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HM03: WarioWare: Twisted (GBA, 2004)
I'm gonna save the ramble about how brilliant the WarioWare series is because there are more games up on the actual list. WarioWare: Twisted, the third WarioWare release stateside (but the second in Japan), takes the microgame format of the original and throws in a gimmick: a motion-sensing gyro built into the cartridge that allows the game to recognize when the user tilts the system. And hey, it works great, and the microgames are excellent - the gimmick doesn't distract from the formula of the original, and obviously also worked well when using touch screen, Wii-motion controls, or the Wii U game pad in those sequels.
Weirdly-shaped cartridge aside, it's the most forgettable entry of the series. The novelty of rotation just has a little less interesting you can do with it - some of the game's formats include big spinning, little spinning, spinning while pressing A sometimes, or just pressing A without spinning. On this list, I tried to at least diversify the number of series present and not overrunning one series too much, (I tried, at least.) so into HMs it goes.

HM04: Halo: Combat Evolved (XBOX, 2001)
Halo is a tricky one - I'm not a huge fan of FPS's and I've never so much as played a minute of the game's single-player campaign. I'm gonna do a trick that'll come up a bunch in the actual list and combine a couple games into one here - my experience with the Halo games is a lot of 1 and a decent amount of 2 and that's it, that's the list.
Like just about any multiplayer game, my opinion is largely colored by the experiences I've had playing the game with friends. Back in high school, a group of other misfit nerds and I played all sorts of multiplayer games after school, and Halo was strongly in the rotation. I was never particularly great, but I was good enough to be competitive, and came to appreciate the quality of the game despite never being swept up by the fervor of the era. But it deserves a nod as a quality multiplayer game and more specifically a positive formative experience of my youth.

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it's honorable mentions o'clock in here

HM01: Metroid: Samus Returns (3DS, 2017)
A thoroughly enjoyable if mostly by-the-book 2D Metroid remake. There are a couple quirks to this version, such as all-new "aeon" powers that consume a separate power gauge, and more "action-based" combat controls, like parrying, that work pretty will given the scope of SR-388's maze and the prevalence of boss and enemy encounters. Aside from the final-final boss battle, which I thought was a little too much unnecessary fanservice, it's pretty true to the original and very solid. It's my favorite game series, but there are better ones to come on the actual list, so into the HMs it goes. Still an exciting tease of what Nintendo could do with the Metroid series if they ever bothered to make new games...

HM02: Alpine Racer (Arcade, 1995)
This one requires a bit of storytime: back in the mid-90's, the local Science Center had an exhibit on video game history, complete with a fully-furnished arcade that ran on tokens you could earn for correctly answering trivia questions from the history exhibit part. My mom had a membership, and took my brother and me a whole bunch that summer. And the crown jewel, so to speak, among the more retro arcade classics, was this game - a fully 3D rendered downhill skiing simulator with a stand-up ski "controller" that required you to tilt your body to succesfully complete the course.
I can't really justify actually putting this on the list proper, since my recollection is beating the first level a couple times and then running out of time fast on level 2. But it was such an impressive technical achievement for the era, and such a vivid memory of that summer, that I couldn't resist mentioning it here.

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i honestly dont know if i had ever "beat" a game before the n64 era

though most of my experience before then were open-ended games like sports and racing games or stuff like the sims

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16 more games than i have ever played for ps vita

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imo, the deluge of varying quality collect-a-thon games with hub worlds that came after sm64 are just a testament to how good sm64 is, especially considering how the less-good of those games took all the wrong lessons from mario 64's design

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i only played through the first couple hours of twilight princess (just didn't get around to carrying on for whatever reason) and dear god, the first hour or so where you're fetchquesting your way through the town is nigh-unbearable

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if only we had a top 100 sports matches and i could lobby to have spain's euro 2012 victory over italy included in the list

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(that is not what a battle royale is, nick)

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fat princess was excellent, i wish more "large-scale" online games were that degree of cute and acessible

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already worried about how much stretch i'll need to take this to 100...

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guessing elizabeth makes it there along with [redacted]?

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hell yeah, raspberry racers finally had a good race. i don't think i've actually got to follow my rooting interest in the front of the pack this year, so that was a nice change of pace

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i think the big things in 12 were:
they shortened the race course, which made the non-elimination legs much less prevalent and predictable
they FINALLY, after several failed attempts, came up with a practical and good (if unexciting) non-elimination penalty. the speed bump isn't the most essential part of the race, but it actually serves its purpose and doesn't thoroughly screw over a non-elim team like the time penalty did

the cast was pretty good though, i was rooting for nicolas and don, but honestly found myself thoroughly amused at how comically bad nate & jen were at the end (and their elimination was particularly satisfying)

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i think it's the best aside from the super nintendo, and even that one is not entirely clear

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man, watching the petty alliance bullshit is just exhausting. also, gary literally gave james direct help during the first road block, when there was absolutely no benefit to doing so, and they have the gall to call the football players the ones who "only take, no give". it's almost certainly going to be one of the three "core" teams winning the season, and it absolutely fucking sucks.

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wow, this is legitimately shocking actually

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yams/sweet potatoes

just cant stand em

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i feel like season 12 also cemented the structure of "modern" amazing race, which has largely lasted until current seasons

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boo. nothing worse than the savage speeders winning

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i dunno, it very much depends on the season

seemed to me like all the millennials v gen x people were pretty cool with each other

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i pretty much agree with all the tar takes

will & james just constantly grate, i doubt i'll be able to actively enjoy the season at any point until they lose tbqh

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i really liked fall guys

it was my favorite of the like 4 games i played that came out this year

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interesting that despite missing a qualifier my raspberries are in respectable position. even though it sucks to see your team miss out on a race entirely, it's still a better result to have a good finish and a no-qual rather than two double-digit race finishes

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yeah exaggeration notwithstanding, my inclination is that most of the white collars were actually alright - i think shirin and max might have come off as annoying at times but are generally alright people, and mama c and tyler are both okay enough

not sure about jenn brown tbqh, i liked her enough but i could see that not standing up just like joe lol

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i had heard some stuff surrounding joe anglim post-edge of extinction but didn't quite realize the level he had devolved into a trump cultist

jesus christ, is there anyone left to like from season 30

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dustin & kandice largely just did their own thing, which was somehow a cardinal sin in that season. the whole waiting for other teams to be nice was just goddamn annoying. and i think the alliance in this current season is dumb and annoying, that was by far the worst it's ever been

also it just made me very happy that after seasons of successful alpha-male teams and cookie-cutter "we're going to flirt to win" blonde girls that dustin & kandice were super-competent and just kind of kicked ass. casting women has definitely gotten better since then (for the most part) but it really was goddamn nice to see how good a team of super-strong alpha-ladies could run through the race like all the legions of boring dudes since rob & brennan in season 1

obviously though, a (generally) boring pair still won season 10...

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as much as i hate 9 it still might legitimately be the best season out of the whole 8-11 stretch, that's how awful they are. easily the best team from that stretch debuts in 10 though

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just wanted to chime in to remind everyone that bj & tyler sucked then and still suck now

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will and james still suck

i have come around on victoria and michelle though, she is still kind of annoying but it's actually funny with them

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ah interesting, i thought it was swapped. never mind then!

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caught up on episode 3 of tar32

dear god are will and james annoying, please go away asap

also, i just realized that both survivor 32 and tar32 were filmed before their 31st seasons but aired afterward. weird!

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my hot take is the gaghans were the best team because the kids were actually able to contribute something, and thus it was an example of the season's unusual (read: bad) elements actually working

the mom posted on television without pity back in the day and her handle was something about the bullshit of being eliminated by the red bean, and posted recaps that carissa wrote of tar9 (and maybe some other future seasons)

its still the worst season in the history of the show btw

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hopefully

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miles prower = miles per hour

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that shine isnt in the open, though, so there isnt any sound

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i, too,hate the acronym round

quiplash 2 final is better though, the voting is more clear and the points awarded are much more likely to make a comeback possible

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fakin it and monster seeking monster, even in their worst case scenario, are infinitely more enjoyable than zeeple dome

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i had dictionarium in my underrated category too but i decided i wanted an even 4/4

it's not amazing but it definitely fills a role and can sometimes be super clever. plus it's very very fast which is a huge plus in my book

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i haven't made a list and we've been going on for an hour about this in discord anyway but what the heck, just for posterity's sake, here's some vague thoughts:

underrated:
fibbage - enough about you
fakin' it
monster seeking monster
role models

overrated:
mad verse city
trivia murder party
earwax
civic doodle

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all this topic shows me is that most of you haven't played the nsmb games

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i voted for super castlevania iv, that game is just fun as heck

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hey arnold is the easy right answer, though pete and pete would probably be the winner if it were here

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is it really an exploitative practice if there's as much demand as there is though? the wii u bombed, and the switch is selling gangbusters, and people have been clamoring to have pretty much every wii u release ported over.

i'm not entirely sure myself, but it strikes me at the very least as much less problematic when they're clearly fulfilling demand

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shrug, seems to me like if you owned a wii u you can just choose not to buy the dang thing

as someone who missed out on that era of games i'm happy to have a chance to play pikmin 3 tbqh

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i picked up the raspberry racers when i found the channel in like...early 2018 (?) and they ended up being very good so i guess i'm stuck like this forever

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1 - metroid (prime, super, zero mission)
2 - f-zero (gx, x, maximum velocity)
3 - super mario (3, galaxy, 3d world)

shoutouts to some rhythm games that would probably be here but it felt kind of odd to include "3 best games" there

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oh neat, i havent picked up cadence of hyrule yet, dlc stuff sounds rad

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