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General Gaming / Anonymous Threatens Sony With Robotic Voice On YouTube

« on: December 31, 2011, 04:18:34 AM »

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/12/29/anonymous-threatens-sony-with-robotic-voice-on-youtube.aspx

Sony might have forgotten all about these guys, but apparently these guys haven't forgotten about Sony.

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Nintendo Gaming / Further proof the Wii isn't dead yet

« on: December 06, 2011, 05:46:48 PM »

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003IY48DA/ref=s9_hps_bw_g63_ir13?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-8&pf_rd_r=09PPJJNNZ4ZB0W68F9TE&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1261008702&pf_rd_i=468642

 

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General Chat / Kytime is not worse than Michael Pachter

« on: December 04, 2011, 04:49:47 PM »

It says below his name that he is worse than Michael Pachter, but it should be pointed out that he correctly predicted Xenoblade was coming to NA. You can argue a broken clock is right two times a day, but that's true with Pachter as well, so how is he worse?

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Nintendo Gaming / Wii U has quad core 3GHz CPU, 768 MB of RAM

« on: December 02, 2011, 06:44:21 PM »

http://wiiudaily.com/2011/12/wii-u-has-quad-core-3ghz-cpu-768-mb-of-ram/

Nintendo is finally set to release a new, much more powerful console with HD graphics, and many are wondering what kind of technology we might find inside the console, and how it will compare with the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. We’ve heard from developers who have access to the console that the Wii U is “50% more powerful” than the Xbox 360 and PS3. We now know that those estimates of 50% are based on the fact that the Wii U is around 50% more powerful on paper, according to information Wii U Daily obtained from a Japanese developer who is currently working on porting a PS3 game to the Wii U. According to the source, the Wii U specs are:
 

• Quad Core, 3 GHz PowerPC-based 45nm CPU, very similar to the Xbox 360 chip.
• 768 MB of DRAM “embedded” with the CPU, and shared between CPU and GPU
• Unknown, 40nm ATI-based GPU

The source also mentions that Nintendo has been testing two versions of the console, one with 768 MB of RAM, and one with 1 GB. The RAM is also made by IBM and is embedded with the processor on the same die/silicon, which results in more bandwidth.

If this is true it really sucks. I was hoping for at least 2GB of Ram at a minimum. The PS3 and 360 have 512mb of RAM, so 768mb really isn't a huge leap forward, and when the xbox420 and PS4 roll out in a year or two they will probably just slaughter the Wii U...

The Wii was 50% more powerful than the GC, so is the Wii U being 50% more powerful than PS360 really such a big deal? Its a huge leap over the Wii though, so that's something, but...

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General Gaming / Sony Vita ripping off Nintendo's Pikmin franchise?

« on: November 27, 2011, 12:24:18 AM »

I read about this in one of my friend's copies of Game Informer. Apparently there is some game called "Army Corps of Hell" coming exclusively to the Vita and its basically a clone of Pikmin, but with a hellish theme.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-10-06-army-corps-of-hell-vita-coming-to-europe

"What's really interesting about Army Corps of Hell is that its developer, Entersphere, is headed up by Motoi Okamoto, an ex-Nintendo employee who worked on the GameCube's much-loved gardening simulator [Pikmin]," he wrote. "Reason enough, for sure, to keep a watchful eye on this one."

I don't know who this Motoi Okamoto is, but apparently he is a traitor. In Japan aren't traitors supposed to commit seppuku or something like that? Ah well.

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General Gaming / The best reason to own an Xbox Kinect

« on: November 10, 2011, 07:08:11 AM »

http://www.amazon.com/Hulk-Hogans-Event-microsoft-xbox-360/dp/B0056BE0XG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1320926767&sr=8-1

Its Hulk Hogan, brother! Does anything else need to be said?

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General Chat / Muammar Gaddafi is dead

« on: October 20, 2011, 09:22:58 AM »

There was a thread when Bin Laden died and when Steve Jobs died so I just thought this should be mentioned also. Apparently he was killed in a gunfight by rebels as they closed in on him at his hometown of Sirte in Libya, which was also the last city he had control over.

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NWR Forums Discord / Remember to smite me.

« on: September 16, 2011, 08:25:04 PM »

Was I smited because I made a joke here? Or was it something I said in another thread?

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General Gaming / Full House Tournament Fighter Gameplay Footage

« on: September 07, 2011, 10:33:14 AM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTg4KIxdpic&feature=related

I saw this on youtube and it looks awesome.  Is it real though?

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General Gaming / Sony announces PS3 price cut in all territories

« on: August 16, 2011, 08:26:55 PM »

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/08/sony-announces-ps3-price-cut-in-all-territories-on-both-ps3-models.ars

Sony has officially cut the price on the PlayStation 3 in all major markets, the company announced in Germany on Tuesday. The 160GB system will now be $250 in the United States, 250 euros in the European territories, and 24,980 yen in Japan. The price drop is effective immediately in all territories except Japan, where the price drop will begin on August 18. The PlayStation 3 model with more storage is also seeing its price cut, with the 320GB system now being sold for $300 in the US, 300 euros in European territories, and 29,980 yen. "In addition, a limited edition inFAMOUS 2 bundle is now available at participating retailers across North America. The bundle retails for $299 and includes a 320 GB PlayStation 3, a copy of inFAMOUS 2 and a 30-day membership to PlayStation Plus," SCEA's CEO Jack Tretton wrote on the official blog.

Now the PS3 finally costs what the Wii cost when it first launched. I wonder if Microsoft will consider dropping their prices too

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Nintendo Gaming / Will the Wii U support Trophies/Achievements?

« on: August 04, 2011, 02:11:13 AM »

As far as I know I don't think anything has ever been said about that one way or another. In my opinion it should be supported because its a standard feature on the competition's systems. The Wii is the only system this generation which does not support Trophies/Achievements. Hopefully the Wii U will remedy this problem.

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General Gaming / COD Black Ops shooting down aircraft rant

« on: July 27, 2011, 02:59:08 PM »

I'd like to take a moment to rant about how very few people ever bother shooting down planes or helicopters in the game. It seems like nobody ever cares if there is a spy plane in the air or helicopter or whatever. It seems like most players use Ghost which makes them immune to the effects of the spy plane, and ghost pro protects against getting locked on by helicopters, so I guess for that reason they don't give a **** about the rest of the team, even though since they are immune they are the ones best able to bring them down.

I think using Ghost is a very N00bish and overused perk, which is why I seldom use it myself. The thing I don't think most people realize is that the point of Ghost is that it makes you invisible to spy planes, right? Well, if you shoot the spy planes down as the appear then the point of the perk is rendered moot. If you shoot the spy planes down then you have the same benefit as if you're using ghost, but you are also now free to use something else instead.

The last game I played I had an attack helicopter but I couldn't call it in because the airspace was full and I kept hoping the other team would wise up and shoot it down so I could call mine in, but they never did. So the game ended and I never got to call it in. Even though its simple to shoot down an attack helicopter since it just hovers in more or less the same spot they apparently much rather preferred to just keep getting killed like retarded lemmings by it. And that's basically why their team not only lost, but lost by a HUGE margin. All it would have took is one player with some common sense and a couple rockets and things could have been different for them.

And that stupidity just ruins the game for me... if the idiots are on my team they tend to drag me down and we lose because no matter how good I may be as an individual player, one single player cannot win team based objective games. On the other hand, if the idiots are the other team then it just becomes a pointless slaughter fest of shooting fish in the barrel, which isn't fun for me because there is no challenge. I don't want to be spawn raped and I don't want to spawn rape. I want it to be a fair fight where its a challenge, but not an impossible one. Unfortunately, when you play with random teams its a crap shoot and you never know what sort of players you're going to end up with until its too late.

But anyway, instead of using Ghost to hide like a coward from spy planes why not just shoot them down instead? If you're going to just hide in a corner the whole game why even play the game at all? If you're going to use Ghost at least use it to the benefit of the team and shoot down those helicopters so your team can win. Maybe you are invisible to them, but your team mates may not be.

That's my 2 cents.

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Nintendo Gaming / Will WiiU games be priced at $50 like the Wii, or $60 like PS360?

« on: June 18, 2011, 01:59:24 AM »

The title says it all. I think this is a fair question to ask, and I haven't seen anyone ask/answer it yet, so lets discuss.

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Nintendo Gaming / How Nintendo should market the Wii U

« on: June 16, 2011, 04:31:56 PM »

Wii will Wii will rock U!
Wii will Wii will rock U!
Wii will Wii will rock U!

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General Gaming / Square Enix Hacked: Deus Ex and Tomb Raider Websites Attacked

« on: May 13, 2011, 11:15:07 PM »

This is somewhat related to the PSN hacking, but since this doesn't involve either PSN or Sony I decided it was better to create a new thread instead of posting it there.

http://www.ps3trophies.org/news/news-3588-Square-Enix-Hacked--Deus-Ex-and-Tomb-Raider-Websites-Attacked.html

Yet more hacking misery has emerged today, as hackers have broken into the websites for both Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Tomb Raider, making off with the emails of 25,000 customers who had registered for product updates in the process. The resumes of 350 Eidos Montreal employees might have been compromised too, with the hackers accessing the company's web servers. "Square Enix can confirm a group of hackers gained access to parts of our Eidosmontreal.com website as well as two of our product sites," Square Enix confirmed in a statement. "We immediately took the sites offline to assess how this had happened and what had been accessed, then took further measures to increase the security of these and all of our websites, before allowing the sites to go live again."

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General Gaming / "I Bought A Banned Playstation 3 On Craigslist"

« on: May 06, 2011, 08:11:00 PM »

Alright, this is an old article from June 2010 but it is worth keeping in mind when you're buying a used console from someone. The system might work fine in every other respect, but it could be permanently banned for whatever reason. I also wanted to post this article because I saw something in it which is really funny.

http://consumerist.com/2010/06/i-bought-a-banned-playstation-3-on-craigslist.html

I purchased a ps3 from craigslist. Played it and even got online before I bought it to make sure it worked. I have never owned a ps3 before so I went to sign up for a playstation network account and it gave me a message saying "you cannot use playstation network from this account". So I spoke to a very friendly customer csr and she told me that the console had been banned from the PlayStation Network and that it was impossible to remove the ban. Of course the Craigslist person is not returning Emails which doesn't surprise me. I offered to do anything asked to prove it wasn't me and if it was some sort of monetary issue I would be willing to resolve it. I was told it was like buying a used car as is. The problem with that analogy is that I test drove the console and it mechanically works perfectly.

Although I take issue with the seller, I can't believe Sony would instill a policy that leaves people wide open to getting scammed when they are buying a 100% working console. I just sent a follow up Email pleading for help but I have not gotten a reply yet. Am I wrong in thinking this is an unthinkable policy?

Believe it.

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Nintendo Gaming / Wii Play Motion is coming!!

« on: April 16, 2011, 07:29:48 PM »

I was browsing on Amazon and came across this brand new thing coming in June. It is essentially Wii Play 2, and like the original Wii Play this one comes with a controller bundled with it, but in this case the controller is the new Motion controller with the Motion plus thing built in. Looks like a good way of getting the new controller if you don't already have one.

http://www.amazon.com/Wii-Play-Motion-Black-Remote-Nintendo/dp/B004W4S1S8/ref=amb_link_355915882_1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=right-5&pf_rd_r=18XD1CQNFSPX2E1QQZAK&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1293402982&pf_rd_i=468642

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General Gaming / The new PSN EULA is a pile of Poo!

« on: April 02, 2011, 04:12:30 AM »

I wish the new EULA was just an April Fools joke, but unfortunately its real. Unlike most people, I actually took the time to read through the damned thing and what I read made me physically sick and appalled by what it contained. Basically, Sony says they have the right to take "unused" or "abandoned" funds out of your wallet. So if you add funds into the wallet and I guess if you don't use that up in a certain amount of time they feel they have the right to seize that from you. The EULA also said they have the right to take a "minimum" amount from your credit card if you make a transaction and there isn't enough money in your wallet, and it said this "minimum" amount CAN exceed the amount the item actually costs, so not only can they take your money without your authorization, but they also reserve the right to take more than what the item itself actually costs.

Another thing which really pissed me off was they said they have the "right" to install upgrades/updates without your consent or even notifying you about it, and that these unauthorized installations "may result in loss of data". Well, sure enough, after I agreed to that bullshit EULA (which is something I had to do, because I sure as hell don't want a $300 paperweight) I was busy playing Fallout 3 and as I was enjoying that all of the sudden the PS3 just shut itself off and restarted for no fucking apparent reason, and all the progress I made from my last fucking save was lost. I was so pissed off about that.

This Draconian bullshit is pissing me off and is making me regret the decision I made back in January to get a PS3. Had I known then that Sony was going to pull all this **** that they've been pulling these last few months I would have either bought a 360 instead or just tried to make due with my Wii (even though it is missing out on many 3rd party titles). I really hope the Wii 2 is going to have the sort of 3rd party support so that there isn't even a need to own a 2nd console. At least Nintendo doesn't **** consumers over like the assholes at $ony do.

Anyways, if you do own a PS3, I STRONGLY recommend you avoid using their PSN store thing if you can help it, and if you absolutely must then try to spend your points as soon as possible so Sony can't declare them "abandoned" and then steal them. I also suggest not giving them your credit card info, under any circumstances. Unfortunately, I don't think there's anything that can be done about them automatically rebooting your system in the middle of the game without warning or your consent, causing you to lose all your progress...

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Nintendo Gaming / The Creation of Mario

« on: February 27, 2011, 04:33:26 AM »

http://www.ezzal.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/The-Creation-of-Mario.jpg

I stumbled upon this on accident and thought I'd share. Its a parody of "The Creation of Adam" by Michaelangelo. It is almost NSFW, but thankfully there is a leaf covering up Mario's Wii. 

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Nintendo Gaming / Nintendo Super Mario Yahtzee

« on: January 08, 2011, 09:43:36 PM »

http://www.amazon.com/USAopoly-Nintendo-Super-Mario-Yahtzee

This looks cool. 

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General Gaming / Pachter: Apple will have a game console soon

« on: October 01, 2010, 02:39:54 PM »

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/03/02/pachter-apple-will-have-a-game-console-soon/

First off, let me apologize for posting old news as this article is rather old (but not that old, because it is from this year). In the Wii Rumors thread Blacknmild posted a rumor about some new gaming console that was in development and I speculated there that it could be from Apple and I went on google so I could research more about the aborted console that they were working on in the 90s. So I accidentally ran into this fairly recent article here that I don't recall hearing about before, so even though its old it was still new to me and maybe its new to many of you as well.

But anyway, we can put two and two together here. We have leaked info that some new gaming console is in development (but we don't know by who), plus we have this thing here from Pachter. So does this mean that this mysterious console is coming from Apple? It seems very plausible to me, because Apple has been highly successful with their Ipod junk over recent years, so they have a lot of money to attempt something like this. Remember how Microsoft was able to use its vast wealth to force its way into the console market and is now the number 2 competitor? Well, Apple is another company with a vast fortune now, and furthermore they also have experience with consumer electronics and whatnot so this is a very reasonable prediction one could make. Also, the Ipod stuff does do gaming, so one could argue Apple is already in the business of making video game hardware, so for them to take one more step by making consoles isn't really that much of a leap. So I think all in all this is very plausible.

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Nintendo Gaming / Does anyone else wish the Wii had the portability of the Gamecube?

« on: September 11, 2010, 08:02:54 PM »

People can say what they want about the GC, but one really cool advantage it had was it was easy to move from room to room or house to house thanks to its convenient lunchbox handle and compact cube design. It also seemed pretty durable, so if it got bumped into a wall or two while being moved it probably wouldn't have killed it. That's not so much true with the consoles of today which seem to fail if you so much as look at them the wrong way.

The thing I really hate about the Wii is moving it around and setting it up is a lot more of a hassle than with the GC. Yes, its a very small compact system, but it doesn't have that convenient lunchbox handle that its predecessor had. It is also more of a hassle due to the damn Sensor Bar thing, which has a very long fine wire which inevitably gets tangled up with anything and everything and its just one additional thing that has to be moved and not only moved, but then also placed center on the top or beneath a TV. Nowhere else will do, and that often involved moving things around so its a major undertaking, and occasionally the Sensor bar will fall behind the TV and get tangled up with all the wires back there so it becomes a major hassle. So the sensor bar is one thing that really hurts the convenience of moving the Wii around or taking it over to a friend's house.

So if there were just one thing I could change about the Wii it would be to get rid of the Sensor bar and find some other alternative to it. For example, couldn't the sensor bar just be built into the Wii itself? If not, then what about a built in Camera thing? Isn't that what Kinect and Move will be using? So in my opinion the Wii 2 needs to get rid of the Sensor Bar and have something built into the console that can enable motion control but doesn't require some external thing with a long tangly wire to mess with.

My 2 cents.

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General Gaming / What about a Call of Duty game on rails?

« on: August 01, 2010, 10:15:46 AM »

I was playing COD WaW on my friend's PS3 on Veteran difficulty, so I kept dying over and over again at each checkpoint, but that made me realize how the enemies are scripted to appear and do certain things when the player trips an invisible wire kinda thing. For example, there will be a part where a Japanese soldier will rush at you in a Banzai charge, and every time it will be exactly the same no matter what. So that made me think of on-rails shooters which work exactly the same, except you don't have any direct control over the movement of your character... but otherwise its exactly the same. So there's really absolutely no reason an on-rails COD game couldn't be made.

What do you guys think?

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General Gaming / Microsoft Confirms "Gaywood" Is An Offensive Surname, Mr. Gaywood Responds

« on: April 26, 2010, 03:42:30 PM »

http://consumerist.com/2008/05/microsoft-confirms-gaywood-is-an-offensive-surname-mr-gaywood-responds.html

Microsoft has confirmed to Richard that   his name is, in fact, offensively sexual and will not be reinstated   as his gamertag. (Kotaku posted   their rationale, if you care to read it.) We've got Mr. Gaywood's   response, inside.                 Richard says:
I have swapped several emails with Stephen Toulouse, the   Microsoft staffer who seems to be responsible for the press briefings on   this (he was the one who gave the followup story to Kotaku). Firstly,   he confirmed my enforced change was /not/ because my tag is the same as   my name and /was/ because my tag is deemed to be offensive. I've sent   him the following as an email querying a few more details.
Ah, good. Thank you for clearing that up. I also noticed last   night that I cannot enter my last name in the Real Name field of my Xbox   profile, although I can put it in the Bio section -- does it become   less offensive a few inches further down the screen? I tried Heterowood   and Homowood too (both were barred) but Straightwood was allowed, oddly.   Even the words "Unix" and "Linux" seem to be barred from the Real Name   field, which I find rather bizarre. I also note that this was a system   generated response, and not the result of a complaint about me

WTF?! This man can't use Xbox Live just because his Surname is "Gaywood"?! That's what he was born with!

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Nintendo Gaming / Virtual Boy games coming to 3DSware! (hopefully)

« on: April 01, 2010, 04:32:39 PM »

There has been some talk on here about Virtual Boy games coming to DSiware, but this was back before the 3DS announcement so there were arguments over whether it could actually be done or not because the DS/i is a 2D system. Well, now we know for a fact the 3DS will be a 3D system so that obstacle no longer exists.

There is, however, a good possibility Nintendo won't put Virtual Boy games on a 3DS download service anyway, for several reasons. One being that the VB was a failure which Nintendo had quietly swept under the rug, and I guess they probably still want to keep it buried. Bringing up Virtual Boy games again would confuse people who never heard of the Virtual Boy, and reopen the old embarrassment of its failure.

Another reason Nintendo might not mess with VB games is because it would involve some effort, and with probably little gain because they would have to emulate that obscure hardware which would take some coding effort I'm sure, and since there were only 22 or so games for it they might not see much gain. Plus the VB games might compete with original 3DS games, and Nintendo may not want that.

But with all that said, I really hope it will happen because I have fond memories of Warioland, Teleroboxer, and the handful of other games and since I can't find my VB anywhere this is probably the only way I'll ever be able to play these games again. Its also the only way most people would ever be able to play these games again or for the first time, so I really hope it will happen, but I have some doubts it will because we all know how Nintendo can be sometimes about this sort of stuff. I've never played the VB version of Waterworld, and I doubt I ever will because since it is a movie license it probably will never get added even if other VB games do.

Thoughts?