Board 8 > LoZ:TP and LoZ:MM have both impressed this contest...

(+) Yeah! (+)

Your refusal to support the Fictional Character Battle has proven to be your undoing!

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That's a loss I'm willing to take!

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And a loss it shall be!

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The only loss I foresee is when Squall loses to Epona!

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Guarantee it!

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Let's do this.

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Right here, right now.

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3D Edition only 2 months away. Epona boost incoming

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Epona's in good shape to horse-kick some ass then!

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Ride on.

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Splash screen for Nintendo of Japan's official Ocarina promotional site:




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I like it!

I saw one site (IGN, maybe?) subtitle a picture with the paraphrased comment of "upgraded models (especially horse-models!)" when they were talking about their hour of gameplay with LoZ:OoT3D. Other people are taking notice of Epona!

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Tap A!

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Go!

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Bump in anticipation for Portal 2.

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Bump for currently playing RE4.

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Bump for the very near-release of Portal 2...!

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Bump for the ACTUAL release of Portal 2.

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Bump for bumping.

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Bump for Nintendo's recent rumors!

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Tap A!!!

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http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=4317

Ganon's the site's #1 favorite Nintendo villain (thus ensuring only Sephiroth outdoes him as a villain here). Considering how often it was once suggested LoZ-fans wouldn't support Ganondorf against Bowser due to the LoZ-fanbase "not being THAT blind" (which is an unfair way to put it), this can't be bad for Epona.


So, let's restack the evidence Epona's riding on for hope in a GameFAQs-contest...

CHARACTERS:
1) Link is the site's biggest hero (and proved so six times before), thus Nintendo's biggest hero.
2) Ganondorf is Nintendo's biggest villain, thus GameFAQs's second biggest villain (Sephiroth's #1). He was also the Villain Contest's runner-up.
3) Zelda is Nintendo's second biggest woman, thus GameFAQs's #3 woman (Samus's #1, Tifa's #2). She was also the Female Bracket's runner-up.
4) Midna has advanced past the first round twice before, plus a vote-in.
5) Tingle has made two contests without board-support.
WHY IT MATTERS: LoZ's big three have a lot of history with our contests, and Epona's got more face-time with players in the LoZ-series than anybody mentioned here not named Link.

GAMES:
1) Loz:OoT is the site's biggest game, thus Nintendo's biggest game.
2) LoZ:MM is the site's biggest game of the past decade, thus Nintendo's biggest game of the past decade.
3) LoZ:TP is the site's biggest game from 2004-2006, thus Nintendo's biggest game from 2004-2006. You could arguably extend both of those to say 2002-2007 if you look outside of BGE2.
WHY IT MATTERS: Epona's been an important figure in three of the site's biggest games. In fact, if you were to look at the period from 1998-2007, that's a decade of dominance only a select few games could overcome; RBY, FFX, SSBM, and maybe MGS would be the only games capable of preventing the series from owning the top three spots in such a time-frame.

SERIES:
1) LoZ is the site's biggest series, thus Nintendo's biggest series.
WHY IT MATTERS: ZELDAFEAR...the series matters to a lot of people, so Epona's got a good starting point.

COMPANY:
1) Nintendo is the site's biggest company.
WHY IT MATTERS: NINTENDOFAQS...while we've seen a lot of weak Nintendo characters, we've also seen a lot of strong ones. I think Nintendo has had both the most characters in our contests from one company and the most match-victories from one company -- ranging from humans (Link) to animals (Charizard) to items (Sandbag) to glitches (MissingNo) to jokes (Sandbag/MissingNo) -- so don't let the misconception that nobody cares about Nintendo's characters fool you. They care about a whole lot of them.

...watch out for Epona.

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Read that argument and just try not to see her doing well, especially once the LoZ:OoT-remake lands!

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OFFICIAL Ocarina 3DS intro video now online:





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I can almost see it in 3D already...!

Seriously though, that brings up another point: LoZ:OoT's got one of the all-time classic opening screens despite its simplicity, and Epona's a part of that too. She is an inescapable part of 3D-Zelda, so let's get her in a contest already!

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For that damn horse nobody new wants to support lately.

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For her.

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For glue.

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Up.

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We gotta get her in!

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It's mandatory!

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Get on it!

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Come on!

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Get excited!

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Add me to this list.

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My pleasure, My Immortal! The carrots were starting to get a little dusty, but I'll wash one off for you!

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I'm updating my post from earlier in the topic (#118) to be more relevant for finding contest newcomers, though it still favors Epona the most (naturally).




If we assume the top fifteen games consist of the top five from GotD and the top ten games from any other time, I get something like this: LoZ:OoT, FF7, LoZ:LttP, RBY, SM64, LoZ:MM, FFX, SSBB, SSBM, SMW, SMB3, CT, LoZ:TP, MGS, and GE 007.

Agree or disagree, it's a fair selection for the top fifteen games on GameFAQs. Now, here's a list of characters and how many relevant appearances they make in those games.

Everybody fits at least one of the following:
--> Entered a contest before.
--> Won a NRT-rally in the most recent tournament.
-----> Everyone with a NRT-rally will be in italics.
--> Have at least two different appearances in the top fifteen games.
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Link - 8 (six if you don't count Young/Toon Link in SSBM/B, four without the SSB-series)
Mario - 6 (five if you don't count Dr. Mario in SSBM, three without the SSB-series)
Ganondorf - 5 (three without the SSB-series)
Zelda - 5 (three without the SSB-series)
Bowser - 5 (three without the SSB-series)
Peach - 5 (three without the SSB-series)
Luigi - 4 (two without the SSB-series)
Yoshi - 4 (two without the SSB-series)
Epona - 3
Pikachu - 3 (one without the SSB-series)
Jigglypuff - 3 (one without the SSB-series)
Samus - 3 (two if you don't count ZSS in SSBB, none without the SSB-series)
Toad - 2 (four if you count Peach's attack in the SSB-series)
Dark Link - 2 (four if you count Event-mode in the SSB-series)
Charizard - 2 (three if you count Poke-powers in SSBM, one without the SSB-series)
Koopa Kids - 2
Sandbag - 2
Master Hand - 2
Solid Snake - 2 (one without the SSB-series)
Mewtwo - 2 (one without the SSB-series)
Squirtle - 2 (one without the SSB-series)
Ivysaur - 2 (one without the SSB-series)
Pokemon Trainer Red - 2 (one without the SSB-series)
Navi - 2 (one if you don't count the Wii-pointer in the Wii-version of LoZ:TP)
Fox McCloud - 2 (none without the SSB-series)
Falco Lombardi - 2 (none without the SSB-series)
Donkey Kong - 2 (none without the SSB-series)
Marth - 2 (none without the SSB-series)
Ness - 2 (none without the SSB-series)
Mr. Game & Watch - 2 (none without the SSB-series)
Nana - 2 (none without the SSB-series)
Popo - 2 (none without the SSB-series)
Tingle - 1 (two if you count Great Bay in SSBM)
Cloud - 1
Sephiroth - 1
Vincent - 1
Tifa - 1
Aeris - 1
Zack - 1
Cid - 1
Midgar Zolom - 1
Barret - 1
Auron - 1
Tidus - 1
Yuna - 1
Rikku - 1
Jecht - 1
Sin - 1
Crono - 1
Magus - 1
Frog - 1
Marle - 1
Lavos - 1
Missingno - 1
Midna - 1
Revolver Ocelot - 1
Liquid Snake - 1
Otacon - 1
Sonic - 1 (none without the SSB-series)
Meta Knight - 1 (none without the SSB-series)
King Dedede - 1 (none without the SSB-series)
Wario - 1 (none without the SSB-series)
Ike - 1 (none without the SSB-series)
Pit - 1 (none without the SSB-series)
Lucario - 1 (none without the SSB-series)
Diddy Kong - 1 (none without the SSB-series)
Captain Olimar - 1 (none without the SSB-series)
Lucas - 1 (none without the SSB-series)
Seifer - 0
Morrigan - 0
FUNFACT: Mega Man is the only Noble Nine-member to have no place on this list.

More's coming...

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...Epona's not keeping the best company with these newcomers in bold, to be fair, though she's also beating them all by this AND there are several LoZ-characters mentioned in bold so perhaps the series can run deeper with strong characters than we once thought. I mean, it's only the top series here (and G4, we recently discovered)...surely there's a chance worth taking for her!

I'll still defend some of the other characters in bold for a second though: Dark Link's potential is quite large, Navi has a lot of recognition, Jigglypuff would do a lot better outside of a vote-in with MissingNo/Mudkip/Toad in the same poll, Ivysaur would be okay since most things Pokemon are fail-safe, and the term "Koopa Kids" would do better than any particular kid (like how "Ghosts" did better in GameSpot's Villain Contest than any individual Koopa Kid would have). Even if you don't like these arguments, Epona's still got the most legitimate appearances of the group. Should she do well, she would make the rest of them look a little better too...outside of Popo, who would still suck terribly (see "Nana").

If you still don't like how she compares to other newcomers, just compare her to the whole list. She's #9 out of seventy characters if you count SSB-appearances, and she's in a five-way tie for second place out of fifty-two characters if you don't. Not being in the SSB-series will hurt her, but she's got a strong resume for strength in a way that not even any Noble Nine member outside of Link and Mario can touch, too.

She'll be hard to beat.

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Did I say second place out of fifty-two? I mean forty-nine.

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Did I say ___? I mean "get Epona in!"

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Did I say to get Epona in? I should clarify: I mean to do it now.

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Here's a content-free bump!

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Here's a bump for both my comedy debut and spending entirely too much for a Mother's Day gift (given my income, not my mother!).

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HORSE

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I'm gone for the weekend, so please help keep an eye out for the topic.

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Srsly.

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http://www.ign.com/tournaments/greatest-zelda-game

IGN's running a LoZ-games contest right now, and check out the ass Epona's games are horse-kicking according to pjbasis:


Ocarina of Time - 43122 [94.87%]
Zelda's Adventure (CDi) - 2332 [5.13%]

Majora's Mask - 36296 [89.44%]
Four Swords Adventures - 4285 [10.56%]

Twilight Princess - 37103 [89.43%]
Adventure of Link - 4084 [10.57%]


Granted, none of the opponents are worth very much here. That still doesn't take away the fact that these are three of the four biggest blow-outs of the first round -- only LoZ:LttP > Wand of Gamelon interrupts their streak (which was the second biggest blowout). You can expect LoZ:OoT and LoZ:TP to easily beat their next opponents, too, and LoZ:MM may impress against LoZ:LttP as well.

Not a bad start for her games!

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Expect her games to keep looking good!

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We'll find out in three more days how well her games did this round!

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