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I'm ready to resume tomorrow. Sorry for the delay.
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Diddy
Blast
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Dragon Quest VIII for 3DS
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I don't know anything about the source material, but trailers that I have seen didn't look good. Elba especially had some eye-rolling lines.
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Various Rockstar games sprang to mind, but the Uncharted series is up there.
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Arti posted...

PS3 and Switch versions for DQ Heroes are JP-only

Oops
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MysteriousStan posted...

Also for anyone interested, I will be posting a quick blurb about all the available teams tomorrow. Though I encourage you to pick before then to make my life easy! =)

I will do this later unless you already have typed some stuff.
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Super Mario Odyssey
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I thought that most MLB players were put on waivers
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If Jeopardy doesn't count, then My Name is Earl or Friday Night Lights would probably take its place.
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Sorry, my mind has been in other places as of late. I had cables fall into my backyard, which has halted four outdoor projects I am in the midst of doing, and the company legally responsible for dealing with that still hasn't showed.
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Jeopardy
Simpsons
Psych

Probably in that order if correct. What's fascinating is that I have seen only 1 new episode of The Simpsons in the past 12-15 years.
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MZero is coming back to the Bucs
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3. Regular Season

- 16 games across 17 in-game weeks. I typically sim two a week and post detailed game summaries (final scores,scoring plays and in what quarter, and notable player performances), and we have a midseason break. At the end of Week 17, I will send out stat PMs for all of your players and also post End-of-Season Awards info that you are free and encouraged to participate in


4. Postseason

- Much like the preseason, it is a four in-game week affair that I sim in a single night. However, this is ultimately what most of us are working toward, so typically several users appear in the hub spreadsheet's chat function to see live results.


After that, we once again do signups for the following season and start the cycle over again.
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Okay, so in case anyone did not read the word doc, here is the skinny on the structure of a single B8NFLL season:

1. We start in the offseason due to this being the only time I can change user and AI ownership:

- At the same time that I do that, things like coaching changes and stadium upgrades also occur. Coaches have no effect on the on-field product and upgrades are a non-factor in terms of ticket sales, so I just let the AI handle that. If you really, really want to be hands-on about that, we can work stuff out.

- Next up is player retirements. Barring anyone suffering a career-ending injury, 100% of all retirements are based on a combination of age and overall rating. At this time, I also update the spreadsheet for the roster, team financial, and free agent sheets since they all have new information (rating changes, years left on contracts, determining new salary cap, players getting a year older, etc...). This is also when you can start making trades with other teams. You can trade any time during the offseason.

- After that, it is finally time for you to do stuff with Restricted Free Agency and Signing Your Unrestricted Free Agents. I will go into great detail when the time comes, but essentially, this is about deciding which of your players with expiring contracts you want to retain. This is also the only time during the offseason that you can sign any players that are still under contract to an extension.

- Then, we have the NFL Draft and signing those draft picks. It is a live draft and details will come when we are getting close to it.

- Finally, the offseason ends with Free Agency. This is where you bid against the 31 other teams in the pursuit of all the available talent you may find on the free agency sheet from the hub spreadsheet. Like everything else, I will provide all the details when the time comes.


2. Preseason

- A relatively meaningless slate of four games that I will sim in one night. Injuries might occur, possibly season-changing. At the end, I will also update the Depth Charts that you will see on the Hub Spreadsheet. You are free to change these as you see fit as long as they are in accordance with the game (you can't play a LB at QB, a TE at K, etc...).

I will also send you a PM about a coaching strategy that you are free to modify as you see fit (hence why coaches are unimportant).
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Oh, I should have said successfully-funded Kickstart backings. I did not back Santa's project, but I also did not know he made a Kickstarter campaign for it.
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Star Fox 64

One
GoldenEye 007
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So far, all of my Kickstarter VG backings have resulted in a finished product. I await the day that I am disappointed.

I neither backed nor have heard of Unsung Story
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Standings of Fictional Fun
KCF: 55
gameking: 47
Mr Crispy: 32
Lolo Guru: 30
ArkOfTurus: 27
KnightOfNee: 22
Arti: 21
MegamanX: 17
Tazzy: 14
Fenny: 13
Robazoid: 13
Suprak the Stud: 10
profDEADPOOL: 7
Shaduln: 7
BetrayedTangy: 5
Eddv: 5
Korayashi: 5
Wickle: 5
Johnbobb: 4
trdl23: 4
Akira: 2
Bane of Despair: 2
JDTAY: 2
PhantomBanon: 2
TomNook: 2
agc: 1
Azp2k32: 1
greengravy: 1
Kain: 1
LordoftheMorons: 1
paperwarior: 1
Santa: 1
shadosneko: 1
SHINE: 1
Tom Bombadil: 1
Wiki: 1
windfish: 1

Spreadsheet with history
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1X8E8oqzES42W4S82j7WTfNnzNa8c3uXdSE1rnqYG7WM/edit?usp=sharing

Additional noms this month
prof - 1
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August's Games:
Live a Live (technically just SNES)
Escape Goat (360/PC/Linux)
Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and the Blight Below (PC/PS3/PS4/Switch)

What is Game of the Month Club?
Game of the Month is a community project open to all B8ers where users share, discover, play and/or discuss a select few games every month. The games featured each month are chosen by YOU the users (and Lady Luck)

The Basics
- Each month will feature three games that were chosen via a random drawing from a pool of games that users nominated
- For each game you beat, you get a cool point on our just-for-fun standings as well as a nomination for next month's randomized drawing
- In order to receive the point and nomination, you must beat said game within the calendar month
- If you beat one of the current month's games in the previous month, you can apply for a "recently beaten waiver," but you will only receive a point and no nomination should you do so
- Drawing for next month's games is usually around a week before the end of the month
- If you periodically keep us posted on your progress and/or talk about different aspects of the games, then everyone will think you are super awesome!

Nomination Rules
- You get one nomination automatically each month
- You can receive up to three more nominations in a month for each chosen game that you beat
- Each game you nominate has to be different from both your and other users' noms and cannot include a game that has already been selected for GotM
- Each game must be a standalone game that can be acquired and played on its own (aka cannot be DLC/expansion that requires the base game)
- Nominations only carry over if you beat a chosen game after the drawing for next month's games but before the end of the month
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Yeah, I had to rush to put this topic out there, but I have a few more things to bring up tomorrow
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Yes. mccheyene hopes to return them to Chicago one day.
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I highly encourage you to look through all the links I sent, but let me assure you that there is no reason for you to get overwhelmed about any of it. I just become very wordy in case people do not understand all or any of what goes with the business side of the NFL.

I end up doing 95+% of the work, and I fully explain everything and give plenty of time when users are asked to do stuff for their teams. I even give people the option to have me temporarily take over their team in case they go on vacation or you hit a busy stretch in your life.

Do not hesitate to ask me any questions that you may have.
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The following is a list of all teams in the league. Some have been renamed during the course of the project, and I will include what teams they used to be in parenthesis. A bolded team means that the user will be coming back as that team. An italicized team means that the user has not yet indicated if they are coming back. All other teams are open. You can sign-up for open team with the designation that you would like to take over an italicized team if their user doesn't come back.

Denver Broncos
Kansas City Chiefs - Ranlom
Oakland Raiders
Washington Hawks (formerly San Diego Chargers)- crazy

Buffalo Bills - stevr
Miami Dolphins - KCF
New England Patriots - Jukkie
New York Jets

Baltimore Ravens - Wiki
Cincinnati Bengals
Mexico City (formerly Cleveland) Browns - stuntman
Pittsburgh Steelers - Shattered

Columbus Pioneers (formerly Houston Texans)
Indianapolis Colts
Jacksonville Jaguars - Sultan
Tennessee Titans - Stan

San Francisco 49ers - Scare
Seattle Seahawks
St. Louis Rams
Toronto Wildcats (formerly Arizona Cardinals)- prof

Dallas Cowboys - Wiz
Las Vegas Pumpkins (formerly Philadelphia Eagles)
New York Giants - Eddv
Washington Redskins

Detroit Lions - Nee
Green Bay Packers - Tangicide
Minnesota Vikings
Los Angeles (formerly Richmond and Chicago) Bears - cheyene

Anaheim Lightning (formerly New Orleans Saints) - Kora
Atlanta Falcons - mudders
Carolina Panthers - Emerald
Tampa Bay Buccaneers - MZero
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Then Board 8 National Football League League (B8NFLL) might be just for you!

What is this?
A simulation league using Madden 06’s franchise mode where users build rosters while managing the salary cap to have fun and/or accomplish something over the course of multiple seasons (no hard figure, but the game can't exceed around 30 seasons). We just wrapped up our 8th season where the Miami Dolphins defeated the Dallas Cowboys in the Super Bowl.

How do I sign up?
Post in the topic and say what open team you want. I can only change ownership of teams at the very beginning of the offseason (which is now). In the next post, I will list all the teams.

Hub Spreadsheet (go-to place to find information on all teams and the current state of the league)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10gIP0JkVqOaoUc4aQX_NyDM8dB31FOPm_dUx6DVTWPk/edit?usp=sharing

Word Document (reworked to hopefully be easier to follow)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RVeEIyjqIiEkS0VYvbsI02dWMDXyOgdVQAgThNJyIfc/edit?usp=sharing

Wiki Page (shows the history of the league)
http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Board_8_National_Football_League_League

Previous Topics (to give you an idea of how each season will look like in the topic)
https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/75452112 (part of the regular season)
https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/75547780 (awards and postseason)
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16. Tales of Legendia

This might be perplexing seeing Legendia as the top Tales of game in my rankings despite what I just said about Xillia. I played this after Symphonia and Abyss but before Vesperia and Graces. While it took some getting used to random encounters and the 2D fighting plane, I really got into not just the combat but also how unique it was (not that I can recall everything). That isn't unlike how I became attached to Xillia.

It all starts with the game taking place on a derelict ship (I forget if it's of the aquatic or aerospace variety). That gives you a different perspective of all the locations you visit and makes you wonder how it all came to be, in the process setting a pervasive tone throughout the game. I never once had a thought like that or felt that way in a Tales of game I've played before or since.

JRPGs, while not on the level of WRPGs, tend to have a high amount of characters relative to other genres. It stands to reason that not all of them will be winners, and you are bound to hate some. I honestly, from what I can recollect, cannot say that I have intense negative feelings toward any of the characters (not even Shirley), and that to me is quite the accomplishment given the series. Were they great? Maybe only one or two, but when Tales of games are prone to having a couple characters (or a dozen) make me facepalm over and over to the point of nearly giving me an ulcer, I'd have to say that this game was a rousing success.

This game is also home to massive post-game content. Maybe massive is a bit of an exaggeration, but at the time, I was not accustomed to having an entire campaign (though I suppose that Legendia's is a series of character arcs, one in particular being gut-wrenching) open to the player after the game finishes. Graces might be the only other game from the series that I've played that had one.

Legendia gets a bad rap, and I can understand since part of it seems to be a de-evolution of where the genre was heading, but it successfully carved out its own identity at a time when the series was seemingly going through the motions. Part of me wonders if this being a commerical failure (I don't know if it was, but I'm assuming it was) prompted Namco to go back to the Symphonia and Abyss formula. Most of me also wonders how amazing the game could have been if they thought of it post-Graces and combined the ideas they had with it and Xillia.
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17. Tales of Xillia

While I don't doubt that I will end up playing Zestiria and Berseria, I have hesitated to get them. It's less because I can't exactly play them without owning a PS4 or gaming-quality computer but more because I feel like they will pale in comparison to Xillia. That isn't to say that Xillia blew me away or anything. It's still a Tales of game with Tales of plots and Tales of characters. What impressed me was that they finally decided to make significant changes (mostly for the better).

Symphonia. Abyss. Vesperia. Graces. Each of these games are unique in their own way (I'm sure someone more well-versed could explain far better than I possibly could), but at the same time they seem too familiar. That isn't exactly uncommon in the VG industry, but in my opinion, that is a death sentence for an RPG series. I played those games in that exact order, and it was with Vesperia that things really started to get stale.

Perhaps someone at Namco or whichever studio produces these games was self-aware of that, but whatever the case, I'm glad that Xillia distanced itself from its predecessors. Gone are the inane puzzles that littered dungeons. They were routinely among the series' weakest attributes. In is the improved maneurvability while exploring. By holding the action button, you can pre-register various actions (climbing, jumping, etc...) before being given a prompt. Best of all, is the combat is faster, fluid, and more fun than ever.

The linking system that allows you to forcibly pair the character you are controlling with someone else to unleash combos can be iffy at times with the AI. The beauty of it is that the sometimes frustrating AI only comes into play when you are trying to work together to simply fill the meter to eventually allow you to unleash aforementioned combos. You are in full control of intiating and stringing combos, so the ultimate goal of what you are working toward is completely in your hands.
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Mario Kart 64
House of the Dead
Rampage: World Tour
Castlevania: SotN
Kirby's Dream Land 3
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Sign up topic within the hour
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Topic tomorrow
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More tomorrow
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18. Skies of Arcadia

On one hand, Skies of Arcadia doesn't come anywhere close to realizing its full potential. The two main protagonists come from a community of sky pirates, but I rarely felt like a sky pirate. I feel like they could have come from anywhere and just be explorers/bounty hunters with their own ship, and it would hardly change a thing.

While it partially makes up for it in being able to explore a vast sky, its absurd encounter rates, invisible walls, and disappointing landmark side activity kind of put a damper on the whole thing. If you are willing to look past that though, and I can understand if you can't, you are in for a treat because this is one of the few non-Nintendo JRPGs that I've played that felt like I was part of a fun, grand adventure, which seems like something of a lost art these days across any genre.

Arguably its most unique aspect was its combination of air and land battles. Land battles are not anything that you haven't seen before, but its air battles turned out to be something special. Mostly used in boss battles, air combat required a strategic approach that was more anticipation than trial-and-error. It also incentivized exploration by converting people you meet out in the world to be part of your crew and help out in combat.

The game is one-of-a-kind, and I would really like a complete remake (not just an remastered port) or a sequel that could really take advantage of all the ideas that the game originally offered.
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19. Paper Mario: Color Splash

This is going to be a super-long writeup, so I apologize.

If you didn't like Sticker Star, I'm guessing that you won't like Color Splash. Probably the #1 question people had is if battles are pointless. The answer is yes and no.

The vast majority of fights result in a sort of XP being strewn about on the level. They come in the form of paper hammers that in turn fill up a meter on your paint hammer. When the meter fills up, you hammer's ability to store paint increases. In the beginning, you will likely never run out of paint unless your attacking style revolves almost solely around ice and fire flowers, which might be the most paint-draining types of cards. It isn't until later in the game that you will require of you to having a card deck of strong cards, and thus you might run into color.

To complicate matters, there are pre-painted cards to go along with the non-painted ones. Pre-painted cards are at their most powerful and don't require paint. Non-painted cards can be used in that format, but are severely weak compared to their painted counterparts, and you can use paint to make them powerful. Several of these cards can be purchased in a shop in the hub town (coins are also easy to come by), but most come in the non-painted variety. So while coins are easy to come by and paint is in low-demand and high-supply in the early going, it is necessary that you do fight many non-scripted fights to build up your paint hammer or you might find late game segments to be frustrating. I don't know if that is good enough of an incentive or not, but I feel that the reward is worth it, not to mention that I find battling fun anyway.

The second question is about the humor and charm. As I mentioned in Sticker Star, I felt that it was worthy of the Paper Mario name with its humor and charm. If you disagree, and I assume many will, Color Splash might be exactly what you are looking for. I will even say that Color Splash has an argument for being the funniest Paper Mario game, or at the very least is the most top-heavy in terms of humor with Dark Bloo Inn being the highlight level of the game.

If Sticker Star turned you away from the series, I hope that you reconsider with Color Splash or you are missing out on a great game.
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Coolboarders

NFL QB Club
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Ethan Carter runs a lot better than I thought it would on my laptop, but there's enough frame rate issues that I decided I will wait until I get a new laptop or computer.

I might give Spelunky one more chance, but odds are I am done with it.
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Bumpers
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I forget which of the two girls she was. I assume the "bad" one
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OlDirtyNumbers posted...

Wolfenstein: The New Order (PC)

so i hadn't paid attention to the first post of this topic should i be adding my own games now? if so i'll go back and do it sometime soon

I mean, I no longer add in info for other users, but perhaps someone else has
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