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General Gaming / Re: Facebook buys Oculus: virtual farms, real motion sickness.

« on: April 02, 2014, 05:13:52 PM »

I don't think that is the kind of VR we will get in our life times thought, this is a step closer.

What I want is to get into the game more, I can handle using a controller or even motion controls but I don't need to walk around I just want to simulate that by being in the world. Sit me in a chair and give me a Wii remote nunchuck type device or even a perfected power glove and put me into the game that would be good enough, How the HELL is everyone OK with just watching Mario run around and seeing through Master Chief's visor on a flat TV but the second you put them into a headset that lets you see the world form their characters eyes is suddenly not good enough? So what if it isn't truly imersive it is MORE imersive than just watching mario run around in the Mushroom kingdom which is the best we get right now. Even if you only get to see from the perspective of looking over Mario's shoulder how is that not better than what we have now?


The problem is some people aren't happy no matter what. Oh it's not Star Trek so it's not what I want, even though it is better than what we have now it's lame because it's not better than it is? Hey how many of you WAITED until last year to buy a fucking cell phone or did you get a piece of **** in the late 90's early 200's and wait for technology to catch up? How many of you had a shitty CRT 1080i HDTV  before getting a flat panel 1080p? How many of you drove a car that didn't have GPS? Bullshit that this isn't the future, it's just taken longer than usual to get here but hey people should be HAPPY with incremental steps that will lead to the eventuality we are hoping for, instead of knocking **** that doesn't live up to their impossible standards. We had some incremental steps in the 90's that made people sick and we realized the technology was too immature to work, the Wii and the Kinect brought us a step closer and NOW we finally have something that might be workable and from the impressions I have read it sounds like they have gotten things working or at least are getting much closer. So what if it isn't perfect now, give it a try and see if it is fun and then once they work out the bugs buy the next generation addition when it comes out. If this thing fails now then it might be another decade before someone tries again, right now people are clammoring for this and right now there are companies interested in it, but what will the future be like if people just keep putting off this sort of stuff because it's not perfect the first time around?


**** we should all be riding in automated cars by now but people are too damn scared of change so we make up all these excuses why something that will improve our lives is not worth investing in and we just keep going. Well this is different because right now the technology has caught up.


Yes right now the best they can do is a headset with a controller, how is that still not better than a TV and a controller? it is one step closer this isn't a sprint it is a marathon, I mean damn look how long it took 3D graphics in videogames to get where they are now, I am sure most of you had an N64 despite how primitive that was by todays standards, hell most of you probably had an NES, tell me how well did that thing do 3D? It takes incremental steps to make technology work, duh how can a forum dedicated to a video game company like Nintendo not understand that? **** they are the most incremental of all technology companies out there, they convinced a whole **** ton of people they didn't need online gaming when the rest of the world was online, they convinced the same people that they didn't need HD when the rest of the world had HD, and now the company that has been innovating VR for the longest is once again dragging their feet here come the naysayers to agree with papa Nintendo who tells them VR is bad. It is something the rest of the world is moving towards, even Sony is building their own VR head set and it won't be long before Microsoft has one so this isn't a fad it is the future of gaming. It might be a slow moving and bumpy ride but it is happening.

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General Gaming / Re: Are Android consoles part of the 8th generation?

« on: April 02, 2014, 04:51:37 PM »

No there is no such thing as an 8th generation that is a term fanboy made up to try and start school yard fights. Wii U is not in the same hardware league as PS4 and Xbox 1 that is an entirely different generation of hardware, console generations are a lame and arbitrary line drawn in the sand that makes no sense at all. Where do you place 3DO? Is it in the same generation as PS1, Saturn, Sega CD, NEO GEO, Jaguar, SNES or CD-I?


There are no such things as generations there are markets, market segments, and the consoles are an entirely different market segment than the Android things. Who decides when a generation begins is it when Nintendo releases a new console? Is it when a new console that is more powerful than before is released? Tell me where does the Vectex fall? or the TG16, or the SMS, or the Colecovision, or the Xbox 360 or even the Dreamcast? Who gets to decide what is and isn't a "generation"?

In terms of hardware and market segments Wii U is not even in the same generation as PS4 and Xbox One, neither was Wii in the same "generation" as PS3 and Xbox 360. Where do you draw the line is it technology based comparable technology competing in comparable markets? Or do you just go by some arbitrary date on a calender that is a moving target?


If you go by time line where do you draw the line? A decade, five years? What is a "generation" mean in other technology fields? Well outside of fanboy gamers, a technology generation is when the old model is replaced with a current model period. So Nintendo has an "8th" generation console but PS4 is Sony's fourth generation of Playstation console so they do not even have an 8th Generation console. In terms of hardware PS4 and Xbox one are in the same league but they are different "generations" because Xbox One is only the third Xbox iteration. Unless you count revisions as a new generation in which case SNES had 2 and N64, Game Cube, and Wii had at least five that I am aware of, so actually Wii U is somewhere between 12th and 18th generation for Nintendo.


Does that answer your question? Since it is all subjective if "YOU" consider them the same "generation" then to YOU they are, but to me that word is so loaded and if your not going to specify what the parameters are for a "generation" then the question is unanswerable.



If you are asking if they are gaming consoles that is an entirely different question which I would contend they are not but I have a very strict definition of what a gaming console is, none of the Android Devices, not even Ouya, fit that definition.

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General Gaming / Re: New platform by Amazon revealed - $99 - $139 with controller

« on: April 02, 2014, 04:35:11 PM »

I don't know this thing looks like just another Roku/GoogleTV/WDTV Live/Apple TV/Ouya type device to me. I think that market is over crowded. Oculus is different because there is a genuine desire for virtual reality to take off we all want it we just have been waiting for the technology to catch up, that is starting to happen. It's why the Wii was such a success in the first place, it was as close to getting into the game as we could get at the time, if Wii U was Wii + VR head set instead of Wii + Gamepad it would be a monster right now, but Nintendo might not learn that lesson in time. Facebook as a near bottomless pit of money as does Amazon so these companies can ride this out for a while. Facebook having bigger ambitions than just pure gaming will benefit the Oculus rift because it can reach a greater market. The biggest draw for the Wii U is the off TV play, having your own private headset is the holy grail of gaming, but it has to be done right or otherwise people get headaches and nose bleeds and crap like that. Nintendo is just too scared to get back into that market after their past failure and chances are they won't realize this is the future until it is too late. To them the future is more Fitness and health crap.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Epic uses for the Wii U gamepad! (mockups and concepts)

« on: April 02, 2014, 04:20:40 PM »

if Nintendo did that Super Mario Bros. one from that post with all the pictures Wii U would be selling out.

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Reader Reviews / Re: Khushrenada's Long Threatened Negative Review and Analysis of Super Mario Galaxy

« on: April 01, 2014, 11:06:43 PM »

I thought the review was very detailed and explained your position very well. I never played Galaxy, so this was helpful for me.

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General Gaming / Re: Worst impulse buy you've ever had?

« on: April 01, 2014, 04:26:51 PM »

Dr. Muto on Game Cube, I was at a used game store and had spent an hour drooling over about twenty or so games on PS2 that were not on Game Cube and instead of doing the smart thing and buying a PS2 I stuck to my guns and loaded up on Game Cube games. I picked up Dr. Muto and Wario World on the same day, both games were garbage that I returned right away and traded in for a copy of Harvest Moon A Wonderful Life.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: What new game do you hope to see Nintendo announce in the next year?

« on: April 01, 2014, 04:20:26 PM »

Realistically I would be happy if Hyrule Warriors turns out great and Watch Dogs actually impresses. beyond that there isn't much else on the horizon I am interested in and trying to predict what Nintendo will do is like picking the winning Powerball numbers, it doesn't happen often enough to put real money on.


If I had a Wii U a Mario Party game would be on my to buy list, but it isn't on that I will buy a Wii U to play unless it did something really great but it would require online as I am too far away from my friends and family right now to have any local fun. But I can see them pulling another minigame collection out before the year ends.

 

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General Gaming / Re: What is your most recent gaming purchase?

« on: March 30, 2014, 05:33:13 PM »

not video gaming related but I recently got back into Magic: The Gathering and picked up one of those big box sets of Born of the Gods. I came close to getting a PS1 memory card and some PS1 games to play on my PS2 but I will wait till next payday for that. Right now I am shifting away from video games and back into collectible table top games.

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TalkBack / Re: GBA Virtual Console Games on Wii U Feature Original Manuals, No Multiplayer

« on: March 30, 2014, 05:22:19 PM »

at this point is anyone honestly surprised when Nintendo does something stupid and gets away with it? I mean seriously if there are still hard core fans left they had better be pretty damn hard core.

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TalkBack / Re: Child of Light and Watch Dogs Coming to PAX East

« on: March 30, 2014, 05:20:39 PM »

Watch Dogs is the game I am most excited for period, most likely going to get a PS4 just for that game unless the PS3 version is good enough to hold me over.

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

« on: March 27, 2014, 08:30:34 PM »

I just got caught up on Season 3 of Last Man Standing. I loved the first season, but two and three are already winding down. At first I liked it because it felt like a remake of Home Improvement, then the more I watched it the more I realized it was just a remake of Home Improvement... currently 7/10 it could get better I like the characters, I like most of the cast and I do like the premise because I loved Home Improvement but it's starting to re-tread ground they already covered which is too soon for a show barely into it's third season.

Mostly I am traditionally more into comedies, especially 3 camera laugh track old school style sitcoms, but I like to get into other stuff. I just got Hulu Plus and I have been backed up on my Netflix log for a long while now but that will change this summer once I get caught up.

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General Chat / Re: Who would be interested in a real-life forum get-together?

« on: March 27, 2014, 08:28:12 PM »

I'm currently in Nebraska which is close to North Dakota, and I am always but for a road trip, but I don't know any of you well enough to meet total strangers from over the internet. But I have always wanted to go to a gaming or sci-fi type convention thing so maybe that is more for me.

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General Chat / Re: Do you enjoy anime?

« on: March 27, 2014, 08:23:24 PM »

I used to be more into anime when I was younger but it kind of seems out of place watching it now. My favorites were Voltron Lion Force, Ronin Warriors, Sailor Moon (it was the 90's we all watched it), Dragon Ball Z (didn't like the others though), The Slayers, Project A-Ko, Wrath of the Ninja, Vampire Hunter D, Akira, Iria: Zeriam the Animation, Macross, Digimon, Bubble Gum Crisis, those weird Super Mario anime's that are hard as hell to find, and a few others I can't remember right now. Oh and all the Transformers stuff, Master Force especially and Car Robots is another great one. I used to get a new VHS tape in the mail from I think it was Columbia house or some such back in the day, I subscribed to their anime club and got all kinds of weird ****. I was so into it I studied Japanese in college.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Skipping PAX East 2014

« on: March 27, 2014, 08:12:31 PM »

To elaborate, mind actually explaining instead of posting said condescending bullshit?

It doesnt seem like Nintendo thinks they need to fix anything. They just keep making stupid decision after stupid decision. I sold my Wii u launch console for a VITA and couldnt be happier! Maybe Ill get a Wii u again at the end of its life cycle. Which will probably be soon.

Wrong, Nintendo already admitted Wii U is a failure and needs fixing they just haven't done anything major yet to instil confidence that they are actually trying to fix it.


Also I have every right to bitch about the damn machine all I want, I have owned every fucking machine that company has ever made, I have NOT bought a Wii U and I am not interested in a Wii U. They don't have to exactly cater to my specific needs but they do need to listen to the collective voice of others like me who keep having the same issues.  The problem is there are less than 6 million Wii U units sold, there should be at least 9 million sold by now. As it stands the Wii U is not even living up to Game Cubes numbers it's looking closer to Saturn, which is not good.


Wii U has many problems lack of games is a big one but that alone is NOT the only problem that needs fixing. I can concede that there won't be the same level of 3rd party support as was hoped, they blew that and there is nothing they can do now to regain third parties, period end of discussion. BUT there are other issues they can fix that could bring more people who are either on the fence, or have written it off, people like me who should want one but just can't find the justification at it's current state.


Why do I care? Because I actually do love Nintendo and want them to make GAMES forever. I do not give a **** if they make money unless that money comes from and is invested in video games. I am not a share holder so I don't give a flying **** how much money they have in the bank that means **** to me unless they are willing to spend it to make their machine worth buying.


The same lame argument gets tossed out, people buy Nintendo consoles for Nintendo games, which is true but BUT that does not mean we have to A) buy EVERY game they make just for the **** of it, and B) if they aren't making the games we want then there is no reason to have faith in them, and C) there does need to be more than just Nintendo games because  some of us ALSO like varied experiences and no I am not talking multiplatform titles I am talking 3rd party exclusives that fit the Nintendo profile, something every previous console did well but so far the most Wii U has that fits the profile is Zombie U, a game that was not well received and isn't likely to get a follow up.


So when I voice my views on what I want them to do to make the machine interesting to me, and it just happens to be in line with what a lot of others are asking for, then maybe, just maybe Nintendo SHOULD actually listen because hello those are potential buyers they are ignoring. Right now they are getting real hate not just normal anti-Nintendo biased hate they always get their FANS< YES I count I am a fan so I can say this, their fans are getting tired of their ****, so they have a few cheerleaders left who don't care because they just buy everything Nintendo makes, good for you if that is what you enjoy but the reality is their portfolio is diverse enough they actually do attract, or at least used to attract, a wide array of gamers, now they all they have left are the cheerleaders who will buy their product no matter what, and guess what those numbers are not enough. They can't stay in business forever on diminishing returns that is why they are changing their approach and so far it's not working.


Either way you look at it, ignoring the hard core gamers, the people who live for gaming is a bad idea, and this notion that they already have that market locked in is bullshit as I can read plenty of others on here who express their disinsterest in the console also, people who bought their past consoles and enjoyed them, so there is still a segment of their CORE base that is not won over yet and doing stuff like this is not giving us much confidence to invest in their product that for all we know could be discontinued in a year or so. There is evidence that suggests Nintendo might be ready to drop Wii U in a heatbeat if they can figure out what to do next, they did it with GBA to DS, if they see a greener pasture that makes them money but shifts their focus away from US, why should we so good for them at least they have money in the bank? What kind of bull **** is that? You know why they have that money in the bank, gamers like me PUT IT THERE!

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TalkBack / Re: GBA Wii U Virtual Console Worldwide Line-Ups Revealed

« on: March 27, 2014, 12:52:14 PM »

Nintendo shouldn't have to make a custom emulator for each individual game. That takes too much effort. It would be much easier to do it the PC way, create a system-based emulator that can run the games properly and release all the games in one big chunk.

That won't work, there are too many variables and it would be easier to just port them over without an emulator, Nintendo doesn't need an emulator anyways they wrote the code they know the timing, they don't have to reverse engineer anything like PC guys do so they could just port the code over nothing says they have to be true emulations.

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General Gaming / Re: Facebook buys Oculus: virtual farms, real motion sickness.

« on: March 27, 2014, 12:47:21 PM »

I am torn, I think Facebook is the devil but they do have tons of money to invest in this so they could make something good out of it. I am not really that interested in VR any more, I was when I was 12 then Lawn Mower Man came out and kind of killed the whole idea for me. 3D TV is lame, 3D movies are okay but for TV it was a bad idea. VR for video games is a perfect fit, VR for anything else is just weird.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: What new game do you hope to see Nintendo announce in the next year?

« on: March 27, 2014, 12:43:20 PM »

I generally hate Mario sports games but a Mario Paintball would be awesome.

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General Chat / Re: Who would be interested in a real-life forum get-together?

« on: March 24, 2014, 05:50:35 PM »

I think it would make more sense to meet at a convention and just meet up that way, organizing a meeting on a web forum is not a smart idea, just saying.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Skipping PAX East 2014

« on: March 24, 2014, 05:49:12 PM »

I mean to say not everyone who wants a Wii U follows the industry but again PAX is a convention for the die hards and they need them on board, Nintendo has way more than 5 million die hard fans but not more than 5 million Wii U users, so there is room to grow.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Skipping PAX East 2014

« on: March 24, 2014, 05:47:51 PM »

I disagree, Nintendo needs to ignite their fanbase and get those on the fence on board, they are not doing that, they need hype this is a bad sign. It doesn't matter if they have nothing to show PAX is not a video game thing it is a comic book and internet culture thing, this is for the hard cores, E3 is more mainstream but PAX is for the hard cores and shunning them is not good at this time, especially their fans. And no not everyone who follows the industry knows about the Wii U, they might now about the console but Nintendo needs to get the word out on the games and so far they are not doing that well.

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General Gaming / Re: FreezeME - A 3D platformer in the style of the N64-era

« on: March 24, 2014, 05:40:26 PM »

I am downloading the demo now and will try it before I pass judgement. First off I disagree with the defense that just because it's another game it's good, as an artist myself who struggles getting people to appreciate my work it's not a good defense to just say you don't like it let me see you do better, because that's not a good approach. This game looks promising so I want to give real feedback, most of it will be harsh but you need that to make a great game, the endless praise just because it reminds someone of something else is not helpful if the game isn't working.


Pre-demo thoughts:


Just based on the youtube videos this game looks confusing. Not how to play I think I get that, but what is so special about it? Don't rely on the nostalgia of oh we need another Mario 64 style game because there have been countless platformers over the years that just plain sucked because they were cash in's with no soul, so please if you want to take this game seriously don't rely on just the praise from those who think it reminds them of something else. Make this game stand on it's own or it will fail.

The level design looks dated, especially by today's standards. It is one thing to do a SNES or 8 bit style artistic game for the merit, but 3D type games are different, making an ugly blocky virtua fighter clone today would just be tacky, so work on the graphics and keep them coming what I saw so far was very generic and felt rushed, which is fine it's early. You need more stuff going on and the environments are too bland, spruce them up a bit. Also there should be more enemies running around, don't just copy and paste Mario 64 into a modern engine make this game worth playing, Mario 64 is great but dated, this game needs to keep your attention so far the videos looked like it would be bland and boring real quick.


I would lose the galaxy style stuff right off, don't poke the bear if Nintendo thinks this is a blatant rip off they will pounce, making it an homage is one thing making it a rip off is another thing.


The music needs work, I don't know who is doing your music but it needs more, it sounds too SNES for a modern game, even those homages on Steam use modern musical themes even if they use 8 bit tones to generate them. I think the game has potential and would like to see it get released but not in it's current form, it needs some work and it needs to be more than a Mario clone with a Dora knock off, also seriously change her outfit or something, again don't poke the bear comes to mind, someone suggested licensing it to whoever makes Dora, bad idea, change something to make her less Dora like don't play on that because if it looks too much like Dora and is too easy to confuse for Dora then her owners will sue, no if's about it they won't let you make money off their property even if it is by accident.


Right now keep it up, the levels look bland, needs more enemies, puzzles and she needs more moves, and get rid of those Galaxy rip offs and you got a good start, also get some help with the music that tune is too bland it could use some spritzing up maybe some percussion even.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Skipping PAX East 2014

« on: March 24, 2014, 05:26:49 PM »

It's not about money, they got more than enough of that to go around right now, this is a bad sign, Nintendo has been moving away from the core gamer crowd for a while now, their new talk about QoL and now this, makes me think their days as a video game company are winding down.

It shouldn't matter if they have nothing new to show, they need good press not bad press, this is bad press

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General Gaming / Re: Review a game you've never actually played.

« on: March 24, 2014, 05:04:43 PM »

Pac-Man was the first game I ever played, it was a cocktail machine in a bar my dad took me to. He had a real beer, I had a root beer and we dropped quarter after quarter into that machine for what felt like forever. Every time I went to that bar I went straight to the Pac-Man machine. Yes I also had, and enjoyed it on Atari VCS. I loved it too much to care it was flawed, all games were flawed back then and call me crazy but I also enjoyed E.T too. Not as much as some other games but more than a certain youtuber wants people to. Even playing it on an arcade can't be that hard, I see those old machines everywhere just check your local bars or the skating rink nearby somebody has to have one somewhere.



I will play:


The one game I never played that I always hated was Chrono Trigger, to this day it bothers me how much love that games gets. I tried to understand it but I just don't. I guess you must really have to be into convoluted nightmares to enjoy that mess of a game. I like Zelda games a lot, some better than others, and I like RPG's too, some better than others, but I never understood what the fuss was about Chrono Trigger, so it's got time travel, in a FANTASY world in a FANTASY setting in a fictional universe, not much appeal as it's all made up, if it was time travel int he real world but with a Fantasy twist or RPG elements then that would be one thing but since it is all make believe you can't really know the time travel is even happening for sure can you?


Also I don't like the notion of multiple endings for a sprite based text heavy interactive cartoon. I watched a few videos on Youtube, I read the tutorials, I even sat through my brother in law play the entire game and it just looked too boring for me to care about. It was one of those games I just think was over rated for some unknown reason and has been over hyped on the internet because that is what the internet does, it takes a game nobody liked and turns it into a game everyone hated, takes a game most people liked and turned it into greatest game ever, and takes a random game most people didn't even know existed and turns it into this great hidden gem everyone needs to play before they die. Not for me. I rate it a 3 out of five.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: What new game do you hope to see Nintendo announce in the next year?

« on: March 24, 2014, 05:00:14 PM »

I changed my mind, I really am excited for Yarn Yoshi, if one thing I have learned over the years is the more you WANT Nintendo to do something the less likely they are to do it. You have to psych them out, pretend the game you really want is garbage and talk about how stupid it would be for them to make that game, then they will release it as expected just to spite you. Except if they know we are on to them it won't work so there goes that idea. damn you Nintendo.

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General Chat / Re: Anyone else deal with depression or knows someone who does?

« on: March 24, 2014, 04:57:23 PM »

everyone is going to say something different so might as well chime in. Take a deep breath and don't stress about it man, go for a long walk alone with your thoughts and see where you end up. I lost my fiance right before we got married and it was the hardest thing to go through, but a few years latter I basically got over it. being cheated on is probably hard to deal with but it's not the end of the world, its just her way of moving on before she is ready to admit she is moving on.