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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Splatoon!! WELCOME - TO DYE!

« on: October 26, 2015, 04:00:23 AM »

Gotta go fast.

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 450: Tone Down Your Exorcising

« on: October 26, 2015, 12:19:32 AM »

What do you guys think of Halo 5?

It looks great.

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 450: Tone Down Your Exorcising

« on: October 25, 2015, 09:32:03 PM »

Ah, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. The Metal Gear Solid game that very few people played and has a massive influence on what Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain is. I've been playing Peace Walker HD, and looking at The Phantom Pain makes it apparent that MGSV is basically Super Peace Walker World. Peace Walker HD really is Metal Gear Solid in bite-sized, Monster-Hunter-esque chunks with nearly all missions being completed in 5-10 minutes, longer for boss fights. Also, all the boss fights in the first 4 chapters of the game are easily managed by equipping all the recovery items you can carry, a machine gun, a rocket launcher, and a support marker to resupply.


Peace Walker HD is really fun and can be really grindy.


As for the Nintendo NX, I have the expectation that Nintendo will pocket the savings from the ease of developing a game for both the handheld system and home system for themselves. As much as I would like it, I don't see them offering cross buy or significant discounts.


This brings up the question of why anyone would buy the more expensive NX home system or both (or more) NX systems. My assumption is that Nintendo has things set up in a way they will be fine if a person only buys one system or only buys the cheaper handheld NX system.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water | Coming to NA Fall 2015

« on: October 24, 2015, 11:38:20 AM »

I tolerated the movement and aiming scheme of Resident Evil 4 (GCN) at the time I was playing it. I don't want to go back to that style. Granted, I'm not a survival horror or a horror game guy in general. Looking at the big horror darlings of this year (SOMA, Until Dawn) and past (Alien: Isolation), all have characters that control roughly the way you would want judging from video footage.

The first time you try to do an about face in Fatal Frame (quickest is to pull back on the left stick and press ZL to reorient the camera) it will not feel good at all. These days, I don't think even horror games can get away with character control that feels cumbersome and unwieldy. If you are going to scare a player now it is not through clumsy character movement that makes the player character seem dumb.

Then again, maybe more horror game fans want that sort of wrestling with character movement then I think.

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TalkBack / Re: New Style Boutique 2 - Fashion Forward (3DS) Hands-on Preview

« on: October 24, 2015, 03:31:26 AM »

I hope NA gets it. Enough people have spoken highly of the series that it would be a shame if it didn't release as wide as possible.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water | Coming to NA Fall 2015

« on: October 24, 2015, 02:03:36 AM »

The characters can emote. The cut scenes in the trial portion have displayed that. It's just that the flat affect that a lot of Japanese horror stuff does makes emotion really subtle. Doesn't help that the one character that could be the least sullen has been seemingly offed. But the in-game character stuff are quite stiff. Outside of big budget games, Japan has never been good with its characters emoting.

I've played through the free-to-start trial in a little over two hours. This is the Prologue, Drop 1 (the tutorial), and Drop 2 up to Fuyuha fight. While I enjoyed my time, I can already see where the disappointed reviews are coming from. The characters move heavily and can not turn around in place quickly (actually I don't think they can turn around in place at all). I had Mui and Yuri getting caught in all sorts of things and angles.

Then there's the combat where the game becomes a first-person shooter. The gyro controls are the gyro controls; either you are acclimated to them or not. I was fond of flicking the GamePad up and down in Splatoon and that has translated to Fatal Frame's two axes. However, Maiden of Black Water requires the manipulation of a third axis for portrait or Dutch angle shots. While it is an interesting game mechanic, it creates confusion with the controls in both shooting mode control schemes. Lastly, those using the gyro controls should be mindful of how they manipulate the Y-axis of the left stick. When you settle you GamePad after a hectic aiming moment, you may find your camera pointed at the sky or the ground.

Thinking on it, I'm not sure if I want a survival horror game that hasn't evolved much from Resident Evil 4.

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TalkBack / Re: Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water Review

« on: October 24, 2015, 01:38:04 AM »

The game already has virgin suicides. It didn't necessarily need girls in nighties to ward off the kiddy image.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water | Coming to NA Fall 2015

« on: October 23, 2015, 03:14:46 PM »

It sounds like Koei Tecmo made "another Fatal Frame game" when the world needed "a new Fatal Frame game".

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TalkBack / Re: North American Splatfest Announced For Hallowe'en: Includes Scoring Change

« on: October 23, 2015, 03:05:30 PM »

Thinking on it, it's possible ninjas will get the popular vote despite the Pirates of the Caribbean movie franchise. Then again, I am a child of the '90s that caught the tail end of the international influence of an economically-strong Japan.


Any way, with the bump of wins going from 4x to 6x, I do wonder why they have the popular vote at all.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water | Coming to NA Fall 2015

« on: October 22, 2015, 06:09:32 PM »

Mm hm.

For those curious, the free-to-start portion and the rest of the game is available now. The free portion is a 6.351 GB download and the rest of the game is a 9.964 GB installer download.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: SMTxFE Genei Ibun Roku #FE JPop Extravaganza (Thread Name Not Final)

« on: October 22, 2015, 04:20:39 PM »

I'd imagine the only Fire Emblem aspects of the battle system would be the weapon triangle. I was about to say assist attacks from pairing up, but I think the SMT games have something like that already.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Sales Thread

« on: October 21, 2015, 04:43:48 PM »

JAPAN NUMBERS!
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1127577

Top Game: [3DS] 7th Dragon III Code: VFD  - 72.477 / NEW

Media Create Sales: Week 42, 2015 (Oct 12 - Oct 18)

01./00. [3DS] 7th Dragon III Code: VFD <RPG> (Sega) {2015.10.15} (¥6.469) - 72.477 / NEW
02./01. [3DS] Yo-Kai Watch Busters: Red Cat Team / White Dog Squad <ACT> (Level 5) {2015.07.11} (¥4.968) - 26.512 / 1.654.171 (-6%)
03./04. [WIU] Super Mario Maker # <ACT> (Nintendo) {2015.09.10} (¥6.156) - 21.357 / 321.222 (-13%)
04./00. [PSV] Geki Jigen Tag: Blanc + Hyperdimension Neptunia Vs. Zombie Gundan # <FTG> (Compile Heart) {2015.10.15} (¥7.344) - 19.990 / NEW
05./10. [WIU] Splatoon <ACT> (Nintendo) {2015.05.28} (¥6.156) - 14.680 / 724.319 (+11%)
06./12. [3DS] Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer # <ETC> (Nintendo) {2015.07.30} (¥4.320) - 12.696 / 1.090.279 (+1%)
07./06. [PS3] Winning Eleven 2016 <SPT> (Konami) {2015.10.01} (¥7.128) - 9.665 / 75.971 (-46%)
08./14. [3DS] Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon <RPG> (Pokemon Co.) {2015.09.17} (¥5.076) - 9.447 / 237.092 (-21%)
09./16. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition <ADV> (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2015.03.19} (¥2.592) - 8.544 / 367.716 (+13%)
10./13. [PS4] Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain # <ADV> (Konami) {2015.09.02} (¥9.072) - 8.224 / 406.776 (-34%)
11./03. [PS4] Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection <Uncharted: Drake's Fortune \ Uncharted 2: Among Thieves \ Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception> <ADV> (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2015.10.08} (¥7.452) - 7.743 / 32.610 (-69%)
12./07. [PSV] Tokyo Xanadu # <RPG> (Nihon Falcom) {2015.09.30} (¥6.998) - 7.627 / 112.041 (-51%)
13./11. [PS4] Winning Eleven 2016 <SPT> (Konami) {2015.10.01} (¥8.208) - 7.617 / 59.242 (-40%)
14./08. [3DS] Picross 3D 2 <PZL> (Nintendo) {2015.10.01} (¥3.240) - 7.475 / 52.241 (-48%)
15./09. [3DS] Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash # <ACT> (Nintendo) {2015.10.08} (¥5.076) - 7.339 / 21.436 (-48%)
16./02. [3DS] Pro Baseball Famista Returns <SPT> (Bandai Namco Games) {2015.10.08} (¥6.145) - 6.930 / 32.527 (-73%)
17./18. [3DS] Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King <RPG> (Square Enix) {2015.08.27} (¥6.458) - 5.304 / 796.835 (-11%)
18./17. [PS3] Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain # <ADV> (Konami) {2015.09.02} (¥9.072) - 5.008 / 186.479 (-26%)
19./05. [PS4] FIFA 16 # <SPT> (Electronic Arts) {2015.10.08} (¥8.424) - 4.810 / 25.719 (-77%)
20./22. [3DS] Rhythm Heaven: The Best+ <ACT> (Nintendo) {2015.06.11} (¥5.076) - 3.979 / 487.687

Top 20

3DS - 9
PS4 - 4
PSV - 3
PS3 - 2
WIU - 2

HARDWARE

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+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+
|System | This Week  | Last Week  | Last Year  |     YTD    |  Last YTD  |     LTD     |
+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+
|  PS4  |     25.699 |     30.349 |      8.046 |    929.624 |    753.172 |   1.900.291 |
| 3DS # |     24.252 |     23.566 |    113.238 |  1.443.647 |  1.975.526 |  19.282.092 |
| PSV # |     15.242 |     15.038 |      9.391 |    735.646 |    947.888 |   4.259.573 |
|  WIU  |     11.658 |     11.594 |      5.293 |    489.090 |    434.214 |   2.632.670 |
|  PS3  |      2.105 |      1.929 |      4.779 |    193.195 |    394.036 |  10.362.186 |
|  XB1  |        438 |        224 |        728 |     13.587 |     33.715 |      56.854 |
+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+
|  ALL  |     79.394 |     82.700 |    141.663 |  3.804.789 |  4.644.742 |  38.493.666 |
+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+
| PSVTV |        696 |        670 |        630 |     26.929 |     65.184 |     177.142 |
|  PSV  |     14.546 |     14.368 |      8.761 |    708.717 |    882.704 |   4.082.431 |
|n-3DSLL|     17.881 |     17.856 |     60.348 |    953.437 |    225.104 |   1.820.495 |
| n-3DS |      4.514 |      4.031 |     29.341 |    303.057 |     99.391 |     672.363 |
| 3DSLL |        625 |        548 |     16.771 |     88.922 |  1.246.915 |   6.921.545 |
|  3DS  |      1.232 |      1.131 |      6.778 |     98.231 |    404.116 |   9.867.689 |
+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+
The new 7th Dragon release is at the top with a new Nepnep game in 3rd.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Super Mario Maker

« on: October 21, 2015, 12:45:30 AM »

Makers and Player should be able to tag to keep levels honest.

You have more faith in (anonymous, online) humanity than I do.

My faith comes and goes. The cyber nightmare scenario is gamifying the tagging system to promote accurate tagging and punishing inaccurate tagging.

The tagging system I had in mind does not end with a one-and-done "tag". Rather each tag has a value of trustworthiness that is determined some how. Perhaps it would be too much to ask players to tag a level. Maybe a short prompt of "Were the Maker's tags accurate? Yes/No" in the Pause menu or Level Complete screen will suffice. Of course, Player-side tagging should still be available to (hopefully) categorize levels properly.

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 449: Can't Outshine the Sun

« on: October 20, 2015, 04:32:11 PM »

Great show. The Retroactive was excellent. It makes me really want to get the game.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Sales Panic: September 2015 US NPD Group Results

« on: October 20, 2015, 04:31:24 PM »

Some people just want to decorate houses like they do on the TV. Nice to see Super Mario Maker doing okay.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Super Mario Maker

« on: October 20, 2015, 04:27:55 PM »

The easiest change from what I see is a tagging system that allows makers and players to tag any level with what the level is trying to do. Some example tags would be "Regular", "Auto", "Puzzle", "Crazy", "Kaizo", and "Precision". Makers and Player should be able to tag to keep levels honest.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Sales Thread

« on: October 20, 2015, 02:48:11 AM »

The Metal Gear Solid has a lot of acclaim and love around it, but it was never that huge of a hit.

Also, people really love those sports games.

I guess Super Mario Maker in 6th is alright?

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water | Coming to NA Fall 2015

« on: October 20, 2015, 12:19:33 AM »

Reviews are out! And they are extremely mixed! It's Kirby and the Rainbow Curse all over again.

For the controls, reviewers have criticized the basic movement being frustrating and imprecise. Others took issue with the gyro controls losing tracking, recommending to use the control scheme with the sticks.

For the story, some couldn't care for any of the three playable characters. They found the story to be boring and tired.

What I find most damning are the criticisms of back tracking, repetition, and repeated content. The game has you trekking through previously explored areas multiple times while throwing more enemies and jump scares at you. A reviewer has written that the game is structured so that a 10 hour game is stretched to almost twice that.

It's not all gloom though. The reviewer at Ars Technica has a favorable verdict on the game. The IGN reviewer came away enjoying the game, taking issue with clumsy controls and repetitive encounters. NWR's official review is one of the most favorable reviews on the game.

Comparing Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water to Sony's Until Dawn, I find it amusing that the most favored of this year's big-publisher-horror games is the one that is "less of a game." Putting away the lame snark, Until Dawn's writing, execution, brevity, and what not are what will put it ahead of this latest Fatal Frame.

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TalkBack / Re: Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water Review

« on: October 19, 2015, 02:57:29 PM »

From the "not happy" reviews that have come out, some couldn't get along with the controls. More importantly, they found the story to be crap and the game repeating itself to the point of boredom. Hmm, hopefully a case of different strokes for different folks?


The bikini-esque costumes being removed gets no love lost or gained for me, but it is ridiculous for it to happen for an M-rated game with a niche audience. Looking forward, this sets expectations for some specific armor edits in Xenoblade Chronicles X.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: NX Rumors and Speculation Thread (Only the best industry-leading [potato] chips!)

« on: October 19, 2015, 04:56:43 AM »

At the moment, I believe in the enthusiastic impressions of those who have tried and are eagerly anticipating VR to be genuine. Even at the base level of a change in perspective and head tracking, I can imagine the sense of immersion to be revolutionary.

I just wonder if this sense of immersion is something a lot of people will want to do on a regular basis. Or if it as excessive and impractical as a super car or a separate home theater room with a super projector and a mega sound system. That is an unfair comparison given the speculated prices of the upcoming headsets. I can't help but wonder how a VR headset will fit in to any given person's life, if at all.

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TalkBack / Re: Splatoon 2.2 Announced: Multiple Balance Changes Incoming

« on: October 18, 2015, 10:33:12 PM »

I appreciate the lowered ink usage for the Heavy Splatling since I want to play well with it. I didn't find the amount of ink it used before to be restricting, but it did slow an already contemplative weapon.

Now if only I could choose my spots well when using the Heavy Splatling.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water | Coming to NA Fall 2015

« on: October 17, 2015, 03:19:25 AM »

I don't know, but it is a fairly big release. I'm surprised Nintendo isn't saying more about it, especially with the season.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-cIGX8kE_g

Instead, they are content with releasing "Spoopy" trailers

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: NX Rumors and Speculation Thread (Only the best industry-leading [potato] chips!)

« on: October 16, 2015, 05:13:37 PM »

Oh sure, the only comment anyone cares about in my post is how the Wii U is a complete failure- which it is. ...

Well, it's what you get when you aren't expressing enough happiness with your consumer purchase among those that do. :p

Anyway, all that Wall Street Journal stuff is soft confirmation on the ideas and hopes of what has been discussed previously in this thread. It sounds good.

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TalkBack / Re: NX Development Kits Being Distributed

« on: October 16, 2015, 04:57:32 PM »

2016?! I don't know if I'm read yet!
Granted, the WSJ article only mentions 2016 as the earliest time frame.


This is a recap of all the things we've been mulling over the past year. Now they have more weight behind them due to WSJ's sources.

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TalkBack / Re: Major Nintendo Online Maintenance Set For Early Next Week

« on: October 16, 2015, 04:51:19 PM »

This is the first big, all-systems-offline maintenance in a while, isn't it?