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I want to beat the shit out of Gimli

I want vengeance

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This topic made me realise that it's weird Allen once tried to get worst character ever off the ground, but dropped it mainly because the nomination process was becoming overcomplicated - but never tried it with games which would have been a far simpler thing to nominate for

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One does not simply beat XIII

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"Scar" - boss

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First thought was Zero Wing

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And would have been so hilariously B8. Like that contest the other month where the final was Phoenix vs Edgeworth

Oh well

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Christ
Wish I'd put T+T as #1 now

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It is beyond outstanding

I don't think I'll ever like a game more

From your other topic:
XIII_rocks posted...

Man 2 just does so many little things so well

Like how just before the RAY fight, Solidus jumps off and escapes. Raiden instinctively raises his gun to fire at Solidus before he jumps away, but he takes a split second longer to turn his head in that direction - he's still looking at the three RAYS that are advancing on him, distracted by them. Because of course you would be. It's freaking masterful.

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So this means we won, right?

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Mac Arrowny posted...

it doesn't

oh well

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Briefly considered a PW game but I took the games as a whole.

I think cases 3-1, 3-4 and 3-5 together make for a good story. Not sure it would make the list, but definitely a good story. 3-2 and 3-3 are fun to play but are largely separate so I'd struggle to include the whole game on a list like this, if that makes any sense.

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I guess not?

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It kinda reminds me of the 7th Harry Potter book in a strange way.
Going in I thought they were going to destroy the horcruxes throughout the book in this evenly-spaced sort of way, but it ended up being nowhere near that neat. I think they still had 3 to destroy even as the final battle began? So it ended up being more messy and chaotic and much more thrilling as a result. If they had done it as neatly as I thought, it would have lost a lot of tension.

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MrGreenonion posted...

Honestly just the fact that the war against the White Walkers was ended FIRST, and then the battle for King's Landing happened NEXT was bullshit. It doesn't even matter how any of it turned out (not that it was good anyway!), just that the entire series had been building up the Army of the Dead as the big threat that would consume the world and the petty squabbling over thrones and titles was meaningless compared to that, and then to reverse that and make the throne the big ending seemed like a betrayal of the narrative.

I sort of get this. I think they took a narratively easy route of basically cleaving the season in half - half to deal with the Walkers, half to deal with Cersei - but I think with more time they would have done something more complicated. I think, with more episodes to play with, it would have been better to have them lose the battle of Winterfell and force the main characters to retreat/escape Winterfell and be forced south, leaving them between a rock and a hard place.

Edit: and then I went back and read the second half of your post which basically said the same thing. Whoops.

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Ahhh, wire!

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XIII

/shrug

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Yes, Black/White were the last great Pokemon games

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Can't exactly argue with ff7 making it. It's compelling despite some of it being unclear and a somewhat frustrating ending

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Also, shit, I forgot about my favourite little touch in SH2: the letter from Mary in your inventory turning blank after a while and then eventually disappearing entirely. It's outstanding.

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Mac Arrowny posted...

Stuff like XIII's post is probably why I'll never play SH2. Just not into horror.

I honestly go back and forth on whether I am or not sometimes

I have to commend any game that had such a profound effect on me though

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Man 2 just does so many little things so well

Like how just before the RAY fight, Solidus jumps off and escapes. Raiden instinctively raises his gun to fire at Solidus before he jumps away, but he takes a split second longer to turn his head in that direction - he's still looking at the three RAYS that are advancing on him, distracted by them. Because of course you would be. It's freaking masterful.

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5 -- A Hat in Time
0 -- Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair

0 -- Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
5 -- Journey

5 -- Super Meat Boy
0 -- Dark Souls 2

5 -- Devil May Cry 5
0 -- The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

0 -- Borderlands 2
5 -- Pokemon Black 2/White 2

0 -- Hyrule Warriors
5 -- Hollow Knight

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Yeah that's the joy of the game

It still holds up, even graphically.

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Wasn't on my list but it's a good story and, really, the kind of thing the medium doesn't do super often. I'm a fan.

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SH2 petrified me beyond belief and stayed with me for years/decades because of that, and when you actually read into it and consider the depth of its story, it gets even better.

Like MGS2 in that I've only grown in appreciation of it more as time has gone by.

For serious though, fucking horrifying. When I was a kid - around the time I first joined this site actually - we lived in a very long apartment with a very long central corridor running through it. I had to go across said corridor to go to the bathroom. So SH2 gave me a recurring nightmare that I would wake up to go to the bathroom, it would be a storm outside, and as I crossed said central corridor lightning would strike and I would see the silhouette of Pyramid Head. This went on for, like, months. And once I woke up from said nightmare I would, of course, need to go to the bathroom, which I would be extremely reluctant to do.

Haunting, amazing game

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no

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0 -- Dishonored
5 -- Pokemon GO

5 -- New Super Mario Bros. U
0 -- Pac-Man Championship Edition DX

5 -- Prey (2017)
0 -- Persona 4 Golden

0 -- Final Fantasy XIII
5 -- Untitled Goose Game

0 -- CrossCode
5 -- Jackbox Party Pack 3

5 -- Halo: Reach
0 -- Bloodborne

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I was stuck between 2 and 3 here, went 2 in the end, but I still liked it on the whole. It was very clearly rushed and two of the episodes - 7x05 and 8x04 - were fucking ridiculous in the way characters were just thrown around the board. With that in mind, I have to question the wisdom behind 8x02 especially. It had really good character stuff but fundamentally spun its wheels. During 7x07 when some of the characters reunited and walked towards the Dragonpit, I commented that the show should have been a little more brutal and edited out some of the conversations to make it tighter - even if they served the fans the episode would have been less bloated without one or two of them. 8x02 was like that in episode form, and given that they only had 6 episodes to play with it's hard to understand the logic behind that decision. In a 10-episode season it would be better but given how chaotic 8x04 was, it's harder to understand.

But I was never less than entertained even as it became more about spectacle and fanservice (like Davos' "rowing" line) than the richer character stuff.

I liked the finale mostly - everything up to and including Jon killing Dany was some really compelling TV, particularly the Jon/Tyrion scene which I thought was fantastic. It was good to see Harrington more or less matching Dinklage (whereas when they shared scenes back in the first season Harrington was really not that great, and largely outclassed). Everything after that was a little bit too neat, but could have been worse and I liked the conclusions for a lot of the characters. I liked the way they used Jon's lineage not to give Jon the throne - which would have been unsatisfactory to me - but to further Dany's breakdown.

Johnbobb posted...

At its absolute worst, Game of Thrones is still better than 90% of TV. At its best, it's unbeatable.

This btw. By the end I was invested enough in the world and the characters that I found its missteps mostly forgivable. It traded a lot on its former glories - I lost count of how much of the dialogue was a callback or a reference - but I'm OK with the show cashing in its chips like that.

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OctNovDisEmber posted...

Like 20 of them in the span of 30 seconds and 99% of them were completely unnecessary

For fucking real

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who hates this shit. Legitimately off-putting.

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I've always thought GS was the worst one largely saved by its last two boss battles. I don't like Johto as a region that much. Kanto is a great idea though in general even though it ended up being so empty.

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4 left

Two of them should make it, two of them probably won't

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4 of my list left btw

I reckon 2 of them will definitely be in, and maybe 1 of the other 2 but I doubt it

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Aw god damnit can't believe it didn't crack the top 10, especially with how prescient it ended up being

Still, #11 is still great so I can hardly complain

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"my life" - boss

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I have absolutely no idea why, but: Leon Kennedy.

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Trump

I'm a pessimist

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I really like San Andreas' story tbh

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The first MGSV trailer with SotF is maybe my favourite game trailer ever made

I like all of these though to some extent

Can't say goodbye to yesterday probably the weakest

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Yeah I really wanted to vote SotF or even Best is Yet to Come but I couldn't vote against Snake Eater

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This topic series

Because I originally misread the title and thought you were being like self-critical

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Portal 2 is a nice left-field pick for this
I respect it

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Thanks guyz

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Which of the two rankings is "better"?





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I never get tired of MGS2 so it was fine for me. Used Stealth Camo to get the ones on harder difficulties

Found VR more annoying personally

Cavedweller2000 posted...

IMO the hardest part was battling 20 Metal Gear Rex on Extreme difficulty

This battle on this specific difficulty might be one of my favourites ever. I found it brilliantly intense but with a very "fair" difficulty.

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Lost two more

Got 6 left now

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metaIslug posted...

I like that this site is still relatively lightweight, and not filled with arbitrary shit that adds loading time. VNDB is also very good at that.

Fair point yeah

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7 in

Do we have 3 more?

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Advokaiser posted...

Also, seeing To the Moon up there makes me think it would've been a good competitor in GotD2, not the "Turbofodder" people were leading me to believe.

I mean that'd be nice, but in reality only 4 people voted for it, right? So it's not exactly...indicative

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Since Twitter is an app, the main boards page has been my homepage more or less ever since I got a smartphone.

So yeah.

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Watchthroughs are great even if there are 50 here at the same time

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