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Post by Red Impact on Aug 31, 2014 11:39:12 GMT -5
I think a lot of people dislike Soul Calibur IV. The Create A Soul wasn't as good as III's and obviously inferior to V's, and the Star Wars characters were lamer than even Necrid from II. Worse, Yoda was downright broken due to his size. What is the general opinion of the Soul series anyway? I played all of them except V. Soul Edge is viewed mostly like Tekken 1 is to Tekken, an early predecessor that is overshadowed by later games. 1 is a classic 2 is considered one of the most balanced fighting games ever and one of the best fighting games I'm pretty sure the series has been considered sliding downward since then. They're still pretty well regarded, although 5 was mixed. But 2 was well enough received that it's hard to beat it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2014 11:51:00 GMT -5
I hate most indie games. The only ones I liked were The Walking Dead and one I can't remember the name of, but all the chars felt the need to rhyme everything (which got old, fast), and that one was only ok. I wouldn't say "hate" in my case, but I don't like most indie games either. Most of them have extravagantly silly gimmicks and as a person who prefers "serious" games with deep storytelling and cinematic combat, they just don't do it for me. Here's an unpopular game opinion of mine (I've been on a Mass Effect kick lately, so here's another one): Mark Meer is a much better Commander Shepard than Jennifer Hale. Don't get me wrong, Hale is a stellar voice actress, but her performance as FemShep is just mediocre. Meer in ME1 wasn't comfortable and sounded phoned in a lot of times, but in ME2 and ME3 really understood how to play Shepard and went wild and crazy with his emotional range (whether positive, badass, corny, you name it, he did it). No matter what moral path you take with FemShep, she's either smug or monotone. Unless FemShep is played as a cold killer, she doesn't really cut it. She just doesn't come across as authentic as BroShep. It's so weird to me that a lot of people like Garrus because of Brandon Keener's emotional range (Sometimes cavalier, sometimes nervous, sometimes awkward, sometimes over-the-top silly, sometimes dead serious; which made him seem very human despite the character looking like a bird-cat) but like Hale's FemShep for the exact opposite reason.
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Post by Mozenrath on Aug 31, 2014 11:57:21 GMT -5
I like the setting of Mass Effect much more than the story.
Krogan, Salarians, etc, made for a VERY good cast of species as far as Sci-Fi games go, for me, but I had much more fun dicking around the galaxy in the first Mass Effect than anything else, enough to tolerate the annoying car(I was very bad at controlling it) when exploring on planets. Then the fun kind of falters when I have to go clean my room and do the dishes, or deal with Reapers and such. Whichever, chores just kind of run together in my head sometimes.
While not at all unpopular, I will stop to say that I wonder if as many people would even bother with Liara as a love interest if Kaidan and Ashley weren't boring options. I do think that likely contributed to the desire for more alien love interests in later installments, though it was of course not the only reason.
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Post by Mozenrath on Aug 31, 2014 12:32:04 GMT -5
Not sure if this is popular or not, particularly with vegans or vegetarians who may have seen this springing up more and more, but anyway:
Vegetarian food has come a long way from flavorless mush that was slopped out onto the markets for people who had few options, back in the past, and I am sure many meal alternatives can be good. That said, whether it be soy or otherwise, your protein option for a meal can be many things, but it is NEVER "meat". There seems to be a trend of vegetarian restaurants and with some packaged foods to use labels like "Vegetarian meat". No, I am not making that up, it has sprung up more and more, and it bugs the ever loving shit out of me.
Meat is the tissue of an animal, be it muscle or otherwise. Point out to me where the rib meat is on a soy bean, and maybe you might have a semblance of an argument, but you look like an asshole by holding your food to a false pretense to try to skirt the bad reputation tofu and such have with some people. You're fooling no one but yourselves. That the FDA just sort of ignores it isn't promising for their standards of enforcing labeling.
If you are a vegan or vegetarian and support this kind of branding, power to you. I hope you enjoy the doubtlessly coming-soon non-dairy cheese, which will probably be solidified vegetable fats pressed into a block.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2014 12:32:12 GMT -5
I like the setting of Mass Effect much more than the story. Krogan, Salarians, etc, made for a VERY good cast of species as far as Sci-Fi games go, for me, but I had much more fun dicking around the galaxy in the first Mass Effect than anything else, enough to tolerate the annoying car(I was very bad at controlling it) when exploring on planets. Then the fun kind of falters when I have to go clean my room and do the dishes, or deal with Reapers and such. Whichever, chores just kind of run together in my head sometimes. While not at all unpopular, I will stop to say that I wonder if as many people would even bother with Liara as a love interest if Kaidan and Ashley weren't boring options. I do think that likely contributed to the desire for more alien love interests in later installments, though it was of course not the only reason. I don't think Kaidan and Ashley were bad characters by any means (I like both) but it's true, their romances are dull. Even after ME1, they're dull. In ME2, the romance consists of a conversation and an email and in ME3, I have no clue, because I've never romanced Ashley that far (and I've never played as FemShep, only watched Let's Plays, so I never romanced Kaidan). And come to think of it, I never really got the appeal of Liara as a LI. Garrus is a lot more charming and Tali gets way better character development. ...and yes, I liked the Mako exploration too. My favorite part was reading about the planets that had life that nobody could find, like the one with the geometric patterns of lights that would disappear whenever someone approached. It's so strangely sublime, so spooky, but wonderful, this feeling that there are hundreds if not thousands or millions of planets in the galaxy that could really be just like that one, just waiting to be uncovered one day.
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Post by Red Impact on Aug 31, 2014 13:10:35 GMT -5
I don't mind long cutscenes in games, as long as they're skippable. To me, sometimes the best story elements aren't don't by wandering around a room until you figure out how to trigger the next diary entry or whatever. Good stories take time to tell, and if people don't want to watch the cutscenes they always have the option to skip them.
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Post by ERON on Aug 31, 2014 13:57:41 GMT -5
Spider-Man 3 and Star Trek: Into Darkness were great.
'90s music was pretty much horrible. Nirvana is extremely overrated.
Pre-Russo WCW was better than 90% of everything WWF/WWE has done since the Hogan vs. Savage years.
It is entirely possible for someone to believe that old stuff is better than new stuff without any sort of "nostalgia filter" being involved. Automatically assuming that anyone who complains about new stuff not being as good as old stuff is simply doing so out of nostalgia is ignorant and insulting. For instance, I got into comics during the '90s and didn't discover things like Claremont's X-Men, Lee's Spider-Man, and Silver Age DC until I was in my 20s, so when someone says I only prefer Claremont's X-Men because "that's what I grew up with," it really grinds my gears.
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Aug 31, 2014 13:59:47 GMT -5
I like the setting of Mass Effect much more than the story. Krogan, Salarians, etc, made for a VERY good cast of species as far as Sci-Fi games go, for me, but I had much more fun dicking around the galaxy in the first Mass Effect than anything else, enough to tolerate the annoying car(I was very bad at controlling it) when exploring on planets. Then the fun kind of falters when I have to go clean my room and do the dishes, or deal with Reapers and such. Whichever, chores just kind of run together in my head sometimes. While not at all unpopular, I will stop to say that I wonder if as many people would even bother with Liara as a love interest if Kaidan and Ashley weren't boring options. I do think that likely contributed to the desire for more alien love interests in later installments, though it was of course not the only reason. I don't think Kaidan and Ashley were bad characters by any means (I like both) but it's true, their romances are dull. Even after ME1, they're dull. In ME2, the romance consists of a conversation and an email and in ME3, I have no clue, because I've never romanced Ashley that far (and I've never played as FemShep, only watched Let's Plays, so I never romanced Kaidan). And come to think of it, I never really got the appeal of Liara as a LI. Garrus is a lot more charming and Tali gets way better character development. ...and yes, I liked the Mako exploration too. My favorite part was reading about the planets that had life that nobody could find, like the one with the geometric patterns of lights that would disappear whenever someone approached. It's so strangely sublime, so spooky, but wonderful, this feeling that there are hundreds if not thousands or millions of planets in the galaxy that could really be just like that one, just waiting to be uncovered one day. You can actually romance Kaidan in ME as BroShep, though unfortunately it's not possible in the first two. But I'm with you, Liara is super uninteresting and I kinda hated that she was sort of the "canon" love interest, regardless of who you've actually been romancing.
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Post by SEAN CARLESS on Aug 31, 2014 14:19:55 GMT -5
Most names have actual (often ancient) linguistic meanings. Like mine is a derivative of John, whickh means in its original Hebrew spelling "God is Gracious". And boy is he. He gave this forum me. That said, I'm talking about the idiotic names people come up with in a vain attempt to somehow have the best and most original name ever that'll surely put their special snowflake high above all others. It just reeks of arrogance. And I know because I can smell my own kind. Once again Mr. C I am going to say that at the end of the day, it will have no effect on your life what someone names their child and that you should not care what someone else does in their life None of the opinions in the thread really do. But I can't say they don't annoy me, because I know people firsthand in my life who do it and have done it, and it's often (but not always) because they act like their kid is some sort of unique brand that they have to patent (to make themselves look better by proxy); and as if going through life with a normal name would somehow be detrimental. It's quite opposite. The majority of these tools doing it are of my generation though. The ones that name their kids shit like "Maxton" and "JayeSonn" and other buffoonery that looks like WWE came up with it for Tm. purposes. (RHYNO!). Luckily, younger people of my brothers generation seem to using more traditional names again, or ones that have not been used in years, in lieu of just ramming two unrelated words together like f***ing Frank Zappa. So kudos to them. And I hope they're doing so because they learned from my idiotic generation's mistakes.
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Post by fuzzywarble, squat cobbler on Aug 31, 2014 14:20:40 GMT -5
Not sure if this is popular or not, particularly with vegans or vegetarians who may have seen this springing up more and more, but anyway: Vegetarian food has come a long way from flavorless mush that was slopped out onto the markets for people who had few options, back in the past, and I am sure many meal alternatives can be good. That said, whether it be soy or otherwise, your protein option for a meal can be many things, but it is NEVER "meat". There seems to be a trend of vegetarian restaurants and with some packaged foods to use labels like "Vegetarian meat". No, I am not making that up, it has sprung up more and more, and it bugs the ever loving shit out of me. Meat is the tissue of an animal, be it muscle or otherwise. Point out to me where the rib meat is on a soy bean, and maybe you might have a semblance of an argument, but you look like an asshole by holding your food to a false pretense to try to skirt the bad reputation tofu and such have with some people. You're fooling no one but yourselves. That the FDA just sort of ignores it isn't promising for their standards of enforcing labeling. If you are a vegan or vegetarian and support this kind of branding, power to you. I hope you enjoy the doubtlessly coming-soon non-dairy cheese, which will probably be solidified vegetable fats pressed into a block. I refer to vegetarian substitutes as 'veggie meat' or 'boca meat' or 'morningstar meat'. I don't see the problem with this. If anyone goes into a vegetarian restaurant, they should have enough common sense to know that they're not going to be served actual meat. It's the vegetarian substitute for meat.
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Post by Mozenrath on Aug 31, 2014 14:23:04 GMT -5
Not sure if this is popular or not, particularly with vegans or vegetarians who may have seen this springing up more and more, but anyway: Vegetarian food has come a long way from flavorless mush that was slopped out onto the markets for people who had few options, back in the past, and I am sure many meal alternatives can be good. That said, whether it be soy or otherwise, your protein option for a meal can be many things, but it is NEVER "meat". There seems to be a trend of vegetarian restaurants and with some packaged foods to use labels like "Vegetarian meat". No, I am not making that up, it has sprung up more and more, and it bugs the ever loving shit out of me. Meat is the tissue of an animal, be it muscle or otherwise. Point out to me where the rib meat is on a soy bean, and maybe you might have a semblance of an argument, but you look like an asshole by holding your food to a false pretense to try to skirt the bad reputation tofu and such have with some people. You're fooling no one but yourselves. That the FDA just sort of ignores it isn't promising for their standards of enforcing labeling. If you are a vegan or vegetarian and support this kind of branding, power to you. I hope you enjoy the doubtlessly coming-soon non-dairy cheese, which will probably be solidified vegetable fats pressed into a block. I refer to vegetarian substitutes as 'veggie meat' or 'boca meat' or 'morningstar meat'. I don't see the problem with this. If anyone goes into a vegetarian restaurant, they should have enough common sense to know that they're not going to be served actual meat. It's the vegetarian substitute for meat. It just seems silly to me. Then again, I concede that there is precedent, like chicken fries, for food called something that it isn't.
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Post by The Ichi on Aug 31, 2014 14:29:54 GMT -5
Memes are basically the lowest form of comedy.
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Post by Glitch on Aug 31, 2014 15:46:21 GMT -5
The Attitude era was just as cartoonish as The Rock N' Wrestling era. The only difference was the additional violence, swearing and boobs layered on top.
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Post by Mozenrath on Aug 31, 2014 15:52:59 GMT -5
The silly names debate above reminds me, I don't really think North West is that weird a name. It's a pun, sure, but can anyone say with a straight face that it will negatively impact her life?
Her dad is Kanye West. Her mom is Kim Kardashian. What kind of anonymous, "normal" life do people think she could possibly have? She'd have to change her name, anyway, if she wanted to be under the radar, so if the name bothers her, it's a rather simple fix.
Beyond that, anyone who would make fun of her for her name would already be giving her shit because they don't like her parents. Her name isn't a factor there, either.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2014 15:53:59 GMT -5
The Attitude era was just as cartoonish as The Rock N' Wrestling era. The only difference was the additional violence, swearing and boobs layered on top. And honestly, not a lot of it has held up, and feels mostly like really tasteless Jerry Springer-esque trash TV
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2014 16:17:57 GMT -5
I get that everybody's doing what they want and all, but I cringe when I see a grown dude (or girl) who's REALLY into My Little Pony. once more, can we stop it with this ignorant bullshit?
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Post by Glitch on Aug 31, 2014 16:20:45 GMT -5
The Attitude era was just as cartoonish as The Rock N' Wrestling era. The only difference was the additional violence, swearing and boobs layered on top. And honestly, not a lot of it has held up, and feels mostly like really tasteless Jerry Springer-esque trash TV A friend of mine during the time of the monday night wars told me he couldn't watch the wwf because it seemed to be geared toward little kids. It took me a few seconds to process what he meant, but I thought he was right on.
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Post by suave on Aug 31, 2014 16:27:41 GMT -5
I get that everybody's doing what they want and all, but I cringe when I see a grown dude (or girl) who's REALLY into My Little Pony. once more, can we stop it with this ignorant bullshit? I don't mean anyone who watches the show, I mean grown adults who do shit like dress as ponies. Like, it's a decent show and even if I don't like it someone will, but it's just cringeworthy IMO to see a dude who's like 35 obsessing over My Little motherloving Pony.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Aug 31, 2014 16:37:49 GMT -5
Sorry but we're locking this up now. We've gotten too many reports for this thread.
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