Board 8 > Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1369

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MoogleKupo141 posted...

contests aside, it would be cool if Allen would just run Darth Maul vs. Jane Eyre as the poll of the day.
Someone screenshoting it and tweeting uhhh whats going on with gamefaqs would probably go viral and get the site some publicity, its all upside.

Agreed -- though I prefer my polls more game-specific, throw a few curve balls like this in a regular Poll if the Day. What could it hurt?

The prizes are fun but really it's about the celebration of the games. I don't need the chance to win something tangible to get excited over seeing a bracket or even just a poll about your favorite Metal Gear game (which we never had to my knowledge -- closest we got was SotC facing MGS2/3/4 in a division and MGS1/MGS3 facing off). You could still get my attention for a random Joker VS Vader poll out of nowhere too.

I just like predicting brackets and competing that way. March Madness goodness but with games/characters:

Also Oracle.

Do you think that Zelda prefers to be called "he" when she's disguised as Shiek?

BlAcK TuRtLe posted...

Do you think that Zelda prefers to be called "he" when she's disguised as Shiek?

i dont think its a preference like...in a gender identity way, but I think the Sheik persona is intended to be male and its a cover to hide her identity, so yeah, shes prefer you refer to Sheik as male.

Which video game was Jane Eyre in, again?

redrocket posted...

Which video game was Jane Eyre in, again?

Resident Evil Gaiden

MultiVersus makes me want a Character Battle with non-gaming Characters in it even more.

Deep down this is what we all want. Something new and unpredictable.

Multiversus looks pretty fun but i don't get why non of these Smash clones put items in the game. Yeah i'm one of those guys that plays Smash with items on. Kinda boring without them.

BlAcK TuRtLe posted...

Do you think that Zelda prefers to be called "he" when she's disguised as Shiek?

It's a disguise, so...

It's so weird to have a crossover fighter with so many different universe and then just...not have items based on those universes. What a missed opportunity.

I prefer no items, but also I would be very unhappy to see Smash lose its items. These others games without items are missing an opportunity, agreed.

I know NASB has some leftover code for implementing items. But, I'm not sure if anything came from that. There are a lot of things the NASB developers wish they could have done with the game.

Items cost development time to implement. They probably just didn't consider it a priority.

I always wondered how well Solitaire or Minesweeper would perform in a contest. Probably a weaker Pac-Man...

In the right bracket they win it all.

Solitaire is just a card game that's been replicated to a video game, so it might lose some points due to that.

Minesweeper could be fun to see. I never got why Tetris is hailed as one of the best video games ever while no one gives Minesweeper the time of the day in those talks, even though they have similar appeal and playrate.

how passionate can anyone really be about Solitaire or Minesweeper

I enjoy Minesweeper for what it is, but the Tetris comparison makes no sense, it's a lot more competitive.

Solitaire gets the old people's votes. And Minesweeper is the worst game ever.

The games would benefit from the "I must vote in every match" voters assuming they go up against something with a relatively low playership rate.

Bump

redrocket posted...

Which video game was Jane Eyre in, again?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Thwm62iq1E
Lol I thought of this comment when I saw this trailer

We can also have Sherlock Holmes vs. Herlock Sholmes

Leonhart4 posted...

how passionate can anyone really be about Solitaire or Minesweeper

How passionate can anyone really be about L-Block?

plasmabeam posted...

How passionate can anyone really be about L-Block?

Eh, L-Block had comedic meme appeal. That appeal doesn't exist for Minesweeper or Solitaire.

Not to mention it had the perfect setup in the bracket to slowly build up momentum with the format and its opponents. I don't think you can replicate that now in our current state.

Definitely not Solitaire. Not ruling out Minesweeper for meme appeal though in a game contest. Put it up against whatever the hated game of the moment is, and there's a non-zero chance of fireworks. Not likely...but these things never are likely either.

Not insinuating anything as strong of a difference as we saw with Undertale upsetting Mass Effect 3, but contest magic comes in smaller levels too.

Who wins Kefka vs. Frog? Say the match pic is their sprites.

Their 2018 performances and the recent FF6 Remaster lead me to believe Kefka would win, but these two characters have given us some of the most absurd matches in contest history. Throw in a Square/SNES fanbase overlap, and Frog could potentially keep it close.

2018:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7339-division-3-semifinal-alucard-vs-kefka
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7326-division-7-round-2-luigi-vs-frog

2010 (Ancient history, but same opponent in Bowser):
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/3807-heart-division-round-2-kefka-vs-bowser
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/3757-heart-division-round-1-bowser-vs-frog

Minesweeper vs Hearthstone

OrangeCrush980 posted...

Solitaire is just a card game that's been replicated to a video game, so it might lose some points due to that.

Minesweeper could be fun to see. I never got why Tetris is hailed as one of the best video games ever while no one gives Minesweeper the time of the day in those talks, even though they have similar appeal and playrate.

I think it's because Tetris is a better game. It was also released on consoles. I also think that when people call Tetris one of the best games ever, they're saying that with their experience mostly being on one of the rereleases, like Tetris DS or Puyo Puyo Tetris, which are a lot more game-y.

because Minesweeper sucks

Its way better than Minesweeper regardless but Tetris as a best game ever contender is basically a fraud. Generally people dont actually care about falling block puzzle games so there is basically no way anything else could ever hope to challenge Tetriss history, influence, and popularity. Its like if the 2D platformer had burned itself out in public consciousness and popularity before Mario 3 came out, leaving Mario 1 completely untouchable for all time. Tetris didnt actually have to compare super well to similar games past maybe its first few years to get anointed; it just had to continue existing.

consequently no matter the site youre not gonna find too many people disagreeing that Tetris deserves to rub shoulders with the best of the best because ITS TETRIS but when its time to vote its never going to seriously compete with the heavy hitters.

I would back Kefka against Frog and not think twice.

On the topic of block puzzle games, how would Lumines do? Lumines vs. Solitaire

SwiftyDC posted...

I would back Kefka against Frog and not think twice.

Same. Wouldn't be shocked if Frog won at all, but I got to pick one and Kefka seems to have stronger in the more recent contests.

I'd take Luigi over Alucard, but Kefka and Frog have been fairly close in terms of strength the last few Character Battles (in which "the last few" spans 12 years at this point, augh). I'd never doubt the Frog "clutch," but I think Kefka would be the board favorite.

Luigi over Alucard would basically mean Luigi over Bowser going by 2018. Then again that also establishes Luigi is stronger than Sephiroth clearly.

I've believed in Luigi > Bowser for a while, and he did do slightly better against Tifa than Sephiroth, so no problems there either.

Fair, I just remember people saying they'd pick Bowser over Luigi despite 2008 and...wow Kirby looks bad then. Would Kirby get 46% on Sonic again? Maybe Sonic just sucks.

I don't think Alucard will be quite as strong in the next contest regardless. Netflix boost can't last forever.

So over 90% of the site has been here for over 10 years.

Can't say I'm surprised

The number of people who've been here over 20 years has gone up 15% from when this was run 2 years ago, so we had a lot of people who were close to 20 years last time.

Heck, I'm only a year away from being able to vote 20 now.

Yeah, I just crossed into 20 years myself. I lurked for a couple of months before making my account.

Given how the vote totals changed between 2002 and 2003 we could see another jump if we hold the poll again next year.

That's crazy. This is like an internet time capsule.

2009 for me

guffguy89 posted...

That's crazy. This is like an internet time capsule.

Right? Cue the Twilight Zone music.

guffguy89 posted...

That's crazy. This is like an internet time capsule.

The rise of Let's Plays and Wikis (and the refusal of GameFAQs to include them) really killed the need for a site like GameFAQs so all that remains are people who stay for the community aspect.

I'd like to see a breakdown, but I wouldn't be surprised if the Q&A section is the most used gaming feature on GameFAQs and for most people that's a quick Google search and then you leave.

It's a real pain in the ass, when you're looking for help, trying to scrub a video for the one part in a long multi-part Let's Play series that you're looking for. I suppose creators could add bookmarks or whatever but I don't think anyone really does that?

Someone should add the ability in GameFAQs to deep link directly to specific areas in videos that address what people are searching for (boss battles, tough sections, etc.). Like, boom, here's a list of a dozen different videos showing beating Margit the Fell, starting right at the beginning of the fight.

Gamefaqs is mostly used for older games and Q&As yeah.

I don't get why we never got video guides here tbh

wait didn't we have wikis here on gamefaqs? I remember them but never used it