Lurker > Grand_Kirby

This only had one episode???

I've seen so much talk and fan creations about this series I thought it was like something that been on for like five seasons already

Tears of the Kingdom

https://twitter.com/WillWArmstrong/status/1660080775939911682

(Oh, and ALSO it has three massively impressive open-worlds in it? What a boss game.)

I didn't mind Feebas at all, even though it did take like nearly two hours for me to find one.

I did it while watching a Mythbusters marathon so the time didn't matter that much. And it was worth it for how valuable it was as trading fodder for so many years and generations afterwards.

Unobtain

I'm canceling Max before then oops

GenesisSaga posted...

Yeah there's some mediocre bloat, but III as a whole has a great pokmon selection I think anyway.

And honestly, the only reason why there's bloat is because Gen III had a sizable roster. I believe it's the third most new Pokemon after V and I.

Hoenn has 135 new Pokemon. Kalos has 72.

I do agree that I find Hades to be limited in the variety of enemies and in its level design. But on the other hand, I find that Hades has enough variety in the weapon and power-up styles to satisfy me.

In my most recent play-through I set up intentional limitations to how I went through my runs, including:

• Always swapping to the weapon with Dark Thirst
• Always choosing Boons/Upgrades that were on the Fates list (and prioritizing to get every Duo and Legendary Boon when making choices).
• Not reusing Keepsakes that were used in previous runs until I cycled through them all.
• Max leveling the Hidden Weapon Aspects and completing full runs with them.

All of these served basically the same purpose, to force me to not rely on the same strategies each time and make me need to use different playstyles in every run. The repetitiveness of the enemies matters very little when you have to take them on in many different ways because you have a mis-mash of a build. That's probably not going to be fun for everyone, but I really enjoyed it.

Trick

Gonna be honest, Psychic would normally get this for me but Swampert alone carries all of Water

It might be good to mention that the original uncompressed audio leaked a few years ago, and it's worth hearing the game's dialogue without it sounding like it's being played through a broken drive-through speaker at least once in your life:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGHIcexF8eqmA9xNy0FUEXQOCdUXxX9iR&si=UfQWEZReaKheuzqg

Smash Bros .

That running at 60 fps on the 3DS is absurd. Not to mention the amount of content it had. People sort of moved on quickly when the Wii U version came out, but Smash 3DS was essentially at parity with it, sharing the vast majority of content (including DLC!) with it. Vastly underrated.

Honestly, this might just be a result of the merger causing a lot of things to be reorganized and re-examined. Which still isn't a good sign, but not necessarily a sign that Blizzard is sinking.

The thing is, despite all their terrible PR lately and all the vocal criticism from fans, their top games are doing good numbers and are profitable. There's a very large dissonance from the critic's perception of things and the actual state of things, and a lot of people aren't getting that.

You hear the term more often if you're black

Metroid Prime Hunters was first revealed at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2004,[25] with IGN giving the game their Best Nintendo DS Game of E3 award.[26] When Nintendo received negative feedback at E3 2005 about the game's lack of an online feature,[4] the company announced in August that the game's release was delayed to give the developers time to implement Nintendo WFC support.[27] After the game's release was delayed to give NST time to implement the multiplayer feature, the developers took the time to make more changes.

That explains a lot

agesboy posted...

I'm struggling to think of something else that is not just impressive but technically impressive.

I was also considering Scribblenauts, which was very impressive in ways that didn't relate to graphics.

Metroid Prime Hunters is a solid choice. I'm gonna through a wild card out though and go with C.O.P. The Recruit which is a full-3D GTA-style game that is incredibly impressive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3tk7xLp-uI

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I think about Heavy Lobster way more often

I want to see more picture comparisons

I felt very betrayed when I clicked on that imgur link and saw that instead of showing examples of the terrible avatars it showed a picture of what a ratio is.

HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

Oh thanks for the heads up, I just signed up.

Not too confident I'll get in but hopefully the wait until EA isn't long either. How long were signups open before now?

They opened up yesterday

I like the new magic system. That should help make the game stand out more from the original. Otherwise everything does feel the same as the first one. I wouldn't say that's a bad thing, because the first one was so good, but it'd be disappointing considering how often you were encourage to replay that over and over.

Then again, it's just one small area so there's plenty of room to add new stuff later.

Things I really liked:

• Petting the frog
• The spell the boss uses that turns you into a sheep
• Schelemeus!

Third gen Unown's overview entry:
https://www.smogon.com/dex/rs/pokemon/unown/

Castform 5th gen, the entire thing is great, but the third paragraph alone is fantastic:
https://www.smogon.com/dex/bw/pokemon/castform/

4th Gen Kakuna for this line:
This is your standard Choice sweeper. With Bug Bite, Kakuna is not walled by the likes of Steelix and Steel-type Arceus. As a matter of fact, Bug Bite's addition lowers max HP / max Def Steelix from a 94HKO to a 36HKO. Max HP Steel-type Arceus is now a 25HKO, while min HP/Def Psychic Arceus is a 22HKO.
https://www.smogon.com/dex/dp/pokemon/kakuna/

And finally, the glory of 5th Gen Palkia:
https://www.smogon.com/dex/bw/pokemon/palkia/

Final Fantasy XII looked amazing for its generation, and the seamless on-field battle system was quite an achievement for the PS2 (notably, Square Enix wanted to do that for FFX but they weren't able to back then)

Gonna vote Wind Waker

Like it's enough that the game still looks amazing to this day, with amazing effects, but there's some real neat things under the hood too. Most people think the game is entirely cel-shaded, but the really impressive thing is that it isn't. It uses different shaders for different objects to make the graphical style work, which is pretty amazing considering the Gamecube doesn't have programmable shaders.

I wonder if they'll keep the plot point of the moon fucking exploding

Today

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