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| Topic | The Mandalorian premiered tonight. Let's talk about it or whatever. |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 11:40:04 PM #91 | Yeah, the opening scene was the best comedy setpiece in the series so far. I like where they're setting up Season 2 to go, so I'll be back in once it comes back. --- |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Rise of Skywalker Edition [SELF] |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 11:37:10 PM #192 | The Mandalorian Season 1 complete That was a really cool finale. I'll be sad to see some of these characters go, but the setup for Season 2 seems promising. --- |
| Topic | transience's top 100 games -- 2020 edition. |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 11:35:30 PM #210 | LordoftheMorons posted... Im pretty solidly of the opinion 5 > 4 > 3 (probably didnt help the latter twos standings that I played the games in reverse chronological order). Yeah, it's definitely tough to go back to previous entries if you played 5 first. --- |
| Topic | transience's top 100 games -- 2020 edition. |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 10:28:54 PM #207 | transience posted... I'm gonna have to bite my tongue until I get to 5. but, I will say that the 'small town feel' fits 3 better than 4, even though it's not portrayed as being small town, just because the game has a smaller scope and you can get to know the people a little easier. Eh, I don't feel like P3 rotates its NPC dialogue often enough. I usually only check it once a month because going everywhere isn't a breeze like it is with Inaba. You've got like 5 screens to cover, and the NPCs are always in the same place, so there's something comfortable about that. Plus, the NPCs in P3 feel like standalone entities while Inaba and its characters feel like a community, especially as you get to know them through sidequests and shared content. Like, you get to know the twin girls and their relationship, and how it works even though they're always in separate locations. The Fox S. Link especially really makes you feel a connection to the town as you run around everywhere helping these people out. I appreciate P5's scale, but it almost has too much to do. There was a bunch of stuff I only did once or twice to trigger a Trophy (like the batting cages) and then I never bothered with it again. --- |
| Topic | transience's top 100 games -- 2020 edition. |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 10:19:21 PM #203 | I mean, I'm just saying! I will defend P4 to the very end. I love the Investigation Team. One of my favorite JRPG parties ever. If you're in it for the gameplay, there's no reason to play any Persona game ever again other than 5 until 6! The battle system gets better in every conceivable way with each iteration. I played 3 and 4 leading up to 5, and I did two full playthroughs of P5 back to back, and I was pretty much done with the game. I've beaten P4 at least 5 times at this point. I might go back to P5 once Royal drops if it's determined the new content is worth it. --- |
| Topic | transience's top 100 games -- 2020 edition. |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 10:15:59 PM #201 | transience posted... Its good, yeah, but why play this one when you could play 5? Because 4 is still the better game! P5 is one of the most stylish games I've ever played, but the cast and the story just aren't as good as 4's. And honestly I love the small town feel of Inaba. It almost feels like home by the time I finish a playthrough of P4, unlike with P3 and P5. --- |
| Topic | transience's top 100 games -- 2020 edition. |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 9:42:31 PM #197 | I am the one who names his tiers after Ace Attorney quotes --- |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Rise of Skywalker Edition [SELF] |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 9:03:41 PM #189 | Yeah, I think that's the main reason I'm not a fan of the Windu/Palpatine moment in Episode III like some people are. It feels like Windu got cheated (and he did! plot hax). --- |
| Topic | transience's top 100 games -- 2020 edition. |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 9:02:12 PM #192 | Yeah, I haven't tried to play SH2 in forever because I'm a little worried it hasn't aged well, but I sure have fond memories of it. SH2 might as well be called "The Yuri Hyuga Punches Dudes in Faces Show," and I love it for that. --- |
| Topic | transience's top 100 games -- 2020 edition. |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 5:02:38 PM #163 | Yeah, that's true. There's enough of an age gap that we were on different consoles at our phases of life. My early childhood was the SNES and the Genesis. Then my adolescent years were the N64, PS1, PS2, and GameCube. --- |
| Topic | transience's top 100 games -- 2020 edition. |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 4:18:43 PM #160 | Dels posted... this is pretty much my exact taste in games (except also PW-like "visual novels") so just know that even if i don't always post in your topics i am usually reading them and trusting your opinions =) it's kind of funny because I think tran and I tend to like all the same genres but we like them for entirely different reasons so our tastes don't line up all that much --- |
| Topic | Why is FF8s writing so poor compared to its generational siblings |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 3:39:29 PM #102 | the Lunar Cry looks like the moon is popping a giant pimple it always kinda grosses me out watching that FMV --- |
| Topic | Final Fantasy Music Tournament "128 songs enter, only 1 can win." |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 3:35:58 PM #3 | wow Liberi Fatal vs. FFVII Main Theme and Man with the Machine Gun vs. You're Not Alone should not be round 1 matches those are all top tier songs --- |
| Topic | transience's top 100 games -- 2020 edition. |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 3:30:33 PM #154 | I feel like I've always been B8's #1 DD fan. I think the individual case quality is so high. I love 5-2, 5-3, 5-5, and 5-6. Even 5-4 offers something unique to the series despite its flaws. 5-1 is the only real dud in the game, in my opinion. And Blackquill quickly became one of my favorite characters in the series. He was definitely a return to form as a strong rival character after how nothing Klavier was. While Apollo gets pushed to the side for a lot of the game, I still think DD did a ton to improve his standing with the fanbase. Blackquill was the perfect rival character for him in particular. That's my second favorite attorney/prosecutor dynamic (after Phoenix/Edgeworth, naturally). --- |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Rise of Skywalker Edition [SELF] |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 3:23:48 PM #187 | #8. Episode III: Revenge of the Sith The Good: Unlike the first two prequels, Episode III is loaded with action. It's certainly enjoyable for that alone. I don't know that it's necessarily all good action (The Grievous stuff is all kinda "eh"), but I can't accuse it of being boring, if nothing else. I will say that this movie does a pretty good job of justifying Anakin's heel turn through the ineptitude and hypocrisy of the Jedi Council. I'm not sure that was the intent, but whatever...! The Bad: While it avoids the pitfall of nothing happening for long stretches of time like the first two, it does still have a lot of their other shortcomings. The dialogue is still kinda cringe-worthy ("You're breaking my heart, Ani!" being the worst offender). I honestly think the Anakin/Obi-wan duel at the end is a little overrated. I think they play with the setting too much instead of just having them fight. While I said they did a good job of justifying the heel turn, Anakin is still hard to like or sympathize with, especially when he's shouting, "I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU!" after the fight is over. The prequels don't really do a good job of developing the friendship between Anakin and Obi-wan (which I've heard the Clone Wars fixes, so maybe I should watch it), so the emotional impact of the betrayal falls a little flat for me. A lot of Episode III feels a bit forced to me in order to make it fit the original trilogy, but that's part of the inherent issues of doing prequels in general. The Best: After being largely subdued up to this point, Palpatine goes full ham in this movie. This is the one time I actually really love the cheese of the prequels. UNLIMITED POWER! Honestly, the fight between Yoda and Palpatine might be my favorite one in the movie. I do respect Yoda for recognizing his own fault (and the Jedi council in general) in Anakin's failure, although I don't know why every Jedi's first instinct after a major failure is to go into hiding! --- |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Rise of Skywalker Edition [SELF] |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 2:24:02 PM #186 | We found a vacation package with a Groupon for 9 full days, 3 in each city. I've always wanted to visit Ireland (because of my family heritage) and France (because of all the French I took in high school and college that I've largely forgotten), so it'll be fun. --- |
| Topic | transience's top 100 games -- 2020 edition. |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 2:20:38 PM #144 | Oh, don't get me wrong. I've loved my 3DS and Vita. There just hasn't been a reason for me to play them this year (I tried playing AA on the PS4 just to support the franchise and for the trophies, although I haven't finished that yet either), and I haven't had the urge to replay something. I guess I should get back to the Layton games one of these days. I finished the original trilogy about a year ago and I started Last Spectre, but I think I stopped like an hour in. --- |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Rise of Skywalker Edition [SELF] |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 2:17:10 PM #184 | Also, I think we are going to Dublin, London, and Paris for our honeymoon. I've never been to Europe before, so that will be fun. After this, I'll just need to visit Asia and Australia to have visited all the inhabitable continents! although I guess I might need to visit Canada or something in order to count North America --- |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Rise of Skywalker Edition [SELF] |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 2:15:32 PM #183 | I...guess I can see the parallels except --- |
| Topic | transience's top 100 games -- 2020 edition. |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 2:14:42 PM #142 | I don't know that I've even touched my 3DS or Vita this year, and I've never been a PC gamer unless absolutely necessary. --- |
| Topic | transience's top 100 games -- 2020 edition. |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 2:11:46 PM #140 | yeah I have zero interest in the Switch Lite and I barely use the handheld mode for the regular Switch unless I want to keep playing while I take a bathroom break --- |
| Topic | Tim Rogers Presents The Games of the Decade 2010-2019 |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 2:09:08 PM #17 | |
| Topic | Favorite Spider-Man villain |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 2:08:07 PM #4 | |
| Topic | transience's top 100 games -- 2020 edition. |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 2:07:02 PM #138 | transience posted... no, feel free! I can't go down the snowboarding path with you. that minigame is awful. FF7 goes way out of its way to add minigames to spice up its combat and almost all of them are just bad. I could do a ranking topic of FF7 minigames but dolphin jumping, the shinra stealth sequence, the sub, snowboarding, squats, chocobo racing -- it's so bad. I do like ft. condor but I'm a sucker for that stuff. And FFVIIR looks like it's going to add even more! who's ready for darts --- |
| Topic | transience's top 100 games -- 2020 edition. |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 1:17:32 PM #123 | Oh, if JFA is on here, PW1 and PW3 should be on here, too. I'm just curious to see if AAI2 makes it, which I imagine it will. speaking of which it's literally been 3 years since our AA rankings when is AA7 --- |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Rise of Skywalker Edition [SELF] |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 12:48:42 PM #180 | Now I want a Sonic Adventure style parody called Rouge One --- |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Rise of Skywalker Edition [SELF] |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 11:53:48 AM #174 | wow that is some ranking I could almost accept it aside from 4 being way near the bottom --- |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Rise of Skywalker Edition [SELF] |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 11:44:41 AM #172 | Yeah, I honestly considered putting Solo last. There's just nothing special about this movie. Episode I and II might not be very good overall, but they at least have one or two memorable moments that every fan can recall immediately. also I learned that George Lucas originally wanted to call Episode II "The Adventures of Jar Jar Binks" that dude is a masterful troll of his own fanbase at times --- |
| Topic | Do you know of any funny stand up comedians who are also religious? |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 11:38:30 AM #14 | I mean, if you want someone who actually incorporates religion into his act (but not being anti-religious, that is), then Tim Hawkins is probably your best bet. --- |
| Topic | my wishes for the next decade: xenosaga trilogy hd remaster |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 11:37:32 AM #38 | The second game might be my favorite one, actually...! --- |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Rise of Skywalker Edition [SELF] |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 11:35:02 AM #169 | I'll use spoilers for the newer movies because those are obviously less well known than the originals and the prequels. #9. Solo: A Star Wars Story The Good: The Bad: The Best: --- |
| Topic | Star Wars Episode 9 Discussion SPOILERS |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 11:11:55 AM #315 | oh wow has Episode IX turned LMS into a Last Jedi apologist --- |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Rise of Skywalker Edition [SELF] |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 4:46:16 AM #165 | Oh right, I meant to address something from xp's post about The Expanse a little earlier, but I guess I forgot! It's just a little thing though. Oh yeah, I guess I could do my updated Expanse character rankings post-season 4! Holden > Miller > Amos > Drummer > Ashford > Prax > Alex > Naomi > Cotyar > Avasarala > Fred > Bobbie > Melba > Anna > Murtry > Mao > Marco --- |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Rise of Skywalker Edition [SELF] |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 4:27:44 AM #164 | #10. Episode II. Attack of the Clones The Good: I think this is Mace Windu's best role in the prequels. I imagine most people would say Episode III because of the confrontation with Palpatine, but I'm kinda iffy on that one, which we might discuss later. I like his role in the big battle at the end. Windu just straight up decapitating Jango is probably the big "Whoa" moment of the movie to me, at least in terms of "I didn't see that coming," certainly not quite in that way. The one big "Whoa" moment for most people is the Yoda lightsaber duel, which is probably the height of absurd fun in the prequels, more than anything Episode III throws at us. It's silly and you can quibble with it if you want, but I prefer to just enjoy the thing at face value. Speaking of something absurd that I enjoy because it's simply so ridiculous, most of the prequels' humor falls flat for me, but I ironically enjoy the whole, "You don't want to sell me death sticks" exchange at the beginning. The Bad: Much like Episode I, most of the movie is just boring. So much just sitting around and talking. Dooku is easily the most boring villain the series has produced. I love Christopher Lee, but he really does just get wasted in both this one and the next. Perhaps the worst thing in the entire prequel trilogy (maybe even the series as a whole) is the Anakin/Padme "romance." We very rarely use the word "unbelievable" in its most literal sense, but it's literally unbelievable that Padme falls in love with Anakin, especially in the aftermath of him slaughtering the Tuskan raiders. The dialogue between them is just so bad and so wooden, even my fiancee was cringing watching those scenes. The Best: I used to think I was alone in this until recently when some other B8ers expressed the same sentiment, but I always loved the part where Obi-wan is investigating the clone army and talking to the Fetts. It's really the only moment in the prequels where it feels like there's legitimate intrigue and tension without it being in your face and over the top about it. The prequels almost never do subtlety, but they somehow manage it here. Honestly, I hadn't watched the prequels from start to finish since they first came out until I decided to watch the entire series with my fiancee, but for whatever the reason, that scene was always the part I looked back fondly on more than any other. For this scene alone, even though the rest of the movie is probably worse than Episode I, I can't rank it dead last. --- |
| Topic | transience's top 100 games -- 2020 edition. |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 3:31:00 AM #112 | Ultimate was fun, but I think Smash has passed me by at this point. It just doesn't engross me anymore the way that the first three did. --- |
| Topic | deo listens to Classic Sonic level themes for the first time and ranks them |
| LeonhartFour 12/27/19 3:28:13 AM #197 | Big Arms rules definitely one of the best Sonic tracks ever --- |
| Topic | greengravy appreciation topic |
| LeonhartFour 12/26/19 9:50:17 PM #3 | the time he tried to get Dark Nation into SMFFFC --- |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Rise of Skywalker Edition [SELF] |
| LeonhartFour 12/26/19 8:47:44 PM #160 | because dubs forever --- |
| Topic | Star Wars Episode 9 Discussion SPOILERS |
| LeonhartFour 12/26/19 8:39:40 PM #300 | Team Rocket Elite posted... Speaking of Chewbacca, when he got captured I thought it would lead to a scene of him interacting with Kylo Ren in some way. Those two have technically known each for a long time and they've got to have something to say to each other. However, it never happened. I think Chewie said all he needed to say in Episode VII with the crossbow shot to the gut. --- |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Rise of Skywalker Edition [SELF] |
| LeonhartFour 12/26/19 8:39:02 PM #158 | also Clannad is on Netflix now and I'm debating introducing the fiancee to it although she is a subs over dubs woman so it could be difficult --- |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Rise of Skywalker Edition [SELF] |
| LeonhartFour 12/26/19 8:35:32 PM #156 | Yeah, Ilus is difficult to keep straight for me, too, perhaps for that same reason. --- |
| Topic | Anagram Aces Ace Attorney: A Phoenix Wright Playthrough Topic (spoilers) |
| LeonhartFour 12/26/19 8:34:04 PM #167 | Yeah, there was no guarantee the game would be successful enough to warrant localizing the other two games. And yeah, the series doesn't really start getting super Japanese until after the original trilogy. Apollo Justice didn't come out until 2007. --- |
| Topic | Star Wars Episode 9 Discussion SPOILERS |
| LeonhartFour 12/26/19 6:20:06 PM #291 | Yeah, if Abrams had any sort of plans for the future, he definitely didn't communicate them to anyone. He wasn't even originally supposed to do Episode IX anyway. He was their desperate attempt to course correct after TLJ's backlash. --- |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Rise of Skywalker Edition [SELF] |
| LeonhartFour 12/26/19 5:31:00 PM #143 | nope the old way doesn't work anymore unfortunately I also have to put a # before the number to prevent it from automatically changing any number followed by a period into a numbered list starting with 1 someone needs to submit a feedback ticket about that --- |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Rise of Skywalker Edition [SELF] |
| LeonhartFour 12/26/19 5:27:42 PM #141 | The Mana Sword posted... excuse me why didn't my spoiler tags work the new posting engine you can just use Ctrl-B, Ctrl-I, Ctrl-U, or Ctrl-S like you do in Word and stuff now or you can switch back to the old engine --- |
| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Rise of Skywalker Edition [SELF] |
| LeonhartFour 12/26/19 5:18:30 PM #137 | Okay, I'm going to rank the Star Wars movies from 11 to 1 just to give me a list of sorts to do. #11. Episode I: The Phantom Menace The Good: Liam Neeson as Qui-gon is a pretty good fit, I think. I like how he's seen as a bit of an outcast by the Jedi council, which is perhaps your first insight that the council itself probably isn't really doing its job. He tries to do the right thing by Anakin, but they've got so many restrictions and regulations that he pretty much has to go rogue. The Jedi council basically gets mired down in bureaucracy. Ewan McGregor is a good Obi-Wan, but I think that's a pretty common consensus across all three movies. Despite the bad acting by Jake Lloyd, the pod race was kinda neat. I did enjoy it. The Bad: I know it's cliche to hate on Jar Jar's role in Episode I, but it's cliche for a reason. He's bad. You can tell he was just inserted to be funny to little kids because his humor is least common denominator level stuff. Also, my word, the plot is boring as all get out for 90% of the movie. There's just so much sitting around and talking. When watching it with my fiancee, we literally had to stop to take a break in the middle because we were so bored. You've got the pod race, and then you've got the final sequence with the space battle and the lightsaber duel, and that's about it. Speaking of the space battle, Anakin blowing up the station by sheer dumb luck is probably encapsulates the missteps of this movie (and the prequels in general). The resolutions of the major moments are just so unsatisfying. The Gungans succeed by sheer dumb luck as well. And while Jake Lloyd's acting is pretty bad, he's just a little kid, so I can forgive it and it's not even the worst performance of the movie. Shmi's acting is the epitome of wooden. The Best: The Duel of the Fates and the two-on-one battle with Darth Maul at the end are easily the highlights of the movie. You can accuse it of being over-choreographed or whatever, but it's good fun to me. Even so, the irony of Obi-wan defeating Darth Maul despite the latter having the high ground is not lost on me. He just stands there while Obi-wan leaps several meters through the air, lands behind him, and then slices him in half. Still, it's only a small quibble, and the prequels rarely do anything perfectly, so whatever. Qui-gon's death, followed by the tension of Obi-wan having to wait for the shields to go back down to run in to avenge him, was a really well done, understated moment. This fight is one of the longer lightsaber duels in the series, and it could almost stand to be longer considering the rest of the movie! --- |
| Topic | Fire Emblem: Three Houses Topic 3: Mortal Savant is a Bad Class Edition |
| LeonhartFour 12/26/19 4:11:09 PM #479 | Well, Blue Lions definitely depicts her that way, but that's also from Dimitri's admittedly skewed perspective --- |
| Topic | Why is FF8s writing so poor compared to its generational siblings |
| LeonhartFour 12/26/19 4:07:30 PM #94 | trdl23 posted... @LeonhartFour will and should correct me if Im wrong, but a friend of mine who usually knows more than I do about anything FF-related told me FF8 suffered from bad localization and a lot of nuance they would have helped was lost in translation. Is that accurate? Well, in a couple of places, yes. The biggest one is Edea's speech at the end of Disc 1, where the localization team somehow failed to recognize that she used a title drop and didn't properly translate it as such. Overall, I think the localization is solid, but @dowolf would be the guy to ask in-depth questions about such matters. --- |
| Topic | Switch Game Recommendations |
| LeonhartFour 12/26/19 3:13:21 PM #24 | SeabassDebeste posted... wait witcher is on switch?? Witcher 3, yes. some might call it Switcher 3 --- |
| Topic | Why is FF8s writing so poor compared to its generational siblings |
| LeonhartFour 12/26/19 3:12:13 PM #90 | Mewtwo59 posted... Did they ever say that Cid picked Irvine? I recall him just being Martine's pick, and he definitely wanted Edea dead. No, Martine passed the buck at the last minute to Squall and company, and sent Irvine along since they didn't have a sniper. It was originally supposed to be Martine's mission from NORG. --- |
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