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Who do you want to win Super Bowl LIX?

6h

"Eagles can fly. You know what else flies? Meteors. (Starts humming one winged angel)"

Philadelphia Eagles

The Dennis Proposition: Road Trip Companion

1d

"Sephie is so far above everyone that he's only going to explain his plans once. Then he'll leave you in peace and ignore you for the rest of the trip. Ganondorf is going to make sure you know all about his tragic childhood and never shut up. "

Sephiroth

February XP leaderboard

2d

"Aiming for not last. Will definitely not be first. Don't care. "

5953

HUT HUT HUT: Play a Round of Tecmo Bowl

3d

"This is unrealistic. The bears scored a td on the opening drive. "

Favorite February Release

3d

"I'm giving this the edge over @persona-3-reload because the latter is a remake and so it only kind of has a February release. The og HZD created a beautiful world and who doesn't love robot dinosaurs (I suppose Aloy and her friends don't have to, since the dinos are trying to destroy their world ....)."

Horizon Zero Dawn

What are you Playing? 2025 Week 5

4d

"I can play 180 of a JRPG with heavy dialogue and not get bored, but man this dialogue is rough, and they used like 800 point doing font so there's like 5 words in a text box... And the next one doesn't load instantly. It's not a deal breaker but it is going to add up over the length of the game. Blurry photo because I'm not doing the QR code dance. Switch 2 better have a better answer or I'm taking my answer down to 350"

Mario & Luigi: Brothership

Max USD for the Switch 2?

4d

"I could do 450 with the right game. Note to people who mispronounce the final letter of the alphabet as zed: prices in USD. "

400

Play Stands #333

5d

"Strands #333 "Stopping by woods on a snowy evening" 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵"

The Game? You Just Lost It

5d

"On review yes, still familiar with this one, but not the one I was thinking of. Only familiar with this one from seeing it on the feed a couple days ago. Sounds even dumber than https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/173090/the-game which is impressive. "

Thumbs Up

Her Name Was Masana Tide

6d

"Honestly the spiders were harder. "

Time Judge 2025 Week 5: Horse Race Middle Course

6d

"My record from when I was playing was still over 18 so considering this here for xp again. Someone go make me an RPG quest "

Gaming Cliche

6d

"So exactly how did the designers intend for people to get around who couldn't morph into balls? "

Metroid Dread

Gamer Fail: 2025 Week 5

7d

"Roaches, er, Jedis clip in, but they can't clip out. (Thankfully reloading from save didn't lose too much progress. This is right after you and BD-1 are reunited after a brief separation en route to this week's VGBC checkpoint.)"

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

Feeling Blue: 2025 Week 5

7d

"Here for xp. This game annoys me because I want to like it but end up feeling like I wasted an hour every time I play it. Couldn't even clear 8 in this run, just nothing hitting on jokers. Got supernova but that can't carry by itself. "

24290

Piichy's Gamer Squad

7d

"Alright, @veranza convinces me that putting in Futaba is solid, she should be good to great at several games. Mainly shooters and MMO I think. Next I'm taking Sonic. His off hours are playing Mario kart, secret shame. Samus is blowing off steam with fighting games. She has a mod for mortal Kombat that allows for Metroid -based fatalities. I need a generalist and I'm out of time to write this so I'm sticking with joker. "

Persona 5

Who is the best gamer?

7d

"Joker literally plays video games in his spare time. "

Called it results

7d

"Got 13 the prior year. "

15

Assemble Your eSports Team

8d

"As threatened, here is my team, picked by meta-analysis of picking the most popular kids. I don't know what we're playing, that would have been way too hard, I literally just scripted out "look for tagged users and then count them" Counts were accurate as of 6 pm (TrueZoneStandardTime). I may do this again tomorrow night to see what's changed. First place - @rey (22 votes) Second place - @joel (21 votes) Third place - @dan (20 votes) Fourth place - @themadbombchu (19 votes) Rounding out your top 12 (all users with 10+ votes): @jedijohann 18 @joob 17 (that's gotta be a mistake) @thunder and @laughatbrian 16 each @friz and @blockmamba at 13 each @bitzdad 11 @whitethunder 10 [Note: my regular expression matches usernames that contain traditional A-Z letters, numbers, and underscores only. I was in a hurry. Unicode usernames can just imagine where they would fall.]"

Gaming Quote of the Week: 2025 Week 5

8d

"This will be funny to like 5 people here. And you need to see both images (when are we getting multiple image posts back?) so check the first comment too. I have a lot of other good quotes from this game, but they're heavily political due to the game's theme, so we'll stash those for later. "

Metaphor: ReFantazio

Best water level music

8d

"Luma Pools is mostly water and lush plants and this music just feels right. "

Ori and the Will of the Wisps

What are you Playing? 2025 Week 4

9d

"You don't suppose he wants to just settle this with a nice game of chess or something? (There's no photo mode and no way to pause without going to menu. Getting spoiler free shots is tricky business. I consider the existence of dragons that want to kill you a non spoiler for any JRPG.)"

Metaphor: ReFantazio

Everything is Connected

9d

""where is the force?" "Everywhere there's mass and acceleration, master" "

But how does it smell there?

9d

"I'm contractually obligated to post about this at least weekly and overdue. It smells like modern day Japan. But sure, how about the fantasy elements? Mementos starts out smelling like a normal subway station but as you get deeper and deeper, it starts smelling rotten, until you eventually reach the artificially clean areas from @persona-5-royal."

Persona 5

IRL Photo

10d

"Say hi Sisu"

Favorite movie turned into a video game

11d

"Very few games based directly on a single movie are any good so I'm ignoring those and going to what game felt the most like its source material. This game is so scary I had to stop, plus it's hard! Sheer terror the entire time, just like the movies. How many people are doing this backwards and saying Mario? 😜"

Alien: Isolation

Best of 2005

11d

"My introduction to the series and still one of the top titles in an already excellent series. "

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance

Post Xbox Dev Direct 2025

12d

"@clair-obscur-expedition-33 If you're going "what's that" and "why isn't this doom" you probably missed whose response this was. I'll wait while you recheck the byline and click on the game link to read the description. We good?"

3:33

12d

"This felt like more work that it was worth but.... eh, here we are. "

Life of the Party

13d

"Disorient is a clutch skill, or the combo as arcane barrage to delay the enemies turns and give you more time to break them. "

Seraï

Weekly Challenge?

13d

"Single player game clip of the week. No prerendered cut scenes (honor system mostly, judges should try to research if they have doubts). Clip of the week heavily favors competitive multiplayer (I have metrics!) In general I think adding some weekly quests that are not competitions (so no time trials or high scores) and not focused around multiplayer would help. I think I'm one of the most active people here with zero interest in kart, fortnite, RL, time trials of any sort, and every week I look at the weekly quests and sigh. Most weeks it's a struggle to find more than 3 and that's with full control of one for VGBC. Getting 9 is almost impossible, 6 relies on the gaming adjacent clubs to actually post their quests, which doesn't always happen because we're all busy people. But if all my narrative around not just doing more of the same is lost, I vote for vampire survivors, zero egg, no endless, single weapon or some such. "

Vampire Survivors

Fantasy Game Draft

14d

"This requires too much effort to do all those things Just give me another Atlus game in the spirit of persona 5 with music Collab from The original team plus gather corker and some of the qol changes from metaphor. "

What IP/Skin Would Get You to Buy an Updated Console

15d

"I still believe this will be cross gen with a "better on switch 2"... If not then prime 5 for sure will make me buy a switch 2 ... Or maybe a 3 at the rate prime comes out "

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond

Most post 1UPs received

15d

"At the time I posted, I have 3 which means I win right? "

100

Gaming Photography: 2025 Week 3

16d

"Now that is a hairstyle. "

Metaphor: ReFantazio

Happy Go Wookiee

16d

"Wookiees be happy . I.. bah. I need the max file size increased to 12mb. I'll just upload an achievement screenshot instead of my in game picture. "

Power On

16d

"Most of the choices I'm seeing are valid. Personally giving it to Sega for brand awareness. "

Metroidvania Treatment

17d

"Zelda kinda is anyway, at least classic Zelda. "

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

HELP!

18d

"You think that guy in red with the funny mustache is your friend. He's not. He's literally going to kill you for his own convenience. "

Super Mario World

Switch 2 thoughts

19d

"I need to know more about the specs and the system software. Can I get screenshots without scanning 2 QR codes and turning my phone into airplane mode? Do we finally have achievements? What are the launch titles? Cautiously optimistic so far, but those and price are going to do a lot of talking. "

No, no... he's got point.

19d

"I hear Sephiroth has a point. At that that's what Aeirth told me. Ok, jokes aside, I tried to find a way to use my go-to of Persona 5 but man, none of those villains really have a point. You're supposed to hate them. "

Final Fantasy VII

Who was actually right? Who was wrong?

19d

"Deja vu. 1 year and 2 days ago. "

2025 Release?

20d

"No contest"

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond

Anyone have a mic?

21d

"What are these multiplayer games you speak of ... Not familiar with them. "

What are you Playing? 2025 Week 3

22d

"Working on lapping the other people playing this as I move into the second town on my new game plus run. "

Metaphor: ReFantazio

Share a screen

22d

"If you can see your background, you're not using the device for something useful, so why would I bother to customize it. "

The Obstacle is the Way

23d

"I guess I should actually do this quest myself... "

Video Game Character Dating App Profile

23d

"Bad boy 17/m with a criminal past Looking for Blonde fashion models with a thing for cats Overachieving book smart girls who like motorcycle rides Shy girls who just prefer to meet online Business heiresses to hang out at the firing range Gymnasts with troubled pasts Older women who aren't afraid to put ethics aside in the name of science Journalists who will get me into the bar Teachers who like to moonlight with a cleaning service Board game prodigies looking to escape overbearing parents And of course, mystics who already know I'm looking for them Must be ok with open relationships. Age is just a number. "

Persona 5

Ideal AAA Playtime

24d

"@joel the scale is broken, it only goes to 100. A more serious answer is probably 60 hours but I'll include replays. "

You made it!

25d

"since it says a PICTURE and not a screenshot, I took an actual non-spoiler picture, which wasn't easy :P"

Awesome Games Done Quick 2025 Donation

25d

""

Watch @bayesic's AGDQ Run

25d

"He's making this look easy."

RUN!

26d

"Only because I'm serious that any screenshot from Metaphor would be a spoiler. Argh? Literally my screenshot is too big? Fine... oh the video is too big too, DOUBLE FINE (no wait they didn't make this, it would be better)... this is way too much work. (My screenshot was 11MB and change because I capture in 4k. My 30 second video was 65 MB and only 1080p.)"

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

First Game with Kids

26d

"We don't need to corrupt any future kids with ideas about other Star Wars movies, so we can just go to the original trilogy."

Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy

Favorite Reboot

26d

"Easy choice. Though Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D does make a good argument, in many ways an SNES game is more playable than a PSP/PS3 game, so the complete overhaul and modernization was really nice here."

Persona 3 Reload

What is your favorite course?

26d

"I feel like Grumble Volcano is on-brand. It's been way too long since I played any of thse to remember. There's probably also like double this many courses now."

Lightning Cup - Grumble Volcano

What is the best lesson you learned from gaming?

26d

"Understand the assignment -- look at what you have available and tailor your solution to fit the problem. You'll be surprised what challenges you can overcome if you make a plan carefully."

Persona 5

What are you looking for in your ideal Fortnite Duos partner?

26d

"Someone to check on my well-being because I'm playing Fortnite."

What is your favorite fighting game?

26d

"I'm literally doing these quests as I go through a gauntlet of 30 consecutive fights. That makes it a fighting game, right?"

Metaphor: ReFantazio

What is the best Free to Play game on the market?

26d

"I've bought all the levels in at least 1 or 2 editions of this game which costs like $5 and disables ads. Easy buy. "

Flow

Hogwarts in game name.

26d

"Googles "Harry Potter Name Generator" and picks a random one... sure, let's go with Cedric Bagman"

Favorite Star Wars Game

26d

"I don't know that they've really managed to capture the joy that blasting through space in highly pixelated x-wings blowing up imperial ships brought me as a child. I say this even as we currently play @star-wars-jedi-fallen-order for @video-game-book-club which I am legally required to hype."

STAR WARS™ - X-Wing Special Edition

Favorite Overwatch 2 Hero

26d

"I'm just making stuff up now."

Reaper

What is the first game you played with your significant other?

26d

"It might not have been this exact title but it was some lego game and I know we played this one, it was a long time ago in a galaxy... no wait..."

Lego Harry Potter: Years 1–4

In honor of The Cody Davis football clip challenge, what is your favorite football game of all time?

26d

"Football = soccer. Blitzball = Underwater Soccer. The defense rests."

Final Fantasy X

Suggest C3CS

26d

"Using the randomizer, a moderator generates and distributes a seed for everyone to play; restream on a 10 minute delay so you can't just watch the live stream to figure out what to do. First to finish wins. There are presets to be able to finish seeds in about an hour, lest you think this is a multiple day commitment. Alas, the C3CS will probably never feature a JRPG, but this is as close as I can come..."

Final Fantasy

What is your LEAST FAVORITE Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 3 landing spot?

26d

"All of the above."

Other (please specify)

What video game world would you choose to live in?

26d

"It's set in the real world. All the magic happens in an alternate dimension, so to speak... the most evil and corrupt people get taken down by a bunch of teenagers, what's not to love?"

Persona 5

What is your favorite Fortnite Augment?

26d

"Do I play this game? No. Do I want this off my rapid quests? Yes. Am I down for a party? You bet."

Party Time

What's the weather been like?

26d

"Cold but not really snowing thankfully. "

Frozen Synapse

What's Worse? Mortal Combat or Mario Cart?

27d

"Mario kart doesn't have a logo that prominently features a giant MK"

What are you Playing? 2025 Week 2

28d

"Or, how I feel when people malign Atlus RPGs"

Metaphor: ReFantazio

January XP leaderboard

28d

"Here for the XP... Oh wait.... "

61591

Introvert vs Extrovert

28d

"As much as I hate competitive multiplayer games with people who take them way too seriously, I do enjoy sometimes being around people. Sometimes. "

Endless High Score

29d

"Wait I don't hate this. I'm confused. Wish they had told me I need to be pushing toward the top more continuously but for ftnr this felt ok . (5 seconds later) Oh I see why I'm going to hate this now"

1723

Gaming Photography: 2025 Week 2

29d

"I had the joy to have another chance to get some screenshots of the dragon... "Joy" That's definitely a smile right? Not anything menacing... Right? "

Metaphor: ReFantazio

Most Target XP

29d

""

1906

Dashboard Customization

29d

"I don't really use the dashboard but I did customize it trying to make it useful. Just not how I'm looking to interact with the site right now. Not sure what it would really take, it's not a crazy idea, but not working for me yet. "

The Mantis

30d

"Giving it another shot, we'll see if story mode changes my mind. Achievements are from last time through but I'll keep up. "

Oh wait, I like this now!

31d

"This is me we're talking about. I don't like anything 😂 I can't think of anything I like more now that I didn't like initially. I'll keep trying and maybe come back... But right now, I just have blanks. Plenty of things I like less 🤣"

Unknown Fate

3

32d

"The UI hint for the log is L3, bottom right if you look carefully. "

Metaphor: ReFantazio

What are you Playing? 2025 Week 1

33d

"Wait, hulkenburg is fighting in heels this whole time? That's... A choice. (Image may be lower quality, I can't export a frame from a PS5 video without 3rd party tools on Android, so I just used a screenshot)."

Metaphor: ReFantazio

Gaming Photography: 2025 Week 1

33d

"I did not order a dragon. Someone else order a dragon? I uh... Really need to... Take my best friend on a fishing trip, yeah, that's it... He's gonna be really upset, so Imma get going and you just uh... deal with this, ok? "

Metaphor: ReFantazio

Beverage of choice while gaming

33d

"Water. I know, boring, but given how much I game, most other options would be terrible. "

Who is your Super Smash MAIN?

33d

"If you're wondering why the persona guy doesn't play joker, it's because I haven't played smash since they added him... "

IKE

Splatfest: Pokémon Starter - Grass, Fire, or Water?

33d

"This answer sponsored by @enderphoenix . I expect the bribe in my inbox. "

Fire

Spoiler Free Review: The Super Mario Movie

33d

"The movie is silly fun and while it lacks any real substance, as a Mario movie it's totally fine, you're not expecting high intellect art here. "

5

Friendship Ruining Game

33d

"Really could be the OG, this just came up faster in search. "How could you not see that I needed more (whatever)! I was (insert thing that didn't need to be done but you were doing it anyway)." "

Overcooked! 2

Favorite fighter from the original Mortal Kombat

33d

"Freezing was... Cool. (Lower shades and cue "yeeeeeeaaaaaah")"

Sub-Zero

First Video Game of 2025

33d

"All metaphor all the time. "

Metaphor: ReFantazio

2025 Gaming Resolution

34d

"Figure out something to do for RPGs on this site. I know we have fans of them but they don't lead to good competitive quests (and most of those could be solved with grinding to max level or whatever), they're too long to do VGBC-style playthroughs, so what's left? Send me your ideas! I'll invest time to make what I can happen. RPG-exclusive photo/clip of the week? Monthly roundtable discussion where we just hang out and talk about our current RPGs? Showcase events where someone streams something like "first non tutorial dungeon" from a game? (That last one really requires work and a lot of people to be willing to stream and have the setup to do so.)"

Tabletop game reviews this week

34d

"I might go copy ratings from bgg. Not writing reviews though. Too much work. "

3

2025 games completed goal

34d

"Where's the self-API integration to make this an automated quest? :D 25 is pretty doable, 1 every other week gives time for the longer games."

25

The New C3

34d

"The modals feel cramped. Dashboard is busy but I'll customize it to turn it down. H-scroll is 100x more awkward than V-scroll using a touchpad on my laptop. Edit, my new turbo gif is going to express my feelings: !shocked Edit 2: oh wait that doesn't work. I'll add it the hard way."

Favorite Gaming Memory in 2024

35d

"RPG fans (all 5 of us here) ate good this year. P3R, FF7 Rebirth, Unicorn Overlord, Metaphor Refantazio, DQ3 HD-2D... even as much as I disliked Rebirth, that was mostly me. Rumors of Persona 6 next year (IMO, I think we get the announcement but not the release), confirmed DQ1-2 HD-2D (that's going to need a better abbreviation). And of those, only FF7R2 was Action-RPG, proving there's still life in turn-based and Tactical RPGs (even if almost nobody else is talking about them here). (I said ALMOST. I probably saw any post anyone else made about a turn-based RPG in the past quarter at least.)"

Gaming Photography: Season 10 Week 14

36d

"Puppy! Maybe I can recruit her to my party... Might look for another scene with her later, so far there hasn't been one, and the game might lose points on the review if it only teases playing with the puppy. "

Metaphor: ReFantazio

What are you Playing? Season 10 Week 14

36d

"At least cooking isn't actually a mini game. I've unlocked bait so I know the required by law fishing mini game is coming... "

Metaphor: ReFantazio

2024 Gaming Resolution Update

36d

"As best I can tell without raw database access, I abandoned 5 games this year (6 if you count snap) excluding the terrible mobile games that were selected this season for torture. That's definitely above average, so I'm calling it a win. Of course picking better games is a possibility too, but can't always get it right the first time. "

Clip of the Week: Season 10 Week 13

37d

"There was 0% chance I wasn't opening the extremely obvious trap. There are rules in RPGs and one of them is you open all the chests. "

Metaphor: ReFantazio

Nintendo Switch Successor Wishlist

37d

"Access to recent captures without the crazy manual steps required now (Xbox has the perfect answer - just connect cloud storage, then I don't even have to pull them down in a special app!). Achievements Capable of playing PS5 launch titles (not literally, but that level of game) in 1080p60 or 2160p30 STABLE. It's embarrassing when you can't even run your own flagship franchises like Zelda at 1080p30 in 2024. Enough speedy internal storage to get the kind of load times we're used to from Series X / PS5 without limiting us to a single game installed at a time."

What are you Playing? Season 10 Week 13

38d

"Strohl, you're dead. It's been nice knowing you, but Hulkenberg is straight up going to execute you and she won't even wait for you to be sleeping."

Metaphor: ReFantazio

Most Difficult Opening Level in a Game (That You Completed)

38d

"Stealing @ian stealing @themadbombchu 's answer. Anyone else want to get in on the 'love' for this game? I won't even use air quotes around game, it's certainly a game, though you'd be forgiven for thinking it was legalized torture."

Geometry Dash

Best new to you JRPG of 2024

39d

"This is tough, I have just started @metaphor-refantazio and there's a decent chance it could actually win this, but I don't feel like I know enough about how it will be in mid and late game. Meanwhile, Unicorn Overlord was a joy from start to finish, extra crunchy battle systems, and had me rushing back to it every day, the sign of a great game. For more, check out my review of it."

Unicorn Overlord

Gaming Photography: Season 10 Week 13

39d

"Good plan. I'd stop mining if I found r/unexpectedDragon too "

Metaphor: ReFantazio

Hey I Know Them!

39d

"Y'all play games online? Sounds crazy to me. Now if you'll excuse me, I have 90 more hours to go... (I'm never going to have a real answer for this. I don't play online more than 2% of the time and then 99% of that is with friends, deliberately. I used to feel bad about dumb answers to QOTD but I'll at least put in effort to explain.)"

Metaphor: ReFantazio

Flex a C3 Prize

40d

"Picked this up as a premium prize. Might even wear it tomorrow. "

Quote of the Week: Season 10 Week 13

41d

"Managed to sneak a little Wind and Truth (no spoilers) instead of an extra hour of Christmas music on the drive home. "fair," Wit said, leaning against the wall near the door, "a great number of things terrify me. I mean, have you considered--really considered--how insane it is that society entrusts you mortals with children? After ... what, two decades of life, half of it spent in diapers?" "Wit," Navani said, "people don't spend ten years in diapers." "See?" Wit said. "I'm roughly ten thousand years old, and I barely feel comfortable with my knowledge of how to care for an infant." -Wit and Navani, _Wind and Truth_, Brandon Sanderson"

Tis better to give than to receive

41d

"Bah humbug. "

It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

42d

"Our dogs are not sure about this whole photo thing. "

JRPG Rushmore

42d

"Final fantasy IV sets the idea that we're going to have deep plots with named characters. Yeah, ff2 did this too, but not to the extent that 4 did. @dragon-quest-xi-echoes-of-an-elusive-age is a master class in keeping true to your roots while still being modern and has another great story. @persona-5-royal is GOAT. The emotional depth of not just one individual story but all the characters, amazing style, music, voice acting, and a complex battle system make this a don't miss. The last slot is tough but I might give it to @fire-emblem-path-of-radiance for having introduced me to the joy of this series. Plenty of characters, and while it doesn't have all the bells and whistles of modern FE, it does have that very heavy and challenging combat with the trademark permadeath. "

Final Fantasy IV

Share an IRL Picture

42d

"I channeled my inner @darthsmeagol . The instructions are clear. Share an IRL photo. I woke up, grabbed my phone, and took a photo. Of what? I dunno, the ceiling I guess? I didn't turn on the lights. "

Mobile Mania: Tetris® Marathon

43d

"I'm upset that I even bothered to try. Who hurt whichever admin made this quest? Tetris with touch controls is an abomination that shall never be spoken of again. "

99607

Last Game You Abandoned

43d

"I think this is the most recent thing I started and gave up on without at least beating the game. It's not bad necessarily just usual open world nonsense where I can't get from point a to point b without a million distractions. Between that and a combat system that just meh, I left it. "

Yakuza 0

Song Lyrics That Would Make a Great Video Game

44d

"It's too early to think about singing. Also what am I going to do with extra XP? Anyway, I present the entire plot of @vampire-survivors "Another one bites the dust, another one bites the dust, and another one goes and another one goes and another one bites the dust." "

Elf on the Shelf Meme Contest

45d

"I could have tagged the other game but I wanted you to work for it. "

Final Fantasy

We Listen and We Don't Judge

45d

"Encumbrance is a bad design mechanism and these games are boring. "

Fallout Here Fallout There Fallout Everywhere

46d

"Cleveland. Because Ohio is already a nuclear wasteland. (Sorry not sorry, it's illegal in Michigan to say anything nice about Ohio.)"

Favorite Secret Level Episode

46d

"To be fair I got so bored with the show that I didn't watch the second batch of episodes except for mega Man. This and unreal tournament were my favorites. "

Mega Man: Start

That's what COULD have happened...

47d

"This is one of the extras from the plus edition. "

Next Chapter Franchise

47d

"Captain planet! It's 4 player only. Nobody wants to play Heart. "

Unicorn Overlord

47d

"Unicorn overlords are a rank below almighty unicorns. There will be a quiz later. "

Almighty Unicorn

47d

"🦄"

Share your Steam Year in Review 2024

48d

"This is low res because the stupid mobile app doesn't correctly bring up the share dialog to save the image so I had to screenshot it. But you're not missing anything "

Marvel Snap

Share your Nintendo Year in Review 2024

48d

"You know it's a meh Zelda game when it clocks fewer hours than Mario. "

Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury

Share your C3 Wrapped 2024

48d

"Called some of my top ones. Didn't think I posted that much about snap but it must count quests, which also explains persona 5. I did not consider those when forecasting. I apologize for boosting smeagol and joob and will endeavor to fix that in the next year. "

Vampire Survivors

What Game Did You Have No Idea Where It Came From?

48d

"Mentioned this briefly on my @whatareyourthree ... Clearly a formative game if you look at my year in review and every past year, but I don't know how or why we got this. My parents probably wouldn't have approved if they actually knew what it was, one did not simply play games involving magic in the 1980s... P. S. It's fighter-rainbow on any release after NES. NES Black belt, fighter, wm, bm and after you get the airship, you kill the fighter and wm, level bb and bm a bit until bb can one -punch whatever you're hitting, then solo grind bb until level 42, THEN promote and resurrect the party, the fighter is now just a meat shield. "

Final Fantasy

In 2024, gaming was...

48d

"Mostly new games. The few repeats were all thanks to @video-game-book-club . Ironically the one game they played that would have been new to me is one I tried and couldn't get into. Someday I'll figure out how to make a JRPG version of the club... Someday. (If you have ideas, my dms are open! I have a club sitting idle ready for coadmins and quests!)"

Original Meme of the Week: Season 10 Week 12

49d

""

Channel 3 Wrapped Predictions

49d

"Vs, @dragon-quest-iii-hd-2d-remake , @final-fantasy-vii-rebirth , @batman-arkham-asylum (not a long game but I posted a lot about it for vgbc), @ys-viii-lacrimosa-of-dana . Depends on how much the algorithm cares about chat, could see @connections-2023 or @marvel-snap then. "

Vampire Survivors

What are you Playing? Season 10 Week 12

50d

"I should have done this much earlier, getting these two together. Only because there are tactical benefits, like +5 to all stats. "

Unicorn Overlord

Mobile Mania: Birdo Cup Time trial

50d

"Absolutely just here for xp. I used to play this. I uninstalled it for a reason. With this crowd, I have literally negative desire to play again. "

Angel or Star

50d

"Star... Trek? "

Star

Memory Lane

50d

"It's hard to see where they go in the next one. They seem to have put the difficulty settings into a weird spot where the hero can't take any real damage until the plot wants him to. "

Play a game

51d

"There will be spinning. Death not so much, but spinning for sure. "

Unicorn Overlord

What are you Playing? Season 10 Week 11

51d

"Got em right where I want em. (The enemies are red.)"

Unicorn Overlord

C Meme C S Round 5

52d

"Just here for XP at this point."

C Meme C S Round 4

52d

""

C Meme C S Round 3

52d

"Yes I know it was spelled differently, don't @ me, you try being funny on short notice."

C Meme C S Open Round 2

52d

""

C Meme C S Open Round 1

52d

""

S10W11: World 1-1

52d

"Who ever designed these controls should be tried for crimes against humanity. "

352

Wielder of Flames & Poetry

52d

"(unicorn overlord) I shall win this war Burning enemies alive Exploiting AI"

Weekend Showcase 1/11-1/12

52d

"Cheating a bit, this was last week but I forgot to post, the nsea protector (hiding a bit but you'll have more fun playing the "I understood that reference" game if you spend time hunting) is the new addition "

Play Something with a Ninja Turtle

52d

"Had this still loaded up on the green (themed) console. Free with game pass. "

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge

Wishlist Heartless Rogue on Steam

53d

"Hmmm. If it comes to consoles I might have to look at it again. "

The Dennis Proposition: Holiday Shopping

53d

"Falcon at least pretends to be a responsible adult. "

Captain Falcon

Watch The Game Awards

54d

"I had nothing better to do."

We're Brawl Stars Now

54d

"People play this voluntarily? "

Share your PlayStation Year in Review 2024

54d

"Totally forgot this would be up at the top. I blame @video-game-book-club for making me spend 24% of my time playing things that aren't RPGs. I demand to speak to the person in charge over there! Since this doesn't show other games, coming in number 2 was @marvels-midnight-suns which is seriously worth a look, I believe I have a full review of that. Number 3 was @ys-viii-lacrimosa-of-dana (thanks @trashdoc16 ). 4 was @dragon-quest-iii-hd-2d-remake and 5 was @army-of-ruin (if you need more vampire survivors between dlc). "

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

Gaming Photography: Season 10 Week 11

55d

"It's hard to explain just how meaningful this is without a lot of context, but it appears only in the true ending, and it really resonates. "

Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!

Mobile Mania: Marvel Snap JUST enough

55d

"Opponent retreated. 2 cards. This quest is... Not good. Why do I even try? "

0

Boss Fight

55d

"Rocksteady. I just need a big stick. If he learns to jump I'll just stack more boxes and get a longer stick. "

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Called it: Game of the Year '24

55d

"Thanks I hate it. Dlc should not win GOTY "

Elden Ring

Can it play Doom?

56d

"A Fitbit or equivalent. You have to actually run to move. Maybe get some help from a paired joycon like in ring fit. "

Twitch Recap 2024

56d

"Even though it died down in the latter months"

Marbles On Stream

Called it: Best Game Direction '24

56d

"Since elden ring is going to win GOTY, this needs to go one of the other highly nominated games. It's hard to say Balatro even has direction, one person game and all. Not sure what it's doing in this category. "

Metaphor: ReFantazio

Game over?

57d

"I want breakfast too. Mmmm bacon. Also (edit: not) including my new game trophy, which unlocks right after the quest requirements. (Totally fine not to include it, you can use the honor system. Since you can't upload multiple images on quest posts.)"

Called it: Best Narrative '24

57d

"This is where I'd disallow ff7r2... Too much of its narrative is recycled. Not all, and certainly not whatever that ending was, but still, a lot of the major story beats are the same. "

Metaphor: ReFantazio

Called it: Best Art Direction '24

58d

"So pretty"

Metaphor: ReFantazio

Weekend Showcase 12/7-12/8

58d

""

Called it: Best Score and Music '24

59d

"If any of you had played it, you'd understand"

Metaphor: ReFantazio

Smash 6 Announced?

59d

"Nah, they know how crazy fans get, they're not announcing things until they're ready now"

Thumbs Down

SimThis

60d

"simsim. You control sim gamers playing other sim games. Which may or may not include simsim. "

Called it: Best Audio Design '24

60d

"I don't remember anything remarkable about ff7r2 so we'll just pick the favorite"

Astro Bot

What are you currently playing on Xbox Game Pass?

61d

"Technically the last thing I played on game pass and something I keep coming back to, so I'm counting it. "

Vampire Survivors

What Mario Character Needs a Spin-Off Next?

61d

"I want Junior to overthrow dad and put an end to this ridiculous "plan" of kidnapping Peach and somehow turning that into an empire? Junior might even make peace with Mario. Maybe he can recruit the koopalings to his side along the way."

What are you Playing? Season 10 Week 10

61d

"Oh sure take a magical ring to the elves, that never ends poorly. "

Unicorn Overlord

Called it: Best Performance '24

61d

"I didn't get to the new life is strange yet, but Briana really is such an amazing Aerith"

Briana White Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

Share your Xbox Year in Review 2024

62d

"The full version tells me I'm in the top 3% active for this game and 2% for octopath 2. 150 hours on p3r, 104 on octopath 2. 0.52% of players have the ultimate achievement in octopath, which... I get. It was a slog. P3R rarest achievement is from dlc, so I don't think it counts. "

Persona 3 Reload

Called it: Innovation in Accessibility '24

62d

"Really appreciated the fine tuning you could do here. So many games have discrete difficulties, this let you turn incoming damage down 10% and not have to change anything else, which was all it took to make the game that much more enjoyable. "

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown

Follow @bitmapbooks

62d

"Done "

Modern Metroidvania

62d

"Very close call but there's a little more depth here than @ori-and-the-blind-forest If you want to shout out some indies, @axiom-verge , @ender-lilies-quietus-of-the-knights can make the list. Runners up: the remaster of @metroid-prime felt like cheating. @prince-of-persia-the-lost-crown was very good. No I don't see a problem with tagging 6 games for this quest. "

Metroid Dread

What is the most useless video game fact that you know?

63d

"The password to Dr Wiley stages with full e tanks. "

Mega Man 2

Favorite TV Game?

63d

"Is it really based on the show? Ehhh. It wouldn't have been made without the show, so I'll allow it! "

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time

Favorite Character in the Street Fighter Franchise

63d

"Is he terrible? Maybe. But he was green and young info really appreciated that "

Blanka

Recommend a Game Boy Game

63d

"Honestly, I never had a game boy. This title is rough like so many other classic gb games, but the superior remake is locked to 3ds which might be a lot less accessible. Play @metroid-samus-returns if you can, else play this. "

Metroid II: Return of Samus

Don't Ever Allow In Smash

63d

"Hey, listen! "

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Called it: Games for Impact '24

63d

"Good way to recognize a large part of the community. "

Life is Strange: Double Exposure

Favourite Animal Buddy?

63d

"Making water levels slightly less terrible is the mark of a true hero"

Enguarde

The Fake Ending Was Better

64d

"I cite the availability of ng+ as proof. Silly switch, not having achievements. "

A Legend Is Born

64d

"Let's see, 500 XP per 75 hours, 8 XP every 3 hours. But we do it for the elusive tagline. Oh yeah and because the game is fun too. EDIT: NO TAGLINE? What kind of monster does that. @dan probably. Edit again to see if it will pop"

Called it: Best Ongoing '24

64d

"They might need to throw Microsoft a bone, I don't remember seeing anything else from their big studios. Could also go to destiny but I feel like d4 is the better pick if you're trying to kiss up to your sponsors. "

Diablo IV

What game do you want to finish before the end of 2024?

65d

"Mostly because of I don't finish by then I may never. "

Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed

Stage 1 High Score

65d

"Took a sec to figure out the controls. Still better than most of the mobile games we played this season. "

7150

Quote of the Week: Season 10 Week 9

65d

"Was thumbing back through rhythm of war (10 days or something now to wind and truth), this stood out. "You don't have to smile. You don't have to talk. But if you're going to be miserable, you might as well do it with friends." -Kaladin, Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson I'm told this is also the unofficial motto of Monopoly go players here. "

Called it: Best Community Support '24

65d

"This is a weird category. What are the criteria? (I could look but I'm lazy.) I feel like the helldiver community came together to make this game successful. "

Helldivers II

Who is the PlayStation Mascot?

66d

"(note to self, check search terms for Easter egg, searched "error") There isn't one and there doesn't need to be. Sony is doing just fine without one. "

Zelda II: The Adventure of Link

Called it: Best Independent Game '24

66d

"Whether it deserves it or not, it's going to win. 5% chance this goes to a different title here and they give Balatro best debut indie. Probably neva in that case. "

Balatro

A Barrel of Fun

67d

"I'll probably be back. Rewind is a godsend for those timed barrels. "

Leave one Halo of a review

67d

"I almost gave it 2 stars just for that last level. Almost."

Gaming Photography: Season 10 Week 9

67d

"Kaboom. Not that this was me, you understand. Could be any group of adventurers. Not sure what these King Hydras are so upset about... "

Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake

November 2024 Recap

67d

"I don't even have black panther and didn't play arishem in the second half of the month because of Deadpool's diner. I dispute that I win 79% with shadow king, that's just false. "

Gaming Setup Update '24

67d

"I filled in some answers. This isn't really relevant for console gamers but whatever"

Called it: Best Debut Indie Game '24

67d

"Animal well would have had a chance if it came out more recently. I didn't like it, but a lot of people did. "

Balatro

Give Thanks 2024

68d

"Me? Thankful? That's not on brand. Friends, family, fur babies, fantasy role-playing games. "

Called it: Best Mobile Game '24

68d

"Pokemon could be an upset winner here but I think balatro takes this. Recency bias will work against it, which is the only doubt. "

Balatro

Game Mechanic You Hate

69d

"Excessive mini games required for trophies. If you have one and it's decent and I just have to play a bit, I can live with that, but when it takes as long to finish the mini games as the entire rest of the game, you have a problem. Also, difficulty should be freely unlocked from the start of the game. This game and Metroid games require finishing on normal to unlock hard. Why? Let the masochists have their fun. "

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

What are you Playing? Season 10 Week 9

69d

"I think the dragon/hydra is having a rough day. No, I didn't do anything... Did you see me do anything? No, alright then. #noWitnesses"

Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake

Called it: Best Action Game '24

69d

"If they can manage democracy, surely they can manage this vote. "

Helldivers II

Seeds of Salvation

69d

"It's a good thing that beating that boss definitely means the world will be safe forever and there's no way anyone would ever have to do this again. "

Election HQ

70d

"The main cast are teenagers, and no matter how mature for their age they are, there are limits. So who else here might work? We'll just ignore the fact that they aren't American either, pretty sure most answers today won't be, and the question didn't specify president of what... Here we have Sojiro Sakura. He's a small business owner (sole proprietor), adopted his niece after his sister died unexpectedly, and takes in Joker to give the young man a second chance when Joker has to transfer to a new school in a new city after some legal trouble. He's tough on joker at first but gives him a chance to prove himself and eventually comes to be one of his best supporters (and depending on your head canon, possible future father in law). He's down to earth, and as a coffee shop owner, he is used to listening to people. He won't take crap from anyone, but he's not seeking personal glory. Just wants to make a nice life for his (adoptive) family and brew the best cup of coffee anywhere. Oh, and make curry. Don't forget the curry. "

Called it: Best Action/ Adventure '24

70d

"I think Star wars and Zelda are DOA. Pop has a chance but it was so early in the year (15 bucks now! Well spent!). Silent Hill 2 is a dark horse that could take it but I think Astro has a pretty commanding position"

Astro Bot

Mobile Mania: Classic Mode Block Blast

71d

"It's one of the least terrible mobile games selected this season. I'm still uninstalling it. "

2094

Clip of the Week: Season 10 Week 9

71d

"Honestly really is the best policy. "

Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake

Most Brawl Stars Duos Victories This Week

71d

"Just here for xp"

It's not delivery...

71d

"Michaelangelo definitely is bringing a pizza. You're lucky if it's Thanksgiving. I actually think Raphael makes the best Thanksgiving dinner. Donatello is too busy making a machine to do it. Leonardo is freaking out and micromanaging. Mikey isn't taking it seriously. "

Called it: Best RPG '24

71d

"This is a packed category. And c'mon admins, it's not elden ring itself but the dlc... Guessing the dlc can't be tagged directly? I do think metaphor has a chance here, but as the only title not (directly) part of a franchise, it might be tough. Recency bias and a banger soundtrack might push it over the edge. "

Metaphor: ReFantazio

Clip of the Week: Season 10 Week 8

72d

"Too often, our JRPG protagonists are sent out and never see their family (if they even have one) again. This is a really heartwarming scene between your hero and their mother. "

Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake

N64 Online Wishlist

72d

"I DARe noT pick any otHer game. SeeMs to bE A GoOd seLection. "

Diddy Kong Racing

Called it: Best Fighting '24

72d

"It won in 2022, why not win again since there are no rules against it? "

Multiversus

Called it: Best Family '24

72d

"I could maybe see Zelda but the poor technical performance really should disqualify it. "

Astro Bot

Called it: Best Sim / Strategy '24

73d

"I really don't think this will win but honestly, this is a toss up. Of all these, the only one I heard any real buzz about after launch was unicorn"

Unicorn Overlord

Called it: Best VR / AR '24

73d

"No idea. Maybe backlash against putting a new Arkham title locked to VR. "

Metal: Hellsinger VR

Bitmap Book Wishlist Item

74d

"I feel like I need this one after Dan pointed out I was on the cover. Edit to upload the image even though I could just link to the one already on c3 AWS, no preview that way... 🤣"

Called it: Best Multiplayer '24

74d

"I don't do multiplayer, but I saw how the community came together for this, so I'm hoping that translates into votes here. "

Helldivers II

Called it: BEST SPORTS / RACING '24

74d

"Futbol is life? "

EA Sports FC 25

Mega Man Robot Master Chores

74d

"Just to give a little different answer, flash man will at least mean I'm not wasting game time doing the chores or checking his work, because let's face it, none of these are going to do a good job if you're not checking it."

Flash Man

Most Brawl Stars Trophies Gained This Week

75d

"Just here for the XP for a game I don't even play 🤣"

Called it: Best Adaptation

75d

"Only one I'm currently caught up on, but it was excellent and was well reviewed broadly, so we'll go with that. Recency bias could work against it. "

Fallout

Called it: Most Anticipated Game

75d

"Not my pick, but Nintendo fans are a small % and Metroid fans are an even smaller %. Monster Hunter could threaten here, but it doesn't have as broad appeal as GTA. "

Grand Theft Auto VI

Video Game Thanksgiving

75d

"Sephie can heat the turkey up quickly with his magic, then carve it easily with his sword. Just uh, don't stand too close and don't expect the kitchen to survive. "

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

What are you Playing? Season 10 Week 8

76d

"I'm not sure the the game isn't playing me. "

Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake

Gaming Photography: Season 10 Week 8

76d

"Look at these waterfalls. If this area wasn't trying very hard to kill me (see my what are you playing),I might go back for video. The lighting is amazing and yet it still feels like part of this hd-2d world. "

Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake

Called it: Content Creator of the Year

76d

"I have no idea on any of these e sports or content creator categories... "

TYPICALGAMER

Called it: Best Esports Game

76d

"I have no idea on any of these e sports or content creator categories... "

League of Legends

Called it: Best Esports Athlete

76d

"I have no idea on any of these e sports or content creator categories... "

FAKER

Called it: Best Esports Team

76d

"I have no idea on any of these e sports or content creator categories... copy and paste that to apply to the next few quests... "

TEAM LIQUID

WayForward Wednesday: What's the top of your WayForward Wish List?

76d

"I'm always down for a good metroidvania, just need to clear out this backlog a bit. "

Yars Rising

Get to the Choppa

76d

"Well that was an easy choice. "

Persona 5

Official 2024 Vote Card

77d

"I skipped categories I don't feel I know anything about. "

Top 10 Nintendo Wii Games

77d

"Haven't finished the list but it's at least started and I should answer the actual qotd... "

Super Mario Galaxy 2

Sub a snub

77d

"I imposed a restriction that I had to have played the game for it to be eligible. I also disqualified @persona-3-reload because if I'm going to complain about dlc getting a nomination, then I don't want to argue about remakes. So that left... Not much actually. I'm subbing this in for @star-wars-outlaws in action/adventure. I heard very little that was strongly positive about SWO, a lot more that it was fine or ok. So let's put this in there instead. "

Alan Wake II

What Sport was Missed?

77d

"I didn't know if it would have worked, but it would have been funny to watch people try to swim by flailing their arms with the remote. "

Gaming Adjacent: Rise and Snooze

78d

"I used to snooze but I took an arrow to the knee. Or got old. Now I'm up as soon as it goes off or before. "

Rise

Something good, something bad

78d

"@metaphor-refantazio got a lot of nods including GOTY (it won't win). Also @prince-of-persia-the-lost-crown for accessibility which is valid, I even mentioned that in my review. Really liked being able to just add like 10% more defense. Sad to see @persona-3-reload get robbed even after it's established that elden ring DLC can get nominated for GOTY... So !rigged"

Dream Boxing Matchup

79d

"Batman vs Master Chief. No weapons, but Bruce can wear whatever batsuit he wants and Chief gets his armor. "

That aged...poorly.

80d

"Look, I love this series. But I'm not going to try to defend the OG. it's bad. Fall in a lava pit between two columns and you could be stuck. Map? What map? Oh you have 5 energy tanks? Too bad you died, you start with 30 energy out of your max 599, have fun farming that back up. "

Metroid

Gaming Photography: Season 10 Week 7

80d

"So pretty. This is exactly what I needed, a nice JRPG, after the nonsense I keep playing for @video-game-book-club "

Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake

Nomination wishlist

81d

"I want to see a turn based RPG break out from just the RPG category (where it will probably still lose to rebirth) and get that GOTY nomination. "

Metaphor: ReFantazio

Lego a Game

82d

"Surprisingly, the warthog controls better in this one. "

Halo: Combat Evolved

S10W7: Game #9999999

83d

"I was aiming for 3:03."

Clip of the Week: Season 10 Week 7

83d

"I prefer to call this the "noclip" of the week. The walls offended me so I took the moral high ground and chose to just ignore them instead. "

Vampire Survivors

Walkthrough Before You Owned the Game?

83d

"I remembered studying the spell list and was excited that there were three different heroes each with their own progressions. It would be 30 years (ish) until I actually played the game. I was able to recall the fuzzy memory but not any specifics. "

Dragon Warrior II (Dragon Quest II: Luminaries of the Legendary Line)

Hero of Echoes

84d

"Can't wait to give this a middling review and get angry comments. Edit (to the tune of the solved puzzle jingle): I did the thing https://channel3.gg/post?id=273180 "

1-1 Purple Coin Run

84d

"Improving... "

180

Bowser's Lure

84d

"Dear Mario, We know about the doctor. Be at the castle by midnight or we leak it to MNN. Bowser "

WayForward Insights and Feedback

84d

"Awareness: I could have said they were a video game publisher but not named any titles Games: I'm looking to pick up yars revenge when my backlog dies down. This caught my eye at the Nintendo direct and I tune in for 10 minutes or so each week and watch Rey get taunted by, I mean, play the game. Quests: if anything I worry that way forward won't feel like they're getting ROI. I don't think you can do a lot more without it feeling invasive, but my apprehension at the beginning of the season seeing we had a sponsor has been unfounded. Other thoughts: always, just not related to this quest so I suppose I'll stop here. "

Snap league version 2 feedback

85d

"Clarification on 1: Is that "each player secretly nominates 1 s4/s5 card. Together, all nominated cards plus all s1-3 cards form the legal card pool." OR "Each player may field a deck of 0-1 s4/s5 cards plus 11-12 s1-3 cards" OR "Each player may (possibly announced?) have 1 s4/s5 card which is the only legal s4/s5 card they may field all season. They may field a deck without it, but they can't sub in a different high-series card." 2 sounds great."

Watch the River City Girls 2 Double Dragon DLC Livestream

85d

"Also can't stick around, gotta go heckle, I mean, support @trashdoc16 ...."

New list: Graphically Impressive games

85d

"List is work in progress"

Ori and the Will of the Wisps

Clip of the Week: Season 10 Week 6

86d

"Meant to get a better clip tonight but was so focused on surviving and finding my way through the castle... So enjoy this very rough clip of the end of a run where I refuse to die for a few extra seconds and my projectiles have been taking growth hormone. "

Vampire Survivors

Quote of the Week: Season 10 Week 6

86d

"Wit dropped his bloody handkerchief before Ruthar. "How remarkable," he said. "If you spend your life knocking people down, you eventually find they won't stand up for you. There's poetry in that, don't you think, you storming personification of a cancerous anal discharge?" -Brandon Sanderson, _Rhythm of War_ I love Wit. This whole beatdown is epic, and after his victim is already entirely defeated, he kicks him one more time. "

Gaming Photography: Season 10 Week 6

86d

"It's the little things you take for granted. It was a little harrowing for a bit before I unlocked this. "

Vampire Survivors

2023 Look-Back?

86d

"Tears was great, but it's still just an excellently done open world adventure, and we get approximately 42000 open world adventure games every year. Sea of Stars perfectly understood the assignment to channel all the best parts of SNES-era JRPGs and executed perfectly. Besides square's hd-2d titles, which is like one per year, and most are great but not excellent, we're not getting this kind of game. Edit for @dan : no. I mean, maybe, I don't honestly remember. Maybe if you linked a quest where we might have answered it previously? I don't know what I said in January was the best of 23 and am too lazy to look. "

Sea of Stars

Curse your sudden yet inevitable betrayal(s)

87d

"Two words: objective markers. "

C3 for me this holiday!

87d

"Could always use more comfy pants. "

Holiday Wishlist 2024

88d

"I knew I wouldn't have time to start it yet so I haven't gotten it. It can go on sale now, I still won't have time but I'll feel better anyway 🧍‍♂️"

Metaphor: ReFantazio

What is your favorite video game sequel?

89d

"It's not even close. Happy n7 day! "

Mass Effect 2

Favorite Reaction?

89d

"I don't use these a lot. They're a bit of clutter IMO and create a barrier to new users who don't understand why they're funny or who you all are. But if I must pick one... "

Batman Movie Actors

90d

"There are few bad choices on this list, but I think without the success of Keaton in two movies in the late 80s and early 90s, we don't see X-Men, we don't see Tobey play Spider-Man, we may not even get the MCU. Look at the super hero movies we got before this (warning: may be dangerous to sensitive viewers). Now, we could easily have done without Kilmer or Clooney... "

Michael Keaton

What Do You Want to Hear on What Are Your Three?

90d

"Since Joel won't make the mystery quest "more cowbell", it falls to the podcast hosts. "

What are you Playing? Season 10 Week 6

91d

"Truly this would be hell. "

Necro Story

Mobile Mania: Flappy Dunk

91d

"Wow, it knew it would be my last? Impressive. !justhereforxp"

3

What video game character gave out the best Halloween Candy?

91d

"You thought that was actually medicine? It's killing the viruses when they OD on sugar. "

Dr. Mario

Favorite the Channel 3 Etsy Page

92d

"I don't know about this whole Ohio thing though... Like, we should get a discount for having to accept things from Ohio. We're liberating them. "

Share Your Favorite Song from the Nintendo Music App

92d

"Who's using this silly app that doesn't even credit the composers? I'll stick with other platforms where I'm not limited to a narrow subset of what I want to hear, and where I can hear it. "

Silent Hill

The Dennis Proposition: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

92d

"Samus actually has experience here. Doomguy is faithful to Isabella "

Samus

Squad up Sunday Nov '24

93d

"Stealing @ianr idea. Sadly this started way too late to enjoy the full event. #old"

Marbles On Stream

Innocent until proven 343 Guilty Spark

93d

"Don't forget about the weekly quest checkpoint! Free XP for playing an awesome game. "

Gaming Regret

95d

"I thought I'd actually have time to dive into this... It's been sitting unopened for close to a year now. "

AHH! A ghost!

96d

"Ghost spiders are still ghosts. "

Marvel Snap

This is Halloween!

96d

"Reusing this. We don't have kids so we don't go out ourselves. "

2024 Halloween Costume

96d

"Who's going to tell her this doesn't count? That's right, none of you. "

WayForward Wednesday: WayForward Games Owned List

97d

""

A Boy and His Blob (2009)

Share Your 2024 Annual Snap Recap

97d

"Maybe if everyone wasn't playing arishem all the time... "

Nova Cassandra

What Vault Experiment?

98d

"Sleep depravity. Or maybe that's just real life, hard to tell these days. "

What are you Playing? Season 10 Week 5

99d

"Sparkles. This character is great. "

Necro Story

Shaq-Whu?

99d

"Sir Patrick is going to kick you into next week. "

Gaming Photography: Season 10 Week 5

99d

"Look, Mario kart! I'm getting blue shelled! Where's my super horn? "

Necro Story

Most ??????? (automated)

99d

"Cowbell. Come on, just once? "

6

First Pet

99d

"Emma Frost was an actual calendar girl, appearing on a Corgi calendar in the month of April next to some early flowers from our backyard. She passed in 2022. She was small even for a corgi, coming in at 17-18 pounds (25-28 is normal healthy range), but nobody told her that, she had the attitude of a 100 pound dog. "

Gaming Photography: Season 10 Week 4

100d

"The game doesn't lend itself to great art moments, but I try to capture some of the witty dialog at least. Vivi (the ghost) has a lot of attitude. "

Necro Story

Highest Blind Rate

100d

"I feel like I should get bonus XP for hitting it exactly with no hands and no discard left. How the heck do you get going with black deck anyway? I was never going to play a run late enough to get a good score, not on a busy week, so I was just going to get a decent one and then this happened. "

1.0

Truth and Reconciliation

100d

"It was all the way back in 17 when I played the master chief collection? Wow. "

111

100d

"111 Deadpool boosters. "

Marvel Snap

Favorite Disney Video Game

101d

"Duck tales and rescue rangers were not published by Disney interactive, and if you start including Star wars and marvel, it's getting a bit off the target I think. So while I make fun of this series for its ridiculous "plot," this game was fun. Peak of the series though. All downhill from here. "

Kingdom Hearts II

Dr. Who? Mario

101d

"It's Doc. Like the dwarf. His parents were big fans. His middle name is Thor, but due to a thick accent, everyone just heard "doctor" and the name stuck "

What are you Playing? Season 10 Week 4

102d

"Been playing this little quirky RPG that's got some great dialogue."

Necro Story

Free Parking

102d

"Best game with beyond in the title, until prime 4 comes out. "

Beyond: Two Souls

Original Meme of the Week: Season 10 Week 4

102d

"My reaction this morning. Sure the quest was fixed, but you can't erase history! "

Your Dream Halloween Costume

103d

"For as many quests as I put him down as a joke answer, it feels unfair not to use him in a quest where it actually makes sense. And hey, who doesn't want a giant sword? And that hair... That's why I'm going as Cloud. "

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

Watch Yars Rising tonight

104d

"Managed a perfectly spoiler free screenshot. "

Slay the Princess? (Read the Rules)

104d

"Umm actually, popular media notwithstanding, a thumbs up was meant to represent a drawn sword and therefore execution, so our options are backwards. I'll probably have to do both to get a trophy or something anyway. "

Thumbs Up

Who will win the World Series?

105d

"Sigh. There's one rule around here. If you want the choices to be restricted to a list, you gotta set up the list. Because otherwise, Sephiroth wins. Right at the 7th inning stretch, he finishes casting meteor. Dodgers 1, angstyBoy 666,666"

Trashdoc's Bit: Crispy or Chewy Bacon

105d

"Where's the option for "yes." "

Crispy

Quote of the Week: Season 10 Week 4

106d

""what happened to your shoes?" "They got in the way of my ability to think." ... "You're deliciously weird sometimes." "The rest of the time I'm just tastelessly weird." -- Adolin and Shallan in Rhythm of War, Brandon Sanderson Go be deliciously weird this week. "

What are you Playing? Season 10 Week 3

107d

"More games should do this. This wasn't a point of no return but it was a point of major linear progress with no ability to do anything else but main story for a while. "

Persona 3 Reload

Gaming Photography: Season 10 Week 3

107d

"Getting my revenge on that level 99 enemy, with a good damage number finally. "

Persona 3 Reload

Clip of the Week: Season 10 Week 3

107d

"I'd take these guys a lot more seriously if they weren't in their beach outfits. "

Persona 3 Reload

Non-Halloween Halloween

107d

"This game will scare the crap out of you at any time of year "

Alien: Isolation

Sticker Collection

108d

"I don't have a lot of gaming stickers. Which is good considering the limited room I have left. "

Weekend Showcase 10/19-10/20

108d

"The Enterprise b has been the only one missing from my collection because it didn't exist in ornament form. Sure it was on screen for what, 15 minutes at most at the start of generations, but it counts as an enterprise "

Slayer of the Demon King

108d

"Star next to save file indicates game completed. Achievements when, Nintendo? "

Heads Up

108d

"Poker chip on the deck indicates the stakes you previously won "

Connections #496

108d

"Connections Puzzle #496 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦"

Happy Birthday Dan!

109d

"For @dan, who's a gamer through time, Loves Squaresoft's adventures sublime. With marbles he'll play, And curse them all day, On his birthday, all's perfectly prime!"

Favorite PS4 Game

110d

"This is easy. I first played persona 5 on the PS4. Twice. Because the original version requires that for platinum. Then I got @persona-5-royal for PS4 and I did it all again. Twice. Because there's an optional boss fight no longer required for the platinum but still, it's so good, why not. Then it came to game pass and I played it in my Xbox one x. Then I got an Xbox series x and couldn't believe that this turn based strategy game looked even better on it. So I finished it there. I honestly don't remember if that was twice or not. Then it left game pass and I was sad because that version has some of my most ridiculously OP creations. So I bought the collector's edition, that's only fair, right? "

Persona 5

Quick Robin, get the bat-review!

110d

"I actually thought the Croc section was pretty neat. An interesting alternative take on a boss fight. We need more of that kind of creativity, not just punch the boss a million times until you drain their life bar only wait, after this cutscene they have another life bar... let's have more puzzle-solving bosses. (The INTENT of this quest was for you to link your review. I am informed that the quest settings "require link" do not in fact require a link, but allow you to use an image or video instead... sad trombone. GO REVIEW THE GAME.)"

Turn a Cult Movie Into a Game

110d

"Ok what if, instead of watching them go around trying to figure out who killed Mr. Boddy, players could take on the role of one of these characters, moving from room to room to try to figure out whodunnit... (Enter info's assistant, whispering in his ear, dramatically) "Already been done?" (More whispering) "Was a game first?" (Still more) "That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Next thing you'll tell me they made a movie about... Oh what's it called, that game where you try to figure out where your opponent's boats are.." (...) "Battleship, yes!" (...) "They WHAT! Get Out. You're fired. I won't have staff telling such bald-faced lies." "

Ladder or conquest?

111d

"Conquest takes too long. Now we need to add high voltage to the options. "

Traditional/Ladder

Go out with a BANG!

111d

"I found easy too easy but after giving up my hard mode play after croc, I didn't have time to mess around on normal. "

WayForward Wednesday: Favorite WayForward Game

111d

"This was ok. A huge step up from the original but that's a low bar. I don't think I've played any of their other games, though yars rising is on my watchlist. "

A Boy and His Blob (2009)

Guilty Pleasure Game 2024

112d

"Only because I know our trivia overlord is on vacation and this is a great troll. I don't play bad games (except when they're weekly quests) so I don't have a guilty pleasure. "

Trivia

Holiday Wish list

113d

"I really need to be playing this. I have it but Batman took an extra week and then I was going to just "quick" do the dlc for @persona-3-reload ... "

Mobile Mania: Speed Tapping

113d

"Congrats on finding a worse "game" than the color one from week 1. How do I give 0 stars? How long before the crew start using percussion massagers or other mechanical means to reach superhuman speeds? "

177

Which Arcade Sport to Bring Back

114d

"Only one of these I ever played. Not saying I'd play it again but it has a nonzero chance. "

NBA Jam

Quote of the Week: Season 10 Week 2

115d

""You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do." -Darrow aka Repear, Red Rising by Pierce Brown I recently got the new full-cast recording from my library via Libby, and it reminded me how good the first three books are. Looking forward to hearing the rest done this way."

Clip of the Week: Season 10 Week 2

115d

"Took a few tries to get a good 30-second clip I liked. I have half a dozen more I liked a little bit less. Flagging mature due to how Personas are summoned in this game -- technically it's an Evoker, not a gun, but.... yeah."

Persona 3 Reload

Gaming Photography: Season 10 Week 2

115d

"Eat your heart out, Elsa."

Persona 3 Reload

What are you Playing? Season 10 Week 2

115d

"Love the visuals in this game. Going to capture some combat later. "

Persona 3 Reload

S10W2: Nocturnal Hunter

115d

"Just here for the XP. Suspect you can get better times going loud but meh, I'm not coming back to this game. "

List Check: Top 10 Metroidvania

116d

"Let's not pretend like prime 4 isn't going on the list. "

Ori and the Blind Forest

Not so Northern Lights

116d

"Couldn't really get it. Too much light pollution. Might try again tonight. There's the faintest hint of reds using night mode here, but this well lit suburban neighborhood is not going to be good for any shots. "

Best Game Released on 10/10?

117d

"Truly a masterpiece. Think of how much discourse it's generated over the years. Held up as an example to all. Unforgettable. (And we didn't really need another post hyping @portal )"

Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon

Wishlist Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution on Steam

118d

"This whole series is on my bucket list"

Silent Hill 2 Remake: In or Out?

119d

"Never played these, no desire to change that. Come back as a turn based JRPG and we can talk "

Thumbs Down

Automated: Most Games Reviewed This Week (WITH HOURS PLAYED)

119d

"Ehhh. I could write a review or two I guess. "

7

Guess the Game Season 10 Week 2

120d

"As Google demands, so I do. "

Super Mario Strikers

Don't you know that you're toxic?

120d

"Look at that, fresh trophy even. "

Mobile Mania: 3D Bowling

120d

"This is just going to be who gets 300 first. One of the people who likes grinding will get it easily by EOD. "

247

The Dennis Proposition: Fire Fighter

120d

"You can't win. Neither of these pathetic blobs is going to put out the fire caused by Sephie's Meteor. Not sure they're even surviving the impact, but the fall guy looks a little more padded, so maybe. "

Fall Guy Bean

What are you Playing? Season 10 Week 1

121d

"You don't think this will cause any kind of long term trauma? But seriously where is that bat symbol coming from here? "

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Start, and Finish, a JRPG in the second half of 2024

122d

"Played this between July and August. It may actually be the last true JRPG I did? That seems wrong but I guess that's really only 1.5 months and I did 2 metroidvanias and took a vacation... oh and a week trying Yakuza 0. "

Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana

Is Astro here to stay?

122d

"If they can put out another great title within 3 years, he could do it. Else he'll just be this nice thing we come back to occasionally."

Follow @wayforward on Steam

123d

"Done. "

Top 10 3D Platformers

124d

"I will edit the list once the edit bug is fixed. Going to add pop trilogy and consider if I think ratchet and clank counts. "

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Scavenger Hunt: 10

125d

"Continuing to catch back up on my re- re play of this game after giving up on hard mode, remembered to snag a combo bonus which is always a multiple of 10."

Choose your snap league MVP

125d

"For sure suromike, we'd have nothing without him. Was fun. Look forward to being closer to series 3 complete next time. "

Gaming Photography: Season 10 Week 1

126d

"I am the terror that flaps in the night. Wait, that's not it... "

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Most Triva/Quote 1Ups

126d

"Not this again. Do I have to edit? "

2

Guess the Game Season 10 Week 1

126d

"Dan is working up for extra curses during spooky season. "

Marbles On Stream

Mobile Mania: Color Switch

126d

"I died here and took a continue which was a 2 minute ad no thanks. Back to snap. "

8

After a while, crocodile

126d

"Been there done that. This was one of the more interesting encounters I thought. "

Season 10 Game

126d

"It's coming out this month... (I actually don't have it on preorder though. I'm hoping for an early sale.)"

Metaphor: ReFantazio

Wishlist Clock Tower Rewind

126d

"Done "

Season 9 Memory

127d

"I foolishly volunteered to take over organizing @video-game-book-club so Joel could focus on actually running the site. My henchman @darthsmeagol helps a lot behind the scenes too, credit where it's due. It's been good looking at his we can try to grow the club and I even learned how to use obs and managed to host a stream on my twitch (sure it didn't get recorded but what do you want... #never-ask-that-question) Also need to mention @marbs for the fun times we've had, and @marvel-snap for the league and general chat... "

Clip of the Week: Season 9 Week 13

128d

"Late game optional platforming is fun. "

Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights

Call for Backup

128d

"Dude can summon demons. I think we'll be ok. "

JOKER

Gaming Photography: Season 9 Week 13

129d

"Prettiest game to kick my butt this year. "

Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights

Learn to fly

129d

"100% just googled this. This is (checks notes) natu. "

What are you Playing? Season 9 Week 13

130d

"Yep still on this. The orange/brown rooms are fully explored. We're getting there. I know where the next major boss is, that should let me clean up most of the blue rooms and start working toward the next ending. I went back to that obnoxious boss with 20 more levels, a bit more HP, and a new plan, and beat it after a few more tries. "

Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights

September 2024 Recap

130d

"Makes sense. It's a solid one drop. Silver sable is also good and I've run it in some decks now too, but Luke Cage gaining popularity is making sable just a 1/3."

America Chavez

Primary Team up

130d

"You ever try to work on a puzzle with 10+ people? Not gonna happen. "

Yellow

If I Only Had a Brain

131d

"This is the achievement you're looking for if you have lost track of where this is. Just reminding you all about this before you get sucked into Zelda. "

Pitfall High Score

131d

"I could probably get the first treasure but I have better things to do with my time and you only lose points trying to get there... so... I cite wargames and submit 2000. "

2000

Free Cell Game #303033

131d

"Late to the party this week and don't expect to be back. I didn't like the solution I found so I'm glad to see there are much better ones."

92

Primary Allegiance

131d

"They think they're better than green just because they're primary. They're wrong. "

Yellow

How do you collect taglines?

132d

"I only get ones that apply though I'm willing to stretch at season end. I draw the line at factually incorrect like saying caster curses aren't real "

S10 Mains Tagline

133d

"I was going to suggest the 192 different personas in p5r but even that barely makes sense. How about the classes you can play in mass effect? Sentinel, adept, the right answer (vanguard) and everything else? "

Mass Effect Legendary Edition

6th Console Generation

134d

"I first played fire emblem at all via gcn and @fire-emblem-path-of-radiance , can't give that up. "

Nintendo GameCube

Reaction Time

134d

""

The oldest trick in the book

135d

"Abusing bad AI. I still do it. Attacking from the other side of some indestructible barrier for example. Waiting around a corner in a stealth game where you know they won't take the one extra step to check. "

Oldest Trick in the Book

135d

"Up up down down... Eh you know the rest. Runner up: unplugging your little brother's controller or handing him a dead one. "

Suggest a relaxing game

136d

"Just you and the sand (and maybe a rando)."

Journey (2012)

15$ library

138d

"Hades, Zelda, Spidey, spend $1 to reroll (bet you didn't know that was an option), picking up persona 5 and Metroid dread which both came up in the $1 row. Amazing! What are the odds? "

The Picasso in your closet

139d

"A lot of people like vision. I'm not one of them. Maybe with magick. But I like the white vision variant art. "

Thanks for being here.

139d

"Excited to see lots of posts for this with VGBC! I'll be on vacation for a week here, giving you all plenty of time to catch up. When I picked it, I was a little worried because it wasn't even on anyone's quest responses, but it seems to be turning out great. Can't promise to get it right every time but I know y'all will just let me reload a save and try again"

Guess the Game Season 9 Week 12

140d

"Random. Org picks have done nothing for me so might as well go with what I'm playing"

Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights

What are you Playing? Season 9 Week 12

140d

"I'm sorry for your loss, but I also just got air dash so byeeeeee, I have exploration to do! "

Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights

Kwolok's Hollow Spirit Trial

141d

"I don't expect to win or be back. But it was fun to dust this off for a bit. (OK I shaved a little more. I gotta go do FreeCell before I forget. Short week for me.) OK that's it, I wanted to show that sub 17 is possible without superhuman speedrunning abilities or any sort of crazy tricks like cornerboost or air dash bonk to get extra air dash. I look forward to seeing the winning video. (If you're doing it from in game, access the leaderboard to see the thousandths digit.)"

Free Cell Game #30303

141d

"Not a pretty start. 91 on attempt 2 is better but still ugly. "

91

The Bane of Batman's Existence

141d

"Well I didn't have as big a head start as Dan, but I did start a little early to plot check-in points "

Maximum Carnage

141d

"A maximum level carnage. Totally counts. "

Free Cell Game #33333

142d

"Figured i should at least try. FTNR is 3 off the lead? Second attempt gets to 2 off? Well ok i can bother trying a few more times...."

82

Friday the 13th

144d

"Me trying to figure out OBS less than an hour before the VGBC discussion today. Very spooky. Got OBS, missed the video capture. A win for real-time and a loss for everyone who DITCHED US TO PLAY MARBLES. "

Vampire Survivors

Infinite Cosmic Power

144d

"Oh I guess I should do this. "

What game needs an event?

145d

"Ok hear me out. Let's get RPGs some love. We do a showcase where a bunch of us volunteer to play segments from the middle of our games, minimal spoilers but past the boring tutorial sections to be better able to showcase the game. Gdq-style there's also a couch commentator to help explain things that are going on when the player actually needs to focus. We queue up a 4-hour block in 30-60 minute segments of games, helping really show what's so great about these games that don't get love. We can take questions from the audience (another great reason to have the couch commentator or two). It's not going to be as popular as forkknifekart but it might get some of the single player fans out for an event. "

Persona 5

What are you Playing? Season 9 Week 11

146d

"Busy week, mostly sticking to mobile. Also it's the only thing I have a screenshot from at the moment. Devil Dino goes brrr. Still loses but I had a moral victory I think. Should have dropped something else there earlier so my mockingbirds would be cheap or free. "

Marvel Snap

New List: On Pause

146d

""

Guess the Game Season 9 Week 11

147d

"Smackdown, as in "if Dan continues to deny caster curses, there's going to be a smackdown." "

WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2006

Find the vampire

148d

"Didn't find the vampire today, played some boss rush with the new bats character though, that's kind of like a vampire. Beat up this poor crab. "

What genre do you wish you liked more?

148d

"My real answer is none of these. I'm good. And how is space a video game genre? "

Racing

Scavenger Hunt: Football adjacent

149d

"Normally the lions are beat described as football adjacent so I'm not sure what's going on here. I was watching evol's stream all day. Did I swap to a parallel dimension while I wasn't paying attention? "

Wishlist Ra Ra Boom on Steam

151d

"Done. "

Clip of the Week: Season 9 Week 10

152d

"You know what they say, if you can't beat them, come back from the dead and then beat them anyway "

Marbles On Stream

Flight Seat Meme

152d

"Sephie isn't going to talk to you and you get a front row aisle seat. Hard to go wrong here. "

1

Character You Will Not Play As

153d

"Mostly because it was always so annoying when the scrubs I play against were just spamming down b. "

PIKACHU

Favorite Magneto Variant

153d

"I don't have base Magento yet so I'll just choose one from snap.fan ... The upcoming X-Men 97 one looks great too, big fan of the show. "

Who are you bringing to the party?

153d

"Always go with Yoshi. He's got your back. Which is good considering the spinal injuries you cause him by riding on him... "

Yoshi

The End

154d

"I don't get the hype but I did 100% the game. "

Rate the C3 App on the Google Play Store

154d

"Updated review. "

Free Cell Game #33033

155d

"if it's good enough for miles per hour it should be good enough for freecell. "

88

What are you Playing? Season 9 Week 10

155d

"Didn't really know what else to start so I just grabbed this again. The darkana that can give you a candybox on level up is broken. 7 candy, 6 of the extra passive thing. And still crap for evolved weapons because I was playing on a stage that only had one of the Contra boxes, which is why I dislike the new stuff. Still, 157 in 30 minutes is pretty funny. Even held the reaper off for a minute and a half. "

Vampire Survivors

Favorite September Release

155d

"This game has so many releases I can just use it half the year... But in this case, it's the original Japanese release. That counts, we'd have nothing without that "

Persona 5

Gaming Photography: Season 9 Week 9

156d

"Well it's pretty. That's probably the nicest thing I'm going to say about this game 😂"

Tales of Kenzera: ZAU

Clip of the Week: Season 9 Week 9

156d

"EMMI Escapes are incredibly hard because the timing for the counter is variable (the EMMI can wait to strike) and then you have about 10-15 frames to execute the counter. It's always satisfying when you pull one off."

Metroid Dread

2048 High Score

156d

"Let me save you all some time okay? Hands off my crown. You can just let me have this one. "

67668

Your Season 10 Feature Wishlist

156d

"More cowbell. That way the automated quest really can be cowbell and that's all I want. If I think of a real answer I'll be back later to update.... (Weekly quests that don't take an hour plus to grind. Unless they're for RPGs then absolutely. The ability to upload video from the page where I'm authoring a super post and the ability to embed video neatly in a super post.)"

Everything hurts and I'm dying

157d

"Garl. That's it, that's all it takes. If Garl doesn't bring a smile to your face, you're an inhuman monster and deserve the suffering."

Cooking with Garl

157d

"I will be (more) disappointed in all of you if I'm the only one to do this quest this week. If Garl is not currently in your party, you may cook without him using one of his recipes instead. "

Top 10 Capcom Games

158d

""

Mega Man 2

Guess the Game Season 9 Week 9

158d

"In honor of the library having over 9000 games, I picked the first Dragonball /DBZ title that came up when I searched. "

Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero

Play the August 30, 2024 Strands

158d

"I kept looking for star or war but alas, it was the inferior one. Strands #180 "Let's play" 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵 Did you spot a clue for the next main vgbc title? I sure did! "

Free Cell Game #3333

159d

"I really do hope to be back this week but busy.... (At least I got it down to respectable.)"

91

What are you Playing? Season 9 Week 9

159d

"Just a little fun point and click adventure with escape rooms, what could possibly go... "

Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma

What game needs a completion tagline?

159d

"The entire tales of series... Though I would not have evidence for this game having long lost my gcn memory cards not to mention any copy of the game or hardware to play it... I was going to tag the og tales of graces but only the remaster is in the library and I'm not adding games to the library from my phone, there are limits.... "

Tales of Symphonia

Share your August 2024 Recap

159d

"Cable is pretty solid utility. Pairs well with dino collector and possibly gets a useful card and denies my opponent one. Some risk that it removes a dead draw for them of course, but for 2/3 that ain't bad. "

Cable

Season 1 Snap Feedback

159d

"It's been fun as a new player. I've definitely missed the notice that new matches were up but I'm just not used to looking for them. I don't really know who's winning but I'm not sure that really matters. "

Top 10 GameCube games

160d

"RE4 was 11th. "

Metroid Prime

Indi3 Gamers - What'cha getting?

161d

"The dlc for it. I know that got added to the library but I don't remember what it was called and you can't search from the pick a game dialog... But those looked fun. I'll check out neva if it comes to a subscription I have. I was meh on gris. "

Balatro

What's your MMORPG?

161d

"This is sometimes tempting but it's never quite made it over the magic line to get played. "

Final Fantasy XIV Online

9-9

162d

"Where's Waldo: hard mode. "

Vampire Survivors

The Dennis Proposition: You're trapped in a well

163d

"Dogmeat easily. Poochy is just goofy. (Not that Goofy, that's a different dog.) Plus, dogmeat will hang around persons of ill repute, such as a silver-haired wanderer with an enormous sword, who might extort you but at least you'd get out. "

Dogmeat

IRL Photo

164d

"Clank catacombs. I'm probably going to get eaten by the dragon. Update: not only did I not get eaten by the dragon, I had more points than anyone else (by 1 and that counts!)."

Update your SNES Top 10

165d

"I looked at it and said maybe I could move some things up or down a spot but it is the canonically correct list of ten games. If you want to argue rankings, sure, but there's nothing missing here. "

Super Metroid

What are you Playing? Season 9 Week 8

166d

"The other two in the trilogy were on game pass a while ago but I got sick of waiting and just bought this one. It's a (disturbing) puzzle game with branching decision paths. You're trapped in these escape rooms with life and death consequences. So when you see this, what do you do? Push the button or don't?"

Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma

Free Cell Game #3303

166d

"Not bad for FTNR."

83

Play Something Zelda-Adjacent

166d

"Seems like it might be dangerous but how do I know I can trust this random stranger I just met who is literally handing out lethal weapons to anyone who walks in the front door? "

The Legend of Zelda

Most Taglines Earned (automated)

166d

"One of these weeks it's going to be cowbell "

3

Lost My Marbles

166d

"Lost them real good here. "

NYT Cross word History

166d

"Let's see... 5 letters... Hat and overalls... Always getting in Mario's way... LUIGI. Could be yellow if your parents' TV wasn't properly set for colors. Alternatively, and I want to see your Photoshop... BIRDO. Wait I just figured it out. I was right about the B. Five letters, wears hats (to reduce glare), absolutely hates Mario (64), this has to be BRIAN ( @laughatbrian ). Crew, I expect the Photoshop on my feed by lunch. "

Favorite NES Game

167d

"I wanted to pick final fantasy but due to a site bug preventing scrolling on the game choices... I went for a close runner up. Maybe I need to go add final fantasy 1 to the search terms so I can actually find it... (5 minutes later)"

Final Fantasy

Favorite Nintendo 64 Game

167d

"And it will remain a perfect game in my memory because I won't play it again and ruin that. "

GoldenEye

Search for 21

167d

"I had to look through 75% of my cards to find one with 21 boosters. "

Marvel Snap

Podcast Bonus Quest: Wishlist Yars Rising on Steam

167d

"More likely to catch this on console, feels like something that will come to game pass or ps+ eventually. "

Go swinging

168d

"From @persona-5 Royal intro. Joker is doing his best Spider-Man impression. "

Guess the Game Season 9 Week 8

169d

"Those who fail to respect Sephy will get to go play in the park beyond. It's just like the farm upstate. (As always, game chosen by random.org)"

Park Beyond

ABCD: 1 v 3

169d

"Glados was beaten by a single person with no magical or supernatural ability. Ganondorf is beaten every generation by an elf boy. I don't know much about mortal Kombat other than it being 1 on 1, so eventually there is someone who can beat that villain. Sephie faces your team of 3 who have been heavily augmented by magical equipment and abilities. And that's not even considering the shenanigans from the remake trilogy... "

B

Hero of the Skies

170d

""

End of the Blue Waves

170d

"I did the thing. I expect the bribe from @trashdoc16 to arrive within a week. Review... Soon. This week I think. "

Gaming Photography: Season 9 Week 7

170d

"(first photo) This is a boss? It looks so weak (Second photo, actual entry) Oh. "

Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana

Rewrite: Saving Princess Toadstool

170d

"Moonlighting as a barista in order to afford the mortgage payment on the castle at these interest rates. "

Marbles Keys to Success

171d

"Don't get cursed. "

Favorite Madden Cover Year

172d

"This was a nice tribute. It didn't make me play a sports ball game but I like the design. "

Madden NFL 23

What is your favorite game you never finished?

173d

"It's only cheating if you are a no-fun killjoy. Did I complete every quest? Sure. But there are unlockables left I didn't get and higher heats to conquer so is it really finished? "

Hades

VGBC: Weekly Checkin, S09W07

174d

"I'll get there soon, I promise. This is also your notice this quest exists. "

0

Free Cell Game #3300

174d

"Disgusting. I'm sure I can do better; I just don't know that I will get around to it."

108

Virus 0 High Score

174d

"18 tried to kill me so I went in to 19 ready to focus and it went smoothly (ish). This created fatal overconfidence for 20."

241800

Top 10 Sega Genesis Games

174d

""

Sonic the Hedgehog 2

What Pest to Hunt?

175d

"Zelda haters. What, too soon? THEY MADE THEIR CHOICE, PEOPLE. "

What are you Playing? Season 9 Week 7

176d

"Halfway through the flight when I had chugged 80% of my healing potions, I finally noticed the part where it said level 80 and my level is 60-63. I won, but it cost me every healing potion and several less easy to replace healing items. "

Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana

Week #100

176d

"Carnage, as in "Dan's caster curse left carnage all over the marbles playfield during c3cs." "

Marvel Snap

ABCD: Nintendo Franchises

176d

"Easy choice. The only Kirby I play is in smash and I haven't even done that in 5+ years. "

C

Gaming Photography: Season 9 Week 6

177d

"Every RPG is required by law to have silly minigames and 75% of those are going to be fishing. These are some serious life goals, catching a fish that big. With a little hand held rod and reel too, RPG magic! "

Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana

Happy Anniversary Super Mario All-Stars

177d

"Is what we should have been playing, instead we're left with this abomination. "

Chrono Trigger

Free Cell Game #3000

177d

"Been kinda sick last part of this week and just haven't had the brainpower to put into this. Needed to at least put in my FTNR effort though. OK, tiny improvement. Think I'll leave it here for now, 10% chance I'm back this evening to try again but more than likely happy to just let it rest. ok at least it's respectable now. "

90

What are you Playing? Season 9 Week 6

178d

"Oh gee it sure was nice of them to just leave this chest out with no guardian, let me just walk up and take that. (1 minute later in the comments)"

Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana

Cast an Actor in a Video Game Role

178d

"Everyone is casting protagonists but that won't be enough alone. Introducing Alan Tudyk as the voice of Ridley. And Kraid. And mother brain while we're at it... "

Super Metroid

One Has to Go: Fighting Games

178d

"I've actually played the others. "

Tekken

Gaming Decathlon List

179d

"Read the explanation on the actual list first. Since there's apparently a character limit on these things, here's the setup for the last 2 games Spider-Man 2018: we're going to do one of those enemy lairs where you can be stealthy or punch them all to dea... I mean, incapacitation. Like mk8 you'll have a 4 hour notice which one. If I remember right these are scored in game anyway based on how your kills go and how big your combo is and maybe how much damage you take. Just to mess with everyone, speed won't matter here. Finally, Hades. The file will have every weapon and aspect unlocked and a full mirror's worth of darkness in your inventory. Again at 4 hours notice, you'll be told what weapon and what heat level you must play at. I'll be nice and let you pick the aspect. How will you spend that darkness? Do you want to take the extra time to buy levels you probably won't use? This is a pure speed run (rta from the time you gain control to the time you kill the final boss or lose your run, with players who beat more bosses automatically ranking ahead of those with less). RNG seed will be same for all players. "

Persona 5

International Cat Day

180d

"He insists he isn't a cat but that's just what a cat would say. "

Persona 5

What is the correct way to eat Ice cream cake?

180d

"The correct answer is "quickly." "

Spoon

Stormy scene

181d

"I know you all thought I must have been sick, not using this for any quests except the top 10. Rest assured, I have not forgotten. True storms know when it will most inconvenience you, like when you get dressed up for a fireworks festival. "

Persona 5

Most Double Digit 1UP Posts (automated)

181d

"Explain myself? I don't know that could take a very long time... "

2

Clip of the Week: Season 9 Week 6

182d

"Seriously, what did you think would happen when you got on board the ship you already thought was a ghost ship and which mysteriously lowered a gangplank for you with no visible person doing it? This one's on you. "

Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana

Favorite Wolverine Variant You Own

182d

"Well let me see, I have two choices. I'll give the edge to pandart variant over base, though the base is pretty good. This feels a little more raw. "

Survey: Homerun

182d

"Tough call. When in doubt though, we pick the answer with more letters in common with the true answer, and his long flowing silver hair. "

Rey

Best Metroid Weapon

182d

"Well there are all of 4 choices if you want to restrict to weapons and then I'd say ice beam since it's needed to beat the game. But among power ups, morph is king. For anyone confused by the list of choices, which span the franchise, your real options are Morph, Bomb, Missile, long beam, Ice beam, wave beam, varia suit , High jump, screw attack, energy tank"

Morph Ball

Top 10 of the 2010's

183d

"The top spot could go to @mass-effect-2 just as easily. Unlike the last two times where I mostly got one game per year, there were several years here with just nothing. "

Persona 5

Guess the Game Season 9 Week 6

183d

"Gonna make Dan an offer he can't refuse here. Anyone got a shipping address for a severed Yoshi head? (This game was chosen by random.org.)"

The Godfather (2006)

Squad Up Sunday: August 4, 2024

184d

"Hopped on @evolvixon 's stream for the first time and played some marbles with the slightly crazier group over there, some definitely new to me. "

Marbles On Stream

Clip of the Week: Season 9 Week 5

184d

"I know, it's not my current game, but sometimes I get multiple good videos in a week and can't submit them all. Here's a late game non spoiler fight showing some good fighting before the cinematic finish. "

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown

IRL a Game

185d

""

Tetris

Seen it all

185d

"I actually read them too, unless they were no context spoilers or Fortnite (that cut out half right there). Not sure we needed the new user join posts in the mix on the button but we got through it anyway. I don't know what it says that 90% were memes. 0% reviews but I think that's because reviews aren't posts. Approximately 1% of posts by people not named @joel had media attached. No shock there, nobody reads text only posts. So if you want 1ups, better start including pictures or videos. "

What gaming item would be most useful IRL?

186d

"The star rod grants wishes and doesn't seem to have a no wishing for more wishes clause in the master services agreement, so by definition it wins. "The Star Rod is a magical rod that can make all wishes come true..... He [Bowser] then uses it to grant all his evil, selfish wishes. " I wish for infinite XP for this post. "

Paper Mario

Favorite August Release

187d

"Asking me to pick a favorite child here. Zelda 1, smw, Metroid 1 (not itself a great game but we'd be nowhere without it), chrono trigger, persona 3 .... But I have to give the nod to the one I've played the most. Actually that's debatable, I might honestly have more hours in P3 if I count reload.... "

The Legend of Zelda

Play Something From the Original Game Boy

188d

"This isn't that good but unless you still have a 3ds and the remake, it's kinda a necessary evil to play all of Samus' story. "

Metroid II: Return of Samus

What are you Playing? Season 9 Week 5

189d

"This is what happens when you abandon Yoshi one too many times. "

Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana

Most Steam Owned Games

189d

"Steam powered? Sounds archaic. !justhereforxp"

The Dennis Proposition: Better Moving Help

189d

"With some caveats, link with ultrahand, and the gloves/mitts/bracers from various titles, dude can carry a ton. However, any fragile items, especially anything that looks like it might contain money inside, I'm moving without help. This goes triple for pottery, not that I have any, just saying... "

Link

Show your cards

190d

"This started from building a deck around spectrum and I've been tweaking it little by little as I go. I had quicksilver at one point and Domino at another and now I just said who needs em. The only thing is it's hard to pull big swings. Spectrum can tilt the scales on full locations but you're not going to go +15 on one location or anything. It's still pretty reliable and Cassie is just broken at this early tier. "

Triple digits

190d

"I assume the idea is 100 or more. This is 111 and I already used it for one quest, so if I use it one more time, that's 333, and I win the Internet. "

Maximum effort

190d

"Cassie plus sinister London is ridiculous. "

Snap Tagline

190d

"Literally one of two choices I have and I got this first and am too lazy to change it "

Free Cell Game #33

190d

"When FTNR is 89 you know it's going to be one of those weeks. Solving the puzzle at all: 1/5 difficulty Optimizing: TBD, speculating 2 or 3/5. Leaning 2."

80

What's Your egaming Olympic Game?

190d

"This has a really good, clean, professional tournament structure already established. 1v1 Swiss rounds and then going to best of 3/5/7 for bracket stages. Plus it's actually fun to watch. "

StarCraft II

Gaming Photography: Season 9 Week 5

190d

"This might not last all week but... Nobody expects a turn 4 galactus when you shouldn't even see that card in anyone's deck yet! Showing the state mid play which is a pretty cool effect and also just to revel in the destruction. "

Marvel Snap

Top 10 of the 90s

190d

"See notes on list. "

Super Metroid

Strands #148

190d

"Strands #148 "Book it!" 💡🔵💡🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵 How can you have book it and not have pizza be an answer? (Sorry not sorry to those too young to get that.)"

Guess the Game Season 9 Week 5

190d

"I feel like the RNG is rigged against me here. But maybe the theme is unnecessary sequels... "

Duke Nukem 3D

Connections #414

190d

"Connections Puzzle #414 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨"

Wordle #1136

190d

"Wordle 1,136 4/6 ⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩"

Gaming Photography: Season 9 Week 4

191d

"Well the cutscenes are a bit nicer but come with a copyright notice. Too bad. Not easy to get these shots when there's no pausing for photo mode. "

Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana

Sunday Funday - July 28, 2024

191d

"Just getting a cool 2.4m bubs. Don't mind me. (This is abusing bots but the system is so dumb it's really the only practical answer )"

Marvel Snap

Clip of the Week: Season 9 Week 4

191d

"r/UnexpectedJasonStatham"

Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana

Wordle #1135

191d

"Wordle 1,135 4/6 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟨🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩"

Connections #413

191d

"Connections Puzzle #413 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩"

Card You Dread to See

192d

"The deck I'm playing right now heavily uses ongoing. So this is annoying. "

Enchantress

Collection Level

192d

"I know, try not to faint from my awesomeness. "

225

Win a non-tutorial round

192d

"Aha. I can do this one! Smallest margin of victory anybody? "

Favorite Skin in Any Game

192d

"Deja Vu "

Persona 5

Wordle #1134

192d

"Wordle 1,134 3/6 🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩 ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩"

Connections #412

192d

"Connections Puzzle #412 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦"

Free Cell Game #303

193d

"I haven't had time to really dig into this. Rough puzzle. Currently calling it 5/5 difficulty. Better, but still room to grow I think. OK, I'm officially ruling this 5/5 difficulty. This is nuts. I'm getting stuck with 75% of the strategies I try."

93

Favorite Looter Shooter

193d

"Critical killing Is an art unto itself And I am Rembrandt - Zer0"

Borderlands 2

Connections #411

193d

"I'm not paranoid I just assume the editors are out to get me. Connections Puzzle #411 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨"

Wordle #1133

193d

"Wordle 1,133 4/6 ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ 🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩 🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩"

What are you Playing? Season 9 Week 4

194d

"This isn't a very photogenic game. This was actually an accident hitting the screenshot button but I'll take it and check this quest off. "

Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana

The Dennis Proposition: What Tastes Better?

194d

"I'm in camp "no shrooms" so I'm hoping the slime is more appetizing and HEY I remember the discussion in chat for these two and nobody said anything about eating them. Crazy mods. Wasn't it something more like who would survive longer in elden ring? "

Slime

Connections #410

194d

"Connections Puzzle #410 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦"

Wordle #1132

194d

"Wordle 1,132 3/6 🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩"

Which is your favourite Rare game?

195d

"The best game I never want to play again and to only live in my nostalgia where it was great. Also, this happened while browsing answers. It would be that quality. !sus "

GoldenEye

What Game Should Be a TV Series

195d

"This feels more expansive than dread, you could take some liberties and get some chozo holograms or something. (I can't pick @persona-5 because it already has an anime.)"

Metroid Prime

Connections #409

195d

"I'm boring. And using a screenshot is silly, it could show answers on some resolutions. Connections Puzzle #409 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪"

Wordle #1131

195d

"Wordle 1,131 4/6 ⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩 ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨 🟨🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩"

A Game You Wish Was Not a Console Exclusive

196d

"This is game 404 in the library. As in, http error code 404. i own current Gen consoles so I don't care. There's probably some PC exclusive I could want but those are few and far between, and I don't really want to play StarCraft on a console, no matter what @starcraft-64 thinks. "

Excitebike

Guess the Game Season 9 Week 4

197d

"I looked at how many games are in the c3 library. Generated a random number between 1 and that, found the game with that number, and that's how we got here. It's science. "

Inside the Backrooms

Top 10 of the 2000s

197d

""

Metroid Prime

RGFT: Urban Champion

198d

"Is this really all there is? Good grief, stinks is too kind. Also confused by quest instructions, what is a challenge in terms of this game? One opponent? One set of three where the game gives extra confetti?"

What are you Playing? Season 9 Week 3

198d

"Just a little casual sequence breaking. Almost had it the first time but nailed the second try. "

Metroid Dread

Gaming Photography: Season 9 Week 3

198d

"EMMI has some real problems respecting personal space. "

Metroid Dread

Nintendo's next gen will be...?

198d

"The swiitch. That's right we're combining the best two selling systems of the modem era. Launch title Swiitch Sports will be a pack in . "

Which Marvel character deserves their own standalone game?

199d

"Gambit, from the X-Men. Also the namesake of my other corgi, seen here smugly claiming the bed as his own."

Which Super Smash character would you most like to LITERALLY fight IN REAL LIFE?

199d

"Worst case I get to take a solid nap, hard to go wrong with that."

JIGGLYPUFF

How did you get into gaming?

199d

"I had a console from a young age. I'm not sure why my parents got one; maybe they planned to actually play it themselves. Started playing stuff on it and eventually got our own NES for the kids, started playing mario / duck hunt / world class track meet. "

Smash Character You Dread Playing Against

199d

"Because the filthy casuals I would be playing with just spam down-B and there are few things as annoying as pikachu screaming pika-chu! constantly."

PIKACHU

What is your gaming snack of choice?

199d

"Pretzels or goldfish (not the *&#$ flavor-blasted ones that get your fingers dirty). "

Best Villain in a Game?

199d

"C'mon. After all the jokes I've made... how can I *not* pick this?"

Final Fantasy VII

Why do you stream? [Or why would you?]

199d

"Mostly laziness stopping, and a lot of what I play just would not make great content. "

Give a Musician a Video Game

199d

"I'm picturing... A young man, playing some sort of wind instrument, maybe like a recorder or a flute. Can't remember his name, it's only instrumental, no vocals. Wears green a lot. But hearing his music makes me think of grand adventures in a fantasy realm. He should get his own game, maybe a whole series of games. (The quest instructions were not specific enough to prohibit this answer being perfectly valid. He's a musician and he deserves a video game. Anyone who disagrees with those statements can see themselves right out.)"

Beat Halo 4

199d

"Free taglines you say? Sure @dan "

Beat Halo 3

199d

"Spartans will. @dan "

Beat Halo 2

199d

"Hi @dan . I'm not coming up with anything witty so you're in luck. "

Beat Halo: Combat Evolved

199d

"Gonna surprise a few people when I'm the first to claim these. "

Show us an Animal

200d

"We believe she was working on developing a new glitch for speedrunners to use. There are very few other plausible theories for this position. "

EA Sports College Football 25 -- Are You Getting It?

200d

"Yawn. "

Thumbs Down

Are you going to buy Super Mario Party Jamboree?

201d

"No Mario party until they give us the m-rated one we all want! "

Thumbs Down

Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition -- In or Out?

201d

"Oh let's play 3 seconds of a game over and over to try to get it down to 2.9657333333NOTHANKYOU "

Thumbs Down

Clip of the Week: Season 9 Week 3

202d

"Where we're going, we don't need roads."

Marbles On Stream

Free Cell Game #300

202d

"Sorry @dennis. I was bored and had time between meetings. Note the date and time."

80

What Game Should Make a Sleep App?

202d

"Having trouble sleeping? Our new wearable accessory will punch you in the face. (Not FDA approved.)"

Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!

The End of Time

203d

"Video would be spoiler so you get a very boring screenshot instead. "

Show off something IRL from your gaming collection

203d

"Pikachu was surprised to find himself so very badly outclassed by the tallneck. Sadly the Omni blade no longer lights up when plugged in (it might work on batteries, haven't tried). The dumpster fire is hanging out because I need more shelves. "

Vote for S9W2 Photo

203d

"While a great shot, two characters sitting on a beach looking into the sunrise/sunset isn't that unusual. The helldivers photo may be funny with the caption and inside knowledge, but without those things it just looks like a normal photo to me. Yakuza wants me to find out what's going on, and that makes it a good video game photograph. "

Yakuza

Let's Try Again

204d

"This wasn't a horrible game but it fell far short of what we wanted. Deliberately cutting the Quarians to make dlc didn't help, that slot could have introduced us to a new race or collations of younger races that were just starting to get going when the reapers came. Also we didn't need the jetpacks or whatever, just keep it simple and give us more of what we loved in the first trilogy with a new squad. "

Mass Effect: Andromeda

What are you Playing? Season 9 Week 2

205d

"It's odd that I find this less photogenic overall than @octopath-traveler-ii , but here we havea portrait I titled "Snek is frend" mostly because you finally get the ability you know you were eventually going to get. "

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown

Ranked or Casual?

206d

"Online games? Who plays those? Ironically, the online multiplayer game I play the most might be marbles which is technically ranked but also definitely shouldn't count, so I'm sticking with casual as the spirit of the question. Silly black and white questions where the answer is green. "

Casual

Gaming Photography: Season 9 Week 2

207d

"I'd be gritting my teeth that much if I had to go through what he did just to get this feather (Sacred Archives, for those who have played)."

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown

Tropes? In a JRPG? Never.

207d

""Wow, just what I needed!" : The dungeon contains an item/spell/weapon that the boss is vulnerable to. In OP2 this happens because of the chapter structure, you're guaranteed to have a specific character in a given chapter when you go through a dungeon and you're all but guaranteed to find a weapon they can use that's much stronger than what they had before."

Octopath Traveler II

Favorite Class?

207d

"*thinks about options* *Looks up at avatar* *Clicks the box and walks away*"

Black Mage

Happy Shark Week

208d

"I think this shark may be food, not friend. "

Octopath Traveler II

Free Cell Game #30

209d

"So far I'd rate this puzzle at a 3-star difficulty, compared to last week's 1-star. 2nd submission still 90, just faster. I think I had a dumb move in here and can do 88. 3rd: 89? well it's improvement, still not the 88 I was so convinced I could do. 4th: 87 which I never would have believed was going to work when I was in the middle of it. Was only half paying attention too, so it's a terrible time. 5th: After a day off writing a review (twice), I'm back with a vengeance."

82

TRPG a game

209d

"I will repeat what I said yesterday: don't. This is the classic: "What book series should be made into a movie" and to loosely paraphrase Orson Scott Card "Why would I, it's already in the perfect medium?" (though he actually likes radio dramas). Both ARPG and TRPG can exist side by side in harmony. Probably. Now, I need to answer the question, so I say let's reclaim Final Fantasy. There are definitely MORE ARPG games coming out these days than TRPG, so let's let the granddaddy go back to its roots. I'm OK with ATB, I thought that was a brilliant idea -- turn based but not all actions take the same amount of time. But I don't need to be dodge-rolling around the battlefield worry about hitting my perfect guard and trying to figure out how my single playable character is going to defend the mages long enough to get a spell off, let alone actually letting me play *as* a mage because the AI is never going to defend me well enough AND the enemy AI is going to aggressively target the controlled character."

Final Fantasy XV

ARPG a game

210d

"First, why would you want to ruin a perfectly good turn based game by making it action based? Second, I'm not picking my go-to, because they already did that (@persona-5-strikers ) and it was fine. Not as good as the original but serviceable. "

Persona 3

Emoji a Game

211d

"🤖🦕🚫🧭 (not literal title)"

Favorite Game This Generation

212d

"My rules: it has to be current Gen exclusive. Sorry switch fam, you have to admit your console is old. It has great games but it's definitely last gen for any discussions about console generations. This is very tricky because there's a of arguably better games (I recently posted Spiderman 2018 above this one anyway) that were available on x1 or PS4. And honestly it's not even easy half the time to be sure without extra research if there is a last gen version. Having a series x or PS5 upgrade doesn't count, it's still a last gen game if it runs on the old hardware, which also disqualified @persona-5 even though it had a rerelease for current gen, doesn't count. So if we look at our list of xsx /PS5 exclusives what do we have? @hi-fi-rush @marvels-spider-man-2 @horizon-forbidden-west Maybe a handful of other things... Even Halo infinite was x1 playable, same with grounded and pentiment. God of war and gears probably have eligible titles I've not played. @alan-wake-ii is eligible but I'm hard pressed to call it best. So yeah looks like the spider men are taking this one. "

Marvel's Spider-Man 2

Music choices

213d

"Yeah, I listen to the beautiful music that legendary composers have put together. One of the many benefits of playing JRPGs, we definitely have the best soundtracks on average, though some Metroidvanias excel here too, looking at you, @ori-and-the-blind-forest "

Favorite Batman Game

213d

"This improved nicely on the original without jumping the shark and trying to do too much. Sometimes all you need is to do more of the original just slightly better, without layering on too many extra things (cough, @marvels-spider-man-2 , cough)."

Batman: Arkham City

Ask the Cr3w for a Recommendation

213d

"How did I not answer this when it was QOTD? I remember this one. Maybe too busy answering other people, or maybe just too cynical that anyone would actually know enough to suggest other games based on this. There's like 1 other person here I know has actually played this fully. But hey, why not, hit me with your best shots."

Persona 5

Favorite Spider-Man Game

213d

"I may be in the minority that liked Spidey 1 more than Spidey 2. Spidey 2 felt like it tried to do too much, and did it all well, but not excellently like Spidey 1 did."

Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)

What is the most recent game you finished?

213d

"Only because I'm about 1-2 days short of finishing Octopath 2. "

Metroid: Zero Mission

How many games do you buy a year?

213d

"It's gone down a lot with Game Pass and PS+ and NSO. And then do you count a random game costing under $2 the same as a $70 AAA title? What about collections like the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters, one package with 6 games. Honestly it might be closer to 3. I don't keep track. Well, wait, I do? we have a 2024 purchases list but not a 2023 one? Hmm. Well, ok, I buy a lot more than I thought lol. i'm forecasting out the rest of the year; i have 13 already but I really don't expect to buy more than 3 games the rest of the year. "

16

Favorite game to watch

213d

"I watch randomizer speed runs. Seeds take 1-2 hours usually, and I know the game well enough to armchair quarterback what I'd do differently. HM to SMZ3 which is definitely not in the database, but is a cross-game randomizer between Super Metroid and Zelda LTTP, with items from either game appearing in either game, and the map rooms in SM converted into cross-world portals (with equally useless areas of LTTP) -- but these take 2.5-4 hours so I don't watch them nearly as often."

Final Fantasy

Which Leaderboard?

213d

"Meh. Leaderboards can't contain my awesomeness. I'm not going to spend time I could devote to playing actual games to chasing a position I'll hold for ten seconds before someone else gets it. That already happens with weekly quests. I'm not even top fan for any game on any of my "best" lists. But I think top fan is counting funny anyway, so again we're back to "don't care." Since I need a link for this post, have one. "

Funniest Name for an Achievement or Trophy

214d

""Octopath Traveler...?" Of your party of 8, four are always hanging out at the nearest pub and too busy to help out. But four of your characters can recruit one other townsperson each to come along. So if you put those 4 as your active party, have them all recruit someone, you earn this. Even better is that one side quests can be solved this way and one optional dungeon unlocked when you collapse the bridge. "

Octopath Traveler II

Dragon Warrior (III)

215d

"For now, this will be the end, @dan. Four total taglines, but not actually Dragon Quest IV because those saves are trapped (see https://channel3.gg/post?id=234062). I may have run out of clever number jokes, so I leave them to three, I mean, thee. (Screenshot is of an optional post-game boss; it's where my save left off.)"

Dragon Warrior (II)

215d

"@dan This one, too. Which is Dragon Quest Two, not one. All told, this will be three of these, if you could see to that for now. (If I break Dan, do I still get the taglines?)"

Dragon Warrior (I)

215d

"@dan now this is truly the first, except for the one which I posted earlier, which was the last but also the first. Clear?"

Happy Independence Day

215d

"Catching up on Star Trek Prodigy, nursing a headache from a restless night with a scared pup. Will finish off the last few character stories in @octopath-traveler-ii later."

Baby you're a firework

215d

"It has to have been at least a week since I used this for a quest. Right? Credit to CGInferno on YouTube; the problem with 100-hour games is that you can't just get to the spot you want in a reasonable amount of time. I've indexed the video to the timestamp of the fireworks, but it's a spoiler-free funny clip if you have 5 minutes."

Persona 5

What is your go to Solitaire deck image?

216d

"I don't actually enjoy (Klondike) solitaire at all."

Dark blue Clown Fish

What movie do you want to see next in the Nintendo Cinematic Universe?

216d

"Give me a Metroid movie, you cowards. Adapt Zero Mission or Super Metroid or Prime 1. Samus can narrate to a log (think _The Martian_) or you can shoe-horn Adam in via radio or something. If they insist on doing something dumb and giving Kraid and Ridley dialog, I want Jack Black doing one of them. I'm flexible on who plays Samus, I'm thinking tall (but the suit would let you cheat anyway) and like 25-35 or so, maybe on the younger side for ZM or Prime which are earlier in the career."

What popular game do you dislike?

216d

"Unironically posting this while a C3 Fortnite event is going on. I don't get it. Not my jam."

Fortnite

Do you prefer using wireless or wired gear while gaming?

216d

"Wires just get in the way. I also game 99% on console and mobile so not really as relevant. I do switch to wired mouse for @starcraft-ii though I haven't played that in a few years..."

dantucker

Share a spine-chilling moment from a game you've played recently.

216d

"MAJOR SPOILERS, Throné Chapter 3, Mother Route. More psychological horror -- CW for abusive family. Throné is a thief (don't say 'assassin' but...) raised by a "Mother" and "Father" who were cruel and just trying to train all the little kids to be apprentices. Removing some spoilers, she's searching for these two individuals now in order to retrieve something that each holds. Before the mandatory boss fight against "Mother" begins, we see the mother with a new young child, literally whipping her as in with an Indiana Jones-esque whip. The child is crying. We interrupt and have beaten Mother to a pulp after a long boss fight. We can take the item now and leave. The child comes back in begging and screaming for us to just go, understanding that we don't just steal, that's not the family way. Despite the abuses, the child protests that she's the only "mother" she's ever had. We then callously murder our and the child's "mother" as the child watches. I was stunned they went that dark and this game is only rated T."

Octopath Traveler II

Free Cell Game #3

216d

"As a warmup (FTNR), I don't hate 92. 2nd try: 86 3rd: 85 4th: 82 (and stopped to take a call in the middle, so a very slow 82) 5th: 82 with better time 6th: 82 with even better time but I just can't find that extra move yet. I swear I'm going to record it and study it. I honestly don't know how much more I can squeeze out of this. The puzzle doesn't require tricky, but maybe tricky can get the count down? Seems dubious."

82

What character would you want to be in a VR game?

216d

"Ori, if we can get one of those Ready Player One haptic suits so you can really feel like you're flying when you're bashing, double-jumping, dashing, stomping around. Just disable the pain receptors for when I crash into the spikes."

Pre-Save The Retro Policy

217d

"Excellent"

Video Game Song Lyrics

217d

"I just used the new "get a post you've never seen" button and it gave me this, so credit to @trashdoc16 as well, but this was too perfect given the new season and new feature. "

Dragon Warrior (XI)

218d

"Sadly, my records for 4-6 may be lost. Still working on recovering them -- mobile games be like that. But this one on a modern platform with achievements, we got this. So this is the first, but not the last, except it is the last for now? Whoa. @dan "

JRPG Bingo

218d

"I was inspired to create this quest while playing OT2 because we used the Power of Love :tm: to defeat an enemy. See also: the Power of Friendship :tm: "

Octopath Traveler II

What are you Playing? Season 9 Week 1

218d

"OK, so I solve the maze and then I skydive from the center, right? Maybe not, but we are pulling some Zelda nonsense with the second picture."

Octopath Traveler II

Most XP Earned: Season 9 Week 1

218d

"I refuse to explain anything."

22174

9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9

218d

"I cheated when I put this in and apologize. The DS version of 999 is really the better game to link, but it was way faster to put in the Steam Bundle. 9s and sets of 9s are all over the game, which is an excellent puzzle game you should play if you haven't. "

Zero Escape: The Nonary Games

Final Season 8 Ticket Booth Item

219d

"I bought a bunch of gifs and taglines yesterday intending to have only 1 ticket left and of course now I have 2. Might see if there's anything left for 1 and then hoard the extra for the not so secret tagline. We are accepting applications for XP gifts for worthy causes. "

Gaming Photography

220d

"It's better in video, but a video of just standing around admiring the artwork wasn't worth submitting, so take my word for it. They really put some effort into this style. The slight blur of things in the background, the faint snow in this far northern town, everything is just incredible to look at."

Octopath Traveler II

Favorite Season 8 Memory

220d

"This is hard. Nothing immediately stands out. I've enjoyed this season, but I don't know if it's memorable. That's ok too, average seasons are fine. Maybe look back at what I played? Finishing the 6x platinum collection for the final fantasy pixel remaster titles was great. Even if the neanderthals on here don't truly appreciate classic jrpgs the way they should, we also saw some other truly memorable disrespect for super Mario 64... But we don't need to link that again, no need to summon the angry mob again. "

What are you Playing? Season 8 Week 13

220d

"Her boss' name should have been Heather. "

Octopath Traveler II

The Dennis Proposition: Who Will Cater a Better Wedding

221d

"I gotta say, I don't think old Sephy has this one. Dude probably hates weddings. Certainly doesn't get invited after word gets out about how he's always mean toward the flower girls. So from these two, Mama is going to cook up something nice and wholesome, while Dave is going to attract the wrong kind of guest. "

Cooking Mama

What Vehicle Should be Added to Fortnite?

222d

"I don't play and @dan stole my (and several other people's) answer with the De Lorean so I'll just call back to some random quest from last week? Last week sounds about right. Time is ... more like a ball ... of wibbley-wobbley... "

Games that got lost in their own lore

223d

"This really is the canonically correct answer, Nobody who says otherwise is worth listening to. I know that's a Heartless thing to say, but this is a Key point -- even the fans think it's bad, they're just suffering from Stockholm syndrome. There's a Chi-shaped hole in their minds, and we have a duty as their friends to do something about it, unlike that good for nothing Donald who definitely isn't healing them. "

Kingdom Hearts III

Free Cell Game #1

224d

"I *could* hold this back to snipe, but not my style. I'd rather people see the target. Taking back my crown via tiebreaker."

87

Gaming Adjacent: What Goes on Your Hot Dog?

224d

"Ketchup and mustard. "

Weird Twist in a Game

225d

"Top of mind since I just replayed it... you beat Mother Brain and escape, only to crash your ship next to a space pirate base that you now have to infiltrate in your Zero Suit with just a stun pistol. You make it through that entire section, square off against a very weird boss I'm not even going to spoil inside the spoiler post, and you can get your normal equipment back, plus the 3 mystery items you had picked up earlier. Keep going a little further and you finally get power bombs. NOW, if you want to get the last set of items in the game, you need to find the extremely well-hidden secret exit from this area and back into the main game area. So well-hidden it's not even a bomb block or anything, it's literally just "there is a narrow opening in the wall you can't see." I like this game, but man, this took a weird left turn when it could have just ended."

Metroid: Zero Mission

A laughatbrian-level Hot Take

226d

"Intentionally making your video games obnoxiously hard and denying players a way to experience the game in the way they want is just gatekeeping. Relying on community mods doesn't count."

Elden Ring

Solitaire High Score

227d

"I had a perfect game but freaking score wasn't on. My bad for not reading the rules but boooo. I'll get it again Interesting that deliberately bad play pays higher. I think I'm done, too much RNG and playing badly feels bad. "

720

What are you Playing?

228d

""

Octopath Traveler II

Clip of the Week

228d

"On the left, the apothecary. On the right, the thief. The topic, "cleaning" the clinic/hospital. I am sad they didn't voice these short little side conversations, I would actually listen to these as opposed to the lengthy and often tedious dialogue about the main plot. "

Octopath Traveler II

Favorite Achievement or Trophy

228d

"Mostly just to mix it up and not say Persona 5 again. @just5moremins had the idea to look for rare trophies so I checked across Xbox and PSN and this was the one I went with. I have slightly rarer ones on PSN but both required extensive walkthroughs to explain every step of the process, not just something like DQ XI where you just need a list of what side quests and everything counts. 4% of players got the we-swear-its-not-a-platinum-trophy on Xbox for this game, which took a lot of time. Worth it though; great game."

Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age

Play a Classic Atari Game

228d

"This accurately reflects my memory of playing this game. I can get out but I fall back in immediately."

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Play Chess

229d

"This wasn't actually hard, or fun, but I did it."

The Longest Day

229d

"Cross-posting for extra XP."

Check Out aerialapostle and The Longest Day 2024

229d

"Complete with requisite @darthsmeagol heckling."

The Longest Day 2024

229d

"Let's go!"

What Do You Want to See in the S9 Ticket Booth?

230d

"I tried to think of a serious answer and couldn't. So I'm going with an old standby. I want a Winnebago. "

A Game That Stuck With You

230d

"I don't know exactly why this game clicked, but it did, and it's obviously stuck with me (how many times have I used it as an answer for a quest?). You've got an incredible story, that yes, has JRPG tropes, but also doesn't... the characters feel _real_ with their motivations and desires and they have flaws which helps that feeling real. The overall story is crazy as only JRPGs can do, but it is a nice blend of modern-day elements with a fantastical (not fantasy) layer, which i still haven't seen very many games do... true modern-day RPGs are rare. Now, add on an incredible visual art style that is memorable because they made something unique and applied it EVERYWHERE. From menus, to dialog, to combat, the style is consistent and striking. Finally, salt with a soundtrack that's so good, it made my OSTs list, which has only two other titles on it, and my go-to radio station is video game soundtracks, so it's not that I don't like other ones, it's just that my list has to have only the very best, or it would have everything."

Persona 5

Prime Galactic Bounty Hunter

231d

"Almost forgot to post this one. Grabbed the screenshot when I getting my shot for dread. Not pictured: 100% compendium. "

June 2024 Nintendo Direct Reaction

231d

"Is it 2025 yet? Ok, fine I'll settle for November. Honestly though it just gives me time to clear out some of the backlog here. "

Go do an Old Quest

231d

"3 birds one stone. Daily quest, level 100, tagline 100. https://channel3.gg/post?id=228198"

Dreaded Galactic Bounty Hunter

231d

"If I've done this right, this will unlock my 100th tagline (all time) and level 100 (season) at the same time. "

Which is more Valuable?

231d

"Multiplication is always the answer. "

Power Brick

What is your favorite weapon to use?

231d

"I'm not going to say I actually remember which aspect of the fists I liked the most, not when I haven't played in 2 years, but this game was all about speed. Get in, punch a couple times, dodge out of the way. "

Twin Fists of Malphon: Aspect of Talos

Play Something Final Fantasy

232d

"I just like excuses to dig out this screenshot again. "

Final Fantasy VI

You know...For the kids

232d

"Got this thinking my non-gaming wife would enjoy playing it together, which we did and it was OK, but it didn't really lead to any broader interest in other games. Which is fine, more time for my 100-hour RPGs :D"

Lego Harry Potter: Years 1–4

June 2024 Nintendo Direct Predictions

232d

"@metroid-prime-4 . Gotta be there. What else do they have to carry holiday? "

One And Done?

233d

"Objection to the wording of the quest. By definition a one and done isn't part of a series. But ok, let's look for a game that's had no direct sequel, isn't a direct sequel or numbered mainline title, and yet is part of a series, good luck with that. I think we will get another game in the series but it'll be a while and it won't be like either of the first two. (Wonders how many people this will confuse because they didn't know this is part of a series.)"

Sea of Stars

Rey's Voucher

233d

"It's simple. The hero of the game you don't buy is coming after you. I do not want to anger Samus. "

Metroid Dread

Thoughts on the Among Us show trailer?

234d

"This is the problem with media production cycles. I'm sure when among us (game) started taking off like wildfire someone pitched a show for it. But who's still playing it? You might get people to check out the first couple episodes out of morbid curiosity, but this show is doomed before it begins"

What game are you currently most looking forward to?

236d

"Persona with a fantasy setting? By a lot of the same team as persona 3-5? Yes please. Reminder to everyone else picking wrong answers: if your title isn't in the library, send an admin alert. But probably it is because Dan did a ton of these over the weekend and the early parts of this week. "

Metaphor: ReFantazio

Gaming Photography

237d

"I need this as a tagline."

Alan Wake II

RGFT: Beat Super Mario Land

237d

"This was ... well, I'm glad I'm playing with rewinds. Man do I NOT like these original controls, feels really stiff. Ended up using two different fingers on A and B just to be able to do basic things like run and jump correctly. "

196650

Awakened Power

237d

""

The Path Chosen

237d

""

The Return of the Angels

237d

""

Golden Completed

237d

"Observant readers might notice this isn't an Xbox or PSN screenshot. "

Legendary Phantom Thief

237d

"Hmm, which trophy set should I publish? How about the 3 separate times I platinumed this (ignore strikers, that's just there to capture that this is my profile. stupid PS website doesn't have trophies online and the mobile app has no search)"

A Most Remarkable Guest

237d

"This one I have handy. The rest require digging. "

Try NYT Connections

237d

"Really bad timing on this daily quest, today's puzzle is not normal. None of this required outside knowledge. If you Google any of these, I promise you are making it harder than it needs to be. Connections Puzzle #367 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨"

Most CHAT MESSAGES SENT

238d

"Cowbells? I need more."

133

Best Game Boy Advance Game

238d

"The definitive way to experience Samus' first adventure. Runner up: @fire-emblem-the-blazing-blade for introducing the series to the West. "

Metroid: Zero Mission

A Game You Waited Forever For

239d

"I'll let you know how it turns out in 2030. I suppose @metroid-dread kind of counts, but it was a surprise release, we hadn't had a mainline Metroid game that wasn't a remake in like 7 years, but we didn't know we were waiting for it. That was a fabulous game. 5 years between ME3 and @mass-effect-andromeda but I don't remember feeling like we were waiting forever because 3 definitely had an ending, whether you liked it or not. And while I reluctantly play the series that shall be named by Nobody, it's not something I care about deeply enough to be waiting for it. "

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond

Gaming Photography

240d

"Tartarus is the dungeon in this game, and Junpei (top left) has decided to get in on the haiku action this week too. "

Persona 3

Olympic Gaming

240d

"Let's see the usual boring Olympic commentators handle fatalities."

Mortal Kombat 1

An enderphoenix Haiku

241d

"First: up up down down Twice: (left right); then b a start. Forget player two. "

Contra

Favorite Variant Skin

242d

"Ugh sorry for low res, had to crib this because I totally forgot about this after spending way too much time on sgf. This is Makoto who is normally very stiff and rule abiding, but takes on a biker personality when in the metaverse. This is an alt for the dancing game spinoff, and I like how it channels the original design but tweaks it to be more fitting for a nightclub, and without being rampant fanservice like some of the other costumes. "

Persona 5

Most Target XP

243d

"This will end badly. I don't do more than one map without a reason. I don't do one map well either but that's not the reason here, nope.... "

1795

A Childhood Favorite

243d

"It's a secret to everyone why this game is so great. Oh wait, no, it's obvious if you ever played it. The fun of exploring a world with secrets around every corner, in the days before you could just look it up because the modern Internet didn't exist (I said MODERN do not um actually me with your arpanet and bbs nonsense, X'ers, I was there at the dawn of the third age of mankind... Wait, wrong franchise). 27 years and "childhood"? SMH. "

The Legend of Zelda

Ride an Animal in a Game

245d

"I knew I did this before. Come hang out in @jrpg-players where I try to write quests that are more Knights and Forts than Fortnite. "

Final Fantasy IV

Any last Prizes?

246d

"Really don't have a lot of ideas. I'll probably end with about 20 tickets left to spend; lower season here... too many quests I have zero interest in :D . Those will go to the best gifs and/or taglines I can afford."

Take the C3 Feedback Survey

246d

"I normally hate surveys. This was well done, I think I only mentally griped about two questions, and that's a grade-A job for sure. Give yourself at least 5 minutes, 10 would be better to have a little more time to provide good feedback. "

The Dennis Proposition: Better Beach Buddy

246d

"We all know who the real answer is, so who is Sephy sending as his proxy? DK has swagger and style, Dedede looks like a defective Tonberry. No contest. "

Donkey Kong

Clip of the Week

247d

"Are you even playing an RPG if you're not spending half the time on anything but the actual world-ending threat? No. Therefore, I was contractually obligated to spend time with this adorable doggo, and not doing it just because he's just the best boy ever. "

Persona 3

Summertime

248d

"Group heads to the beach during their summer break from school. "

Persona 3

Gamers love saying...

249d

"Gamers love saying that this is going to end up on non optimized socials, isn't it? Edit: real answer "I wasn't going to buy anything, but it was on sale!" "

War. War never changes.

250d

"With (half-hearted) apologies to @laughatbrian and @darthsmeagol "

Super Mario 64

RGFT: Manuals

252d

"I vaguely recall hand-drawing a map of TLOZ overworld. I definitely remember writing down @mega-man-2 passwords on paper until I finally just memorized the password for dr wily's stage with 4 e-tanks."

Most Post of the Day Trophies

253d

"Is this weekly or all-time? Let's find out. Edit: Weekly"

1

Gaming Photography

254d

"How many of you could or actually did something like this when you were a teenager? If you did it last week and you're over 25 just claim it was when you were a teenager."

Persona 3

Funny Video Game Quote

254d

"Somewhere I previously discussed that this is a valid sentence and semantically correct, if archaic. It's still funny. There's probably a lot of funnier things, I might change this later if I get back into @persona-3 later this afternoon. "

Final Fantasy IV

Gaming Disappointment

255d

"A lot of people that I generally agree with really hyped this. It was fine and I get that there's more I could do in the game, but my willingness to play through 5 hours of just ok for some unknown hidden layer of the game just isn't doing it. "

Animal Well

Traveled the Sea of Stars

256d

"Ugh where did I put that post... How long has this been here? "

Simple and Clean

257d

"How am I the first one to submit for this? I rag on the fanboys all the time.... "

The Dennis Proposition: YouTube Followers

257d

"It appears to be taking itself more seriously and therefore more likely to put in the work required to produce content and retain followers. "

Stray

Recommend a Game Achievement for C3

258d

"Tagline: Legendary Phantom Thief Requirement: Earn all achievements in any version of Persona 5 Note: Speaking of games that have huge differences in their remake versions but don't get separate library entries, the og version and the royal version have very different trophy lists. This is the name of the platinum in the OG (I like it better) but either one works. Royal's platinum is easier and shorter, only requiring 1 playthrough. It's still an estimated 120 hours due to Royal's extra 15% of a game."

Persona 5

Best Non-Original Soundtrack

259d

"I can't even think of other games I've played that use licensed music. When you've got Nobuo Uematsu or Yasunori Mitsuda or Gareth Coker or Shoji Meguro [google it, you're all dead to me, you shouldn't even have to guess] doing your music it would be kind of silly to get other music. And if you don't have one of those people, are you even playing a game worth talking about? Enjoy random old quests that show up in my "For you" page as I try to find anything I can complete this week. :P EDIT: nevermind. the work isn't worth it when 1st place is so far out of reach. Back to lazy mode. :P"

Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy

What level(s) are you hoping to see in the remaining Mario Kart Deluxe DLCs?

259d

"I just need 10 more variations on rainbow road. Also this quest could probably be closed... I don't think we're getting any more MK8D DLC. Time to start "what do you want in MK9" :D"

Favorite Mario Kart 8 Item

259d

"Best mix of offense and defense that you can actually get while not in a very bad position in the pack. Triple reds are nice but if you're getting triple reds you have bigger problems than 3 red shells are going to fix."

Triple Green Shell

Who did or will you play in Multiversus?

259d

"I love Gizmo as a character but I can't imagine him beating up these guys. Especially not when someone has a ray gun that can disintegrate anything. I'll never actually play this game but that's how it would go. "

Marvin the Martian

Thanksgiving day games

259d

"We used to play trivial pursuit but I'm glad we retired that. For a few years we tried lighter fare like ticket or codenames but then we just stopped getting together at all as we moved across the country. "

Most Hated Mario Kart 8 Item

259d

"It's dangerous to throw alone. Take this. (As in, take that! And the shell comes flying back from the wall it hit to smack you.)"

Green Shell

Halloween Boardgames

260d

"My game group doesn't really do horror at all... so it's got to be very tame, like Betrayal at House on the Hill where you're not looking at minis or artwork that's scary, just reading the very slightly spooky flavor text. And playing it once a year at halloween is about the right amount of this game anyway, so it works."

Most Quests Completed

260d

"Mmm. Quests taste great. Couldn't put this up the week I was checking off all my final fantasies? :P You know club admins could totally abuse this, right? I won't, partly lazy, mostly integrity.... but... just saying... [the integrity hat does not cover me pointing out loopholes that will not actively break things too badly :)]"

17

RGFT: What's your favorite retro meat?

260d

"I have to think that the wall chicken inspired the chicken from light sources in @vampire-survivors , because obviously the thing you're going to steal from Castlevania is a chicken, not a vampire. "

Castlevania

Clip of the Week

261d

"A relatively spoiler free example of how you take on bosses, it's always about using the environment."

Animal Well

Guess the Game

261d

"Obviously. How could you all not see this? "

Chicken Invaders 3: Revenge of the Yolk

Guess the next C3CS

261d

"RPGs finally going to get the love they deserve. Speed run the first dungeon, should be doable in a couple hours per attempt. "

Persona 5

Pet a Dog in a Game

261d

"The ring of hearts you see fly towards the dog at 13 seconds is this game's petting the dog. It's been too long since I played all the mega Man games... Can you pet rush? "

What game video game character would you like as a pet?

263d

"Rush is the canonically correct answer. Oatchi from Pikmin 4 is the next best answer. I am not taking questions at this time. thank you for coming to my InfoTalk."

Mega Man 3

C3CS Smash Week: Who's the next new character?

264d

"Doomguy. Unfortunately, Isabella is a hard counter, but otherwise he's great ."

Doom

Gaming Adjacent: Drums or Flats?

264d

"I don't care. Tastes like chicken."

Drums

C3CS Smash Week: Who is was your first Smash Bros. main?

265d

"I never really played competitively but I'd usually start a night with Ike and then switch it up if I got bored. "

IKE

C3CS Smash Week: What was your first Smash Bros. game?

266d

"Gcn was the first system I owned as my own, not shared with anyone. This and @mario-kart-double-dash did work for low effort activities with friends. "

Super Smash Bros. Melee

Add Classic Marathon to your Steam Account

266d

"I played this long enough ago that some of you weren't born. It was fun then, but I have no idea if it holds up. "

Most Target XP

267d

"Should have done Zelda first on Monday. That's your free tip everyone. "

3732

Proudest JRPG achievement

268d

"It was kind of grueling but getting the platinum trophies in the pixel remaster collection without needing multiple playthroughs. Alternatively maybe making a ridiculously op persona in p5 but I think that was on the Xbox version which isn't on game pass anymore so I can't get the screen shot. Each of these requires opening every chest in the game, beating every enemy, finding every hidden item, getting your entire party to level 50, mastering jobs or abilities, and except for ff1, at least 2 of those things are possible to lock yourself out of if you miss something. "

Final Fantasy VI

One Year Later

268d

"I could wish for a deeper story not entirely told through flashbacks on an optional side quest, but it's a solid game. Exploring the depths was tedious though; I'm glad the community came together and shared simple hoverbike builds that made it bearable."

Mothers Day 2024

268d

"Jenova is a mother, of sorts. You weren't expecting flowers and sunshine and happy things on this quest, were you? "

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

Clip of the Week

269d

"Ope, just gotta squeeze right past ya there... Nevermind me, just gonna check the map since I literally can't see where I am... "

Vampire Survivors

Gaming Photography

271d

"Anything more than 1 HP when the fight is over is just excessive. (Yes I already posted this, I didn't really think about submitting it at the time. !dealwithit)"

Final Fantasy VI

The Dennis Proposition: Who Would Host a Better Barbeque?

271d

"Has more letters in common with the right answer, which is left as an exercise to the reader. "

Richter Belmont

Gaming Adjacent: How do you like your steak?

272d

"Medium rare is fine but I don't trust most places to turn it out correctly. "

Medium

Brawling Beat 'Em Up

273d

"Dan Aykroyd's character's ultimate summons a Winnebago. You'll either get that or need to go watch this classic that honestly holds up. "

Favorite controller

274d

"Now if they would just make it in a nice forest green..."

The Final Fantasy (VI)

274d

"Last one for quite some time I think, @dan ."

A Hero Is Only as Good as their Party

275d

"It's hard to even say who the main character in this is, arguably Terra, but she isn't around for a huge chunk of the 2nd act. There's Locke, who is around for the entire first act more than anyone else, but is probably one of the last you pick up in act 2, and the story isn't really about him, he's just ... there. So I'm dedicating this to him, and especially true because this line works whether it is Locke or Zidane. Scene is from the hilarious and completely optional side "quest" (you don't have to do anything) where Gau meets his father."

Final Fantasy VI

The End of the Beginning

275d

"Lazy double post ftw "

The Hero of Heroes

275d

"Always a good time. "

List Update: Future Games

277d

"I hadn't decided yet but thanks for making me figure out what is up next. I enjoyed @deliver-us-the-moon and this is on ps+ now "

Under the Sea

278d

"Shameless stealing the idea from @dennis , but much lazier. I'm already playing like 5 games, I do NOT need to get sucked into another Ori replay. That's what summer lulls are for."

Ori and the Will of the Wisps

Play Castlevania

279d

"Death by trying to get a screenshot. Should have just booted up SOTN and called it close enough. :P"

What's your favorite gif you currently own on the site?

280d

"Several good ones, but I can break this out every time I say things like ff4 is better than ff6, or "there actually are good good Xbox games" or "you should be playing persona 5" ... all that and @joob isn't showing up at my door threatening my PS5 with a hammer for not picking his gif. "

Ragdoll Archers High Score

281d

"Pass "

9

The All Star Bundle

282d

"All the persona games with some remake love "

Best Use of Motion Controls

283d

"Perhaps one of the only "good" uses, despite that prompted everyone to think they should add it to games that didn't need it. "

Wii Sports

Smack-talking NPCs

283d

"The turtle mentions "the twelve legendary weapons" as if we should just know what those are, to which Bartz asks "the twelve legendary weapons?" I think the turtle is actually Raphael in disguise. "

Final Fantasy V

Play a Video Game

283d

"Oh sure the one day in the past 6 months I'm traveling away from my consoles. But let's plug connections, mostly so you have an excuse to @joob us in the chat. It's a joobful time in there lately. !joobus (We need a remix gif for that)"

Connections (2023)

Favorite "Any Key"

284d

"Oddly it's game-specific. Generally I'll do the bottom face button, but for example, I'm playing @final-fantasy-vi there's some times where I'm advancing through dialog and there's going to be a choice at the end, often times like "are you ready to continue the plot" and I might want to stop and save or grind or something, so I've been using down on d-pad which advances the dialog but can't confirm a choice by accident."

Favorite Tagline (April 2024 Update)

285d

"Well, the Ori Immortal ones are still the ones I'm most proud of, but putting something new out here for this rerun (timeloop? multiverse?) version... The Final Fantasy. https://channel3.gg/tagline?id=535 You can't see it on that page but I have 10 of them stacked, one for each mainline numbered Final Fantasy I've beaten. There are 3 more that I _have_ beaten but like, 20 years ago with no proof. I'm working on one of those now, but the ones for OG 7 and 8 are probably going to stay unclaimed. I don't know if I'll ever do 16... 15 was such a disappointment and 16 just doesn't look like my Final Fantasy. If it comes to PS+ some day, maybe. And then 11 and 14 are just MMOs so that's gonna be a no from me. Now, the real question is when are we getting more of these for Tactics, X-2, 13-2, Lightning Returns... oooh IV After Years for a deep cut (wait that's actually available on Steam? no... it's not a good game... [5 hours later, still naming Final Fantasy games]...."

Post a Flower

288d

"*pulls up persona 5 to screen cap the flower shop; Wonders why quest doesn't have game selection; Rereads quest (more accurately, reads quest, title was misleading); Sighs.* Thankfully, OneDrive has my back, on this day x years ago... "

Gaming Photography

289d

"You don't need millions of polygons and cell shaders, sometimes all you need is a great art team. Look at how perfectly Locke (Zidane) conveys surprise with a hint of fear. "

Final Fantasy VI

Clip of the Week

289d

"Wolverine has anger issues. "

Marvel's Midnight Suns

Typing Test

289d

"The way it scores is weird, like a single letter off kills the entire word but you have to space to start typing the next word ... I mean, it's consistent for all of us, it just is irksome enough I couldn't be bothered to put in more tries on my good keyboard; I also forgot about this until Sunday so..."

78

Two heads are better than one

290d

"In the Royal Edition (the one you should definitely play), they added Showtime attacks where two team members would perform a cinematic super attack. This is not my favorite of those, but it is far less spoilery than some of the better ones, and it's still great, because Makoto is just the best. Not my video, but a good quality copy that doesn't show anything else that would be major spoilers."

Persona 5

"The Cake is a Lie" - Favorite Quote Meme

291d

""You spoony Bard!" This was a dodgy (though not technically incorrect, just archaic -- spoony can mean silly) translation, but after it became a meme, they left it in all future versions without changing it. "

Final Fantasy IV

Megaton: Save it or Nuke it?

291d

"Well, only because it's swanky. Honestly I have no idea; I haven't played and probably never will, but nuking it sounds more interesting."

Nuke It

The Final Fantasy (V)

292d

"Of all the stupid trophies to have to grind out, I did not expect kill 2000 enemies to be the last one. I had a moment of panic when I beat the game and the bestiary trophy popped but not the platinum, turned out I had been too efficient. But it turns out you can literally throw money at the problem, @dan "

Kart Acceleration Choice

292d

"Only because r2 isn't a choice and isn't analog on switch anyway"

A

Great Movie to Game Adaptation

294d

"Almost everyone has good answers, lots of Star Wars, Lego the everything, a few Batmen and Spidermen. Then there's @whitethunder who pretty much wins with the right answer (not going to spoil it, go read it yourself). So what's left... I'm going to stretch it and say @the-goonies-ii which yes is not a direct adaptation, but it's better for it. I honstly need to dust off an emulator and figure out how the heck you beat this game, i remember having fun with it as a kid, and I have fuzzy memories of doing exactly that with an emulator probably a decade ago, and maybe it doesn't hold up, but it felt like you were adventuring around, and look, maybe you just had to be there. #old"

What do we play next? (Post Uncharted)

294d

"Well last time some of us said you should pick something cross platform but the narrow selection list has nothing cross platform I want to play lol"

Ratchet & Clank (2016)

Tax Day

295d

"The real refund was the friends I made along the way? I sent about 4 PS5's to Uncle Sam so not so much with the new games. "

Personal Warp Pipe

296d

"It's a trap. The more I think about this, it's just impractical. First, most warp pipes are 1-way, so what are you going to do, uber home every time? Gets expensive. Or maybe it's inbound, but how are you going to keep the riff-raff out? So you put the other side in a friend's house maybe but then THEY have to get home every time. Now, let's talk physical requirements. If you google (as one does) "mario canon height" you'll find 5'1" but this is absolutely apocryphal and seems to be based on a statue in Japan that explicitly isn't supposed to be life-size. There's some further analysis that says he couldn't float in water and would have a BMI of 37 or something, whatever. Let's be generous and say he's around 5'6" and slightly stocky. Now, close your eyes and picture Mario standing on top of a warp pipe. Pipe are two tiles wide in this game, somewhere around 4.5-5.5 feet in diameter (2 tiles high would be Mario's height, which we earlier estimated at 5.5, but by width he should be a more like 2-2.5 feet shoulder-to-shoulder). Pipes are also 2 tiles high at a minimum, so let's just say you have a 5 foot high, 5 foot diameter pipe somewhere in your house. That's a chunk of real estate for sure, and those of us with non-gaming spouses might be in real trouble for installing that. I think it's just way too much trouble to be worth it. What do you mean I'm overthinking this? :P "

Just checking in.

297d

"Accepted a new job. That's gotta count for something, right? But I feel like I'm falling behind on my make-fun-of- @joob quota, and I apologize for that. Getting a best-of-c3-ever (what are we calling these again? petition to just call them platinum trophies...) was a great feeling too. I will try to cut the reviews down to at least fit in the character limit next time :D "

Favorite book genre?

298d

"Not even remotely a contest. Been listening to the Honor Harrington series while I grind a bit in some games. "

Science Fiction

Gaming Adjacent: What's the GOAT cereal?

298d

"I try to eat less of honey nut Cheerios and more regular, because there's not as much sugar. Boring adult, I know. "

Gaming Photography

299d

"If an extremely powerful witch stars glowing and focusing this much magic into her staff, I believe the correct answer is RUN."

Marvel's Midnight Suns

Your Dream Gaming Bundle

299d

"Give us all the Metroid games on one console, Nintendo. Still missing zero mission, Samus returns, prime 2 and 3. There are definitely no Other games we're missing. "

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

National Sibling Day

300d

"You won't have any problems with people treating you badly with big sis Samus around. "

Metroid Dread

What game gave you your hardest rage quit?

301d

"@geometry-dash was better and that got 2 stars after a whole hour of play. Grift got maybe 10 minutes. I probably wrote a review, usually do. Perfect combination of boring and tasteless. "

Grift

FINE, I'll make my own bracket with blackjack and...

301d

"Right, so this was always going to win, that wasn't the question. Journey before destination. I knew I wanted to pit 64 JRPGs (and Western RPGs that understood the assignment) against each other. I started listing out all the FF and DQ titles, which gave them huge over-representation, but also we wouldn't have console RPGs without them, so yeah. I added major titles from other franchises that I've played: Persona, Tales, Xeno; and then I started adding one-offs (or ones from smaller franchises like Mana). Then I hit up IGN for their top 100 RPGs (it's an older list but it helped me remember some classics). Pokemon? Never heard of it (but I did include Sun / Moon which was IGN's top one). Fire Emblem... I've played these a ton but I think they're not that popular outside of Three Houses and maybe Awakening, so I included 3H. I deliberately excluded action RPGs and western titles that weren't basically JPRGs in all but name, so there's no Bioware. I made an exception for @disco-elysium because it's extremely unique and I didn't want to put any more Pokemon on here. At this point I have something like 75 games. I removed MMO titles and FF's sequels, and made a few other hard cuts, got it down to 64 and hit random seeds. When picking winners, if I had played both games (overwhelming majority), I weighted roughly 75% which game I liked more, 25% which I thought was more popular. Where I played only one, it won by default. There were no first-round matches where I had played neither game, which means there were no later matches where that was true either. Hard / painful matches: @tales-of-symphonia vs @chrono-trigger ... ToS introduced me to Tales, but Chrono is GOAT tier @fire-emblem-three-houses vs @persona-5 ... both are the best entries in their franchises, but we all knew who was going to win. @dragon-quest-xi-echoes-of-an-elusive-age vs @final-fantasy-vi ... without that 25% popularity sway, I think DQ XI takes this. Still #notsorry @persona-3 vs @super-mario-rpg-legend-of-the-seven-stars ... technically I listed P3 Reloaded which is a different version I haven't played yet, and also I was afraid of the Mario RPG crowd Mario RPG goes on to face @final-fantasy-vii and if you think I'm afraid of the Mario RPG crowd, you better believe I'm not going to go against FF7. At least not until it faces the winner of the next match... @sea-of-stars vs @undertale ... SoS is closer to a true JRPG so it pulled it off, but that Undertale soundtrack may be slightly better. @final-fantasy-vi vs @persona-5 ... look, I like FF VI, but it's no P5R. @chrono-trigger vs @earthbound ... sorry Ness. Once we got to the final four, it pretty much picked itself."

Persona 5

The Final Fantasy (XV)

301d

"Last one for now, I think. I will get 5 and 6 after my pixel remaster plays coming soon:tm:? Probably. I doubt I'll do 7 and 8... I'm getting my fill of 7 with the remake trilogy and 8 is just bad (#notsorry #shotsfired #bringit). @dan "

The Final Fantasy (IX)

301d

"Considering she was dead on the ground a minute ago from one of the more b.s. final boss fights in the franchise... (nonreflectable moderate damage and random status ailments including limited to berserk, zombie, doom, confuse, sleep to all party members)... she looks pretty good if you ask me, @dan "

The Final Fantasy (XIII)

301d

"I will defend this being a good game. Sure the entire first 20 hours or so are on rails but you know what? It doesn't matter, because the endgame is that good. @dan "

The Final Fantasy (XII)

301d

"Can you believe they cheaped out and only gave a silver for beating the final boss? I had to look it up to make sure I wasn't missing the right trophy. @dan "

The Final Fantasy (X)

301d

"Finding more of these still. I don't think I have documentation for 7 or 8, I haven't done those on any system with achievements. And I haven't done 11,14, or 16. The rest I should have somewhere. @dan "

Celestial Oddities

301d

"Find a screenshot of a celestial oddity? Super easy, barely an inconvenience. Reusing images from other quests is tight! I think traveling to the moon in a whale (always bothered me it wasn't pictured, just the red dot) counts. Also the red dot reminds me of the one you may have seen during totality yesterday. "

Final Fantasy IV

To the moon, Alice!

301d

"The game i was thinking of when I wrote the quest, but certainly not the only one that fits. "

Final Fantasy IV

Bubble Spinner High Score

302d

"I could do better but probably not 700 so meh. "

91

(2) The Legend of Zelda: BOTW v (2) Super Mario World

302d

"Ok voting for Zelda was fun to troll but I will forget to change it if I don't now... "

Super Mario World

The Final Fantasy (III)

302d

"First real job system... and the only one I can remember that made deliberate use of mini and toad spells for world exploration. @dan "

The Final Fantasy (II)

302d

"It's not the best but it's kind of the precursor to the beloved job system... @dan "

Check out the updated "Like a Boss" tagline.

302d

""

The Final Fantasy (IV)

302d

"And we only sacrificed ... (counting...) 6? Party members and an entire town of innocent civilians along the way. "

The Final Fantasy (I)

302d

"Oh good now I don't have to make these all myself. If you like this, come hang out in @final-fantasy-players."

Wark!

303d

"I wish they had done more with the black chocobo in this game, but it really is just used in one place. (@final-fantasy-iv )"

(2) The Legend of Zelda: BOTW v (5) Super Mario Odyssey

304d

"No contest. Odyssey isn't even the best 3d Mario, should have lost a thousand years ago. "

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

(2) Super Mario Bros. 3 v (2) Super Mario World

304d

"Vote smw or Yoshi will eat you. "

Super Mario World

Vault Hunter

305d

"Ok note to self, joke text that looks like HTML is stripped. [Borderlands-loot-ding.mp3]"

Play Bejeweled Blitz

305d

"Oh right, the game that took a simple premise and added a billion micro transactions and a thousand things to do other than just play the levels. I'm putting it out there: I'd rather be playing @geometry-dash , a game I rated 2 stars. "

Complete a level of Geometry Dash

306d

"Ugh fine. Now I can uninstall this and never touch it again. "

3 Desert Island Games

307d

"It's like 100 hours for the main quest and then you can replay and choose different dialogue options, won't really change the story (see #2) but provides variety. #2: @mass-effect-legendary-edition ... there's a good argument for this to be #1 but whatever, I already picked Persona. I enjoy the game play of P5 more, but you do have more variety in the story here. #3: @tabletop-simulator Really, it's a desert island. How much electricity do you think you have? Let's have something analog, kthx."

Persona 5

What's you favorite turn-based RPG?

308d

"Next question please. This was too easy. HM: FFT, FE3H, Marvel's midnight suns if ATB counts (that's a bit different IMO): CT, FF4, FF6, FF5"

Persona 5

Find an 8

309d

"Intentionally waited to guess. 8 seconds. "

Target

RGFT: What's the most iconic retro sound?

309d

"Super Metroid Item Fanfare."

Wish Joel a Happy Birthday 2024

309d

"Happy release day! Hope you celebrate with "

The Dennis Proposition: Better Prankster?

309d

"I was going to give it to Q-bert but then I realized that he has no hands, and it's going to be awfully hard to do anything..."

Pac-Man

Guess the Game

309d

"It's game ID 42 in the library, that means it wins."

The Elder Scrolls Online

(1) Mario Kart 8 v (2) Super Mario World

310d

"Bumper sticker: My other car is a green dinosaur. Smw is the better game but that's not what my bracket says. And you know what it's time to start voting for the better games. Not just because Yoshi threatened to ride me and jump off my back over a bottomless pit. "

Super Mario World

Good bye Season 7

310d

"I don't know. I played some good games but nothing that's screaming goat-tier. Some bad stuff happened IRL, so s7 might go down as a quarter I'd rather just forget. Some good things here: I don't know if they were going to do it anyway, but my throwaway chat post about doing our own March madness has gotten some serious engagement, and connections chat has been fun, even if some of the puzzles are a bear. "

(1) The Legend of Zelda: OOT v (2) Super Mario Bros. 3

310d

"There's a reason this game frequently tops "what's your favorite Zelda" (especially if you asked people before botw). And that reason is the water temple.... no wait, that can't be it. But it is an excellent game that's way better than smb3. "

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

(1) Super Mario Bros. Wonder v (2) The Legend of Zelda: BOTW

311d

"More Zelda more better. Hundreds of hours in this and the sequel, exploring a masterpiece. Wonder was great, but didn't literally redefine the entire genre. "

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

(3) The Legend of Zelda: TOTK v (5) Super Mario Odyssey

311d

"All Zelda all the time. Plus you can play Minecraft in this one (sort of). An open world game I didn't get sick of. "

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

(2) Super Mario Bros. 3 v (3) Fortnite

312d

"I need this to fix my bracket. Nothing personal Mario, but world is your better game and I voted for that. "

Fortnite

(1) The Legend of Zelda: OOT v (4) Super Mario Bros.

312d

"No contest. Smb is historically important but Zelda is a way better game. Smb should have lost to Spiderman. "

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

(2) Super Mario World v (11) Red Dead Redemption

312d

"I hear millions of Yoshi voices crying out threatening anyone who votes against this game. I had this beating bg3, and I think rdr is an even softer target. "

Super Mario World

(1) Mario Kart 8 v (4) Super Mario 64

312d

"Counting on kart gangs to carry. This might be another nail biter . "

Mario Kart 8

RGFT: Favorite SNES Online game (Switch Online)

313d

"I got 96 problems and finding all the damn exits are all of them. "

Super Mario World

(2) The Legend of Zelda: BOTW v (3) Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

313d

"The impact of BOTW can't be denied. Smash ultimate is a great capstone but so far it's not something producing a legacy. "

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

(1) Super Mario Bros. Wonder v (4) The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

313d

"Sephiroth approved of the utter nonsense in Skyrim more than the cheery, light hearted Mario wonder. (He stopped playing before special world.) I had portal here and I still haven't forgiven you all. "

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

(2) The Legend of Zelda: LTTP v (3) The Legend of Zelda: TOTK

313d

"This is tough. I didn't have a SNES (/snez/) as a kid so I don't have nostalgia for lttp, though I've played it and think it's great, it doesn't have the extra push it needs to beat TOTK for me. Plus this is how we get to TOTK vs BOTW and we all want to see that. "

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

(9) Wii Sports v (5) Super Mario Odyssey

313d

"Never thought Wii sports would get this far anyway. "

Super Mario Odyssey

What Took Two?

314d

"Meh. I don't play much coop anymore. It's too much work finding a steady group or even one other person. "

A Way Out

Finish him!

315d

"Beat everyone and everything. 4 Pixel remasters down but taking a break before 5 and 6... even I can only mainline so much final fantasy straight into the veins. "

Play Star Fox

315d

"Nobody asked you. You try flying this boat. "

To be deleted.

317d

""

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

(3) Fortnite v (11) Super Smash Bros. Melee

317d

"How many smash bros do we need in this bracket anyway? Justice for Zagreus! Bouldy believes in Fortnite? "

Fortnite

(2) Super Mario Bros. 3 v (10) Super Smash Bros. 64

317d

"I didn't even have to ask Sephiroth. A chance to beat everyone else up? No contest. "

Super Smash Bros. 64

(4) Super Mario Bros. v (5) Marvel's Spider-Man

317d

"Mario has gone far enough and has enough other games in the bracket. Spider man showed us it was possible to have a superhero be both light-hearted and tragic and amazing (pun intended) to play. "

Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)

(1) The Legend of Zelda: OOT v (8) Goldeneye

317d

"Maybe link needs to play the song of time here. "

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

(14) Uncharted 2: Among Thieves v (11) Red Dead Redemption

317d

"Once again I don't have either of these in my bracket, so we ask sephiroth. He says stealing things and senselessly killing hundreds of people in uncharted is better. "

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

(2) Super Mario World v (10) Batman: Arkham City

317d

"Justice for Chrono! "

Super Mario World

(4) Super Mario 64 v (5) Halo 2

317d

"Revolutionary vs iterative. "

Super Mario 64

(1) Mario Kart 8 v (9) Donkey Kong Country

317d

"Now if this were vs Diddy Kong racing... (it would still win because it's Mario kart, duh)"

Mario Kart 8

Season 7 Not Top 10

318d

"We all have those days where we shouldn't have even gotten out of bed. I need no clip, just one frame. (Sorry whoever edits for YouTube, just repeat the frame a bunch.)"

The Oregon Trail

Oregon Trail Points Race

318d

"FTNR: 4240 I should have rested longer at the end -- I forgot health was a multiplier. I had to replace the wagon tongue 3 times! Several more aborted attempts (see comments for hilarious outcomes) Fifth? try: 5280"

5280

(3) Super Smash Bros. Ultimate v (6) Pokémon Red/Blue

318d

"Too busy fighting Mario and friends to take on gym leaders. "

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

(2) The Legend of Zelda: BOTW v (7) Minecraft

318d

""

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

(4) The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim v (5) God of War (2018)

318d

"I had portal winning here, and I feel like Sephiroth would appreciate both games. I've played neither so I'm going only by what I know indirectly... killing gods is definitely his jam, as my younger friends say. "

God of War (2018)

(1) Super Mario Bros. Wonder v (9) The Last of Us

318d

"Now there's a crossover you didn't know you needed... Mario touches a wonder flower and all the goombas turn into clickers. You're welcome for the nightmares. "

Super Mario Bros. Wonder

(3) The Legend of Zelda: TOTK v (6) Batman: Arkham Asylum

318d

"Looks like Batman won't be able to Ascend. Perhaps we could give it an (Ultra)hand? "

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

(2) The Legend of Zelda: LTTP v (7) Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales

318d

"Play both, but play lttp more. "

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

(4) Halo 3 v (5) Super Mario Odyssey

318d

"While this is not my favorite Mario game, it's still excellent and I understand if it's your favorite Mario game. Halo was good but not unique. "

Super Mario Odyssey

(1) Rocket League v (8) Wii Sports

318d

"I'm voting my bracket not my heart. I'm shocked this is losing so badly right now. "

Rocket League

(5) Halo 2 v (12) Hollow Knight

319d

"This was a very hard match to call. I thought Halo might edge it out ... Hollow Knight may have faded from memory."

Halo 2

(2) Super Mario World v (15) Ori and the Blind Forest

319d

"I'm voting against my bracket here because I'm counting on all of you to do the wrong thing."

Ori and the Blind Forest

(7)Chrono Trigger v (10) Batman: Arkham City

319d

"If Chrono doesn't win he'll just go back and fix the timeline."

Chrono Trigger

(3) Baldur's Gate III v (14) Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

319d

"I think recency bias is going to win here."

Baldur's Gate III

(4) Super Mario 64 v (13) The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

319d

"Need to setup Mario vs Mario."

Super Mario 64

(1) The Legend of Zelda: OOT v (16) Tony Hawk's Underground

319d

"Tony Hawk gets 2 games in this bracket and there's only one Metroid and no SMT/Persona games at all? Y'all are dead to me."

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

(8) Goldeneye v (9) Final Fantasy VII

319d

"JRPGs are my thing but I don't think FF7 can advance. I mean neither of these is going to go very far facing Zelda OOT but maybe FF7 can be ... Reborn ... later."

GoldenEye

(4) Super Mario Bros. v (13) TMNT IV: Turtles in Time

319d

"Turtles in time is a great game. But Mario is ICONIC."

Super Mario Bros.

(5) Marvel's Spider-Man v (12) Kingdom Hearts

319d

"The power of friendship isn't winning any fights today, Sora."

Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)

(2) Super Mario Bros. 3 v (15) The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds

319d

"I had to pick a few dark horses in my bracket and this was one of them. "

The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds

(7) Pokémon Heartgold/Soulsilver v (10) Super Smash Bros. 64

319d

"I really thought team Pokemon would be out in force. I can't argue with Smash being better, but I thought the Pokefreaks would represent."

Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver

(3) Fortnite v (14) Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

319d

"I'd much rather play lego but I know what's going to win and it's not Lego."

Fortnite

(8) Red Dead Redemption 2 v (9) Donkey Kong Country

319d

"One of these times, the classic game is going to best the modern popular title. Can it be dkc? "

Donkey Kong Country

(6) Hades v (11) Super Smash Bros. Melee

319d

"Bouldy believes in you! "

Hades

(1) Mario Kart 8 v (16) Marvel's Spider-Man 2

319d

"I'd rather play Spider-Man but this is c3, mk8 is a force. "

Mario Kart 8

(6) Portal 2 v (11) Red Dead Redemption

319d

"Gotta make up for the tragedy of the og's defeat. "

Portal 2

(4) Halo 3 v (13) God of War (2005)

320d

"I voted against GoW in its other incarnation, but I'll support it here. "

God of War (2005)

(5) Super Mario Odyssey v (12) Super Metroid

320d

"This one hurts. Super Metroid is goat but I know y'all are gonna pick Odyssey. Whose idea was this again? I want to have a word with them... "

Super Mario Odyssey

(2) The Legend of Zelda: LTTP v (15) Ghost of Tsushima

320d

"I tried ghost of tsushima. I've played and finished lttp multiple times. "

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

(7) Marvel's Spider-man: Miles Morales v (10) TMNT: Shredder's Revenge

320d

"Spider-Man by a Miles. "

Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales

(3) The Legend of Zelda: TOTK v (14) Final Fantasy VI

320d

"Where's all the fan boys claiming ff6 is the greatest now? Hmmm? "

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

(1) Super Mario Bros. Wonder v (16) Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2

320d

"I wonder who will win this. "

Super Mario Bros. Wonder

(8) Grand Theft Auto V v (9) The Last of Us

320d

"Vote TLOU or the clickers will come for you. And not Alan Wake's kind. "

The Last of Us

(4) The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim v (13) The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

320d

"I believe someone thought oblivion would have a chance here. It seems that oblivion is getting obliviated. "

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

(5) God of War (2018) v (12) Portal

320d

"I'm making a note here: huge success. "

Portal

(2) The Legend of Zelda: BOTW v (15) Madden NFL 24

320d

"Final four title right here. "

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

(7) Minecraft v (10) Elden Ring

320d

""

Minecraft

(3) Super Smash Bros. Ultimate v (14) Mega Man X

320d

"I never got into the X games but even if I had, smash ultimate is a juggernaut. I don't think it can be stopped until maybe Zelda. "

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

(6) Pokémon Red/Blue v (11) Pokémon Yellow

320d

"Either way, it's dead, I don't think either one beats smash ultimate. "

Pokémon Red and Blue

(8) Wii Sports v (9) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

320d

"Inventive new idea or 20000000000th generic shooter. Tough choice. "

Wii Sports

(6) Batman: Arkham Asylum v (11) The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

320d

"I have to vote my heart, by which I mean my bracket. "

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

(1) Rocket League v (16) Stray

320d

"Sure, votes for other games will be deleted, but what about votes for sephiroth? "

Rocket League

Original Meme of the Week Season 7 Week 12

321d

"The screenshots of rebirth are really dark (I swear I can't find a brightness setting I like for this game) but I did wonder if Cloud had wandered into the wrong game when I got to this section."

Create a "Guess the Top 10 Theme" List

321d

"Have fun. "

Daenery-who?

322d

"Where did I put that screenshot... honestly I really like the dungeon design here. For such an old game, the ideas were really neat ... You can go in and raid some treasures, then exit to heal and save and there's a shortcut on your way back. A maze of infinitely looping corridors. A floor where you can fairly easily see the correct path (just go straight down) but you'll miss out on a lot of side rooms which might (read: do) have valuable treasure. The randomizer community loves and hates it... it takes 2 key items which is annoying, but there's so many chests in there, the odds of getting something great are very high. "

CHANNEL 3 MARCH MADNESS Live bracket

322d

"I think Portal pushes past GOW and Skyrim only to be stopped by a plumber. I'm calling the all-Zelda finals between TOTK and OOT ... but I really want to know what monster came up with the seeding idea that pitted SMW against Ori in round 1. As much as I love Ori, and it's the better game, but you're asking me to pick between a 9.999 and 9.9999 here... whoever they are, I hope they're happy with themselves. :P "

Trigger Fingers

322d

"Single finger. I've tried a few times to use both but it doesn't work as well as I want. "

Scavenger Hunt: Green

324d

"These posters are in Tifa's old room and are a nice easter egg if you played the original. Emerald is definitely green."

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

Largest Margin of Victory: Queen's Blood

324d

"Took the sacrifice deck to the next level."

146

Gaming Photography: Season 7 Week 11

324d

"Cloud needed a rest, and the Choco-kid (he's bigger than a chick, I'm going with young kid) laid down for a nap too."

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

They're like Pokémon, only bigger

325d

"Third time's the charm for not uploading spoilers we hope. "

Your Last NES Game

326d

"I definitely don't remember that far back, but I replayed a bit of Metroid recently to get the tagline for beating it. "

Metroid

Et tu, Brute?

326d

"It's Yoshi. He's been talking to Kirby about eating people. From being left in pits to forced to carry elephants, he's had it. "

Super Mario Bros. Wonder

Play a Racing Game

327d

"This is my kind of racing. "

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

The book or the movie?

328d

"It's actually more likely I will like whichever I experienced first. Which is usually the book; movie first is pretty rare for me to go back."

Book

Gaming Adjacent: Milk in Cereal?

328d

"Only monsters don't, and you know what happens to monsters in video games... they get trapped in tiny balls and forced to live out eternity at their masters' whims, fighting other monsters. Or just plain murdered. So prevent all that by putting milk on your cereal. "

Thumbs Up

Changing Mt. Rushmore

329d

"Easy. Persona 6 has to come out and be better than 5. I think that's achievable but it's going to be a long wait. "

Digital or Print?

329d

"I did print for a long time. We have like 8 IKEA Billy shelves filled with books but I haven't added a new one in close to a decade. I use an actual e ink Kindle for reading, easier on the eyes and less distracting than the phone. And when you're trying to read the latest tome from Brandon Sanderson, it weighs a ton less. "

Digital

Where did this happen?

330d

"The group drives their buggy out of a canyon and is in awe of the beautiful scenery. The (not-so) distant rumbling is Yuffie's stomach. "

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

What has 8 legs and tastes like sushi?

330d

"It's kraken. Or maybe the quest should ask what had 8 legs, because he sure doesn't anymore... Pro tip, the water elemental enemies in the sea shrine are vulnerable to ice, not lightning. "

Gaming Photography: Season 7 Week 10

331d

"It's hard to find good non spoiler images, but I like this close up of Red, who has become one of my favorites through this play. He's just learned something of his past and is processing it. "

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

Original Galactic Bounty Hunter

331d

"This ending room and mother brain fight is so unfair, I don't know how we ever beat this game back in the day. I did remember you could leave the room and go refill health. Enjoy my bad jumping to the end here. @dan "

Super Galactic Bounty Hunter

331d

"Thank you Samus, but our Metroid is on another planet! "

Mar10 2024

331d

"No Yoshis were harmed in the making of this screenshot. "

Super Mario World

A Legendary Feast

331d

"Some of the achievement names would be spoilers. Trust me when I say you can't get every achievement without the true ending. There are ones you can miss, but you'll have most of them. "

There's other games?

332d

"Same thing I would have been playing if the servers were up. Last night was some pretty heavy stuff but it ended with Tifa swimming (and some boss fights that I am dreading on hard mode... have to look up strategies because what I was doing was definitely not working)."

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

The Dennis Proposition: Dog Sitter

334d

"She has more letters in common with Sephiroth, who we all know is the right answer to all of these questions. Even on her own merit, the army of lumas could keep an eye on any dog just fine. "

Rosalina

Zombotanist

335d

"This game... does not use Google play achievements. Rude. Had to do it all over. "

What are you playing?

336d

"As if you couldn't tell from all my recent posts. I normally play one game at a time anyway, I might dip back into something briefly if new dlc comes out, but that tends to be blink and you miss it, a day or two on the list if I even remember to update it. Edit: replaced link that wasn't showing you what I was playing with screenshot. "

Behold, Lord of Dragons, I bring you a ... rat tail?

337d

"Lazy dragon, get your own rat tail next time. "

Is it hot in here, or just Kary/Marilith/Marylis?

337d

"Toasted! "

Original Meme of the Week Season 7 Week 9

338d

"This is like the worst kind of requirements gathering where nobody is willing to ask if they really need the 12th copy of (feature that only one person actually uses)."

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

Nibelheim's Hottest Couple

338d

"Barrett, it's not nice to make fun of Cloud. Do you want silent protagonists? This is how we get there "

Scavenger Hunt: Hand to Hand Combat

339d

"I tried 3 times to get the screenshot exactly when yang was punching these 3 poor goblins, but missed each time. It's a short window. Instead enjoy kain thinking about what he's done. "

Final Fantasy IV

Follow the C3 Twitter / X Page

340d

"Ok but I want to know if this means I can get lightning if I follow, or if Joel just has permanent lightning which seems like an op hack. "

Follow the C3 LinkedIn Page

340d

"I did find a very suspicious extra follower (free Xp @joob , don't even need your own screenshot!"

Lost Legacy

341d

"Done! "

The Fate of Aerith

341d

"Yes to both. I think we'll see some time travel / parallel worlds nonsense where both of these outcomes happen. Also, shameless plug: come join https://channel3.gg/final-fantasy-players where we will be having quests for the game on a semi-regular basis, as I progress through the game and think of good ones. I'll also be creating a weekly discussion thread that will allow spoilers up to specific chapters (again based on my personal play speed which could vary from week to week)."

A Thief's End

342d

"You know what the worst part of this was? Picking out the right image for the right game from the insanely tiny thumbnails on my phone. #firstworldproblems"

Marco Polo

342d

"2013? Sheesh that's forever ago "

Drake's Fortune

342d

"Found this random treasure behind a wall somewhere "

Do you consider Palworld a Pokémon game?

342d

"it doesn't say pokemon in the title, it's not a pokemon game. It is a necessary (but not sufficient) condition."

Thumbs Down

Drake's Deception

342d

"Digging trophies out of the attic. Can't figure out a way to search on the ps app and still get to trophies... "

If I only had a Steamdeck...

343d

"Besides being my go-to answer, I wouldn't mind having this on the go in much better resolution and frame rate than switch (where I also don't own it. Not that I own it for steam either but I couldn't go back to playing in 30 fps... and just got the news from Google that you'll have to cap at 50 (very minor occasional drops) or 40 (smooth) and that feels a little bad, I'll just stick to 4k/60 on consoles then. This is why I don't have one. "

Persona 5

Pokemon Day: Favorite Pokemon Non-Game Property

343d

"I'm pretty sure this is the only Pokemon anything in my house. "

What motivates you to buy a new video game?

344d

"Is it first party Nintendo? It's not dropping in price for a year (though that's less true lately, especially if you're willing to make new accounts on QVC). Might as well pay "full" price (vouchers are great but it's going to be hard this year with barely anything coming out) Almost anything else is worth waiting at least a few months for. Should drop from 70 to 50 at least. Once in a blue moon if it's a follow up to something that's GOAT tier, then it's worth the premium. "

AMA: The C3 Admins

345d

"What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?"

I thought you said "Fun-dead"

345d

"Old men shouldn't be carrying such heavy tools anyway. Seriously why couldn't we just use a sword or staff to pry the plate up? If you're playing on original hardware or emulator, my best advice is just run from everything in the earth cave on your second trip. Takes so long and you gotta have something left to fight Lich. Dawn of souls with their cheater mp system can just lol at the rest of the game now, pixel remaster can just r3 turn off encounters until they get to floors with new enemies. "

24 in a Game

346d

"24 antidotes I will probably never spend because that's a level 1 white magic spell and those grow on trees. (Final fantasy iii... this quest should require game selection methinks)"

Will we see Silksong in 2024?

346d

"Launch title for the new Nintendo super Nintendo switch turbo championship edition (working hardware title)."

Thumbs Down

Mash Up Fighter

347d

"There are 10 phantom thieves (counting your navigator, using third semester royal, and not counting strikers or tactica). So we want another squad of similar size. Ff4? Has 12, but Edward isn't going to fight anyone and the twins count as 1. "

Persona 5

A Return to the Past.

348d

"Nah, I don't want to spend all that money and still have to deal with people. That's why I only play single player games (or multiplayer but I don't have to interact with anyone, like Mario wonder)."

Podcast Quest: Who's Your Peter Parker?

349d

"Is it too late to vote for sephiroth? Well, none of these people have played sephiroth anyway... but Yuri could totally do it. "

Yuri Lowenthal

What got you excited from the Switch Direct February 2024?

349d

"EH.......... not much really. I may check out the SMT V DLC (is it DLC? i was confused). I played a lot of RC pro am many many years ago but I really doubt it holds up today. Unicorn Overlord is on my watch list ... may try the demo at some point. RTS on Console is hard to do well."

Will Metroid Prime 4 Be Announced in the February 2024 Nintendo Direct?

349d

"Might as well get out the clown makeup and join @joob waiting for @hollow-knight-silksong "

Thumbs Down

Play Adventures of Lolo

350d

"Loaded my suspend point from 2019. Still remembered how to do that last level which honestly isn't that hard compared to many before it. "

Contribute to the 2024 Cr3w Playlist

351d

"I added one of the songs after spending way too damn long figuring out how. Some of us olds don't use Spotify. Had to dust off an account I haven't used in a decade, then get the app because you can't mess with playlists on the mobile web, and even then I had a hell of a time. So you don't get a link because I can't figure out how to get back to the song. 😜"

Ori and the Blind Forest

The Dennis Proposition: Do You Want a Build a Snowman?

352d

"She'd get the squad to do it, and you really haven't seen a snowman until you've seen a krogan one. "

Commander Shepard

Winter Season Games

352d

"Another quest that just needs a "does not apply" option so I just use another void game (there's 3 in the library... after that we'll have to find a new plan or recycle)"

Void Crew

Jump the Shark Moment

354d

"Hey I know let's capitalize on a wildly successful franchise and try to turn our dumb idea for a motion control game into somehow fitting in that universe and use it to sell completely unnecessary hardware. "

Link's Crossbow Training

Will PlayStation Go Portable Again?

355d

"If they were going to, I don't think they make the weird thing they just did for streaming"

Thumbs Down

Vote for Pedro, er, Sephiroth

356d

"What's the real story with these two? Are they enemies because one won't admit their true feelings? "

Favorite Couple in a Game

356d

"Ok this is the third try so I'm done writing witty. It's obviously cloud and sephiroth. I'm going to try linking the artist's Tumblr (this page is SFW I did not explore further)."

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

Rebound Game

357d

"I was trying to find a game which suggested "nope haven't done this" and after trying other keywords, void finally came to mind. "

Full Void

Share your monitor.

358d

"Monitors are for work. Or StarCraft. The c3 app is not a plant, it's really there but I should move it because it's kinda just hanging out in no man's land ... The tower is my current mobile addiction, I should add it... "

Play a video game

359d

"In the words of king Arthur and his brave companions, run away, run away, aaaahhhh! "

Final Fantasy II

Big Game 2024

359d

"The 49ers didn't win. The Lions lost. You gotta be able to win to win the big game."

Chiefs

The Hogwarts Legacy Treatment

360d

"Did I just rewatch Dune this afternoon? Maybe. Do I have tickets to go see the (checks notes) 40-year-old (!) version with Sting and Jean Luc Picard? Maybe. Do I have tickets to opening night for Dune 2? Maybe. Does any of that discredit that Dune needs an awesome game? No. "

Free Play Highest Stack

360d

"I've played dumber games but rarely on purpose. "

3

If it's final, why are there so many sequels?

360d

"Just my party chilling with the real elf prince. What? Real? You mean there's a fake? Umm, spoilers for a 36-year old game... "

RGFT - Steal An Ability

360d

"I just want to teleport. (And yes, I think 23+ years qualifies as retro.)"

Diablo II

Marketing Experts

361d

"I can't believe this was their marketing strategy. I mean, they made a 3rd game a few years later and then did a reboot/remake/whatever recently, so it can't have been too bad?"

Dead Space 2

NATIONAL PIZZA DAY

361d

"This is completely out of context and an obviously wrong answer, but it's still hilarious. I appreciate that they took the time to voice quips for the wrong answrs."

Best Game Menu Visual

361d

"How many games have multiple different blog posts and YouTube videos dedicated to an actual study of the UI/UX? How many look as GOOD as this and the studies aren't an exercise in ripping the design to shreds? I could link a dozen images and articles but I'll keep it in check. Also this isn't a super post and the options are limited. I'll also link some videos. NOBODY does style this well. I wish I could upload an animated GIF but you'll have to settle for playing the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmQZg2990ck&t=208s or looking at the game UI database: https://www.gameuidatabase.com/gameData.php?id=72 Look at how it animates transitions. You don't have to do that. You absolutely don't have go this hard on your MENUS. But they did, and it absolutely crushes all of your other answers."

Persona 5

The Dennis Proposition: Who is more likely to show up to an event on time?

362d

"The answer is still Sephiroth. What, that wasn't an option? Too bad, consider it a write-in vote AND messing with the stats to drive people crazy. Next time restrict the choices! :D (But seriously, TOTK Link easily more on time.)"

Final Fantasy VII

Game cover art PART 3

363d

"I tried all day to think of something worse. It can't be done. This is so bad. "

Mega Man

Game cover art PART 2

364d

"It's been a solid week since I posted something that's going to annoy a rabid fan base, so let's go. Kh3 was just ok. Perhaps it was the long delay after 2. Perhaps it was burnout from several really awful mobile games. It's not bad, but compared to this cover art which looks epic and like we're going to bring everyone together and maybe tell a story that concludes everything... and that only partially happened. (Also where did we get the cover art for our library? It doesn't match my searches...)"

Kingdom Hearts III

Game cover art

365d

"I like the DE cover art a little better, but either is great. WotW runner-up. (For those wondering where's Persona 5 : I don't think the cover art is nearly as good as most of the rest of the game. It's fine, and the effort they made to work every character in at unique angles is good, but still, Ori's tells a story if you've played the game.)"

Ori and the Blind Forest

Library Quest: Leap Year games

367d

"So says everyone else."

Pokémon Stadium

What game do you know best?

368d

"I debated -- legit -- before picking this. There was a time when I would have said Zelda 1. But I don't think I can navigate level-9 first try anymore. I have something like 300 hours in Persona 5 and that's all within basically the last 5 years so it's pretty fresh in my head. And there's a LOT to know, we're talking a game that casually takes 60-100 hours to beat the first time... I wouldn't get everything right for sure, but I'd say relative to length, it's way more knowledge than anything else."

Persona 5

What's Your C3 Story?

369d

"For once, "I blame @joob" isn't just a meme. We worked together a few years ago and stay in touch, and he mentioned this site. After months of not being convinced, I believe it was in s3 when the minigames went f2p that I started using it daily. "

What's your favorite tagline?

370d

"Ori immortal. Ideally they'd be stacking so I could show I had both. It was a lot of work to beat those games without dying and also it's hype for GOAT tier games. "

Google Snake High Score

371d

"Ftnr 32. I could do better. I don't know if I will. 5 minutes later... 35. But I have better things to do than chase the impossible target of first place. "

35

Wait, where do they work: Kirby

371d

"Look, everyone's going to put things about him being a cleaner of some sort because he can just suck up all the junk. That's fine. It's not Kirby's true passion: he wants to be a dancer, probably ballet. Light on his feet, jumps you wouldn't believe, stronger than you'd think (the short arms may have to be augmented for lifts, or he'll just swallow his partners and spit them back out mid twirl), and he's already got pink down pat. "

RGFT - Favorite Code

372d

"I can still picture it ... let's see... From memory A5 B2 B4 C1 C3 C5 D4 D5 E2 Now let's check Google... yep that's valid "

Mega Man 2

Gaming Photography: Season 7 Week 5

372d

"Escape the giant (robot/building/other plot device) before it explodes and fly off just in the nick of time may be a trope, but it's a gorgeous trope."

Horizon Forbidden West

Gaming Adjacent Series: Eating Schedule

373d

"I eat 3 meals a day. Each meal happens sometime between 12am and 1159 pm. "

Subscribe to Channel 3's YouTube Channel

375d

"Been subbed for a while. Don't really watch much though. Sometimes I'll check out clip of the week."

Which Wonder?

375d

"It's super **Mario** not super Yoshi (Yoshi is already super though). Note: do not try to apply this logic to other Nintendo IP "

Mario

Rent Free Quote

376d

""had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong." -mordin Clip contains spoilers for Mass effect 3. Why you haven't played the trilogy by now is a valid question but I won't spoil it for it. "

Mass Effect 3

Ended the War Machine Threat

378d

"This one I did all the things. I'd actually say I thought this was better and maybe that's why I didn't platinum HFW. @dan "

Discovered Nemesis

378d

"Huh why did I not get the platinum here. We'll see, I need to go back and do burning shores anyway. @dan "

He does the exact same thing I do...

378d

"Anybody keeping score of how often I use this? No? Good. Don't start. Joker does the same thing as Ash / any other Pokémon trainer. Sure, he's capturing demons instead of cute adorable creatures (who are equally demonic mind you), and then he's sending those demons out to battle other demons, and maybe capture those new demons so he can eventually use them to fight even stronger demons. In case you think Persona ripped off Pokémon, try the other way around. Shin Megami Tensei games have been around since 1987, almost a decade before Red/Green. I'm not sure how similar the early SMT games are to early Pokémon; haven't played either. But the similarity is there. NOTE TO QUEST AUTHORS: Title does not match instructions. I blame @joob . Seriously, "he does the exact same thing I do" would imply two characters who, oh I don't know, DO, the same thing. Instructions say "closely resemble" which can (and based on responses, frequently is) be interpreted to mean "look alike." I'm not changing my answer though. "

Persona 5

Play Palworld

379d

"I tried but something is REALLY off about this camera and no amount of inverting and not inverting makes it feel right. Like, it feels like the x-axis is inverted no matter whether I pick to invert or not, and invert-x is a crime against humanity."

My Manifesto

379d

"I had to recreate my note that I swear was here at one point -- but 2023 was a good year, I played a lot of good games and 100% a lot of them."

Clip of the Week: Season 7 Week 3

380d

"Terrible video quality, but I love that I accidentally found an almost completely AFK (you have to hold one button) infinite lives trick. Never could get the hang of stomping turtles in the OG but if a pile of dry bones wants to form below me, why yes, I will stomp them until I have 100 lives."

Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury

Play Inops

380d

"Advice I am sure to ignore."

Quest #333: Find Triple 3s in a Game

380d

"Guess I should stop collecting green stars. (It's actually getting pretty hard anyway!)"

Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury

I've Got 99 Plumbers But a Peach Ain't One

381d

"Forgive the crappy video quality, I grabbed my phone with one hand while the other worked on this difficult trick (narrator: he held the jump button). Also til you can exceed 99 lives. But the video will show that I did have 99 at one point, so that counts. Actually I could swear it went from 98 to 100? 🤣"

Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury

A ridiculous game... that's worth playing?

381d

"This is a cute little puzzle game where you're a box. Except you're really part of an AI, and you have a personality. And later you're going to meet friends who are also shapes and also have personalities. The level design is great, the voice acting is award winning (seriously), and there's some fun humor too. I found the later stages challenging without being frustrating. It's probably dirt cheap now since it's been around longer than .. man I tried 3 different jokes about how long @joob takes to beat games and none of them worked. 1000xp bonus for the best punchline in the comments when this post is 24 hours old. "

Thomas Was Alone

My gamer fatal flaw is...

382d

"Agree with multiple previous answers about hoarding, but I am trying to be better about it these days. Really, I just have a terrible sense of navigation in video games... I need a mini-map and it WILL be locked to north (heathens who let the mini map rotate are dead to me). I don't necessarily need objective markers but I need SOME way to connect "I want to go east" with "I am actually moving east." Oh what's that, you have a giant landmark I could use for navigation? You spent weeks rendering it and it looks gorgeous? Sorry, was staring at this 2 inch circle on my screen...."

Scavenger Hunt: Electricity

383d

"I know what you're thinking. "Oh look, @infocynic is using Persona 5 for a quest again." Shocking, I know. What's that? You expected there to be more to that? Nope. Not going to stop using P5 until at least 3 more Cr3w finish it. (And even then, odds are small.) In the meantime, Odin would like a few words."

Persona 5

The Channel 3 Build

383d

"See super post on my feed (linked below; the preview isn't super clear that's what the link goes to)."

Persona 5

Try Grift

384d

"Ran out of time today by the time it was available and I remembered but I might try more tomorrow. "

Try Retro Bowl

385d

"I counted over 40 tries to get a random character with Detroit as their favorite team. You know what came up multiple times before then? Both Cleveland and Cincinnati. Rigged from the start. "

High Score With No Boosts

386d

"I don't plan to do anymore. This was extremely annoying with all the extra crap and is somehow laggy on a pixel 8. Not a fan of the timed format on this one anyway, the one you can play from the Xbox app is way more chill. "

105700

The Ultimate Tale

386d

"Mass Effect x Persona 5. And this can go either way. In the Persona universe, guns are powerful, and things like biotic and tech abilities would just map to persona abilities. Heck, the normandy crew could just be personas (but they should be like, 4th tier evolutions of PC personas, not just randos for Joker). In the ME universe, I see no reason why Shep wouldn't recruit Joker and friends to help the cause. Futaba's a better tech than Miranda (who isn't), Ryugi would make a fine Vanguard, Ann is an Adept, Yusuke's just a soldier, Joker keeps going to respec between every mission... Makato? Hmmmm. Sentinel maybe. I think Crow or Violet has to be Infiltrator because [story reasons]. Haru... yeah, Haru's another Vanguard, she's totally gonna charge in and then fire off her grenade launcher at point blank range. If you survive, she has reconfigured her omni-blade to be an omni-ax. "

Eternal Guardian

387d

"I am the eternal guar @dan Ian."

Homework Assignment: Watch Episode 1 of High Score

388d

"Watched this back in 2020, my Netflix is on pause right now until they can make me more cobra Kai.... Decent series, short though. "

The Dennis Proposition: Wingman

389d

"No idea. Let's go back to the cooking competition. I know those characters. "

Steve

Toilets With Threatening Auras

390d

"Belphegor is a demon you can encounter, and you actually run into him early on, can't believe i forgot about this."

Persona 5

My Other Ride is a...

390d

"I'm not sure if I'm allergic to cat-busses if I'm allergic to cats. I haven't had the opportunity to encounter an actual catbus in the wild. (Thanks for the excuse to post about p5 again, it was feeling a little unloved... though I did totally space on toilets with threating auras, may have to go find something for that after all.)"

Persona 5

...Through Time!

391d

"Maybe we just stop the Metroids before they exist. Better stop the x then too. This is why you don't time travel, you just start up a chain of events... "

Metroid Prime

Show us your Channel 3 Stickers.

392d

"Haven't ordered yet, waiting to see if I can get some more shop credit still. Soon :TM:"

Seven Stars Legend

394d

"Roll credits. @dan I had a screenshot of the final bows but I remembered how much of a pain getting screenshots off switch is. "

Add Guardians to Your Epic Library

394d

"Y'all hadn't already done this? I don't expect to ever play the PC copy because I already did this all on PS5... Which is why I'll back Dan up and say you should play this game. It's fun. It's not game of the year or anything, but it's good. "

What if: Mario's Profession

395d

"He helps his brother out, who owns a very successful ghostbusting business. "

New Years Hunt: 24

396d

"Don't see it? Zoom and enhance! Smarter not harder people! The date on your save file! "

Super Mario RPG (2023)

Where's the line?

397d

"Tried playing the GBA port. Not as good. Even if you can play as green, which is clearly better. 1999 is definitely retro, sad to say."

Super Mario World

This House is Clear

397d

"Yep, got this one too. @dan "

Favorite Horror Game

398d

"Recency bias? Probably. Resident evil 4 gets an honorable mention from whatever 15+ years it's been, I didn't play the remake. I almost put Alan Wake I, it felt legit more frightening I think, but it's not the better game. "

Alan Wake II

Vampire Survivor

398d

"Only the main game? Rookies. @dan I even did an extra run to find the 2 items I was missing. I had to kill it after 60 minutes because it was clearly never going to kill me. "

Is there no escape?

399d

"The pact of punishment only unlocks after beating the act IV boss once. Technically the quest-as-written is a spoiler, but the statute of limitations might be up on that, and also it's pretty obvious. @rey "

What is or was your first C3 Ticket purchase?

399d

"Or will be? I haven't decided yet. I'm eyeing this so I can use it every time someone posts another top ten SNES without ff4. It's not as good as dislike button but maybe one of these months the turbo lottery will get me that. Or I'm going to have to make my own new gif for s8. (I was going to link to the page instead of the gif but c3 links just render the logo and have no meaningful preview text. So yeah, I don't like abusing the gifs this way but it is what it is... )"

Favorite video game turned into a movie

400d

"Well I was going to nominate assassin's Creed but it didn't say favorite video game movie to make fun of. That also rules out several street fighter and mortal Kombat movies. What's left? Eh boring pick but really, there aren't many good ones. Declining to tag a game because this really isn't one game. "

New Years Gaming Resolution 2024

400d

"Be more willing to admit when the game just isn't that good and I should move on. "

Good bye to 2023

401d

""and it's available today" when Nintendo revealed Metroid prime remastered. I played a lot of games this year and a lot of good ones, but that was an extra treat. "

What is your favorite Role Playing Game (RPG)?

402d

"This is one of those "If i could erase my memory and play it again for the first time" I absolutely would. I have probably upwards of 500 hours in this across the original game, PS4 Royal Edition, and X1X Royal Edition (I did not think the upgrade would be that noticeable due to the stylized art, but holy cow was I wrong). Great RPGs have great stories with a whole cast of characters, and this does not disappoint. Half the game is managing your time to level up your social skills -- will you become more daring, more charming, smarter, etc.? Some people won't give you the time of day until you do. Most random battles can be trivialized once you learn the "trick" for that particular battle, but then you'll face a new combination and have to figure out how to deal with it efficiently. Will you try to wipe out the enemy quickly, or beat them to critical conditions and negotiate for money, items, or even recruitment? There's so much to this game, and the adult themes are very much not for everyone, but it's the game I keep going back to for a reason."

Persona 5

Gaming Photography: Season 6 Week 13

402d

"A member of the Federal Bureau of Control tells you that she got "every kind of weapon we had available" and I gotta say, it's sad to see that budget cuts have hit such great organizations as FBC where we're left with a pistol, a shotgun, and a flare gun. No automatic weapons? Grenades? How about a nice rocket launcher?"

Alan Wake II

Future Weekly Quest ideas

402d

"Find WarMech. You don't have to beat him. Name your party members in a way where we can tell it's you. (Otherwise too easy to just photoshop it.) I don't really have any great ideas... JRPGs don't lend themselves to the weekly quests the way other games do. What about a kind of "book club" where we took a long game and paced out different progress points in weekly quests? Like Ocarina of Time - week 1 could be "get the forest pendant" and week 2 "get the master sword" ... then so on. Anyone who's beaten the game could just load up a final save though. Or maybe it just stops at "chapter 1" ... basically encourage people to TRY the game and play far enough to get a taste. Work with subject matter experts to find good candidate games on Game Pass / PS+ / Switch Online and figure out what an appropriate amount of game is. Maybe it's just continuing and expanding the "beat this game" / "100% this game" quests separately, though the XP potential for weekly quests is higher with the bonus. "

Final Fantasy

Friends. Family. Pizza. Forever!

402d

"@dan this was a fun diversion on game pass a while ago"

Answer this quest for XP.

403d

"Come on, who doesn't want to do battle against a giant armored (and armed!) piggybank, or a malicious painting? "

Persona 5

Gaming Adjacent: Decoration etiquette

404d

"Whenever. Usually by mid January indoors, and whenever the weather cooperates outdoors. "

Scavenger Hunt: Snowman

405d

"Much like Thanos, this was inevitable. (WebP links render inline in the future? Maybe? At least if they're just C3 links anyway...)"

Persona 5

Solicit a Recommendation

406d

"I like roguelites where the meta progression feels possible to make progress with (@hades , this) but not ones where there's little to no meta progress or you need ten runs just to get one little boost (@returnal ). RPG elements are an added boost (see also the answer to every question is @persona-5 )."

Vampire Survivors

Holiday Wishes 2023

407d

"I bought myself the new vampire dlc and then promptly ignored it for the free extra content. So I'm giving to the the developers? Sure we're going with that. "

Holiday Gaming

407d

"Played taboo with my family and had to argue that they were not allowed to use "number" as a clue for PIN. They claimed they didn't know what it stood for. I said that's no excuse. I think we compromised on a zero for that card. "

Christmas in a Game

407d

"I will stop using this game all the time when more of you play it. (That's probably not true.)"

Persona 5

The Dennis Proposition: Christmas Dinner

408d

"Zaddy G has all those gerudo women who practically worship him as a king, he doesn't cook. Sephie has that whole "I don't need anyone else" vibe going, and he has experience carving. (Too soon? Nah.)"

Sephiroth

Do some good

409d

"I helped setup a new phone for an elderly family member. If that isn't sainthood material enough, then I will also forgive @joob for not putting final fantasy 4 on his SNES list (until pressured and now it's 11 out of 10 somehow). But don't test your luck again, next list better be right the first time. Meanwhile, spending the evening at the ER vet with some naughty dogs. We think they'll be fine now, but a brief scare. "

Name a Smash pet.

409d

"One of my dogs is actually Gambit as in the XMen, who would make an excellent smash character, but since he's got a jet black coat anyway, he can be joker. (I'm also obligated to hype persona 5 any chance I get, so this was an obvious choice.)"

JOKER

Pick Your Class

411d

"All the better to burninate the countryside and then fast talk and blame the fighter. I'd say not to tell the fighter about it, but he wouldn't get it anyway so it's fine. "

Sorcerer

To the Moon

412d

"Well I found this cube in the attic that said do not open, right next to the spot where I found some delicious cake. Opened it and look, more steam achievements (sadly the mobile app doesn't make it possible to show that it's my steam). @dan will just have to give out the tagline or I'll turn on this cute little robot with a glowing red beam... "

The Cake is a Lie

413d

"Had to dig this out of the attic. Steam? Since when do I play on steam? @dan the screenshot is slightly realer than the cake but might be from a multiverse"

'Tis Better to Give Than To Receive

413d

"Couple years ago I built a gaming PC for my nephew (shoestring budget and he paid half). Happy to see the love of gaming continue, even if I'm not a PC gamer myself. (Though if StarCraft 3 ever comes out, I will be back...)"

Indi3 Gamers - What Do You Want From An Indie Game?

414d

"I want the indie dev to take the chances that the AAA devs won't. You have an idea for a racing game that's a metroidvania? Sweet let's do it. A dating Sim hack and slash? (I think that may exist.) Doesn't have to be a crossover like that just the idea that it's something unique. "

RGFT: What Is Retro?

414d

"Has to be 2 generations ago at least. Maybe 3? 3 seems better but we can make it 2 for Nintendo until switch 2 is actually out. So that's og Xbox, PS2, Wii, and all consoles not made by the big 3."

They can't all be hits.

414d

"A lot of people liked this. A lot of people are wrong. I played the entire campaign and dlc and I still couldn't tell you what happened or which dudebro was which besides noctis. Ff4 had better writing and its characters had like 8 poses each."

Final Fantasy XV

Winter Holiday Gifts

415d

"I think it was maybe Zelda 2 or Mario 2, young infocynic was super excited. And I'll defend both of those as fine, if not top tier. Gaming adjacent, more recently, I got the megabricks (off brand Lego) USS Enterprise (with no bloody A, b, c, or d). This thing is a chonker, it's like 3000 pieces and 18 pounds of just solid blocks. My wife and I put it together over like a week. It sits on top of my board game shelves and if I remember, I'll upload a pic tomorrow. (Edit: scale says 9.4 pounds. But it's hard to get it actually on the scale due to size)"

What's on your wish list 2023?

415d

"I mean really it's Metroid prime 4 but I decided to stick with something Santa could actually get me without sending the elf hit squad out. It's no secret I love classic ff (all of your top 10 SNES games that don't include both 4 and 6 are wrong), so this is an easy choice. And as a peace offering to everyone who incorrectly thinks 6 is better than 4, I give you the opera. It's not that 6 is bad, it's on my top ten! So here's something we can all enjoy. "

Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters

Recommend a PS5 Game for @joel

417d

"Everyone else is going to tell you Spider-Man and that's fine, both are great games. Ratchet and clank is great too, a favorite all time series, but the PS4 titles were better. So let's find something truly unique and that really shows off the PS5. This game isn't for everyone, see if there's a demo available for sure. If you pick it up , I have advice about things the game doesn't make obvious. I've linked a before you not buy video, get some real info besides a hype trailer."

Death Stranding

What is the last game you 100% completed, or came closest to 100% completing.

417d

"I try to 100% most games I play. It has to have a really terrible requirement like 0.0001% RNG drops for me to skip it."

Marvel's Spider-Man 2

Xbox Wrapped 2023

418d

"I was surprised and then I remembered that yeah this took two full plays because there are two different protagonists and while the overall plot is the same, the interactions with your friends and party members are completely different. It's sad they're not putting FeMC in the remaster. It's also interesting comparing to my psn wrap, this is more hours, and that's really on the strength of game pass. "

Persona 3

Feeling all the feels

419d

"There's a certain side quest... the whole time you're doing it, you know what's coming, and you do it anyway because it has to be done. I don't think it would hit as hard if you didn't play the first. (Being very vague here to avoid spoilers since it's still a very new game. If you've 100% the second game you'll know what quest this is.)"

Marvel's Spider-Man 2

Nintendo Wrapped 2023

419d

"Directions ambiguous. Most played or favorite? I make no apologies for picking the better game as my favorite, but tagged the most played."

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

PlayStation Wrapped 2023

419d

"Also played but too late to count: @marvels-spider-man-2 "

Horizon Forbidden West

Take Me Down to the Oregon City

419d

"@dan ... poor Mario didn't make it. Luigi definitely doesn't know anything about how he broke his leg."

Dedicated Spider

420d

"Did I say a day? That can't be right. Good thing there's no evidence of that. @dan "

Heal the World

420d

"hey look for once it's not the 100% screenshot (give it a day). But I did heal the world. Then it crashed on me so I guess it's telling me to take a break. (No lost progress.) @dan "

What are you playing today?

420d

"Aka Peter Parker's fashion show. "

Marvel's Spider-Man 2

Bounty Hunter Fusion

420d

"Oh I have this one handy. @dan ... The rest I'll have to dig up from my archives."

RGFT: Super Retro Bros - What Retro Characters Should Be In Smash?

421d

"Bionic commando. Complete with inability to jump but can use that arm to pull himself around. Or pull his opponents. May not work on every stage but eh they could figure something out."

Gaming Photography: Season 6 Week 11

421d

"I did not know there was a crossover with Alan Wake. (Just so we're clear, it's not, but you gotta admit...)"

Marvel's Spider-Man 2

Hardboiled Writer

421d

"I am a child of the elder gods @dan "

Ori's Destiny

422d

"I'm lazy and just reusing content. Didn't we do this already? @dan ... not posting this on feed back to back with immortal though. Need feature to claim multiple quests with a single post next 😂"

Ori Immortal

422d

"@dan ... I don't have a lot to say about this one. It's far easier than Blind forest overall, less instant death. Just go slow and be careful and you can do this."

The Dennis Proposition: Better Holiday Party Host

422d

"But only if Cortana helps. And if we include guests must survive as a criteria. Doom throws a hell of a party but the hangover is killer."

Master Chief

Post Your 2023 Wrapped

423d

"I'm confused why the mini games are at different ranks. I'm surprised Mario wonder is higher than everything else. Mk8 is misleading because that's entirely from target and maybe a few old quests for XP (maybe more than a few, there are like 333 quests for it). Updated with the larger screenshot including my best post (great to see a throwaway troll post is my best) thanks to Joel's quick fix."

Everyone's a Critic Best Time

424d

"I might go back but I'm still playing through the game so I doubt it."

Ori Immortal

424d

"Hey @dan you wanna make one for will of the wisps, too? Asking for a friend. 😂"

Gaming Adjacent Series: Favorite Holiday Movie

424d

"This one goes out to @joob . But hey look, science proves Die hard is a Christmas movie. "

Happy Hanukkah scavenger hunt: Candles

425d

"Red candle... so pointless by the time you get it."

The Legend of Zelda

'23 Game Awards Viewer

425d

"Only saw this at the end but hopped back on to snag the shot "

Find a Smash Ultimate Character

425d

"Am I reusing content? Yes. Work smarter not harder."

Metroid Fusion

The Game Awards 2023: Game of the Year

426d

"I'm sorry re4, but you aren't eligible, you came out like 20 years ago. I haven't played bg3 or aw2 yet and I'm only partly into Spiderman, but what really strikes me about this list is it's all sequels and one remake. I'm counting wonder as really it's just another Mario game. It's excellent but not goty material. Spider 2 is really an iteration on spider 1, wonder an iteration on Mario, from what I've seen aw2 to aw2 is the same... ok but isn't that true of Zelda? Yes, yes it is, but it's a much bigger leap. Bg3 might be the winner here, but I haven't played it, so best among the limited choices."

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Be Yourself

427d

"Done and done."

Ultimate Sacrifice

427d

"I'm just being myself. @dan "

How do you Minecraft?

427d

"If I wanted to sandbox, I wouldn't have removed it from my backyard within the first few weeks of moving in. "

The Game Awards 2023: Best Game Direction

427d

"I think the fact that this game was basically ready and they kept working on it for an extra year to polish it, instead of just launching with what they had, really speaks to the leadership being invested in making a good game, not just something that will sell."

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of The Kingdom

The Journey Ends with Love

427d

"One does not simply beat Ori. @dan "

The Game Awards 2023: Best Narrative

428d

"Having finished the prologue I definitely feel qualified to answer this."

Marvel's Spider-Man 2

Gaming Holiday Decoration 2023

429d

"Update: posted video. Not sure how it turned out, I kept the lights low and it's not really easy to get behind the tree but you'll get the idea. I still need to put the topper on tomorrow night hopefully."

Metroid Prime

Beat THAT Level (Special tagline available)

429d

"Ugh. Good thing this is the last level and I won't need my turtles to be healthy, right?"

Hit the Oregon Trail

429d

"I not only hit the trail, I survived. Except Mario."

The Game Awards 2023: Best Art Direction

429d

"Look, Zelda was great and all, but so much of the art is just reused assets from botw. Mario wonder created a ton of new art but still it's just Mario. Hi fi rush (free on game pass all of you who want to try it) is a bright and colorful original world."

Hi-Fi Rush

The Game Awards 2023: Best Score and Music

430d

"I know you're going to vote for totk but like botw before it, I was largely disappointed by the soundtrack."

Hi-Fi Rush - Shuichi Kobori

Pong!

430d

"This does not play well with touch controls at all"

The Game Awards 2023: Best Audio Design

431d

"Let's get a little credit for setting up a very spooky atmosphere. Play this with headphones and you'll feel like the voices are coming from inside your head. And if you didn't finish your nanowrimo goals, maybe they really are."

Alan Wake 2

Movember 2023 (Tagline!)

432d

"Seems like a good cause. Don't be afraid to get your check ups and any help you need for any diagnosis. @dan "

Gaming Adjacent: Favorite Holiday Song

432d

"The main title of the best Christmas movie of all time. @joob knows what's up. You better run a poll in my absence."

The Game Awards 2023: Best Performance

432d

"All of these except maybe bg3 on the backlog... But cyberpunk is not a sequel or established franchise (since ff and bg are not exactly sequels but they have a style their franchises use), I think the extra difficulty in helping sell the world counts."

Idris Elba - Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty

The Game Awards 2023: Innovation in Accessibility

433d

"Hmmm maybe I should look at this again. I'd like to see what they did for accessibility because there's a lot going on here that would be difficult with various disabilities"

Hi-Fi Rush

The Game Awards 2023: Games for Impact

434d

"Only even heard of this one. I'm sure they're all great but yeah, nothing to go on."

Chants of Sennaar

The Dennis Proposition: Gift Giver

434d

"What's peach going to do? Bake you a cake? Zelda is going to give you something you actually need and want."

Princess Zelda

The Game Awards 2023: Best Ongoing

435d

"I haven't played any of these but only one is one I actually want to play"

Cyberpunk 2077

The Game Awards 2023: Best Indie Game

436d

"Yes please I'll take two. As in I played through the game almost twice (stupid late game missable trophy)."

Sea of Stars

Starting Word

436d

"Haven't played in years but it was SAIRE ... Arise is more common but you're more likely to hit exact matches this way I think. All of that was based on the original word list (you could check the JavaScript source) but who knows with nyt doing it."

The Game Awards 2023: Best Debut Indie

437d

"This category is a trap. Indie is not well defined. Check the budget and talent involved and it's clear these aren't all in the same weight class."

Cocoon

Gaming Setup Updates

438d

"Well I'm pretty sure mine isn't up to date but since it's bugged on mobile we'll take a //Todo on fixing that. I did snag a new purple dualsense today cashing out my GameStop points, I think that counts @rey "

Loot Box: Turkey Day Edition

439d

"Wall Chicken (or Wall Turkey) is obviously the best. Heals nearly to full."

The Game Awards 2023: Best VR/AR

439d

"The idea of playing resident evil in VR... Nope!"

Resident Evil Village VR Mode

Man Your Battle Stations!

440d

"Why do I not remember how Tanya works... I played a ton of this as a kid.. Laggy as hell too. Oh well, I have better things to play."

The Game Awards 2023: Best Action Game

440d

"Only one I played, but it was excellent."

Hi-Fi Rush

The Game Awards 2023: Best RPG

440d

"I hate the editors of the award for lumping all these together. Sea of stars is not remotely the same kind of Rpg that starfield is, if you even count starfield. Bg3 will win hands down but I'm voting for my personal favorite."

Sea of Stars

Gaming Adjacent: When does the Christmas Tree go up?

441d

"The tree goes up this weekend. Until then the ornaments I care about have a permanent display. Samus will be unboxed then, I usually do all the new since last year ornaments then."

The Game Awards 2023: Best Action/Adventure

441d

"This is a very strong category, and I'm ok with any of these titles winning. Alan Wake and spider Man may have an advantage from recently bias. But for pure adventure you can't beat TOTK."

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

The Game Awards 2023: Best Fighting

441d

"I was going to pick mk1 and then I remembered that you get minus one million points if you number or label your sequels something dumb. This year's award for worst numbers goes to... (Rips envelope) it's a tie! Mortal Kombat 1 and modern warfare III! "

Street Fighter 6

The Game Awards 2023: Best Community Support

442d

"Talk about a turnaround, from unplayable at launch to getting serious critical praise; that's some commitment to fix the game after people already gave you their money. Lose a few points since one piece of DLC wound up being locked to the current-gen consoles after being promised to owners of the Limited-edition Cyberpunk Xbox One X (not to be confused with an Xbox Series X. totally different thing.) ... BG3 will probably win just because it's BG3."

Cyberpunk 2077

The Game Awards 2023: Best Family

442d

"I think this is more approachable than Pikmin 4, if we're talking "family" play usually meaning children."

Super Mario Bros. Wonder

Find a Cup in a Game

442d

"I had to crop this to be even remotely under the mature filter, but yeah, this boss can drink from that cup to heal itself. (Yes there's a better one I could have picked, people who've played the game, but that's very late game content, and a lot more boring of a screenshot. So don't at me... or do, because not enough people on here have played this game.)"

Persona 5

The Game Awards 2023: Content Creator of the Year

443d

"This category feels broad. But Ironmouse at least has a pretty interesting and tragic story, so she gets my vote."

Ironmouse

The Game Awards 2023: Best Sim/Strategy

443d

"The depth of strategy is higher in FE:Engage but it's only necessary for the highest difficulties and optional content. I will say Persona 5 Tactica which just came out (so how does that work? is it eligible next year) might get my vote instead for having a good blend of story and strategy."

Pikmin 4

Gone Forever: Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter

444d

"I can't believe mk exists in a world where sf wasn't a huge hit. So if you remove sf, you remove both, and nobody wants that."

Mortal Kombat

The Game Awards 2023: Best Sports/Racing

444d

"The crew manifest had a chance but they didn't style it as Cr3w so they got disqualified. I don't play any of these or any sports games, but I'm curious how bad the titles must be this year if we got 4 racers and only 1 traditional sport?"

Forza Motorsport

The Game Awards 2023: Best Esports Athlete

444d

"Biggest trophy. (The Apex legends player may have a trophy but honestly I couldn't be sure with the resolution. It looks fake.)"

Max "Demon1" Mazanov - Valorant

The Game Awards 2023: Best Esports Team

445d

"They seem to have the biggest trophy and therefore must be the best. "

Evil Geniuses - Valorant

The Game Awards 2023: Best Multiplayer

445d

"Multiplayer where I don't have to talk to the other players or worry about spending my resources to heal them ... Where I might not even see the person who left the standee that saved a run at jump jump jump... It's brilliant. Will actually win: bg3. Because it's bg3."

Super Mario Bros. Wonder

The Game Awards 2023: Best Esports Coach

446d

"This is even more ridiculous than best esports event. Calling it next year best gaming awards show host.. and wow I can't believe it, GEOFF KEIGHLEY wins in a landslide. "

Christine "Potter" Chi - Valorant

Gaming Adjacent: sporks or no sporks

446d

"Some unholy combinations are best left behind."

Spoon and Fork

The Game Awards 2023: Best Adaptation

446d

"I think this might be close but Mario will win. Good reminder to watch twisted metal though, forgot that came out. TLOU was fantastic and gets my vote and not just because I love sarcastic protagonists."

The Last of Us

The Game Awards 2023: Best Esports Event

447d

"I can't believe this is a real category. Next up, "best awards show""

The International DOTA 2 Championships 2023

The Game Awards 2023: Most Anticipated Game

447d

"For me personally, ff7r2. Ugh what are we going to abbreviate that to? I pick Hades to win though."

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

Link your Steam account

447d

"Sure why not? I rarely use it but I can link it."

The Dennis Proposition Biathlon

448d

"I'm pretty sure Lara has actually deliberately chosen to ski, like, actually on purpose. I'm not convinced Drake has done that."

Lara Croft

They just never popped.

449d

"For as much influence as Mass Effect (and Dragon Age and to a degree KOTOR before that) had on games, I think more people know Master Chief (or could at least point to "the halo guy") than Shepherd. Maybe because of being able to customize your character not to mention the whole broshep/femshep thing. If we really go by "household" name, as-in "people who don't play video games [and never really have] will know who these are," I think it's pretty limited: Mario, Sonic, then the slightly more tuned in could add Luigi (aka Green Mario), Link (aka Zelda), Pikachu (possibly as much from the show). Donkey Kong? Bowser? ehh feels like a stretch. "

The Dennis Proposition: A Day at the Range

450d

"Seeker missiles. I'm sure mega man has something like them from one of his games but he'll probably get like 7-12 shots before he's out of juice."

Samus

Salute to Service

451d

"I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite game on the Citadel."

Mass Effect Legendary Edition

Gaming Adjacent Series: Sub or Dub

453d

"Really it's either. If it's a rewatch, I'm going with whatever I'm used to hearing. Dubs have gotten a lot better more recently, so it's harder to say one is objectively better like you could with dubs that were just laughably bad. For new shows now I'll probably default to dub because I'm horrible about watching the whole time and it's easier to catch something if I'm looking at my c3 notifications instead of watching."

Dub

The End?

453d

"I played the heck out of this before it ever came to switch and held out for a really long time not buying it. Then I bought it and still haven't played it. So my thoughts are it's probably fine but I was right to have ignored it 😂"

Podcast Bonus: Create Your Own Mario Kart 8 Cup

454d

"Because I'm evil."

Build - A - Gun

455d

"A WiFi chip so it can phone home back to Hewlett Packheat to determine if it should actually fire the last 30% of the clip or just tell you it's time to replace it. (No relation to any real companies.) (I had to invert the colors to get this to appear at all. It might get lost in light theme.)"

Suika Game High Score

456d

"After a few tries I think it's ok but not going to do enough to hook. The physics model is too chaotic and uncontrollable for this to be fun for more than an hour."

2136

Another Mario v Sonic question?

456d

"High Jump. Mario can equip the crouching high jump badge and laugh all the way to the gold medal."

Best opening sequence

458d

"I'm counting the entire sequence until you reach Mist as the opening. It's a JRPG man, opening is relative. Just the way the game sets up this first quest for you and you think it's going to be one thing but it's totally different (yes I'm being vague, if you have played the game you should understand but it's so good that I don't want to spoil it - spoiler tags in posts when?). Honorable mention to ff6 as well here, riding that magitek armor was so cool."

Final Fantasy IV

Ch. 4 S4. Level Check

459d

"Normally I don't bother answering quests when I'm not playing the game but this is two qotd for fortnite in a row..."

0

Beat Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Pachyderm Player Tagline)

460d

"Hey you know what @dan ? I didn't do this quest yet, but I think 100% kinda covers it. So much that I'm just linking to the same image!"

Pipe-Rock Rumble Time Trial

460d

"Not going to compete but I'll take the XP "

WONDROUS

460d

"That was a lot. The in game reward was pretty good. Not as good as this tagline @dan "

Dance the Fandango

463d

"Cat that might be a demon but also says it's not either... As close as I'm getting to undead. Plus I had the image from a previous quest and it's my chance to remind everyone persona 5 Royal is leaving game pass! Feels really weird to do that right before releasing tactica but what do I know. Maybe Sony negotiated to get p5r on ps+. Alt take: the Mario from my climb attempt when I rescue myself with a standee--that Mario died and came back to life.. Is Mario a zombie?"

Persona 5

Splatoween 2023

466d

"Zombies make poor friends on account of the brainless nature. From there it's a toss up but ghost sounds like GOAT so it's obviously the best."

Ghost

Xbox X Activision

467d

"I don't know how this works but let's get a Tony hawk vs Ori matchup going (ms owns Moon studios, creators of Ori, it counts 😜)... Two experts at fluid movement and chaining together impossible combos that look impressive. I don't know what the goal of the game is but it's a start."

Season 6 Not Top 10

467d

"Amazing save... But wait, watch to the end. I exit the level and celebrate but then I see the title card for the level. I need some instant replay for the shot clock, in 0.25 speed, to see just how close I got to that wonder seed in time. I'm about 70 lives into this level... I'll get it, but not tonight."

Super Mario Bros. Wonder

Choose your character: Speedstorm

468d

"I'm not actually playing but my wife loves figment so gotta rep him."

Figment

Who will fill in?

470d

"It's going to be a very short campaign when Samus comes in power beam and missiles blazing. Afterwards, she offers to teach Peach self defense classes."

Spider-Bros. Wonder

473d

"Do you know how hard it was to find this game title on mobile? Was it "Mario wonder" or "super Mario wonder" but no, and you have to get the period after bros... Took so long I forgot what I was actually going to write 😂"

Super Mario Bros. Wonder

Which US NES Launch Day Game?

475d

"There are other excellent titles on the list but none hold a candle to the game that saved the US video game industry."

Super Mario Bros.

Delete one Rocket League quick chat

476d

"Universally, in any game or sport or activity, "incoming" is only ever shouted by someone in a position to do nothing about it, to someone who is equally unable to do anything and/or already knows. Edit: this is even worse in film and television. Watch for it."

Incoming!

A question of dexterity.

477d

"I use my Auric Goldfinger to destroy the game."

What Would XP Unlock For You Next?

478d

"You will actually have energy and your healthy living habits will stick this time. "

Lucky 13 scavenger hunt

480d

"Now, is Morgana really a cat? He insists he's not. (The truth is a very very late game spoiler.) But if it looks like a black cat and meows like a cat and you (the main character) think there's even a chance he's a demon, I say it counts as unlucky."

Persona 5

Worst escort mission in gaming?

481d

"Enough people have said GoldenEye and they're not wrong, but by sheer volume and annoyance, "I have to get to my friend" ... The only saving grace is that it's entirely optional."

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Which is your favourite hockey team and why?

481d

"Red wings, but I'm not really a serious fan or anything. They're the closest team and that's good enough for me."

Mundane Simulator

481d

"House cleaning simulator. Vacuum, dust, pick up toys, take out trash and recycling. As soon as you finish, there's more. I hear the vacuum segments really suck."

The Thousand Year Game

482d

"Prime remastered was so good, now give us the rest of the quadrilogy!"

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

What's the scariest game you've ever played?

483d

"I love the movies and some of the audiobooks, but this was just too much. went in the did not finish category and will probably stay there forever. "

Alien: Isolation

Gamify a 2000 Movie

483d

"It's a Battlefield game. Obviously. In a stunning move, the video game turned out to be better than the movie. (Hey Google? You ok? I'm a bit worried about your answer here...)"

Promote Channel 3

484d

"On the discord server I spend a lot of professional time on."

Happy Thanksgiving Canada: Scavenger Hunt

484d

"Been meaning to get back to this one for a while anyway. I remembered there was a bar and thought there were probably bottles on the table, sure enough check out the back right. Tasty ketchup for @rey Side note: there's actually no condiments in Burgertime which was my first thought. "

Life Is Strange: True Colors

Play Stumble Guys

486d

"Well, I tried. Didn't want to get past this screen... based on all your posts, I think I'm missing precisely nothing."

Coffee Golf Friend Code

489d

"Add infocynic#4189 as a friend on Coffee Golf! https://shallotgames.com/coffeegolf/addfriend?playername=infocynic%234189"

The Dennis Proposition: Who would have a better NFL Combine?

489d

"Tfw you don't understand any of the proper nouns in the question, but you're equally sure you don't want to."

Fish Thicc

Bonus QOTD: Play Coffee Golf

490d

"Well it's not the worst mobile game I've seen hyped here. Coffee Golf - Oct 3 27 Strokes 🟦🟥🟨🟪🟩 4️⃣4️⃣6️⃣7️⃣6️⃣"

Barbenheimer

490d

"Super spider Bros. 2 Peter and Miles are like brothers, I think this works."

A TITANIC task

490d

"I'm not saying rush is the best dog in all of video gaming. I'm also not not saying that. Turns into a submarine for crying out loud. Know any other game dogs can do that?"

Mega Man 3

This is critical.

491d

"So all of my saves are late game, and the publisher put a block on screenshots after a certain point. Because Xbox doesn't tell you that like PlayStation does, I spent way too long troubleshooting this and then deciding to just use the phone propped up on a table."

Persona 5

Legendary Outlaw

492d

"This was a good game. Not good enough to get the platinum but good enough for a playthrough. @dan"

Welcome to Season 6: Scavenger Hunt

492d

"4 players without special hardware? Yes please."

Mario Kart 64

Say Goodbye to Season 5

493d

"This was tough. Pikmin 4 also came out this quarter. I replayed both Ori games, but decided to exclude replays. And I did a ton of vampire survivors, which was great too, but sea of stars has so much charm and (completionist trophies aside) really comes in at a perfect length."

Sea of Stars

2048 High Score

494d

"Missed opportunity to play Threes here I think the almost 38k is going to be enough. It's fun but I don't have a strong desire to fight RNG at the top levels. (Mistakes were made) So I was just gonna play a bit while I finished watching something...."

56436

It changed the game

494d

"You didn't say it was a good change. This game nearly killed home video gaming in the United States, until a little company called Nintendo came along to fix it "

Pick Your Favorite Original Pokémon

495d

"Turtles > all else. "

Squirtle

The Dennis Proposition: Who Would Win an Art Contest?

497d

"Snake is going to make one of those industrial modern art sculptures ... primarily with boxes."

Solid Snake

Play Mario Kart Tour

498d

"It's not 3333 but uhh lucky 7? I hate this game and am uninstalling it again lol"

Generate a Pokémon

498d

"A murderous teddy bear. (See also my currently playing list )"

Blue Falcon Time Trial: Mute City 1

499d

"I used to be ok at the original .. long time ago in a galaxy far far away"

Rate and Review the C3 App on the Google Play Store

499d

"If you have only 5 star reviews, you're going to look like they're all shills. Plus I do have minor gripes about the mobile experience 😂"

Play Blaster Master: Enemy Below

499d

"I've played and beaten (with save states) the original... the tiny screen and trying to play with keyboard is a little much here."

The Dennis Proposition: Who Would Win a Debate?

501d

"Who actually has a dialogue that's more than "wahoo!" And "it's a me." Plus, sometimes you win just by saying more things and sounding very authoritative, so Sonic speed helps."

Sonic

What's the best sidequest in a game?

502d

"The post game quest to get a celebratory dinner with your friends is really great. Not going to say anything more about it other than you are going to want to do it. It's nice to see the supporting cast of non playable characters get recognition. Honorable mention to citadel dlc in mass effect 3, which is a very long side quest that ends with you throwing a party with all your friends in a ridiculously nice apartment."

Sea of Stars

RGFT: Retro Team Up

502d

"Super Metroid + link to the past. Oh wait that's already a thing (https://samus.link/). Ummm. How about super Mario world plus sm? But really I'm just bringing Yoshi into sm where I promise I won't just jump off his back and abandon him just for the sake of sequence breaking. I'll also let him eat enemies. Totally fair."

New game: F-Zero 99

505d

"Did I race? No. Was I going to? Yes. Did I get sucked into sea of stars instead? I plead the 5th."

Follow What Are Your Three?

505d

"Some of us still use dedicated podcast apps with way more features than your goolgify or appibles or whatever. RSS directly into podcast Republic thank you very much."

Other RSS Feeds AKA The infocynic

Would you rather: Fortnite or Mario Kart 8?

505d

"As long as I don't have to use tilt controls...."

Mario

Moonerang Master

507d

"I had to use 0.25x speed on the replay to count. The video is of a boss fight on glacier peak (a couple areas after wraith Island) which will show enemies you will recognize (not really a surprise you have to fight them eventually) and the 4th playable character. No plot elements are shown."

39

Most Rated Game That You Haven't Played

507d

"Doesn't appeal. I don't like regular soccer, the idea of playing with cars adds nothing."

Rocket League

The Shredder's Revenge Treatment

508d

"I haven't seen the new looniversity yet, but you could have everyone with a different special or even slightly different basic moves too with the diverse cast of Tiny Toons."

Which Disney Afternoon Game?

509d

"Didn't have this but remember renting it a couple times"

Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers

The Warrior Chef

509d

"This took a while to find a non spoiler shot 😅 But @dan can now see the warrior chef just chilling. Definitely nothing strange going on here. Nope."

Bonus Quest: Ori Death Count

510d

"Yeah it's not quite 100% but really what am I going to do with another energy cell or more ability points anyway? Bonus numbers: Oldest save I have - 86% complete hard, 365 deaths Speed run easy (no sequence breaks just going fast): 63%, 39 deaths"

222

Hot Take: Nintendo Direct Oct 23'

510d

"My hot take is we will actually get mp4 news for once. Maybe just an update to say they're still working on it."

S.N.E.S. or Sness

510d

"Letter by letter takes too long."

elrey

PLEASE PLAY THIS GAME

511d

"Look we've been over this, you can love this game or you can be wrong, it's not hard. (The game can be hard but I never felt it was unfair.) It's free on game pass or frequently on sale on switch, but if you can play this in 4k with surround sound or good headphones, do so. Just don't forget the Kleenex. As a bonus it might improve your target scores. I say might because despite like 6 playthroughs I am still garbage at target."

Ori and the Blind Forest

What gif do we need?

512d

""you're doing it wrong" And as requested by @joob, more doggos The angle isn't the best but I knew if I got any closer I'd lose the shot."

What band or album deserves their own Rock Band edition?

512d

"Echoing several others, let's get weird al, including both parody and original songs. You get a wide range of musical styles and hey, some of the parodies should mostly have the work done anyway."

#Monopoly-WHAT?

513d

"Free to play mobile games that prey on whales to spend ludicrous amounts of money are evil. They know exactly what they're doing."

#MonopolyNO

Lock or Lak

514d

"Heard he was going to start taking a few extra seconds to his Mario kart rescue times if you get it wrong."

Lak ee too

Which Channel 3 Game?

516d

"I'm terrible at enhance without hints. I don't play fortnite or mk8 (I used to play it but so long ago and don't know any of the tracks). I didn't grow up with LTTP. The other games are infrequent enough that you can't rely on it, and even then you take a game like horizon that I've platinumed and I still couldn't tell you where the screenshot it. That leaves trivia where I feel like I usually have a chance. Until @joob pulls out meta nonsense like which game has more ratings on c3 or has specific text in its steam review. I know where you live, and I will send the angry mob after you. 😜"

Trivia

Add Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson to a Game

518d

"The rock has a unique advantage. When he gets hit and has to fight shirtless, he just powers up "

Ghosts 'n Goblins

Play Ghosts 'n Goblins

519d

"Unrelated, is there a less tedious way to get pics off the switch? Every time, pause, go to captures, select a couple to send to smartphone, scan a QR code, turn off my phone's mobile data because it won't route the local traffic correctly, scan the second code, download one by one, reset mobile data and Wi-Fi, finally can post the photos here. Also this game is terrible. "

RGFT: Should Have Been A Game

519d

"The name of the place: Babylon 5. Honestly mass effect is pretty close, though way heavier on the shooting. But the story... So I guess what I'm saying is give me mass effect like story with the game focused on diplomatic negotiations and occasional fleet or squadron combat. Like mass effect, it needs to progress the story whether you succeed or rather how you succeed since in negotiations it isn't strictly win or lose. Hell you should be able to have the main character die and keep going with the replacement, and have that impact the story as nobody trusts you the same way. "

Mr.Mime Madness

520d

"Getting some real Pennywise vibes. Kids, stay away from the unholy hybrid."

Pokémon Pinsir Pandemonium

521d

"You're welcome. (Edited picture because reading is hard )"

Atari 2600 - Favorite Game?

522d

"How are we not all hyping the GOAT here? Seriously never had an Atari but played the heck out of frogger on NES."

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Arcade a Movie

523d

"Equilibrium... I feel like this was John wick before there was John wick. Let's get some combos around using the guns as melee weapons and high momentum combat, probably 3rd person."

Dandori is Life: 100% Pikmin 4

523d

"This annoys me... As far as I know, there's no way to get the stats screen after you've seen both endings. I left the big treasure for post post game because I didn't have the right Pikmin. I summon the @dan ... Dori."

What Gaming Collection?

524d

"I don't want to have to spend $60 or whatever per year to play them all on Nintendo switch online super turbo deluxe edition, plus that still misses Samus returns, prime 2 and 3, and some Other game we May just rather forget. And pinball. And federation force. But I'm ok if it doesn't have those."

Metroid

Play a new game (August 29, 2023)

525d

"Curiosity? Free XP? A highly reviewed JRPG? It could be any of those things."

Sea of Stars

Fueling the console wars

527d

"Link was cooler but I didn't have that edition "

Heihachi Mishima

F.L.U.D.D.

528d

"MORPHBALL Mechanical Orb Reduction, Propulsion, & Half-pipe Ballistic Automated Launcher Loadout Turns you into a ball that goes really really fast and can traverse half pipes and be launched from places.. Test subjects reported some minor problems with broken bones."

Share a C3 Push Notitication

529d

"Only one I got before I turned off 1ups. Kept everything else on but felt 1 up might be noisy. Had to recover it from notification history (underrated Android 13 feature) because I didn't see the quest until people starting posting it 🤣"

Bond, James Bond

529d

"I don't think these are the best movies, but it's when I got into bond, so for me it holds extra weight. "

Pierce Brosnan

Added for context

530d

"Samus is known to be an excellent bounty hunter already at the start of this game. How did that happen? She has the power suit too... Is that standard issue? Doesn't seem to be judging by other M, so where did she get that?"

Metroid

Happy Anniversary SNES

531d

"Minimally it's my favorite SNES launch title. It would take way too much work to think about every console and their launch titles."

Super Mario World

Clip of the Week: Season 5 Week 8

533d

"FLASHING LIGHTS WARNING You can't touch this... (for copyright reasons, please bring your own hammer pants and tunes). "

Vampire Survivors

Deep in the Ocean

533d

"Behind the code on YouTube did an excellent analysis that proves this level really had broken physics. It's definitely the game's fault and not that we just are bad at the game."

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Play Pitfall!

534d

"My high score would remain zero."

For the 1st time, again...

535d

"I have played through the complete game close to 6 times. It's fun to play when you know what's going to happen, but it's also fun to see these characters develop and deal with the plot twists, some crazy ones that absolutely work when you see it all but in the moment just leave you wondering what the heck you're going to have to do to get out of the mess you're in."

Persona 5

Favorite Disney Infinity Figure

536d

"I never got into this or any toys to life. I have a few amiibo because they're effectively paid dlc for Nintendo games but that's it. Still, Jack is awesome."

Spirit Trial: Inkwater Marsh

536d

"The cowbell is helping. @joel should try using more cowbell."

What is your favorite Final Fantasy game?

537d

"There are excellent choices: 4 (2 on the snes in the us), 6 (3 on SNES us), T, 7R Nostalgic and great choices: 1, 3 (Japanese), 5, 7, 9 Defensible choices: 10, 12, other tactics games More valid than most people think: 13 I have questions but I'll hear you out: 2 (Japanese version), 8, 15 Who hurt you? X-2, 13-2, 13-3 I am not taking questions at this time. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk. "

Final Fantasy Tactics

Do you use walk-throughs?

537d

"I tell myself I won't, but 25% through I get stuck and well, now I have it open might as well... But in all seriousness, for games where I really want to immerse myself, like Metroid dread or TOTK, I won't use it until I'm clearly at the endgame and then I might look things up for backtracking. For games where I'm playing to explore a story or I might get locked out of something key, I will use the walkthrough. "

Thumbs Up

Draw 25

538d

"Technically I'm not buying the games if they're on game pass, right?"

Gaming Photography: Season 5 Week 7

539d

"Ori enters a new area and takes in his surroundings. It's a dry area and the native wildlife is large. Small creatures like Ori will rely on speed, stealth, and cunning to survive."

Ori and the Will of the Wisps

Turtles in Time

539d

"Celebrate by watching the best song to ever be featured in TMNT media."

Pick 1 Genesis Game to Recommend

540d

"I feel like 2 really nails a sequel perfectly, improving on the original in exactly the ways it needed to, without changing so much it's hardly recognizable."

Sonic the Hedgehog 2

RGFT: Favorite old school gaming magazine

540d

"Nintendo power had these great maps... I tried to find one for Metroid (I never had a game boy) but found Metroid 2"

RGFT: Favorite Cartridge

541d

"I actually have this ornament but I wasn't getting it out just for this. Hallmark knows this is objectively the best cartridge; it hasn't made ornaments of other games."

The Legend of Zelda

I believe I can fly

541d

"Bash counts. I'll get the feather eventually..."

Ori and the Will of the Wisps

Which subscription and why?

542d

"By far the best selection of New games. With a little work you can get this for like 50-60 bucks a year currently (very likely ends in August 2023) and for that price to get access to so many day 1 AAA games? No contest. Plus it has Ori."

XBox Game Pass

Kirby, no!

543d

"Kirby gains the ability to remember useless details like which bushes/trees to burn in Zelda1 35+ years later while being completely unable to remember the name of a person he just met. In Kirby's case, that's not really a problem, considering he won't see you again, and you'll never see anyone again...."

Favorite Game on Super Mario Bros. All-Stars

543d

"Unless I missed something, you're not flying over entire sections of levels in the other games. "

Super Mario Bros. 3

Oldest Game You've Played?

544d

"Can't think of anything older."

Pong

Hired or fired?

545d

"Samus is a bounty hunter, and I have every faith she could handle any cases we have here today. Well there may be some issues if the subjects are wanted alive..."

Super Metroid

Crazy 8s

546d

"(it's actually the superior hexagon version) A whole pack of 8x8... I've already done it though."

Flow

Suggest an Online Mode?

547d

"Super Mario Maker style: authors can make escape sequences like the 3 you have to do in this game, with whatever timing they want as long as they can beat it. They can choose which abilities you have access to and how much of a head start you have on whatever's going to kill you."

Ori and the Blind Forest

Spread Your Wings

549d

"Quest said spread your wings. I don't see a lot of birds in your answers, people. This was on my backlog anyway, it's on game pass. I didn't get very far because I was busy all day with other games, but it looks pretty and streamed okay to my phone."

Death's Door

RGFT: The 1-Quarter Quest

550d

"The arcade version wasn't called this, of course, but they didn't want to confuse home players vs the previous title with the infamous dam level. I almost picked X-Men, but I think I probably spent slightly more time on turtles."

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game

Clip of the Week: Season 5 Week 5

550d

"The final area of Ori (ok several areas actually) is basically the floor is lava. Literally, in the final area. The game is a top tier metroidvania with a bajillion movement abilities, so obviously you don't need to get anywhere near the lava... Right? Right? (Reposted from my feed at dan's suggestion.)"

Ori and the Blind Forest

What do you say to someone who says video games are a waste of time?

553d

"Mostly just smile and nod or ignore them. Not worth engaging."

What game genre just isn't for you?

558d

"If "free to play with gacha" was a genre that would win instead. I like my games to have an ending, or not require a constant investment of money. Pick at least one, quadruple points for both."

Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game

Bonus Quest of the Day: Download the Channel 3 App

558d

"So easy a Toad could do it."

What video game world would end you the fastest?

558d

"Have you seen this game? Stuff coming at you from everywhere (everything, all at once)... Not to mention I can't run that fast or long or jump like that 😂"

Doom Eternal

What is your favorite game series (4+ games) of all time?

561d

"Metroid. But if they make two more Ori games... Runners up: Final fantasy, Zelda, dragon quest, Mario, maybe even Pikmin now Honestly I'm hard pressed without reading all your answers to think of other series I've played where I'd call 4 games excellent. (Sorry mass effect... You know we don't talk your much younger sibling. Your parents weren't really trying but sometimes these things just happen.)"

RGFT: Your Favorite Game You Never Owned

561d

"So I never had a super Nintendo and yeah I can play this on SNES classic or switch online now, and if you asked me today what my favorite SNES game is, it's probably super Metroid or ffiv or Chrono, but as a kid I didn't play any of those... my cousin had this and it was so awesome, flying across whole levels and eating koopas with Yoshi."

Super Mario World

Domesticated Video Game Animal

562d

"He's such a good boy already."

Pikmin 4

Favorite Genre

564d

"Good RPGs tend to offer a lot of player choice, ways to mitigate difficultly (e.g., grinding), excellent stories, and more."

Role Playing Game (RPG)

Play a Role Playing Game

566d

"Someday we will hear more news about the dq3 remake. In the meantime, at least the dragonlord is dealt with."

Dragon Warrior (Dragon Quest)

Season 5 Not Top 10

566d

"I got it, I got it, I got it, I.... Sigh. (This was like the 20th attempt to get the coins on this level.)"

RGFT: What's the best/worst TV or Movie retro video game adaptation?

568d

"This doesn't really need any more explanation. I actually played this, and if you never did, consider yourself lucky. Image credit: Jason from The Wasteland (https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ET!_(14027894224).jpg#mw-jump-to-license)"

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Finish a game

569d

"One does not simply beat a game. One must beat the game within an inch of its life. (Finished DLC1 today too, but missed the deathless run by dying to the final boss because I was careless, and another one I missed when reviewing the guide.)"

Alan Wake

Favorite Game Achievement Trophy

570d

"You're asking me to pick my favorite child. So many great ones. While I did just platinum Alan Wake remastered, I decided to look back at other recent Platinum trophies, and decided to pick this one, because it was a lot more interesting and exciting, so many different paths vs just doing the same thing but harder. notable runner ups: mass effect legendary (no platinum for the series but 100% of series plus 3x plat), persona 5 royal and vanilla both 100%, with royal also at 1000 gamerscore since it's free on game pass. But seriously, go play this if you haven't. But do check out a demo if you can, there's no action so it's not right for everyone."

Disco Elysium

Gaming Photography: Season 5 Week 2

570d

"I really love the flashlight and the flying objects, really feels like "yep, that's Alan Wake." I also appreciate the irony of the trophy while I'm clearly holding a shotgun in my right hand."

Alan Wake

Which flavor of ice cream is best?

571d

"did Nintendo just assume it would be no contest if chocolate was allowed?"

Mint Chip

Bonus Quest: GIF

572d

"there will be no explanations. there is no room for debate. you can pronounce it the right way or be wrong."

Fortnite

Is this the power of a god?

572d

"deflect is key to survival. and bouldy is in a category by himself, he transcends these meager categories, and believes in you!"

Athena

Avatar Sized Budget

575d

"I don't think you even need that much budget, you could probably do the trilogy for the cost of one avatar. a mix of Samus doing voice over recording a diary (like the Martian but without stopping the action, she's recording these as she goes through areas) and some other voice actor reading out the important scans. Metroid prime is done with a mix of mostly practical effects and light CGI for the beam and projectile attacks. I don't know who we're casting as Samus though. "

Metroid Prime

Sending

575d

"Alan, maybe try a Hawaiian beach resort instead of creepy old shack. Else, give up on book, try sales career instead."

Alan Wake

Bonus Quest: Download Brawlhalla

577d

"sure, why not."

Will the Nintendo Switch become the best selling console of all time?

578d

"seems like it, unless a switch 2 comes out of nowhere in the next 18 months maybe. even then it still could. "

Light mode

What boss/enemy fight sticks in your memory the most?

578d

"Thunderbird, the penultimate boss, is still hard for me these days. after an extremely hard dungeon, in the old school days where there's no save point before the boss, beating him was a cause for celebration. (the final boss is a joke in comparison)"

Zelda II: The Adventure of Link

Happy Anniversary Rocket League!

578d

"0. this just doesn't look interesting to me at all."

Digital or Physical

579d

"I really use a mix, but lately I'm not even buying many games and just using game pass and ps+, the switch games I buy are paid for with vouchers. but I did buy Metroid prime physical. and horizon forbidden West before that, which of course then went on ps+ like a month later. now if we're talking movies, then it's 4k discs all the way..."

Digital

We have to go back!

579d

"2.5d perspective. 16-bit. limited radius of vision, gets slightly larger when boosting your flashlight. the TV programs remain high def as a mystery."

Alan Wake

It's a no from me dawg.

580d

"meh. not one for shooters in general and then you put an online only filter on top of that... nah."

Fortnite

Recommend some board games to newbies!

581d

"ticket to ride, any licensed IP version of love letter, pandemic. next level: San Juan, broom service, fresco, roll for the galaxy, Kingsburg."

Who is your Mario Kart 8 MAIN?

582d

"I don't play much anymore but I liked link's weight class, seemed to be a good balance with high top speed but didn't take all day to accelerate "

Link

A Gaming Unwritten Rule

582d

"if there's a cliff that you have no reason to be anywhere near, you will fall off or be knocked off for the sheer hubris of thinking you were safe."

Borderlands

Instructions Unclear

582d

"I was not reading the manual as much as making sure it was there. or at least what pathetic things passed for manuals by the Wii era. "

Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn

Summer Vacation

583d

"what better way to stay cool in summer than with a nice visit to phendrana drifts on Tallon IV? you like historical sites? we have a nice temple you can visit. more of a science museum type? no problem, check out our research laboratory and observatory. just want to go swimming? we totally have you covered, our pools are filled with shocking biodiversity you have to see to believe."

Metroid Prime

Do you view Channel 3 in Light mode or Night Mode?

583d

"what kind of monsters use light mode?"

Night mode

What is your current collection level in Marvel Snap?

583d

"free to play mobile games and I do not get along. I tried to put 0 but the validation refused. 😜"

1

Something Canadian

584d

"I thought Ashley had more personality, but I have saved Kaiden on one of my files."

Thank @joel

585d

"This is a fun site, and it's clear you put a lot of love and effort into making it what it is. looking forward to season 5 and beyond. thanks for all your hard work!"

Favorite Year 1 C3

586d

"@joob tried to get me really early. I was skeptical but his persistence worked, and since then I've been impressed by how positive this community is. gaming has a lot of toxic communities (plenty of good ones too, let's be fair), and this is such a great community of people... ... and also Joob is here. 😜"

Super Mario Run Coin Count 1-3

586d

"2nd attempt 193 (no bubbles) 6th attempt 222 ... 232 single bubble ... have repeated 237-0-6 a few times now. 100% convinced 241 is possible with a few more runs. ... 238. progress? screenshot is meta because it's got the last screenshot (a few frames early) ... oh come on, 239?"

239

Show your board game library

587d

"kallax shelves with dividers from cloud puncher games which were a pain to install but keep it super organized now. and the mega blocks Enterprise because Paramount won't license to Lego. "

The Reserves

588d

"Tali... maybe Garrus. hard to pick between these paragons (not sorry) of party members really. Wait, I can pick Samus right? She can't be the main character, the game is called Metroid."

Mass Effect 2

Does beating a game on "Easy" difficulty count as truly beating the game?

590d

"games are supposed to be fun. too often that gets forgotten. if you're not having fun on normal, try easy and never feel bad."

Light mode

Was the Nintendo GameCube a failure?

590d

"try saying that to Samus' face. the console that gave us Metroid prime cannot possibly be a failure. end of discussion."

Night mode

Bonus Quest: Nintendo Direct June '23

594d

"new 2d Mario is the most exciting because I already was sold on Pikmin 4 (literally used a voucher on it). Mario rpg looks cool, I never did play the original so I think I'm out of excuses when it releases. p5t ... I mean you could put p5 on anything and I'd buy it (except no gacha games thank you very much) but this wasn't a reveal."

What is a game that you want to play that does NOT exist?

596d

"Metroid prime 4? ok too easy. I want a metroidvania with TOTK exploration and no I don't know how that works, someone else figure it out."

Favorite Dad in a video game?

597d

"Bowser gave us good variety with his kids, assuming you weren't just double whistling straight to world 8."

Super Mario Bros. 3

How did you get your gamer tag?

598d

"Cynic is fairly self explanatory for anyone who knows me. Info was a play on Data from Star Trek TNG, who I've always liked."

Favorite Ninja Turtle

599d

"he was the nerdiest, which mattered a lot in the {decade redacted on grounds of denial about my age}"

Donatello

Bonus quest: Wield the Master Sword.

604d

"it's on his back in the hilt. this is as much about this completely safe and reasonable vehicle."

D-Pad or Joystick?

609d

"most of the time it's just fine and more comfortable, but games that require very precise inputs don't do well with the joystick."

Mario

What game have you logged the most hours on?

617d

"Played to 100% (2 full plays) on vanilla. Played to 100% (2 full plays) on P5R on PS4. Played again to 100% on X1X when it was released on game pass. All told that's probably ~300 hours."

Persona 5

Heart or Stamina?

617d

"10 hearts and you will still get one shot until you upgrade your armor. more stamina means easier exploration to find more shrines to get more until you max out, then go get hearts."

Stamina Vessel

What Loot?

619d

"if I'm out of the house, wallet keys phone and headphones. in the house you're lucky to even get the phone half the time."

Favorite Mom inside a video game?

632d

"mothers by adoption (or being adopted?) count. And if you disagree that she's the best mom ever, Samus has a super missile with your name on it."

Metroid II: Return of Samus

Why or Why Not? The Legend of Zelda

634d

"puzzles good (controls surprisingly bad, consistently across the series though). music good. exploration is just so much fun. I think I still remember where 90% of the overworld secrets are in Zelda 1. "

Best of 2003

651d

"I would never want to play the original version again, but the HD update makes this game amazing. the art style holds up today where "realistic" games from the same time are pretty bad."

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

Would You Rather: Time or Games?

663d

"if you only have 2 games, you'll get bored with them in your infinite time."

Mario

Happy birthday to the Founder!

675d

"happy birthday. may it be as great as getting into a crit loop against chaos."

Pick Your Pro Controller

685d

"I could wish for better battery life, but used properly by game designers, dualsense is incredible."

Playstation 5

Tail or Cape?

685d

"Cape is completely broken. so many levels are trivialized by its ability to infinitely fly. always vote for the OP option."

Cape

Recommend a game on Xbox Game Pass

691d

"visually stunning, deep story in this epic 100 hour jrpg. great entry point to the series, much like Final fantasy there's only a loose thematic connection between titles, no direct tie. (CW: extremely disturbing and adult themes including abuse and suicide.)"

Persona 5

Last of Us fans, which would you recommend for someone who hasn't experienced any of it?

695d

"I bounced off the game years ago and haven't looked back. enjoying the show immensely though"

WATCH the SHOW FIRST

Clip of the Week: Season 3 Week 10

696d

"The key to winning at fire emblem is masterful strategy. The next best thing is dumb luck. SPOILERS for Fire emblem engage chapter 21."

Fire Emblem: Engage

Controller or Keyboard and Mouse?

705d

"with 3 consoles it's just no contest"

Controller

Favorite Metroidvania

711d

"it was tight b/tw SM, prime 1, and both Ori. I love blind forest for showing this genre with barely any combat, just explore and move."

Ori and the Blind Forest