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Metroid Prime
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Fall Guys
Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze

Fall Guys might be too soon maybe? They are still adding new stages. I guess you could do a redo if this is still going whenever they stop.

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I wouldn't really agree with those last two because that's what they said last time. However, this story is clearly fabricated in an attempt to win the election on false pretenses. This is not the same as the FBI investigating a candidate. If anything you would hope the fact that the Republicans are doing something so obviously shady and false would actually hurt them. It's a major test for democracy in America.

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Fallen Arm
Eryth Sea
Valak Mountain

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I mean

It's way closer to the aesthetic of Monster Hunter than his Resident Evil films are to Resident Evil, I'll give it that.

It doesn't look good, but it does look about as good as you can reasonably make a Monster Hunter movie.

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Shaun of the Dead

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Johnson

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Sometimes not great motives can have positive effects, and great motives can have negative effects. If skeevy blokes stop a Republican senate, its still good even if theyre not.

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An excellent point that shouldnt need to be made.

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I mean just to be clear this game is out and had a full release, so its far from the worst Kickstarter story, they are just stopping further work after the next and final patch.

It sucks but thats what happens when you act terribly then go on a power trip rather than do the right thing and resign.

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Courage the Cowardly Dog

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All Bets Are Off!
Murine Corps
Pyramid Peril

The Mr. King Dice stage is the best. I think Murine Corps makes the list for the last phase alone, thats really clever.

Xenoblade would be the major areas. Theyre pretty clearly delineated like levels in the game.

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Leon Kennedy

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It Follows

Nominate Scariest Game

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McLain
North
Vee

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Yup, really good. Takes a while for it to click, but once it does the whole thing works. I think the action and effects are also good enough that it works on its own even if you don't fully get it first time or you're not into the story.

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Snowpeak Ruins
Arbiters Grounds
Hyrule Castle

Best dungeons in the series for sure.

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I really dont want to jinx anything, knock on wood, but it really does feel like were seeing the wheels come off the Trump campaign in real time.

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This has potential. Its a good cast, they have s proper horror director and its sticking to the games. I also think not being a huge budget is for the best as well. And doing the first two together is a good idea.

Its the most potential for a Resident Evil film in almost twenty years!

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Rickety Race
Haunted Hall
Lockjaws Locker
Rambi Rumble
Bramble Blast

Rickety Race is an easy #1 but there are so many good ones.

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XIII_rocks posted...

Idk but I'll just throw out that this topic is making me fully hate the word "iconic"

Iconic post. Iconic. ;p

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Boy I should have defined this one better. Yeah I wouldn't really consider opening levels either, and Tetris is right out.

azuarc posted...

Asking what is most iconic isn't going to get you a very wide set of answers. Nothing from the last (nearly-)thirty years is going to be regarded as iconic -- or, at least, most iconic -- when gamers on the whole played very different things once they had more choices than just NES or Genesis.

I do disagree with this. Megalovania is iconic. Both Portal themes are iconic. The Skyrim theme is iconic. There is plenty of iconic music still, just not as much. Even One Winged Angel fits that time frame!

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For most RPGs, dungeons seems reasonable, but in Pokemon the cities are challenges as well, so it makes sense to count them as levels.

Radio Tower
Ecruteak City
Mt. Silver

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I will 100% say that, and even in that game I believe it plays in every overworld level. Its basically the main theme of the game.

I had overworld themes in my list of examples but I deleted it because I thought it was too general. But yes, stuff like 1-1 doesnt count.

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Which is to say, not a regular theme (ie main theme, battle theme, boss theme etc.) or a major character or story theme?

This topic brought to you by Gusty Garden Galaxy, which might also be the correct answer. Stickerbush Symphony is another one that comes to mind.

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That's awesome, well done Abby.

Also now there is a place to post this:

https://twitter.com/jea_rum/status/1309309470384599042

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Snake5555555555 posted...

I'd say Alice in Wonderland, but Charlie was certainly a harbinger. Corpse Bride and Sweeney Todd are still good movies.

Id agree here. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory were the first cracks starting to show, but he was still good until Alice in Wonderland.

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Lt. Surge

Not my opinion but ok

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https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/398/748/d94.gif

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He also was supervising director on Star Fox Zero but not game director. My understanding is it mainly came out of those small projects he was working on. The only games he really got hands-on with in the last decade were that and Steel Diver, his main job was basically overseeing all of Nintendos software, and now hes basically the broader IP guy. His last big game was Super Mario Galaxy.

StartTheMachine posted...

Oh yeah, good point! I think of Shiggy as more of a Nintendo overseer and less of a game director now, but Sunshine is definitely him at the helm. When did that shift happen for Mario anyway? Like what level of involvement did he have in Odyssey? Besides obviously being able to call the shots and if he wants it, he gets it.

As said he stopped directing with Super Mario 64. He wasnt a director or designer for Sunshine (but he did produce it), but came back as Designer for Super Mario Galaxy. He was producer in charge of the Super Mario series until Galaxy, with Koizumi (who directed Galaxy) taking over from Galaxy 2 on. So the shift happened at either Sunshine or Galaxy 2 depending on what you mean.

Anyway, I have now beaten all three and not only is Galaxy the best of the lot, its so much better than the other two its a little bit funny.

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Oh yeah Ive never played real deal Duck Hunt either, just the versions of it they put in other games.

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Dragon Quest
ROB

I havent played Fatal Fury but I have played King of Fighters.

Barely, barely touched Minecraft and Wii Fit.

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I dont remember half of these

City Escape
Radical Highway
Mad Space
Metal Harbor
Final Chase

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Cunningham
McLain
North
Howden

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Tubba Blubbas Castle
Crystal Palace

Nominate:

Donkey Kong Country 2
Xenoblade Chronicles

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Cool. The casting was never the problem with that film, aside from Paul Giamatti. It wasnt even the characterisation. It was just how much they tried to cynically stuff in there to sell future movies that didnt happen. So no reason for this to do any harm.

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Cool

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Tracer because of that topic.

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Opposition doesnt need to be a binary left/right or three-way left/right/centre split. There are healthy democracies where the splits are along different ways. This can backfire, here in Ireland until like, this year, the dominant parties were just different flavours of centre-right. Personally having grown up in the UK, with my entire family from the North East, seeing the damage the centre-right can do, a centre-left period if prosperity then looking on from the EU in horror at the immediate chaos the right wrought when they got power, I dont think the right has much to add to society and Ill never vote for a right wing party in either country. I wouldnt be sad to see that ideology fade entirely. It doesnt mean the death of democracy or a lack of options.

In America, its possible that part of the reason the republicans went to the far-right to differentiate themselves from the centre-right democrats. The democrats have failed to fill the gap on the left, but if they moved left its entirely possible that theyd bring the republicans back towards the centre.

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Freezeezy Peak
Gobis Valley
Mad Monster Mansion

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Love it when the president of the United States refuses to guarantee hell accept an election, actively encourages voter intimidation, and tells a white supremacist terror group to stand by.

Hes a fascist dictator, lets call him what he is.

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I assume you mean you finished season 1?

Anyway, dont skip episodes your first time through unless its really unbearable. Even in the worst portion while Lynch and Frost are gone there are just enough lore chunks to make it necessary.

The bad stretch is episodes 10-17 of season 2. It gets a lot better after that even before the finale. And you absolutely need the two episodes before it as lead up.

Also, watchthrough topic?

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That Pegasus Knight from Fire Emblem, no not that one, no not that one!

It turns out it was Farina.

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The Summit
Reflection
Celestial Resort

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Emil

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New Super Mario Bros. 2

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Howden
Jones
Bailey
Lowenthal
Duncan

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Hollow Bastion
Halloween Town
Olympus Coliseum

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MGSV because at the time they kept talking about their photorealistic lighting.

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