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I think Mettaton's section as a whole takes too long. Could've done with one less random minigame. The payoff is more than worth it though.

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Undertale is pretty much amazing. It has individually good aspects, but taken together it's so much greater than the sum of its parts.

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banananor posted...

When you want to explore a new area, you'd better kill robot rabbits for 30 minutes first and maybe craft some armor

Only if you want to

and you wish you could burn through the game faster because you like the characters and world and want to see where they go.

You can. The game gives youna good number if settings to make the game go by faster if that's what you want

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Yeah that was one part where I just accepted that my bedtime that night just became 'when I finish this section'. Good times.

It's weird to say for a game that is gameplay heavy and pulls that aspect off well, but I think CrossCode's writing impressed me more than any other part of the game. I think I enjoyed literally every bit of dialogue in the game.

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Also can confirm regarding CrossCode that I had no crashes. Had some slowdown in some areas, but turning off weather effects fixed that.

For Para's eyes only: the Vermillion Wasteland, from start to finish, is one of the most emotionally satisfying stretches of gaming I've ever played.

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I don't want to overhype this game too much,

I'll help then.

CrossCode is really good.

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Blackquill is okay. Honestly every prosecutor is living in the shadows of Edgeworth and Von Karma. First game really knocked that out of the park.

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5-5 underutilized its villain, the concept of which was really cool and should have been a much bigger part of the game as a whole. Other than that I thought it was really good.

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When I was making my 'Favorite Stories in Fiction' topic, someone asked me if I'd played Night in the Woods. I said no, but that I'd heard good things, but was also hesitant to try it because of the effect it might have on my mental state. They then told me 'yeah don't play NitW'. I don't think I've ever seen a game where its most ardent supporters warn people not to play it.

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I got up to like +10 Ascensions with Silent before I had my fill. Fun game.

Clocking in at an unconscionable 1,144 hours

Slay the Spire has been playable for about 850 days. Assuming you started playing since that original early release, you must have played around 1.35 hours of Slay the Spire every single day since then to rack up those hours. Still not MOBA numbers (do not ask me how much I used to play LoL) but I'm still impressed.

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VLR is the best in the series, yeah. I do wish its artstyle and tone hadn't been kneecapped by publisher mandate but the actual writing is a step above the other two games.

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Haven't experienced V3 yet, but that makes me look forward to it.

It's funny - I probably like the DR series the least out of anyone visiting this topic but I was also an active part of the original SomethingAwful Let's Play thread that fan translated the first game over time, which is what led to the games being picked up for an official localization. I directly contributed to the game coming overseas, even if in a small way.

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LeonhartFour posted...

Huh, interesting. Well, I feel like DR1 had the most grounded characters

This is pretty much it, yeah. DR2 technically had more 'interesting' characters but I felt like most of them just ended up being terribly grating. There were like four people I liked seeing talk and the rest actively decreased by enjoyment of the game when they were onscreen.

That, and DR1 easily had the best atmosphere. I really like 'trapped in a place' settings and the other games just don't have that.

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It's always been interesting to me that the fanbase likes 1 the least, because I think it by far had the most tolerable characters. I just don't think I'm the target audience for those games even though I really like Visual Novels.

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Having only watched LPs of the Danganronpa series, the enjoyment I've gotten out of them has been 1 > UDG > 2

Looking forward to when the person I follow gets around to V3 but it's not a series I want to spend money on. I don't like most of the writing at all.

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PSA: I just played Jedi Fallen Order and it's better-written than almost all of the SW movies (in general)

Go play that

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Paratroopa1 posted...

I tried Fire Emblem Heroes, by the way - I had that same early phase where the game just felt too boring to be interesting, and I thought, maybe this game gets more interesting if I stay with it, but I really have time for only one gacha in my life, and I've decided to make it PAD. I really don't need another one.

FEH was pretty fun for a while honestly, but Nintendo was obviously caught off-guard by how popular it got and they never got it to a point where it was consistently producing interesting content. At a certain point I realized I wasn't having fun...then I played for another four months, because being able to recognize the sunk cost fallacy at work doesn't make it easy to avoid it. I never became a whale for that game but even if I wasn't investing money, I was investing time that could be better spent doing other things.

Once I managed to extricate myself from that self-imposed hole, I got a lot better at free time management in general. I avoid Lizard Brain Games (mostly), and don't wait for things to 'get good' anymore, or finish a piece of media just for the sake of finishing it.

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Puzzle & Dragons is not a game. It is a curse. I hate this game. I hate myself. I hate what I have become. Ranking this game on my list at all is a moral failing, a complete negligence of my responsibility to acknowledge this game as an utter monstrosity. On the other hand, not ranking this game on my list would be a lie. Step one is admitting I have a problem. I have a problem, and its name is Puzzle & Dragons. The puzzle is figuring out where the hell I went wrong with my life. The dragons are metaphorical.

Oh hey, it's me back when I was playing Fire Emblem Heroes

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MetalmindStats posted...

Absolutely. If you were to take this result at face value versus the PC poll, you would think Goose Game would be a legit GotY contender. However, I'm of the opinion that it's mainly doing this well because it's what so many here automatically think of when they think of '2019 indie game'. That's not to say that it will get blown out come the final poll - this is too impressive a result - but I also wouldn't expect it to contend with RE2.

Untitled Goose Game winning 2019 GotY because people on this site don't play new games anymore and experience them more through cultural osmosis than anything else would be the most GameFAQs thing ever.

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Devil Survivor 2 is one of the most I've ever disappointed in a video game, but I will admit it didn't have this as its main battle theme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy-2BmuqkFE

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You know, I never really realized why I dont like Devil Survivor 1 as highly as I want to (considering I love a lot about it) until you made me realize I'd been repressing how bad some of that music was. Thanks, I guess?

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Catherine is weird. Ended up liking that game for the opposite reasons I figured I would going in - came for the story concept, stayed for the puzzle action gameplay. I ended up thinking the plot was dumb but can still hear EDGE! clear as day.

Your personal experience playing it with friends sounds awesome though, don't think I've had a game where me an a bunch of friends played it all at the same time while switching off.

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Pyre is my favorite Supergiant game (of the first three, haven't tried the new one), it's really good.

Playing Co-Op Divinity Original Sin was extremely fun. My compatriot handled most of the talky bits while I went around robbing the entire town before selling everything back to them.

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Also, I miss Advance Wars but I would say the failure of Days of Ruin had more to do with the series' disappearance than FE starting to succeed. Which is a shame, because I loved Days of Ruin.

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Fun list to read through. It's more or less the opposite of what mine would look like - speaking in general terms, your list makeup seems like it'll be 15% 3D games and 85% 2D games, while mine would be 85% 3D and 15% 2D. So far the only overlap we would have had on a Top 100 would be Xenoblade, Bloodstained, and maybe ZTD. That's what makes it interesting to read through though, and I'm taking notes on a few things I missed. Think I'll get Oneshot next time it's on sale.

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I'm generally not a huge fan of 2D platformers. They're not really my thing.

I liked Celeste a lot. It's quality.

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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Surely theres no one left who thinks hes the best shot the Dems have?

He still polls the best out of all of them, so yes, probably

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heroicmario posted...

The groundwork for Kylos redemption was set up the whole time,

I disagree strongly with this. He's only redeemable in the sense that you can redeem basically any character if you have them pull a tragic act of good right before they die. Episode 7 & 8 set up Kylo as someone who was too far gone; a byproduct of the failure of his mentors and his own lack of confidence in himself, who both committed heinous crimes and turned down a chance at redemption every time it was offered. I sincerely doubt that he was intended to eventually pull a face turn in the writing process for either of those Episodes.

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5 > 3 = M > 8 > 4 > 11 > 1 > 7 > 6 > 2 > 9

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Kylo being redeemed is bad writing. I'll leave it at that.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU1OxBdlFdE

The ability to choose this option in the DQ11 Switch version made exploring in that game way more fun than it would have been otherwise.

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I tried the 3DS remake of DQM and I ran into the problem I expected I would - the switch from 2D to 3D slows down the gameplay. This is the main reason I prefer the 2D Dragon Quest games to the 3D ones, actually.

Also the randomized dungeons in the original are unbeatable.

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heroicmario posted...

Im trying to envision a world where I was into DQM instead of Pokemon Red/Blue.

I was both! Love both those games.

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Still waiting on F-Zero GX HD.

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I have Torna but haven't started it yet. Will keep that in mind!

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JRPGs may not be known for treating female characters well, but the gulf between X1 and X2 in that regard is gigantic. In terms of "would be embarrassing to play around other people", X2 might take the #1 spot outside of actual porn games and maybe Tokyo Mirage Sessions. It's amazing how little I'm looking forward to a potential X3 considering X1 is like, my favorite game.

Also, CT is really cool.

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XB2 is a better game if you can completely ignore its vast plot, writing, character, and tone deficiencies, all wrapped together in a blanket of embarrassing female objectification

Which most people can't

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I wouldn't call it amazing so far, but I'm definitely enjoying my time with it. Think what prevents it from hitting that level where it becomes special is that exploring for goodies mostly gets you cosmetics and little else. So many ponchos.

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foolm0r0n posted...

Pick some better things to hate about Trump lest you elect one of his thousand (slightly less rich) Democrat clones.

Same thing both sides!!

Nah, get out of here with that argument. Democrat candidates are far from perfect but putting the ones that people might elect in the same boat as Trump is flat-out wrong.

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Snrkiko posted...

watching videos the lightsaber just looks like it would feel like playing with a plastic stick without it doesn't dismember the everloving crap out of everything it touches

Things die quick if you parry a lot (and a lot of normal enemies get cut in half), and doing so is already really strong. It's obviously weaker than a canon lightsaber would be but I don't think you can really make a satisfying combat system where everything dies in one hit.

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The combat and respawning mechanic is Dark Souls, the platforming is Uncharted, the 'learn new abilities to open new paths through the environment' is Metroid Prime, and pretty sure the wall running is exactly the same mechanic as it was in Prince of Persia.

It's also fun though, so I don't think I can complain!

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Bleed and Bleed 2 are two of my favorite action games of all time. They get more fun the more time you put into them, and it just gets better on the higher difficulty settings.

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Wow does Penny Arcade look ugly these days.

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iiicon posted...

sf5 was a huge decline from sf4, particularly at launch. the long tail sales for it have been pretty good, but even those are down significantly from 4.

like it definitely made money but not as much as it should and it kind of poisoned the waters for a lot of people. capcom really need to bring their a game for 6.

SF5's sales for the base game were lower than 4 but SF5 also has a ton of microtransactions and season passes, and that adds up quite a bit. I wouldn't be surprised at all if it was overall a more profitable game.

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From what I understand, Street Fighter V was very financially successful in the long run. I think the 'fighting games as a service' model is here to stay...they'll just make the launch better next time.

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Once you've been playing games for decades, the level of quality of a Top 20 back in the early 2000s is equal to your Top 50 in 2019

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I wish I'd played Inside before I was spoiled about the plot twists.

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On the subject of 'depression' games being popular - I think that on average gamers are probably more likely to have depression or at least exhibit symptoms of depression, but the amount and visibility of 'depression' games has more to do with the way games are distributed and consumed. It's really easy to find stuff on Steam.

There's definitely some sort of trend there though, like how the number of games that put you in a protective father role spiked significantly once gamers started reaching that age. I'll never forget the weird experience of playing two 'dad' games voiced by Troy Baker back to back that released in the same year.

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oh ya go my Bleed

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Oh yes, that controller is the best. Using it for everything Switch-related from now on.

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