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I got Revali's Gale rather late. It was my third dungeon but I had heavily explored a lot of the regions without dungeons. I just upgrade stamina and almost never hearts. I didn't mind not having it, but it would've been nice not to wait around during heavy weather early on I guess.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

Auron's VA is lucky in that Auron's month is covered up most of the time.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

Majora's Mask was absolutely fantastic for its time. It's still amazing to play through today, but I've always been amazed by their approach to make the game open world feel so alive with the limitations back then. The three day system was genious, and Clock Tower in particular has so many small wonderful ways of making use of it.

I loved Breath of the Wild for being one of very few games ever to make me completely forget time and just play and explore. I usually enjoy feeling I make progress when playing games, but I didn't really need that for BotW. It let me accomplish basically nothing for many hours and I loved it.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

The way this is done, I'd think the Pokemon early in each regional dex have a tendency to better.

Here are my votes, with some honorable mentions in paranthesis)
Charizard (Squirtle, Jigglypuff, Clefable, Gengar)
Umbreon (Espeon, Wobbuffet, Lugia)
Flygon (Sceptile, Manectric, Altaria, Kyogre)
Luxray (Weavile, Gallade)
Krookodile (Scolipede, Darmanitan, Galvantula, Chandelure)
Aegislash (Greninja, Hawlucha)
Mimikyu (Rowlet, Ribombee, Toxapex)
Toxtricity (Dottler, Centiskorch)

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

Yeah, it's a solid cast, I like them all too.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

Tidus > Yuna > Auron > Rikku > Wakka > Lulu > Kimahri

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

Using Cid all the time has always been the way to go

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

Have you decided on crew size?

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

I can give you one, yeah.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

XIII_rocks posted...

I will admit I have loved Rhyperior ever since learning it accidentally fires Geodude out of its ARM CANNONS and want to see him do it

Definitely helps. It is with great lengths the evolution to an already existing line that I like the least.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

It's hard to go anywhere without behind reminded of this. Denmark has never cared about basketball a single bit and every place is talking about it.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

I mean, it's free where I live.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

Another game probably got snubbed because SMO and BOTW are from the same year

Edit: Looking it up, Smash 4 was the GotY in 2014.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

Yeah, how do I vote for my ALBW

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

Sonic Mania has a much better chance of winning a match than Metal Sonic had.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

Yeah, it seems like if you want to go for some character that is no longer relevant, they'll go way back. I'd give someone like Takamaru a better chance than someone like Isaac, unfortunately.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

I agree on odd number, which would make it +0 or +2.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

Tag! I've always enjoyed these.

Ngamer64 posted...

I think the size of the field and post timing in 2018 was ideal, the only bummer was how many Guest writeups ended up blank in the final two weeks or so. Maybe a new policy could be, if you don't have anything from the Guest two hours before posting time, mention so in the topic. And whoever sends the best e-mail becomes the official Guest for that day.

It has not really needed to be in the final part of the contest for guest to blank out though, but I suppose the format of last contest made it more difficult. Guests had a really short notice on if they were gonna be writing for a match, and there was not much way around that. If your idea was implemented, a more clear deadline would probably have to be specified and Moltar would have to check on everything twice each day, so I'd rather just think that if no Guest write-up was posted along with the rest, than someone could snatch it then.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

But I mean, a lot more than Geno has been confirmed to have been considered at some point. He's definitely one of the ideas that people have held on to the most.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

I enjoyed the reaction to the swordsmen line.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

Totally on board for getting Chester in.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

charmander6000 posted...

Byleth being a DLC character is about as obvious as a Gen 8 Pokemon. Is it because it was the fifth reveal or would we have gotten the same response if it was the 6th-11th reveal?

I'd think this was the same response really, unless it was shown along with a more requested character later in the same presentation.

I also think their additional effort to keep this hidden made it explode more. No leakers had warned the fanbase of this prehand as usually happens.

And I think no matter who joins, the Smash fanbase is capable of being pissed to some degree.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

Yeah, exactly. It's always fair to be disappointed, but Sakurai keeping on putting more characters into this game should tell you that you're not going be very happy every time and of course Nintendo's own big games will be represented.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

Can we appreciate Sakurai literally spending explaining how to do binary counting on your fingers again

Or setting up a 5v5 match just suicide with the first four

This direct was so good.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

Yeah, sure thing.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

Mario Maker was released on 3DS too though.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

The timing is fine by me, but April 10th is a holiday, so I'm not sure I can have it delivered then. I'm uncertain if I can on Saturdays too. If neither should be the case, I wont have it before Tuesday, since Sunday and Monday are also holidays. Dammit Easter.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

That would be the best.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

ALBW was a reason GotY winner here last games contest and wasn't in the bracket. I fully expect Skyward Sword to miss the bracket most of these because Zelda has better entries. MSG has nothing else, ME has just the one more liked game and Pokemon is probably more debatable among the fanbase, which means its likely to have more games making the bracket.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

There's no way GTAV is not a 1 seed, it was last gaming contest, which was a stronger field, and has not really fallen since. Surprised to see how many people think otherwise. It needs a wewak division to be the favorite to go out of it, but it will be a 1 seed for sure. BotW, Skyrim and Ultimate are locks too. Then I would bet on ME2, Odyssey and Witcher 3 being as well, with the final spot being less certain.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

I agree with Portal 2/GTAV > Dragon Age, but Resident Evil 2 is the toughest to pick out of that.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

This topic reminded me how much I wanted to see Super Mario Kart in the 2015 contest.

I'd think Xenoblade/Fallout was worth 3 points here.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

HashtagSEP posted...

These were not good stories and not much effort was put into them.

I think when people complain about lack of story, it's often tied to lack of things to do aside from battling gyms. People liked that when you came to Celadon City, you didn't only beat Erika, you also fought TR and beat their boss. People liked that when you traveled over Mt. Chimney, it wasn't just a few trainers and a new patch of tall grass, you made a difference here (and they even added "normal" trainers afterward). There is basically nothing of this in SS. I'm sure people had complained less if a bad story sidetracked you a bit now and then throughout the game. At least that's my impression.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

HashtagSEP posted...

I think people are misremembering how much rivals/etc. stopped you in previous games simply because they didn't actually have cutscenes.

Again, perhaps past few generations, but they used to only stop you when they wanted to battle. That's certainly something that we've gotten a lot more of in previous titles, so I'll go back to my point about SS mostly only being compared to the most recent previous titles in the topic.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

mnkboy907 posted...

Tbh I'd rather think the game was unfinished due to time constraints than think Game Freak purposely gave us a s*** barebones story.

Yeah, and on top of that, I'd be rather pissed if they actually thought "let's just make the first routes a lot prettier than the rest and hope the first impressions stick throughout the whole game and then release the game sooner" rather than prioritising those routes for the same reason, but not getting everything done because of time constraints.

I don't really mind the things I find lacking in the game because I believe its time constraints, but I would otherwise.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

HashtagSEP posted...

Nobody's actually saying this.

What the other side is arguing is that the third games don't add much in the way of content, so you're effectively playing the same game over again. You're right that they do sometimes come with some improvements to certain things people didn't like previously, such as battle speed or the like, but ultimately it's the same experience.

The reason it's the "same" situation to those of us on that side is because we don't really feel like SwSh are unfinished games.

I mean, if you got what you wanted out of them, that's fair and great. Though I mean, they reached the goal of making the games, but certainly they didn't get as much done as they had wanted, hence why they're being called unfinished by some. And yeah, it's similar enough beyond the same world and roughly same story, but I think it's just as fair to call Platinum a new experience for all changes and added stuff, as it would be to say SS weren't unfinished. When I read through the topic, I found myself agreeing with everything "your side" said, if you only compared to what USUM did to SM, but not when compared to the first 5 gens. I played them again fairly recently, and I do think they used to keep the third titles fresh enough. It also helps that they were released years later instead of a single year. BW2 were 1.5 year I think, but they were also the biggest new experience by a vast amount. I'm sad that was the only time they pulled that move.


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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

I haven't really wrapped my head around what I think, I probably like it. But reading through this topic made me react on two things.

The first being the page 1 comments about how the games are giving gen 1 an eternal orgasm after being reminded the games had 48 of the gen 1 Pokemon. Seriously, just shut up. I usually try to ignore how I think that the people annoyed by how gen 1 tends to get the most exposure and call other people genwunners are a way more annoying themselves, but this is ridiculous. They include way more of gen 5 and probably some others and even so, the complaint continues because of gigantamax forms. Even among people that like all generations, gen 1 is by far the most popular, so yeah of course gen 1 has the most gigantamax forms, but they took a huge step in the direction you anti-gen 1 people wanted by not at all favoring gen 1 in the Pokedex selection when it mattered most as well as making regional variants of more than just 1.

The other thing being the whole "they're making us pay full price for an unfinished game and then making us buy dlc" case. I do think people are giving GameFreak more credit than deserve in here in general. I do also think people here kind of forget what we used to get. GTM summed up a good part of my thoughts here:

GTM posted...

I'm with the angry people in this topic about this game being less content than older games, just less angry and hyperbole. Straight paths, doors that don't open, no side areas, very few trainers and an exp share to hide that, no extra (game or post-game) cities. This game was definitely rushed to meet a deadline, as it was polished in many areas, and severely lacking in others. BW was linear in terms of route to city to route, but each area was expansive and still had puzzles and things to find and hidden areas in Pinwheel Forest and such.

That's just it. We've always had our complaining to do as great fans, but the current case is not like it used to be. Not to mention BW comparison doesn't hold at all unless you literally only look at the linearity and even if you do, BW didn't hold you hand through it the same way. And like, have you forgotten the Team Plasma story completely? That's the most story we ever had, where SS hit a new minimum.
Back on track, maybe USUM only giving you more postgame, 100 more Pokemon and two trainers talking to you throughout the game vaguely teasing the post game made us forget how it used to be. Doesn't help that gen 6 didn't had neither third versions or DLC, so it had been a while. But this:

LusterSoldier posted...

This is no different than their previous model of releasing a more complete version of the game through a third version or sequels. You still had to pay for a second game to get the full experience. Only with the DLC model, you don't have to play through the game again as the DLC allows to continue playing the game from your existing save file.

is just wrong outside of perhaps gen 7. RS, DP and BW were, however flawed one may think they were, full games. The third versions were no full experience, they were a different experience. Emerald and Platinum were different, they did things differently, and on top of that they also fixed had a bunch of things people did not like about their predecessors. They didn't just add things although they did that too. BW2 did this even more by being sequels and by having the largest amount of stuff to do as of yet even though previous titles had an additional region to explore.

We're getting new areas now, and I'm happy we are, but if you buy the games after the DLC arrives, you're going through the exact same game, nothing people disliked about SS has been fixed or changed. GTM made a few points about it already, but to add into it, SS has no aread that become worth revisiting other than two times going into the gym again. At no point does the game have something popping up a previous place that you can go back and go. The closest thing to this is the only new place to access once you can bike on water. The amount of trainers probably hit a new low. A lot of builders are really just background material, making the game seem bigger than it is. The routes are all short and mostly empty. Try walking from your home and down to the Pokemon game in the beginning then fly to some other route than that. It is so clear how much more effort they put into those two than the rest in the game. I can't really understand how people can claim that we got everything they intended to give us. I enjoyed SS, but there's no denying that these games have a lot of places that are made to look like it had more content than it has. Previous titles just simply weren't like this to the same extend and before the 3ds games, basically not at all.

Seriously, go back and play gen 3-5 if you think that we always got an unfinished game first and then bought the full experience afterwards. Regardless of what one thinks of any Pokemon games, it's just flat out not the same situation.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

tag

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

I'm not sure I'd see this as a series contest. With other Zelda entities on the bracket, I doubt they'd have any trouble abandoning SS. I'd go with SS here, but I wouldn't feel safe about it.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

How long are nomination periods usually up? I'm getting pretty hyped for this contest, but I have basically no time to be here until after the 24th. Might just end up nominating the guru choice and 9 favorite games of the decade without looking at what the board wants to get in.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.

MartinFF7 posted...

"ICO & Shadow of the Colossus Collection"

Man, it adds a whole thing to consider when predicting if things like this can get it.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to Advokaiser, the winner of the Character Battle X guru contest.