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azuarc posted...

What, then, is the oldest game to never receive a sequel?

probably something like knucklebones

lol

Mew/Gyarados
Rapidash/Trevenant
Marshadow/Torkoal
Durant/Electivire

latter two are pretty tough

gen 1 flying's roster really showcases how it was actively designed more as a... modifier than a proper type lol

in an alternate reality, they honestly could've turned it into an ability instead lol

i feel like it's fair to call anything that being converted from a text adventure into a vr game as an entirely new entry so yeah that is a very strong call

paperwarior posted...

How about the upcoming Yars' Revenge reboot?

i just looked this one up and unfortunately it looks like it already got a sequel 19 years ago so it's out (would be competing with the claim i made directly above otherwise)

actually arguably i suppose you could count the shooting minigame in 1-2-Switch as a "sequel" to Wild Gunman if you're generous enough, and that would effectively be... around 42 or 43 years (if counting from the 1974 arcade release)

was going to guess bokosuka wars (1983-2016, so 33 years) but obviously this game would beat that. you could technically say Hebereke/Ufouria is up there as well as long as you put aside every spinoff (1991-2024, a little under 33 years)

And Penguin-kun wars also pretty high up there (1988-2017 from penguin wars 2 to the reboot, so 28 years)

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Sog-Gee's Realm (Water)
Tap de Papapaya (Long Version)
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i can't believe i didn't realise sog-gee was actually from david wise, i remember just leaving a note saying it felt like a clone of modern dkc in the nom impressions lol (also that i didn't want it to make bracket because some of the sounds made me think i was getting discord notifs. turns out it still does lmao). maybe i'll check out the rest of the soundtrack later
meanwhile i'd take this to be a lsd dream emulator fangame? the music is... different to what i'd expect from one, but also damn catchy. close match

and this is why we haven't had an aria rep in forever lol. the push to get a gba retiree is justified, but you have to pick stuff that doesn't just soil itself with bad soundfont choices other games on the system handled far better. in other words, get actually good gba soundtracks in, not just the most mainstream games...
let's tap (this song is literally peak)

this basically felt like a V.K song but with lyrics so i can't say i didn't like it
this is definitely the most video i have seen (at least for a while)
heck of all the matches today this was not the one i expected to be torn on

FL81 posted...

Interesting.. which songs would have been better here?

(I like the SubaHibi soundtrack, but I wouldn't say there's at least 10 songs that are VGMC nom-worthy, maybe just 6 or 7 idk)

let's not forget there are still all the other ending themes, and clearly we need to be considering the erik satie arrangements now too after the burger king song's performance lol

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yes koi no uta really is for obstructor, the boss it's for is a neglected koi fish i guess

Alternative Root
Obstructor
Les Enfants du Paradis

badlands more like bad matchup

hecked up that save for alternative root, the lowest rating i gave to any of these for noms was a 7.7 (frankly, the only real reason i rated alternative root lower was because it came straight after the other espgaluda nom)

man gamefaqs has gotten slow at loading pages with a bunch of links now

anyway i forgot i was going to post a few others
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmYGaePe9UQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoSVDnCkN9A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7o9klfYlqo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U9nGRDi31c

i was going to post some ac on my more serious post but i got beaten to it lol

i will toss on some extra obligatory ones though because why not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYDI_lkqyE0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_szPvIB3Y4A
(i kind of wanted to include an electrosphere track here too but on second thought that is definitely not the right fit for this topic lol)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9Lu3dXr70o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCoc9Pp02Es
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA0O5GYFUxY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOaCbA-8txA

only the most epic

armored core vs ace combat alone is an unreasonably hard question for me, never mind after throwing the others in

it's a stacked acronym lol (voted ace combat)

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

fans of tunic or even minit may be interested in this release btw

Aurora
Zero Gravity Area
Redeem the Future

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meta knight flashbacks

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had to add one for zero gravity right now (we're running out oh no)

i'm thoroughly embarrassed and disappointed voile of all things is the pepo rep this year, it's not even up there for arrangements of it specifically (if you wanted a good one in a style like this, dolldraft's soundtrack is right there...)

Wordle 1,063 4/6*





grown
furor
tumor
tutor

peak player counts suggest heavily otherwise lol (450k vs 2.1 mil)

truthfully if we're talking about games from critical reception i'm scared at the prospects of palworld swooping in from left field to win since it's pretty inarguably the biggest release this year has seen for better or worse (sure it's early access but i feel like it's not impossible they literally make an exception specifically for it)

oh interesting, also 89 for braid anniversary edition and 88s for athenian rhapsody and mullet madjack

it really is a strong month

also i'm surprised rabbit & steel doesn't have any reviews, though it's an incredibly strong hit among players too
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oh yeah neurodiver was today too i forgot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ9JTwrQNVU

haven't picked up animal well (yet) since i've got things from last month to get on first but i figured i'd also add that ESA was definitely what i considered the best metroidvania of 2015 and also best indie metroidvania really ever up to that point rabi-ribi upstaged it for me a year later but i digress. brilliant game, i felt it was a shame it was so heavily overlooked compared to axiom verge, though given the game's difficulty it was understandable

unicorn overlord sweep

Memories Of You
LIGHTNING BUG/MOO

part of me wanted to fool people into believing that one of the uploads from like 15 years ago for pmd2 had the best quality instead when people were saying to switch them, just so i had an excuse to use the fanon title again. but really who needs excuses anyway

it's funny how we are the lights feels like the go shiina song here

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oh hey this is out now (well, in early access but either way)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEq7vO7x0Po

had this somewhat on my radar, it really impressed me when i saw footage for the first time (admittedly more than a little because of how much it reminded me of rabi-ribi/tevi). still looks really good, and i'm tempted to pick it up in the coming weeks or so (considering Until Then isn't coming out next week any more, probably then)

Flygon/Squirtle
Fennekin/Froslass
Kricketune/Lopunny
Pichu/Marshtomp

the second and third matches were very tough... (froslass>lombre>sudowoodo>fennekin and kricketune>omastar>sprigatito=lopunny. small gaps on both though, don't dislike any of them)

last match was incredibly easy

Wordle 1,062 5/6*






charm
plain
****e
****k
*****

Wordle 1,061 5/6*






craze
locus
f
w

unfort

tazzyboyishere posted...

Naganuma disrespect is disgusting

agree

though if there hadn't already been comments i would've absolutely seen your comment as mizuno disrespect

Somnia Memorias
Tower of Memories

sometimes, the bit just isn't worth it. this corner is too good...
these weren't the hardest decisions thus far but that makes it all the more unfortunate, since i know i'd have very likely voted tunic and am in a LOT of other places on the bracket...
also am passing on the tiebreaker since it was pretty close for me the first time around

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also i'm just going to mention that Tower of Memories actually loops at 2:23

me rn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33EA-4odv68

Layton

i don't even play the games i have no idea how that came to mind first lol

Xtlm posted...

Xanadu Next

being probably the best game on the system still doesn't make this true (a cursory look finally shows it had 3d racing games, several fpses, and even a faithful super monkey ball port, all of which seemingly also ran far better than it lol)

Uglyface2 posted...

Shoot, I keep forgetting that you get the next puzzle early. Serves me right for not paying attention.

that's the reason i've been avoiding including the answer guess when i've been first lately lol.

(generally if i think it'll be a gimme with the other guesses i'll also avoid posting them too but i figured i had to here just to give any context to my commentary)

junglegirl posted...

this is way older than I expected. also this is so pretty what

true. for a first (official) game soundtrack release back in the late 90s, it clearly demonstrated that he was already a true master of his craft

it still should've been gran turismo 2 though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf_9tvhnu20

AcireExists posted...

Y'know, I didn't expect this to be, well, FM (at least I think it's FM? sounded Genesis-esque so I assume it is) lol. Nice song tho, I like.

this version of the game is on the Sharp X68000 btw, it uses the ZMUSIC format (which is basically just an advanced (for the time) container for fm, pcm and midi audio. the game happened to have both fm and midi soundtracks this way, and mizuno-san definitely pushed both to its limits

if you're wondering, here's what the midi version is like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GsGNL6s8_c
@AcireExists

-hotdogturtle-- posted...

Smh it's like the Poll of the Day front page writers designed this poll.

how do we know deo isn't secretly a potd writer

Gran Turismo
Gran Turismo 2
Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec
Gran Turismo 4

Knowledge of the World (Twin Moon) (FM Ver.)
Burning, Churning Power Plant
Spring Wind Skylark

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in hindsight we really just needed to do burger king as a genre

um, hello? it's 2024, the current year. really? *does something people in 2024 think people did in 1984*, literally 1984.

too real for this tbh

makes sense considering it wasn't really part of the poll series and there weren't like, rules for it

like i just talked about like 10 games on it and didn't pick one specifically

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8hNT5C8rqc if i were to pick now it'd probably just be this (Metal Slader Glory)
sure it was pretty deep into its lifespan, but it's still almost unbelievable an adventure game with animation and sound (well, it's mostly sfx that are impressive) like this was on the system (and without even needing to be a famicom disk system title)

Wordle 1,060 4/6*





space
blast
grass

was very clutch i decided to check for a second s just in case, i very nearly didn't and i probably wouldn't have gotten it at all without that

today on new videogames where i cannot fathom how anyone actually decided to make them lol

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1901130/A_Difficult_Game_About_ROLLING__ReUpRise/ monkey ball meets only up (and technically also a difficult game about climbing, so you can tie it to getting over it as well)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2603860/Underground_Defense_Force_Sword_and_Sorcery_and_Swarm_of_Insects/ earth defense force but it's an rpgmaker demake spinoff fangame

first thought for poll was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GbBD_7AsGA btw

tough call, i'm neutral on the jellicent and golurk lines but like the rest, and i like swadloon, joltik, the crustle and volcarona lines, but am neutral on the rest and the scolipede line and genesect are probably at the bottom of either group for me.

Wordle 1,059 3/6*




clues
curry
cumin
back to winning ways thanks to another particularly lucky first guess (i guess i'm just getting good with the hard (blind) reads of what kind of letters will get prioritised each time lately) which i wasn't quite able to capitalise on (cumin honestly made sense but but it took me a solid 2 mins to even think of any words that had the u in a different spot, and cumin just wasn't the word i thought of. of course, given curry, it was inevitable it'd come to mind straight after lol)