My responses in bold:
Vlado posted...
LinkMarioSamus posted...
I stopped caring about this contest when Final Fantasy mainstays lost to Halo and Gears of War characters. So disheartening.
That's normal. FF isn't all that loved on Gamespot. From the super popular franchises here, only Metal Gear is relatively the same strength there.
Still, casual fratboy shooterfest characters beating Final Fantasy dudes is extremely disheartening to me. "Hardcore" PC characters are another thing entirely, of course.
Also this Launchpad/Einstein/Dogmeat business is absolutely ridiculous, as is Epona beating Cube (yeah I haven't played either Portal game, but I would actually vote for both of them if they were against any game that Epona is in because I'm not such a huge fan of OOT, MM, or TP - the only top tier Zelda games to me are LTTP and WW).
Launchpad and Einstein kicking ass is result of a hilarious bandwagon - nothing wrong with that. Dogmeat rallies on the official Fallout Facebook page. The horse beating Weighted Companion Cube was ridiculous, I agree.
It was hilarious to see Launchpad defeating Call of Duty and Halo characters, but that's it. Launchpad had no business defeating Zero, and Einstein had no business defeating Yoshi.
None of Gamespot's prior contests was this stupid. I mean take a look at this:
Hero contest - Samus gets to the final four by beating more "mainstream" characters, and we get a worthy winner.
Samus only got so far because Gamespot reversed Bub & Bob's win over her, mind you.
Also Samus beat Mega Man in that contest.
Villains contest - Kefka losing to Sweet Tooth and General RAAM's run was pretty stupid, but my current playthrough of StarCraft is telling me that the voters chose an excellent winner.
Eh, Vader or Joker should've won. :P
Nah, Kefka and Kerrigan are the greatest VG villains as far as I'm concerned.
This contest - Luigi and Yoshi are both already out, whoopeedo. What an awful contest
Actually, that adds massively to its quality.
OH COME ON...*shoots face*
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