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LeonhartFour posted...

It starts with an Mc.

Oh, I thought you meant your first name. I was hoping for Seamus or something really stereotypical.
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tazzyboyishere posted...

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I named him Brent.

Well this topic has hit its low.

What's wrong with Brent?

LeonhartFour posted...

I always name the Protagonist after myself for the first playthrough because I enjoy seeing an Irish last name get Japanese honoriffics attached to it.

What is your name that it's especially Irish?
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This is an incredibly long prologue. I've been playing for over an hour and we just got to the castle-high school, and there's been one fight the whole time at the veeeery beginning.
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WhiteLens posted...

Well, his 'canon' name is Ren Amamiya

It's Brent Johnson now!
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Didn't know what to name the protagonist, so I named him Brent.
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Do I lose anything by not connecting to the network? I don't have internet on my PS3 anyway, but I'm curious.
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Gonna start the game once this update finishes

I haven't used my PS3 in forever, it's covered in dust.
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trdl23 posted...

The concept of a Sonic-based vehicle racing game always struck me as missing the point.

Wouldn't it be great if the plot was that Sonic broke his leg?

Then how does he work the pedals?

He broke his left leg.
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Is there a way to turn down the sound? I can't find it in the options menu.
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trdl23 posted...

The concept of a Sonic-based vehicle racing game always struck me as missing the point.

Wouldn't it be great if the plot was that Sonic broke his leg?
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Why does no one discuss Persona 1 and 2?
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PS3.

I know nothing about the series or game except that you can bang your teacher and someone wears a catgirl suit. I think there's a guy who summons demons by shooting himself in the head, but that might be a different series. Is there anything I should know going in?
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That won't happen. Roseanne got cancelled specifically because of her tweet, Fox won't touch her anyway.
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Youve proven to me that it cant be Bloody Tears, but the main theme CAN be invented in later games.
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Shaduln posted...

In fact after a quick look (youtube "all version" videos), Vampire Killer is in like 27 games and Bloody Tears is only in 10.

Guess I was totally wrong, then!
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WazzupGenius00 posted...

Im assuming Vampire Killer is what were counting as Castlevanias? I wonder if its actually been in 50% of the games or not. Probably just a little bit over half. I wouldnt be surprised if Bloody Tears is actually more frequent.

I was counting Bloody Tears.
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Defined as the 'main' theme that's used in at least half of the games, not just a good theme in an individual game in the series.

I really like Castlevania's.
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tcaz2 posted...

scarletspeed7 posted...

It's fun to have discussions

So do it in a topic where its not literally irrelevant and you don't have to use spoiler bars talking about a movie the TC hasn't seen yet.

Yeah, that's a fair point. I'll stop, sorry.
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Pokalicious posted...

I disagree. Although Wakanda is featured in the movie, the characters don't actually do much. Shuri does MORE than Black Panther in the movie. Doctor Strange, on the other hand, is a vital part of the movie. So his introduction, and the Time Stone's, would be more important.

I'm gonna say this is up to interpretation about what an individual thinks is key to understanding a movie. From my perspective, Doctor Strange makes sense as a character in Avengers 3 regardless of whether or not you've seen his movie to understand his exact motives. It's great to have additional backstory on the time stone, but really if it had just shown up with no explanation beyond Doctor Strange saying "Look I found the time stone, it was Milwaukee all along," there'd be no problem.
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scarletspeed7 posted...

There's a little thing around his neck that's pretty pivotal to the film.

Sure, but you learn what Infinity Stones are in multiple movies, including Avengers 3. It's not like you need to know how he obtained the time stone to understand what's happening in Avengers 3, you just need to know that he has it, which the film makes clear immediately.
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scarletspeed7 posted...

It depends if you care about building the lore of the universe or not.

Yes, this is a better way to put it, but Wakanda features heavily in Avengers 3, while Doctor Strange is just another superhero in a group of superheroes who doesn't need explanation beyond "he's a wizard," so I still think BP is more important to understanding Avengers 3 than DS. But neither is absolutely necessary like the other movies.
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Pokalicious posted...

Actually, I would say that Doctor Strange is way more important than Black Panther.

Both are probably skippable now that I think about it.
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Avengers 2
Captain America 3
Guardians of the Galaxy 2
Thor 3
Black Panther

Doctor Strange and Captain America 2 are also important, but you can probably skip them in the end since CA3 explains what happens in CA2 and Doctor Strange isn't really that critical except to introduce a few things.
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Once you beat the game, can you start over on the same file, or do you need to make a new one?
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What determines which ending you get?
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StifledSeagulls posted...

t does relate, actually. Over the next ten years before ANH, Han sees first hand how the Rebellion and the Empire operate and becomes jaded to them both. Having a conscience as a young man when a young girl tells you a sob story is much different from hardened Han ten years later. He probably bases his policy of only wanting money on constantly remembering giving away all that cash ten years prior and seeing no difference made because of it.

What you're effectively saying by this is that ANH Han is no longer a skeevy guy who unwillingly grows a conscience, but rather a former hero who rediscovers his own innate goodness. That's an okay angle to take for a character I guess, but that's not at all how it's presented in the OT. It's almost a different character entirely. It's like if in Lord of the Rings it was revealed that Gimli already had an elf friend when he was a teenager, they had a falling out as they got older, and then he rediscovers that elves can be okay. It's not exactly a contradiction of what's presented in the original work but it's not at all how things were shown.
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"I'm not in it for your revolution, I expect to be well-paid for this."

I'm not going to say it's a bad movie. I think I'd like it a lot more if it was a random guy instead of Han Solo. I just think they didn't think or care about how it would relate to ANH.
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Because he's the villain of a C-list franchise who's only shown up once, and the that franchise already has three reps. I would love him, but the chances of him getting in are low. I could imagine him as like a stage boss, though.
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Punnyz posted...

I also understand that Han Solo was supposed to be a bastard until ANH but he doesn't consider himself a good guy in Solo either

and lets be honest, him helping the Rebellion was more a byproduct of him getting out of his current situation and trying to come out on top, it was still driven by selfish desires

He had the opportunity to just steal all of the fuel at the end and not go back to the rebels, but he gave them everything.

And I realize that Han thinks he's not a good guy in Solo, but it doesn't matter, the movie makes it clear that he is. Han was clearly just a thief in ANH who doesn't care about the Rebellion or the Empire except in how to make money until he has a change of heart over time. With Solo in mind, Han was always a good guy deluding himself into thinking he's a scummy smuggler, he's always favored the Rebellion, and Chewbacca's roars in ANH were probably nothing but"Why don't you want to help them, Han? Remember that time we saved the Rebellion and gave up 60 million dollars like nine years ago?"
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There shouldnt be a pre-ANH Han at all. He should just be some smuggler guy.
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I played a little, sucked, and gave up for now. I plan to continue later.
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I didn't really like it.

The whole idea of Han's arc in ANH and the OT is that he goes from not caring about the galaxy to becoming a good guy. But now he was involved in the founding of the Rebellion from the start and gave up a ton of money to the cause?

In fairness, I should say that I also am not crazy about making a movie about Han Solo at all. The only backstory you needed about him was that he was a smuggler who won a ship in some kind of bet and that he's friends with a sasquatch, making a movie out of that and a few throwaway lines is crazy to me. In the space of like a week, Han meets Chewie, completes the kessel run, and wins a ship from Lando. It's like everything he said or implied in the OT has to be condensed into a single film when none of it needed more than to be left as a vague background thing.

I'll say that I liked Emilia Clarke in this more than I expected. I hated her in Terminator 5. I also liked the old smuggler guy. This was balanced by the Han and Lando actors being whatever at best. Didn't care for the droid, but didn't mind her.

I also didn't mind Darth Maul showing up, though it felt like a Marvel movie where they're just setting up more stuff for later movies and like they needed to insert a lightsaber somewhere into the movie.
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beavis666x2 posted...

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Luuke

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Luuuke
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Okay Lauren.
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They probably wanted a map with more natural aesthetics and less sci-fi ones and didnt think the details through.
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Alexis
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wg64Z posted...

Please stop. You're killing the franchise.

YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO SAVE THE FRANCHISE

NOT LEAVE IT IN DARKNESS
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"You remember that guy who was cool specifically because he was weird and mysterious? The one whose backstory was already explained by George Lucas in the prequels and also gets eaten by desert vagina snake? Let's make a movie where we explain his backstory in even more excruciating detail."

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/star-wars-boba-fett-movie-is-happening-james-mangold-direct-1113273
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bryans7 posted...

We all know the superior 6th member is Hot Dog Water.

She was only a member for like four episodes, and she was totally redundant with Velma already on the team. She was more interesting than Daphne, but who isn't?
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Mr Lasastryke posted...

Anagram posted...

I don't understand the Daphne votes.

TJF

That would also apply to Velma, though.

Hardcore_Adult posted...

Anagram posted...

I don't understand the Daphne votes.

She did have the best character in APNSD. Though, it was largely down to Kellie Martin.

Haven't seen that since I was a kid, okay.
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I don't understand the Daphne votes.
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Does any major fictional character wear an ascot besides Fred?
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Alanna82 posted...

Scrappy

I thought Shaggy and Scooby were idiots. Daphne was just eye candy, Fred was like 'lets split up" and Velma is cool, but she was useless without her glasses.

Scrappy actually was brave and wanted to fight the monsters (which were never really monsters or ghosts, but Shaggy and Scooby still thought they were) In the first one with actual ghosts, Scrappy actually didn't rush into the ghosts.

It wasn't until AFTER Scrappy left that his behavior would be stupid, when the villains were really ghosts and monsters.

So I am seriously voting for Scrappy. I might be the only person who liked him, but I didn't really care for the show and thought Scrappy was breath of fresh air. Yet Shaggy and Scooby got all the credit for not doing anything but eating and running away and getting lucky.

Its kind of sad when I look at the "scrappy" lists on TV tropes and most of them are my favorite characters from that show or game.

The real monsters showed up as early as the crossover episodes with the Addams Family.
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