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GameFAQs Second Annual Character Battle

Posted by simoniker on from the pick-your-anti-jarjar dept.

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.

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  1. The List of Entrants by Deflux · · Score: 3, Informative

    Everyone who's complaining about the list of entrants should know that they were all voted upon by the site's users. Before the contest started, you could send in about 10 characters that you would like to see appear. Only the characters requested most frequently got in.

  2. Re:When was the last time you read GameFAQs? by nifboy · · Score: 2, Informative

    Perhaps, but which one (Or even which ten) of the hundreds of fighting game characters would be nominated? Even if fighting games are as popular as you say, the individual characters are not nearly as popular as the game itself. Last year, only one fighting game character even made it past the second round last year: Scorpion (Alas, poor Ryu, forced to fight Samus in the second round).

    The only three fighting game characters in this year are Ryu (The "star" of the Street fighter series, if there ever was one), Ken (A Ryu clone who's in because you need someone to be the 15th seed to lose in the first round) and Scorpion (The only reason he's in is because of his record last year)

  3. Re:Last year's was intense... by edwdig · · Score: 2, Informative

    The problem came down to GameFaqs is a rather unique site. Keep in mind that the vast majority of GameFaqs visitors are from the US (if you read the message boards you'll notice). In the US, RPGs are a fairly small part of the market. The sales of all the PS1 Final Fantasy games combined were still less than the sales of Mario 64. Also keep in mind that Final Fantasy sells a lot better in the US than other RPGs.

    However, a very large number of RPG fans, in particular Final Fantasy fans, visit GameFaqs. They are very unaware that they are in the minority, and get very upset if you even suggest that Final Fantasy is not the ultimate games ever made.

    If you took a poll from a wider selection of people, Mario would totally destroy any Final Fantasy character. GameFaqs is one of the few places a Final Fantasy character would stand a chance.

    The reason Link beat Mario easily was because all the Final Fantasy fans voted for Link to spite Mario. Final Fantasy fansites posted links to the poll saying vote for Link, whereas the Nintendo fans didn't really care who won.