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Topic title says 'best,' OP says 'favorite.'

Best = SM64
Favorite = SMRPG

DrizztLink posted...

I liked it alright vanilla, but modded is a pretty solid experience.

I wish they (and Skyrim) would fuck off with the load order size limits on console, though.

Let me create my frankenbomination, damn it, the only life I can ruin is my own.

Problem is that the reason they imposed the 150 mod cap in the first place was because they were incapable of programming a framework in which scrolling through your LO screen wouldn't crash half the time when you had more than 150 mods (it was originally uncapped when mods first became available).

Though they did uncap the limit for Skyrim as of the Paid Mods Round 2 update (or at least set it to 250), and changed it so that .esl's now function properly on consoles. Pity that Fallout 4 never got that kind of attention.

St0rmFury posted...

Oof, I forgot I had to restart the entire Sigma's fortress level from the beginning each time I exit the game.

Yup, this is what killed my motivation for good a few weeks back. I figured the save system on the anniversary collection would be more forgiving than that, but nope, eat shit player, you're doing Vile and the spider boss and all that shit all over again.

--Zero- posted...

Not a single opener or closer in anime is good and are super annoying lol.

It's impossible for me to enjoy an episode of Cromartie High until I've seen two giant apes smash into each other.

I still listen to FM radio when driving to and from work. I like to mix it up with some pop / hip-hop stations, which helps me keep up on current artists.

Funcoot posted...

I really enjoyed all of the Blaine stuff at the end of that, and the beginning of Wizard and Glass.

A supremely logical villain getting thwarted by deliberate nonsense / stupidity is (surprisingly) one of my favorite media tropes, and Blaine the Mono was the the first clear instance of this that I remember.

BlueTigerLion posted...

Im out of loop is Trump executing late night hosts now? Why would Jimmy need to flee. He can just live in a blue state like California or New York and the Democrats in charge there will protect him.

Some people chose to go ahead and get in the lifeboats rather than just moving to the part of the ship that isn't yet underwater.

Air Bud Abbott

One Flou Costello Over the Cuckoo's Nest

After all this time I'd still like to see some numbers between who did / didn't like the voiced protag and who played as a male / female. I've never bothered to play as a male SS myself, but by every acccount I've ever heard the female VA is miles better.

Yes, very much so. It's not without its glaring flaws and it can't hold a candle to NV (though I never once expected it to), but surprisingly enough it actually succeeded in correcting a lot of the criticisms I had with 3, almost to the point where it felt like Bethesda was actually listening to my feedback.

xlr_big-coop posted...

I played this one on release and never found it particularly difficult. Yeah I had played previous games so I knew the basics and could also identify when an extra level up could make a difference.

There are a few walls like the crab or the boss who claims he will take your shadow, but other than that it's not much worse than any other igavania

I'm sure the challenge factor will go down on repeat playthoughs, but at the moment I have to strongly disagree; I don't remember any post-NES CV title being as all-around tough as this one.

It reminds me a lot of Hollow Knight in terms of challenge factor (Path of Pain and some of the more ludicrous DLCs notwithstanding). Of course the key difference there is that the eponymous Knight moves like the quick, nimble little bug he is, whereas Shanoa moves like she's packing depleted uranium in her boots.

Ironcially this was one of my bigger gripes with Bloodstained, which I also recently played through for the first time. Does Igarahsi have a thing for plodding female MCs or something? Incidentally I now have the benefit of seeing how much Bloodstained lifts directly from OoE in addition to SotN and AoS, most especially in the near-identical Rapidus Fio and Accelerator abilities, which for me were game-changers in both titles.

I kinda interpreted it as outsider syndrome of sorts where Charlie doesn't think he's good enough to partake in all the free candy. Like maybe he's too worried about the other kids screaming 'eww, what's a poor doing here?!" even though the Candyman himself probably wouldn't have treated him any differently.

It ultimately boils down to the American people allowing this to happen. Whatever happens to our democracy going forward, we were still a functioning democracy in November 2024, and things like ignorance, apathy, and hatred were very much choices at that point.

No more drugs that the people who made Little Audrey and similar cartoons in the 30's and 40's, which were often equal parts meant to entertain children and frighten them into obedience.

I feel like a hallmark of movies 'made by people on drugs' is that the audience similarly has to be on drugs (or very open-minded) to even have a chance of understanding it, and WW is almost impossible not to follow along with.

*laughs in FFT Advance*

"How's that working out for you? Being clever?"

DrizztLink posted...

Every time I think "I'll actually read the pirate bits" and every time I prove myself a liar anew.

The Black Freighter bits get considerably better as they reach the climax. I love the line "there came an understanding so large, it left no room for sanity."

Fuck! Now how am I going to watch Teen Titans GO in 8-hour blocks?

Yeah, I love it. Read through it over a dozen times and I'm still finding new details that I missed. Probably my biggest 'wtf how did I ever miss that' moment was a panel where pre-indentity reveal Kovacs / Rorschach is fishing Moloch's note out of the trashcan in the background; you even have Bernard the newsstand guy drawing attention to it with a line like "People never seem to pay attention to what's going on in the background..."

"Uh, Excuse me, I don't think there's anything wrong with the action on this piano."

https://youtu.be/qdbrIrFxas0?si=ww8H7ZSgs-hN0aIJ

Jurassic Park is the only 3+ movie franchise I can think of where I would not complain if all but the original ceased to exist.

But a new threat emerges in the form of the ORDER OF BINKS, a clandestine society of Sith-worshipping Gungans bent on upending the fragile peace.

Didn't play it. I read a review when it came out indicating that it had nerfed / removed some of my favorite aspects of SR2, so I didn't have any interest in it.

Deliverance was largely improvised. It was originally written as a family-friendly comedy about 4 buddies on a rafting trip, but then a few of the locals wandered on set one day and...

Dang, looks they stole the word ___ too! Can't very well go out and get a ___ if no one knows what a ___ is, can I?

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Because Galadriel is a total domme. If you look closely at shots of Celeborn you can see the hithlain rope-burns around his wrists and ankles.

The One Ring gives Sauron wildly different powers that Frodo simply because when Sauron puts it on, it's not on his finger. I'll never forgive the movies for screwing up that one very important detail.

jefffan posted...

It's a Coke plant

There's coal plants and theres coke plants. This is the latter.

Coke (fuel) - Wikipedia https://share.google/snZ9liHycE4Kctzhc

Yet another thing I first learned from Venture Bros, lol.

Oh, stop it!

The sincerity with which Jeff Daniels delivers the line "his head fell off!" in regards to Petey the parrot is pure gold.

IronChef_Kirby posted...

So basically
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Pretty much. Carano doesn't need the money (isn't she a casino heiress?), she's still not getting her Mandalorian gig / career in general back after outing herself as a tremendous liability, and right-wing media will crow about their tremendous victory for half a day before moving on to their next culture war distraction.

"Make and model of the vehicle?"
"He's driving a black... ...tank!"

(Also)

"Let me get this straight...you think that your client, one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilante, who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands...and your plan...is to blackmail this person? Good luck!"

Well I finished all the villager sidequests and beat the game, but not without considerable abuse of the rewind feature. If it weren't for the testicle-pulverizing difficulty it would easily land a franchise favorite spot right after the big 3 (Super VI, SotN, and Aria of Sorrow). Gameplay's a lot of fun and aesthetically the game is top-notch; I didn't realize that some of my favorite franchise tunes originated from this game. Hell, I didn't even recognize my all-time favorite Castlevania track Ebony Wings until I finally had that 'oh shit! I know that song' moment after listening to it for ten minutes. I still prefer the kick-ass heavy metal of Harmony of Despair's rendition, but the OoE version is still darn good with its organ melody (linked for comparison).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcKqiDWFhoc

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I'm with ya there TC. Every few years I replay X asking myself "why after all this time have I never once beat Sigma, he can't be that hard can he?" And then I'm always reminded "oh, right, it's the motherfucking walljumping."

The original comics are still the best SP material imo, with the game a close second.

Robot2600 posted...

Cloud does have access to both "Kill" and "Stop" spells, as well as ways to banish Wolverine to another dimension. I think teleporting your opponent to an empty dimension is a "win" even if Wolverine doesn't die.

Cloud could also cast "Petrify" or turn Wolverine into a Frog and then just put him in a jar and keep him there forever.

Wolverine would easily count as a boss fight; thus in true FF fashion, he'd be immune to most if not all status ailments and insta-death effects.

Probably one of those super-SOLDIERS introduced in Advent Children and onward that most of us would rather forget about.

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Damn sad to hear this, RIP. I didn't know him very well but he seemed like a good sort, and will be missed here and elsewhere.

Might as well dump all the meme pics I have from that topic, hope everyone enjoys them :-)

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It was pretty brilliant in hindsight. A prolonged prerelease window would've left more players cogitating over the question "do I really want to pay full price for a shinier version of a 20-year-old Bethesda RPG with all the old bugs and some new bugs as well?"

Meh, I bought a $10 RCA adapter, plugged my good ol' SNES into my modern smart TV, and played through Chrono Trigger a couple weeks ago without any real complaints about the graphics.

Those games are never going to look as impressive as they were when I was a kid because we now have 30 years of graphical improvement weighing against it, so as long as they're functional and the colors aren't far off then I'm good with it.

Of course the eternal caveat of 'separate the art from the artist' is how much a creator's bigoted / offensive views actually bleed into the art itself. IH certainly isn't going overt with it - otherwise this wouldn't even be open for discussion - but he does have the means to subtly nudge his viewers towards his personal way of thinking through the stories he chooses to tell and how he presents them.

One of the things that always struck me as peculiar about his vids (even before the scandal broke) was that, when it came to the subjects of his vids, no demographic got the benefit of the doubt more than white males. Tumblrinas and furries host their respective failed conventions and possibly pocket some of the funds? Let's all point and laugh at these degenerates! A televangelist bilks saps out of millions and ruins dozens of lives with his failed doomsday prophecies? Now now, let's remember he was a flawed man who truly believed in what he was preaching, probably. A woman has a steamy affair with a disgraced cruise line captain? Let's hyper-analyze all the instances of her being a complete idiot! A lunatic steals a limo, drives it backwards down the Las Vegas strip, and holds a plane hostage with a bomb threat? This man is my personal hero! (Yes, I know this one was probably a joke, but dammit I had another prime example to put here when I thought about this earlier but I can't for the life of me remember it atm).

Obviously this isn't across the board - Billy McFarland certainly didn't get any sympathy in the Fyre Festival vid - and assuming they were depicted fairly and accurately, the vindications of such people as Sean Murray and the Balloon Boy's father can hardly be considered bad things. But by the time the Man in Cave vid came out and IH more than once went out of his way to handwave the behavior of Floyd Collins' father, it had definitely become a pattern.

MarshMellow posted...

If anything it will wet their appetite. People who commit heinous crimes notoriously have a huge sketchy porn collection.

I see we've arrived at the "the mass shooter was known to have played several violent FPS's" phase of the argument.

VectorAgent posted...

That sounds about right. And I cant remember why, but I feel like I remember it being the case that when Wally does show up for the dance, the girl is no longer taller than he is? Maybe Im misremembering that, though.

My mom's been on a retro tv kick lately, and I caught a few minutes of My Three Sons where one of the boys went on a blind date and was desperately trying to back out because she was too tall.

HighSeraph posted...

I've heard that's a common complaint from men when playing as Shanoa

Huge spoilers: giggity.

Tough call between Luke and Yoda, I went with Yoda due to personal favoritism.

The original Turok was one of the few games that kicked my ass enough that I had to fall bsck on cheat codes. All I remember is that the best God Mode cheat was also the simplest: I think it was like 6 letters and was one of the dev's names with the vowels removed.

Well, I encountered the 'bad' ending. Looked up where to find the five villagers I missed because my patience was ready to snap and I wasn't in the mood to scour the entire game world on my own (good thing I did too, never would've found the breakable wall behind the waterfall on my own).

Please tell me that finding all 12 is enough to advance the game and you don't have to complete all their sidequests beforehand. If I have to go through the Albus fight again and get lockec into the bad ending a second time, I'mma be chucking controllers.