Final Fantasy VIII (Games of the Decades Conference) (6-5) – 17 (37.78%) #18 Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (Nintendo Objections Conference) (10-1) – 28 (62.22%) --DKC2 revels in its grand return to the top 25 as it beats down FFVIII.
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (Games of the Decades Conference) (7-4) – 33 (76.74%) Harvest Moon: Back to Nature (Zelda Overload Conference) (1-10) – 10 (23.26%) --MGS2 gets a bit of a break from its rough schedule to spend some time on the farm. The crops have managed to avoid drowning! Did you say "Herd?"
Brave Fencer Musashi (Cult RPG Galaxy Conference) (1-10) – 10 (27.78%) SoulCalibur II (Games of the Decades Conference) (9-2) – 26 (72.22%) --Even Fusion and Lumina together are no match for the SoulCalibur.
#17 Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (Nintendo Objections Conference) (9-2) – 32 (80.00%) Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals (Thousand-Year World of Sunshine Conference) (4-7) – 8 (20.00%) --Even the mighty Sinistrals cannot escape the long, outstretched finger of the law(yer).
Sonic 3 & Knuckles (Sonic Overload Conference) (8-3) – 30 (69.77%) Contra (Games of the Decades Conference) (5-6) – 13 (30.23%) --S3&K has no problems beating down Contra.
Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening (Thousand-Year World of Sunshine Conference) (6-5) – 18 (41.86%) Sonic Adventure 2 (Sonic Overload Conference) (10-1) – 25 (58.14%) --SA2 decided to do something special to celebrate its 10th straight win by actually beating a game with a winning record.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Twilight Barrel Galaxy Conference) (5-6) – 21 (53.85%) No More Heroes (Tanooki Blitzball Conference) (2-9) – 18 (46.15%) --Don't look now, but San Andreas is starting to compile a decent record.
Professor Layton and the Unwound Future (Brawl for Broke Conference) (3-9) – 12 (27.91%) #16 Super Metroid (Nintendo Objections Conference) (10-1) – 31 (72.09%) --Samus mistook Layton's silk hat for Ridley (TOO BIG) and opened fire.
Cave Story (Twilight Barrel Galaxy Conference) (4-7) – 13 (33.33%) Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (Thousand-Year World of Sunshine Conference) (9-2) – 26 (66.67%) --In case you've been living in a cave for the last 11 weeks, I thought I'd tell you that Aria of Sorrow is actually doing well for itself in this contest.
Kingdom Hearts (Zelda Overload Conference) (5-6) – 14 (31.11%) #10 Super Mario Galaxy (Twilight Barrel Galaxy Conference) (10-1) – 31 (68.89%) --KH1 suffers its 5th straight loss as it falls hard to Galaxy 1.
Mega Man 3 (Patriot Time Portals Conference) (5-6) – 24 (53.33%) Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald (Nintendo Objections Conference) (5-6) – 21 (46.67%) --Imagine what kind of powers Mega Man could get from the Pokemon.
#5 Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Metroid Eater Conference) (10-1) – 17 (37.78%) Final Fantasy VI (Twilight Barrel Galaxy Conference) (8-3) – 28 (62.22%) --MGS3 gets a little snake-bitten in its first big test as it gets rolled over by FFVI.
#15 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Patriot Time Portals Conference) (9-2) – 26 (55.32%) Super Smash Bros. (Smash Trigger Conference) (5-6) – 21 (44.68%) --Yes, you are reading that correctly. That is the original Smash Bros. Ocarina of Time struggled to beat.
Halo: Combat Evolved (Smash Trigger Conference) (3-8) – 18 (41.86%) Sonic Adventure (Twilight Barrel Galaxy Conference) (5-6) – 25 (58.14%) --You can't kill what you can't catch.
1. Castlevania Symphony of the Night (0.9247) (6-5) 2. Super Mario Bros. 3 (0.9127) (9-2) 3. Final Fantasy VI (0.8845) (8-3) 4. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (0.8735) (9-2) 5. GoldenEye 007 (0.8511) (3-8) 6. Final Fantasy IX (0.7743) (10-1) 7. Legend of Legaia (0.7650) (1-10) 8. Chrono Trigger (0.7586) (11-0) 9. Super Mario 64 (0.7519) (10-1) 10. Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards (0.7446) (5-6)
Bottom 10 SoS 159. Lunar: Silver Star Story (0.1584) (6-5) 160. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (0.1256) (2-9) 161. Dark Cloud 2 (0.1218) (4-7) 162. Worms: Armageddon (0.0960) (4-7) 163. Civilization IV (0.0884) (8-3) 164. Animal Crossing (0.0836) (7-4) 165. Sonic Adventure 2 (0.0261) (10-1) 166. Silent Hill 2 (0.0207) (8-3) 167. Fallout 3 (-0.0176) (8-3) 168. Umineko no Naku Koro ni (-0.0276) (0-11)
Yes, you read that last one correctly.
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Oh man Terra and friends decided to put up one heck of a show to make up for last week's bad loss!
Final Fantasy VI > Metal Gear Solid 3 > Metal Gear Solid 2 > Super Metroid > Final Fantasy VI
And FF6 of all games has to be the least transitive entry here. Seriously, just look at what it's gone and done:
-Struggles to avoid being doubled by RBY in week 3. -Five votes away from upsetting A Link to the Past in week 5. -Wins a close match in week 7 to hand Galaxy 2 its first loss. -Gets slaughtered by Super Metroid in week 10 despite all signs indicating that the opposite would happen. -Puts 62% on a previously undefeated game right the week prior.
Ouch, Snake Eater!
Also Leonhart, promise me that you'd vote for Super Metroid, Final Fantasy VI, A Link to the Past, Resident Evil 4, and Civilization IV over Super Mario 64. You want to see Mario 64 lose matches, right? Then vote for games that are better.
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From: LinkMarioSamus | #114 Also Leonhart, promise me that you'd vote for Super Metroid, Final Fantasy VI, A Link to the Past, Resident Evil 4, and Civilization IV over Super Mario 64. You want to see Mario 64 lose matches, right? Then vote for games that are better.
are you seriously trying to rally votes from the contest host
I forgot to mention that yesterday marks the first time Mario Galaxy was able to blow out something that isn't Nintendo. SMG/RE4 will actually be both games' biggest test going by the RPI, and quite frankly I have to agree.
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It still seems rather weird that you want Mario 64 to lose, and yet if a better game like Civ4 or Super Metroid is thrown its way you would likely vote for Mario 64.
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LeonhartFour posted... Week 13 schedule is now online. Got some more good matches on the slate, so be sure to check it out!
Indeed. With Super Metroid battling it out with ALttP and FFVI taking on Arkham Asylum, along with an expected "upset" of Portal by MGS2, I daresay that laughable SOS and all, there should be a space for 12-1 Sonic Adventure 2 on my ballot in two weeks.
And yeah, there are some oddities inflating Chrono Trigger's SOS (Secret of Monkey Island, 7-4 with zero quality wins; F-Zero X, 6-5 with three of the exact same wins as SoMI), but there's enough quality in there that despite having fewer truly marquee wins, it still holds up even after Galaxy and SM64 go picking up more marquee wins in Week 13.
But good lord. Chrono Trigger's the only one of my top 5 (well, projected top 5; Galaxy's not in there now but should be after a win against RE4 this week) that isn't set to pick up another marquee win in Week 13. SM64's got FFX (which is my #6 now and still shapes up to be #7 after Week 12, dropping one spot only because of #9 Galaxy beating #7 RE4), Galaxy's got Paper Mario (still barely hanging on in the top 25), Melee's got Twilight Princess (okay, not quite top-tier, but still on par with the stuff that's buoying up CT's schedule), and RBY's got SMW. Meanwhile, Chrono Trigger gets a walkover against Sonic Adventure. And Boise State isn't really a good comparison because the football season is so short. You really have to use a Butler or maybe a Gonzaga (but Gonzaga doesn't work as well because St. Mary's is also consistently good), or...perhaps Davidson circa 2008 is a good comparison. Damn good team; actually got ranked before the tournament even started and had the smallest margin of defeat against the eventual national champions (although that's kind of a matter of perspective because even though Kansas won by 9 points in the title game and by only two against Davidson in the Elite Eight, the title game went into overtime), but they were in the f****** Southern Conference, where their best competition was Georgia Southern and Appalachian State--or in this case, Marvel vs. Capcom 2 and the original Super Smash Bros. So, yeah, I guess for now Chrono Trigger's still #2, but it won't be long...
Actually, f*** it. I've been giving TTYD plenty of respect, but aside from the Week 1 win over Half-Life 2, it hasn't really been earning it--and while I get that it was cursed with the toughest schedule of all, SotN is barely above .500 and should be losing again in Week 13. I'm not going to apologize for Chrono Trigger when other games are shooting up the ranks--hell, I don't need to apologize for a game that didn't even make my preseason ballot. Come Week 13, Chrono Trigger's dropping to #4.
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Ulti (in one of his Post-Contest Analyses): God of War turned a 5 hour deadlock into a total laugher Anagram: Oh God, Tidus and Yuna were involved?
Yeah. About the only thing in there that made sense is "FFVI doesn't put up consistent performances from week to week." Which we all already knew. LMS seems to be obsessed with figuring out why this is the case, however, whereas the rest of us just accept it. FFVI is kind of like...actually, I can't even come up with a good sports comparison here, so I should probably go with something we're all familiar with: GameFAQs Contests. And FFVI is like Liquid Snake, going toe-to-toe with Frog back when Frog was actually still strong, then stinking it up in the villains contest; getting first place over Alucard by the narrowest of margins in Round 1 in 2007 only to get blown out by him the next round; and twice beating out SFFed Luigi only to get 59-41'd by Altair once 1v1s return.
Actually, this makes perfect sense, because you know who else is known for trolling the Gurus? Kefka. Kefka started out his contest career by barely beating Pac-Man, albeit while dressed up like a salad, then vaguely redeemed himself in '04 before heading into the Villains Contest and 70-30'ing an opponent that many were picking to win outright in Albert Wesker, only to lose to Diablo (which led to Diablo being overrated for many contests to come). He then gets chosen as a huge underdog in Round 1 in Summer 2005 and ends up leading for much of the match before a cheater gets caught and he loses 1800 votes (which turns out to be less than the margin of defeat, but his opponent seemed to benefit from vote-stuffing after the match had been decided.) Turn it around to the fourways and he's getting crushed by Marcus Fenix and coming in fourth in a fourpack he was expected to at least advance out of if not win outright. So once 1v1s return, and he's immediately matched up against Arthas Menethil (who came out on the winning end of a Blizzard SFF battle against Diablo in 2007), what does he do? Break 60%, then just for good measure manages over 38% against Bowser. Dude's really all over the place. Why shouldn't his game be just as unpredictable?
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Ulti (in one of his Post-Contest Analyses): God of War turned a 5 hour deadlock into a total laugher Anagram: Oh God, Tidus and Yuna were involved?
I told you FIVE MINUTES AFTER YOU MENTIONED IT TWO WEEKS AGO that I took care of it. Just because the online schedule isn't updated doesn't mean I lied.
Yay for FFVI! Too bad I didn't make it to the voting.... it looks to still be criminally underrated. FFVI has beaten both Galaxy 2 and MGS3, both which are ranked #13 and #16, respectively. Some of you have criticized it for losing to Super Metroid, but it's RPI rank is #12. Then there's the fact that FFVI is rank #19 in the RPI despite three losses. That's a lot of data pointing to FFVI's greatness!
All of that collectively is worth more than arguments that FF6, SM, MGS3, and Galaxy 2 are all overrated in the RPI, I'll say! Sure, each one of those games have showed some weakness, but what game below the RPI top 10 HASN'T? (except Diddy's Kong Quest and World, perhaps)
Final Fantasy VI > Metal Gear Solid 3 > Metal Gear Solid 2 > Super Metroid > Final Fantasy VI MGS2 > Super Metroid is most likely the fluke there. I don't really know for sure. It seems like MGS2 has gained a lot of steam.
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