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kevwaffles posted...

Honestly? I was seeing if you would ever back down any from spewing rhetoric to demonize an entire group of people with a history of being oppressed that don't agree with your politics.

Turns out the answer is no.

You're right, that's exactly what Tony is doing here and he's definitely the one who looks ridiculous right now.

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tbh the embargo on Cuba is just a long-standing "fuck you" towards a country with a history of absolutely embarrassing the US.

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paperwarior posted...

Why can't they port this to or make a sequel for not-3DS?

God I wish

In fairness to not porting it, they'd have to completely change the controls and IIRC a couple levels used 3D pretty heavily so they'd need to modify that. It's all doable but would be extra effort I guess

Now why there's no sequel... good fuckin question

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Sunroof posted...

When was the last great Star Fox game?

Kid Icarus Uprising in 2012

MoogleKupo141 posted...

because Star Fox 64 is like an hour long

can the gameplay actually sustain a game that is long enough to make people spend $60 on it today

Anyway this is the real reason

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Shout-out to Metroid Other M for being fairly hyped until the story details came out just before/just after release (can't remember the exact timing). I have to imagine like 90% of people who would have bought it noped out, because it dropped to $10 in an absurdly short amount of time, especially for a Nintendo game from a series which barely drops in price at all.

I think the real answer is 76 or NMS though.

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Pretty good group, but it's definitely between OG Gumshoe and Shi-Long Lang for me. Tobias Gregson maybe 3rd.

Going with Gumshoe. It really is one of the definitive AA songs as Leon said. I don't think until now I even realized it was Gumshoe's personal theme because I associate it so strongly with the original trilogy as a whole.

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I played like 70% of this and I don't think I could name a single (non-companion) character or story beat off the top of my head, so I won't score it, but if I did it would not get a good score.

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Hot take: FFTA counts as one of these

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I don't think I like most of these. 6-2 is amazing though so I'll vote for that.

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4/10

This one probably starts as like an 8.5 for me but only gets worse and worse the further you play. Definitely one of those stories that knows how to set up really compelling mysteries but not how to answer them later.

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I don't remember a single track from Abyss that isn't a Karma variant, and that's with playing it more recently than Vesperia. imo the OSTs are more like:

Vesperia >> Symphonia > Abyss

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10/10

KamikazePotato posted...

I'm not as big on 3-5 as others, but overall the game tells a great overarching story with no low points. It's kind of disappointing that no games in the series have been able to recapture exactly what T&T did

I think Dual Destinies did a good job crafting another overarching narrative, but T&T was just something special. I guess it helped that we already had two games of caring about Phoenix, Mia, and Maya before T&T tried to wrap up their stories. DD's story felt much more self-contained.

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Thanks!

Tales of the Abyss 4.5/10
Celeste 8/10

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Lightning Strikes, do you keep track of who has rated which games? Can't recall if I rated Tales of the Abyss and Celeste.

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I like Joint Reasoning a lot, though I can't really tell the difference between all five versions. I guess I'll just vote A. Dance of Devotion, Running Wild, and Bewitching Puzzles are good too. Good day aside from Divination Seance!

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KamikazePotato posted...

Outside of one outlier, Revelation didn't receive any ratings above 2/10

Oh I'm not saying Revelation deserved higher scores, just that Conquest deserved lower ones!

Johnbobb posted...

oh geez is FE Fates really that bad? thought this board was really high on the FE games

I think B8 is fairly lukewarm on FE's stories in general. Fates is also noticeably worse than the rest though.

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Lightning Strikes posted...

Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest - 3.64 (14 votes)
Fire Emblem Fates: Revelation - 2.38 (8 votes)

I know I gave them the same score but Conquest should really not be above Revelation lmao

No comment on Yakuza, haven't played it

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What a country (pejorative)

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Birthright - 3/10
Conquest - 1/10
Revelation - 1/10
Overall - 1/10

Plot sucks, writing sucks, I've played 300+ games and this is definitely a strong contender for "worst story".

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IMO Fates is just one game with three routes (just like Three Houses), but I don't have any issue with letting everyone rank the routes separately. *shrug*

I do think it's a good idea to do it all in one day though.

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ZeroSignal620 posted...

Reimu Hakurei
Cirno
Marisa Kirisame

There are a couple Touhou games on Switch so I doubt any of these count. I know for sure Reimu doesn't.

...not that they're really in contention anyway

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8.5

Leonhart4 posted...

I love Kyle Hyde as the lead and it has some other good characters, but the general premise that everyone who can help him figure out what happened to his partner is all conveniently staying in the same hotel feels super contrived (because it is).

It's a magic hotel though so it's justified.

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Other M's story is also truly bizarre because it's based so heavily off the Metroid manga that no one has read but then it retcons the thing where Adam super dies at the end of the manga. Just a bizarre relationship with Metroid's larger continuity on every level.

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Nominate: Hades

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6

The plot itself felt pretty lacking to me, I think in part because of the silent protag. At least the other characters have big personalities to even it out. I thought the writing and humor were both hit-and-miss. I wish it had done more with the in-universe acknowledgement of when/how you used saves because the few times it does are definitely good moments.

Leonhart4 posted...

I enjoyed the beginning a lot and the end pretty well, but the middle kinda dragged for me. I appreciate how much well defined personality each major cast member has though.

Agree with all of this.

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redrocket posted...

I think everyone here would benefit from reading the actual text of the courts decision:

https://www.pacourts.us/Storage/media/pdfs/20210630/163038-june302021opinionwecht.pdf

This is 79 pages so I didn't read the whole thing (and IANAL so take this with a grain of salt), but it seems like their reasoning is "yes, you need to follow certain guidelines for transactional immunity, and yes, those were not followed here, but idk *shrug* it just seems so unfair"

(and then admittedly they cite precedent but it still seems pretty ambiguous. why even have rules if prosecutors don't have to follow them and can just promise whatever they want?)

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5.5

Though really the first half is like an 8 and the second half is like a 2. Part of me wonders if playing War of the Lions would improve my impression of it, since right now the bad translation hurts the already awful second half (but arguably helps the first half by giving us raw fucking lines like "Surrender or die in obscurity").

And yeah recruitable characters disappearing from the story after recruitment is a very questionable decision, definitely should have gone the Fire Emblem route and let certain ones (Agrias, at least) get injured and still contribute during cutscenes.

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ChainLTTP posted...

Presumption of innocence, unanimous jury, reasonable doubt, the appeals process. It's really hard to convict someone unless it's glaringly obvious that they're guilty.

Something like 90% of court cases in the US are resolved via plea bargain, so no, it's really not.

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redrocket posted...

our system is deeply flawed, but it is quite far from rock bottom and its kind of embarrassing for you to even say that

good point, always gotta leave room for the US to find new and innovative ways to disappoint me

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redrocket posted...

The point is that a deal is a deal, and once you start breaking them it undermines the entire system.

Can't undermine something if it's already at rock fuckin bottom

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masterplum posted...

ITT: People who don't understand law.

How do you think they ever get people to rat on mob bosses etc

Unless I'm misunderstanding, he didn't agree to testify against someone else, he agreed to essentially testify against himself as part of a plea bargain?

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America's legal system really is just a complete shitshow, isn't it.

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5

This one starts with some promise but the anime superhero bullshit at the end and basically everything that happens in the Isara/Rosie plotline really hurts it for me.

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Metroidvania, though it's really a shame how many indie games claim to be Metroidvanias but actually aren't.

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Mac Arrowny posted...

A bit under six hours ago in this topic for calling someone a dipshit.

lmfao I almost said "but no one in this topic is going to mark you so you'll be fine"

Stay classy Board 8!

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Like a week ago for calling someone a dipshit.

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4/10

Pretty disappointing honestly. A few very cool characters and mostly solid dialogue, but I felt like a lot of the obstacles Shepard faced and the way the plot progressed just didn't feel natural or coherent. Maybe in the context of the rest of the trilogy it's better, but I never played 2 and 3.

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Jakyl25 posted...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/colorado-good-samaritan-killed-by-police

Even when theres a good guy with a gun the police dont care.

Moral of the story here definitely seems to be "if someone is actively killing police, just let them"

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I don't dislike any of these (uh except DD), but most of them feel almost too simple. I'm going with PW1 here, but GAA and SoJ-1 are pretty good too.

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Has to be one of the following two:

https://monkeybargaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/817jiV9z0HL._AC_-768x548.jpg.webp

I had a bunch of these hideous things as a kid. They were pretty comfortable to actually use, though.

https://www.amazon.com/MadCatz-Black-Macro-GameCube-Controller/dp/B000PG9V0O

Also had some of these pieces of shit. Moral of the story here was that I should have shelled out for real GCN controllers.

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Should have been life without parole but this was better than I expected and about as good as could be reasonably hoped for.

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xp1337 posted...

Chauvin's defense recommended he serve probation because, among other things, "he's the product of a broken system," and "[He] was unaware that he was even committing a crime."

lmao

Get fucked, Chauvin!

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Axl_Rose_85 posted...

I resent this post so much. It is like the literal opposite of what you said.

I like Dark Souls but the dialogue is really bad, didn't realize this was a controversial opinion!

Hollow Knight definitely has some stilted dialogue (mostly Hornet and the Dreamers) but I thought most of it was pretty natural and well-written. To each their own I guess!

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I think it was Radiant Dawn, forget which site though.

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This is the real shit. Way better group than Opening and Middle. These are all good (except 2007 kinda), with several being really good. Hard to get away from 2001 and 2002 for nostalgia, but I dunno, the AAI themes might take it.

Ugh idk, this is the first day I've had to go back and give it a second listen. I'll just go with JFA.

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colliding posted...

It's not really as obscure/hard to find as some people are saying it is.

Definitely agree with this. A lot of the smaller details are very, very obscure, but the basic story of who you are, what the plague is, how they tried to stop it in the past, and how you're going to try to stop it now is pretty hard to miss.

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Yeah the scan visor is the best way of handling lore that I've ever seen in a video game, and definitely one of the best parts of the Prime games (particularly after the color-coding was revamped for 3). Can't even quantify how much I prefer that system to, say, looking for audio logs in Bioshock.

HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

If I had to point out flaws of the scan visor it's that there's too many missables with no way to rectify this besides a fresh save file, and not enough visual distinction between flavor and meaningful scans. The other visors I could take or leave, they could be upgrades to the Scan visor or not exist at all as far as I'm concerned.

This is all fair though.

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KamikazePotato posted...

I have no idea why Hollow Knight was nominated. The game barely has a story and what's there is like Dark Souls--.

It's like Dark Souls except the dialogue isn't stilted and bad.

7/10 for me

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NYC elect a normal fucking person challenge (impossible)

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I like Middle 2011 and Beyond the Logic the most, gave the latter my vote.

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