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Random Stranger posted:I'm pleased that people acknowledge the greatness of train games. For that, we shall continue working on episodes. I was really pleased to see SOS get a lot of love, and the same goes for Clock Tower. Also, Go By Train had about 20 votes separating it and Battletoads. It was a landslide.
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Ineffiable posted:Mizzurna Falls would make for a good episode. If I remember right it's by Human, who did the Clock Tower series. If it means that Arino will recall that Human made Fire Pro Wrestling again then I'm all for this. gunstarheroes posted:Banjo-Kazooie Good god that would be an unbearable challenge to watch. You need a minimum of 94 out of 100 jiggies and an absurd number of musical notes to beat the game. If people didn't like the Mario 64 episodes, then Banjo-Kazooie would twice as bad. Though I would be interested to see how they translated the jokes and Brentilda's trivia in the Japanese version.
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Apr 15, 2013 23:46
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Along the same lines, Blast Corps would be brutal as hell. The 3 people that voted for it are scary people.
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Silentman0 posted:Along the same lines, Blast Corps would be brutal as hell. The 3 people that voted for it are scary people. Backlash. Diamond Sands.  It'd be the second best episode ever.
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Apr 16, 2013 00:06
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Also, i'm under the assumption the reason Doom got so many votes was because of the tease of it in the USA special, then the system not working. StarTropics, i have no idea. Sadly, no Japanese release. StarTropics and Doom both had 10 unique requests.
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Ineffiable posted:I think Umihara Kawase has to be so high because it's the first appearance of Inoko Max, and he certainly steals the show in that episode. Agreed, Inoko MAX was great in that ep. I have to say though, I actually played Layla after watching the episode. It wasn't the best episode but it was one of the few times I went to go play a game right after watching Arino play it! And yeah that's partly why I voted for Doom but I would have voted for it just the same if he had never tried it ever. He hasn't played anything of that genre yet (nor would I expect him to ever again) so I want to see how he fares with a simple FPS.
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I just wanna see Arino play more big, popular western games that don't really have much of a presence in Japan, and Doom is probably the most obvious example of such a game, along with stuff like Mortal Kombat or Ecco or whatever.
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Apr 16, 2013 00:54
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It is imperative that Arino closes out his Ghouls 'n' Ghosts challenges by playing Demon's Crest. I'm shocked more people didn't vote for it, quite frankly.
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Apr 16, 2013 01:05
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And here I thought writing in StarTropics would have made me unusual. I want Arino to play that game for many reasons. It's an action game but has RPG and Puzzle elements so I think he would probably like it, for one thing. It's got a sense of humor (although that might be difficult with the language barrier). It's a fairly underrated / forgotten game and I think that is largely due to the fact that Japan did not get the game at the time, so maybe Arino playing it would help bring it to light as a good game to Japanese gamers. And most of all, I want to hear Arino saying Papa Oom Mow Mow.
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Apr 16, 2013 01:07
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I was a big fan of the Super Mario 64 challenge. I never felt like it was just a bunch of disconnected scenes and watching him learn the game just felt really good. I like SM64 a lot so I may be biased, but Link to the Past is possibly my favorite game and I hated that episode.
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Apr 16, 2013 01:31
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Am I the only one who thought the Parappa The Rapper episode was boring?
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Mister Chief posted:Am I the only one who thought the Parappa The Rapper episode was boring? Nah, I didn't like it that much and sorta cringed when Arino started rapping. It would probably be more fun if you'd never seen the game before, though, since half the enjoyment is the songs themselves.
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Apr 16, 2013 01:57
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I never got past the second song so I had no idea that one of the songs was a prequel to Don't poo poo Your Pants.
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Caitlin posted:The Mario episodes are completely butchered because the games are so long. It's a highlight reel of painful gameplay - for Super Mario World I mean - he didn't even use the spin attack for the most part? What? Nobody even thought to mention it? Making him grind out 1ups in a stupidly hard fashion? And SM64 DRAGGED. Truly a highlight reel. They absolutely deserve to be up there with the LoZ episodes. The full use of the spin attack isn't mentioned in game, so there's not really a reason why he'd figure it out.
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I could've sworn one of the opening levels tells you about the spin attack right before seeing some yellow blocks over a pipe.
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Mister Chief posted:I never got past the second song so I had no idea that one of the songs was a prequel to Don't poo poo Your Pants. That's what I voted as the worst. Couldn't make it through the whole episode. Every time singing comes up it's never good...
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ACID POLICE posted:That's what I voted as the worst. Couldn't make it through the whole episode. Every time singing comes up it's never good... Parappa, since its being talked about, did have a few least favorite votes as well. However, most everyone did in the top 10.... Except Go By Train. Even Battletoads has votes against it, but people just can't hate on Train Simulators (or they know Random Stranger is watching).
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ACID POLICE posted:Every time singing comes up it's never good... Go watch the Takeshi's Challenge two-hour special. 
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versus posted:I nearly fell asleep watching the first half of Go By Train! and hated it, but then I watched the second half the next day and that was just How could you hate an episode that spawned the most amazing video ever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXguekkfHqc
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El Mido posted:Good god that would be an unbearable challenge to watch. You need a minimum of 94 out of 100 jiggies and an absurd number of musical notes to beat the game. If people didn't like the Mario 64 episodes, then Banjo-Kazooie would twice as bad. Ah, but imagine Arino playing Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts! Id love to see the creations he could come up with, as well as the inevitable dick-plane.
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A bit surprised not to see Shadowlands in the top 10, certainly one of my absolute favourites. Also partially because of a memorable Inoko MAX moment  One of the reasons why I don't care for the Mario 64 episode is because Arino clearly knows what to do, and rather transparently acts out surprising discoveries. Like seeing the invisible level through the mirror. I am OK with some parts of the show being a bit fake by necessity, but that whole challenge felt out of place. Cybernetic Vermin fucked around with this message at 07:45 on Apr 16, 2013 |
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Apr 16, 2013 07:43
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So what about the results for staff and segments?
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Apr 16, 2013 08:55
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just noticed we're close to all episodes subbed then we probably won't have to wait long for subs when the new eps get aired (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Alright, time for the top 5 favorite and least favorite segments: Favorite 5. Waste Of Color 4. Aces Of Hardware 3. Ring-Ring Tactics (Season 3 Edition) 2. To Catch A Catch Copy And, not surprisingly... 1. Tama-Ge Least Favorite 5. Shocking Videos MAX 4. (Tie): Xevious Diary and Urawaza Jet Stream 3. Barcode Battler 2. Game Collection And, actually the only time I've been shocked... 1. Everything I Learned From Strategy Guides Fun Facts: -To Catch A Catch Copy and Tama-Ge had around 65% of all votes. Those 2 were way ahead of Ring-Ring -To Catch A Catch Copy had no votes for Least Favorite, the only segment to have that honor -10 People voted Famicom Living Natural Treasures in, and it hasn't even been in a subbed episode yet. That can't be a good sign. - Sing About Whatever, Retro Read-Aloud, Romance Never Ends, and Famicom Manga Cafe were all one vote out of being in the top 5 least favorite.
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Tama-Ge is such a big feature and consistent feature that I would consider it to be on equal footing as Arino's Challenge in this sort of poll and not a viable option for voting. It's not on the same kind of level as Catch Copy or Ring Ring for sure. Catch Copy is the real champion for me in that one.
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Aurain posted:Tama-Ge is such a big feature and consistent feature that I would consider it to be on equal footing as Arino's Challenge in this sort of poll and not a viable option for voting. It's not on the same kind of level as Catch Copy or Ring Ring for sure.
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gunstarheroes posted:And, actually the only time I've been shocked...  I really expected to see the singing ones down here.
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Apr 16, 2013 16:30
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Same here, I always got a kick out of the absurdity of Everything I Learned. The singing segment would instantly kill my mood from the rest of the episode.
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I must be the minority then since I like the singing segments. That song about the dad losing his hair was rather sad one, and who could forget the song about the baby chicks, cats and dogs, or the best of all: KI-BE! But I guess the segment got axed since it wasn't all too popular, or that's what I understood.
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Everything I Learned is a one note joke and even Arino's one liners are rarely funny on it so I agree with it being the worst.
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What season was Tama-Ge in? I've been watching every season pretty randomly and still haven't stumbled across that one.
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Tama-Ge is the arcade visit, so it's in almost every single episode and why I said it's barely a special segment at all.
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Xevious is by far the least strong of the side segments, how can you possibly vote for Everything I Learned instead of Xevious Diary!?  All that happened in Xevious diary was NOTHING. Some digits changed and all we got was a horrible note at the end!
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Caitlin posted:Xevious is by far the least strong of the side segments, how can you possibly vote for Everything I Learned instead of Xevious Diary!? This was my thought. I have no idea the appeal of that segment at all. If we were picking personal picks, i think the worst segment is the Project: Game Version, but its mainly because it just wasn't my style.
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Zain posted:What season was Tama-Ge in? I've been watching every season pretty randomly and still haven't stumbled across that one. It's a Japanese abbreviation for the title of the segment which is why you wouldn't see it in the show. We usually change it to "arcade trip".
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Barcode Battler is one of my favorites, I don't understand why people don't like it. Maybe it's because I had a friend that owned one and we used to dink with it for hours despite it being really really stupid.
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I think Famicom Manga Cafe is one of those segments that's way more interesting to a foreigner. For one thing, it made it pretty clear that no matter how sketchy or improbable your comic is, if you can get it to run, you're good for two years. The main thing that always gets me about Urawaza Secret Trick Jet Stream is that I always want to yell at Tani for smoking over the loving sound equipment
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redmercer posted:I think Famicom Manga Cafe is one of those segments that's way more interesting to a foreigner. For one thing, it made it pretty clear that no matter how sketchy or improbable your comic is, if you can get it to run, you're good for two years. I agree with you here, this is probably my 2nd or 3rd favourite segment. I loved watching Arino's commentary on those strange comics. Personally I voted for "Sing whatever the hell you want", but the original Ring-ring tactics is such a funny compilation or strange phonecalls and a really bad game it's way up there for me too. quote:I always want to yell at Tani And this sums up my feelings when I see Tani on any segment.
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I am the nut that likes the Xevious Diary segment. Sure it's pretty pointless, but I like that it's the only segment without any spoken narration or dialogue. It's like a little Xevious musical interlude, short and inoffensive. Stuff like Barcode Battler and the Strategy Guide segments can drag and the payoff is rarely worth it.
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