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Thorn posted...

It depends on what streamers you mention.

Now if it's Other M that's just an automatic ban.

It's over for LMS.

MacArrowny posted...

You sure? I feel like there's barely any competitive reality shows worth putting on a Rushmore. You have to combine the categories if you want any actual debate.

Survivor, Big Brother, The Amazing Race, The Bachelor(ette), The Genius, Flavor of Love, The Challenge, I Love Money, America's Next Top Model, RuPaul's Drag Race, Top Chef, Project Runway, any of the American Idol-like shows... the list goes on and on.

https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Argentina

Everything you may need to know can be found here. Some of the information is heavily opinionated, but not any more than what you'd see by asking people here. I love wikivoyage in general, gives you good starting points.

Do go to the south if you can. It's a bit of a trip, but well worth it. Nature in Argentina is beautiful. If you are a hiker, this is your personal paradise (as it was for me).

Happy to make more specific recommendations depending on what kind of traveler you are and the length of your stay.

Wheel of Fortune
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
The Price is Right
Jeopardy

Millionaire absolutely belongs here; the international reach was insane. There's a reason everyone knows the suspense music from the show, the setting alone is iconic. I frankly had no idea what Jeopardy, Family Feud, or The Price Is Right were until I came to America.

Special mention to Supermarket Sweep because it's the most hilarious little thing I've ever seen. Watching people frantically running around a supermarket while bombarded by product placement is an irreplaceable experience.

Legend.

swordz9 posted...

Clearly we all need to make topic ranking hot video game characters while we still can

Is this the final nail in the coffin for Best Ass in Gaming?

Quick, someone create a game that includes characters suspiciously named after every currently relevant politician.

Darth Vader
Wicked Witch of the West
Joker (Heath Ledger)
Godzilla

3

Even thinking about this case makes me feel bored.

I'm more into the outdoors, never liked going to a gym. Used to run every day, dropped it in favor of biking because running in a big city is more stressful than liberating. Hike whenever possible (less and less these days, unfortunately...).

3.5

It's definitely not terrible, just... alright to a fault. Less of a slog than almost every case that would follow it, so I suppose I give it props for adequate pacing in a game that often fails in that regard. A bit disappointed this is all we got from Maggey given Gumshoe's ascension to a main, but it is what it is. Just wish we had seen her in a context that didn't have her accused of murder for once.

Final Fantasy VII
Metal Gear Solid
Tomb Raider
Resident Evil

This feels surprisingly clear-cut to me. Gran Turismo 2 is the only one that I could be convinced deserves a place. Crash Bandicoot was just the PS1 playing catch-up. Imagine you go see the N64 Rushmore with SM64 there, then you turn around and see Crash Bandicoot in the PS1 exhibit. The PS1 deserves better.

Yes.

I'll say X as well, just because I feel like that thing coming out in 1992 on a handheld is ridiculously impressive, even if there's obviously technically superior games that would be released in later years.

1.5

Beyond awful. 0.5 because the Mishams and Brushel are fine, and Drew Studio is one of the soundtrack's best.

1

6.5/10

Basically everything MSG said. I acknowledge this is probably too high a rating, but it's still AJ's best case by far, so.

Mr. Hat was a true jump the shark moment for this game, the first investigation day tries your patience to a ridiculous degree, and Klavier sucks as much as he ever will, but the actual case is pretty cool and the peaks (the second investigation day, mostly) make up for a lot of the rougher parts.

Super Mario Bros
The Legend of Zelda
Dragon Quest
Contra

What's incredible is clearly nobody knew about this, or else any mid-sized community would've most assuredly voted some meme character to the top. We could've put Chester in the top 10. The furries would've easily taken a character from Echo directly to first place. 4chan would've made Wolfenstein Hitler win with 90% of the votes. I'm almost suspicious of this poll because no way nobody on Twitter would've seen this and not rallied votes for Ariana Grande (Fortnite).

3.5

It's alright, but the issues I have with it far outweigh the good stuff. The Phoenix character assassination is at its worst in this case, and Phoenix basically knowing the answers and making you into his sockpuppet just kinda sucks. Felt less like a mentor, and more like someone asking their child to repeat after them. The part where we have to interact with the map and Phoenix basically just tells you where to move the furniture is just bad gameplay.

However, my real issue is that all the loose ends and intrigue from this case retroactively make it one of my least favorite cases of the series on a purely emotional level because the explanations and answers are directly related to all the garbage from 4-4 and 4-0, and it sours the experience completely for me.

RikkuAlmighty posted...

P.S. fuck that robot racing sidequest

You can cheese these races really hard with 9S later on. Sorry for your loss.

Sonic 2
Mortal Kombat
Phantasy Star IV
Ecco the Dolphin

I feel at peace with this. The two I'd be most confident about would be Sonic 2 (duh) and Mortal Kombat. I feel like nothing represents the contrast between Nintendo and Sega during the 32-bit era more than those two. You could know basically nothing about the Genesis, and you'd still know it had the Real MK experience. It cannot be understated how important that was at the time.

Bring back Ecco the Dolphin, Sega. I dare you. And get Spencer Nilsen to compose the soundtrack again, thank you very much.

They are indeed bland if serviceable/fun Uncharted-like games. The redesign of Lara didn't help matters, but they seem to have corrected that in the new game which is a big plus for her.

Lara winning isn't even the most egregious thing about this. I have no idea who voted here, but here's the full top 20:

1. Lara Croft
2. Mario
3. Agent 47
4. Sonic the Hedgehog
5. Sackboy
6. Pac-Man
7. Link
8. Master Chief
9. Kratos
10. Shadowheart
11. Arthur Morgan
12. Pikachu
13. Steve (Minecraft)
14. Solid Snake
15. Crash Bandicoot
16. Cloud Strife
17. Astarion
18. Kazuma Kiryu
19. Ellie (TLOU)
20. Nathan Drake

GranTurismo posted...

if your post gets massive downvotes is it almost like being modded? have never used reddit

No, it just gets pushed to the bottom of the page. But you can also sort comments by controversial/downvotes, so in a way they probably end up receiving more attention than if they had just been left alone and ignored, which results in slapfights in which one user gets dogpiled by the rest of the community. Some redditors tend to report things they disagree with as well, so mods and admins often do take action on those heavily downvoted posts.

The upvote system is actually pretty neat for when people are looking for help, in the same way GameFAQs Q&A or whatever it's called gives you a top answer. I'm often directed to reddit when looking something specific up, and it's very nice that instead of reading through dozens of comments trying to find the actual answer, people have upvoted the most reasonable and/or helpful comment.

On the other hand, for discussion subs, it creates all the issues foolmo has mentioned. Groupthink and hiveminds are a big problem, especially with subs having their own mod teams (or super mods that own hundreds of subs, another weird phenomenon of reddit culture and a whole can of worms in itself, all of whom usually have very specific ideologies and control a sub's acceptable opinions). When a sub leans too hard to one side, it usually ends up in someone creating a splinter sub that promotes the opposite ideology, which incentivizes groupthink even more. And because upvotes are like crack to some people, they all try to one-up each other by trying to make the funniest comment, creating endless chains of frequently terrible jokes and puns. None of this is precisely toxic, but I find it incredibly annoying. The loss of individuality is weird too to us who come from old school message boards, but it's kinda like that everywhere now when you think about it - tiktok, twitter, reddit, instagram comments, whatever else.

Naturally, reddit is also a news source for many, which means it can risk spreading misinformation or selling a specific narrative, which can have actual impact on people in a way that teenagers calling each other Nintendrones will never be able to replicate. I'm subbed to the Today I Learned and You Should Know subs, and a lot of heavily upvoted threads are completely false or blatantly misrepresenting the information that is being shared. Then you have karma farming to sell accounts, bots that repost threads and comments, and bots who post merchandise and advertise websites trying to pass themselves off as real people. It's wild out there.

10

It's peak Ace Attorney. It was faced with the impossible task of wrapping up the trilogy and the story of T&T itself, and it does both jobs spectacularly well. I could've maybe done without Larry here, though, but I get they wanted all the mains and major characters back for the grand finale.

Love Bikini too, a very underrated witness and maybe the best use of a character telling the truth while still having problems in their testimony.

The more niche a sub is, the less toxic it is (which is probably true for any online community, frankly). But gamers having embarrassing arguments and squabbling is not nearly as bad as the kind of stuff there's on reddit if you bother to go exploring a little. It's not just the amount of deep hatred a lot of people seem to have for just about anything, it's also reddit's very many advice subs that attempt to push buttons or push certain ideological agendas. It's the usual hot take from GameFAQs trolls becoming a craft of its own, posting ragebait with no other goal than to piss people off and start fights, which quickly escalate.

I've taken a particular interest on reddit and its trends because I find it kind of fascinating. It's like submitting stories to magazines or the newspaper in the past, except there's no filter - everything gets published. So we have weeks in which suddenly several people have stories about heavy topics like paternity fraud, incel fantasies, or women making fake sexual assault allegations, and then by next week it's all stories about fat people being delusional and trans people acting insane. Most of these stories are very obviously fiction, but the userbase doesn't realize this or doesn't care.

What's particularly interesting about reddit culture is their emphasis on the idea that you don't owe anyone anything (extreme individualism), their constant need for (often nuclear) revenge and self-validation, and that morals are almost entirely dependent on what is legal or not. It may seem like flame wars over games are more toxic on a surface level, but reddit's kind of toxicity is just a different beast altogether. Apples and oranges, but one feels far more layered than the other to me.

Most of this is outside the gaming spheres, but to be honest, reddit is famous for overreacting and jumping to conclusions, as well as starting witch hunts and harassment campaigns. I'd be surprised if GameFAQs has the ability to make an impact outside its own boundaries the way reddit often does.

Wii Sports
Wii Fit
Super Mario Galaxy
Mario Kart Wii

Wii Sports is obvious. Wii Fit is being overlooked a little here, it was huge and the balance board add-on itself is iconic in its own way. Galaxy is the most critically acclaimed game and the one that has stood the test of time the best. It was tough for the last one, I was between Kart, Brawl, and New SMB. I'll give Kart the edge due to sales and the impact it continues to have in speedrunning, which has kept it current.

WhiteLens posted...

Also there's a glaring omission in the poll for...

Zelda: Good.

Definitely my favorite. Never fails to make me laugh.

Reddit wins by sheer scale, especially considering it has subs dedicated to hatred or complaining about just about anything you can think of - children, spouses, in-laws, fat people, pets, you name it. It'd be a more interesting question if it was trying to compare it with GameFAQs at its peak.

If it makes me a furry to say this is the best design Fox ever had and regressing to looking like an animatronic was a big mistake, then I embrace my membership to their community.

I don't dare play this game again because it'll surely tarnish my good memories of it (except for the Test of Strength, I would probably have an easier time with it now), but one thing I always return to is the soundtrack. Here you have legendary composer David Wise bringing his A game, and nobody cares because it's stuck in a shitty game. Really unfortunate.

Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon
Zelda's Adventure
Link: The Faces of Evil
Hotel Mario

Sorry to all three 3 fans of CD-i games, but the only reason anyone even remembers it is because of its legendary butchering of Nintendo properties. If the game isn't trash, it doesn't belong on the CD-i Rushmore.

Bob-Omb Battlefield
Big Boo's Haunt
Tick Tock Clock
Rainbow Ride

Are some of the people here just voting their favorite, or do you actually think the general public could recognize One-Winged Angel or any song from Undertale?

8/10. I love this case, always found it particularly underrated, even if I understand the reasons. It does require a fair amount of suspension of disbelief to buy into the twist, but it still works. Love the mostly all-female cast here as well, makes it feel unique.

The Fire Carves Scars is one of my favorite reminiscence themes too.

Avatar the Last Airbender
Spongebob
The Fairly Oddparents
Rugrats

Shoutout to Hey Arnold, The Loud House, and Doug. Kinda surprised at the lack of Doug in the answers considering it was the first (I think?), but I suppose Disney permanently and irreparably tarnished its legacy.

7.5/10

This case feels a little too slow to start, but it picks up the pace and delivers a lot of great stuff. Cody Hackins is an underrated witness to me; pretty touching for a brat kid character, and I think he's the first witness who lies not because of misinterpreting what they saw or because they're involved in the murder?

Wish we had seen more of Dee Vasquez since she's indeed pretty great, just unfortunately kinda gone in a flash. Even Sal Manella feels endearing (to me) with the extremely dated leetspeak thing. I replayed the case not too long ago and reading the word SUXXORZhonestly made me nostalgic.

Corridors

4/10

Does a lot of cool things, but it's just not a case I ever look forward to replaying. April May and the bellboy both feel like the early blueprints of what the quintessential witness would be; that kind of unique Ace Attorney wackiness that makes every character so memorable even when you don't particularly like them. Redd White was too ambitious a villain for such an early case imo, and the actual mystery is kind of blah, but he is very entertaining.

I kinda forgot Grossberg was here too. He mostly exists to hype Redd White's power and tight control even more, which didn't really pay off at all.

Company sent it to me fpr free because mine was too old for 5G lol

I play them often enough, although admittedly the boxsets are more of a collectable than an actual listening experience. System Shock works fantastically as an album, the entire Persona 5 soundtrack... not so much. I like the ones that are available as Music Mixes with selected tracks, but then they often leave out key tunes (Earthbound not having the full Kraken battle theme is unforgivable), so I'm split. I own the Kazooie soundtrack as a complete boxset and as a music mix; the one on rotation is basically only the latter.

I own a bunch of them. Slippery slope, but I've been into records for about 10 years now. I'm in too deep.

Banjo-Kazooie and Tooie, Super Metroid, Katamari Damacy, Persona 5, Silent Hill 2, System Shock, Skies of Arcadia, Earthbound, Breath of Fire III... and I'll stop there because now I feel like a doofus.

I'm honestly surprised 30% of the site still lives with their parents, considering something like 90% of the users here are older than 25.

Kermit
Yoda
Hulk
Shrek

Apple
Pumpkin
Pizza
Shepherds

Only Yesterday is my favorite Ghibli. Beautiful stuff.

Madden Curse
Mew under the Truck
Nuclear Gandhi
Blowing Cartridges

If it gets banned, we'll immediately get a TikTok clone ready to take its place. There may be some fragmentation of the userbase, but ultimately people will flock to a specific platform. Anyone who thinks this modality of social media would end with TikTok is very optimistic and/or deluded.

Around the World in 80 Days

How was this still here lmao

Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Mario 64
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe