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NO THING (Switch)

"The year is 1994 and it is the future.

NO THING is a minimalistic surreal action game set in a totalitarian regime of future.

Tells the story of an office clerk who is sent with an important message to the Queen of Ice."

It's a first person auto runner with colors that change while you listen to a computerized voice telling you the story. You only have to turn Left and/or Right to change directions while you continue to move until you reach 100% to go on to the next level.

Level 7 was pure hell.
Level 10, the final level, almost felt like Level 7 but not as bad cause every time I felt I was close I managed to mess up somehow but I persevered.

So...this was a game. It was very...trippy, yes. Quite possibly one of the most weirdest games I have experienced on the Switch and maybe in general.

Holy shit, you beat this? Also holy shit, you played this?

I couldn't ever get past level 7 - fuck that level. Agreed though: trippy and mostly enjoyable game that I totally impulse bought like a year ago since it was all of 99 cents. Cool to see someone else here played it.

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Ori and the Blind Forest (Definitive Edition)

Saw that the sequel was out on Game Pass and figured it was time to finally play the first one. This was a beautiful, magnificent game. I was let down by the story in Celeste after hearing such reverence for it, whereas I didn't even know the story here was one of this game's stronger elements. But holy shit I am still engulfed in feels from that ending. That's how you do a story in a platformer. 100%ed the map afterwards and am tempted to do a second run through on hard, but I'll probably just move on to Will of the Wisps.

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holy shit I forgot the Wii U didn't have friend codes until this topic right now

what the actual fuck, Nintendo

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MetalmindStats posted...

I'm enjoying your write-ups so far, even though I haven't actually played either game.

Very much this. I think Nioh was a recent PS plus game? I honestly knew nothing about it until that write-up and there is a 75% chance I'll play it now! Likely after I play through more of the 10+ games I bought on black friday, but you know.

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Bloodstained might actually be my favorite Castlevania game ever. I fucking adore it so much. There's a certain ability you get later that is just my favorite thing ever. I think it's totally on par with Symphony of the Night, for what it's worth, but I also only just played that a couple years ago (oh yeah, I did a playthrough topic here)! I do hate how easy even Nightmare mode was on a New Game Plus though after spending so much time in the post-game leveling everything up like a madman.

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wait

heroic mario, have you been posting recently or do you just have transience-list foresight abilities

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Good list! Whoa, Celeste that high? I liked that game but not as much as everyone else, I think. I also didn't find the story that powerful and feel like I was sold a bill of goods the game couldn't deliver on in that department. It does tie the game's story thematically with the gameplay super well though, which I always appreciate. And the soundtrack is top tier.

Also thought I remembered you being one of those weirdo Zero Mission over Super folks. so I'm glad you sorted out that mess! (Wasn't Zero Mission your #1 once or am I making things up?) But yeah, Zero clearly wins in movement/fluidity and Super wins in atmosphere. Both are important, but I'll take the latter any day.

Wish I had played more of your top 10 but alas. I must be the only Board 8er left from 2006ish who never played a Phoenix Wright game! I'll get around to the trilogy on Switch, I promise.


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Yeah, Samus Returns doesn't focus on fluid movement quite the way the likes of Zero Mission and presumably AM2R do, so I can imagine it wouldn't be your favorite Metroid. Best parts of that game were probably the bosses and the wonderful atmosphere/music of the Chozo Laboratory. Oh and whatever the hell that 100% tease was

Braid seriously does have the best puzzles I've ever played in a game. Funny enough, The Witness might be the only thing that comes close.

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Great Plateau is like a perfect, albeit less exciting microcosm of that game as a whole and is a great answer.

Umm, I'll say Port of Adia from Turok 2, mostly because dat music.

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Man I'm super late to this but this is definitely a transience list. I dig it. Quick thoughts:

- Whoa, Hollow Knight? I thought you thought that was a mediocre game. Glad to see it must have grown on you.

- Braid way too low. I'm just going to pretend Braid and Inside switched places. Inside was kinda whatever to me. Cool atmosphere and puzzles but probably wouldn't even crack my top 100. Think I had way too high expectations for it, and it's largely because of people hyping up that ending like you did in your write-up! Maybe I'm weird, but I just found that to be like any other part of the game and not anything that crazy. And then you roll on to the beach and never in my life have I shouted "that's it?" as loudly as I did at the end of that game. Jonathan Blow pulls off these ambiguous endings with far more class.

- Ew Portrait of Ruin over Dawn of Sorrow! Honestly that might be a good call if I replayed them, but DoS was my introduction to the series and then I played like every single game in that series. So the first experience just sticks out so much more for me.

- Super Mario Odyssey, now that is a goddamn video game. I'm actually glad I didn't experience that game as a child, because it was so magical it just straight up warped me back to my childhood. Felt like I was playing (a much better) Super Mario 64 for the first time again.

- F-Zero GX in the top 20? That might be my new favorite thing about this list. I'm proud of younger me for having the persistence to beat every Story mode chapter on Very Hard (fuck you, Chapter 7), but it's not something I think I'd do again!

Okay I have more to say but I feel caught up! Man, I really should play AM2R one of these days though. I also quite liked Samus Returns, but AM2R straight up look like it's in another league.

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5 Wii U games and an insane amount of text because you can't write out your thoughts without using too many words? This is already my kinda list

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Yeahhh over half of those nearly 400 hours are Smash

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Empire Strikes Back
Rogue One
The Last Jedi
Revenge of the Sith
Return of the Jedi
The Force Awakens
A New Hope

. who cares tier .

Solo
Attack of the Clones
The Phantom Menace

how weird is my ranking. this is mostly based on rewatching the series just prior to The Force Awakens release

I don't really think A New Hope is that special and am always surprised how high it is on lists like this. Jedi has a 10/10 third act but is kind of a slog to get through before it. But goddamn Empire is still spectacular to this very day. Besides the outlier of Empire and despite the mass amounts of nostalgia I have for the original trilogy, I guess I didn't find them all that exceptional. I like Episodes 7 and 8 more than 4 and 6 as individual movies, but the OT feels way better as an actual trilogy than the new one. There's at least something special about that which the new trilogy has not managed to capture.

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I can't get it to work on my 3DS for whatever reason. Went to the eshop to download the update, it says I'm on Version 4, but then when I start the game it just says Version 3.2 again. There's a "repair" option on the 3DS eshop for games you've downloaded and I'm hoping that works. But...every time I've tried it, I experience an error during the middle of the download. Hopefully I can keep trying and at least get the repair to go through. Whether that will actually fix the problem, who knows.

Any other 3DS players experiencing this problem?

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Friends is mediocre with a few rare episodes I like. Big Bang theory is regularly insufferable from what I've seen. I voted the last option.

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Somehow still better than Microsoft's customer service. I couldn't even get in touch with anybody last time I called and had to buy an entire new Xbox on Black Friday.

...which was basically same price as a repair would have cost anyway.

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Great_Paul posted...

Never even heard of it. Ill look into it.

Most people haven't! It's only on Amazon Prime, of which you can simply get a month free trial to watch it as I did, if you're not on a bunch of streaming services already. It's also quite easily one of the greatest TV shows I've ever seen. Go in blind, ignore the generic title, and rave about it later.

E: okay found this on reddit and thought I'd drop it in

Seriously. It's like if Wes Anderson got drunk and had a one night three-way with Vince Gilligan and Tim Burton. That's where this show would come from.

ahem now go in blind from there

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LadyVyxx posted...

How old do I look (maybe I shouldn't ask and have my feelings shattered) >_>

I'd say 23ish, which is what I usually get! So I'm going to guess you're actually 30.

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Top 5 original songs John plays on his guitar in Patriot (will also except Rob originals because Double Great is probably #1 here.)

If you haven't watched Patriot, you should really watch Patriot

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Car pics are still cool right? Also I'm 28. Who can top me in the looking younger than they really are department?

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RE4 will always hold up. One of the GOATs for sure.

Also also I just got RE2make on Black Friday and am beyond excited to start it.
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Yeah, just start with The New Order. Those last two posts explained everything you need to know from the prior gen games. I think Game Pass should still have both The New Order and The New Colossus - that's how I played them! There's a lot of debate among fans which is better and personally I'm not sure I could even pick. They're both incredible. I really should play The Old Blood sometime too.

I also very much enjoyed the gameplay of Youngblood, for what it's worth. But yeah, it hardly has a story at all, which is a major letdown for a game in this series.
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Dang

Was just going to post and plead my case despite it being random, bit congrats SaveEstelle!

My case was that I just had to buy a new Xbone because my old one decided to stop reading discs for whatever reason. Right after I bought a bunch of physical games on Black Friday. I swear every Xbox I've ever had goes bad. Microsoftt makes some shit hardware.
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My biggest problems with Smash online:

- No ability to change your character when rematching in quickplay. WHY. Jeez Smash 4's even worse online did this.
- No Squad Strike (or Stage Morph) online. Okay, Stage Morph could be taxing but would Squad Strike really be that hard?
- No taunts is just silly.
- Ranking and recordkeeping (win-loss record, etc.) could obviously be better and more accessible.

Rarely ever have trouble with lag though. And I really like the create your rules and matchmake with similiar rulesets idea.
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you're the man now dawg
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A Goofy Movie

Didn't know if it was just my childhood or if this was actually a good movie, but it's the latter. Holds up.

Also rewatched the Toy Story trilogy over the last few days. 2 and 3 so good. Still gotta see 4.
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I always feel a little dead inside when I read comment sections in these kinds of videos.
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Do games that come out right before Black Friday still get Black Friday sales? I want to get this game, but don't mind waiting a week or two even if I only get like 10 bucks off.
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Man, I agree with every point Kamikaze made to an insane degree. I'll add to that one thing: this game doesn't explain personality attributes well at all and I now find myself in a pickle.

I've got like every faction I've enountered revering me...but then I walked into the C&P Boarst Factory on Monarch and killed a whole bunch of workers there to get to Clive. And suddenly both my charm and temparament went down to "below average."

Basically, I can't even regenerate health anymore since my temperament is in the red (without wearing my defective moonman helmet that raises it back up to average anyway). And the game never bothers to explain the importance of these attributes. And I'm not even sure there IS a way to raise these back up permanently. The respec machine on the ship doesn't even work. Having googled this endlessly to no avail, I posted on the Outer Worlds board asking how to raise your temperament and charm, and all I'm getting is to try different gear or consumables. Surely they wouldn't have made it so your personality traits can only ever go permanently down and not up? Surely I'm just not fully grasping how this system works?

Either way, they do a horrible job of explaining just how important those traits are. I accepted the "paranoid" flaw for a perk point way early in the game too, not fully grasping the impact of my choice. I'd hate to have to always wear this dumb moonman helmet just to regenerate health from now on.
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I cannot possibly fathom how anyone can take Board 8 so seriously. I wish I cared about anything as much as ExTha cares about dumb internet contests.
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at this point the joke would be funnier if you actually did it

your move
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SAM has suddenly disappeared from my crew. Uhhh, preeetty goddamn positive I didn't kick him out accidentally or some shit. Like...where did he go? Hopefully this involves some quest or something and isn't a glitch. Dude was a powerhouse and I'm about to go to Monarch for the first time (without the Stellar Bay key - saving the bits and doing it the hard way, aw yeah).

E: Huh. I reloaded my save and he's back. Must have been a weird glitch or something. Just super glad it wasn't anything permanent.
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So from the sound of it, there is zero percent difference in the free version and the Destiny 2 that was on PS Plus some time back? Bungie basically knew they were going F2P soon so put it on PS Plus a few months beforehand.
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So Destiny 2 was a Playstation Plus game some months back, but now it went free to play. I have some friends playing the F2P version on Xbox that want me to jump in with them, and I've been wanting to get back on the Destiny train for a while now anyway. So it seems like the best time, at least after Outer Worlds is done consuming me.

Now I'm basically wondering, is there any difference between the full version I downloaded from PS Plus and the new F2P version of the game? I'd like to play with my Xbox friends, but also don't want to play a gimped version of the game. Can I experience the entire base game campaign in the new F2P offering? Cross-saves are a thing now too though right, so I could theoretically just switch back and forth between the two? Is it that simple?
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Honestly thought it was probably better than SotN. Amazing game that I got thoroughly addicted to. Only disappointment was that new game plus, even on nightmare, seems to be a joke after I put almost 40 hours into the game.
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Super Mario 64 may have shaped my childhood, but I cringe seeing it this high on lists like this. Almost every 3D Mario game is better than it. And wait... Odyssey isn't even on here? Lmao.
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Grimlyn posted...

stealth-announce Excitebots in a press-release schedule weeks before release with no marketing :'(

you are a good man
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Is the end of this game really that bad? That makes me never want to play FFVII.
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Switch Online and SNES Classic. That's all.

man they better put Mario All-Stars on the SNES Online. I never actually owned that game and only ever borrowed it from friends growing up.
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Oh hey, just the DLC is on sale? That's cool. The whole game AND bundle were on sale a while back and my dumbass only bought the vanilla game...because I didn't see the bundle deal until afterwards :/
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I do indeed. Til like June 2021 or something ridiculous like that (thanks to that crazy Gold conversion deal around E3). Man, Dead Cells is on there now? They just keep putting amazing games on this thing. Glad I never picked that up on Switch as I almost did!

But yeah, definitely want to catch up on the series until I hop into Gears 5.
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I should play Gears 3 and 4 on Game Pass since I never have before, so I can experience 5. Played Gears 1 Ultimate Edition last year and enjoyed that remaster. Wonder if I should replay 2 on Game Pass as well, or if adding that will just be too much Gears back to back.

Yoku's Island Express

Well this was a lovely game. 100%ed it as well! Both endings were a bit disappointing though but eh. The rest of the game was pretty wonderful.
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TheRock1525 posted...

What are video games?

https://www.conservapedia.com/Video_game
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Lateralus = Fear Inoculum > 10,000 Days > Aenima > Undertow (> Salival > Opiate if we're counting those)

I'm fine with Tool basically refining and perfecting the same sound since Lateralus. And I greatly enjoy "spiritual Tool" over "angry Tool," so Aenima being like half and half puts it in the middle for me and I've never really cared much for Undertow.
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Most wanted Smash newcomers
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Schism is like the fifth best song on Lateralus

and I was literally going to make a "found a home video tape of Steiner" joke then didn't. glad you did it anyway!
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Where are you seeing this? All their most recent reviews still have numbers.
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