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Games 1 > GOTD > My memory literally does not even remember GOTD2 was 2020 even a real year > Quotes Contest (i believe) > no thanks

I wasnt around for BGE1, so GotD1 gets my vote.

Also thank you for reminding me that BYIG even happened. I would never in a million years have remembered that contest if you told me to make a list.

I won $100 from BYIG so it's awfully tempting to vote for that...

Game of the Decade was the first one I was part of from the start. It also happened to be a good contest with a winner I was rooting for, and then basically all contests after kinda sucked. I liked Decade II, but the lower vote totals and even further removal of gamefaqs' taste from the mainstream hurts a lot.

I have a soft spot for Villains. It wasn't a great contest, but it was fun in its own way. I'd probably feel better about GotD1 if people hadn't rallied plucky underdog Zelda to victory and denied FFX its chance, so I ended up voting for the original Games Contest.

shout out to the one other person who voted CB8 last topic

LordoftheMorons posted...

I won $100 from BYIG so it's awfully tempting to vote for that...

Hi 5, buddy. Same here

Football posted...

shout out to the one other person who voted CB8 last topic

CBVIII was a great contest! The last great Character Battle, at the very least. I'd say last great contest period, but it came before GotD.

Hard to believe that was 13 years ago now.

BGE3 had the potential to be really great if not for Undertale

Perhaps the contest with the most missed potential ever

rip chrono trigger

can you believe some morons actually picked CT to lose to FFX

like me

Leonhart4 posted...

will the Attack on Titan Season 4 Part 3 Part 1 dub ever come out

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2023-08-13/.201208

oh lol

I was actually wondering about this earlier today.

24 Season 3 Episode 4 complete!

"Let me know when you start to worry." Epic one-liner by Chase, too bad he got ambushed by vigilante mode Bauer. Normally I can at least understand Jack's extreme methods, but he's pushing his luck here.

MacArrowny posted...

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2023-08-13/.201208

I feel like I searched for news about this literally the day before that, go figure

Votes GotD1

My wife went to bed early tonight so I got a chance to start Trails Into Reverie, and the intro to this game is exactly what I feared. They rapid-fire show a bunch of characters from the Crossbell games that I recognize, but they don't show their names and I blanked on like 75% of their names when I tried to remember them, so I'm already feeling overwhelmed...!

Not showing their names is incredibly stupid and I have no idea why these games do that

All right, I cleared the Crossbell Prologue in Trails Into Reverie.

Since when did Wazy and Wald work together? And when did Wald start wearing glasses? Anyway, this was a fairly straightforward prologue, and we didn't even have any situations where the SSS appeared to win and didn't. Now it looks like Crossbell will finally have its independence. Total success all around! Then we get a weird cutaway to something called Project Babel, which is now entering its second phase. Dun dun dunnnnnnnnn!

24 Season 3 Episode 5 complete!

Poor Chloe, she's just trying to do her job and everyone dumps on her.

Also Jack really should have more faith in his people to do their jobs.

I have managed to maximize my stamina in Tears of the Kingdom, aw yeah

I had max stamina with 5 hearts lol. First time you had to pick hearts and then the heart container for a temple.

I'm a coward who likes having lots of hearts

I alternated until I maxed out stamina.

It's very inconvenient when I am borderline old about checking every single bit of the map for korok seeds and such to have low stamina.

But I've appreciated getting more hearts since because everything got me to a quarter heart before (since very few things can OHKO from full health, you'll have a quarter of a heart left regardless of how many hearts you have at full, if it was strong enough to kill).

Hearts kinda felt like a waste early on since enemies would still 2HKO me. Like maybe now I survive with more than a quarter of a heart, but I still die in one more hit and I need more healing than before to top off my hearts.

Yeah, I'm not OCD when it comes to exploration. I'm more OCD about keeping my health high. So much cooking.

Mistborn book 2 beated. Wow, that was quite the twist at the end. Definitely would not have seen that one coming! They've set the stage for a pretty epic conclusion now.

love the end of book 2 (though the book itself was a bit tedious in places)

book 3 really ties everything together - it's a really well-imagined magic system!

Yeah, I definitely felt the drag at times, but the fantastic conclusion bailed it out.

I can't imagine exploring without 2 stamina wheels so I go for that instantly. I wish I could go for 3 but I do get pissed off dying to everything in one shot.

Eh, I would just mix elixirs to recover stamina or get the bonus wheel by paying a little extra at an inn or stable if I really needed the extra stamina. I was rarely in a spot where I literally couldn't get somewhere.

TheManaSword posted...

I alternated until I maxed out stamina.

Same.

My exploration continues... slowly. But I'm down to basically Death Mountain and its immediate surroundings now.

Cooking has to go into speeeeeeeed boosts at all the times. (at least if I actually regularly cooked I would)

I cook all the time (I love experimenting with different items trying to discover new recipes), but I wear the bandana the increases your climbing speed if I'm doing a lot of climbing.

Mistborn 2 - that scene where Vin headbutts a guy and his head explodes tho

For me I went at a 2:1 ratio, 2 stamina 1 heart until stamina was filled.

24 Season 3 Episode 6 complete!

Jack, sometimes you're too good at what you do for your own good, but I don't know what you thought was going to happen when you dropped off Ramon. Also, I'm glad Kim was logging these suspicious moments from Gael, but she should've gotten outta there instead of trying to call someone from his work area!

And I had a big "whoa" moment to see that Oscar from The Office was the pilot!

oscar from the office is a major "that guy" actor!

TOTK: Goron Region explored.

144 Shrines. 914 Koroks.

I see Goron City is in the middle of a very special episode but they'll have to wait on that. There's a shrine or two (I presume based on the radar and my own searching) as well as some cave exploration blocked off by these weird gloom rocks that didn't budge despite my trying a bunch of stuff but it sounds like breaking them is locked behind the quest so they will also have to wait.

This (mostly) completes the overworld exploring. Yay! The only region I haven't been to is the parts of Gerudo Desert under the sandstorm. I have three shrines marked on my map over there that I saw from a distance, combined with the one or two (I can't recall and since I can't see them... I'm basing it off radar pings) in the Goron area so that's at least four more. That Korok number continues to make me sad. I'd be surprised if there were more than say... 20... Koroks in the desert area I haven't been to so unless there's like 930-940 Koroks I must have missed a good bunch.

Gonna do some quest wraps up and whatever else I can think of aboveground and then the great Depths exploration shall begin.

wish me luck

Hopefully you survive the Gloom

who voted for BYIG

some men just want to watch the world burn

Strange Planet Episode 4 complete!

The strange sea captain was great.

24 Season 3 Episode 7 complete!

Okay, I think I'm in on this season now. Gael being a double agent working with Tony and Jack to get him in Hector's good graces was such a good twist. It definitely helps explain Jack's actions up to this point.

I always forget how big Crossbell is until I have to explore it for the first time in a new game!

also I don't know how to react to the game describing Wald as "Cockscombed Blowhard"

TOTK: Accidentally found another Shrine while bouncing around to turn in quests and check on a few things. Radar started pinging while I was hopping from shrine to shrine to get to places. It was one of the shrines inside a cave and I immediately realized what happened. It had to have been before I got my shrine radar because I never would have left it otherwise, and I must have been out of bombs because since the rock walls don't regenerate on a blood moon I could see my path through had been by just hammering through it with a 2H blunt sword. Normally I bomb those walls because it's just faster and gets more of the rock. But this particular one was blocking two "exits" and my hammering only got me to one of them while concealing the shrine behind the other. That's pretty rare so I must have just missed it since this had to have been pretty early on in my playing. So make that 145 Shrines.

Anyway, the Depths exploration has begun! I'm actually pretty good with this so far because now I am finally liberated from my Korok hunt (I did check way back when that there were no Koroks in the Depths) so I can finally equip something other than the Korok Mask lol. Early observation that I just want to check on, but I started in the area around Lookout Landing and it seems to be the case that the rivers are represented down here as impassable walls that you can't even climb over even if the minimap shows land just beyond. Is that accurate-ish? Kind of feels like it would naturally divide the Depths into chunks separated by them, though that's fine by me as well. Just defied my expectation that it was all completely connected like the overworld and that I'll need to pop up and go down different chasms to get to different spots.

Yeah, there are definitely unbridgeable gaps in the Depths, I guess so you can't get to everywhere from a single Chasm.

The number of restricted Depths areas is low. Maybe half a dozen? Probably less.

There are some pretty small ones though. I found one that just had a single large enemy in it.