EoFF 2020 Census

The NHK Poll got me thinking how its been a long time since we've done this. Granted, there is fewer of us than the last time, but hey, at least this can pass the time.

So the rules are simple. Mognet Message me your answers to the questions below before March 16th (two weeks from today) and I'll try to have our tallies voted before then. I do ask that you try to complete the questions as well as possible in order to have a broader pool of data, in the past we've had a few stats skewed cause people were too lazy to answer all the questions. If you have any questions, feel free to post them in this thread and I'll try to get back to you as quickly as possible.

The results will be posted in a new thread when they are completed.

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General Questions
Name:
Age:
First Final Fantasy game:
Last "new" entry you've played:

Core Questions
List your five favorite Final Fantasy games (any entry with "Final Fantasy" in the title):
List your five favorite FF characters:
List your five favorite FF Music tracks:
List your favorite Mini-Game in the series:
List your three favorite locations (think cities or dungeons):
Hardest entry in the series?
Least difficult entry in the series?
Are you excited for the VII Remake?
Which entry would you like to see get a remake after VII?
Do you have hope for FFXVI?

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I'm hoping more people have DM'ed Wolf Kannoe or else this is going to be a very biased census making an average between someone who has taste (Fynn) and someone with no taste (Me). xD

I've had a few entries. Though some questions have answers all over the spectrum. :D

Mine is sent :-)

One more week.

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24 hours left!

I've started tallying the results, and its been interesting so far. Had a wider range of choices than originally thought I would so I'm happy I did Top Five choices, otherwise this would have been boring. It will take me a few days to get the tallies ready, but I should hopefully have it ready soonish. There is three hours left from the time of this post that people can still submit their entries if they wish.

I'm waiting to hear back from a few people who gave me vague answers (you know who you are) but I've mostly got this all allied up and ready. While a lot of the "winners" for some of these questions were no surprise, as usual, the second and third choices are always the most surprising. I think the Top Three Location question gave me the most curious results. Favorite character had a six way tie for third place., with the second place winner surprising me since I feel they are a pretty divisive character.

I feel Music and Location had the smallest overlap. While a few entries did excel far enough to crown a "winner"; these two categories have the largest selection of answers that had only a single vote for them. As usual, I'll probably list some interesting facts before I do the big reveal, though I am still waiting for some feedback from a few people that may shake up two of the categories.

The top locations was one of the hardest for me to answer.
I won't be surprised if,after seeing the other answers, I change my mind.

I really didn't appreciate the age question. It was discriminatory against us old fogeys. It may dissuade older members from submitting their form thus giving under-representation to the NES and SNES games in the EoFF Congress.

That’s assuming they’re even still around here lol

But I’m looking forward to seeing the results. And yeah, I can’t even remember what I put in locations and music ^^; Locatuons because I never really thought about them save a few, and music because I’ve never really ranked them in my head despite being a musician and FF’s music being extra important to me. The only thing I can say for sure is that FFVII has the best victory fanfare - except I probably didn’t even put that in the census haha

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Originally Posted by Del Murder

I really didn't appreciate the age question. It was discriminatory against us old fogeys. It may dissuade older members from submitting their form thus giving under-representation to the NES and SNES games in the EoFF Congress.

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Considering more than half of the people who responded are over the age of thirty, I think we're fine for that part. Though I will say that the Golden Age entires (91-01) get the most love, though I was surprised to see a few entries no one talks about getting love.

Music and locations were really hard for me since so many of them are great. I'm really curious to see the results :)

Music is one of the main categories that if I were to resend it now, the answers would be completely different. For one, when I could take the census I was in a place where I couldn’t listen to any music so I couldn’t refresh my memory on what piece was called what. For two, the answers just change based on my mood anyways.

I’m excited to see the results though!

I don't think my music picks would be different now but they're definitely the hardest, just because of the amount of it. Taking all of FF into account you've got easily more than 1000 themes. Sure, when talking about a top 5 you can easily discard 95% of that, but it still leaves you with way more than 5. :p

Ah trout, I somehow missed this. Oh well. I look forward to the results then I guess.

Okay, finally heard back from everyone, so I should be able to get the results out soonish. I will say for now that while I plan to something a little more elaborate for top choices, I may skip over categories where things only got one vote. I'll still list them of course, but I'm likely going to not bother with a blurb or anything. For instance, out of 51 individual music tracks voted for, only ten of them received more than one vote. Even then, only second place is a lone winner not in a tie.

Here's some fun facts though:

• In the character poll, only the NES entries have no representation from the numbered entries. There is at least one character from FFIV-XV on the list. There is also only one character from a non-numbered entry on the list.
• Best entry had the widest range of FF entries listed in it including a number of non-numbered entries.
• The Music question had the most noms with 51 different noms.
• IX has the most locations voted for, followed by FFVII, VIII, and X. Interestingly enough, none of its locations got a second vote.
• The Hardest FF and Which game to Remake questions had the fewest entries with both having seven titles listed a piece.
• The majority of the music noms came from VI-X. Outliers include one track from FFI, FFXII, FFXIII, and X-2.
• For my amusement, my question concerning Favorite Minigame was meant for a singular answer, but some of you gave multiple choices and I included them in anyway just to make it look more impressive.
• Same as above, some of you didn't answer the yes/no question with a definitive answer, so I made a third ???? option for it.
• No one who voted started the series after the PS1 era. Most games are from the NES, SNES, or PS1 generation.
• Surprisingly, most people who voted have played a recent entry from the current or last generation. I've done this question before in the past and have had people who stopped playing the series after the PS2 generation.
• The youngest person who voted was 23 years old, the oldest is 39.
• For the Name question, most of you answered with your username, but a few of you did answer with your real name. I actually meant for it to be your username, so sorry.

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Originally Posted by Wolf Kanno

• For the Name question, most of you answered with your username, but a few of you did answer with your real name. I actually meant for it to be your username, so sorry.

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I actually briefly wondered aloud on the discord (which you should totally visit sometime ;) ) which of the two you meant, then Fynn said he just used his username and I followed suit :p

Actually very interesting that IX had so many location nominations but none of them got a second vote. Incidentally this category is the only one where I'm 99% sure what got the most mentions.

Yeah, as I said, the number 1s are fairly predictable for this forum, but its what ranked in at 2 or 3 that are really interesting. I think the location question baffled me the most cause I really wouldn't have guessed which locations came in those places. Probably not helped by the fact that I don't care for either location personally.

There were also two entries for remakes I wasn't expecting, granted one of them was a joke but I counted it anyway. I imagine the other one will baffle a few people. The other surprise was "which entry you started with?" as number one is easy to figure out, but number two is a surprise answer.

I highly doubt my first entry was voted on by anyone else, so it probably won't come second :p And wow, I didn't expect my character nomination to be the only one outside the numbered FFs to show up.

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Originally Posted by WarZidane

I actually briefly wondered aloud on the discord (which you should totally visit sometime ;) )

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Seconded. The discord is dope.

I have started posting results.