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| Topic | Wind Waker is still the best Zelda game. |
| masterpug53 12/31/18 1:52:43 PM #13 | I don't know if I'd call WW the single best Zelda game, but it's #2 or #3 at absolute lowest. It definitely has the best story and characters, tons of memorable moments, and some excellent boss fights. It also has some of the most forgettable dungeons in the series (Tower of the Gods is pretty good, but that's it). I personally enjoyed the sailing aspect and vastness of the world, but I can understand why it's divisive. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | Trump: An all concrete Wall was NEVER ABANDONED. Some areas will be all concrete |
| masterpug53 12/31/18 11:35:24 AM #19 | ArchiePeck posted... Some areas will be all concrete but the experts at Border Patrol prefer a Wall that is see through (thereby making it possible to see what is happening on both sides). Well yes, but all-concrete gives the option for crenellation, offering border patrol agents better coverage while they fend off immigrants with their crossbows, javelins, and burning oil. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | Shaun of the Dead > World's End > Hot Fuzz |
| masterpug53 12/31/18 11:31:48 AM #24 | dreamvoid posted... Ricemills posted...Letron_James posted...Hot>Shaun>World's This. Hot Fuzz is one of my top modern comedies. Shaun would be on par with it, but --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | In hindsight, the Jeff x Annie thing of Community is SUPER creepy. Spoilers |
| masterpug53 12/31/18 11:28:12 AM #3 | That's probably why the show spotlighted the creepiness of it at every turn and it never went anywhere (unless they started legitimately dating after S3, I don't remember S4-5 apart from a couple good lines). Annie even admits towards the latter end of S3 that she's just infatuated with Jeff because he's pretty much the Everest of a woman wanting to turn a bastard into a good guy. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | Auron's cameo in KH2 is the best. |
| masterpug53 12/30/18 10:41:17 AM #10 | Darkinsanity1 posted... Yeah I'm a little bummed because it sounds like they aren't bringing back the Final Fantasy characters in Kingdom Hearts 3. I honestly think that Nomura would ditch the Disney angle too if he thought he could get away with it. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | Auron's cameo in KH2 is the best. |
| masterpug53 12/30/18 10:36:59 AM #9 | saspa posted... Really? If anything I thought Auron's cameo was really underutilized and kind of a waste in KH 2, much as I love him. What about playing FF 10 made you think that was a nice way to introduce Auron by the by? --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | Frustrating final bosses? |
| masterpug53 12/30/18 10:31:52 AM #17 | Final Fantasy 9: --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | You can live in Atlanta, Chicago, or Dallas |
| masterpug53 12/30/18 10:25:47 AM #10 | Probably Atlanta, even though I loathe the traffic. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | Quick Attack |
| masterpug53 12/30/18 10:09:08 AM #6 | Sand Attack --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | Have you ever no death a game? |
| masterpug53 12/30/18 10:06:20 AM #44 | Ex-Kefiroth posted... I used to be able to no-death run Super Castlevania IV That's admirable. Even if I could master every single boss in that game, those fucking collapsing staircases in the last stage would get me at least once every time. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | Have you ever no death a game? |
| masterpug53 12/30/18 10:04:50 AM #43 | WaterLink posted... masterpug53 posted...LttP Blind's random-ass firing barrage can turn deadly quick, definitely. On the other hand, bottled fairies very nearly break the challenge of that and all subsequent Zelda games. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | Have you ever no death a game? |
| masterpug53 12/30/18 9:57:22 AM #39 | Super Metroid (which isn't very hard if you know what you're doing) LttP (same) Pretty sure I made it through FF6 once or twice without a game over; not so much strategy as luck, given all the instakill attacks in WoR. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | Metroid Fusion was a good game |
| masterpug53 12/30/18 9:46:21 AM #17 | I love Fusion, it's one of my favorites. Some of my favorite gaming moments in that game. Zero Mission, on the other hand...I played it once and I honestly can't remember a damn thing about it, except for the --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | Dr. Pavel |
| masterpug53 12/30/18 9:26:09 AM #12 | Still kinda crazy to think that CIA fell all that way and landed harmlessly in Westeros. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | Auron's cameo in KH2 is the best. |
| masterpug53 12/28/18 8:06:06 PM #6 | Agreed, Auron showed that they still had a grasp on how to handle the FF aspect of the formula. Pity that Setzer was on the opposite end of that spectrum. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | Hmm Kingdom Hearts III is less than a month away. I better not die anytime soon. |
| masterpug53 12/28/18 7:57:13 PM #16 | Yomi posted... monkmith posted...MC_BatCommander posted...The point would have been to play Kingdom Hearts III (?)monkmith posted...pissed its not on pc, not buying a crap console for 1 game. Many of us remember a time when the potential to play KH3 was supposed to be a good reason to own a PS3. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | Trump's now threatening to close the 'entire Southern border' over his wall |
| masterpug53 12/28/18 4:42:17 PM #66 | RiderofHogs posted... Giant_Aspirin posted...Nintendo415 posted...Ds just want to let our land be invaded by anyone. Thanks for bringing full circle the notion that Trump's boondoggle is a 1st century approach to a 21st century problem. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | Undead enemies in Final Fantasy Tactics are the fucking worst. |
| masterpug53 12/28/18 2:13:27 PM #10 | Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together - undead enemies who massively outclass you and return to life 100% of the time after three rounds, in a game where magicka starts at 0 and a basic Life spell costs 100 magicka to cast (and exorcism spells are very limited and expensive as well). I came back to FFT and groveled at the feet of all the ghosts and skeletons in the game after giving up LuCT's trolly shitshow. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | You ungrateful people don't deserve a Chrono Trigger Remake |
| masterpug53 12/28/18 11:24:44 AM #34 | Veggeta X posted... masterpug53 posted...Good. Even something as relatively simple as the DS port was ruined by a soulless retranslation, and the new side content (at least as much as I could force myself to play) was so tedious that it actually dragged it down further. Nice try, but overall I actually enjoyed the FF 6 retranslation on the GBA (my all-time favorite video game, incidentally), even in spite of the fact that my namesake Master Pug got the axe. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | Daily reminder that Barney Gumble is an alcoholic |
| masterpug53 12/28/18 11:16:21 AM #6 | 'Excuse me, did something crawl in your mouth and die?!' 'It didn't die!' --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | You ungrateful people don't deserve a Chrono Trigger Remake |
| masterpug53 12/28/18 10:21:46 AM #32 | Good. Even something as relatively simple as the DS port was ruined by a soulless retranslation, and the new side content (at least as much as I could force myself to play) was so tedious that it actually dragged it down further. I shudder to think of how badly modern Squeenix would butcher a full-blown remake. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | Daily reminder that Final Fantasy 7 is the best in the series. |
| masterpug53 12/28/18 10:19:30 AM #27 | Nah. 6 is still better. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | No TV and no beer make Homer go something something |
| masterpug53 12/27/18 9:22:15 PM #5 | 'Mom, is dad going to kill us?' 'I guess we'll just have to wait and see.' --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | Final Fantasy Tactics General: Shut The Jape Up SPOILERS |
| masterpug53 12/27/18 7:11:39 PM #113 | Veggeta X posted... I never bothered ever leveling Cloud in my FFT runs. I think I will this time. I say this every...single...time I start up a new Tactics playthrough, and always give up about halfway. You either bend over backwards to build around him with Materia Blade and Short Charge just to make his special abilities feasible (yet still underpowered), or you trash all that and make him something useful but not unique. I'm sure one of the FFT masters has a build that makes full devastating use of his special class, but with my limited brainpower I never figured out how to make him work. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | If you could Thanos CE would you? |
| masterpug53 12/27/18 2:53:29 PM #10 | The universe would take at least a couple generations to undo Thanos' work; meanwhile, this board would be completely repopulated by alts in under an hour. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | You're told to take out 5 games on the SNES classic, replace with 5. |
| masterpug53 12/27/18 2:50:04 PM #6 | - Super Mario Kart (I honestly didn't even enjoy this when it was the only Kart game in town; 64 is what made the series an institution imo. Conversely I actually kinda liked F-Zero playing it for the first time on the Classic.) - Star Fox 2 - Super Punch-Out!! - Street Fighter 2 - Kirby's Dream Course + Chrono Trigger + Lufia II + Terranigma + Secret of Mana 2 + TMNT IV --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | Is everyone on Community supposed to be a terrible person? |
| masterpug53 12/27/18 2:32:58 PM #27 | DarthAragorn posted... at early on pierce was still a better person than jeff Around the time the show started transitioning from quirky college comedy sitcom to zany manchild's fantasy world mid-S2 or so (not that I'm ripping on it, I liked both phases of the show equally), Pierce, Britta, Chang and arguably Shirley got so terribly flanderized that I actually don't mind using that ridiculous terminology in this case. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | I just started a new file in Chrono Trigger DS |
| masterpug53 12/27/18 11:27:46 AM #26 | spikethedevil posted... @masterpug53 The DS translation is pretty faithful to the original over all while the SNES one is an over censored abomination. No offense, but the Japanese original is trash if that's the case. Changing 'pop' back into 'beer' or whatever is not remotely worth it if the end result is the robotic character dialogue we got in the DS version. I don't hold Woosley to any deified standards by any stretch, but localization exists for a reason. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | I just started a new file in Chrono Trigger DS |
| masterpug53 12/27/18 9:02:18 AM #18 | I wouldn't pay money for it again (I gifted my copy to a friend), but someday I wouldn't mind the opportunity to give the DS version another chance and see if my opinion of it improves. The god-awful retranslation absolutely killed it for me, sucking all the life out of the characters and needlessly switching weapon names over to Final Fantasy equivalents (and before you think me a biased purist, I actually quite liked the retranslation on the GBA FF 6, in spite of such classic handles as Atma and my namesake Master Pug getting unceremoniously dumped into the dustbin of history). I didn't stick with the DS version long enough to make it to the postgame content (which is rumored to be good), but the new side dungeon that has you slogging back and forth between Prehistory and Medieval to build a rope bridge or some shit was the worst kind of tedium, to the point where I dropped that halfway through as well. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | Is everyone on Community supposed to be a terrible person? |
| masterpug53 12/27/18 7:52:02 AM #15 | DrizztLink posted... Starberry posted...Except for Annie. We don't sexualize her. IIRC the line is 'we try not to sexualize her,' implying that it's merely a moral idealism that doesn't translate to reality; Alison Brie is impossible not to sexualize. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | Welp, skipping Kingdom Hearts 3. |
| masterpug53 12/27/18 7:49:16 AM #11 | Plenty of better reasons to skip KH3. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | What comes to mind when you think of "art"? |
| masterpug53 12/26/18 8:08:04 PM #24 | The eternal intangible creative spirit that isn't necessary for life but does make it worth living. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | Would 72 virgins really be that great? |
| masterpug53 12/26/18 4:56:42 PM #27 | 68 virgins and 4 very experienced MILFs would be much more agreeable. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | is anyone actually excited for Kingdom Hearts 3? |
| masterpug53 12/26/18 2:48:12 PM #53 | Rika_Furude posted... You didnt need to post an entire paragraph when i already said "yeah they could have named the games better". I was just informing him Let's not pretend that the series' problems would have gone away if they'd decided to call a card-combat handheld exclusive 'Kingdom Hearts 3.' --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | is anyone actually excited for Kingdom Hearts 3? |
| masterpug53 12/26/18 11:56:36 AM #51 | Rika_Furude posted... PiOverlord posted...Cleo_II posted...No. If it took 12 years to make it was probably in development hell. Also I never played the side titles and the story is confusing af. I have no desire to play a bunch of other games to understand that garbage. If it looks like a spinoff, sounds like a spinoff, plays like a spinoff, and is marketed like a spinoff, it is no one's fault other than the developers that it is perceived as a spinoff. Squeenix chose to let Nomura slap a black leather longcoat on everything that moves and scatter the story over half a dozen side games instead of getting off their asses and keeping the numbered series moving, and I think they'll be in for a rude awakening when they expect the non-hardcore fanbase to sit through a recap vid and plug themselves back into the story; this is even worse imo than FF XIII expecting you to care about the plot by reading a bunch of menu-based cliff notes to get immersed in the narrative when it can't be bothered to weave exposition naturally. KH3 should at the very least get critically savaged for the hole it's dug itself into; I guess I don't wish financial failure on the game, but if it happened, it would be deserved. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | is anyone actually excited for Kingdom Hearts 3? |
| masterpug53 12/26/18 9:33:54 AM #43 | dave_is_slick posted... masterpug53 posted...MrMallard posted...It's been 12 years, and I never got around to playing half of the games. I'm too far back. ...ah, now I remember you fanboying it up in the last topic, not being able to wrap your head around how the non-hardcore fandom quite reasonably viewed all the side games as non-essential spinoffs. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | is anyone actually excited for Kingdom Hearts 3? |
| masterpug53 12/25/18 10:42:59 PM #30 | MrMallard posted... It's been 12 years, and I never got around to playing half of the games. I'm too far back. Don't worry, you can either mash them all into your schedule over the next month via the Kingdom Hearts 2.8345/45 Heart Chrysalis Terminus Mix, or you can sit through a 1-3 hour plot recap. I'm sure either route will be perfect hype fuel for people trying to get back into 3. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | is anyone actually excited for Kingdom Hearts 3? |
| masterpug53 12/25/18 10:21:20 PM #24 | Simon_Petrikov posted... masterpug53 posted... Because it's a series I originally loved that arguably elevated the concept of fanfiction, before it rapidly and irredeemably devolved into regular fanfiction. Among other reasons that I won't really get into because I really have lost all love for the franchise. So I take that back, I guess I don't really have a strong stake in seeing KH3 bomb apart from a detached sense of catharsis. On the other hand I should have been more invested in seeing '76 bomb, since I have a more vested interest in the future of the Fallout and ES series. KH, FF and Squeenix have been lost causes for awhile now. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | is anyone actually excited for Kingdom Hearts 3? |
| masterpug53 12/25/18 9:52:52 PM #20 | Nope. The more I see, the less interested I am. It's actually the first game in awhile where I legitimately hope it bombs. I didn't even wish that on Fallout '76. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | Unpopular opinion: Home Alone is extremely mediocre, at best. |
| masterpug53 12/25/18 12:06:27 PM #30 | Behaviorism posted... NibeIungsnarf posted...Do people actually think Home Alone is a high quality film? Both of these, though the latter is undercut by the sequel shamelessly copying the formula to the point where Kevin hasn't learned anything and still incorrectly judges the dirty loner at face value. There's two reasons to enjoy Home Alone: good holiday music, and live action Tom and Jerry-level brutality. It's never been high art, and has been shit on since release as the poster child for American audiences having no taste. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | jfc the FF6 battle where *spoilers* |
| masterpug53 12/24/18 10:42:43 PM #3 | Fun story, I'd never heard the expression 'birthday suit' before I'd played FF6. I always assumed it meant 'Bad Day Suit.' Didn't learn what birthday suit meant until I was a good bit older. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | a free big bucket of chicken or you become a expert on kingdom hearts |
| masterpug53 12/24/18 10:39:59 PM #13 | It feels like every time I hear something about games in the series past 2, the more the franchise withers and dies in my heart. Chicken please. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | Is everyone on Community supposed to be a terrible person? |
| masterpug53 12/24/18 10:31:08 PM #4 | Annie's Boobs is pretty blameless. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | What would make you quit porn? |
| masterpug53 12/24/18 10:28:07 PM #4 | A lovely young woman willing and eager to satisfy at least 40 percent of my porn fetishes. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | What's so bad about Katy Perry's look? |
| masterpug53 12/24/18 10:16:38 PM #29 | Southernfatman posted... Nothing really. Pretty much my sentiments in the general sense. However, I will say that the spiky bleach-blonde pixie cut works better on a rounder, more cherubic face, since the edginess of the style better contrasts the softness of the face. There was a woman I saw a long time ago in an issue of Maxim or Stuff named Maisumi Max who set the gold standard for this type of 'do. Still, I don't hate it on Perry. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | Trump: Drones are lots of fun, but only a good old fashioned Wall works! |
| masterpug53 12/23/18 11:06:32 AM #5 | Nothing will cement the USA's plummeted reputation for years to come quite like Maginot Line 2.0. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | Hollow Knight is better than any Castlevania or Metroid game |
| masterpug53 12/23/18 10:56:32 AM #11 | Erm, no. Excellent game, but... - too one-note in tonal variety. Consistency is good and a game doesn't have to be as off-the-wall as SotN to be fun, but Super Metroid had very well-defined shifts between zones in terms of music, art style, and vibe. Hollow Knight has somber dark tunnels, somber dark mossy cave, somber dark rainy city, etc. - past the halfway point of the game, the devs got in the bad habit of taking the sadism of their boss fights and platforming challenges one step past the point of enjoyability, to the point where I lost interest in finishing the game right at the end because I simply didn't have any patience left for it. - people have complained for years about metroidvania games hiding cool shit behind nondescript breakable walls. Hollow Knight doubles down majorly on this, hiding things far more unique than missile tanks behind thoroughly unremarkable walls. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | Man I have donated $100 to support the Trump Wall via GoFundMe |
| masterpug53 12/23/18 12:03:34 AM #45 | All in all it's just another brick in the embarassingly Maginot-esque boondoggle. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
| Topic | 4 more days until infinity war is on netflix |
| masterpug53 12/21/18 4:38:04 PM #18 | 'Pacing' as a critical term got diluted down to meaninglessness some time ago; now it simply translates to 'this movie / game didn't cater to my precise unrealistic expectations for every single minute of its runtime.' --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. |
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