Lurker > ZenOfThunder

double the pleasure

+3 Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
+2 Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
+1 Disco Elysium
-1 Divinity: Original Sin II
-2 Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
-3 Destiny


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@SBAllen it's time to take this one out to pasture

RIP pic submission sticky

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LordoftheMorons posted...

It is indeed crazy that I've spent the majority of my life here!

I didn't see the moon thing :(

ZenOfThunder posted...

https://i.imgur.com/91YzTES.mp4

made gif of moon for archiving purposes

ZenOfThunder posted...

https://i.imgur.com/my0qbDo.mp4

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oh shit thank you for letting me know

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Show Exclusive: COVID-19 unmasked in a rare one on one interview!

i am predicting it is luster

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one last ride

Ngamer64 posted...

Four Way Breakdown with Leon and KP!

https://i.imgur.com/2cxo1Hq.gif

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Kevin Spacey

(he is not my favorite)

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it's really good to see a majority of our regs have finish in the top at least once

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I did not enter Guru but I think azuarc is a cool guy and I respect his bracket and balls

Sig'd

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have one of my famous zen once-overs

(1) Mario > (9) Yakuza
(4) Mass Effect > (5) God of War
(6) The Witcher > (3) Kingdom Hearts
(2) The Elder Scrolls > (10) Mega Man X

(1) Persona > (9) Chrono Trigger
(4) Resident Evil > (5) Sonic the Hedgehog
(6) Mega Man > (3) Grand Theft Auto
(2) Metal Gear > (7) Red Dead

(1) Pokemon > (9) Donkey Kong Country
(5) Dark Souls > (4) Fallout
(3) Castlevania > (6) Monster Hunter
(2) Metroid > (10) Half-Life

(1) Final Fantasy > (8) Ace Attorney
(4) Xenoblade vs. > (5) Dragon Quest / Warrior
(11) Portal > (3) Fire Emblem
(2) Smash Bros. > (7) Uncharted

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(1) Mario > (5) God of War
(2) The Elder Scrolls > (6) The Witcher

(4) Resident Evil > (1) Persona
(2) Metal Gear > (6) Mega Man

(1) Pokemon > (5) Dark Souls
(2) Metroid > (3) Castlevania

(1) Final Fantasy > (4) Xenoblade
(2) Smash Bros. > (11) Portal

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(1) Mario > (2) The Elder Scrolls
(4) Resident Evil > (2) Metal Gear

(1) Pokemon > (2) Metroid
(1) Final Fantasy > (2) Smash Bros.

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(1) Mario > (4) Resident Evil
(1) Pokemon > (1) Final Fantasy

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(1) Mario > (1) Pokemon

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(0) Zelda > (1) Mario

ty for including a sonic vs mario match <3

a good amount of tossups in here, really well made, makes me not mind the idea of series II

i have elder scrolls overtaking witcher cuz even on the witcher 3 subreddit we had some random people going like "yeah all of these suck but witcher 3"

i predicted a deep run for RE because it's had some really good hits lately and i think it would snowball into a movement

i was debating on taking dark souls a bit deeper but pokemon is a big contender, i would move dark souls somewhere where it could stir up some more shit and maybe win a division

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Oh shit I could feel the power of a metalmind mock bracket from the topic list

Tag

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fuck yeah panel de pon the right choice

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goodbye to my dearest friend @NowItsAngeTime , i'll see you on the other side

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knuckles will always be the star of 2005 to me just because I called that one

i mean the only reason I did was because I was 14 and didn't know who magus was but still I fucking called it

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remember when we were unironically nominating "'DAAAAAAAAAA'- Rabbid" for quotes contest and we were trying to figure out the exact amount of As to use

i'm pretty sure seeing noms like that come in first is why that shit got canned

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the true MVP is hentai

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I still get hyped up when I remember Zelda's run, what a monster

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I would check tiger direct, i'm still at work so I cant really look right now but if you go there and pick some out and post links her im sure me or someone on the board could tell you if they are good or not

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iirc i was on track to win guru and maybe the contest itself for CBVIII

but i had charizard over Mega Man cuz Zero was in the match and we know how that went


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make sure you make a page for this on the wiki so it's archive, this shit is great i am lapping it up

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https://i.imgur.com/ySjx2pC.gif

actual footage of zenofthunder as he screenshots and posts in the archive topic

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well i can't find the other leaderboard i thought i was on so i guess i am a big liar, so move my vote down from 2 to 1

i think someone moved their vote from 1 to 2 so it all shakes out

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Character Battle VIII:


I am going fucking crazy trying to find the second contest I was on the leaderboard for, I specifically remember last year screenshotting it and posting it somewhere because I was right below Leon and I tagged him in the post and called us leaderboard buddies

maybe that was just an intense fever dream i had tho

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yessss

these topics are my life force

more please

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i'm pretty excited for this just because when i played the original I went 2 hours without saving and foolishly did a big boss battle

the kicker is that I barely won, and RIGHT AFTER I opened the menu to save the game crashed and I lost my progress and the right win. this was maybe 20ish hours in

I was so upset I just never played it again. the wound is healed and I've forgotten enough about the game that this will basically be a fresh experience again

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MechanicalWall posted...

Erm uh hmm...

It LOOKS cool, but I'm not seeing evidence of them addressing the core complaints ppl had with the last two.



This is worrying to me. We have a conversation with an NPC... who is a plain Bob-omb who calls themselves Bob-omb. This was apparently the best they had to show in an announcement trailer.

this shit actually made me physically wince, it's so so close to what would make this game pop, but they couldn't take it just a bit further and give him a silly hat or a mustache or something

it's so frustrating, you can tell they wanna make TTYD2 but they just can't for literally bullshit reasons

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transience posted...

final votal graph. that last day

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it looks like it has some cool shit in it but it still wholey resembles Color Splash and Sticker Star with the lack of variety in character design

i want a goomba wearing a funny hat dammit

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from the thumbnail i dont see any original NPC designs

bad start

EDIT: it looks better than the last two so maybe it's worth a shot

they really try to work with the arbitrary restrictions they impose on themselves

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i think I finished twice in the top 30 or 40 in some of the early 2010s character battles

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Congrats my dude

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MetalmindStats posted...

Am I the only one who's noticed the parallels between the top flight of this contest and the Noble Nine back when the term was still relevant? To break them down:

* BotW vs. Link: both obvious-winner Zelda entrants; both tore through their respective foes (except Link in 2003 ofc) before not quite looking as dominant as expected in the finals.
* Witcher 3 vs. Cloud: both are comfortably the second strongest entrants of their respective fields. Also, both would lose the board vote to pretty much anything, as Witcher 3 proved against Skyrim, before rising to heaven with the overnight vote, something which Witcher 3 even managed against BotW much as Cloud always did against Link.
* Skyrim vs. Sephiroth: both the third-place entrants, of a kind with second place, and they each had matches that proved a thing or two about said hierarchy. Again, Skyrim's trends were much like Sephiroth's, as it lost the board vote against everything other than Witcher 3 before climbing the entire rest of its matches, again except against Witcher 3.
* Smash Ultimate vs. Mario: both the second-strongest Nintendo presences in their respective fields, and each capable of SFFing any lesser Nintendo entrants while getting SFF'd just as hard by the predominant Zelda.
* Mario Odyssey vs. Samus: the hierarchical relationship between SSBU and SMO proved to be much like the relationship between Mario and Samus in 2005, even though most were again expecting a much closer match. In both cases, the more broadly-appealing entrant won out over the fan favorite.
Unfortunately, it's more of a stretch to tie anything else in this field to the last few members of the Noble Nine. Here's my best effort:

* Persona 5 vs. Crono: Both relatively niche JRPG entrants, and Witcher 3/Persona 5 was quite akin to both Cloud/Crono 2018 matches, albeit the latter were after the Noble Nine had stopped being a relevant concept.
* Dark Souls vs. Mega Man: Both fought against the third strongest entrants in their respective fields, in matches with upset hype, and gave it all they could for quite a while before letting the DNV run away from them.
* God of War vs. Sonic: This particular comparison mainly holds water for 2003, where in each case, the sheer magnitude of the losses sustained by these low-end NN-level entrants proved the winner was a threat and a half. Of course, both winners had already outperformed, but it arguably took their Round 4 results to get B8 to stand up and notice. Alternatively, you could go as far as to say both GoW and Sonic had already quietly been exposed prior to their painful losses.
* Xenoblade vs. Snake: Again a comparison focused on a specific year, in this case 2005. Both entrants' strength was doubted pre-contest, and both had tough-looking paths. Each one took care of business in impressive fashion despite minor Round 4 slip-ups before bowing out respectably against the Mario of their respective brackets. There's also somewhat of a parallel to 2006, where both had hype-fueled, expectation-smashing runs that ended at the hands of a Nintendo entrant.

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I remember towards the middle of BotW I started really struggling to fit all the cool weapons I was finding into my inventory. I always had a ton

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ZenOfThunder posted...

https://i.imgur.com/my0qbDo.mp4

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https://i.imgur.com/my0qbDo.mp4

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https://i.imgur.com/Ncf4lDQ.mp4

thank you allen


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+3 Dead Cells
+2 INSIDE
+1 Resident Evil 7
-1 Dark Souls III
-2 The Witcher 3
-3 Super Mario 3D Land

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no biggie! do it as you can, running a daily series is rough, I dont know how the hell i got thru Most Quotable Media

let me know if you ever need help bud

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see? right there we have swirl and leon at each other's fucking throats, both hungry for blood

give us all ficitonal characters allen

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as long as we are nominating characters who have games I don't see the issue

also let Tony Hawk in i don't care if he isn't "fictional"

allen is right that we dont need jane eyre but not all fictional characters are jane eyre

like what cap do we put on Spongebob's strength

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I think if we did all fictional it would be a fucking riot, 2002 part 2, we would nominate all this turbofodder and overrate James Bond to hell and back (or underrate, that's the fun)

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whoa nice banner

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is charizard more literally shit than the actual shit

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MithosLowell posted...

So the closest thing weve had to any CDprojecktRed staff taking notice of this contest is Hollie Bennet a uk marketing head for CDPR liking a tweet about the Final. Its not a retweet and its not going to have much of an effect but its some acknowledgement i guess. She has over 80k followers

https://twitter.com/HollieB

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