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| LeonhartFour 05/02/18 1:24:16 AM #451: | Haste_2 posted... His picture was a bit unrecognizable and also possibly not actually CJ I've often considered the possibility that the reason 2004 Snake looked so bad (aside from the Tanner match) is because CJayC used Naked Snake pics for his matches against Knuckles and Mega Man (two characters he faced the year before and did noticeably worse), and every MGS fan knew that wasn't Solid Snake. His match against Frog speaks for itself in how much a bad picture can cause you to underperform. But regardless, even if a poll "foreshadowed" the Nintendo Boost, nobody could've actually predicted the total shift. Keep in mind that Ness didn't beat CJ by that much. It was just a 55/45 result, and the Nintendo Boost (paired with CJ getting a picture that might have been another character entirely) could have flipped the result. Plus, as I said, GTA really hasn't been the same since the Nintendo Boost either. There are certain characters and franchises that were negatively impacted by the demographic shift in 2005, including a bunch of niche Square and niche RPG characters (Remember how Tifa matched Cloud's percentage on Vyse in 2005? I remember discussions about whether Tifa and Vincent were acting as Cloud/Sephy proxies since they weren't in the main bracket. Good times). --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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