Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 121 ft Bahamut, Leisure Suit Larry, E.T.

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This is a topic to rate the contest strength of potential newcomers in the current contest environment.

I will pick the characters to rate and discuss for each day from user nominations - whoever the 3 most nominated characters are at that time. If there are more than 3 I will pick randomly. You can nominate any number of characters at any time, but you cannot nominate the same character twice.

All characters who were present in the 2018 Character Battle will NOT be eligible. Otherwise you can nominate any character that has appeared in video games; even comic book characters. This will exclude real-life athletes who have only appeared in long running sports series, however I will accept those who have their own games such as Shaq. I will accept nominations for iconic gaming duos too, if there is a compelling reason for both characters to be linked (either co-starring in a game ala Banjo & Kazooie, or always appearing together like Callie & Marie from Splatoon).

Each day will have a separate topic, and nominations will carry over. As far as actually rating the character's contest strength; I ask that users rank a characters potential strength with one of the following qualifiers - LAW Fodder, Low Fodder, Mid Fodder, High Fodder, Fodder Line, Low Midcarder, Midcarder, High Midcarder, Near Elite, Elite, LAW Tier (capable of beating Link). I will average all the ratings given to a character to come up with their final ranking. I have included a highlighted entrant from Character Battle X on each tier of the strength rankings below, to provide a baseline for each.

Note that LAW Fodder is meant to be a tier reserved for the weakest possible characters to put into a contest. A character will only be placed there if at least 3/4ths of the voters for that day agree on the LAW Fodder rating, and no ratings above Low Fodder are given. If either of those conditions are not met, the character will not be eligible for the LAW Fodder tier.

Current Character Strength Rankings: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P1AIhHywBiLd6VAMZMNEGX-HW2td8u1D0Iw_tzHsORw/edit?usp=sharing

Nomination List: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-KnSBDzppzPK5Ug1zmx8_x0bG4tqFDMPPH2k8J3s8sk/edit?usp=sharing

Results from Day 120:

B.J. Blazkowicz (Wolfenstein) is Low Fodder
Maya Fey (Ace Attorney) is Mid Fodder
Sarah Kerrigan (StarCraft) is Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Leisure Suit Larry (Leisure Suit Larry)
E.T. (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)
Bahamut (Final Fantasy)
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First of all, I just found out I did not have the correct name listed for Larry. His actual name is Larry Laffer, but Leisure Suit Larry was what he was nominated as.

Anyway he's Low Fodder. I had no idea they were still making Leisure Suit Larry games, much less that one was released on the Switch a few months ago. There must be a fanbase for the series somewhere if the games keep getting made, and I think there could be some fans of the old games lurking on the site. Not too many, but enough to keep Larry from the bottom of the barrel.

E.T. is just barely Mid Fodder. I don't think he'll get a ton of votes based on nostalgia for the movie, since he'll be stuck with a terrible sprite pic. What he will get is some joke votes due to the infamy of the Atari E.T. game.

High Fodder for Bahamut. He's one of the best known and most popular FF summons, due to being a bad*ss dragon with a cool attack. He has appeared in some form in the vast majority of mainline FF games.
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Nominate:

Black Panther (Marvel)
Poison Ivy (DC Comics)
Bane (DC Comics)
Tron (Tron)
Gilgamesh (Final Fantasy)
Gizmo (Gremlins)
The Cat in the Hat (Dr. Seuss)
Gwen Stacy (Marvel)
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Larry: Low Fodder. Don't see how he'd ever get more than 20% of the votes.

E.T.: Mid Fodder. Could manage High Fodder if he got a movie pic. Will get joke votes based on the legend of the Atari game. There's nostalgia for the movie, too, seeing as I remember going to see it as a kid for one of those rereleaases, but yeah, I don't see anything from the game inciting that nostalgia.

Bahamut: High Fodder. Recognizable given how many FF games he's appeared in, but doesn't have any character development. A lot of the FF fanboys will vote for him unless he's up against someone like Yuna, but I don't see him getting votes from anyone else.
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Larry - LAW fodder

Very few especially on gamefaqs actually care about old adventure games. This franchise in particular is both ancient and targeted towards adults. I have never heard anyone on gamefaqs talk about this franchise as anything but a historic footnote. And anyone who wants a comedy plus titillation game with lots of text is at this point almost undoubtedly going to skip right Larry and download some visual novel instead. I bet Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon has a higher playrate than Larrys entire franchise; Dancin might not win due to the character being less known in general but Im pretty confident in Larry being almost worthless.

E.T. - mid fodder

People have at least seen his movie to know who this is and the game is infamous. Could see this going low fodder; difficult to measure a character whose appeal is basically that his only notable game failed abysmally. ETs 1982 release date is too old for most of gamefaqs to have gotten caught up much in the marketing and product placement that would be necessary for something like ET to generate much widespread nostalgia rather than it just being a movie you probably watched on VHS at some point.

Bahamut - High fodder

I guess? Should at least beat out Boko.

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Sabastian Castellanos evil with in

Larry-Low fodder
ET-Low fodder
Bahamut-High fodder

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nominations:

Sebastian Castellanos (The Evil Within)
Poison Ivy (DC Comics)
Tron (Tron)
Gizmo (Gremlins)
The Cat (The Cat in the Hat)
Johnny (The Room)
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Larry: LAW Fodder - Agree with Axem that there's no reason to expect him to be anything other than worthless on GameFAQs.

E.T.: Low Fodder - Joke votes are more or less dead nowadays, and I don't get the sense E.T. is a truly beloved movie here.

Bahamut: High Fodder, sure. If only he had made a contest 10 or 15 years ago, though!

Nominations:
AFGNCAAP (Zork) [https://board8.fandom.com/wiki/AFGNCAAP]
Blinky (Pac-Man)
Clyde (Pac-Man)
Donkey Kong Jr. (Donkey Kong Jr.)
Grue (Zork)
Inky (Pac-Man)
Ms. Pac-Man (Pac-Man)
Pinky (Pac-Man)
Pitfall Harry (Pitfall!)
Stanley (Donkey Kong 3)
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You already nominated Ms. Pac-Man lol
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Ill nominate:
Ms. Pac-Man
Donkey Kong Jr.
Pitfall Harry

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Day 122 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78051501
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