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Tidus level doesn't mean as much as it used to.
Heck somehow I think Snow will end up stronger than lightning cos he's a dude, though looking at the compilation as a whole Noctis might be the strongest of all.
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From: voltch | #301
Tidus level doesn't mean as much as it used to.

As someone who predicted WCC to beat the hell out of those three scrubs in Round 1, I know that. I don't have much faith in the FF13 characters, though I can't imagine them being FF12-weak either. I don't expect FF13 to be the next FF10, though.

I miss sprite rounds and other round-pic themes. Watching Snake being held close by Frog and almost losing to Bowser was hilarious, as was some of the ugly-ass pics as a result.
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I'm surprised people have any faith in FF13 characters given how terribad the FF12 characters were. I'm sure they'll all comfortably beat Balthier and maybe even Tidus, but after next year they'll be reduced to turbofodder.

Nobody really knows exactly what to expect from FFXIII, but you still want to see what new characters from a major franchise will do.
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FFXIII just screams back to what they know best though.
FFXII was billed as a back to it's roots game but was missing so many hallmarks of the franchise from the classic summons to the new combat system, even the setting wasn't that old school, archadia looked too damn modern.
The XIII cast has been much more prominent in the trailers and it looks like events won't be upstaging them and you get what an extra 5 maybe 8k votes from possible new 360 fans?
If the characters are FFIX strong I'll consider it a moderate success, Vivi is no slouch and that kind of level means the midcarder battles would often be tight and tough to predict.
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You know I never understood why people hated the battle system in FFXII. Sure it was different, but it was well done IMO.
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From: charmander6000 | #306
You know I never understood why people hated the battle system in FFXII. Sure it was different, but it was well done IMO.

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Just throwing this out there: I think it's weird to nominate characters who don't have a game out yet. I say this having nominated two characters I'm not personally familiar with (though that's due to the Guru and trading)...but it still feels impatient.
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but the game will probably be out by the time contest starts and if lightning is in the lower half of the bracket it might coincide dead on with the release of the game, not to mention a lot of people are going to import.
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It makes me wonder how Melee vs. Brawl would have went the day before Brawl's release.
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Link he come to town to dominate all other characters and trample them down with his sword of more votes.

One week before Brawl came out in Japan.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3004
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From: HaRRicH | Posted: 11/23/2009 12:56:18 PM | #308
Just throwing this out there: I think it's weird to nominate characters who don't have a game out yet. I say this having nominated two characters I'm not personally familiar with (though that's due to the Guru and trading)...but it still feels impatient.

Blame the precedent Sackboy set.
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It's not just Sackboy -- EC decided the Gurus should support Altair before his game was released (even though AC was out by nomination-time, the principle is similar), and now we're discussing FF13-characters and Bayonetta because the games will probably release between the bracket's release and their matches.

I'm not entirely against this new trend, but it certainly strikes me as odd and impatient. It's not like we've not seen characters get new games in contests before anyway -- Mario > Cloud and MC-2007 come to mind. Sure, seeing a character get their first game in the middle of a contest-run may be interesting in a way, but I don't really care to see characters without games anyway.


I know we don't have a lot of great newcomers, but yeesh.
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it is an indictment of new characters, yeah. I don't really think it's that odd though. hell, Lightning right now has more discernible personality than a lot of things being championed (Charizard, Prinny, I could go on), so I'd argue that her inclusion is a good thing, not a bad one. I know that half of the appeal of bracketmakers in this topic revolves around having something concrete to go on, but I like that unpredictability.

also, Bayonetta will definitely have her game out by the time the contest starts, so if that's your holdup, she's not in that class.
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I don't think it's that bad. The best time to see any character is when their game is fresh in people's minds, and all the ones people are nominating have games that will either be out or coming out when the contest starts. No sense in waiting a year when you can potentially get them in now, especially if it means scraping the bottom of the barrel for yet another Nintendo or FF7 character instead.

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No complaints about nominating characters who haven't yet been in games here- as long as their first game comes out before their first match, that is.
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Link he come to town to dominate all other characters and trample them down with his sword of more votes.

like HM said, having characters when the game has just comes out means there is virtually no backlash and it might be close to their peak strength.
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When do you guys think the contest is starting?

My idea was January
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I thought bracket up by late january, late feb the contest starts and march we're up an running.
Because Bacon is always so slooooow when it comes to these.
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it'd have to be after the GOTY polls, and those lasted until.. January 16 last year. assuming the contest starts the very next day, there would still be time for Lightning if she's in the back half of the bracket. and if she wins a round based purely on hype and bad bracket placement, her game will definitely be out.

Bayonetta's a lock.
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Failing to hit January will be an embarrassment for SBAllen. We already have nominations rolling and he still has almost two months.
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And of course, I don't expect it anytime before mid-January, but if he misses those two weeks in between, it'll be a laugh and a half.
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Oh, I guess you're right charmander. For some reason I thought FFXIII was coming out before the contest, but that probably (hopefully) won't happen. I'll keep my nomination of Lightning anyway though.
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Link he come to town to dominate all other characters and trample them down with his sword of more votes.

From: SBAllen

Due to the time of the year and the timing of GameSpot's pretty similar contest, it simply doesn't make sense to do the CB until the beginning of next year (that is, beginning the battles in mid-January)

Who knows if that's his real schedule though.
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What yo said, especially since SB just got quoted for aiming to start matches in mid-January and made the Character Battle no longer be an annual tradition. Starting any later than January would be a poor unenthusiastic move by SB.

I'm cooler with Bayonetta being nominated than the FF13-crew because of that...I guess it's not a big deal, but it's still unusual to me. =/
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I don't think SBAllen is that concerned with maintaining the integrity of GameFAQs contests, so him delaying it to February or whatever wouldn't surprise or even bother me.

Nominating characters whose games haven't come out yet? Meh. Seems like a waste of a nomination to me since their strength would be pure hype, in which case you'd might as well just nominate a few more Brawl characters instead.
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I could understand it being weird if there was a bunch of good new characters still left to get into the contest, but when most of the discussion in the stats topic so far has been where Cid ranks in the long list of FF7 characters, or how good or bad the main dude from Pokemon will be, just about anything will be preferable, at least to me. Someone fueled by hype creates a lot more interesting matches than most.

Although I kinda doubt either Lightning or Bayonetta get into the contest. There's not much of a push for them on the board, from what I've seen, and I don't know how much support they'd get on site-wide nominations.

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nominations will stay open for a long time, plenty of time to change your nominations once the hype starts to get serious.
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I don't think there was any push for Sackboy and he made it in. friggin' Sackboy.
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Yeah based on the nomination tally Sackboy had 2 nominations from board 8

Other little nominated characters include...

3 Nominations

Chris Redfield - Resident Evil
Frank West - Dead Rising
Marcus Fenix - Gears of War
Marth - Fire Emblem: Dark Dragon and the Blade of Light
Roxas - Kingdom Hearts 2
Sandbag - Super Smash Bros. Melee
Sephiroth - Final Fantasy VII
Spy - Team Fortress 2
Tom Nook - Animal Crossing
Zidane Tribal - Final Fantasy IX

2 Nominations

Balthier Bunansa - Final Fantasy XII
Banjo - Banjo-Kazooie
Sackboy - LittleBigPlanet

1 Nomination

Captain MacMillan - Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Nero - Devil May Cry 4
Siegfried Schtauffen - Soul Edge

0 Nominations

Big Daddy - Bioshock
Hogger - World of Warcraft
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Just a question out of curiosity: What are some rematches that you think would result in a different winner? Things like a Cloud/Mario rematch would obviously turn out differently (or would it...? DUN DUN DUN), but what about matches like Luigi/Yoshi? Sonic/Vincent? Jill/Peach? Dante/Yoshi? Sora/Mega Man? Crono/Auron?
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They would all be total tossups for me.
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hmm, should Zelda wii come out next year what do you expect from Vincent/Ganondorf.
Wouldn't mind a Sonic/Mega man rematch either.
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1 Nomination

Captain MacMillan - Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

ah yes
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I'd be cool with all of those rematches, and I'll throw in Luigi/Ganon to boot. They're 1-1 and the pictures decided the winners.
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Outside L-Block and Crono/Vincent, I can't remember a damn thing from these 4-way matches like I could with all the 1v1s. Either they're memorable at all, or I'm in the "get off my lawn" phase.
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I think it's the latter.
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I think Luigi would win Ganon this time around. Ganon hasn't gone anywhere but down for the past few years.
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Personally, I think Ganondorf and Bowser were way overrated in 2005 (and I don't think many would argue the point now, but I'm just stating it). I don't think we can take any of their matches in the Summer Contest that year seriously. What they've been from 2006 on is probably more accurate. Bowser in particular has looked bad the last three contests.
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Squall with KHII+Dissidia vs Vincent with Dirge of Cerberus
Yoshi vs Dante

are other matches i'd like to see.
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I personally blame Bowser's decline on the fact that he's been pretty much a joke since SMS until Galaxy came out, and it's a bit late to regain respect. Unless Bowser's Inside Story sold big.

And I'd probably end up taking Luigi over Ganondorf these days.
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From: voltch | #343
Squall with KHII+Dissidia vs Vincent with Dirge of Cerberus
Yoshi vs Dante

are other matches i'd like to see.

Dissidia amounts to pretty much nothing, but I'd say Squall has always > Vincent, we've just yet to see them go head to head.

After the egg Yoshi laid (lol) last year, I'd say Dante is the clear winner.
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In Bowser's defense, he was against Luigi last year which SFF made him look bad.

And if you want to go further, Bowser was LFF'ed in both rounds in R2. R1 in Mewtwo and Toad (and Mewtwo isn't part of the SMB franchise hence why he got very close to Bowser). R2 in Shadow, not to mention Ryu got the bandwagon factor at this point since he already had beat Bowser the round before.
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Vincent already beat squall.
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From a glass-half-full view, Bowser and Ganon had NO WHERE to go but down after the Villain's Contest. They topped off there.
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From: voltch | #347
Vincent already beat squall.

I meant ever since that match.

Squall just seems more impressive in my mind.
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From: voltch | Posted: 11/23/2009 6:33:23 PM | #347
Vincent already beat squall.

Yeah but that was a close match that could have gone either way, and FF7 doesn't have a day vote to bail itself out anymore. The characters and game are still clearly a cut above everything else, but they've lost that close match clutch.
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