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General Gaming / Re: Microsoft's Project Natal
« on: January 08, 2010, 02:13:08 PM »
and if the tracking starts to slip, you can switch the infrared source into "high power" mode....
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Wii Sales Thread
« on: January 07, 2010, 10:52:44 PM »
oohh, the pspgo broke the 75K barrier!
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Wii Sales Thread
« on: January 07, 2010, 12:20:07 AM »Wow, just wow. The latest high budget Final Fantasy game isn't doing much in catching to a remake of a Pokemon game.
Especially since the pokemon game probably cost about $34 to develop...
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Wii Sales Thread
« on: January 05, 2010, 10:03:30 PM »Hate to break it too you but according to people who've played the recent Japanese release, the final game is like that as well. According to a number of impressions, the game is literally a straight line where you go from one cut scene to the other. There's no exploration, the storyline is pretty bad and the world is dull and lifeless.
I've heard it opens up considerably after the 6 hour mark.
Meaning what? [I guess that it becomes less of a linear sequence of cut-scenes.]
What about the cardboard characters, the "dull and lifeless" world, the cringe-inducing story, etc...?
Does anyone have a pointer to a decent (non-fanboy) review?
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Wii Sales Thread
« on: January 05, 2010, 04:09:03 AM »Besides, all that hate is better spent on FFVII.
I wasn't really intending to diss XIII; I was just commenting on what somebody said recently: that the dev costs were so high that it has to do significantly better than previous releases to make a profit (so merely performing "in line" isn't enough).
However now that you mention it, I will say that the XIII demos in stores make it look like it has all the worst attributes of recent FF games -- annoying cardboard characters, a slightly embarrassing infatuation with trendy teen styles, painful, cringe-inducing melodrama, creaky-ass battles, an emphasis on endless [cringe-inducing] cut-scenes...
Maybe it's actually a great game, but the demos provide zero indication of that.
You do have a point though -- the era of horrible FF games started with VII, and it didn't even have good graphics!
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Wii Sales Thread
« on: December 31, 2009, 02:42:12 PM »
Is this the same FF XIII that has to sell significantly more than past versions due to insane dev costs...?
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NWR Forums Discord / Re: 2000 reasons you are still a Nintendo fan
« on: December 31, 2009, 12:41:42 PM »
1769) 'cause Nintendo makes games even a drunk 5-year-old can love
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Wii Sales Thread
« on: December 29, 2009, 09:19:14 AM »
I've got a japanese wii, but don't have animal crossing... :/
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NWR Forums Discord / Re: 2000 reasons you are are still a Nintendo fan
« on: December 22, 2009, 09:01:19 PM »
1813) Because in a landscape littered with vaguely embarrassing rehashes of the same old military themes, Nintendo makes games inspired by gardening...
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: New Wii Zelda
« on: December 22, 2009, 08:35:34 PM »
I dunno, the 3d engine seems real enough, but the level design and controls are 2d...
[This split very common on the DS, e.g. basically all recent AA JRPGS do the same thing -- DQ IX, 光の４戦士, Zelda, etc -- which suggests the DS hardware must make it pretty easy...]
[This split very common on the DS, e.g. basically all recent AA JRPGS do the same thing -- DQ IX, 光の４戦士, Zelda, etc -- which suggests the DS hardware must make it pretty easy...]
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General Gaming / Re: The PATHETIC state of the gaming 'media'
« on: December 20, 2009, 10:20:22 PM »
Actually "brown" is something I always associated with the PS2 -- I never owned one, but it seems like every time I saw an in-store game display (and they had a lot), the games always seemed to have a bland low-contrast muddled look (as well as the PS2's signature ultra-jaggies and low res). I don't know whether it was due to actual technical limitations or simply bad choices on the part of the devs, but it seemed very common.
[That's why I never bought a PS2 -- games were just too damned ugly!]
[That's why I never bought a PS2 -- games were just too damned ugly!]
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General Gaming / Re: Sony getting hit Hard lately
« on: December 20, 2009, 10:10:05 PM »Sony is working on yet another iteration of the PSP known as the PSP 4000. Sony, for the love of all that is holy make it stop. We know the PSP Go is a worthless POS in the sales department, but if you're not going to put a second analog nub on the 4000 (likely) there's no reason to put out yet another version of the PSP.
The question is, how will Sony manage to screw up this one?
Second analogue nub -- in the middle of the screen?
Giant wooden handles, bizarrely fixed so that you must hold the unit between your legs and bend over to play?
Features neither UMD drive nor digital download?
"Battery life: 1 minute"?
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General Gaming / Re: The PATHETIC state of the gaming 'media'
« on: December 20, 2009, 01:43:52 AM »
Yup. The problem is not that IGN criticizes Nintendo, it's that they do it in an unprofessional and fanboyish manner.
Well, of course nobody would care if they were just some random luserblag, but for whatever reason, they've ended up with money and resources that makes people expect better of them.
Well, of course nobody would care if they were just some random luserblag, but for whatever reason, they've ended up with money and resources that makes people expect better of them.
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General Gaming / Re: The PATHETIC state of the gaming 'media'
« on: December 19, 2009, 10:35:38 PM »Not saying I believe everything I read, but when it comes to opinion pieces, especially from places that have been under the radar as long as IGN, I simply don't believe that they intentionally write opinion pieces to push some anti-Nintendo agenda.
I suspect there's not really a coherent "anti-Nintendo agenda", and they're not intentionally fishing for kickbacks.
I think the basic problem is just that many of the writers at IGN are simply unprofessional, and fit the "blowhard fanboy" mold pretty well. However, despite this lack of professionalism, they've got money/access/mindshare, and that's kind of gone to their heads -- they think they're professionals, but are still acting like fanboys...
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NWR Forums Discord / Re: 2000 reasons you are are still a Nintendo fan
« on: December 19, 2009, 05:28:48 PM »
1830) If you can't beat 'em, eat 'em
1829) We rescued breakfast!
1829) We rescued breakfast!
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 w/ M+
« on: December 19, 2009, 04:34:27 AM »However, as things have turned out, the sheer scale (as kotaku says "it appears he's slept with every porn star and cocktail waitress north of the Mexican border") makes it a lot harder for people to just dismiss; it paints him less as a flawed-but-still-basically-good-boy, and more as kind of a jerk.
No, it paints him as a successful man.
The two attributes are not incompatible...
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NWR Forums Discord / Re: 2000 reasons you are are still a Nintendo fan
« on: December 19, 2009, 03:16:48 AM »
1861) Nintendo PowerHat(tm) -- the ultimate gaming power, in a hat!*
* Input values may be entirely random
* Input values may be entirely random
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General Gaming / Re: The PATHETIC state of the gaming 'media'
« on: December 19, 2009, 12:57:01 AM »
...soooooo.... NWR just needs to get themselves bought by MTV!
Brilliant!
Brilliant!
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: New Wii Zelda
« on: December 19, 2009, 12:23:17 AM »And you're really complaining about deus ex machina? There's a reason there's a proper latin term for it. It's because it's a completely legitimate literary device, and to act like using it automatically degrades quality is ignorant.
The point is, though, that as rowling uses it, it's just a cheap-ass way to tie up a plot she has no idea how to finish. Her endings are downright awful.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 w/ M+
« on: December 19, 2009, 12:07:41 AM »
I think if Tiger had "transgressed" with one or two girls, then people would be giving him a lot more slack -- "he's only human", "it's hard to live up to the image of perfection we've assigned to him", etc, etc.
However, as things have turned out, the sheer scale (as kotaku says "it appears he's slept with every porn star and cocktail waitress north of the Mexican border") makes it a lot harder for people to just dismiss; it paints him less as a flawed-but-still-basically-good-boy, and more as kind of a jerk. And given the general audience for golf games (older, a bit conservative), companies selling them really don't want a philandering jerk as their figurehead (it's not just his golf game that made him so popular).
(a wrestling game, on the other hand...hmm; Tiger...?)
However, as things have turned out, the sheer scale (as kotaku says "it appears he's slept with every porn star and cocktail waitress north of the Mexican border") makes it a lot harder for people to just dismiss; it paints him less as a flawed-but-still-basically-good-boy, and more as kind of a jerk. And given the general audience for golf games (older, a bit conservative), companies selling them really don't want a philandering jerk as their figurehead (it's not just his golf game that made him so popular).
(a wrestling game, on the other hand...hmm; Tiger...?)
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NWR Forums Discord / Re: 2000 reasons you are are still a Nintendo fan
« on: December 18, 2009, 08:53:39 PM »
1868) Yoshi's a dinosaur?!
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Wii Sales Thread
« on: December 18, 2009, 11:08:36 AM »
ergh
well I guess reggie didn't get where he is by being timid...
well I guess reggie didn't get where he is by being timid...
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Wii Sales Thread
« on: December 18, 2009, 06:59:02 AM »
hmm, where was this bet made, anyway??
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: New Wii Zelda
« on: December 18, 2009, 06:00:59 AM »do you mean Rowling's work in the books generally lacks light heartedness and therfore are not decent literature, or that the movies lack the light heartedness that are in the books and because of this aren't good movies?
I think what he meant was that Rowling's books, though they're hardly great literature (or even good literature), have a pleasant light humor, which the movies really don't manage to reproduce. I don't think they'd be great movies even if they did reproduce the tone, but still, because they don't, they're "less" than they might have been otherwise.
I think the movies' main achievements are very high production values, and the fact that they manage to more or less capture the appealing world-building of the books (this is obviously helped by having good production values!). I think it's the latter which are a large part of the reason for the books' appeal as well -- people simply like the characters and locations, and the general concepts of rowling's world (and I agree with this -- she does have a lot of fun ideas, and it's fun to imagine living in her world). Her plots are generally a bit lame (always the same -- interesting start, writes herself into a corner, deus ex machina, finis!), so it's maybe a shame the movies didn't try to take more liberties with them...
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NWR Forums Discord / Re: 2000 reasons your are still a Nintendo fan
« on: December 17, 2009, 03:16:46 AM »
1884) Budding cuties!
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