antman
Mar 19, 2010, 11:07 PM
Let battle commence...
Welcome to the Grand Final of Survivor: Battle of the Decade!
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Begins: 11pm, 19th March 2010
Ends: 11pm, 22nd March 2010
And so here we are. After a nearly six week journey that has endured rounds as vibrant as cabbage soup and enjoyed rounds as epic as the title demands, we are just mere moments away from the final battle in which one game will stand tall and forever be known as the greatest role playing game of the last decade. But which two titles will be duking it out?
Eviction Votes
Mass Effect - 7
Final Fantasy IX - 1
Knights of the Round - 1
Immunity Votes
Knights of the Round - 3
Final Fantasy IX - 1
Mass Effect - 1
I wish there was some way for me to spin this as a surprising result, but it seems that everyone knew who was going to be falling out of the race long before this commentary was posted. As Aether put it, "Is it really a bandwagon when there's really no choice on what has to go now?" I'm thinking not.
In fact, it would seem that most people think everything about the upcoming finale is a foregone conclusion - though, of course, they couldn't agree on what that foregone conclusion actually was. First we had Beastly who considers the result to be so obvious that he doesn't think "immunities matter now". In that respect, you couldn't be more wrong. See the Miscellaneous Business below to find out just how important your Immunity vote is.
Then there was DreamLines (who returned to the game with a triumphant "GENIUS!! BRILLIANT!!" when he saw that Final Fantasy XII had been evicted, a result he pinned entirely on his decision to " refrain from voting in the round") who was "willing to wager that" it would actually be the second of the two finalists that would take the crown.
But I am getting ahead of myself. Before we can find out which game is going to win, we have to officially find out who is leaving us. For that we can look to votes by the likes of Sam, the effect of which is that we must part ways with...
Odin Sphere
Tales of Symphonia
Fallout 3
Persona 4
World of Warcraft
Tales of Vesperia
Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth
Star Ocean: Til the End of Time
Eternal Sonata
Golden Sun: The Lost Age
Dragon Age: Origins
Golden Sun
Chrono Trigger DS
Lost Odyssey
Kingdom Hearts II
Final Fantasy XII
Mass Effect
And before we go any further than that, it is time for the penultimate look at
The Predictions
Which game will be in third position?
Mig and Dedrus are taking the points this time, with the scores now looking like this
Aether – 6
BZero – 4
Dedrus - 3
Lord DB - 4
Mig - 7
Not Miko - 4
Roger - 5
Sioux – 2
We should also take a moment to consider the last Question - "What was the best RPG of the 1990's?"
For Ridley, the answer was certainly obvious - "Secret of Mana, no doubt. Amazing gameplay, amazing story, amazing music... just plain, well, amazing". Magus was equally as confident about his choice, but "It's easily Chrono Trigger for me. I know I'm pretty shameless about hyping it up, but I still love the game, years after I first played it."
Both games were mentioned by Sioux, but he couldn't quite decide between "Mario RPG, Secret of Mana, and Chrono Trigger. All three brought RPG changing game mechanics to the table and each had an excellent story line", while Mig was torn between two possibilities before settling on "Pokémon Blue, just because that was probably the game that got me into this particular genre.. although it is pretty loosely labelled as an RPG."
As for BZero, there was apparently no doubt in his mind that it was "Final Fantasy VII". Simples.
And now we have your final new
Question of the Round
What headlines would Survivor: Battle of the Decade have produced?
Oh, but that is not all, because I am also calling on you to vote for your favourite
Player Created RPG
I have compiled the various answers given and it is up to you to vote for the one you think would make the best game. Feel free to update and complete the information regarding your own RPG.
Aether
Name - Death of Fallout
Subgenre - MMORPG
Hero - All those who helped successfully rid us of the blight that is Fallout 3
Villain - BZero
Plot - It would be an RPG where a plucky group of teenagers take the enormous task of removing every copy off Fallout 3 from the face of the earth. Culminating in a final battle with the megalomaniacal fusion of the game's creators, which threaten to kill our beloved heroes.
Beastly
Name - Shadows of Evil
Subgenre -
Hero -
Villain -
Plot -
BZero
Name - Secret Tales of Dragon Fantasy - Lost Breath
Subgenre - JRPG
Hero -
Villain -
Plot - It would contain every JRPG cliché ever ( http - //project-apollo.net/text/rpg.html).
Dedrus
Name - Ultimate Final Fantasy
Subgenre -
Hero -
Villain -
Plot - It would be about a young boy, where close-by to his house, a meteor/comet strikes the nearby mountain. He and his friends go to investigate and are all like 'Woaahhhh, a comet.' Whilst spectating the comet, a magical bee comes out and is all like 'OMFG, SAVE THE EARTH. DANGER, DAAANGEEERRHH.' And then the bee is killed by the protagonist's friend's mother - and so, our young hero sets out on a journey to record the soundscapes of eight various locations on a STONE, spanning the desert, the underworld and various other notable locations! All in an attempt to save the world. But OMFG, plot twist! The enemy trying to wtfpwn the world is actually our young hero's BEST FRIEND. And some giant destroyer-of-world's monster like dude robot thing. But mainly your best friend.
Lord DB
Name -
Subgenre - Traditional turn-based RPG
Hero -
Villain -
Plot - Top secret.
Magus
Name -
Subgenre - Classic turn-based RPG
Hero -
Villain -
Plot - Some sort of alternate history type plot, most likely a steampunky setting.
Mig
Name - World of Warcraft versus Fallout 3
Subgenre -
Hero - Fallout 3
Villain - World of Warcraft - Aether, whose eviction votes can halve the HP of all your party members, would be the final boss.
Plot - The game would begin with an opening cutscene in which Fallout 3 punches WoW in the head, before being swiftly kicked in the crown jewels. Fallout 3's best friend and loyal companion, BZero, will then be eaten by the Condition-of-the-Round Wyrm which makes an alliance with WoW and turns on Fallout 3. When all hope is almost lost, when it appears as if WoW will finally win out, castrate Fallout 3 and eat its gonads for lunch - ...
The player appears, sword in hand, with the option to help either competitor win, and live to fight another day
Ridley
Name -
Subgenre - Action-RPG
Hero - A Big Mac
Villain - Coke
Plot - Man cheats on girl, girl steals his mp3 player, man must go one quest to retrieve mp3 player to avoid the embarrassment of everyone finding out how lame his musical tastes are.
Roger
Name - The Ruptured Silhouette
Subgenre - Action-RPG
Hero -
Villain -
Plot -
Sam
Name -
Subgenre - Action-RPG
Hero -
Villain -
Plot - Some sort of action RPG about Cowboys and Indians fighting over a planet natively inhabited by dragons....where each side has futuristic phaser cannons yet the most skiled fighters decide to use light swords. Samuel L. Jackson will feature in the cast.
Sioux
Name - Vision Quest
Subgenre - Action-RPG
Hero - The lead hero for the first part of my RPG would be a Cherokee Medicine man whom leads the group of surviving Native peoples to their first round of challenges across the North American Continent.
Villain - The lead villain for the first part of the tale would be an evil deity known in many Native American legends across many tribes only as a giant serpent or snake, giant amphibious monsters or an army of lizards that threatened the existence of humanity when the world was young.
Plot - The game will have various members of Native American tribes all across North and South America meeting in post apocalyptic Mexico City. Being the last survivors of their tribes and humanity(that they know of) they're beckoned after meeting in the cavernous sewers of the city to travel to various locations of their world through a variety of means. In each place they meet actual spiritual embodiments of the major deities from each tribe. These embodiments will communicate, test, battle, empower and ultimately lead this motley crew of survivors to their eventual destiny.
As mentioned already, we do have some
Miscellaneous Business
- The tradition is to do away with Eviction and Immunity Votes in favour of simply voting for who you want to win. This time, however, we are only doing away with Eviction - the winner will be decided by Immunity votes. It basically amounts to the same as a vote for who you want to win, but it means the two remaining Heroes can grant each finalist an extra point each. That also doesn't make much difference, except for me to crown the most successful Hero in the Results. So yeah, only Immunity votes count.
- Another tradition is that the Final runs for 3 rather than 2 days and that tradition stands. However, because that means it will end at 11pm, 22nd March 2010 and I do not finish work until that exact moment, I will post the Results the next day.
- I usually only mention people that have actually voted in the write-up, but I found it intriguing that Roger didn't use his Mass Effect hero vote - it would have saved the game.
- Oh, and if "No Final Fantasy XII = no Dedrus" you have to wonder how he existed before 2006.
Here are the finalists;
Final Fantasy IX
Knights of the Old Republic
I'll see you at the Results ceremony at 11pm, 23rd March 2010 - and as was written in the ancient scrolls of years gone by, "be there or be a regular quadrilateral!"
Welcome to the Grand Final of Survivor: Battle of the Decade!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/Daviace/logo_battle_600w_v4_465x3001.png
Begins: 11pm, 19th March 2010
Ends: 11pm, 22nd March 2010
And so here we are. After a nearly six week journey that has endured rounds as vibrant as cabbage soup and enjoyed rounds as epic as the title demands, we are just mere moments away from the final battle in which one game will stand tall and forever be known as the greatest role playing game of the last decade. But which two titles will be duking it out?
Eviction Votes
Mass Effect - 7
Final Fantasy IX - 1
Knights of the Round - 1
Immunity Votes
Knights of the Round - 3
Final Fantasy IX - 1
Mass Effect - 1
I wish there was some way for me to spin this as a surprising result, but it seems that everyone knew who was going to be falling out of the race long before this commentary was posted. As Aether put it, "Is it really a bandwagon when there's really no choice on what has to go now?" I'm thinking not.
In fact, it would seem that most people think everything about the upcoming finale is a foregone conclusion - though, of course, they couldn't agree on what that foregone conclusion actually was. First we had Beastly who considers the result to be so obvious that he doesn't think "immunities matter now". In that respect, you couldn't be more wrong. See the Miscellaneous Business below to find out just how important your Immunity vote is.
Then there was DreamLines (who returned to the game with a triumphant "GENIUS!! BRILLIANT!!" when he saw that Final Fantasy XII had been evicted, a result he pinned entirely on his decision to " refrain from voting in the round") who was "willing to wager that" it would actually be the second of the two finalists that would take the crown.
But I am getting ahead of myself. Before we can find out which game is going to win, we have to officially find out who is leaving us. For that we can look to votes by the likes of Sam, the effect of which is that we must part ways with...
Odin Sphere
Tales of Symphonia
Fallout 3
Persona 4
World of Warcraft
Tales of Vesperia
Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth
Star Ocean: Til the End of Time
Eternal Sonata
Golden Sun: The Lost Age
Dragon Age: Origins
Golden Sun
Chrono Trigger DS
Lost Odyssey
Kingdom Hearts II
Final Fantasy XII
Mass Effect
And before we go any further than that, it is time for the penultimate look at
The Predictions
Which game will be in third position?
Mig and Dedrus are taking the points this time, with the scores now looking like this
Aether – 6
BZero – 4
Dedrus - 3
Lord DB - 4
Mig - 7
Not Miko - 4
Roger - 5
Sioux – 2
We should also take a moment to consider the last Question - "What was the best RPG of the 1990's?"
For Ridley, the answer was certainly obvious - "Secret of Mana, no doubt. Amazing gameplay, amazing story, amazing music... just plain, well, amazing". Magus was equally as confident about his choice, but "It's easily Chrono Trigger for me. I know I'm pretty shameless about hyping it up, but I still love the game, years after I first played it."
Both games were mentioned by Sioux, but he couldn't quite decide between "Mario RPG, Secret of Mana, and Chrono Trigger. All three brought RPG changing game mechanics to the table and each had an excellent story line", while Mig was torn between two possibilities before settling on "Pokémon Blue, just because that was probably the game that got me into this particular genre.. although it is pretty loosely labelled as an RPG."
As for BZero, there was apparently no doubt in his mind that it was "Final Fantasy VII". Simples.
And now we have your final new
Question of the Round
What headlines would Survivor: Battle of the Decade have produced?
Oh, but that is not all, because I am also calling on you to vote for your favourite
Player Created RPG
I have compiled the various answers given and it is up to you to vote for the one you think would make the best game. Feel free to update and complete the information regarding your own RPG.
Aether
Name - Death of Fallout
Subgenre - MMORPG
Hero - All those who helped successfully rid us of the blight that is Fallout 3
Villain - BZero
Plot - It would be an RPG where a plucky group of teenagers take the enormous task of removing every copy off Fallout 3 from the face of the earth. Culminating in a final battle with the megalomaniacal fusion of the game's creators, which threaten to kill our beloved heroes.
Beastly
Name - Shadows of Evil
Subgenre -
Hero -
Villain -
Plot -
BZero
Name - Secret Tales of Dragon Fantasy - Lost Breath
Subgenre - JRPG
Hero -
Villain -
Plot - It would contain every JRPG cliché ever ( http - //project-apollo.net/text/rpg.html).
Dedrus
Name - Ultimate Final Fantasy
Subgenre -
Hero -
Villain -
Plot - It would be about a young boy, where close-by to his house, a meteor/comet strikes the nearby mountain. He and his friends go to investigate and are all like 'Woaahhhh, a comet.' Whilst spectating the comet, a magical bee comes out and is all like 'OMFG, SAVE THE EARTH. DANGER, DAAANGEEERRHH.' And then the bee is killed by the protagonist's friend's mother - and so, our young hero sets out on a journey to record the soundscapes of eight various locations on a STONE, spanning the desert, the underworld and various other notable locations! All in an attempt to save the world. But OMFG, plot twist! The enemy trying to wtfpwn the world is actually our young hero's BEST FRIEND. And some giant destroyer-of-world's monster like dude robot thing. But mainly your best friend.
Lord DB
Name -
Subgenre - Traditional turn-based RPG
Hero -
Villain -
Plot - Top secret.
Magus
Name -
Subgenre - Classic turn-based RPG
Hero -
Villain -
Plot - Some sort of alternate history type plot, most likely a steampunky setting.
Mig
Name - World of Warcraft versus Fallout 3
Subgenre -
Hero - Fallout 3
Villain - World of Warcraft - Aether, whose eviction votes can halve the HP of all your party members, would be the final boss.
Plot - The game would begin with an opening cutscene in which Fallout 3 punches WoW in the head, before being swiftly kicked in the crown jewels. Fallout 3's best friend and loyal companion, BZero, will then be eaten by the Condition-of-the-Round Wyrm which makes an alliance with WoW and turns on Fallout 3. When all hope is almost lost, when it appears as if WoW will finally win out, castrate Fallout 3 and eat its gonads for lunch - ...
The player appears, sword in hand, with the option to help either competitor win, and live to fight another day
Ridley
Name -
Subgenre - Action-RPG
Hero - A Big Mac
Villain - Coke
Plot - Man cheats on girl, girl steals his mp3 player, man must go one quest to retrieve mp3 player to avoid the embarrassment of everyone finding out how lame his musical tastes are.
Roger
Name - The Ruptured Silhouette
Subgenre - Action-RPG
Hero -
Villain -
Plot -
Sam
Name -
Subgenre - Action-RPG
Hero -
Villain -
Plot - Some sort of action RPG about Cowboys and Indians fighting over a planet natively inhabited by dragons....where each side has futuristic phaser cannons yet the most skiled fighters decide to use light swords. Samuel L. Jackson will feature in the cast.
Sioux
Name - Vision Quest
Subgenre - Action-RPG
Hero - The lead hero for the first part of my RPG would be a Cherokee Medicine man whom leads the group of surviving Native peoples to their first round of challenges across the North American Continent.
Villain - The lead villain for the first part of the tale would be an evil deity known in many Native American legends across many tribes only as a giant serpent or snake, giant amphibious monsters or an army of lizards that threatened the existence of humanity when the world was young.
Plot - The game will have various members of Native American tribes all across North and South America meeting in post apocalyptic Mexico City. Being the last survivors of their tribes and humanity(that they know of) they're beckoned after meeting in the cavernous sewers of the city to travel to various locations of their world through a variety of means. In each place they meet actual spiritual embodiments of the major deities from each tribe. These embodiments will communicate, test, battle, empower and ultimately lead this motley crew of survivors to their eventual destiny.
As mentioned already, we do have some
Miscellaneous Business
- The tradition is to do away with Eviction and Immunity Votes in favour of simply voting for who you want to win. This time, however, we are only doing away with Eviction - the winner will be decided by Immunity votes. It basically amounts to the same as a vote for who you want to win, but it means the two remaining Heroes can grant each finalist an extra point each. That also doesn't make much difference, except for me to crown the most successful Hero in the Results. So yeah, only Immunity votes count.
- Another tradition is that the Final runs for 3 rather than 2 days and that tradition stands. However, because that means it will end at 11pm, 22nd March 2010 and I do not finish work until that exact moment, I will post the Results the next day.
- I usually only mention people that have actually voted in the write-up, but I found it intriguing that Roger didn't use his Mass Effect hero vote - it would have saved the game.
- Oh, and if "No Final Fantasy XII = no Dedrus" you have to wonder how he existed before 2006.
Here are the finalists;
Final Fantasy IX
Knights of the Old Republic
I'll see you at the Results ceremony at 11pm, 23rd March 2010 - and as was written in the ancient scrolls of years gone by, "be there or be a regular quadrilateral!"