Lurker > UF8

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

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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)

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+ Senko no Ronde DUO/2 | Unholy Pray (alternate ver.) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nC_MSd450o
TRACKLENGTH: 3"38
COMPOSER: Watanabe Yasuhisa
Released 2017/09/06 (orig. 2010/05/10)

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+ Touhou Gensou Mahjong (Switch) | Tales of Far East Soul | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGlUdJ34inA
TRACKLENGTH: 3"22
COMPOSER: ZUN
ARRANGER: TECHNOuchi feat. Hayashi Saki
Added 2021/12/16

3
+ Mist Train Girls ~From the Window of the Mist World~ | Mist Song | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7uSX1sqHNc
TRACKLENGTH: 4"20
COMPOSER: Kudo Yoshimi (vo. Kawasaki Hinako)
Released 2020/09/16

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+ Mashiro Witch - Midnight Marchen | requiemforxxx -InParadisum- | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcdttllnbSg
TRACKLENGTH: 3"25 (1"55 loop)
COMPOSER: xaki (HiguUmi Sound)
Released 2018/11/01

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+ Fight Crab 2 | You still my loves | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I-k7vTfNAQ
TRACKLENGTH: 448
COMPOSER: DEKU (vo. MuMemkyo)
Released 2024/02/14

Wanglicious posted...

does big rigs have any people in it? genuine question.

i don't think so, but does that really matter when the experience of watching trucks break the speed of light in reverse is the pinnacle of car pornography?

this may be the most difficult one yet since everyone knows gaming is just for degenerates

still hoping it can go up early and everyone can post on the hour since it's going to suck having to pay even more attention to when to post while still doing the crowdsource

it's less a matter of can you nom it and more just why would you nom it

oh i didn't expect to be outposted so many times over

Sheep007 posted...

I have a lot of Pokemon hot takes but one of them is that almost all legendaries are ugly as hell (in a not-fun way) and a lot of them are boring with no personality to boot.

regardless it's wild that you'd actually shit on one of the most conceptually awesome ones, it's a mysterious hostile invader from space that is clearly ready to fuck shit up, it's also one of the most fun to use, and its theme goes hard, what's not to like?

(i'm eyeing the other minusers here too)

Vivaldi7 posted...

GT4 stomps everything

more like laps am i right

i don't know what your standards are for if to "fit", seems like a stretch

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/407035af.jpg
before anyone questions this, you can clearly see that palkia has wings so therefore it has to be

UshiromiyaEva posted...

That Pizza Tower like was shameless, but that's what you get when you stay PC exclusive.

so we're clear, antonblast actually predates pizza tower. the fact that it's taken this much longer to release is extremely unfortunate

i'm down to pick up refind self again, and schim is on my radar as well. interested in lorelei, animal well, and maybe europa and stitch too

pass on the rest but everything seemed decent

oh schim has a release date huh

also glad i got one prediction right

that tmnt game was so close to release and already known that i kinda didn't expect to see it here (i didn't realise that date was pc only though)

so sky but singleplayer (and not journey)

LASER EYES

caps

refind self has a xaki soundtrack for any vgmc people checking in here btw