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People who are paid to do it. It's their ****ing job!!!

They aren't paid to watch it, they're paid to write about it. Nobody is pulling down a paycheck for just watching a game. Even if they did make watching their full-time job, one could only watch, say, 20 games a week, tops.

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Aren't the people who vote on these things supposed to be "experts"? Shouldn't they be able to figure it out just by watching? I mean, the average fan can watch a Ravens game and be like "Hey, that Ray Lewis guy is pretty valuable" so why can't the so-called-experts just extend that basic "eye test" to the whole team/league?

Well, for starters, who has time to watch every single game, especially in college football?

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I've always figured "most valuable" meant "most valuable in the league, in other words the best player period.

I don't care how good your other stats are, and I admitted in a vacuum Felix had some good stats. However, you are paid to win games, he did not even do his job that year, let alone earn the Cy Young. At the end of the day, YOU PLAY TO WIN THE GAME.

No, you get paid to pitch well. Baseball is for the most part an individual sport masquerading as a team sport, and as such you should make determinations of quality based on statistics they can control. Otherwise you may as well determine the MVP via astrology.

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Of actual weapons, definitely spears and their many variants (pikes, etc.).

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I would predict but Bracketmaker is being aggravating to me and posting my picks here would expose me to shame and humiliation.

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Oh, hey, you could use that Green Lantern comic to win an appearance in the Superman movie.

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First 10 Bond films?

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The problem with Medieval and Rome is that while variety is nice from a historical perspective, it's bad from a gameplay perspective. You see this huge army your enemy has and you literally don't know what it does or how to beat it other than to throw more stuff at it. This is just plain bad on a strategic level. You need to have some idea of "this army can beat that army efficiently". You simply don't want to continously throw stuff into the meat grinder because you got a whole bunch of other stuff to worry about.

I don't really think this is true. This isn't set in space, where you'll have no idea what a unit does unless you see it or it's described. This is historical and most units break down into basic types. Sure, all the European countries have different kinds of heavy cavalry in Medieval 2, but it doesn't take a genius to know that Chivalric Knights and Polish Retainers do the same basic thing. Then handful of genuinely unique units can be a fun challenge when encountered randomly and in any case you can read a detailed explanation of every unit before a battle.

In addition, I would add that since one does not fight reactively in Total War (you fight with the army you have, you don't muster a new one when a threat arrives), the strategic aspect come from constructing the best army you can out of your faction's selection and shepherding its strength, not from creating an army that efficiently beats a particular enemy army. This is especially the case in Europa Barbarorum, which uses recruitment zones and thus prevents you from reinforcing an army that is far afield with anything besides expensive mercenaries or weak local levies.

Lastly, I would just say that Total War is a historical game, not pure strategy. Having a lot of historical units adds to the fun and diversity of things, and helps keep things from getting old as your blasting through the backwards difficulty curve. Butchering another carbon-copy army for the 80th time in Shogun frankly gets a bit old.

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Get the MGS set instead, or save money by just buying the individual games because they're rather cheap and seriously the HD upgrade doesn't mean much.

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Sengoku jidai has always been the best period for Total War,

What is this nonsense.

Whatever Shogun 2's merits (it seems to have finally solved TW's issue of dull endgames), Japan is pretty objectively the most limited when it comes to variety. Medieval covers a bigger range of technology and environments, while Rome had a staggering degree of faction diversity (and EB adds even more; seriously EB might be the best mod ever).

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The aesthetics of DKC3 were just weird. Jungles and Pirates were better than summer camp in Montana.

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Well, that's plainly because you haven't played EB which will teach you the FASCINATING HISTORY of the period.

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Rome is better and cheaper and gives you access to the Europa Barbarorum mod.

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To take a wild guess...Renegade Shepard? I haven't played Ass Effect.

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Well, people might care less about the Vita being disappointing because Sony's handheld efforts were always second-fiddle to Nintendo. A potential Nintendo collapse in the handheld market really COULD kill them.

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Holy **** at Tick Tock Clock.

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...Because Nintendo games are really popular?

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Well, at least I can watch the run, even if it isn't live and seems to have no commentary.

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I could imagine Fire Emblem beating Pokemon, though! Why is it a 10 seed, anyway? It was a top 25 contender and we can't place it higher than 37th?

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...coulda swapped it with Super Metroid to face Pokemon Gold.

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I hate FFT and any SPRG.

Well then you clearly don't like good RPG's so you should probably play FF3.

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Man, why'd you have to feed Path of Radiance to the board mascot?

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FFT is on the iPhone so I assume it's on iPad a well.

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*hits F5 repeatedly for hours on end*

*sobs*

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Eh, just wait for the inevitable Humble Bundle or Potato Sack equivalent.

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I haven't voted in a single top 25, so I would be the perfects wild card!

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Numbah wun customah.

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1-5 the best.

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Play Der Langrisser too.

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Play Europa Universalis 3

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I can trade.

nefftron is the name

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Ugh, don't really have money so I can't get the Rockstar games. Could have asked for them for Christmas but not it's toooo laaaaaaate.

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Total Annihilation

Also Master of Orion 2 is waaaaay better than 3.

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Oh boy GOTY RDR do want.

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Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Brawl for Broke Conference)
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Metroid Eater Conference)
Suikoden II (Nintendo Objections Conference)
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (Brawl for Broke Conference)
Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals (Thousand-Year World of Sunshine Conference)
Cave Story (Twilight Barrel Galaxy Conference)
#24 Metroid Prime (Metroid Eater Conference)
Earthbound (Games of the Decades Conference)
Street Fighter Alpha 3 (Brawl for Broke Conference)
Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride (Cult RPG Galaxy Conference)
Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War (Smackdown Hotel Conference)
Mario Kart 64 (Twilight Barrel Galaxy Conference)
Gitaroo Man (Thousand-Year World of Sunshine Conference)
#18 Final Fantasy X (Tanooki Blitzball Conference)

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http://kotaku.com/5870565/gamestop-says-the-last-guardian-is-canceled-sony-says-its-not

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Bah, he's way behind this time.

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Sorry, already have that.

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Use this:

http://www.paradoxian.org/hoi2wiki/index.php/Main_Page

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Kinda glad he isn't restarting just because this is fun to watch record or no.

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Welp, there goes the run.

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...wat.

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Goddamn that Fire Sea run was amazing.

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I've been flipping through the EGM which reviewed FFX over the last few days (I found it while cleaning) and it's a massive nostalgia trip into a different era. The main article is about the massive onslaught of RPG's coming in 2002. What's really funny is how hype is distributed, with ultimate disappointments like Xenosaga getting a lot of play while only a little attention is given to an Xbox game by the name of Morrowind.

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Plastic

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