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MacArrowny posted...

Also why are you including sequels when we're specifically excluding them?

mostly because initial d and yama no susume were the two 9/10s i had marked lol (i only have 0.4% of the anime i watch above an 8)

(edited because i mathed very wrong lol)

edit 2 actually wait i miscounted the shows it's actually less than 0.1% lol (most of my 9+es are for films so)

as someone who really likes altaria i actually am still amazed it ever got a mega, especially while flygon didn't. the gap in their popularity is colossal. i felt it was in the running for the least popular fully evolved mon in gen 3, along with the likes of medicham, swalot, grumpig, masquerain and cradily (which i also like personally for the most part, but, y'know)

i was skim checking the comments after my last post on the prior topic and i noticed some talk about 2014's anime, and since that was one of the years i watched a decent amount(https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/bb581ae9.png) i figured i might as well say what my favourites that year were

i get it wasn't for everyone by then but liked the conclusion to initial d a lot and still consider it a ways better than mf ghost s1 at a minimum
yama no susume s2 is a top 10 anime season for me of anything so that alone definitely carries the year for me
madoka clones as they may have been, yuuki yuuna and selector infected+spread wixoss were both amazing imo
kawai complex was legit tbh
mekakucity was also a strong showing and underappreciated given it was still in the middle of peak monogatari years (and nisekoi was there too i guess)
wake up girls is still one of the most uniquely worthwhile idol anime and it deserved a lot better at the time (even if it fell off in quality hard past s2)
a lot of anticipated shows of the time fell off in due course, such as aldnoah, terror in resonance, trinity seven, mahouka, black bullet, tokyo ghoul, glasslip, (maybe) m3, and chaika... but some were still at least solid even while underperforming, which is why i'm not putting akame ga kill, shingeki no bahamut or noragami in the same category personally (i get others definitely would disagree though)
besides yamasusu s2, while 2014 did lack the presence of stuff like kiniro mosaic or non non biyori on the cgdct/iyashikei front, it did also have gochiusa and somewhat unique productions like hanayamata and sora no method to make up for it

and short anime had arguably their peak year then, with ai mai mii s2, both seasons of strange+, hacka doll and tesagure s2 all among my favourites in that niche, even if one DOESN'T of course count yamasusu s2 lol (and they're unlikely to ever leave that upper eschelon given the state of modern short anime...)

on the ova side, the japan animator expo series brought about a lot of great pilots, and the young animator training project then known as anime mirai also had a strong year then too (even if the projects then never got the recognition little witch academia or death billiards did). it was a bit of a nothing year for feature length films though, outside of marnie and expelled from paradise if you want to be exceedingly generous (i wouldn't even be putting it in the discussion as a key film release if not for the sequel tbh)

building further on my comment (more biased commentary i'll spoiler to avoid trying to influence votes incoming) the big reason i somehow ended up neglecting to directly touch on before on why i felt an mmo was notable is because among the many ways the wii was a terrible option for one, its netcode being complete and utter dogshit compared to the ps3 and 360 (even if, again, technically still demonstratably "viable" thanks to the likes of pso and arguably also ffxi before them, never mind the fact that they needed adapters lol) was a crucial point. the amount of headaches i can imagine development must've caused at the time makes me really wonder why they didn't just jump ship to solely working on the wii u version at a moment's notice. heck, even the fact that they didn't cancel it and only release the wii u version at the time was wild, it was right before its release.

i do think that wii spearheading motion controls did give a valid reason to consider games that put said tech to actually impressive use (especially given the advantages wiimotes still hold in several areas over the likes of joycons), the one real issue is not much of that is really at the top of the pile here past that, as many of the more experimental stuff was just remarkably limited on the control front because of it (often only playable in one control style, or else practically only)

of course, considering that most of the real technological advantages the wii had over the gamecube were the larger disc sizes, it's not really super fair to say its games should've been any looking better than they did lol. it was a low budget shovelware library system for reasons beyond just its successfully marketed gimmicks, there was just that little reason to push it given how blatantly far behind it was for its time

in light of that, it's another reason i think the fact that SE decided an mmo was worth pursuing on the system at all is a noteworthy outlier, even if it wasn't the most advanced on the market. sure, there wasn't much doubt that it could handle one given the gamecube had pso, but there was really no reason to put in the work to make one for the wii of all things in its generation, let alone to continue prioritising its development through two further expansions (well okay, square was also still supporting ps2 ffxi so it's not that out there but still, ps2 was actively comparable to it in performance right down to the disc space lol and there were reasons to optimise its (non-gimmick) hardware. heck the sheer novelty value of ffxi on ps2 kicking on more than likely lead it to hold onto a larger playerbase through the 2010s than dqx did even in just japan, probably)

man

what *was* the last movie i watched i actually can't remember lol

whatever the case absolutely not since i thought of a battle royale (in particular fortnite entered my mind) so

edit: oh it totally was wonka i'm grateful the rest of the topic jogged my memory. still absolutely not lmao

figured i'd mention i was contemplating other alternative options like smg 1/2, sonic colors, dkc returns, skyward sword, and also the last story, but due to their largely linear design they didn't really justify being taken over xenoblade imo (it's probably not a big surprise but colors had the overall edge among them slightly for me). i also thought a bit about ones like brawl (for how much content it had), mkwii (for having much better netcode), certain gamecube ports such as new play control pikmin 1 or 2 and re4 (for the quality of their controls), and i also thought about prime 3 and also prime trilogy, and if not for the fact that i realised that dqx beat it out handily in size and scope i probably would've gone with trilogy

AriaOfBolo posted...

it's the anxiety

this tbh

NO RETREAT
+3 Ivysaur
+2 Dewott
+1 Magneton
-1 Turtonator
-2 Charcadet
-3 Landorus

LIGHT SCREEN
+3 Chimecho
+2 Porygon2
+1 Samurott
-1 Wiglett
-2 Gloom
-3 Whirlipede

Wordle 1,040 5/6*






had a brain fart on the 3rd and 4th guesses tbh, put the same letter in the 4th slot three times in a row and didn't think about it since i'd also put it in the 2nd on guess 2

+ Mashiro Witch - Midnight Marchen | requiemforxxx -InParadisum- | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcdttllnbSg

doubling down on another of my supported noms

once i get to 5 noms with supports i may cut all the others, thinking about that now (there's no rush though, i don't even have supports planned out until i check day 2 and beyond noms, which i guess i'll finally get started on tomorrow after having taken this multi-day break to catch up on anime/event albums/videogames, just figured i'd make it clear now that i most likely will be aiming to cut a lot of stuff eventually)

xenoblade is an easy answer but it's guaranteed on the poll so instead i'll give a support to Dragon Quest X, for being unsurprisingly the only game big enough to require multiple discs lol

SUPERSONIC
+3 Claydol
+2 Blaziken
+1 Vanillish
-1 Umbreon
-2 Wartortle
-3 Zeraora

SILK TRAP
+3 Minun
+2 Coalossal
+1 Dunsparce
-1 Naganadel
-2 Grimmsnarl
-3 Sandy Shocks

i'm not usually one to be negative about these divisions but yeah silk trap is kinda one of the weakest so far for me by a lot

5

bad anime entry gets a bad anime twist closer when it didn't even need to

4

a... ahem, stellar cast can't save this one

ggg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk8xp3-mAS4 since i didn't actually do a good job of defending the mage one i figured i'd share a bit of the mage one

one thing i also like about its particular isekai dynamic is that the isekai'd guy is someone directly killed by a member of the family he reincarnates into ithink (so it's not an actual isekai), though it's not a revenge plot or anything like that, he just happened to be some random nut who was obsessed with magic and is more than happy to get a body with superior genes to further his studies lol

not a series that thrives on its plot by any means and it's not konosuba level entertainment but i would classify it as one of the decent ones at least

also i might as well elaborate on re:monster and say that the protag of that had an [redacted for concerns over site rules] with i think every female character in the show by the end of ep3 and that's why i said what i did. a lot of murder happens too

oh hungry lamb released now. guess i'll pick it up tomorrow evening probably along with dream tactics

also grabbed gensokyo odyssey along with its soundtrack and damn its soundtrack exceeded my expectations by a LOT. still need to check out the game itself though, will probably do so tomorrow alongside retro mystery club

by the way, i also realised i'd missed another release of note (somewhat) when i got it, namely this suika game-style Gunvolt spinoff called PuzzMiX
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2838930/PuzzMiX/
the top review definitely conveys my reaction the best...

oh i decided to do a runthrough of all the bad isekais a couple of days ago just to see if there's any worth continuing

Re:Monster was certainly something, having made it to the end of the third episode. I thought it was interesting to see a series do the same thing as that farming isekai and basically just have the protagonist describe what they'd done in effectively diary form, and even in this presumably relatively sanitised adaptation, one could still tell that this couldn't have been much further from that one in terms of tone lol

Archdemon's Dilemma was a standard master-servant fantasy romance series, it's fine i guess? So far it seems like it's teetering on the edge of deciding whether or not it wants to be a harem series or not, with the most noteworthy aspect being that virtually every relevant harem candidate shares the same backstory of being somebody the protag previously saved in pretty much the same way lol

the Lv2 Cheat Powers anime was exactly standard fare bad, but i guess it had monaca-esque op/eds so it wasn't a complete waste to check it. Side note, this got me wondering what hidekazu tanaka had gotten up to as of late and i guess he's in jail now. "oops"

Banished Former Hero may be in the running for worst anime adaptation of the year tbh. in a way it actually managed to get to the point of being so bad it's enjoyable though. or maybe the shouta aoi voices just got to me, who knows. i love how immediately everyone just knows he's the strongest character in the show, despite having provided all of the obligatory "yeah he's totally the weakest guy ever with 0 abilities" backstory

the mage one (Reincarnated as the 7th Prince or whatever) was cool... well, it's not really a very interesting series, but the protag is fun and carries it on some level

i didn't get on sequels or i think one other one yet

i did also start on Loser Ranger though, not sure how i feel about it yet but at the very least its OP and ED look cool

also i undropped highspeed etoile and it's not my least favourite show of the season any more lol (i bumped it up from a 1/5 to a 2/5 by the end of episode 3)

UF8 posted...

Mega Man 6

damn i didn't know i was an alt all along

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

a bit of an uncharacteristically cliched answer, but to its credit, it was one of the titles to also offer kinect support

Cylinder

you might think that after all my gran turismo shilling in every prior ps poll i'll surely be going with GT6 here, but the truth is, no, they had to cut serious corners with 5 and 6 wasn't even a full return to form after that...

instead i'm just going to hand it to... nothing, for now. gonna think a bit

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Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo: Itoshisa no Photograph | Amai Hanazono ~Complete MIX~ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvSnMiIWZ8o
TRACKLENGTH: 4"35
COMPOSER: Hamada Tomoyuki (vo. Haruna Yumi)
Released 2008/06/06

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Placid Plastic Duck Simulator | Reflecting Pool | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F2y-165KmQ
TRACKLENGTH: 329
COMPOSER: Wizard of Loneliness
Added 2022/12/16

if i'm early i blame having to adjust for gamefaqs lag after the first two days

justice for kawase :c

Winner is a 3 seed
Policenauts

Last place is a 6 seed (VOTE FOR TWO)
Donkey Kong (94)
Mega Man 6

Last place is a 10 seed (VOTE FOR TWO)
Bust a Move
Mega Man Soccer

Top three are 10 seeds (VOTE FOR THREE)
Ash
Cyberia
- (can't decide)

Top 4 are 13 seeds (VOTE FOR TWO)
Panorama Cotton
Monster World IV

Top 2 are 14 seeds (VOTE FOR TWO)
Power DoLLS: Detachment of Limited Line Service
Banshee's Last Cry

Finally, the top 4 get the final spots in the tournament (VOTE FOR THREE)
Super Bomberman 2
Samurai Showdown II
Umihara Kawase

AQUA TAIL
+3 Linoone
+2 Ninetales
+1 Primarina
-1 Vikavolt
-2 Scrafty
-3 Jynx

POWER TRIP
+3 Smoliv
+2 Delcatty
+1 Palkia
-1 Gumshoos
-2 Revavroom
-3 Pignite

i wouldn't want to talk to anyone that minuses smoliv after today

Wordle 1,038 3/6*

Loin

i think it was adventure quest that did name puns with its knights like this. maybe dragonfable? probably one of the two though

this one's pretty tough actually since the system had quite a few games that ported over content from ps2 entries, which was legitimately impressive in many cases given the more limited space

which is why I'm thinking that for now I'm going to stick with Gran Turismo (PSP). It managed to not only fit nearly every gt4 car but also ones from hd concept and 5 prologue, and almost every course too (and it included extra ones too)

compression standards were of course better by its release but still, it was a packed game

2

oh is that why the golf anime is getting review bombed lol. fair

anyway i guess i had a look at those two episodes now (as well as the third elsewhere) plus the interview content for it and i'm definitely a fan now. only of the show itself though, of course, not any of this nft stuff >_>

Babylon

(obviously it'd be enough to compensate for the fact that solatorobo managed to have more racing game in it than a good deal of the actual racing games on the system though lol, otherwise i'd have been considering stuff like mkds or sonic&sega)

I don't feel confident in saying this one at all, but Solatorobo is probably the game in my catalogue that impresses me the most since it's quite a big game with solid graphics and several gameplay systems (the fact that it just casually fit in an entire multiplayer racing game on the side for instance is something I just find neat). Plus it's practically (actually literally) two games worth of story (not that that strictly means much)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-mqtjXhN1I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCMkfm1DLok

i do think that all the other options so far are around the same ballpark as it to be fair and could be persuaded to switch

+ Touhou Gensou Mahjong (Switch) | Tales of Far East Soul | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGlUdJ34inA

WONDER ROOM
+3 Blacephalon
+2 Reshiram
+1 Mew
-1 Carvanha
-2 Komala
-3 Jangmo-o

rare to get a set of legendaries i have nothing but positive feelings for, also god i don't actually want to give carvanha a -

G-MAX RAPID FLOW
+3 Parasect
+2 Fearow
+1 Manectric
-1 Pidove
-2 Braixen
-3 Dreepy

and now i wish i didn't have to minus any of this division

plush toy commentary, weak characters with bad names, 3d...

i get why the game held mystique on release thanks to what this case *did* bring to the table, but it definitely underdelivered hard elsewhere

2.5

Anagram posted...

What even makes NUDE technically impressive?

same case as seaman actually, just a little bit more developed

simulating ai learning through voice recognition is cool

you might be expecting me to also go with seaman given i just picked NUDE but nah

Phantasy Star Online

shenmue and seaman alike are great options, but they are not the first mmo for consoles

-- LOSTCOLORSGentei Saisouban | RGB | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9tS_lp20ec
++ LOSTCOLORS/Gentei Saisouban | RGB | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9tS_lp20ec

fine

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+ SEQUENCE PALLADIUM 3 | Extraordinary Silence | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urT5QvMIrpA
TRACKLENGTH: 229
COMPOSER: Saitoh Hiroto
Released 2004/06/03

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++ Ano, Subarashii wo Mou Ichido | Sekai no Chishiki (Sogetsu) (FM Ver.) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQW1yWsv1fE
TRACKLENGTH: 307
COMPOSER: Mizuno Hiroyuki
Released 1999/09/15

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++ LOSTCOLORSGentei Saisouban | RGB | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9tS_lp20ec
TRACKLEGTH: 229
COMPOSER: Mizuno Hiroyuki
Released 2015/05/02 (orig. 2004/02/22)

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+ beatmania IIDX 28 BISTROVER / SOUND VOLTEX EXCEED GEAR | Discordia | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA89jaMWScQ
TRACKLENGTH: 202
COMPOSER: Penoreri vs. BEMANI Sound Team "HueR"
GENRE: CROSSOVER
Added 2021/04/07

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+ Noctuary | Chromesthesia | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW6XZyKI2vA
TRACKLENGTH: 329
COMPOSER: Nhato
Released 2023/11/28

does Miiverse count

+ Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec | Light Velocity | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEVLCNwwFec

i'll think about mesmerium i just didn't want to disappoint

Wordle 1,035 4/6*

Bitto posted...

If I posted a funny meme of this animal or if I had to anthropomorphize an animal for something I'm creating, which ones are more likely to get positive reception?

i'm really wondering how crab ended down in tier 4 on this criteria

Diego

Anagram posted...

What's even the biggest RPG on an Xbox console, anyway?

given basically 75% of all triple a releases are classified as rpgs nowadays, probably just like, elden ring lol

anyway my vote here is for (i swear this isn't hornyposting) N.U.D.E.@ Natural Ultimate Digital Experiment

okay time to get the initial acknowledgments out of the way

+ [-Aka-] | Suna no Shiro -The Castle of Sand- | https://youtu.be/cH7ZgT1jNcM
+ REFLEC BEAT groovin'!! | envidia | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp2K98m2ELs

there are quite a few others so far i'll be looking over for later too (eg. lw@0, warcry, turii, deoxys, nurb, ac5 and so on)