Lurker > LeonhartFour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd8lRJDKmho

oh man it's almost here

vs. Gourdy

Yeah, I knew he wasn't in charge of it anymore, but the idea was initially his.

Maniac64 posted...

News to me.

Edit: And now I see why, nobody posts there.

I believe it was Ange's idea because he thought the site was old and outdated, and thought it would be better just to move things over there

nobody else agreed with him

Nominate "City of ______"

okay I was not ready for the abrupt turn the end of the chicken sidequest in Gongaga took

first they came for the contests, then they came for the POTDs

Draft is almost here

the timing of this POTD feels a bit too "coincidental"

Pop

be mad at me for saying what they're thinking but don't get mad at them for actually implementing these policies

in other words, we'll get all the worst hornyposters from CE

can't wait

transience posted...

wait, what will red sox do now

bring back The Chronologist

he's already lost tracking Crono/Mario and Crono/Vincent trends

the man has suffered enough

my favorite random detail of the past murder is that Delicia consumed some of Dover's blood when she was eating his dessert

andylt posted...

And I think he's never personally killed anyone, which must be a first for a big bad.

Engarde didn't directly kill anyone either.

also I think I enjoyed Daley shaking himself at Barry like he was being choked more than even dancing Sholmes

just so delightfully awkward

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Nothing is forcing anyone to have to play through that 250 hours if they don't feel like it's worth it

correct

UshiromiyaEva posted...

It has ober 250 hours of 100% free main story content, the barrier could not be lower!

the barrier could be much lower than 250 hours, that'd be nice

foolm0r0n posted...

The difference is that the original obviously rushed through Midgar and it was straight up bad.

yikes

KamikazePotato posted...

Tifa's debated 2018 run would be a complete stomp these days. MMX, Luigi, and Sephiroth would all get crushed by the might of the Italian Senate.

I think Luigi would still have a chance, although he probably loses. Between Luigi's Mansion 3, Mario Wonder, and the Mario movie, he's probably held up pretty well over the last 6 years.

Fit

TeamRocketElite posted...

This does not sound promising for his results in the next Character Battle.

he definitely ain't winning a rematch with Tifa, I'll tell you that

KamikazePotato posted...

All other issues aside, I think the way Remake and Rebirth have handled Sephiroth is extremely disappointing. I haven't seen a single new player have any investment in him as a villain whatsoever.

They're using him way too much. FFVII took a "less is more" approach with Sephiroth. He's not actually in the original game that much, but they made almost every scene with him count. There's very little fluff any time he appears. As such, he's super memorable, and it feels like he's in the game a ton because you remember every time he shows up.

Heck, even some of the times you don't actually see him leave a big impression, like him killing the Midgar Zolom.

foolm0r0n posted...

It's a very tiny story (chase Sephiroth, then way later, get black materia) in a huge open game. Remake had a much more detailed story which is why it was able to spend so much time on its story.

I mean big story in terms of scale. The scope, maybe not so much. You cover a lot of ground, even if the overarching story doesn't necessarily progress that much.

Remake took 5 hours of content and stretched them into 40, all while basically staying in the same place the entire time. Remake had a lot of time to fill, and it did a good job of it.

Kinglicious posted...

They didn't "get lucky" with Master Chief, they just read the room better.

If Chief always has high prediction percentages (and he does), no, they didn't. They got lucky. If Link always had low prediction percentages, it wouldn't mean they "read the room" the three times he didn't win.

Kinglicious posted...

I'll give an analogy since I don't think you're getting it. Say someone is specialized in a certain betting contest, like horses or football. They crunch numbers, they make bets, they usually get things right but a few things wrong. If a race or game happens that goes wildly out of scope, they adjust accordingly. For reference this isn't a pure hypothetical, people like this exist. Now make a board full of them. What they get right or wrong is not what an upset is in that respective sport, what determines the upset is the people in the overall pool. That includes the casuals. B8 is good at predicting the right 3:1 odds winners. That doesn't mean we're right and sometimes what we think is 3 to 1 is actually the opposite.

Oh, you mean sharps? Yeah, those people absolutely impact betting lines and determine if something turns out to be an upset or not.

The public loves to bet underdogs. That doesn't mean it's not an upset when one wins.

oh man and now an Under the Apple Tree remix heck yeah

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Goodbye Twitter world

Four MGS games, I'm good with it

I came up just short of the third tier prize for the Speed Square on my first try, so I had to do it again and easily cleared it. Felt like a much less hectic Gummi Ship sequence!

3D Brawler would be more fun if it were easier to attack instead of just waiting for the one exact moment I can hit them.

Wheel of Fortune

Dudunsparce posted...

4 players and size sounds like just advantages that the hardware had rather than the game itself and how time goes on

well yeah, MK64 could do things SMK couldn't, but every other Mario Kart game still borrows from MK64

I don't think the Halo 2 comparison is valid because it doesn't do much different from Halo 1 besides have multiplayer. Like if you think all MK64 does differently from SMK is have 4 players, I'm guessing you haven't played them in a while!

well that's your call but Metroidvania is a huge genre, especially in indie games, and those two invented and codified it

Purdue's brand of basketball is so ugly

it was so frustrating watching Tennessee lose to that

lordjers posted...

SotN just sneaking in as a personal favorite

I did not vote for SotN as a personal favorite. I've played maybe two hours max.

Dudunsparce posted...

what did 64 do other than 4 controllers?

Basically every game follows MK64's template for races, not SMK, such as three laps being the standard, longer tracks so you can't lap the field like you can in SMK, the properties of items (as well as introducing a few recurring ones, like the fake item box, triple shells, the gold mushroom, and the blue shell). And yes, having 4 players is a huge deal.

Not sure what rankings SMK finishes above MK64 in though, but I imagine it's not actual fan rankings.

Dudunsparce posted...

I think the game everyone seems to be really, really sleeping on here is Super Mario Kart

unless everyone is just fatigued from putting Mario Kart in all the other rushmores

I think it's another case of "just because it's the first one doesn't mean it belongs on a Rushmore"

MK64 was really the one that codified what the series became

Assuming they don't take their foot off the gas, UConn will have won every tournament game the last two years by double digits

I wonder how much money UK is going to have to offer to pull Hurley away from there

I think Mario World is a good candidate because I feel like it's instantly associated with the SNES. If you ask someone to name a SNES game, World is going to be the first a lot of people think of. Like it didn't do anything revolutionary (other than introduce Yoshi, I guess), but I think it's almost ubiquitous with the console, kind of in the way Mario 64 is with the N64.

SaveEstelle posted...

lift
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that quote made me want to put a personal gym in my house just so I could get this sign custom made and put up in it

Still working my way through Rebirth Chapter 7, but a lot has happened (and also this Johnny sidequest will never end)!

The banter going up Mt. Corel has been great. One of my favorite exchanges in the entire game so far was Red XIII telling Aerith she'd become one with the mountain, and her thanking the mountain for taking her in. Then Cloud goes, "What the heck are you doing, Red?" And he replies, "It happens to first time climbers all the time. Don't worry. If she faints, I'll carry her." So good.

The Turks show up just to drop off some black robes and troll us with a big machine fight. It turns out afterwards that Barret, Tifa, and Yuffie were like 50 feet away the whole time. You guys didn't see or hear anything? Could've used your help! But after the boss fight, we get our second Zack scene, this time with Elmyra coming to move Aerith (who isn't dead but comatose) to her house. Zack brings Cloud (also still comatose) along. Before and after this scene, we see Aerith staring off into the distance, so was she "watching" this unfold somehow? She seems to know about stuff like that somehow, so I'm curious to see how it goes.

We also get a board meeting with Rufus and the directors talking about Magnus Materia (which I assume is the same as the Huge Materia from the original game). It turns out that the materia comes from Weapons (or it might be the other way around because they said the Weapons were born from the materia. Maybe it's a little of both), and they're already active, as opposed to becoming active only after Sephiroth summoned Meteor in the original. Hojo is obsessed with getting his hands on one, and Scarlet has apparently been trying to produce their own version of Magnus Materia.

Reeve asks Rufus about the Neo Midgar Plan and how the previous President said dropping the plate would be in service of that plan, and so he questions how he knows the Promised Land actually exists. Rufus seems to be taking a different approach in this game, where he doesn't seem particularly interested in Neo Midgar, the Promised Land, or any of it. He seems focused on Wutai more than anything else, but I wonder what his actual goals are. Rufus also asks the mic drop question of, "Why didn't any of you try to stop this insane plan to drop the plate?" Nobody has an answer, and Rufus just walks out, with Dark Nation at his side as always.

Back in the present, we make it to the ruined Corel Reactor, and whaddya know? We find the aforementioned Weapon swimming around in the mako that's spilled out of the reactor, and there's the Magnus Materia, too! Yuffie is drooling at the prospect of getting that materia. She also explains what's going on with Wutai. I guess her old man is out, and now Lodbrok and the other Ex-SOLDIERs from Ever Crisis are in charge of an interim government. I imagine we won't actually see any of this stuff until the third game, so it's just exposition for now.

We reach the point where the bridge is raised, and the black robes decide they'd rather swim for it than wait for us to find a way to lower it. Cloud has one of his weird spells, and he almost falls into the water with them. Barret demands he stay behind and recuperate for the time being, so now Yuffie is in charge of getting the bridge lowered. I'm not a big Yuffie fan, but it's kinda nice to see her get integrated into the story now that she's not an optional character anymore.

Sonic Adventure 2

still angry at the 3DO for somehow getting Super Street Fighter II Turbo exclusivity

you will be heavily featured in both

also I had a thought for Mother's Day

you could do sitcom moms specifically since that's a pretty deep category

or maybe cartoon moms (western animation and anime both count)

Also we should do a sitcom Mount Rushmore

The Gossip reveal makes that section worth it because I generally did not enjoy it. Venus in particular is pretty annoying.

Well, I should clarify. I didn't enjoy the Gossip/Venus/Sandwich part. The redheads were pretty entertaining.

Paratroopa1 posted...

Is this case ambitious? I honestly think it's aiming pretty low. Ambitious is never a word I would have used. 3-5 is ambitious.

Theoretically it was aiming to change one of the status quos of the series (the judge is sole arbiter of the trial)

I suppose practically speaking, even if they had maintained the Jurist System, it wouldn't have changed that much unless you started doing the silly thing GAA did and have them all in the room arbitrarily casting votes whenever they feel like it

maybe Takumi wrote GAA because he wanted everyone to know what his vision for the Jurist System beyond AJ actually was

get rekt crunches

now get me out of this gym forever

I mean, 4-4 is ambitious, but I don't necessarily like what it's trying to achieve and its own messaging is either intentionally hypocritical (unlikely) or lacking self-awareness. Phoenix's logic for trying to install the Jurist System is essentially, "The system is rigged against us," while simultaneously rigging the jury in his favor.

although I do like your idea that 4-0 is so weirdly told because it's like Phoenix is telling the jurists what happened while doing the voices and flanderizing the characters himself

"and then Gumshoe was like 'hey pal I'm taking you down today!' LOL"

He comes across rather poorly in 4-1, but I don't know what impression they wanted us to have of him after 4-4.

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