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Topic	Most Influential Character in Gaming (Mock bracket reveal + Predictions)
half_silver28 02/27/19 8:07:23 PM #1:	Hello Board 8 - not that anyone remembers who I am. Exclusively lurking only to post in Save My Persona for 5 years will do that. It has been many years since I last did significant writing or hypothesizing about gaming stuff, but I always wanted to get back to it. I put some hours of research into getting my CB2018 bracket put together, which definitely paid off on my end ranking. The contest had some hype matches but overall it felt wanting. Nintendo dominated a little too much, and the double votes did not help matters. Not to mention the multitude of fodder characters in the bracket. I started thinking that maybe the straight character battle format has run its course, and that new concepts should be brought in to spice things up. I came up with the idea of making a bracket based on how influential a game character is, instead of assembling the bracket based on popular votes and guru picks. Obviously if this were to be run as an actual contest it would be opened up to voting to decide who makes it in. But I came up with a mock bracket of my own - taking into account a character's popularity, influence on other games and the game industry in general, and their role in gaming history. Other minor factors I looked at were the character's number of game appearances and cameos. I ended up going with a 128 entrant bracket because anything longer would be a pain to seed. I also left a lot of popular characters out of the bracket, because I could not figure out where their influence on gaming was. I figured that instead of just posting the bracket, I would make an actual game of it. I will post the bracket one matchup at a time, with the character names removed. They will be replaced with the company that created the character and/or their first game. This will include now-defunct companies. I will then open up the topic to guesses as to which characters they are. Some may be obvious, but it will always be a guessing game when Nintendo, Capcom, Konami etc show up. After a day or so I will reveal the characters, along with my reasoning for their seed and a brief match analysis. I'll do this through all 64 matches. After all are revealed I guess I will discuss the bracket as a whole. Maybe if there's interest I will actually run the bracket as a B8 contest. Anyway, the first match of Group 1 is: (1)Nintendo vs (16)Bioware --- B8 Waifu ranking - http://pastebin.com/qnUpLnDA <cite>half_silver28 posted [p:918187157] in Most Influ... [t:77520482]...</cite> <quote>Hello Board 8 - not that anyone remembers who I am. Exclusively lurking only to post in Save My Persona for 5 years will do that. It has been many years since I last did significant writing or hypothesizing about gaming stuff, but I always wanted to get back to it. I put some hours of research into getting my CB2018 bracket put together, which definitely paid off on my end ranking. The contest had some hype matches but overall it felt wanting. Nintendo dominated a little too much, and the double votes did not help matters. Not to mention the multitude of fodder characters in the bracket. I started thinking that maybe the straight character battle format has run its course, and that new concepts should be brought in to spice things up. I came up with the idea of making a bracket based on how influential a game character is, instead of assembling the bracket based on popular votes and guru picks. Obviously if this were to be run as an actual contest it would be opened up to voting to decide who makes it in. But I came up with a mock bracket of my own - taking into account a character's popularity, influence on other games and the game industry in general, and their role in gaming history. Other minor factors I looked at were the character's number of game appearances and cameos. I ended up going with a 128 entrant bracket because anything longer would be a pain to seed. I also left a lot of popular characters out of the bracket, because I could not figure out where their influence on gaming was. I figured that instead of just posting the bracket, I would make an actual game of it. I will post the bracket one matchup at a time, with the character names removed. They will be replaced with the company that created the character and/or their first game. This will include now-defunct companies. I will then open up the topic to guesses as to which characters they are. Some may be obvious, but it will always be a guessing game when Nintendo, Capcom, Konami etc show up. After a day or so I will reveal the characters, along with my reasoning for their seed and a brief match analysis. I'll do this through all 64 matches. After all are revealed I guess I will discuss the bracket as a whole. Maybe if there's interest I will actually run the bracket as a B8 contest. Anyway, the first match of Group 1 is: (1)Nintendo vs (16)Bioware --- B8 Waifu ranking - http://pastebin.com/qnUpLnDA</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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