Greatest Video Game Hero contest

**frogbeastegg** · 09-06-2009, 15:11

Heh. If you think the character matches in this contest are bad you didn't see the one gamefaqs was running last year. I went to the site to check a release date only to find some famous character battling against ... the L-shaped block from tetris.

With regards to reviews site - and indeed magazines - the best thing to do is find one which employes people with similar tastes to your own. Or take that to the next level and follow writers with similar taste. For example, I know that if Tom Chick reviews a strategy game and praises the AI or some aspect of design then those are actually worth the praise because he has a track record of mentioning when games do poorly in those areas. He's semi-famous for giving ETW a large, mostly negative review; he highlighted the AI and the problems he percieves in the dual nature of its design. Kieron Gillen is another I find to be usually reliable. As taste is personal one's good site/reviewer will be another's bad.

The other important thing is to make your own opinion the final one. I'm willing to try a game which has had poor reviews, including ones reviewed by writers I consider trustworthy, if I think there is merit. I've found some good games this way. Not great games, sure, but good ones I enjoyed playing and did not regret picking up.

**Azathoth** · 09-08-2009, 23:54

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**Azathoth** · 09-08-2009, 23:54

Fresh news:

Kirby consistently held the lead during the round but Pacman finally won with 6 more votes than Kirby.

4chan wants to take Bub & Bob to the top, but /v/ always bets on Duke and therefore has withdrawn all support for Bub & Bob. In the end, Master Chief had 46.5 % of the vote. Now, Bub & Bob are going against Sonic and have a massive early lead of about 15%, but it's falling as more Sonic fanboys enter the fray.

**Jolt** · 09-09-2009, 01:59

Hehe, my bet goes to Lara Croft or Snake. Even if this 4chan w/e rig is taking place, once B&B or Duke comes up against someone as popular as Snake, the sheer weight of Snake's popularity will crush Duke or B&B. In any case, as a fan of B&B, I shall support him until the final, where then it shall depend on who's on the other side.

Heroes I support are: Mario, Lara Croft, Cloud, Ah! The Freeman..., Snake, B&B and Pac-Man. Of all those B&B, Lara and Snake are my toppest ones, with Snake being the number 1 favorite for me.

**Alexander the Pretty Good** · 09-09-2009, 02:59

How is it rigging the vote?

**Azathoth** · 09-09-2009, 03:41

Because they used proxies to stuff thousands of fake votes into the ballot? And despite their repeated claim that you don't need an account to vote, quite a few HAVE indeed made multiple accounts to troll with (because Gamespot is wielding the banhammer with increasing impunity), and I seriously doubt that they didn't go ahead and add those multiple potential votes. I wouldn't be surprised if 10000 votes for Bub & Bob were illegitimate (with at least another 20000 legitimate ones from 4chan and Ebaums).

**Jolt** · 09-09-2009, 07:01

I find it disturbing that you actually care about such a subject. So the voting is rigged. So what? The world isn't gonna end. And those 4chan have to waste several hours switching between proxies just to vote for something nobody will care about in November. That seems like a win-win situation to me. You can also choose not to vote.

**Azathoth** · 09-09-2009, 22:13

I find it disturbing that you actually care about such a subject. So the voting is rigged. So what? The world isn't gonna end. And those 4chan have to waste several hours switching between proxies just to vote for something nobody will care about in November. That seems like a win-win situation to me. You can also choose not to vote.

Huh? I don't really care anymore. If you look back, you'll see that I went from outrage to a desire to piss off 4chan to neutrality. Alexander asked how the vote was rigged and I explained it to him.

**Chaotix** · 09-09-2009, 01:25

Originally Posted by frogbeastegg

Heh. If you think the character matches in this contest are bad you didn't see the one gamefaqs was running last year. I went to the site to check a release date only to find some famous character battling against ... the L-shaped block from tetris.

I think L-Block actually won 2 years ago, thanks to those fine folks at 4chan. Then, because it was a winner last time around, they put it back in again.

Contests like these are pretty bogus; they are all popularity-based and not merit-based. At least GameFAQs clearly states whenever they run the Character Battle that it's a popularity contest.