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  PIKMIN 4
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  FUCK YEAH!!! LOOK AT THEM GARDENS!!!
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  Vote for the 2nd Developer Gameography Rankings! (Supergiant & Ready At Dawn)
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  I've played 8 of these so I can make a list up.
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  State of Play
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  @sentinel-beach Ishin is a awesome game, and had some truly awesome and brutal heat moves. Do find it a bit funny that the game that served as a test for the style switching in Yakuza 0/Kiwami 1 is now being remade to serve as a test for getting RGG Studios used to Unreal Engine 4.
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  Pokemon Stadium Thoughts
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  Splatoon 3
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  @jdincinerator It isn't even close to exclusive to Shooter weapons, but weapons that are better at covering Turf do tend to be better at Turf Wars. That said, splatting players prevents them from inking turf while your team has time to recover inked turf, so it is still helpful in Turf Wars to take people out. It is just harder to then recover inked turf if you are trying to use a weapon that's bad at that, so you're more reliant on your team having an even composition, so there's people to reclaim it while you focus on taking opponents out. Like you said though, basically all the Ranked Modes are about an entirely different thing, which lends more room for some of the weapons that aren't very good at inking turf. Also, Salmon Run exists and is full of bosses and general situations where each Weapon excels differently. You're forced to use different stuff each Round of it, so it is good for getting used to a bunch of different kinds of playstyles and learning their strengths and weaknesses.
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  Vote For The EZA Community Top 20 GameCube Games
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  The voting deadline has come and gone but I'm awaiting @DIPSET to give me his top 8.
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  The EZA Community Top Insomniac Games!
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  I was on vacation so I missed the finale here. Spider-Man is a no brainer but I anticipate that almost every Insomniac game going forward will have that kind of budget and scope. I feel like the best is yet to come. This was fun but also a nice walk down memory lane with such a long-running developer. Clearly, I'm not the only one that adores the PS1 Spyro series and it's clear it's some of their best work. I know R&C has a ton of Spyro DNA with the gliding, but the powerup abilities, whimsy, music, and overall tone of Spyro is dearly missed in my eyes. It was also nice to see the Resistance series get it's flowers, pretty high up the list. My Insomniac Game Rankings Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage Spyro: The Year of the Dragon Resistance: Fall of Man Resistance 3 Resistance 2 Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart HM 1 - Marvel's Spider-Man HM 2 - ​Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction Thanks @bruno_saurus
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  EZA Forums' Noteworthy New Games of September 2022
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  @bam541 I'm glad Goofy is in the thumbnail because this looks goofy.
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  Tackle the Backlog -12 in 12 for 2022
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  The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (3DS) + [Finished]: Very glad I got to finish this! This is definitely a highly regarded game that has earned that type of love. Very well crafted gameplay mechanically and structure wise. Fallout: New Vegas (PC/Series X) +: After playing The Outer Worlds in 2019, wanted to dive into another Obsidian game! Metroid Prime 2 (Wii) +: Would enjoy finally finishing this trilogy to lead into Prime 4! Metroid Prime 3 (Wii) +: Same as Prime 2! Banjo Kazooie (Switch w/NSO) + [Finished]: A very jolly time all the way through! Gruntilda is a fun villain and her rhyming throughout the game was a fun time to figure out what she would rhyme and whatnot. Fun worlds to explore and the music was grand! Final Fantasy VII (Switch): This was FFVI on the GBA, but realized I want to finish FFVII as well. If the Pixel Remasters do get announced for other than PC, I will gladly play those and add FFVI to this list next year, but do want to finish FFVII before Remake Part 2 comes out. And getting an Analogue Pocket eventually helped this cause as well. Final Fantasy XV (PS4): I got this for Christmas in 2017. This year better be the year to actually prep for XVI. Outer Wilds (Xbox One) + [Finished]: My PS4 copy is bugged, so thankfully Game Pass saved the day in this regard. But, this game is just as amazing as Isla said and I am glad I didn't skip it! Paper Mario (N64/NSO) +: Another early stalwart of my N64 recollection that I would like to finish. Probably will play it on the NSO at this point. Yakuza 0 (PS4): Paused it last summer and would like to return to it this year because I loved my time with it in those first few hours! God of War: Ascension (PS3) [Finished]: In July, I Platinumed the entire God of War Greek saga except for Chains of Olympus as I finished that last year. Ascension was a fun game. Nothing great or anything, just fun times. Mega Man Legends (PS3) [Finished]: Really enjoyed this game a lot even for how it's aged. The music is fantastic. The vibes are grand and I do love the Bonnes. Onto Mega Man Legends 2 soon! Persona 5 Royal (PS4) + [Finished]: Finished my playthrough at hour 162. And I could've probably hit 200 and still loved it at the same level. This is one now easily one of my favorite games! -- Six games out of 13. Not too shabby I would say. Very slowly working my way through Paper Mario as I just got to the Desert area. The desire to play Final Fantasy XV is growing to beat that before XVI comes out. Same thing with Final Fantasy VII with Crisis Core Reunion coming out soon. But also, the clock is ticking for Metroid Prime 2 & 3. I did start Fallout New Vegas two months ago and played for an hour. Then realized I shouldn't be playing two giant RPGs together as I was playing Horizon Forbidden West during this time as well. So, one day!
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  The EZA Forum Hall of Greats (May 2022)
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  Hey all, just wanted to let you know that this is happening again next month. I'll probably make the next post in about a week so now's a good time to start thinking about it.
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  The PS5 News and Info Thread
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  @e_zed_eh_intern i don't really care what their reason for doing it is. i just find it extremely funny. yeah increasing your systems price is definitely going to attract more customers.
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  The EZA Community Top 20 Best of 2003!
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  @shoulderguy Let's focus our attention on the GameCube election for now, it seems it could use some extra eyeballs.
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  Which EZA Community Top 20 Games List Should I Make?
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  The winner of the strawpoll is Best GameCube Games so that will be the the community vote I'll be running. Look out for an official post in the next day or two. Thank you so much to all who voted.
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  Vote for the 1st Ever Developer Gameography Rankings (Insomniac)!
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  I have only touched a bit of the OG Spyro 1 and it's pretty cool so I think I'll submit my votes later.
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  How I've played ranked for the first time in Apex Legends
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  I know the higher ups at Respawn Entertainment have decades of experience in shooters and multiplayer between the Medal of Honor and COD series, then later Titanfall. But it is still downright impressive how a studio a little more than a decade old is so dialed into making a damn near perfect machine in Apex Legends. I've never heard of fans being outright aggravated by the experience to the same extent that Infinite or Warzone or Overwatch fans can be with their respective studios. On top of it, you're describing a pretty ideal PvP experience. Casual modes still have RnG and chaos. Ranked modes have a ton of skill involved, but there is that chaos factor of RnG and random teams out to ruin your day. There is that unspoken and underappreciated element that comes up in good MP games where every match has it's own unique tale (like how you describe some teams being non-confrontational in the same building). If I'm not mistaken, this week, Apex hit it's all time peak on Steam with 500k concurrent players around 4 years into it's life. I've dabbled a few times but haven't had the desire to commit but it really seems like an awesome game from an awesome studio. The Respawn Entertainment mantra of "find the fun" should be the golden rule for creating new games. If it isn't immediately fun, then worry about making it fun before all else.