Weird that Dark Souls III never came up in the "best looking" category. My concerns with the design of the game aside, it's the most consistently good-looking game in the series and has a lot of nice flourishes like the ember effect on your armor and sharp animations. It may not have made top three, but was worth consideration.
@skippysigmatic: These guys are San Francisco/New York hard radical leftists who think they have measured views. Kinda can't blame them for having an oversized reaction to something that actually might have a little more nuance than "OMG PALMER LUCKEY IS A WHITE SUPREMACIST" even if that nuance is that he contributed to immature and dumb things and never explained himself. Just the complete smearing of anyone even tangentially connected to semi-alt right nonsense (which I don't support at all) is a gross part of the liberal fascism of 2016. There's a real back-pat groupthink that occurs in popular media that I just find really gross, and it's driven me away from being a subscriber of Giant Bomb.
Fact check time for @danryckert - Hudson made all of the Mario Party games 1-8. The drastic change in game design with 9 and 10 was likely due to the change in developer.
Second: Charles Martinet does not voice (and never has voiced) Princess Peach or any of the female characters for that matter. She's currently voiced by Samantha Kelly but there have been several since the N64. Leslie Swan was the first in Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64 (in the US anyway) but then it was Jen Taylor for a while.
Also, look up the Wikipedia pages for Mario, The Mushroom Kingdom, and all the related characters. It's nuts how much people try to make sense of nonsensical, inconsistent fantasy characters. But yes, apparently the original Mario Bros. was supposedly in the sewers of New York City.
The quality of both Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi has dropped in the last few years, and it bums me out. Mario RPG, PM: The Thousand-Year Door (the first was a little slow and bland), and Mario & Luigi 1/3 (2 was a little unremarkable) are some of my favorite games ever. Dream Team was a serious slog with moments of brilliance, which made it harder to deal with.
Honestly, if at this point they just remade the first two Paper Mario games with this level of graphical quality, I'd prefer that to this mixed garbage. Sticker Star was atrocious for many of the same reasons, and I haven't even bothered to try Paper Jam after my time with Dream Team.
Re: the personal defense weapon discussion near the end:
Hey dudes. A few hundred years ago they invented these marvelous tools that get rid of the necessity for upper body strength and perfect body shots and precision to be effective. They're called firearms. Maybe Dan should get a handgun and keep that under his bed or in a drawer for self defense. Just an idea. Take a safety course if you're concerned about how to properly use it. This is America, goshdangit.
What's bizarre about the Persona 5 streaming block is that the gigantic zeitgeist around Persona 4 (see: loads of spinoffs and a full-fledged remake, plus a dedicated anime localized for the US) was almost surely due to interest from such things as the Endurance Run and other YouTube exposure. I've only beaten Persona 3 personally, but I've bought basically every Persona 4 related game due watching and loving the Endurance Run here on the site. It's not exclusively a Japanese problem, but sometimes it's downright baffling how companies don't understand why their product is so popular in the first place and how people like to enjoy it.
I already ranked these. This is the definitive list. http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/mormonwarrior/lists/the-legend-of-zelda-best-to-worst/87093/
For the tl;dr:
Oracles, Twilight, Zelda II and Skyward Sword don't make top ten. Top five are Ocarina, Wind Waker, Awakening, Link to the Past, Link Between Worlds. Followed by Phantom Hourglass, Minish Cap, Majora's Mask, Spirit Tracks, and the original.
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