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RE: Drought, drought...FLOOD!
« Reply #75 on: March 27, 2007, 07:28:01 AM »
What Pap said.

But yeah, I didn't really stop to consider that people are just dismissing these games without ever having played them. That does pang of the typical Nintendo fan snobbery.
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RE: Drought, drought...FLOOD!
« Reply #76 on: March 27, 2007, 07:42:39 AM »
The ultimate solution is a rental service like Blockbuster or Gamefly... in which case you MUST CLICK CERIC'S SIGNATURE. If you're gonna rent games over the net, at least let ceric refer you so he can get mad props.

Too bad I've got this constitutional problem someplace in me against renting games... I'll try it out sometime, really, but even gamefly or gametap just seem too expensive for me...

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RE:Drought, drought...FLOOD!
« Reply #77 on: March 27, 2007, 07:52:57 AM »
I never said those games weren't great games. Rather, I said I'm only interested in Cooking Mama. The doesn't actually suggest poor opinions of the rest of the lot.

Smash_Brother can like whatever the hell he damn well pleases, but subjectivity goes both ways. Not everyone is excited to try those titles the way he is. So the way I understand this so-called argument, Smash wants to try these games, other people don't. Everyone has an opinion and no one is "right" because opinions are subjective. Is that it? If so, f*ck this, I'm going to Target and getting my $24 games. Peace out.
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RE:Drought, drought...FLOOD!
« Reply #78 on: March 27, 2007, 08:31:10 AM »
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I have no idea why he got mad either, I was supporting his statement, because, if anyone knows what fantastical claims are it is Pittbboi. Some people, you try to help them and they turn against yah.  
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RE:Drought, drought...FLOOD!
« Reply #79 on: March 27, 2007, 11:40:39 AM »
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The ultimate solution is a rental service like Blockbuster or Gamefly... in which case you MUST CLICK CERIC'S SIGNATURE. If you're gonna rent games over the net, at least let ceric refer you so he can get mad props.

Too bad I've got this constitutional problem someplace in me against renting games... I'll try it out sometime, really, but even gamefly or gametap just seem too expensive for me...

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I've considered Gamefly, but can one of you guys tell me whether they stick labels on the discs?  I stopped renting games out of paranoia over those labels.  I simply don't trust them not to harm my precious electronics somehow.
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RE:Drought, drought...FLOOD!
« Reply #80 on: March 27, 2007, 03:27:13 PM »
Nope, no labels.

*cough*
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« Reply #81 on: March 27, 2007, 07:18:51 PM »
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I have no idea why he got mad either, I was supporting his statement, because, if anyone knows what fantastical claims are it is Pittbboi. Some people, you try to help them and they turn against yah.



Oh, umm, sorry...heh heh
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RE: Drought, drought...FLOOD!
« Reply #82 on: March 29, 2007, 06:59:04 AM »
Slightly off topic, but has anyone noticed that Nintendo slowed down the VC releases the minute the flood of Wii game releases happened?

In the weeks where a major drought was going on, we got some REALLY amazing titles, the best support we have seen for the VC yet. But when the releases started coming, they slowed down.

Don't believe me? Check the facts:
Before the drought (January, February and first half of March), we got on the VC...
- Ocarina of time
- Splatterhouse
- Adventure Island
- Donkey Kong Country
- Streets of Rage
- Kirby's adventure
- Excite bike

And many more I am honestly forgetting.

After the drought, we got:
- Some obscure Genesis games
- Romance of the three kingdoms (the lone Monday release).

So this proves the theory that Nintendo uses the VC to release something during the drought months.  
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RE:Drought, drought...FLOOD!
« Reply #83 on: March 29, 2007, 08:49:41 AM »
Well, yeah. We always knew they would use the VC as a crutch when new releases are sparse.
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« Reply #84 on: March 29, 2007, 02:11:27 PM »
Yeah, but it really sucks when you get sub-par virtual console games AND you're not interested in this so called "flood".  I don't know... maybe I'll pick up Godfather.
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« Reply #85 on: March 29, 2007, 07:04:44 PM »
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Yeah, but it really sucks when you get sub-par virtual console games AND you're not interested in this so called "flood".  I don't know... maybe I'll pick up Godfather.


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RE:Drought, drought...FLOOD!
« Reply #86 on: March 29, 2007, 07:29:24 PM »
Hey I ended up getting Godfather, and I am loving it even though it is my 3rd copy of it (Previous two were for PC and Xbox 360). There is enough new content to where I don't feel like I'm repeating everything, not to mention the Wii controls are spot on and extremely satisfying to use. Now if only they would add the option to have a female gangster, that would rock!  
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RE: Drought, drought...FLOOD!
« Reply #87 on: March 30, 2007, 04:36:18 AM »
Did Saint's Row give you the option of a female gangster? I think it might have...
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RE: Drought, drought...FLOOD!
« Reply #88 on: March 30, 2007, 04:34:15 PM »
Cooking Mama is sold out at my Target. No, I'm not kidding. Honestly, I didn't see that coming at all.......
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RE:Drought, drought...FLOOD!
« Reply #89 on: March 30, 2007, 06:46:45 PM »
I didn't see Target *carrying* Cooking Mama at all.
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« Reply #90 on: March 30, 2007, 07:05:28 PM »
Kororinpa is pure, unbridled fun, but that's because you can play the entire game 2-player and can do all the retries you want without having to worry about lives.

And you'll need those retries. This game is crazy hard in the later levels, and I can safely say that I enjoy it more than the Wii SMB.

However, I believe the laughter generated from watching each other fail and the subsequent tidal wave of profanity. The good news is that only one player needs to complete the level to progress and while the other player can still play for as long as they'd like to try, they can choose to give up and you can go to the next level.

Unlike SMB, you can actually tip the entire level upside down. With this tactic, you can skip large areas and find "shortcuts", but the developers saw this coming and placed gems around the level which you need to collect before the exit will open up. They also have waypoints which you can activate so you don't need to start at the beginning of the level every time you fall off.

I wouldn't recommend it as a game to buy, but it's an awesome rent if you have a friend to play it with.
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« Reply #91 on: March 30, 2007, 07:38:42 PM »
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I didn't see Target *carrying* Cooking Mama at all.

Well, the Target you go to sucks. I work at a Target and Cooking Mama is sold out. The one on DS happens to be sold out also. Renewed interest, I suppose.
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« Reply #92 on: March 30, 2007, 07:59:03 PM »
Good thing I pre-ordered Cooking Mama at my local soul-sucking Electronics Boutique!

... next three games on my list: Godfather and Kororinpa and Puzzle Quest.

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RE:Drought, drought...FLOOD!
« Reply #93 on: March 31, 2007, 08:38:25 AM »
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Kororinpa is pure, unbridled fun, but that's because you can play the entire game 2-player and can do all the retries you want without having to worry about lives.

And you'll need those retries. This game is crazy hard in the later levels, and I can safely say that I enjoy it more than the Wii SMB.


Pandaball to the rescue. This game is sooooooooooooooooooo much more enjoyable than Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz.

In this same week that I got both Cooking Mama and kororinpa, I finished (as in I don't really care about extras or bonuses because they are there with the intention of being filler for a drought of games) them both already, not bad because I still have some launch titles to finish and VC titles too, and Super Paper Mario is coming soon and that's the only game I will play until I'm finished wih it and hopefully it will be before Pokemon Diamond comes out, too many games, I don't see why people are complaining about droughts.
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RE: Drought, drought...FLOOD!
« Reply #94 on: March 31, 2007, 07:18:39 PM »
Caliban's right.
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« Reply #95 on: April 02, 2007, 09:07:54 AM »
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Super Paper Mario comes out in 2 weeks. That's all you need to know.

This thread was over two pages ago and yet it kept going.
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« Reply #96 on: April 02, 2007, 09:12:44 AM »
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This thread was over two pages ago and yet it kept going.


I think the Kororinpa discussion was well worth it.
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