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

« on: February 23, 2013, 02:29:54 PM »

Paprika. It's super awesome.

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General Gaming / Re: 1UP loses it's last life.

« on: February 23, 2013, 02:28:00 PM »

Retroknots was cool. That was the best part of 1up for years.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Need for Speed Most Wanted U: It's deserves your purchase!

« on: February 15, 2013, 01:47:40 PM »

I didn't even realize this game was coming to Wii U. I hope it sells well, I would buy it, if not for the fact that I already own the PC version and have played it through to as complete as I ever want to.

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Podcast Discussion / Re: RFN RetroActive #26 Poll

« on: February 15, 2013, 01:44:53 PM »

I would've voted for Ys if I didn't indulge in the steam sale a while back and burn myself out on Oath In Falgana and one of the other games that ended up being amazingly cheap. Those are fun discussions. Dracula X should be an interesting conversation. I hope it isn't Zombies because I tried it a year or so back and it severely doesn't hold up.

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TalkBack / Re: 3DS eShop Sale Announced for North America

« on: February 15, 2013, 01:41:40 PM »

This is great. I hope this does well enough for Nintendo to move the sales upscale and get discounts on retail eshop games.

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TalkBack / Re: Mario Golf: World Tour Announced for 3DS

« on: February 14, 2013, 01:49:29 PM »

I wonder if this is going to be like Mario Tennis and just a bare bones console game or this will end up being more in line with previous handheld mario sports games. I much prefer the rpg lite stuff, it gives me more of a reason to actually spend $40 on it.

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General Gaming / Re: Second-best Game Designer

« on: February 12, 2013, 02:05:11 PM »

What about space invaders dude?
Or who made Ultimata?

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General Gaming / Re: Xbox720 - that's 2 full revolutions - not till 2014? ~Rumor/Speculation Thread~

« on: February 12, 2013, 02:03:28 PM »

How many of those live users are like me and don't pay for Gold? I'm a member, but I don't use any of the entertainment features because I don't want to pay to use netflix or amazon or anything. I just feel like that 46 million number may not be telling the story Microsoft wants it to.

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 325: Something About Tingle's Chest Hair

« on: February 11, 2013, 01:12:51 PM »

The only problem I have with digital is that unless I plan on buying a game at launch, which I rarely do, it's just not financially worth it. Prices don't seem to go down. It's not a nintendo problem, I know on the Xbox games you can get for $10 to $20 are still $40+ on their games on demand service. If I could get Wii/3DS games digitally for the same price I can get boxed copies six months or so after release I'd go full digital.


I think Nintendo is just kinda hosed on this third party thing, and there's nothing they can do about it short of becoming the dominant player in the market. People's minds are made up. I just feel like Nintendo (due to their own decisions) are part of a self fulfilling prophecy where both consumers and publishers just don't think third parties will work on Nintendo Platforms. I do think it doesn't matter ultimately for me, because I buy Nintendo consoles for Nintendo stuff, and everything else is kind of gravy.
The one thing I think Nintendo could do is market their eShop a lot better and try and get more developers to that. I think it's a lucrative market.


Maybe since the video game industry is dividing a lot harder between Japan and everyone else Nintendo will have to focus themselves on just being Japanese and being a niche player in the rest of the world.

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

« on: February 10, 2013, 08:53:06 AM »

Yeah, I haven't seen the DKR movies, but faithful adaptations of those stories sounds horrendously unappealing. I've been lukewarm on DC's animated movie effort of late, though. I think All-Star Superman is the last one I actually liked.

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General Gaming / Re: If you could only play one genre

« on: February 09, 2013, 01:33:51 PM »

For me it's platformers. That's the genre I like the most.
As for developer, Quest circa 1998? As for living developers it'd either be EAD Tokyo or Monolith.

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

« on: February 09, 2013, 01:18:30 PM »

I had a gift card so I picked up DMC on PC. It's pretty good. Some minor complaints about the combat. Don't like using the triggers to select different weapons all the time. Other than that thing the combat is pretty solid. The story, on the other hand, is abysmal, but it so doesn't matter in this type of game.

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

« on: February 09, 2013, 01:15:48 PM »

Starship Troopers: Invasion. The graphics are decent but the animation feels like claymation a lot. I'm not big into it. The story is bad as well, but that's to be expected. Lots of scenes of four space marines standing in a line firing and alien bugs.
I hope the animation in Captain Harlock ends up being a lot better.

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General Chat / Re: Official 2012 NFL Discussion: insanolord's hope for the Browns comes here to die

« on: February 09, 2013, 01:08:17 PM »

I find the overwhelming majority of commercials both unfunny and unproductive. I don't watch much tv though, so maybe I'm just missing the deluge of awesome commercials.

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 20: JOURNEY TO JAPAN 

« on: January 29, 2013, 07:30:02 PM »

It showed up as normal in my feed. I use pocketcast on android and everything worked fine.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: 3DS Hacking

« on: January 29, 2013, 10:25:10 AM »

Not just half the time, but with a much much smaller market. I know the apple app store is crowded and all, but everyone with a device has probably been to the app store at least once and I know that a lot of people with 3DS haven't been to the eshop.

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General Gaming / Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010-2013

« on: January 29, 2013, 10:17:30 AM »

If only they could've made a good game. Sucks they're getting shut down though.

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

« on: January 29, 2013, 10:12:30 AM »

As a film, removed from actual history, Lincoln didn't really do it for me.


I saw Men in Black 3 for the first time last weekend and thought it was awesome. I was surprised since I thought MiB2 was regrettable.

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 20: JOURNEY TO JAPAN 

« on: January 29, 2013, 10:07:34 AM »

This episode is great. I actually should be headed to Japan through my school in 2014 and I'm trying to soak up as much information as I possibly can before I head out.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U Nintendo Network ID - Read the First Post (even if you've already posted!)

« on: January 26, 2013, 12:24:30 PM »

BlackSentai
I've had this thing since black friday and haven't touched the online stuff except to buy a couple of games.

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General Chat / Re: Official 2012 NFL Discussion: insanolord's hope for the Browns comes here to die

« on: January 14, 2013, 01:29:09 PM »

The Falcons WANTED to lose. It was so obvious. Those dudes puckered up so super hard at the end there. If they had lost that game the Georgia Dome might have dissolved. It was awesome.

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General Gaming / Re: PlayStation 2 Game Recommendations

« on: January 09, 2013, 05:10:36 PM »

Maximo is the ****

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General Gaming / Re: Valve Aims for One Console Future!? GDC Reveal of the "Steam Box"!?

« on: January 09, 2013, 05:10:17 PM »

Oh you can get all the component parts and put it together cheaper.

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General Chat / Re: Official 2012 NFL Discussion: insanolord's hope for the Browns comes here to die

« on: January 08, 2013, 11:47:34 AM »

The Falcons are just primed to lose this game. It's what they do. Doesn't matter how good a team they are.

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General Gaming / Re: Valve Aims for One Console Future!? GDC Reveal of the "Steam Box"!?

« on: January 08, 2013, 11:44:47 AM »

I'm disappointed it isn't anything brand new. Xi3 was at CES last year showing this stuff off. I remembered seeing that exact design. It's impressive because they can but a good bit of horsepower in that little packaging and it's quite sturdy, but it's what it was always going to be and I'm not surprised, juts disappointed. I have a pc that runs windows and uses steam that is connected to my HDTV that I play games on as my primary gaming thing. Sure this packaging with valve's marketing muscle behind it can get into more outlets and be seen as more of a console, but it's just a PC, and at a grand a pop I'm not sure how excited that makes anyone.