Board 8 > A Gauntlet Topic [gauntlet]

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http://www.mediafire.com/file/2upeqasbyogqh8a/VideoGameLocations.zip/file

150 new locations, some based on food/drink areas for Thanksgiving theming, some floating islands, and lots from new games such as Hypnospace Outlaw and The Outer Worlds! Enjoy!

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Sorry it took a bit. If no one has played it, I do recommend Concrete Genie. I watched a playthrough of it for the character pics and ended up enjoying it quite a bit. If you like movies by Laika, it really feels like a video game Laika movie. The art is phenomenal.
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v_charon posted...

Sorry it took a bit. If no one has played it, I do recommend Concrete Genie. I watched a playthrough of it for the character pics and ended up enjoying it quite a bit. If you like movies by Laika, it really feels like a video game Laika movie. The art is phenomenal.

I actually bought it but haven't had the chance to play it. It looks great

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Finally got around to doing mine, and ended up cheating after I realized I didn't want to pick a couple things, hence why it ended up 9 of my nominations and one date spot, ahaha~

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The November update is now available. With 379 new characters from last month's biggest releases such as Death Stranding, Pokemon Sword and Shield, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Shenmue III and many more along with your nominations. The total gauntlet file should read 21,600 characters now. As always, use the "new" tag to check out the new stuff this month.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/8d55dbs7035o2hi/VideoGameCharacters.rar/file

There are a couple of Native Americans included in this update for the obvious holiday, but can you spot 5 (actually 6, but from a new game last month) additional new characters celebrating a less known November holiday?
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(even I had a couple Native Americans in my nominations, ahaha~)

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Any runs yet? I don't really want to post mine because it spoils what's in it.
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v_charon posted...

Any runs yet? I don't really want to post mine because it spoils what's in it.

haven't had the chance yet; plan to tomorrow

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I will do mine soon too!

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I had it downloaded but apparently forgot to play it, I should get to it probably this weekend.

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>_>
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Goddamnit I totally forgot fuck

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ugh three sneaks wtf

Was the holiday Veterans Day? A couple I thought might fit for that

also surprised so many of those Last of Us characters weren't in already

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Sorry for being late charon! One of the more "unknown" updates for me honestly but still good work. I didn't notice the holiday unfortunately.

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Not sure why the direct uploading isn't working
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Yeah The Last of Us missing so many characters, even a few important ones, was surprising to me. Probably one of the biggest omissions I've found in the last few months. No correct guesses on the holiday yet, I'll let Wickle try or you guys can look again. I'll reveal it later on this weekend. Like I said, this holiday isn't a particularly well known one!
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I'll be able to play it today.

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I think Johnny Bravo in particular makes me wanna guess Single's Awareness Day. But he was a part of a bunch of Cartoon Network people so that shuts it a little down (though all of the others were also single for a majority of their show, Levin obviously had someone in the grown up version of the show). There were also some Hunie characters. I don't really have any other clues, or clues to other holidays.

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Just saw a ghost, so it has a chance of also being Dia de los Muertos, if that was hunted down.

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So fun fact about this update, like usual I went in expecting some nomination I tossed in to win because I still get stuff I really like in each update, but, as it turns out someone major was nominated. So my girlfriend got obsessed with doing 3x3 collages with different themes, and one was bosses, so I chose to do two, one for final bosses, and one for regular ones. As someone who doesn't have the greatest variety of games, my final bosses actually managed to get... well...

https://imgur.com/KilE53g

Her. And actually thinking about it I realized just how much I liked her as a villain, and think even after a lot, she might make top 20 of like a personal antagonist list.

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So the additional theme for November was actually Transgender Day of Remembrance, and as such I added in 5 trans characters on purpose (there was a sixth due to Shenmue III).
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v_charon posted...

So the additional theme for November was actually Transgender Day of Remembrance, and as such I added in 5 trans characters on purpose (there was a sixth due to Shenmue III).

Damn, can't believe I missed that. Which characters?

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Miranda Comay (Watch Dogs 2)
Hainly Abrams (Mass Effect: Andromeda)
Reni Wassulmaier (GTA: Vice City Stories)
Ned Wynert (Assassin's Creed: Syndicate)
Guillo (Baten Kaitos: Origins)
-Song Qun (Shenmue III)
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Oh Damn, Ned really should've given it away

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Expect the 2000 tag/update to be ready before Christmas, so if you've got some time away from responsibilities you should have something to occupy you for a short while!
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More than likely I won't be able to get this out until Christmas night; Santa is running behind.
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http://www.mediafire.com/file/8d55dbs7035o2hi/VideoGameCharacters.rar/file

It's still Christmas night on the West Coast! This update contains the 2000 tag. It also contains 378 new characters specifically from that year, which as always you can use the "new" tag to check those out specifically if you would like. Somehow this update came out to 800 characters exactly from this first year of the millennium, which I find a little odd since this is over 100 fewer characters than the previous year. The characters I added in was also a bit less, so perhaps the year 2000 was just a slightly smaller release year gaming wise or had games that had smaller casts perhaps. As always, the project is never truly complete but it tag is up and running for all that's currently in. Hope everyone enjoys and Merry Christmas.
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I think that was one of my favorites of the new tag so far! Vampire Night is very underappreciated. Loved the Hitman and Thief 2 adds as well. Full tag coming later.

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my computer has been particularly slow so I'm plan on trying to play tomorrow


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ended up getting to it tonight


While Shy Guy and Agent 47 are both great, it ultimately wasn't a big year for me as far as game characters went. Mid 2000s is when a lot more of my favorites will start showing up I expect

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1984+: Donkey Kong
1985: Bowser
1986: George
1987: Little Mac
1988: Rick Taylor
1989: Prince of Persia
1990: Big Boo
1991: Sonic the Hedgehog
1992: Kirby
1993: Meta Knight
1994: Heihachi Mishima
1995: Rock
1996: Marx
1997: Devil Jin Kazama
1998: Kilik
1999: Nemesis
2000: Shy Guy

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Don't forget you can still get your nominations in for the December update as well, which will probably follow in release next weekend.
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Nominations sent for VGC, gonna work on locations now.

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So following the next update, I am thinking of doing a hosted gauntlet for Best of 2019. The 2019 tag will be complete, well as much as it can be at this moment, so I was hoping people would want to do their own solo 2019 tag gauntlets since it seems timely and fitting. But would people be interested in a group gauntlet for the tag? As it stands, the tag is sitting at 1228 characters for the current year and with this month's additions... doubtful it reaches 1300 since this is a pretty small month and some of the major releases are games that weren't even initially released in this year, but that's still a large amount of characters and it'll likely take some time to finish it. There's no save feature obviously and while my computer rarely resets or anything I'm always worried about leaving a gauntlet open and unfinished.

That said, how many people would like to make a good day of this? It would have to be well-planned in advance but I'd like to see if it's possible to still run a gauntlet in this day and age with a group.
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Yeah I'm for sure interested! Weekdays are the best for me but I could probably squeeze in a weekend if necessary.

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Maybe, but I'm not going to know 90% of the characters, which is why I haven't been running the monthly updates, etc.

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I'm definitely down and honestly I want to run a Best of 2019 group for VG Locations as well at some point

The day isn't as important for me as the time most likely. Between 5pm-11pm est is the sweet spot, anything earlier or later and I probably won't make it

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http://www.mediafire.com/file/2upeqasbyogqh8a/VideoGameLocations.zip/file

It's here! The final VGL update of the year, featuring a wrap up of 2019's locales, a bunch of castles, and winter/ice/Christmas themed levels. 150, new, you know what to do!

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I can probably have December ready for New Year's Day.

As far as the hosted gauntlet goes, for that 5-11 timeslot that would have to be a weekend day for me. On weekdays I probably couldn't begin until 8, but this might require over 3 hours possibly. Anyone else out there in the former world of gauntlets?
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And it's here. This is December's update featuring characters from "new releases" like SaGa: Scarlet Grace and Raging Loop along with some of the month's actual new games such as Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York and the final episode of Life is Strange 2. Plenty of other smaller releases and more including your nominations are included. This contains 322 new characters which you can find with the "new" tag, and with 2019 over the 2019 tag should now also be ready play in full (1327 total). The total gauntlet should now stand at 22,300 in the current version.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/8d55dbs7035o2hi/VideoGameCharacters.rar/file
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Locations first. Strong stuff in there.
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Oh, I forgot. There's obvious Christmas stuff in the update, but I've continued the theme of "less well known holiday" once again. Let me know if you think you've found it!
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Nappy Yew Hear!

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I didn't realize Simulacra 2 was fully out, I gotta play that ASAP.

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It was released on phones in December yes; it won't be out on PC until later this month I think.
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Ah okay, thanks for the heads-up!

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Also, Greg?!
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