GameFAQs Second Annual Character Battle 28
Kirijini writes "GameFAQs' Character Battle has begun again. Over the next two months, the 64 most popular videogame characters will duke it out for your votes in a popularity contest that is, to my knowledge, the largest event of this kind on the internet. This is like the People's Choice Awards for videogame characters, so be sure to get your vote in! Last year had some pretty tense battles." The poll currently in progress has Pikachu up against the dangerous Fox McCloud, so get voting.
Another . . . (Score:2, Funny)
Great use of the internet.
Deckard Kain! (Score:5, Funny)
I have quite a treasure here in this Horadric Cube for anyone that can get Kain on the list...
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Stay a while and listen...
It's Cain with a "C" damnit! (Score:3, Interesting)
Great idea! (Score:4, Insightful)
That said, I'm going to do my best to send Captain Olimar to the top. Go Olimar!
Re:Great idea! (Score:3, Interesting)
It's because GameFAQs has a heavy RPG slant (Let's face it, who needs a walkthrough for a fighting game?). This year was determined partly by nomination, so who you see is who the most people wanted. Me, I wanted Dan Hibiki to get in this year.
Last year, though, Scorpion of Mortal Kombat fame pulled everyone for a loop by getting into the Elite Eight.
Re:When was the last time you read GameFAQs? (Score:2, Informative)
The only three fighting game characters in this year are Ryu (The "star" of the Street fighter series, if there ever was on
Re:When was the last time you read GameFAQs? (Score:1)
Soul Blade/Calibur also has a few memorable characters, including Yoshimitsu (of Tekken fame as well), Nightmare/Siegfried, and the previously mentioned Ivy.
Then again, the popularity of
Re:When was the last time you read GameFAQs? (Score:3, Interesting)
Not only do RPGs have FAQs and walkthroughs, people will get obsessive and write in depth FAQs about each of the minigames in an RPG, and on how to find/train/create the best characters, and on how to get the most powerfull items, and anything else that they feel isn't covered well enough in the main FAQs.
I don't know enough fighting games to know which to check, but most have two or three main FAQs, a character FA
Bleh (Score:1)
Last year's was intense... (Score:5, Interesting)
In particular, last year, there was one poll between Mario and Cloud Stryfe (from Final Fantasy 7) and Cloud had the initial lead. Then planetgamecube.com put up a news item about the character battle and things started to balance out. Suddenly there was an outcry of how unfair that was for the Cloud supporters and votes started to surge on other sides. Rumors of people going into IRC channels just to say "Vote Cloud" or "Vote Mario" ran rampant.
It was as if these things truly mattered.
In the end, Mario won that particular poll. A few days later, Mario was up again, but this time against another Square character, Crono from Crono Cross (Trigger? I've never played either. I'm not a big RPGer).
From the start, the two were neck and neck with Crono having a slight lead most of the day. Then votes swung back and forth wildly up until almost midnight EST, not because it was over, but because CJayC had noticed some cheating on the Crono side and penalized Crono 300 votes (there were so many votes on both sides that it's hard to believe cheating wasn't rampant on both sides, but a serious bulk of votes were caught from one source and removed).
Outrage ensued from many and Mario finished again with a win.
2 days later, Link went on to beat Mario soundly and win the contest altogether in the finals. Link never even had a close match. Hopefully this year, the ending will be just a little more exciting.
Overall, it's a great big flame inducing mess most of the time, but that's always good too. It's nice to see people getting excited as fans, even if they take it a little far.
Re:Last year's was intense... (Score:3, Informative)
However, a very large number of RPG fans, in particular Final Fantasy fans, visit GameFaqs. They
Re:Last year's was intense... (Score:1)
Mario 64 sold 11.62 million units, was a US launch title, and was one of the choices for the bundled game for the N64 (the other was Pilotwings64 I believe). When FFIX reached ~3 million sales, the total for the series was 30 million. It was up to 38 million by the time FFX
Snoot's classic video game ''wuss'' scale (Score:2)
snoot.org [snoot.org] has had something almost identical to this [snoot.org] for quite a while. But those are just 8-bit NES characters, and you can vote like a jillion times.
Garret? (Score:2, Funny)
What? (Score:1)
Re:What? (Score:1)
Ugh, this looks to be worse than last years... (Score:2)
At least characters like Conker, Shadow, and Zero were added. Here's hoping that Ness goes out in the first round! Earthbound sucked.
Re:Ugh, this looks to be worse than last years... (Score:2, Funny)
Spikey haired loner hero man
Hot chick with long brown hair
Jovial doofus buddy
Cheerful ditz
Some sorta guy that is/resembles an animal
Re:Ugh, this looks to be worse than last years... (Score:2)
Re:Yet again.... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Yet again.... (Score:2)
Plus, the other issue: Console games seem much more likely to have an identifiable "hero" than PC games.
Consider some of the top PC games, say, Starcraft? Civilisation? Quake?
One of the big PC genres is the real-time strategy (Starcraft, Command and Conquer, Age of Empires, etc). A few modern RTSs have named heros, but how often will the gamer actually identify with the hero? (quick quiz: Who is/was Sarah Kerrigan? Would you vote for her against any of the big names from the console world?)
The othe
Re:No Chun-Li? (Score:2, Funny)
The List of Entrants (Score:3, Informative)
Shun Goku Tatsu (Score:1)