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General Chat / Re: iPad...meh

« on: April 09, 2010, 07:05:58 PM »

I was being facetious...

Still, e-ink devices are awesome specially for reading outside in bright sunlight. There's no marketing ploy, reading for long periods does tire your eyes and theres no denying that. Doctors aren't lying when they say you should rest 5 minutes every hour or so. Just because you can do it doesn't mean is healthy. I mean, some WoW players con go 20 hours straight, that doesn't mean it's perfectly normal. And anyway, if you think reading forums and news on the internet can even compare to actually reading books you should reconsider how much of serious reader you are. Go and read the divine comedy in one sitting with an lcd screen to see how you feel after you finish.

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General Chat / Re: iPad...meh

« on: April 08, 2010, 07:32:44 PM »

Apple is starting to annoy me, the can make crap and sell tons of it.

So far I didn't care, but it boogles the mind that some people think the iPad works as good book reader when the e-ink devices are far, FAR superior.

And I don't care all the people defending lcd screens, they are in denial and going blind when they reach old age, I've tried reading papers in my desktop computer and it only gives you a headache, even newspaper articles are painful. For browsing a forum and looking at video lcds are ok but anything longer than a couple of paragraphs is torture.

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: LOL WTF? April Fools?

« on: April 01, 2010, 09:31:39 PM »

I knew the fake Bill had to be from the funhouse...

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TalkBack / Re: Super Mario Galaxy 2 Footage Reveals Rock Mario And More

« on: April 01, 2010, 09:27:23 PM »

Your freaking stupid title spoiled the damn power up, GOD DAMN! I was trying so hard to not see this trailer, thank you very much.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Metroid Other M

« on: April 01, 2010, 11:35:54 AM »

mapping another button and using the d-pad.

but again, what would be the fun in that?

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Metroid Other M

« on: March 31, 2010, 11:10:09 PM »

NSMB Wii used the motion, the classic controller could have mapped it to another button but what's the fun in that?

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Metroid Other M

« on: March 31, 2010, 06:41:26 PM »

I agree, however the action is still pretty spectacular. Metroid is the perfect combination of exploration and combat, is not Myst, but it isn't Contra either, and somehow marries both concepts extremely well, thats what metroid is for me. I see no indication that Other M is not going to be anything but that X 1000000, too bad about the cutscenes but the rest looks god damn awesome.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Metroid Other M

« on: March 31, 2010, 04:37:47 PM »

People are giving it too much thought about how easy are the enemies when super metroid was practically the same. Except for bosses, tunnels and corridors were about monsters lined up right in front of your cannon. I wouldn't give the autoaim to much importance, if the difficulty really is affected by the autoaim they will step it up somehow, be it more monsters or monsters that break your auto aim, I don't know. All I know is that this is Team Ninja + Sakamoto in case you are forgetting, Ninja Gaiden and the 2D metroids aren't known for how easy they were.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Metroid Other M

« on: March 30, 2010, 11:04:48 PM »

Sakamoto has this big stubbornness about simplicity, so he would not have the nunchuck anywhere, they way the game seems to be designed looks like it won't need it, so I see no problem with this.

I'm also not worried at all about a reduction in difficulty, I expect difficulty levels and maybe even some sort of super guide thing though.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: New Wii Zelda

« on: March 29, 2010, 08:38:51 PM »

As long as the vitality sensor becomes a wrist band instead of a finger thing I'm all for it, but for now it seems to be pretty uncofortable

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TalkBack / Re: Sakamoto Comments on Metroid Dread

« on: March 15, 2010, 06:12:19 PM »

The reception to Other M story wise is going to be awful. At the very least is going to divide the fanbase big time. Metroid is and always has been a niche title enjoyed by a small crowd, when you have something like that and try to make it "mainstream" or close to it it never ends up doing well. I wouldn't mind being proved wrong but I don't have much hope.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Metroid Other M

« on: March 08, 2010, 10:58:11 PM »

I don't think this is comparable to the Zelda case, Miyamoto adamantly (and wisely) refuses any sort of focus on story, at all, in Mario or Zelda. I remember Koizumi had to sneak the storybook thing in Galaxy under Miyamoto, or he would had cut it.

If Metroid was his baby no story would touch it, thats for sure. And it's funny because RPG need story more than action games, however whatever little story is needed for Zelda comes from the gameplay design alone, and not some crazy or fan-fiction like idea in someone's head.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Metroid Other M

« on: March 08, 2010, 11:20:10 AM »

I agree with Chozo Ghost, part of her appeal as a character was not knowing about her, and before it was rare to see her outside the suit. It's also the change, Samus before was more westernized, and now is more a japanese character, which I think is the thing that shocks me the most, I prefered the more westernized Samus because japanese style tends to make everyone look almost childlike for some reason, specially women, even if they are supposed to be adults, and thats honestly damn creepy.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Metroid Other M

« on: March 04, 2010, 09:55:39 PM »

what feminine slant is there in this Samus? she's a cheap character now, acting every negative stereotype of women possible, she's now weak, immature, way too emotional, way too dependent of other people, specially men, and way too self-absorbed, those monologues are cringe worthy. And yes, I know I'm jumping to conclusions but the things they have decided to showcase are terrible, just terrible.

This has nothing to with the exploitation of Samus sex appeal, which is appalling, but anyway...Samus for me was in the same rank as Karan Sjet from Homeworld, a woman who ironically is actually naked in the two games, but her sexiness is never played or mentioned, at all, despite her being obviously beautiful and easy on the eyes, as it happens with pretty much any female character in video games. She's strong, determined and a great leader, and very feminine to boot, she's motherly and tender, yet she doesn't let emotions on the way of doing what's best for her people. And she's damn smart, she starts as a neurologist, how many women in videogames, or any medium for that matter, are as awesome as that? The homeworld games are never as condescending as Nintendo is being with Samus, despite many tragic events that happen in the game.

We had this image of an awesome space mercenary with a terrible past but strong enough to put it behind her and just kick ass and take names across the whole universe. She was independent, determined and known across the galaxy as the one who always got the job done. Unfortunately that is destroyed now, I guess some of us overestimated way too much the character.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Metroid Other M

« on: March 04, 2010, 06:47:37 PM »

With Sakamoto calling the shots this will be exactly what Nintendo wants out of Metroid.  If it we don't like it it will be because Sakamoto turned out to be a videogame George Lucas and his vision for Metroid turned out to be vastly different than what the fans expected.

More like he already is. Fusion and Zero Mission have portrayed a Samus plenty of fans do'nt like that much. I actually plain hate her and pretend she doesn't exist

With Other M it seems my avoidance will be impossible, I'll end up loving the gameplay, as I've always do, and dismissing her as a character, which is such a damn shame because she was really high in the list of characters I just loved and thought were too cool for words.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Metroid Other M

« on: March 04, 2010, 10:38:27 AM »

People talk like Sakamoto, the guy behind every non-Prime Metroid, wasn't involved. Everything from story focus to gameplay is his call. That's why I'm excited about the gameplay and terrified about the cutscenes.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Metroid Other M

« on: March 03, 2010, 08:46:13 PM »

All I know is that as long as the cutscenes are skipabble I'll be happy...

Ok who am I kidding here, I'm going to watch them anyway, it's like a train wreck, it's horrible but you can't look away.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Metroid Other M

« on: March 03, 2010, 10:28:13 AM »

The mole-ph ball puzzles will more than make up for any story deficiencies.

I'm starting to fear that the story will not just be deficient, but that it might actually degrade my ability to enjoy the game. Like Baiten Kaitos' voice acting.

I'm feeling the same, still, they have to mess it up pretty hard to make a Metroid game unbearable.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Silent Hill: Shattered Memories

« on: February 28, 2010, 06:51:47 PM »

I still get freaked out even though I know the monsters won't get me when there is no ice.

Me too.

Also I'm glad there aren't many "jump" moments, those are the worst kind of scares, and really dumb, people who don't jump at those aren't brave, they just lack a basic nervous system Those parts when your flashlight starts flickering while you approach something and begin to hear the weird sounds are great, the slowly create a very tense atmosphere.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Silent Hill: Shattered Memories

« on: February 28, 2010, 11:42:02 AM »

I can't believe people took less than 8 hours the first playthrough, I zoomed everything and called every single number possible. I've read that even the responses of the phone numbers are different depending of your psychological profile, so it's not just the cutscenes you should look out for differences.

the game called me possibly lousy in bed

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Silent Hill: Shattered Memories

« on: February 28, 2010, 01:36:31 AM »

Finished!

The twist was awesome, as much as I would like to replay I don't have the time, not with my backlog, I'll probably revisit the game some time in the future, but answering random questions to get all endings doesn't seem much fun. I'm wondering something though, Towards the end when Cybil pulls you from the lake and tells you you are dead I got her to say that she was just going back to the station, but en every movie I've seen from all the endings, she says shes quitting, and no one mentions this as a possibility in any faq or video I've seen, did I imagine all that?

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Metroid Other M

« on: February 26, 2010, 11:38:02 AM »

After reading impressions and seeing screenshots, Giant boobs Samus, the terrible voice acting and one liners are making me cringe

http://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/Bikini

As you can see above, Nintendo has always given her pretty sizable breasts.

It is possible that many of us overrated the character and for Nintendo she has always been there to appeal to the male crowd in the way Lara Croft does, however this images appear only for 10 seconds if you become an expert on the game, now we have to see them over and over through the whole game, and I wouldn't be surprised if there's again a zero suit mission.

Its not only the breasts really, but the fact that they are attached to someone who looks like a 12 year old. That generic anime look that Team Ninja always use is horrible, and in no ways portrays what a bounty hunter that has experienced a lot would look like.

And yeah this conversation about Mario is dumb his voice is perfect.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Metroid Other M

« on: February 25, 2010, 10:46:41 PM »

After reading impressions and seeing screenshots, Giant boobs Samus, the terrible voice acting and one liners are making me cringe, but the gameplay intrigues me and can't wait to try it, I'm not against new things, but it's sad we had to get that crappy generic anime look in the process of reinventing the franchise, in my perfect utopian world Nintendo would take the gameplay and let a western developer do the story and character design.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Art Style Thread

« on: February 25, 2010, 12:44:00 PM »

How did I miss this thread before? and how is this two year old thread of one of the most amazing series in gaming only one damn page long? shame people.

Cant wait for the new entries.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Metroid Other M

« on: February 25, 2010, 12:38:33 PM »

Samus monologing? Ugh..

This is certainly the worst part, even if the voice acting was good, which it isn't at all.