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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Mad Dog Mcree

« on: June 16, 2009, 09:48:44 PM »

Honestly, both are so small it doesn't really matter which is the definitive one.

Plus search is kind of wonky half the time. Once I searched Rock Band 2 and the official topic for that didn't even register on it.

Here's all the important stuff from Vega's post.

3 games bundled together for $20.00

Source:

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/16/mad-dog-mccree-blasts-his-way-to-wii-with-the-gunslinger-pack/

Gameplay video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYv-xvXjF5I

Now that's a good deal. yeah it's corny but the price is totally right.  I totally see myself and a friend play this game while drunk.

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General-3 / Re: Mop_it_up & Stratos' Rail-less thread Now With Updated stats AND Capitalization!

« on: June 16, 2009, 09:44:13 PM »

Bingo!

Yoshi (Japanese: ヨッシー) is a dragon from some Nintendo video games. He was originally known as Super Dragon Yoshi in Japan. He is Mario's dino-dragon friend, first appearing in Super Mario World for the Super Famicom in his Japanese release. His North American and European debutes came on the SNES. Yoshi was created by Shigefumi Hino, a graphics designer and the director of Pikmin. The reason why he was created was that shortly after Shigeru Miyamoto finished Super Mario Bros, Nintendo's design staff wanted Mario to ride a dino. That concept was technically impossible until the SNES was developed. Most games containing Yoshi were developed for the Nintendo 64.

Here's the link

Yoshi apparently means 'game' in Chinese.

Also, Yoshi is slang for the SNES there since he was the first major character introduced on it.

Not fully sure of the site's credibility but at least it is a source.

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General-3 / Re: Mop_it_up & Stratos' Rail-less thread Now With Updated stats AND Capitalization!

« on: June 16, 2009, 09:38:58 PM »

You already searched the Mario Wiki? Because that's where I thought I read it.

I'll help you look.

Are you Googling it?

I'll try that new-fangled 'bing' thing Microsofts cooked up.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Mad Dog Mcree

« on: June 16, 2009, 09:36:56 PM »

Bump?

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: MAd Dog McCree comes to Wii for an affordable price

« on: June 16, 2009, 09:36:13 PM »

It's on page three. It was right below the Span Smash thread I just bumped.
I'll go bump it for you.

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General-3 / Re: Mop_it_up & Stratos' Rail-less thread Now With Updated stats AND Capitalization!

« on: June 16, 2009, 09:34:46 PM »

Well, my original argument was that Yoshi was originally referred to as a dragon in Japan and therefore he was a dragon. The SMW manual reference to Dragon Coins is one of the only remnants aside from Yoshi's Final Smash to this in English.

If you think about it it is similar to Birdo's situation with his/her gender.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Animal Crossing: City Folk

« on: June 16, 2009, 09:31:45 PM »

I'm over it. It's not a big deal. I'm just teasing you about it now. 

I've not done enough with flowers to be particular about them.

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TalkBack / Re: Okaeri! Chibi-Robo! Happy Richie Oosouji?!?!

« on: June 16, 2009, 09:29:33 PM »

I've never played the series, but it has always looked interesting.

I was really hoping NoA would bring the NPC version stateside so I could try it. Do we even have Pikmin 2 confirmed for release here? Maybe Chibi will come in the Fall.

If it doesn't I'll be sure to get this one if it comes out here.

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General-3 / Re: Time until Wii Launch...

« on: June 16, 2009, 09:24:40 PM »

You can't skip numbers. If you do you have to go back and get them at the end.

13

Plus if you speed it up too much the timer might end before the event happened.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Animal Crossing: City Folk

« on: June 16, 2009, 09:23:13 PM »

OK, it wasn't yelling, it was crying emoticons.

You made me feel bad for doing it...

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General-3 / Re: Mop_it_up & Stratos' Rail-less thread Now With Updated stats AND Capitalization!

« on: June 16, 2009, 09:21:28 PM »

I was only saying that the manual calls the Yoshi coins Dragon coins.
It is corollary evidence.

Since coins with Yoshi's image on them are called dragon coins he must be a dragon.

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General Chat / Re: Get your custom title here

« on: June 16, 2009, 09:17:23 PM »

For goofing around with, for eating or for actually gluing stuff. I like the elmers paste. In elementary school we'd make them into bouncy balls. Then one of my friends tried to get high off of it and another was eating half of the bottle. We didn't get to use the glue again for a long time...in fact I can't recall getting to use it again in elementary school. I wonder why 

So. Should I go wait at the airport and hold a sign that has Birdo on it or just bring a mop?

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Animal Crossing: City Folk

« on: June 16, 2009, 09:14:23 PM »

Nope, we were running side by side and you cut me off and so my character ran into my flowers.

  

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General-3 / Re: Mop_it_up & Stratos' Rail-less thread Now With Updated stats AND Capitalization!

« on: June 16, 2009, 09:12:13 PM »

I second GP's motion.

Don't encourage her

I can pull out the manual for Super Mario World if you'd like. I'm not fully sure where my big box of old game manuals is but I could probably find it.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Animal Crossing: City Folk

« on: June 16, 2009, 09:10:28 PM »

I'm picturing Mop it up cringing right now.

She yelled at me for trampling my own flowers. And that was her fault because she pushed me into them.

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General Gaming / Re: Rock Band 2?

« on: June 16, 2009, 09:04:21 PM »

6/16

About time Evanescence showed up. Too bad there was only one song from Fallen.
Only on HD consoles this week though...  Here's hoping for it coming next week.

For HD
Evanescence - Bring Me to Life
Evanescence - Call Me When You’re Sober
Evanescence - Weight of the World
Spinal Tap - Back from the Dead
Spinal Tap - Rock ‘n’ Roll Nightmare
Spinal Tap - Saucy Jack
Spinal Tap - Warmer Than Hell

For Wii
Avenged Sevenfold “Critical Acclaim”
Ben Harper and Relentless7 “Shimmer & Shine”
Brad Paisley “Mud on the Tires”
Brooks & Dunn “Hillbillie Deluxe”
Coheed and Cambria “A Favor House Atlantic”
Coheed and Cambria “The Running Free”
Crooked X “Rock & Roll Dream” +
Dierks Bentley “Free & Easy (Down the Road I Go)”
Dixie Chicks “Sin Wagon”
The Material “Moving to Seattle” +
Maximo Park “Girls Who Play Guitars”
Miranda Lambert “Gunpowder & Lead”
Motley Crue “Down at the Whisky”
The Myriad “A Clean Shot” +
Phish “Wilson (live)”
Rush “Closer to the Heart”
Shinedown “Devour”
Shinedown “Junkies for Fame”
Shooter Jennings “Steady at the Wheel”
Soundgarden “Jesus Christ Pose”
Soundgarden “Pretty Noose”
TV on the Radio “Wolf Like Me”
Them Terribles “Bullets & Guns” +
Trapt “Who’s Going Home With You Tonight?”

Songs with a + only cost 100 points.

6/9 Backlog I missed reporting.

Blur - Beetlebum (cover)
Die Toten Hosen - Hier Kommt Alex
Disturbed - Indestructible
Disturbed - Perfect Insanity
H-BlockX - Countdown to Insanity
Iron Maiden - Aces High (live)
Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes to Midnight
Iron Maiden - The Trooper
Iron Maiden - Wasted Years
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills
Iron Maiden - Can I Play With Madness
Iron Maiden - The Clairvoyant
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name (live)
Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark (live)
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden (live)
Juli - Perfekte Welle
Les Wampas - Manu Chao
The Mother Hips - Red Tandy
The Mother Hips - Time-Sick Son of a Grizzly
Pleymo - New Wave
Stephen & the Colberts - Charlene*
Tokio Hotel - Monsoon
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With the Night

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Span Smasher

« on: June 16, 2009, 09:00:53 PM »

BUMP

Impressions from E3 were nice.
M+ support confirmed as well.

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General-3 / Re: Time until Wii Launch...

« on: June 16, 2009, 08:51:40 PM »

you skipped 15.

15

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General Chat / Re: Get your custom title here

« on: June 16, 2009, 08:51:03 PM »

Auburn, Washington
United States of America
Planet Earth, 3rd planet from the Sun
Milky Way Galaxy
...um...what universe are we in?

I dare you to come find me.   

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General-3 / Re: Mop_it_up & Stratos' Rail-less thread Now With Updated stats AND Capitalization!

« on: June 16, 2009, 08:48:53 PM »

Yoshi=Dragon 

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Super Mario Kart Mafia

« on: June 16, 2009, 08:47:46 PM »

I don't know what evidence there is to support Yoshi being asexual, but there's also nothing against it either.

Yoshi has been officially referred to as a dinosaur, and he can't breathe fire or fly on his own. Those are an effect of swallowing a certain colour of turtle shell.

In English. Original Japanese referres to him as a dragon.

Also, the Yoshi coins in Mario World are referred to as dragon coins.

And the smash ball gives Yoshi those powers as well. Whether they come by special power or not they are traits of his...
Should we move this over to our thread, Mop it up? We've completely derailed this topic. I don't want to take away from Mafia preperations.

I'll dig it up.

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General-3 / Re: Time until Wii Launch...

« on: June 16, 2009, 08:37:37 PM »

I don't know what either of you are counting down to but I find myself strangely excited.

Join us Mop it up, you know you want to.

16

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Super Mario Kart Mafia

« on: June 16, 2009, 08:36:32 PM »

I know, I just wanted to know it if was just you being you or because I referred to Dry Bones as a guy a few posts back.

I still think Yoshi's reproduce asexually. Like Godzilla. Yoshi was probably conceived as a cartoony version of Godzilla. Yoshi is more dragon than dinosaur, though. Breathes fire and can fly and all that.

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General Chat / Re: Get your custom title here

« on: June 16, 2009, 08:30:57 PM »

I always thought you just posted it here and someone on the mod team just went through and added them from time to time.

You thought that despite the fact that multiple people told you otherwise. Awesome.

Sounds like someone's having a bad-hair day.  Sheesh.

Stratos, there's several ways to get titles.  Sometimes you'll just get one, based on a whim, sometimes a thread like this works, and sometimes pestering people works.  It can vary based on who you message, how much time they have, and if they like you.

Well, we know she had one. There is photographic proof. 

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General-3 / Re: Ice Climber 2: Judgement Day

« on: June 16, 2009, 08:18:49 PM »

Prince of Ice Climbing: The Frozen Throne

Think the final climbing segment of Sands of Time. You are climbing a huge frozen mountain with outcrops, ledges and pillars you can swing to, shimmy up or side step along. I'm also thinking of Toki Tori-esque puzzles thrown in the mix.
The view will be restricted to two dimensions with the exception of certain points where the view may shift up, down, left or right to account for movement along the face of the mountain. 2.5D would aptly describe it.

Like how you had Elika or the Sands to save you in the Persia games, you have Nana to save Popo or vice versa thanks to the tether.

Then, there is a critical point near the end where one of them is taken from you and you have to try and navigate to your missing comrade.

The Tether can be a useful tool on its own as well. Use it like a whip, or use it as a sling-shot. Keep Popo at one end and have Nana go across to another far ledge to create a large slingshot to fling items or characters up to higher levels. Or use it as a bridge to span chasms for allies.

Have some heat-based enemies and puzzles. Say there is a fire breathing enemy lizard. You have to find a way to get a block of ice past him or else it melts. If there is a fire-lizard on a grate, you can throw an ice block at it to melt and the water flows down the drain and refreezes in a different area or falls into a special key mold to make a key to progress.

Tools can include

>The Tether. Maybe give it magical properties or have it upgradeable. Also give it a stress level. Go beyond the stress level and it snaps. Or have special limited use tethers you can find that have special properties akin to the different goo balls in World of Goo. Some can be sticky for grabbing items, others can melt ice and some can be magnetic for attracting special items.

>Hammer. Can be used to stun enemies or break certain ice or rock structures. Can be upgraded to break stronger materials and stun enemies for longer periods of time (I think not allowing enemies to be killed in most instances will be a game feature).

>Chissel. To be used in conjunction with Hammer to inscribe symbols. Use the Wiimote to point at wall where you want to mark and shake the Nunchuck to swing the hammer.

>Clinbing Spikes. Special spikes which allow you to free climb a mountain face. Found in limited quantity, probably in special areas where the puzzel/challenege is to ascend a certain height with the fewest spikes.

>Pickaxe. used to ascend short heights. Saves you from a freefall if used right.

>Rope. It's a rope. Never leave home without good rope.


So...should I keep going?
I think I'm going to go back into trying to be a game developer. This idea is pretty intense.