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[Cranky Guy]

I wonder if any of you have ever played any games in the Mario and Luigi series for the portables?

[Cyndadile]

All three!

[Cranky Guy]

I have already finished all three yet I find the third to the most fun, seeing as I get to here a lot of Fawful's strange...... wording.

[NyteFyre]

-has also beaten all 3, and seen Fawful in all of them-

[Cyndadile]

Fawful is my favorite boss. I like 3 because you can play as Bowser, but the Mario and Luigi portion isn't as good as the other two.

Fawful has awesome metaphors. "Your strongest enemies will fold like napkins who are crying!"

[ImmunityBow]

I played Superstar Saga. I don't understand how every time Nintendo comes out with a Mario RPG, it's pure gold, with amazing innovation, humorous dialogue, and generally excellent plots and characterization.

[NyteFyre]

Because it's an RPG?

Gino Whirl!

[Cranky Guy]

Fawful's quotes:

1:"Beef? I am lacking in beef. Fawful is beefless."
2:"Fawful... just... wanted some kingdom conquering..."
3:"I HAVE FURY!"
4:"Your lives that I spit on are now but a caricature of a cartoon drawn by a kid who is stupid!"
5:"You will wander forever in my modified Castle of Peach until you cry from lack of doors!"
6:"You have the impatience...You must stop and sample the sprinklies in life's salad bar."
7:"Oh, I am feeling the power! It high-fives Fawful's face!"
8:"Fawful will reserve the Crying Room for the crying for your minions. And the crying will be like a savory soda for my soul!"
9:Fawful scattered your minions like litter from a sad, ugly cat.
10:It is I who added the nuts to that statue!

And my personal favourite:

I have chortles!

this guy is quite funny.

[locknessjohnson]

i'm playing Borderlands great game and i know its a couple years old but it was on sale on PSN so i bought it. it beats COD hands down

[Cranky Guy]

sUPER mARIO sUNSHINE.

[Tyrannigon64]

I've recently been playing the Ace Attorney games. I played them in the wrong order though. :P
Right now I've beaten the first one and Trials and Tribulations. I'm on the final case of Justice for All.

[Triumph]

I picked up Saints Row: The Third today. Been playing it non-stop. Great game. I started off in the series with the second one, and I'll probably buy and play the first at some point. Volition is badass.

[Cranky Guy]

Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland. Everyone says I'm a baby when I say I like Kirby, but I don't really care. He DOES kick butt in SSBB (Also playing) though.

[ImmunityBow]

I don't understand how something as oldschool as Nightmare in Dreamland could ever be babyish. That's like saying those who like the original Super Mario are baby-ish, even though those who played it when it came out should be in their thirties about now.

Anyway, I've started playing Xenogears, and so far it's pretty good, though I usually am not a fan of sci-fi RPGs.

[Cranky Guy]

Kirby's epic yarn. EPIC.

[Tyrannigon64]

Kirby's epic yarn. EPIC.

Yes. I really liked this game; finding all of the collectables and getting all of the medals can be challenging at times. I always found it clever that that was the only real challenge, so younger audiences could just try to beat the end boss and say they won, while older audiences could actually get something out of it.

[Cranky Guy]

Just finished LOZ: Wind Waker. I wonder how Toon Link, the incarnation of link that has been deemed as too "cutesy" by some people, actually shoves his sword into ganon's face. What has gotten into kids these days?

[Cyndadile]

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: the text-based game.

[ImmunityBow]

That's pretty cool. Does it follow the movie, radio show, tv series or books?

[Cyndadile]

A brilliant question. Allow me to direct you to a passage of Douglas Adams' "A Guide to the Guide":

The radio series began in England in March 1978. The first series
consisted of six programs, or "fits" as they were called. Fits 1 thru 6.
Easy. Later that year, one more episode was recorded and broadcast,
commonly known as the Christmas episode. It contained no reference
of any kind to Christmas. It was called the Christmas episode because
it was first broadcast on December 24, which is not Christmas Day.
After this, things began to get increasingly complicated.
In the fall of 1979, the first Hitchhiker book was published in
England, called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It was a
substantially expanded version of the first four episodes of the radio
series, in which some of the characters behaved in entirely different
ways and others behaved in exactly the same ways but for entirely
different reasons, which amounts to the same thing but saves
rewriting the dialogue.
At roughly the same time a double record album was released,
which was, by contrast, a slightly contracted version of the first four
episodes of the radio series. These were not the recordings that were
originally broadcast but wholly new recordings of substantially the
same scripts. This was done because we had used music off
gramophone records as incidental music for the series, which is fine
on radio, but makes commercial release impossible.
In January 1980, five new episodes of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to
the Galaxy" were broadcast on BBC Radio, all in one week, bringing
the total number to twelve episodes.
In the fall of 1980, the second Hitchhiker book was published in
England, around the same time that Harmony Books published the
first book in the United States. It was a very substantially reworked,
reedited and contracted version of episodes 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, S and 6
(in that order) of the radio series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy." In case that seemed too straightforward, the book was called
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, because it included the
material from radio episodes of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy," which was set in a restaurant called Milliways, otherwise
known as the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
At roughly the same time, a second record album was made
featuring a heavily rewritten and expanded version of episodes 5 and
6 of the radio series. This record album was also called The Restaurant
at the End of the Universe.
Meanwhile, a series of six television episodes of "The Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy" was made by the BBC and broadcast in January
1981. This was based, more or less, on the first six episodes of the
radio series. In other words, it incorporated most of the book The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the second half of the book The
Restaurant at be End of the Universe. Therefore, though it followed
the basic structure of the radio series, it incorporated revisions from
the books, which didn't.
In January 1982 Harmony Books published The Restaurant at the
End of the Universe in the United States.
In the summer of 1982, a third Hitchhiker book was published
simultaneously in England and the United States, called Life, the
Universe and Everything. This was not based on anything that had
already been heard or seen on radio or television. In fact it flatly
contradicted episodes 7, 8, 9, 10, I 1 and 12 of the radio series. These
episodes of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," you will
remember, had already been incorporated in revised form in the book
called The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
At this point I went to America to write a film screenplay which was
completely inconsistent with most of what has gone on so far, and
since that film was then delayed in the making (a rumor currently has
it that filming will start shortly before the Last Trump), I wrote a
fourth and last book in the trilogy, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.
This was published in Britain and the USA in the fall of 1984 and it
effectively contradicted everything to date, up to and including itself.
As if this all were not enough I wrote a computer game for Infocom
called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which bore only fleeting
resemblances to anything that had previously gone under that title,
and in collaboration with Geoffrey Perkins assembled The Hitchhiker s
Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts (published in England
and the USA in 1985). Now this was an interesting venture. The book
is, as the title suggests, a collection of all the radio scripts, as
broadcast, and it is therefore the only example of one Hitchhiker
publication accurately and consistently reflecting another. I feel a
little uncomfortable with this – which is why the introduction to that
book was written after the final and definitive one you are now
reading and, of course, flatly contradicts it.

Or, a much shorter passage of that passage:

I wrote a computer game for Infocom
called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which bore only fleeting
resemblances to anything that had previously gone under that title

(Keep in mind that this was all written prior to the release of the fifth book)
And this is why Douglas Adams is so awesome.

[BladeVap]

Planning on getting back into MapleStory. For now, I'm playing Mario Party 9 (America got gypped on Kamek, since the NA version calls him by his species name of "Magikoopa" and not his official name), Animal Crossing:WW (forgot how easy it is to be poor on that!) and a restart of my Pokemon LeafGreen file. I have the weirdest team on LG...

[ImmunityBow]

I remember playing MapleStory a long time ago, and was kind of disappointed that the battle system which had so much potential for combos and things ended up being the same old spam the same buttons over and over again. Is it still like that?

[BladeVap]

I remember playing MapleStory a long time ago, and was kind of disappointed that the battle system which had so much potential for combos and things ended up being the same old spam the same buttons over and over again. Is it still like that?

No idea. I haven't actually played it yet this week. XD

[Cranky Guy]

I am currently playing Spore.

And Maplestory still uses the old spam the same button system.

[Cyndadile]

I am currently playing Spore.

Amazing game.
I stopped playing after a virus or something deleted all my worlds, but I still go on every once in a while.

[Cyndadile]

Double post!

I just started a pokemon hack, "Pokemon Ash Gray." I'm completely hooked.

[Sev]

Try Flora Sky. It's really good.

[Silver]

light platinum, even better

[Cyndadile]

light platinum, even better

Was already planning to get this one. I've gotten both now, but I can't play until later. They look awesome. TOO MANY GAMES!

[Tyrannigon64]

I recently beat Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective. I'd recommend it to anyone who likes logic based games and is prepared to quite a bit of reading (or A-mashing).

[Silver]

two words:
trials. evolution.

[Merlin]

Okay, yeah i think galladester's beaten everyone there: Trials Evolution. Pretty badass there. although something that i think might end up rivaling it: Minecraft. I've played some of it (just bits and pieces) and I like it. Though if you go to my xbox profile online you'll see the various games i've played (and that's not all the ones i've played on the 360 just the ones played online recently) oh and 1 original Xbox game in perfect condition.
Ironically the original Xbox game that i played was bought, literally, 2 days before the announcement of it's anniversary. Halo CE and Halo CE Anniversary. (I had played the 1st one about 2 or 3 months prior to him getting it on the 360, that is before my pc died cause I can't currently play the game till it's fixed.)

[Silver]

Finally found my KI: Uprising game card.
*Pulls out Beam Claws*
Anyone wanna try me?
Nathan 5112 - 3557 - 4084

[Merlin]

Right now I'm currently playing xbox.com and playstation.com, alas i needs a ps3 and a 360. (and internets)--also i needs a wii (and it needs a better name)

[Silver]

No living being needs a Nintendo Wii
But the Wii U is another story

[ImmunityBow]

I needed a Wii to play Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn! D:

In other news, I managed to acquire a copy of Okami for Wii which I am loving.

[Merlin]

I hear it's a great game (and i've seen parts of it too). As for the wii, okay i might agree with you galladester it might just be better to get a wii-u since it'll be compatible with the wii stuff...

crap: nvm--i need the wii cause brawl works with the GC controller better than the wii-mote (sorry but i love the classic style controllers).

[Cyndadile]

I have become obsessed with Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones. Lute is amazing. <3

[ImmunityBow]

Ah, just did an FE:SS draft a while ago. I didn't draft Lute but my Artur basically won me that draft. He was the only character I had that could destroy waves of things until I promoted Kyle, and then later on in the game I used his 25-26 Magic to warp Myrrh and managed to complete each of the last chapters in 1-3 turns.

[SilentSentinel]

Sacred Stones is a great Fire Emblem to start with. It also has a lot of similar mechanics to the newly released Fire Emblem Awakening.

Speaking of Fire Emblem Awakening, the game has been announced for localization! I won't have to import a Japanese version!


I'm doing an FE7 EHM draft right now. Once Pent gets that Warp Staff...