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YoukaiSlayer posted...

*** Lots of Good Yuri Pointers ***

*applause* All of that is good information, and I agree, though I think Love To-LIE-Angle is silly.

Zeus posted...

And yeah, the manga seems jarringly darker than the anime (or, at least, the volumes I read did).

Not your imagination. That is one franchise where the difference between the manga and the anime is not only noticeable, but almost night and day.
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Zeus posted...

Interestingly enough, the character is older than Garfield despite having always felt like a knockoff.

True! But Heathcliff always did feel like the knockoff, and no one I knew disagreed.

Also was looking at images of Go-Bots toys and one of them looks like a dead ringer for Transformers' Cosmos.

Not a coincidence. There is a fair amount of cross-pollination between the two series, to the point that Go-Bots (... if you dive deep into the TF Wiki) is considered a Transformers series, albeit one that is very distantly related.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

There is a browser extension for Chrome(-based browsers) and Firefox that overrides the Flash player in Crunchyroll and forces it to play HTML5 instead. Thanks to that, I am able to watch anime on my laptop again. Big win!

keyblader1985 posted...

I've always wanted to get deeper into Lupin.

One of my buddies at Crunchyroll is in the process of watching the entire franchise, from the '60s all the way up to the present. (He had to set aside this entire year to do it.) The impression I get from reading his experiences is that Lupin III has almost no continuity, and the number of different writers and directors involved over the decades means that the type of show it is can be very different from one series to the next. It tends to be a comedy, but it can range from being dark (like the original manga) to being Japanese Looney Tunes (like the "pink jacket" era of the anime). You can pick and choose the bits you like. The "blue jacket" series is the one currently running on Crunchyroll, and that one has been well-received, but you can start almost anywhere in the franchise and have fun with it.

Castle of Cagliostro is a good place to start, but it is important to remember that it is not characteristic of Lupin III as a whole. (The best description I have seen is that it is a good movie, but not a good Lupin III movie.) Lupin is almost a hero character in that movie, and he and his friends are not terrible to each other, which is kind of the point of Lupin III.
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Kungfu Kenobi posted...

... involves getting a large enough body of developers to see things a certain way.

Thank goodness most Japanese developers do not care what niche audiences in the U.S. have to say.
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They already did this in the Pain of the Gods arc of one Justice League run, but that was before 2011.
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Sasamichan posted...

I wouldn't be surprised since DOAX3 never made it to the west.

Not officially, but it was fully subtitled and easy to import (and fun, too, IMO).
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... I have that game on my smartphone. Have yet to play it, though.
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Planet "Kizlepowerbottom".

I feel like that explains a lot about Tom Cruise.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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There is a difference between lesbian scenes shot by straight men for straight men ... and lesbian scenes shot by gay women for gay women. The latter are much more watchable, IMO.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

(Teri Hatcher used to be a thing ... about 20-30 years ago.)

Is that supposed to be Agent 47? ... With what looks like Rise from Persona 4?
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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Signs I should not read this topic while tired:

I kept seeing The Last of Us 2 and kept thinking to myself, "Don't they mean Left For Dead 3? Is that a thing?" ... No, no, it's not.

And I do enjoy the occasional survival horror game, but I'd probably like them more if I were better at them. For me, Resident Evil 2 was mostly about wrestling with unresponsive controls, rather than zombies.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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The discussion here is going to unexpected places. Interesting.

I feel like the methods of the groups in the topic titles need to change. Instead of trying repeatedly to change or destroy things they dislike, why not create things they do like (and leave everything else alone, since there is room enough in the entertainment world for all of it)? This always boggles my mind. ... Then again, I suppose it takes less energy to complain endlessly than it does to actually "be the change you want to see in the world".
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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ClarkDuke posted...

, ok?

You got a mention in the first Night Before post, towards the beginning of this.
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Bump because this is still a work in progress and I am having to deal with a few things IRL.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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As I try to flush that picture of Waluigi from my brain, I am reminded that the Imgur comments section is about as bad as the You Tube comments section. Impressive.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

Most likely got here in the late '90s in search of one FAQ or another, but I joined the forums in '02 to chat with the Capcom VS. SNK 2 community at the time. Good memories.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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And Soul Calibur has not had a good story since SC2, IMO.

... yeah, I'm not bitter or anything ...
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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Heathcliff is to Garfield & Friends what Go-Bots used to be to Transformers, IMO.
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shadowsword87 posted...

...Will it be another wifu simulator, or a war game?

It looks like they are beefing up the latter, but they make far too much money from the former to abandon those mechanics entirely. The old school fans might complain a lot, but the new school fans are more numerous (and play more FE Heroes).
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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The missus and I have jumped into the '90s Lupin III movies due to a need for laughs. (These are the ten movies that Funimation made available in the First Haul and Final Haul boxed sets back in the early '00s, before the Great DVD Crash of '08.) Started at Crisis In Tokyo, but there is no specific order to these, so we can always jump around.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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Like I said in the topic for anime / manga and JRPGs, it looks like the new Fire Emblem game is going to play like a Langrisser game. This, I find amusing.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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And it looks like there is going to be a new Fire Emblem game for Switch that plays like a Langrisser game. Not until 2019, though.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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Square Enix needs to fire Nomura to win my heart back.

Or they could dust off Legacy of Kain and have Eidos do a new one of those.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

If the Vesperia remaster is happening for PS4, then I can see myself getting that. I already have the 360 version, but ... I still have the Game Cube version of Symphonia, and I got that remaster, so why not this one, too? It depends on what is releasing around it, though (see: the new Persona dancing games).
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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I can hear you now. And the Pastebin is updated:

https://pastebin.com/4v9xAj0y

Still picking at the next Night Before. Should happen this week, but I have several extra-long work days (due to having multiple trainees), so I cannot say when, exactly.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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The pacing in the Persona 5 anime is driving me nuts. It feels like A-1 Pictures is going to stop and do every single fan service event in the game. Approaching the end of the first cour, and the Phantom Thieves are only starting the third Palace. Unless the series does a bunch of asspulls, there is no way it is going to be able to do all eight Palaces without being a complete mess. ... That, or it will stop at the 'good' ending and leave the 'true' ending for OAVs or something.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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I foresee characters talking about nothing for twenty minutes at a time as the camera does long pans across empty landscapes. Y'know, like every Kingdom Hearts game. ... I've never been a fan. Don't much care for Disney, and I really don't care for Tetsuya Nomura. I mean, I get it, the series has tons of fans, but it's never really done anything for me.

....

Okay, I did like the Tron segments in KH2, but that's just because I'm a huge dork who loves the Tron movies. I'm still a little glum that Legacy isn't getting a sequel.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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THEGODDAMNBATMA posted...

Natasha Nice

Natasha Nice is looking a little rough nowadays, if you ask me, but I agree that she used to be top-tier.

My pick is Bree Daniels (... in her blonde, long-haired mode).
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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Yes, and I still fire 'em up on my DVD player or streaming video from time to time. I even make sure I've got a bowl of cereal handy, too.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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....

*adds to Steam wishlist*

Thank you, Lok.
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Revelation34 posted...

Article also makes a claim without actually sourcing it.

Yeah, I noticed that, too. The lack of an original source for that is peculiar.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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*reads the linked article*

I have been a fan of Dead Or Alive since the original (20+ years ago, at this point), and I find this disappointing. The series has always been a blend of fast-paced game mechanics and sex appeal. If you tone down the sex appeal, you get ... Tekken, but faster (and less juggle-happy), to be honest, and Tekken started sucking for me after Tekken 5 (except for Tag Tournament 2). Granted, DOA has been excessive about this in the past, but I feel like DOA5 hit the right balance, and toning down it from that is catering to a ... certain hostile demographic, one that most likely does not play the games (or any games, for that matter).
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

I have nothing to add to the Star Wars discussion, at this point. Between Zeus and PO, it feels like all possible bases have been covered. To quote ol' Darth, "Impressive."

As far as Mortal Kombat goes, I agree with Wave Master: The games are great when it comes to presentation ("Mortal Kombat has always been, and always will be!"), though I think the character designs can be pretty fugly, sometimes, especially the women. And the game play is clunky, but it always has been.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

Welcome back, Key! You've been gone from this topic for a while.

Hmm. I don't know what I'd do if I met my favorite voice actors at a con. I'd probably get tongue-tied, like I used to do at the horror movie cons. Yeah, celebrities are people, too, but I think I've got a deep-seated fear of opening my mouth and sounding like an idiot. (Props to George Takei, though. He was really cool when I met him as a kid.)

eating4fun posted...

Y'all weird. Stardust Crusaders was legit, especially the second half.

I am going to have to agree here. That arc of JJBA is the stuff of legend.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

Speaking from experience in a similar job, Koga, you will be amazed at the lengths to which people will go to get a free or discounted room. (Seriously. Every time somebody claims to have seen bedbugs, take a drink.)
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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DeltaBladeX posted...

https://imgur.com/a/xqoBMPq

(Galko-chan is actually pretty funny, but, yeah, it's heavy on the fan service, too.)
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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Firewood18 posted...

Butthole Surfers

No, that'd be one of my favorite bands.
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Revelation34 posted...

Ok somebody claimed something similar to this in a different thread and they didn't provide a source.

I managed to dig up this link:

https://venturebeat.com/2017/09/21/sega-should-revive-panzer-dragoon-saga-on-pc-next/
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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Boned (of Up At the Crack fame)?
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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How is it already almost the weekend again? *sigh* -_-

Bump. Going to make this happen sooner or later.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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MirMiros posted...

Armored Core 2 was my first IIRC (specifically "Another Age").

People tend to forget about Another Age. I remember fans at the time debating whether AC2 or AC3 was better.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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Ah, so many good memories of this series! I would never have gotten into Fire Emblem if not for Shining Force, and I played my original copy of SF1 so many times that the save data gave out.

Ferarri619 posted...

I just don't get why Sega can't at least remake some of their Saturn games.

There might a technical reason for this. Sega claims to have "lost the source code" for Panzer Dragoon Saga, among other things, but that seems disingenuous.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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blackhrt posted...

You don't have to miss her, her games are still out there digital & physical copies.

True. I have all of the games up through Angel of Darkness. No idea why I never tried to get the Legends trilogy, though. Can still fix that.

AllstarSniper32 posted...

Curse this having to click on links like it's the early 2000s or something.

It feels a bit like opening a bunch of presents, if you ask me. And my computer loves not choking on the page when it tries to load it. (This is why you normally only see me in the first few pages of these topics; by the time the last pages have come up, I can barely look at the damn things.)
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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Welcome back, Koga! ... I was getting a bit worried there.
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*squints*

It looks (and reads) like Ikkitousen, but ... not.

And I am suddenly reminded how much I miss old school Lara Croft.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

Almost too many questions and topics of conversation to which I can respond here, but that is a good thing. Going to address several of them in short order.

-- Agelessness / immortality for my superpower, though I imagine my archenemy is going to be a Scotsman brandishing a Japanese sword given to him by an Egyptian ... with a Spanish name ... played by another Scotsman.

-- Having a robot double of myself makes my superpower twice as useful. I can get him to play all the games for which I do not have time, and he can help with the dusting. And I suppose I would use him for naughty business. Immortality breeds boredom, after all, and, if he is a robot version of me, then he is going to ask, anyway.

-- Jamie Foxx annoyed me in ASM2. I do not see him being a great Spawn.

-- I need more Waterdeep like I need a hole in the head. I enjoyed the Mordenkainen book, but the campaign-based expansions (e.g. Tomb of Annihilation, recently almost completed by one of my groups) have done very little for me.

-- Enjoyed Solo. Had a lot of fun watching it, in fact. Reminds me of the old Han Solo books that followed the original Star Wars (e.g. Han Solo At Star's End). A little disappointed that it is doing poorly (... by Star Wars standards), but it is what it is.

-- Rogue One is easily in my top three favorite Star Wars movies.

-- The Last Jedi was designed to be divisive. Lots I enjoyed about it, lots that just made me raise a brow, but they went into it trying to do what the audience did not expect, and, in that regard, it succeeded. Not one of my favorites, but not a car crash, either.

-- ... I thought Black Panther was great, but everybody in my family has the same thought about it: "We liked it a lot, but we definitely don't feel like the target audience."

All right, that catches things up for me, I think, but I will add that I have been actively rereading books from the Star Wars Expanded Universe. (My copies are old enough to not have "Legends" branded on them.) Enjoyable, but it feels a little strange, considering that the 'canon' universe is liberally taking things from "Legends" and repurposing them as needed (see: Solo).
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

Think I was the one to rec it in the last topic.Wayfarer of time is a good game.

Growlanser is a good series (as is Langrisser, its predecessor), IMO, though the truncated nature of the U.S. release makes it feel a little complete, since we got 2, 3, 4 (Wayfarer), and 5, but neither the original nor 6.
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.

See, From Software used to be the "first on the field" developer for new consoles, especially for RPGs. Evergrace came out long before any other RPGs on the PS2, for example (... in the U.S., at least).
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
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....

But, just in case, one more bump to play it safe.
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T0ffee posted...

Might go back and go through with the female MC someday. It'll definitely be easier since I'll have my uber gear and persona from the start.

The main story is, of necessity, very similar, but the Social Links get a number of big changes. And Minako (pick a name you like) has a lot of personality compared to her male counterpart, to the point that her version of P3 is my favorite. Alas, it is not canon.

Meanwhile: Yay, Growlanser!
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-- I Abibde / Samuraiter
Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002.