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Going by other sports like Football(soccer), yeah in the long run tainted titles don't mean shit.
Fans still count it for bragging rights.

Astros got off light.


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Anyone would trade a GM/Manager for a ring.

Players ought to have gotten punished too.

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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78325014

I remember back in the early 2010s when I used to watch a lot more new releases.

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Will work out something for AOTD tomorrow.

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Not yet.

Bane can probably send me his ballot, might not count it though.


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I got everything tallied up from what was submitted, will uh make a new topic tomorrow.

But there's a few shows I've not really heard much about that did pretty well.

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I'll most likely do something where long runners need a certain number of cours to qualify
Or need under a certain number of eps before an arbitrary cutoff date for shorter series.

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Best couple for the decade should be a slamdunk.

Gotta manufacture a few rules to make it clear as to what's eligible.

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knowing me it'll probably take a couple of days to sort out the tallying and then get the results topic up and running.

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Weren't they p good last year?

It happens.

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Alright lads, time to start sending in some of them ballots.

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Yakuza 5 sure is great.

Big fan of each character's main minigame too.

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Tag

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Actually best Visuals is a little bit tricky for me this year.


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Never did give Ikaruga a spin, how is it for someone who's more used to Touhou games?

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Woops!

Well I'll say Job Fiesta pushes FFV near the top of the JRPGs.

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Hmmm can't remember which JRPG is gonna top your rankings, not even sure a JRPG will be #1 overall.

If you're giving SH1 glowing praise, then Shadow Hearts 2 out to be pretty darn high.

Oh right, Xenoblade isn't on the list yet.
Wasn't that the one you went out of your way to mod your Wii for?

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Just a feeling, but looks like no Yakuza style game's gonna make this list!

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Tactics style games are totally a genre that benefit from a speed up option!
Disgaea games gave that to me in a good way.

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Spirit of Justice was cool for giving Apollo some much needed development, but I think it also had the worse new gameplay addition.

It felt a lot more frustrating if you hit a moment where you were just going by trial and error.

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A Yoshi P x Yoko Taro collab to make FFXVI would probably get even the more cynical fans of the series somewhat interested.
It doesn't even feel all that unlikely anymore that at least one of the two could be involved in the next mainline title.

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Well I was just thinking that had they kept going, the roster would be huge with a ton of popular characters available so the skin selling could be pretty profitable.

My issue with fighting games online, is that after a bit, the playerbase dwindles and you're left with just guys who will body you every time. I just wish they'd find some method of keeping a large pool of players who suck engaged.

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I wonder how good SFIV would be now if they had just gone the League of Legends route and kept updating instead of making SFV.
SFIV was good, but by the end with all the updates it was maybe the best fighting game I've ever played.

Tekken seems to be doing good with its content updates, but I'll never get into Tekken games the same way.

Really interested to see if the League fighting game will affect the FGC in a major way.

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Malty maybe?

Mob Psycho 2's had a couple of good ones.

Can't see Muzan taking too many votes
Dr Stone built up a decent villain though


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Tbh, after Bravely Default's implementation of the speed up function, I wanted all my RPGs to have something akin to that.

Don't some games have on field enemies run away from you if you're sufficiently high level as well?

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With RPGs I kinda just wanna blitz through any battle where you one shot with a normal attack.
Accelerating the game also makes steals or drops a little less painful.
With IX there's really good items that have a super low steal rate, which makes the battle loop a bit of a pain.

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I don't have much against warp speed!
Made FFV way more bearable when you needed to grind a little bit during a job fiesta run,

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Isn't the speed argument for IX rendered moot with the PC version now out?

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In previous years Haikyuu won Fight of the Year so yeah sports or matches in a competitive environment can count too.

Haven't caught up on Ace of Diamond to know if anything super hype's ongoingon that front.

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Mac gets it.

Emma's aight, but every year Best Female Character ends up being the more competitive of the two because waifus.
I think even when I split it into Best FeMC & Waifu, people still put a lot of stock into their waifus.

If people wanna vote for Tanjiro x Nezuko they can feel free to do so.


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Was looking up what non-shounen battles I could include.

Not gonna put anything Chihayafuru related, but FGO did catch the eye with the Gorgon fight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ForOrtRZz2Y

Though this is specific to the Ushiwakamaru portion and other characters were involved in the fight, this section has been praised a good by those watching the show and I gotta agree. Babylonia's not yet covered the sections that made the singularity so popular, but if future fights top this then fans like myself will be very pleased.

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Beastars S1 counts for this year.
If there's a season 2 next year, then that'll count for next year.

handsomeboy2012 posted...

bit confused about the character categories
are supporting characters allowed in the male/female award?
how do you define supporting characters?
Are only characters that first appeared this year eligible for the all the awards except recurring? So I can't vote for a show that had say, season 1 last year and season 2 this year?

Any non-recurring character can be nominated for the male/female ones. It's just that even though they've placed before, the vast majority of the votes end up going to a show's star.
For supporting characters, think about other award shows like the Emmys which is mostly for TV shows. Peter Dinklage/Aaron Paul got a lot of nominations for supporting, but it was Walter White collecting the Leading Actor noms.

Yeah, characters who made their debut this year are eligible for everything except for recurring.
Although there can be special circumstances if say a show has been rebooted, it's a spinoff or has some other major element to distance it from the original series.

As for shows, if you like My Hero Academy Season 4 a lot, you can vote for it as AOTY or best drama or even best cast. Long running shows like this tend to add a bunch of new characters who will take a lot of focus for the season which makes it ok for me.


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Looking at the shows I've seen more closely this year.

I think Kaguya is one of my early frontrunners to dominate the Character awards, be it male/female/cast/Couple/supporting.

Maybe not #1 in each, but should be a strong contender.

I run SMFAS as well every year and Kaguya/The Promised Neverland were two new shows that did really well.

We had a buunch of new Jump animes this year from Promised Neverland to We Never Learn. So it's possible one of their shows ranks highly in the eventual AOTY list.

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Movies are not eligible for any category.
They will be for decade though.

For most anticipated shows I use MAL to get a quick overview of what hasn't aired:

https://myanimelist.net/anime/season

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Just to get us started on a few points.

While OP/ED's one that's easy to vote for even if you haven't seen the shows as they're under 2mins, I think Fights can also enter that category.

Last few years has been heavy on the HeroAca for top fight, but this year, is anyone else feeling that Demon Slayer should get some representation?

Haven't yet caught up on HeroAca, so maybe the newest season's also got good stuff, but having read the manga, the arcs it covers while good shouldn't be in that All Might/One For All tier.
(Actually same applies for Attack on Titan stuff)

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Gonna be boring, but will say that for action shows. Demon Slayer did good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmanD_s7G3U
But I'm a little biased towards LiSA songs.

Though as Mac brought up, the Chika ED sticks out a looot.

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

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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78286128

Alright lads, 2019 version is up!

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It's that time of year again, well actually a little later than usual. Wanted to see if giving more time would help people watch those last few remaining shows they wanted.

Last year A Place Further Than the Universe dominated with only Rascal putting up a fight in some of the character oriented awards.
This year, well I haven't seen as many shows as last year, so looking forward to seeing some of the arguments made for shows/characters in some categories.
But as ever, this is just a fun thing.

Oh and next month gotta do Anime of the Decade too, but will probably tweak some of the categories for that!

We're going to be using the same format as last year but with two new awards.

Quick Rules:

• Voting is open until until Sunday 5th January.
• PM your ballot and I will tally the results.
• On each ballot vote for what you thought was best in a category, with 1st place getting the most points and so on.
• We're splitting between A Categories and B Categories. The Major awards (A Category) allow you to vote for up to 5 shows, B cats are restricted to 3 shows.

The awards:

Category A (The traditional 6 most popular awards)

Anime of the Year
Your favourite anime series this year. The show must have had the majority of its episodes aired in 2019

Best Character Male/Female
For the top male/female character of the year.

Best Drama/Comedy
This is for the best shows of their respective genres.

Best Opening-Ending
The best Opening/Ending of the year. Please take into account that for this award you are voting for what was used in the broadcast version of the show.

Category B (The best of the rest)

Most Anticipated Show
Which upcoming show has you most hyped?

Fight of the Year
As ever, this is for the best showdown between two parties. It can be a traditional 1 vs 1, team battle or sports match.

Best Couple
This is for the 2 characters who had the most onscreen chemistry together.

Best Story
The show which you felt had the most compelling story

Studio of the Year
This one boils down to which studio produced the most content you enjoyed for the year.

Best Cast
The series that had the best overall ensemble this year

Best Visuals
Which show's visuals wowed you the most this year?

Best Supporting Character
This is to show appreciation for some of the characters with a little less screentime.

Best Villain
New award, rewarding the best antagonist of the year. For this award please select characters, not organisations.

Best Recurring Character
People really like voting for the same characters every year in various categories because hey.they're good.
Others have voiced an opinion against this, so this award is for characters from shows in their 2nd, 3rd or beyond season that people like most. Can serve as a most improved of sorts as well as characters who suck in Season 1 can sometimes become the best part of a new season.

Ballots:

Category A Awards

Anime of the Year
+8
+5
+3
+2
+1

Best Male Character

+8
+5
+3
+2
+1

Best Female Character
+8
+5
+3
+2
+1

Best Drama
+8
+5
+3
+2
+1

Best Comedy
+8
+5
+3
+2
+1

Best Opening-Ending
+8
+5
+3
+2
+1

Category B Awards

Most Anticipated Show
+5
+3
+1

Fight of the Year
+5
+3
+1

Best Couple
+5
+3
+1

Best Story
+5
+3
+1

Studio of the Year
+5
+3
+1

Best Cast
+5
+3
+1

Best Visuals
+5
+3
+1

Best Supporting Character
+5
+3
+1

Best Villain
+5
+3
+1

Best Recurring Character
+5
+3
+1

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Liked LiS, liked BtS, liked Max, yet didn't like Chloe or Rachel all that much.

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I can confirm Ark sent me a multi-game award winner in Disco Elysium, thanks Ark!

Also sent gifts out as well.

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The Inazuma Eleven games are pretty solid.

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Ehhh, could be worse.

I'm still a little mad at when Yakuza 3 removed the Hostess sidequests for the West.

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Any significant differences between the English and Japanese versions?

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XIII-2's battle system was great, LR though, that shit got confusing early on.


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I liked it, but the sequels are more fun.

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You can always catch the FGO anime, it's clearly separate in story from other Fate properties.

Tbh I've seen even less anime than last year, but just tuning up for AOTD.
So I might binge one or two shows before the end, but I feel Kaguya's gonna win a lot of things in my book and deservedly so if it does.

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Ok, errmmm yeah.

Hope to have AOTY noms up on 26th or 27th.
Closing Date would be something like 4th of January.

Same scoring system as last year, where you can distribute more points for major categories.


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Man Borderlands 3 must have been crazy disappointing.

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Telltale lives?

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