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

« on: December 12, 2011, 10:25:09 AM »

i kinda like the name nintendo reptar

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Rumor - Wii U priced in france

« on: December 12, 2011, 08:59:51 AM »

Don't worry guys. EB Games Australia has had the WiiU at $600 since the day after E3. Prices at this point are pure speculation.


@ThePerm The PS3 at launch down here was $1000. The Wii was $400

if the wii was $400 there than $600 seems to be highly likely as nintendo said it won't take the cheap outdated route again

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Nintendo Gaming / Rumor - Wii U priced in france

« on: December 11, 2011, 08:25:41 PM »

ok so local shops in france have priced the wii u at 450 euros

if you convert that into us dollars then it ends up being around 600 but you have to remember that games in france are also around $80-100 and that the us price is not determined by simply converting the euro price

i feel like this mean that the system will be minimum $300 here with a max price of $350 but i think $350 is more realistic


source

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Fortune Street

« on: December 07, 2011, 12:22:17 AM »

I've seen a few videos for it and it looks interesting. I loved Mario Party and I love Monopoly so it should be good. I have it coming through GameFly soon. Also I really hope Mario Party 9 restores the franchise. The previous titles since 5 were lacking.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: 2011 Nintendo Game of the Year Discussion Thread

« on: December 06, 2011, 11:51:48 PM »

Or places should wait until January to actually do their GOTY awards, which is the most sensible option.

I just watched a Bonus Round at game trailers and they said that all major review publications get the games early so that they are able to beat them and review them by December.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

« on: December 06, 2011, 11:08:34 PM »

I've tried it sitting or standing, seems about the same for me. The puzzles are very good, and I like how the overworld blends right into the dungeon. Item discovery hasn't been too predictable like other Zelda games either.

Money and health seem harder to come by, and the upgrade system with resources is a new twist. In some ways I like it better than TP and in others I don't.

When you say item discovery are you talking about the quest related items like bow or heart pieces and goddess cubes / things from them. If it's the second then you must be playing a different game than the one that I beat. I collected all of the heart pieces, goddess cubes, and bottles easily without looking at a guide or forums for the locations.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Games That Retro Studios Should Be Developing for the Wii U

« on: December 06, 2011, 11:04:20 PM »

I demand a Retro developed 2D Metroid. But I suppose that could be for Wii U, Wii Ware, 3DS, whatever. I just demand one. Or six! Six is better.

As long as Sakamoto doesn't have a say on what the story is like and they change the voice actors then I'm all for a new 2D Metroid. Maybe they should do a 3D Metroid and 2D Metroid sort of like how there is Super Mario Bros. and then the Mario 3D games.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Games That Retro Studios Should Be Developing for the Wii U

« on: December 05, 2011, 12:28:31 AM »

I'd like to see Nintendo develop a new FPS IP something kinda like Halo, but Nintendo. It would be fun to play, probably an excellent game, and it would sell consoles in the Western markets especially here in the US.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: 2011 Nintendo Game of the Year Discussion Thread

« on: December 05, 2011, 12:23:54 AM »

Skyward Sword was the only top notch game to come out in US this year so it has to be that. I know some are privileged enough to have Xenoblade on their list.


Edit: I forgot about Rayman, but still it can't beat out Zelda.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

« on: December 05, 2011, 12:22:19 AM »

To all those who seem to be bored by the game just chug through it because the final 5 hours especially the ending outweigh all of that. I was in the same boat as you guys and then when I finally beat it it was like damn.


Also I thought the controls were excellent. Never had much of a prob except for the nunchuk shake to bring the shield up.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

« on: December 03, 2011, 12:35:43 PM »

Yeah Yosh they did that with Twilight Princess, one of the big complains among the staff of Twilight Princess was they didn't WANT to maintain a constant realistic style because it constrained them. A balance was struck between Wind Waker and Twilight Princess in style. The Zelda staff like to make creepy Tingle people who dance around in green leotards, hang from balloons and spread confetti. If you don't like that stuff then you are an unusual Zelda fan.

I feel like the only reason why they didn't go with a darker more realistic style is because the console couldn't handle it. If that Wii U tech demo means anything then it's obvious that they want to go back to that style since the hardware won't severely limit them.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U

« on: December 03, 2011, 01:56:03 AM »

i don't have censorship on, why is **** censored?

Fixed. I didn't know the rules with swearing. Also how come it doesn't show anything under my name even though in my profile I wrote stuff under it?

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U

« on: December 03, 2011, 12:49:57 AM »

Just read an announcement from Reggie stating that Wii U will be completely different than Wii and that the players buying Wii U games will also be different meaning that they will have moved up from casual to hardcore. It's probably old news to most, but it blew me away completely especially after playing Nickelodeon Skyward Sword. People have no idea how excited I am for Wii U. I've been Nintendo since day one and well when Wii came out it was just like wtf so to see them say Wii U will be the opposite I'm so hyped.

Link or it didn't happen.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-12-01-nintendo-wii-u-appeals-to-different-type-of-gamer-than-wii-does

This is typical PR gibberish. They always say stuff like this every time. It means nothing and Skyward Sword is epic!

It's epic, but you have to admit that those flying pirate things and the Leviathan boss looks like something you'd see on Nickelodeon.

Yeah the Leviathan is right out of Spongebob /Avatar 

He's like a giant cross between Squidward and Plankton. I want some of that GoW Leviathan **** in a Zelda game.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U

« on: December 02, 2011, 10:11:58 PM »

Just read an announcement from Reggie stating that Wii U will be completely different than Wii and that the players buying Wii U games will also be different meaning that they will have moved up from casual to hardcore. It's probably old news to most, but it blew me away completely especially after playing Nickelodeon Skyward Sword. People have no idea how excited I am for Wii U. I've been Nintendo since day one and well when Wii came out it was just like wtf so to see them say Wii U will be the opposite I'm so hyped.

Link or it didn't happen.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-12-01-nintendo-wii-u-appeals-to-different-type-of-gamer-than-wii-does

This is typical PR gibberish. They always say stuff like this every time. It means nothing and Skyward Sword is epic!

It's epic, but you have to admit that those flying pirate things and the Leviathan boss looks like something you'd see on Nickelodeon.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Games That Retro Studios Should Be Developing for the Wii U

« on: December 02, 2011, 10:09:11 PM »

Rumor and speculation say that they are making a Star Fox game for the U.


Also I don't want a Metroid third person game, I want some Metroid Prime 4.


Finally, Retro or any other studio should not be allowed to put their hands on Zelda.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The OFFICIAL Big N rumor thread *bring your own salt*

« on: December 02, 2011, 04:26:06 PM »

It will probably be the last game I buy for Wii considering how big my back log is too.

Not to mention that the Wii U will be out two months later in June 2012 (I'm hoping).

I highly doubt that. It will most likely be pushed back until November since that's holiday shopping season.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The OFFICIAL Big N rumor thread *bring your own salt*

« on: December 02, 2011, 03:37:51 PM »

Supposedly the best RPG of the gen version regardless of console.


It will probably be the last game I buy for Wii considering how big my back log is too.

I just noticed Mario Party 9's release date on the pic that you posted and I'm super pumped for that game. I love Mario Party games even though after 5 it went down hill and 8 was complete ****. I'm really confident that Nintendo will produce a quality game with it seeing as how later on in the Wii's life cycle Nintendo has just pumped out excellent games. I'll probably GameFly xenoblade or something.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

« on: December 02, 2011, 03:05:41 PM »

For those of you who don't like the motion controls, would this game be more forgiving if the sword motions and item control were mapped to a 2nd analog stick? (example: for sword fighting, left to right analog control movement for left to right slash, up to down analog control movement for up to down slash, push-in analog stick to do a jab motion, etc)
 
I hope they maintain this more detailed sword play in future iterations somehow, instead of just mashing an "A" button when the opening comes.

That's actually a really good idea and should be a secondary option

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U

« on: December 02, 2011, 03:04:44 PM »

Just read an announcement from Reggie stating that Wii U will be completely different than Wii and that the players buying Wii U games will also be different meaning that they will have moved up from casual to hardcore. It's probably old news to most, but it blew me away completely especially after playing Nickelodeon Skyward Sword. People have no idea how excited I am for Wii U. I've been Nintendo since day one and well when Wii came out it was just like wtf so to see them say Wii U will be the opposite I'm so hyped.

Link or it didn't happen.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-12-01-nintendo-wii-u-appeals-to-different-type-of-gamer-than-wii-does

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U

« on: December 02, 2011, 02:45:26 PM »

Just read an announcement from Reggie stating that Wii U will be completely different than Wii and that the players buying Wii U games will also be different meaning that they will have moved up from casual to hardcore. It's probably old news to most, but it blew me away completely especially after playing Nickelodeon Skyward Sword. People have no idea how excited I am for Wii U. I've been Nintendo since day one and well when Wii came out it was just like wtf so to see them say Wii U will be the opposite I'm so hyped.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Club Nintendo Thread

« on: December 02, 2011, 02:42:17 PM »

My Zelda poster set finally came two days ago. It's very nice and I'd recommend it to anyone. Only prob is that the asshole post office somehow managed to get creases and **** in it. I'm gonna kill those mofos.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Xenoblade April 2012 in the US?

« on: December 02, 2011, 02:40:27 PM »

Well, this is an interesting rumor: Xenoblade's been marked (apparently) for an April release as a GameStop exclusive.



Huh.               

I hope that "exclusive" is just some extra content and not the whole game.

Just saw that on a different forum earlier this morning. Good news even though I don't know anything about the game and probably won't buy it since my backlog for Wii is way too big.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

« on: December 02, 2011, 02:37:36 PM »

I'm glad that we can actually be critical of this game here over at IGN if you say anything bad about the game the same 10 people who lurk the boards all day and have been doing so for years will just spew fanboyism at you and try to make it seem as if something is wrong with you. I love Nintendo and their games, but to act like everything they do or make is perfect is just crazy. It also doesn't help that the board Mod is in their fanboy group with them. Anyways enough with the IGN rant.


I just got all three flames and have about a few hours until I complete the game and these are my pro's and cons so far


Pros
- Combat, I wouldn't mind if they went back to a controller, but I really like the Wii Mote combat
- Upgrade system, it's nice to see it included even though I didn't go out of my way to get any materials
- Art style was executed very nicely
- Origin story
- Characters, they have way more personality now especially the baddy, Ghirahim, you can sense the evil oozing out of him.
- Music, I thought that it was some of the best in the series


Cons
- Difficulty, the game is way too easy and I only died twice. Once was from my stupidity.
- Fi, she's annoying as **** and contributes to the game being way too easy
- Linear, the game is as straightforward as possible. There is no exploring to be done as everything is literally on your path
- Art style, even though it was executed professionally I don't like it. It takes away from the despair the setting is trying to create and when I was fighting that Leviathan boss I wanted something like in God of War 3 not some octopus that I'd see on Nickelodeon.
- PuzZelda, there is no exploration just puzzles. To me Zelda has always been a balance between the two, but now its all puzzles like the DS Zelda games. It's like I'm sorry that I don't walk around with my DS strapped to my wrist 24/7 I like to do other things than solve puzzles all damn day.
- Setting/characters looks, it just all felt way too Nickelodeon for me. From Leviathan boss fight to those robot things in the desert.


Like I said in my previous post the game is still enjoyable even though it seems like a chore to play now. The game definitely suffered from all of the hype. Perfect 10 reviews, Reggie and Nintendo saying best Zelda game ever and then topping that off with saying best Nintendo game ever.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

« on: December 01, 2011, 09:57:28 PM »

I just finished the The Sandship dungeon. I have on more dungeon left. I'm pretty disappointed by the game. All of the early 10/10 reviews didn't only made it worse. My hopes were really high after seeing the early scores since it seemed on par if not better than OoT, greatest game period, and then came crashing down. While the game is still enjoyable it's the worst 3D Zelda imo.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The OFFICIAL Big N rumor thread *bring your own salt*

« on: December 01, 2011, 02:18:08 AM »

Not sure they would want to re-use the name of their worst-selling console.

I'm a bit disappointed the GameCube didn't sell too well. Imagine how things would have gone differently if it did sell well. The Wii probably would have been equivalent to 360 and PS3 as the GCube was pretty close to PS2 and XBOX if not better than PS2 in terms of hardware.