Board 8 > ~*~Zen Anal-yzes the Summer 2013 Contest - 5 Years Too Late Edition~*~

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ZenOfThunder posted...

So would Garrus beat Tidus?

He would not.

now Mass Effect that's a dead series

good job terrible fanbase
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Mass Effect is one of the few series that the internet genuinely enjoys hating. I don't really understand why but yeah.
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Best part of 2013 Contest was David Hayter's Draggy Cow quote.
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ZenOfThunder posted...

@Menji why did you give the Boss boobs

Imma guess to help my bracket
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(6)Morrigan Aensland vs (13)Miles Edgeworth vs (22)Agent 47




oh man, it's my girl Morrigan. If you're reading this and don't want to pledge a nom to Metal Sonic, please throw one in for Morrigan instead. She beat Spyro once! Then did OK against Mario! Then was not in another contest for a decade! Then she beat Spyro again!

I don't think Morrigan's win here was debated, although being that Board 8 is the Worldwide Phoenix Wright Fanclub, some users were adamant Edgey would pull the upset.

Hey, remember how we got a nomination rally posted on the Objection! site for Phoenix's first ever contes?

https://objection.mrdictionary.net/go.php?n=8468802

are you guys over that yet, do you love me again

was it ever truly love

Yeah Morrigan's appearance here was to set up a rematch with Spyro in Round 2. Really boring match, somehow broke 30k votes even though nobody is really notable here.

Agent 47 might do better in 2018, people really like streaming his games now, especially the new one and I assume the upcoming Hitman 2. Wait, wasn't there already a Hitman 2? Naming conventions for reboots suck.

The only other notable thing about this match is that Ulti and I submitted the exact same Agent 47 pic but because he submitted his like an hour before mine Bacon used Ulti's even though it was a really awful render. Just look at that head! It's lumpy! Ulti, step your game up!

(9)Spyro the Dragon vs (10)Clementine vs (19)Reyn




I just realized I've been copy/pasting the "2013" from the title of the Wiki pages, whoops. I guess you all know I'm a fraud.

I know I was on the Show during the episode where they talked about this match and there was some debate as to whether or not Clementine could pull off an upset here because SERIOUS CHILD CHARACTER

I made the point that Clementine was black and that GameFAQs was too racist to vote for her and there was this really awkward pause and I think YoBlazer just said "she's black?"

Yup!



My follow-up explanation was that GameFAQs voters would do their proper research in order to "vote racistly" but obviously I was joking.

The real debate here was around Spyro's match pic. This was post-Skylanders, the series Activision threw Spyro into because they didn't think Toys-to-Life was a surefire hit. Which it turned out to be! Thanks to Skylanders we now have mega-franchises like LEGO Dimensions, Disney Infinity and amiibos!

One of which still exists!! Wow!!! What a time to be alive!!!!!!!!!!

Back to the point, people were terrified Spyro would get a pic where he looked like this:



Which none of us Picsmiths wanted to make. I don't think anyone submitted a Skylanders pic, even as a joke. What Activision did to Spyro was low, even for Board 8's standards.

Regardless, Walking Dead was just a game getting some decent buzz at the time, this was just before Telltale was at its peak. They've kind of fallen apart in recent years, I think they fired a ton of people. They're only just now remaking their Telltale Engine after everyone on YouTube started shitting on it.

Clem never had a chance here, regardless of the picture. She and Reyn (who?) getting crushed by Spyro this hard shows how bad the field was in 2013. More is not necessarily better.

also pics don't matter everyone voted from the results page anyway

This match was pretty fun tho cuz everyone was spamming "NOW IT'S REYN TIME" on the board. I love it when we can come together and scream all our favorite video game in jokes together.
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I didn't know about Telltale losing staff. Just looked it up and oh boy, that's bad.

It makes me sad that Reyn did so bad because he is such a fun character. REYN TIME is maybe the most fun game quote of all time after OBJECTION.
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it makes me sad that Spyro has a contest win and Jak doesn't

oh well at least Ratchet got one
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ya go spyro
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(2)Luigi vs (17)Balthier Bunansa vs (26)Jade




I always forget Balthier exists. Most of the time I forget Final Fantasy XII exists. You know I once had to explain to a kid in high school that no, Square Enix didn't skip from FFVIII right to FFX, there was in fact a full FFIX and it was really good. I had to show him on Wikipedia before he believe me.

That's sad. Like FFXII!

Even sadder: The state of Beyond Good & Evil 2! It's been teased so many times and it's just now showing up at E3 with a full trailer. Still no real gameplay, though. Like most Ubisoft games it's probably going to be a fair-to-good open world game where you explore and collect feathers or something.

But Jade looks cool now!



That's about it for this match. Luigi does his thing. Did anyone play that remaster of FFXII? Is it better? I remember this board was torn apart when it came out. It was like a mini B8 Civil War. A lot of people loved it but others hated it. At least people actually liked it, though. Unlike FFXIII.

(5)Big Boss vs (14)Peacock vs (23)Captain Viridian




oh snap, is that a Venom Snake pic for Big Boss?!?!?!? who is responsible for this egregious error????



shit

Well, we couldn't have known.

This match was pretty cut-and-dry, I don't know how Peacock even got in seeing as people on GameFAQs seem to go out of their way to hate fighting games. Do they hate eSports as much as real sports?

It was nice seeing a Skullgirls rep get in. Maybe next time we can get in Valentine or Filia? Someone with boobs. All the other Skullgirls have boobs, I think. Except Beowulf.



oh, that's nice. that is very nice.

wait, I guess there's Big Band, too



mmmmmmmm

What was I talking about? Oh right, yeah, Big Boss cleaned up here. I don't even know what Captain Viridian is from. VVVVVV or something. I only know it cuz KP recommended some music from it to me once. Dope soundtrack. Good on Cap'n V for getting a win here, even if the character he's beating is really bottom-of-the-barrel.

Not much else to say here. I'm wrapping it up for the night, I gotta get up kinda early tomorrow. I'll post more when I get back from work. Nominate Metal Sonic!
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hey is anyone going to nominate Venom Snake so we can have three Snakes in the contest
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ZenOfThunder posted...

hey is anyone going to nominate Venom Snake so we can have three Snakes in the contest

Imo nominate all 5 Snakes

Yes, including Solidus

Hell nominate Mauve Snake for all I care

Even nominate the guy you play as in...Metal Gear Ac!d 2
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ZenOfThunder posted...

Well, we couldn't have known.

I mean tons of people suspected

ZenOfThunder posted...

hey is anyone going to nominate Venom Snake so we can have three Snakes in the contest

LOL
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Venom Snake would be hilarious

The FF12 Remaster is really good, I'm sure some people prefer the original because no update of anything is ever 100% approved of, but I find it hard to imagine why someone would.
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ZenOfThunder posted...

Here's Vincent Valentine who was once thought to be a Noble Nine-breaking monster not being able to double KOS-MOS. And damn, look at his match pic! It's dope as hell!

Well, it's sure a shame you won't say this in the next round.
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"This body is...the punishment that's been given to me..."
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I hope KOS-MOS makes the bracket this year, since she is in Xenoblade 2. Wonder if her and Dunban split votes.

I really wonder if Shulk would do better now that he is in Smash.
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Morning everyone Im going to the supermarket does anyone need anything
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I looked at this thread and thought: "this is too nerdy and too specific to waste my time with"

Fast forward to the following day and I read everything.

I bought Skullgirls, beat the game on easy mode with every character just to see the story (it's really good!), went to online multiplayer, got my ass kicked, then stopped playing cuz I don't care for fighting games that much.

2013 was a weird period in my life where I was starting to lose interest in gaming but lacked much interest in anything else.

Oh and as for why everyone loves hating on Mass Effect: SJWs. Doesn't help when one notable staff member has a history of making racist comments towards white people (that sounds weird to say), and then recently Anita Sarkeesian of all people visited the studio.

Basically everyone blames SJWs for ruining Mass Effect, and Ghostbusters, and Star Wars, and everything ever from the dawn of time.
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Tag

Kinda weird to me that Edgeworth looked so much weaker than Phoenix
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Now I want to submit different AA characters.

Apollo?

Godot?

Ema Skye?

Athena?

(Ok they are probably all turbofodder except maybe Godot)

I vaguely remember people here getting mad at me for giving Morrigan such a good picture with such egregious TJF

which is the entire point of Morrigan, a succubus

i wish someone could do a study on the exact percentage of boost TJF actually gives
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ZeldaTPLink posted...

Now I want to submit different AA characters.

Apollo?

Godot?

Ema Skye?

Athena?

(Ok they are probably all turbofodder except maybe Godot)

There was a Godot rally in 2013 but everyone got so caught up in their own shitty rallies that people abandoned our boy. It was a shame. I'm guilty of it, too. In a field of 247 characters the #1 Phoenix Wright fanclub couldn't get Godot to make the field but freaking Peacock got in.
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Ok adding to my list of rallies then

Peacock is awesome tho

Shes like Cuphead before they decided to do an entire game with the concept.

I need to play Cuphead

ZeldaTPLink posted...

Peacock is awesome tho

But no
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LordoftheMorons posted...

Tag

Kinda weird to me that Edgeworth looked so much weaker than Phoenix

Well, the OBJECTION meme is identified with Phoenix more than anyone else. He's recognizable to people who've never played the games while Edgeworth isn't.

(also he's a better character but that's neither here nor there)

(also if you actually want to find the third strongest AA character it's probably Maya)
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Apollo > all

Too bad he's the weakest in his title game so most people are not aware of that.

(8)CATS vs (11)Ness vs (20)Locke Cole




@GANON1025 can you explain your choice of match pic here? Locke looks like a keychain you'd get out of a capsule machine at the trendy boba tea spot in the gentrified part of downtown that's right across from three identical trendy boba tea spots and eight ramen places.

There was some non-debate before this match because Ness had been punked by Big Daddy recently and people thought some rando FFVI party member would be able to take him down because of that.

Which is not the case, Ness was able to beat Zidane once, why would he struggle with Cole? In fact, Locke was closer to CATS than he was Ness.

Speaking of CATS, remember how he beat Nathan Drake in 2008? Good times. I wonder if he'll ever get another shot at a real win.

(3)Elizabeth vs (16)Poison vs (25)Thrall




Whoa, POISON was in a contest? What the hell was going on in 2013? Was it the comeback year for fighting games? Actually... Yes. Fighting games had a resurgence around 2010-2014, but then Capcom flooded their own market and ruined it again. There's another small renaissance going on right now, actually. We'll see who makes the field this year.

There was a lot of pre-match debate on where Thrall would fall here, he could be in first, second, or third, but Elizabeth was definitely stronger than Poison, so it really depended on your perception of Thrall's strength how to make your Expert picks.

The match pic finally dropped and, shit, what is up with Thrall's pic? He looks awful. He's definitely recognizable, but surely there's some better art of him...



oh



oh



ooooooooh

I'm being facetious, of course. Thrall actually does have some good art, it's all just like this:



Art like this is really hard to work with, it's not meant to be rendered, the lighting and angles don't lend themselves to a clean cut out. It seems obvious to me what kind of art would or would not be good in a match pic, but I guess that logic isn't too common, because any time a character got a bad or mediocre pic you'd get people posting "WELL WHY DIDN'T YOU USE THIS ONE" and linking to shit like this:



and not realizing how bad it would look in a tiny match pic box then getting offended when we would tell them to use their brains

Back to the topic at hand, yeah, Thrall and Warcraft in general is pretty weak, the characters aren't like Diablo where they have a series named after them and they look badass. To most people Thrall is just some Warcraft orc. Perhaps Hearthstone will change that?

Poison impressed here, she has boobs, yeah, but other than that she's fairly iconic even outside of the FGC because of the whole "lol did poison have a penis once" thing that people just can't seem to get over. It's like the most surface level video game trivia and people love to put it in their crappy "6 CRAZY facts about the Street Fighter Universe!!!!" clickbait videos.

ps I denied it at the time but I did purposefully sabotage Elizabeth's pic here to remove her TJF and iconic outfit to give Poison a fighting chance. I am despicable. Don't trust anything I say. Close this tab and go read one of the three other threads on this board that are actually about discussing contests.

If a Zen bullshit topic is the only place to get your contest fix then it's a sad time to be a stat junkie.
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Locke had no good art to choose from. It was either that pic or Amano art.

Now that he's in Dissidia, I say bring him back and give him another chance.
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You know what what I find interesting about all the fighting game characters in 2013? How bad Ryu did in nominations that year. He would have been right on the cut-line in a 128 character bracket, but because the bracket was so big it looks more like fighting games were suddenly popular.
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(4)Kirby vs (15)Terra Branford vs (24)Princess Peach




Even when the match pic is aggressively pink all-around, Kirby still manages to stand out by just being so spherical. Does anyone have more of a pic advantage than Kirby in any scenario?

Coming off of Dissidia, Terra was able to take advantage of Peach LFFing Kirby to look really respectable here. She definitely looked much better than Kefka did losing handily to GLaDOS.

Terra should be Sakurai's next pick for Smash. I know a lot of people are on team Vivi/Black Mage, but Terra just feels right to me. FFVI is one of the biggest and most beloved SNES games. If Cloud can make it in just cuz he walked on screen once in Chain of Memories, then Terra definitely deserves a spot.

Coming off of Mario Odyssey, Peach should have gotten a tiny boost, but probably nothing substantial. It's been a long time since she was in the spotlight. If 3D World had been more recent she probably would have been a bit stronger due to actually being playable. The biggest question is whether or not Daisy makes it in again now that she's an Echo in Smash.

(7)Wheatley vs (12)Crash Bandicoot vs (21)Tommy Vercetti




I was trying to find words for describing how flash-in-the-pan Wheatley was at the time, but that just put me in a melancholy mood. Wheatley is great. GLaDOS is great. Cave Johnson is great. Portal is great. Valve... was great. Now you can buy the use of their assets and IPs for a nominal fee. Portal Bridge Builder, anyone? What a timeless classic. Dozens of people are sure to have fond memories of that fun-filled two hours when they played Portal Bridge Builder before requesting a refund.

I'm being really sour, but I think we all kind of are. Valve now gives bonuses based on how much of a profit you can turn with whatever you're working on. They encourage their employees to do whatever they can to make money as fast as they can. What takes a ton of employees and a lot of time? Making full Portal and Half-Life games. You know what takes just one or two dudes and a week? Making Team Fortress 2 hats.

We're probably not going to see Wheatley again, we might see GLaDOS, but we're definitely not going to see Cave Johnson. Who knows where Gordon will even be? I'll get to him in a bit, there's a lot to say.

Alright, rant over, Crash Bandicoot was here and he won, as expected. The only kind-of surprise to people not familiar with these things was Tommy losing to Wheatley and losing pretty hard. This was the guy people had once taken over Crono. GTA protagonists ain't shit on this site. During the big hiatus in between contests, people speculated if Michael, Franklin and Trevor from GTAV would be worth anything.

Short answer: No. Long answer: Let's just stick to nominating GTA games into Games Contests and keep the characters out. Because no. Especially not after this long.

Crash had a remake of his first three games on PS4, XBONE and, recently, Switch. It got a lot of great buzz and people even started speculating he would be in Smash for some reason. That's... OK. Sure. I also saw a long 4chan post yesterday detailing how Ashley is still in Smash despite being shown as an Assist Trophy and that Sakurai is just pulling one long con to punk us. Hell of a community Smash has.

We'll probably see Crash back this year, and maybe thanks to his resurgence in popularity we'll see him get a third win. He deserves better than Wheatley and Ulala.
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ZenOfThunder posted...

She definitely looked much better than Kefka did losing handily to GLaDOS.

I take it you haven't actually looked at that poll yet.
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thank you Ulti but your writeups are the only ones that should be there, they're contest tradition and honestly I sometimes look forward to your post-contest analysis more than a contest itself

also I doubt I'll even finish this, as Leon pointed out I don't even remember a lot of this contest, especially the later matches
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ZenOfThunder posted...

Terra should be Sakurai's next pick for Smash. I know a lot of people are on team Vivi/Black Mage, but Terra just feels right to me. FFVI is one of the biggest and most beloved SNES games. If Cloud can make it in just cuz he walked on screen once in Chain of Memories, then Terra definitely deserves a spot.

Terra and Bartz actually were characters considered before Cloud when Sakurai was discussing a Final Fantasy guest with Nomura, they ended up going with Cloud anyway because they felt he was the most recognizable worldwide (most SNES RPGs didn't get a PAL release probably had to do with that)

I actually really like the idea of Bartz in Smash since with his job system he can turn into iconic faces of the franchise like a Black Mage/Dragoon/Spellblade ala Pokemon Trainer and his freelancer already has the iconic Fighter sprite look and he would represent a lot of the Nintendo era Final Fantasy in one character. But since FFV is somewhat obscure he probably won't get in.

http://sourcegaming.info/2016/01/20/sakurai-x-nomura-creator-interview-2016-part-one/
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(1)Solid Snake vs (18)Isaac (Golden Sun) vs (27)Commander Keen




Snake comes out of the gate dick first, asserting his dominance over Link and smacking Isaac so hard upside the head that he knocked him out of the Smash roster forever.

Hey let's take a trip over to the Smash Ultimate board, shall we?



Wow! People seem to really want this Isaac guy. They want him so much that Sakurai took him out as an Assist Trophy in Smash 4, the only time that has ever happened ever.

Remember how close Felix got to Master Chief back in the day? Look at Isaac now, unable to triple Commander Keen. No wonder Sakurai isn't putting him in Smash. What does he owe to the 6637 people asking for him?

I want to take a moment to talk about Solid Snake and ZenOfThunder's newly-coined Martyr Factor (or the MFer):

Konami spent the years post-Summer 2013 taking big, steamy dumps all over Kojima, Kojima Productions and Metal Gear Solid V. The franchise itself is in ruins, and everyone is aware. The developers of Metal Gear Survive, the heavily-panned, poorly selling Rust-like spinoff of MGS, were even in on the hate, hiding easter eggs in their own games dissing their Konami producers and crying out for their lord and savior Kojima to save them.

But what does that mean for Snake? Well, obviously he's not going to be in any games outside of Smash Ultimate anytime soon. Hayter would be willing to voice him but outside of Sakurai asking him to reprise the role in Smash, Konami doesn't seem (Commander) keen on bringing him back. Keifer Sutherland has such a busy schedule filming such classic new films as Pompeii and Flatliners that there's no way Konami could get him back to record three more grunts for a new MGS game.

So where am I going with this? Shouldn't Snake be weaker with less appearances? Well, yeah. Yeah he should. That's where you mix in a vial of concentrated Zen "kind of reaching there, buddy" juice.

The downfall of MGS, Kojima and Snake was so highly publicized and Konami was villainized to such an extreme degree that I believe love for Snake has reached a new level, and the story of his fall will be etched into gaming history in such a way that people will vote for him not only out of love but respect and a little bit of pity. Even though MGSV was pretty polarizing, the fate of Kojima offsets all the negative feelings, because even if the game was lacking, it was not Kojima's fault, not Snake's fault, it was Konami's fault, and FucKonami.

The MFer.

You heard it here first.

Snake > Link 2018 let's go boys

(6)Alucard vs (13)Captain Falcon vs (22)Rydia




It was here at our 30th match of the contest that we finally got something balls-to-the-walls entertaining. Not counting Draven.

Every ingredient for a successful match was here: A reliable contest all-star, a four-time Smash vet and crowd favorite, and a classic, semi-proven Final Fantasy character with titties that, uh, beat Marcus Fenix once.

Yeah, Rydia wasn't a lock to pull any upset here, but people always overestimate FF characters. Actually, I don't remember much intense debate here. People dismissed Falcon pretty easily. Alucard, again, has proven himself as a strong competitor in these things. He's no jobber.

But thanks to low votals Falcon was able to come dangerously close and the two were able to trade blows throughout the day. These are the matches Allen should aim to create. I was on the edge of my seat all day. My bracket said "Alucard" but my heart said "Captain Falcon" and I suppose my dick said "Rydia" so no matter what I was a winner.
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UltimaterializerX posted...

https://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Summer_2013_Contest

Can someone with free time add Zen's writeups to the pages? Just make sure mine are on top, please. It's the only time I play my creative control card :D

These are gold and should be remembered.

Such an absolute drama queen I love it
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It was a sad day that great characters like Alucard and Rydia had trouble against "LOL SMASH FALCON PUNCH!"

Then again I guess the match being close was all a part of the plan.
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(9)Bayonetta vs (10)N vs (19)Wander




Of all the matches that were highly debated in Summer 2013, this one baffled me then, and it still baffles me now.

How did N get into a contest? At a 9 seed? Instead of Brock and Misty? Instead of Blastoise? Instead of... There's so many better choices. Who the hell is N? Does anybody stay awake at night with visions of N dancing around in their heads?

If you're just reading about this match for the first time ever in 2018, you may be shocked to find out that, yes, many, many people took N here because Pokemon. That was the only reason.

Seeing Bayonetta rocket way out ahead right from the start was so satisfying.

N isn't even in my top 20 letters. Give me Z or Q any day.

Actually I am turning this topic into a Q nomination rally, sign up here:



Round 1 match Q / N / Zed from Pulp Fiction, who ya got?

Wander showed up here as well, and I guess N was too big of a colossus to climb. I did just dump all over N, but due to recency and being one of those hot characters of the moment, N was able to secure a win over Wander. Something tells me that a 1-v-1 between the two today would go differently.

Remember everyone Tweeting at Roger Ebert that Shadow of the Colossus is true art? Then he died.

I cut that train of thought short because my girlfriend just came home and asked why I am typing so furiously (I do that when I'm typing about the highest expression of art, ~*~Shadow of the Colossus~*~) and I asked "do you remember what game 'N' is from?"

"Pokemon?"

"Do you remember what he looks like?"

"Green... green hair."

"Do you remember anything else about him?"

"Uhhhh..."

"Anything at all."

"..."

But hey at least she remembered him, I can count on one hand the amount of times I've thought of N this year, or his dumb green anime hair.

(2)GLaDOS vs (17)Cole vs (26)Ragna the Bloodedge




You know nobody on this site cares about your anime fighting game when the main character can't beat freaking Cole McGrath.

Of course, Cole is an absolute powerhouse in these things because he had two whole character slots in this site's favorite Smash game, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale. The game with Emmett Graves in it:



You know Emmett Graves, the star of hit PlayStation exclusive StarHawk. Truly deserving of the title "PlayStation All-Star."

GLaDOS looked good here but only because of that Portal 2 recency and also who the hell is Cole and why is that other guy named "Ragna the Bloodedge." That sounds like a Sonic fan character. A pretty good one, actually. Take notes.
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(5)Ike vs (14)Proto Man vs (23)Dr. Robotnik




Over the past few years the line between the Nintendo, Mega Man and Sonic fandoms has definitely become was more blurred. While Eggman had no shot to beat either of these guys, it's interesting to speculate how many votes he pulled from the other two.

Having a match this close a day after another close one was a real treat, and if you still weren't feeling in a contest mood post-Draven, this string of matches was a pick-me-up for sure. In the end Ike barely won, but he didn't really struggle, just fell flat on his face. I don't think he lost the lead at any point, just had to put up with little cuts here and there.

Which overall was a bad look for Ike. Proto Man has never been good in these things and Ike is a national treasure and a real sweetheart. He even got his big dick adult Ike pic. I'm not even a Fire Emblem fan and I like Ike.

As for Eggman, you know who would have done better here? Metal Sonic!

(8)Epona vs (11)Mordin Solus vs (20)Niko Bellic




I completely forgot that we rallied a horse into this contest. It's all coming back to me and I want to vomit.

We're all anti-rally now, but back in the day we were doing nothing but cramming our bad jokes into this contest and hoping they took off. Everyone wanted to guess what the next L-Block was gonna be. Is Epona a classic video game character? I... guess. Does she deserve a spot more than Ragna the Bloodedge and Commander Keen? Maybe. I don't know. I'm not sure why I'm worked up about this. I fucking made Epona's picture, so who am I to talk?

Speaking of Epona's picture, it took forever to render and the end result looks awful. You can see the 1-point brownish-red stroke I put around her mane because I couldn't get the render to look good. Really phoned that one in.

I feel awful for Mordin, here's this beloved tertiary Mass Effect character who people legit love. Yeah, he didn't put up great numbers against Niko, but in the right scenario he might escape round 1.

Epona looked good here, I remember people posting "SHAPED LIKE A HORSE TO KICK YOUR ASS" or some other really awful jokes all day and it was all just so derivative and forced. L-Block somehow felt more natural. Also, L-Block didn't need a field of 247 characters to finally get in. This wasn't the first time we had try to get Epona in, either. Nobody REALLY wanted a horse in the bracket. Again, it all felt forced, and not very fun. For me, at least. This thread is about me.
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ZenOfThunder posted...

Hey, remember how we got a nomination rally posted on the Objection! site for Phoenix's first ever contes?

I e-mailed the site creator to make that happen. And for the contest after that too.
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ZenOfThunder posted...

Snake > Link 2018 let's go boys

this is exactly why the rallies this year will make me sad

ZenOfThunder posted...

I feel awful for Mordin, here's this beloved tertiary Mass Effect character who people legit love. Yeah, he didn't put up great numbers against Niko

friendly reminder that Niko Bellic finished ahead of Kefka in a 4-way in 2008

in a match that also featured Marth and Duke freakin' Nukem

also I think it was SHAPED LIKE A HORSE TO EAT SOME VOTES (you know, instead of oats) or something
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I was partial to SHAPED LIKE A HORSE TO KICK YOU IN THE FACE because that's something a horse would actually do.
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There's another small renaissance (of fighting games) going on right now, actually. We'll see who makes the field this year.

On that note, nominate Android 21, she's a videogame original, let's see how powerful DBZ hype is

Also man, this topic is making me nostalgia so hard. I missed you guys.
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KanzarisKelshen posted...

On that note, nominate Android 21, she's a videogame original, let's see how powerful DBZ hype is

spoilers not very
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