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I hate that I'm alone in liking it the least out of the entire classic (before X) series. Kefka was a good villain but I didnt like much more of anything that was going on in it.

I find it amusing that the first one I thought was gonna go out broke the 9 barrier.

Xiahou_Shake posted...

The real question is how does everyone in this camp that universally says it tastes like soap know what soap tastes like

I grew up in the 80s and had a parent that really didnt enjoy that I picked up on her propensity to swear like a sailor.

foolm0r0n posted...

But you don't taste ANY soapiness? Even a subtle bit?

No soap. Radio.

I know it's a genetic thing where it "tastes like soap" and I've supposedly got it, but it more tastes... idk, floral to me? In dishes where it is present it doesn't really override the other spice.

Went gen 6. The one where I finally dont shun megas, since MegaKanga basically defined the meta for a while, and it made the other three viable (Audino more so in the TCG, but details.)

Additionally, my SwSh team has Helioptile as a bit of a sleeper hit. I dont know how I relied on it so much, but I did - plus it's going on Team Lizard if I can ever assemble a six Poke team.

Meanwhile I will ACTIVELY shun genwun in this case for a bunch of normal fliers, and bad Pokes that almost all had to eventually be tweaked with alternate forms and later gen evolutions to make them usable. And then you have Chansey, original sinner for the fat pink whore, while still doing a stall job way too well with Eviolite. Ugh. Eevee and Ditto are the only good ones of the bunch, and I say this as a Persian-enjoyer.

Beyond that, every gen i absolutely loathe something in it to bring it down for being a gimmick or a "you're starting out here have this and dump it immediately when you can catch more than 3 unique mons" Poke (the early route rodents, generally, except Zigzagoon who is friendship-shaped, and Bidoof, who is HM-shaped.)

You know the more you push that the less I want to do it, Chris. I'm glad you enjoy it, but meh.

rwlh posted...

Five more because I skipped yesterday.

You spoil us. (Happy Easter)

Sea of Thieves on PS5 eyy

It's quite fun when you're not being griefed after two hours of gathering.

2 and 9 are out due to the original sin of Delibird and its paradox. 7 likewise for Crabominable and un-sanding the Sandshrew line. 6 is out because its lone mega showing is somehow terrible despite looking badass, and also because the fossil and the Bergmite line are the biggest whatever. 3 is out because I feel nothing but antipathy for its showing. 1 is out because Cloyster and Lapras dont make up for the meh otherwise.

This leaves me a tossup between Sinnoh, Unova, and Galar (I actually like the Vanillish line). Ultimately it comes down to which I've used on a team, so Sinnoh is out, since I've used Cryogonal and Eiscue both. Then it comes to what I dislike less between Beartic and Galarian Darmanitan, and thus Galar wins for me.

All hail Snom.

Edit: and then I forgot Mamoswine not even a day later. Welp. Still 50 50 between Sinnoh and Galar.

Ground is another one of my favorite types, and the first one I went to when it came to building a themed gym team back around gen 5 (Mamoswine, Dugtrio, Stunfisk, Camerupt, Claydol, Excadrill.) I learned pretty that their speed back then was nearly universally a dumpster fire, with the two exceptions (Dugtrio and Excadrill) both being on my team.

I dont get the genwun love here though, since almost everything was either saddled with a rock type or mono, and tbh, I prefer A-Marowak to the vanilla.

...maybe its because Diggersby was a tragedy and sullied the style by comparison for generations to come.

I feel like I tried to push for Hello World last year during VGMC but it didnt gain enough traction.

ZenOfThunder posted...

those voting for Jolly Roger Bay have brass balls to live with the eel for a year

You say that as if I didnt consider the "enemies are edible" angle, because eel sushi is pretty amazing.

Anyways I am disregarding most of the "right" answers today and picking my favorites.

Swellow
Banette
Ludicolo
Cacturne

One of my pet types. I heart Baenette.

That said, gen 5 for me. I've used each and every one of them on a team before.

Bob-Omb Battlefield
Cool, Cool Mountain
Dire Dire Docks
Shifting Sand Land

SSL basically set the standard for "every other game must have a boss with disembodied big hands and eyeballs as a weak point."

See, Ocarina of Time, Wind Waker, Nier, Titan Souls...

DDD meanwhile for the music alone (the stage itself is shit.)

Yeah, the dragon knights are weird.

One of the only times where gesturing matters in FromSoft.

No More Heroes. :)

I get that Turtonator is trying to be a Bowser reference with more of a kappa look but I still hate it. Besides that, though, I went gen 7. Best starter of the fires, fire/poison being a cool type combo for Salazzle, and i think Blacephelon is neat for a UB, with the whole "demon ghostly clown who explodes it's own head at you" thing it's got going.

Side note that I find it weird Solgaleo is not part fire.

Damnit! I'm going to be at SGDQ...

NFUN posted...

a ringtone that lasts for 4507 seconds seems excessive

A prime example; alas, mine is a melancholic Castlevania violin tune.

I keep both on most of the time, or notifications only at work. Fortunately my ringtone can be mistaken for classical music.

First time I'm going for gen 9, as I've been too harsh on most of the paradox mons, and all the basic mons otherwise are great. This was close, though - gen 3 I've used literally every 'mon on a team at one point or another, whereas gen 6 was mostly solid (except for Chesknaught, who suffers by virtue of being the most forgettable final form of its generation.)

Thinking about it, I'm suddenly very frightened for Water day.

Went Gen 8, and it wasnt even close; Enamorus may be the worst of the worst legendary set design-wise, but I dont care for most of the Tapus, and Alcremie wound up on my final semicomp team. Plus, for the dirty minded people, come on, Milcery is right there.

Hatterne and Grimmsnarl's whole line are both brilliant, G-Weezing hilarious, G-Rapidash pretty, and Zacian gets the "best cover legendary for its generation plus a few others" award. 9/10 hits for me.

Chupacabra
Loch Ness Monster
Jersey Devil
Wendigo

Opted for gen 1. I like most of gen 5 (especially Stunfisk!) but I cant stand the lamprey eel line, and as cute as the Zebstrika line is, they suck.

!!Fuck the Shrine of Amana!!

The fact you got through it with minimal comment is amazing. I love how that place looks but THAT is the place I was "best equipped to handle" and it was still a clusterfuck, and I was playing it on the nerfed Scholar version.

Seriously I must've gone through 700 or so arrows my Faith/Dex playthrough before even getting to the Demon.

Leslie Jones
Richard Pryor
George Carlin
Robin William's did a few, I think?

I'm torn already, since all my favorite electric types are stuck in gens where I hate the rest of its compatriots, and I dont want to be a genwunner but it's almost all solid - nor do I want to discount gen 9 from inexperience. Tagging for later review.

TomNook7 posted...

Make Yuna go down Auron's route so Bahamut fucking destroys people - incredible.

And the hilariously meek "D-don't move..." using Threaten, of course.

I love Torvus Bog for hitting that sweet spot between ambience and melodious that can let you throw it on for an hour, have it cut out, and you wonder where the hour went.

I would be such an information jammer though. "Why hasn't he spoken in three days" "Well you see he lives in a library and their WiFi is shoddy, especially when he's making suspect baked goods in the oven."

I'm always more shocked at just how much crap Ice and Grass are weak to despite how good they are at attacking, and also what Steel is strong against when attacking (like, yes, I get strong versus Fairy because of the whole "can't stand cold iron" but nothing else ever makes sense to me what it hits strong and what resists it.)

Without looking at the posts:

Okami
Ragnarok Online
The Witness
Mirror's Edge

All four for me sold on visual, music, or both- except Witness, that wins through sheer pretentiousness.

I am super not a fan of dragon types after a few generations causing me salt until Fairy came along and slapped them upside the head, somewhat. Thus, this one came down to which gen had the least annoying ones for me- which disqualifies 1-3 by default (Flygon and Rayquaza can not make up for the sins that are Lati@s and Salamence.) Gen 4 and 5 both stumble from their legendaries, and gen 7 stumbles with everything that isnt Naganadel for me. That leaves 6, 8, and 9, and I just have to appreciate the puns of a very light dragon named after Duralumin, the wyrm in the apple, and the general coolness of a ghost dragon in Dragapult.

Mr. Nook I'm already in crippling debt how many bells will this cost me.

Sorry the question is vague, as I *am* at work, but let me try and rephrase it.

What's a piece of work you can talk at length about that you could still sell somebody on viewing/reading for one reason or another?

In my two examples, I actually rather liked The Authenticity Project's writing style and characters - apart from the two alcoholics, and just hated that they wound up the best off in the ending. In Game of Thrones, the series especially, I thought the pacing was brilliant and the overarching storyline great (until it wasn't.)

Another example I'm thinking of is Game of Thrones. I loved the series when it was running, but I wouldn't ever watch after season 6 again; likewise, I couldn't get very far into the books because so much of them were lists of names and who's screwing who - literally, politically, or mortally - and I just lost interest in the overarching plot. I prefer to gush about my headcanon (the 7 Queendoms was basically writing itself once Winter suffered continental warming via the Littlest Stark) but nope, gotta kill em all too.

Raka_Putra posted...

Wait, so the topic is asking for media that we don't like but still see the merit in?

Yes! Specific examples if you've got em, too.

Theres a book I've read recently called The Authenticity Project which I thought had a great premise but, as much as I like bittersweet endings, killing off one of the most likeable characters - and having the main PoV female character get together with an alcoholic with the writer doing a soapbox about herself being a social media influencers character and day-mom-box-wine tippler herself just rubbed me completely the wrong way

Underleveled posted...

Media of the "social" variety

I recommend social media remain existent so it quarantines some of the shittier people I know.

redrocket posted...

Gacha

Gacha bad, but I love Project Moon so I'd recommend Limbus Company even if I will never play it myself.

This is brought about by a post that caught my eye of a public library that has an anti-recommendation display - "We're willing to rant about these at checkout, and here's why!" I work checkout at a fairly large library, so I have a few things to say on the matter, but what examples in media - books, movies, TV shows, podcasts, livestreams do you personally dislike yet still see the merit in?

Sticking to books, I have a few for my own reasons (The Hobbit, audiobook version of the Hunger Games, Nicholas Sparks in general, The Scarlet Letter) but I'm waiting to see if poaching the anti-recommendation display idea goes through with my administration.

FF9 I basically stuck with Zidane, Garnet, Steiner, and Quina whenever possible. The less I used Eiko and Amarant the better, Vivi eventually dropped off, and while I like Freya she didnt exist or do anything special after Cleyra.

Big_Bob posted...

No one is saying Agatha in this topic?

You just did!

Only things it'll unlock for me are Rammatra, the Moana wannabe, and the healer that isnt Kiriko or Lifeweaver. I only play it in 5s when they're in a mood for it, and like WoW, nobody has been since Halloween.

RikkuAlmighty posted...

Wtf is purple man

Jessica Jones villain, David Tennant's character.

Oh god Purple Man killed it. If Netflix holds, Madame Gao counts for me, as well.

NFUN posted...

ffx

Disagreed, as I tend to drop Lulu and Kimahri pretty quickly. (Still find it weird just how dodgy she is for a black mage, though.)

Fire Emblem's probably the correct answer here overall, but it doesn't hold in some games. For instance, in Radiant Dawn you're swapping parties so much and by the endgame if you're taking almost ANY of the Dawn Brigade with you you're handicapping yourself, but you're forced to have Micaiah and Sothe, and the only other decent ones of the lot (Nolan and Zihark) are because of their earth affinity giving stupid dodge - and NOT being monumentally unavailable. On the other hand, you have Path of Radiance, Sacred Stones, and Awakening, where your starter lord/Avatar + paladin can solo or duo the game.

I went for 3, but 9 is close. 3's only stinkers for me are the hyenas.

rwlh posted...

Average rating: 6.9

Ni.ce.