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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
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| Subject: The GNamer Posts Appreciation Thread Wed 19 Aug 2015 - 19:20 | |
| A thread where we all appreciate the very best of GNamer posting. Found a post that really made you think, or laugh, or even cry (NOT YOUR OWN)? Quote it or link to it here! Not everyone might visit that thread regularly. Give your fellow forumites some appreciation. I'd like to start with this very fine snack review: - The_Jaster wrote:
- The Cappuccino kid's anger
Pros: - An angry Scotsman is always funny. - Allows me to post Still game memes. - if we don't do these reviews balla's real name will be revealed.
Cons: - tastes like the hulk trying to thread a bit of wool through a needle.
Verdict: Pure mince. |
| | | The_Jaster Din
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| Subject: Re: The GNamer Posts Appreciation Thread Wed 19 Aug 2015 - 22:19 | |
| Cheers! I still think no one has topped this post from Drunka in the "Things that really &$%2 you off" thread when discussion turned to PC gaming. - drunka wrote:
- I know consoles are much the same now, that's party of what I was complaining about. I miss the good ol days, when games worked, women knew their place and you could wear a swastika without the political correctness brigade being involved. Bloody PC gaming...
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| | | Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
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| Subject: Re: The GNamer Posts Appreciation Thread Thu 20 Aug 2015 - 11:42 | |
| I was looking for that the other day! Well dug out. Blinder. |
| | | The_Jaster Din
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| Subject: Re: The GNamer Posts Appreciation Thread Thu 20 Aug 2015 - 12:29 | |
| It's on page 9 I think if you want to get the full context of it. |
| | | JayMoyles Galactic Nova
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| Subject: Re: The GNamer Posts Appreciation Thread Thu 20 Aug 2015 - 22:53 | |
| Anything by The Christ, one of my favourite novelty accounts here. Awful awful things he says for a holy man. Some choice excerpts: - On "the best Zelda":
- The Christ wrote:
- Very well, I shall judge which is the best Zelda.
Obviously, Wind Waker Zelda is too young. Ocarina Zelda does turn up as an adult, but she looks like a man. I'm sorry, but the Son of Man doesn't bend that way. I've nothing against gays, though, despite what you may have heard. Twilight Princess Zelda; 9/10 would bang. A bit serious and stern, though. I couldn't see myself hanging about. In the evening, Christ would be arisen but by the morning, there would be only empty sheets. Skyward Sword Zelda is lovely though. She spends a lot of time praying, which suits me. Not because of the religion thing, but because she's used to spending a lot of time on her knees. Hey-oh!
- On "Football Manager":
- The Christ wrote:
- ENG-ER-LAND!ENG-ER-LAND!ENG-ER-LAND!
I love Football Manager. I don't play it on PC though, me and dad play with your world and your very lives. We used to play Civ, but after that session we finished in '45 we decided to give it a rest.
- On "Dark Souls":
- The Christ wrote:
- Look, don't drag me into this. I fucking love a bit of Dark Souls. And I wouldn't ride a dinosaur, they never existed. The fossils are there to test your faith,the Earth is 10,000 years old.
PRAISE THE SUN.
Also, from that same thread as the Dark Souls quote, I found this wonderful post from beemoh on why Dark Souls provoked such a passionate response from the gaming community. - beemoh wrote:
- JayMoyles wrote:
- I think the reason the praise is so high is that it's a very niche, but very loud audience who are enjoying the game.
It's also worth pointing out what that audience is. The media narrative on games after 2006 was ultimately dominated, or at least heavily influenced, by Wii Sports and Dr Kawashima- mainstream media was finally paying attention to the form, but only to those two games- meanwhile the specialist press was all how the entire future was exclusively the mass market, progressively simplifying games in the name of "accessibility", Women And Old People™, sterile, inoffensive presentation, lifestyle photography and nothing else, all of it completely exempted from criticism and everything else a catastrophic mistake which should never have happened.
People got beaten around the head with that- which didn't reflect the reality of gaming at the time- for five years until Demon's Souls came out in 2010, brazenly being a sleeper hit pretty much on the back of being the opposite of all of that above.
While the press has settled itself since, there are still major aspects of it in play- the way that things like David Cage's output and Walking Simulators like Gone Home are mired more in justification of their lack of gameplay than critique, how terms like "dudebro" and "shootybang" are used to reductively invalidate large amounts of titles, and that consoles/handhelds/full-price games/Japanese studios are all but dead and free-to-play/indie/mobile is The Only Way. With that in mind, it's hardly surprising that the DS market are so vocal and really why the series is so notable. |
| | | ZeroJones I'M SO LONELY
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| Subject: Re: The GNamer Posts Appreciation Thread Fri 21 Aug 2015 - 0:08 | |
| From the Videogame Sound Effects thread, buried deep in GGD: - beemoh wrote:
- Speaking of Pokémon, when you go for a catch, you throw the pokéball, and
Buu-omb.
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Buu-omb.
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Buu-omb.
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Then silence. A perfectly-timed chunk of nothingness. It's just a hair longer than the silence if the pokémon breaks free- only marginally, but perceptably. Noticably.
You know that it's gone on for longer than it should, you know that means you've got a catch- but you don't accept it. It's not told you yet. It could still break free.
You stare at the motionless pokéball. Time stretches out into infinity.
Day follows night follows day follows night.
Fashion trends come and go.
Civilizations rise and fall.
Beards grow, are shaved, and subsequently re-grow.
And then... *click* dee de deee, dede dedede de deeeeeeee
And relax.
The best sound in games isn't a sound at all, but a fraction of a second of silence. |
| | | Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
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| Subject: Re: The GNamer Posts Appreciation Thread Fri 21 Aug 2015 - 19:31 | |
| Easy to forget, amidst all the hilarious one-liners, that Beemoh could deliver some truly brilliant serious posts as well. |
| | | Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
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| Subject: Re: The GNamer Posts Appreciation Thread Sat 3 Oct 2015 - 11:05 | |
| Bumping for a recent Muss post that I thought was some seriously good stuff: http://messedupcables.forumotion.net/t979-retro-vgs#67764 |
| | | masofdas The Next Miyamoto
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| Subject: Re: The GNamer Posts Appreciation Thread Thu 12 Nov 2015 - 10:55 | |
| I brought it up in the Counting Classics's thread about Muss being a shoe-in for new member award (he counts right) as you bring up posts like that but he also brought up a good one in the Uncharted thread (hence how he got brought up in counting classics's) I may disagree with what he's saying but still a great argument where mine is that it's a video game and lot's do the same and the VR one of his in random thoughts is bang on.
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| | | Buskalilly Galactic Nova
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| Subject: Re: The GNamer Posts Appreciation Thread Mon 16 Nov 2015 - 22:45 | |
| From the Wrestling Discussion Thread: - masofdas wrote:
- I'm a whiny Internet prick
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| | | Buskalilly Galactic Nova
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| | | | Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
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| Subject: Re: The GNamer Posts Appreciation Thread Fri 11 Dec 2015 - 9:36 | |
| Legends in their own lifetime. Best pun the forum's ever had? - ZeroJones wrote:
- Deep in the bowels of Nintendo's magic cabinet NX games are being worked on. In the company's tradition of bringing novelty and fun to its franchises, one concept being considered is a mash-up of Splatoon and Kid Icarus in a punchline you can see coming from a mile away. An HD sequel to KI:U, the on-foot sections of the game will give Pit the ability to change into a squid and make progress through the ink trails that emerge from his arrows. It'll be called Squid Icarus: Uprise Ink.
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| | | ZeroJones I'M SO LONELY
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| Subject: Re: The GNamer Posts Appreciation Thread Fri 11 Dec 2015 - 10:52 | |
| You flatter me, sir... and I like it. *coquettish giggle* |
| | | JayMoyles Galactic Nova
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| Subject: Re: The GNamer Posts Appreciation Thread Sat 12 Dec 2015 - 0:12 | |
| It's so good I didn't even have the slightest temptation to drop a boothisman.gif on it. Cracking punnery, Zero! |
| | | Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
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| Subject: Re: The GNamer Posts Appreciation Thread Mon 25 Jan 2016 - 22:39 | |
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| | | Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
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| Subject: Re: The GNamer Posts Appreciation Thread Sat 23 Apr 2016 - 15:50 | |
| Fronky's rant from the SF0 thread. Somehow, the out-of-place "2)" at the end only makes it better. - fronkhead wrote:
- The annoying thing about *that* review is that the focus has been on how they refused to give it a score (or basically review it), which has led some to think that everyone who complains about it is entitled, and that the reviewer is entitled to his opinion (of poor taste).
But the problems with that review go far deeper than that last paragraph. The tone of the piece makes it pretty obvious that he was never going to give Star Fox Zero a fair and equal treatment, that he'd already made up his mind about it before he picked up the GamePad.
He shouldn't have been put on that review, the reviews editor should have picked someone else. But I suspect he was put on the review because Nintendo's an easy target to make a laughing stock out of (could you imagine the outcry if they did the same with a major PlayStation or Xbox exclusive?), particularly to the poorly informed or dismissive.
Incidentally, he did the same with Code Name: STEAM, basically dismissing the game because of the lack of an overhead map. Which was the point of the game. I get not getting on with something like that, but the problem is he didn't even think about why the game did what it did.
A case in point in the Star Fox Zero review was how he also immediately dismissed the game's co-op mode, which, as you know, splits the aiming and flying between two people. Ironically that actually solves the problem he apparently has with the entire game...
There were also a few reviews which called out Star Fox Zero as "dated" simply because the genre, or this type of game, does not exist any more. That's all sorts of wrong, when Star Fox 64 may well have been the last game of its type, but it's a classic, timeless design that has not been superseded, or gotten old. So it hasn't actually had a chance to become dated. But also, Star Fox Zero is like this way because it's a stylistic choice, much like how you get new movies in black and white, or the revival of 2D platformers as pixel art, or the return of Super Metroid's layout. By their logic, Axiom Verge should be considered dated.
Anyway, I'm glad people seem to be enjoying Star Fox Zero! I really like getting stuck into interesting new interfaces to control games, so I'm looking forward to mastering those controls. And if I don't get on with them, I'm sure I'll still be able to appreciate their purpose. 2) |
| | | ZeroJones I'M SO LONELY
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| | | | Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
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| Subject: Re: The GNamer Posts Appreciation Thread Sun 24 Apr 2016 - 18:50 | |
| There are multiple reasons why I like this ZeroPost from the Consoles-This-Year Thread, and they all add up. - ZeroJones wrote:
- Before I read Jas's reply, I'd come to this thread to say that only Nintendo were offering something genuinely new, but he's right: it's spoiling tactics on behalf of Micro$ony. That's not cricket.
Taking the wider viewpoint, it's madness. Madness Madnusson, the former host of Madstermind. Flooding the market is not what it needs right now, particularly when I understand that some consoles are still establishing themselves. All in all, |
| | | ZeroJones I'M SO LONELY
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| Subject: Re: The GNamer Posts Appreciation Thread Sun 12 Jun 2016 - 14:14 | |
| This from mandlecreed in the Simply The Best thread about Super Metroid. A passionate write-up of the game. |
| | | Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
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| Subject: Re: The GNamer Posts Appreciation Thread Tue 14 Jun 2016 - 11:09 | |
| As said in the E3 2016 thread (page 6), I don't agree with everything that Drunka says here, but I do think it's a tremendous post. - Drunkalilly wrote:
- Christ, I'm done with E3. I'll watch a bit of the Zelda thing, as I love Nintendo, but the days of me boarding the hype train are well and truly over. So far, all I've seen are CG trailers which don't tell me anything and games I already knew about. What am I getting excited about, exactly? The big wins for me were being given Limbo, Tekken and a Doom demo for free on my Xbox.
Apathy is one thing, I don't begrudge other people being excited. What I do begrudge is the combative nature. "Sony slayed Microsoft!" "Hideo Kojima destroyed Xbox with powerful punches!" "Microsoft fans are crying themselves to sleep the great daft cunts!" Like, no? In terms of numbers, there were as many if not more exclusives that excited me on Xbox as there were on Playstation.
Even if there weren't, I don't care. I can enjoy my games while you enjoy yours. I picked up an Xbox because I fancied the games on it; if lots of good games come to Playstation, I'll buy one of them as well. We're grown ups using entertainment products, not soldiers defending the honour of our liege lords. I don't sit on the Microsoft board, I have zero interest in whether Xbox sells more units than Playstation. Gamers need to grow up.
More than us, though, the games companies need to grow up. Matt Lees put it better than me, but the ludicrous, macho, aggressive games industry is ridiculous and offensive and needs to take a long hard look in the mirror.
Zelda and Pokémon might be fun, though. I'll watch a little bit but I don't want to see too much.
Also this Jimbob post on the Metroid series probably won't make my shortlist for PotY, but it might be a contributing factor for voting him FFotY. He's wrong, though. Dead dead wrong. But funny. But also wrong. |
| | | ZeroJones I'M SO LONELY
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| Subject: Re: The GNamer Posts Appreciation Thread Thu 21 Jul 2016 - 8:52 | |
| This very fine post about Kirby games by Cappa, the content of which is behind the very spoiler tags you see below this text! [/Houdini] - Spoiler:
Let’s begin with the stuff I wouldn’t recommend playing. In truth, there aren’t any, because the worst Kirby game – Kirby Air Ride on the GameCube – is still worth a shot, if only out of morbid curiosity to see how it went on to influence the latter Smash Bros. games. That said, I don’t think Air Ride's core idea or mechanics work all that well, or that it is worth the high price that it goes for second hand. Next on my rankings from worst-to-best is Kirby’s Dream Course on the SNES; it’s a good idea for a game that, again, I don’t feel works very well. Like Air Ride, it’s too clever for it’s own good, and is overly complicated as a result. The same could be said about Kirby’s Pinball Land on the Game Boy; it just doesn’t ever come together. I think that these three are missable enough. Kirby Star Stacker and Kirby Block Ball are unusual Game Boy puzzlers, and unlike anything that’s come out since, but they’re quite shallow. They’re decent, unquestionably, but you can’t talk about them in the same breath as other Game Boy games in the genre, like Tetris and all that. Kirby’s Avalanche on the SNES is just the same as any old Puyo Puyo game, but with the usual Kirby sounds and ditties. Nothing fantastic or massively exciting, but, again, it’s unquestionably decent. I’m not mad for the Metroidvania approach that Kirby & The Amazing Mirror goes for, or the way in which it recycles so many of the assets from Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land. I don’t think Kirby had the best time of it on the Game Boy Advance; to me, these are two fairly ordinary, middle-of-the-road platformers on a handheld that had loads of them in the first place. A big issue with Nightmare in Dream Land is that it is a loose remake of the original NES Kirby game, 1993’s Kirby’s Adventure. That’s still a good game…by NES standards. Ancient, but good-ish. If you keep your expectations in check, you can still have a reasonably good time with it. Very basic, but it’s perfect Sunday afternoon fodder, in my opinion. Moving into 'aye, it's all right' territoy here, Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards passed me by when it originally came out on the N64 in 2001; it was either this or Zone of the Enders on PS2 with that AMAZING Metal Gear Solid 2 demo. I picked it up in around 2007-2008 for the bargain price for fifteen smackers in GameStation and…didn’t really miss much! The hybrid abilities are a great idea that should be revisited, but otherwise it lacks vitality. All in all, I’d say that it’s quite good for what it sets out to do. Ultimately, nostalgia is find, but I definitely prefer the more ambitious, varied and forward-thinking Kirby games that appeared after this. I'd say that Kirby: Mouse Attack on the DS fails to make the most of the unique features of the system, and plays like a platformer straight out of 1993 (BC) as a result. Still, NGamer said something to the effect of “Kirby on autopilot still makes for a reasonably fun platformer”, and I suppose they’re right. It’s inoffensive enough, if you fancy giving it a swatch on the Wii U Virtual Console. I find it difficult to remember, though. Nothing stands out. The three Dream Land games (the original and 2 on the Game Boy, and 3 on the SNES) are all of the same vein, and all of a similar quality. The graphical and audio flair of 3 can’t disguise it’s wholesale lack of new ideas, but –as traditionally-styled Kirby platformers go, I think that 1 and 2 still impress. I’ll always love the original Kirby’s Dream Land the most though, as it was my first computer game. *intermission* The rest of my list is almost entirely made up of Kirby games from the last decade. There’s not a duffer here; ever since Mouse Attack in 2016, I think the Kirby series has been largely excellent, and far surpass anything that people might have thought they previously had to live up to. */intermission* I think that Kirby Mass Attack stands out as being one of the series’ better experiments. It reminds me of a downsized Pikmin rather than a more traditional Kirby game. It understands the DS well, which adds to it’s likeability. A very respectable effort, is this. Kirby Adventure Wii is rock-solid, and – up to it’s release in 2011 – arguably the very best ‘classic’ Kirby platformer. Visually and aurally superb, and plays effortlessly. I felt that it was hugely underrated by the likes of Nintendo Game and ONM at the time – they gave it scores of around 70% or so, whereas it’s an easy 8.5-9 from me. Top drawer 2D platforming! Which is better: Kirby: Power Paintbrush or Kirby and the Rainbow Paintbrush? In truth, I think that they’re both class, but the latter just edges it for me. While the DS original was rightly heralded as one of the best handheld games ever when it first came out in late 2005, I had a brilliant time with Rainbow Paintbrush on Wii U last year. It’s a really nice game, and it really highlights that games don’t always have to be complex; it’s sometimes good to just play something that’s joyfully uncomplicated. Kirby Fun Pak might be my favourite game on the SNES. I love how imaginative and vibrant it all is. It’s an absolute delight to see, hear, and play. The 2008 DS update – Kirby Super Star Ultra - adds all sorts of new content. They’re both fantastic games, and amongst the very finest in the series. Both Kirby Triple Deluxe and Kirby Planet Robobot don’t put a single foot wrong. Never mind that they’re excellent Kirby games, they’re just excellent games, full-stop. Both are comfortably in my 3DS top five, and I’d have to imagine that I’m not the only one who’d say that. Superb showcases not only for the 3DS, but the Kirby series altogether. And, lastly, my favourite Kirby game of all time is 2011’s Kirby’s Epic Yarn, on Wii. This is one of the most captivating and charming games I’ve played in my life. I admire so much of what Good Feel did with this – it’s boundless enthusiasm, superlative animation and gorgeous soundtrack are all as good as it’s dazzling and peerless visuals. It’s unbelievable. I’ll wrap this up by saying that Kirby’s Epic Yarn is, to my mind, one of the best games of all time.
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| | | The Cappuccino Kid Mani Mani Statue
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| Subject: Re: The GNamer Posts Appreciation Thread Thu 21 Jul 2016 - 23:16 | |
| Thanks for the kind words, and for ignoring all of my dodgy spelling. Just wait until you see my next Simply The Best list, for the greatest Sonic games on Wii U. |
| | | JayMoyles Galactic Nova
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| Subject: Re: The GNamer Posts Appreciation Thread Mon 25 Jul 2016 - 23:28 | |
| Big thumbs up for including Cappa's post - a cracking retrospective of the Kirby series. |
| | | The_Jaster Din
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| Subject: Re: The GNamer Posts Appreciation Thread Wed 27 Jul 2016 - 17:33 | |
| Another post from TCK which made me laugh quite a bit. - TCK in the NX thread wrote:
"They say it's as big as four cats and has a retractable leg so it can leap up at you better and it lights up at night and it's got four ears, two are for listening and the other two are kind of back up ears and it's claws are as big as cups and for some reason it's got a tremendous fear of stamps, masofdas' friend of GNamer called Chris was telling me it's got magnets on it's tail, so if you're made of metal, it can attach itself to you and instead of a head, it's got four arses" |
| | | Buskalilly Galactic Nova
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| Subject: Re: The GNamer Posts Appreciation Thread Wed 27 Jul 2016 - 17:38 | |
| I've not been looking in the NX thread much. That's a banger of a post! |
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