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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Animal Crossing: City Folk

« on: December 22, 2008, 12:46:37 AM »

Today was a good rare fish catch day.  I caught me a second Coelacanth, and a second Stringfish.  Now I have them, along with a umpteenth Tuna and Koi in my house.  As temting as it is to sell them to get all those bells, I can't give them up.  But now that I have them for my own personal collection, any new ones get sold to Nook, to do whatever it is he does with all the stuff I sell to him.  I also caught a ass load of goldfish this morning.

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General Gaming / Re: Rumor: Factor 5's new game is in limbo

« on: December 22, 2008, 12:32:02 AM »

Well, can't say I am sorry to see them go.  They chose to **** talk the Wii from the beginning and released a game that didn't live up to any expectations (consumer, critics, their legacy).  And after the game failed, they tried to save face by sweet talking about the Wii, but in this case it was "too little, too late" to save themselves.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Animal Crossing: City Folk

« on: December 21, 2008, 04:02:35 PM »

I got the hero's hat thing.  I will get the shirt tomorrow as it will only let you order 1 point item a day.  I plan to get everything eventually, but I want the Link outfit so I can run around with my shovel pretending to be Link digging up stuff.

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TalkBack / Re: Club Nintendo of America Officially Launches

« on: December 21, 2008, 12:40:48 PM »

You know, if Nintendo wants more 3rd party games to sell, they should work something out that people who buy those games should be able to register them as well and get some coins.  It's an extra incentive for people who normally avoid 3rd party games to buy them if there is something in it for them. 

Of course this will never happen because this is Nintendo we're talking about.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Animal Crossing: City Folk

« on: December 21, 2008, 12:31:55 PM »

Point day is fun (if you have money).  And what makes it even more fun is that items in your catalog count too.  I kept buy King Tuts Mask for 12000 bells for 5 times the points at 600 points a pop (until the cost of the mask went down to 11400 then later down to 10800) and went from bronze to gold in only a few minutes.  Sadly now I only have a little over 20000 bells in the bank, but that's easily remedied by fishing and collecting shells. 

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Official Animal Crossing City Folk Eternal Love & Snapshot Thread

« on: December 20, 2008, 01:45:48 PM »

The latest batch of the strange, the funny, and the creepy...

Greenie watches out for prowlers.


Golden Slingshot.


You think you can dance?


Finally, got my new bridge.


This was, as far as I know the last I needed to catch, as I got a Pale Chub the day before. 


Looks like Gabi is not well liked in my town.  Said she was moving, but she's still around.


Jingle all the way.


Kody and I are BFF.



A COELACANTH.






Snowman.


And what he gave me.


My bonsai collection and I am becoming like my neighbors, I have a beak.


Everyday Tiffany is more a bitch.  I think it has something to do with the name.  Tiffany is such a bitch name.


Does it sound like he's threatening me?


You know what they say about a guy with a big fish?


Bill and Deg have left an impression on my neighbors.

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TalkBack / Re: Club Nintendo of America Officially Launches

« on: December 19, 2008, 10:24:25 PM »

Sadly, now when I try to log in it tells me my name and password are not correct.  Before it would just pretend to log in and then just not do it, but this is just a great way to start a program.

I know I typed them in right because I am not stupid like Nintendo is being at the moment.

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TalkBack / Re: Club Nintendo of America Officially Launches

« on: December 19, 2008, 01:30:42 AM »

I would *almost* agree with the way some DS/Wii games count and some don't.  But it's quite simple that the GBA/GCN is dead - the few games that are still out there, Nintendo's not really going to see a profit from, so they have no reason to encourage their sales.

MyNintendo wasn't *much* of a rewards program, you're right.  Although I do like some of the various physical prizes I've received - I never downloaded any of the free virtual gifts.  But, the point is, Nintendo could have kept the MyNintendo program going... they're doing something extra here (Again, keeping in mind that Wallpapers and such was a good chunk of the Euro-Club Nintendo).  It's free and if you don't like it, you don't have to participate.  Send me your codes and I'll take the free stuff.

But they made the Wii backwards compatible, so in that way they are acknowledging the GCN this gen, and by that virtue those games registered should count.  And the same with the DS, its bc with nearly all GBA games.

Keep your paws off my codes. =P  Despite for misgivings for how Nintendo is handling things right now, I am happy they are doing something.  Especially since they previously said the reason they didn't have a rewards program in the US was because of the size of the US, or something like that.

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TalkBack / Re: Club Nintendo of America Officially Launches

« on: December 19, 2008, 12:56:55 AM »

>" It's cheap and unfair that I went to the trouble to register those games and not only for it to mean nothing then, it won't mean anything now."

I didn't mean "nothing" then.  There were wallpapers, icons and screensavers for pretty much every registered game.  It's more than what the Euro-Rewards club got.

Some of you sound like you'd be happier if Nintendo simply chose not to offer the rewards program at all.

Hell, it wouldn't matter one bit if Nintendo did recognize all registered titles... people would complain that their old NES games didn't come with PIN codes or some crap.  Consider yourselves lucky Nintendo didn't scrap the MyNintendo program entirely and only allow newer ClubNintendo PIN codes to count.

Frankly, the way they are doing it right now, it's almost as if they aren't doing it at all.  Limit the number of games a person has registered to count under the new rules.  I registered Metroid Prime 2 and Super Mario 64 DS only a few days apart, but only SM 64 DS counts.  No Gameboy Advance, no Gamecube games allowed!

Let's be honest, MyNintendo was never a rewards program, it was a market research program with minimal effort by Nintendo.  Put up a website/programs, print up some codes and put with games and let them do the work for them. 

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And the cost of the rewards are stupid.  I can understand 800 coins for the DS game, but 800 for the cards and 600 for the cases and playing cards is just too high, they should be at 300 and 200 respectively.  The controller holder should be no more that 100 coins.

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TalkBack / Re: Club Nintendo of America Officially Launches

« on: December 19, 2008, 12:38:37 AM »

Sorry, but Nintendo is being half-assed about this.  They should acknowledge every game a person has registered, pick and chosing is just another way of limiting their part, less games a person can re-register and fill out a survey for means less product they would have to give out.  Which is the wrong way to act, if you are going to have a rewards program, then you have to be reasonable, and so far they haven't been. 

I think less than half of what I have register over the years was available to fill out a survey for.   It's cheap and unfair that I went to the trouble to register those games and not only for it to mean nothing then, it won't mean anything now.

Sure it's a nice incentive and Nintendo doesn't have to be doing this, but what they are doing is arbitrarily going through the games they have released with pin codes over the years and saying "screw you we got your money and now that we are going to give you something, if you want it you have to give us more money" 

Is it really that difficult for Nintendo to make every game a person has registered count?  No, it isn't.    What it is, is once again Nintendo is going about something stupid.

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TalkBack / Re: Free Radical is Closing Shop

« on: December 19, 2008, 12:28:28 AM »

Just goes to show.... PS3 will ruin your business.  Seriously, though, when you spend so much on visuals and then spend the rest of your time/money to create a game/story around them, you are just asking to be punched in the nuts over it. 

If companies were more apt to take risks, and I don't mean by backing the Wii, I mean internally, like getting rid of deadlines, release the game when it's ready instead of when you need to hit a certain selling season.  If more companies thought like Nintendo, then there would be a lot better games out there.

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TalkBack / Re: Club Nintendo of America Officially Launches

« on: December 18, 2008, 10:14:05 PM »

It makes no sense.  I purchased a Nintendo game with a unique PIN.  I registered that PIN at My Nintendo.  Why can't I get the Club Nintendo points?

You registered that PIN at MyNintendo.  This is Club Nintendo.
Club Nintendo isn't a "Thank you for buying stuff."  It's a "Buy more stuff and get this."

In theory, Nintendo could have just said "Only games purchased after December 16th count." - Be thankful they're letting you get coins for any of the old stuff.

Yeah you always should be thankful for a company policy or club that only rewards those who are late to the party, not those who supported them to that point.

That'd make sense - except for the part where Nintendo *is* rewarding all of us.  After doing all the surveys I was eligible for, I was awarded 1,430 points.  That's 1,430 points that Nintendo *didn't* have to give me, but they did.

And it only took them how long to finally give us a rewards program?  (again? if you count the old Nintendo Power Stamp program they did back in the 90's)  And do you think we'll every really get the same treatment the Japan Club gets, or even the Europe club gets?

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Official Animal Crossing City Folk Eternal Love & Snapshot Thread

« on: December 18, 2008, 09:40:36 PM »

I wore and eye mask for a while and never fell, your mask must be heavy.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Animal Crossing: City Folk

« on: December 18, 2008, 01:20:47 PM »

that makes sense because I've noticed it isn't always there.  Too bad you can't catch it though.  It would be fun to let it loose in your house and have it fly around.

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TalkBack / Re: Club Nintendo of America Officially Launches

« on: December 17, 2008, 11:45:39 PM »

Now I can't even log in.  They should not have let this go up the way it is.  It's completely Un-Nintendo.  They should have known that people were going to want to do this stuff and yet they start it up half-assed and pretty much blind.  Unacceptable.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Animal Crossing: City Folk

« on: December 17, 2008, 04:55:56 PM »

Also, you know how a path starts to form when you walk/run over a certain area time and time again?  Does that ever get covered back up from another snowfall?  The only reason I ask is because my town is starting to look kinda dirty instead of the nice white winter setting it once was.

if you plant some flowers where you wore it down the grass will slowly start growing back.  you can't make grass grow in the spots that were all ready dirt covered, though.

And Nook remodels after so much money in his shop has been traded (buy/sell) and after so many days have passed.  both conditions must be met before he will upgrade.

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Official Animal Crossing City Folk Eternal Love & Snapshot Thread

« on: December 17, 2008, 04:50:53 PM »

your town is a naughty one.

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General Chat / Re: "The IT Crowd"

« on: December 16, 2008, 08:08:23 PM »

is a better it club

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Animal Crossing: City Folk

« on: December 16, 2008, 06:40:04 PM »

Got me a Coelacanth.  I have pictos to show too. ^_^

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Official Animal Crossing City Folk Eternal Love & Snapshot Thread

« on: December 16, 2008, 12:46:14 PM »

96.5 inch tuna was my winner.  The starter was a 40 inch sea bass. 

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Animal Crossing: City Folk

« on: December 16, 2008, 12:43:04 PM »

Has anyone caught a Ceolacanth yet?  For some reason, every time I think I'm going to get one, I miss it somehow.  It's obviously a ceolacanth because the shadow is pretty huge, but when the lure goes under and I press A or jerk the controller, it misses.  It's happened about 4 or 5 times now and I'm getting frustrated.  Is there a different timing issue when trying to catch it?  I don't have any problems catching the various other fish (stringfish included).  And I don't remember having this much trouble with it on the Gamecube game.

Maybe I'm just slow.

I haven't been able to catch one either, which is annoying, and the fact that it has to be raining or snowing as well just doubles the frustration.  I also need a popeyed goldfish and a pale chub.

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Today I was caught... =(

« on: December 16, 2008, 08:59:48 AM »

Don't try to turn the Japanese into English...Wanko is basically slang for "Puppy"... =)

That makes it any less perversy? :p

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Animal Crossing: City Folk

« on: December 15, 2008, 11:33:19 PM »

I'm using Wii Speak as well.  I've been pretty surprised at how well it works. 

Just don't hook it up for the first while playing and while someone is visiting, when Bill came to visit there was a lot of squeelly noise.  Hopefully it was just a temporary thing.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Animal Crossing: City Folk

« on: December 15, 2008, 11:24:46 PM »

The bundle is a better buy because it is cheaper than buying the wiispeak and game separately.

I visited Bill's village. I got Greenie!It is currently on my flag.I saw some shooting stars in the night sky.GP was there when I got there.Insanolord arrived after me.GP was quite mischievous. Myself,Bill and GP took snapshots of our Greenie T-shirts. We had lots of fun.We checked out Bill's house.I love his house!

One of my residents, Kody, started sporting Greenie as his shirt, after I put it on display at Able Sisters.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Tales of "Mothership"

« on: December 14, 2008, 09:29:35 PM »

looks good, hope it comes here (didn't bother to watch video)