The Most Loved Video Game Character in Every Country (www.shithot.co.uk)
from Eavesy@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 14:22
https://lemmy.world/post/19910567

Cool map

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LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works on 18 Sep 14:30 next collapse

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Lanusensei87@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 14:37 collapse

Now I’m really wondering if the participants (or the people conducting the poll) knew the difference between Zelda and Link.

Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca on 18 Sep 16:49 collapse

The entire thing can be skewed from just advertising by companies. AI sucks balls for legit information. I’m sure there was no actual humans involved in this.

LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works on 18 Sep 17:40 next collapse

Yeah like I doubt Sam Fisher would even register in the heads of the majority of gamers in the US. Also what does “most loved” even really mean

RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 17:49 next collapse

Sam Fisher lives on in our hearts. Hopefully one day he can live again. Not from Ubisoft though, their last like 4 games have been total irredeemable garbage.

Grangle1@lemm.ee on 18 Sep 17:53 next collapse

If they’re just scraping tweets, it’s probably looking at mentions of a million and one regular guys in the US named Sam Fisher and not the character.

glimse@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 18:58 collapse

I had to look up who that was.

I’d bet if they actually surveyed gamers, you’d see more people jokingly submitting “John Halo” than Sam Fisher

Lanusensei87@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 20:06 collapse

Their “methodology” blurb has so many buzzwords that I’m inclined to agree.

cmbabul@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 14:33 next collapse

Sam Fisher for the US? I call bullshit

TachyonTele@lemm.ee on 18 Sep 14:59 next collapse

It was generated with “the help of AI”. It’s definitely bs

RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 17:48 next collapse

Seeing Brazil pick Pac-Man and not anyone from a FIFA game is honestly pretty crazy.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 23:48 collapse

If they pick Pac-Man and not Ms. Pac-Man they’re posers

RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works on 18 Sep 18:54 collapse

Don’t get me wrong, Fisher is awesome… but the hell?

Wasn’t black out like 10 years ago?

Seigest@lemmy.ca on 18 Sep 14:38 next collapse

The methodology seems sketchy. If this ai is just scraping tweets for mentions it may not know the difference between Mario or East side Mario’s (Italian restaurant chain in Canada) I don’t know anyone up here who’d say Mario is their favorite character in video games. It’s could also baised if a game had recently come out featuring any if these characters around the time of polling.

smeg@feddit.uk on 18 Sep 15:14 collapse

This explains why everyone’s “favourite” character is Zelda but nobody’s is Link

random_character_a@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 14:51 next collapse

Finland - Mario. I call BS.

Mario is the first that comes to mind to non-gamers

[deleted] on 18 Sep 15:00 next collapse

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B0NK3RS@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 15:05 collapse

large sample of tweets analysed by AI

Basically it’s nice to look at but completely useless.