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Tidus is a dream

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Mario 3 was the one where Bowser jumps into the air and tries to land on you, only to gradually destroy the floor and fall through to his, uh, "death."

I never finished either NSMB game, so I can't comment on those.

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Sarge is the best.

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Zanarkand Ruins

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...31 hours isn't very long for an RPG.

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Well, you'll definitely want to do Overlord first, at least. It has repercussions on ME3.

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Time to bust out a baseball bat, perhaps?

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This GIF

is amazing

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The N7 missions in ME2 are generally not a big deal. There are a few good ones, but most of them are pretty boring, yeah.

I don't recall any of them having any effect on ME3.

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I don't have a problem with it personally, but certain Board 8ers have..."issues" with being overly technical. I just don't want the topic to devolve into 'but which terminator are we rating'

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33. Bowser Koopa (Super Mario Bros.)
Quote: “Did somebody page the king of awesome?”


Yes, in fact, we did page the king of awesome! He’s lighting in a bottle! He’s earthquake in a can! He’s the one and only Bowser Koopa, a dude so great that there literally was no Mushroom Kingdom before he came into existence (bonus points if you remember that topic). In the main platformer series, Bowser is a villain whose main thing is kidnapping princesses and conquering stuff, up to and including the galaxy itself, but he really came into his own starting with Super Mario RPG. He steals the show in most of the Mario RPG games, even the ones in which he doesn’t even really have an active role in the main storyline for, like The Thousand-Year Door! Nintendo finally rewarded Bowser with his first official playable starring role in Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story a couple years back, and of course, he was awesome in that, too.

While it’s the Mario RPGs that cement Bowser’s place on this list, that’s not to say he’s bad in the other Mario games. Bowser’s had some excellent boss fights throughout the series. I already discussed the last boss of Mario 64 on the moments list, but that’s far from the only good boss fight he has in the series. Of course, he also has some stinkers, like the last boss fight of Mario 3 and Bowser in a Bathtub (mario how dare you ruin my family vacation. I kinda miss when Bowser just had a dinosaur roar and never said anything out loud in the N64 games, mostly because I don’t really like his current voice. I don’t think it fits him well), but those are exceptions. While Bowser isn’t the deepest villain in the world, he’s certainly done a good job putting up a great fight in the finale of a game, even when he’s the protagonist, like in Bowser’s Inside Story!

Bowser’s pretty fun to play as in the various Mario multiplayer games as well. He’s the best character to use for battle mode in Mario Kart 64 (along with DK) because you can use his weight to spin people out and make them lose a balloon. While he’s usually one of the slower characters in any game he’s featured in as a playable character, he’s also one of the strongest. If you can learn to deal with the speed disadvantage (or you play with people who aren’t very good, like I do), you can wreak some havoc with him in the Smash Bros. games. He’s a bit of a high-risk, high-reward character. Bowser’s also great for blasting homers in the baseball games or long drives in the golf games. He’s a world class troll in the Mario Party series, too.

Bowser was really awesome in the old Mario cartoons as well. Sure, he was full of those typical cheesy and puntastic 90s cartoon villain one-liners (“He who Koops last Koops best!”), but he was still pretty hilarious. Also like most 90s cartoon villains, he wasn’t very intimidating as a villain most of the time. He could be a bit of a bumbler, but he was darn entertaining. RPG Bowser has a similar personality in some ways, although there are some differences. Regardless, Bowser is a villain I enjoy more for his general entertainment value than his villainy (final boss battles aside). All hail the king of awesome!

Bonus Question: What is your favorite Bowser boss battle?

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That joke is not original with me.

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Oh sorry that we missed a step

That remake sure would be cool

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summ on er

You have to pronounce "on" like "on" not "un" as if you were saying the word "summoner"

Of course, jokes are no longer funny once you have to explain them, but oh well.

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From: ScareChan | #021
I was pretty sure it was fake but even fake I would expect people to talk about it >_>
what would you like us to discuss

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Beaten to the punch!

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Hopefully never

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I've found that Chrome is superior

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hey guys

what did wakka say to tidus when he spilled chocolate milk on yuna

'you got summoner'

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More.

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FF "I think I'm a man of the people but now thanks to the Janitor everyone knows I'm a fraud and I have egg on my face" Dragon

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Should've been [she's cute ya]

Arriving at Zanarkand

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This is an appropriate clip for FFD now.



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And also probably WRONG

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Braska's Final Aeon

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I do feel like a super spy all of a sudden.

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First writeup using spoiler bars, whoo! We'll see how it works out.

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NIER SPOILERS CONTINUED

Then you actually have to fight Grimoire Noir, only he’s stolen your Sealed Verses powers. As you damage him, you slowly regain your powers, which is cool. After you beat him, he makes one last attempt to apprehend Weiss by force, but Nier jumps in the way and gets impaled again. With that, the Shadowlord departs without so much as a word, content to take Yonah for now and deal with the rest later. Unfortunately, there’s still the problem of the Shade in the basement. Kaine’s solution is to have Emil petrify her, which would act as a seal to keep it in there. Weiss’s comments to her right before she gets petrified are great. “Spare me the good-byes, hussy. I imagine it will take more than this to kill you.”

But this is a great sequence of events because things go from bad to worse to worst for the heroes. Nier’s a great hero in the sense that he’s so resolutely determined to do whatever it takes to protect Yonah and the village that he’ll fight as hard as he can, even when the situation seems hopeless, but even he reaches the limits of what he can do in this scene. It’s really a shame that the game starts you right after all this stuff ends in the New Game+ stuff, because it’s so good.

Bonus Question: What is your favorite Nier moment?

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NIER SPOILERS BELOW

34. Nier – The Shadowlord Appears


This is Nier’s “It just got real” moment. For the first half of the game, you’ve been searching for the Sealed Verses and trying to find a cure for Nier’s daughter, Yonah. It’s basically been a series of fetch quests (along with a ton of other fetch quests if you do the sidequests on top of that!) up to this point in the game. You’ve met some interesting people and visited some cool locations along the way, including some really creepy stuff at Emil’s mansion, but this is the moment that begins to elevate Nier to the next level. Not to say the first half of the game is boring or anything. It’s still fun, but this is the turning point of the game here.

At first, it doesn’t seem like something you can’t handle. Sure, a bunch of Shades invading the village is very unusual, but Nier’s good enough to take care of them. And then…holy crap that is the biggest Shade I have ever seen. This part can be really tense because you’re not only having to avoid the giant Shade’s giant fist slams (as well as the ensuing shockwaves), you have to deal with the smaller Shades all around you trying to attack you as well. It’s pretty hectic. Once you do enough damage, Nier uses the power of the Sealed Verses to tear off one of the big Shade’s arms…only to have it regenerate a few seconds later. Oh dear. Then it starts heading for the library, where all of the townspeople have gathered, including Yonah. You keep attacking and attacking it, but nothing seems to keep it down. I just love the sense of dread that permeates this sense as you’re trying to stop it from getting to the library, but no matter what you do, it doesn’t work. Finally, Kaine appears to help just in time to incapacitate the thing, and it’s time to head into the library to make sure everyone’s okay.

But we’re not done yet! While the thing is barely more than a head and tentacles now, this Shade just won’t die. Weiss comes up with the idea to seal it in the basement since they can’t seem to kill it, and after a bit of a struggle, Nier manages to blast it into the basement and Kaine tries to hold it back until they can lock it with the key. Then the next big twist hits out of nowhere, quite literally, as Nier is impaled through the shoulder with a magic spike. As he collapses to the ground, we see a Shade who is clearly different from the rest (He has a distinguishable face, for one thing), and he’s got Yonah, to boot! Plus, he has a Grimoire of his own, Grimoire Wesker, errr, Noir. He starts trying to persuade Weiss that they need to merge into one for the sake of the Shadowlord’s plan to create a new paradise, and it almost seems to be working, until Kaine’s profanity-laced rant seems to snap him back to reality. Weiss’s speech to Noir after he snaps out of his trance is great as well, especially his snarky comments about his companions. Classic Weiss dialogue there.

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Up again.

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Sub-Zero

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listen to the voice of the people

and there's no excuse for it being "too late" since the match runs for 48 hours anyway!

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all the times we

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gonna get swept by the kings

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Also, old school Three Stooges stuff is pretty great, so you guys ought to check it out if you haven't!

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Yuna's ending speech

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might as well go ahead and start the round now

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Knuckles the Echidna

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From: Ytterbium_70 | #017
Speaking of franchises never done before, I don't see a thing for the Terminator franchise, even with the series being in all sorts of recent contests and with 518 done so far (1 in-progress). Nominating T-1000 (Terminator 2: Judgement Day)
Well, I had discussed doing a topic for the Terminator with Ed, but apparently every Arnold Terminator in all three movies is a different robot, so I wasn't sure what sort of "confusion" this would cause among the voters.

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From: pjbasis | #427
LeonhartFour posted...

pjbasis, ever the idiot in my side

(also just because someone claims to be a Squall fan doesn't mean he's part of the army)

Pfft if it wasn't for me Squall woulda been eliminated by now.
Actually, we probably would have more supporters than we currently have if not for you.

Addition by subtraction, you understand.

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Tidus is a dream

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Get Chrome

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LOL GameFox

Chrome superior

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Whoa, what just happened there

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From: mnkboy907 | #007
Yeah, Shake didn't ruin anything.

Is anyone else seeing the new dotted line quote boxes? I see them, but my friend doesn't.
I see them.

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