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As part of our journey to beat all 128 games from the 2015 Best Game Ever GameFAQs Contest, we had to conquer World of Warcraft. As none of us had played the game before, we asked for your advice on a win objective, and eventually settled to beating all non Legion dungeons/raids (Justification: Legion was not released at the time of the GameFAQs contest). I am happy to report that last night this win objective was met and the game has officially been beaten, bringing us to 63/128 games completed. The second tab on our spreadsheet has the list of dungeons and raids that were beaten (the first tab is the list of games we've beaten and some other stats):

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_SKvnMZTbqzkwbA1fEUfJ3ITIVLm3sZY_Gb62Tizamk/edit#gid=0


Notable highlights of our journey:

- getting invited to a guild and becoming professional role players in a non-rp guild, to the point where they created discord channels for us
- role playing with the community while trying to find the outlands (I made a youtube video of some of the highlights:
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- doing our first dungeon was a really fun experience
- doing some of the dungeons/raids that are references to wc3 levels.
- during a dungeon, having our tank stop and tell the group "brambleblast doesn't do enough dps, i'm not tanking for him" and go afk. (we had to kick him and wait for another tank to join to proceed)
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What controllers does it accept? My SNES to USB adapter isn't detected by it
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I still can't believe this is real but the idea alone is awesome. Odds of a Capcom C&D?
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It's not.

They don't have to do it on a daily basis either.
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I found the whole thing hilarious and condensed it down to the highlights. YMMV. Enjoy.


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As a kid I could never get past that final hallway. For whatever reason I never used special weapons and thought I had to kill everything. It wasn't until I was a college student that I went back and beat it (with lots of scrolls and abusing NES screen mechanics). The difficulty spike at that part is unreal.
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Currently level 40 with 11 dungeons completed

Lots of pet battles were had
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Playing again. Stream is up
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Done for the day. We're at level 25 with three dungeons done.
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Starting up again, stream is online
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We made some progress! We're all level 14 now. We'll be resuming later tonight.
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Night elf
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We'll be streaming here:

https://www.twitch.tv/eyesonic

Starting now!
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To clarify some win objectives for other games:

We are playing games in one of three ways.

A "blind" playthrough means the person (or people) playing has never played the game before and is playing without any help from guides or advice from other players. Usually we attach a minimum win condition to this.

A "semi blind" playthrough means the person knows a little about the game, either from having played some (but not all) of the game or watched someone else play parts of the game. They can't look up any additional info while playing though. We adjust the win condition based on how much the player knows about the game.

A "not blind" playthrough means the person has played and beaten the game before. In this case we try to have the person do a harder objective (e.g. unlock all cheats in goldeneye) or 100% the game. Usually we try to shuffle who plays the games around to minimize these but for a lot of games all three of us have played them before, so it can't be helped.
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This is a blind playthrough, so we don't know anything about the game and we are not allowed to use guides.
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We have to play it to finish all 128 games.

That doesn't mean we have to 100% it, mind you. Hopefully we can do all we need within the free 30 days.
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How many hours of gameplay would you all estimate our gameplay objective is?
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How does the recruit a friend work for the base game? If one of us recruits others will that have any negative impact on gameplay?
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Just to be clear: The $20 base game just limits the amount of content you can do, right?

Does it come with a free month or do you have to pay a subscription fee from the get go?
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As some of you may know, a couple of my friends and I have been working on (slowly) beating all 128 games from the 2015 GameFAQS contest. If you're curious, you can view our progress here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_SKvnMZTbqzkwbA1fEUfJ3ITIVLm3sZY_Gb62Tizamk

Soon we will be starting World of Warcraft. We were thinking we can just beat all these dungeons to beat the game: http://vanilla-wow.wikia.com/wiki/Instances_by_level

Can any wow experts chime in on this? Does this seem ok for a win condition for a game that you can't truly "beat"?
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I'm just doing the same run as my friend since my twitter got locked

Pure chaos, natural. He rolled Thief/Monk/Samurai/Time mage

Just got to the earth crystal without any serious issues. Since it's natural I've had to keep two of my characters as freelancers but I've been using them to break rods. :3 Hope that doesn't go against the spirit of the rules in any way.
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One of my friends registered for the same run so I'll probably just copy whatever he's assigned.

It'll probably be more fun/competitive that way anyway.
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Literally the only thing I did was

@ff5forfutures #regPureChaos #natural
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I made a twitter account just for this but twitter has already locked it for violating the TOS.
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Just registered, pure chaos natural.

First job: Berserker
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psaltery posted...

Next time get a regular hotel.

Hotels in NYC can be quite pricey.
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$3350 for a 2 bedroom in downtown LA

It's standard for the area

NYC, SF, and LA have outrageous rent compared to the rest of the US
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Signature updated. Well done!
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Well if you assume there's going to be 20000 total votes and that the people voting now are representative of the entire day, you need

*calculates*

about ~1550 votes to be 90% confident that the current results are within 2% of their final total. Since they are further than that apart you can call the match now with about 90% confidence.

95% confidence will come around ~2100 votes and 99% confidence will come around 3500.
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There appears to be enough evidence gathered over the years that they often work well; the more interesting question is why they work well.

Presumably they rely on some sort of independence assumption somewhere in the derivation. It would not surprise me if they work well when voters' ranking hierarchy is "reasonably independent" with respect to each other and work poorly otherwise (as would be the case in an overlapping fanbase). That they would be mostly independent is a curiosity in of itself.
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Virtual Boy voter over here
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Console releases apparently matter a lot less than one would think
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Leon, thou hast not won even once.
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I rented it on Blockbuster's $2 Tuesday and the cashier told me I was renting a gold mine.

I got to the Golem Twins before I had to return the rental and I tried to rent it the next week but all their copies were rented out. :(
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Wow @ 4102 entries
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I took 1991 due to a rather significant console release.
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Hey @SBAllen

I think the rotating pictures are a cool addition and a nice way to modernize the contest. I was wondering if it would be difficult to make any of the following "quality of life" additions

-Having the "mouse over" text be the list of notable games/systems from the bracket submission page (the ones from the question marks in https://www.gamefaqs.com/features/byg_vote ), so that voters can see other games (and console releases!) than just the few from the pictures

-Keeping the year somewhere on the pictures besides the first one

-Perhaps having the time between picture rotations shortened, so that visitors will know it's an animated picture

I think these would not be difficult to implement but would increase the quality of the pictures! I know you can't ever please everyone but I think these are pretty noncontroversial. Thanks for what looks like an exciting contest and for securing so much potential prize money.
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I remember renting this
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Hello Gurus, long time listener, first time caller

Tiebreaker: 1050011

2009
1989
2006
2005

1995
1985
2001
2008
1997
2007
2000
1996
1991
2002
1994
2006
1998
1992
2003
2015

1995
2001
1997
1996
1991
1994
1998
2015

1995
1997
1991
1998

1997
1998

1998
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I don't understand why you weren't present when she was buying the car. Did she go without telling you?
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If you're banking on 2001 it should really be because of Melee and not FFX. FFX alone would fold hard to 1998
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Apologies for the audio issues. We'll work on it for our next episode. Thanks for pointing it out.

As a general rule. we don't do outtakes or edits, but we will try to coordinate microphone volumes before we begin recording next time.
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Finally, the topic everyone's been waiting for. Our expert gurus return with more of your favorite thorough and hard hitting analysis. In this episode, we analyze the top half of the bracket, all the way up to the semis.

As always, "No Respect Gamers" intends to bring you hours of unrehearsed, unedited, and unfiltered content this contest season! We follow the "no outtakes, no edits" rule, so expect a bumpy ride from time to time!

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In this Episode

-The entire top half analyzed, up until the semis
-What factors matter? How much do system releases impact a voter's decision?
-How strong is 1995, and can it beat 2001?
-1996 vs 1997: Our experts give you their picks
-What's a good tiebreaker pick?

I like what you do. How can I show my enthusiasm?

Post in this topic letting us know what you like and what you'd like to hear us discuss in the future!

Can I be a guest on your show?

Maybe. Feel free to post or PM me your credentials. If we like you then you might get an invite!
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1998 - Starcraft
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I did brief writeups of 78 and 79 a few days ago. I suppose I could do a few more if there's really no one else writing for those years.
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-hotdogturtle-- posted...

Two bugs that are planned to be patched are goons getting stuck and the valkyrie sprite bug where if enough valkyries were present on the screen, they would stop shooting because of the sprite limitation bug.

So how does this work if SCR can play with BW? Wouldn't they still be broken in BW, unless they're somehow fixing them in BW too?

Other than that question, the fact that this can literally connect with the original game is crazy and amazing.

They are fixing them in patch 1.18 which comes out next week.

Brood War and the original will be free starting from then, too. :3
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Remastered players can play in the same game with classic players so any map made in the editor will also still work.
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It was just announced and we just got the first trailer.

Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ypU9j4w3_w

Probably the biggest things for the competitive gamers is the latency, modern matchmaking, observer mode, and anti cheats.

But the 4k resolution doesn't hurt!
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