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TalkBack / Re: EA Rebranding \
« on: May 11, 2022, 06:15:12 PM »
Now with less Petro money!
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TalkBack / Re: Mario Movie Delayed To 2023
« on: April 25, 2022, 09:18:41 PM »
"A delayed game movie is eventually good, but a rushed game movie is forever bad."
-Probably Not Miyamoto
-Probably Not Miyamoto
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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 765: This Isn't Even Steven Seagal's Final Form
« on: April 04, 2022, 11:27:55 PM »I assumed that the developers would always want you to pick the unlockable option, but I decided to ignore that and just go with my heart on each choice. A bit counter intuitive gameplay wise as you have to seek these unlockable options out in the world, but I like that there's seemingly no automatic win button.
This is something I just recently noticed as well. I stand by my statement, I'm the feudal lord, goddamn it.
Also, I'm not 100% on this, but I read that battles scale based on your army's level and maybe the difficulty. I was also wondering why I always like 1-2 levels behind the recommended level, but apparently it's designed that way. They give you a lot more exp when you're somewhat underleveled vs. being at or above the same level as enemies to make up for it. I felt like I had to grind more for money than exp just to get enough upgrade materials.
This could be true because I noticed I'm ALWAYS about 2 levels below the "Recommended" level for a mission regardless of how strong I am. I do appreciate that its VERY EASY to level up someone who is under-leveled.
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Podcast Discussion / Episode 764: A Truthiness Moment
« on: March 27, 2022, 06:07:46 PM »If it feels right...
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/rfn/59994/episode-764-a-truthiness-moment
Sometimes, when I sit down to write this article, I realize I don't remember anything about the episode. I thankfully take production notes, but they're of dubious quality. I promise the content I advertise in the following text is that it feels like it was there. That's good enough. I just remembered Jon was out, so that's something!
Greg has some hands-on time with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC, and now that its cycling these stages into online he's able to report on them. He also got a discounted copy of Wonderful 101 on Switch. Guillaume is ever-so-close to the end of Final Fantasy XII and he has thoughts on this game's infamous status as the "Star Wars" Final Fantasy. James closes out New Business with an early look at Triangle Strategy. At the time of recording he had basically just seen the two demos again.
After a break we dig into the inbox. Two email this week ask us if organization is a "good" thing (it isn't) and to create a roleplay mod for a Nintendo Game. You can roleplay a podcast with an engaged listener base by sending us an email.
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TalkBack / Re: RiffTrax: The Game Flashes Switch Sign May 5
« on: March 15, 2022, 08:47:57 PM »
Rollergator is hell
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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Downloads - March 3, 2022
« on: February 28, 2022, 09:16:01 AM »
Oh ****, Ryan's Rescue Squad LETS GO
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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Today Sucks; I Hate This
« on: February 26, 2022, 08:26:38 PM »Get yourself an animal. They can often be very helpful...
I had a herding dog and a hound at the same time. It felt like a coordinated attack on my sanity.
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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Today Sucks; I Hate This
« on: February 26, 2022, 08:25:22 PM »
May we all find our scam like Hutz found his scam
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NWR Forums Discord / Today Sucks; I Hate This
« on: February 24, 2022, 03:31:50 PM »
Post the most overtly positive memes you can find.
All your hang in theres
Edit: should be a semicolon.
All your hang in theres
Edit: should be a semicolon.
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TalkBack / Re: Pokemon Presents Video To Air On February 27
« on: February 24, 2022, 03:30:47 PM »
This better be about Smile and Sleep.
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TalkBack / Re: Second Voice Of Cards Title Announced: The Forsaken Maiden Dealing In February 17
« on: February 06, 2022, 02:44:08 PM »
HA HA HA,
OH WOW
OH WOW
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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 755: Activision Acquisition Isekai
« on: January 24, 2022, 09:14:25 PM »
In one sentence the game revealed 3 anime trope "plot twists."
In a single sentence.
Y'all, chill.
In a single sentence.
Y'all, chill.
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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia LXXXVIII: Pikmin Mafia. Sign-up Thread.
« on: January 24, 2022, 02:07:32 PM »
I'll join
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TalkBack / Re: Egglia Rebirth Coming To North America February 10: RPG Developed By Brownie Brown Founders
« on: January 19, 2022, 09:42:53 AM »
I see their Square Enix history showing in this name
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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 753: All My Joannas, Gone
« on: January 18, 2022, 09:44:27 PM »I tried to send an email but it was blocked as spam.
I'm sorry about it, our email client is being really weird all of a sudden. We had a lot of reports of this, and we're working on it.
In the meantime, the webform does work (we think). Please email with that and uh... let us know so I can confirm it does work.
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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 754: Slow-Rolling Into Our Obituary
« on: January 18, 2022, 09:43:16 PM »
From the team that brought you Balan Wonderworld and Sleeping Dogs: Triangle Strategy
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NWR Forums Discord / Re: This Image of Edea Lee from Bravely Default is now an NFT
« on: January 06, 2022, 07:52:19 PM »
Seeing a lot of interest in my NFT collection.
Market values skyrocketing. $0.02 is the new asking price.
Market values skyrocketing. $0.02 is the new asking price.
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NWR Forums Discord / Re: This Image of Edea Lee from Bravely Default is now an NFT
« on: January 06, 2022, 06:12:54 PM »
No no, that's just the image. I own the NFT. Which is the above leger item.
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NWR Forums Discord / Re: This Image of Edea Lee from Bravely Default is now an NFT
« on: January 06, 2022, 04:31:09 PM »
I will sell you this NFT for $0.01
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Podcast Discussion / Episode 752: This Ain't No Ice in a Glass
« on: December 26, 2021, 03:56:00 PM »A new meaning for "Happy Boxing Day."
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/rfn/59277/episode-752-this-aint-no-ice-in-a-glass
It's the final episode of 2021, but with the ongoing holidays Jon isn't able to join what ultimately was a bit of an impromptu episode.
James is the only person with New Business this week, ending his nearly month-long sabbatical on the subject. He's been playing Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth. It's a lot of name, and as a Castlevania-like you'd be understandably skeptical at James' praise for the game. The completely unbiased author of this article thinks he is very trustworthy, and also ruggedly handsome, and a great businessman.
After James concludes talking, we dive straight into Listener Mail. Three emails to close out the year: provide the inside scoop on Kirby's anniversary party, talk about self-imposed challenges in games, and revive HD Rumble. You can try to get us to answer your question by sending us an email. Even if we pick it, no promise we answer it!
If you need something else to listen to during our upcoming time off, Gui appeared on TYP's Radio Trivia last week and the crew will have published three new Patreon-exclusive episodes by the end of the month.
Thanks to everyone for listening this year. I hope you're enjoying the holidays.
We will never apologize.
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TalkBack / A Businessman's Prerogative: Meta, NFT, and Repeating Other Meaningless Buzzwords to Make Me Money
« on: December 21, 2021, 04:54:04 PM »I'm here to get paid.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/editorial/59251/a-businessmans-prerogative-meta-nft-and-repeating-other-meaningless-buzzwords-to-make-me-money
Screw Mario Kart; let me own Pikachu.
You heard me.
I will not be stifled by concerns of unclean language. Screw Mario. I don't want his kart, or his dinosaur, or even his brother. I want to own Pikachu. It's that simple. In the immortal words of Dave “Batista” Bautista, “GIVE ME WHAT I WANT! [Mario?] THAT’S NOT WHAT I WANT!” I want to own Pikachu. Not at WrestleMania, but broadly.
Back in late October, Bloomberg Wealth published an article trying to explain what the Metaverse is to business types who aren’t serious enough to read the Harvard Business Review. There was a passage that caught a lot of Internet heat, which is of course the most important metric for judging how right you are about something. They made a hamfisted attempt to explain NFTs in the context of “owning” Mario and his eponymous kart in Mario Kart. One could earn “Mariocoins” for their ownership, and the purchase and ultimately sale of Mario and his kart would be registered on the Blockchain.
For completeness sake, I should explain NFTs beyond calling them the latest trend for grifters and griftees. NFTs (Non-fungible tokens), the latest trend for grifters and griftees, are digital signatures that "authenticate ownership" of a digital asset, such as a picture or 1/47 of a Radio Free Nintendo Patreon Exclusive. Ownership transactions are verified on the Blockchain, and at this point its clear that continuing to define terms will get us nowhere. While none of this prevents the digital asset from being infinitely reproduced, the "ownership" is unaltered by this duplication. Just know that unless you're the actual owner of Part 22, your enjoyment of it is completely illicit.
There were a few issues with the Bloomberg Wealth article.
First was the handmaiden work Bloomberg was doing for “Meta,” the rebranded whitewash of perpetual bad actor Facebook. When not allegedly busy propagating Russian agitprop, allegedly promoting conspiracy theories, allegedly knowingly undermining the self-worth of teens, allegedly providing venues for all the things that are too hot for Nextdoor, and other worthwhile business ventures; Facebook is also interested in throwing up smokescreens to distract from Congressional testimony. The rebrand’s timing was so obvious that it should have led the piece. On the bright side, it did give us this Meta ad, which is so horrendously awful that one of the actors literally could not hide their contempt.
Second is the real problem with describing “Metaverse,” which is that it can mean whatever the hell you want it to mean. It’s a word made up by marketers and their ilk to rebrand existing technologies as something new and revolutionary, which is of course just a way of getting money for existing ideas. VR Chat is the ultimate expression of Metaverse by Bloomberg Wealth’s definition. Except, it lacks the necessary implementation of NFT technology. Without it, how can you get people to give you real currency in exchange for fake currency that you created literally from thin air so that they can buy “content” that you let the audience create for you?
But most pointedly, the biggest failure of Bloomberg Wealth isn’t their thin grasp of why Facebook is doing this now, or the inherent pyramidal shape of the Metaverse business model as described in their article. The true failure was the selection of Mario Kart as the example. It was inherently so ghastly to fans of Nintendo games—and more largely to the gaming community—that it poisoned any potential conversation they could have about NFT in games.
This is where the NFT-supporting commentariat will jump all over me and accuse me of not seeing the revolutionary value of truly owning your “content” in games. They ignore that for this to actually do more than existing “inventory” models do in online games, it would require the NFT—which ultimately is just a pointer saying who owns a URL—be implemented in other products. Great, your super cool gun is backed by NFT instead of just being inventory on a game server, but you aren’t going to be able to use the gun in another game unless the developers implement it. This is where the commentariat calls me dumb, but they’re the ones claiming automatically generated jpegs of sub-Garbage Pail Kids quality art are "worth" $300k, so I feel like I’m pre-vindicated.
Bloomberg’s example of Mario and his Kart Friend being only accessible to the single owner of the related NFT would render Mario Kart unplayable almost instantly. Unless Nintendo wanted to get into the business of automatically creating kart+driver combinations, they’d never be able to feed the grift mill enough content that everyone could have a kart, let alone a desirable one.
I’m being informed that it is entirely possible that Nintendo is already automatically generating Mario Kart characters.
Be that as it may… if Bloomberg Wealth wanted to better illustrate their point, what game should they have chosen? We need something that justifies the limitation of a single owner having access, that has “user generated content” where playing the game increases the perceived value of the in-game asset, where there’s enough supply to keep the wheels of the game lubricated, and where it is reasonable to assume that the asset will be valuable in other games in the future.
To revisit the words of America’s greatest slab of human granite: you know what it is, give me what I want! I want to own Pikachu. I’ve been asking for it for years, you’re going to give me what I want or I’m going to continue to hurt you by writing this article.
Pokémon is the answer to the NFT/Metaverse/investor-bait question that no one needed to ask, and yet I will answer. Let’s take it point by point. I identified four key criteria we have to meet: justified scarcity, sufficient supply to make the game playable for a broad audience, potential for “play to earn” to increase the value of the asset, and expectation that the asset will be valuable in future games.
To start with, I’m going to stop calling it “the asset.” This is entirely too boring, and as was Bloomberg Wealth’s intent in choosing Mario Kart, I need a beloved property that will generate rage clicks. From this point forward “the asset” is “Vulpix.” Sorry everyone else, I own Vulpix. If you want to see him you’ll have to pony up. Please spread the word that NWR is saying Vulpix should be an NFT, the clicks give me strength.
How can I justify the scarcity of Vulpix? As we covered in the most recent Indie World Showcase, all foxes are dead. But even in the context of Pokémon, I can justify the limited supply of Vulpixes: when you play Pokémon or watch Pokémon or… sleep Pokémon you don’t see a ground teeming with Vulpix. If you’re lucky, you might see a single Vulpix in an hour. They’re not especially common. But there is more than one, you cry out—afraid that you’ll never get to own Alolan Vulpix. And indeed there is, which takes me to the second point…
“Limited” does not mean “singular.” The game can still be playable, even if NFT ownership of specific Pokémon is implemented. Pokémon as NFTs can be “minted” at a frequency commensurate with their in-universe rarity. The GTS marketplace would be awash in Rattata and Zubat NFTs, but my Vulpix is a much more valuable commodity. It is possible you could “mint” one by crawling around in the grasses, much like one would mint any other cryptocurrency, but it isn’t especially likely. You can still beat the Elite Four, or fight online, or do other Pokémon gameplay without a Vulpix, but if you must have one, the GTS Marketplace will always be able to provide—for a price.
Now just apply this scarcity to Legendary, true one-of-a-kind, Pokémon. They’ll be unfathomably valuable. People will pay a lot of virtual currency to be the sole owner of Mewtwo. It’s not just a lucrative way to collect a percentage of the sale price as a “service fee,” or a way to gin-up free PR with each wild sale price, it’s also a way to bring currency speculation to the world of Pokémon; something we’ve always known it was lacking.
In the canon, "Mewtwo is a Pokémon that was created by genetic manipulation. However, even though the scientific power of humans created this Pokémon's body, they failed to endow Mewtwo with a compassionate heart." This might actually be too on the nose.
If I don’t own the only Vulpix, how do I “play to earn” my way into a more valuable Vulpix? Well, what if I “minted”— a.k.a. “caught”—a shiny Vulpix? That would certainly be more valuable than a generic one on the GTS. But, even if my Vulpix wasn’t shiny, or Alolan, or special at time of capture, I could play to make it more special. EV training, leveling up, teaching it movies via TM/TR/HM/Move Trainer, or by doing that weird Pokémon pageant stuff. All these changes to the composition of my Vulpix potentially make it more marketable. It’s up to me to figure out how to maximize the value of my Vulpix, and make it stand out from the crowd. I’m doing Market Research, this is fun!
The last question: how do I know that my Vulpix will be useful in future Pokémon games? This is where NFT acolytes always claim “the future” rests, but they never have real examples. They assume, rather blithely, that of course developers will invest the time to support NFTs from other games, despite the fact it likely earns them nothing. But, with Pokémon that’s already here. You can already trade your Pokémon forward. In fact, it is possible to have taken a Pokémon all the way from the Game Boy Advance to the Switch. Even older generations are accessible via the Virtual Console. Concerned Game Freak is going to pull a Sword and Shield and cut another hundred Pokémon? Now they'd be illegally influencing a financial instrument. Who would have thought the Security and Exchange Commission would be a Pokémon Trainer's biggest ally?
In fact, moving Pokémon to NFTs cleans up the entire trading process! Forget Pokémon Home, now we have Pokémon NFT! Pokémon Company doesn’t even have to pay for the servers that run it, and now there’s no Pokémon duplication to worry about. I can take my Vulpix from Sword and Shield, to Legend Arceus, to the online Trading Card Game, to toothbrush incentivizer Pokémon Smile! Now Vulpix is always with me, in the Metaverse.
So, Pokémon Company, GIVE ME WHAT I WANT! I want to own Vulpix. Other people can own a Vulpix as well, but not my Vulpix.
Nintendo, you can keep your hands clean by blaming Game Freak and The Pokémon Company, while taking your fat cut of each transaction.
Facebook, if you want to smokescreen your malicious behaviors, this is how you do it.
And lastly, Bloomberg Wealth, if you want cheap heat, THIS is the internet equivalent of mugging Ric Flair backstage.
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TalkBack / Re: Atlus Announces Worldwide Switch Release For 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
« on: November 29, 2021, 01:08:43 PM »
Hehehe
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Podcast Discussion / Episode 748: Don't Say Massage, Don't Say Massage, Don't Say Massage
« on: November 21, 2021, 06:02:14 PM »Tokyo deep tissue.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/rfn/59011/episode-748-dont-say-massage-dont-say-massage-dont-say-massage
Quick article this week because it's already horrifyingly late, and you don't read it anyway.
New Business:
- Greg, with Gui: Shin Megami Tensei V
- Guillaume: Ys Origin
- James: Forza Horizon 5
Email:
- How we would spend $1 billion on "expanding frameworks?"
- How does Twitch changes the tubtime game?
- What to include in a Direct?
A quick programming note, it is likely we'll be taking next week off. If we don't, consider it a surprise. As always, we ask you send us your questions.
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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia 87: Harvest Moon - Seasons of Mafia Town. Year 2.
« on: November 20, 2021, 08:17:27 PM »That letter is the most Crimm passage of text I have ever read
There are literally thousands of hours of me talking. It's easy enough to emulate anyone's style with that kind of info. Don't you think it's more than a little on the nose? Pokepal out here telling people its me strikes me as a setup.
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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia 87: Harvest Moon - Seasons of Mafia Town. Year 2.
« on: November 20, 2021, 06:08:38 PM »Also why is Crimm and TOPHATANT123 latching onto Nickmitch's inital LuigiDude vote.
I voted for LuigiDude because he was also at 2 votes. It was purely defensive. I needed to advance the number on someone else.
I unvoted Mop It Up for the reason I said I voted FOR Mop It Up: she voted for me. She moved her vote and so did I. Early voting is completely nonsense randomness so it seemed as good a reason as any.
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