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Also, Ulti, you whine about people and games on this board more than LMS posts irrelevant lists.
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Not Wylvane
Dr Football Factor'd.

If you have him on ignore then what's the problem? Heck no one has even replied to his post.
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Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats
Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru.

Hah.

Wylvane, you'll have a blast browsing around this site: http://www.socksmakepeoplesexy.net/index.php?a=patff
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Been there, done that.

I love his ability to be both accurate with his criticisms about the later games while being a whiny douche about it and ignoring their good aspects as well. It's like for each new FF game he comes in preemptively hating it.

His earlier ramblings are like half unrelated bull**** while his later ramblings are half *****ing about how new FF games aren't as good as old FF games.

I could probably come up with more material but I'm lazy.
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Not Wylvane
Dr Football Factor'd.

Halo: CE was the right game at the right time. Brought some more open-field battles, some smart AI, cinematic storytelling, incredible graphics for the time, awesome soundtrack, two weapon system, vehicular combat, regenerating health, and a huge jump in LAN parties all in one package to console gamers. I don't think it holds up that well with the repetitive level design now though.

Halo 3 has my favorite of the campaigns. More variety in weapons, enemies and set piece battles, plus 4-player co-op and arcade/skulls. Few experiences better than you and three friends storming towards the Covenant fortress with your two Scorpion tanks, blowing away everything with that great O'Donnell score. Good times ^_^ Tis a shame it follows one of the best FPS levels I've ever played(the Covenant) with one of the worst(Cortana).
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"if only there were some way I could have sex" - Smartmuffin

LAN parties are the only new thing Halo brought to the table, and I'm sure an argument could be made PCs did that years prior. Regenerating health is just stupid, but that's only one guy's opinion. Hated it in Halo, hated it in MGS3/4. If I suck at a game, let me die. Stop not punishing me for being bad.
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"You are the king of derailing topics." -Lucid

My only real issue with Pat is how he contradicts himself a lot. Like in the FF9 writeup, he devoted a ton of time to how cool it is when Square puts in homages to older games in the series. Then for FF13, he whines about those homages.
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"There are no fingerprints deep under water, nothing to tie one to a crime
And if you seek vengeance, all you need are instruments of pain." -Dethklok

Halo's a solid series (having only extensively played the first two games), but I never got into it like many of my other friends. What I could use some help understanding is how Modern Warfare so easily took the FPS-crown from Halo in 2007.
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Nominate EPONA for Character Battle 9:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=54225515

Because it's better.
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Truly, if there is a god of destiny, he is fond of plot twists.

CoD have some solid 4-hour campaign modes, but they have zero replay value, due to the nature of its tin-duck shooting gallery enemies, the "get past the invisible line for enemies to stop spawning" level design, and all the cutscenes are integrated into the game(so even when you just wanna shot up some folks, you gotta sit through it). There's often only one route through the entire level, and its easy to see the strings pulling this whole puppet show together.

Multiplayer ****ing sucks though. I like the idea of gaining xp and weapons/levels/perks, but the actual gameplay is terrible. It all comes down to who sees who first, you shoot them for 1.5 seconds, and then keep going, you respawn whoops instantly killed by spawn camper do the God awful spawning placement, run around guy sees you first shoots you in 1.5 seconds, respawn again. It doesn't really matter what weapon you pick up, they all essentially do the same damn thing. In Halo, I have a lot of memorable kills and battles; sticky a guy on his balls before he blew up my team's Warthog, walking into a room and clearing out the whole team with flag melees, being invisible and jump sitting in the corner of opposite team the whole game just to hear their conversations(thanks Social Slayer!). What do I remember about CoD? I ran up a corner, I saw a guy and shot him for 2 seconds. I kept running and then I got killed by a body shot sniper. Rinse and repeat.
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The day Dr. Footballl blessed us with his presence was the greatest day of our lives
But for him, it was Tuesday

FPS discussion. Yawn.
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We can't all talk about JRPGs/Nintendo all the time. I know B8 doesn't like to step out of that comfort zone, but there are other games out there.
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"if only there were some way I could have sex" - Smartmuffin

B8 likes to talk about those games, CS&D on the otheeeeeer hand.
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mii~

From: vcharon | #111
FPS discussion. Yawn.

Hey I love JRPGs and Nintendo and action games too, but there's other great stuff out there.
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"The point of a message board is to have fun. Trolling is how I have fun." -Albion

Shouldn't any PAR-TAY have FPS and Guitar Hero and Rock Band and girls? <_<
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Words are so very unnecessary. They can only do harm.

Posting in legendary part 900 topic.

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New York Mets
Boston Celtics

Halo is fun and well made. I think it's the next step for multiplayer console gaming, or rather, it was at the time. Before that it was mostly Mario Kart or Goldeneye, and Halo wipes out Goldeneye pretty handily, say what you want about being a fan of GE007.

In terms of "this is a good game", it doesn't matter who did what first, especially when the steps are logical and obvious. Halo was a good FPS game that had terrific multiplayer, both PvP and co-op, and it came out during a time where good FPS games weren't really in abundance on consoles. And the Xbox controller, OK maybe the S version, was great for console FPS gaming. The original Halo succeeded on its own merits. Word of mouth carried this game, people visiting a friend who had an Xbox learned to really like it, etc.
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Donny: Are they gonna hurt us, Walter?
Walter: No, Donny. These men are cowards.

Valkyria Chronicles is amazingly awesome.

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GT: TriggerTRE PSN ID: SolidTRE
Dr_Football > Soccer, and your mom.

Yes it is, shame about the sequel though.
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Donny: Are they gonna hurt us, Walter?
Walter: No, Donny. These men are cowards.

Does Mr Reaper not possess a PSP at this point in time?
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Hau hauu, omochi kaeri!

From: AppIekidjosh | #020
UltimaterializerX | Posted 5/10/2010 7:31:06 AM | message detail
Wait, what.

http://llanimu.ath.cx/animu_stats.php

this keeps track of how many posts per topic each of the regulars makes. You can click the names to see graphs over time, click the topic link to go to the topic, and click individual numbers to go to that topic filtered by user.

Hovering over the topic name shows the title, and under the topic it shows how long it took to reach 5000. As you can see, we average 5000 posts every two days.

TRE *has* to be good enough writing scripts to make that for the stats topic, right?
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There are two types of people: Those who love Portal, and those who haven't played it yet.

From: UltimaterializerX | #115
Shouldn't any PAR-TAY have FPS and Guitar Hero and Rock Band and girls? <_<

Throw in some Smash Bros and you've got the quintessential gamer party.
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Not Wylvane
Dr Football Factor'd.

****, how could I forget Smash?

And today's poll is awesome, go Facebook!
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Make me a perfect lie.

Should be Brawl because it's better for parties than Melee due to being slightly more accessibly (SSBM's lightning speed damn you).

For what it's worth my opinion on Brawl vs. Melee is essentially the same as CrappyCaptureDevice's: I like Brawl more due to having more content including a more whacky cast of playable characters, and I play Melee occasionally but I find it plays at lightning speed for me. Also the AI and singleplayer are better in Brawl. That's from actually playing both games, d'oh.

*don't give me any crap for the next part of this post*

Also it seems that most critics who didn't like Melee liked Brawl. For instance Edge Magazine gave Melee a 6/10 (with the fast pacing rendering the game nearly unplayable according to the review), and gave Brawl a 9/10 (for fixing that criticism).

TRE *has* to be good enough writing scripts to make that for the stats topic, right?

Nope. Not at the moment at least.
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Dr_Football punted my bracket across the field.
Congrats to Dr_Football for winning the Character Battle 8 Guru Contest!

For what it's worth I don't think Melee is a bad game at all. It just isn't nearly as good as people like Ulti make it out to be.

Same true with both Twilight Princess and Brawl. Not exactly best game ever material, but closer to that than they are to being terrible IMO. The way I think about it it's nice to see people who like both games just to silence the haters.

From: Team Rocket Elite | #125
TRE *has* to be good enough writing scripts to make that for the stats topic, right?

Nope. Not at the moment at least.

Plus it'd be a cluster**** to count all the posts from people like me who constantly has new accounts.

A search function and some better formatting would be ingenious, but doing that work on ten pages of ~900 topics would be kind of a nightmare, so I'd understand the current format being left alone.

Though some CSS work could probably make better formatting trivial, but then I've only worked a little bit with it so hell if I know if you can translate the way GameFAQs saves pages into something easier to work with and read.
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Not Wylvane
Dr Football Factor'd.

Wow over 78% of people think that the next gen consoles won't be announced this year?

If we were to go with history next gen should be in full swing by the end of 2011.
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Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats
Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru.

No console has really been a failure this generation, unlike the Xbox and GameCube of last gen. That, along with the increasing stupidity of American teens, will likely lead to this generation just drawing out and not advancing.

Really though, I can't imagine how the 8th gen is going to be.

All three consoles are running strong at this point, and Microsoft and Sony still have tricks up their sleeves for their consoles (Natal, Lollipop), while Nintendo probably wouldn't want to announce both the 3DS and the Wii's successor in the same E3.

I think the next gen will be delayed a couple of years. We may finally see info next year, but who knows at this point.
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Not Wylvane
Dr Football Factor'd.

HEY!
Nintendo has THE VITALITY SENSOR, that will set the pulses running!
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Uguu~

Wii Health 2010 GotY
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Not Wylvane
Dr Football Factor'd.

Wii Sleep
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Hau hauu, omochi kaeri!

Just beat Phantom Hourglass and finished up a review for it.

Why do I torture myself so? What a terrible game that was.
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"Opinions are like butts, little girl. Everyone has one and no one thinks theirs stink." -Lunar 2

http://www.gamefaqs.com/ds/932377-the-legend-of-zelda-phantom-hourglass/reviews/review-141230
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"Ulti is the authority on birth control because his shirt has the power to impregnate any woman that looks at it for too long."-Tim

get cracking on spirit tracks.
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Nyoro~n

No.
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If anyone is fit to shine, it is I.

Hello, Mr Bubbles.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Even Part 900 can't stand up to the power of the offseason.
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Not Wylvane
Dr Football Factor'd.

It's kinda sad, but relaxing too.
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Nominate EPONA for Character Battle 9:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=54225515

Over 90% in a 6-way poll?
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Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats
Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru.

Aww yeah, a blowout. This was when I voted:

In a hospital 87.5% 28
On the way to the hospital 0% 0
At a birthing center 3.13% 1
At home 3.13% 1
Somewhere else 3.13% 1
I don't know, I've never asked 3.13% 1
TOTAL VOTES 32

Once it got up to around 93%, it remained almost stable the whole way through.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ!

In a hospital for the next Character Contest plz.
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Not Wylvane
Dr Football Factor'd.

Nah ,its opponents are just all Tanners.
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The Gamer In Me
"Ike and Ash and co. saw a Yoshi and didn't catch it" - Mer telling us his dream

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3917&region=NL

Wow, the Dutch are weirdos. Too many home births there. Also, birthing centers are more popular in Europe than in the US or Canada. Seems like the birthing center votes are coming from Russia (it's yellow on the world map) and also from Sweden and Finland:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3917&region=SE
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3917&region=FI
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ!

It makes sense. In the old days babies were born at home by midwives and it is still done today.
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Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats
Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru.

Doesn't make any sense why home births are way more common in the Netherlands than in the other European countries. Home births are almost non-existent in other European countries outside of the Netherlands.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ!

Each country is different. Canada and US have largely disagreed with each other in the past.
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Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats
Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru.

It's kind of sad that nobody seems to care about the Mario series this gen.
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Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats
Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru.

Quite frankly I could understand that happening better at another site, because from what I've seen games like BioShock, Call of Duty 4, Portal, and even perhaps Mass Effect and Left 4 Dead have made more headway in their respective genres than Mario Galaxy (or anything that has come from Nintendo in either of the past two gens, really). Also it's hilarioius that 2007 was the best year of the decade (for gaming) to many critics and gamers, yet it's probably one of the weaker years for GameFAQs ('cuz all of the big games were FPSs, Super Mario Galaxy, Mass Effect, God of War II, or Rock Band). But yeah for most GameFAQs guys not to care about the Mario series this gen when we're still sticking with Nintendo and Square for the most part and other sites are flocking to all the next-gen stuff, and Galaxy to be weak...

IMO there's something about all of Nintendo's newer games that somehow holds them back from the absolute classic status that games like Ocarina of Time, Mario 64, Mario World, Mario 3, and A Link to the Past had. Looking back Metroid Prime didn't feel like top 10 game material, Melee has aged badly, Twilight Princess and Brawl (and even Wind Waker to a slightly smaller extent) feel slightly unfinished.

For what it's worth Mario Galaxy didn't do too well in CrispyGamer's Best Game of the Decade contest either. It took a 2 seed and unexpectedly lost to Shadow of the Colossus in round 2.