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LOL satellite

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Sub-Zero

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Another big reason MGS1 is awesome is the cast of villains. FOXHOUND might be the best collective pairing of villains in any video game. They’re all pretty great (except for Decoy Octopus, I guess, but he never really got a fair shot). They all had some awesome and fairly unique boss fights for their time. I know everyone raves over Psycho Mantis and Sniper Wolf, but I think my personal favorite boss fight in MGS1 is the battle with the Hind, simply because of the atmosphere of the fight. It’s so good. The Codec contacts are also really great, and I’m sure I’m not the only one who spends a lot of time calling the Codec to try to get all the conversations (and for the record, Mei Ling is totally better without the accent. Her Chinese accent is bad. Anyone who says it’s “unrealistic” for Mei Ling not to have an accent apparently hasn’t spent a lot of time interacting with American-born people of other ethnicities who grow up speaking English along with their mother tongue). MGS1 just has a very solid (LOL get it) cast of characters all around.

And that’s without even mentioning the plot! Metal Gear Solid is filled with awesome moments, twists and turns, and great interaction between the characters, especially Snake/Campbell and Solid/Liquid. There was one moment in particular that elevated the game from “really good” to “Holy crap this game is awesome I have to go out and get MGS2 as soon as I finish this game,” but since it’s showing up later on in the Moments list, I won’t mention the specifics of it here and now. Such a good game.

Bonus Question: What is your favorite cast of villains in a game?

Bonus Bonus Question: What is your favorite game from the lower half of the list?

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26. Metal Gear Solid


My first experience with Metal Gear Solid wasn’t until 2004, and believe it or not, it was a GameFAQs Contest match that prodded me into buying it. The match was Frog vs. Liquid Snake, and even though Liquid lost, it was so close and we all thought CT characters other than Crono were so strong back in those days (LOL Magus), so I finally decided I needed to check this game out and see what all the hype was about. I’m actually glad that our reasoning about CT characters was fallacious because first of all, it got me to play MGS sooner than I may have otherwise (if I would have at all), and second but unrelated to this list, it resulted in many hilarious contest moments in the coming years, with Knuckles > Magus being the best.

Anyway, I’m getting off topic here. The point is that I was finally playing Metal Gear Solid. The briefing videos where Campbell talks to Snake about the mission got me even more excited to play this game. Unfortunately, I got stalled in the very first area of the game for what felt like 30 minutes to an hour. To this day, I still believe that if you can get past the first area of MGS1, you can handle anything else the entire series throws at you (on Normal, anyway. I can’t speak for the higher difficulties). I’m not saying I was an expert on MGS after completing that area because I’m still pretty bad at the game and I die a lot even to this day when I play the games, but it did a good job of preparing you for what was ahead with the stealth elements.

Well, I’m rambling again. Let’s tackle what I love about MGS1 proper. First of all, Solid Snake is awesome. Avid Snake fans get angry at me when I say this for some reason, but the main reason I liked him so much as I was playing was because he reminded me so much of Squall. I’m not saying it’s a perfect resemblance or anything because they are obviously different in some ways, but it was big enough for me to notice it. Snake’s a loner by nature who doesn’t like to rely on others to get things done, but over the course of the game, he is slowly changed by the impulsive and overeager girl’s personality, with the tipping point being when she faces a life-or-death situation, with Snake helpless to do anything about it (and he does it in a matter of hours, but no one criticizes him for “falling in love too fast and that’s not realistic!”). And yes, I am oversimplifying things while overlooking the clear differences, but again, this is just to explain that there was a similarity between Squall and Snake that I saw that made me like him.

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These are copy/paste ertyu posts.

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Good news.

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Well, now you're going to have to take a chance or sleep without a pillow case.

Your call.

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In the four minutes since you've made this topic?

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Flip the pillow over

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I knew it!

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The trial

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Yeah, I'll count crossovers like Marvel vs. Capcom, even if the character isn't originally a fighter.

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Oh yeah, got off work early tonight. Hopefully, I can get a writeup in sometime soonish.

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From: TheRock1525 | #021
ur not bob kelso
ya what ever you dont no me

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Up you go.

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From: mnkboy907 | #018
No duh means yes, by the way.
Thanks for the clarification, because I was about to ask you about it.

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Truth about Auron

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Knuckles the Echidna

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Always held it the right way, of course.

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Sweet, my name's in there this time.

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Could this be any more of a yes from me?

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Saying goodbye

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Results
Hubert J. Farnsworth (Futurama): 100.00% [82 votes]
The Joker (DC Comics): 100.00% [52 votes]
Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation): 100.00% [45 votes]
Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes): 100.00% [44 votes]
Yusuke Urameshi (YuYu Hakusho): 100.00% [41 votes]
Alucard (Castlevania): 100.00% [40 votes]
Marty McFly (Back to the Future): 100.00% [40 votes]
John McClane (Die Hard): 100.00% [36 votes]
Bilbo Baggins (The Hobbit): 100.00% [35 votes]
Terry Bogard (Fatal Fury): 100.00% [34 votes]
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Boba Fett (Star Wars): 72.00% [25 votes]
Tommy Vercetti (Grand Theft Auto: Vice City): 72.00% [25 votes]
Plank (Ed Edd n Eddy): 71.79% [39 votes]
Ness (Earthbound): 71.43% [42 votes]
Presea Combatir (Tales of Symphonia): 71.43% [35 votes]
Marla Singer (Fight Club): 71.43% [21 votes]
Cecile (Suikoden III): 71.43% [7 votes]
Link (The Legend of Zelda): 70.91% [55 votes]
Godzilla (Godzilla): 70.73% [41 votes]
Fred Flintstone (The Flintstones): 70.45% [44 votes]
Missingno. (Pokemon): 70.24% [84 votes]
[...]
Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto): 13.33% [45 votes]
Shinji Matou (Fate/stay night): 7.69% [26 votes]
Hannah Montana (Hannah Montana): 6.45% [31 votes]
Nina Einstein (Code Geass): 6.06% [33 votes]
Barbie (Barbie): 5.56% [18 votes]
Chris Thorndyke (Sonic X): 5.00% [20 votes]
Bella Swan (Twilight): 4.29% [70 votes]
Canary Mary (Banjo-Tooie): 0.00% [19 votes]
Ethan Ryan MacManus (Ctrl+Alt+Del): 0.00% [22 votes]
The Kids (Trix): 0.00% [84 votes]

Last Day's Results
Marla gets off to a slow start, but manages to turn things around to finish with a respectable percentage.

Today's Character
Not to be confused with Miss Chanandiler Bong.

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So you're saying that they get it right 20% of the time

Sounds about right to me

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Phoenix Wright

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From: th3l3fty | #017
friendly reminder: Kingler is in this while Alucard sits out
All according to plan.

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From: SuorGenoveffa | #015
No but seriously, we needed Kingler instead of all the cool nominations/preliminaries characters. Indeed.
Never trust Board 8 to get in good characters.

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"largely coerced" indeed

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You're supposed to ask ME that question, you dolt

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What has two thumbs and doesn't give a crap?

Bob Kelso, how ya doin'?

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C'mon, I'll show you to my room.

...That sounds so weird when it's not followed by, "No thanks, it's late."

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Darn it, swirl, you ruined the Jim Rome/David Stern setup

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Canvassing basically means going door to door trying to sell stuff, offer a service, etc.

Tried it myself a couple summers ago and lasted about two weeks as well.

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Growing Pains

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Hey, I didn't nominate Nefarious for that exact reason!

also swirl I feel obligated to ask this because the fans wonder

was the fix in

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Gross. I would rather people be Blanka fans than Juri fans.

And I've got to stop sleeping so late after work! I'm not having any time to get a writeup in lately! Oh well, off tomorrow and (hopefully) Sunday, so we can play catch up over the weekend.

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From: MarvelousGerbil | #010
Still not getting the point of ATTN topics now that we have PMs.
A lot of people don't ever bother to check their PMs, for one.

But Jeff Zero isn't actually one of those people, apparently, since this is an ATTN topic regarding a PM.

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Zanarkand Ruins

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Poor Jeff.

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wait what

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Up we go.

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From: Lopen | #034
Also I don't know what's more offensive you disliking dive kicks or you disliking Juri. Probably the latter but jeez.
Juri is terrible.

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From: DaruniaTheGoron | #009
I agree the non-call on the last shot was bogus though.
And, of course, one bad non-call = OKC didn't get any calls the entire game

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The Boss (Metal Gear Solid 3, Metal Gear ACE)

Delita Hyral (Final Fantasy Tactics, Ye Olde Squaresoft)

Maya Fey (Ace Attorney, Metal Gear ACE)

#12 Mega Man (Mega Man, In-Conference DLC)

Manny Calavera (Grim Fandango, Tales of Democracy, Ho!)

Cammy (Street Fighter, In-Conference DLC)

Felicia (Darkstalkers, In-Conference DLC)

Mordin Solus (Mass Effect, No-Life 2: Effect 3)

Morrigan Aensland (Darkstalkers, In-Conference DLC)

#4 Mario (Mario Bros, Smash Bros)

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Spy

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Captain Jack Sparrow

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