STGT 2k7- Week #1 Poll (Konami Week)

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UNOFFICIAL "Exit Poll". Post your vote in the actual thread to make it count.

Poll ended at Wed Aug 22, 2007 1:25 am

Gokujou Parodius
10
12%
Gradius 3 (Arcade)(Normal)
2
2%
Salamander 2
28
33%
Sexy Parodius
21
24%
Twin Bee Yahhoo! (Normal)
25
29%
 
Total votes: 86

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STGT 2k7- Week #1 Poll (Konami Week)

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The game we are playing for Konami Week is Twin Bee Yahhoo!

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Twin Bee Yahhoo! - 27 votes
Salamander 2 - 24 votes 
Sexy Parodius - 21 votes
Gokujou Parodius - 14 votes
Gradius 3 - 2 votes


Twin Bee Yahhoo! - 27 Votes
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SiKrAiKeN, BrianC, bsidwell, Sword, ArcticXC, Sonic R, Turrican, Dave_K., Sylver, Ayanami, Davey, stanski, mikwuyma, moozooh, Enhasa, SamIAm, msm, g19, coffeejoerx, Rorschach, zakk, Shatterhand, Zhegan, SleepersEye, Smraedis, elbarto, Deets (PRIVATE)


Salamander 2 - 24 Votes
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shoe-sama, DirtyMonk, -Bridget-, Super Laydock, The Coop, Kaede, Infintium, szycag, Aleanil, HeWhoGoverns, SFKhoa, RyanDG, DJ Incompetent, nZero, Ghegs, MA7, seattlexc, CRI, themachinist, RotateMe, ED-057, Herr Schatten, Shocky, CIT

Sexy Parodius - 21 Votes
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Bloodreign, Ed Oscuro, Ozymandiaz1260, Zebra Airforce, P_HAT, DEL, Zigfried the Trizealot, Dumple, firestorm, Edge, Twiddle, freddiebamboo, professor ganson, joystickchris, Arvandor, Rob, GaijinPunch, DarkWolf7, _Bnu, Macaw, Skyrandia

Gokujou Parodius - 14 Votes
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captain ahar, NRS, Yace D, PROMETHEUS, Keade, neo, Dusk Stalker, javel, DMC, zinger, lowemark, KennyMan666, Fu, thenoble1

Gradius 3 - 2 Votes
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Pingu, Aquas
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How THE OFFICIAL POLL works:
As Rob wrote:DJI makes this thread, people post their vote in this thread, DJI tallies the votes.
How to vote in THE OFFICIAL POLL:
As Rob would have wrote:1. post vote in thread
2. post before Monday 10:59am GMT (switch board clock in profile)
Follow only these directions exactly and you will have voted correctly. No need to pay attention to anything else.
If you feel like learning more about the unneeded unused unofficial poll or other voting safeguards in-place, the details are in the fine print at the bottom of this post.

*NEW* If you wish for your vote to remain unseen by others, you now have the option to PM your vote to username STGT instead of posting it in this thread.
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To cast your vote, please put the game you are voting for IN THE SUBJECT LINE. I will include these votes with the public votes in the final results. I'll printscreen proof of all sent votes. I count only what I see in the inbox. If the inbox is filled or your vote did not submit successfully to user STGT for any reason, it will not be counted.

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I will be using this clock to determine when it becomes GMT Monday morning to end the poll.

Please remember, unlike in player registration, nobody can cast public or private votes in the name of other members.


Your selections for Konami Week are the following:

Gokujou Parodius

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Parody of Gradius. This title is usually regarded as the better presentation of the Parodius series. Scoring revolves around straight survival and maintaining your bell collection chain. You can choose between instant respawn or checkpoint-spawning, but your ability to utilize multiple buttons and manual powerups will also change.


Gradius 3 (Arcade) (Normal)

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The hardest of all Gradius games. The only one that comes standard with power bar editing. Scoring is straight survival. SNES version definitely not allowed. Extra Edit in the PS2 version is also not to be used.


Salamander 2

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The main difference to Salamander from Gradius is the powerup system. Collecting icons instantly give you the powerup. Two missile types to switch between and three different laser types to collect; also with the ability to upgrade for a time by collecting multiple of the same icons. Completely unique to all other Gradius types are the half-level options, the Option Shoot ability which is a homing attack you can charge-up and use at anytime at the partial consumption of your options. This spinoff is also the only one to have a threatening final boss. Horizontal and vertical stages are present. Scoring is survival.


Sexy Parodius

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This version operates on mission-based objectives which will lead to different stages. The white bells are also changed to assist with this. You'll have to identify the ideal scoring path. Otherwise, you'll be seeing strange quasi-sexual themes and more bell-based score chaining. The character selection is slightly different from Gokujou and some of the returning players have slight tweaks to their weapons. You can choose between instant respawn or checkpoint-spawning, but your ability to utilize multiple buttons and manual powerups will also change.


Twin Bee Yahhoo! (Normal)

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The most unique of the shortlist. A vertical game for scoring with yellow bell-chaining. Regular powerups will need to be obtained by keeping a bell in the air until it changes color. The other element is bombing the ground for icon collections to score and get other weapons. You also get a straight-up charge shot.


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As long as these instructions below do not confuse you with the instructions left for you to follow above, here are all the fine print additional voting rules in place to serve more as "future week-long controversy insurance" or more accurately, "In-Case Shit"

-A vote is a singular item from which you may cast once and only once via posting your choice in this thread. If you fail to cast your vote properly by breaking the rules below, it becomes a disqualified vote, forbidding you to cast again for this week. Therefore you may not disqualify your vote in the name of creating a second fresh vote.
-Only people assigned to a team on the first page of STGT 2k7 will have their votes counted.
-Even if you didn't play in a previous week, if your name is assigned to a team, you can still vote.
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-If you post ANYTHING in this thread (vote or no vote) and edit that post; if you posted a vote in a later post it will still be disqualified. (an exception will be made if the person who voted claims in his voting post that he did not in-fact post his vote in his earlier edited post. Another forum member must defend this claim, which will be accepted as proof [if it passes my judgement])
-If you post your vote and then post another vote again later on, I will only use your first vote.
-If you post your vote, post another vote later, then edit or remove your first vote post and I/we catch it, your vote is disqualified and other people should point and laugh at you.
-If you post your vote, but forget to specify any required additional detail where needed (course selections, etc), make another post with the rest of your information from which you still needed to vote on. Just don't edit either post or you'll break the rules above.
-..so basically, be careful and certain when posting here 8)
*NEW* -Before disqualifying a vote that technically breaks the rules above, I will evaluate the post and date of edit for context. If I feel the change was an honest correction and not close enough to deadline to affect final tallies, I reserve the right to include that vote in the final tally.

-To stop any chances of confusion for team voting, I ask that only Individual posted votes will be counted. Nobody can 'delegate' their vote to another team member or post their vote in the name of another team member. Obviously you may pm within your team as much as you want so you all can agree which choice to go for, but all 5-7 votes from a team will not count unless I see an individual post from every team member.

THE UNOFFICIAL VOTE with the typical polling above is just for fun. I threw it there to "keep things exciting" and to keep people in-the-know what game they are going to have to acquire and get running ahead of time. The unofficial vote up-top will have no bearing on which game wins the vote.

I will advise during the poll on where the unofficial poll is terribly inaccurate, however, official results will never be released until the end of the vote.

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The poll is scheduled to end at 10:59am Monday GMT. It officially ends when I or Edge post saying the poll is over. In the event at the time of the deadline that I detect a tie between the two leading candidates OR a candidate is leading by a single vote, I will extend the voting period by two hours to leave enough time for people who have not voted yet to cast and widen the gap between the two leading game picks. Note that this is not a runoff between the two top choices. If, in-fact other game picks have close numbers with the top two choices, as long as the lesser game picks can overtake the top game choice by two votes in two hours, they too have the same chance of winning the entire poll.
After this second voting deadline has been reached, if there is still a tie or a single vote difference between the two leading game picks at the time, another two-hour extension on the voting deadline will occur.
However,
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2. This time period WILL become a run-off between ONLY the top two choices upon initiation of the second two-hour extension.
After the third and final voting deadline has been met, if there is still a voting lead of a single vote, the chosen game still wins. If there is still a tie, Edge gets to pick the winner between the two games in question.

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Post by shoe-sama »

What are all these weird shooters over here?

Anyways uh, can you clarify which romset we're gonna use for Gradius III? I believe one or two of them allow you to save powerups when you die, while the other doesn't.

Dunno 'bout the other games.

Guess I better go play some of this shit to figure out what to vote for.
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Post by Ed Oscuro »

BATMAN

I guess I missed where we narrowed down the list of shooters to exclude games like Gradius II, A-Jax, and Thunder Cross
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Post by Twiddle »

Ed Oscuro wrote:BATMAN

I guess I missed where we narrowed down the list of shooters to exclude games like Gradius II, A-Jax, and Thunder Cross
aside from gradius 3 this is all of konami's mameable a-material
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Twin Bee Yahhoo!

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My vote is for Twin Bee Yahhoo!
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Salamander 2
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Salamander 2

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I'll take Salamander 2 for $500.
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Post by BrianC »

Yahho!
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Twin Bee Yahhoo.
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Post by -Bridget- »

I like Konami well enough, but I dont like the scoring system in any of their games at all...... This is gonna get frustrating, I just know it.


Hmm, well, I'll vote for Salamander 2; the one out of those that I find most amusing (and no dang chaining at least).
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my vote is for Gokujou Parodius. representing team loser.
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Post by Macaw »

No ones voted for Sexy Parodius yet? Hardcore.

I'm split between Sexy Parodius and Salamander 2. I will decide my vote later.
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Sexy Parodius vote get

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Sexy Parodius, the game that has given me the most fits recently.
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Re: Sexy Parodius vote get

Post by Ed Oscuro »

Actually, now that I've had my arm twis-er had time to think about it, I'll go with Sexy Parodius also.

(I played some Thunder Cross and it drives me kinda nuts)
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Post by Super Laydock »

No one voted Gradius 3 yet??? :(

Well it was a near-split for me anyway: I vote for the lovely Salamander 2!

(hope my team mates are ok with this ... )
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Sexy Parodius
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Sexy Parodius
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Wow. Two games I actually own.

Salamander 2 for me.
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"Parody of Gradius. The better presentation of the series."

Is this a joke? Parodius is embarrasingly lame.

Just play Gradius 3, wusses.
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Gokujou Parodius, if you please!
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tviks wrote:"Parody of Gradius. The better presentation of the series."
Is this a joke? Parodius is embarrasingly lame.
Just play Gradius 3, wusses.
Are you registered to the tournament?
No?
Then your opinion is null and void.
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Salamander 2.
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I think I'd like to have a go at Gradius III.
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Icarus wrote:Are you registered to the tournament?No?
Then your opinion is null and void.
Heh, I know that. Just stated my opinion anyway. Don't take it too seriously, man. :)
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Twin Bee Yahhoo.
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Post by Macaw »

Haha, a part of me wants Gradius 3 to be chosen just to witness the entire forum turn into chaos.

This post isnt a vote.
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Post by Yace D »

Pity, I wanted to play Thunder Cross II.

Now, I obviously vote for Gokujou Parodius.
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Post by Super Laydock »

tviks wrote:
Icarus wrote:Are you registered to the tournament?No?
Then your opinion is null and void.
Heh, I know that. Just stated my opinion anyway. Don't take it too seriously, man. :)
Just for a second, Icarus got worried about not being able to take first place... ;)
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Salamander 2
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I vote for Gokujo Parodius.
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