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TalkBack / Re: Art Academy: SketchPad Review

« on: August 11, 2013, 12:03:53 AM »

As i said earlier i think that charging for this app is a rip-off of sorts.

Amazing artists are drawing great pictures every day and promote your system and Nintendo decides to prey on them instead of encouraging their free marketing.

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TalkBack / Re: The Wonderful 101 Demo Now Live on Wii U eShop Worldwide, New Trailer Released

« on: August 10, 2013, 11:57:12 PM »

15 tries? My Wii U says 20.

That's because you live in Obamastan.

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TalkBack / Re: The Wonderful 101 Demo Now Live on Wii U eShop Worldwide, New Trailer Released

« on: August 10, 2013, 11:29:30 PM »

It's permanent, but it's only 15 tries.

That's why i kept my Wii U on for two days now.

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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last movie you've seen

« on: August 10, 2013, 11:26:22 PM »

Elysium

It's a good sci-fi movie. Too bad it's made by director whose previous movie was absolutely mindblowing and literally life-changing.

It retreads the plot and even setting of District 9 but lacks something that made D9 so amazing. Even if main character of D9 was uberjerk in the beginning you still found yourself rooting for him by the end. It was a wonderful journey for the character. Damon can't evoke even the echo of that feeling.

Action scenes in Elysium were good and gory just like in D9, but shaky camera i think wasted some of them.

It's still a good movie, but a kind disappointing after D9.

Still, i LOVE how sci-fi movies are making a full on comeback these last years. Even if you exclude superhero genre, we still had lots good-to-great sci-fi movies: Source Code, Pacific Rim, Platen of the Apes, Oblivion. And there will be more: Gravity, Interstellar.

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General Gaming / Re: What are you playing?

« on: August 10, 2013, 09:10:07 AM »

Apart from going crayzee from Wonderful 101 demo, i also played Jelly no Puzzle.

It all started innocent enough. My colleague at work said he was playing Swapper and had a hard time with one puzzle, he then showed me solution which he thought was amazing while i guffawed at it and brought up many other games with much more BS puzzles. Then i remembered that Jelly game and gave the link to my friend.

Soon enough we all played it. I remember how i couldn't get through level 10 half a year ago. I guess i got much better cause i managed to get level 15 in a few hours.

Design in this game very impressive. Extremely hard puzzles based on a few simple rules and yet each and every single one is very unique and looks impossible at first.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Pikmin 3 The Game That Is Going To Change The Wii-U

« on: August 10, 2013, 02:02:45 AM »

It has too much senseless gore and pointless sex scenes.

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General Chat / Re: Yay! I fixed my computer!

« on: August 10, 2013, 02:01:49 AM »

I'm okay with King of Queens.

I love Married with Children.

I also love "Mad about you" and honestly don't understand why it's considered a bad show.

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TalkBack / Re: The Wonderful 101 Demo Now Live on Wii U eShop Worldwide, New Trailer Released

« on: August 10, 2013, 01:27:04 AM »

Here is a glorious song from demo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df_nTBwmgX0

So awesome.

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TalkBack / Re: SteamWorld Dig Review

« on: August 10, 2013, 01:09:17 AM »

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=75618987#post75618987 :

...Let me express how amazed we at tiny Image & Form are to see this forum thread... As a formerly iOS-only dev, we have gotten used to screaming into the void and praying for attention. And here - and elsewhere - we've got people happily running forums on the game. Talk about contrast!

 You're asking for follow-up on SteamWorld Dig and I'm happy to tell you that as of yesterday, thanks to the overwhelming response and a relieved sense of having a potential big hit, we decided to forge ahead on the next project in the series. SteamWorld is here to stay, and we'll stay on the 3DS.

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TalkBack / Re: The Wonderful 101 Demo Now Live on Wii U eShop Worldwide, New Trailer Released

« on: August 10, 2013, 12:59:52 AM »

There a few secrets in the demo, make sure to scan the buildings.

I found one wonderful statue and one geathjerk file.

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TalkBack / Re: The Wonderful 101 Demo Live on European and Japanese eShop Now, New Trailer Released

« on: August 09, 2013, 02:58:23 PM »

Okay i finished it and went for second round.

It went MUCH better second time. I'm feeling the combat much better. Still not confident enough with jello blocking timing -- it lasts just for about a second and then fall apart so you need to know timing of the attack that you're blocking from.

Rating system (while again, very, very similar) is much more forgiving than in Bayonetta. On my first playthrough i was thrown all over the place by enemies and yet still got gold medals.

Off TV play is very interesting, it actually has three modes: regular game, off tv play and picture in picture mode where you can see tv and gamepad visuals on both screens (you will need this mode to play two screen sequences when playing only on gamepad). You can't use touchscreen when in off tv play mode.

Demo doesn't use my Wii Classic Controller for singleplayer game, which is a shame. I can't use CCPro as my main controller but it's available in co-op challenges. Full game might still support it fully. Regular Gamepad control work just fine though.

Wonderful 101 song you get when finish mission is made of saturday morning cartoon cheese.

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TalkBack / Re: The Wonderful 101 Demo Live on European and Japanese eShop Now, New Trailer Released

« on: August 09, 2013, 01:32:07 PM »

I'm halfway through the demo so far and it feels really, REALLY similar to Bayonetta. Also very, very weird.

Similarities:

Items crafting is the same -- you collect three components that you combine according to recipes to get items
Block/Deflect -- pudding -- Moon of Maha-Kala
Dodge action -- no witch time in W101 obviously
Somewhat similar structure to combos

Unite actions also feel similar to Metal Gear Rising's sword action -- you start moving right stick, time slows down a bit and you have to move the stick in specific way to do something. I didn't liked this mechanic in the demo and have a bit of hard time adjusting to it here as well. I'm confident i'll get used to it though.

Main thing that throws me off the loop is probably isometric perspective. Now you have to be aware of entire area surrounding you and not just what you see like in 3d action games. I constantly get hit by a monster who jumped from the corner i wasn't paying attention to.

Demo has 15 plays on it. This sucks, especially considering demo, like the game, has multiplayer component, at least i was getting the game anyway.

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TalkBack / Re: The Wonderful 101 Demo Live on European and Japanese eShop Now, New Trailer Released

« on: August 09, 2013, 11:55:18 AM »

Downloading the demo.

Loved this Kamiya Direct.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Super Smash Bros. for WiiU (& 3DS)

« on: August 09, 2013, 05:09:35 AM »

You should rehost Sakurai's daily images, because the change, you know daily.

Yesterday, it was fit lady now it's Luigi.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Downloads - August 8, 2013

« on: August 08, 2013, 11:25:46 PM »

If you have a Deluxe Digital Downloads program, it will return you 10% of DuckTales' price thus matching the price with PS+.

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General Gaming / Re: What are you playing?

« on: August 07, 2013, 11:37:22 PM »

Kilgore in Bayonetta are so, so deliciously broken and awesome. I mean it's bazookas that are attached to your each arm AND leg, how cool is that?

Challenges where i had to do limited punches and kicks are now actually doable. Simplest and fastest combo of "punch-kick-punch" can halve even Brave's health meter and just obliterates lesser mook angels.

Kilgore rocket blasts are arguable stronger than actual Wicked Weaves and certainly better in terms of area of effect.

It got to the point where at all times i'm only choosing between two loadouts: guns+kilgores (little bit easier to do combos) or kilgores+kilgores (to do some real quadruple rocket damage coming from all limbs).

Ass: Revelations
Tower defense in Assassin's Creed game? What is this? Why did they do this? It sucks! Why. Why.

Otherwise, it's pretty okay so far. It's good that they changed buttons a bit and fixed some of the UI issues this series had for a while (like when you stand near shop and can't speak to an owner you have to run away from it, come back and then respective action will show up). Putting eagle sense on a left stick push is a definite improvement. I'm not convinced that dividing weapons into two circles per stick is better though. By now Ezio's arsenal is so big it's kinda hard to remember which weapon belong to which circle and which stick you should move.

Not so keen on new bombs feature. I mean it's just bombs. Yet they made entire meta game out of it. Why? There are like few dozens of different types of them in the game... How many different bombs do you really need?

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TalkBack / Re: Animal Crossing Plaza Impressions

« on: August 07, 2013, 11:20:47 PM »

I thought it was replacement for boot screen, but it turned out to be a rather shallow app, and you have to boot it separately. Kinda lame.

The presentation is cute though. My first experience with Animal Crossing.

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TalkBack / Re: Luigi to Get His Own Train for Year of Luigi Celebration

« on: August 07, 2013, 11:17:54 PM »

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TalkBack / Re: Art Academy: SketchPad Coming August 9

« on: August 07, 2013, 02:33:26 PM »

Where is my Flipnote.

They said there will be Flipnote in August.

Where is it?

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Direct Focusing on Wii U, 3DS Games Airs Tomorrow

« on: August 07, 2013, 01:31:12 AM »

I'm expecting new Wonderful 101 info and "Iwata Asks... Kamiya" going live after Direct.

Best. Direct. Ever.

Oh, and "summer" Wii U update would be nice.

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General Gaming / Re: What are you playing?

« on: August 06, 2013, 11:40:28 PM »

Assassin's Creed "somebody, stop me!" Revelations:
I've barely played twenty minutes of the game and already starting to see how's it's worse from previous games. Combat system was touched again and made even more OP. Finishing animation is the same in almost all cases, and a really ridiculous one at that, where Ezio turns to the guy with his back (if he was facing him, he will turn just to do this animation), and kill the guy with a sword over his head. Facial models for some reason got even more funky looking, AC is probably the only series where with each iteration faces looks worse and worse and worse yet.

Ah well, i will try to blast through this game and III as fast as possible to prepare myself for IV.

Bayonetta
Unlocked killgore yesterday. I was like: "ahahaha, what is this?" when i tried this out for the first time. Probably the most overpowered and gamechanging weapon yet. I like it.
The main problem with this game is sequences where you make one mistake and you're dead. And most often than not, these sequences are placed right in the middle of a long level and dying there ruins your overall level score. You can miss one QTE or miscalculate how far the rolling ball from you and you're out.

It was funny when i moved myself towards the projectiles to do Mahaa-Kalaa parrying when i played a bit of Kid Icarus yesterday. Same way you  reflexively keep waggling your 3DS or gamepad in other Mario games after playing NSMB.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Splinter Cell: BlackList. Insert 1950's Red Scare joke here.

« on: August 06, 2013, 11:22:37 PM »

Couldn't Ubisoft delay all versions,  like they did with Rayman, so they can add wii u features? /s

That would require integrity from their part.

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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last TV show you've seen

« on: August 06, 2013, 12:00:39 AM »

Caught season one finale of Gravity Falls.

It was okay i guess, you could see the ending from a mile away but it was still solid GF stuff.

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TalkBack / Re: Smash Bowling 3D Coming to 3DS August 8

« on: August 05, 2013, 11:41:24 PM »

but does it have zombies?

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General Gaming / Re: What are you playing?

« on: August 05, 2013, 11:36:36 PM »

Almost ten years ago, we used to play demo for Unreal Tournament 2003 on work. It had only one level (bunker or something) but it was all we needed.

Though this weekend i was reminded how backwards their server configuration was and always were, when we tried to set up a LAN game. I remember how confusing it was to set up dedicated server for it. Adding bots required restarting server or something.

Played some multiplayer for Assasin Creed: Brotherhood last night. It took some time to find games (played some Retro Game Challenge while the game was searching for sessions and people say they don't understand the point of handheld gaming at home where they have HDTV and a computer).

The game is more or less game of hide and seek with some tag sprinkled in with elaborate rules. It's pretty okay, though feels very shallow. At least they added some upgrades progression. Still, it's refreshing to play a game online that isn't about shooting people.