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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
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I was checking my sitelogs and I found a hotlinked image on some guy's TV.com blog:
http://www.tv.com/users/mariomaniac92/profile.php?action=show_blog&entry=m-100-24943633
He's doing a VG character battle and the two finalists are Mario & Master Chief. So you have the world's most legendary video game icon versus a guy with less personality than Lance Storm in a showdown to the death. If you have a TV.com account, log in and vote for Mario.
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Tebor
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Title: Master of the Universe
Joined: Aug 22 2005
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Done. 
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 "If you will not tell me, I will hurt people!!!" -Nuclear Man
"Do you hear? The alpha and the omega. Death and rebirth. And as you die, so will I be reborn!" - Skeletor
8341 unread forum updates since I left (2/7/14)... Uh-oh. |
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Knyte
2010 SLF Tag Champ*
Title: Curator Of The VGM
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How dare you rip on Lance Storm! He was THE MOST UNDERRATED wrestler the WWE ever misused. He has the skill and abilities of Benoit, Jericho, and the like, but the WWE just never knew how to use him.
You want to rip on a wrestler with no personality, pick on Steve Blackman.
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Syd Lexia
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Honestly, I liked Lance Storm. If the Dubya See Dubya was still around, I have no doubt he'd still be on TV. I'm shocked he's not working for TNA or even that travesty of a promotion that they dare call ECW, since that's where he got his start. Lance Storm was a great technical wrestler, which IMHO should enough to get by in the industry, but WWE isn't looking for wrestlers anymore; they're looking for sitcom actors who can bleed.
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Tishwitch
Title: PornStarExtraordinaire
Joined: Jul 01 2006
Location: Winter Wonderland
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Lance Storm is fucking HUGE! I mean in size! Valdronius and I saw Lance Storm and Edge going into a gym one weekend that we went to see a home show... holy fucking muscles batman!
At this particular house show, Randy Orton had just barely debut in the WWE, and Batista accidentally knocked him out cold during their match... took 20 minutes for him to get up! It was amazing!
(we also got their autographs...)
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FNJ
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
| Honestly, I liked Lance Storm. If the Dubya See Dubya was still around, I have no doubt he'd still be on TV. I'm shocked he's not working for TNA or even that travesty of a promotion that they dare call ECW, since that's where he got his start. Lance Storm was a great technical wrestler, which IMHO should enough to get by in the industry, but WWE isn't looking for wrestlers anymore; they're looking for sitcom actors who can bleed. |
Lance Storm is in Canada running a wrestling school.
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Tishwitch
Title: PornStarExtraordinaire
Joined: Jul 01 2006
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The Storm Wrestling Academy in Calgary Alberta... running it is an understatement. I feel like I'm in the Wrestling 101 forum... which is fine, it just makes me rethink all the info stored way back in my mind... it's almost like a refresher course!
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PhreQuencYViii
Title: olololol
Joined: Jul 25 2006
Location: VA
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Master chief had some personality, but he's no Duke Nukem.
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FNJ
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People should read the books. John 117 has plenty of personality.
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Sock
Title: Master Fornicator
Joined: Mar 12 2006
Location: The Skies Above
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| JEW wrote: |
| People should read the books. John 117 has plenty of personality. |
Mmhmm, the Halo books are some of the best sci-fi novels I've read, people just like to be trolls when they know most of the gaming populace will have their backs when they knock Halo.
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There never was an image here, what the fuck are you talking about? |
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Char Aznable
Title: Char Classic™
Joined: Jul 24 2006
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Yeah, but Mario is cooler. He's as badass as Master Chief, and pulls that off in E-Rated games.
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S. McCracken
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| Sock wrote: |
| JEW wrote: |
| People should read the books. John 117 has plenty of personality. |
Mmhmm, the Halo books are some of the best sci-fi novels I've read, people just like to be trolls when they know most of the gaming populace will have their backs when they knock Halo. |
I think the vote is supposed to be in their roles in video games, not books. I've heard great things about the novels but as far as VGs go, Mario owns Master Chief in a VG character battle.
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JonSnow
Joined: Nov 03 2006
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I'd go mario as well.... MC is just not enough character to him.. though the game itself is great... and i think preferable to play over any given mario game. (well if you have other people) if not mario could be funner..
funner= more fun
so 
Btw does anyone know why the brawl thread got closed? it seemed to be going peacable.
Maybe Nintendo closed it because our guesses were too close to the truth about the new upcoming game. duh duh duhhhhhh....
Answer: the daily double...
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FNJ
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| Char Aznable wrote: |
| Yeah, but Mario is cooler. He's as badass as Master Chief, and pulls that off in E-Rated games. |
there's nothing badass about a fat asshole who can't keep a princess from being kidnapped because he's too busy beating the shit out of pokemon and playing golf or riding a go kart.
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Char Aznable
Title: Char Classic™
Joined: Jul 24 2006
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What's so great about a suit of armor that goes around and shoots aliens all day? And if Mario was hopped up on hyper-steroids, he'd be able to do 10x the shit Master Chief can do.
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PhreQuencYViii
Title: olololol
Joined: Jul 25 2006
Location: VA
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Duke Nukem is the only action hero anyone should care about. He would whip both while writing another "Why I'm So Great" book.
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jonnymorgue
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At least he has time to write a book. It's not like he's busy doing Duke Nukem Forever.
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DarkMaze
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| jonnymorgue wrote: |
| At least he has time to write a book. It's not like he's busy doing Duke Nukem Forever. |
Zing!
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S. McCracken
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| jonnymorgue wrote: |
| At least he has time to write a book. It's not like he's busy doing Duke Nukem Forever. |
I don't get all the fuss and people whining about why the game is taking so long. Geez guys, Duke's not going anywhere. He's going to be Duke Nukem Forever.
Don't worry, I hung my head in shame as I typed that joke, and probably for a few hours afterwards.
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FNJ
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| Char Aznable wrote: |
| What's so great about a suit of armor that goes around and shoots aliens all day? And if Mario was hopped up on hyper-steroids, he'd be able to do 10x the shit Master Chief can do. |
so we've reached a stalemate. both of our gaming icons suck.
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Jonny
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If you think about it, they both don't have much personality. It's not like either character is deep at all, and the only reason that everyone likes Mario so much is because he's Nintendo's mascot. If you think about it, most of Nintendo's mascots do suck. Barely any of them even talk or really have any character depth whatsoever. Never mind, I'm going to think of a few Nintendo mascots who have had actual lines: Bowser, Samus, Captain Falcon and Ganondorf. Wow. Out of about 15 or so mascots, 4 of them even have lines, and only Samus really has any depth. I love Nintendo and it's characters, but they need more actual character.
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TheRoboSleuth
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Mario is meant to be inoffensive and vaguely heroic. He's designed like one of the dwarves from that snow white movie; rounded, with weight centered low so as to make him harmless looking. So, basically, accessible.
Master Chief is effectively a stand in for the person playing the FPS, like most FPS characters. He exists to be a blank slate, so that the person playing can project themselves into the game. So, he does what he was designed to do.
The above also applies to just about any heroic mime in an RPG (gogo doesn't count).
For an interesting character... Hmmm...
How bout the Nameless One, from Planescape Torment?
Oddly enough, a lot of characters from fighters have history and written out personalities, especially fighting games with sequels (street fighter, KoF, Soul Caliber, Tekken, etc). Even more ironic, fighter's history does not have characters with a lot of history.
Wow, thinking about this makes me realize how shallow about 95% of videogame characters are.
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Syd Lexia
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In some fighting games, they go so far as to tell you what BLOOD TYPE your character is. I wish all fighting games did this, because sometimes I lie awake at night wondering which characters could receive blood transfusions from each other.
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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
| In some fighting games, they go so far as to tell you what BLOOD TYPE your character is. I wish all fighting games did this, because sometimes I lie awake at night wondering which characters could receive blood transfusions from each other. |
The Japanese are weird like that. They regard blood type the same way we Westerners regard the "mutant Zodiac" (as opposed to the Eastern "animal Zodiac").
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DarkMaze
Joined: Feb 24 2006
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| Jonny wrote: |
| Out of about 15 or so mascots, 4 of them even have lines, and only Samus really has any depth. |
What? Samus doesn't have depth. She's just hot. And badass.
And hot.
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