H12

http://www.GameFAQs.com

For the past two years, GameFAQs has had contests in the summer. The contest was a bracket filled with 64 video game characters, and it was the people's job to vote which character they liked more in one-on-one battles. Not who you thought was more bad-ass, not who you thought was more revolutionary...just who you liked more. Link won it the first year, and Cloud won it last year.

With all that aside, there'll still be another summer contest this year between the characters. HOWEVER, this year will be the first-annual spring contest, where the brackets will be filled with games instead of characters.

If you check out the site's home-page right now, it will give you a link where you can nominate one game per system to be in this contest, but you have to be registered (it's easy to). By the beginning of March, the brackets will be up, and everyone who is registered will be allowed to make their official bracket-predictions on who'll win what. Then, in April and May, one battle a day will occur, and there will be a winner at the end of it to decide what is the "Best. Game. Ever." (you don't have to be registered to vote).



I just wanted to go ahead and point this out for anyone who's interested, because I'm really into this kind of thing and I'm sure I'm not the only one. A lil' early to post this contest that officially starts in April? Nah, I figured I'd give everyone some time to nominate some games.

Side-note: If you got no idea what to nominate for the Sega Genesis, think of Earthworm Jim.

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Infernal

I participated in the last two contest too. It was awsome arguing with those fanboys. I know most people will nominate Final Fantasy, Mario, and Zelda. They have the most fanboys.

I will win this time!!

H12

Amen about the fanboys, but for every fanboy there is a man who proves them wrong time and time again in a humorous fashion...who just so happens to be me.

I was gonna nominate Final Fantasy 7, but I changed my mind and picked Metal Gear Solid. I was gonna pick Mario 3, but I switched to MegaMan 2. I was gonna choose Wind Waker, but...well, I did. I'm a fanboy in many ways, but I'm a not a stupid one that's blind to facts and the opinions of others, heh, so don't even dare toss me in that wicked category.

Who'd you predict would win the past two contests, by the way?

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--Aristotle

Infernal

The first contest I think I chose Sephiroth and the second contest I chose Link cuz so many people picked Link in the first contest. I thought he was gonna win again but Cloud won.

I was so sure that Link would win I voted for Cloud.

H12

Dang, man, that's a bummer. I didn't finish my bracket for the first contest, but I had it all planned out that Mario was gonna win against Sonic. Last year I had Link beating Sephiroth a second time. This year, well, I don't know yet...I think Solid Snake will do alot better than he's been doing (and he's held his own in these contests so far), but I'm gonna wait until the brackets come out in June before I decide.

That's a whole 'nother contest though; what'd you nominate for the Best Game Ever?

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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."
--Aristotle

Infernal

I'm gonna nominate Chrono Trigger. My favorite RPG

H12

I never could get into RPG's that much, except for a select few. With that said, Chrono Trigger is one of the three I enjoy (FF7 and Super Mario RPG are the other two), and I nominated Super Mario Kart for the SNES over CT anyway. It's a good game though, no doubt about that.

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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."
--Aristotle

H12

The brackets are now up at GameFAQs, for those who are interested. You can check out the brackets for yourself, but there are some interesting 1st-round battles...

Donkey Kong vs Duck Hunt
Perfect Dark vs Castlevania: Syphony Of The Night
Halo vs StarCraft
Super Smash Brothers: Melee vs Metal Gear Solid 2

...but it only gets harder and harder through-out the tourney. I hope everyone'll check it out.

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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."
--Aristotle

H12

I hate to bump this, but since the contest is starts Friday, I thought I'd bring this up again for everyone to see.

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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."
--Aristotle