Lurker > Kaxon

From: MartinFF7 | #015

but then you've got Provincial Town instead of Parochial Town, and Words Drowned by Fireworks instead of Interrupted by Fireworks, so it kind of balances out!

I still like Interrupted by Fireworks. Provincial Town makes more sense than Parochial, I'll grant you.

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Anxious Heart (lol "Heart of Anxiety")
Cosmo Canyon

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From: Lightning Strikes | #005
The series follows inverse Star Trek film logic in terms of game quality (which is to say, the odd numbered ones are the good ones, as opposed to Star Trek where it's even). Especially if we count Peace Walker as MGS5.

Lies! MGS2 is the best one in the series.

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Personally Littlefinger is my single least favorite character in the entire series. And I didn't like the scene FFD likes, it was pretty typical of why I hate him so much.

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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

Book top 5:

1. Arya
2. Tyrion

Really no one else is close to those two. But if I have to list five I'll say something like

3. Jon
4. Daenerys
5. Sam

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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

Not sure what people are complaining about, Green Lantern was pretty good!

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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

Yeah Charles Dance is great. I knew he was a great choice back in season 1, watching his first significant scene where he's skinning the deer and he's telling Jaime what he expects of him. After he finished his speech, one of the guys I was watching with goes "damn, now I want to be a Lannister" which pretty much sums up the power of Charles Dance's performance.

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Cool, I had Sean on my first playthrough of PS3.

I don't really remember much about the endings but I think they were all pretty similar. Also the stuff you do in the 3rd generation is very similar regardless of who your character is. The second generation quests are completely different though.

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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

Which generation are you on? That sounds like 3 but it's been ages since I played.

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From: Mr Crispy | #295
I could have sworn that you could at least teleport between towns. Like, casting the escape spell would take you back to the landing area, but then at the very least if not the spell you could warp with a telepipe or something.

Also I'm going back and finishing PS3 because of this topic. I was looking at a guide to figure out where I left off, tried following along until I realized that I had already been to the place I was trying to reach for the past half hour or so. Then I thought that I needed to get the aqua parts so I had to retrace my steps to the town I had last saved in, then went to a dungeon to get the aqua parts only to realize that I had already got them from that dungeon (because there were aqua and sub parts, and I already had both but didn't notice that I had the aqua parts because they were in another character's inventory and the people guarding the sub parts incorrectly call them the "aqua parts" anyway). orz

At least I did make some progress eventually.

PS3 tha best

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From: Solfadore | #214
The Hound already? Yep. Probably a bit too low for you guys, but I honestly can't rank him any higher than this.
Nah, if anything #7 is too high for him. Like you say, he doesn't have much energy on the show. Doesn't convey the sense of threat that the Hound should have.

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From: GrapefruitKing | #008
well I don't know what he looks like
but if he's the type of person who keeps sreaming "we f***ing love you!!!!" at Thom Yorke several times, then he was just behind me

That doesn't seem like his style, but I don't know for sure!

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From: AlecTrevelyan006 | #173
I missed that.

My question stands though, even if it was irrelevant to his point.

I've read all of them.

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shakalaka

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Did you see King Morgoth there?

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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

From: ImTheMacheteGuy | #237
hmm I thought #1 would be amazingly epic given it's Lockjaw... I was actually a bit disappointed.

There are some amazingly epic songs in this list, but they're all in the lower half. >_>

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From: KamikazePotato | #225
The intro to this song is incredible. It may be the best intro to a song I've ever heard, no hyperbole. The rest of the song doesn't live up to the standards the intro sets, but even the stuff that comes after is a cut above other stuff.

Have you played the game? I like Bounty of a Brain, but its intro is basically just a worse version of the game intro.

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From: Ed Bellis | #154
Also Protricity remixes are almost universally bloated and go on about two minutes longer than they should. That Brambles mix is no exception!


Even though I think Protricity isn't that great overall, the songs of his that I do really like are really long! The problem with Brambles in the Breeze is that it's just doesn't bring anything very interesting to the table.

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Yeah, I haven't really liked Shnabulba stuff when I've listened to it.

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From: Ed Bellis | #096
Ed Bellis | Posted 6/14/2012 11:05:23 AM | message detail | filter | quote | (edited) | #096
Also that "xKore" thing... why is that called the Chrono Cross theme? That's the Chrono Trigger theme. It plays during Dreamwatch and I don't think it plays at any other point in Cross. Admittedly I didn't listen to the full thing so maybe there's more elements from Cross near the end, but is the mix so bad nobody can even differentiate the melody? (The answer is probably yes.)
That melody is also in Chronomantique and Fields of Time. It's basically the Chrono series theme.

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From: KamikazePotato | #107
52. Super Metroid - Zebesian Midnight (Vigilante)
Nominated By: Kaxon


zzzzzzzzzzzz


KP has terrible taste confirmed

Actually it was confirmed a long time ago but you know...

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Super Metroid - Zebesian Midnight (Vigilante)


Donkey Kong Country 2 - Forest Birdcussion (Protricity)


Final Fantasy 6 - Anthem of Exile (Jiggin Jon T)


Final Fantasy 7 - Short Skirts (djpretzel and Vigilante)


Pictionary - Person, Place, or Groove (The Orichalcon)


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From: Solfadore | #128
Also, I actually think that Renly would've made the best king out of all the five pretenders we've seen - six, even, if we throw Dany into the mix - so I'm not holding his awkwardness against him. Joffrey and Balon are obviously not kingly material; Stannis sees the world in black-and-white and is led by the nose by a religious nutjob; Robb is alright but a bit stupid (basically Ned v. 2.0). If Ned hadn't been stupid and had actually sided with Renly back in Season 1, the series would've been over very quickly. Starks + Baratheons + Tyrells = not good for Stannis and the Lannisters. Although I suppose Melisandre might've still tried to pull a fast one on Renly.

In the show, I agree with you. In the book, Dany would be. The show makes Renly a lot more serious and it seems like he actually has a reason to want to be king, whereas in the book it really is basically a game to him. On the other hand, book Dany at this point is a lot smarter and shrewder whereas in this season of the show Dany rants and threatens people pointlessly and doesn't really know what she's doing.

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Don't give up!

Or you could just give up. PS4 is way better.

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From: LordoftheMorons | #035
Dany: Apparently Arstan was Barristan Selmy! And Jorah had been reporting to Varys, but we already knew that from the first season of the show. There was also some less interesting stuff about Meereen, and the Titan's B****** tried to kill Dany.


From: Menji76 | #037
Barristan's reveal was amazing.


Wait wasn't it completely obvious? I'm not the most observant reader but when "Arstan" showed up I was like oh that's what happened to Barristan Selmy.

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Somehow that was the common name English speakers used but as far as I know from people who do speak Japanese it's a completely wrong title.

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Both songs are good. Today I feel like voting for...

(1)The Dream That Time Dreams

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Eh, what the hell... (this is more of my own favorites list rather than a prediction)

1) Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage)
2) Arya Stark (Maisie Williams)
3) Tywin Lannister (Charles Dance)
4) Jaime Lannister (Nicolaj Coster-Waldau)
5) Stannis Baratheon (Stephen Dillane)

1) Joffrey Baratheon (Jack Gleeson)
2) Jaqen H'ghar (Tom Wlaschiha)
3) Davos Seaworth (Liam Cunningham)

I'm not completely sure who you're counting as a main, but I'm assuming it's these 5 plus Cersei, Theon, and Sansa. Arguably you could put Joffrey as one of the mains in this season. In season 2 I feel like Jack Gleeson started hamming it up just a little bit and I really liked it - like the scene that they showed in the recap where he said he was going to give Stannis a red smile was a little too ridiculous to be taken seriously, but the way he delivered it felt like he was winking at the audience and it came out perfect. (I did still hate the scene with him and the prostitutes, but that was the writers fault).

Maisie Williams is great, but I have to give this one to Peter Dinklage. In the book my favorite characters are #1 Arya and #2 Tyrion, but Dinklage is better in the show (part of that might be the writing, he gets to do more while they trimmed out a lot of Arya's journey in favor of padding Dany's and Robb's stories with boring crap).

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Agreed, that was a terrible change. Pretty much everything to do with Robb was pretty bad this season I thought.

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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

The lack of a peach was probably one of the top five writing fails this season... and that's saying a lot. But unlike some of the other annoying changes, the peach would have taken almost no effort to include in what they were doing and they still left it out, so, major fail.

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From: LordoftheMorons | #022
Then later it was confirmed to me that my guess was the consensus guess. It makes a lot of sense with what I've read so far.
Yep, there's quite a bit of circumstantial supporting evidence. I think it makes the story better too.

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So far I pretty much agree with you that most of the people you've named so far are low-tier for this show. The main exception being Natalie Dormer, I thought she was great. I was pretty skeptical initially about her casting because she's almost twice as old as book Margaery, but I thought she actually ended up being more interesting this way.

Carice van Houten was the other one you've named so far who I thought was better in the show than in the books.

How could any man NOT fall for Dany? I'm not sure there's a straight man In Westeros who won't be completely taken by her. Varys gets a hard on for Dany's Targ.

It's not just the looks but they way she projects herself when in Mother of Dragons mode. She's confident to a point of self detriment and passionate beyond rationality. She's the kind of woman who makes you want to be better, the one who can take you to higher heights and make life more exciting.

Eh... she's obviously good looking, and she's powerful (or will be), so she has a lot going for her. But the way she acted in the second season of the show seemed a lot more stupid than "confident". Randomly threatening people for no reason, didn't make me fond of her... it actually kinda made her seem like Viserys.

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Arya is so great, and her interactions with the Hound are some of my favorite things in the universe. Putting them together was a great move, since she hates him but they actually make kind of a good team, and in some ways she's similar to him.

Jon: I am getting really tired of Ygritte. Every other sentence she says is "you know nothing, Jon Snow," which is just super lame. On the plus side, thanks to Summer Jon's finally free of these losers.

Sorry, you lost me here. "You know nothing, Jon Snow" is the best non-Arya line in the series.

Arya: Apparently Beric's squire is Edric Dayne, lord of Starfall. That's pretty cool. Supposedly, Ned was involved with Ashara Dayne back in the day. Huh.

Back in book 1, one of Catelyn's chapters I think, it mentions how Ashara Dayne was rumored to be Jon Snow's mother, and Ned banished the person telling the rumor when he heard about it. I believe she also was mentioned in the Harrenhall story you referred to earlier.

Have you thought about / read about the Jon's mother speculation?

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