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  1. Posted

    speaking of netflix, do people think there will ever be a netflix for games? as in a service you pay for that gives you access a large amount of games but instead of paying for the games separately you subscribe to "NetGames" and are given access to all the games they have, i think this would be a good model for episodic games, possibly this kind of thing would need advertisement to keep it as affordable as netflix but i would probably be interested in this service because i set myself a budget and i like to try new games and this would be a great way to be able to try put a lot of games.

     

    Everyone I know with Playstation Plus calls it "Netflix for games."

  3. Posted

    My first two Journey experiences were great; but the third time I played Journey, I got paired up with a whiterobe. As soon as we saw each other we shouted out huge enthusiastic chirps and started circling around each other flipping out. The whiterobe went out of their way to show me everything. They led me to all of the glyphs, all of the scarf upgrades, the desert flower, the creature from flOw, everything. They even sat and meditated with me so I could get that one trophy. At the very end, when we got to the top of the mountain, we both started running around to draw hearts in the snow for each other, completely unprompted.
     
    Naturally, after the game was over, I immediately checked the whiterobe's PSN profile. It was a Japanese girl who only plays Journey, Flower, and apparently Vanquish. We sent each other messages and barely understood each other.
     
    This game.

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    Cooking with Dog is a great Asian cooking channel based on a hilariously awful joke.

     

    Sound Sculptures is pretty swank if you are one of the small percentage of people who experience the poorly-understood phenomenon of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. Otherwise it is almost guaranteed to be the most boring thing you have ever seen. My favourite is the unboxing of the Lego architecture set.

     

    Life in Transition was originally a coming out video that turned into the gradual videolog of a transsexual girl over 6 years, ranging from makeup tips to examinations of psychosexuality. It is sometimes fascinating.

     

     

    Hit or miss things that everyone already knows about but I will mention anyway:

     

    Red Letter Media is one of the few sources of internet film criticism that I can stand, because they're of that rare type that clearly have some actualy knowledge of filmmaking. They tend to be pretty cynical, though, and a lot of people find the Plinkett gimmick from their infamous Phantom Menace review (and others) to be obnoxious, which kind of works if you view Plinkett as being a parody of insufferable internet film critics.

     

    Game Grumps is usually more obnoxious than funny, but

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  7. Posted

    I can't wait to see what their fucking bonkers concept video is for this one.

     

    Man, you skipped my favourite.

     

     

     

     

    I remember for a while after the Vita launched, I found myself thinking it just didn't feel like a Sony console. Then I saw

    and everything was right again.

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    I don't know what quick base return is. Shit.

     

    Dismiss your Pikmin with X, then press and hold X to have up to three Pikmin nearby automatically carry you back to your base faster than your spaceman can move on his own. It needs to be unlocked in the main game, but I'm almost positive it's there from the start in multiplayer.

    It opens up the narrative can of worms that you activate it by pretending to be dead, and the Pikmin are presumably trying to harvest you to produce more Pikmin the way they do with other corpses.

     

    Oh, that reminds me: that one Breadbug that took a heavy amount of damage and you weren't sure how? Breadbugs are too big to be made into Pikmin, so whenever a Breadbug moves into your Ship or Onion's tractor beam,  it just gets pulled up and bumps its head. The most effective way to damage them is to deliberately bait them with corpses or treasure, then have your Pikmin grab the same item and forcefully drag both the item and the Breadbug back to the ship.

     

     

     

     

    So the Sim City stream made me really wary of getting the game. I was really excited for it, but it seemed to be have major problems.

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    I loved Superstar Saga, played through Partners in Time without thinking much of it, and played most of Bowser's Inside Story and then decided not to finish it for some reason. I'm not sure why, because I remember mostly liking it. I was at the very end of the game, too.

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    Side note as I'm rolling through White 2, I really wish they'd get rid of HM's from the game or at least make them a holdable item that lets my Starmie use waterfall in the game world without dedicating a move slot to it. I just hate having to put sub-par moves on my team or having my sixth slot taken up by a weird normal or water-type HM whore like Pelipper or Bibarel. Easily the worst mechanic to hang out in the series from the very beginning.

     

    If Black and White 2 are anything like Black and White 1, you will literally never have to use HM moves. Black and White required that Cut be used exactly once, just to make sure you knew how HM moves worked, and then all other uses were optional and only used to uncover secrets. If I remember correctly, the effects of Strength were even permanent. After you dropped a boulder into a hole, it stayed there forever.

     

    I've been trying to catch an Eevee for more than an hour now. I've only seen one and I nearly wiped out my team through accidental grinding.

     

    EDIT: Speaking of grinding, Pokémon has an achievement system now and the prospect terrifies me.

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    You're right! I'm dying to play some Mario again.. It's been too long.

    Link's Awakening, that's available to everyone though, right?

     

    Yup! I think it's six dollars or something, which isn't too shabby.

  14. Posted

    Alright, fuck it. Yoshi's Island. Insta-buy! They can just go through the SNES catalogue via the GBA remakes.

     

    Please note: Although Yoshi's Island has allegedly been in the works as a 3D Classic release for ages, right now the only way to play it on 3DS is to buy a system that was purchased before the price dropped. Yoshi's Island for GBA was one of the 20 Ambassador Titles given to early adopters, and the 10 GBA games included remain Ambassador-only games. You can transfer the Ambassador status to a different 3DS, though. I plan on eventually upgrading to an XL and carrying over all of my Ambassador games.

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    The timing of my rekindled thought about Pokemon seems to have been timed very well/poorly in that Pokemon Black/White 2 just went on sale at Best Buy for $15. Pile on top of that the fact that I had a $5 reward zone credit and I simply couldn't resist. I just now hope that I don't burn out all my Pokemon passion for this game instead of X/Y in six months or so.

     

    You too, huh?

    I've been itching for more than my usual "LeafGreen/Emerald all day every day" fix, so I went to the mall today to see if I could maybe find a used copy of HeartGold and wound up walking out with Black 2 (though I paid full price for it, naturally). It is... much, much better than expected! I hated my time playing White, so I've been really pleasantly surprised. I had no idea that the regional dex had been adjusted, and had at least one monster from every generation by the time I got my first badge.

  17. Posted

    Do Sony and Microsoft not know that Nintendo's patent on the D-pad design has lapsed? They can stop using their own shitty designs now.

     

     

    It seems to be based on the Vita d-pad, which is allegedly excellent.

     

    Also, is that a 3.5mm headphone jack under the PS button?

  18. Posted

    Apparently the M&L games always used prerendered models and just traced them to make sprites, which would certainly explain why thy're so oddly fluid. So now they're just skipping that extra step.

    I still miss those big black outlines though.

  19. Posted

    Regarding the "kids are better at adventure games" thing, I was much better at the original Monkey Island as a kid, right up until the point where you had to get past the piranha poodles. I didn't figure it out until I played it on SCUMMVM years later when I was old enough to know how to cook and knew enough French to kind of sort of translate "Caniche Endormi."

  21. Posted

    Huh. Games as drugs. I know it's an old trope but playing it that straight just seems a bit crass, what with the specious links made recently between gaming and other social ills. Do we really want gaming to be seen in that light? I know it's just some oblivious marketing drone's brain fart, but it still rankles.

    Nintendo's Canadian marketing department is not known for their taste.

    Also, I would cut the Metroid Prime 2 commercial some slack. It's nearly ten years old.

  22. Posted

    So there was a mostly-3DS-related Nintendo Direct today. In case anyone was wondering:

    • Animal Crossing comes out in June and will have a feature exclusive to Western audiences
    • Donkey Kong Country Returns is being ported to 3DS
    • Luigi's Mansion 2 is still a thing
    • new Mario and Luigi game set inside Luigi's dreams

    There was also some Wii U stuff, including the release of that Google Street View thing (available now!) and releasing New Super Mario Bros. U DLC that effectively builds a Luigi-based sequel for it with another full game's worth of unique levels using the same resources (kind of like the secret worlds from Super Mario 3D Land).

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    So its English name is "Sylveon" and they're deliberately listing its type as "???," which implies shenanigans. There's also

    that shows it using Swift plus a couple of new attacks that don't really resemble existing attack types at all. Corocoro says more info will be coming next month.

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    This level of speculation and analysis of Pokemon is... great. I'm going to expect nine more months of this, you'd better deliver.

    Let me tell you about Catch Rates.

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    So in all seriousness, there's two things that I'd like to bring up:

    1) I'm still pondering Ninfia. I realized today that it also doesn't fit the naming conventions of Eeveelutions. Traditionally the Japanese names for the Eevee line are dumb, obvious English names (Showers, Thunders, Booster, Eifiel (some kind of pun on the words "ESPer and "feel" apparently), Blacky, Leafia, and Glacia). Ninfia doesn't really seem to indicate anything. Personally, although I'm still hoping for a new type, I'm willing to bet that it's just a Normal-type -with a twist. I think that Ninfia most closely resembles Milotic, a monster originally meant to be groomed for in-game beauty contests. Maybe contests will return, and possibly be interesting for once by making some of the more useless monsters into contest-destroyers?

    2) The simultaneous global release is really going to change the way that I -and presumably others- step into this game. I'm used to going into a Pokémon game a few months after certain corners of the internet have already ripped and cataloged every resource in the game. Even if I don't try to figure out everything, I usually at least see what version-exclusives to look for. This time North America is going in completely blind. That's going to be fascinating.

    (clearly the answer is to buy both versions and a strategy guide)

    Damn, Nintendo seems to be going all out in this game (I think that's the right expression), first they release the Pokédex on iOS and now Pokémon TV on iOS AND Android, It's so bizarre to have an official Nintendo app on a Droid. These are not actually games, but they will help by keeping Pokémon in the minds of kids and more "casual" fans.

    Pokémon gets to appear on all sorts of weird crap thanks to actually being co-owned by three different companies. For example, it's the only Nintendo series to ever appear on a Sega console, to my knowledge at least.

  25. Posted

    Tossing the classic theme in there reminds me of the Other M ending credits music, which is some amazing Disney-esque composition with the three opening notes from Super Metroid tacked on so that you remember that it's supposed to be for a Metroid game.