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General Gaming / Re: Flower

« on: March 01, 2009, 02:16:07 AM »

I was under the impression Flower was much more smooth flying / follow the path oriented, while flow is eat or be eaten.  I mean, I know they are similar, but that seems different enough to me.

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: We need to make a thread for hilarious YouTube videos.

« on: March 01, 2009, 02:13:25 AM »

No, I was taking the video. That's my brother-in-law.

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General Gaming / Re: Flower

« on: March 01, 2009, 12:35:50 AM »

Let's not turn this thread into a the-world-hates-nintendo conspiracy theory.

I personally will be trying out Flower asap, but that probably won't be until after my Mario Power Tennis Wiimake review.  Come on Nintendo.. send it NOW! =P


Sony is doing SO MUCH right with PSN games it amazes me.  I think it's a really good example of the whole quality-over-quantity approach.  For me, just the downloadable games are worth the cost of admission on the system, which I know seems a little crazy.  I really need to "finish" Flow, as I don't think I've done all the forms yet and I know I haven't bought the expansion.


I have a question for the masses.  Do you think Flower would be as successful without the amazing visuals?  Don't get me wrong, that's not an "amazing visuals can't happen on the Wii" comment.  I'm just talking in general.

I think it's a perfect example if someone needed firepower for a "graphics do matter" argument.

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: We need to make a thread for hilarious YouTube videos.

« on: February 28, 2009, 11:40:20 PM »

Hey guys. I found an armadillo while I was in florida!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEXx9tRrK1E

Not really hillarious, but still.

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: List of words changed by the Word Filter?

« on: February 28, 2009, 11:38:50 PM »

I got rid of all the silliness when I took "gay" out of the filter.

Sorry if I'm a party pooper.

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: I just signed up for the best Brawl tournament

« on: February 28, 2009, 11:37:41 PM »

I just cannot get used to using my index fingers for anything other than shield.... be that jumping or special attacks.  My hands just don't work that way I guess.

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: 4/10 = Bull

« on: February 26, 2009, 04:42:41 PM »

I think someone should right up a full Vudu review in the NWR review format, only replace each of the categories with something random for the scoring.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Dead Space Extraction

« on: February 26, 2009, 04:41:18 PM »

I found melee attacks mostly useless in the PS3 game...

The only thing I did regularly was stomp already dead people to bits in case one of those winged zombie-maker things came around.

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General Gaming / Re: Serious games (Edu-gaming)

« on: February 26, 2009, 04:36:44 PM »

I think he's kidding around about his serious games stance =P.

Stogi, we just landed a serious game contract at Second Ave working with Wheeling University on a Moon creation game.

Sadly, it has nothing to do with the Wii, but it will still be a pretty cool project.  Let me know how your stuff goes, and let me know if you need some development help from an outside company.

Edit: Just reread that you aren't really a part of it... either way though, if you get a chance to drop a company's name and want to drop Second Ave, I'd appreciate it.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Dead Space Extraction

« on: February 26, 2009, 04:13:08 PM »

The original took me about 14 hours to beat on Normal difficulty, which felt almost too long to be honest.

The only thing I can think would make sense with Wii Motion plus is to use almost only guns where rotation matters, and then giving people full range of rotation for optimal dismemberment.  The first game only let you switch between vertical and horizontal.

That idea sounds great on paper, but the hit detection would have to be so amazing I'm not sure it's possible for it to really make a difference.

I mean, can you imagine them programming it so say, a shot to the shoulder joint at 20 degrees is obviously more effective than one at 0 degrees? (0 degrees being perfectly vertical)

I dunno, maybe they could pull it off, but with such a frantic game I have a hard time seeing precision of that level coming into play.

Regardless though, having that amount of control over the angle of the gun will at least feel cool to play.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Dead Space Extraction

« on: February 26, 2009, 03:15:01 PM »

I don't think this going in a different direction is necessarily a bad thing for the franchise by any means.

I just still think EA's PR team should have done this all differently. You have to look at the context too in this case. They let fans think it was a game in a genre that is incredibly under-represented on Wii, and instead release a game in a genre that already has several great examples on the system.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Puzzle Quest: Galactrix

« on: February 26, 2009, 02:29:47 PM »

Oh, well i wanted to play portably. I did buy it for 14.99 over PSN, but it was the PSP version.

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General Gaming / Re: Apparently theres a new bannable offense on Xbox Live...

« on: February 26, 2009, 02:12:59 PM »

Locking this down because OptimusP made it political and GP is trying to turn it into a religious conversation.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Dead Space Extraction

« on: February 26, 2009, 01:58:53 PM »

I'm sorry but, as I said before, saying that the conference call was meant only for investors is a false statement when enthusiast press were invited.

Ngai broke this story afterall.

It doesn't really matter though. All EA did was put a bad stigma around a game that could otherwise be really fun.  They shot themselves in the foot because they didn't think about the ramifications of how they announced the game.

I'll still be giving the game a fair shake, but there are plenty of crazed fans out there that won't be.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Dead Space Extraction

« on: February 26, 2009, 12:04:16 PM »

Unintentional, but dumb.

I know for a fact I could have easily seen this coming.

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia XXXI: Finale

« on: February 26, 2009, 11:54:37 AM »

Yeah Gyl...

Early on Maxi was going hard core when it came to watching PMs and what not in the Who's Online screen.  This is VERY bad for mafia, so we wanted him dead.

We knew Sable was protecting him, which told us that he must have somehow convinced a player that he was good.  I made the jump that that player must be relatively new (no offense) to mafia because usually they wouldn't protect someone without proof.

I then looked at who was participating that was also new, and figured it was you.

Turns out it was ShyGuy, =P

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia XXXI: Finale

« on: February 26, 2009, 11:50:57 AM »

My gut told me Vudu was mafia, because he was spouting all this crap about targeting the coons specifically.

Honestly, a townie never cares which mafia they are hitting as long as they hit a mafia.

Again, I blew it because I killed BFS instead of Vudu with the Fox's last hit.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Dead Space Extraction

« on: February 26, 2009, 11:47:20 AM »

While in an ideal world, maybe....

But enthusiast press were INVITED to the conference call.

What whats-his-name should have said on the conference call is something like this...

"We are bringing a Dead Space prequel to the Wii and we think it is going to be the best on-rails shooting game on the platform."

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia XXXI: Finale

« on: February 26, 2009, 11:12:50 AM »

I was very confused.

It's hilarious that the two godfathers were both spending their time convincing the other that they were in fact a townie. And both of them were allied with the cop.

The lame part is that vudu pulled the trigger on me first. I should have killed vudu instead of BFS when I had the chance. ARGH.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Dead Space Extraction

« on: February 26, 2009, 11:08:46 AM »

GP, it is DEFINITELY a bait and switch.

Imagine this hypothetical situation for a second.


Nintendo says at the end of GDC a few years ago the following statement.

"ZELDA IS COMING BACK TO WII, AND IT WILL BE OUT THIS YEAR!"

And that's it.

Then, a month later they actually "reveal" the game, and it's Link's Crossbow Training.


You telling me you would blame the fans because they expected a traditional Zelda game?

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Puzzle Quest: Galactrix

« on: February 26, 2009, 10:21:21 AM »

I just picked up the original Puzzle Quest for PSP and started it last night.  It is definitely cool in the beginning, but I can't help but worry that it is going to get old.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Reveals Two New Titles and Upcoming Release Schedule

« on: February 26, 2009, 10:19:35 AM »

Wasn't Crystal Chronicles supposed to come out in March? It's strangely absent from this list.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Unveils New Classic Controller, the Classic Pro

« on: February 26, 2009, 10:18:52 AM »

So they move the second triggers and add a grip? Color me confused.

At least I don't have to buy them I guess.

Can anyone even think of a single game that uses the second triggers? I can't.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Get DSi, or wait for DS2?

« on: February 25, 2009, 04:19:34 PM »

I'm really holding out hope that the downloadable games will make this TOTALLY worth it.

So yeah, I say buy it.

In my opinion, why WOULDN'T nintendo start a portable virtual console now that they totally have the means to do so.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: id Software "considering" Wii game

« on: February 25, 2009, 04:07:43 PM »

Did he just elude to bringing an iphone game to Wii? I think that's what he just did.