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[GoldenPhoenix]

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TalkBack / RE:Virtual Console Mondays: June 4, 2007

« on: June 06, 2007, 05:23:44 AM »

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Originally posted by: GoldenPhoenix

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Originally posted by: Caliban
I agree with the rating for Zelda II (Recommended for fans), you're either a wuss or you've got balls...of fire. I don't do much grinding at all in this game, maybe it's because I've played this game so many times that I don't think it's dificult anymore.

And there is that thing about Miyamoto giving it the failure label (Which I don't believe he has ever given one of his games), many of the most important team members not working on it, a year development time, and the whole experiment thing. So I think the recommended for fans is justified, not because it is hard, but that the game is extremely flawed and tried to do way too much with a lot of it not working (Random battles should NEVER be in an action RPG).

Miyamoto calling the game a failure doesn't diminish my enjoyment of it any more than George Lucas's insistence that the latest mucking up of Star Wars is his "true vision" makes me want to give up my copies of the old version.  It has nothing whatsoever to do with the game's value to people who aren't Miyamoto.

Worse than that, though, you criticize the game for being an experiment!  Where would we be today if game developers didn't experiment?  My guess is there'd be hundreds of versions of Pong, there'd be no Hollywood-rivaling global video game industry, and Shigeru Miyamoto would be painting new designs on playing cards.

[Bloodworth]

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General Chat / RE:What's Bloodworth Up To? Well, rumor has it he's not very good at Guitar Hero.

« on: June 06, 2007, 04:53:48 AM »

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Originally posted by: Bloodworth
I guess I just slash directly.  Are you saying that's why I died?    Perhaps you have a better plan.

Iron Knuckles tend to lower their shields when you attack low, but if you attack low while you're jumping, you'll hit them high.  It doesn't always work, and you're less likely to be able to block their attacks yourself while you're in the air, but it's the "easy" way to fight them.  I find it much more fun to fight them normally, personally, and it's not really that hard to block their attacks with a little practice.  Iron Knuckles aren't even the hardest enemies to deal with in the game, but I guess they got their reputation from people who didn't get to the end.

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NWR Forums Discord / RE: Weekly Hot Pockets: Week One, Meatball with Cheese

« on: June 06, 2007, 03:45:38 AM »

I used to like Hot Pockets, although the meatball one wasn't one I liked very much.  Then somehow my tastes changed, and I started to find them all way too salty, so I haven't eaten one in a long time.  From what I remember, though, the meatball ones weren't anywhere near as spicy as I think meatballs should be.  If steam doesn't shoot out your ears and make you say "That's-a one-a spicy meatball-a," then it isn't spicy enough.  Besides, meatballs are best served with spaghetti, not in a sandwich.  That's a scientifically proven fact.  You can't argue with science.

On the plus side, the meatball Hot Pockets didn't feature an oily sauce that could scar the inside of your mouth with burns no matter how long you let it sit to cool, unlike certain other Hot Pockets.

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TalkBack / RE: Virtual Console Mondays: June 4, 2007

« on: June 06, 2007, 03:29:23 AM »

Grinding in Zelda II isn't as bad as. . . well, pretty much every other game I've ever played that uses experience points.  When I was a kid, for reasons I will never be able to explain, I was a total pansy when it came to risking my virtual life in games, and so I leveled up by fighting the absolute weakest enemies that gave experience, two points each, for days' worth of play time.  Since then, I've grown a pair and found an easier way.  I go through the first temple a few times until I can handle the boss, and then I just go through the game without bothering to grind until I get to the third temple, which is the first to feature an Ironknuckle statue that can spawn an Ironknuckle or a red magic bottle.  The Ironknuckle gives plenty of experience points, and the magic bottle means you can use Life magic as much as you need.  I still don't max out every stat here, because it's not necessary at this point in the game, and clearing a temple guarantees a level up.

[Khushrenada]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Wii went back up...

« on: June 05, 2007, 04:21:55 AM »

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Originally posted by: Khushrenada
Oh Konami, yeah, they are reaaaaaaal great. Hey, thanks for all the Gamecube support. Could I please have another Disney sports game? How about another TMNT game? Sure, they may give us fans Castlevania on the DS but what else? More Yu-Gi-Oh? That's great.

If you want to play a really awesome ninja game and by a company that actually tries to support a system, I suggest Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja. Hey look. The talkback thread of the Nintendo World Report review of the game just happens to by around. Right here And it comes with an awesome customer testimony about the game. So, why don't we spend our dollars on a real company that actually tries to create innovative things on a Nintendo sytem and actually cares about the fanbase.


Thank you, Atlus. Thank you for caring.

Oh yeah, Atlus cares.  They care so much, they took the thousands of years old game engine of Rogue (found in an Egyptian tomb, probably) and slapped a shallow "story" about ninjas on it.  Ninjas who don't do a single ninja-like activity.  If you really want a ninja game from a company that cares about ninjas, which, face it, is more important than Gamecube support, then look no further than Ninja Five-0, also from Konami.  It stars a ninja named Joe, who is also a detective, and he swings around with a grappling hook and kills people.  There is no better setup for a game possible in this universe.  No doubt the surge in Wii ebay prices is the result of the excitement caused by the rumor I am just now making up of a new Ninja Five-0 game for Wii.

Alternatively, the Wii prices shot up at about the same time the release date of Metroid Prime 3 was announced, didn't they?

[EasyCure]

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General Gaming / RE:Keiji Inafune wants to make Megaman Legends 3

« on: June 04, 2007, 11:25:05 AM »

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Originally posted by: EasyCure
am i the only one who thinks Legends sucked?

Probably not.  It was definitely not one of the greatest games of its time.  It was hard to control, the graphics ranged from almost passable to abysmal, and it took a lot of money farming to get everything.  Still, I liked it a lot.  I had never heard of it until a friend of mine told me about it, so I had no false expectations to get in the way when I played it, I guess.  Plus, it's fairly niche, so a sequel is very unlikely, making any rumors of a sequel much more exciting.  If you told me Shigeru Miyamoto wanted to make another Zelda someday, you wouldn't be telling me anything newsworthy, after all.

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General Gaming / RE: Bill Gates taking a page from Sony....

« on: June 04, 2007, 08:01:56 AM »

But that's crazy, because virtualization (I think there's a better word, but it has slipped my mind) is a large part of a useful operating system.  Otherwise, why don't I just keep my documents on actual paper in actual folders on my actual desktop?  An interface device for a computer is useful because it can represent anything.  A mouse can act like a hand, a touchpad can act like a paintbrush, and a ping-pong ball on a stick in front of a bunch of cameras can act like a tennis racket.

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NWR Forums Discord / RE: I'm getting sick of Unreal.

« on: June 04, 2007, 07:50:36 AM »

I don't recall that in Quake 3.  Are you sure that wasn't something a mod added?  I never bothered to play Quake 4 multiplayer.

[r]

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General Chat / RE:The sad truth about Oregon

« on: June 04, 2007, 05:56:19 AM »

They cut spending on the libraries.  Weren't you paying attention?  

In local (to me) news, we were going to get a new state of the art library built several years ago, but then it turned out that *gasp* some rich land developer was going to get incrementally richer as a result, and *gasp* he knew people on the city council!  Can you imagine?  A bigshot land developer who knows people on the city council?  I bet that never happens in places like OR-uh-gun and Warshington.  That, and every old fogey in this town votes against anything that might increase property taxes (which would have paid for the new library) even though their property taxes have been locked ever since they became old fogeys.

Is complaining about local government taboo here, too, even though it's hard for it to be as incisive and inflammatory when none of us live near each other?  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Metal Gear on Wii (not an announcement)

« on: June 04, 2007, 05:23:22 AM »

I got Twin Snakes dirt cheap.  I didn't make it through the first room before I quit in frustration.  First, I was spotted by a guard that I couldn't see or otherwise infer the presence of (edit:  actually, I remember the radar now, but my memory of the event is fuzzy; it's not the basis of the complaint, anyway).  Then, when I beat him to the ground, I couldn't take his weapon to kill the rest.  Then he stood up again and kept shooting me.  Then I realized they'd all forget I was ever there if I just waded out into the water.

I've played games that required stealth and enjoyed them, but when I do get discovered, I want things to play out just a bit more realistically than that.  My interest in any other games in this series couldn't even be measured with an electron microscope.  

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General Gaming / RE: Keiji Inafune wants to make Megaman Legends 3

« on: June 04, 2007, 04:48:43 AM »

I would love a new Megaman Legends on Wii.  If it comes out on the 360, I will cry.  I will cry until I am out of tears, and then I will buy a copy, put it in my Wii, tape over the slot so it won't reject it, and rock back and forth muttering to myself while waving the remote around.  Hopefully the price of a 360 will be reasonable by the time they let me out of the padded room.

[UncleBob]

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General Chat / RE:How to tell you're a Nintendo whore...

« on: June 04, 2007, 04:31:37 AM »

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Well, aside from actually purchasing Super Mario Bros. The Move on dvd...

Just what are you implying?

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NWR Forums Discord / RE: I'm getting sick of Unreal.

« on: June 04, 2007, 04:24:05 AM »

I wish more games would let you shoot through teleporters.

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NWR Forums Discord / RE: We're moving the Funhouse to pietriots.com

« on: June 04, 2007, 04:15:12 AM »

So a pietriot is one of a select group of Australian posters.  I feel like I'm getting closer to uncovering the mystery.  Now please tell me, is that pie as in "pie are round" + patriot, or some kind of heathen French?

[Khushrenada]

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NWR Forums Discord / RE:VICTORY PARTY!!!

« on: June 04, 2007, 03:54:36 AM »

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Originally posted by: Khushrenada
Yes, after all the bad press, I seemed to just disappear. There was nothing else to feed the fire. I made it seem as though my campaign had been derailed. But no. Aside from showing up here and there to promote Atlus, I was continuing on with my plans and watching my rivals. I built up a case for myself and I waited for the campaign to end to now pronounce my victory. So, let this be a lesson to you:

I figured you were just using the age-old strategy of boring your enemies so they move on to something else.  It certainly worked out that way.

I only even read this mess to see if I was mentioned.  Cheers.

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TalkBack / RE: The NWR Mailbag Talkback Thread

« on: June 04, 2007, 03:38:55 AM »

Re: June 3, 2007

I would have driven more than an hour to play F-Zero AX, even if only to unlock the blankity-blank AX content in the home version.  Alas, as far as I know the whole thing was just a big Internet hoax, because I never actually saw one anywhere.  There is, however, a drive-in theater still operating here.

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TalkBack / RE: Radio Allergy for GameCube Cancelled

« on: June 04, 2007, 03:16:53 AM »

Crap.  I even had it on order.

I just hope the compilation is more than Radio Allergy and Chaos Field.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Ubisoft admits to making crap, repents

« on: June 01, 2007, 08:31:10 AM »

Can you really ruin something that's already terrible?

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Official Wii Sales Thread

« on: June 01, 2007, 08:27:04 AM »

Well gang, another mystery solved.  Now let's see who the villain really is.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Official Wii Sales Thread

« on: June 01, 2007, 04:06:36 AM »

What happened to Wii Play?  It went from #8 to off the chart in the span of one week.  Did they run out of Wii remotes again?

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NWR Forums Discord / RE: Possible Wrath of Rome comic?

« on: May 29, 2007, 09:20:19 AM »

Looks too weak to me.

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General Chat / RE: Pirates of the Caribbean

« on: May 29, 2007, 08:39:43 AM »

Oh, there were plenty of those moments, but the overall tone dragged them down.  It's the difference between comedy and comic relief.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Zelda DS: Phantom Hourglass

« on: May 29, 2007, 06:07:04 AM »

Am I reading that game progression correctly, and you have to visit each dungeon twice: once to get the chart to find the sand, and again after you've dredged up the sand?  I hope they make the second visit worthwhile.  I'm guessing that the miniboss will guard the chart, and so there will be some amount of dungeon left to explore when you return, but there's an opportunity there to mix things up a bit that could be interesting.  

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General Gaming / RE: Nintendo 64 Saving Questions! (Batteries, Controller Paks, Flash, SRAM, oh my ;)

« on: May 29, 2007, 05:41:25 AM »

I'm pretty sure Beetle Adventure Racing used the Controller Pak for all save data.  I remember swapping out the Rumble Pak in order to save.

I think Excitebike 64 only used the Controller Pak to save custom tracks, while game progress was saved on the cartridge.  I remember that I was able to just leave the Controller Pak in another controller and still access it.

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General Chat / RE: Pirates of the Caribbean

« on: May 29, 2007, 05:33:14 AM »

I saw Pirates 3 on Sunday.  I have pretty mixed feelings on it.  I loved the first one.  I even loved the second one.  The third one, though, takes itself way too seriously.  Way, way, too seriously.