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Doom_Art posted...

yea i can't think of a legitimately bad performance in the ST from any of the main cast

This is the singular thing that makes the ST tolerable and the PT unbearable in my eyes. The ST's disappointing character arcs, pointless casino sidequests, and overall trainwreck that was TRoS are a lot easier to tolerate with the core cast being played by likeable actors trying their best to spin shit into gold, or at least rolling with the punches in a way that I found endearing. On the other hand, key moments in the PT that should have otherwise been monumental were absolutely ruined by robotic dialogue and lifelessly-delivered lines, oftentimes from otherwise-great actors. Which in my book goes to show that Lucas is of greatest benefit to the franchise when he's not in the director's chair.


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Fallout 4.

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I'm oddly proud of the Star Wars franchise in that it now has enough trilogies under its belt to have formed its own adaptation of the Zelda Cycle.

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Sorry, but I had to vote Other: Chac from FF X-2. No FF boss has ever managed to infect me with such passionate hatred as Chac, and for the life of me I can't fathom how people can beat her without cheesing the system with Congrats or Trigger Happy + Catnip (and even with the latter it boiled down to luck of the draw).

I probably would've voted Emerald Weapon otherwise, since I died to him a lot when I was young and felt genuinely shout-out-loud triumphant when I finally managed to beat him. Yiazmat is more of a stamina test than anything; even though he does ramp things up considerably in the remaining five million HP, I've beaten him on three separate playthroughs and was only killed by him once iirc. Ozma, iirc, is a luck-of-the-draw boss - either he cheeses you right out of the gate with insurmountable status ailments, or you beat him in a few rounds. FF8's Omega Weapon is one of those weird bosses that actually got harder as time went on; I beat him without effort the first couple of times, but in later playthroughs he always seemed to catch me with his insta-party-kill attack right when my Holy Wars wore off, and I figured he wasn't worth the effort to fight again.

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Ngl I'd probably be playing it right now (XB1) if the last Creation Club update hadn't fucked up the stability of DT Boston and other high-stress areas, making the game unplayable.

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I too went into the Great Crystal with a map (and I love the background music), so I'm more forgiving of it than most. Having said that, I still voted for it.

I think it's fair to say that the Pharos and Great Crystal are good examples of designing a punishing late-game gauntlet the right and wrong ways, respectively.

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Finally got a chance to watch it, can't believe he forgot about Minecraft Saturday!

Seems like this game would make for a perfect Dunkey-style reaction montage to all the bugs he experienced, hopefully we'll get a vid of that at some point.

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Do I still have to swallow my stubborn pride and thank Daddy Trump for trying?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf58TiGtIe4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN5eMiST1i8

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BigHentaiBoobie posted...

I thought he was done with good videos?

>smiles smugly to self
>posts 'He never made good videos to begin with!'
>leans smugly back in chair
>smugly

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SquirtleSkwad posted...

"What's Christmas really all about?"
"VENGEANCE!"

Makes me belly laugh so hard every time.

The tablecloth pull bit will never fail to make me laugh.

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The movie was already pretty bad up to that point, but this was me during and after that point:

https://imgur.com/Z3O7pG7

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Jim Carrey's Grinch is the only Christmas movie I can still enjoy throughout.

I've also warmed back up to Home Alone (the first one) in recent years.

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Twin3Turbo posted...

It really hurts my heart how simping has become a more and more popular term so now its going to be overused/misused by people that arent in anyway connected to the culture that it comes from.

The sooner the term becomes diluted to the point of having no discernable value, the better.

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For peak lulz, they need to do a cross promotion and remaster all the old Burger King games.

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Mistere Man posted...

Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Squirting Your Juice in the Hood

This one's going to be hard to top.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

How the fuck is Cid Highwind leading here? Did people play games besides FF7?

Sometimes the popular choice is that way for good reason.

Orlandu / Orlandeau / however you're supposed to spell it nowadays is an unquestioned boss in battle, but not a supremely compelling character in his own right (he's a good-enough character who fits a role, there's just not much there to make him stand out in this regard). Nobody remembers Thundergod Cid for his witty lines or deep character arc; they remember him for essentially being a no-strings-attached god-mode character.

Cid Kramer has a good amount of potential as a character, but iirc he never really gets over the hurdle of being a major pussy.

Doctor Cidolfus Demen Bunansa is a hammy overractor, and not in a good way.

Bananaman Cid does potentially lead to one of the most poignant moments in the franchise, and I have every reason to be biased towards FF6. But dying of starvation isn't really a personality trait.

FF4 Cid is alright as far as old-school characters go, but falls into the trap of I'mma sacrifice my body to save this situation about two or three instances after that maneuver stopped being fashionable.

Cid Fabool and Al-Bhed Cid could give Highwind a run for his money character-wise, but aren't party members; this may be a semantical difference at face-value, but party members by default tend to get more screentime and more time to develop, as is the case with Highwind.

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hockeybub89 posted...

Yeah it's weird that making a buggy multiplayer game was their big controversy. I love Bethesda games, but they should have been dragged through the mud like CDPR over a decade ago for these buggy messes.

For Skyrim and Fallout 4, it seemed to me that the major bugs were broken quests; unless the main quest gets broken, I feel like only the hardcore fans would raise a stink over that, while the more casual fan would get annoyed, shrug, and move on to the next diversion (or maybe not even notice that anything was broken). Broken quests also make for less colorful reactions than graphical glitches or AI bugs. More obvious things - like the backwards-flying dragons introduced in one of the early patches - got a lot more negative attention, and got quickly fixed; on the other hand, the notoriously-breakable 'Blood on the Ice' quest didn't get any patch treatment for almost six months.

I think Fallout 76 finally got its fair share of kicks to the groin because it was an obvious and lazy cash-grab from the start, and the game itself couldn't muster the goodwill necessary to help look past the issues.

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DoGCyN posted...

You play as ff9 cid for a very brief moment

I mean, that only counts as 'party leader' in the strictest literal sense.

I singled out Highwind in this regard because it's actually one of my favorite bits in FF7: Barret, after a moment's introspection, realizes that he doesn't have what it takes to be a leader, and dumps the responsibility on Cid (who's off in the corner napping), simply because they couldn't get anywhere without the Highwind, and the Highwind belongs to Cid. What really made the scene was how quickly Cid became gung-ho over his newfound responsibility, an attitude he carries onward through his missions as party leader (or at least the Corel Reactor train chase, my memory's foggy on the rest) before Cloud and Tifa return to the party. It was just the right mix of comedy and character-building that it really stuck with me.

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Gotta go with Cid Highwind, one of the great abrasive assholes in gaming history. And while some Cids have earned the distinction of being party members, Highwind's the only one who was the dedicated party leader for a time (at least that I know of, my abandon-ship moment with the franchise was about five hours into XIII, and I never played I, II, or III).

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Probably trying (and more often than not failing) to access PlayOnline.com due to the infamous Final Fantasy 9 player's guide.

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TIL that there was any debate at all over the joke

TIL that to be 'a Viking' is a metaphor for being great at something.

TIL that I'm apparently Ralph Wiggum :/

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Yes. It took me a couple months to get through the first few chapters; read ten pages, fall asleep, read ten more pages, fall asleep. Consequently, I did not shed a single tear when Tom Bombadil was cut from the movies.

On the other hand, once the story advanced to Bree I couldn't put it down, and burned through it and the rest of the trilogy in a week or two. I still count certain bits of RotK among my favorite prose in fiction, such as the ride of the Rohirrim and Sauron suddenly coming to the realization that his enemies intend to destroy the Ring, and how supremely fucked he is in that moment.

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I mean, at this point I have most of the usuals ignored, and the few I don't are probably still on suspension. So I literally couldn't tell you whether or not it was lack of enthusiasm on their part.

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Smackems posted...

People always say vaan wasn't the protagonist. Who was?

At extreme face-value it's Vaan. Ashe is clearly who the developers wanted you to believe was the protagonist by the end of the story. Balthier is the thinking man's protagonist. Basch was probably the protagonist at some point in the development.

Vaan may not be the protagonist in actuality, but his continued forced presence in the plot actively drags the game down. He has most of the irritating qualities of Tidus, but without any personality or sense of payoff to his character.

I would consider Squall a divisive character at worst because, shockingly, I quite liked him at one time: as a painfully introverted teen myself, I found many of his habits to be (for better or worse) quite relatable, not the least of which being his overindulgence of inner monologue followed up by blurting out some half-formed statement as if the people listening were supposed to know the full context of said monologue.

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I know that Squall is the tempting and obvious choice for some, but any non-Vaan answer is a joke answer.

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Ideally yes, but in reality I'd prefer that my SO is able to get along with my family.

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Video games that have really good music are known for having really good music, yes.

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Gimulus Stimulus, son of Gloin Stimulus

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Big Ol' Jet Airliner In My Butt

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Operation Dumbo Squirt

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Fun factoid about the origin of her stage name (not going to bother with the link since it's massive, as well as the article being an obituary):

Matthews was a model when she met Prince in 1980. He suggested she call herself Vagina, but she wisely took the stage name Vanity instead.

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Damn, even old-ass Oblivion let you put 300-500 hours into a character before the Glitch of Doom hit.

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Nice find, TC. As much as Fallout 3 deserves its criticism, I'd much rather link to a positive video on what NV does right (as opposed to a more negative video on what FO3 does wrong) in those moments when I can't be arsed to defend it myself. Hbomberguy has a particular knack for zeroing in on and elaborating upon my impressions of both games, and it's nice to now have a full-length vid on NV instead of just briefly touching on it at the end of the FO3 vid. I particularly appreciate him touching on how intertwined NV's world is designed to be, and how seemingly-innocuous fetch / delivery quests often lead to a better quest / larger part of the narrative. I wouldn't have minded him touching on the more well-developed structure of the worldspace itself (settlements exist in logical places near supply lines, deathclaws and sentry bots aren't just randomly roaming the highways, things like that), but you can only fit so much even into a 90-minute vid.

Phynaster posted...

NV fanboys are so fucking obnoxious. Convinced they all became Witcher 3 fanboys and now Cyberpunk fanboys

You are one of the last people on this board that has any right to look down your nose at another person's level of obnoxiousness.

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ZeroX91 posted...

That Clemson game was pretty gross, kinda forgot about it though. Lol

Without hyperbole, the officiating in that game killed off what lingering interest I had in college football.

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I'll second Speed Racer. It's definitely flawed and not for everyone - it can't decide whether it wants to be a kid's movie or a more edgy YA movie, and too often these halves mix like oil and water. (though it's hard to pin down the reason: I couldn't exactly tell you why Spirtle and Chim-Chim's antics in the racecar factory are terrible while the ninja attack and Greco-Roman wrestling bit work quite well).

But the visual style is very unique, and the parts of the movie that do work do so fantastically. And between this and his work on The Incredibles two years earlier, it solidified my opinion that Michael Giacchino is one of the best movie composers working today.

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Mugatu was rollin' in royalties from that commerical.

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Came into this topic to say 'lemme guess, the US was one of the two nay votes.'

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Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree In My Butt

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I do remember this happening. On the other hand, the pre-KH3 revelation that all the spinoff games were supposed to be treated with the same plot importance as the numbered entries quickly caused me to be so thoroughly done with the KH franchise that I can't be arsed to comment further on the subject.

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Socrawheeze posted...

@coh hbomberguy?

The funny thing is that, expansive as the hbomberguy video is, there's plenty of glaring flaws it doesn't cover, such as:

• Little Lamplight
• the Morrowind-style accuracy die rolls they snuck into the regular non-VATS gunplay while disguising it as an actual FPS - can't tell you how many times I watched a sniper bullet enter the body of my target and have it not register as a hit because reasons
• the disconnect between the self-importance of the main quest and the actual game world. A different critic said it best (and I'm paraphrasing): 'Imagine a version of Skyrim where there are no actual dragons; several people in the main quest talk at length about what a threat they are, but you never actually see a dragon. The only evidence you see in Skyrim of the dragon's existence is a singed peasant sitting outside the Whiterun gates asking for a potion to heal his burns. That's Fallout 3.'
• also pretty sure he neglected to pick apart the ridiculous and highly-exploitable Karma system, but it's been awhile since I watched and I could be forgetting that part

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ThunderTrain posted...

I think if the Ewoks were replaced with Wookies like originally planned more people would agree.

This. I try not to hate on the Ewoks, but I can't remember the last time I watched RotJ without skipping through the middle act of the movie, which incidentally is most of the Ewok scenes. The other two-thirds of RotJ comprise my favorite parts of the franchise. An entire planet of Chewies rising up against and defeating the Empire would have been much more impressive and satisfying than the Ewoks.

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DipDipDiver posted...

Send him to live on Monster Island

*whispers to Trump* Don't worry, it's just a name...

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Hippocrates posted...

Fallout 3 is such a pile of shit guys lol be real. Like you can like the game but I don't know how anyone can say with a straight face that it's good

Even after the ending caused me to be so enraged at the game that it retroactively laid all its faults bare, FO3 still had value as a fun fuckabout wasteland sandbox, one which I continued to sink dozens of hours into wandering and finding exploits. And even then, it took me about a year to really appreciate NV and how well it fixed nearly every issue I had with FO3 (playing Dead Money for the first time was the turning point in which NV went from 'more of Fallout 3' to 'game of the decade' in my eyes).

Nowadays, FO3 has no value left; what few itches that aren't scratched by NV are now far more effectively scratched by FO4 (which are almost exclusively related to settlement-building and similar fuckabout-ery).

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Fallout 3 is a masterpiece. It has to be! If it isn't, I've given almost two months of my life to an unpolished mess with half-baked mechanics and insulting-bad writing and worldbuilding. That is unacceptable. Therefore, Fallout 3 IS a masterpiece, and I will die protecting its legacy.

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Bethesda has a habit of not formally announcing their upcoming days until they're a year or less away from release; while it was effective for hype, the silence could indeed be maddening at times. I remember getting pretty damn hyped for those elaborate troll vids teasing Fallout 4 news about a year before Bethesda officially announced it. (not really relevant to the topic at hand, but I also remember a window of several years where people would wonder aloud if dragons would ever return to the ES universe, and of course lore purists would shoot them down hard for suggesting this).

Of course this was five years ago, when they were still a competent developer: nowadays this tactic comes off as a shy teenager doodling in his sketchbook and not wanting anyone to peek. I still have no idea why they announced ESVI so prematurely, other than to soften the blow of them announcing ES: Blades and FO76. They can't even get Creation Club content out nowadays without significant delays - to reiterate, they've been sitting on content in which someone else has done the work for them for over a year and they can't even be bothered to put together the game updates necessary to release it.

The past couple years have caused me to lose my faith in Bethesda's ability to deliver a game that will be worth the wait and secrecy.

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Phantom Menace was one of the first (if not the first) big-budget CGI-fueled spectacles I saw as a teen; CGI of course quickly became an overused crutch that more often than not hinders a movie instead of elevating it (and was also soon to be thoroughly trounced by the LotR trilogy in terms of being CGI spectacles that were also actually good movies), but at the time it was quite a feast for the eyes and imagination. So even to this day TPM gets a fair amount of nostalgia-fueled leeway with me when it comes to how I feel about the SW prequels on an individual basis.

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averagejoel posted...

Legend of Korra is much better if you watch it with the framing that she's the villain

That's a bit reductive, but pretty close to the mark: she's clearly a Zuko-esque character who instead begins the series as a protagonist, and that no-doubt threw a lot of people who were not only expecting Avatar 2.0 but also Aang 2.0.

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One of my all-time favorite insults is 'I can't believe that out of a hundred million sperm, you were the fastest.'

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Rexdragon125 posted...

How about this one over an elevator shaft

https://i.redd.it/4obeh5hadf351.jpg

I mean, it would certainly help me poop faster.

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