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Fan Creations / Re: The Gonzo has art.

« on: November 02, 2010, 01:26:50 AM »

Hey, remember that "Complete ORGXIII" pic of mine? Well, there's been some alterations to their story.

* Axel and Xion are not present. In retrospect, it'd make no sense for Xion to be there (at least for KH:VVV).

* While the others are more or less themselves in artificial bodies, this Roxas is a true Replica--sort of; Hojo's Replicas aren't like Vexen's, since they don't leech off of the originals in any way.

Unfortunately, while the real Roxas doesn't have to worry about off days, Repliroxas has some very big nails that he'd like to pound into Roxas's face. (Remember "14 in the Organization"?)

At least Lava figured that something about ORGXIII was truly effed-up, what with having to bring them white floppy boneless midgets every week.

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Fan Creations / Re: The Gonzo has art.

« on: November 01, 2010, 03:34:33 AM »

Nice KH-style designs, there. I'm quite fond of the Roll and Continued Org., in particular.

Thanks. Though Roll's is KaitlinEXE's; I just added the colour scheme.

Technically, monitor-guy does mostly stay in the shadows.


Mood whiplash time.

http://www.themmnetwork.com/2010/10/29/keiji-quits/

He's really left.

I figured that this would happen sooner or later, but...THIS soon?

Reactions to this have been varied. All I have to say is, I hope that Inafking will be happy with whatever he decides to do after this.

Posted on: October 29, 2010, 06:05:35 PM

Everyone here wishes you one. Or maybe just Rock and Roll.


Rock, Roll, Blues, and Bass are all dressed up as 1st-gen Pokemon (sorta); got the idea from *mizz-ninja's gijinkas.

Break time from what, I dunno.

Rock should do something about that rip in his jeans.

I still cannot draw Keyblades.

Obviously, not all the Keyblade wielders are here--just the ones with the Kingdom Key and versions of it. Let's see here:

Sora: Kingdom Key
Mickey: Kindom Key D
Rock: Kingdom Key R
Mario: Kingdom Key M (wait--)
Bugs Bunny: The Gun (I do not yet have a name for The Gun)
Cielo: Stick

And it's kinda hard for Mickey to be raising his Keyblade to the light if it's the Kingdom Key Darkside, but hey.

Also appears that Rock's Keyblade shrunk in the process of becoming R. Accidents happen?..


Oh, and those unfamiliar with one of EGM's many April Fools pranks might not know why Mario's here. Super Mario Bros. DOES have a connection to Squeenix, in that they developed Super Mario RPG back when they were Squaresoft. There's also Itadaki Street DS (a crossover of Mario and Dragon Quest) and Mario Hoops 3-on-3 (there's quite a few Final Fantasy characters there).

As for Rock, Capcom developed Disney games back in the NES Epoch (and at least one SNES game). Less stable connection, but it's there.

And Bugs...um...he and Mickey cameo'd in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?. >.>

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News and Announcements / Re: MegaMan Legends 3 is REAL, AND IT'S SPECTACULAR...LY IN 3-D

« on: October 30, 2010, 11:55:47 PM »

Sensei's was the best fit, and should have just been picked without a damned poll.

...um...I know I'll get screeched at for this, but that's subjective.

Not that I didn't prefer Sensei's, but still.

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News and Announcements / Re: MegaMan Legends 3 is REAL, AND IT'S SPECTACULAR...LY IN 3-D

« on: October 29, 2010, 09:04:12 PM »

Maybe I'm just incredibly cynical, but I think a lot of the fans who voted Komaki's design only voted for her so that there'd be a redhead to go along with Roll and Tron.

I don't hate Komaki's, I just can't shake the feeling that that's the case.

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News and Announcements / Re: Keiji Inafune leaves Capcom

« on: October 29, 2010, 07:55:14 PM »

I hope that whoever continues the MML3 Project will be respectful of whatever Inafune wanted of it.

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News and Announcements / Re: Keiji Inafune leaves Capcom

« on: October 29, 2010, 01:59:56 PM »

Sadly, I could see this happening. But even with all of the nutty things he's been saying in the press, I didn't think it would be happening THIS SOON.

Same here...

I wish you the best of luck, Inafking.

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Fan Creations / Re: The Gonzo has art.

« on: October 29, 2010, 06:41:16 AM »

Love the Rock crossover.

Thanks.

Neat, never knew there's April's fool prank like that.

And there's more where that came from, too.

RS-Roll might not approve of all the pink, but KH-Roll cares not.

Hey, it's these assholes again.

Damn, Xarsha is itty-bitty.

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X / Re: No Love for x?

« on: October 29, 2010, 04:29:50 AM »

An Xtreme 3 set after X8 would work, too, considering Axl'd be in a coma.

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Fan Creations / Re: Lili's art :D (Boobs, Concept Art, and more!)

« on: October 29, 2010, 04:17:22 AM »

Cute Rock is cute.

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News and Announcements / Re: MegaMan Legends 3 is REAL, AND IT'S SPECTACULAR...LY IN 3-D

« on: October 28, 2010, 09:15:26 PM »

So let me see if I got this straight:
Irregular as in irregularity in the brain that causes reploids to rebel against humans (a physical defect)
Maverick as in Sigma's faction (and any free-willed reploid can join him)

And yet both defects and free-willed bastardry happen in the series; it's just that the Hunters tend to assume that all/most Mavericks/Irregulars/whatever are defects. I think.

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X / Re: No Love for x?

« on: October 28, 2010, 09:10:28 PM »

I thought X7 took his pacifism to ridiculous levels of "that's not pacifism, that's passiveness". :/

Anyway, I like X just as much as any other MMX character. (Even Axl--one has to go above and beyond to make me loathe a character)

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News and Announcements / Re: MegaMan Legends 3 is REAL, AND IT'S SPECTACULAR...LY IN 3-D

« on: October 28, 2010, 08:02:38 PM »

To me, the term  "Irregular" captures that part of the meaning much more than "Maverick" does, and I can't imagine that such a change did not influence our perception of these concepts, irregardless of the meaning defined in the actual story being the same.

I thought most MMX fans saw "going Maverick/going Irregular" the same way and just used whichever term they preferred?

Also thought interpretation of similar terms was the least of anyone's MMX-fan-related problems. :/

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Off The Wall / Re: They wants to pass YET ANOTHER Anti piracy bill.

« on: October 27, 2010, 02:08:01 PM »

...[tornado fang]ing Internet Censorship.

I can only hope that, should the petition fail, dedicated hackers will find a way to annihilate the system they use for that.

Come on, guys-who-think-this-[parasitic bomb]-is-a-good-idea. It's not, and it's futile.

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Gaming / Re: Castlevania

« on: October 27, 2010, 01:56:17 PM »

On Fernandez: According to the Castlevania Wiki, the proper way to write their last name is actually Vernandes. Not that I actually SEE anyone using that spelling.

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Fan Creations / Re: The Gonzo has art.

« on: October 27, 2010, 06:11:47 AM »

Thanks. Yeah, didn't know what to do with Bombman...

[One of these is] not like the others.

Hey, anyone remember the first-ever(?) EGM April Fool's prank, involving Simon Belmont being an unlockable character in TMNT II: The Arcade Game (NES version)?

Cudley (not pictured) decided he'd bypass the impossible task of entering the code before the title screen faded out and just grabbed Simon directly. And spat him out without explaining where he took him, apparently, or maybe Simon just doesn't like Manhattan.

Took another stab at replicating the style of KH1's art, this time using SAI and Photoshop. I think it turned out alright.

The pics of Sora, Riku, and Kairi over at Creative Uncut have text on them for some reason, and so does this. Thought I'd draw Wuxa first since, relatively speaking, his design is quite simple.

Despite wearing lots of black and having an X in his name, Wuxa is not a Nobody and has gone nowhere near the Organization. I imagine that if Mr. Nomura ever got his hands on him, his outfit would be overhauled because of that.

And number two in the most-likely-to-not-be-a-series, Rock. Yeah, KH!Rock is only 17 here, as opposed to 21. And that Keyblade looks horrible. D:

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Fan Creations / Re: Lili's art :D (Boobs, Concept Art, and more!)

« on: October 26, 2010, 10:30:35 PM »

Bunnyboy

And a yaoi-pid? Awesome.

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Fan Creations / Re: The Gonzo has art.

« on: October 26, 2010, 06:03:07 PM »

Most likely.

According to ~Kalinka-Shadows, the Rejuve universe is even more [tornado fang]'d up than previously thought. A shame, but at least it gives me an excuse to draw Rock and Proto like this. (I dunno if Wily would try anything like this, since Mega could probably still shoot him)

Proto's scarf no longer fits, and that hoodie Mega has was meant for a middle-schooler, at least. But hey, what they're wearing beats the uniforms.

Posted on: October 25, 2010, 05:35:41 AMOld: LET ME SHOaaaah [tornado fang] it.
Random crap.

I should've finished this forever ago. :/

Here's some advice, Tengu: Don't try to start a conversation with the pseudo-uke while his sister is nearby.

These kids are based off an old doodle of mine; while I thought they were original characters, there were Triforce symbols here and there; it's been so long that I can't remember, but I think they were meant to be LoZ dorks.

Shield Boy, Sword Guy, Leader Girl, and Wand Dude weren't redesigned in any way, and thus all look like fashion vomit (pick a decade). Leader Girl has inexplicable black markings under her eyes that are more fit for a bad guy or antihero, methinks. (Also obviously not their real names. They weren't named in the original pic)

Perhaps they thought that if Link could traverse all those dungeons more-or-less alone, they'd stand a pretty good chance. Har har.


Left this sitting for a while since I couldn't think of a background. Finally grabbed a Letraset, said "frig it", and scrawled in a basic one.

Let's talk about "My Inner Life".

...ack.

Written by one "Jen" (credited on the pic as "Jen the Batshit Insane"), it's about some lady named Jenna Silverblade, who somehow managed to beat out the rest of Link's benign harem (even Ruto!) and went on to be Hyrule's Most Important Person for lots of arbitrary reasons. Jenna is a combination of many different Mary Sue subtypes (most prominently the most dreaded type of all, the Black Hole Sue); from what I can gather from TV Tropes:

* She was a merchant prior to meeting Link Silverblade (oh yeah, that's Link's surname in this fic). This wouldn't be too bad if we knew more about this job, or if she was a GOOD merchant--apparently she doesn't deal in bulk, but in a handful of silks. Maybe it was just off-season or something, but...

* She receives things that she should not have all the damn time--most prominently, a guardian fairy (you're not a Kokiri, dammit!) and the GODSDAMNED OCARINA OF TIME.

* Her powers function much like Silver Age Superman's in that she can pull them from her ass whenever it's convenient to the plot. They range from inexplicable catlike behaviours and whatnot ("catlike instincts", smelling blood and sulfur from across a lake) to control over the elements (implicitly shafting the Sages).

* She has kids with Link. Not fatally bad, I guess, but the author gets a few things about infants wrong, and apparently never heard of FAS, making this that much worse.

* And of course, to have had kids with Link, she had to have sexed Link. The sex is not the least bit realistic or appealing (GRUNTING TIGERS IN HEAT, anyone?).

* She's descended from the "Silverlites", a race not mentioned or seen anywhere in Ocarina of Time. They, and by extension Jenna, can control the elements. They're also apparently the awesomest people to have ever awesomed, which is of course a damnable lie because it means that more Sues like Jenna could have shown up had the fic been completed.

* The King of Hyrule takes to her better than his own daughter. Just let that sink in.

* There's a strong undercurrent of inexplicable misogyny running through the train wreck of a fic. When Jenna first sees Link, she immediately decides that he will give her beautiful children simply because he's handsome; Jenna is deluded into thinking that being married with kids will make her complete (not that being married with kids is bad, per se--I'm not interested--but that's far from the only goal in a woman's life); she thinks riding a mare is an affront to Link's masculinity (Link? Masculinity? PFFFFFFFT. But seriously...buh?!), and the author's treatment of Epona is deplorable; she's always clinging to Link and riding behind him; etc. etc.

But wait, she's constantly trying to be independent and strong. And yet she insists on these anti-feminist behaviours. GUH.


So...what did all that have to do with this?

I wanted to rewrite Jenna, figuring that I couldn't do worse than the author no matter what. But as I went along, well...see that cat-person up there? That was the point at which I said, "Frig it, that ain't Jenna. That's my own character."

The same cannot be said of the other fellow. That's the Dark Lord Ariakas, who in MIL was the biggest, baddest dude on the block (who was somehow worse than Ganondorf and never showed up). Here, well...


Naarti was merely a wandering merchant (some described her as prone to delusions of grandeur) until a nobleman of mixed Hylian and European descent (Swedish, perhaps) approached her. He introduced himself as Lord Ariakas, and showed her that the two of them were descended from a band of people known as "Silverlites"--individuals who could control the elements. Ariakas then asked if Naarti would join him in his search for the Silverlites' goddess, an entity supposedly connected to a fourth Triforce; she gladly accepted.

Their search began causing problems in Hyrule, prompting Link and Zelda to look into it; they found two major problems with Ariakas's story.

For one, there were almost no records of the Silverlites--the few that they could find stated them to be a cult, not simply a group. Secondly, there was no "fourth Triforce", only the void formed by the three pieces. While past Hylian shields depicted an inverted golden triangle, it was assumed to be for aesthetic reasons.

Ariakas hadn't been trying to delude Naarti--he wholeheartedly believed in what he told her. This doesn't really matter to Link or Zelda, and they set out to stop the two from causing any more damage, intentionally or no.


Yeah.

"Hey, what if Light's first other robots had been helpers/lab assistants instead of or in addition to Rock and Roll?"

It'd look something like this pic. :/


Iceman.

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Fan Creations / Re: Rebirth of the Rockman-Themed Stolen *Bleep* Thread!!

« on: October 26, 2010, 01:50:57 PM »

Rather nice to see them drawn in the same style.

Actually, they're the same girls with the styles switched around. (Explains why the second one is so thin)

Artist's name is Gめん.

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X / Re: German X1 manual?

« on: October 24, 2010, 09:20:20 PM »

...you say that as if that is a bad idea

Because there's no guarantee that it'd be GOOD lesbian porn.

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X / Re: German X1 manual?

« on: October 24, 2010, 08:12:45 PM »

except that there would be no Iris...or maybe?

If Iris was still female, then the fans would have more excuses to draw lesbian porn.

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X / Re: German X1 manual?

« on: October 24, 2010, 06:04:45 PM »

Link doesn't work for me, but that bit was just translated here anyway... :/ And with the German version of the game apparently identifying Zero as male, I have to wonder if the Anführerin bit wasn't just a typo.

But do even have any knowledge of German language to begin with?

Not a whole lot, but I was willing to try.

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News and Announcements / Re: MegaMan Legends 3 is REAL, AND IT'S SPECTACULAR...LY IN 3-D

« on: October 24, 2010, 05:29:40 PM »

You buy games for the gameplay, not the name.

I thought names had a factor in sales?

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News and Announcements / Re: MegaMan Legends 3 is REAL, AND IT'S SPECTACULAR...LY IN 3-D

« on: October 24, 2010, 04:50:17 PM »

The pun would have made sense if the original manual was properly translated, though.

And what if you only saw the box?

...this is going to turn into another multi-page bitchfight, isn't it?

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News and Announcements / Re: MegaMan Legends 3 is REAL, AND IT'S SPECTACULAR...LY IN 3-D

« on: October 24, 2010, 03:53:24 PM »

Rockman was changed to Mega Man because one man decided he hated the name and wanted something cooler, nothing more, nothing less. Those kind of changes are just pointless and disrespectful to the original vision.

In defense of that, the name pun wouldn't make any sense until MM3 at best (and that's assuming you paid attention to the end credits). And eventually, even the US/EU-version games would assume that his unarmoured name was Rock (Powered Up aside).

Though I read that the guy who insisted Blues be called "Protoman" was rather rude about it--to Mr. Inafune's face, even. That's not cool.

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News and Announcements / Re: MegaMan Legends 3 is REAL, AND IT'S SPECTACULAR...LY IN 3-D

« on: October 24, 2010, 03:07:55 AM »

I see your "CoA is staffed by raging incompetents" and posit this: TV Tropes pointed out that, maybe, the change from "Irregular" to "Maverick" was done because--while "Irregular" could imply a literal brain malfunction--it could also be taken as "non-conformist" or "weird". Leading to nasty implications in that they'd be hunted down, too.

(But, the change never bothered me in the sense of how it's used in-universe, so this just smacks of more "Stupid CoA is stupid")