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[Jared]

Got all the hearts in OoT 3D's first quest! First time ever in any OoT, even 64 of GC! Now, to get the last 7 Golden Skullutas!

[Sheik]

Just have beaten the final boss in SS. I chose "Don't Save" (thus no Hero Mode). If I had chosen Hero Mode, would I have started the game anew with harder difficulty?

[Russ]

Yes, in Hero Mode, all enemies deal double damage. In addition, you keep all the bugs and spoils you've collecting, among other things. And all cutscenes become skipable, though some have changed slightly.

[SpacemanDan]

I don't what possessed me to do it, but I got every achievement in Sequence.(Which basically means I did just about everything there is to do in the game minus reaching max level.) The only one I didn't get on my own was Iris, but there was no way I was going to figure that out on my own. Sucks that it was one of the last ones, as the item you get for it wasn't as good as the stuff I had at the time. )

[Titanium Justice]

Yesterday I got the Platinum trophy for Rayman Origins and completed the game 100%. For the second last trophy, it turns out I didn't need to get the gold ribbons for every level. I only needed to get all the electoons.

[Geoffrey]

I got one-hundred percent in the original Zelda yesterday. Of course, I have no proof of that, as my file was overwritten by the second quest.

[Banjo7J]

Just placed rank 21 on the Classic Seaside Hill Time Trial leaderboards in Sonic Generations. Considering that the lowest I've got other than that is somewhere in the 100s, and I don't really like that level, that's pretty damn good for me.

[Titanium Justice]

Finished Final Fantasy IX about two days ago. It was a really good RPG, but unlike the previous two games in the series that had really compelling last bosses, this one's was a pushover, and story wise, had no reason to exist whatsoever.

[CastChaos]

I beat Mega Man (NES) (yes, the very first Mega Man game) for the first time in my life!
And I got till the Yellow Devil and beaten it WITHOUT save states! I feel like a hero!! I used save states from then on and I don't know how could one beat the last set of boss re-fights (from Bomb Man) without save states. Call me crazy, but after many tries, I learned the pattern of the Wily machine shots and could beat the game!
(So far I only got till the Yellow Devil whenever I played.)

[Russ]

After playing the game for 8 years, I finally 100%'d Jak 3, on the Jak and Daxter collection. Every single orb, on hero mode and mirror mode. Second platinum trophy I ever got. The first being for 100%'ing Jak and Daxter in the very same collection. You could say I'm addicted to those games...

[DarkFlameWolf]

Finished Final Fantasy IX about two days ago. It was a really good RPG, but unlike the previous two games in the series that had really compelling last bosses, this one's was a pushover, and story wise, had no reason to exist whatsoever.

Well there are a variety of reasons why Necron existed. For one, it seems to be a 'throw-back' to old Final Fantasy games just like everything else in FFIX is a throw-back to other games in the series. To quote from here: http://finalfantasy....com/wiki/Necron
"Necron shares a few similarities with Exdeath, with the two being related to trees in some way, and both wanting to revert everything to nothingness. Their battle music have similar musical motifs, and both are the same shade of blue and they also share an attack name, Grand Cross. Necron also shares many similarities with the Cloud of Darkness, both of whom are the final bosses of their game revealed only at the climax, both are summoned by someone fearing his mortality and both are created to revert the world back to nothing."
And a theory about Necron STILL being the divider of souls like Garland mentioned (its true form of the Iifa tree) from this link: http://www.gamefaqs....asy-ix/44836156
"I'd like to divert you all with a theory that I came up with a long time ago, regarding FF9's Final Boss, Necron. Several people, since FF9's release, have criticized Necron with confusion, with lines like "Out-of-nowhere" or "He's symbolic", intent on the idea that he's not an actual character.

But he is.

And he's been a character ever since Disc 2.

And I'm about to provide you with evidence as to how I know this.

Garland, the ruler of Terra, sent several of his minions to Gaia in order to cause wars, so that everyone would die. (very similar to FF4's Zemus's plans) The Four Fiends were charged with the task of protecting the keys to Terra's entrance. Kuja was sent to cause wars, which he did very nicely. And Soulcage was in charge of halting the flow of souls on Gaia.

Soulcage's job was the most important. FF9's world had a "Lifestream" concept, just like FF7, FF the SpiritsWithin, and FF Adventure. By halting the Lifestream, new souls couldn't be born. Births slowly became impossible, for without a soul, a living creature isn't complete. Mist is a by-product of the soul-halting. In other words, Mist is a tangible form of souls, which is why evil, twisted beings are suddenly born from them (they're like poltergeists). This is also how the Black Mages eventually gained wills and souls, because they're made of Mist (which contains souls). It also explains how Mist is capable of operating machinery so well.

Garland's plan was to gather all of Gaia's spirit energy into the Iifa Tree (presumably mistranslated from Life or Lifa Tree). Once all of the Gaians were dead and their souls gathered, Garland would use Gaias spirit energy to revive Terra and its citizens. One can also assume that Kuja, Zidane, and Mikoto were given souls courtesy of the Mist. (which is probably the reason Zidane states that Genomes and Black Mages are so alike at the beginning of Disc 4)

As stated, it was Soulcage's job to make sure this happened. He halted the souls, and thus, Mist was born. It appeared on the Mist Continent because that's where the Iifa Tree's roots led to (twas probably what was intended, as Kuja manufactured the Black Mages there). However, due to circumstances, Kuja ends up annihilating Terra, the very planet he was originally trying to save. What became of all the Spirit energy that was gathered at the Iifa Tree? I'll get to that...

When the party meets Soulcage, he makes it perfectly clear that he's incapable of lying by spilling the beans about Kuja's plans. And before being fought, he says,

"I have seen the end of my thousand-year life, and it is not now. You cannot defeat me."

And then the party (supposedly) kills him, and the Mist vanishes from the world. When Zidane later confronts Garland, Zidane gets cocky about how he killed the monster that created the Mist. However, Garland tells him that all Zidane saw was the "back door" of the tree; an illusion of sorts. When Zidane returns to Gaia, guess what he saw?

Mist. The entire planet was covered in it. But how can Mist be there if the monster that created it was dead?

HAHAHA!! He wasn't!! He was still alive, just as Garland said, and just as Soulcage himself predicted!!

In order for all of that Mist to have been created, A LOT of souls would've had to have been processed by Soulcage. And with Terra gone, guess who gets to mooch off the leftovers? Guess who gets to ABSORB all of those DEAD souls and become a living embodiment of DEATH itself?! Soulcage does! And he adopts a name befitting of his new form: Necron!!! (Necro=Dead)

Further evidence is provided by the fact that the Final Battle takes place in Memoria/Crystal World, which is located directly above Soulcage's home, the Iifa Tree.

Absorbing souls is not as illogical as it sounds. Sephiroth from FF7 planned to do the same thing, and Kuja himself achieved Trance transformation by absorbing the souls stored inside the Invincible (one of which was the soul of Queen Brahne, as Kuja himself states).

Also, if you examine Soulcage and Necron's designs, they do look very similar.

So in short, Soulcage=Necron."

So if you put all the pieces together, they don't outright give the answer to you, but it makes sense for Necron to be there if you put it in this context.

[Moosh]

I 100%ed Yoshi's Island (including the GBA Secret levels). I wanna cry now...

Also, I'm pretty sure I had 494 deaths...

Edited by Pokemonmaster64, 25 April 2012 - 12:56 PM.

[Jared]

Just beat Pokemon White for the first time. An amazing game, I totally recommend it.

[Saffith]

I beat Mega Man on DOS. Now I'm sad.

[Octorockoncrack]

I think I just set a world record >_>

I just learned about the Master Hand Glitch in Melee, and I used it to play with him in Cruel Melee. Since it's a % match, Master Hand can't be KO'd. I just decided to stop after beating the living hell out of those wireframes for about an hour, and I'm finishing with 1234 KO's. This is insane! I tried to take a picture with my webcam, but the quality on the friggin' thing sucks so bad, that you cant even make out the numbers, even if I zoom up to it


You can at least tell that there's 4 digits there >_>

So to anyone who's ever played Cruel Melee, you've been avenged!