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Seconding Eternal Sonata as one of the best JRPGs of that era

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One of the best RPGs to feature a Polish guy party member

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Yangus or “Jangusz” is Polish-coded despite the british accent imo

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Resurrecting this thread because I recently decided to get my hands dirty with updating the CFW on my modded Wii, and ended up cataloguing what I find most interesting of the platform, here's the list, in case it helps or anyone finds it interesting!

Zeldas, Metroids, Marios, blablabla
Wario Land Shake It + Smooth Moves
Kirby’s Adventure in Dreamland + Epic Yarn
Donkey Kong Country Returns
Zack and Wiki
No More Heroes 1 + 2
Endless Ocean 1 + 2
Pandora’s Tower
The Last Story
Dead Space Extraction
Resident Evil Darkside + Umbrella Chronicles
Klonoa Remake
Excitebike
Red Steel 1 + 2
Fragile Dreams
Project Zero 2 + 4
Chocobo Fushigi na Dungeon
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
Silent Hill Shattered Memories
Tatsunoko vs Capcom
Sengoku Basara
Trauma Center 1 + 2 + 3
Another Code
Lost in Shadow
Rhythm Heaven
Rodea the Sky Soldier
Victorious Boxers
The Conduit 1 + 2
Batallion Wars 2
Cursed Mountain
Deadly Creatures
Reginleiv
Gunblade NY + Machineguns LA
Tenchu: Shadow Assassins
Pikmin 1 + 2
Real Heroes Firefighter
Disaster Day of Crisis
Baroque
Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth
Contra: ReBirth
Disaster: Day of Crisis
Earth Seeker
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers
Ikenie no Yoru
Legend of Sayuki
Minon: Everyday hero
Megaman 9 + 10
Muscle March
Oneechanbara: Bikini Samurai Slayers
Punch-Out!!
Rune Factory
Sin & Punishment 2
Takt of Magic
Tales of Graces
The Sky Crawlers

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@“JoJoestar”#p47165 I love making lists and I'm glad you resurrected this thread because I forgot it existed…maybe one day I will put a list on here.

This Wii list is rad as heck. The Wii Era is a blind spot for me in particular because it's when I pretty much set video games to one side for a few years in order to go to college and focus on other things, and even besides that, it's hard to find the good Wii games because there's so much chaff out there. This list is a fun remedy to that.

Also shoutout to my favorite Wii game Tatsunoko vs Capcom. The fact that that game even got made is some kind of minor miracle.

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I'll probably never finish these (IC forum drafted posts list)

Sony PS4 exclusives
11 DAYS AGO

Japanese Video Game Audio Dramas ...
11 DAYS AGO

Final Fantasy XII is not at all a “Single Player MMORPG” (opinion)
8 NOV

In Defense of Ready Player One
19 JUN

Who Has the Hottest Takes
4 JUN
Only the most fiya poppin' takes will be considered eg: PARACHUTE is the best handheld title, because one time I jumped out of a plane

Rant: I am, SO Sick and Tired of Complaints & Trashing of Reflective LCDs
10 APR

Doubutsu no Mori: Origins
25 MAR

Frogger Review in Toy Town
16 MAR

A Brief and Unnoficial Guide to some Overlooked Undertale Inspirations
14 MAR
First of all these are just my anecdotes and are not endorsed by

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I should use the draft feature! I tend to think about something, and then think I don’t have enough time to dedicate to writing it properly so don’t start at all. I should just type a bit as a draft and deal with it later.

Curious to hear your (brave?) defence of Ready Player One!

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Here we go again

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Now that I have unearthed my old PS3 I'm making a list of games I want to get on it eventually. Stars correspond to tier. One star means looking to get ASAP and two/three stars are descending priority.

Disc only:
Eternal Sonata**
Armored Core 4*
Armored Core For Answer*
White Knight Chronicles 1 and 2***
3D Dot Game Heroes**
Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2 and 3**
Initial D Extreme Stage*
MotorStorm Pacific Rift*
Sengoku BASARA: Samurai Heroes**
Skate 2 and 3**
The Darkness***
Ridge Racer 7*

Disc and digital(all Tales will be digital, Demon's will be a disc):
Tales of Graces f**
Tales of Xillia**
Tales of Xillia 2***
Demon’s Souls*

Digital only:
Tokyo Jungle*

I already have some stuff from ages ago: Nier, Folklore, Drakengard 3, Katamari Forever, Ico/Sotc Collection, Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo, Trash Panic.

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@“Syzygy”#p55820 Yeah the cover of 2 has a big “BONUS GAME: REMASTERED FIRST GAME” sticker on the cover haha, which begs the question…what did they remaster?? I remember those games having some kind of buzz back in the day but I’m mostly in it for the Escaflowne aesthetics.

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Anyone else on the forum have a Backloggd account? I‘ve been spending the past few days trying to remember every game I’ve ever played/wanted to play and cataloguing them on this website. There‘s been a couple websites that have tried to do this in the past, but this is the only one I’ve found that is pulling from a big enough database to actually account for every game I can think of. Would love to follow you guys' lists if you have them or would want to start putting them together!

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@“Syzygy”#p55825 I've been using How Long to Beat for my backlog. I daresay Backloggd is probably better at a glance though.

I add a game to the Completed list on the day that I finish it but in terms of the backlog list itself, I haven't updated it since before Christmas and there's quite a bit that needs adding. I have an arbitrary rule of not adding things like fighting games or shmups because they're designed for replaying endlessly rather than something to be completed.

In terms of its database, it's pretty good, not perfect but it's had pretty much everything that I've thrown at it other than one game that I forget the name of. However I have yet to try adding in the real obscure itch.io games, partly because I have so many from all of the bundles, and partly because a lot of them have no completed state.

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I‘ve wanted/attempted to start a list, but there’s always other stuff making it harder than it needs to be. cataloguing every single game is already enough work, I don‘t wanna have to click 20 times per game. also it’s always centered on western releases.

what I need is an intuitive keyboard controlled gui that simply dumps entire romsets from the smokemonster lists containing every singel game from every single region, and allows me to go through highlighting each one with extensive keyboard (or even gamepad!!) controls

let me know if that exists now.

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Lately I‘ve been making a list that ranks every single pipe organ in every single game that uses one, and using that list to briefly review that particular game’s use of the instrument in its soundtrack - so far I‘m up to 83 entries but I’d love to add more!! I know I‘ve got blind spots in entire RPG series (I suspect there may be a lot of Shining, Phantasy, and SaGa organs I have no clue about) and I know basically nothing about horror as an entire genre; if I may, I’d like to enlist you, Insert Credit Forum Users, to help steer me in the direction of more pipe organs for me to add to my list. Any organ you can think of, even if it only takes up a couple seconds in a soundtrack that otherwise never uses it - and for those who have none to offer, I‘d love for you to read my reviews of these organs anyways!! I feel like I’ve done a pretty good job of finding something insightful to say for just about every entry on this list - as far as lists go, I feel like this one‘s pretty unique and I’m proud of the consideration I've been putting into it.

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@“Funbil”#p77117 Once upon a time I was going through some OSTs and thought, There are some cool uses of pipe organ in here, and here… I wonder if I could make a playlist of these… and then never did because I didn‘t know/wouldn’t have known how to even begin that monumental task.

You've done it!
You're doing it!

Legendary work. I will certainly keep an eye on this list and try to think of other titles, but you've covered a lot of ground already.

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@“captain”#p77128 I wonder if I could make a playlist of these

A playlist, now there's an idea... There's a devil on my shoulder telling me that the next step in evolution here is to rank not just the games that use pipe organs, but every single individual track that uses one, and making a playlist out of that... Even I don't have that kind of resolve!!!

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@“Funbil”#p77117 Xenogears. Big Organ Energy.

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@“Funbil”#p77117 MediEvil has heaps of organ for the church level. The game's PS4 remake sprang for an orchestra.

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@“Funbil”#p77117 There's a few tracks from Guilty Gear Isuka that use pipe organs, such as this one.

https://youtu.be/6Td4oETPaUI

Also, this rad banger from Gitaroo Man.

https://youtu.be/AplnmCKbSnM