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I'm gonna go through the top 100 best-scoring games on Metacritic and tell you how many are new/original games - including sequels - and how many are ports/remasters/remakes. There will be overlap between different platforms so the final total won't be 100.

ninjaman44 posted...

Fuck Fandom.

gamers rise up

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/9/2/AAbh80AAEluU.jpg

It's for the best. One half of the GameFAQs community keeps falling for the same bait because they think they can have a constructive conversation with people who've been trolling them for ten years, the other half are too lazy to come up with anything new and interesting to say because the first gang of morons keep falling for the same dumb horseshit from ten years ago.

The politics boards were a bad idea, so was harbouring the worst political shitposters to ever shit up CE and surrounds. Nuke em all and let them get moderated here.

Dropping Nuggets so hard they call me Nikoloz Tskitishvili

I had to google that one

On the pot so hard everybody calls me Snoop

I mean it's definitely rude.

It's like how all circumcision threads boil down to people calling each other anteaters and muties. You have a bunch of dumbass fanatics being fucking stupid, disingenuous and deliberately obnoxious as possible to fuck with each other.

It's stupid to the point of being tragic. I regret being sucked into this braindead horseshit back in the day.

Mortainous28 posted...

This was the first Anime I watched on Movieplex back in the day! I went to Suncoast at the mall, bought this and the sequel series Lover's Again. I lost that VHS and for awhile I looked for a dubbed DVD with no luck. I am going to look again now.

Good luck, the rights are FUCKED. Three different companies claim ownership, and the series has been ina copyright deadlock for like 30 years.

I guess his birthright is getting suspended

Disc for sure. More functionality is always better, because maybe you'll find a bargain bin for like $20 when the digital sale is $45 on sale.

FF_Redux posted...

Eh I dont really care for pie. Its good and Ill have ot of offered but not feeling like making em.

Do you prefer soup?

Ehh, I think comparing them isn't constructive. They were shitty, fucked-up presidents on their own terms, and shit Bush did had a knock-on effect that Trump told even further.

Bush and Cheney are war criminals for sure, not just for the War on Terror but for measures they allowed like ammunition made of depleted uranium. Not only has the rate of birth defects in Afghanistan and Iraq gone up since the War on Terror, but America and Australian veterans of the War on Terror are developing aggressive cancers because they were lugging around radioactive material. We saw the concept of wartime justice change from "capture the enemy commander and make them answer before an international court" to "assassinate them and dispose of the body to prevent idolatry". They never answer for their crimes, they get shot in the head and thrown in the ocean.

But to do this, Bush and Cheney appealed heavily to the Bible Belt and to ultra-right religious conservatives. Bush was the Pat Robertson president. The early 2000s is when the "War On Christmas" became a significant American cultural talking point. Post-9/11 nationalism whipped people into a frenzy - and it's understandable considering the physical and emotional toll it had on America and its people, but the way it was lionized and fanned by people who wanted war, who saw the attacks as an opportunity to "straighten out" the people they didn't agree with was far-reaching and immense. Not being a loyal, subservient and well-presented icon of the American conservative ideal - not wanting the Middle East's guts for garters for the grave injustice committed on American soil - was to be deemed "unamerican".

Now of course conservatism has always been something of an enemy of progress. It's in the name - conservatives want to conserve ideals and an image of a "perfect", golden America that was once great, and development within the zeitgeist that challenge the ideals of that perfect, golden America are attacked and brought to heel in service of that delusional fantasy they tell themselves. But all that shit ramped up in the wake of 9/11, and the Bush/Cheney government bought into that side of things so hard that people began to campaign for removing people's rights and reinstating the draft. Bush and Cheney's presidency - because let's face it, Cheney was a warmongering prick who was calling enough shots to be indicted right next to Bush - brought a bit of a cultural reset with it, because it empowered the sort of batfuck insane gun-nuts who lionized Waco and conservative libertarianism to such a degree that conservative militias began to see a sharp increase.

All of that is fucking terrible, and that's just the Bush/Cheney administration. But the thing about Trump is that it played to that sort of crowd, and it fanned the flames of that demographic to the point of a new era of American conservative fanaticism. Charlottesville and the establishment of the alt-right as a new, hip side-group to the conservative establishment saw a rise not just in American nationalism, but an uptick in neo-nazi activity. Qanon saw suitably indoctrinated people killing their families and/or running into the arms of far-right militias to protect their kids from what they saw as a demonic and pedophilic threat, based on an initial moral panic over a fucking pizza parlour. We're now seeing a crowd of people who changed Lock Her Up and Hunter Biden's Laptop for six years condemn the Biden administration for pressing charges on a former president who knowingly and continually harboured deeply classified American Intel in a fucking golf resort.

I disagree with the premise of this thread because saying "one was worse than the other" encourages people to be intellectually lazy. Bush and Cheney are war criminals - I agree thoroughly. The effect they've had on America is undoubtedly rotten to the core, and if you believe in any sort of god, it's not unreasonable to suggest they're both going to some of the deepest layers of hell imaginable.

But Trump's term picked up the slack of the Bush/Cheney administration, and it drove shit even further into the ground. Obama had eight years of post-9/11 "business as usual", and then Trump took up the reins and kept nosediving the country into the ground. It's an extension of what Bush and Cheney did to America. I honestly believe that Trump's presidency and all the shit he did was only possible because Bush and Cheney laid the groundwork for such a fuckface to take office.

America, and the world, is significantly worse for both the War on Terror and for Trump's four years as president. But I would encourage people to see Trump's term as an extension of Bush and Cheney - picking up where they left off, or taking advantage of an "Us vs Them" viewpoint to separate two things that have far, far more in common than some arbitrary dichotomy suggests.

You can argue that Bush and Cheney were worse, but the Bush/Cheney administration directly paved the way for Trump. This is arguably the endgame of the Bush/Cheney administration - this division and ideological conflict, putting radical evangelical pastors and groups of armed militias on an equal stage as scientists.

Comparing them is useless, because if anything, Trump's administration was continuing the legacy of Bush and Cheney. It's a knock-on effect from the foundation they laid down.

Good topic TC. good pin, random mod.

I know this topic is about American pies, but Australian pies trend more savory with beef mince, steak, cheese, bacon etc. Cherry pie and pumpkin pie and all that are great, but I wanna shout out the curry pies and the pepper-steak pies of the world. Some morning before work I have no choice but to grab a savory pie, and they really hit the spot.

Jx1010 posted...

Cmon are u sure? Dont they keep making new accounts?
I mean arent most still on here

like SMAL, darkprince and violetmassacre? though since I've been away maybe they've fucked off, idk.

The only time a brussel sprout is bad imo is if it's cold. When it's hot and fresh, that shit is delicious.

There's a local pizza place where I live that does a pizza with The Lot, and I do mean The Lot. Olives, capsicum (bell pepper), prawns/shrimp, pepperoni, sausage, anchovies, pineapple - stacked about an inch high. Fantastic pizza.

There's probably a chemical in the barbeque seasoning that heightens the chance of getting brain cancer or something.

Jokes aside, I kind of agree with post 2. Salt and vinegar fucks severely.

I was saying earlier, we probably deserve this. They cracked down on account sharing, raised the price of the subscription and offer less material than they used to all the while, and the predominant reaction has been to... make new accounts en masse and give them more money for a worse service.

Maybe they'll remake the Shawshank Redemption with Shane Dawson and Logan Paul just to teach us a lesson.

InuYasha is a long-running action show set in the Warring States era of Japanese history. The title character is a half-human dog demon, he uses a huge sword and goes around killing Japanese demons. The show is fairly bloody, and there's this greater conflict with this thing called the Shikon Jewel and a nefarious entity named Naraku - it's really good.

This one might be out of your wheelhouse, but there's a slice of life show named Golden Time about university students. There's a ton of great drama involving amnesia and stuff, it sounds hokey but it takes a pretty heavy turn towards the end.

There's an episode of Boston Legal where James Spader goes around sniffing women, and I think he gives this one woman a big, deep sniff and determines that she's pregnant. She didn't even know, he just sniffed her and was like "hmm, hormones, you're pregnant aren't you".

Said episode is in season 3, which is where the sleaze levels reach a point where the show is almost unwatchable. Season 4 introducing Katie Lloyd was exactly what the show needed, because the show was getting way too slimy before that.

I started using this board an an emotional outlet, and all the negativity fed back into me and led to me doomscrolling more and more. I'm only back because I had an idea for a thread CE would hate (thinking Lizzo should do the next James Bond theme), otherwise I would have stayed gone.

Snakethief posted...

The 261ers are unhappy cuz their board got shut down
CE is unhappy because all the 261 that immigrated to this board.

Wasn't there a user who threatened another user's children or something?

Honestly, sure. Hybrid consoles can be Nintendo's new thing, because it sure as shit doesn't seem like Sony or Microsoft are gonna make meaningful gains there.

There are like hybrid computer handhelds and shit on the market, whether it be something like the Steam Deck or some third-party take on the concept. But you're looking at what is basically a niche product for enthusiasts as far as third parties go, and the Steam Deck isn't even being sold in Australia - I could import one, but you're looking at roughly $700 for the weakest model and there's no support/warranty.

If they make a more powerful Switch with most of the same features like gyroscope controls and stuff, there's a better chance that the Switch library will be backwards compatible too. I have a lot of games, physically and digitally, that I would want to keep playing if I got a new console.

I think the issue is moreso that DC didn't do the legwork.

Like, the Paramount Marvel movies were individual movies that were connected through that initial "Avengers initiative" story hook. Every movie was self-contained and worked to establish each of the Avengers individually. If they did well, they'd do a crossover movie. If not, here's five superhero movies with an aborted long-term story plan.

The Avengers was the culmination of like four years and millions of dollars spent making those individual movies. There was a promise of that connected universe, but they were specifically sequel hooks hidden at the end of the credits of each individual movie. When the Avengers came out, that was the payoff.

The mistake that every other cinematic universe made was that they all leaned into the Avengers angle right out of the gate. In The Mummy, the Nick Fury character is portrayed as Dr. Jekyll and there's signs of the other monsters in little cameos. Dr. Jekyll is just outright in The Mummy. When are they making the Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde movie starring Russell Crowe? There's no organic build-up. In BvS, there's a part at the end of the movie that is basically a glorified ad for the DCEU - teaser footage of Wonder Woman, Aqua Man and the Flash. There's no other way to describe it - it's an advertisement. They go "look, look, connected universe! We've got a connected universe!".

There were like four individual movies before the Avengers. The characters didn't know each other, they were off in their own little corner of the world facing their own personal issues. Those movies individually established the characters, their stakes and their abilities. Every movie was an exercise in worldbuilding. And then with the Avengers, worlds collided.

The second movie in the DCEU is a team-up movie. Batman meets Superman before we got properly introduced to Batman. The third movie was the team-up movie - we didn't know jack shit about Aqua Man, Cyborg or the Flash, and we knew next to nothing about Wonder Woman. None of them had movies out before Justice League. Universal's Dark Universe was technically a team-up movie from the word "go": we have Dr. Jekyll, but we don't have context for who he is or what he's doing yet. You recognise him because he's Dr. Jekyll. They didn't put the work into establishing the character, they told you his name and went "get ready for that rollercoaster of a movie when Tom Cruise's The Mummy breaks box office records!".

Iron Man is its own movie, and then Nick Fury comes in and goes "I'm putting together a team". The Incredible Hulk is its own movie - I think Tony Stark is the one who recruits Bruce Banner? I don't even remember how Thor is connected, but after his single, standalone adventure - there's the Avengers teaser again. Captain America fights the Nazis and ends up in modern day America.

The DCEU had a forced conflict and a shameless commercial for future movies. The Dark Universe pointed at Russell Crowe and went "Dr. Jekyll!!! It's Dr. Jekyll!!! Are you excited?!". They didn't put the time or effort into their cinematic universes.

DC could have made a standalone Batman movie, and then shown the first little bit of BvS at the end as a teaser. Bruce Wayne is in Metropolis to check on his company after his little bat adventure, and then-- Superman flies through it like an atomic brick. That's a wham shot. That's a sequel hook.

The Mummy could have been a standalone movie. It might have sucked, and everything else would have been cancelled, but it would have been less embarrassing than scrapping an entire series of movies after taking this publicity shot full of movie stars:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/6/5/AAbh80AAEk_B.jpg

It's not just that multiple cinematic universe would have homogenised the movie market. That's absolutely an issue that no-one thought to address, but that's not the biggest takeaway here. The biggest takeaway is that DC skimped on the foundation that makes a connected universe work in the first place. The Flash should have been like the third of fourth movie in the Snyderverse; now it's the FINAL FILM in the Snyderverse. Justice League came out before Wonder Woman, Cyborg, The Flash or Aqua Man had their own movie, and out of those four, only one of them was a character of note in BvS - The Flash was a glorified cameo. The issue is that DC made their Avengers movie a weird combination of the second and third movies in their big multimedia franchise, when the MCU's Avengers was the fifth movie that tied four basically unrelated movies into a single, cohesive whole.

It took four movies worth of individual worldbuilding, and those four movies built The Avengers. DC tried to do the same thing with 2 movies that said nothing about the other 5 members of the Justice League. That's why the DCEU - and just about every cinematic universe apart from the MCU - failed. They didn't put the work in, they chased trends without understanding why the original thing worked in the first place.

I was gonna say, I was curious about their definition of religious freedom. Like is this specific to Christianity, or are they looking at every possible religious non-profit from Buddhism to Sikhism to Islam etc.? Are they talking about how religious non-profits are allowed to advertise or fund-raise, or is this a far-right "religious right to discriminate"?

And then post #9 drops, and it sure looks like Napa Legal Institute are a bunch of dumb-fuck fundies who want to discriminate against gays because "it's against my religion".

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/5/7/AAbh80AAEk-5.jpg

Spiritlittle posted...

The Batman and Joker are GOATed.

Get them to do the DCU shit.

Honestly, all they need to do is learn how to trim these movies down a little. My only complaint about Joker is that it runs too long, and a lot of it are these little character moments where Arthur Fleck Does Something Weird.

Okay, this looks way better than I was expecting. Sokka's got kind of a lumpy head, but otherwise this is kind of hype.

BoyOfBattle posted...

chidi would be the worst superman ever

But he would be one of the best Clark Kents ever.

Obviously making him Superman is an oddball idea, but everything that makes Superman Superman is reflected in Clark Kent. It's a gamble as to how Superman would turn out, but I think finding a good Clark Kent is key to building a strong Superman.

Just gonna warn people ahead of time, this post is long, rambling and extremely esoteric, so get your tl;drs ready. I honestly don't think any of this really matters, CE is just a good dumping ground for this sort of brainvomit.

I'm just going to get the ugly stuff out of the way, I hated Zack Snyder's DC movies. If you appreciate the approach he took for Man of Steel or whatever, that's your business - I wasn't a fan, and BvS was actively a waste of my time and money. It's to the point that I don't understand how people can say "at least the CG is good" - that suit of armour Batman wears in BvS looks like shittily painted styrofoam. Justice League - even if it was Joss Whedon's hackjob of a retool - was the last straw. No, I'm not wasting three hours of my life on the Snyder cut when I've hated everything Snyder made for DC.

Even then, I feel really bad for the actors. Henry Cavill could have been a great Superman if he wasn't wasted, they fucking killed him off in his second movie and resurrected him in the third one, and then his role in the later movies boiled down to being a glorified cameo. Ben Affleck always wanted to play Batman - the reason he was in that 2003 Daredevil movie is because it was his closest chance to play Batman at the time. Look at how that turned out: he got replaced even before the full reboot went into effect. Jason Momoa is a cool guy, and he plays a more rugged Aquaman pretty well. Ray Fisher was shafted super badly.

The best thing I can say about DC is that they eventually began to experiment with their properties instead of making a shallow copy of the Marvel formula. Joker was a good move, weird genre throwback that painted an iconic character in a serious, dramatic light. They could have easily competed with Marvel by doing movies like that, trying to capture the tone and scope of a serious work of art, if only in appearance. They already did that with the Nolan trilogy bringing Batman down to Earth. That really would have been something instead of Leto's Suicide Squad.

So why am I looking forward to James Gunn?

What it really comes down to is that he comes across as a fairly real guy. The Guardians of the Galaxy movies are cornball, but it's loving pastiche and genuine affection rather than trite self-seriousness. You see an interview or whatever and it sounds like he's actually speaking, not acting as a mouthpiece for corporate through-lines. He is, ultimately, a company man at the end of the day - but when I see him, I sense passion and vision. His superhero movies reflect that.

I feel like James Gunn is more of a trend-setter. He's arguably the reason why Marvel pivoted towards the cornball approach they take now - Guardians leading into Thor 3 probably had one of the most profound effects on the MCU since the first Avengers movie. Meanwhile, in 2013, gritty reboots where people scream about their cock and all their pain were everywhere. Man of Steel, and the ensuing angstfest it kicked off, was following in the footsteps of Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, Jack the Giant Slayer, Snow White and the Huntsman, Alice in Wonderland, Oz: The Great and the Powerful etc. Most of those came and went. A bunch of them were flops. The DCU kinda steered into that.

And I think that's probably one of the biggest reasons I don't like the DCU. The highest praise I have for it is when it actually took a step outside the box and tried something new and interesting. Man of Steel, BvS etc. felt like a part of that gritty reboot trend, unashamedly so. Joker was a period drama that emulated Scorsese. That was new and interesting. It was novel.

Between Gunn's work for both Marvel and DC, he comes across as more of a Joker director than a Man of Steel director. He's a fan of the Christopher Reeves Superman movie, so that makes me excited for what he can bring to Superman as a character. The way he treated his Suicide Squad roster felt a lot better than the way David Ayers's Suicide Squad mangled those characters. And while I'm not going to say he's "above" making jokes about Batman dropping the soap in prison considering his background and sense of humor, he doesn't seem like the kind of guy who goes out to impress people by outright, unironically stating that "in my movies, Batman could get raped in prison". That's something Zack Snyder legitimately said to explain the tone he wanted to set for the Snyderverse movies. On top of being tasteless, it's always reeked of this tryhard Comic Bro pandering. It's charmless and gormless.

I also think Gunn has what it takes to actually capture the essence of a work or a character without making it The James Gunn Version. I think he could do a classic, iconic Superman without the whole goofball side-wink style of humour from Guardians 2. Maybe he could do a grounded, gritty Batman movie without falling into whatever BvS was or cribbing too heavily from Nolan. It's not like the stereotype of Adam Sandler doing the stupid, high-pitched joke voice in all of his movies, or - again - the grimdark pain-and-cocks tone of the early 2010's that the Snyderverse was steeped in. He has passion for the subject matter and he has a broad, branching vision that stays true to the characters.

To cap off this long, stupid and annoying rant, I just wanna say that William Jackson Harper (Chidi from the Good Place) would make a good Superman if they were to do that black Superman movie they were talking about a couple years ago. He'd be a perfect Clark Kent, and he's fucking jacked so he'd make a fantastic Superman. I know Michael B. Jordan is apparently producing, directing and starring in his own Superman movie, but a fella can dream.

I think this topic is coming from an outdated mindset. Final Fantasy had a hard decade in the 2010's: going from FF13 into the original FF14, turning 13 into a trilogy to recoup costs and use the costly tech they had produced for it, and 15 being a bit of an undercooked nightmare plagued by an ineffective multimedia approach and staff dramas.

But since around 2018, the series has been making major strides between successfully rebooting a failed MMO with total aplomb, somehow managing to nail what is undeniably a Hail Mary move with Final Fantasy 7, and using the assets they've managed to build up in this time span to head the future of the mainline series. With 16, Final Fantasy feels as if it's rising from the ashes in my opinion.

Rather, I think that most negativity or bad faith regarding the franchise nowadays stems from Square Enix themselves. Specifically, the CEO pushing for NFTs and blockchain technology over the course of years and mismanaging games, IPs and development teams. It's either that or people still think Final Fantasy is in the middle of that Thirteen Funk that lasted from FF13 to the end of 15's development.

If you step back and look at Final Fantasy with clear eyes, I think anyone could see that the franchise is healthier than it's been in a long time. We're seeing the birth of new talent in the form of Yoshi-P after spending decades singing the praises of Nomura and Tomiya and Uematsu, and it looks like the shift towards action combat is going to stick the landing after its troubled implementation in 15 and the step forward that the FF7 remake was. The only thing holding me back from enjoying modern Final Fantasy, personally, is the lack of hardware to play 14 and 16.

Aridi posted...

Lizzo absolutely has the skills to do the theme. The whole arguing with yourself in the opening post is a bit ridiculous, though. Trying to preempt the trolls just shows how badly they affect you.

I posted here almost daily for six years. I know how the most dumb-fuck, slack-jawed morons on this board post.

religion of peace

Tig posted...

I don't live here.

Well, you sure came running fast when you saw Lizzo in the title.

Dragon56 posted...

Yes and James Bond himself should be overweight and

ohmigod james bond is gonna be in a queer ethically polygamous circlejerk because sam smith did the theme song, the woke police are ruining james bond listen to meeeeee

Apparently it's yuri as fuck, and the golf courses are weird fucking amusement park deathtraps and shit.

I only learned it was an anime after seeing the listing for the Switch game. I hope the reviews are good for that game, I'd love a dumbass animu golf game.

Good, fuck Ezra Miller and fuck the moron who said that The Flash would be so good that "people would forget Ezra Miller's crimes".

Tig posted...

No.

User Since: Nov 2004
Karma: 927

Before you all go "what, that gross fucking lard-whale" or "does Rock Band 4 not censoring Juice mean I'm allowed to say the n-word?" in the traditional CE troll-ass fashion, let me pose an actual argument.

Despite what you might have originally been shitty about in her music, the EP that broke her into the mainstream has a ton of vocal range in different styles. Juice is an upbeat 80's pop throwback, but the EP itself is named after a song that's a huge 1970's RnB throwback - Because I Love You:

https://youtu.be/NqjPqsry7no

The verses are absolutely in her own style, but I want you to listen to that opening name-drop and then through to the first chorus. Not that I'm expecting good faith from this shit-hole, but if you gave it an honest shot I'm sure you would be able to recognise her actual talent, in her ability to belt to the rafters if absolutely nothing else.

Compare her singing with that of Tom Jones on Thunderball:

https://youtu.be/Ia6-5gC5ArM

Or Gladys Knight on License to Kill:

https://youtu.be/e1iRaS3gqws

Or Tina Turner on GoldenEye:

https://youtu.be/4hGQ97tCTOs

Maybe you're concerned with sex appeal. Tom Jones has traditionally been known as a very hunky man. Gladys Knight is an attractive woman on the merit of her looks and singing. Tina Turner was an icon unto herself. And look at all the other names in Bond movie theme history - Nancy Sinatra, Duran Duran, Chris Cornell. Well-known, perhaps considered exceptionally sexy in their time.

In reality, Bond themes are usually set to models and go-go dancers with the theme complementing this image of a raw, sexually compelling and dangerous super-spy. Tom Jones is complimenting James Bond and lending his raw charisma to that image. Gladys Knight and Tina Turner aren't Bond Girls - they're singing about how desirable and dangerous he is just as much as Tom Jones is. Bond themes tend to puff James Bond up.

So you have bold, confident, charismatic songs lending to this inflated image of what James Bond is. You can do that regardless of gender, sexual preference etc. - they're just really solid, powerful songs that complement the James Bond character and set the stage for the entertainment that's soon to follow.

I think Lizzo has the chops to do one of the best Bond themes in years. Again, I remember CE's reaction to Lizzo being to talk about how fat she is and how they don't want to fuck her, but consider her actual talent and the energy and charisma she brings to her music. Even if her latest album/singles were a bit light on personality, she's shown both range and charisma in the past that would serve a Bond theme pretty well if given the chance.

Call it "woke", because of course you would, or say it's because she's a bad fit. Plenty of people have done Bond themes while not being Peak Sexy or placing themselves in a position where they're talking about being a part of his life. All that a good Bond song has to be is dramatic, sexy and charismatic. Lizzo has the range to do all three.