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TalkBack / Re: REVIEWS: Guitar Hero: World Tour

« on: December 16, 2008, 07:03:48 PM »

And not only is he not willing to sing but he's so oblivious to popular music that he knows almost none of the songs.

I don't know a good handful of songs in World Tour. The set list tends to suck for the most part.

Fixed your post.

I knew about half of the set list, the other half ended up being better than i thought. Take for instance Go Your Own Way by Fleetwood Mac; I've always heard of the band but never heard any music by them, that song freaking rocks and its one of my favorites to play to. Oh and i just downloaded Jessies Girl by Rick Springfield. What else do i have to say?

EasyCure fails at fixing posts.

I like Jessie's Girl.  So far it seems to me that the downloadable songs have better note charts.  Maybe that's just because I stopped playing before getting all that far in the career because of gaming overload, though.

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General Gaming / Re: Amazing Deals!

« on: December 16, 2008, 12:42:32 PM »

On Thursday the 18th, Amazon's daily and lightning deals will be PS3 games and Blu-ray discs.

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Today I was caught... =(

« on: December 15, 2008, 04:34:12 PM »

My puppy is a Great Dane, if you know what I mean.

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General Gaming / Re: Board Gaming

« on: December 15, 2008, 04:22:19 PM »

Try Puerto Rico on them, it's awesome.

I'd like to.  I was hesitant in the past because I was concerned about references to slavery in the game, but I looked at it again thanks to this thread and learned that that's just some crude slang some players use.

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TalkBack / Re: REVIEWS: Guitar Hero: World Tour

« on: December 15, 2008, 04:00:19 PM »

Does everyone have that one friend who's a total wet blanket and is never willing to do vocals?  We've only got him to sing one song.  And not only is he not willing to sing but he's so oblivious to popular music that he knows almost none of the songs.  But there are some songs none of the four of us know so someone volunteers to try to figure out the melody on the fly.  He never volunteers for this.

That would probably be me.  I'm not trying to be a jerk, but I can't make myself sing in front of other people.  I've tried, but after a line or two, I just freeze up.  It's frustrating for me, too.

It might help if any of those PS2 karaoke games had song ONE on them that wouldn't make me scramble for the dial if they played on the radio, but I admit to being a jerk there.

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General Chat / Re: Is it pronounced pay-king or pee-king?

« on: December 15, 2008, 12:52:32 PM »

Screw that, General Tso's chicken.

Answer that, i've heard it too many different ways (even from people serving it!) to know whats even close to the proper pronunciation.

General "Sow" (as in the pig)

Rhymes with "How now brown cow?"

I never would have guessed that.

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General Chat / Re: Second Annual Secret Santa: SIGN-UPS ARE CLOSED!

« on: December 15, 2008, 12:46:10 PM »

I don't have time to make a list, let alone check it twice.  If my Secret Santa hasn't already bought something and needs a hint, try thinking of a game on the VC that surprised you by how much you enjoyed it.  I'm hoping to get something that I wouldn't have considered getting myself.  I'm sorry if that seems difficult.

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General Gaming / Re: Board Gaming

« on: December 14, 2008, 02:00:35 PM »

I have Settlers, Carcassonne, and Ticket to Ride.  That last one is my family's favorite, so I don't often get a chance to play the others.  Friends of mine have introduced me to a few others, including Tigris & Euphrates.  I thought I liked that one at first, but eventually I realized that I hated it instead.  Nothing else especially notable comes to mind.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Ex-Team Ninja and some SSBBrawl developers make TMNT for Wii

« on: December 12, 2008, 01:20:30 PM »

Well Pale Vyse and Aika from Skies of Arcadia are optional playable characters in Valkyria Chronicles

They are?!!!  Okay I think with that and Metal Gear Solid 4 and Disgaea 3 I might be able to convince my brother to buy a PS3, which I naturally will spend some time as well.

Don't get your hopes up too high.  They're just faces among the soldiers you can assign to your squad.

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General Chat / Re: Anime

« on: December 12, 2008, 12:47:10 PM »

I think Death and Rebirth is half recut episodes from the series and half first part of the movie End of Evangelion.  It doesn't have any reason to exist.

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TalkBack / Re: REVIEWS: Dokapon Kingdom

« on: December 12, 2008, 12:15:16 PM »

Update, Amazon now has this listed for $15. That is an amazing deal.

That's part of today's deal in the "15 Days, 15 Deals" thing they're doing in the video game department.  It's rather annoying to have missed out on the extra discount, especially since that's the only thing that appeals to me in today's deal.

In other words, if you want it at that price, you have to buy it today.

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TalkBack / Re: Library of 100 Classics Revealed for Nintendo's eBook Software

« on: December 11, 2008, 01:05:31 PM »

Yeah, well, I need a book with more turning.

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TalkBack / Re: Library of 100 Classics Revealed for Nintendo's eBook Software

« on: December 11, 2008, 12:23:29 PM »

Speaking of definitions:

Critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.

Ambrose Bierce. 

People have to remember that the whole point of these "read on DS" games is to appeal to the people that never owned a book.  If somebody never owned a book, then why would they have a book style option?

In Nintendo's mind, they probably feel that the older fanbase that would play these with a book anyway, already bought them on book when they were first released and as a result probably wouldn't buy the DS version in the first place.

I doubt anyone old enough to have bought Great Expectations when it was first released is worth targeting now anyway.

(Possible rejoinder:  "Of course they need to buy it again on DS!  It's too dark in a coffin to read a book.")

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General Gaming / Re: Sony axes 16,000 jobs and shuts down plants

« on: December 10, 2008, 03:48:55 PM »

Moreso, while most non-PS2 Sony products are very well designed and tend to hold up very well, they're over-priced.  Fifteen years ago Sony made products of much higher quality and they demanded a premium price for them.  Today, competitors have caught up on the quality (and even surpassed it in some cases) but Sony still tries to charge a premium price for products that are no longer considered premium.

I've had bad luck with Sony products then, because nothing ever held up (thought they were usually nicely designed as long as we're speaking in terms of looks).

CD Players (portable) would get sticky buttons and eventually stop working, headphones would blow out constantly or get damaged easily. The one Sony tv my family ever had crapped out on us. The old VCR was **** too. When the first reports of PS2s failing came out, it was no surprise to me.

Sony was once known for quality electronics, but they sacrificed their reputation to get costs down enough to appeal to less affluent customers.  Any Sony product with moving parts became a ticking time bomb of failure.  Sony only really remained a leader in the display market, but they also still charged a premium in that market (actually, they still made solid stuff in all categories at premium prices).  The march of progress solved most of the quality problems, but it also brought all the competitors' quality up, too, so Sony squandered the power of their brand name for nothing.

Of course, there's more to it than that.  The other big problem Sony has is that it's also a content owner, and that side of the business puts pressure on the electronics half that compromises everything they do.  If you'll forgive the buzzword, it is the exact opposite of synergy.  For example, it prevented Sony from protecting the portable music market it basically started with the Walkman from the iPod.  More recently, it saddled the PS3 with Blu-ray.

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General Chat / Re: Second Annual Secret Santa: Sign-up Thread (Attempt 2)

« on: December 10, 2008, 02:59:17 PM »

Updated Original Post with as many of your Friend Codes as i could find!

You got my hopes up.  All you had to do was look in the Friend Codes forum.

3896-5984-8968-1451
U.S.A.

I'm open to nearly anything.  I only don't want stuff I already own, but I'm too lazy to go through the VC catalog to point such titles out.

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General Chat / Re: Anime

« on: December 10, 2008, 02:49:04 PM »

A friend of mine made a strong comparison between Evangelion and Fry's opera in Futurama.  The short version is, "Greatest anime ever sucks!"  I tend to agree.  Part of the problem is that there's a fair bit of material that's important to understanding the plot that was completely left out of the anime, which adds to both its mysterious appeal and its WTF-ness.  Since reading about some of it, I've been wanting to watch the series again, but I don't think I could ever convince that friend to.

They went back and made a movie to finish the series "properly," but it's mostly a big middle finger to all the fans who complained about the original ending.  The movie even includes pictures of death threats sent to whatshisname.  Considering he was already pretty messed up en la cabeza, I'm sure that sort of thing contributed directly to the depressing ending.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Console Sales are Robust Despite the U.S. Recession

« on: December 10, 2008, 01:02:45 PM »

People need entertainment even more when times are tough.  They save money by bankrupting Ford and GM instead.

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TalkBack / Re: Library of 100 Classics Revealed for Nintendo's eBook Software

« on: December 10, 2008, 12:53:13 PM »

Mark Twain once wrote that a classic is "something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The top N64 games

« on: December 09, 2008, 12:55:15 PM »

when the game came out the graphics were amazing to me, and the voice work was pretty good (though looking back its cheesy in a good way). Sure the explosions were odd but everything else was awesome.

There was a lot of awesome, I admit.  One of my favorite bits was the way a charged shot hit the water on Corneria.  I just couldn't stand the inflating beach ball explosions, especially the one that goes off in midair above the Attack Carrier when it hits the water.  I might never have made such a big deal about it if they had simply made it explode on the water like it was supposed to.  Of course, the Area 6 boss (Gorgon?) would still stand as an example of how to make a good looking explosion without that cheesy effect, so maybe not.

Like I said before, it didn't really matter in the long run.  It wasn't the first time Nintendo made a graphical design decision that I thought looked stupid, and it definitely wasn't the last.  Take Ganondorf's cape in OoT, for example.  When he falls over, it falls through his body and pools under him.  It pulled me straight out of the game when it happened.  It could have been avoided, too, by simply having him lose the cape during the fight.  But whatever.  I only nitpick because I love.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The top N64 games

« on: December 09, 2008, 12:01:00 PM »

I hated Star Fox 64 when I first got it.  Actually, I only hated the graphics and music.  I beat the game, but it didn't become one of my all time favorites until I put it away for a year.  When I came back to it, it was "old" and forgivable for its ugly beach ball explosions that sometimes didn't appear in the right place, not to mention its cringe-inducing instrument sounds.  Maybe I just learned to ignore that stuff during that time.  Regardless, without being distracted by all of that nonsense, I discovered some of the best gameplay ever developed.  I loved it, and I will never forgive Nintendo for destroying the franchise.  I suppose they wanted to innovate, but in the process they lost what made Star Fox fun in the first place.  Here's a hint, Nintendo:  It's not the stupid "Furries In Spaaaaaace!" plot.

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TalkBack / Re: REVIEWS: Dokapon Kingdom

« on: December 09, 2008, 11:27:10 AM »

At $20 I'm willing to buy this and shove it down my friends' throats.  Thanks.

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General Chat / Re: Second Annual Secret Santa: Sign-up Thread (Attempt 2)

« on: December 08, 2008, 07:48:13 PM »

I think some of our resident paupers wouldn't like such a high minimum.


It occurred to me today that Nintendo limiting DLC shops to in-game menus takes a lot of potential fun away from gift giving.  I would have found it awesome to give someone Chime's bikini, for example.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Best 3rd Party Publisher?

« on: December 08, 2008, 07:07:11 PM »

I remember the high hopes for Ubisoft back in '06.  They really had to try hard to throw that all away, but they dug deep and got it done.

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TalkBack / Re: Square, Warner Bros Battle for Eidos

« on: December 08, 2008, 06:53:04 PM »

Who knows what SE is thinking here?  =\

Maybe they're thinking "Tifa vs. Lara Hyper Pillow Fighting."

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: In the children's toy section at your local supermarket

« on: December 08, 2008, 03:27:56 PM »

Just tell her you were looking at a furry art picture, and... hmm.