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plasmabeam posted...

Samus Returns was the best 2D Metroid since Super. Should've made the bracket, but what hurt it was being released so late in the 3DS' lifespan.

What about AM2R? I know it's not an "official" Metroid game but it was a pretty damn fine remake.

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You should do a reverse Babe Brawl. Find the ugliest babe that's been nominated and never won a match.

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Scary thing about the bell curve is, once you're on the downslope you still have 50% of the cases/deaths to go. And this is the type of thing likely to have a long tail.

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ZeldaTPLink posted...

I started playing Celeste a few days ago. It's great!

Get them strawberries!

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It's hard for me to truly judge where I'd rank BotW because I'm old now.

I LOVED BotW when I played through it. It's sense of place and exploration is probably the very best in the series. It was a joy just to run around that world. ...But it's also a game I can't see myself wanting to play again for a long time.

OoT and ALttP I've probably played a dozen times each over the years. My love of them is etched in nostalgia as much as anything else.

I've played through MM, TP, WW, and LA in the last few years because of their remasters.

• MM is better than I remembered but still, I feel, as divisive a game as BotW, due to the time mechanics.
• TP is also better than I remembered. It's got great dungeons but a not great overworld.
• WW is worse than I remembered. It's far and away the best looking Zelda, has those memorable "under the sea" moments, and a unique world. But the dungeons kind of suck and the sailing is still tedious.
• LA is a game I LOVED as a kid. So many family car trips passed playing it. Yet in 2020...it shows its age in its roots as a handheld game.

For the purposes of NostalgiaFAQs, yeah, it's OoT, then ALttP, BotW, and MM...maybe or maybe not in that order, but definitely I distinct cut above the rest of the series.

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SuperNiceDog posted...

Mass Effect 2 had an INCREDIBLE trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx9sPQpjgjU

If by incredible you mean giving away all the squadmates you meet then, yeah!

Ugh, that's a prime example of why I no longer watch trailers. As someone who knew basically nothing about the series when I played it about 2 years ago, I would have hated spending all of ME2 waiting, for example, for the robot man to appear.

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Winner: Breath of the Wild
Tiebreaker: 2468101

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Zenithian Legend posted...

Absolutely insane how much the total users on this site has dropped over the years. Just looking at those polls:

2009: 107,940 total votes
2010: 72,951
2012: 43,504
2016: 20,504
2019: 11,548

Not sure if that is utter mismanagement running this site or more options causing users to look elsewhere, probably a bit of both.

GameFAQs is known for being a site with text guides for old games. Much like newspapers, a majority of the loss is simply the natural decline of a dying way to ingest information.

There is probably still a little more that could have been done to mitigate that loss. Heck, I feel like it hasn't been THAT long since HTML guides finally became a thing. I noticed some games have links to video guides but it's not enough. If I need help on how to get past something in a newer game I tend to go to YouTube first.

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Tiebreaker: 2468101

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v_charon posted...

The one time I really wanted him to be right he isn't... instead it's nearly the complete opposite and Trump goes batshit insane.

And yet, somehow, his approval rating has never been higher...

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Mr Lasastryke posted...

why is easter a good goal date?

the "goal date" in my country is 6/1. isn't easter, like, ridiculously soon?

Gotta keep the evangelicals in his "base" happy.

No fucking way you'll see Trump in a packed Easter Sunday mass on that day, even if he does defy every expert and say that "mass" gathering are okay again.

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So DC was very smart and starting yesterday, restricted access and shutdown roads around the National Mall and Tidal Basin to attempt to thwart the normally massive crowds that show up for the peak of the cherry blossom bloom.

I had biked over there on Saturday and there were a lot of people out and about. (I biked over for exercise and to avoid the sidewalk crowds by keeping to the streets.) Granted, it was probably half the crowd it normally gets, where every parking space is taken and traffic is basically at a standstill, but it was still a lot of people.

I don't know what the situation on the ground was like on Sunday, but based on traffic patterns from Google Maps, it appears to have been pretty successful.

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Esuriat posted...

I haven't been thrilled with Virginia's progress so far. 2,325 tests as of today.

I can tell you that there's A LOT of people out and about in Arlington and Alexandria. I've been walking around (trying as hard as possible to maintain proper distance) but I've seen lots of people playing soccer and basketball, as well as kids playing on playgrounds.

Best thing that could happen would be a nice rainy cold front to keep people inside. The damn cherry blossoms aren't going to help anything out.

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MZero11 posted...

Realizing you don't have enough time to do everything you want to do

And too much of the time you DO have is wasted on work, commuting, cleaning, grocery shopping, and other manners of "useless" pursuits.

No, you will NEVER clear your game backlog. No, you will NEVER clear your Netflix/streaming queue.

Sorry, going a little negative there... But in all seriousness, time, and the finite amount you have is the worst realization as you get older.

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Leonhart4 posted...

Need more new blood

I guess "new" is always in perspective ;)

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