Lurker > the_rowan

I'm glad to see they finally updated Twilight and AJ's splash art, because the first drafts (placeholders?) of those were just terrible as fighting games go.

AJ sounds like she's going to be the unbeatable character over netplay because of latency... not going to be fun having to deal with my ping never going below 120ms and often spiking to much higher.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

I just realized how badly I mangled my post there.

I mean two songs people like a lot more are coming up later on.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Tom Bombadil posted...

Pretty decent song! Didn’t somebody say Rarity was voiced by an opera singer?

Yep, she is. And that song and the Find a Pet song from two episodes back were both nominated for daytime Emmys for 2011. (Incidentally, they were also the only two songs from season 2 that premiered in 2011--there's two people a lot more later on.)

http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/05/daniel-ingram-nominated-for-outstanding.html

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Tom Bombadil posted...

man every so often it occurs to me that RD doesn't actually have much of anything in the way of redeeming qualities. >_> She's entertaining as a character, but every so often I remember she is a kinda horrible person and it makes me sad <_<

She only plays a major role in two more episodes this season IIRC, not counting the ones where it's the whole cast each having a small role. She shows a lot of positive qualities in the second one without being inconsistent with her character.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

ToukaOone posted...

I agree with everything that's been said so far in this topic; MLP's fanbase is an irreconcilable plague upon the otherwise pristine, perfect, preeminent pony performance. Their tasteless, dirty and uneducated perspective has been tolerated for too long. We all already accept the sheer impossibility that they like works of high quality, why the hell aren't we rounding them up and putting them out of their miserable existence? How much more Chinese sweatshop labor on merchandise, how many more African children neglected, how much more valuable airtime wasted before we decide that enough is enough?

I am speaking of course, about the vulgar menace little girls and the shows produced to their taste pose to modern American civilization. We acknowledge that their shows are vile, jejune and sophomoric trash devoid of any aesthetic value, why aren't we doing anything about it?

The Great Fausticorn has ordered us to protect the little ones. If you would raise arms against our masters, then we would be forced to complain loudly.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Yeah, it happens from time to time. Google says a 21-year-old forum member killed a 20-year-old moderator by travelling from Germany to the UK and stabbing him to death. You hear similar stories for WoW and other games with huge player bases every so often, but I'm surprised it happened with Advance Wars simply because the dedicated community for that series is rather small. There's nutcases all over though, and occasionally random chance has them pop up in a gamer community and act out in some crazed manner over something commonplace.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Delseban posted...

From: tereziWright | #130
I'm sure there are casual MLP fans.

I haven't met any but I'm sure there are.

i'm a casual mlp fan

i've seen every episode of season 1 and really enjoyed it (haven't gotten around to watching season 2 yet)

but I've never visited a brony site, looked up pony gifs, or discussed the show online in any way

i am NOT a "brony"

I'm curious if this means you're allowed to be hyped for Fighting is Magic.

I mean, it's a fighting game. Looks interesting enough. Going to be free so there'd be no harm in trying it out. You like the characters. Appeared in Game Informer and generated a small amount of non-brony buzz so it's not a project you'd by default be unfamiliar with. But it's also a fandom work.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

ExThaNemesis posted...

You can just tell how uncomfortable the panel at the convention is with all of it. And I can't blame them. That's horrifying.

Don't feel like watching it, but out of curiosity, who was on the panel? I've seen the way Tara Strong, background composer Will Anderson, head storyboard artist Sabrina Alberghetti, and producer Jayson Thiessen interact with the fanbase, and it could only be described as downright eager. Tara Strong went and completely ponified everything on her social network and is using Twilight Sparkle to fund charities and cheer up disabled fans. Something like six or seven other VAs from the show (more if you count the child actors, who mostly just do stuff for fun on Youtube) are starting to follow suit because they enjoy getting recognized for once; Tabitha St. Germain is the only major VA who doesn't actively interact with the fanbase. Anderson actively seeks out fans in his personal time on occasion. Alberghetti basically went full brony and ended up getting her OC into the show. Thiessen was incredibly flattered from the very beginning, expressing disbelief over the whole thing, and does stuff like AMAs on reddit in his personal time.

So if it's not just random people who were picked and there was sufficient moderation to control hundreds (or whatever number) of college students in the same room, I dunno who would have actually been left to be uncomfortable.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Ah, sorry, edited my message after you posted that. It should be clearer now.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

You don't believe massive global countercultures have historical significance? I mean, I'd argue that Star Wars has historical significance, and all that ever did was generate a fanbase. But surely the first wave of rock-and-roll fans had historical significance.

I don't mean that the whole world will be drawn into ponies or something stupid like that. But it would be a rise in a youth culture focused on positivity, the arts, and nonviolence.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

tereziWright posted...

...It's just....you know, if people wanna do the Brony thing, that's fine. I have friends who are Bronies, they know I dislike it and don't bother me with it, and they go out of their way to invite me to hang out when they know their Brony friends aren't around most of the time, which I'm thankful for.

But the fact that so many of them think that this children's show (and it IS a children's show, don't get me started. It's OK to like children's shows, I love plenty of children's shows, doesn't mean they aren't children's shows) is worth a f***ing....$350,000 DOCUMENTARY BUDGET....all that money WASTED on something so unimportant....it actually sickens me. This sickens me more than anything else related to these people. Bronies don't need this documentary, they know all this stuff, and anyone else who watches it and isn't a brony is juts going to be disturbed by it. There's no real necessary target audience.

I mostly respect Faust. I've enjoyed some of her work, PPG was good and Super Best Friends Forever is great, but I can't respect her for encouraging this sort of behavior (which she DOES do). It's upsetting.

$350,000, jesus christ.

Actually, I listened to de Lancie's opinion on the fandom and I was completely blown away by the implications of his perspective.

(Long, but the video is almost all de Lancie talking, and speaking specifically on subjects relevant to this topic. I'm not wasting your time.)

He notes (correctly) that the phenomenon has brought together tens of thousands of people with interests in art and music, but I've also taken note of the fact that many thousands of people have been inspired by this show or fanbase to begin creating art after never having considered or attempted it before. That might sound pathetic if you're not in the loop, apply a double standard, and somehow view avoiding art as better than being drawn into it by one interest, but the stuff that comes out of the fanbase is good enough that it's landing some people recording deals (though they can't record songs about a trademarked property, obviously), and there have been spotlights in Rolling Stone and some other big name publications for fandom works.

De Lancie also views the fanbase as a possible reaction to the current social, political, and economic climates, all of which are extremely toxic. Violence is commonplace in all media. Our politicians are full of complete disdain for the average American, with candidates only seeking political gain at all costs. People are working 60-80 hours a week to stay alive, doing much more difficult and dangerous jobs than rich people, because the lower and middle classes are so horribly underpaid for their work. It gives people reasons to want to escape, and the only possible escapes would be those focused around positivity, community, and humor. If he's right on this point, then this could actually end up having historical significance. I mean, the freaking Berlin Parliament has pony time now, as a way to dissolve negative emotion on the floor that is interfering with process. I kid you not.

I also believe there's something worth studying here from a clinical/theraputic standpoint, based on the fact that hundreds or thousands of people claim the show had elevated them from deep depression. If that's true, finding out exactly how this is different from similar shows would be very important for psychologists.

Eh, what do you expect from a fan-made one. The actual Brony documentary has fan-donated budget of close to $350,000 and is being produced by Michael Brockoff (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0110675/) in association with Lauren Faust (show creator), Tara Strong (...you should know), and John de Lancie (actor, voice of TNG's Q and MLP's Discord among other roles).

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

red13n posted...

Now that we dont have an ep every saturday I find it easier to browse ED in bunches instead of daily. since it seems like until we get some sort of S3 announcement news isnt going to be particularly interesting, and I'm assuming within minutes of it being announced I'll hear about it either through this topic or elsewhere.

I find a lot of the actual news on EqD never makes it to this topic or any of the other sites I visit. The recent interviews with Tara Strong (Everfree Radio) and John de Lancie (Equestria Daily) were absolutely enthralling, but they never appeared here. Heck, I don't even remember anything at all in this topic about Bronycon: The Documentary despite its $300,000+ dollars of funding from the fandom and the all-star team behind it (Faust, Strong, de Lancie).

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

http://rizcifra.tumblr.com/post/24462231885/re-uploading-this-because-im-pretty-sure-that-at

Direct link, rehosted:


This
THIS
WOW

And apparently there was a longer clip that came before it, but I can't find it. Someone please help me out. This is too good.

Edit: Never mind, I think the artist just means that he reduced the number of frames from a previous upload so it plays faster.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

foolm0ron posted...

So I think I give up.

For over a year now I have been keeping up with pretty much every article on EqD, every day. But lately I've had to start skipping so many articles. Of course I always skipped the fanfics, but then I started skipping vocal music, nightly roundups, and some other stuff, and this past weekend I didn't have any internet so I got so behind that I can't catch up. Maybe it's because I don't have enough time to read it anymore, maybe I lost interest, maybe the site is just updating more than before, but I give up.

There really hasn't been a jump in anything but the news compared to mid season 2, but there's been a ton of news and interviews in the past couple weeks. It's mostly based around the Bronycon documentary and interviews with those involved, plus Tara Strong becoming increasingly active as the "brony queen".

I would suggest reading the nightly roundups since they're really easy to pick through for interesting stuff. Just skip the meetup stuff. I normally can get through one in 1-2 minutes and about 30%-40% of the time there's an article that is worth reading hidden in there. Personally I do comics, nightly roundups, interviews that are done by good teams and are of interesting people (such as Thiessen, Ingram, Faust, de Lancie and the VAs), instrumental music (skipping dubstep and only listening a few seconds to songs I will clearly not like), fan animations, actual news, and maybe 1-2 short comedy fics per month.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Considering that they blast the villain with a friendship beam in both season openings and friendship is canonically a super-strong form of magic... well, it really shouldn't be a surprise that love is the same way.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Call me crazy but I prefer LoL's artistic style quite strongly over DotA 2's. Plus all my buddies from the TeamLiquid Ponycraft 2 tournaments and IRC play LoL.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=2064476

(Apparently you can't get a direct link URL from here easily, so I'm just going to link the thread.)

Super-adorable Leona pony reminding me that I've had LoL sitting on my desktop for months and haven't played a single game.

(Although it's partially because of the stupid downloader/patcher that uses ALL the bandwidth for the entire house such that my dad can't even work downstairs and Google takes 30 seconds to pop up.)

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

I don't see how Nintendo can claim competition between retailers will drive prices down below what we'd have if they just removed the completely unnecessary middleman who by definition raises the price and made the big wholesale arrow point directly to the consumer. What do you need a retailer for with digital distribution?

It's not like removing the retailer removes competition; that competition is just between different studios then. But by including the retailer, you just add a middleman that wants a cut and adds it onto the price for no other benefit (since digital distribution is not any harder to do without a retailer).

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

tyder21 posted...
I'm pretty sure that's just a sound effect for Dash picking up Fluttershy.

First, it's a wet smacking sound... it's definitely not an appropriate sound effect for just picking someone up.

And second, it doesn't play until after Fluttershy is already off the ground. It starts at either the exact frame where Dash makes contact with Fluttershy's nose or the frame after, kinda hard to tell.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

So Gen pointed out to me that Dash kisses Fluttershy on the nose here:


and now I can't not see it. There's a pretty unmistakable sound effect and appropriate reactions for each character, and even though Dash never makes the appropriate mouth shape it does appear to touch for one frame.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Paratroopa1 posted...
F***, "deceptive cadence" is one of those puns that's so good I wish I thought of it first. Oh well. (I don't think this is an intentional joke on the composer's part by the way, deceptive cadences are common in music and he didn't even use them during the villain's theme.)

I didn't really like this episode much, the episodes that are all disney movie plot and song numbers with flavor-of-the-week villains don't really do it for me (except Discord who is great), it just isn't what I like about FiM. I think this episode would've been funnier if the plot was "Twilight ruins the wedding after becoming paranoid about a completely imagined evil plot against her brother", but that would've been a completely different episode. Villain was lame and didn't really introduce any real tension to the plot despite their desperate attempts to introduce real tension to the plot, but at least she did have a cool design.

Not a really bad episode, just not my thing. Like I said, I think if you take the villain out but leave Twilight's neuroticism in I would've been more entertained.

The deceptive cadence thing was actually confirmed to be an intentional pun by Daniel Ingram on his Twitter.

And I thought they really didn't do anything wrong with the villain except make her reveal herself and her plans too early and fail to give her a proper confrontation. She just kinda looks away and lets obvious deus ex machina happen literally behind her back. Same thing that happened to Discord. At least Nightmare Moon had some kind of confrontation with Twilight before she got plot magicked.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Turnabout Storm part 3 is out.


One hour and forty-four minutes of voice-acted, gag-ridden crossover madness.

(Actually, a few too many random references thrown out, and too blatantly, but still very good.)

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

I kept making a joke with my friends by showing them the full charity auction listings and telling them to pick the five MLP items by the dollar amount column. Twilight Sparkle went for $9100.00 and everything else was over four digits, while nothing else (even original Simpsons stuff) went for anything close to that.

Also, the Colgate platforming game that was on EqD a while back is amazing.
www.dragon-mango.com/ponygame/colgate.htm

The story and dialogue is adorable, there's multiple endings depending on the secrets you find, and the cameo characters are great. The boss scenes are also really well done, although the design of the first boss fight makes it seem impossible not to be hit a ton when the boss gets up. Be sure to talk to Zecora again repeatedly at the beginning and read Trixie's balloon and news ticker feeds.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Cannot wait for episode 15 and 25 reactions.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

I thought Stare Master was a good episode. Only episode of season one where the CMCs as a group were entertaining IMO, and Fluttershy was good too.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Main Theme (Max Payne): 8
Was gonna give it a low score for quite a while into the song for being kinda dull, but once it started building and more instruments joined it got very good.

Hawke Family Theme: 4
...Unlike this theme, which is kinda pretty but remains rather dull and forgettable the whole way through.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

New Super Ponybeat!


Also
This game
THIS GAME



(especially starting around 7:40)

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

You shouldn't boycott a company based on its DRM policies.

Good games are made by developers. DRM is put in by suits. If Rayman Origins flops, Ubisoft will likely not make another classic 2D platformer and cut some of the developers, rather than reconsider their DRM policies.

I'm playing the game right now and it's definitely a solid platformer, although (like DKCR) it does kind of have the feel of a budget game in non-gameplay-related areas, opting for a stylistic form of graphics, animation and audio rather than a rich one. That said, budget games are in reality the best thing the game industry can do for itself, rather than forcing themselves to rehash crap because development costs are too high to do anything different ever. And the singing fish levels and such make up for the otherwise simpler music.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Nominate:
Unfinished Battle (Xenoblade Chronicles)


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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

AJ's theme: 7

I will give it credit for being possibly the best video game music I can think of involving a banjo but not a character named Banjo. The opening is pretty weak, but it's good once the electric guitar kicks in and it departs a little more from that one Winter Wrap Up phrase.

Twilight's theme: 9

I have literally played Starcraft with this looping in the backgroup for 55 minutes straight. There's some quality to the flow and changing tension of the song that I really like, along with the insistently happy mood. The opening and ending right before the loop are the weakest part. You might think it's not appropriate for a fighting game, but I have to point out that I'm not exactly a fighting game hardcore enthusiast, and my favorite fighting game so far is Touhou Hisoutensoku, which has pretty much the same kind of music in a lot of cases.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Twilight knowing where the time spell was isn't actually a paradox, because she DIDN'T know. She checked the whole library for a time stopping spell and only the Starswirl wing was left. And even then, Pinkie ended up finding the time travel spell (not what they were even looking for) at random, which is the only reason Twilight knew where it was.

The time paradox is why she was so worried that she traveled back the first time, but stable time loops are always like that.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Seconding the recommendation for the Klonoa GBA games. Really fun puzzle games with a very nice difficulty level with some nice platforming thrown in. A little short, though.

Both WarioWare GBA games are great, the best two in the series. Warioland 4 is a great level-based platformer with some puzzle elements.

Also Mario Golf: Advance Tour is a pretty good game that hasn't been on any of these lists, if you like that Mario Sports RPG genre that started on the GBC.

Kirby and the Amazing Mirror is also very good, and probably the best of the GBA Kirby games.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

10

Amazingly fun
Still fun on replays
Awesome multiplayer

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Celestia tier episode.

while(CurrentEpisode.getMainChar()="PinkiePie")
{me.smile();
me.joy=INFINITE;
usePhysics=false;
};

I LOVED the continuity nods like the baby Cakes (amazing pre-title theme scene) and Dash reading more Daring Do.

Pinkie completely shattered physics and pulled cartoon gag after cartoon gag in classic style, and it was great.

Musical score for this episode was pretty cool; Cranky had a theme song in Yankee Doodle Dandy that kept popping up with keys and instruments to match his mood.

Also... Derpy snow globe, where can I buy it?

There was something a little bit off about the way the episode wrapped up to me, but I can't really name what they did wrong. Maybe just that even though Pinkie did seem to learn her lesson from it, I can't really see at what point she learned it since she had the same attitude as the beginning up until the very last second.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Rainbow Dash or....Nyan cat?!



You were beaten to it.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Seasons first IMO.

Gets you the Donkey Kong minigame, plus the final boss isn't as much of a joke without the Roc's Cape.

Just don't transfer rings because having the Red Ring for the whole game is stupid. (Actually I'd say using any rings that buff your stats directly is too much; just use the Gasha Ring or Maple's Ring or something to make getting those two pieces of heart less of a pain while avoiding breaking the game).

Personally I like to use the Cursed Ring the whole game to add some extra challenge.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

NioraptH posted...
Can someone please buy http://pics.livejournal.com/jenthehen/pic/000ka53g
And then review it for me with pics?

Kinda curious as to what the actual snacks look like




Found that in the comments for the EqD post about the same thing from months ago.

It's actually G3 stuff in a Trojan Horse. Beware.

Anyway, comics for everypony! And a random image that isn't a comic, even!

http://nimaru.deviantart.com/art/A-Friend-in-Flour-283331677
http://pixelkitties.deviantart.com/art/All-That-And-Aliens-Too-283356623
http://fajeh.deviantart.com/art/Super-powers-283309972


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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Canon spelling is Owlowiscious.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Less than awesome ending, but everything else was great. Loved Discord and loved the Grey Ponies and the whole memory thing with the letters. 9.95/10

Well the resolution of the story was weak, but the actual ending scene was awesome.



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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Just noticed you're still missing the best stream which is
http://www.justin.tv/haxmega

Most consistent in its performance, anyway.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

(Future episode description spoilers)


I'm still looking forward to the one where Dash starts reading the most.



(Current episode spoilers)


Also, Mr. Cake clearly had an affair with an alicorn and Mrs. Cake is playing along for appearances' sake. Or they switched the babies with some superheroes. At one month they're probably strong enough to rule the town save for Twilight's intervention.




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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

The level design is really good, and the graphics are pretty nice with beautiful pre-rendered cutscenes. But the game is ultimately an extremely simple platformer, so that's not going to appeal to everyone.

Also, the only levels I found particularly difficult, barring mirror mode which is a pain in the ass, were Muncher Marathon and whatever the Cliffs extra temple level is called.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

PartOfYourWorld posted...
From: baron von toast | #006
I wish I had know there was no heart piece of winning. When gossip said you get a "rare treasure" for winning I didn't know it meant rare treasure, as in gold skulls and whatnot. Augh.
lol, thank god I didn't check the stones. I would have been at that stupid game forever. Speaking of which, is there ANY Zelda minigame that you guys have kept playing even after acquiring its ultimate treasure?

EDIT: And not just to farm Rupees, but because you actually enjoyed it that much.

The minigames in Spirit Tracks are amazingly fun to shoot for high scores on.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

greatone10 posted...


Yay, the second episode of Turnabout Storm is up!

I absolutely love this series.

*spoilers*

SPOILERS SPOILERS OH NOES IT'S SPOILERS
Although I kinda hate Phoenix's guts for using the "time to be an a******
to buy some time" defense on poor Fluttershy.
Don't mind me, I'm just here to make those spoilers blend in.

(end spoilers)



Also, bringing back the Judge in his amazing glory... dunno if that was planned or came from being unable to get good vectors for Celestia, but he's still as awesome as ever. Some of the other voice actresses, Trixie especially, get to me a little bit; they sound like they were picked based on their ability to do the voice rather than acting ability, because they get a lot of the inflections wrong.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Metroid: Zero Mission (considering it was literally made with speed runs in mind... plus you can get a run down in less than an hour pretty easily)
Metroid Prime/Metroid Prime 2 if you're comfortable with glitches

Starcraft + Brood War (seriously, try executing some of the speed run strategies, they're hilarious)

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Eh, I might go back to just replacing the Home screen and using the TL decal if it's that bad. I dunno how you could like Tychus staring at you more than what I replaced it with.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

Rolling was still really easy for me, but it doesn't matter since normal sprinting is a better use for your stamina unless you're going to enter a new area or stop before it runs out.

I strongly disagree with the statement that the combat is improved; instead, I feel like they've removed all options except your sword from combat, which is not improved in any significant way. All they added was that you have to slice in a certain direction; the AI is still ridiculously passive and attacks once every ten seconds or so with a simple attack while making no effort to coordinate as a group, and it's rare that enemies actually counterattack unless you flail wildly for several seconds. Most of your combat damage will come from hitting electrified enemies in the wrong way.

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

And finally finished. Way too late in the morning. >_>

http://imgur.com/a/Hx9tk

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"That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia