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Game of the Decade Contest Analysis Crew - Part 5
Kingdom Hearts vs CoD: Modern Warfare 2 The winner of this matchup is obviously never going to be in doubt, and frankly I don't see the percentage range being all that large, either. Everyone agrees that KH1 ~= KH2 and we've already seen 2 put up 63.81% on Halo 2 in a Day Match. Since we've got another Day poll lined up for this one, all we need to do is figure out what would happen if Halo 2 met up with Modern Warfare 2. Which ought to go a little something like this: I always predicted H2 to be the weakest and most anti-voted of the 3 main games, and of course I've ALWAYS expected that franchise to fall on its face in 1v1 environments, so 11 months ago I'd have called you crazy for saying Halo 2 > the new CoD that was coming in hot off a GotY victory. But now? I'd take Halo no sweat! I don't know if Reach is helping out or what, but hate for that series seems to have really died down this year, being replaced by an incredible amount of anti-voting venom for the NEW king of the FPS world, Call of Duty. I mean, even as the biggest Perfect Dark fan around, I'm well aware that PD just should not be putting up 45% on the most popular FPS of the decade under normal circumstances! So yeah, look for KH to not have too much trouble improving its percentage against Halo. Let's bump it up to, ummmmmm.... Kingdom Hearts - 64.03% --- thengamer.com/guru | thengamer.com/xstats | board8.wikia.com If I were you I'd search B8 for The Show, the cool Ng/yoblazer Contest podcast! |
How
the hell did Modern Warfare 2 beat Brawl in that one poll? I mean yeah
there was a lot of LFF being thrown around but you still wouldn't
expect a game to fall so quickly. Lol MW2. --- Currently Playing - Zelda: Majora's Mask Next Games Up - Super Smash Bros. Melee, Resident Evil 4, Okami |
Southeast Division: Round 2 - Match 80 – (7) Modern Warfare 2 vs. (2) Kingdom Hearts Moltar’s Analysis Modern Warfare 2 Round 1 - 56.61% on Dissidia MW2 already struggling with Square Kingdom Hearts Round 1 - 76.90% on Castlevania: DoS No worries from KH here CoD4 stinking it up against Perfect Dark + Modern Warfare 2 stinking it up against Dissidia = KH takes this match with ease. I don’t think Bioshock doing well on KH2 means that KH is weaker, because Bioshock has several reasons to be stronger this year. Meanwhile, MW2 isn’t as strong as CoD4. This is probably KH2/Halo 2 all over again. Moltar’s Bracket: Kingdom Hearts wins Moltar’s Prediction: Kingdom Hearts - 63% Lopen’s Analysis Kingdom Hearts opens up the Kingdom Dayvarts with the-- okay, let's not try that again. Anyway, having just saw MW2's older brother look kinda weak against Perfect Dark, you've gotta know that it can't handle Perfect DARKNESS. Can I get a hail Ansem. Lopen's prediction: Kingdom Hearts with 65.31% Transience’s Analysis Well, after KH2 struggled with Bioshock, it's up to KH1 to prove it's the clear fave next round. And it should. Call of Duty has definitely fallen off now that it is the Biggest Thing in the World. KH2 got 63% against Halo 2. MW2 is prooooobably about the same strength so that's the goal that it should be looking to aim for. It's tough to say with COD though. COD4 went from 55% on Galaxy to 55% on Perfect Dark. MW2 got 55% on a PSP game. I'll roll low with KH1 just because of 2's result. Can't see the two being much different at all on this website. Well, besides the fact that this is KH in a day match as opposed to KH2 having to deal with a night match. transience's prediction: Kingdom Hearts with 62.54% Leon’s Analysis Remember how I just said how I thought the BioShock > KH2 talk I heard was pretty surprising. Well, make that twofold for the people who thought MW2 could win the lower half of the division. That was bumfuzzling and bamboozling, if I do say so myself. Of course, we already saw after these games’ round one performances that this one’s gonna be a laugher, so there isn’t much need for analysis. I’ll take BioShock over Modern Warfare 2 though, so KH1 needs to surpass KH2’s percentage here to look good going into that big showdown next round. Leonhart’s Embarrassing Confession of the Match: While I beat Sephiroth in KH2, I never beat him in KH1. Leonhart’s Vote: Kingdom Hearts. Leonhart’s Prediction: Kingdom Hearts with 63.49% |
Kleenex’s Analysis Speaking of stupid upsets, I have Modern Warfare 2 in my bracket! Whoops. 2009 games have shown time and again that they are not strong, and this is going to be another nail in the coffin. The Kingdom Hearts games are probably in the top 6-7 strongest entries in this contest, while MW2 had a pretty embarrassing result against Dissidia. Dissidia. Kleenex's Prediction: Kingdom Hearts with 66.88% Guest’s Analysis - Biolizard This match is pretty entertaining since the games are basically polar opposites. The same audience that loves Kingdom Hearts probably believes you can’t like a game like MW2 without being a frat boy or one of those XBL children who think everyone’s hacking. But that’s not the point. Kingdom Hearts already proved that it can destroy Modern Warfare 2, because his younger brother already stomped Halo 2 64-36 style. It’s no stretch to believe that those who voted for Halo 2 will also vote for CoD games, but that is even more true of Kingdom Hearts. If KHII could win their, why couldn't the original follow suit? And if that’s not enough, MW2 struggled against another Square game last round. (A PSP game at that) I’ve been doubting KH’s strength for a long time, but I can’t see it losing here. Bio’s Prediction: Kingdom Hearts with 65% Crew Consensus: KH wins |
Super Mario Galaxy 59.9% 22991 Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald 40.1% 15390 TOTAL VOTES 38381 Dragon Age: Origins 31.13% 16423 The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess 68.87% 36341 TOTAL VOTES 52764 Crew Predictions - 70/78 What Happened: Galaxy with a respectable win over Pokemon, and TP easily beats down DA. Why it Happened: Well, it looks like Galaxy isn't that strong after all, as it's match with Pokemon DPP last year gave us a good idea of how this match would play out. Then, TP showed why it's going to take this division by beating down DA. What will Happen: TP takes out Mario Crew Prediction Challenge - points Moltar - 69 Tran - 69 Kleenex - 66 AKJ - 66 Lopen - 66 Leon - 66 Guest - 60 Crew Accuracy Challenge - Moltar gets the point for Galaxy and Ultimaphazon gets the point for TP. Moltar - 13.5 Guest - 13 (GfK: 1, BT: 2, CM: 2, Kotetsu: 2, dragon: 1, NGamer: 1, Ultima: 2, TRT: 1, Greyfeld: 1) Tran - 11 AKJ - 10.5 Kleenex - 9 Leon - 9 Lopen - 9 --- Moltar Status: 82 Points - Vote: Bioshock Contest Analysis Crew Archives: http://thecrew.speedrunwiki.com/ |
I
thought that that's a good match because it proves that Galaxy would
60-40 GTAIV. I don't think GTAIV/RSE are fodder so that places Galaxy
as a solid midcarder. --- Currently Playing - Zelda: Majora's Mask Next Games Up - Super Smash Bros. Melee, Resident Evil 4, Okami |
AKJ's Analysis Alright, now Kingdom Hearts is going to outperform Kingdom Hearts 2. Don't be afraid, fellow KH2>KH fans! It's only because Modern Warfare 2 is significantly weaker in the smartvotersfaqs department! Bioshock is one of those games you gotta have respect for even if deep down you're a disney lovin' reaction command pushin' teen complex kid. AKJ says Kingdom Hearts > Modern Warfare 2 with 65% --- Moltar Status: 82 Points - Vote: Bioshock Contest Analysis Crew Archives: http://thecrew.speedrunwiki.com/ |
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hail Ansem |
don't you mean xehanort's nobody or something like that jesus these games are confusing --- " FOR THE LOVE OF GOD NO ONE CAN BE THAT DUMB" - Haguile |
From: pjbasis | #209 Good man. (Xehanort's nobody get that out of here) --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
South Division: Round 2 - Match 81 – (1) Final Fantasy X vs. (9) Borderlands Moltar’s Analysis Final Fantasy X Round 1 - 77.46% on Viewtiful Joe A bit disappointing from FFX Borderlands Round 1 - 55.53% on Tales of Vesperia Borderlands with a small win over Vesperia Well, this should be ugly. Despite not absolutely destroying V. Joe last round, FFX is still a beast. Borderlands, a game worth only 55% on Vesperia, is going to get crushed. If FFX can put up a good performance here, it could put itself back in the talk for winner of this contest. I’d say somewhere in the low-mid 70s is a good number to shoot for, especially in a night match that’s going to favor it. Moltar’s Bracket: Final Fantasy X wins Moltar’s Prediction: Final Fantasy X - 72% Lopen’s Analysis Final Fantasy X makes a run along the Mihen Highroad to cross the Zanarkand line and the Border Patrol can't catch it. Uhhhhh... that was dumb but dude really this match is zzz. I guess if you care about the FFX late round showdowns you can try to get something from the percentage here. I personally don't like doing that, though, so I'll just sleep through this one while some guy with the claps tries to tell me why Borderlands isn't total fodder. Lopen's prediction: Final Fantasy X with 75.54% Transience’s Analysis By the time FFX comes around in this bracket, I feel like people are sick of Square games thanks to KH and KH2 and will antivote them. When we get to round 3 and we go KH/KH2, FFX and then FF9, it'll be even worse. Anyway, not much to say today. FFX vs. Borderlands? Borderlands has a real fanbase so it'll do better than you'd think, but it shouldn't be stronger than Morrowind. If FFX can't break 70%, it probably deserves underdog status vs. the Smashes (and maybe Twilight Princess? perish the thought!) transience's prediction: Final Fantasy X with 70.13% Leon’s Analysis Man, people are making way too much about FFX’s first round match. Viewtiful Joe wasn’t some unknown game by some cult company nobody knows about. FFX isn’t doomed because it couldn’t quadruple Viewtiful Joe or something like that. Let’s not get silly! In fact, I think FFX will turn some heads here by putting up an impressive performance on Borderlands. Not that this game is all that strong (It only managed 55% on Tales of Vesperia, after all), but still, I think it’ll do better than people are expecting, maybe even push for a tripling here, which would be a strong performance. Let’s see what happens. Leonhart’s Embarrassing Confession of the Match: The only Cloister of Trials I had to look up a solution for was the Djose one. Leonhart’s Vote: Final Fantasy X. Leonhart’s Prediction: Final Fantasy X with 75.01% |
Kleenex’s Analysis Final Fantasy X really needs to impress us tonight, or people are just going to totally write it off. Its first round performance was mildly disappointing, and it seems like it inherited FFVII's classic early match anti-vote. Borderlands seems like the kind of game that probably wouldn't have such a hot board vote either, so that should help cancel things out a bit. As far as how well Final Fantasy does here...well...Borderlands would beat Viewtiful Joe, but I wouldn't think it by that much. If FFX can't pull high 60s tonight, it's a pretty big disappointment. If it gets close to the tripling, I'd be impressed enough to think it still stands a chance to win. Kleenex's Prediction: Final Fantasy X with 68.98% Applekidjosh’s Analysis Borderlands showed last round it had some real strength, but its bracket placement is going to give a big "lol" to that since it's time to fed to FFX. I'm still hoping FFX is in the same league as the smashes so I'm stickin with that neighborhood for percentages. We'll see. AKJ says FFX > Borderlands with 70% Guest’s Analysis - Kotetsu534 Final Fantasy X wasn't too impressive against Viewtiful Joe, winning with 77.46%, which has lead to a rather large over-reaction. Regardless, it shouldn't have any trouble with Borderlands, which is a little weaker than Dragon Age based off the '09 GOTYs. Given that Dragon Age got 31.1% against Twilight Princess in a non-favourable time, I'd expect Borderlands to do a few percent worse against Final Fantasy X in a likely non-favourable time (consider that Borderlands outright lost to Tales of Vesperia in Europe, and you have to think the night vote will not help it). Final Fantasy X with 72.37%. Crew Consensus: FFX rocking Borderlands tonight. |
Final Fantasy X vs Borderlands FFX has the red carpet rolled out for it tonight... pic advantage, Night Vote advantage, SmartVoterFAQs advantage (not that Borderlands wasn't well received, but its just too new to pull in the kind of GotD respect vote you'd need to hang with FFX), playing-a-very-weak-game advantage (though I guess God of War makes that showing on Tales a BIT more respectable). So basically if FFX lays another egg here like it did against Viewtiful Joe, I think it's time to start fueling up the RE4 Hype Wagon in earnest. But, I'm thinking that doesn't happen. I still say the red flags raised by the VJ match are a legit cause for concern, but this is just too perfect a setup for FFX to disappoint us again, especially since we've all lowered our expectations a little bit this time. Final Fantasy X - 73.13% --- thengamer.com/guru | thengamer.com/xstats | board8.wikia.com If I were you I'd search B8 for The Show, the cool Ng/yoblazer Contest podcast! |
GTA: San Andreas vs Golden Sun Gosh, where to start with this one? I guess the first thing I want to say is that the whole RacistFAQs angle is being blown way out of proportion, IMO. Yes its hilarious that KP brought back the same pic that doomed this game against Ness back in 2005, and yes it should still be a disadvantage 5 years later, but I'd say that's true moreso because this is just some guy rather than anything to do with his skin color. It would be hard to pick against SA with a match pic that better represented it (like that cool one GTA3 put to good use against HL2 a few days back), but again, I don't think racism is the #1 factor here. The second thing I need to get off my chest is how this has gone from a silly little "wouldn't that be funny?" pick into a legit upset that the whole board is taking seriously, and that makes me very nervous! Starting to get visions of Sunshine > Halo over here... how many of these B8ers are just hopping on the upset wagon because of how hilarious this is going to be? But despite those two misgivings I'm still leaning toward sticking with my bracket and backing the upset I've been hyping since pre-lockdown. Here's why: * the GTA series isn't casual/fratboy ASV-aided like you might expect; all the games do better at Night, and San Andreas went from 9% in NA to over 14% in Europe in the last GotD poll so you can see why. Golden Sun probably has one of the younger/more NA-based of Nintendo's fanbases, so I really love the timing * I had zero respect for the Tales games before '09, yet we've seen them hang tough with God of War/GTA/Oblivion/RE/Borderlands, and of course Paper Mario had a fantastic R1 as well. moral of the story seems to be not to bet against jRPGs, and especially not those on Nintendo systems * non-PSP handheld games have been decent this season, something I didn't expect aside from the Pokemon series * Dark Dawn's release is likewise being way overrated, but should still provide a slight boost * SA probably isn't quite as disliked as GTA4, but still, this series has given me zero indication that it can win close matches, and that embarrassing loss to the weakest Pokemon did nothing to change my mind In other words, the only two options are GTA winning in a 55% no-doubter or GS squeaking by on a wave of negative sentiment for SA. After weighing everything carefully I still say the latter option is a tiny bit more likely! Golden Sun - 50.06% --- thengamer.com/guru | thengamer.com/xstats | board8.wikia.com If I were you I'd search B8 for The Show, the cool Ng/yoblazer Contest podcast! |
Surprise Black Guest Analysis - TheKoolAidShoto Everybody has been going back and forth on this match. Hell, Charmander did a full-length novel on it in the stats topic. Honestly though, we all know what this comes down to. The match pic might as well be a slice of white bread vs fried chicken. You are either gonna vote for the white man or the black guy. This is it! Now is the time to choose! Die and choose eternal RacistFAQs or live and fight your hatred! Now is the time to shape your websites! Your fate is in your hands! --- http://www.abload.de/img/sam-being-awesome-2jfgd.gif |
South Division: Round 2 - Match 82 – (5) Golden Sun vs. (4) Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Moltar’s Analysis Golden Sun Round 1 - 68.24% on Ratchet and Clank: UYA Great performance from GS there. GTA: San Andreas Round 1 - 65.45% on Dead Space Good performance by GTA game standards Well this match certainly came out of nowhere on my radar. Pre-contest, I picked San Andreas and didn’t give it a second look. Now, after seeing GTA and Golden Sun and RPGs, I’m not quite sure what to make of this one. Golden Sun rocked some Ratchet and Clank game, but now that I’ve seen R2 play out, I’m less impressed. Turns out any game with some strength could blow out anything weak. Fire Emblem rocked No Mercy, but then got rocked by Pokemon DPP. I think Ratchet and Clank is stronger than No Mercy, and San Andreas is weaker than DPP, so this isn’t going to be some 65-35 match. Still, I think Golden Sun is being a bit overrated because it blew out fodder. The biggest question is how much the release of the new Golden Sun game, Dark Dawn, will matter in this match. Without it, Golden Sun still has an outside shot at winning, but factor it in, and knowing what game releases can do to characters, its chances look even brighter. I think it’s going to keep GS close, but isn’t going to push it over the edge. Lastly, I think San Andreas is being underestimated here. Dead Space is somewhat respectable, and GTA had no problem with it. GTAIV, despite losing, still went neck-to-neck with Pokemon RSE, a game I would put over Golden Sun. GTA3 also did very well against Half-Life 2, another game that would have no problem with Golden Sun. If GTA:SA is up there with the other GTA games, which is very likely, then it doesn’t have a problem in this match. I like playing it safe in these kinds of matches, and here I would say that San Andreas is the safe pick. Moltar’s Bracket: San Andreas wins Moltar’s Prediction: San Andreas - 52% Lopen’s Analysis General consensus with this game is “Golden Sun must be as strong as Pokemanz RSE to have a chance to win this” and well that makes a lot of sense to me. I'm honestly not thinking it is. Everyone hates Pokemanz RSE but the Pokemanz brand name means a lot. What has Golden Sun done, anyway? But if that wasn't enough... you've gotta believe that SA is stronger than GTAIV. SA won a GotY, and just has less depressing matches under its belt, ya know? And really I think the reception of the people was a bit better for it.. ignoring critic ratings. So while the rationale for doubt is pretty justified and I'm not 100% on this match, I don't think this'll be particularly close.(And I hope not for my battle entry's sake) Lopen's prediction: San Andreas with 54.20% Transience’s Analysis Really tough match today. Instead of arguing for one or the other, I'll just lay out bullet points. Golden Sun arguments: - had the better r1 performance: 69% against a Ratchet game against 65% on Dead Space. I'd probably take Ratchet over Dead Space, or at least expect it to be close. - day match. advantage: Golden Sun. (or so it's assumed. in reality, I think GS is a night vote kinda thing since it's a ten year old GBA RPG.) - new GS game comes out today, a game that beat Galaxy 2, Metroid Other M, Halo Reach and two Metal Gears in a most anticipated poll. - GTA likes to flop. I get the feeling that GTA puts up big performances in losses, but I have nothing to prove this. It just seems like it's always been overrated due to respectable losses. - match picture is one-sided - we've got the Arians vs. the Black People. this is more of a joke than anything else (racistfaqs is stupid), but it *is* an advantage for GS. |
GTA arguments: - all GTA games have looked about the same in strength over the years. - GTA4 got 49% on Pokemon RSE. San Andreas is assumed to be stronger than 4 while Golden Sun would seem to be weaker than Pokemon. Then again, that's a pretty shaky conclusion to draw; Golden Sun is hard to read and I'm not even sure GTA4 is the weakest. It might be the strongest. (last year's contest had GTA4 getting 36% on Brawl while Vice City got 37% on FFX -- pretty shaky conclusion there, really. also, lol 4way stats.) - GTA3 got 44% on Half-Life 2. GTA4 is worth 40% on Galaxy indirectly. Would GS be able to pull that off? - San Andreas lost in a humiliating match last year to Oblivion, God of War and Tales of Symphonia. Even so, those games would most likely beat Golden Sun. - it just makes sense. Golden Sun would never beat GTA on any other website. I have Golden Sun in my bracket but I'm feeling a little concerned. I'll roll with GTA here. transience's prediction: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas with 53.56% Leon’s Analysis This one is a real tossup here. Golden Sun went above and beyond expectations in putting up 68% on UYA, while San Andreas did as expected in putting up 65% on Dead Space. I’d probably take Dead Space over Up Your Arsenal, personally, but they’re probably not too far apart. Golden Sun at least proved that you can be a handheld game not named Pokemon or Link’s Awakening and have a decent amount of strength. Of course, the big X-Factor in this match is that it takes place on the release day of the new Golden Sun game, Dark Dawn. How much of an impact will this game have on the outcome? There’s really no telling. We talk like Sunshine had such a huge effect on Mario/Cloud and HG/SS had such a huge effect on Bowser/Charizard, but really, we have no idea. There were many other factors at play that could have contributed to either result, and there’s no way of knowing how close those matches are without them. Charizard has a legit shot of beating Bowser in a normal match anyway, and he probably had a pretty good bandwagon going at that point (and he definitely did against Mario). I’m not trying to say Dark Dawn’s release is going to have no impact on the match, but I wonder if it’ll really be a game-changer. Plus, the fact that this is a day match could possibly be advantageous to Golden Sun. We already saw GTA IV lose to R/S/E simply because it was a day match, and it would’ve had a great chance of winning had it been a night match instead. While Golden Sun probably doesn’t have a Pokemon-caliber ASV, it should still be better than whatever San Andreas brings to the table. Golden Sun has all the ingredients needed to brew up an upset here, but will it pull it off? Right now, I’m leaning yes. Vice City’s crappy performance against Silent Hill 2 swayed me on this one. I may (and probably will) change my mind later, but for now, I think Golden Sun can eek out a victory. It should be relatively close either way. Leonhart’s Embarrassing Confession of the Match: Dark Dawn is such a stupid name for a game. Who comes up with this stuff? Leonhart’s Vote: Golden Sun. Leonhart’s Prediction: Golden Sun with 51.25% Kleenex’s Analysis For some reason, I am extremely confident in Golden Sun in this match. I can't really explain why - there's no hard stats backing that up (though they should be relatively close indirectly). It's just something that I feel really good about. It has nothing to do with Dark Dawn being released today (tomorrow?), I had this locked up before I even bothered to consider that. I dunno. Golden Sun has just always impressed because its expectations are always so low. Maybe I'm reaching too high here? I don't think so. Kleenex's Prediction: Golden Sun with 52.45% |
Applekidjosh’s Analysis It's finally time for this long debated match. Let's run over some of the details to keep in mind: GTA:SA should be stronger here. On any other site it would be. It's definitely got the smartvotersfaqs advantage. It's possibly held back by racistfaqs. Golden Sun has the racistfaqs advantage but also the release day advantage. Not to mention pic advantage. So which of those are most important? History lesson! Mario Sunshine release day meant Mario beat Cloud. Pokemon HGSS release day meant Charizard beat Bowser. Are those the only reasons for their victories? Maybe, maybe not, but it certainly didn't hurt what would otherwise be a close match. Because of that I'm going to go against my bracket, against my good taste, and side with Golden Sun here AKJ says Golden Sun > GTA:SA with 51.02% Guest’s Analysis - Chaotic Mind Golden Sun has every advantage possible to give it a shot at an upset against GTA. It's a day match, it's Nintendo AND an rpg, it more than doubled Ratchet and Clank last round, and the match just so happens to be taking place the same day the new Golden Sun game comes out. When KP first pointed out that last fact before brackets were finalized i jumped on the upset train and switched to Golden Sun winning this match in my bracket. I now regret that decision. Why? http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=4140 Now i'd take GTA 3 over SA, but not by all that much. I'd still take SA to stay above 40% vs. HL2. Do i think Golden Sun could do that even on its best day? No. I could be wrong though. A bunch of SFF matches and one match against R&C just doesn't tell us much about Golden Sun's strength. So i'm going to be cautious and keep my pred for GTA low. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - 56% Crew Consensus: The Crew barely sides with GTA in a 4-3 split! |
Golden Sun with like 60% --- This is the kind of **** that allowed the Bhopal incident to happen. 5,000 dead Indians. Want that on your damn conscience, Square apologists? |
Oh man I might lose my 1st match in round 2...This sucks! --- GameFaqs is NOT the place to go for relationship advice.Nobody here gets any action unless it is their right or left hand.Including me.~Dawn and Dusk~ |
Damn it Crew, I still don't know what to pick for Battle! --- Booyah, Grandma. Booyah. {XI} dood |
I don't think the Crew knows either! --- thelefty for analysis crew 2008 imo -tranny I have a third degree burn in flame-o-nomics -Sir Chris |
I have San Andreas in my bracket, so I'm picking Golden Sun in the battle. That way I at least get something right! --- http://card.mygamercard.net/Mach+Tornado.png |
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I have San Andreas in my bracket, so I'm picking Golden Sun in the battle. That way I at least get something right! If you're hedging your bet you should be banking, assuming you have a decent streak. --- :| |
(I hope noone saw that <_<.....I have no idea how I managed to type that) I think I'm gonna stick with San Andreas. I'm gonna argue that that first round beat down by Golden Sun really wasn't all that impressive, because R&C is absolutely awful on this site. Maybe pre-contest we had the idea that that match would be high fodder vs. high fodder, but Golden Sun as a series is legit, whereas R&C is still definitely fodder, quite possibly even weaker than expected since it's just one game rather than the mass exposure Ratchet has gotten as a character. Believing that, I still can't see it defeating a major GTA game. DD release day may help a little but it won't be enough to push it over the hump. It'll still be close because GTA isn't exactly a powerhouse and GS is legit, and that match pic is ****ing awful, but GTA:SA should be the stronger competitor here. DpOblivion's bracket says: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas DpOblivion's battle says: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas DpOblivion's prediction is: GTA:SA with 55% --- Booyah, Grandma. Booyah. {XI} dood |
I
saw it and was planning on making a snarky comment telling you that
picking Brawl today was a bad choice, but I decided against it! --- This is the kind of **** that allowed the Bhopal incident to happen. 5,000 dead Indians. Want that on your damn conscience, Square apologists? |
go go go golden sun --- GranTurisMo - God's Tiniest Man - Great Thorn Monkeys! Member of the merSHINEsess Nation since 7/15/09 |
Figures that this is the Guest match I DON'T get. --- DFF |
Man....augh......I woke up feeling GS in my gut but found a way to convince myself of SA winning. --- Booyah, Grandma. Booyah. {XI} dood |
just another nail in the crew bracket's coffin! --- GranTurisMo - God's Tiniest Man - Great Thorn Monkeys! Member of the merSHINEsess Nation since 7/15/09 |
*boos the Crew quite loudly* --- thengamer.com/guru | thengamer.com/xstats | board8.wikia.com If I were you I'd search B8 for The Show, the cool Ng/yoblazer Contest podcast! |
finally time to start my comeback? --- http://myanimelist.net/profile/applekidjosh <Die the death>! <Sentence to death>! <Great equalizer is the death>!! |
good job leon and kleenex and josh! --- This is the kind of **** that allowed the Bhopal incident to happen. 5,000 dead Indians. Want that on your damn conscience, Square apologists? |
hell yeah! --- http://myanimelist.net/profile/applekidjosh <Die the death>! <Sentence to death>! <Great equalizer is the death>!! |
son of a, there goes the battle challenge for me I'll be pretty damn high in the bracket contest but I have ffx winning, argh --- add the c and back away iphonesience |
You should have trusted me! It's not like I'm ever wrong --- DFF |
now to debate endlessly if this is because of racistfaqs or releasedayfaqs --- http://myanimelist.net/profile/applekidjosh <Die the death>! <Sentence to death>! <Great equalizer is the death>!! |
gtafaqs --- xyzzy |
i think it's just goldensunisstrongerfaqs --- This is the kind of **** that allowed the Bhopal incident to happen. 5,000 dead Indians. Want that on your damn conscience, Square apologists? |
that would make way too much sense --- http://myanimelist.net/profile/applekidjosh <Die the death>! <Sentence to death>! <Great equalizer is the death>!! |
From: KamikazePotato | #238 *cough*demon'ssouls*cough* Though overall my bracket gained a point from listening to you, so thanks. From: Master Moltar | #219 Not that it matters now Moltar but i asked you to return my prediction for GTA to what it was originally, which was 52.5%... so at least my pick wasn't the least accurate one. --- "The power of accurate observation is commonly called Dr. Football Factor by those who have not got it." |
sorry you only get one adjustment after you send it so you gotta make it count --- http://myanimelist.net/profile/applekidjosh <Die the death>! <Sentence to death>! <Great equalizer is the death>!! |
Dammit. My precious battle entry. My only option is to beat Bacon now. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
Boy oh boy, can't wait to see these Battle and Bracket percentages! --- thengamer.com/guru | thengamer.com/xstats | board8.wikia.com If I were you I'd search B8 for The Show, the cool Ng/yoblazer Contest podcast! |
South Division: Round 2 - Match 83 – (3) Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic vs. (6) Fire Emblem Moltar’s Analysis Star Wars KOTOR Round 1 - 58.05% on Devil May Cry Poor poor DMC games Fire Emblem Round 1 - 64.51% on Tony Hawk 2 Tony Hawk Pro Loser DMC vs. Fire Emblem would be an interesting match now that I think about it. Anyway, KOTOR isn’t going to drop this match here. The Fire Emblem games may have looked good in Round 1, but PoR fell to decent competition, and now the handheld will do the same. GS doing well against GTA today makes me think that FE is going to exit the contest looking alright. Moltar’s Bracket: KOTOR wins Moltar’s Prediction: KOTOR - 57% Lopen’s Analysis After seeing that other Fire Emblem game get stomped, I'm pretty sure the series is still pretty weak here and two of the games getting out of round 1 decisively was pretty much luck of drawing fodder. I do, however, think this one will be the stronger of the two, but I don't think it'll be quite on par with Devil May Cry. Close, though, so hence here be my prediction. Lopen's prediction: KotoR with 57.38% Transience’s Analysis I have a really weird feeling about this match. KOTOR is the widespread favourite but it's a PC/Xbox 1 RPG vs. a fairly popular RPG on the GBA. And as we're seeing right now, handheld RPGs on the GBA aren't exactly unknown. KOTOR isn't the most widespread game out there and it's not like it's had fantastic contest performances. It's outdone expectations, but those expectations were for it to get killed by Halo and it only lost respectably to Halo. This is still a game that has never had a performance better than a Halo game. Fire Emblem is no Golden Sun, but we're currently watching a GBA RPG take down a mammoth like GTA. KOTOR couldn't do that with Halo, a series that's about equal to GTA. I mean, I'm still gonna pick KOTOR. I just don't feel super great about it. transience's prediction: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic with 55.78% |
Leon’s Analysis Both of these games are coming off of solid round one wins, but the difference is that KOTOR beat DMC1 while Fire Emblem beat Tony Hawk 2. While DMC isn’t a strong series, I’d imagine it’s strong enough to put a nice hurting on Tony Hawk 2. Heck, I’d probably be taking it over Fire Emblem if it were in this match instead. While the series is certainly stronger than it used to be, it’s not strong enough to contend with KOTOR here. This one shouldn’t be in doubt. Leonhart’s Embarrassing Confession of the Match: Luke Skywalker is my favorite Star Wars character. Apparently, that’s weird. Leonhart’s Vote: Knights of the Old Republic. Leonhart’s Prediction: Knights of the Old Republic with 60.10% Kleenex’s Analysis More boring matches. Not a lot to talk about here. KOTOR's fairly respectable, Fire Emblem's not. Golden Sun's performance yesterday might make some give pause here, but there's really no reason for that. KOTOR wins. Kleenex's Prediction: Knights of the Old Republic with 58.45% Applekidjosh’s Analysis So to me this comes completely down to the smartvotersfaqs theory. I don't know if KOTOR sold more than FE and I don't wanna look it up but in theory KOTOR would be weak here. It was an Xbox exclusive back when Xbox was weak as hell, while Fire Emblem is nintendo japanesy RPGy smash brothersy. However, everyone knows KOTOR is incredibly critically acclaimed. I haven't played the games and I know they're damn good. I think that's gonna carry it in this match. As for my percentage... how about I rank the endings I've gotten so far in 999 and give that percentage to fire emblem? 4>5>3>2>6 so 45.326 so 45.33, which means AKJ says KOTOR > Fire Emblem with 54.67% Guest’s Analysis - dragon22391/numbers So uh, this match isn't in any real debate, but I get the feeling FE is going to overperform here for no real reason - maybe it was KotOR's relative R1 underperformance on DMC, a series in which what I think is the more well-received game didn't even double freaking Mother 3. I think the performances are going to be comparable. KotOR with 59.11% Crew Consensus: KOTOR wins this |
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I just don't feel super great about it. It's Fire Emblem. It got doubled by Final Fantasy Tactics Advance! --- http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh293/zukiraphaera/war-sig-1.png "SEXTON HILLBEAST" - TimJab |
