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    Arctic Mafia (Game Thread)

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    5 minutes ago, weinerboy said:

    Actually, I agreed with Iris about blue skies being the best theme, which also happens to be my favorite color, which also happens to be the color that is not scum, which also happens to me, which also happens to not be you who would choose dark, which also happens to be eat me ur argument is debunked cue explosion

    I reject your reality and substitute it in with my own.

    Arctic Mafia (Game Thread)

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    22 minutes ago, Ampharos said:

    ISOs are for cowards. I will be developing my reads using a combination of traditional shamanic divination and the "Ask Madden" feature.

    Sorry for spamming the thread but I was checking to see if I missed anything and this post is so good.

    Arctic Mafia (Game Thread)

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    Just now, weinerboy said:

    :blink:

    "YOU'RE NOT USING THE PROPER FORMAT" ~ Mysterious Spectator X

    2 minutes ago, weinerboy said:

    ^ Above post v scummy...

    I agree, Amy's post was very scum motivated. Sakura Forest? Pshaw. However, I think picking the obvious third place is more likely to come from misguided town whereas picking the safe second place like you did is more scum motivated.

    Treatment of Female Lords in their games (save Eirika)

    in General Fire Emblem

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    13 minutes ago, Icelerate said:

    Being a sole protagonist doesn't mean better writing and the post I quoted mentioned him as an example of a solo protagonist which I'm presuming means he thinks that is a good example. I still don't see how sharing spotlight means the lord is worse than a lord without sharing spotlight. 

    It doesn't mean better writing but it does mean that a female protagonist doesn't get sidelined which is what I want. Good writing is of course the most important but that's not exactly something I can quantify to "do this and you get good writing".

    2 minutes ago, NinjaMonkey said:

    Lyn has an entire mode to herself.

    Her name is Corrin.

    1) Lyn Mode is a sidestory at best

    2) Corrin can be a male and is an avatar character. Gender is like...negative levels of important.

    3) Corrin isn't well written at all. :(

    Is the "this is a good game, just not a good *insert series name here* game" a valid complaint?

    in General Gaming

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    5 hours ago, Edgelord said:

    Because Nuts and Bolts clearly is one, people were just so upset by it because they were expecting Banjo Kazooie 3 to be coming, which never happened. I dunno, it's weird to me, it's like getting mad about that Mario + Ravin Rabbids X-COM game because it doesn't really have any gameplay like Mario or Rayman/Rabbids games.

    Honestly, releasing spinoffs in a game series that is no longer getting any main entries is pretty disappointing for its own reasons. Mario has never had this problem.

     

    Is the "this is a good game, just not a good *insert series name here* game" a valid complaint?

    in General Gaming

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    17 minutes ago, Dragoncat said:

    I heard that, but with Skyward Sword instead. 

    Totally agree. Some people just can't take off their nostalgia glasses. With Zelda for example, there are people who worship OoT and everything else is automatically a bad Zelda game because it's not OoT.

    I'm kind of guilty of it myself though, I don't consider Skylanders true Spyro games. But I also don't think they're good games in general. They're gimmicky and got boring really quick.

    I don't think people like that actually exist.

    Bad example, Skylanders is not the same series as Spyro. The first game just put Spyro's name in the title as a marketing stunt.

    1 minute ago, Arcphoenix said:

    It is valid. Whether or not it's good to the series is dependent on how it holds up to series standard and the expectations set for the series. If it can be enjoyed independently, especially by an outsider unfamiliar with the series, then it's a good game in it's own right.

    Agreed.  Games that are good in their own right can come across as downright mediocre when compared to the rest of their series. For example, the Mega Man Classic series has roughly 11 games that play very similarly to each other. The formula is good and reused for a reason, so each game is on its own merits a good game; it's when you compare any given Mega Man game to the greater series that you can more properly analyze its merits and determine if it really holds up to the rest of the series. This should prove BTW that it's not a complaint that's used to decry innovation or radical changes within a series.

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