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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Wii Sales Thread
« on: March 14, 2010, 12:13:38 AM »
There was a link in my last post.
I guess I'm not very good at sarcasm.
I guess I'm not very good at sarcasm.
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General Gaming / Re: Sony's Motion in the Blue Ocean
« on: March 13, 2010, 06:17:23 PM »
Reggie comments on Move.
Some choice quotes:
Some choice quotes:
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IGN: So -- you got anything that can compete against Sony's revolutionary Move controller and sub-controller?
[Reggie leans back in his chair and laughs for several moments.]
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[Reggie laughs]
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[he snaps]
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Reggie Fils-Aime: [Laughs]
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Reggie Fils-Aime: [Laughs]
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Reggie Fils-Aime: [Laughs] I'm not going to give you anything.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Wii Sales Thread
« on: March 13, 2010, 06:09:33 PM »
How much did EA spend on advertising Dead Space: Extraction?
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The Grinder: Hunter The Reckoning + Left4Dead
« on: March 12, 2010, 03:42:46 AM »
So why did they bother showing off a new trailer just a few weeks ago when they obviously must have been in the process of turning it into a completely different game?
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Shiren the Wanderer DS Thread of Helping Jonny Not Give Up
« on: March 10, 2010, 02:29:24 AM »
What a coincidence. I picked up Shiren DS not too long ago on a whim when I saw it in the bargain bin. It's one of the best games I've played in a long while. The only other rougelike I played before was a bit of Nethack, but that one was a bit too soulcrushingly difficult for me.
Anyway, I've been able to beat the main dungeon in Shiren a few times (yes, you've only been playing the first and easiest dungeon in the game) so here's some advice:
1. Keeping an item in a storehouse will make that same type of item identified on future playthroughs. I like to keep one of each magic staff and jars in storehouses for this reason. No more guesswork.
2. Don't be too stingy with using magic staves. They can get you out of a lot of jams. The staff of sloth is particularly useful, since most enemies (almost all) hit by it will only act every other turn. This allows you to hit them and retreat over and over and they'll never get a hit off you.
3. Enemies with annoying status/item altering abilities should be taken out at a distance whenever possible. Or use the staff of sloth.
4. Do not under any circumstances fight a Gaze in close combat (again, unless you've slowed it down with the staff of sloth). These things can screw you over more than any other enemy in the game. It might be better to use a staff of paralysis and just ignore them.
5. Don't bother bringing swords and shields you've souped up over time with you unless you're very confident you're able to beat the game. It's just a waste otherwise. The game is certainly beatable without souped up equipment, anyway.
6. Grinding for exp isn't really necessary, either. Gaining roughly one level per floor should be enough.
7. Keep on playing. You'll eventually encounter two other characters that will be recuitable party members. Again, not necessary to beat the game, but they make the first half much easier. Don't bother feeding Pekeji. Each time you recruit him, he'll be able to go longer without eating until eventually he wont need food at all.
8. You might want to try rescuing someone on WiFi. You'll be sent back to the beginning after you rescue them with no money and exp, but you get to keep any items you got on the way.
9. If all else fails, you can consult this wiki:
http://shiren.wetpaint.com/
I don't know how much of the game you want to "spoil", but just about anything you'd want to know is in there.
Anyway, I've been able to beat the main dungeon in Shiren a few times (yes, you've only been playing the first and easiest dungeon in the game) so here's some advice:
1. Keeping an item in a storehouse will make that same type of item identified on future playthroughs. I like to keep one of each magic staff and jars in storehouses for this reason. No more guesswork.
2. Don't be too stingy with using magic staves. They can get you out of a lot of jams. The staff of sloth is particularly useful, since most enemies (almost all) hit by it will only act every other turn. This allows you to hit them and retreat over and over and they'll never get a hit off you.
3. Enemies with annoying status/item altering abilities should be taken out at a distance whenever possible. Or use the staff of sloth.
4. Do not under any circumstances fight a Gaze in close combat (again, unless you've slowed it down with the staff of sloth). These things can screw you over more than any other enemy in the game. It might be better to use a staff of paralysis and just ignore them.
5. Don't bother bringing swords and shields you've souped up over time with you unless you're very confident you're able to beat the game. It's just a waste otherwise. The game is certainly beatable without souped up equipment, anyway.
6. Grinding for exp isn't really necessary, either. Gaining roughly one level per floor should be enough.
7. Keep on playing. You'll eventually encounter two other characters that will be recuitable party members. Again, not necessary to beat the game, but they make the first half much easier. Don't bother feeding Pekeji. Each time you recruit him, he'll be able to go longer without eating until eventually he wont need food at all.
8. You might want to try rescuing someone on WiFi. You'll be sent back to the beginning after you rescue them with no money and exp, but you get to keep any items you got on the way.
9. If all else fails, you can consult this wiki:
http://shiren.wetpaint.com/
I don't know how much of the game you want to "spoil", but just about anything you'd want to know is in there.
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General Gaming / Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010
« on: March 02, 2010, 02:41:19 AM »
Reggie won the bet. Now he's taking names.
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General Gaming / Re: Sony getting hit Hard lately
« on: March 01, 2010, 04:02:08 AM »
Lindy now on suicide watch.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Epic Mickey - Wii Exclusive
« on: February 27, 2010, 06:28:50 PM »
If nothing else, Disney's confidence confirms they're not going to send it out to die with no advertising like all other 3rd party Wii games. That alone gives it a much better shot at success.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The 3rd Party Wall of Shame
« on: February 27, 2010, 06:23:59 PM »
It's pretty sad that Gaf of all places is far more receptive to the Wall of Shame than here.
And that's not Pachter. It has to be an imposter.
And that's not Pachter. It has to be an imposter.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The 3rd Party Wall of Shame
« on: February 15, 2010, 04:31:38 PM »Quote
Therefore, they had the first opportunity to build an audience for any type of game they wanted, and chose to focus on titles like Wii Sports.
Factually inaccurate.
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This is what I mean when I say that third parties cannot solely be blamed for the lack of an audience for certain game genres on Wii.
Third parties cry manly tears when they have to compete with Nintendo. If Nintendo had made some online FPS the first year Wii was out, you'd be saying how third parties are justified in not bringing those kinds of games to the system because they have to compete with Brown Shooter Wii, so they're better off sticking to the HD consoles.
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TalkBack / Re: Mario Pirate Settles For 1.5 Million
« on: February 10, 2010, 05:27:51 PM »
This guy got off easy. He could've ended up with a good old-fashioned Reggie punting instead.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare coming to Wii 11/10/09
« on: February 10, 2010, 05:25:22 PM »Why couldn't they get their **** together 2 COD games ago?
Because according to one of the guys on the Wii port team who posted on Neogaf, they were ludicrously understaffed for the first two games.
COD3 was done by two people.
World at War was about a dozen.
Activision "gets it".
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The 3rd Party Wall of Shame
« on: February 10, 2010, 05:20:24 PM »And we have two new conspiracy theories to add to the mix.
Nothing new here. RickPowers stated the exact same theories when he last posted here.
Makes perfect sense too. Just look at the DS, which DOES have meaningful third party support. Nintendo is really struggling to sell their games with all that competition.
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TalkBack / Re: Report Suggests Wii Development Lagging Behind
« on: February 09, 2010, 05:57:28 PM »And Namco did give the Wii some sort of Soul Calibur product. Why would they make TWO different games if they could just make ONE game for all THREE?
Namco ported SC4 to the PSP.
The PSP.
The PSP.
The industry has something against Nintendo. The sooner everybody accepts this the sooner we can move on from these kinds of discussions.
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TalkBack / Re: Report Suggests Wii Development Lagging Behind
« on: February 09, 2010, 04:57:18 AM »If The Wii is so much poison for third parties, how come Nintendo's pulling down record profits and most of the third parties are otherwise struggling, even with their minimal to nonexistent development focus for Wii? Nintendo's making more profit and selling more games than basically all game companies combined.
Why, it's because there are only two audiences on Wii: Nintendo fanboys who only buy Nintendo games, and soccer moms and grandmas who only buy Nintendo games.
Of course, in order to believe that to be true you would have to assume that there are more Nintendo fans that bought a Wii yet didn't buy a Gamecube, seeing as how Mario Kart Wii OUTSOLD THE GAMECUBE.
Also, you would have to believe that Nintendo's marketing is so slick that those clueless soccer moms always make sure they buy Nintendo brand games. Somehow... I don't think that's the case.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The 3rd Party Wall of Shame
« on: February 09, 2010, 04:44:31 AM »
Good. Now no one can possibly cite the sales of this game as proof that there's no market for a third person shooter on Wii since even EA acknowledges it's only worth $15. Also, this game isn't a third person shooter, but everybody seems to ignore that point.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The 3rd Party Wall of Shame
« on: February 07, 2010, 02:05:21 AM »What happened to those people that used to interview other people, report the news, or ask a lot of questions stuff?
They don't believe there's anything to be questioned. They bought the official 3rd party excuses hook, line, and sinker.
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TalkBack / Re: Report Suggests Wii Development Lagging Behind
« on: February 05, 2010, 08:12:00 PM »Quote
And yet people complain when third-parties treat Nintendo in the same flippant manner.
No, people complain when they treat their customers in a flippant manner.
"You'll buy this rail-shooter spinoff and you'll like it!"
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Have you ever heard Microsoft or Sony say ANYTHING negative about third-parties, EVER?
The hell? When has Nintendo ever said anything negative about third parties, other than Miyamoto warning them to not put their fifth string development teams on the Wii? Which they continue to do.
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Wii is where original IPs go to die
The Wii is where niche concepts that have no chance on any platform go to die. If publishers really believed games like Deadly Creatures and Zack and Wiki have such tremendous potential to be huge sellers, then they would make future entries on the HD platforms. But they don't because they know perfectly well what limited appeal games like these have.
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TalkBack / Re: Wii Tops Namco Bandai's Best Sellers List
« on: February 05, 2010, 06:38:50 PM »
This isn't the late 90's. Nobody cares about Tekken anymore. Let the series die on the HD consoles.
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TalkBack / Re: Report Suggests Wii Development Lagging Behind
« on: February 05, 2010, 06:37:10 PM »
You know, ever since the beginning of this generation I've been asking the same question of why these reasons of not supporting the Wii don't also apply to the DS and I never get an answer.
Don't third parties have to compete with Nintendo on the DS?
Doesn't Nintendo make a crapload of money on DS just from their first party games? NSMB DS and MK DS are STILL selling tons.
Doesn't Sony "need" 3rd party support on PSP more than Nintendo does with DS?
Does Nintendo go way out of their way to get 3rd party games on the DS (i.e. moneyhatting)?
So why does this stuff suddenly matter on the Wii? Excuses. That's all they are.
Don't third parties have to compete with Nintendo on the DS?
Doesn't Nintendo make a crapload of money on DS just from their first party games? NSMB DS and MK DS are STILL selling tons.
Doesn't Sony "need" 3rd party support on PSP more than Nintendo does with DS?
Does Nintendo go way out of their way to get 3rd party games on the DS (i.e. moneyhatting)?
So why does this stuff suddenly matter on the Wii? Excuses. That's all they are.
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TalkBack / Re: Report Suggests Wii Development Lagging Behind
« on: February 05, 2010, 06:06:07 PM »Quote
Besides, it's not like Nintendo cares about these third-parties anyways, really.
Nintendo doesn't care about black people.
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Third-party sales are gravy to them, so it's very easy for them to sit back and shake their heads, telling third-party developers that they just don't "get it".
Do you think third parties really do "get it"?
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The 3rd Party Wall of Shame
« on: February 04, 2010, 05:24:14 PM »
Don't forget that the Nascar Kart racer doesn't have an online mode while MKWii does.
EA is lazy and you DO care.
EA is lazy and you DO care.
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General Gaming / Re: The PATHETIC state of the gaming 'media'
« on: February 04, 2010, 05:18:00 PM »
The Wii getting a worthwhile 3rd party game is always a bad thing.
How will the trolls be able to make clever jokes about their Wii collecting dust or being in a closet with the board games if they're playing it? It was highly inconsiderate of Capcom to not think of what releasing TvC would do to such memes.
How will the trolls be able to make clever jokes about their Wii collecting dust or being in a closet with the board games if they're playing it? It was highly inconsiderate of Capcom to not think of what releasing TvC would do to such memes.
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