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Just Monika.
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Teemo is a character designed to get bottom place in everyone's lists.

Tristana is cool though. She was one of my mains the first time I played this. The other hasn't show up yet.
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Game of the 90s seems like it would be fun but also seems a bit redundant because our regular BGE is already pretty much the same thing.
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SuperNiceDog posted...

Also, since your username is Tales-related(Vesperia), no consideration of any of the Tales... games?

There was a lot during the decade...

Graces F(2010)
Xillia(2013)
Xillia 2(2014)
Zestiria(2015)
Berseria(2016)

I would definitely nominate Berseria because it has one of the best stories I've seen in gaming.

Though the gameplay is a boring slog sometimes.
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SuperNiceDog posted...

It also introduced the idea of games constantly updating through patches. The game is truly never complete, and actually evolves with the times. That concept came about thanks to League. I mean, it wasn't the first ever game with a patch, but it certainly was the most influential one.(you could argue for Wow)

It's like you are just listing things that made gaming worse overall.

Incomplete games are a garbage thing that exists to make money for greedy studios.
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SuperNiceDog posted...

For better or worse, it introduced the idea of "toxic behavior" and "reported", two issues that went beyond video games as social issues during the decade. The idea of online bullying and censorship...those ideas were given a prime example through the medium of League.

No it didn't, toxic players have existed ever since someone thought of connecting a videogame to the internet. LoL just made it worse.
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Logience posted...

I dread what kind of game LoL ends up getting fed to in order to appease the board. Hopefully SBAllen is smart and has it and Undertale fight each other in round 1.

I am hyped to seeing it being tripled by Super Mario Maker.
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To 500!
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If you want to look at how strong BotW is just look at how strong its 2nd protagonist became due to it.

No supporting character has been that strong since... Sephiroth. Because of Final Fantasy fucking Seven.
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https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=843099982747848&id=525019254555924

Somewhat relevant.

(iirc they are Miss Fortune, Lux, Soraka, Lulu and Ezreal)
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Best of luck, man. And merry christmas.
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Finally finished listening to it.

Great episode guys, and thanks for doing this. Really made the contest a way more fun experience to me. And yeah, gratz for Advo, Luster and Axem for winning your side contests.

I'm a little impressed no one mentioned Draven as a turd, though. It's almost like it was too obvious so you guys decided to be more creative or something. Draven is the turd as much as Zelda is the true winner of the context, imo.
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Bump
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Weird how a match could create such a war between xstats lovers and haters.

When the best answer is probably that they are like all other computational engineering methods: they work, as long as there is a human to interpret what the results mean, understand what is actually happening, and analyse if they can be used case by case.

Samus is stronger than Mario among non-nintendo fans, and weaker than Mario among nintendo fans. That much seems obvious now.
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I stopped in the middle of the subject and now I came back and NG said the same thing I was thinking.
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I'm still at the halfway point.

I wanna comment on the stuff about GotD2. I agree with Advo. Like him, I don't have much of an interest in the games included, as my gaming input reduced a lot after 2010 (not just because of money, but also college and a gradual change of interests).

But hey, Best Year in Gaming was pretty bad and I enjoyed the fuck out of it. Will probably enjoy this one, because bracket, Crew, Show and all are pretty fun to do and watch. And it can always make me play a few new games. The 2018 contest made me play Berseria and DDLC, for example. I'm not gonna catch up on all mainstream gaming anytime soon, but I check things from time to time.

And yeah, it's a one in ten years thing so we can't simply not do it. It has too much potential for great things to happen (or controversial ones).

Just make sure Link Between Worlds gets nominated, because that's one modern Zelda I played and really liked.
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MetalmindStats posted...

I took guitar lessons many years ago, but they never stuck.

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I'd rather Link lose cleanly than lose because of a DDOS. It taints the entire contest.

This match is important but it clearly sucked. It nearly killed contests on the whole. It's important like ET the Extraterrestrian is important for gaming, on how much it damaged the whole thing.

That said I did had a lot of fun for those 24 hours, I just don't think the actual crap that happened was worth it.
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Can someone ban MWC already and take this trash out of here.
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Eh how is Vincent 11 positions ahead of Magus

Is that based on previous contests while ignoring 2018?
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Oh I don't really beat myself, if anything I'm happy because of how much I progressed since then.

But lol extha
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I'm gonna see it tomorrow myself.
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People seem to like it in general. probably on the same level of Wonder Woman, maybe a bit higher.
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Still making a point not to check x-stats but this time I had to give in and at least check their direct matches. My list isn't doing that different from the rest, though.
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1- 2B
2- Amaterasu
3- Geralt
4- Bayonetta
5- Peach
6- Sub-Zero
7- Fox
8- Terra
9- Knuckles
10- Kratos
11- Frog
12- Magus
13- Vincent
14- Crash
15- Chun-Li
16- Kefka
17- Yuna
18- Leon
19- Tidus
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I enjoyed the new start time because it was 9PM to me (10 PM after DST started), which is much better than the 0 AM/1 AM it used to be.
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Advokaiser posted...

40 minutes into the podcast at the moment. I don't sound nowhere near as bad as I thought I would, especially considering the talking part is by far my low point when communicating in English (sometimes I had some slight blackouts and stuttered a bit by not finding the right words to keep it going); but I gotta give props to Ng for saving my opinions for last out of everyone since it gave me some time to elaborate my ideas better. Maybe I would've had the microphone closer so I wouldn't sound so quiet, but overall I really liked the outcome.

I know how you feel. It used to be when I spoke English my mind tried to say something but I felt like my mouth didn't work at the same speed, so I had to speak slowly not to stutter.

But lately it feels like my mouth managed to catch up. I think it was the effect the year I spent in UK in 2014, but also all those years playing online mafia and doing stuff in forums afterwards. Even if I wasn't talking, I feel like my brain got used to thinking in English more efficiently.

Fun fact: in 2013 I tried to listen to The Show but gave up in the first episode because I couldn't understand half of what the guys said. I only tried again this year. Now it's much easier. This stuff is practice and more practice.
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Tag
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ExThaNemesis posted...

One thing I will agree with, throne room scene was fucking amazing.

It's just... they didn't follow up with the amazing risk they could've taken.

I am ALL IN for Episode 9 being Luke trying his damndest to save Ren and Rey from the dark side and maybe redeeming himself.

It's Disney tho so of course no risks

Oh I agree, I so wanted Rey to turn evil.
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Yeah it's a good film. Has some flaws, but I appreciate the 8th movie of a franchise trying to subvert expectations rather than repeat them.
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That said some of those pics people posted are indeed terrible.

Like holy crap that lettuce Kefka.
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I mean, imagine if it was Link instead. Just OoT Adult Link against all of Nintendo.
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transience posted...

24.



Let me just drop this match picture in here.



Not enough is made of this picture today. It's the entirety of Nintendo against big dorky Tidus. This match had a stigma for years because of it. Was Melee really the stronger game? Probably. But with a dork like Tidus, you never know.

I remember being really unimpressed by both of these games. Melee got less than 54% on Vice City while FFX, and this one baffles me to this very day, couldn't double Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. What the heck is that? FFX went into this one as the slight fave, but it wasn't overwhelming, and certainly not with that picture.

The match itself wasn't really that close outside of the beginning. Melee started out in the lead, FFX grabbed it overnight and Melee blasted FFX in the day. It was basically your typical Cloud/Link, Nintendo/Square affair. FFX got it under 51 by the end of the match but it was never really in doubt by the time the sun came up.

I can't stress the skepticism that this match drew, though. Between that and the complete wildcard that was Starcraft, the next round was completely unpredictable.

I dunno if showing the protagonist of your game in his full 3D rendered glory is pic sabotage, I think that says more about the game itself.
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Wow some people clearly lack the mental age necessary to deal with differing opinions.
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I'm making a point not to look at xstats so some of those are based on pure feeling. Might have some big deviations here.
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Missed the near-elites.

1- Crono
2- Pikachu
3- Mega Man
4- Tifa
5- Mega Man X
6- Kirby
7- Bowser
8- Sephiroth
9- Luigi
10- Yoshi
11- Sonic
12- Ganondorf
13- Vivi
14- Alucard

As for the rest:

1- Aerith
2- Zero
3- Ryu
4- Squall
5- Dante
6- Donkey Kong
7- Red
8- Auron
9- Mewtwo
10- Charizard
11- Big Boss
12- Sora
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Wow someone beat me to it, and I thought I was being too niche.
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20th Century Boys

Super convoluted conspiracy story that spams 50 years and over 200 chapters and is also a homage to Rock and Roll.
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Nanis23 posted...

ZeldaTPLink posted...

That is probably the hardest game of the main 6 to find nowadays.

It got a 3DS port, it's on the eshop

Oh didn't know, I had to buy a cartridge two years ago when I played it.
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If only there was a contest in a year where Snake was the clear #2 with FF weakened and no MGS5 out yet to weaken him.

Oh there was, but Draven ruined it.
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That is probably the hardest game of the main 6 to find nowadays.
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LiquidOshawott posted...

I mean Snake got a solid shit pic and still did about as expected to Auron

Is GameFAQs really dumb enough to not realize Ganondorf and Ganon are the same

Its not looking like Ganon that is the problem, it's looking like crap.
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I just beat Zelda 1, loved it, and the final boss sucked.

It's not even a memorable part of the game, or a good one.
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Waluigi1 posted...

What do you mean by anti-climax? I'm not really sure what that's referring to.

You set the arc up to be resolved with a certain fight or resolution and in the end solve it with a far less flashy or epic way, usually with the characters going "meh" and just leaving.

It's fun every once in a while, but in HxH it happens almost every arc, sometimes more than once per arc. Feels like the entire manga is building up to something that never happens.
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Now you do!
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I know that is not the intent of the author but yeah the fans really sour me on it.

It probably cracks a top 20 of mine maybe. It is good. Specially the fighting system. Though I really think it has too many anti-cllimaxes.

It has some fantastic moments, though. Like the recent chapter where the two princess tried to escape the ship. Holy shit what a chapter.
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Like HxH is an anime for people who want to feel superior for not liking anime.
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Waluigi1 posted...

ZeldaTPLink posted...

I think HxH is massively overrated.

:/

It's not even really that popular.

Over here in the west*

You can't mention it in any anime forum and not get cornered by a horde of fans who think it's the best work of literature since Shakespeare.

Heck depending on where you go you can't mention you like stuff like Naruto and One Piece without the same funs showing up and snobbing you because you don't know real art.

There is something about HxH that makes its fans feel like intellectuals. I think it's the huge amount of subversions and anti-climaxes. The same thing doesn't appeal to me as much, though, because I actually like shounen.
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Also my list doesnt distinguish manga from anime. Its whatever the canon version is.
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I guess make it

7- Death Note
8 - Hystory's strongest disciple Kenichi
9- Code Geass
10- Either Hero Academia or Shaman King

So I have 10
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