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Game of the Decade Contest Analysis Crew - Part 6
Hey everyone, it’s Contest time again! You know what that means! The Contest Analysis Crew is back once again! Our goal is to go through this entire contest to determine the GameFAQs Game of the Decade. We will analyze and predict each match, and of course, you will read the write-ups and laugh at us when we’re wrong. So without further ado, here’s the Introduction! The Founder: Master Moltar Fable isn’t going to roll over and die here, and TF2 doesn’t have the strength to blow it out. However, Deus Ex winning yesterday does give me a little more faith that TF2 can win this match over the more well-known and casual Fable is getting all the love now. Plus, if this match is close, I’m pretty sure the Internet will favor TF2, so either Fable is going to wreck it, or TF2 will squeak by. I’ll bet on the latter. Moltar’s Prediction: TF2 - 53% The Wild: Lopen So my point is, this lack of 1v1 strength to me indicates a game that's well loved by its fanbase, but just doesn't have the fanbase on this site to overcome a game with a strong brand name. Devil May Cry is just strong enough to exploit this, and so it should squeak out a win here. Lopen's prediction: Devil May Cry with 51.05% The Wise: Transience This is a day match, something Sonic is great with. This is Sonic's only 'decent' 3d game and those kinds of games tend to get overglorified. Sonic has become crap here but it's because of stuff like Sonic 2006, Shadow, Unleashed, that stuff. Not because of SA2. If you give people who don't care either way a choice between Sonic and Street Fighter, they're going to pick Sonic. It's just a bigger name. transience's prediction: Sonic Adventure 2 with 59.13% The Old Friend: Leonhart Leonhart’s Prediction: WWF No Mercy with 51.07% (nuff said) The Sophomore: Kleenex Anyway, here's the way I see it. Mario Sunshine is not nearly as hated as people like to pretend it is. You guys can say what you want, but it's just not. It may not be as strong as Mario 64, well, it isn't as strong as Mario 64, but people still do like it. Meanwhile, Halo has disappointed in every single contest on this site save for one GAME FUEL influenced Master Chief. If this were Halo 1, I might give pause here, but it's not even Halo 1, it's Halo 3. Kleenex's Prediction: Super Mario Sunshine with 55.67% The New Blood: Applekidjosh So now I've built up a reputation on having this pick, but I know it's a fool's errand. Do I turn my back on my fans? Do I line up with the rest of the Gurus and Crew and take the safe FF12? Do I go with logic, or my heart...? ........what would Zack Fair do? AKJ says Crisis Core > FF12 with 50.01% The Usual: Guest Uncharted 2 - 47.66% Legend of Dragoon - 52.34% Warcraft 3 with 59.28% Disgaea with 54.83% Ghandi with 55.14% Baldur's Gate II with 51.29% The Sims > Shadow of the Colossus with 50.01% Chrono Cross: 49% Dragon Quest VIII: 51% And that’s the Game of the Decade Contest Analysis Crew Introd- |
Lopen: Hey! What the hell is this!? Moltar: It’s the introduction. You said you wanted me to make a real Introduction, so I made one. Tran: I don’t think this is what any of us had in mind for a real Introduction. Leon: You highlighted all of our Round 1 failures! You’re making us look really bad to anyone who doesn’t follow these topics! Kleenex: Not only that, but you put a prediction you got right for your own match! Are you trying to make us look bad? Are you trying to say we’re not as good as you?! AKJ: You were also really harsh on the Guest? Do you want to discourage new Guests that much by putting all the matches they get wrong like that? Moltar: Now now everyone, it’s just a Topic Introduction. It’s not like anyone even reads these anyway. Oh, they do? Well that sucks for you guys, I guess. E-mail - mastermoltar@gmail.com Current Guests: Majora's Mask/Chrono Cross - Xcarvenger MKWii/Pokemon GSC - Luster Soldier Wind Waker/Assassin's Creed 2 - pjbasis Paper Mario TTYD/Oblivion - Sir Chris Fallout 3/Batman AA - Chaotic Mind Uncharted 2/Halo - Eeeevil Overlord Metroid Prime/Okami - Kotetsu534 GoW/Half-Life 2 - PaulG235 Melee/CoD4 -TsunamiXXVIII Pokemon DPP/Brawl - Biolizard28 Galaxy/Zelda TP - th3l3fty KH2/KH - Mr3790 |
Northwest Division: Round 2 - Match 95 – (3) The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker vs. (6) Assassin’s Creed II Moltar’s Analysis Wind Waker Round 1 - 63.95% on God of War II A very good performance from this ‘hated’ Zelda Assassin’s Creed II Round 1 - 61.89% on ICO Decent, but it’s not going to challenge WW. I’m not even sure I would take AC2 over GoW2, so there’s no way I’m seeing AC2 come close to Wind Waker. ICO also has several reasons to not be as strong as SotC, so I’m seeing AC2/ICO as a weak showing for AC2. Wind Waker probably takes this with numbers similar to last round. Moltar’s Bracket: Wind Waker wins Moltar’s Prediction: Wind Waker - 63% Lopen’s Analysis This analysis is pretty simple. With WW coming off of a GoW 2 win in round 1, and assuming Assassin's Creed 2 = God of War 2, you've got an easy projection to make here. Well, that's what I assume. Let's see if the percentages agree with me. ZELDAFAQS. Lopen's prediction: Wind Waker with 63.95% Transience’s Analysis Zelda obviously wins here. What's stronger, AC2 or God of War 2? They're probably not too far apart. AC2's probably not as strong as the original God of War, but might be equal to GOW2. Zelda should start out huge just like last round and lose a ton of percentage as the match goes on. transience's prediction: The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker with 64.35% |
Leon’s Analysis Aw yeah, Wind Waker legit. WW > MM confirmed. I’m almost wishing I’d gone with that WW > G/S/C > MM upset in my bracket. Oh well. This is another chance for WW to impress. I think AC2 should be stronger than GoW2, although there shouldn’t be a lot of difference. Regardless, after only 61% on ICO, it’s hard to say. Regardless, it’s about time WW gets a chance to prove itself. Leonhart’s Embarrassing Confession of the Match: It’s strange that I want to root for WW despite never playing it because so many people are down on it and don’t seem to think the thing can beat MM, for whatever the reason. Leonhart’s Vote: The Wind Waker. Leonhart’s Prediction: The Wind Waker with 62.95% Kleenex’s Analysis Last day or Round 2 already. Contest is almost over! That went by pretty darn quick. Today we get some more ZELDA. Twilight Princess and Majora's Mask have both already have pretty darn good performances in Round 2, and I expect that Wind Waker will probably follow suit. Assassin's Creed II is "okay" as far as strength goes, but ZELDA is in a completely different tier. Maybe we can somehow use this to gauge who would win between Majora and Wind Waker? Probably not. Kleenex's Prediction: Wind Waker with 65.78% Guest’s Analysis - pjbasis W00t, my second time as a guest! And for WW! Anyways, WW only managed 33.95 on God of War II last night, well under my expections. I'll attribute this to overestimating Zelda, cause there's no way GoWII is gonna be way stronger than RE5 or ToS. The question is then, how does ACII fare against God of War's sequel? I think, not that well at all! I say SotC's win against the Sims has some people greatly overestimating it's worth. Let's face it, 65-35ing Wii Sports might not even be capable for the Sims! Since Ico is bound to be weaker, this deems ACII's victory unimpressive. But, I digress. I'd put ACII somewhere between edging out GoWII to being edged out itself by the original GoW. This translates into a 62.06% victory for Wind Waker! The accuracy point is mine! *UPDATE* Following the events of last night's upset, I've done some rethinking, but the question still lies in how much ICO is related to SotC. Rather than suspect that ICO may be a whole lot stronger, and thus, ACII be a whole lot stronger, I'd say ICO is far weaker than it's spiritual successor. I still find it hard to believe ACII could be THAT far above God of War II, so I'll just take WW's percentage a tad lower. WW > ACII 60.90% Crew Consensus: Wind Waker wins |
HAW HAW CREW ALWAYS GETTING STUFF WRONG --- DFF |
You
guys all lowballed the hell out of this unless you would think that
MGS4 would possibly beat WW, which going by the doom and gloom in the
stats topic, didn't seem to be on anyone's mind. I mean, the scores were right, but that's just weird to me. --- DFF |
We're just that good. --- This is the kind of **** that allowed the Bhopal incident to happen. 5,000 dead Indians. Want that on your damn conscience, Square apologists? |
haha, best opening ever. this is a fine performance unless AC2 pushes Zelda under like 60%. --- xyzzy |
I doubt it. Europe shifted from 50-50 to 57% for WW. I think the huge drop is stabilizing itself. --- "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." ~ Winston Churchill |
Majora's Mask lost the night vote to a game that never came out in Europe. This probably ends up 62-38. --- DFF |
From last topic: Wind Waker vs Assassin's Creed II Zelda obviously wins this one without any real effort, but ugh, very hard to nail down a final percentage. As someone who had a decent amount of respect for Chrono Cross after everything we saw out of established jRPGs in the first 6 weeks of this Contest, its hard to deny that ZELDAFAQs is out in full force. Under ideal circumstances I could see WW smashing past the doubling to perhaps even reach for the upper 60s against this opponent. Trouble is, I don't feel these are circumstances are "ideal" whatsoever. A newer Zelda title like Wind Waker probably suffers from a Night Match more than most, and its already been established that AC is one of the kings of that time period. I mean heck, it made MGS look like a fool as soon as North America fell asleep, and that's supposed to be one of the Night Votiest series in site history! Plus I really don't like this match pic- AC is looking all stealthy and ultraviolent and cool versus the "90% sailing!" that has sparked more fanboy wars than anything else in Zelda history. Still liking WW to put on a show here, but let's stick with the slightly conservative percentage of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker - 63.59% --- 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! |
Also I love the intro! Let's see if if one of those exists for me. (Will probably be QUITE difficult to find.) The Outcast: Ngamer Marvel vs Capcom 2 vs New Super Mario Bros NSMB sold 17 million, hit 10 mil faster than any other console exclusive game in history, was well-reviewed critically, 2D Mario platformers have a long history of success here on GameFAQs... but despite all the positives, New Mario's fate is going to be determined by how badly it's been scarred by the recent Wii backlash. My bet is on that scar going pretty deep, which is why this game drawing such an boring path was one of my biggest disappointments when the bracket was first released. Could have caused some excellent SMS-style debate; instead we get an easy victory over MvC2 followed by a no-hoper versus MGS3. Because sure there's a large portion of the site dying to register their discontent with the last couple years of Wii ownership, but a fighting game not named "Smash" or "Street Fighter"? 2003 would have been a different story, but I'm afraid that's a recipe for disaster here in the year 2010! With the advantage of the Day Match I'm picturing Mario scoring a win in that high 50s range. Ngamer's prediction: New Super Mario Bros. Wii - 58.13% --- 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! |
Let's see if I can predict how the next match goes. 1. Everyone talks about how TTYD has a shot at winning this and how the match is in doubt, except for tran, who says it's overhype and takes Oblivion 56-44. 2. Despite this, no one ends up siding with TTYD except for the Guest and maybe AKJ. 3a. Opening vote starts and TTYD gets a huge early vote which is very quickly counteracted by the bracket votes. Any Crew members who may be watching crap their pants for about 30 seconds before the match normalizes into a 52-48 affair. No one cares that the Crew played the match smartly. 3b. Or, TTYD surges out to an early lead it never lets go of. People immediately start shouting about the Crew Curse. --- DFF |
tag --- GranTurisMo - God's Tiniest Man - Great Thorn Monkeys! Member of the merSHINEsess Nation since 7/15/09 |
1.
Everyone talks about how TTYD has a shot at winning this and how the
match is in doubt, except for tran, who says it's overhype and takes
Oblivion 56-44. 2. Despite this, no one ends up siding with TTYD except for the Guest and maybe AKJ. 3a. Opening vote starts and TTYD gets a huge early vote which is very quickly counteracted by the bracket votes. Any Crew members who may be watching crap their pants for about 30 seconds before the match normalizes into a 52-48 affair. No one cares that the Crew played the match smartly. Sounds... just about perfect! --- 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! |
Hoping 3b cause I have PM! --- GranTurisMo - God's Tiniest Man - Great Thorn Monkeys! Member of the merSHINEsess Nation since 7/15/09 |
Man, I figured if you highlighted any AKJ failure, it'd be his KD > PM pick! That one was even worse than my WWF No Mercy fanboy pick, man! From: KamikazePotato | #006 Or I think AC2 >= AC1, and MGS4 would obviously handle a night match against AC better than WW would. Or WW/MGS4 still wouldn't be that one-sided of a match. Something. --- "So cold. I am always by your side." "There ain't no gettin' off of this train we on!" |
Crew Predictions - 84/94 What Happened: Two good performances Why it Happened: CC isn't as strong as we thought, or MM really is something special this time around. Either way, Zelda looked good in that match. Pokemon didn't disappoint either with a 70% win over MKWii. It struggled with PW, so it was to be expected. What will Happen: MM definitely has shown that it can challenge GSC in Round 3. Crew Prediction Challenge - points Moltar - 83 Tran - 83 AKJ - 81 Kleenex - 80 Leon - 79 Lopen - 79 Guest - 74 Crew Accuracy Challenge - AKJ gets the point for Zelda and Leon gets the point for Pokemon. Moltar - 15 Guest - 14.5 (GfK: 1, BT: 2, CM: 2, Kotetsu: 2, dragon: 1, NGamer: 1, Ultima: 2, TRT: 1, Greyfeld: 1, Mr3790: 1, Big Bob: 0.5) Kleenex - 13.5 Tran - 13.5 AKJ - 12.5 Leon - 12 Lopen - 9 --- Moltar Status: 106 Points - Vote: Pokemon GSC Contest Analysis Crew Archives: http://thecrew.speedrunwiki.com/ |
Darn it, I thought I was going to pass AKJ! And I felt pretty good about getting the point for Wind Waker here for a while, but it's dropping so much that it looks like the Guest Clan is going to overtake Moltar! --- http://i.imgur.com/CbfFb.jpg |
Morning vote should help. I like you or Moltar to take it --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
I don't know how much the morning vote will help since AC is a day game, too. Plus, Wind Waker just had a 59.51% hour. It's going to keep dropping pretty hard at that rate. I don't see WW finishing over 63%. My hope is that it somehow manages to stay at 62%. --- "Stay with me until the end. Please." "Not until the end. Always." |
Hm. I hope so. Would suck to change my guess to be more wrong. |
aghhhhhhh
I fell asleep at like 7PM and slept til 4AM wtf is this madness just
because I had a stomachache I missed a crew writeup D: --- "oh god do not search google images for "shaved bear" without turning safesearch on first" - Dauntless Hunter |
From: LeonhartFour | #017 clearly Moltar wanted to show the coolest of my bad picks --- The Samus Beam Cannon Corollary states that anything that looks, acts like, or is similar to light moves at the speed of light. - KamikazePotato |
From: AppIekidjosh | #024 Fair enough. (And I'm pretty sure I wasn't the only person who picked No Mercy, so I should've gotten my UYA fanboy pick instead!) --- "The great GF...Bahamut." "...GF? I...? Using my powers...It is you humans...I fear..." |
Yeah I think No Mercy was actually the crew majority <_< --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
Or
even my "You know, everything points to Portal killing this match, but
forget it, I'm picking FFXII for no reason whatsoever" writeup. ...why am I on this Crew again --- http://img.imgcake.com/leonpngpe.png http://img.imgcake.com/squalloweenpngem.png |
Dammit I picked FFXII too stop dragging me down with you --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
we went over the credentials the other day! * Completely disconnected with the current gaming scene * Old * Been on this board faaaar too long * Really there's nothing more productive you can be doing instead of writing 127 match predictions? --- <@transience> kleenex or theo probably know <@transience> when stupidity happens they're usually not far behind |
Yep, Guest got dis. --- "Why must we always choose between certain death and probable death?" "I'm in an epic battle to the death, FIGURE IT OUT YOURSELF!" |
Oblivion vs Paper Mario 2 I've got to say, this match has got me baffled. Non-Wii Nintendo has been awesome all bracket, jRPGs have been perhaps the story of the season, and when you combine the two (jRPGs on Nintendo systems) you've had the biggest overperformances of all. We've already seen PM destroy two huge-selling Western titles, one of which tried to defend itself by being an RPG. Plus we've already seen Nintendo vs Elder Scrolls, and the result... well, Oblivion got bailed out by the night match, but make no mistake about how ugly that could have been (Melee hung 74% on it in North America). This time around Nintendo DOES get the Day Match, plus a nice pic advantage to boot (love that Mario sprite, and what eye-catching colors!). Also dat top option. What am I missing here? Okay okay, so Oblivion > Morrowind and Smash Bros. is obviously miles ahead of Paper Mario in the Nintendo hierarchy, but I still say this upset is being badly undervalued. Looking through the Oracle just now, most people were staying in that 55-56% range as though none of my first paragraph had ever happened. Is that "common sense" or are we putting way too much stock in our preconceived strengths of these two games and ignoring all evidence to the contrary? All I know is that there's only one thing keeping me from pulling the trigger here: SmartVoterFAQs. The PM games are fun diversions with mass appeal on a site like this, but Oblivion is a legit GotD contender with a larger non-PC presence than many of the other critically acclaimed games that have gone before it (and flopped hard). That should be enough to keep its head above water in this poll. Barely. (I realize San Andreas/WoW/Gears used that same "acclaimed/importance" appeal against kind of "generic/fun diversion" jRPGs and failed miserably, but they're easy anti-voted targets, something you can't say of the generally well-liked Oblivion. Could make the difference.) The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - 52.56% --- 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! |
I like when NGamer's writeup is a smarter version of my writeup --- " FOR THE LOVE OF GOD NO ONE CAN BE THAT DUMB" - Haguile |
Northwest Division: Round 2 - Match 96 – (7) Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door vs. (2) Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Moltar’s Analysis Paper Mario TTYD Round 1 - 59.82% on Gears of War Gears getting rocked Oblivion Round 1 - 62.45% on Soul Calibur II Nothing too great from Oblivion This may be a very interesting match. Paper Mario has looked great all contest with impressive wins over Katamari, Gears and WoW. Meanwhile, Oblivion failed to look good in its Round 1 match. I mean, it only got 62% on a vote-in game, and most of the vote-in games looked terrible. Still have to give the edge to Oblivion though. I think Round 1 was more of SC2 looking good (I mean the game had Link it’s got to have some strength). Plus, Paper Mario also had good reason to beat down its opponents. Katamari is completely irrelevant now. I can buy Gears falling off the face of the planet too. And WoW only looked good in four-ways because of its love/hate reputation on the site. Despite Paper Mario looked a bit overrated, it still has a real shot at winning this match. It should be pretty close, but Oblivion should manage to fight off Mario’s board vote and then hold it off for the rest of the day. Moltar’s Bracket: Oblivion wins Moltar’s Prediction: Oblivion - 53% Lopen’s Analysis http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=4050 That right there is probably why people are calling this match “up in the air” cause Oblivion and TTYD got similar results against two games in that poll. Well, it's technically Gears of War and not GoW2 that TTYD got the result against, but I figure it should be similar. Well, that's not the poll I'm going to talk about. I'm goin a whole nother direction: Now here's another fun fact in an old poll! http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=2626 4 years old, sure, but interesting. If Gears of War can double Oblivion there, why are we all assuming Oblivion is so much stronger than it? What do we have to validate Oblivion's strength at this point? A bunch of 4 way matches and a match against Soul Calibur 2. I've always been skeptical to call 4 ways evidence of strength... they seem prone to overrating games with the more rabid fanbases. Sometimes it holds up, but looking at the trends in Oblivion's performances throughout its rounds last year (didn't drop much despite the competition stepping it up each round), I'm seeing the evidence as there for it to have one of those weird fanbases... and if it does? I'm skeptical it can break 50% against an opponent of much worth. Really, I'm not sure what caused an influx of Oblivion fans on this site where they weren't before. Anyone? Or did everyone hate the 360 back then and just vote GoW cause they liked the rendition of Mad World in the commercials? I dunno-- using a 4 year old poll as evidence burned me earlier in the round, but whatever. It's not really my only logic here-- I've always doubted Oblivion's legitimacy in a 1v1 environment (fun fact in my abomination of a bracket I had it losing to SC2) so yeah. Lopen's prediction: Paper Mario TTYD with 54.45% Transience’s Analysis This match was cut-and-dry pre-contest but has gotten a lot of hype lately. Has Paper Mario has done really well, or is its competition just that bad? World of Warcraft and Gears of War are kind of crap on this website, but Paper Mario did put up big 60% victories. Could Oblivion do that? |
If
you go by performances, Paper Mario's doing better. Paper Mario 1 beat
WOW worse than Oblivion did, though that was a fourway and doesn't mean
anything. Gears 2 beat Soul Calibur 2 in a vote-in poll and Paper Mario
came close to 60% on Gears 2 while Oblivion could only get 64%. There's
also this 'it's goddamn mario' factor to Paper Mario that scares people,
not to mention how good Nintendo RPGs have looked this year. Paper
Mario is kind of the scared pick. Oblivion's more liked on this website, but Nintendo is frightening. It's also a day vote match. I'm not gonna abandon Oblivion though. I think SC2 beats Gears 2 in a 1v1 - casual games like Gears always do well in vote-ins but put them against other games and they kinda flop. I also don't think Paper Mario 2 is as big as the first one. It's close though! This could be a good match, one no one really saw coming pre-contest. Let's see if Paper Mario can really make a match of it. I don't think it will. transience's prediction: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion with 53.25% Leon’s Analysis For some reason, this match kind of worries me, even though it shouldn’t. The Paper Mario games have looked pretty solid in every match so far. The original Paper Mario scored 60% on World of Warcraft, and TTYD scored 60% on Gears of War. While those games are highly casual and well-known, they’re just not very strong. We already saw Paper Mario get rocked by Metroid Prime last Games Contest, so their ceiling is pretty well established. Still, I’m not really convinced of Oblivion’s strength at this point. Yeah, I know it did well for itself last Games Contest, but I almost feel like it’s one of those games that won’t do as well 1-on-1 as it did in 4-ways. It just feels like a paper tiger to me (Get it, because it’s facing Paper Mario oh ho ho ho). I dunno, 62.50% on SoulCalibur II doesn’t strike me as all that impressive, and SCII lost its vote-in poll to Gears of War 2, which is almost certainly weaker than the original that TTYD beat. That’s probably a bit of stats overmanipulation there, but still, it makes me a bit more worried. Regardless, something in me just tells me that Oblivion just won’t be as strong as it looked last Games Contest, despite how consistent it was across three matches. I’m probably wrong and I’m just overthinking this, but I won’t be surprised if TTYD somehow pulls the upset here or at least makes Oblivion sweat it out. Leonhart’s Embarrassing Confession of the Match: I don’t understand why in the world people like Doopliss. He was the worst part of TTYD. Leonhart’s Vote: The Thousand-Year Door. Leonhart’s Prediction: Oblivion with 54.01% |
Kleenex’s Analysis People have some PAPERMARIOFEAR after what it did to WoW a couple days ago, but I think this upset is a pipe dream. Oblivion isn't random fodder and I'm pretty confident that TTYD is weaker than the original Paper Mario. I suppose it's possible, but I certainly wouldn't bet on it. Oblivion would have to REALLY impress in this match if it were going to have a shot at Wind Waker next round (like my bracket says - whoops). I don't see that happening. Kleenex's Prediction: Oblivion with 57.11% Applekidjosh’s Analysis ahem let the record show if I hadn't fallen asleep instead of sending in the last match I'd have said 62! I'm pretty sure Kleenex spiked my drink or something because I was catching up to him. Anyway today we have the end of round 2, KP seems to think I'm likely to go for TTYD here? Pshaw I'm not buyin the hype. I think it's pretty clear when "just a plain fun time" games go against "critically acclaimed! game of the year! Masterpiece!" games in this contest, the former gets whomped. AKJ says Oblivion > PMTTYD with 54% Guest’s Analysis - Sir Chris So I have been thinking about Oblivion versus Paper Mario for a long time now, and you know what? I don't think Paper Mario has a chance in hell. I really don't. I think people who lean Paper Mario forget just how beloved Oblivion really is. I think Oblivion would take out fallout 3 one on one and I think people tend to underestimate how big of an impact Oblivion has had on the western RPG community on gamefaqs. I think a lot of the logic for PM is … paper logic. Oblivion is a western game, this is true, on the other hand everyone seems to be forgetting that Oblivion is a premiere Western RPG. Western RPGs have been kicking ass this contest. Soul Calibur is legit, Morrowind is legit, Paper Mario is screwed, and I don't think it is close. Oblivion wins with 55.21%. Crew Consensus: Aside from Lopen, the Crew is calling an Oblivion win |
oh gosh perfect time for a lopen upset special --- GranTurisMo - God's Tiniest Man - Great Thorn Monkeys! Member of the merSHINEsess Nation since 7/15/09 |
Thanks Lopen, Crew curse avoided. --- A pro isn't someone who sacrifices himself for his job. That's just a fool. - Reno, FFVII http://i25.tinypic.com/2cp5chf.jpg |
Leonhart’s
Embarrassing Confession of the Match: I don’t understand why in the
world people like Doopliss. He was the worst part of TTYD. This is your first actually embarrassing confession. I'd be embarrassed too, anyway. --- Surskit .-#Elements of Water#-. |
There's the lopen we all know and love! --- James - Board 8's Resident Warm And Safe, Slipper-Wearing User & The Cream of Porcupine Tree Fanboyism |
The actual worst part was the back and forthtracking that chapter required. Doopliss himself was pretty cool. --- GranTurisMo - God's Tiniest Man - Great Thorn Monkeys! Member of the merSHINEsess Nation since 7/15/09 |
I would be mad about Leon going .01 over me but it looks like it won't matter! --- http://myanimelist.net/profile/applekidjosh <Die the death>! <Sentence to death>! <Great equalizer is the death>!! |
Blast. The 5 year splitting poll technique is not working! --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
Doopliss more like Stoopliss --- "The great GF...Bahamut." "...GF? I...? Using my powers...It is you humans...I fear..." |
Huh. My guest prediction woulda been first place in the oracle. Doopliss still kicks ass though. |
1.
Everyone talks about how TTYD has a shot at winning this and how the
match is in doubt, except for tran, who says it's overhype and takes
Oblivion 56-44. if only I did this! Paper Mario has the best day vote ever. sheesh. --- xyzzy |
C'mon Paper Mario ASV to give me an accuracy point --- Support Otacon (Metal Gear Solid) for Character Battle IX! http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/1950/banner4otacon.jpg |
more guest sign-ups about to go up --- Moltar Status: 110 Points - Vote: Paper Mario TTYD Contest Analysis Crew Archives: http://thecrew.speedrunwiki.com/ |
Man, I am very close to a perfect prediction. --- Sir Chris |
Indeed, and pjbasis was only off by .05% in the first match. Guest Clan roars into the lead! --- Currently playing: Golden Sun: Dark Dawn |
it's
a lot easier to hit the accuracy point when the picks are, on average,
so far off! those accuracy points are kind of crazy like that, you're
better off making an insane pick because there won't be anyone
sandwiching you in. --- xyzzy |
