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General Gaming / RE: Microsoft showing their true colors once again.

« on: June 25, 2007, 06:58:22 PM »

Shift Key, I agree with what you have to say, especially the PR agents being completely open and honest.  I do disagree a little about Perrin, though.  I always felt like she actually tried to force Nintendo into certain decisions through her interviews and the like.  For instance, I personally think that Perrin did want region-free Wii-ing, and when she made the statement that the Wii would be region free, she was hoping to deadlock Nintendo into this statement.  Why would she want this?  Because she's smart enough to see that the import market on the DS is profitable, and much larger than it is for the console market.  So I think in the end, Perrin couldn't be that honest with us, because she made it to a position that would be difficult for her to be fired from, and she used that to try to steer the company where she thought was best, even if that meant she wound up being wrong on a semi-frequent level.  I think that's part of why they made the move, because NOA's execs were a little too overbearing from what Nintendo wanted, except for Reggie, who found a perfect balance.

Anyways, on the 360:  I don't understand why any users would buy a second Xbox.  I'd call Microsoft, and tell them that you have no intention of buying anymore 360's, that you plan to sell all of your games, and that you will buy a PS3, because it will actually be cheaper than buying a second, then third 360.  See if they won't repair it for free, +/- the cost of shipping.  Obviously this vocal minority is either all liars or not a minority at all, since nearly everyone on the net seems to have a broken 360 or two, or three, or four, or even more.  I just don't get how the 360 sales numbers can be at such a standstill if they all are breaking.

So let us know what happens, BFS.  I'm interested in seeing if you can't get it repaired.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Major 3rd parties coming around, at long last?

« on: June 25, 2007, 06:39:17 PM »

I can't think of much more to actually ask of Nintendo.  They've given us two great platforms, great, interactive, and original first party games, they've got several more on the way, and they've even bought a new studio and are reaching out to other developers and publishers.

Now, third parties, on the other hand, seem to be grasping for a way to make money on Nintendo's success while trying to damage Nintendo's reputation and diminish Nintendo's strengths.  After all the crap we've heard from them, we know Nintendo has been going hog wild to get devs to buy into what they have, and smaller devs seem to love it.  When it comes to the bigger Japanese ones, it's like they've been fed anti-Nintendo propaganda. Honestly.  I'm sick of the crap about the Wii not being a powerful enough system.  What did these people do last generation?  Did they refuse to play the games then, out of expectation of the now-current generations wasteful high-powered graphics standards?  I just don't get it.  What difference is being made in gaming, from relation from last gen to this gen?  With the PS and boxes, there's nothing.  Sure, a slightly more involved online gaming experience, and sure, they've both offered a lot of stuff to watch on your TV, but if I wanted that, I'd buy a nice Media Center PC, and get a lot more bang for my buck.  Not only that, but what do movies and TV shows have to do with video games, anyways?

When you get into that, you see one of the bigger problems in the industry.  What would happen to video games if the Playstations and Xboxes evolved into television-mounted media centers?  If they lost their synonymies with video games?  Anyone can see that this is the path Sony and MS want to take, but honestly, I think you'd have to be a fool of a developer to support something like that.  Eventually, video games would become PC games, and sales would drop to similar levels as PC games face - No one wants to have to upgrade their equipment every one or two years to play the newest games, so the best sellers are games several years old:  StarCraft, Myst, Doom, face it, PC games take too long to sell in most cases on their own, and developers supporting this evolution are fools, almost attempting to doom themselves in ten years, while making tiny, insignificant gains on expensive games now.  Idiots, I say.

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NWR Forums Discord / RE: Duuuuna na na, na nu, na na: RIDDLE TIME!

« on: June 25, 2007, 04:58:46 PM »

A nipple?  I have to say it fits on a woman's breast, fits in a baby's mouth, and etc, etc.  That seems pretty close to me...

[ShyGuy]

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NWR Forums Discord / RE:MGS2 Review

« on: June 24, 2007, 06:13:51 PM »

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Originally posted by: ShyGuy
I remember doing a fresh install of Windows ME on a system and it blue screened, before drivers or anything else had been installed. I have seen this happen several times. That was one un-hot operating system, let me tell ya.

More like too hot to touch! Ooow!

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Pokemon Diamond/Pearl

« on: June 24, 2007, 05:07:58 PM »

Well, I guess the only real difference is that they have slightly different Pokemon in some cases, as well as a different available legendary, the cover Pokemon.  Really, if you aren't interested in collecting every single thing, you won't care about the different version Pokemon.  There's not much of a difference.  Also, with online trading, you can get whatever you miss.

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NWR Forums Discord / RE: MGS2 Review

« on: June 24, 2007, 05:01:00 PM »

Operating systems are hot.  Naked peoples in video games are teh suck.  Get with the times.

OS-tan?

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General Chat / RE: Official Avatar Discussion

« on: June 23, 2007, 06:32:52 PM »

I'll probably do some switching.  That rapid one made my jaw drop.  I might just have to go back and forth between the two...

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Get HOOKED!

« on: June 21, 2007, 06:38:43 PM »

I'll buy it if it can reel.

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NWR Forums Discord / RE: Futur-mafa-rama Day 4: EDIT: Today, it seems.

« on: June 21, 2007, 06:37:24 PM »

Yeah, alright, that was how I remembered them, too.

I have to ask TVman:  How did you decide the roles for this particular game?

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TalkBack / RE: Video Games Live DVD and CD Announced

« on: June 21, 2007, 06:33:41 PM »

If it wasn't for Tommy Tallarico, I'd probably buy this thing.  That and scenery doesn't fit a soundtrack for video-game concerts.  And it just looks like a pretty poor production.

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NWR Forums Discord / RE: Futur-mafa-rama Day 4: EDIT: Today, it seems.

« on: June 21, 2007, 06:30:13 PM »

Just the first three or four.  The few where we basically revealed ourselves.  The start of the jumbo-alliance.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Pokemon Tournament Beta Testing

« on: June 21, 2007, 06:24:19 PM »

Do you know how damage is calculated?  Did you know the IV or nature differences between the two Jolteons?  Do you know the stats of the opposing Pokemon?  Was it the same one each time, with the same hold item each time?  Did one Jolteon have a Magnet or Choice item?  There are plenty of things you might have overlooked, but keep in mind that some random numbers are generated into the damage formula for every hit, so there is some chance that a weaker pokemon could do more damage than the stronger one.

Also, are you sure you maxed out the EV's?  You might have made a counting mistake.  You can go to someone in the game that gives you a ribbon when EV's are maxed.

[Vote Sir_Stabbalot]

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NWR Forums Discord / RE: Futur-mafa-rama Day 4: EDIT: Today, it seems.

« on: June 21, 2007, 06:16:57 PM »

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I wasn't really waiting for a game to build trust with other players. Just one where people took a chance on me. People don't seem to realize, if I'm on you're side, you can trust me. I was just waiting for a game where I could live a few days and get a win. I haven't had a win since Mafia 11. I've never even had the chance to go far. I've hated games where I've done a fair bit of work for the win but die and can't claim victory. Frankly, you showed more trust than me. I had nothing to lose sharing my role. You did because of the consequences of my role.

You really were wise to head to me first, or at least, in your first wave.  Like I said at the beginning, before we really started, I saw you in the Wornstrom role.  I was almost certain you'd wind up with it this game.  I don't know if TVman secretly hand-picked some roles, or what, but I had played out a few scenarios in my mind about what could happen with a connection like the one we made, and I think it worked out that you and I were on the same page:  Identify and save every townie role, using your role as both a hub, and as something to keep you honest for the entire game.  See, I knew that if we found just one or two other townie roles, and you 'defected,' that you would die the very next die from votes, and I know you knew it too.  Although this is the route I had figured on, I still wasn't entirely sure if we could find other townie roles fast enough before you would get hit.  In the end, I decided that even if you wound up in the mafia, I could still put up a convincing enough argument without any bonds with other players, since they were already looking to vote you out.  Not only that, but I knew that would be able to reveal myself in that situation, and appeal to the Dr. to protect me, since it would be certain the mafia would know who I was at that point.

Anyways, things worked out, and we both had the same game plan, for the most part.  While you could throw your role around and garner trust because everyone knew you didn't want to die, I would do some lesser scoping, for the safety of having investigations, and also, I spent most of my time pondering who to investigate (2/2 woo!!).  Essentially, I was right, the number of letters in oohhboy's name can't be trusted, plain and simple.

For that bit, I formed did my best to form a list of players who seemed to always play suspiciously.  Essentially, the list was Vudu, Dasmos, BlackFootsteps, oohhboy, and 18 Days.  Not that I don't think everyone plays well, it was basically that I would have a hard time determining whether or not these players were townies, and if I thought they were townies, I thought that these people would be the toughest to get a role out of.  If I had to go on, I'd probably add Zach and S-U-P-E-R, at least initially.

Anyways, Vudu was first, and successful.  I feel bad for him, in that respect.  It would have been much better to have found 18 Days at this point, just for fairness.  On the next day, I wanted to vote BFS, because he seemed to be pressing me to find out who had particular jobs.  Luckily, everyone else disagreed, but unfortunately for Dasmos, he was a townie caught in the line of fire.  Still, two down, three to go for me.  At this point, we were approaching night two, when BFS had basically revealed himself to Khush, so I moved on, to oohhboy.  After that, we knew who all the role townies were, with 18 Days, oohhboy, and NuclearSpeed seemingly brains, and we all know what happened at that point.

Khush, do you have the first PM's you and I sent this game?  I went through a couple hundred, I think, and ended up deleting those.  I wanted to reread them, so if you do have them, do me a favor and send them back to me.

Edit:  And yeah, I think it was a bit unfair for the Brains on this one.  Perhaps we should start it over, and let everyone have their starting roles back.  We could try to play this thing out again.  Vote Sir_Stabbalot

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Manhunt 2 from Rockstar? Whoa...

« on: June 21, 2007, 05:11:32 PM »

Here's the catch, UncleBob.  Nintendo and Sony are Japanese companies.  What logic does it make for them to listen to an United States ratings board?  To what extent does this carry over to?  Will they allow the content in Japan or other Asian countries?  How limiting will this decision be?

Then there's the whole, "We've spent over a year working on this game, and now you tell us we can't sell for the devices we made it for" ordeal.  That's a pretty big economical hit.

For the record, Nintendo/Sony don't have to print the title, and I can remember exactly how several prior lawsuits have gone, but basically, the best path for the game is for Nintendo/Sony to approve it for printing on their title.  Unlicensed games have been published before, TENGEN is one company that did so, and there was one publisher that got in some big trouble for it with the Genesis, though their problem was that when they made a game, it started the system with the 'Produced under license by Sega' or whatever that message was. Sega won that one, but mostly because it was possible to create a title that didn't feign Sega acclaim, and Sega provided proof of that on a furnished Genesis there.

What is difficult to tell about unlicensed games is that they don't typically happen until some time after the console is profitable.  Though, the earliest case I can think of is actually Ms. Pac-Man, where Namco and the creators of Ms. Pac-Man settled out of court because Ms. Pac-Man was a great game, and once Namco figured that out, they didn't want to jeopardize losing it.  However, this case might not have set much precedent in the console realm, as arcade units weren't designed to have interchangeable content created by people other than the unit's maker, whereas consoles are.

Anyways, I'll delve a little deeper and look up some research after I go get some food...  

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TalkBack / RE: Sonic RPG? From BioWare? On DS?

« on: June 21, 2007, 03:49:19 PM »

What's that quote again?  "Remember, whatever the deal is, never trust Kushrenada."  I think that's it.

For the record, if Artificial Studios ever makes something for the Wii or DS or any Nintendo system, I could probably manage an interview with them for NWR.  It'd be freelance work, or something.

Khush, I bet if things don't work out with this staff job thing, you could do the same.  Of course, that's if things don't work out, and we won't know that one until people tell us that one.

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NWR Forums Discord / RE: Mafia Game 17 (Special Title Coming Soon)

« on: June 21, 2007, 03:44:13 PM »

What was that Vudu?  The last one didn't count?

I'm probably in.

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General Gaming / RE: Microsoft showing their true colors once again.

« on: June 21, 2007, 11:03:40 AM »

I've tried Linux, albeit briefly, and I have to say that a casual PC-er has no real reason to make a switch.  If they plan to work on their computer, or something, maybe it can be considered, but if you are born and bred on mostly Windows, IMO, Linux doesn't offer enough good to negate all the hassle of a switch.

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General Chat / RE: Time Sensitive Job Problem (I have till 2 CTD to figure this out)

« on: June 21, 2007, 10:57:22 AM »

I like what BNM says, with a segmented move, though I have to say, this lady that called sounds like she is trying as hard as she can to scare you away.  If I were you, I'd give her/your boss a call, and talk to him about job security.  Perhaps you could work something out, where they are contractually obligated to employ you for X amount of time, provided you show them that you have high enough quality work done before hand.

Basically, if the company pays to transfer people there, and then within two weeks, 90% of the new hires get fired, there's something wrong with the place.  I can't imagine what it is that is going on, but either someone has lied to you (or twisted statistics to their liking) or something really is wrong with the place.  You should let the management know that you think someone there has deceived you in some, because you felt the arrangement you had was adequate, but feedback from the relocation department basically says that your job and future in San Diego is already in jeopardy, and you haven't even started day one.

Essentially, all I'm saying is that you don't want to walk into a trap.  If you talk to the boss, focus on what you liked about the place, and how you thought things really fell into place for you to move there all at once.  Make it clear that you aren't expected anything more than what you've previously arranged with the company, but make sure you receive some great assurance that you won't lose the job in two weeks without some sort of freak accident happening, and the whole company collapses into the ground.  If their turnover rate is truly that high, you don't want to work there, at all.  If it is, there's obvious some rare quality or performance aspect that they expect every employee to know, but only few do.  You might want to see the composition of schools that reinforces their employment.  Perhaps the rare few that stay at the company all went to the same school and learned specific ways how to do something, I don't know, but that rate is not at all what anyone would want, unless he or she is extremely desperate.

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NWR Forums Discord / RE: Duuuuna na na, na nu, na na: RIDDLE TIME!

« on: June 21, 2007, 06:48:44 AM »

Aren't Nixons afraid of wires?

There are some technical answers that would work, but I don't know if you'd accept them.  One such answer:  Turn on a single light, go to the garage, see which light correlates to the switch, then remove a different light bulb, then go back to the switches, and turning off the first, while turning on another.  Then take a glance at your power meter to see how much electricity is being used, then turn on the last one, and if the meter goes up, the last one controls the last light bulb that is plugged in, while if it stays the same, the last switch is the for the light you took out.  I doubt that's the answer, though.

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NWR Forums Discord / RE: Futur-mafa-rama Day 4: EDIT: Today, it seems.

« on: June 20, 2007, 09:35:54 PM »

I do have to say, this game definitely shows it's good to hold off on killing the good players right away.  All I ever hear about is how Khush is killed right away, but fortunately, BFS, you helped save the game trusting him on day 2.

It also worked out that Khush was just waiting for a game he could use as a trust-builder.  One where he wouldn't have to resort to trickery or backstabbing to win, and luckily, I think most of us realized this pretty quickly.  We all knew Khush was sick of being hit with the first or second kill, but boy, when I agreed to trade roles with him, I have to say, I know he had the right role for this type of game to happen, as Wornstrom.  As the investigator, though, it's definitely felt like a punch in the gut to know that whatever I learned could be turned around in one night, but it was a necessary risk for this game.

Also, in this particular game, every bandwagon vote had a real purpose, and happened for a reason, rather than the "I don't like/trust this person" bandwagons I've seen.  I hate that they all of you who were voted ended up as townies, but let it be said that on days 1 and 2, it was done specifically to save the people who were confirmed townies.

Oh, and for the record:  Mafia, don't just vote for new/inactive players for the sake of a cover.  It doesn't work very well, IMO.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Official Wii Sales Thread

« on: June 20, 2007, 09:17:06 PM »

I'm curious, Pietriots:  Is the Wii as rare around there as it is in the States?

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General Gaming / RE: Sony getting hit Hard lately (Now with 80 to 100 units less fat!)

« on: June 20, 2007, 09:11:45 PM »

Sony has now promised 380 games for the PS3 by March 08.  200 of which will be in boxes, while 180 will be online.

http://kotaku.com/gaming/we-shall-double-our-efforts/sony-promises-380-ps3-games-by-march-08-270847.php

I don't believe it.  If this promise is broken, I expect major fall-out, but I don't see how it could be done.

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General Chat / RE: Official Avatar Discussion

« on: June 20, 2007, 09:07:09 PM »

Thanks!  It's perfect!

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Manhunt 2 from Rockstar? Whoa...

« on: June 20, 2007, 09:02:42 PM »

For the record, I think if we consider so many movies artwork, then games should be protected the same way too.  If the artist's vision is one of massive violence and bloodshed, then that's his vision.  In video games especially, it doesn't happen in real life, whereas with movies, most live-action films at least simulate these things.  Essentially, I believe that gory movies, things like Saw, and the like, are on the same level as this game will be, though I haven't personally watched the Saw movies, nor have I played Manhunt, I have to say that if one is considered art because of how gruesome it is, then the other, by virtue of obvious logic, should also be considered art by how gruesome it is.

Now then, there is a difference between the two:  One looks as real as possible and isn't banned to minors.  I wonder which one should be considered worse, considering tests have concluded that violent video games have little to no long term effects on aggressive behavior.

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General Gaming / RE: Microsoft showing their true colors once again.

« on: June 20, 2007, 08:53:33 PM »

You know, I think Nintendo should allow a third party the ability to create unique media center devices to append to the Wii.  Like the Q, but instead of it being built in, whatever company, say, Panasonic, could offer said devices to order, creating a simple direct-screen interface.  It would work well, as most people I know think there are too many buttons on a DVD/DVR remote.  Included in one package could be a hard drive, PC streaming capabilities, and a direct cable connection.

The thing is, it would need to be marketed as an unnecessary enhancement for the Wii for Nintendo's sake, and I can't see that happening.  Not only that, but Nintendo doesn't want or need to be responsible for hardware or firmware issues in a situation like this.  For this to happen, the rights to do this would need to be sold for cheap, but with a very enforcing contract, and once again, I don't think any company would want to get in a location like this.  I could be wrong, though.