Brickman

I’d like to see some sort of rotation, although it doesn’t have to be exactly like I said. You’ve raised some good ideas too so any variation of those would be good. I just figured with such a small group that it would be good to get a good variety of people’s tastes. I agree that if you put a movie up for nomination and it gets selected you have to have a small intro about it and maybe some facts about it if you know any or do some quick googling.

Faster Pussycat KILL KILL! is my recommendation. Should we make a rule that once you get a movie selection you have to wait until everyone has a go? That way we can get a good spread of movies and everyone feels included.

Yeah all those games are definitely important. I’m actually surprised no one has mentioned a COD game yet.

Minecraft is a good one and probably my second choice. I also thought MS were crazy when they paid what they did for it but they have made that game into a whole other beast. My nephews are hooked on it and they’re 6 and 7 so they’ve managed to extend it to another generation of kids.

Yes this is 100% a perfect summary of one of the main reasons the Japanese (and a lot of other foreign languages) do it. It’s seen as interesting, cool, smart, in fashion or whatever other adjective you want to use. It’s funny that you mention about Taiwanese throwing in English words or speaking English when they notice a foreigner is near them. This exact same thing happens in South America. I’ve walked around rural areas where they’re speaking Spanish but then they’ll see me who is as pale and white and they come with my South American wife and they’ll instantly start throwing in English words while looking my way. My wife says it is very common for South Americans to do that when they see English speaking foreigners. So it’s interesting to hear the same happens in Taiwan. Language is such a fascinating thing and I wish I had the time to study linguistics like yourself. For now, studying Japanese keeps me busy enough though

Still need to play this, it's Shadow of the Colossus right? That's a good one.

I was thinking of Oblivion and horse armour. Crazy how one decision has lead to the DLC/micro transaction hellscape we live in today.

As we slowly march towards games being made more in the 21st century vs the 20th century more and more games from the 21st century are starting to earn the title of being an influential game. Which game do you think is the most important of the 21st century (Jan 1st 2001 onwards) so far? For me it probably would have to be GTAIII, that game has had a huge impact on current games and it expanded on the open world nature of gaming.

Yep this is 100% it.

It is done for style and look, especially with JRPG's because they are often based around English fantasy or medieval history.

Oh yeah if you work in tech you will spend the whole series relating somehow. Especially if you worked in Silicon Valley or deal with companies/work for companies that do.

Any good results? Asking for a friend

In what way? Loved that show, not many like it get released.

Best list I’ve seen. The guy who wrote it has a full US set as well: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XvrA3ewQkJ06AW3_stzOrTW5NvZecVc2acQHcPSYD7U/htmlview

I am talking about the normal NWC not the gold. The gold doesn’t have the same meaning as the grey because it wasn’t used in the actual competition so I can see why it wouldn’t be in a museum. I’ve been to a couple of gaming museums but they were in Europe. They didn’t have a NWC but they did have some rare items there.

I hadn’t heard of this one but it sounds epic. Although the article I read said the competition never finished and some of the prizes have an unknown location. I’m sure Atari nuts would be all over it if they ever did finish it and had a significant prize to show for it.

It’s because it was an absolutely huge video game event that very rarely happens and especially not of that size. I don’t even live in America but nothing like that would ever happen here. It also happened on Nintendo’s first console which adds to the historical significance. Zoom out 50 years from now. Hardly anyone is going to even care about most of the NES library, but sitting in gaming museums will definitely be a NWC telling the history of a huge gaming event. This is why people value it so highly. Which other events have been as big and significant as NWC? I know of the Famicom one thanks to defaultgen but I’m not aware of anything quite as huge as NWC or the Famicom competition. Especially in the early days of gaming. Also, it’s good to question people about why they think a certain way. It creates discussion. You don’t have to agree but at least we can have a friendly back and forth

This is fake I would say. The GBA colours on the left look off and the Nintendo seal is also in the wrong place. There’s probably a lot more. I also agree with Tyree that the seal doesn’t look legit. I’d personally stay away from this.

I think the NWC is interesting because it’s a piece of video game history. It’s literally something that should be in a video game museum. Although I personally only think Thor’s NWC is worth having because he was the winner. Retail games don’t have the same feeling to them.

I don’t agree at all with what you said but at least you gave the games a go instead of instantly dismissing them because you think they’re for kids.

What are your thoughts on it? I’ve been picking up Japanese 360 games for super cheap and they got a couple of the GH games in Japan. I only played 1 and 2 so was interested to maybe check this one out too.

10. Played it this year for my backlog so I won’t repeat myself. A must play for RTS fans who haven’t played it.

You are definitely in the minority if you think RPG games created by second or third parties for Nintendo that get their stamp of approval aren’t very good or uninspired. But this site is well known for bonkers hot takes, so it doesn’t surprise me

Not trying to be funny, but I can’t think of a Nintendo made RPG. Paper Mario was made by Intelligent Systems. Pokemon is made by Game Freak. Fire Emblem is also Intelligent Systems.

I was 14 going on 15 when they were released here, so definitely not a kid. I don’t really understand the kid argument anyway. A lot of NES games were designed for kids and are still great. The games never were aiming to compete with FF7 and all the more serious RPGs. It’s just a fun adventure game with lite RPG elements. They’re great games no matter the age imo. People are playing the games and discovering them for the first time at any age.