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I need to get back into S2 but get bogged down around Oil Ocean and just stop. The OOZ boss in Mania was also painful to me. So itās my personal Sonic oil-quagmire. S3K is in competition and I prefer that though am permanently scarred by the Carnival Night elevator. I canāt play Nights for shit and end up twirling around the levels like the dumbass I am but itās aesthetically unimpeachable and Iām a sucker for dreamworlds and surrealism.
Um, this is blasphemy but I replayed Sonic Adventureās Sonic levels and Iād vote that over the 2D sonics and nights so lol.
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Seeing how things are going, my favs are either winning or Iām not terribly invested in the other picks that are losing. BUT, I must spit some nonsense in defence of Contra Hard Corps.
The unrelenting and brain bending spectacle of Hard Corps is like being force fed a VHS containing nothing but smashed up action sequences of every 80s blockbuster and washing it down with hot sauce. It has a dirty, grungy, ugly (in a good way) art style. Like the contents of every middle schoolerās Awesome Game Ideas binder injected directly into a CRT. The foreshadowing/introduction of incoming enemies rules. The thrill of marveling at the very thing that will kill you mere seconds from now. Everything in this game is competing for the title of Baddest Boss, like that stupid movie The Aristocrats except the comedians are robotic monstrosities and the jokes are bullets. The punchlines are also bullets (and explosions (explosions in this game are the brushstrokes of a mad painter, they punctuate, truncate, trigger and traffic and they are thirsty as hell for all they can swallow (see the way buildings are treated in this game, the hatred for architecture is real, youāll want to go outside and hold a burning match to the nearest skyline after beating this game))). And Hard Corps is at least as fun to watch as it is to play (the hallmark of a great game). More fun than Street Fighter III certainly. You could broadcast this thing on TNT circa 1998 and hit record viewing numbers. That āBeatles on the Ed Sullivan Show Momentā was denied to a generation because the average human being couldnāt recognize the genius behind Hard Corpās bombastic bravado. Donāt make the same mistake as the average human being. Vote Contra over Street Fighter.
Also consider:
The charaters say āDamnā a lot.
The delicious pixedelia of pumping pain into freaks.
The skronkiest soundtrack.
These cute little legs.
Edit: As absurdly challenging as the game can be, it does have co-op, and āall for one and one for allā beats one-on-one in my book.
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As a one or two week old SB2 baby I have to admit, as any newborn would, my lack of knowledge and involvement prior to this. But someone give me formula. Here we grow:
MINECRAFT
vs.
SUPER STREET FIGHTER II TURBO
While Minecraft has subsumed more real world living hours of human existence than maybe any game before it it was never available with an enticing warm glow nestled in the corner at my local Pizza Hut, where, after I had achieved three bites of the cheesy tomato triangle and begged/pleaded/supplicated for even the grubbiest quarter long forgotten in the dark recesses of my fathers pocket so I could please please PLEASE be Blanka or Zangief for like two minutes before being annihilated Iād come to terms with not knowing how the fuck Iām supposed to win.
CRAZY TAXI
vs.
METAL SLUG 6 (Metal Slug 3 romhack)
Iāll not run-on sentence this one for yāall and make it simple, slightly strange, but totally true: I would not have been able to process my grandfatherās death when I was 13 as well as I did if it hadnāt been for Crazy Taxi. Metal Slug has a lot to live up to.
EVERYBODY VOTES
vs.
PUYO PUYO series
My allegiance is to democracy as what someone was alluding to earlierā¦right? Plus I always root for an underdog in most competitions and one Wii app vs. a whole series??? Itās a veritable David/Goliath type situation except Goliath keeps getting re-released every time heās proper stoned.
STREET FIGHTER III THIRD STRIKE: FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE
vs.
CONTRA: HARD CORPS
I donāt have glossy Pizza Hut memories for this Street Fighter but I will tell you that there are few stupider macho puns in a title of anything than the teensy hint that you are in for something HARDCORE. Itās like if a new Integrity album was called āTough(fuck)erā. Now that would be a Contra(band).
YAKUZA 0
vs.
SUPER METROID
Super Metroid was made for me, presciently decades before I would play it, somehow a psychic connection bonded the developers to my then largely nascent brain. Yakuza developers never even gave me a second thought and left me and Shenmue choking in a dusty desertā¦dying.
NIGHTS INTO DREAMS
vs.
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2
Sonic 2ās āChemical Zoneā is the sound of yet another trip to the orthodontist booting up in my memory. The tightening of my braces is imminent and may I have that anxiety ratcheted up some with the sound of Sonic gulping for air in pink/purple liquid, please?
I have a Dreams every Nights and I barely remember that shit.
GAME BOY CAMERA
vs.
DEUS EX
Deus Ex, short for āhey check that machine I think that God innitā has nothing on the God of Game Boy, allowing us to print the world as it truly appears to the Most Divine who provides just a touch of Eternal Bliss when we boot up the Holy Lens.
IKARUGA
vs.
FINAL FANTASY XIV
I actively refuse to experience MMOs for the sake of my own time-sink sanity but far be it from me to vote against something Uematsu dipped his magical composing brain into esp when sitting across from it in the ring is some unsettled space ship. What was it said in that movieā¦redā¦whiteā¦just pick a COLOUR.
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Canāt believe this didnāt work.
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my favorite thing about this website is how hard everyone resists a site canonā¦any time too many people like/dislike something someone VERY OPINIONATED comes in to tell everyone theyre wrong and shake shit up
it super helps that everyone is really good at expressing why they love shit? reading everyoneās reason for their choices is the best shit ever. i love this. im not going to shut up about how fun it is
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it was too little notice, there werenāt any slots before sept 8
Somehow, in my heart of hearts, I couldnāt bring myself to vote against FF14.
You MMO dorks won me over.
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Maniacally pulling the triggers on the Dreamcast controller in order to get a ācrazy boostā or pull a ācrazy driftā hurt my fingers. Metal Slug has never hurt me.
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i voted Ikaruga at first because Iāve never played FFXIV and I personally hate MMOs but then I realized Iāve gotten more joy out of reading and hearing people talk about that game than I have playing Ikaruga, primarily because I donāt really like shmups, so I switched my vote over to FFXIV
This goes back to my theory that there are more than one valid way to engage with a game, i.e. you can experience a game without playing it and thatās valid
i might switch it back to Ikaruga later tho i dunno
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Noooo let your energy be consumed by
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YAKUZA 0 NEEDS TO BE IN CAPTIVITY IN ORDER FOR METROID TO BE IN PEACE
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No matter how that matchup turns out there are many Metroids and Yakuzas but only one killer7
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I think this is the one to really sell it:
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There also this which I initially only took notice of because the user who posted it is called āFamilyJulesā and for a moment I was like is it THE @familyjules but I donāt think it is so I listened to half of it anyway and it was actually really good.
Hard to beat an argument like this!
Maybe someday a Yakuza will inspire the genre of heavy metal guitar medley fan interpretation of one of their soundtracks who knows itās still a āyoungā series compared to Metroid.
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Yeah weāre really just arguing over who gets to lose to
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While not in Zero this performance might be hard to beat
Kiwami 1 even has the metal base covered albeit in idol mashup form
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Yah, solid metal yātāer and a sick medley; Iāll throw this one in to the mix cos it comes from my personal fav metal freak and slaps the brows off my mug:
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