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I’d Like to Apologize to NeoGAF, Give a Special Thank You and LTTPs too!

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striferser

Huge Nickleback Fan
A toast for Holybaikal, while i don't always agree with her i like her enthusiasm.

Glad you enjoy P3:FES, now onward to P4!
P1 and P2 have good story though the gameplay is a dated :(

Eh, i don't think apology is really necessary....

VN recommendation
- Katawa Shojo
- Narcissu
- Planetarian
 

PaulloDEC

Member
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I uh... it's cool that you decided to collect your thoughts on multiple subjects together in a single thread, but you weren't doing readability any favours. It also kinda confuses the tone of your thread as a whole, where you flit between a heartfelt memorial to a banned poster and extremely detailed notes on an RPG?
 

Arcadius

Banned
A toast for Holybaikal, while i don't always agree with her i like her enthusiasm.

Glad you enjoy P3:FES, now onward to P4!
P1 and P2 have good story though the gameplay is a dated :(

Eh, i don't think apology is really necessary....

VN recommendation
- Katawa Shojo
- Narcissu
- Planetarian

Thanks for this, will keep it in mind. I don't mind dated gameplay, if the stories are really good, I may want to give them a whirl.
 

Ashkeloth

Member
This thread's confusing. Still, seems like the OP likes JRPGs now, so that's cool.

HolyBaikai was an okay guy/girl. I remember defending his/her eccentricities a while back in one of the threads he/she made. You won't see a thread like this out of me, but they were a pretty unique GAF member for better or worse.

Anyway, here's some JRPG series recommendations out of me for the OP.

Strategy RPGs are italicised

Disgaea
Dragon Quest
Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy Tactics
Fire Emblem
Radiant Historia
Shin Megami Tensei
Skies of Arcadia
Tactics Ogre
Tales of...
The Last Story
Valkyria Chronicles
Valkyrie Profile
Wild Arms
Xenoblade
Ys

Personally, I'd like to really recommend Xenoblade, Ys, Skies of Arcadia and the Fire Emblem series as their entries number some of my favourite games of all time, and aside from Fire Emblem: Awakening, they tend to be more grounded than a lot of JRPGs when it comes to creepy stuff.

Edit: If you're looking for stuff by NIS specifically, Z.H.P.: Unlosing Ranger Vs. Darkdeath Evilman is a hidden gem. It's a roguelike sentai (think Power Rangers if you're not aware of the term) parody game where you take a normal guy and train him to become a hero in pseudo randomly generated dungeons. PSP only unfortunately.

Anime-wise: watch Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann if you have any love for giant robots or hype.
 

Geneijin

Member
I don't have a Nintendo Wii and isn't the game expensive too? Apart of some project to localize to the states right? How good is it though, it's another title that gets a lot of hype from GAF.

Maybe I should listen to GAF hype more often.
Get the best of both worlds and get a refurbished Wii U directly from Nintendo. You can choose to play the old Xenoblade and the upcoming one on one console!

https://store.nintendo.com/ng3/browse/subcategory.jsp?categoryId=cat550278
 

bomblord1

Banned
I don't have a Nintendo Wii and isn't the game expensive too? Apart of some project to localize to the states right? How good is it though, it's another title that gets a lot of hype from GAF.

Maybe I should listen to GAF hype more often.

Get a wii/u and rip them games to dolphin. You seem to have a PC capable of playing PCSX2 so dolphin should be a cakewalk in all but the most demanding games.
 

Nickle

Cool Facts: Game of War has been a hit since July 2013
Why did HolyBaikal get banned?
I haven't read much of this thread
Baikal had weird opinions, but he/she was harmless.
 

alr1ght

bish gets all the credit :)
If anyone didn't want to read the OP I decided to do a DRAMATIC READING of both parts of it.

For what it's worth I understand OP's attachment to playing Persona even if I haven't. Playing any jrpg title tends to take a good investment of time and it's understandable to grow attached to the characters just as it is to become attached to characters in a long running tv show or book series.

32 minutes. Amazing.
 
First, i'd like to congratulate OP for having the courage to create this thread, specifically the first post. Although totally not in the same way, i understand how it feels to have a pre-conceived notion/opinion of something and judge others because of it, and some time later, understand how "wrong" you were.
Concerning HB, here's my post on the steam thread:

About HolyBaikal, i didnt hate him/her, but he/she always rubbed me the wrong way, as if he/she was either trolling, or just really dense, and didnt really accept other points of views or arguments.
With that said, i'm sad that he/she got banned, much like Derrick. Both were people that even if i disagreed most of the time, felt like interesting points of views to read, and with unique opinions.

Holy Baikal
You've been down too long in the waifu scene
Oh what's becoming of me

Ride the pillow
You can see the spots but you know she's clean
Oh don't you see what I mean

Gotta get away
Holy Baikal

--Dio "Holy Baikal"
Amazing.

Yes, thank you.
 

Arcadius

Banned
Get the best of both worlds and get a refurbished Wii U directly from Nintendo. You can choose to play the old Xenoblade and the upcoming one on one console!

https://store.nintendo.com/ng3/browse/subcategory.jsp?categoryId=cat550278

That's a new angle, I'll keep it in mind for when I want to jump ship onto Xenoblade.

This thread's confusing. Still, seems like the OP likes JRPGs now, so that's cool.

HolyBaikai was an okay guy/girl. I remember defending his/her eccentricities a while back in one of the threads he/she made. You won't see a thread like this out of me, but they were a pretty unique GAF member for better or worse.

Anyway, here's some JRPG series recommendations out of me for the OP.

Strategy RPGs are italicised

Disgaea
Dragon Quest
Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy Tactics
Fire Emblem
Radiant Historia
Shin Megami Tensei
Tactics Ogre
Tales of...
The Last Story
Valkyria Chronicles
Valkyrie Profile
Wild Arms
Xenoblade
Ys

Personally, I'd like to really recommend Xenoblade, Ys and the Fire Emblem series as their entries number some of my favourite games of all time, and aside from Fire Emblem: Awakening, they tend to be more grounded than a lot of JRPGs when it comes to creepy stuff.

I've always liked JRPG's, just not Persona. Thanks for the list, I know about many of them!
 

Nickle

Cool Facts: Game of War has been a hit since July 2013
Apparently arguing with Evillore about women being more capable athletically than men.
I must be spending way too much time on GAF, because I can imagine exactly how that conversation would go.
 

Danny Dudekisser

I paid good money for this Dynex!
I’d like to take this time to give a thank you to HolyBaikal. I needed to have a section of this thread dedicated to you and only you; I don’t want or mean to put pressure on you and I don’t want to force you to like me or anything. I’m doing this because I need to, because I can’t stop thinking about how to write this thread and how to thank you properly. HolyBaikal, you are the catalyst to all of this, it’s because of you that I felt the need to make a thread and continue with this all and the truth is you deserve much more than just a simple “Thank You”. Without ever having a conversation with one another, you touched me in ways that no one ever has. When I first stumbled upon your posts (When I was a shy Junior/lurker) I was surprised at many things, but the most important being the way you spoke/typed and the logic you used. I’ll be honest (the entire point of this thread) with you, the first time I read your posts I was confused and even slightly upset/agitated that someone could think the way you think, but fortunately for me, I no longer think this. It took a while for me to realize this, but after reading your past threads and posts I came to the conclusion that I was missing something vastly important in my own life. Well, saying I was missing it is wrong, I guess the best way to describe it would be is I never didn’t have it, but I believe I “locked” it up and “it” is kindness, cuteness and the moe of all life. A large “theme”/subject matter of your posts were about being nice, kind, cute and loving all that comes with it. I sit here drafting sentence after sentence as tears run down my face, what can I say to properly get my emotions across, how do I even say it? HolyBaikal, I want you to know that I appreciate you more than I have ever appreciated anyone in my life. So much so that I want you to know that I respect everything about you, I truly like your line/way of thinking (I’ve incorporated it into my thoughts), I love the way you speak on this forum, I love the stutters and dots (….) you use when you type, it’s unbelievably cute and I used to do something like that too; in the end though, I really…. …. …. l..-…l...-…like you and everything you are. It’s hard for me to say this because I get this feeling that NeoGAF will think I’m a mega-creep or a super loser for even confessing this, but I no longer care. You have changed me for the better and as I sit here thinking, I believe that every single person on NeoGAF, nay, the entire world would be better if they could have a little HolyBaikal in them. I feel so much better after accepting myself and realizing what I was missing. I know my thoughts are loose and incoherent and may not even make much sense, but in the end, HolyBaikal, you are the most amazing person I’ve ever come across and I want to see you continuing to make cute threads and heartfelt posts because everyone should read them. I hope you can live on for a thousand years, or more if you desire, I feel truly blessed to have “met” you. I envy you.

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Just go make out already.
 

BeforeU

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
If anyone didn't want to read the OP I decided to do a DRAMATIC READING of both parts of it.

For what it's worth I understand OP's attachment to playing Persona even if I haven't. Playing any jrpg title tends to take a good investment of time and it's understandable to grow attached to the characters just as it is to become attached to characters in a long running tv show or book series.

I dont even know what to say, I am dying out laughing in my bed.
 

Arcadius

Banned
Thanks everyone for the recommendations (again). It feels like this thread is going faster than I can keep up and reply too. I have written everything anyone has written that I may like. I really appreciate all the help and posts here, thanks again.

A 32m dramatic reading?
I have such mixed emotions that it's 32 minutes.

At least it's long, like my posts, right?
 

Chuy

Member
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I uh... it's cool that you decided to collect your thoughts on multiple subjects together in a single thread, but you weren't doing readability any favours. It also kinda confuses the tone of your thread as a whole, where you flit between a heartfelt memorial to a banned poster and extremely detailed notes on an RPG?
Having some how managing to read through the OP this sums up my thoughts on it.
But on topic though since you said you're interested in trying JRPGS get a vita/n3ds and get the various games people have recommended to you and you'll be set for a good while
 
If anyone didn't want to read the OP I decided to do a DRAMATIC READING of both parts of it.

For what it's worth I understand OP's attachment to playing Persona even if I haven't. Playing any jrpg title tends to take a good investment of time and it's understandable to grow attached to the characters just as it is to become attached to characters in a long running tv show or book series.

32 minutes
 

Kama_1082

Banned
Mods are sorry Arcadian!
They never meant to hurt you!
They never meant to make you cry; but tonight
They're not unbanning HolyBaikal(one more time)
Mods are sorry Arcadian!
They never meant to hurt you!
They never meant to make you cry; but tonight
They're not unbanning HolyBaikal
 

Phocks

Member
Scrolling through a thread and seeing a HolyBaikal post was always a treat, even if it was for the wrong reasons.
 
Did a readability test just for funsies


A higher score indicates easier readability; scores usually range between 0 and 100.

Readability Formula Score
Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease 67.6
Grade Levels

A grade level (based on the USA education system) is equivalent to the number of years of education a person has had. Scores over 22 should generally be taken to mean graduate level text.

Readability Formula Grade
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level 9.2
Gunning-Fog Score 11.5
Coleman-Liau Index 7.9
SMOG Index 8.3
Automated Readability Index 8.4
Average Grade Level 9.1
Text Statistics

Character Count 25,735
Syllable Count 8,853
Word Count 6,390
Sentence Count 294
Characters per Word 4.0
Syllables per Word 1.4
Words per Sentence 21.7

Not too shabby OP
 

Arcadius

Banned
Mods are sorry Arcadian!
They never meant to hurt you!
They never meant to make you cry; but tonight
They're not unbanning HolyBaikal(one more time)
Mods are sorry Arcadian!
They never meant to hurt you!
They never meant to make you cry; but tonight
They're not unbanning HolyBaikal

That's good, although what a sad reality we live in.
 
I must be spending way too much time on GAF, because I can imagine exactly how that conversation would go.

Shit, I can tell you how it went.

Baikal argues women have the potential to be just as strong as men, cites no evidence.
Me and others state this is patently false/ridiculous. Some present evidence. I just get madder.
Baikal ignores all evidence and basically says 'fuck, I don't know, Ranma 1/2!'
My brain explodes
The end.

Humorously enough, if HolyBaikal wasn't banned she'd probably be derailing this thread.

Did this thread have ra-

Was this thread ever on any rails?

damnit
 
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Just go make out already.

This gif just raises more questions than answers. Why do they already have Chinese food on the table? Why is dad mad before she even brings the pizza in? Why is there a second pizza in the background?

Everyone knows that pizza can't melt steel hunger.
 

DNAbro

Member
Not sure if this is fully related but did FluxWaveZ get banned for something he said in this thread? or the FE thread?
 
HolyBaikal is gone? Sure his/her posting habits was excessive and borderline spam at times but I always enjoyed the enthusiasm in them and his/her good taste in games.

Gotta keep cool in those landmine threads I guess.
 
I can definitely sympathize with you. I never wrote anything off because it was "anime", but i never understood the mentality and why people could like anything anime based. Persona 3 changed that for me too, i can understand that mentality so much better now. It did change alot of things in my own life too, so Persona 3 means alot to me, but in different ways than yours. Glad to see you were able to come to an understanding.

The Answer is basically a straight dungeon crawl, with story in certain sections. Not at all like The Journey in Persona 3. Depends if you liked P3's gameplay enough to play it, but i legitimately enjoyed the story.
 
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