Archer Vonn
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THEY'RE SIBLINGS
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it irks me that legendary pokemon like latios and heatran and then even others like mew aren't one of a kind in the anime, they're just rare pokemon with stigma about them. like there was that one guy who had a latios and a darkrai.
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this convo tickled me into wanting to play halo 2 again. i know it's unlikely that we can agree on anything but can we agree that it was the best one?
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hey guys if video games are art how come halo needs books to be good? ok that was a joke please don't hit me
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this is a fallacy safe to say that the game was well underway at this point. the fall of reach was also important to provide context of the game. they might have released the book first as some sort of marketing (?) plan.
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the books aren't the games though. the books are the books and the games are the games. edit: triple kill
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the best part of halo's story was the covenant in halo 2, and that got canned because the fans complained that they didn't want to play as the arbiter. the arbiter was the best character by far and everyone stomped on him. makes me mad.
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halos a great series (pre 343 lol) brah but the plot is overrated. nothing's perfect, ya feel me.
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references do not a good story make
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i think the book it borrowed the premise from was called ringworld
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this goes along with what i said about bungie a few pages ago. their writers aren't very talented. halo's story was only as good as it was because they ripped a lot of it from a sci-fi novel and only filled in gaps and extrapolated for the rest of the series.
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You could not be further from the truth. bro if you're gonna tell a man he's wrong at least tell him why. even if you tell him terrible reason that turns everything into a flame war and everyone thinks you're a troll because you can't formulate your ideas into words at least start a conversation
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the average MMO is unrecognizable after ten years, destiny will be no exception.
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hoopa is the coolest legendary we've had in awhile.
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mewtwos pretty floaty, looks slow, dunno how much i'd like him. that being said i'd like to try him so if anyones got a 3ds code they dont want holla at me
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so uh, mewtwo came out
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fine by me. i've no interest in cartoony games, and post-apocalypse is my jam.
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well, obviously. these are exact polar opposites. and saying they were 'taken out back and shot' is just a negative way of looking at some series that devs didn't want to make any more. there's nothing wrong with that. my impression was it stopped attacking you because you were too close to it, and if it threw more lightning at you it'd just hurt itself. also, your logic sort of doesn't make any sense. if it knows you to be some kind of monster and acts first on that impulse, out of self defense, why would it suddenly stop defending itself just to satisfy it's own curiosity? you don't ever try to make peace or do anything to imply to it that it is safe.
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sony doesn't want their IPs to get stale like nintendo's have. literally no fault there. and btw, insomniac made resistance on ps3, and they're doing (i think it's by them, anyway) sunset overdrive on xbox one. they're doing one game on xbox one, not sure what it was. jak was made by sucker punch, i think, who then went on to make infamous.
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also that final one? that one was evil. that one was the god of gods, ready to smite you like the worm you are. i do not think the colossi were innocent in all this, maybe just that the game tries to trick you into thinking they are. that game is deceptive from beginning to end.
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but you were just playing the game, you never actually had an opportunity to weigh your options and refuse the spirit, and still progress through the game. the story has one way it can go, regardless of whether or not you think it's the right direction. i disagree, except for heavy rain. that one is a real special case. if i understand the lore correctly, the colossi were parts of dormin, right? fragments of his being? in which case, while they might have seemed gentle and innocent, it was only because they were used to being so much more than they were. that might be why wander becomes progressively darker throughout the game, because he's absorbing the energy of dormin in order to become his new host. idk. it's pretty complex no matter which way you slice it.
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i'm aware of that, but i figured it was more likely that SCEA would just separate from the company rather than they'd bail altogether i think that currently sony is making just as quality games as they were back then, only now the playing field is more even between them and their competitors.
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that's a philosophical point. and yea, i was just sharing my opinion. ya'll started jumping down my throat for doing so. naturally, i'm gonna start getting defensive and/or poisonous when i get a dozen people quoting me and relentlessly telling me how wrong i am. but you're still making me out to be the bad guy. maybe i'm misremembering skyirm or maybe you're misrepresenting it, but as i recall, every objective (in the main plot, at least) and the effect that it will have is explained to you by various jarls, greybeards, or dragons. same thing in the college questline and the companion questline, it's all just lined out for you to do in whatever order you please. i think that your comment about the expedition logs doesn't particularly help your show v tell argument since it is very close in nature to NPCs simply telling you what's going on, but i think your points about the non-verbal cues and the whipsering of NPCs in riften are valid. i will point out, though, that this: this refers to setting, not plot, which is what i was speaking of. this is somewhat ignorant. video game journalists are often no more qualified to do their jobs than you or i. they're just glorified bloggers, sharing their opinions as i have done. this is different than literary, film, art, music critics, or news journalists, all of which have actually studied in their field and are learned in what makes their medium good or bad. video games aren't that far along. i keep trying to tell you i don't have any, and if you want, to look some up. first off, you have a very poetic way of looking at it, but i do think it would be successful as a film or novel. maybe the average viewer would watch it and then think nothing of it, but there are plenty of aficionados who would clue into it's true meaning. this is sort of a side argument, but i think a case could be made to say that wander isn't actually a villain; rather a pawn of one. he does brutalize some colossi, but he does so in the name of love and thinking that they were just dumb animals, and that there was nothing special about them other than the fact that they were quite large. it does raise some interesting questions about moral relativism, but so do a HUGE amount of films and novels. yea, i misspoke when i said that. but there aren't enough examples yet to formally make a case for them, i feel. @blade: so you prefer consoles over PC, but you only play the console which has the fewest amounts of games on PC, and wish that the consoles that share games with PC would leave? i don't think you prefer consoles over PC, i just think you prefer nintendo games over the rest of them. why would sony leave? isn't the ps4 doing well? microsoft hasn't really contributed anything to consoles since early in the 360s life, but i still wouldn't want them to leave.
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yeah theres a lot of fair points there, i said some dumb stuff i admit it, but everyone's gotta weigh in, i get that too. ya'll making a lot of fair points, but at the same time you're all so biased you're making some reaches too. only nobody else will admit that since i'm the only one losing. like this: out of that list, i've played skyrim. the entirety of skyrim's main plot is fed to you by NPCs, which completely contradicts your show v tell argument. not what i was saying at all! i was saying, you play video games, which means you enjoy them, which means you look at them with fondness, which makes you more likely to defend it than someone who looks at them objectively. but yeah, i get it, my argument is weak. this isn't debate club, but if it was, i'd be off the team. i get it. attack my points, i'm still not wrong. and i'm not the only one who thinks they aren't art; maybe some of those people will argue this point better than i did. also actually i'm insulting the rest of you, too. now let this end, i'm done here. unless you all want to agree with each other some more.
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unlike his namesake, hodor turns out to be a thinking man. anyone play those telltale games, btw?
