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I personally always loved the Zelda II story, for some reason that one stands out plus the original Super Mario Bros. it read more like a fantasy than it's current form.

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Nintendo Gaming / How to solve Nintendos 3rd party problem...
« on: August 16, 2013, 12:18:28 PM »
Sorry for long rant, how do you delete a post?

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Ducktales: Why did no one tell me?
« on: August 16, 2013, 11:55:14 AM »
Does anybody have this game yet? Is it worth paying for? I am thinking if I should get it on steam now or wait till I can get it for Wii U?

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: New Super Mario Bros. U
« on: November 10, 2012, 09:24:15 AM »
I have decided that I will be getting a WiiU in January, and this is the only game I am interested at the time. I might pick up that Dragon Quest when/if it comes out but until then I will be happy playing Mario. Aside from that I probably won't be around here much for a while, finals are coming up and my interest in this console is starting to die out.

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All I am going to say is that I am a Nintendo gamer, so if a Nintendo console became unplayable for me that meant it ruined gaming *for me* and leave it at that. I am trying to get excited for the new console, so please don't go and talk me out of it by reminding me how much I grew to hate them the last generation.

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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
« on: November 10, 2012, 08:58:26 AM »
I didn't know Thora Birch was the little girl in Hocus Pocus until a couple years ago. She was pretty amazing as Enid in Ghost World, one of my favorite films and much better than the graphic novel.

I thought the same thing about Sarah Jessica Parker in Hocus Pocus which I saw again a few years ago then promptly changed my mind. And good God, Lemon... SJP is annoying as shiz in that movie...


I did, when I was a kid I developed a crush on her first time I watched Hocus Pocus and followed her ever since. I also loved Ghost World it is one of my top ten favorite movies, largely thanks to Miss Birch, but also for being an amazing movie.

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Movies & TV / Re: Disney buying Lucasfilm, Star Wars 7 in 2015
« on: November 10, 2012, 08:55:15 AM »
I meant it as Hasbro does not need Disney to save them, once the Star Wars movies hit their toy line will be secure. As far as Disney goes, they won't buy Hasbro they have no need to, Marvel and Lucas are entertainment companies just like they are, Hasbro is a toy company what Disney would be interested in if anything would be their entertainment properties Disney does not now nor have they ever been in the toy business, they happily license their stuff out for a reason.

As far as the Power Rangers brand goes, I don't know what happened there  but I don't remember it ever being totally controlled by Disney it was always Saban and Bandai I thought. Disney was just one of many outlets that aired their stuff I doubt they were directly involved in the production for any significant length of time, if ever.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U < 8.95 more days
« on: November 09, 2012, 06:09:24 PM »
I didn't mean to take the thread off topic.


I might be able to get me a WiiU after all but not until after the first of the year, and only if I don't buy me a Windows 8 Tablet.


Right now I am mostly interested in New Super Mario Bros. U, I haven't read up on any other games yet so I have some reading to do.


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Movies & TV / Re: Disney buying Lucasfilm, Star Wars 7 in 2015
« on: November 09, 2012, 06:03:30 PM »
Disney doesn't need to buy Hasbro, just putting new Star Wars films on screen pretty much secures their future with all the toys to come.

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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
« on: November 09, 2012, 08:21:15 AM »
I don't get out much obviously so I don't see a lot of new movies but I did just buy Captain America on blu ray. I gotta say it was much better than that Avengers flick. Avengers was okay for a while but I started to get dizzy towards the end. Actually I was kidding about the 3D, I still hate it.

As for Captain America, I was surprised at how much I did like it. I was expecting it to be mediocre but it was actually  a very good film. My parents who hate comic book movies even liked it.

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Movies & TV / Re: Disney buying Lucasfilm, Star Wars 7 in 2015
« on: November 09, 2012, 08:10:05 AM »
Yeah, I meant everything since DOGMA. CLERKS 2 is actually not awful, I forgot about that one. Either way, not even Smith's good movies suggest he could or should be involved with a Star Wars movie.

You are missing the point of his movies then, his movies are made for nerds, plain and simple. he tackles relationships and stuff but mostly he just makes movies about nerds trying to look like normal people. He deep down is a huge Star Wars fan and has made some decent action movies so I think he could handle Star Wars and take it seriously.


Not that he would be involved chances are Disney wouldn't even approach him.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U < 8.95 more days
« on: November 09, 2012, 08:07:18 AM »
Bowser isn't supposed to be taken seriously as a villain. The entire series is not to be taken seriously.

Thank you, gamers are too obsessed with wanting ALL games to be this very specific definition of "epic" that they fail to have fun - just trick themselves into thinking their having it because of "cool cutscenes" and "great voice acting" and "epic stories". Bull ****, not every game has to fit into this. Mario being the prime example.

The sole point for Mario games is to be fun, whether it's an original style throwback like the NSMB series of games or the 3D platforming series that have been evolution's of Mario 64.

The only reason those games have a story is because is because they're no longer side-scrolling and a story is a way to tell the player "this is your goal". I don't remember there being any story in NSMBW but anyone from age 5 to 105 can pick up the controller and realize "I can't go left, so I must have to go to the right" at the start of any given level. Whereas in something like Mario Sunshine or Galaxy (which is a GREAT game and how dare you not play it!) have open worlds and the story is basically telling you "hey, do this so you can go and do that eventually" Take that away and you're still having fun, aren't you?

If you're playing Mario Galaxy because you really felt the universe was going to be destroyed and you were it's last hope, you're doing it wrong.



Who said anything about Epic, and pointing out how great the New Super Mario games is pointless I already said I DO enjoy those, just not the console ones. It has nothing to do with being epic it has everything to do with when I was a kid I used to play nothing but Super Mario Bros. games, I was one who read the instruction manuals where you GOT the story from, I watched the cartoons and I really liked them, when I was a kid. From Mario 64 on they just decided King Koopa doesn't need koopas anymore. For me that is a minor gripe so don't take it the wrong way, the MAJOR gripe is playing a game supposedly set in the same damn Mushroom Kingdom and not finding a SINGLE element that looks or feels right. Mario World was set in an entirely new undiscovered part of the world and yet it did not feel like visiting an alien planet the way Mario Sunshine did.

And saying that the games are just about being fun is silly, the console games were NOT fun to me. I had fun with Mario 64 but it really started to lose me towards the end. With Sunshine I felt like it was just not a Mario game and I hated the water gun aspect entirely. There was very little running and jumping in that game. And don't give me any of that I didn't play it long enough, if Mario Bros. 3 started out like Metroid and turned into Mario latter people would be pissed, Mario has a distinct feel I honestly don't get those people who fail to see that. Yes the games are supposed to be fun but have you ever wondered why if the 3D games are so great why they keep making hot selling 2D ones also? It's not like going 3D means they have to abandon everything that came first look at the Paper Mario games, they keep plenty of Mushroom Kingdom stuff in those, its just Sunshine and what I saw of Galaxies looked like an entirely unrelated universe. Even Mario RPG with all it's new stuff still felt like a traditional Mario to me.

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It was more than that, I hated everything about the Wiimote. It ruined gaming for me.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U
« on: November 08, 2012, 05:30:19 PM »
Alright well I get that Galaxy was unrealistic but that was not the point, for me the Mario universe was well established as a certain kind of mythological place. To be honest I never cared for any of the Spin offs, Mario Kart, party, the sports games, to me you go from having King Koopa as a serious threat to the mushroom kingdom, an evil monarch with abitions of power who uses black magic to get his way, to basically a big cry baby bully with a crush on the princess, no thanks that is where they lost me.


Mario is set in the Mushroom Kingdom, the protagonist is the King of the Koopas so ANY game that relies less on Koopas and more on paint balls and generic funky pokemon rejects is just not Mario to me. Also for me the game is about running and jumping, exploration, and collecting coins and power ups, some of the latter games especially the console games just stray too far from that. With Sunshine I felt that yes the game play was great and IF it had been some random character with an original story I might have liked it but that game never felt like a Mario game to me. I never played Galaxies the videos alone turned me off.


To be fair, who cares what I think, if you enjoy the games play them, I just wanted to say what I didn't like about them, which is kind of why I am so excited for New Super Mario Bros. U, because I loved the first one on the DS and if I had known a sequel was coming for the Wii I might not have sold it when I did.

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Movies & TV / Re: Disney buying Lucasfilm, Star Wars 7 in 2015
« on: November 07, 2012, 07:30:09 PM »
lol i'm  waiting for Kevin Smith to announces his unretirement

Now you got me excited for another round of Robot Chicken Star Wars, come on Seth make it happen.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U
« on: November 07, 2012, 07:26:56 PM »
everything Ian said is basically why I have not enjoyed a console Mario game since Mario 64. It takes me out of the illusion of the fantasy world that came before.

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Movies & TV / Re: Disney buying Lucasfilm, Star Wars 7 in 2015
« on: November 07, 2012, 03:21:45 PM »
I would like to see a collaboration of true fans/nerds working on this, from Kevin Smith, JJ Abrams, Seth Green, and it should start Shia Lebouf and the chick from Kick Ass, um Hit Girl not the girl friend.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U
« on: November 07, 2012, 03:18:04 PM »
Does that mean you will be able to opt out of those features if you choose?

Maybe, but it also means you won't be able to go online with your system since system updates are usually required. Besides, why would you not want them?

Some features I would be okay with but not the Miiverse thing, I might be in the minority but I hated those damn Mii's.

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No, if there is a developer out there that needs desperately to buy up TH*Q it is SEGA, not Nintendo.

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Movies & TV / Re: Disney buying Lucasfilm, Star Wars 7 in 2015
« on: November 07, 2012, 08:54:42 AM »
They already said it will not be Thrawn trilogy, but something original. They said it is based on a treatment Lucas did a long time ago.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: New Super Mario Bros. U
« on: November 07, 2012, 08:51:33 AM »
So does that mean it will be a skimpy game then if it is small enough to be a download or does it mean the disc will have more features and content?

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U
« on: November 07, 2012, 08:50:17 AM »
Does that mean you will be able to opt out of those features if you choose?

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Movies & TV / Re: Disney buying Lucasfilm, Star Wars 7 in 2015
« on: November 06, 2012, 04:24:45 PM »
There is an article I read on another forum, says all three are already agreed to do it since Lucas is not directly involved.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: New Super Mario Bros. U
« on: November 05, 2012, 07:41:18 AM »
I am not sure if I am follow this correctly, I am a little behind and there is too much info to process at the moment, but is this a digital download or a real game you buy in a store?

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General Chat / Re: Show Us Your Desktop Background!
« on: November 05, 2012, 07:27:33 AM »
Wait a second... therat? THERAT!?!?!? Is it you? Have you come back?!?!? Oh joy of joys!

Edit: I figure I oughta contribute. I love some of the pics posted here, but I really have difficulty using complex images as my background, largely because I'm a MESS when it comes to having 4,5,6 or even 7 rows of Windows icons on the screen. I've got 3.5 rows on my screen right now and honestly, I feel really proud of how clean it is... ^_^

Anyways, this is a background I accidentally discovered ages ago. I found the original image here and, wanting a black background, used MSPaint to BRUTALIZE it, then STRETCHING it into my current computer's full resolution, resulting in the following image (I'm too embarassed to show my aforementioned rows upon rows of icons):



Honestly, this is far from the original work but I love it. I love the sort of digital-industrial-distressing that happened when I paint-bucketed the Black but purple remained. I love the random Purple stripe along the left. And the font turned out neat even though it was stretched too! Gah, I gotta e-mail this artist again and offer to remunerate him somehow. I've gotten years of mileage out of this background and I ought to give back... especially seeing as how I've been such a philistine with his original work.



um I am not sure how to take that, there was a guy whose name was therat, and there was me, I went by several different name changes but my sig always said to call me THE RAT. But I have grown up since then and learned how to spell.


My image I just made that one day in PAINT when I was bored. I bought some acrylic paints and made a hand painted duplicate that I hanged on my wall.

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