Hey, it's true. I wonder if the pace can be kept, though,
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BOWSER, Ocelot, SEPHIROTH, Liquid, KEFKA, Ridley, GANONDORF, Kuja

I'm just happy that the PC is doing so well.

During my time of being unable to get online, I started replaying SoAL. It's been long enough that I've forgotten some things, so I am actually a bit surprised at some points, or I don't remember what is going to happen until right before it happens.

Everyone needs to play SoAL. <3
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Vexilla regis prodeunt Inferni. ~ Dante Alighieri

Eh, ever since playing Paper Mario 2 and Tales of Symphonia, I don't think I can go back to the annoyingly frequent random battles of SoAL.
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"Thank you, Mario. But our princess is in another castle."
-Toad in Super Mario Bros.

Yeah, I was a bit surprised at the Xbox doing that. But I was even more surprised with the PC's showing. It held a lead for 6 hours, and will likely finish a very close second.

I blame World of Warcraft.

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Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best. Game. Ever." Contest
"If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh!" -Magus Zeal

Eh, ever since playing Paper Mario 2 and Tales of Symphonia, I don't think I can go back to the annoyingly frequent random battles of SoAL.

The frequency is really, really exaggerated, especially once you get the White Map, which you can get quite early.

And SoAL's weakest area is definitely the random battles, slowness of the battles, but it more than makes up for it with the overworld - yes the overworld is awesome in SoAL - the characters, and the story. And it even has a protagonist that knows how to do "optimistic" without taking it to Heroic Mario levels... Lloyd sucks. >_>
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Vexilla regis prodeunt Inferni. ~ Dante Alighieri

Lloyd's optomism doesn't bother me. He just happens to be a complete idiot.

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Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best. Game. Ever." Contest
"If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh!" -Magus Zeal

Lloyd's level of optimism and his constant speeches about how to treat other people at the end made me desperately want to see him die a horrible death. I am no longer in preschool and I don't want video game characters to be lecturing me. And if I have to sit through it, I don't want him doing it 5+ times in the last two - three hours of the game.

But, yes, Vyse does optimistic well, but he isn't an idiot. >_>
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Vexilla regis prodeunt Inferni. ~ Dante Alighieri

Well, it's not that SoAL's battles are any more frequent than other RPGs=it's just that they're so freakin' slow. At the very minimum, you spend at least a minute in each battle. Therefore, it just seems like you're running into a random battle every two seconds.
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"Thank you, Mario. But our princess is in another castle."
-Toad in Super Mario Bros.

PS2 > PC > Xbox > Gamecube? Not entirely believing that right now, heh, even though Xbox will only grow through-out the day if it brings out its poll-tendencies again.
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But the reason why I like Lloyd is because he's an idiot.
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Just like everything quiet and beautiful on this planet, my thread was ruined by man. Sakura 26
Zelos: Don't hate me just because I'm beautiful.

Xbox is steadily gainin'.....
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I'm making a Clinkeroth less bracket right now, and I must say, it's a lot more fun than making one with Clinkeroth.
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Indeed they are fun. I'm 'bout to post my updated one, which I think is lookin' better right now.
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But the reason why I like Lloyd is because he's an idiot.

He isn't a "likeable" idiot, though. He's an "idiot who, if I knew someone like him in real life, I would have chained up in my dungeon/basement and would torture on a daily basis just for being stupid" type of idiot.

Not that I have a dungeon where I torture people. *cough*

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Vexilla regis prodeunt Inferni. ~ Dante Alighieri

He won't even be strong enough to beat the greatest video game character of all time in the first place

Well, it's obvious that Wesker wouldn't beat Squall, but I don't see what that's got to do with anything since he's not in this contest.
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Yes, I know most of you know who I am by now. But shh! Don't tell anyone <_<

Squall isn't the greatest video game character of all time. Give it up.
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But my silent fears have gripped me, long before I reach the phone, long before my tongue has tripped me. Must I always be alone?

So says you. I feel differently.
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Yes, I know most of you know who I am by now. But shh! Don't tell anyone <_<

MAUGS > SAUQLL

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Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best. Game. Ever." Contest
"If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh!" -Magus Zeal

Anybody who posts that like automatically has his/her opinion invalidated.
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Yes, I know most of you know who I am by now. But shh! Don't tell anyone <_<

FEECS > MAUGS
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Anyone who is devoid of humor to the point of having random insanity being synonymous with stupidity needs to be tied up and tickled to death. LAUGH, you fiend.

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Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best. Game. Ever." Contest
"If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh!" -Magus Zeal

http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=20638010

Link to my updated bracket. Methinks it's mean as ever, personally.


Meanwhile...hmmm, just thinkin' of potentially-near-equal villains here, but who would you take in a Wily/Ansem match?
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Wily, by a lot.
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Ansem. I expect him to be fairly close to what Sora looked like in 2k3, and I don't expect Wily to be any better off than Protoman.
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But my silent fears have gripped me, long before I reach the phone, long before my tongue has tripped me. Must I always be alone?

Anyone who is devoid of humor to the point of having random insanity being synonymous with stupidity needs to be tied up and tickled to death. LAUGH, you fiend.

It's hard to consider it "random insanity" when it's been so hopelessly overdone, and then there's the fact that it was never funny to begin with.

But maybe that's just me.

Oh, and Wily > Ansem
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Yes, I know most of you know who I am by now. But shh! Don't tell anyone <_<

Go, Xbox! That kicks ass right there.

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“Thou hast lost thy friend before thine very eyes; there art no words to comfort thee.”

I'd pick Wily over Ansem easy. Ansem won't be close to Sora's strength, because he plays such a small part in the game.

ToS SPOILERS

And yes, Lloyd is an idiot. ToS was the first RPG I ever played where I wasn't behind the hero's goals. I mean, I may have not like past heroes, but I've at least though "Well, they're doing the right thing under the circumstances." ToS took the shades of grey angle almost a little too far... Before Mithos went into "I will create a world of emotionless people where I can have incestuous relations with my sister" mode, I thought that he had a better idea for the worlds than Lloyd did... or at least a more realistic view of how to run a world.
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http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=20388161 - The GameFAQs Fanfiction Project, based off of the Spring Contest!

Wily would own that match.
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SpC2K5 Elite 8
BOWSER, Ocelot, SEPHIROTH, Liquid, KEFKA, Ridley, GANONDORF, Kuja

I'd take Wily, but he wouldn't win by a big margin. I'd guess he'd win with somewhere aroung 55-58%.
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For the sake of simplicity, I'm going to refer to Gordon Freeman versus Tanner as Schrodinger's Match. -Phoenix Flattener

Sir Bormun - I feel the same way about Magento/Xavier (Xmen). Magneto's goals are better, the humans are just begging to get wiped out.

My parents think I'm evil for talking about that >_>
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Nominate Ghaleon for SC2K5. I eat lard.
(4/05/05 - 5/05/05)

I dunno about you, but I thought those amazingly sappy inspirational speeches by Lloyd near the end of game were downright embarrassing.
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"Thank you, Mario. But our princess is in another castle."
-Toad in Super Mario Bros.

Some of Lloyd's speeches at the end are downright ridiculous. I don't agree with a lot of what he said.
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Hi,I'm partystar. ^_^
Or maybe I'm Leonhart. That's for you to decide.

Are you prepare to see Ridley/Diablo be a better match than Frog/Master Chief in the Summer Contest last year..?
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Birdie, birdie, in the sky, why'd you do that in my eye? Looks like sugar, tastes like sap. OMG! IT'S BIRDIE CRAP!--Gr8cybermonkey

don't worry it won't be. Sin vs. Robotnik will be much closer.

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VOTE FOR ULTROS!!! G'FHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Trivia XIV: MEATWADD SUCKS!!

What happens when you throw Solid Snake, Master Cheif, Zero, Magus, Auron, Ganondorf, Naked Snake, Aeris, and Sonic in one division? Find out here!

http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=20643717

(Yeah, it's a cheesy line to get people to hopefully check out my bracket.)
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Nothing this year is touching Frog/MC, and only a select few matches could possibly be Frog/Solid-close (which is something I don't count on seeing any of right now).
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Meanwhile...hmmm, just thinkin' of potentially-near-equal villains here, but who would you take in a Wily/Ansem match?

Ansem. I can just feel people underestimating him against Ganondorf. No way in hell he's close, but I expect it to be closer than most think.
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One who knows nothing can understand nothing.
"Revenge is a dish best served cold." - Old Klingon Proverb

Nothing this year is touching Frog/MC, and only a select few matches could possibly be Frog/Solid-close (which is something I don't count on seeing any of right now).

Hell, I'm going to go on the record and say that NOTHING will ever be closer than Frog/MC. The odds of a 7-vote margin ever being beaten are astronomically high.
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True enough...but then again, it was hard for me to ever imagine anybody beating Sonic/Samus 2k2's 34 votes, then we had two matches that beat it last summer alone. Plus, should a match be VERY close like that at the end again, I could see CJay waiting for the very last second before closing it.
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HaRRicH, that bracket is one of the better ones I've seen, but it's a shame that you stuck Magus in Zero and Samus' division as opposed to Solid Snake and/or Sonic's division.

BTW, seeding by the X-Stats is lame. I definitely wouldn't mind having a non-Noble Niner in teh Elite Eight.
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"I don't care about your instrument! My god is communicating with me!"
- Ludwig van Beethoven

I thought about it, but Solid/Magus and Solid/Zero have become so cliche over the off-season and I didn't wanna go through that recycled mess any more than I had to. Also, if Solid Snake doesn't get his act together this year, Tidus may be strong enough for the upset instead (assuming he doesn't choke, which he could...and probably would, heh).
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That would require a massive drop by Solid Snake. I don't see that happening =P
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"I don't care about your instrument! My god is communicating with me!"
- Ludwig van Beethoven

track
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This sentence has five words. This sentence has eight words.
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4 more days til I speak anew...with the first match of the contest woohoo!
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SP2K Dream Final: Dr. Wily vs Kefka
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Either that and/or Tidus's real strength must nearly match his 2k3 value if Solid/Tidus would be close:

-Solid 2k4's value compared to Cloud 2k3 gets him 31.98%.
-Tidus 2k3's value compared to Cloud 2k3 gets him 33.14%.

Granted, several things would likely keep Tidus from being a complete threat (tendency to choke, chance his 2k4 strength is true/more true than his 2k3 strength, theory of his 2k3 four-pack being screwy, MGS3, bracket-support, and probably another thing or two, heh), but Tidus very well could impress too. Never know.....
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Well, the only way a non-Noble Niner is going to make it into the Elite Eight is if you get into a half division without one of them in it, which would require somebody else to steal the 2 seed from one of them.
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Hi,I'm partystar. ^_^
Or maybe I'm Leonhart. That's for you to decide.

Oh, and retiring Clinkeroth would do it, too.
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Hi,I'm partystar. ^_^
Or maybe I'm Leonhart. That's for you to decide.

After doing a bracket without Clinkeroth, I'm all for removing Clinkeroth. It really frees up the 2 seeds, making the Sweet 16 much more exciting.
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Proud supporter of Ghaleon, Kefka, Ultros, Liquid, Ocelot, and Wily!

Wait, not Sweet 16, Elite 8. I think. Whenever it is that the 2 faces the winner of the 3/6/11/14. That round.
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Proud supporter of Ghaleon, Kefka, Ultros, Liquid, Ocelot, and Wily!

That's the Sweet Sixteen.
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