SW Choice for Gaming's Lady of the Gen: Round 3 CLOSED

1. Lara Croft

2. Triss Merigold

4. Lightning

5. Chloe Frazer

6. Sophitia

7. Lilith

8. Elika

9. Elena Fisher

New poll is rigged. Why even have a poll? :P

Geez, seems every time I'm away at work I miss some sort of drama. Ah well I see it's been resolved.

[QUOTE="foxhound_fox"]Ugh... archetypes. The most desirable females are those who are confident about who they are, and offer a unique personality that doesn't fit into any mold.AdobeArtist

I agree that character complexity is very appealing, buuuuut, since the poll is limited that can't fit every variable of uniqueness possible, and everybody would just say, "I like a mix of this and that, or everything", I had to go with the most common personality themes. That and going by examples actually seen in games, which the poll was about. Not what you like in real women as that would be harder to define, but the most desirable traits seen in actual RPG examples.

[QUOTE="AdobeArtist"]

Geez, seems every time I'm away at work I miss some sort of drama. Ah well I see it's been resolved.

[QUOTE="foxhound_fox"]Ugh... archetypes. The most desirable females are those who are confident about who they are, and offer a unique personality that doesn't fit into any mold.Cherokee_Jack

I agree that character complexity is very appealing, buuuuut, since the poll is limited that can't fit every variable of uniqueness possible, and everybody would just say, "I like a mix of this and that, or everything", I had to go with the most common personality themes. That and going by examples actually seen in games, which the poll was about. Not what you like in real women as that would be harder to define, but the most desirable traits seen in actual RPG examples.

How would you describe the traits of those characters? Are you sure that personality variables aren't based off one of the types I listed as a foundation from which the new layers are built upon?

1.Noel

2.Triss

3.Faith

4.Chloe Frazer

5.Sophitia

6.Lilith

7.Samus

8. Elena Fisher

[QUOTE="AdobeArtist"]

Geez, seems every time I'm away at work I miss some sort of drama. Ah well I see it's been resolved.

[QUOTE="foxhound_fox"]Ugh... archetypes. The most desirable females are those who are confident about who they are, and offer a unique personality that doesn't fit into any mold.Cherokee_Jack

I agree that character complexity is very appealing, buuuuut, since the poll is limited that can't fit every variable of uniqueness possible, and everybody would just say, "I like a mix of this and that, or everything", I had to go with the most common personality themes. That and going by examples actually seen in games, which the poll was about. Not what you like in real women as that would be harder to define, but the most desirable traits seen in actual RPG examples.

Colette would be the Hopeless RomanticTrapJak

Colette would be the Hopeless Romantic , Raine would be the Alpha Female, Sheena would be a mixture of the Sultry Vixen and the Alpha Female, and Presea.... wait, I'll stop now.

TrapJak

Colette, yes, but Raine and Sheena weren't particularly sultry or alpha...they were just sort of normal.

But sadly, Symphonia was the last game in the series (at least, last gen) with normal, likeable characters. The girls in Legendia and Abyss were super archetypical.

Here is my vote:

1. Lara Croft
2. Triss Merigold
3. Lightning
4. Catherine
5. Bayonetta
6. Lilith
7. Elika
8. Jill Valentine

Too bad no chicks from the DOA or Soul Calibur series made it. :(

How anyone can vote against Samus ( or when they were still here : Kerrigan, and a few others) is BEYOND ME :shock:

How anyone can vote against Samus ( or when they were still here : Kerrigan, and a few others) is BEYOND ME :shock:

smashed_pinata

[insert moralist comment stating something we already know here]

Here is my vote:

1. Lara Croft
2. Triss Merigold
3. Lightning
4. Catherine
5. Bayonetta
6. Lilith
7. Elika
8. Jill Valentine

Too bad no chicks from the DOA or Soul Calibur series made it. :(

dr_jashugan

Partly because I have nothing better to do right now (and partly because I'm putting off marking summer school essays), I went and added up how the matchups are going. Lara and Samus are predictably blowing away their competition, but the biggest blowout (as of now) is surprisingly Lilith's current annihilation of Kelly "The Human Answering Machine" Chambers.

On the other side of things, Chloe's only up by 2 on Catherine (on my count), and Elena and Jill are deadlocked (Jill was up by 9 until the last couple of pages, so if Elena wins, it'll be a massive comeback effort.

I'm still not over Liara getting booted. :(

1. Lara

2. Triss

3. Faith

4. Chloe

5. Sophitia

6. Kelly

7. Samus

8. Jill

I'm surprised Kelly Chambers made it this far into the voting even though she is just one of ME2's generic NPC character models. Take a look at some of the NPCs in the Omega Plague mission, and you'll see Kelly has quite a few sisters, lol. :PTimstuff

I actually never noticed any Kelly "twins" on Omega. But anyway, I'm sure she's getting her votes from personality. Have you ever really interacted with her? At every chance you get after each mission? She delivers a lot of charm & wit, and always makes more effort to really connect with you than any other character, even the fully romanceable characters.

[QUOTE="Jynxzor"]Why do I have a sneaking suspicion that the "Suprise" for next vote is going to be a wild-card vote of some sorts.UCF_Knight

So, you people want the answers? ;)

Damn, Lilith is just owning. Who would've thought the last siren would be this far into the tournament?

Jill and Elena battle are neck and neck, next vote could decide it :shock:.

Chloe is also winning, which is a surprise, since most people prefer Elena.

Once again, Samus is winning out of blind luck, since her Other M personality failed.

Lara... ehh. She wins, she wins. Doesnt really matter.

Damn, Lilith is just owning. Who would've thought the last siren would be this far into the tournament?

Jill and Elena battle are neck and neck, next vote could decide it :shock:.

Chloe is also winning, which is a surprise, since most people prefer Elena.

Once again, Samus is winning out of blind luck, since her Other M personality failed.

Lara... ehh. She wins, she wins. Doesnt really matter.

TrapJak

Yeah, heaven forbid a video game character is an actual interesting "character" with *gasp* FLAWS :roll:

But I don't want to get into another Other M argument, because, honestly, I'm tired of them.

And Samus beating Miranda (for me, the top choice out of the ME games) pretty soundly wouldn't be something I'd call "luck".

Yeah, Samus is my pick to win it all.

[QUOTE="TrapJak"]

Damn, Lilith is just owning. Who would've thought the last siren would be this far into the tournament?

Jill and Elena battle are neck and neck, next vote could decide it :shock:.

Chloe is also winning, which is a surprise, since most people prefer Elena.

Once again, Samus is winning out of blind luck, since her Other M personality failed.

Lara... ehh. She wins, she wins. Doesnt really matter.

svetzenlether

Yeah, heaven forbid a video game character is an actual interesting "character" with *gasp* FLAWS :roll:

But I don't want to get into another Other M argument, because, honestly, I'm tired of them.

And Samus beating Miranda (for me, the top choice out of the ME games) pretty soundly wouldn't be something I'd call "luck".

Yeah, Samus is my pick to win it all.

[QUOTE="svetzenlether"]

[QUOTE="TrapJak"]

Damn, Lilith is just owning. Who would've thought the last siren would be this far into the tournament?

Jill and Elena battle are neck and neck, next vote could decide it :shock:.

Chloe is also winning, which is a surprise, since most people prefer Elena.

Once again, Samus is winning out of blind luck, since her Other M personality failed.

Lara... ehh. She wins, she wins. Doesnt really matter.

TrapJak

Yeah, heaven forbid a video game character is an actual interesting "character" with *gasp* FLAWS :roll:

But I don't want to get into another Other M argument, because, honestly, I'm tired of them.

And Samus beating Miranda (for me, the top choice out of the ME games) pretty soundly wouldn't be something I'd call "luck".

Yeah, Samus is my pick to win it all.

Well, believe what you want, and I'll do the same. Like I said, I'm tired of the Samus Other M argument.

[QUOTE="TrapJak"]

[QUOTE="svetzenlether"]

Yeah, heaven forbid a video game character is an actual interesting "character" with *gasp* FLAWS :roll:

But I don't want to get into another Other M argument, because, honestly, I'm tired of them.

And Samus beating Miranda (for me, the top choice out of the ME games) pretty soundly wouldn't be something I'd call "luck".

Yeah, Samus is my pick to win it all.

svetzenlether

Well, believe what you want, and I'll do the same. Like I said, I'm tired of the Samus Other M argument.

Arguements? I didn't want to argue brah, just wanted to express my opinions. Nothing personal, mmkay?

1. Noel

2.Triss

3.Faith

4.Chloe

5.Sophita

6.Lilityh

7.Elika

8.Elena Fisher

Dissapointing to have seen Bayonetta make it this far, while chun li is out

Arguements? I didn't want to argue brah, just wanted to express my opinions. Nothing personal, mmkay?

TrapJak

No, of course not! I just read my last post and it came off pretty harsh. I mean, at the end of the day we're on a message board about video games, and video games are fun.

I always support the idea of humanizing a character, and understand that having vulnerabilities does not make them weak. If anything it adds depth to their character, ultimately making them relateable and genuinely believable. I especially love what they're doing with Lara. In Samus' case howver, while it's great for the character development, the way they try to apply this to the gaming mechanics, where she has all these abilities but can't use them when she really needs them because she wasn't given permission by her superior is absurdly contrived.

Anyway, I know you've all been wondering what new voting rules I have in store for Round 4 that mentiond earlier. And since it starts tomorrow, I'm now going to let you all in on the twist that will shake up the selection process and can make progression into the Finals, anybody's game.

Up till now, every participant has had to vote for each active slot, in the assigned order, and that's mostly going to be the same. You'll still have to type your list from 1-4, with the correct character in each slot. BUT now there are two additional options each user may choose to exercise;

* First, for any ONE character you vote for, you can put a +1 next to their name. You'll be able to give an extra vote to the lady of your choice. So yes that will tally as not just 1, but TWO votes for that particular character.

* The other twist is that this time, you now CAN opt out of voting for one, and only ONE, of the 4 slots, so neither character need be voted by you. The rule was originally in place when there were so many characters and sufficient figures were needed to assure there would be a determined progression to the next round. But now that the list will be filtered down from the original 64 to 8, 8 that are the top most already votd for ladies, I figure it's highly unlikely everybody will non-vote for the same slot. And just to keep this all offical in the process, don't just leave that number blank, put in the word 'VOID' to indicate that this is your actual choice in exersizing this option and not just an accidentially missed spot.

Also understand that both these options are just that, options. You may choose the double vote but can still give a regular vote to the other 3 slots if you want. you don't have to non-vote one if you don't want to. Same with the double vote (though I can't imagine anybody will pass up that opportunity :P ) I'll even show a example of how a typical ballot may look;

1. Kasumi +1
2. Aya Brae
3. VOID
4. Liara

** note that I used already eliminated characters in the example so as not to make any presumtions as to who will actually make it into Round 4 starting tomorrow.

And there you have it. The Semi-Finals are sure to be the most intense round yet in this contest. I can hardly wait!! :D :D :D

I always support the idea of humanizing a character, and understand that having vulnerabilities does not make them weak. If anything it adds depth to their character, ultimately making them relateable and genuinely believable. I especially love what they're doing with Lara. In Samus' case howver, while it's great for the character development, the way they try to apply this to the gaming mechanics, where she has all these abilities but can't use them when she really needs them because she wasn't given permission by her superior is absurdly contrived.

Anyway, I know you've all been wondering what new voting rules I have in store for Round 4 that mentiond earlier. And since it starts tomorrow, I'm now going to let you all in on the twist that will shake up the selection process and can make progression into the Finals, anybody's game.

Up till now, every participant has had to vote for each active slot, in the assigned order, and that's mostly going to be the same. You'll still have to type your list from 1-4, with the correct character in each slot. BUT now there are two additional options each user may choose to exercise;

* First, for any ONE character you vote for, you can put a +1 next to their name. You'll be able to give an extra vote to the lady of your choice. So yes that will tally as not just 1, but TWO votes for that particular character.

* The other twist is that this time, you now CAN opt out of voting for one, and only ONE, of the 4 slots, so neither character need be voted by you. The rule was originally in place when there were so many characters and sufficient figures were needed to assure there would be a determined progression to the next round. But now that the list will be filtered down from the original 64 to 8, 8 that are the top most already votd for ladies, I figure it's highly unlikely everybody will non-vote for the same slot. And just to keep this all offical in the process, don't just leave that number blank, put in the word 'VOID' to indicate that this is your actual choice in exersizing this option and not just an accidentially missed spot.

Also understand that both these options are just that, options. You may choose the double vote but can still give a regular vote to the other 3 slots if you want. you don't have to non-vote one if you don't want to. Same with the double vote (though I can't imagine anybody will pass up that opportunity :P ) I'll even show a example of how a typical ballot may look;

1. Kasumi +1
2. Aya Brae
3. VOID
4. Liara

** note that I used already eliminated characters in the example so as not to make any presumtions as to who will actually make it into Round 4 starting tomorrow.

And there you have it. The Semi-Finals are sure to be the most intense round yet in this contest. I can hardly wait!! :D :D :D

AdobeArtist

Adobe, I like the ideas, but not seperately. They should be together, ie. you can double vote but if you do that you HAVE to void one of your other votes.

Its about to go down.

Adbobe, I believe in the "one character, one vote" principle so I do not agree with the new rules. I will vote in the next round as I always do.

Adobe, I like the ideas, but not seperately. They should be together, ie. you can double vote but if you do that you HAVE to void one of your other votes.

svetzenlether

I'm going to keep it this way. It'll be interesting now that voting will be a bit more uneven and varied.

Adbobe, I believe in the "one character, one vote" principle so I do not agree with the new rules. I will vote in the next round as I always do.

thom_maytees

That is your prerogative, but for people who have a particular favourite, they now have an opportunity to give her a boost. And since everybody can do this, it may turn out to be a more or less even spread as each character is expected to get a certain measure of extra voting, or the results may be wildly unpredictable, that will make the road to the finals even more exciting :)

[QUOTE="thom_maytees"]

Adbobe, I believe in the "one character, one vote" principle so I do not agree with the new rules. I will vote in the next round as I always do.

AdobeArtist

That is your prerogative, but for people who have a particular favourite, they now have an opportunity to give her a boost. And since everybody can do this, it may turn out to be a more or less even spread as each character is expected to get a certain measure of extra voting, or the results may be wildly unpredictable, that will make the road to the finals even more exciting :)

[QUOTE="AdobeArtist"]

[QUOTE="thom_maytees"]

Adbobe, I believe in the "one character, one vote" principle so I do not agree with the new rules. I will vote in the next round as I always do.

thom_maytees

That is your prerogative, but for people who have a particular favourite, they now have an opportunity to give her a boost. And since everybody can do this, it may turn out to be a more or less even spread as each character is expected to get a certain measure of extra voting, or the results may be wildly unpredictable, that will make the road to the finals even more exciting :)

Since the whole point of the new rules is to add that "wild card" element to the voting, no way I can say what to expect. For now the level 5 requirement remains in effect. The only time that will be "lifted" is in the Final Round, where at that point down to the remaining 4, I'll simply be able to use the forum poll system, and won't have to do any more manual counting (whew :) ).

I'm going to keep it this way. It'll be interesting now that voting will be a bit more uneven and varied.

AdobeArtist

Do you mean "I'm going to keep it as two seperate things so I could do either or"

OR

"I like your suggestion that if you +1, you have to void one of your votes, and I'm going to keep it this way"?

[QUOTE="AdobeArtist"]

I'm going to keep it this way. It'll be interesting now that voting will be a bit more uneven and varied.

svetzenlether

Do you mean "I'm going to keep it as two seperate things so I could do either or"

OR

"I like your suggestion that if you +1, you have to void one of your votes, and I'm going to keep it this way"?

I meant that I'll keep it the way I already outlined. Users will have the option to exercise one, both, or neither of the additional options in their ballot as they see fit.

[QUOTE="svetzenlether"]

[QUOTE="AdobeArtist"]

I'm going to keep it this way. It'll be interesting now that voting will be a bit more uneven and varied.

AdobeArtist

Do you mean "I'm going to keep it as two seperate things so I could do either or"

OR

"I like your suggestion that if you +1, you have to void one of your votes, and I'm going to keep it this way"?

I meant that I'll keep it the way I already outlined. Users will have the option to exercise one, both, or neither of the additional options in their ballot as they see fit.

[QUOTE="AdobeArtist"]

[QUOTE="svetzenlether"]

Do you mean "I'm going to keep it as two seperate things so I could do either or"

OR

"I like your suggestion that if you +1, you have to void one of your votes, and I'm going to keep it this way"?

DarkLink77

I meant that I'll keep it the way I already outlined. Users will have the option to exercise one, both, or neither of the additional options in their ballot as they see fit.

How about you drop in your vote already (before it's too late), then we'll talk about the next round rules :P:P

[QUOTE="DarkLink77"][QUOTE="AdobeArtist"]

I meant that I'll keep it the way I already outlined. Users will have the option to exercise one, both, or neither of the additional options in their ballot as they see fit.

AdobeArtist

How about you drop in your vote already (before it's too late), then we'll talk about the next round rules :P:P

[QUOTE="AdobeArtist"]

[QUOTE="DarkLink77"] You should do what the other guy suggested. It's better. :PDarkLink77

How about you drop in your vote already (before it's too late), then we'll talk about the next round rules :P:P

Me Bro, Come at .

[QUOTE="DarkLink77"][QUOTE="AdobeArtist"]

How about you drop in your vote already (before it's too late), then we'll talk about the next round rules :P:P

TrapJak

Me Bro, Come at .

[QUOTE="TrapJak"]

[QUOTE="DarkLink77"] Voting in this round is like voting for best loser. It's awful.DarkLink77

Me Bro, Come at .

[QUOTE="DarkLink77"]

[QUOTE="TrapJak"]I vote for you .

Me Bro, Come at .

TrapJak

[QUOTE="TrapJak"]

[QUOTE="DarkLink77"] Bro, you don't want none of this.

DarkLink77

Oh wait, that sounds wrong. My bad :?

[QUOTE="DarkLink77"]

[QUOTE="TrapJak"]Whatev bro, you scuured?

TrapJak

Oh wait, that sounds wrong. My bad :?

Voting in this round is like voting for best loser. It's awful.DarkLink77

New rules will make the winner almost assured.Jynxzor

[QUOTE="Jynxzor"]New rules will make the winner almost assured.Cherokee_Jack

She got this far and will go further because she's a survivor ;)

[QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"][QUOTE="Jynxzor"]New rules will make the winner almost assured.AdobeArtist

She got this far and will go further because she's a survivor ;)

[QUOTE="AdobeArtist"]

[QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"] You mean Samus, right? No way Lara is winning anything. She only got this far because all her matchups have been softball.Cherokee_Jack

She got this far and will go further because she's a survivor ;)

One of these days Cherokee, one of these days, straight to the moon!!!

:twisted::twisted::P:P

1. Noel (Because Lara sucks)

2. Morrigan

3. Lightning

4. Catherine

5. Sophitia

6. Lilith

7. Samus

8. Elena

the lack of lightning in this thread is depressing me......

the lack of lightning in this thread is depressing me......

eboyishere