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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia XC: XC1 - Definitive Mafia Edition. Sign-up Thread. Take 2.

« on: September 18, 2024, 06:33:28 PM »

How the hell did I miss this? Count me in!

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NWR Feedback / Re: Connection Problems

« on: August 27, 2024, 03:41:40 PM »

I'll definitely write it up later when I have time and the site feels more stable. It erased everything when I was forced to refresh to next time I'll have to write it in Word or something.

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NWR Feedback / Re: WiiUIVLife Account

« on: August 25, 2024, 01:32:50 PM »

Doesn't have to be based off a previous post here. The AIs powering all this stuff has whole libraries of information and user comments that it could still be a bot. I work with AIs often now and sometimes I forget I'm chatting with a bot in the middle of working on solutions.

I ran their comments through some AI detection tools and they think it is 100% human generated, but those tools can be wildly inaccurate.

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NWR Feedback / Re: Connection Problems

« on: August 25, 2024, 01:29:18 PM »

Got it the other day when I tried to do a big post. I gave up at the time.

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TalkBack / Re: Civilization 7 To Settle On February 11, New Life Sim Announced At Gamescom Opening

« on: August 22, 2024, 11:59:10 PM »

I found them to be manageable so long as you only played on smaller maps. Medium and up all made the poor little console struggle to keep up.

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Movies & TV / Re: IT'S MAHVEL BAYBEE!! [OT] for the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Movies & TV)

« on: August 13, 2024, 09:39:53 PM »

I'm still balking a bit at RDJ as Doom. I don't doubt he can do a great job and will be phenomenal in the role on its own, but its the baggage about him being a variant or something else that worries me more. There is enough going on I had kind of hoped the forced pivot away from Kang would inject some freshness into the MCU that didn't have the sag of pretty much everything from Phase 4.

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Movies & TV / Re: SPOILER ALERT: MCU Thread (Quantum-Ant-Man-ia)

« on: August 13, 2024, 09:35:32 PM »

Which was it? This is the spoiler thread so its all fair game.

Finally got around to watching Deadpool 2 and knowing how 3 starts it kind of took the wind out of a lot of it. Was still neat but just rings a bit different when taken with 3.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Mario Kart: Double Dash - XLink Kai

« on: May 09, 2024, 12:40:57 AM »

Damn, I entered this thread and read the old messages from 2010 not realizing they were old and thought that they prices had bottomed out on adapters based off Mop it up's prices.

I've heard the used/retro games market has bottomed out a bit as folks that caught the fever during the pandemic (or trying to make a quick buck) have started cashing out so maybe these could drop a bit in the future?

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TalkBack / Re: Switch Screenshot Posting To Former Twitter Among Functionality Being Disabled June 10

« on: May 09, 2024, 12:33:21 AM »

Just want to say your sass in this article brought a smile to my face.

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia XC: Xenoblade Chronicles 1 - Definitive Mafia Edition. Sign-up Thread.

« on: April 30, 2024, 12:56:49 AM »

I'm still game!

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TalkBack / Re: Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection (Switch) Review

« on: March 22, 2024, 07:05:30 PM »

Would love to hear your thoughts on the other SW ports, by Aspyr and others. May be worth a dedicated article to give a rundown with links to the various reviews already written? I've nabbed a few of them but truthfully I never played much of them individually. I was more grabbing them for the nostalgia and a vague hope it would encourage more titles from the past LucasArts era or even new games in a similar vein.

I knew about the issues surrounding KOTOR 2, but thought the others seemed decent enough for what they were. I played the re-released Outcast, Academy, and Podracer to my recollection. Are they all really viewed that poorly?

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Movies & TV / Re: (NEW Poll Added!!) New Movies/TV Shows we should keep an eye out for!

« on: March 22, 2024, 06:50:10 PM »

Oh boy! I had a lot of fun ideas as a kid about horror versions of Childrens shows. One of my best I thought was a Gritty "reboot" game for Dragon Tales, where the original children, now grown up, return to their childhood home to clean up after their elderly parents pass away. They find the old dragon scale and laugh about their imaginative world as kids and repeat the phase and get transported back to Dragon Land, which was real it turns out. Only its this dark barren wasteland because it turns out they were key to keeping the place happy as kids. They go on a journey to try and restore the world and run into rabid and insane versions of their old dragon friends. You could choose to spare and restore your dragon friends or slay them, and along the way you faced challenges that were metaphors for various traumas and experiences they faced growing up in real life and it would be revealed the land became a channel for them to store their trauma and that was why the land was poisoned. So it would have been like a dark and twisted version of Links Awakening and American McGhee's Alice mixed together.

I might check this out if reviews are favorable. Like you I can be a sucker for good corny B horror flicks.

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TalkBack / Re: Thousand Year Door Remake And Luigi's Mansion 2 HD Receive Dates For Mar10

« on: March 14, 2024, 06:24:16 PM »

I mean Engage was developed in tandem with 3 Houses and was intentionally following a different path. People think Engage was supposed to release a few years back but Covid really did a number on Nintendo with their backwards processes involving security and working in person.

Willing to bet the next original game will be quite different from Engage. Maybe even the next remake (please give us more, I really want 4, 5, & 6 in a console-level Echoes style).

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Mario Kart: Double Dash - XLink Kai

« on: March 09, 2024, 02:05:28 PM »

Sounds silly to say, but not too bad. I was afraid we would be talking 200-300.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Mario Kart: Double Dash - XLink Kai

« on: March 07, 2024, 01:03:29 AM »

Dare I ask how expensive they are now? I still hope to buy some down the road. Kicking myself for not buying even one of the 4 that were sitting in a Frys years ago. Even when there was one left for $40 I had just gotten 4 complete Wavebirds and thought for sure I could get the broadband adapters later for a reasonable price.

I'm also thankful that I snagged a Gamecube player during the pandemic. It was Japanese, but I realized that I could buy a whole new Japan Gamecube, controller, and full Gameboy player for the cost of the US disc alone.

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Movies & TV / Re: IT'S MAHVEL BAYBEE!! [OT] for the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Movies & TV)

« on: February 20, 2024, 01:52:13 AM »

Bet you Pascale would have asked for a helmet-less role. He probably had is fill of that in Mando.

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Movies & TV / Re: SPOILER ALERT: MCU Thread (Quantum-Ant-Man-ia)

« on: February 20, 2024, 01:50:57 AM »

I think Marvels was a reaction to some of the drama swirling around the actress and fan sentiment about her. Which is odd because Disney is typically a bit stronger about caving to whining fans like that, unless it was really showing in some of their metrics somehow.

It does feel like it needed a second solo film before the ensemble team up. Or, you know, they could have explored the necessary backstory in one of their TV projects instead of the dreck we got, especially with the later shows.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The OFFICIAL Big N rumor thread *bring your own salt*

« on: February 20, 2024, 01:46:08 AM »

The internet went into meltdown because Switch 2 got "delayed" to 2025. Can it really be a delay when Switch 2 wasn't even officially announced? I'm being pedantic.

I'm not even disappointed. I only opened Tears of the Kingdom to claim the My Nintendo Gold Points, and I haven't bought Super Mario Bros. Wonder or Super Mario RPG. My backlog is LOL even without those games. I'm old; it'll be 2025 before I know it.

I thought that was some people overreacting about nothing. Makes me curious what will be coming this year to supplement if that is the case. Final years of Nintendo consoles tend to get some of the must unique and fun stuff because they have fully mastered the hardware, and the "flagship" games are being mostly held over for new systems.

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General-3 / Re: Unclebob posts bumps

« on: February 17, 2024, 06:12:14 PM »

But where is the fun in that?

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: What will Nintendo release in 2024?

« on: February 17, 2024, 06:06:34 PM »

Also we know Nintendo is very conscious of power consumption since it was one of the initial targets for the creation of the Wii U to have a very small power consumption. And disc drives are very power hungry, which would have been detrimental to a handheld system, even a hybrid one like the Switch.

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Movies & TV / Re: IT'S MAHVEL BAYBEE!! [OT] for the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Movies & TV)

« on: February 17, 2024, 06:03:07 PM »

No word on Dr Doom casting?

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: What will Nintendo release in 2024?

« on: February 14, 2024, 12:34:35 AM »

Oh! Forgot about this! Gotta get my predictions in!

1. Switch 2 releases 2024 with Backwards compatibility
2. Switch 2 adds things for their Online/VC library, but it is still underwhelming and limited from what it coudl and should be
3. Switch 2 includes some form of achievements/trophies
4. A new Fire Emblem is announced this year, but doesn't necessarily release yet.
5. Smash Ultimate gets a refresh/new DLC for Switch 2
6. We don't get Mario Kart 9, its just a refresh/update to 8 with a graphical overhaul, even more new and retro tracks, and some new modes and expansion to battle modes
7. Switch/Switch 2 finally gets a new Star Wars game that isn't Lego-based
8. Monster Hunter Wilds isn't coming to Switch, but Capcom throws something else MH related to the system.
9. Tears of the Kingdom gets new content, and it is tied to some new features of the Switch 2, either locking it to the new system or changing in some way that could be as simple as the Color Dungeon from the GBC Links Awakening dungeon
10. We get a new Animal Crossing, either a mainline one, a spinoff, or a massive new expansion/update for New Horizons

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General Gaming / Re: What is the last game you beat? Thoughts/impressions?

« on: February 14, 2024, 12:19:39 AM »

So my daughter is turning three this month and being more aware we've started playing a lot of classic games for fun. I've been playing a lot of the Mario games from Mario 3, World, Yoshi's Island, Mario 64, Galaxy, Odyssey, and 3D World. Also the OG Donkey Kong Country.

Of these I have beat Mario 64 and 3D World. Boy what a difference of opinion I've had about these games over previous plays.

Mario 64 I am now dreading returning to in the future. I thought the N64 controller would make things play better, but it just doesn't play well for me. I struggled with finer gameplay, with some of the platforming, and after the first 1/3rd of the game I was just powering through to get to the end for her. I could NOT hit the bombs with Bowser for the life of me in the last battle.

I don't know what is wrong, the controller, the port, my age, all of the above? I still dearly love the game, but something feels off. Even versus the play I did a year or so ago when 3D All Stars came out. I started playing on the Switch Online app because I was just going through the games on the apps, then remembered I have 3D All Stars. Both feel clunky and cumbersome to me. Maybe I need to bust out the N64 and try there? Like the game runs TOO good with higher framerates? Or there could be some sort of controller latency at play?

I'd love to hear what others think or have experiences with older games. For me this seems to be relegated to the N64 3D games. 2D games on NES and SNES seem to more clearly be me losing my gamer edge at these precision games.


On the other hand, Mario 3D World surprised me in a pleasant way. I have tried to play this game so many times, but always with friends and family. Because of scheduling none of these runs got farther than the beginning of world 3. But since I was the only one actively playing with a tiny cheerleader and spectator, we ran with it all the way through. And the game ramped up into some delightfully fun and devilishly challenging levels. I went from 50+ lives to my last life in the final main world. I had never done the infinite 1-up trick in any Mario game and I actually went back and did it to get more lives! And the unique powerups were all a delight along with the classics. The way it channeled older Mario games like 3 also gave it a wonderful feel.

I've yet to try Wonder, but I may not get to it until I finish 3D world and it just seems to keep on going. I'm on the second bonus world post-Bowser and I am half wondering if this game actually does run out of levels.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The OFFICIAL Big N rumor thread *bring your own salt*

« on: February 13, 2024, 11:55:26 PM »

With recent games on the Switch like Batman: Arkham Knight or Mortal Kombat 1 which had videos highlighting the drops in framerate or downgrade in graphics. Thus, it has made me ponder if some of those game might get updates that allow them to run a bit better on the next Switch or if the Switch 2 would just run them better on its own.

The problem will be if it is developer/update dependent, which will actually take the time to make the change? If a game sold poorly they may not get the clearance to work on an update. And even better selling games may not get the greenlight to update either if they are more than a year or two old unless they are still getting updates.

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Movies & TV / Re: IT'S MAHVEL BAYBEE!! [OT] for the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Movies & TV)

« on: February 13, 2024, 11:51:08 PM »

Actually... I take back my answer.

Thanos was wearing the Gauntlet with the stones.  Everyone who was dusted took everything they were wearing with them.  Clothes.  Fury's eye patch.  Bucky's arm.  It all went.

...if Thanos had been blipped, would the stones had gone with him?

Could actually be a good inclusion in the "What If...?" S3 Idea mentioned earlier. The other half are dusted including Thanos and the gauntlet, and thus instead of the intro to Endgame we got they are already dealing with the loss of the stones as well.