RPGDL 2013 Season 3 Finals and Rankings

[Nephrite]

Godlike

Orgulla (Xenosaga: Jenseits von Gut und Bose) vs Reicher (Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy- Gut reaction of slightly less Orgulla damage respect. Normally not enough to matter, but maybe here.

Heavy

Sephiran (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn) vs Alicia (Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria)

Middle

Albel Nox (Star Ocean: Till the End of Time) vs Rikku (Final Fantasy X)

Light

Liliane Valendorf (Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy) vs Yukari Takeba (Persona 3)- And Lily is so happy that Yukari beat Lucius

Rankings: For the following games, please indicate if you would Rank them in the DL, or Reject them from further ranking consideration.

Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift (11/20)-  Played, rank.
Mega Man X: Command Mission (11/20)- Played, rank
Xenosaga: Also Sprach Zarathustra (12/20)- Played, rank


Data Mine:  Please indicate if you have played the following games.  Additionally, if you would object to ranking them on mechanical or other non-playership grounds, please note this as well.

Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War-  Played
Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem- Played
Radiata Stories- Played
Tales of Xillia- Not played
Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3- Not played

[Luther Lansfeld]

Godlike

Orgulla (Xenosaga: Jenseits von Gut und Bose) vs Reicher (Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy)

Heavy

Sephiran (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn) vs Alicia (Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria)

Middle

Albel Nox (Star Ocean: Till the End of Time) vs Rikku (Final Fantasy X)

Light

Liliane Valendorf (Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy) vs Yukari Takeba (Persona 3)

Rankings: For the following games, please indicate if you would Rank them in the DL, or Reject them from further ranking consideration.

Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift (11/20) - I don't think it's a very interesting ranking idea and the abilities thing makes me say no
Mega Man X: Command Mission (11/20) - Yes!
Xenosaga: Also Sprach Zarathustra (12/20) Why not.


Data Mine:  Please indicate if you have played the following games.  Additionally, if you would object to ranking them on mechanical or other non-playership grounds, please note this as well.

Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War no
Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem - yep.
Radiata Stories no
Tales of Xillia no
Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 no

[Reiska]

Only match I can vote:


Albel Nox (Star Ocean: Till the End of Time) vs Rikku (Final Fantasy X)

As for the rest.

FFTA2: Not played; interp issues are probably more or less the same as regular FFT, so why not.
MMXCM: Not played, but I'd rank it on principle.
Xenosaga 3: Not played, why not rank it along with its brethren though?

And the datamine:
FE4 - Not played, would only rank first generation due to :psyduck: myself, although second generation is more rankable than FE13's.
FE12 - Played half of (does this count?), may as well rank it, I suspect most of the cast will prefer these forms to their Shadow Dragon ones barring maybe the prepromotes?
RS: Not played, sounds like a bad idea from the other comments here, no personal opinion.
Tales of Xillia: Not played.
PA3: Not played.

[Dhyerwolf]

FFTA2: Not played; interp issues are probably more or less the same as regular FFT, so why not.

FFTA2 is so much of a worse rank than FFT even just ignoring voter differences.

-FFTA2 has very few "special" PCs (In practice, there are only 4 that you will see. 2 are effectively the same class, one is a FFT style Bard and the other has a special class that is not very good and late (and missable?))
-Unlike FFT, since generics are limited by race, there's a good number that you may not get to see.
-And classes are often unlocked through doing a lot of powerlevelly sidequests.
-Unlike FFT, unlocking a class is not enough to guarantee unlocking a move because new moves are based on getting new equips, which are based on getting random drops. For Parivir, I basically only got one of 4 damage moves right before the end of the game. There are also many generic classes and I really don't think that everyone remembers them all that specifically well.
-1 forced plot boss, who I think has a better optional form.

[Talaysen]

Godlike

Orgulla (Xenosaga: Jenseits von Gut und Bose) vs Reicher (Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy)

Heavy

Sephiran (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn) vs Alicia (Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria)

Middle

Albel Nox (Star Ocean: Till the End of Time) vs Rikku (Final Fantasy X)

Light

Liliane Valendorf (Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy) vs Yukari Takeba (Persona 3)

Rankings: For the following games, please indicate if you would Rank them in the DL, or Reject them from further ranking consideration.

Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift (11/20) - Abstain.
Mega Man X: Command Mission (11/20) - Rank.
Xenosaga: Also Sprach Zarathustra (12/20) - Rank.


Data Mine:  Please indicate if you have played the following games.  Additionally, if you would object to ranking them on mechanical or other non-playership grounds, please note this as well.

Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War - Not played.
Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem - Partial played.
Radiata Stories - Partial played.  Do not rank.
Tales of Xillia - Not played.
Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 - Very little played.

[Cmdr_King]

Godlike

Orgulla (Xenosaga: Jenseits von Gut und Bose)- iiiiii vs Reicher (Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy)- iiiii

Heavy

Sephiran (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn)- iiiiiiiiiiiii vs Alicia (Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria)- i

Middle

Albel Nox (Star Ocean: Till the End of Time)- i vs Rikku (Final Fantasy X)- iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Light

Liliane Valendorf (Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy)- iiiiiiii vs Yukari Takeba (Persona 3)

Rankings Voters- iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii (18)   Votes to Rank/Reject: 10

Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift (11/20)-  Rank: iiiiiiii (8)   Reject: iiiiiii (7)
Mega Man X: Command Mission (11/20)-  Rank: iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii (16)   Reject:
Xenosaga: Also Sprach Zarathustra (12/20)- Rank: iiiiiiiiiiii (12)   Reject:  ii

Mega Man X: Command Mission and Xenosaga: Also Sprach Zarathustra are Ranked.  Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift goes back to purgatory.

Data Mine:  Please indicate if you have played the following games.  Additionally, if you would object to ranking them on mechanical or other non-playership grounds, please note this as well.

Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War (6/20) Players- Random, Snow, Twil, CK, Meeple, Neph,    (OK)  Reject- i
Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem (7/20)  Players- Elfboy, Random, Djinn, Meeple, Neph, Ciatos, Tal,   Reject- i
Radiata Stories (9/20) Players- Dhyer, Super, Djinn, Gate, Pyro, CK, Meeple, Neph, Tal,   (OK)  reject- iiiii
Tales of Xillia (1/20) Players- Pyro,
Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 (4/20) Players- Random, Djinn, Pyro, CK,

[OblivionKnight]

Why am I special and in parentheses?