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LeonhartFour 10/15/23 10:17:08 AM #301: |
Cecil would win that one pretty easily, unfortunately. Cecil has some embarrassing losses but nothing like a virtual 3-way tie with Laharl and Hogger.
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LeonhartFour 10/15/23 10:17:34 AM #302: |
UltimaterializerX posted...
Its a crime that Cecil has no wins. Nah, it's hilarious and I hope it continues forever, especially since FFIV is Allen's favorite game. --- http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/080/145/638.png ... Copied to Clipboard!
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KamikazePotato 10/15/23 10:24:59 AM #303: |
I'm not even sure I'd qualify Cecil's losses as embarrassing. Just unfortunate.
2008 - https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/3244-division-1-round-1-cecil-jade-wario-zack SFFd by ZackFAQs. Considering what Zack went on to do that year...understandable. 2010 - https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/3739-chaos-division-round-1-cecil-harvey-vs-knuckles Extremely solid result vs Knuckles. Actually outdid Zidane's more recent performance by a lot. Rivalry Rumble - https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/4519-east-division-round-1-luigi-vs-waluigi-cecil-vs-golbez Considering the intrinsic strengths of these four character, this should've been at least a doubling in Luigi's favor. 2013 - https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/5214-character-battle-ix-division-8-round-1-pit-vs-wrex-vs-cecil Loses to Wrex during Mass Effect's heydey. Does seem a bit disappointing...until you dig deeper and learn that Wrex got rallied during that match by 4chan. 2018 - https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7256-division-3-round-1-crash-vs-cecil 45% on Crash Bandicoot seems bad, but in 2018 it was also equal to like 43% on Big Boss. Cereal mascot type characters went crazy that year. Cecil's history is one of poor timing and unfortunate bracket placement, not weakness. He actually placed in the top half of the 2018 X-stats. --- It's Reyn Time. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Leonhart4 10/15/23 10:29:22 AM #304: |
Yeah, embarrassing probably isn't the right word other than the fact that he keeps losing. He just keeps finding himself on the wrong end of close matches. He's usually paired up against someone of relatively close strength.
Well, he did get tripled by Kirby in 2005, but he did have unrecognizable Amano art for the match pic. --- https://imgur.com/WqDcNNq https://imgur.com/89Z5jrB ... Copied to Clipboard!
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KamikazePotato 10/15/23 10:32:34 AM #305: |
The 2-D FF characters were a different breed before Dissidia. That game brought them back into the limelight and gave them actual decent match pic material.
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LightningStrikes 10/15/23 11:49:42 AM #306: |
Cecil has a worse record than Gordon ever did. Also unlike Gordon I doubt they will release a sequel to Cecils game that revitalises the genre any time soon.
Also, I dont think it was mascot status that helped Crash. Rather I think N-Sane Trilogy gave him a massive boost, that was a giant hit that revived the franchise. --- I just decided to change this sig. Blaaaaaaargh azuarc ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Leonhart4 10/15/23 11:59:34 AM #307: |
Nah, I think it's us coming around on those things becoming nostalgic instead of lame. It just took Crash, Spyro, etc. longer to come around than it did for Pokemon.
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LightningStrikes 10/15/23 12:19:28 PM #309: |
Leonhart4 posted...
Nah, I think it's us coming around on those things becoming nostalgic instead of lame. It just took Crash, Spyro, etc. longer to come around than it did for Pokemon. This is absolutely the case but its not happening naturally in a vacuum. Why did people start coming around on Crash (he looked ok-ish in 2013)? Because Activision stopped churning out crappy Crash games every year. Then when they brought it back right before the 2018 contest it was a HUGE hit and he looked good. By contrast other nostalgic characters didnt necessarily fare so well. Im not convinced there was a mascot bounce in 2018, rather it seems more likely that the revival of these franchises helped (along with a large majority of Square characters looking bad). I mean, Charizard is one of the most notable mascots of one of the most nostalgic games yet looked really disappointing. --- I just decided to change this sig. Blaaaaaaargh azuarc ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Leonhart4 10/15/23 12:25:27 PM #310: |
UltimaterializerX posted...
The Amano art is great and I will die on that hill. You will die alone --- https://imgur.com/WqDcNNq https://imgur.com/89Z5jrB ... Copied to Clipboard!
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KamikazePotato 10/15/23 7:12:36 PM #311: |
I chalk the 2018 'mascot boost' up to the format more than anything else. When a voter is forced to participate in four polls, the characters that benefit the most are going to be the ones that have few dedicated fans - but widespread notoriety. Maybe you can attribute some of Crash/Spyro boosting to their new games, but characters like Pac-Man and Donkey Kong also did extremely well.
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_SecretSquirrel 10/15/23 7:47:35 PM #313: |
The Amano art wouldn't be so bad if it at least resembled the way the characters look in the game. In most cases, it just doesn't.
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Leonhart4 10/15/23 8:06:16 PM #314: |
I legit thought Bartz's Amano art representation in FFV was a woman wearing black lipstick
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pjbasis 10/15/23 10:14:07 PM #315: |
Amano art is great.
It probably is too distinct an artstyle for final fantasy though. A game that can can recreate his artstyle graphically would be amazing. --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png ... Copied to Clipboard!
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LeonhartFour 10/16/23 12:03:15 AM #316: |
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/3272-division-8-round-1-shepard-magus-sandbag-sonic
a literal bag of sand Curious to see how this one would go today. Shepard would've easily gotten 2nd in the height of Mass Effect, but now it's hard to say. --- http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/080/145/638.png ... Copied to Clipboard!
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_SecretSquirrel 10/16/23 2:11:07 AM #317: |
I think Sonic > Magus is pretty safe these days. You can pretty much trace Chrono Trigger's biggest lows to when vote totals were at its highest, and it's no coincidence that it's done pretty well for itself when it's just the site's core audience and little else determining the results.
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HaRRicH 10/16/23 9:30:06 AM #318: |
Counterpoint: that bag of sand has been in two GotY-winning games since that poll, including one that got to the 2010-2019 GotD semi-finals and could have arguably been our #2 game here.
I'd probably lean Magus > Sandbag in a rematch too, but I'm not convinced. --- O P E R A T I O N O U S T : Nominate SHEIK! https://i.imgur.com/OpudFxm.jpg ... Copied to Clipboard!
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ctesjbuvf 10/16/23 9:31:28 AM #319: |
Losing to Sandbag was never as bad as it was made to be.
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Leonhart4 10/16/23 10:07:02 AM #320: |
ctesjbuvf posted...
Losing to Sandbag was never as bad as it was made to be. Nah, it's just the fact that it's a literal bag of sand with eyeballs on it --- https://imgur.com/WqDcNNq https://imgur.com/89Z5jrB ... Copied to Clipboard!
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AxemRedRanger 10/16/23 11:09:24 AM #321: |
Magus looked only marginally weaker than Sub-Zero in 2018 (52-48 with Vincent, Vincent outperformed Sub-Zero on Auron)
Sub-Zero is overall probably one of our most stable guys of reasonable strength and is one of the relatively few other opponents Sandbag has faced. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/3290-division-8-round-2-sonic-sandbag-auron-sub-zero Didn't go well for the bag. Sandbag probably would have done worse 1-on-1 and does worse in 2023 regardless of format due to the general fading of joke characters. And given the trends of the past 15 years Chrono Trigger seems unlikely to majorly decline if nothing happens that would cause votals to shoot back up. It also seems pretty obvious and intuitive to me (your mileage may vary) that "the ****ing Glove" would be a step up over Sandbag at least in a contest environment where jokes don't run rampant and: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7248-division-2-round-1-noctis-vs-master-hand If you agree with me that Master Hand > Sandbag but want to argue Sandbag > Magus, you start running up awfully close to Magus ~ Noctis and that's just not happening. I don't think this would be close in 2023 unless you think a weird rally could get going. Magus > Sandbag with 60+% --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] [NO Azuarc NO PEACE] ... Copied to Clipboard!
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_SecretSquirrel 10/16/23 4:32:50 PM #322: |
HaRRicH posted...
Counterpoint: that bag of sand has been in two GotY-winning games since that poll, including one that got to the 2010-2019 GotD semi-finals and could have arguably been our #2 game here.In 2018 Smash fever conditions, I'd definitely take the punching bag. In 2023 when everyone has long since moved on and there's no new entry in sight but the site's remaining 15000 people still really love Chrono Trigger, I'm taking Magus. --- Agent Triple Zero at your service! This line reserved for the true greatone, azuarc, winner of Game of the Decade! ... Copied to Clipboard!
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pjbasis 10/16/23 6:36:59 PM #323: |
We got about a year or so before the next smash hype cycle begins, better get that contest in now!
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Leonhart4 10/16/23 6:38:50 PM #324: |
Wow no respect for Shepard
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KamikazePotato 10/16/23 6:58:11 PM #325: |
pjbasis posted...
We got about a year or so before the next smash hype cycle begins, better get that contest in now!We could legitimately go without Smash for a very long time. Sakurai isn't coming back and Nintendo has proven it will put something on ice if there's no auteur to take the reins of a series. --- It's Reyn Time. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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_SecretSquirrel 10/16/23 7:09:58 PM #326: |
Leonhart4 posted...
Wow no respect for ShepardI mean, it's hard to think too much of Shepard here when they went even with K. Rool during Smash frenzy, and it's only been downward since. --- Agent Triple Zero at your service! This line reserved for the true greatone, azuarc, winner of Game of the Decade! ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Leonhart4 10/16/23 7:33:13 PM #328: |
_SecretSquirrel posted...
I mean, it's hard to think too much of Shepard here when they went even with K. Rool during Smash frenzy, and it's only been downward since. Hype K. Rool vs. Current Sandbag, who ya got? Mass Effect has at least had a recent rerelease that could help Shepard --- https://imgur.com/WqDcNNq https://imgur.com/89Z5jrB ... Copied to Clipboard!
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MacArrowny 10/16/23 7:40:51 PM #329: |
KamikazePotato posted...
Sakurai isn't coming backDoubt --- All the stars in the sky are waiting for you. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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OrangeCrush980 10/16/23 7:46:41 PM #330: |
UltimaterializerX posted...
We don't ever need another Smash game. We've hit perfection.I do suspect that's a legitimate "problem". I think their 3 options are:
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_SecretSquirrel 10/16/23 11:03:35 PM #331: |
OrangeCrush980 posted...
I do suspect that's a legitimate "problem". I think their 3 options are:#1 is definitely what is happening. Mario Kart 8 is pretty much a winning template to follow, especially with Smash being a far bigger project in magnitude. Leonhart4 posted... Hype K. Rool vs. Current Sandbag, who ya got?True, Hype K Rool defeats current Sandbag, but Shepard has also had five years of time not on their side, and a two year old remake probably isn't helping too much. --- Agent Triple Zero at your service! This line reserved for the true greatone, azuarc, winner of Game of the Decade! ... Copied to Clipboard!
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_SecretSquirrel 10/17/23 12:11:01 AM #332: |
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/3273-division-8-round-1-auron-marcus-rydia-sub-zero
LOL Marcus Fenix. --- Agent Triple Zero at your service! This line reserved for the true greatone, azuarc, winner of Game of the Decade! ... Copied to Clipboard!
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MacArrowny 10/17/23 12:13:31 AM #333: |
Rydia would be closer to Sub-Zero than Marcus nowadays.
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Leonhart4 10/17/23 2:40:09 AM #334: |
Auron/Sub-Zero became the new Snake/Knuckles, for some reason facing each other in three different contests despite not being particularly close in any match.
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ctesjbuvf 10/17/23 2:57:04 AM #335: |
Leonhart4 posted...
Auron/Sub-Zero became the new Snake/Knuckles, for some reason facing each other in three different contests despite not being particularly close in any match. To be fair, there were like 12 years between two of those encounters while Knuckles and Snake for the years in a row. --- Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Leonhart4 10/17/23 6:45:07 AM #336: |
We also weren't having Character Battles every year after 2008!
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ctesjbuvf 10/17/23 7:02:26 AM #337: |
True but that at least makes changes more likely, and none of their encounters were consecutive I'm pretty sure?
But yeah probably not something that had been considered when making the bracket. --- Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Leonhart4 10/17/23 10:33:07 AM #338: |
I'm just saying rematches are lame when they keep happening and the winner has virtually no chance of changing, and that's the big example after Snake/Knuckles.
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OrangeCrush980 10/17/23 2:33:29 PM #339: |
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/6-gamefaqs-announcements/80595955
SBAllen is no longer an admin. This likely means the end of contests... --- "Those were my beans, Max." ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Leonhart4 10/17/23 2:38:27 PM #340: |
GameFAQs Contests
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abdou 10/17/23 2:44:12 PM #341: |
This is the end of contests as we knew them. When CJayC left it felt like GameFAQs wasn't gong to be the same but @SBAllen did one of hell of a job keeping the spirit of the site alive (even though so many say GameFAQs is dead) but now it really is the end. Fandom ended GameFAQs. A shame but it was inevitable, how many times was this site going to get sold? it was embarrassing.
I wish SBAllen was able to give us one last contest before he left his position as an admin. --- ... ... Copied to Clipboard!
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_SecretSquirrel 10/17/23 3:10:46 PM #342: |
Yeah, I can't imagine anyone else wants the hassle of trying to administer the contests as votals drop and trying to get prize money is harder.
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colliding 10/17/23 3:17:05 PM #343: |
RIP contests
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Kotetsu534 10/17/23 4:20:47 PM #344: |
*Salutes*
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pjbasis 10/17/23 4:36:17 PM #345: |
Might be crazy, but why not have a priceless contest?
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HaRRicH 10/17/23 4:36:20 PM #346: |
I literally left a feedback ticket this morning asking for contest updates he could provide, with the understanding that new ownership may be causing needs for other priorities. It was my first ticket I left in several years...had no idea this was coming a few hours later. End of an era.
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pjbasis 10/17/23 4:36:49 PM #347: |
autocorrect wins this time
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abdou 10/17/23 4:40:22 PM #348: |
HaRRicH posted...
I literally left a feedback ticket this morning asking for contest updates he could provide, with the understanding that new ownership may be causing needs for other priorities. It was my first ticket I left in several years...had no idea this was coming a few hours later. End of an era. "I have no reason to suspect the site to be closing down. And as much as I'd love to start up a contest, we need a bit of solid foundational time under one management before we'll be able to get something like that up and running. As much as I hate to say it, I wouldn't hold your breath for one to happen in 2023." I asked SBAllen about one last contest before GameFAQs shut down, shortly after it was purchased by Fandom. That was his response. I think SBAllen tried but Fandom's reign was brutal. --- ... ... Copied to Clipboard!
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KamikazePotato 10/17/23 4:55:13 PM #349: |
At least we got Game of the Decade 2. Feels like a good one to end on.
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Leonhart4 10/17/23 5:00:10 PM #350: |
pjbasis posted...
Might be crazy, but why not have a priceless contest? We've suggested it in the past but Allen was always resistant to the idea --- https://imgur.com/WqDcNNq https://imgur.com/89Z5jrB ... Copied to Clipboard!
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