Lurker > TomNook7

Hot damn, ITS THE YEAR OF RPGS, BOYS

Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
Persona 3 Reload
Unicorn Overlord
Dragons Dogma 2
Eiyuden Chronicle
Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail
Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree

Am i forgetting something?

Flower
Journey
Rez
Katamari Damacy

NBIceman - ............oh. I thought this was an andyman alt for some reason. This entire time I thought you were andyman lmao whoops

azuarc - he's the Fill in the ____ topic guy and a Genshin player

Raka_Putra - ah, THERE you are. The gay Pokemon plushie guy. Also you nominated an Undertale song in my music ranking topic... it all makes sense now

SHINE_GET_64 - TROPHIES & MEGA MAN. Keeps us updated on reviews and upcoming releases which I genuinely appreciate. Keeps Wii Sports Resort on the top shelf like a vintage wine. Also this is you:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/9aef7705.jpg

Arti - oh god this is one of the zelda contrarians from that one topic. Away with you!

those are sick

heres my main

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/3f0419a6.jpg

ChaosTonyV4 - bought suikoden v for $100 just to play it on original hardware, what a G. he's into board games and im pretty sure we were friends on backloggery, so this guy is probably a hardcore gamer

Great_Paul - its crazy to me "do you like this character" is still going like centuries later. well done. Also you're a game collector like me

ctesjbuvf - Oh, this is a good user! He had nuanced takes in the infamous Zelda topic, and even in that one topic discussing Switch 2, I remembered he remained calm and shut down the haters. Which makes sense, because iirc this is THE Switch guy. He plays like every Switch game or some shit, which is insane. He's also a One Piece bro. Ya know what, honorable mention for this guy too

Lopen - I am, in fact, not even mad. My first impression of you was in the farewell SBallen topic, and everyone was saying their goodbyes and thanks and reminiscing on the good times, and then you busted in like FUCK THAT GUY lmao. Then there were the hot takes in the LMS topic. But I aint gonna lie - I legit laughed when you called XIII an AI lmao

Steiner - im pretty sure you run the b8 discord, and after reading your post, yep thats you. when the dark souls haters descended upon us, you were just like "i dont care for these games, but i dont want them changed to cater towards me either." so you have my respect, sir

RikkuAlmighty posted...

Bruh you think i hate ff6 and/or 7? and thought i was a furry?

Im doing my own ranking right here right now:
1-99999999 - everyone
last place - YOU

I CANT REMEMBER EVERY USER ALRIGHT ITS HARD

I believe i am done with the iron keep! It was hard, but in a fun way. For the old iron king i just hid behind the wall and used magic lol. Except his damn lazer goes through the wall, but i just learned the tell for it and was good to go. Also when he tried to go into the lava, id run out to the opposite side of the wall and trick him into coming back out in the same spot lol. NOTHING CHEAP IN SOULS PVE

RikkuAlmighty - uhhhhh at first I was like "is this the gay pokemon plushy guy?" but nope, thats RakaPutra lol. Theres so many damn users here man. But iirc you were a bit of a detractor in my FF ranking topic? You don't like FF6 or FF7 or something - BUT iirc you were also the Tekken 8 bro when that dropped, so you redeemed yourself!

Snake5555555555555555 - I think you probably have really good taste. I remember you hating on DC movies and The Quarry (seriously what do people see in those games), and youre also a Dark Souls bro, and in the character contest just today you were also conflicted on Pyramid Head vs The Boss, which omg same

Leonhart4 - "good work ff8 crew"

Also I don't hold anything against anybody in the LMS topic, except Lopen, but even then he's just funny

NFUN - uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I think you're a Like a Dragon bro? I think I remember seeing you in the Infinite Wealth topic?

this is really hard lol

alright fine i'll try not to be so jaded lol. i'll wait for reviews at the very least

Boom - its 2003, Im 13, and Im playing Silent Hill 2 at my grandmas house in Florida. The weathers beautiful, got the windows open, and Im straight chillin on summer break. I get stuck on a puzzle - go on my grandmas computer, type in silent hill 2 help and there it is:

GameFAQs.

And boom right on the front page - Sora vs Aeris. Im like YO THIS IS COOL. And then theres a link thats like you can discuss the contest on the GameFAQs contests board!

So yeah, Board 8 was probably the first internet forum i ever found. I think before this it was just aim chat and Battle.net. And immediately i was like yo this is amazing

Some guy eating a copy of FFX, Kyle Bowens bar and lounge, CATS memes, people obsessing over obscure games and obscure characters. Like yo who tf are Isaac and Felix? I gotta go play Golden Sun wtf

Throughout the years I was mostly always lurker, and I never really became a truly regular b8er. I ran a couple contests throughout the years, but nothing crazy. Trolled a lot though. I was the only person who rated Punny vs Palmer at the Ghetto Olympics a 0/10 lol

Once the contests died out, i stopped coming here for a couple years, but in March of 2023 - twenty years after originally discovering this board - I came back here out of a sense of nostalgia - and sure enough its still going with shit like:

-LMS topics
-Aw Yeah SHINE Platinum #7,097 Hentai Girl Shooter with zero posts in it
-some guy reviewing every Playdate game in excruciating detail
-internet tough guys like Lopen calling everyone too sensitive
-user contests where we create Mount Rushmore.

Like wow incredible. Like honestly, this board is important. This place is like stepping into a time capsule. And Im gonna stick around till the end, fuck it

Back in the day it always felt like there were thousands of users here, and it was hard to really get to know people, especially since all you had to go by was a username with no portrait. But now theres significantly less, and its more manageable in my mind. The average topic poll has like 30-40 users voting, but thats only counting the ones that vote, so im thinking maybe theres like 50-100 active users here? And thats not even counting random lurkers and trolls

Speaking of trolls, I came back right around the time the Current Events board was deleted, so all those dweebs were coming here and posting their CONTRARIAN HOT TAKES lmao. I remember in particular there was one topic that was like Zelda was never good and another was Dark Souls needs a pause button and both just became SUPER SERIOUS DEBATES with 500 posts lmao. And that was when i first started to get an impression of a bunch of the remaining users here

So yeah after a year of being back, post and Ill tell you my impression of you! Heres my favorite users so far tho:

HARRICH - When said Zelda and Souls topics were going on, this guy stood out by posting intelligent, well thought out takes. Even in my recent LMS topic he did the same. And anyone who likes Neverhood has to be a bro

Kamikaze potato - This guy was such a bro during my Bloodborne/Dark Souls II playthroughs, and then turned right around and continued to ride with me when i played Shadowbringers. In the Zelda debate topic, he himself admitted to not caring about Zelda, but made fun of the contrarians regardless. I also liked that one time i name dropped Disco Elysium and Outer Wilds, and he was immediately like true. Good taste and chill user all around

LightningStrikes - When the Zelda contrarians were invading, he also made good, rational posts. He made our Tears of the Kingdom topic, and he made a good, sincere post telling LMS about the danger of youtube algorithms. Also one time I jokingly said FF Tactics is mainline, and he posted a five page rant on how it isnt lmao. Also he knows way too much about Disney princesses

MartinFF7 - I cant recall any specific moments, but he just seems crazy-funny in a good way, like with that crazy Moogle Topic. He was enthusiastic about my FF ranking topic, and just seems pleasant and chill all around

MZero - I had barely been back on b8 for a week, and I mentioned I was going to Japan, and this fuckin guy was like yo lets hang out. Like damn a bro. I barely know you but fuck yeah I'm down. Too bad our schedules were conflicting tho! Also this guy is the fucking FFX master, he likes Japanese Sega Saturn games, and the only other user besides me who hates the FF7 remakes. Good user

Honorable mention: colliding - you were up here until you said you hated chrono cross

Genesis does

Me: damn why does this have almost 500 posts

Me after reading: damn i wanna see madame web now

Leonhart4 posted...

What was so bad about Mando Season 3 that warranted "last straw" status?

the jack black episode alone was bottom tier star wars

also there were plenty of straws before mando 3 i can assure you

Andor was pretty damn good i admit. But mando 3 was the last straw lol

theyre going to have to do a lot to win me back at this point

SHINE_GET_64 posted...

I wanted to play the whole game that way, but I still need to overcome VR motion sickness and I couldn't play it more than 20 minutes without profusely sweating and feeling like I was going to be ill.

Damn that sucks. Ive never played it outside of VR, and it is absolutely the definitive VR experience imo. Itd probably be my favorite game in the series if RE1make didnt exist

Some of you guys really need to try RE7 or Tetris Effect in VR

I love VR but man PSVR2 was just too fucking expensive

King

Lopen posted...

I agree. It's scary how delicate some of you are.

lmaooo

Lopen posted...

Side note anyone who actually thinks I'm a troll after all this time (and you're actually just a very vocal minority) is just using the "troll" label to shelter their fragile egos from criticisms.

Like < 0.1% of my posts are made with an intent to troll.

thats even scarier actually

Undertake more like hot take

My favorite wrestler Undertake

I have a friend who started the game with me so we could play online together

But he got a little bit ahead of me, and soul memory fucked us lol. So we had to sit down, come up with a complicated formula, and i had to eat every single one of my boss souls (it felt wrong, but i already have my weapon so whatever), and i barelyyyy made it into the same soul threshold as him.

And then we spent all last night exploring Shulva, and man it was amazing! Its such a labyrinth of traps and puzzles and none stop enemies. Like a whole ass dungeon never before seen in fromsouls and the likes of which we havent seen since

And its funny because on one hand dark souls ii has all this amazing content, but on the other its blocked by convoluted bullshit like soul memory, and that just sums up this game so perfectly

Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (SNES)
Phantasy Star IV (Genesis)
Seiken Densetsu 3 (SNES)
abstain

Aight after finally catching up on all this, i think XIII and Harrichs posts about messaging LMS are pretty insightful

I assumed he was just some internet troll, because everything he posts - even his sig - comes across as so baity. But obviously something else is going on with him, and it sounds like hes someone whos really susceptible to youtube/social media algorithms on top of that

My new theory is he probably genuinely enjoys board 8 which is why he keeps coming back, he probably has a bunch of us blocked, and he copies random youtube or facebook comments and pastes them here to try to sound smart or insightful or something

So yeah you can close this topic if you want XIII lmao; you have a hard job and i dont envy you. 30-40 year old trolls like Lopen who were hating on Sballen in the farewell topic and coming at you for virtue signaling and shit lmao. Gamefaqs is wild

My squad still plays warioware on gamecube to this day

Alright fuck yeah i got every enemy cleared in the iron keep, explored everything, got like 20k souls, feeling confident my new weapon, now just gotta face the boss-

>invaded by ipwnfaces420

>hes just some naked dude with a knife throwing speech items

HELLO!

HELLO!

backstabs me and kills me instantly

HELLO!

HELLO!

HELLO!

foolm0r0n posted...

He's a grown man sharing his experience with us, but his naivety is equivalent to a 7ish year old.

How do we know this though? User728 comes to all of my playthrough topics just to troll me, and youd think he was 7, but really hes a successful lawyer with a wife and kids

Has anybody ever actually gotten to know LMS?

Snake5555555555 posted...

Maybe unpopular opinion but people are unnaturally obsessed with this guy.

literally obsessed

Grimlyn posted...

i need topics to remind me that LMS makes topics

I wonder how many I've been gleefully missing now

Ive learned blocking nobody is the definitive board 8 experience. Otherwise how will i know if shes HOT????

Thats the DLC area? Oh shit

Found the jesters hat! Jester hat + two handing the giant machete = my goofiest fromsouls character yet

Found shulva sanctum city and wow this seems too hard maybe ill come back

Lets just all go in there and unironically discuss the fuck out of it

Whos with me

Aw yeah finally have access to boss weapons

Time to main the rottens giant meat cleaver

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f5b6bb26.jpg

When you go into Gyrms cave or whatever, and youre in the rat covenant, all the dwarves and elephant dudes will be standing around not doing anything. And also you cant attack them

Definitely thought it was a glitch until i googled it

KamikazePotato posted...

Dark Souls 2 feels like an extremely well put-together mod or romhack. It gives me the same vibes of those fan attempts that are full of passion, respect for the original material, and a willingness to try weird ideas...but not necessarily the finesse to pull all of that off

Thats definitely a good way to put it, though romhack might be a bit harsh lol

UltimaterializerX posted...

If you stay in that covenant, its not a glitch when you see it.

Trust me. Youll know.

lmao i found it. Weird, but ill take it i guess

I hear the sequel is better though so I'll have to check that out next.

its not lol

at least the music was good enough to be stolen by twisted metal

Isquen posted...

The run up to the chariot fight was so bullshit for me as Faith/Dex to the extent that I wound up depopulating before the bridge before I finally managed it. Huge sadness that it was all for naught for me.

Lol im glad it wasnt just me then.You cant just run past everyone, because phantom bro guards the door, and your animation walking through the fog is NOT safe against twenty dudes behind you

So it just became a matter of killing phantom bro, but you have to clear out everything leading up to him so you can focus on him

After a while i mainly just stuck to luring the big dudes one at a time with soul arrow. Literally had regular soul arrow, great soul arrow, and heavy great soul arrow all attuned, and used them all to play my build against every single one.

Then i just had to fight phantom bro at the end (also hard), and when he was finally gone forever, i could turn in my souls and do the run again and just run past everything straight to the boss

Turns out the boss himself was actually pretty easy lol, but fighting the horse at the end was really cool

Just had a big scorpion kaiju battle between the manscorpion and the scorpioness

thats all for tonight

Bosses beated
The Last Giant
The Pursuer
Ruin Sentinels
Dragonrider
The Lost Sinner
Skeleton Lords
Covetous Demon
Mytha, The Baneful Queen
Flexile Sentry
Royal Rat Vanguard
The Rotten
Old Dragonslayer
Belfry Gargoyles
Executioners Chariot
Scorpioness Najka

after the fight someones message just says

horse , man

And idk why this is so funny to me

also whew mastering the run up to that fight was tough

lol executioners chariot

visions of seems familiar

Oh shit its the Bell Gargoyles

As soon as that music kicked in... I knew.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/cf5daa2e.jpg

UshiromiyaEva posted...

...Just get Ishikawa to write every game!

super down for this honestly

iirc greengravy is a literal troll themselves lmao. I remember them posting some toxic shit

colliding posted...

The Lost World isn't that bad. Then again I haven't seen it in 20 years so perhaps I'm wrong.

https://youtu.be/6s9sjPzyQjk?feature=shared

LinkMarioSamus posted...

Guess I think more about Hollywood trends than most.

yeah dude youre so smart!

also come on man jurassic world > captain marvel. only one of those movies has a mosasaurus

Ill still take LMS over current events trolls

User728 posted...

Whats a dark soul ii???

oh no not you again