Lurker > Underleveled

I guess I missed a lot (I plan to go back and read this whole topic someday). Do you work at a movie theater?
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Well fugg me
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UltraMana posted...

Ooh! Forgot I almost nominated the entire thing!

Kind of glad I didn't since "Semi-Charmed Life" has a lot of drug references, and "Jumper" is about suicide, so...

...fits right in with all the other noms, huh?

EDIT: Also, Smooth McGroove just uploaded a video an hour ago saying he's coming back soon and why he's been gone.

Wrong topic?
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Doki Doki Literature Club (PC)

Well that was something. I liked Sayori a lot and was really sad when she died. It seems there is a way to get a good ending but it looks pretty complicated. I will probably go back and do that sometime.
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Butters pissed me off early on because I was constantly having to revive him, so that discouraged me from using him much later on, even though he seemed a bit better later (i used him in the battle against the giant fetus)
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Oh and since I forgot to mention it in my initial post, Stan was by far the best buddy. I used him almost exclusively once he joined my party. I rarely used anyone else and literally never used Cartman once.

I say this as a very offensive-heavy RPG player who likes to crush enemies with the most powerful attacks as quickly as possible.
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South Park: The Stick of Truth (Switch)
Such a great game. Very funny, I couldn't stop laughing, which is just what I needed in my life right now. I also loved all the little bits of South Park history scattered throughout, they really went to town making this one for the fans. The music was especially great. The gameplay took me a bit to get the hang of but once I did I flew through the game. Going in my brother described it to me as, "Paper Mario but South Park" and that's EXACTLY what it was. It was not only a great RPG but also an excellent parody of the genre. I totally called Clyde being the villain, I mean, other than Kenny but I was not expecting Chef and shouted out loud when he showed up. Oh, and it looks like it's gonna let me keep playing post-game, which is great because there were a lot of sidequests I never finished (I couldn't even figure out how to get into U-Storage)

If I have ONE complaint it's that I really hated how other characters would start complaining if you took more than three tenths of a second to decide what to do. Like sometimes it actually got REALLY fucking annoying.

Can't decide if I want to jump right into Fractured But Whole or play something else in between so I have more great South Park later. Maybe saving the sidequest stuff for later will alleviate that burden.
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JONA, Johnbobb, darkx, red, with @ZenOfThunder commentating.

That was fun. That Kite finals might have actually been a sneak. I don't remember him showing up and those wins might have been me dicking around before we started.
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http://www.join.me/CBXgauntlet
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Gauntlet is delayed until at least 9:30. I'm having an unexpected error with the program that I don't know how to fix because the error message it's giving me tells me to fix something that appears to be perfectly fine..
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Tonight at approximately 9pm Eastern I will host Character Battle Gauntlet, updated with this year's newcomers.
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Where?
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KCF0107 posted...

I never did it because I think that I remember GMUN expressing his concerns about the amount of topics that already use it and the increasing likelihood that the bot would get banned.

I think this is a topic that warrants it though.

He was getting concerned because there were people starting to make nonsense topics literally just for the hell of using it.
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I think this topic deserves an autobump.
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Raka_Putra posted...

And don't listen to past Raka, he's a liar and a menace.

Hmm, well you technically said that in the past which could mean that this post itself was actually a lie meaning that the things you said before it were actually truth meaning that they were already ranked and we missed them meaning this topic still isnt happening?
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If he decides to do this, he can find this archived on the L site.
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Let it be known for the record that as of the unbump, Raka had not been active on the site in 8 days, had not posted on the site in 14 days, and had not posted in the topic in 29 days. I think we had just cause to kill this.
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Just skimming the topic I saw 9 bot posts in a row at one point.
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Maniac64 posted...

The bot can definitely be turned off.

Please. As much as I want Raka to see this through, it's clear that isn't going to happen.

Or maybe turning off the bot will force him to do it?
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Please just let this die if you aren't gonna do it
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Please nominate Kate Marsh (Life is Strange) for Character Battle X!

Life Is Strange: Before the Storm (PS4)

For my thoughts, see my playthrough topic:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/76992329
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Please nominate Kate Marsh (Life is Strange) for Character Battle X!

What the hell happened in Discord?
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Please nominate Kate Marsh (Life is Strange) for Character Battle X!

mnkbot907 posted...

...explain what?

Explain why you are keeping this open if you don't plan on doing the ranking, @Raka_Putra
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Please nominate Kate Marsh (Life is Strange) for Character Battle X!

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Please nominate Kate Marsh (Life is Strange) for Character Battle X!

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Please nominate Kate Marsh (Life is Strange) for Character Battle X!

Yeah I've seen you playing Zero Escape lately lol
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Gmun posted...

From: LeonhartFour | Posted: 3/11/2012 11:18:58 PM | #025
Well, I wouldn't go THAT far.

you read that Gen writeup

it was gold

Oooh this was from the Cyclo suicide topic wasn't it.
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Solioxrz362 posted...

Underleveled posted...

It seems like it's got decent replay value

ehhhhh

It's not nonexistent replay value, but the speed that the game goes on a second playthrough is hard to deal with. Characters walk really slow, you kinda know a lot of the scares, no surprises. I hated going for the platinum because having to replay some sections once or twice was so boring.

I might just replay chapter 10 then and see how much better I can do. If I restart from there does it keep my progress and choices from prologue through 9?
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CONTINUED Until Dawn SPOILERS

-Emily was a bitch and I hated her; when Dr. Hill asked me to rank everybody I said I hated her the most. I also NEVER got her name right. She was Kelly to me the entire time for some reason, and whenever someone referred to Em or Emily, I was like "Who's that? Oh, right, Kelly." But as the game went on and she became more involved in the story I began to appreciate her attitude, especially compared to...

-Sam, every horror movie female lead stereotype in one package. Though I will say this, I kinda liked her snarkiness, and Hayden Panettiere did a good job playing this kind of role, which is more than I can say for...

-Matt and Jessica.... who are these people? They were okay but hardly even in the game. Matt was absent for two very long stretches, with a couple of scenes in the middle before disappearing again. Jessica was even worse because she had ONE big long absence the same length as Matt's two, during the entire bulk of the story when all the action was really happening and I was getting attached to everyone. And neither really had too much personality.

I totally, TOTALLY called Hannah being a Wendigo.

Overall, I enjoyed this. It certainly wasn't one of my favorite games of all time, but it really sucked me in, I stayed up through all hours of the night two nights in a row playing the first 80% of the game, and it was a perfect "play by yourself with the lights out in the middle of the night" game. I enjoyed several of the characters. It seems like it's got decent replay value and as I said before, I will definitely be giving this another go and try to get a better ending, maybe even before the year is out (I don't think I've ever played through a game more than once in a single calendar year, at least not a game lasting more than an hour).
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Until Dawn (PS4)

I have A LOT to say.

The non-spoilery stuff:
-I did not get the best ending. I will DEFINITELY be replaying this at some point and try to get as close as possible, at least better than I did. (need to play LiS:BtS first though)
-Man it got more and more nerve-racking the further I got and the more and more afraid I got of getting people killed
-Ashley >= Chris > Mike > Josh > Emily > Sam > Matt > Jessica

The spoilery stuff:
I absolutely LOVED the horror elements to the game, and not just with the survival and the Wendigo and shit, and not even just with the screamers, but how they tailored it all to your specific fears, that was just nuts. The stuff with Dr. Hill was great. It added a lot to the personalized experience and at first reminded me of the narrator in the Rocky Horror Picture Show; imagine how surprised I was to see him actually be a part of the narrative.

Sam, Chris* and Matt survived. Mike, Ashley, Emily and Jessica died. Josh survived but began transforming into a Wendigo; not sure if there's a way to prevent that fate or if it is his best ending. I did hit a Chris death at one point (right after Flamethrower Guy died), but I hit reset with enough time to replay the scene ONLY because he was so high on my favorites list; if it were anybody else but him or Ashley I probably would have just let out some expletives and cut my losses and kept going. Also it was because I panicked and hit R1 instead of R2 to shoot, then when I got out of the status menu I was disoriented and didn't pull the trigger in time, so it was an innocent button mistake instead of poor decision-making or genuine incompetence. Mike, Ashley and Emily died in the fire. Fuck Emily for killing Ashley, I ought to bump her down on my list for that. Not sure how I could have saved Mike or Emily without getting Sam and Chris killed though. Jessica died because I was an imbecile and chose to run from the Wendigo in the mine.

A few of my Butterfly Effect things never came into play. I never got the conclusion to Sam and the baseball bat, and "Whose Side Are You On" never showed up at all.

-Ashley & Chris was by far the best and most developed relationship here, and the story I was most invested in. I really saw a lot of myself in Chris, and him having to constantly choose between Ashley's life and others', including his own, even if they were all psychs, added so much drama and really made the bond between them strong. Ashley was whiny but for some reason it worked. Her innocent curiosity and fear of pretty much everything made her the most fun character to play as and a great foil to the calm and methodical Chris, who she shared 90% of her screen time with. I was really rooting for them and my #1 priority was getting them both out alive if I possibly could. When I hit the aforementioned Chris death I actually hit the PS button, put my face in my hands for a solid two minutes and then said "let's see if resetting helps..." As I said before, if it were anyone but those two I would've just begrudgingly gone on (see - I could have done that with Jessica and didn't). In the ending inferno I was so upset to lose Ashley. I wanted to see them have a happy ending together.

-I hated Mike in the beginning for all the macho stuff with Matt and Emily and Jessica, but he actually became a sweetheart and the bravest of the bunch. He was also an extremely fun character to play as because he got himself into so much danger.

-Josh was naturally the most unique character in the game and his scenes often had me losing my shit with mindblownness. I actually in the back of my mind suspected him of surviving the sawmill scene though against all reasonable expectations. That just seemed way too fishy and I couldn't believe the game was actually going to make me choose between two people at that point. Never suspected him of being the psycho though.
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Sometime in the coming weeks I'm gonna give the Nintendo Gauntlet an update.... it's been a looooong time.

In the update are over 200 characters originating in the following titles:
ARMS
BoxBoy
Detective Pikachu
Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water
Fire Emblem Fates
Fire Emblem Gaiden/Echoes
Fire Emblem Heroes
Fire Emblem Warriors
Kirby: Planet Robobot
Kirby: Rainbow Curse
Kirby: Star Allies
Metroid Prime: Federation Force
Paper Mario: Color Splash
Pokemon GO
Pokemon Sun/Moon
Snipperclips
Splatoon 2
Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion
Star Fox 2
Style Savvy: Styling Star
Super Mario Odyssey
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
The Legend of Zelda: Triforce Heroes
Xenoblade Chronicles X
Xenoblade Chronicles 2
Yoshi's Woolly World
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Detective Pikachu (3DS)

Man that game was a lot longer than I expected. I mean, it wasn't like, RPG long, but I expected like 5 hours, and every time I thought it was getting ready to wrap up it just kept going and going. Despite its length, it was very easy, and even with all the twists being thrown at you, pretty predictable too. I also wish there were more/longer action sequences.

On its behalf, the game was clearly made for like 10-14 year-olds, and I think it was pretty much perfect for that audience. I also thought the story and characters were pretty fun, and got some decent laughs, especially from Pikachu. I also liked the action sequences; as I said before I wish there were more of them and/or they were longer. It was fun and enjoyable enough that I will probably play the inevitable sequel since the ending leaves it open for one, unless it's just setting up the movie.
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Underleveled posted...

Bot is on-point lately

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Bot is on-point lately
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I plan on beating a game tonight, granted it's actually finally starting to wrap up and there isn't like another 4 hours. It's already exceeded my expected length (which was pretty short).
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Gmun posted...

oh my god swearing powerpuffs episode

best ever

I just remember there was an episode where an octopus destroyed a dam or something and they cleverly got to say "that dam(n) octopus" or something like that, but I don't remember a straight-up swearing episode.

The "Rude Removal" episode of Dexter's Laboratory however...
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Or you could switch to a difference browser like 10 years ago.
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It's a new day
But it all feels old
No rankings yet
That's what I'm told
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ff6man posted...

Please reveal ranked online. Pleaseeee.

Please reveal ranked showtunes. Pleaseeee.
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Same lol
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Tracks 6-12 on Reputation are great. The rest are okay. Yeah I agree overall it's probably her weakest but that stretch is fantastic.
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__LeiaRolando__ posted...

Overall, despite a few flaws in the plot, it's still a damn good game and my second-favorite Tales after Abyss.

Second-favorite game or second-favorite Tales game?
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As always, put me down as a solid "we'll see."
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I played it on Switch earlier for GotM. I agree. It was good, but not nearly as good as TWD. I did enjoy the action sequences a lot.
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Sims can be very fun/funny if not taken seriously.
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Stop talking to yourself.
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ff6man posted...

PrinceKaro posted...

sounds about the right time to announce a smash 4 port

Nintendo pls

Well no.
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bumo
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Wario Ware Gold (3DS)

Story mode, as expected, was very short. Less than 3 hours. That alone was not nearly worth the price of admission, but luckily this series has excellent replay value, so I'll be trying to squeeze some more out of it.

Very, very fun though. I love that it was fully voice-acted, I think that added a lot to the humor, and I enjoyed both the new and familiar characters. 13-Amp is a star.
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BlueCrystalTear posted...

Bayleigh is a Black Supremacist racist.

This is just... what?!

BlueCrystalTear posted...

Rockstar's extremely privileged yet accused Brett of being something he's not by labeling him based on him being a white male.

I didn't like Rockstar pulling the "straight white male privilege" card on Brett but aside from that one moment she is so entertaining and Brett is a boring, mean-spirited try-hard.

BlueCrystalTear posted...

Have you seen some of the shit JC has said?

I really think there is a cultural barrier with JC. I know some of the outrageous things he has said on live feeds but I really think he just doesn't get it. He doesn't seem like a mean-spirited person and he's said/done plenty of funny, lighthearted things in the edit.

BlueCrystalTear posted...

What Angela did to Rachel was downright deplorable and I'm still not happy about that. HORRIBLE to treat a friend like that... when Rachel was nothing but honest.

I agree. Before this week Angela was just obnoxiously boring, that is, trying so hard to be relevant when she's clearly not. But after this week she's just plain horrible.

BlueCrystalTear posted...

And Fessy is a creep, even if he's hysterically bad at BB and everyone knows it.

Fessy is hilarious and his complete ineptitude at the game (his creepiness being a part of that) is one of the highlights of the season so far.
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