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TopicPost Each Time You Beat a Game: 2020 Edition
MetalmindStats
06/03/20 7:39:38 PM
#469
Celeste (PC - Steam)

I reached the summit of Celeste Mountain in 7A, but that doesn't mean I'm done just yet.

Dragon Quest XI > Portal 2 ~= Celeste > 999 > Deiland > West of Loathing

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TopicPost Each Time You Beat a Game: 2020 Edition
MetalmindStats
04/26/20 6:27:03 PM
#362
Deiland (PC - Steam)

Dragon Quest XI > Portal 2 > 999 > Deiland > West of Loathing

I'll post more in the Game of the Month topic soon.

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TopicPost Each Time You Beat a Game: 2020 Edition
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03/11/20 9:03:09 PM
#230
Portal 2 (PC - Steam)

I'll post my thoughts in some detail in the Game of the Month topic, since said topic is the reason I finally cleared Portal 2 from my backlog. TL;DR: I (of course) liked it.

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TopicPost Each Time You Beat a Game: 2020 Edition
MetalmindStats
02/27/20 1:59:48 AM
#196
Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (PC - Steam via Zero Escape: The Nonary Games)

I saw the true ending on 2/23, after first achieving each of 999's other endings. In the inverse of West of Loathing, the last game I beat, 999 overdelivered on my expectations, and I felt it was ultimately greater than the sum of its parts.

Maybe I'll actually keep up my current rate of beating at least one game a month this year - a whole year of that would be an achievement by my standards.

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TopicOl Punny plays Pokemon Soul Silver for the first time *SPOILERS*
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02/05/20 1:31:52 AM
#434
Punnyz posted...
Piloswine learns Ice Fang at lvl 28....but...Swinub doesn't evolve into Piloswine until Lvl 33
Correct. It means you have to take your Swinub to the move reminder once it's evolved into Piloswine if you wish to learn Ice Fang. Yes, it's pretty dumb that Piloswine doesn't learn it upon/after evolution.

Punnyz posted...
and what the hell are hidden abilities
Hidden abilities were introduced in Black and White as essentially a third, rare ability slot, and aren't a thing in HGSS.

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TopicOl Punny plays Pokemon Soul Silver for the first time *SPOILERS*
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02/05/20 1:00:31 AM
#432
Punnyz posted...
I have an adamant Swinub with Good Endurance

then I have an adamant Swinub who is Highly Curious

from what I can tell, the curious one seems to favor Special Attack?

Yet it has WAY more attack power than the Good Endurance one

so...wut
Highly Curious just means that particular Swinub's highest (or tied highest) IV is Sp. Attack. Simply having the characteristic has no direct bearing either way on its Attack; that being said, I would guess that the Highly Curious Swinub is superior in most of its stats to the Good Endurance one. If not, it's simply a quirk of the RNG that it rolled a higher Attack IV.

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TopicOl Punny plays Pokemon Soul Silver for the first time *SPOILERS*
MetalmindStats
02/05/20 12:39:33 AM
#430
Punnyz posted...
so what are characteristics exactly?
Characteristics indicate which of your Pokmon's stats has the highest IV, with the indicated stat and the possible values of that highest IV depending on its characteristic. For casual play, they're pretty meaningless.

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Topicin this topic I will maybe rank the Stardew Valley characters
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01/28/20 5:31:13 PM
#101
MariaTaylor posted...
I think a good majority of the playerbase initially had a crush on Robin when they first started the game.
This was certainly the case for me, in as much as I could say that about any Stardew Valley character, at any rate.

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The requirements for unlocking him are way more forgiving. To meet Krobus you only need to find 60 of any museum items. To get at the Dwarf you need all four copies of four specific, rare items.
I met the Dwarf well before I ever met Krobus, though I guess it was probably just unusual good luck in my one playthrough. Also, I personally never found Krobus worth talking to, though my playthrough was mostly very casual, and I probably never visited him on a Friday; he was the only befriendable character who didn't reach at least 6 hearts during my playthrough. At least the Dwarf was in a place I visited fairly often given how (relatively) early I unlocked him.

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TopicPara's top 100 games of the decade, 2010-2019
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01/20/20 4:58:02 PM
#296
Bane_Of_Despair posted...
Yay Night in the Woods
I'm not going to talk in-depth about it here, but NITW left real marks on me mentally and emotionally, something I thought would be impossible for a video game to do to me before playing it.

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Topicin this topic I will maybe rank the Stardew Valley characters
MetalmindStats
01/20/20 4:31:27 PM
#89
MariaTaylor posted...
and she built her own freaking dark room. pretty neat.
Isn't this part of one of her heart events, or am I misremembering?

I'm still following along; I just haven't had much to say because I've only done one playthrough and haven't touched Stardew in a while. I don't necessarily agree with some of your opinions, but that certainly doesn't mean they're wrong. (Maru was my second choice after Leah, for what it's worth.)

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TopicMy Top 25 Video Games from 2010-2019 with Write-Ups Eventually
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01/18/20 4:09:17 PM
#28
CybrMonkey posted...
and has probably my favorite kid character in any medium.
A certain other JRPG takes that title for me personally. Well, technically she isn't a kid, but that's an (early) spoiler.

Also, I'm still following along. I'm very much into the direction you've taken with your write-ups, but I still haven't played any of these games.

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TopicPara's top 100 games of the decade, 2010-2019
MetalmindStats
01/17/20 1:17:23 PM
#257
Wow, it's been a while since I've looked at this topic, and now it looks like I have a decent bit to comment on:

Of course Smash Ultimate is here, yes. I think it'd be hard to disagree it's the apotheosis of the Smash series, though I know well enough that means it won't necessarily be everyone's favorite Smash game. The one thing that's really missing in my eyes is Smash Run, which I absolutely loved from 3DS, as a pitch-perfect adaptation of the great format of Kirby Air Ride's city trial mode.

Stardew Valley is my Animal Crossing (never mind that it's not an AC-like), though like you with New Leaf, I haven't played it in a while - nor, however, have I been particularly tempted to pick it back up.

I think I'm probably Board 8's biggest Civ fan, at least if my over 2,000 hours in Civ 5 and 6 combined (split about evenly between the two) are anything to go by! Oddly, I haven't really played nor felt like playing either game in a while, but Civ 5 in particular has acquired a second life for me via community-ran AI games. At least for me, they've become quite a fun spectator sport, but they also make the military inadequacies of even Deity-level Civ AIs with intelligence-enhancing mods clear.

Like Lopen, I really dislike that the main effect of difficulty levels in Civ is to give the AIs enhanced bonuses, which for me usually results in lots of restarting until I get a decent spawn, then a touch-and-go early game that turns into an assured win if I've kept my empire intact through turn 100. At the same time, Prince is simply too easy for me to have fun. Maybe (probably) that all has something to do with why I haven't been coming back to Civ of late, even though I still love the series.

I love the joint Jackbox placement - such a great party game series! Offhand, I think I'd agree that 3 is the best, especially since I've finally started enjoying Tee K.O. (even though I'm still terrible at it).

And yes, definitely replay Terraria once 1.4 comes out. If we could somehow set up a B8 multiplayer playthrough, that would be a blast, but Terraria's still just as fun when played singleplayer, at least IMO.

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TopicPost Each Time You Beat a Game: 2020 Edition
MetalmindStats
01/16/20 9:00:18 AM
#59
West of Loathing (PC - Steam)

I finished a playthrough in tandem with Crazy Pete, additionally helping something like 30 people (I forget the exact amount). It does lots of things right, including some really fun twists on staple RPG mechanics, but for whatever reason, I never rose above the level of mildly enjoying it. I can tell that it's designed to be played through more than once, but I'm not really interested in doing so when I have tons of hopefully better games I could be playing.

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TopicFate/Mythic Fragment (CYOA)
MetalmindStats
01/13/20 8:19:28 PM
#376
Huh, surprised you consider me a main participant >_>

C

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Topicin this topic I will maybe rank the Stardew Valley characters
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01/10/20 2:58:18 AM
#49
trdl23 posted...
Leah is definitely my SV waifu of choice, but I've only played the game one time and never not been married to her. I zeroed in on her almost immediately. That thirsty stuff when you aren't married (and yeah, I think your interpretation is accurate) is pretty "yikes."
I basically agree with this.

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1325
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01/07/20 5:36:34 AM
#493
KamikazePotato posted...
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.
True!

I actually didn't realize it already tanked in the Switch poll, though, so I suppose it's not going anywhere in the true GotY poll without off-site support.

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1325
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01/06/20 6:13:23 PM
#489
WhiteLens posted...
Untitled Goose Game is also significantly more well known because of memes.
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.

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TopicIf you use rewind/save state to finish a game, did you beat it?
MetalmindStats
01/03/20 10:08:54 PM
#471
lordjers posted...
You watched that other Blade Runner version; you didn't watch the original.
So you would say you haven't seen Blade Runner if you haven't seen the original version, correct? If so, I'll at least give you credit for being logically consistent.

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TopicIf you use rewind/save state to finish a game, did you beat it?
MetalmindStats
01/03/20 9:07:08 PM
#469
None of the people arguing for no have attempted to answer my question about whether or not you've actually seen Blade Runner if you haven't watched the original version. I'm legitimately curious.

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Topictransience's top 100 games -- please insert disc 2.
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01/03/20 8:38:17 PM
#411
transcience posted...
you know, I wonder if playing DQ11 before 8 does a disservice to 8. one of 8s major overhauls was the monsters and the animations and I think that sticks around long term for people who played it back when. if you play 11 first, I could see that major innovation feeling like no big deal.
I've at least seen a fair bit of 8 gameplay, long before I played 11, so I know how much of a leap it was over previous DQ games. I do think I'd end up inevitably preferring 11 even after playing 8 for basically that reason, though.

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01/03/20 12:02:45 AM
#399
LordoftheMorons posted...
What is your favorite Dragon Quest monster
I know I'm late, but this is an interesting question that's never really going to be discussed anywhere else, so I felt like saying my piece:

The Hacksaurus is probably my overall favorite, in no small part because of Lizzie. It's also simply an awesome design IMO, and it (along with its palette swaps) is typically among the few monsters that can use powerful human skills.

I also want to echo the shoutout to the Hat Hamwitch and its palette swaps. The layered puns comprising their names are already impressive. What makes me appreciate them most though, is that the sham variants are Beast-family monsters that can't cast spells, while the Hat Hamwitch itself is a Material-family monster (because the magical hat is the emphasis) that can cast spells.

There's so much I could rave about regarding Dragon Quest XI (and the series in general, while we're at it), and the Hat Hamwitches exemplify many of its strong suits. As big a Dragon Quest fan as I am, though, I've missed out on playing several of the main series games - most shamefully VIII.

Anyways, it's been great fun following this list, between the pace, your write-ups, and all the discussion surrounding them, so thank you tran.

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TopicIf you use rewind/save state to finish a game, did you beat it?
MetalmindStats
01/02/20 8:40:42 PM
#372
Lopen posted...
Actually it literally does mean that-- it wasn't a conscious design decision to add it to each Switch port. They didn't modify the ROMs or anything.
To me, it doesn't matter that it wasn't a conscious design decision or that they didn't modify the ROMs; those are only distinctions on a technical level. The fact remains that the Switch versions of these games have a rewind feature, and all Switch versions of NES games having that feature, including for technical purposes, doesn't change that fact.

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TopicIf you use rewind/save state to finish a game, did you beat it?
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01/02/20 8:06:18 PM
#367
Lopen posted...
It's not a part of the game though. It's a feature of the Switch NES emulator. Every NES game on the switch has these features so it's not tied to the games themselves whatsoever.
It's tied to the Switch versions of those games. Every single Switch port having them does not mean they're not a part of said versions.

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TopicPost Each Time You Beat a Game: 2020 Edition
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01/02/20 8:04:54 PM
#6
Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age (PC - Steam)

I finally beat Calasmos yesterday. I'm seriously tempted to play through this hundred-hour game again with some Draconian restrictions enabled, to put my feelings into perspective.

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TopicIf you use rewind/save state to finish a game, did you beat it?
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01/02/20 7:31:58 PM
#364
Lopen posted...
So like... if Game Genie was a Nintendo branded peripheral is it not cheating? Like I'm not sure why it being a Nintendo Brand Emulator makes a difference?
To me, the difference is pretty much if it's a part of any official version of the game, it's not cheating. A Nintendo-branded Game Genie still wouldn't be a part of the game, so calling its use cheating would be fair to me.

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TopicTop 25 games of the decade, period. Exclamation mark!
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01/02/20 6:05:51 PM
#57
HaRRicH posted...
Real talk: Mae Borowski is my spirit animal. I love this trash mammal.
Yes! Actually even more than that for me: the broad strokes of my life right now and even to some extent who I am are, frankly, too similar to Mae's for comfort. That made the aftermath of the first party scene, for example, almost too real, in a way that put me in Mae's shoes right away.

HaRRicH posted...
And then the game
See, this is my big unpopular opinion about NITW, probably beget from how much it means to me: I had no problem with the tonal whiplash here, nor the execution thereof. For me, the combination of Mae's nightmares and the preceding plot events suitably signposted the shift. I particularly appreciated the whole conclusion because it really reflected how these events just happened to be a temporary part of Mae's life, rather than being the point of the game.

Despite all that, I still don't think it would have worked out for me if I hadn't been so invested in Mae as a character. Act 4 really hit me hard, at a point when I had written off the possibility of video games ever having a real emotional impact on me, simply because of my nature as a person. For that and for the things it's made me realize about myself, I'll forever value NITW, and (while it might not otherwise be my favorite game outright) I would even if it wasn't a really fun game on top of that. ((Gregg rulz ok))

Anyways, that was all about me personally, because NITW is a very personal game that simply doesn't click with everyone the same way. I might disagree with certain opinions about it, but there's very few I wouldn't respect.

HaRRicH posted...
I haven't done deep research on him, but it sounded like he had some personal controversies before he passed...I'll let somebody who knows them better speak about them
Alec's death and the circumstances surrounding it ...aren't the healthiest of things to discuss in this topic, let me put it that way. If you do want to know more, I would prefer we discuss it over PMs.

Believe it or not, I do have some thoughts about other games that have been discussed here:

VVVVVV's one of those games where everything's purposefully built towards best effectuating one single goal: a minimalistic platformer where you shift the direction of gravity instead of jumping, in this case. Finally beating the "Veni, Vidi, Vici" section might be my proudest video gaming achievement, as someone who's admittedly not very good at them in general - never mind that I proceeded to flunk out on a faux co-op section not long after, and I haven't come back to VVVVVV since.

I'm looking forward to digging into Risk of Rain 2, now that I own it and especially now that I've finally beaten Dragon Quest XI for good. By all accounts, Hopoo has managed to perfectly transfer an already fun original game into the third dimension.

Rocket League and I never jived, though I didn't play it for very long. I was just so awful and entirely confused about how to do things that that half hour was perhaps among the more unpleasant gaming experiences of my life, sad to say.

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TopicTop 25 games of the decade, period. Exclamation mark!
MetalmindStats
01/01/20 11:56:52 PM
#37
I know you're a big fan of Night in the Woods, so I'm looking forward to seeing where it ends up. Also, I enjoy how Han has also made this topic his destination.

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TopicMy Top 25 Video Games from 2010-2019 with Write-Ups Eventually
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01/01/20 4:54:53 PM
#5
I'm enjoying your write-ups so far, even though I haven't actually played either game.

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1325
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01/01/20 4:49:59 PM
#421
Leonhart4 posted...
Three Houses doesn't benefit from recency bias at this point which was the point of saying being released early in the year hurts
Relative to RE2, it is.

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TopicScarlet Ranks the Top 10 Top Tens of 2019
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01/01/20 4:23:09 PM
#70
Snake5555555555 posted...
Sorry scarlet I would've commented more but I didn't know anything about the wrestlers :(
This, and I'm always behind the times, so I could only comment on a select few 2019 movies, and nothing about other mediums.

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1325
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01/01/20 4:20:40 PM
#417
Leonhart4 posted...
Yeah, we've seen plenty of early year releases win and dominate GotY, most recently Breath of the Wild.
I just feel like there's a difference in stickiness, for lack of a better term, between games like BotW/Witcher 3 and RE2. Yes, people liked it quite a bit when they played it, but are enough of them really going to remember it almost a year later? That wasn't a problem for the first two, which were obviously the most beloved and remembered games of their respective years. RE2 is no obvious #1, and already has its remake status and it simply not being the type of game GameFAQs is predisposed to working against it. Not to mention the last time GotY was between an early-year release somewhat outside of GameFAQs' wheelhouse and a later-half game firmly inside it, the latter won.

Maybe I should rephrase my point, since phrasing it as an inherent disadvantage isn't necessarily accurate: I feel like early-year releases need to be better-received than late-year releases to be equally well-remembered, which isn't the case with RE2 versus Three Houses.

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TopicHow would they do in a contest? Day 205 ft Jade Curtiss, Octorok, May
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01/01/20 4:03:52 PM
#4
May: Mid Fodder - I don't think waifuism is going to sway very many votes here, and gen 3 is too late for nostalgia to help much.
Octorok: Mid Fodder - It's not half as iconic as the Goomba, so it should by all rights be weaker, but I have too much ZeldaFEAR to call that.
Jade: Low Fodder

Nominate Koopa Troopa for re-ranking just to get it done, even though I agree with the original ranking.

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Topicin this topic I will maybe rank the Stardew Valley characters
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01/01/20 3:44:52 PM
#14
Forceful_Dragon posted...
I would probably put Clint higher out of empathy for him, but I can understand that he isn't really making an effort to change his situation for the better. There is that one event where he gives you a stone to give to Emily. He was trying with that one at least even if it didn't work out.
I think I'd agree with this. Also with Maria's Pam write-up, though I assume that's pretty uncontroversial.

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TopicHoly Crap what is that!?!?
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01/01/20 1:40:59 AM
#5
Coating

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1325
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01/01/20 1:02:01 AM
#401
Team Rocket Elite posted...
Have we ever had a game release early in the year that did poorly in the GotY polls but would have done well if it was released later in the year? I've never really been sold on the idea that being released early in the year was a disadvantage.
Have we ever had any actual way to test this theory? For example, I suspect God of War would have gone 50-50 with Smash Ultimate if they were both released around the same time last year, but I have no idea how we'd determine the truth either way.

Advokaiser posted...
I disagree. I'd say the weakest years this decade in terms of strength were 2012, 2014, 2016, and maybe 2018. This was a fairly solid year from what I've seen.
From a GameFAQs perspective, this year has been pitiful near the top, and the rest hardly matters on a site that only plays a few new games per year, at most.

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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1325
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01/01/20 12:09:06 AM
#389
AxemRedRanger posted...
I meant for the PS4 poll. Agreed on Three Houses probably winning overall.
My bad, I figured you were referring to the overall poll. That also goes to Luster.

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TopicBest New Character 2019 R1D6 - Edel./Sam Alex/Kijeong Mysterio/Kim Marvel/Bruni
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01/01/20 12:07:53 AM
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TopicContest Stats and Discussion - Part 1325
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12/31/19 11:35:40 PM
#384
AxemRedRanger posted...
RE2s got this.
Hard disagree. It's an early-year release (so more time for people who didn't love it to forget about it) that's not quite in GameFAQs' wheelhouse and that some people simply won't vote for no matter how much they loved it, because it's a remake. I still think Three Houses is the easy favorite in neutral circumstances, while RE2 will likely score second.

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Topicin this topic I will maybe rank the Stardew Valley characters
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12/31/19 11:28:57 PM
#4
Yes, I'm interested.

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TopicIf you use rewind/save state to finish a game, did you beat it?
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12/31/19 6:10:05 PM
#320
Drakeryn posted...
I feel like a lot of posts in this topic were "Yes they did beat the game, and you should stop gatekeeping aka having the wrong opinion"
My first post probably exuded this vibe, so I'd like to apologize for the unintended attack on all different stances from mine. People like you have had valid arguments against the question at hand that I respect, even though I disagree. The difference, of course, is that you're willing to respect others' opinions, whereas the lordjers of the world aren't.

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TopicBoard 8's Top 100 Video Games of the Decade - Voting Phase 1
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12/31/19 6:07:28 PM
#47
The following nominations of mine missed entirely:

2. Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies
7. Pac-Man Championship Edition DX
9. Race the Sun
16. Tales of MajEyal

Not bad overall, though I do wish we could at least see one Civ game on the final list.

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TopicHow would they do in a contest? Day 204 ft Laguna Loire, Mithos, Hermione
MetalmindStats
12/31/19 5:36:27 PM
#6
half_silver28 posted...
I don't think that Kratos has demonstratively dropped since 2010, where a loss to Sackboy put him in Mid Fodder range.
What? Did you forget that Sackboy scored 35% on 2010 Leon the next round? He was probably right around the Fodder Line back then, so Kratos definitely dropped from 2010 to 2013.

Mithos: Low Fodder - Right near the border between that and Mid Fodder, though.
Laguna: Mid Fodder
Hermione: High Fodder
Goomba: Mid Fodder - Slightly more iconic than the Koopa, sure, but it really doesn't have a fanbase of its own or any reason for voters to actually care in comparison.

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TopicJust a reminder that I've always seen the Disney logo incorrectly.
MetalmindStats
12/31/19 5:31:11 PM
#13
I used to think the Y was a P, though at least I figured that one out quite a while back.

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12/30/19 7:44:05 PM
#500
transience posted...
give it a shot! there's a few of us around these parts who have Maj'eyal and I think we all like it a bunch.
Can confirm! ToME is very good, and I could easily have invested many more hours in it than I already have.

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TopicHow would they do in a contest? Day 203 ft Freya Crescent, Zeus, Poke Ball
MetalmindStats
12/30/19 7:14:30 PM
#4
Mid for all three. Even in an era where jokes are dead, it would be a mistake to underestimate the appeal of a wildly iconic object from a top 5 series here.

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TopicIf you use rewind/save state to finish a game, did you beat it?
MetalmindStats
12/30/19 12:35:08 AM
#129
lordjers posted...
There doesn't seem to be any way of saying you don't really beat the game if you cheat without coming off as condescending apparently, but accepting a game's terms and still getting to finish it it's something that's ingrained with part of the gaming culture, so it is what it is.
Here's the problem: you're calling mechanisms that come with a given game "cheating" just because they weren't in the game's original version. Would you also say that you haven't truly watched Blade Runner, for example, if you haven't seen its original version?

I wouldn't say no votes are inherently wrong, but it's no coincidence that the people who have spent time arguing for it ITT are exuding a gatekeeper mentality, which is inherently wrong.

NBIceman posted...
And while I'm not gonna poke through >100 posts to confirm it, I don't think anyone in this topic has done what you're saying they have.
Admittedly, I did use save states to beat (the 3DS ports of) Super Mario Bros. 2 and 3, though I wasn't exactly saving in front of every little obstacle and sequence. Nonetheless, the lordjers of the world can feel free to disregard my opinion now.

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TopicHow would they do in a contest? Day 202 ft Monster Hunter, Lakitu, Daxter
MetalmindStats
12/29/19 7:41:30 PM
#5
Daxter: Low Fodder
Lakitu: Low Fodder

Monster Hunter: Mid Fodder - Despite not being a character anyone cares about, he's the main protagonist of the whole series, and called exactly the same thing. As such, I see pretty much all Monster Hunter fans voting for him against most characters, and that was already a decent base back in 2015 before World's breakout.

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TopicIf you use rewind/save state to finish a game, did you beat it?
MetalmindStats
12/29/19 5:50:16 PM
#85
As usual, Jim Sterling is right.

Gatekeeping others' experiences (in general, pretty much) is gross, and I feel bad that I even made such a topic once.

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12/29/19 1:50:08 AM
#326
LeonhartFour posted...
and the ability to freely swap between anyone in your party on the fly is one of the best mechanics in any RPG.
Play Dragon Quest 11!

Also, I've been enjoying following this topic so far, for what little it's worth as one of the newest B8 users.

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TopicA Gauntlet Topic [gauntlet]
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12/29/19 1:44:04 AM
#187
Maybe, but I'm not going to know 90% of the characters, which is why I haven't been running the monthly updates, etc.

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