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Because I did not have a chance to respond to it in the previous topic:

January 11 is pretty soon for Tales of Vesperia, but I should still be able to pre-order it.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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*headscratch*

Special Edition, maybe? The one I've got pre-ordered is $59.99 U.S.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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Terry Crews would grant a wish without even being a genie.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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*sees the train approaching the barricade on this one*
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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Got to love the staying power of the Michael Turner Supergirl design (... despite it being retconned ages ago, at this point).
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

I too would like to see batshit Batman with ancient Egyptian god magic get his own show.

The best arcs for the character, if you ask me, are the ones where the writer keeps the reader guessing as to whether or not the Moon Knight has these powers ... or if he is imagining all of it. Does he have a voice in his head ... or is he hallucinating? Pretty cool stuff.

Bonus points to Blade: The Series -- which I actually enjoyed a fair bit -- for dropping a Moon Knight reference. Made me hopeful for the future.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

Topic # 85 to conclude 2018. Anime / manga and JRPGs face new levels of both censorship and scrutiny. The Nintendo Switch ascends. Crunchyroll and Funimation are divorced. Hidive does not have enough stuff. Netflix dawdles. ... I have hope for 2019.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

The Netflix shows started to tap into that universe, but there's still a lot left over.

I still need a Moon Knight show.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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I enjoyed Community.

So of course Chevy Chase took a giant shit on it.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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Mega Man 2 refined the formula for the series into what it became for all of the following games. One feature that it had that I wish had been extended to the other games was a choice of difficulty, though.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

"Now, you may lick my BALLS and my PINGAS!"

Followed shortly after by:

"Now, you may (BEEP) my caboose!" ... "I obey your command, master!"
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

Once I know of a solid U.S. release date, I will aim for the PS4 version. I love my laptop, but it is pushing seven years old and cannot run anything more advanced than the average visual novel.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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I enjoy all six games, but, believe or not, I prefer the original, warts and all. That is where I began, and I still have a soft spot for it, though I will happily pick up and play any of them.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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rexcrk posted...

Seriously though why are they even a thing?

A holdover from a previous era, like many things in Hollywood.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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YoukaiSlayer posted...

Man, no ones posting.

The holidays are sucking my will to live, as well as my will to watch anime, but ... the holidays will soon be done.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

Hellboy needed another sequel (directed by Del Toro, as before), not a reboot, but Hollywood seems to be allergic to anything resembling common sense.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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I've been peripherally aware of these guys for a while, and it's a shame that it's ending like this.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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We're not easy to spot because we're broke.

Kinda like everybody else who's not a boomer.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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Look up JazzDanceForChildren and turn your headphones down for a good time.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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Hmm. Main series SMT is almost impossible to duplicate, and if Delta cannot find a match in his massive Steam library, then you might be up the proverbial creek. (And yes, Mind Zero is a Persona-like.)
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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The missus and I managed it in about 150 hours, but we spent a lot of time messing around in the game.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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In retrospect, Bob Saget pretending to be wholesome is weirdly funny, but that has nothing to do with the script.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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In-ter-es-ting. Easy to forget that a large number of movies never made the transition from VHS to DVD ... and, thus, from DVD to the Blu-Ray / streaming video era. Will remind myself to give that a watch as time permits.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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I have read that there is also the possibility of a Persona 5 Arena spin-off once Arc System Works is done developing the Granblue Fantasy game, so ... everybody wins!
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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Snake Mountain from classic He-Man. Tons of space, no neighbors, and all of the amenities, plus a dungeon for any salespeople who come to my door.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

I recall Legacy of Goku being a lite JRPG for the GBA, and I suspect it gets the amount of flack it does because it is basically the Final Fantasy Mystic Quest of the DBZ game franchise. ... Still beats the stinkers like Sagas and Battle of Z, IMO, but your mileage will vary.

keyblader1985 posted...

I've finished everything else now including 0.2, and now I'm replaying Dream Drop Distance.

And then it becomes all Xehanort, all the time.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

I don't really know how I feel about open-ended RPGs. It's kinda like what mooreandrew98 said above: I mentally fill in the gaps when I'm playing, though I have a hard time being a bastard to NPCs. I don't know why. Maybe I don't think they deserve to have me do awful things to them? ... Unless they did awful things to me first. Then, it's fair game.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

It's like the ability to get married in the Fable games. Sure, you CAN do it... but the game gives you almost no reason to CARE enough to want to do it. All the samey generic NPCs with about four different voices all sort of start to blur together to some degree after a while.

"Oh, you're being norty!"
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

Skyrim tends to turn into a slapstick comedy when I play it. I am hilariously bad at the game, but that somehow still makes it enjoyable for me.

Entity13 posted...

My one gripe with DQ11 is that it's so trope heavy that you can easily predict what will happen in the next few story events. Sure, a lot of games may follow tropes strongly, or I might be a writer that identifies the narrative from some distance away more often than not, but DQ11 just goes all of the way on that effect.

That, for me, is a big part of its charm. There is nothing "edgy" or pretentious about DQXI. It's just an open invitation to sit down and have a good ol' time playing an old-fashioned JRPG.

I will also admit that 17-21 year old me would have had a serious thing for Jade, because she's just designed that way.

... 38-year-old me thinks she's very attractive.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

ThrillKillFan posted...

But this is one gamer who would say adios if pricing didn't take a steep nosedive.

This is one reason why I have been drifting more and more towards Steam. Triple-A gaming must change. I love my consoles, and I will miss being a collector, but that is becoming a thing of the past.

I also own(ed) a PSP Go. Would still be using it if it did not get the Blank Screen of Death.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

I have a soft spot for my local Game Stop, since I have been shopping there almost exclusively for over a decade and everybody there knows me, but the company is a zombie that is long overdue for a burning. It killed Funcoland. It absorbed EB Games, but kept its crappiest practices. (Voice of experience here, since I used to work for EB Games in the early '00s; worst job I have had.) Goodness only knows how many mom-and-pop stores it annihilated over the years. Physical gaming is on its way out, and so this is one monopoly that must go with it.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

Ren & Stimpy is the poster child for this topic.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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The ship is sinking, and the Social Justice extremists are starting to escape from it.

They will find no welcome in other places.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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The Wave Master posted...

I finished Dad of Boy this afternoon.

I feel the urge to call it Master of Wave.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

Have seen trailers for all of those but Welcome To Marwen. No idea what that is.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

Had to take a sick day today, so I sat on the couch and watched all three episodes of the Detonator Orgun OAV ... on ye olde Central Park Media / U.S. Manga Corps DVD. I had a chuckle at reading the notice on the back on the case that says your PC has to have at least Windows '95 in order to correctly read the DVD-ROM.

Orgun dates to '91, but it is a very '80s show in look and feel. Obari directed, but mercifully did not do the character design, and it looks very similar to (the very '80s) Hades Project Zeorymer. Impressive soundtrack, courtesy of Hirusawa (i.e. the Berserk guy). Healthy amounts of violence, nudity, explosions, and flashing lights. Good companion anime to Tekkaman Blade, but with a bigger budget (... and a better director).

Picked Orgun because I have been getting back into Super Robot Wars (due to the announcement of SRWT being released in 2019), and one of the games I have been playing is SRWW (DS), featuring both Orgun and Tekkaman. Also started a fresh play of 2nd SRW OGs with the translated script, and it offers a whole different experience than just winging it like I did when the game first came out.

All in all, feeling very nostalgic. There is plenty of modern anime that I like to watch (e.g. Goblin Slayer), but nothing can truly duplicate the old stuff for me. It's hard to even really put a word to what's missing.

dioxxys posted...

No one's trying to censor your games!

Reading the comments to that (very short) article made my stomach lurch.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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Zeus posted...

idk, maybe President Doom?

*facepalm* I wonder how many more signs we need that it is time to pull the plug on (non-indie) comic books as a medium?
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

I am not going to get the Disney service, as I cannot afford it in addition to the other services I use. Trying to not be a victim of the slide towards cable prices, thank you. I enjoy the Marvel movies, but it looks like I am going to stick to theaters and Blu-Ray for that content.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

*** Colin Baker ***

That he has one of the longest runs of any of the Big Finish Doctors feels appropriate.

As far as costuming goes, Eighth Doctor is my favorite. I especially like the steampunk Tardis.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

I can't help but feel like this entire school arc is a waste of time and a strange turn for kirito's character to even be a part of in the first place.

The secret of SAO is that Kirito is ultimately unnecessary.

Without him, there would be more yuri.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

WhiskeyDisk posted...

I'm getting sick of everyone and their asshole brother starting their own streaming service.

Unfortunately, a bubble has to swell before it can burst, and this is most assuredly a bubble.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

*tries to stop drooling over screenshots from Super Robot Wars T*

I made it through one episode of Uzamaid before I hit the "NO" button, thank you.

dioxxys posted...

Deoxxys has zero interest in yaoi sadly

You sound like you need a little Gakuen Handsome in your life.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

But Bonds are like Doctors, it's hard to argue against any given person's subjective preferences.

Related to a point you made above: The Sixth Doctor TV episodes do nothing for me (... and that costume is excrement, if you ask me), but the guy is aces in the Big Finish audio dramas, IMO.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I feel there is referential context here that I'm missing.

TSBT used to be a fantasy role-play channel in the hoary old days of IRC chat in the '90s. I acted as a GM for it. Several good, long-running plots happened in that place, and I met a number of friends there who are still in my life twenty years later (plus one who got married to a real-life friend of mine), but it was also a big time sink and a hotbed of drama. That, I do not miss.

Do you also enjoy the fact that they've remade it like twice now?

Never Say Never Again is all right, but also silly. It looks like Connery got dropped into a Moore movie. ... If there is a second remake, I am unaware of it (unless you count Austin Powers).
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

(Just ... don't call it the Silver Blade Tavern.)

Thunderball is my favorite of all the James Bond movies, and I prefer the Connery era, but I did enjoy the Brosnan era, especially Goldeneye, but I loathe Die Another Day. That one is shit, IMO. If Madonna is in your movie, you jumped the shark. Game over.

The Craig era feels like a revisitation of the Connery era, but updated for the present. Casino Royale is not my personal favorite (because Thunderball), but I consider it to most likely be the objective best of all the movies in terms of characterization, plot, etc. Perfect reboot for Bond.

Lazenby is underrated. The Moore era bores me, for the most part, but I did like Live and Let Die, and Jaws is a fun recurring villain. (A View To A Kill is the first Bond movie I ever saw, but I was too young to make much of it outside of thinking Grace Jones is scary.) The Dalton movies do not feel like Bond movies to me.

Seconding the love of Dragon Quest XI while I am here. Best game of 2018 for me.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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DeltaBladeX posted...

https://imgur.com/6Q33g74

A Disgaea take on Nep? I can approve of that.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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keyblader1985 posted...

Cowboy Bebop live action series announced.

Firefly already happened a decade and a half ago, man.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

Ignore reality in order to succeed.

Hey, it worked for Gao Gai Gar.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

I have thought about supporting a Patreon before, but I see a number of fanficcers on there using it to take commissions for their works, and I do not agree with that (because fanfic is not supposed to be done for profit, and that used to be Rule No. 1 of the craft).
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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DeltaBladeX posted...

I could prove him wrong by going back to what these once were

... which was Delta posting pics during long bouts of insomnia.
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Zeus posted...

Then again, I have a lot of movies these days and space is starting to be an issue.

"You know you're a thirtysomething when --"

It's probably the biggest reason why I don't get limited editions of games and the like any more. There just isn't the shelf space for it.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.