I lolled.

Someone with a link avatar:

"You telling me that freeman needs the help of some mordor like community to win? good for him."

ITS SMELLS LIKE VICTORAH!

18.6% - 81.4% Gordon is owning mario! Maybe we'll get Episode 3 if Gordon Wins!

Fuck, I wanna vote, but for some reason i can't find the voting page... Someone link me...

Edited:

Nevermind I found it... http://uk.gamespot.com/greatest-vide...l?battle_id=63

Hell the UK version of the website works better then the US version...

Darn.

Gah, if just Valve waited with the announcement. Most have now seen it, and don't know a new round has begun.

All in favor of another announcement say Aye!

Psh, like valve reads facepunch

You'd be surprised...

So, I like how the discussion on the Gamespot Forums changed from whining Link Fanboys to whether or not you've played Bioshock.

Alot didn't believe it at first but it appears they DO read facepunch

Yea right.

Ill believe it when I see it.

Awesome.

Hai Gabe :3.

Edited:

Sig made from ze pic:


In b4 HOYL SHIT SIG FU I HATE UZ
or Thanks for the new sig.

Look at the gordon video then the mario video.

Whos the greatest hero?

Saved...

Damn, finals will last for a week.

Dun dun duuuuun.

Gordon vs Mario, the most epic battle of all time.

Were losing heat, marios catching up.

Quick! Contact VALVe! They have to see this!

Freeman isn't the hero drowning in toilet water, now is he?

I don't get it. What happened?

Think long and hard about it

Someone email Gabe if they'll release a screenshot from ep3, if Gordon wins.
Or a trailer if he wins by 90%.

Thats impossible, the stats are already 30-60

Freeman is epicly beating mario.

Voted Freeman.

You ruined the 66.6 >:O

it seems mario is small enough to be picked up by a gravity gun, the crowbar always beats the foot!

Where did they put the announcement up! I never saw it.

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/voteforgordonfreeman

Lol at all the crying going on in the Gamespot forums:

"This was rigged... if for no other reason than to eliminate all voters down to a single person. I'm not saying Gamespot rigged it. I'm saying it was somehow rigged. Perhaps someone on the backbone of Comcast switching his IP every couple seconds and re-voting. How else could you explain that ridiculous 25,000 votes or (whatever it was) that occurred in one day to boost Gordon an additional 8.5% above Link."

Translation:

"Baww"

Or the game free if he wins by 100%. Post that shit and there will be votes (and blood too).

Posted Oct 8, 2009 10:32 pm GMT (GameSpot - Link's Video)

hbk01fan:

Gordon wins because Valve got involved and asked people to vote, Nintendo doesn't give a shit because all they care about is money. So Gordon is winning, which I think is good.

IF Gordon wins maybe Valve can give us a sneak peek into EP3 or a awesome TF2 hat

Temporary HL2 Weapons in TF2 :V
Gordon Freeman Goatee and Glasses (Hat)
HEV Suit for Pyro?

(Dumb ideas, give me boxes. Carl needs em.)

Incoming pretty big post of (hopefully) the first set of Freeman support pictures.

It had been a close battle at times, but Gordon had managed to take Link down.
http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/6937/gmbigcity0000p.jpgHowever, it seemed that a second contestant was waiting to avenge him.
http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/262/gmbigcity0008g.jpgPrepared to fight, Gordon gets ready to face his new foe.
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/2724/gmbigcity0009.jpgThe new enemy pulls out a star shaped item, and seems to start absorbing it's power.
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/2025/gmbigcity0010.jpgPieces of glass suddenly appear around him, only to explode moments later for dramatic tension.
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/50/gmbigcity0011.jpgNow in full power, the challenger rushes towards Freeman.
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/3416/gmbigcity0012w.jpgGordon, puzzled by this little man, quickly devises a cunning plan.
http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/1175/gmbigcity0013.jpgWhipping out his Gravity Gun, Freeman takes hold of the plumber, stopping his rage fueled flight immediately.
http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/3457/gmbigcity0014.jpgTurning him around as he does it, Gordon takes careful aim.
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/6564/gmbigcity0015.jpgWith a powerful blast, he launches the Italian bastard in the air.
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/8836/gmbigcity0016.jpgLike a conveniently placed exploding barrel, Mario blows to smithereens as he lands.
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/5847/gmbigcity0017.jpgFreeman is the victor!
http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/8466/gmbigcity0018l.jpg

I thought mario would eat mushroom and grow big!

I've read so many posts by Nintendo fans who don't even know what Steam is.

It's truly depressing to think that a majority of the gaming world is populated by such people.

Well we're sure off at a good start. Wonder how long we'll hold though once they round up the Nintendo forums.

As bad as people that have never ever heard of Gordon Freeman.

"wat grdon freeman wtf is that? mario pwns him anyws"

I love Valve.

I made sure to save that picture of gordon when valve made the announcement. Man we're off to a good shot on mario, 60 to 30. It'll be a war of two superpowers when they get the nintendo forums to vote.

Shit, we're losing ground. Lost 10% in the last hour!

I'm writing a song called "Kidnap the Gordon Freeman", basically Mario, Luigi and Peach talking about the poll and planning to kidnap him in order to win.
GO GORDON GO!

Also:






Thanks to Element Spirits.

Mario is starting to catch up! D:

we are almost 10 000 votes ahead

I notice almost every single thread on the gamespot forum for the competition for the first three pages are locked.

YES! Gordon is ACTUALLY beating Mario. Are all the little Nintendo fanboys in bed or something? Maybe drinking their chocolate milk?

Holy shit Gordon is winning by almost 60%?!

Holy shit! I'm gone for like a day and then Gordon gets super raw

Make sure you count in the vote difference.

10k to 20k : 33/66

40k to 50k : 42ish to 58ish

I love reading the threads about "gordan" on the gamespot forums, shit's hilarious.

I hope Gordon wins against Mario, I mean honestly Mario is popular enough.





Oooohh oh man.

Mario is a fucking monster when it comes to popularity.

I'm stunned Gordon is beating him.

Wanna go raid the Gamespot forums? How could they say that HL2 sucked horribly. I can't even think of a single flaw in it.

Lets not

I loled.














Just a thought: CRY SOME MORE, NINTENDO DORKS (no offense to those nintendo fans who didn't behave like jerks)!

I wanted to do it but you have to be 'lvl 3' to post.

What the fuck is that shit? runscape?

You usually have to do some shit like downloading/reviewing/commenting on Gamespot to increase level.
GameSpot wouldnt want free-posting noobs to just spam their forum.

Hahaha.

It's like a Steam 3:9 Nintendo thread spam on Gamespot.

I've seen 3 threads commending Steam, and 9 threads being butthurt/saying who the "real" winners are (excluding freeman and blatently putting Mario first).

It's funny as hell.

That's really dumb.

Duh.

Yeah, first you start out fighting rats, then you fight noobs, then you fight fanboys, then you form raids against invading 4chan/OIFYers.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dcdi--LdAeQ/Sa1sWd8j4pI/AAAAAAAAEBg/BGX_vc32JHc/s400/wtf.jpg


UPDATED:!!



Good job, fellow rebels!

O-oh...rebels...

I see...

Come on, guys, let's scramble. I see this guy hates combine.

Freeman now has 61.2%! NOT EVEN NOONE SHALL STOP US!

Tip: http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Noone

Time for some "Gordon humiliating Mario" poses in Gmod

i meant Rebels as in those who are voting Gordon and not Mario. So basically people rebelling Mario.
But me thinkss your joking.

I am.

I ed at that article

looks like gordon has his crowbar up mario's arse

1x Informative

''Your blow on gamespot was taken as a signal to start the uprising!''

It's a fun fact that Gordon is already nearing 40000 votes, while Mario is still at 24000.

In Half-Life, YOU are Gordon Freeman. So technically, a vote for Gordon is a vote for yourself!

Go go go egos of the internet!

I wasn't expecting Gordon to have that much more votes than Mario, when I decided to see how he was doing today.

But remember, the fact that he is winning is not a reason to NOT tell all your friends, family, strangers, and pets to vote for gordon.

Okay, we got a tiny situation, drop back to 61.1%. Shouldn't be a problem if we maintain the vote count, because we're still leading for 14774 votes.

Brb, i go use my bro's laptop to vote, then i am gonna use my dad's comp tomorrow. Epicness, perhaps i will ask my second bro to vote as well...




Hm... tried this, but it is staying at 61.1%.... damn
COME ON PEOPLE! VOTE FOR GORDON. If not, you will see the world being covered with Mario posters.

Ugh, I can't even put up with the comments thread for the contest. It went from tolerable/easy-target jokes about fanboys to Clusterfuck of weak-ass arguments about why Mario should win.

Gamespot almost seems to be pulling for Mario on this one.. but the masses of the internet outweigh the consolers.

Good luck, Nintendo. You're gonna need it.