@iboshow Aisha Tyler (let me finish!) comes out on stage to announce an award. As the montage scrolls through the nominees, the background music cuts out and "Danger Zone" starts playing. Archer comes up on screen - chuckling. Aisha Tyler sighs.
Archer says "Aisha" (no response) "Aisha" (no response) (deep breath in) "AISHAAAAAAAAAAA"
Aisha says, "WHAT?!"
Archer says, "What about my game?"
Aisha, "Fine!"
The screen goes black before the words "Naughty Dog Presents..."
Despite your neglecting to preface your question with, "pop quiz, hotshot:", I will oblige.
You calmly pull your N7 liter and pack of Lucky Strikes from your breast pocket, all the while keeping your eyes locked on your assailant. You pull a drag from the cigarette, line up the shot and cooly exhale a cloud of smoke while uttering, "double negative, bro" .....(snap)
@bam541 Could we have a Patron submit "dying when you fall in water in a game set in the real world" to Ginny's Cauldron? I feel like San Andreas does not get enough love for eliminating the most infuriating part of its 2 predecessors.
Sometimes, I just sit back, glass of piima in hand, and think to myself, "Man, we suck as a country". Sure, we have more space per person than any other country, we have a strong hockey history, we have a share of the world famous great lakes and sometimes, America lets us eat at the adults' table. These are just a few of the great things that make us what we are but none of them will ever change what we are not: Finland.
So, come along on a journey to discover what makes Finland better than Canada (and every other country) in every possible way.
Disclaimer: this is just my personal list of the top ten reasons Finland is better than Canada. If you disagree with any of my choices or feel like something was left off the list, feel free to make your own list and post it in the comments.
Taking inspiration from @Axel , we're gonna draw this one out - mostly to accommodate research.
I sent an email to EZA when they first started saying I liked what they were doing and would be happy to help if they needed it. Understandably, they didn't reply. So as an in-joke with myself type jab at myself, I called my self EZA intern. Side note, I'm not as lonely as that makes me sound.
@burup Came here to say the exact same thing....and look at today's score
Maybe 10 years ago (grandpa story incoming), a friend and I got really into Super Mario 64 while pre-drinking. It became the pre-bar ritual until we go all 120 stars. Fiending for a new fix, she comes over with DK64 one day. We got maybe 1/3 of the way in and just got sick of all the collecting. I can't remember much but I just felt like I was doing the same things but with different characters several times on each level. Maybe if I had played it when it came out, my opinion would be different but, as it stands, I'm not a fan.
With Green Lantern-level abilities to will things into existence combined with tastes almost entirely contrary to my own, it kills me every time I see Huber get something he wants. Naturally, rather than try to change my tastes, I regularly imagine what I would force Huber to ask for if I somehow gained such power over him.
Such a list could easily become endless, but I try to think of things that I have been hoping for for a long time but don't hear about from other people often (not a rule for the topic, just my personal approach).
First, a Rule of Rose remake/update. The biggest motivation here is the ridiculous price that the PS2 game demands so, normally, a port would suffice. Unfortunately, while I loved the theme and story, the gameplay is so very, very bad. Thus, a remake would be my preference. More people need to play this game for the tone alone.
Second, a HOME CONSOLE Super Metroid remake. As my favourite game, I don't feel like it's dated or needs an overhaul - though I totally understand if others do. I just want to play more of it. And I don't want it to be on my 3DS. Adjustments to gameplay, locations and bosses would be welcome, as would additional content. After Zero Mission and Samus Returns, I trust you, Nintendo.
Finally, the original Super Mario Kart with 4-player split screen - no explanation required.
@axel said in The EZA Community Top 20 Best of 2013!:
Never played it, but I got it for free on the Epic Store (thanks Epic Store! ;))
Oh no.
Do we seriously not have a topic yet? Mods feel free to close if I missed it.
Original announcement trailer from E3 2015:
Youtube Video
May 2019 State of Play Teaser:
Youtube Video
Today, we actually get a bonus entry - an "11", if you will (or honorable mention, if you prefer).
While not quite as "Peanut butter and jelly" as "Brazil and soccer/football", if Canada is associated with one sport, I think it's fair to say that it's hockey (ice hockey, for the uninitiated). I'm not going to go into history on it but we just have a pretty good track record. Canadians make up over 40% of the player base in the NHL - recognized as the best league in the world. After that, Canada's traditional rivals of USA (26.5%) and Russia (5.2%) hold a significant percentage, as does Nordic powerhouse Sweden (10.7). Rounding out the top five are Sweden's neighbours to the east, Finland (5%). Despite that relatively small representation in the NHL, Finland has brought some absolute BEASTS to the game of hockey (more on specifics later). Besides freakishly good players, you can expect one other thing form Finland in hockey: they always come to play.
Need proof? Look no further than the past two weeks. Finland shows up to the World Hockey Championships with exactly ZERO NHL players and all they did was win the tournament. An outsider's gut reaction might be, "oh, they must have gotten lucky with their matches, right?" - WRONG. They opened the tournament against Canada and worked a team of strictly NHL players 3-1. They would lose in OT to the US (who strangely sent a good team for once) and closed out the group stage with a weird loss to Germany but won every other game they played.
"Oh but they got a break during the knock-out stages I bet". NOPE. Losing to Germany meant they had to play Sweden in the FIRST knockout round. Boom, 5-4 OT win. NBD, just beat the best goalie of the last 10 years and the game's brightest young star. Next up? Just Russia. Just the best goal scorer of the last 20 years (Ovechkin), the reigning points leader (Kucherov) and the absolute freak and nightmare match-up that is Evgeni Malkin. 1-0, see you later. On to a rematch with Canada.
But this is a different Canada. They've been playing together, gelling, getting better with every game. And it IS a different game. It's all even going into the final period. It's anyone's game...
Coach: "Antilla"
Antilla: "Yeah, coach?"
Coach: "Score again"
Antilla: "K, coach"
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Antilla: "Coach"
Coach: "Yes?"
Antilla: "Can I tell Harri to score too?"
Coach: "Yes, please do"
Dusted. Finland 3, Canada 1. Finland are World Hockey Champions.
I would love to use the excuse that none of our good players were there and I might be justified - except neither were Finland's. Again, all NHLers versus NO NHLers. Once again, Finland came to play.
Shoutouts to Kaapo Kakko, that guy is gonna be a star.
NUMBER 9 - Language
In Canada, we speak English and French. You can go to many parts of North America (including the Caribbean), Europe, Africa and even areas in Asia and be understood with those two languages.
You know what they speak in Finland? Finnish. You know where else they speak Finnish? NOWHERE. How is this an advantage, you ask? Imagine you like to travel. Also imagine you like to openly announce to your party every time you have to take a dump or see an attractive person. With English and French, you have to be reeeeeeal covert about that stuff, no matter where you are. With Finnish, you don't even need to get on a plane. Just cross any of the borders to the west, north or east and there's a real good chance nobody will know what in the world you are talking about.
"Oh but it must be just like Swedish or Norwegian or Russian, right?" Nope. Finnish is actually more closely related to Estonian so as long as you don't cross the Baltic into Estonia, you can talk about pooping or attractive people or pooping on attractive people to your heart's content.
So the secret code is not only useful, it's also cool and makes the country unique among its neighbours.
Finnish people, you should probably know what's coming tomorrow.
NUMBER 3 - Hockey Jerseys
You're going to war against the meanest MFers in hockey from every hockey powerhouse nation across the globe.
Do you bring a leaf?...
Canada
Or a Dark Souls boss?
Finland
Even if you don't like the lion with swords, the blue just looks so good.
@acidtrip-69 not the place. Open another thread if you want to argue with somebody about this.
Here we GO. The big one. That's right - it's time for the Game You Played For The First Time Of The Year 2019.
Simplified: these are the best games you played for the first time in 2019, regardless of their actual year of release (2019 qualifies).
You can do just 1 or a list but let's maybe try to keep it at or below 5 (soft rule). Feel free to also divide into genres, categories or any other group you like. If you did the Tackle the Backlog, that's probably a good place to start (I'm headed there right now).
@ochi Yeah I feel like Bosman v A Link to the Past, Jones FFVII, Damiani Wind Waker and many others are being held back for later episodes. It's only just begun!
I finally found a copy of Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg for Gamecube at a fair price. The only drawback was that I had to take all junk it was packaged with. So now I can't play Billy Hatcher until I finish my Madden 05 season.