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Nintendo Gaming / Re: WiiFit
« on: May 21, 2008, 04:06:14 PM »
How else would it get your BMI? I'm looking forward to it, my scale hasn't been working right.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: WiiFit
« on: May 21, 2008, 04:02:59 PM »
Yeah, Nintendo did say that the boards are the same, they give different weight limits for them because of different standards for scales in the different countries.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: WiiFit
« on: May 21, 2008, 03:14:02 PM »
Nintendo is and always has been very conservative in how they do business. They want it to do well, they're trying to get it to do well, but they're not taking chances. I'll bet that not many stores even got 15 copies of Wii Guitar Hero III in their first shipment and that's a major franchise that cost the same as Wii Fit.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Zoo Keeper
« on: May 21, 2008, 03:01:19 PM »
If you want a Bejeweled-like game I'd recommend Puzzle Quest, it takes the formula and adds a ton of depth.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: WiiFit
« on: May 21, 2008, 02:56:15 PM »
It makes sense that they wouldn't have anywhere near as many copies as those two games, a $90 game isn't going to sell as well as a $50 game, especially an untested new game versus major franchises, and because of the inclusion of the balance board the package is pretty big and stores probably don't want to have too many in stock piling up. Nintendo said in Europe, and I would guess they'll do the same in America, that they were going to keep restocking quickly for the first few weeks.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Conduit
« on: May 21, 2008, 02:46:46 PM »Freezing the Camera to AIM was how they did in the first two metroid primes.
Something else to take note was how they did precision shooting in the Godfather and Scareface. You'd lock on to an enemy then get to move within a square encompassing their body, allowing for easy, satisfying, and fun head shots.
I know it worked that way in the Primes (I didn't play the first 2, but I knew that), I mentioned that Far Cry did it because it did it with the remote pointer. The system in Godfather and Scarface sounds similar to the lock-on system in Red Steel.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: WiiFit
« on: May 21, 2008, 02:41:03 PM »
I don't think there's any way to tell yet since it's only officially been on sale for a few hours (14 if you count places open 24 hours that started selling at midnight). Based on the fact that most places stopped taking preorders weeks in advance, though, I'd say it's doing pretty well.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Conduit
« on: May 21, 2008, 02:31:32 PM »The cross hair would always be centered. That's the point. You simply wouldn't be able to move the crosshair around the screen, it would be fixed in the center and thus be much more closely tied into your looking as the screen would instead move around it. As opposed to moving the crosshair up against the side of the screen to pan in that direction, you could do so by simply point over that way, as you look always look around. This is how the FPS genre has always worked on the PC. It is clearly the best way of doing it as it eliminates the clunky need to look and aim separately. With the Wii remote this is an even more obvious solution, I think.
It's clearly the best way with a mouse, I don't think it is with the Wii remote. I suppose they could include it as an option, the more options the better. If they were to do it they should make it so that when you hold down a specific button it freezes the camera and lets you aim with the pointer for precision (Kairon could correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe they did something along those lines (freezing the camera to aim) in Far Cry for the Wii).
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TalkBack / Re: Six Games Launch WiiWare in Europe
« on: May 21, 2008, 01:43:27 PM »
The ones on that list that are out in the US are the same price (in Wii Points).
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General Chat / Re: Where does your High School Rank in top 1,300?
« on: May 21, 2008, 04:09:52 AM »
The internet classes were great, but they require a lot of self discipline to keep a schedule and do, which is why it took me an extra semester to finish them, and I'm still not done with the phys ed requirement, which is delaying my going to college.
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NWR Forums Discord / Re: UncleBob's Crazy Contest regarding his MyNintendo account.
« on: May 21, 2008, 04:02:09 AM »
I'm gonna go for the longshot and say Super Mario RPG on the Virtual Console.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: WiiFit
« on: May 21, 2008, 03:52:33 AM »
What I'm worried about is that I've heard that it doesn't work as well for tall people. I haven't heard specifics, but I'm about 6'4" and I hope this is going to work.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: LostWinds - Mix of Okami, Knytt, and awesome! Get now!
« on: May 21, 2008, 03:29:16 AM »
Oh, okay. I tried gusting it but it must not have been in the right direction.
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General Chat / Re: Where does your High School Rank in top 1,300?
« on: May 21, 2008, 03:26:28 AM »
Mine didn't make the list. That seems about right, the place sucked, at least in terms of academics. My Junior and Senior year I took classes online at home anyway.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: WiiFit
« on: May 21, 2008, 12:49:23 AM »
If you ate absolutely nothing for a period of time like that your body would go into starvation mode, a way of conserving as much body weight as possible. That doesn't explain why you'd gain weight, but it explains why you didn't lose it.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Defend Your Castle
« on: May 21, 2008, 12:46:30 AM »
I probably should have had an emoticon in there, I've never been good with those. I know that's why they did it, I was mocking Nintendo because of Iwata's recent comments in regard to a hard drive where he said that the storage crisis only affected a small group of Wii owners.
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TalkBack / Re: REVIEWS: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King
« on: May 21, 2008, 12:31:58 AM »
This review pushed me over the edge, I was pretty sure but not completely until I read this. Once I'm done with LostWinds, that is, so I have the blocks.
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General Chat / Re: Weezer - Pork and Beans (new self titled album June 3rd)
« on: May 20, 2008, 11:22:48 PM »
I had never heard anything by them until I played Guitar Hero III which had My Name is Jonas and I absolutely loved that song. I've been meaning to check out more of their stuff.
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NWR Forums Discord / Re: What topic should I start next?
« on: May 20, 2008, 11:12:38 PM »
Anglophilic Man-Love - I don't know what that first word is and I don't think I want to know
Anglophillic (adjective) Anglo meaning English (as in anglo-saxon) and philic meaning a strong affinity or preference for. It was used in a listener mail about Greg Leahy, UK correspondent. You'd know that if you listened to the podcast.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Virtual Console Mondays Thread
« on: May 20, 2008, 11:00:26 PM »
After reading a review of Toki Tori I now have another 290 blocks to find before it comes out here, rumored to be next week. I believe Nintendo was right when they said it was a small group of Wii owners that were suffering from lack of blocks. Casuals either don't buy many or just buy a few VC games, and I would bet your average hardcore Wii owner doesn't buy enough to come near the 500 block mark. The thing is, given the size of these Wii Ware titles, that small group is steadily increasing with every new Wii Ware release.
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General Chat / Re: Narnia: Prince Caspian
« on: May 20, 2008, 10:38:47 PM »
I know there are more, I know I've seen more movies that were as good as or better than the books they were based on, but the only one I can think of after extensively trying to remember is The Hunt for Red October. Brilliant performances by Alec Baldwin and Sean Connery make a great story even better.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: WiiFit
« on: May 20, 2008, 10:31:06 PM »
Apparently there's a street date, it's not supposed to be available until tomorrow.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Infinite Line Discussion
« on: May 20, 2008, 09:59:10 PM »
Some more info from IGN (http://ds.ign.com/articles/874/874663p1.html?):
• The interface may look complicated, but according to the developer it is actually "simple and intuitive".
• Infinite Line is just a working title, but it references the almost infinite amount of ship configurations you can make.
• The developers say that this game "cannot be constrained by the term 'RPG'"
Infinite Line Screens
• The interface may look complicated, but according to the developer it is actually "simple and intuitive".
• Infinite Line is just a working title, but it references the almost infinite amount of ship configurations you can make.
• The developers say that this game "cannot be constrained by the term 'RPG'"
Infinite Line Screens
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NWR Forums Discord / Re: The confesion thread, part two (this one is for keeps)
« on: May 20, 2008, 09:42:52 PM »
Yeah, they lose all kinds of money! Every year! Way more than all of us make! That clearly means they're doing things right, and if not I don't know what does.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Virtual Console Mondays Thread
« on: May 20, 2008, 09:31:45 PM »
Some games should be $5, Defend Your Castle was perfect at that price point and Pop really should have been at that price point.
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