GameFAQs Contests
Game of the Decade Contest Analysis Crew - Part 5
2004 FE ain't the same as 2010. --- xyzzy |
Fire Emblem --- http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh293/zukiraphaera/war-sig-1.png "SEXTON HILLBEAST" - TimJab |
After GTA got owned by GS I don't know what to think anymore! --- LM |
Got hung up, thoughts shortly, but watch for KotOR to impress! Knights of the Old Republic vs Fire Emblem Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - 61.77% --- 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! |
Knights of the Old Republic vs Fire Emblem Everyone's chickening out and lowering their KotOR preds to under 60% here. Everyone but me. I guess its 58% showing last round was a touch disappointing (BTW did you notice that Metroid Prime outperformed it by 7% against the same series? BOOM, BABY), but what you have to understand is that DMC is a Night Vote monster. Despite the big loss, that game managed 49% of the Europe vote and 70% in Asia; FE isn't going to come anywhere close to those numbers (it's only managed to go even outside the US so far this Contest). So I guess everyone's instead backing off due to NintendoFAQs, HandheldFAQs, jRPGFAQs? Ehhh, I'll be the first to admit that what Golden Sun has done today is pretty awesome, but nothing I've seen from Fire Emblem tells me that's going to translate over. Yes they blew out their R1 opponents, but I think the beatdown applied by one of the weakest Pokemon has exposed those matches as being "fodder lucks out by drawing worst-fodder-ever-level fodder". Well, "fodder" may be a little harsh... but I sure don't except this game to outperform DMC1, so it's got to be close enough! Most importantly though, Knights of the Old Republic is available on Steam today for only $2.50 whoaaaaaaa dude you should totally buy it! Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - 61.77% --- 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! |
It's Fire Emblem. It got doubled by Final Fantasy Tactics Advance! And FFTA failed to get doubled by FFX that year, meaning FFTA wasn't exactly fodder itself even before you consider the possible SFF. FFTA was a major GBA release at the time, and we've seen GBA games doing pretty well this contest, whereas FE and FFTA were the only GBA games we even saw in 2004. And in 2004 FFT almost beat Metal Gear Solid, FFTA was probably drawing a lot of power from its older brother's name. Then, if there can be FFVII/MGS SFF, which some people seem to think, it seems pretty silly to say there couldn't have been FFX/FFTA SFF, particularly if we're guessing a lot of people who voted for FFTA did so for having Final Fantasy in the name. Which isn't to say Fire Emblem didn't look bad there, it still did, and anyone fearing an FE upset against KOTOR was being rather silly. But FFTA 2004 was likely a pretty solid midcarder. |
FFTA shoulda made this contest. game woulda done better than Sunshine. --- xyzzy |
Crew Predictions - 73/82 What Happened: Some console RPGS won, and then a handheld RPG beat the best-selling PS2 game. RPG heaven, basically Why it Happened: Bioshock is a solid midcarder, as it had a very good showing against KH2. It's had reason to boost since 2009. On the other hand, MW2 has really fallen off, almost getting doubled by KH. FFX had no trouble with Borderlands, but it had another underwhelming performance. Lastly, GS beat San Andreas, we just hate GTA that much (okay okay, Golden Sun is legit and deserves credit). What will Happen: KH looking like the favorite over the sequel, and FFX will rock GS. Crew Prediction Challenge - Tran and I still got a cushion Moltar - 72 Tran - 72 Kleenex - 70 AKJ - 70 Leon - 70 Lopen - 69 Guest - 63 Crew Accuracy Challenge - Leon gets the point for KH2 and Kleenex gets the point for KH. Leon gets the point for KH2 and Kleenex gets the point for KH. Tran gets the point for FFX and Kleenex gets the point for GS. Moltar - 13.5 Guest - 13 (GfK: 1, BT: 2, CM: 2, Kotetsu: 2, dragon: 1, NGamer: 1, Ultima: 2, TRT: 1, Greyfeld: 1) Tran - 12 Kleenex - 11 AKJ - 10.5 Leon - 10 Lopen - 9 --- Moltar Status: 86 Points - Vote: Final Fantasy X Contest Analysis Crew Archives: http://thecrew.speedrunwiki.com/ |
Early work tomorrow, thoughts when I get a break! Final Fantasy 9 vs Persona 3 Final Fantasy IX - 70.21% --- 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! |
Kleenex - 11 AKJ - 10.5 Balance has been restored. --- This is the kind of **** that allowed the Bhopal incident to happen. 5,000 dead Indians. Want that on your damn conscience, Square apologists? |
From: The Mana Sword | #262 I round up! --- http://myanimelist.net/profile/applekidjosh <Die the death>! <Sentence to death>! <Great equalizer is the death>!! |
South Division: Round 2 - Match 84 – (7) Persona 3 vs. (2) Final Fantasy IX Moltar’s Analysis Persona 3 Round 1 - 52.35% on Civilization IV Congrats you beat super fodder Final Fantasy IX Round 1 - 75.19% on Phoenix Wright 3 FF9 stylin’ Some kind of RPG SFF huh. FF9 looked very good in Round 1, and now it gets to show it’s stuff against a far less popular RPG. This will probably go a little better for P3 than it did for Phoenix Wright since Persona seems to have somewhat of a decent fanbase. Moltar’s Bracket: FF9 wins Moltar’s Prediction: FF9 - 71% Lopen’s Analysis Persona 3 beat a legendary game in Civilization last round. So it'll... Who am I kidding. Oooh, soft... Lopen's prediction: Final Fantasy IX with 70.95% Transience’s Analysis This could be a SFF match, but the Persona fanbase is so loud and strong that I don't know if it will be. They're on different platforms and are separated by 7 years. This probably won't be a SFF beatdown. That said, there's definitely overlap here. Both of these games suck ass in the daytime so it'll be interesting to see who wins the day vote. This match could clue us in to how Persona 4 will do against Dead Rising. Other than that, this should be blowout city. transience's prediction: Final Fantasy IX with 71.55% Leon’s Analysis Persona 3 scored a win over Civ IV, likely due to being a JRPG on a site that loves JRPGs (and maybe because it was a night match, too), but when you’re going against the king series of JRPGs, you’re gonna have a rough time. This one won’t be even close, but you don’t need me to tell you that. I wonder if FFIX could manage some sort of JRPG SFF in this one. I kinda doubt it, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it killed Persona 3 about as badly as it killed T&T. Leonhart’s Embarrassing Confession of the Match: Maybe not “embarrassing,” per se, but I really thought FFIX was the easiest game in the series, slow battle speed and awful stealing rate notwithstanding. Leonhart’s Vote: Final Fantasy IX. Leonhart’s Prediction: Final Fantasy IX with 73.95% |
Kleenex’s Analysis More boring matches. Not a lot to talk about here. Final Fantasy IX's fairly respectable, Persona 3's not. Golden Sun's perform-oh wait that doesn't work here. Only think this match is good for is to STRIKE FEAR IN THE HEART IF FFX if FFIX rocks house. Kleenex's Prediction: Final Fantasy IX with 68.01% Applekidjosh’s Analysis This match really hurts me. We've got one of the best games of the generation about to get crushed by the worst Final Fantasy game. I don't think I can even bring myself to look at the poll results all day. 999 Junpei > Persona 3 Junpei. P3 is decent, so it won't get tripled like Phoenix did (999 is a better interactive Visual Novel than PW:AA btw) but this still won't be close. Where's my prediction percentage? All I see here is this locked safe with a 0-9 keypad on it. All I've got in my inventory is a scrap of paper that says F F 9. FF9? Well yeah, of course! That's the game that's up today. How does that help me know the code? Hmm... well why are the letters spaced out like that? Maybe the code IS F F 9? But there's no F on this keypad! WAIT! What was that I learned earlier? Something about... hexadecimal? Let's try... [1 5 1 5 9] YOU FOUND IT The safe opens, and inside is a notebook. It's empty except this scribble on the first page: [AKJ says FF9 > P3 with 64.5%] (everyone play 999) Guest’s Analysis - MansSfan21 As we enter Round 2, we get even closer matches, and much more obvious wins. This match is the latter. Persona 3, in the last round, just barely managed to get past Civilization 4 to advance to the second round by 4.7% of the votes (a.k.a. about 1580 votes). On the other hand, Final Fantasy IX trounced Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations by almost triple its votes. Most people have been hoping for the divisional final being FFX versus FFIX, like the SSBM vs. SSBB match. Just as most fangirls go after Bieber, GameFAQs mostly go after RPGs, specifically JRPGs (for the most part). Final FantasyIX, for the most part, has a larger fanbase than the first two Persona games, and maybe Persona 3, combined. Strangely, I have SMT: P3 going ahead, but after much analysis, I realize that this was a terrible mistake. Final Judgement: FFIX will demolish P3, and will probably throttle Star Wars or Fire Emblem next round (don't quote me if I'm wrong, though). Exact Prediction: FFIX will win with 65.38% of the votes. MansSfan21's Secret (sorry Leon for stealing your joke): I never really got into the Final Fantasy craze, preferring such RPGs as the Tales series, Skies of Arcadia, and if you could call it that, Pokemon. Crew Consensus: FF9 with an easy win |
aw yeah 999 analysis --- 2010 Game of the Decade Contest - 87/100 points - Today: Star Wars: KotoR / Final Fantasy IX http://backloggery.com/articuno2001/sig.gif |
MansSfan21's
Secret (sorry Leon for stealing your joke): I never really got into the
Final Fantasy craze, preferring such RPGs as the Tales series, Skies of
Arcadia, and if you could call it that, Pokemon. Best Guest yet --- DFF |
Although it was the wrong time to say it as FF9 is the best FF game. But still the best Guest so far! --- DFF |
MansSfan21 = KP alt --- http://www.abload.de/img/sam-being-awesome-2jfgd.gif |
crew curse persona wins --- This is the kind of **** that allowed the Bhopal incident to happen. 5,000 dead Indians. Want that on your damn conscience, Square apologists? |
I don't know man. Once Final Fantasy IV hit, FF is an easy series. Hard to call which is the easiest. |
Southwest Division: Round 2 - Match 85 – (1) Resident Evil 4 vs. (8) Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Moltar’s Analysis Resident Evil 4 Round 1 - 82.15% on Jet Grind Radio RE4 showing Dreamcast fans what’s up Vice City Round 1 - 63.57% on Silent Hill 2 Nothing great from GTA GTA games can just get out of here. They rarely do as expected of them. Vice City had a somewhat weak performance against Silent Hill, and it has no chance at beating one of the strongest games in the bracket tonight. Vice City has some decent strength, and it should perform alright. Therefore, I will predict that RE4 destroys Vice City here. Sometimes, it’s all about the mindgames. Moltar’s Bracket: RE4 wins Moltar’s Prediction: RE4 - 68% Lopen’s Analysis Lopen is busy and does not care to think about your fodder match. Well okay it's not fodder but it LOST TO GOLDEN SUN. ~fin Lopen's prediction: RE4 with 70.67% Transience’s Analysis With FF10 not looking so great, RE4 has a chance here to be really interesting. RE4 should be a game that could do big damage in the early rounds: it's revered as an influential and beloved game and gets next to no backlash. That kind of game should do great. Its opponent is GTA, a series that knows how to flop but also knows how to put up deceivingly impressive results in losing efforts. I bet GTA does decently here. It can't compete with RE4 but if it can avoid a doubling, it'll be in decent shape. transience's prediction: Resident Evil 4 with 64.56% Leon’s Analysis This one should be pretty straightforward. Gone are the days of Vice City getting 47% on Melee. It couldn’t even manage 65% on Silent Hill 2, of all things. It can’t even take advantage of it being a night match because RE is just as good at night as GTA is. This one should be ugly. There’s really not much else to say about this one. Leonhart’s Embarrassing Confession of the Match: I think the closest I’ve ever come to playing a “sandbox” type of game is Jak 2 and 3. Leonhart’s Vote: Resident Evil 4. Leonhart’s Prediction: Resident Evil 4 with 63.40% |
Kleenex’s Analysis Three Grand Theft Auto games down, one to go. Vice City might be the strongest GTA game, but I'm not really going to even bother discussing that because really nobody has a damn clue. So let's talk about Resident Evil 4 instead. Resident Evil 4 is a pretty strong game. Did alright last round, or so I hear. Word on the street is that it's going to run all over this division. Can't really say I disagree. Been some rumors about it taking down Final Fantasy X. Could happen. Gonna need to do pretty well on Vice City tonight, though. If we're assuming all the GTA games are relatively equal, RE4's going to need around 65% in my eyes. It's a little tough to base things off how the other GTA games did, because I don't really know how RE4 matches up to the likes of Half-Life 2, but I think 65% is a good number to shoot for. Now watch it push 70% 'ffx is so screwed' Kleenex's Prediction: Resident Evil 4 with 64.58% Applekidjosh’s Analysis like we talked about last round, if there's any game that is going to get the single biggest boost solely from smartvotersfaqs, it's probably resident evil 4. It won game of the year like 6 years in a row, and it's going to blow past a series that can't even beat Golden Sun with its more popular entrant. RE4 will definitely be well into the 60s here, and if it's not I'm gonna start fuelin up that beautiful Portal > RE4 upset wagon! AKJ says RE4 > Vice City with 65.00% Guest’s Analysis - Mr3790 This should be easy. RE4 blows out GTA:VC quite easily. SA Failing only supports this. It sould get around: RE4: 65.65% Crew Consensus: RE4 shoots VC in the head. |
What an amazing Guest write-up, almost as good as Lopen. Also, if Lopen's % happens, LOL FFX. Hell, LOL G/S/C --- I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. |
Resident Evil 4 vs GTA: Vice City Well heck, talk about a Tale of Two Factors. In the red corner you've got RE4 going all beast mode and looking like a legit FFX-killer last round combined with GTA4 making a fool of itself and San Andreas making an even BIGGER fool of itself a couple weeks later. But in the blue corner, we saw a very similar situation a week ago where this series ended up making a very respectable exit to a different SmartVoterFAQs favorite named Half-Life 2. Plus this is a Night Match, where GTA is always at its best. Hmmm... tough choice but I'm still going with RE4 for the big time win. It's just TOO loved, plus its an excellent anti-dote to most of what makes the GTA series appealing in the first place. (As in it outclasses VC with PS2 owners, "casual" action fans, respect/influence/GotD-ness, etc.) That and I've got to stay true to my "GTA3 is going to be the strongest of all because of this Contest's name!" thing I've been harping all season! Resident Evil 4 - 65.11% --- 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! |
72% 10 minutes in? Leon must be sweating through five shirts right now! Okay time to get caught back up! Final Fantasy 9 vs Persona 3 Cool match pic from Persona in this one, but... that's about the only thing working in its favor! Barely scraping by a Civilization game in a poll that about 7 people voted in doesn't exactly inspire confidence, nor does 64% on a DLC game not named Mega Man 9. And its nice that jRPGs have been overperforming so consistently, but that isn't exactly a big help against a fellow jRPG with 8x your sales and 3x your GotD appeal and 10x your fanbase on this site. I also don't like the Persona series in Day Matches at all, especially not after seeing that huge percentage collapse against Braid. Granted FF9 is one of the more Night-heavy entrants as well, but I'd still say the timing works slightly in its favor. All in all, I feel quite confident in Persona getting "SFFed" down to well below the percentage it would put up against any non-RPG. Like say, 30% or so. (Which funnily enough would make FFX look awful for the second round in a row!) Final Fantasy IX - 70.21% --- 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! |
Congratulations, Applekidjosh. There had been an empty spot on my Chanukah list, and you just reminded me of this great-looking game that I had seen in NP but had completely forgotten about by the time it actually came out. You make a great salesman. --- Currently playing: Golden Sun: Dark Dawn Possibly playing 999 next? |
From: TheKoolAidShoto | #274 Psh. My write-up is forgiven by the virtue that I've done friggin 80 of these so far! --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
Southwest Division: Round 2 - Match 86 – (12) Dead Rising vs. (4) Persona 4 Moltar’s Analysis Dead Rising Round 1 - 50.91% on The World Ends With You DR barely pulls off the ‘upset’ Vice City Round 1 - 63.97% on Braid This...seems really bad for some reason. So I had TWEWY winning this four-pack, ‘whoops’. I actually lost faith in it before the match against Dead Rising and it ended up doing better than my lowered expectations predicted, so that’s good for it. Not so good for Dead Rising though. Then, Persona 4 only got 64% on Braid, and that’s a game that I would expect most games in this bracket to destroy. However, it’s very possible that I’ve been underestimating downloadable games all contest (that would be the case with MM9 at least), and that P4 victory was better than it looked. The morning vote saved DR from TWEWY, and this being a day match helps Dead Rising too if P4 keeps it close. However, Persona 3’s performance against FF9 sealed the deal for me here. From the beginning, I’ve believed that Persona 4 was stronger than Persona 3. Not only did that game get a lot of people into the series, but fans of the series also really loved it. P3 really impressed me against FF9, and I would imagine that P4 would do even better there. Dead Rising? Probably somewhere in the middle based off its performance with TWEWY, a game that I’m not too sure I’d take over P3 anymore. Moltar’s Bracket: TWEWY wins (lol) Moltar’s Prediction: Persona 4 - 52% Lopen’s Analysis You only really need an argument for this one if you're picking Dead Rising. Persona 4 justification is easy enough... Dead Rising only beat TWEWY by like 1000 votes, and Persona 4 seems > TWEWY. I'm not entirely sure I agree with Persona 4 being an obvious choice to be stronger than TWEWY, myself, but I'm still going to pick it, somewhat hesitantly. Doubly somewhat hesitantly cause of the fact this one is a day match where I think Dead Rising will excel. Lopen's prediction: Persona 4 with 52.55% Transience’s Analysis Over the last week, I've become pretty confident in this tossup match. Persona 4 is stronger than TWEWY. It's not guaranteed but I'd easily take the super-hyped console RPG over the gimmicky handheld one. Square making TWEWY doesn't really matter that much because Persona 4 has reached Tales of Symphonia levels of hype. The one thing pushing me towards Dead Rising is that it's a day match - once the night vote evaporated, Dead Rising rolled right over TWEWY. It shouldn't matter though. Persona 3 showed it actually had a better day vote than FF9 -- something that isn't exactly difficult, but still, it's not the worst of the worst. Dead Rising is in my bracket so I'll be cheering for that, but on an RPG site I'll take the most beloved JRPG of the last five years. transience's prediction: Persona 4 with 54.44% Leon’s Analysis Man, what a mess. I really don’t think Persona 4 will be much stronger than TWEWY, despite the fact that both Persona games won a match in this contest and P4 essentially tied with SFIV last contest. Persona 4 lost the day vote to Braid last round, and Dead Rising showed that it was a day game last round. In a night match, I might lean P4’s way, but I’m taking Dead Rising in a day match here. It could easily go either way here though. Leonhart’s Embarrassing Confession of the Match: I don’t like playing super long RPGs. Give me something manageable. Leonhart’s Vote: Uhhhh…Dead Rising, I guess. Leonhart’s Prediction: Dead Rising with 52.01% |
Kleenex’s Analysis Oh man. This is the last (only?) difficult match of Round 2, but it's a doozy. Dead Rising barely managed to scrape by TWEWY (still the worst acronym ever) last round, while Persona 4 made Braid it's plaything. I'm having a real tough time pegging Persona for this match. I honestly don't know if I'd take it over TWEWY or not. Probably, so logically I'd have to take Persona to beat out Dead Rising. But it's a day match, and Persona 3 managed to lose the ASV to Final Fantasy 9 of all things. Dead Rising should be pretty popular with the casual crowd, as ZOMBIES usually are. I can't even go the Golden Sun route here, because I'm not getting a good feeling about either game. Guess that means it's time to stick with my bracket. Kleenex's Prediction: Dead Rising with 50.01% cop out zone Applekidjosh’s Analysis Interesting match between two games that are close enough in strength that it could go either way but weak enough in strength that it won't matter after this round. I'm rushed for time today but suffice to say I'm trusting RPGFAQs on this one Persona 4 > Dead Rising with 54% Guest’s Analysis - Big Bob Alright, let's get things out of the way: Persona 4's my favorite game of all time, so this writeup's gonna be biased as hell. But I'll try to keep it reasonable. This is easily the weakest fourpack in the bracket; both Dead Rising and Persona 4 are fodder-level, yet one of them's gonna wind up in the third round with the big boys. Dead Rising barely scraped by The World Ends With You, another JRPG, but that was a night match and this is the day; Persona 4's worst nightmare. Persona 4 lost the day vote to BRAID. Of course, it's easy to make the argument that Braid's a 360 game and would have 360-like trends, but still. Timewise, Dead Rising has the advantage, and it's already beaten one JRPG; why not another? But the difference is, Persona 4's significantly stronger than TWEWY. For one thing, it's a console game as opposed to handheld. And while TWEWY got a mixed reception, Persona 4 is much more liked among those who have played it. TWEWY came out when the DS was going strong with plenty of games, and Atlus came along and delivered a solid RPG to a console that everyone thought was dead; it simply stands out more. The World Ends With You also seemed to have just came and went, but Atlus has been pumping out Shin Megami Tensei games like crazy ever since Persona 4; they released three in 2009, and two more in 2010, with Persona 2 arriving next year. Point is, it's just more recognizable and more popular than TWEWY. But is that enough to beat Dead Rising? In the night, sure. But if Persona 4 wants to win this, it's going to have to be the flat-out stronger game. And I think Persona can do it. Sorry for making this writeup more about TWEWY than Dead Rising, but like I said, DR's already proven itself capable, so I'm aiming for the weakness of its opponent. Yosuke Hanamura > Neku Sakuraba (in terms of protagonists with Japanese-sounding names who never take their headphones off) Prediction: Persona 4 with 52% Crew Consensus: 2 are going with Dead Rising, but the rest of the Crew believes in RPGFAQs |
The people demand CREW WRITEUPS. --- 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! |
Whoa, what a successful demand! --- 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! |
TWEWY is an awesome acronym; it just rolls off the tongue twoo-wee --- thelefty for analysis crew 2008 imo -tranny I have a third degree burn in flame-o-nomics -Sir Chris |
TWEWY does not have mixed reception. |
I'm going with the show over the crew on this one! DR don't fail me now! --- GranTurisMo - God's Tiniest Man - Great Thorn Monkeys! Member of the merSHINEsess Nation since 7/15/09 |
[This message was deleted at the request of the original poster] |
"TWEWY" is indeed an awesome acronym. --- Booyah, Grandma. Booyah. {XI} dood |
Dead Rising vs Persona 4 UGH, this match is tearing my head apart. Okay so, this is going to sound weird... Persona 4 is the stronger game, and deserves to win this match. It's "natural" strength is probably a little bit higher than "that Square game" (though I think by now we should know not to disrespect Nintendo handheld RPGs!), so under normal circumstances it probably wins by a slim margin. Trouble is, these aren't normal circumstances, it's Day Vote City! Dead Rising crushed "that Square game" in the US, scoring nearly 54% here, while P4 went from 69% in the early going to tumbling under 64% against Braid. Can you imagine a game with less day vote appeal than Braid? Can you imagine a game with MORE day vote appeal than the Xbox 360 casual favorite where you kill zombies all day with the awesome match pic? (Okay so I could think of lots of better day vote options, but STILL.) TimeOfDayFAQs, don't let me down now! Dead Rising - 50.07% --- 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! |
****ing curse time --- I like how each new topic you make reveals such varied facets of your idiocy. - foolmo Now this is entertainment! |
Go TWEWY --- GranTurisMo - God's Tiniest Man - Great Thorn Monkeys! Member of the merSHINEsess Nation since 7/15/09 |
aw tran went higher, and 55 at the freeze. Gotta build up that buffer for ASV, go persona go --- img184.imageshack.us/img184/7595/lovevk5.gif Joker is sick and twisted and must be stoped at all costed what plans do you have in store for Batman anyway |
But it's a day match, and Persona 3 managed to lose the ASV to Final Fantasy 9 of all things. Persona 3 won the ASV over Final Fantasy 9, but not by a whole lot. Persona 3 had a killer SNV though. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ! |
oh hey, DR making a match of this. ya go my dead rising --- xyzzy |
ya go my dead rising kill it with fire --- This is the kind of **** that allowed the Bhopal incident to happen. 5,000 dead Indians. Want that on your damn conscience, Square apologists? |
Southwest Division: Round 2 - Match 87 – (3) Portal vs. (6) Final Fantasy XII Moltar’s Analysis Portal Round 1 - 71.47% on Gears of War 2 Very impressive Final Fantasy XII Round 1 - 55.65% on Crisis Core The FF7 name with the moral victory This match has been getting some talk, but I’m not seeing it being close or anything. It’s hard to say whether or not Portal looked better than FF12 in 2009, but since then, it has had reason to get a lot stronger. Just look at those numbers it pulled on Gears 2. Meanwhile, FF12 struggled with Crisis Core. Yeah it would beat Gears 2, but still, you have to give Portal the advantage. The game is straight-up loved by the people who have played it, as opposed to the mixed-reaction FF12 gets. This should be your standard high 50s Round 2 match. Moltar’s Bracket: Portal wins Moltar’s Prediction: Portal - 57% Lopen’s Analysis I think Final Fantasy XII's chances are being underrated here. Now okay the match vs Crisis Core didn't seem all that impressive, but I'm not even sure how much you can draw from that. SFF match and who knows maybe Crisis Core was getting FINAL FANTASY VII OMG votes. All I know is the 2006 GotY, FFXII beat Kingdom Hearts 2. That's 4REAL, man. Do I think it'd happen again? Well, no, but... still. Point is, FFXII hate is a bit overblown... the only reason I'm still thinking of picking Portal here is because it wrecked Gears of War 2. But... we can't really be sure Gears of War is worth a damn. The presumably stronger Gears lost to one of the lesser known Paper Mario games 60-40, and its main character can barely beat Kefka (have doubts he would in a rematch). I dunno, I'm just gonna go with FFXII. I'm just not convinced that Portal is strong and widespread enough that it can beat a Final Fantasy game here, and that victory over KH2 years ago just means a lot to me. It should be close... but not quite close enough that any crazy rallies will be able to turn it. Night match should help FFXII, too-- and stop any rally hopes, for that matter. Lopen's prediction: Final Fantasy XII with 51.25% Transience’s Analysis There has not been a single match this contest that points to FF12 being able to beat Portal. Crisis Core put up like 45% on FF12 while Portal went huge on Gears 2. Crisis Core probably isn't much different from Dissidia and it ended up losing to a game that got doubled by Kingdom Hearts. Portal is a much bigger game than FF12 as well; people just flat out care about it more. FF games have not done all that well this year. Bioshock performed admirably in a losing effort to KH2. Portal beat Bioshock last year, not to mention that FF12 is weaker than KH2. Half-Life 2 looked pretty average in the match against GTA3, and that game beat FF12. Portal has an insane early vote that will lend itself to a night match. Portal has ample reasons for boosting over the past year - PC gaming getting more popular, Steam growing, being given away free for a while - while FF games have just shrunk in popularity for yet another year. Basically, the only reason to think FF12 will win is because the Final Fantasy name is attached to it. That name doesn't mean as much as it used to. transience's prediction: Portal with 57.85% |
Leon’s Analysis Yeah, I think this division is going to be the death of my bracket. I had TWEWY going to round three, and I’ve got FFXII going to round four. I don’t think FFXII’s chances of winning are impossible, but 70% on Gears 2 versus 55% on Crisis Core is hard to ignore. I think Crisis Core beats Gears 2 pretty easily, but it would need a doubling for these two games to be equal, if you take stats at straight up face value. Do I think that’s within the realm of possibility? Ehhhh, probably not. Plus, we saw Portal have a massive first hour, and Board 8 isn’t a fan of FFXII, so that first hour will be really difficult to recover from, even in a night match. That’s pretty much what happened against HL2 in the last contest, and that’s probably what’ll happen here. FFXII will look really bad to begin with and finish respectably, but I don’t see it winning at this point. I hope I’m wrong, but… Oh, what the heck? I’m going to stick with FFXII because I expect everyone else to go with Portal here. Gears 1 getting wrecked gives me confidence that Portal’s round 1 performance wasn’t really proof that it’s gotten a major strength boost. Let’s do this. Leonhart’s Embarrassing Confession of the Match: I thought the Hunts in FFXII were more fun than the main adventure. Leonhart’s Vote: Final Fantasy XII. Leonhart’s Prediction: Final Fantasy XII with 51.75% Kleenex’s Analysis Time for some highly debated match. Oh wait not it's not. Portal should win this with, probably without breaking a sweat. It was more impressive last round than FFXII was, and no one cares about FFXII. Well, they do more than Crisis Core. But not much. Anyway, Portal wins. Next. Kleenex's Prediction: Portal with 58.58% Applekidjosh’s Analysis Hell yeah, I've been waiting for this match forever. Even though my bracket has Portal > Crisis Core here, I'll still enjoy a modern masterpiece beating down a series that's past its prime. Maybe "beating down" is too strong but I fully expect Portal to take this handily. The night match is just icing on the cake. I wouldn't be shocked to see the percentage anywhere from 50.5 to 60 though, no idea how that will play out. Special note! If Portal wins and the board goes the entire day without making a single stale portal/still alive/cake joke, I will donate $100 to Child's Play Last round Ulti broke it, so we'll see. AKJ says Portal > FF12 with 57.50% |
Guest’s Analysis - War When I took this match, I was ready to write about how Final Fantasy XII had this match in the bag. I figured: Valve hadn’t looked good all contest, and hell, that was before Half-Life 2’s performance on GTAIII started looking not so good. Left 4 Dead bombed, and Left 4 Dead 2 didn’t bomb hard enough to make Half-Life 2 look good. Portal’s performance on Gears of War 2 was good before Paper Mario 2 crushed the first Gears at night. Hell, Portal/TTYD might be debatable. Portable games had looked awesome. And this was before Fire Emblem put together a good enough performance on KotOR to make Fire Emblem > GTAIII at least plausible to argue. After Vice City’s bomb I might even take it! Ok fine not really. It’s still Fire Emblem. But still, Dissidia looked ok on Modern Warfare 2, and there’s no way Modern Warfare 2 is that awful, right? I was wrong. Since I took this match, Final Fantasy has looked ok at best. Modern Warfare 2 got stomped, and the only way Final Fantasy X has even a snowball’s chance in hell of winning the contest is if Borderlands can beat Morrowind. Final Fantasy IX ‘impressed’ by beating up Persona 3 during the day. A game that would have lost to Civilization IV had it been a 8/9 match-up instead of 7/10. The little brother of a game that failed to double Braid. And if downloadables are like portables, then Braid is worthless since it’s not Nintendo. Everything has fallen in place from Valve’s end for Final Fantasy XII to win this match, and win it big. But Final Fantasy has done nothing to deserve having the bastard child of the series taken in a debated match. I’ve been confident in Prime > Half-Life 2 from the start, and I’ve only gotten more confident since, but Final Fantasy XII is a trash game, and I expect Portal to win in the same fashion Golden Sun beat San Andreas. Portal with 53% Crew Consensus: 2 members are going with FF12, but the majority is siding with Portal. |
Man I'm the lowest Portal pick? WELP --- http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh293/zukiraphaera/war-sig-1.png "SEXTON HILLBEAST" - TimJab |
From: Master Moltar | #296 Not embarrassing at all. The bonus content is the only good thing about FF12. --- "I just cannot imagine how my sister would have gotten an STD." -WackJackman |
I'm utterly shocked people are going with FF12. --- This is the kind of **** that allowed the Bhopal incident to happen. 5,000 dead Indians. Want that on your damn conscience, Square apologists? |
