EoFF Final Fantasy Census 2010! REVELATIONS!!!!

[Wolf Kanno]

I tried to be unbias, but I told Vivi22 he can be an ass if he wants, the man is sick and working, least I could do.

[Slothy]

Well, I clearly didn't get more results up on Sunday like I wanted. I think Thor may have actually sided with the flu because Sunday I felt even worse and then missed the next two days of work. In fact, I still don't feel 100%, but I do feel well enough now to give you guys more results.

Later tonight that is, as I'm at work and don't have the time or the access to all of the info I need right now. But rest assured there will be actual results and plenty more bias tonight.

Who will win favourite evil empire? Will Cloud get the comedic relief award that he so desperately deserves? Will FFXIII win best writing? How should I know, the results are on my home computer. But anything could happen when you let the nut house inmates of this forum have a say in something.

Except for FFXIII getting best writing anyway. Pretty sure that will never happen.

[Slothy]

It's late and I'm more tired than I thought I'd be right now so we'll do a quick set of results for now. It actually works out well because I'm a little light on supplementary stats for one of these two questions.

First up is favourite evil empire:
Coming in first by a wide margin was Shinra with 16 votes. A very distant second was FFXII's Arcadian Empire with 5 votes, and the Ghestalian Empire of FFVI pulling a respectable third place with 4 votes. Somewhat unsurprising is that 44% of people who named Shinra as the best evil empire had the misfortune of playing FFVII before any of it's far superior predecessors, while only one person played the even more underwhelming FFVIII as their first exposure to the series, showing they at least had the good sense to trade up in picking a favourite empire and didn't vote for that poopy Galbadian bunch.

Perhaps more surprising is that I agree with those who voted for Shinra though as it was my pick as well. But to explain why it's my pick, we'll look to the entry of the only person on the forum who consistently manages to out wall 'o text me.

- Favorite evil empire - Shin-Ra, they took everything that made the Gestalhian Empire interesting, took it to the nth degree and was modernized into the modern types of empire we call corporations. Shin-Ra is the reason why I can't get behind Sephiroth as a great villain cause this organization just steals the show from him and before Sephiroth even appears on the screen in the game, Shin-Ra has already performed countless monstrosities that put everything Sephy does later to shame. Hell, we can blame Shin-Ra for Sephiroth so technically every bad thing he does is indirectly Shin-Ra's fault for making the monster in the first place. Even better is that Shin-Ra's Executives are all interesting characters with weird quirks and its a shame that people like Heidegger, Scarlet, and Palmer don't get equal billing as Rufus and Hojo do. The whole group was interesting and the best part of VII if you ask me.

Next up we have one I'm sure everyone was looking forward to, Favourite Villain:

Here we find some of the best news of the whole census. Not only did Kefka come in first, he came in first with a full 20 votes. Runner up Sephiroth only managed 4. It gets more dismal for the competition after that as Kuja only managed 3 votes to snag third place. Now this is excellent news not only because actual best villain won, but because 20 of the census respondents gave me a reason not to kill them. All those that voted for Kefka can sleep soundly tonight knowing my murderous wrath has been partially abated.

Now for some interesting factoids relating to the favourite villain race:
-Of the people who voted for Kefka, only 1 (5%) had played FFVI as their first FF. The majority, 50%, had started with the series on the PSX, with 15% starting on the NES, 30% on the SNES and 5% on the PS2. It doesn't appear that nostalgia for peoples first FF entry played a large role in his winning, adding further weight to the argument that he is undeniably awesome.
-Of the people who voted for Sephiroth, 3 (75%) had played FFVII as their first FF title. Similarly, Sin, Don Corneo, and Genesis all got one vote from people who played their game or the game they appeared in a spinoff of first (FFX, FFVII, and FFVII CC respectively). Proving once and for all that nostalgia is just about the only thing that could keep people from recognizing the awesomeness of Kefka's badassity.

Here to try and defend their poor judgement in picking Sephiroth is another responders answer. Their name has been changed to protect their identity:

- Favorite villain - Sephiroth. He just just done well in almost every way. I really liked him as a villain as he made you feel like you were actually up against this really powerful guy when you battled him.

I'll take the guy who actually destroyed the world thanks.

And here are the final standings for each question:

Favourite Evil Empire:
1) Shinra: 16 votes
2) Arcadia: 5 votes
3) Ghestalian: 4 votes
4) Baron: 3 votes
4) Galbadian: 3 votes
6) Cocoon: 1 vote (really? Cocoon is your favourite? Ugh...)

Favourite Villain:
1) Kefka: 20 votes
2) Sephiroth: 4 votes
3) Kuja: 3 votes
4) Gilgamesh: 2 votes
5) Sin: 1 vote
5) Don Corneo: 1 vote
5) Genesis: 1 vote
5) Dr. Cid: 1 vote

Stay tuned for more this weekend.

[Vermachtnis]

Don Corneo was an option!?

[Jiro]

This information is fantastic. I'm glad you aren't going to kill me, Kefka is certainly superior to everything else.

I can't even remember what other things we put votes in for, so it'll be exciting to see the results!

EDIT: And then put them on the wiki

[Jessweeee♪]

Was it me who voted Cocoon for evil empire? I think I was going to, but changed my mind. Or I changed my mind after I already sent in my vote and couldn't be bothered to change it. Because Cocoon inhabitants are the victims of the the evil organization (who I would want to vote), and therefore shouldn't have even been a choice

But still, Cocoon gets you in a tizzy, but Genesis is fine and dandy? What? xD

[Slothy]

To be fair, I was trying not to fall asleep at my keyboard when I typed that. Both suck quite a bit to be honest and I question the mental health of whoever voted for them.

I can't remember if you were the one who voted for Cocoon though, and frankly I can't be arsed to go look.

[Freya]

OH YAY! FFIX getting some attention. And of course Kefka is the most badass of badass villians. Someone should write some of this stuff up for frontsite articles. I'd read em. Can't wait for more

[Bunny]

That is the worst justification for a villain ever.

Everyone mock BoB relentlessly from this day forward.

[Jiro]

Are there any more results incoming? I forget what we looked at

[Slothy]

Plenty more to come Jiro. You'll know when we're finished because I'll undoubtedly get even more biased/surly/insulting and tell you all that you can go to hell or some such.

Either that or I'll just tell you when it's done. I'm not sure exactly how many answers we have left to go through but I don't think we're quite at the halfway point yet. Sure I could open up the first page of this thread, do some simple first grade arithmetic and figure it out, but that wouldn't be ambiguous enough.

[Hollycat]

I voted

[Freya]

Hypo, voting has been closed for a while now o.o

Also, wtf vivi22. You aren't still on page 1? 50 post per page or gtfo.

[Jiro]

I look forward to seeing more. Your flavour is quite lovely, it makes it far easier to put onto the wiki because I don't have to make stats sound interesting to normal people.

I don't know what it's like to be normal.

[Slothy]

Little announcement:

There's a possibility that Portal 2 may be released sooner than it's initial April 19th release date. Given this, I will be doing everything in my power to finish releasing the rest of the results over this weekend before Valve steals my life away. Expect a results release bonanza this weekend if only because I wanted an excuse to say bonanza. But be forewarned that if Portal 2 becomes playable before I finish, you may be waiting until July for whatever's yet to be released at that point.