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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Funhouse Poetry Slam

« on: October 26, 2011, 10:25:01 PM »

I had a cat named Snowball
She died, she died
Mother said she was sleeping
She lied, she lied
Why, oh why is my dear cat dead?
Couldn't that Chrysler have hit me instead?

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Podcast Discussion / Re: RFN RetroActive #20 - River City Ransom - Official Discussion

« on: October 26, 2011, 10:11:10 PM »

Just wrapped it up tonight - basic enough 8-bit ending, but since the storyline's one screen at the start I can forgive it.

I had a lot of fun playing this game in multiplayer when I rented it (repeatedly) in my younger days, but never got a chance to try it this time so I don't recall if it had friendly fire. Then again, I killed myself at least twice running, slipping on the Wii controls and taking out my last bit of health hitting a wall... so it wouldn't have done me any more harm.

I did find that I had to grind constantly for cash until I sucked it up and used a password generator, because it's very easy to die in this game which makes grinding cash a pain. (If it's not the accidental suicide, it's the Elite Mooks bashing me about the head and neck with dustbins. F**k those guys.)

Still, it's one of the best brawlers on the NES, up there with Double Dragon 2, and you haven't lived until you managed to one-shot a boss with Acro Circus.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo's Expansion Ports

« on: October 26, 2011, 06:42:40 PM »

Shame that the test model SNES apparently hung out with a couple of smokers.

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General Gaming / Re: PlayStation Vita (PS Vita) - previously known as NGP

« on: October 26, 2011, 06:41:10 PM »

And the firmware update that can fix this probably will be about 3 years and 70 revisions in.

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General Chat / Re: Official 2011 NFL Discussion: Lockout, schmockout!

« on: October 24, 2011, 06:14:38 PM »

New Orleans, in last night's game: 62
St. Louis Rams, this season: 56

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TalkBack / Re: Kirby's Adventure Coming to 3D Classics

« on: October 21, 2011, 07:29:05 PM »

They said they had 6 in the pipeline, so either this or Kid Icarus is the last one.

Either way, HOOK IT TO MY VEINS.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Download - October 20, 2011

« on: October 21, 2011, 07:24:45 PM »

Or you could put it toward a piz...

Kairon

... never mind, forgot who I was dealing with.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Joins Forces to Promote Nintendogs + Cats

« on: October 20, 2011, 07:16:49 PM »

Peta - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Not to be confused with Pita, really

I prefer People for the Eating of Tasty Animals, myself.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Pokemon Gray website had been registered.

« on: October 19, 2011, 06:35:10 PM »

Maybe they registered it to prevent a ModernWarfare3.com situation (where it redirected to a BF3 fan site).

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General Gaming / Re: NFL Blitz is BACK!!!

« on: October 19, 2011, 06:34:06 PM »

Jump passing is out of the game. RUINED FOREVER.

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TalkBack / Re: Professor Layton and the Last Specter Downloadable Puzzles Revealed

« on: October 19, 2011, 06:31:24 PM »

The story will do that more than the puzzles.

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General Gaming / Re: Arkham City has finally arrived.

« on: October 17, 2011, 06:51:09 PM »

I'll wait for the GOTY edition to be $20.

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General Chat / Re: Steve Jobs: 1955-2011

« on: October 12, 2011, 06:58:36 PM »

Man, how are they going to work 25 thousand pieces of Sony product placement into a Steve Jobs movie?

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TalkBack / Re: Level-5 Working on New 3DS Omnibus

« on: October 12, 2011, 06:57:12 PM »

4. Crimson Shroud is a short fantasy adventure RPG by Yasumi Matsuno, the director of Ogre Battle series.

Sold.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U

« on: October 11, 2011, 09:05:45 PM »

The only analyst who ever got it right with Nintendo was Billy Pidgeon and he gets about 1/1000 of the press.

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TalkBack / Re: Wii Hardware Revision Confirmed for North America 

« on: October 11, 2011, 06:36:25 PM »

Truth be told, I didn't know the original Wii couldn't play CDs.

Of course, that's probably because I haven't listened to a CD since about 2005 or so.

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 262: Where Pride Goes

« on: October 11, 2011, 06:32:18 PM »

You know, this may sound strange, but I actually haven't been watching any footage of Skyward Sword aside from seeing the trailer at the E3 Press Conference. This might be because I got way to hyped after seeing and learning everything I had about Twilight Princess before I had actually gotten the game bundled with my Wii when I bought it that holiday. They only thing I have read and the main thing that got me hyped about the game was when Miyamoto was quoted saying, "I am adding something that was missing from Wind Waker..." That quote alone has been reasurance that this will indeed be a great title, as Wind Waker is probably my favorite Console Zelda out of all of them. Either way, I am ready to finally get my long awaited "Zelda Break" xD.

I've been on a media blackout (E3 this year notwithstanding) since June of 2010. Don't feel bad.

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General Chat / Re: Official 2011 NFL Discussion: Lockout, schmockout!

« on: October 08, 2011, 07:45:05 PM »

Well, I'm betting on KC this week, so...

Buffalo, Kansas City, Arizona, Jersey/A, Tennessee, New Orleans, Jacksonville, Oakland, San Francisco, San Diego, New England, Green Bay and Detroit (63).

I'd normally pick Houston, but with Al Davis passing today... Oakland's gonna JUST WIN, BABY. (God, I feel dirty saying that).

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Post in this thread every time you smite Chozo Ghost.

« on: October 08, 2011, 05:09:14 PM »

I'm a firm believer in the status quo.

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General Chat / Re: Verizon phones

« on: October 07, 2011, 09:42:03 PM »

The announcement was delayed, but it'll probably come out around the same time. They'll probably do a "And it's available... right now" routine on about 10/27.

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TalkBack / Re: NWR Staff 3DS Playtime

« on: October 07, 2011, 09:18:49 PM »

Zelda II*: 10:26
SMT Devil Survivor Overclocked: 7:32
Zelda Link's Awakening DX: 3:40
Super Mario Land: 3:39
You Don't Know Jack (2DS): 3:09

* can eat a dick

Also, I will defend #2 on the list by pointing out that I have never seen the original game. Seriously.

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General Chat / Re: The Simpsons are finally being put out of their misery

« on: October 06, 2011, 06:38:02 PM »

So what will Seth McFarlane crank out to replace it, I wonder?

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General Chat / Steve Jobs: 1955-2011

« on: October 05, 2011, 07:52:54 PM »

http://www.apple.com/stevejobs

RIP Steve, and thanks for saving Disney.

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TalkBack / Re: Wii Virtual Console Faces Longest Drought Yet

« on: October 05, 2011, 07:52:05 PM »

There were 3-5 VC games a week until WiiWare showed up.

There were 3-5 Wii downloads a week until the DSi.

There were 3-5 Nintendo downloads until the 3DS eShop launched.

And so on...

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Post in this thread every time you smite Chozo Ghost.

« on: October 04, 2011, 09:00:17 PM »

Posting in an epic thread.