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General Gaming / Re: So nobody likes GameStop?

« on: March 01, 2010, 07:43:23 PM »

Or use the game discs for coffee table coasters.

I suggest using CDs/DVDs that don't have any actual value whatsoever for that purpose. Like those AOL trial discs, or Metallica albums.

Metallica should really market St. Anger and Death Magnetic like that!

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Sin & Punishment 2

« on: March 01, 2010, 02:01:49 PM »

And now I know what needs to be done to please you...

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General Gaming / Re: So nobody likes GameStop?

« on: March 01, 2010, 11:57:59 AM »

You'd do better to sell your old games on ebay or something.

You wouldn't be helping to support a ridiculous corporation like GameStop then either. It's win-win!

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Sin & Punishment 2

« on: March 01, 2010, 11:57:08 AM »

BlackNMild makes the best first posts of anyone on this board, hands down.

Now you've hurt my feelings.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Is the Wii becoming over-saturated with Mario games?

« on: March 01, 2010, 11:56:30 AM »

As long as the quality remains high and the content doesn't repeat, it's very hard to complain...

So we should have started to complain the moment Mario Party came out?

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Metroid Other M

« on: February 28, 2010, 09:46:04 PM »

Most RTS games reward people who spam units but think of all the letters getting sent home to spouses of dead soldiers in the name of destroying a small enemy base.

Those soldiers signed up though, knowing what might happen. The Pikmin were enslaved and slaughtered by a "heroic" invader, and later for commercial exploitation.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: What Do we want from the wii successor

« on: February 26, 2010, 10:39:48 PM »

I would be open to homebrewing my wii console, but I a affraid of reprocussions from Nintendo. The last firmware update bricked alot of wii consoles that were modded. I do not want this to happen.

There are simple precautions available to ensure that doesn't happen.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Monster Hunter Thwii

« on: February 25, 2010, 11:45:54 AM »

I'm tempted to get the bundle, I wouldn't mind having a Classic Controller for $10 since not every game that supports it uses the GameCube controller.

And pre-ordering the bundle on Amazon nets you a $10 credit so it is like you are getting the controller for free.

Man does that controller look uncomfortable though. I never purchased a Classic Controller because of their uselessness. This time around however, it may be due to what is surely a rejected N64 gamepad design. Monster Hunter must play terribly with the remote/nunchuck if they're bundling it like this. I wonder if GameCube controllers are supported as well? I much prefer my WaveBirds.

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General Gaming / Re: Torchlight

« on: February 23, 2010, 10:27:14 PM »

I didn't have any expectations though. I had never heard of the game until it popped up on sale. Playing through it however, there is absolutely no way you cannot compare it to Diablo. With that feeling in the back of your mind, it's hard to enjoy the game without feeling as if there should be more.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: What Do we want from the wii successor

« on: February 20, 2010, 06:37:52 PM »

It isn't a rip-off when you know exactly what it is you are buying. If you bought a game that was advertised as being a new Mario game and ended up being Super Mario Brothers, that would be a rip-off.

No, its still a rip-off because if I want to play these old games again I have to re-purchase them, even though I had already purchased them several times before.

BS. That's like saying "I bought this movie on VHS, so it's a rip-off having to buy it on DVD or Blu-ray Disc" or "I bought this album on cassette, it's a rip-off having to buy it on CD". There is nothing stopping you from playing the original versions of a game on their systems. Don't complain because you want a game without having to pay for it.

The only thing that makes these scenarios a rip-off is that the media cartels would like you to believe that format shifting is a crime.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: always behind the times...

« on: February 17, 2010, 06:26:49 PM »

You're not alone. I generally stick to a similar purchasing guideline, though do admittedly deviate on occasion. I'm perfectly happy with my older SD television set, even if I do have the Wii physically hooked up via component cables. I don't have any sort of television service, because frankly my DVD player and a NetFlix subscription keeps me plenty entertained. My backlog of older films is even of the same concept as all those old GameCube games I have sitting around! If not, I can always go to greener media pastures with the Wii itself, any number of activities on my PC, or even my Dreamcast which remains perpetually hooked up.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: What Do we want from the wii successor

« on: February 17, 2010, 06:19:38 PM »

2.  Anti-Aliasing would be good.

The lack of any real effort for anti-aliasing has really[/b] bothered me as of late. It was quite annoying in The Darkside Chronicles, and made Super Mario Galaxy almost unbearable. There have been a few other recent (for me) examples as well. I have to wonder however, why it never really occurred to me prior to the last few months.

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TalkBack / Re: Sonic the Hedgehog 4 to be Developed by Dimps

« on: February 17, 2010, 06:13:40 PM »

The actual progression throughout the level seems to be of a similar speed to that of the old Genesis games. I think what is deceiving is that the animations make it look as if Sonic is moving slower than expected.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Games That Should be on Virtual Console

« on: February 14, 2010, 10:07:31 PM »

Rock 'N Roll Racing.

YES!!!

Kairon is dominating the thread! Morari looks lost out there!

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Will Rareware Games Ever Appear on Virtual Console?

« on: February 12, 2010, 06:56:45 PM »

Not having Battletoads does hurt.

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TalkBack / Re: Epicenter Unveils Rock of the Dead

« on: February 12, 2010, 04:26:45 PM »

This sounds very interesting. I actually just finished playing through Typing of the Dead again on my netbook the other day. I think it's funnier on the Dreamcast though, simply due to the character replacement models.

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TalkBack / Re: Mario Pirate Settles For 1.5 Million

« on: February 11, 2010, 11:31:08 PM »

Actually, I think this guy would have been better off dealing with the FBI... They don't have much say in Australia, after all.

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TalkBack / Re: New 5th Generation Pokemon Revealed

« on: February 11, 2010, 12:16:16 PM »

I think it would be awesome if you could do it as a closed - open world... that didn't make any sense.  Let me explain myself.

Basically you could consider it guild based.  You use friend codes (or whatever better system Nintendo puts in place on the next system) to create a group of your friends.  The game world will then act like a persistent world for just those friends.

I think that could work really really well.  Obviously, some sacrifices would have to be made as it isn't a true persistant world.  NPCs won't remember what your friends did or anything like that.  But it would awesome none the less.

In fact, that could really be done on the DS, as it could be played online or offline.

That's pretty well in line with what I was thinking as well.

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TalkBack / Re: Mario Pirate Settles For 1.5 Million

« on: February 11, 2010, 12:15:06 PM »

Chozo, once again, Piracy isn't theft. If there is one thing everyone can take away from this thread is that:

Piracy isn't theft, it's Copyright infringement

If it was theft, the Police would have prosecuted him, NOT Nintendo. Theft is a criminal matter, Piracy is a civil matter. However to every rule there are caveats where piracy can become a criminal matter.

Please at least skim read this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement

Once again, piracy isn't theft, not even under "Legal" definition.

QFT

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: What If the Wii had an External Hard Drive?

« on: February 10, 2010, 10:39:49 PM »

I was tempted by those NES case decals for the longest time!

If the Wii allowed for storage to an external hard drive, then they'd better allow for game installs as well. Nothing is worse than having to dig through a binder to find the game disc you want to play. It is my understanding that the PS3 and 360 already do this to some extent. It seems pretty redundant for consoles specifically though. We're not too far away from these being nothing more than locked down computers... we're 99% there already.

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TalkBack / Re: New 5th Generation Pokemon Revealed

« on: February 10, 2010, 10:09:13 PM »

I'm still waiting for a real console-based Pokemon game, with online play. Something like that would even lend itself well to an instance-based MMO... maybe akin to Phantasy Star Online?

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TalkBack / Re: Mario Pirate Settles For 1.5 Million

« on: February 10, 2010, 10:07:48 PM »

Was it with their legal right to go after him? Yes. I've never argued that it wasn't. Certainly they could have put their capital to better use by pleasing their customers however.

I know this really isn't your point, but how do you figure their capital could please their customers?  As far as I can tell, the only capital involved in this case are their lawyers, which they are being reimbursed for.  Has nothing to do with customers, really.

Maybe Iwata got upset that people were pirating his game, and refused to greenlight more projects until the man paid? (kidding)

That I cannot say for sure. I obviously only represent a very small fraction of their customer base. For me though, I'd rather see them put that money into development of games. For as much money as Nintendo is making, they really don't have a lot to show for it. Maybe it's all going into Wii 2.0, or is being put into yet unseen games. In the case of NSMBW in particular, I would have liked to see more thoughtful level design. As fun as the game was, it was ultimately very short due to the straight forward and downright easy approach Nintendo took to level design. The platforming wasn't as well done as SMB3 (my personal favorite) and the exploration wasn't as well done as SMB World.

Speaking of Steam and Nintendo, what if now that every system is online, what are the chances of one of the 3 doing an online authentication for disc copy games. I know that there are ways around something like that , like not taking that system online, but what if one of the big three found a way to authenticate disc and essentially register each game to an account/system. What is the likely hood of something like that being implemented assuming the internet connection wasn't the issue?

I think that would, in many ways, only encourage further piracy. Treating your paying customer like criminals and making them jump through hoops is no way to promote business. DRM for the sake of DRM is a huge turn-off. I think the reason DRM schemes like Steam get by is because it offers a good trade-off for many people. Sure you have to put up with Steam, but in return you get a unified friends list and near-instant access to your entire library from any computer.

Of course, I would argue that things like this aren't really about piracy either. It's about control. Publishers want more and more control so that they can kill their percieved enemies, like the used game market. Furthermore, they can enact a sort of planned obsolescent so as to better "promote" sequels.

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TalkBack / Re: Mario Pirate Settles For 1.5 Million

« on: February 10, 2010, 09:09:35 PM »

Was it with their legal right to go after him? Yes. I've never argued that it wasn't. Certainly they could have put their capital to better use by pleasing their customers however. I had once read an article about Valve where they essentially state that pirates are "underserved customers". By providing a service of value, they saw a huge drop off in piracy. They're not concerned about hunting down and punishing non-customers. They're concerned about how to make the best game possible, which not only makes their customer happy, but also converts a huge amount of "underserved customers" into buying consumers. It's something I think the industry as a whole should really, seriously think about.

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TalkBack / Re: Mario Pirate Settles For 1.5 Million

« on: February 10, 2010, 08:36:05 PM »

If it wasn't criminal, why wouldn't the uploader challenge in court?

I never said that is wasn't criminal. It is copyright infringement, which is clearly documented as an illegal activity. It is not theft and it did not cause Nintendo $1.5 million worth of damages. They man most likely refused to challenge it for the same reason that no one has ever stood in judgment with the RIAA. These corporations have untold amounts of money just sitting around to blow on lawyers. They're willing to drag the case out for years, waiting for you to back down and settle. They know that they'd never get their way, so they use scare tactics to bully people into settling out of court. This man probably could have gotten off with far less, but ultimately would have spent a lot more battling it out for years and years. It's a broken system that is created specifically to favor the corporations at every turn of the way.

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TalkBack / Re: Mario Pirate Settles For 1.5 Million

« on: February 10, 2010, 08:27:13 PM »

Chozo Ghost, I never said NSMBW is crap. I rather liked it. It wasn't worth $50 however, simply due to its length and the actual effort that went into making it. That simply illuminates a problem you have. You are unwilling to truly listen to and comprehend what others say. You skim over and take away from it what you want, because you opinion is unchanging. That's pretty typical of a consumer drone. You'd fight to defend the very construct that abuses you.

That aside, the main and initial point was that copyright law is broken (fact) and that stiff fines such as these should not go unchecked, as they are simply inane sacrifices presented to certain lobbyists. That isn't exclusive to Nintendo by any means, and in some ways is even truer for Microsoft in particular. Anyone with half a brain would be greatly concerned that corporations have so much say and influence over the world's governments. Do you truly believe that they are acting in the best interest of the consumer?

You feel personally wronged by pirates because you are a fanboy, who now feels as if his copy of the game is worthless because someone else acquired it for free. That's sad, and a real testament to just how these corporations gets away with what they do. I wonder if you feel that people who buy used copies of games should be sent to court as well? After all, they're essentially acquiring a piece of software without in any way compensating the original creator. Maybe one day you'll have a $1.5 million fine thrown at you because you ripped a CD in order to listen to it on your MP3 player. It's that kind of avalanche that allowing these shill trials to continue creates.

This has nothing to do with advocating piracy. It has nothing to do with getting software for free. It does however have everything to do with maintaining personal freedoms. Of course, I guess I'll go to Hell because of my opinions. After all, copyright infringement is a sin and goes against every religion ever invented. That's alright though, I don't think I'll mind my predestined eternity if I get to spend it with the likes of Robin Hood.