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| Topic | Animal Crossing Direct 15 October 10AM Eastern |
| charmander6000 10/15/21 10:27:43 AM #32 | Lots of new content/upgrades coming in. I got way too excited about the permanent ladders than I should. --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | Musical Without a Cool Acronym - Phineas and Ferb Musical |
| charmander6000 10/13/21 9:04:59 PM #1 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDZXCURJMlQ&list=PLnd4bMKFX27i8t0mZMVLzaNyz6aVGPbUC&t=0s Before Disney shuts it down... It was mostly done through Zoom, so don't expect high quality. --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | So at what point did you realize that PS2/GC-era games are retro now? |
| charmander6000 10/13/21 5:26:37 PM #63 | In the clothing/car/art/furniture world 20-99 years is considered vintage while "retro" is a style. So Octopath Traveler despite coming out in 2018 could be considered a retro game while everything from 2001 and before would be considered vintage. --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | So at what point did you realize that PS2/GC-era games are retro now? |
| charmander6000 10/13/21 12:47:45 PM #52 | We've reached a point (in at least console gaming) where there isn't a huge visual difference between the current and previous generation. I'd argue that the jump in graphics between the PS5 and PS3 is smaller than the PS3 and PS2. The next big step in gaming will be VR which will push more people to consider the HD consoles to be retro. --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | I published a book. |
| charmander6000 10/13/21 10:06:40 AM #202 | Yeah, sadly these types of companies prey on people's insecurities and fears of the unknown, getting them to sign a long term deal. --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | So at what point did you realize that PS2/GC-era games are retro now? |
| charmander6000 10/13/21 1:03:59 AM #15 | Super Mario 64 is closer to Pong than it is to the present. --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | The Metroid Dread Topic (marked spoilers) |
| charmander6000 10/12/21 6:22:05 PM #95 | Other M isn't a horrible game, but when you have such high standards for a series it was a let down. A good comparison would be Super Mario Sunshine in the Mario series. Maybe in another decade or so people will have fond memories of Other M. --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | The Metroid Dread Topic (marked spoilers) |
| charmander6000 10/12/21 2:05:19 PM #90 | Metroid as a series is pretty solid, despite it not being a high seller. With Zero Mission and Samus Returns replacing the first two games (and thus being more polished games) the only game in the series I wouldn't recommend is Other M (plus Federation Force, though I have never played it. It's a spin-off anyway). Prime 2 and 3 suffers the same fate that Super Mario Galaxy 2 does, improving the formula without re-inventing it and thus will never be regarded as highly. --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | The top 100 games according to GameFAQs users |
| charmander6000 10/12/21 10:10:33 AM #9 | Underleveled posted... Biggest surprises for me. Everything else seems about right for a 2005 GameFAQs. To be fair, the drop down list only had 130 games and greatly influenced the bottom portion of the list. Only two games (Tales of Symphonia and Halo 2) weren't in the drop down list and made it into the top 100. --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | Do you consider remakes as mainline games? |
| charmander6000 10/12/21 10:05:34 AM #15 | MZero posted... Remakes substitute for the original imo I guess in the same sense that Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee aren't remakes of Pokemon Red/Blue --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | Do you think there's any way that a college football team could beat an nfl.. |
| charmander6000 10/11/21 1:10:08 PM #20 | As many people have mentioned, it would take a very specific set of circumstances (NFL team being completely injury ridden, have no motivation against a highly motivated all-star college team) for it to be close to competitive and even then the NFL team would still be heavy favourites. --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1367 |
| charmander6000 10/09/21 10:21:10 AM #283 | plasmabeam posted... FF7 Remake, FFX, and Persona 5 have to factor into this somewhere. I could see them easily out-nomming Super Metroid, MGS1, and RE4. Maybe even Majora since the GotD 2010 days are far behind us. I don't think FFVII Remake would be eligible in a contest where FFVII is eligible, kind of like how Resident Evil 2 (2019) Persona 4 Golden and Pokemon HG/SS would not be eligible in a regular contest. --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | GTA Trilogy: Definitive Edition coming later this year |
| charmander6000 10/08/21 5:55:34 PM #23 | III's final mission can be hard if you are going blind, but the game gives you a bunch of weapons (if you can find them), including a sniper rifle which is pretty much right there for you to use when you need it. --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | GTA Trilogy: Definitive Edition coming later this year |
| charmander6000 10/08/21 5:29:28 PM #20 | The last mission or the entire game? --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1367 |
| charmander6000 10/08/21 12:20:34 PM #271 | I don't think base level Witcher 3 will be too much weaker, but I do feel it lost quite a bit of its rallying power. --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | PSA: Twitch reportedly suffered a massive hack. |
| charmander6000 10/07/21 2:49:31 PM #89 | It is trolling if you believe everything you say? >_> --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | A list of characters who have been in both Smash and a GameFAQs contest. |
| charmander6000 10/07/21 2:17:43 PM #2 | I wonder how many "GameFAQs eligible" characters are in the Smash series. Though figuring out who is eligible can be a bit tricky. The separation of item and character is a bit tricky. Then you have issues like Dark Samus where SBAllen may or may not allow despite being completely different characters. Additionally there are "disguised" characters some of which have completely different personalities due to being hypnotized (Mr. L in Paper Mario) or pretending to be someone else (Black Knight in Fire Emblem) --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1367 |
| charmander6000 10/07/21 1:04:35 AM #268 | But Cloud was in Smash. --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1367 |
| charmander6000 10/06/21 7:54:01 PM #266 | And Cloud likely would have been almost as weak if it weren't for Smash 4. --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1367 |
| charmander6000 10/06/21 5:21:18 PM #264 | I'd ignore 2013 due to all the rallying. I'd compare Cloud's performance relative to Sephiroth in 2018 --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | This is your last chance to put down your prediction for the final SSBU fighter |
| charmander6000 10/05/21 5:51:56 PM #416 | mnkboy907 posted... What I'd do for Fire Emblem is keep Marth, one of Robin/Corrin/Byleth, and someone from newest game that would surely be out by the time of a new Smash (provided it's not somehow a total flop). I guess it depends entirely on how big the final roster is, but I think 3 is enough for Fire Emblem. I don't see much of an argument to keep Ike over a rep from Awakening/Fates/Houses when you consider how those latter three are all more important to the series' history than Ike's games. You can apply "but the character is popular" to just about everyone being dropped, lol. Ike is really popular though, he occupied two of the top 10 spots of the most popular Fire Emblem character poll. Like unless Nintendo is cutting to make a ~30 character roster for the next game I would be surprised if Ike missed out. --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | This is your last chance to put down your prediction for the final SSBU fighter |
| charmander6000 10/05/21 5:43:46 PM #410 | As for Fire Emblem characters, Roy and Corrin are the most likely ones to get cut. Byleth does have some current popularity. If a new Fire Emblem game comes out he might be cut in favor of that character, but he could very well survive to compete in another Smash. At least one of the three Awakening characters will get cut. Lucina is the easiest to keep, but if Nintendo doesn't want echoes she'll be gone. Chrom is a bit more popular than Robin, but Robin is more unique and I don't see Nintendo keeping both unless they are pushing 70+ characters before DLC. Marth and Ike will be safe. --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | This is your last chance to put down your prediction for the final SSBU fighter |
| charmander6000 10/05/21 5:32:07 PM #406 | BlAcK TuRtLe posted... Reminder that this IS Nintendo we're talking about. The same company that abandoned F-Zero, Star Fox and until the last few months, Metroid, for over a decade. If any company is going to leave money on the table and flip a bird to their fans, it's them. Smash makes more money than those series combined. It would be like if Nintendo decided that Breath of the Wild won't be topped and stopped making Zelda games. Personally I imagine "Smash 6" will have around 50 characters --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | This is your last chance to put down your prediction for the final SSBU fighter |
| charmander6000 10/05/21 3:38:47 PM #391 | CaptainOfCrush posted... Oh, and regarding the future of Smash... if Sakurai is done making new games, I feel it's almost a foregone conclusion that we get "Ultimate Deluxe" on the next console. There's (extremely lucrative) precedent for this now with MK8, and Nintendo won't just close the spigot on one of its most profitable franchises. The licensing is the only thing that could stop that imo, though admittedly, I don't know how massive a hurdle that actually is. With 18 third party characters, licensing will be a major issue. Especially since it wouldn't be as easy as giving them a large part of the DLC profits. Cloud almost didn't happen for Ultimate and now Nintendo would have to negotiate to get three characters from Square. --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1367 |
| charmander6000 10/05/21 2:57:40 PM #236 | BlAcK TuRtLe posted... At first I was thinking that would be a really fun contest idea, but then I realized it would be completely indistinguishable from a normal CB bracket minus the Chrono Trigger folks Pretty much, looking at Leon's x-stats the only characters in 2018's top 32 that aren't playable or have a Mii outfit are Crono, Alucard, Auron, Geralt, Squall and Big Boss. The contest could be interesting if SBAllen allowed character like Toon/Young Link, Zero Suit Samus and Dr. Mario, just for the arguments as to where they would rank. --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1367 |
| charmander6000 10/05/21 1:10:04 PM #232 | More like Red will SFF Sora. We can build quite a solid 64-character bracket solely using playable characters, even more so if you include Mii outfits. --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | This is your last chance to put down your prediction for the final SSBU fighter |
| charmander6000 10/05/21 12:28:27 PM #295 | A Minecraft rep was an obvious choice, arguably the largest game of the last decade, kid friendly, very unique... The only issue was getting the rights to use the character which Nintendo was able to secure. --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | Question for any Canadians here |
| charmander6000 10/04/21 12:51:48 PM #6 | It was taught at my school, but it was a grade 4 lesson. --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | Do you think same-sex marriage will ever be legal in the whole world? |
| charmander6000 10/03/21 4:14:26 PM #5 | Only if there is a one world government and even then, such a government will most likely deal with inter-planet relations. --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | Ren and Stimpy coming to Nickolodeon All Star Brawl |
| charmander6000 10/01/21 3:20:00 PM #40 | StealThisSheen posted... This clearly confirms the final Smash character has a ton of voice acting and they wanted to dunk on this as much as possible. "Hey Wade, what's the sitch?" Nickolodeon gets dunked while Smash fans complain it's not Sora (or Goku). --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | What are the most iconic VGM songs of the last decade? |
| charmander6000 10/01/21 1:37:39 PM #29 | XIII_rocks posted... You're probably right - mine is the Outer Wilds theme, but that game lacks the footprint to be as "iconic" as the topic calls for Another thing to consider is game space is no longer limited, so more music is included in a single game, diffusing it even more. --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1367 |
| charmander6000 09/29/21 2:03:06 PM #212 | I suspect Geralt got a bandwagon by the time he lost to Auron so it's hard to say. I expect a boost (Alucard got one in 2018 IIRC), but he could end up being relatively weaker. --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | Metroid 5 impressions zone |
| charmander6000 09/27/21 11:09:15 PM #38 | UshiromiyaEva posted... I did not know Three Houses was actually the best selling game in the franchise. I mean I guess it should be obvious with the Switch's popularity, but the DS was an absolute juggernaut when Awakening came out and word of mouth was insane for it. Awakening was going to be the last game for a mostly dead franchise while Three Houses came out at a time where the series was getting pushed hard by Nintendo. --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | IGN Best Video Game of All Time contest |
| charmander6000 09/23/21 5:10:44 PM #242 | Based on GotD, GTAV should win without too much trouble. --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | I published a book. |
| charmander6000 09/19/21 9:44:43 AM #116 | This is very exciting --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1367 |
| charmander6000 09/11/21 9:28:38 AM #151 | snake_5036 posted... Seeing MGS3 getting doubled by Last of Us in the first round hurts so much To be fair, TLOU will probably be one of the strongest games in the bracket. --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | Videogame-based movies, or movie-based videogames? |
| charmander6000 09/06/21 3:40:29 PM #2 | Movie-based videogames are just easier to make just from how the medium of each is done. --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | Do you objectively consider Ocarina of Time to be the best game ever made? |
| charmander6000 09/02/21 12:52:20 PM #45 | Like Citizen Kane, Ocarina of Time commands the most respect in gaming which is really what this question is about. I doubt more than a handful of people who watches Citizen Kane for the first time today without knowing the context of its place in history would say it's the best movie ever. The medium is just too diverse now. --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1367 |
| charmander6000 08/24/21 12:02:36 PM #77 | Team Rocket Elite posted... Metroid Prime should be the strongest FPS game, right? Knew I was forgetting something --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1367 |
| charmander6000 08/23/21 11:30:48 PM #73 | GoldenEye hasn't exactly aged too well. Back in 2009 it was arguably a top 20 game. In the 2015 contest it had clearly lost a step and with GameFAQs not caring about FPS it could be even weaker now. Though I think it'll be the strongest FPS (unless you're counting games like Fallout 3 as an FPS). --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
| Topic | 3 AMERICANS say their lives are DESTROYED after Popular Website BANS PORN!!!! |
| charmander6000 08/22/21 12:49:48 PM #9 | So it will go the way of Tumblr? --- Congratulations to azuarc for winning the guru challenge |
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