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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Switch Lite Announced: Releasing September 20

« on: July 10, 2019, 09:42:51 AM »

I don't know, some games aren't designed just for handheld. Mario Odyssey isn't with it's motion controls. You wouldn't want to play anything with couch multiplayer say like Overcooked, Puyo Puyo Tetris, Smash or Snipperclips.

To me that's a big appeal of the switch, but I guess if you know for a fact you're only ever going to be interested in certain single player games, then you can save a bit of money.

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 163: The Ultimate Gaming Machine

« on: June 13, 2019, 03:08:58 PM »

I'm shocked that game 2 has never been used before.

Loved the show TYP!

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 626: Unlicensed Machamp Registry

« on: June 12, 2019, 03:12:26 AM »

"Nobody talks in the TalkBack thread"

Ouch that was too real. Always listening though!

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 622: Fanciful Yet Relatively Simple

« on: May 15, 2019, 04:05:17 PM »

You're the Wa that I want
You are the Wa I want
Ooh ooh ohh

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 619: A Tale for Two

« on: April 26, 2019, 01:18:18 PM »

Can we take a second to appreciate the picture of Qudy with a gun?

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 618: Collecting our BAFTAs

« on: April 15, 2019, 03:49:16 PM »

Xenoblade X's soundtrack never fails to bring a smile to my face.

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TalkBack / Re: The Thirsty Mage: Xenogears

« on: March 25, 2019, 03:04:19 PM »

I played Xenogears on PSP a couple years back. I imagine it helped that I played it portably, but I really enjoyed it. Yes the story is extremely convoluted with those random nouns that are a hallmark of Japanese writing (Lambs), but in my opinion that's part of the charm, and no game does it like Xenogears does for better or worse.

The game goes to so many places and your story objectives never stay the same for long. It's story driven and often railroads you through the areas with no way back because it wouldn't make sense in the story. Whereas your traditional RPG tends to be more about opening up the world map as you walk from town to town.

The battle system was carried by it's novelty and managed to hold my attention for the length of the game, but I feel like a hypothetical Xenogears 2 would really have needed to shake it up to keep it interesting for another 80 hours.

My main gripe would be the platforming. An RPG with a jump button isn't something you see everyday, but I remember some segments that were needlessly hard with having to hold down the run button and then time your jump properly

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 613: Sean Connery's Worst Wigs, a Retrospective

« on: March 14, 2019, 11:44:53 AM »

Sean Connery Timestamp: 01:38:00

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TalkBack / Re: Happy 20th Birthday NWR!

« on: March 07, 2019, 02:50:14 PM »

Happy birthday NWR!

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Announces Labo VR Kit: Releasing April 12

« on: March 07, 2019, 06:40:42 AM »

Curious what the game's are going to be like.

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 609: Anime Word Cloud

« on: February 17, 2019, 09:36:09 AM »

Did Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE not come up in the anime is happening segment?

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Daemon X Machina!

« on: February 17, 2019, 08:25:40 AM »

Played the demo and ended up really enjoying it. Going toe to toe against the enemy mechs in mission 3 was fun because it felt like they were actively hunting me down across the city, as I dodged and boosted along the streets avoiding their attacks.

The controls outside your mech feel surprising good, a neat feature that they don't really tell you about is that you can upgrade your human abilities in the hanger and these enhancements then show up on your character, like if you get the double jump ability you get these robot legs.

There seemed to be a good difficulty balance as it took me a couple tries to beat mission 4, but I finally managed to land the killing blow on foot after my mech had been destroyed.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Direct To Air Tomorrow

« on: February 12, 2019, 11:22:23 AM »

The rumours were actually right...

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TalkBack / Re: Metroid Prime 4 Development Rebooted: Now Retro Studios Project

« on: January 25, 2019, 08:34:56 AM »

The transparency is good to see. It'll be interesting if details about the cancelled version ever leak out.

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 606: Flexing on Undead Taxmen

« on: January 24, 2019, 07:10:22 PM »

Interestingly enough some of the lines in Layton are different depending on the region. "Our ... Lost Future" or "Our ... Unwound Future". Also Luke for whatever reason has a completely different voice actor in the US.

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TalkBack / Re: 9th NWR Charity Live Stream

« on: January 23, 2019, 03:02:03 PM »

Well on the way to 4k!

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TalkBack / Re: Venture Towns (Switch) Review

« on: December 24, 2018, 06:41:12 PM »

At first glance the screenshot looked appealing, but geez this sounds terrible, bicycle horn music and all.

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TalkBack / Re: ARK: Survival Evolved (Switch) Review

« on: December 16, 2018, 01:32:36 PM »

Oof

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 159: No More Mettsing Around

« on: December 11, 2018, 05:53:37 AM »

TYP is an absolute machine at guessing music

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 600: We're Doing a Podcast, You Idiot!

« on: December 04, 2018, 02:46:34 AM »

The Day the Music Died is an absolute classic

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Podcast Discussion / Re: RetroActive 43: Super Punch-Out!! Episode 600 Live Show

« on: December 01, 2018, 08:23:33 AM »

My student union at uni got an SNES Classic recently so I got to play Super Punch Out in front of a crowd. It's a decent spectator game, easy to understand and it's got big sprites and animation that make it easy to watch.

I only managed to get up to the 4th fighter, but maybe reading the manual is a shout because I felt like I was missing something.

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 158: Talking More About Nintendo

« on: October 26, 2018, 04:32:45 PM »

Game 2 song 3 threw me off so much

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TalkBack / Re: Yo-kai Watch 3 Comes To America February 8; Europe In Winter

« on: September 27, 2018, 03:35:49 PM »

Meanwhile I still haven't tried the first game. Oops.

And I really liked the demo too, gave me proper Professor Layton vibes. It should go on sale more often.

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TalkBack / Re: Telltale Games Lays Off More Than 90% Of Staff

« on: September 22, 2018, 07:22:01 AM »

It's weird that I've never even seen a screenshot of most of their recent games.

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TalkBack / Re: Fortnite To Receive Switch Bundle October 5

« on: September 19, 2018, 02:24:14 AM »

A bundle... with a free game?