tegan
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Yeah it's fucking vile. I hate this aspect of the internet. Take away the Metroid Prime part of the title and nobody would even care. Ugh.
That's the weird thing. People keep saying that the game wouldn't have sold if it weren't a Metroid title, but the reaction was significantly more positive when they showed it off as just "Blast Ball." Tacking Metroid onto the title did nothing but make people angry. The petition is an overreaction, but I feel that Nintendo legitimately fucked up here.
Also, it looks like Nintendo was pretty poorly-received in Japan too. Feedback on NicoNico says that 70% of the audience had negative reactions. Ouch.
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The "cancel Metroid Prime Federation Force" petition just hit 7500. It's a childish petition that will never amount to anything, but that's an unprecedented amount of backlash for a game that was just announced a day ago.
It's the second hit on Google after the game's wiki page too.
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- Star Fox looks VERY much like Lylat Wars U (or Star Fox 64 U, if you like), with all the pros and cons that entails. I'm surprised just how sparse and cubey it all looks. It's ALMOST like they're intentionally going for that early poly aesthetic, which I think is coming back in vogue. But they're not. The arwing transforming into a walker droid looks cool.
I can almost guarantee that it looks so sparse because it's underpowered hardware rendering two entirely different views. I've seen mention of a noticeable lack of enemies onscreen at once, too.
An aside: nobody else on the internet seems to have mentioned it yet, but Happy Home Designer looks to be the first Animal Crossing game where you can change your character's skin tone. Good job, Nintendo.
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Yeah, uh, Zen Pencils is infamous for recontextualising quotes to strip any character out of them. Take this one from Ayn Rand, turning one of the 20th Century's most divisive figures into a kid trying to get cookies. He's also got that inspiration guru thing going on where any critic is reframed as being a hater, so he's been doing this for years, never growing.
Remember the time he portrayed Hayao Miyazaki, a pacifist who has been extremely critical of the anime industry on all points, piloting a giant robot to beat up "haters"?
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For me, my criticism with Nintendo is that they can't seem to strike a healthy pace for primary-entries to a series vs. all the side-content kind of games they make. I don't need Zelda every year, I don't even need it every other year. Skyward Sword came out in 2011 and all we have of the next entry is a teaser, with no new info a year after that teaser. Again, it's frustrating as a huge fan and I know the lack of a major series title is hurting their current console. I still don't want a Wii U at this point.
As for the Metroid Prime Federation game, that actually is a nice itch to scratch after the disappointment that was Other M. Hopefully next year we get news on a new legit Metroid that isn't terrible toward Samus.
Other M came out in 2010 and this is the second time since that they've "scratched that itch" with a multiplayer minigame that focuses on shooting mechanics rather than exploration, which is much more important to Metroid. The game's been getting more vitriol than it's probably worth, but it's pretty easy to see why it would be unwelcome..
Initial impressions for Star Fox Zero have been coming in from the show floor and they seem overwhelmingly negative. That' disappointing, but kind of on-par with the seriously spotty record those games have.
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Steven Universe is back, guys!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubHWqSLujns
The first returning episode was great. Really developing Connie and Pearl a lot.
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Happy birthday, Famous! You share a birthday with Dan Ryckert!
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The Nintendo thing, in a nutshell.
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A brief aside about the Ubisoft conference: holy shit, what the fuck happened with that Assassin's Creed cosplayer? Aisha Tyler is fucking sitting there asking what his deal is and he's all "oh, they just asked me to come dressed as this Jacob guy."
Like, this guy who was fucking planted there to do a bit about being a huge fan managed to immediately fuck it up so bad that it included an admission that he had been paid to be there.
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That looks incredible.
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Just finished the Sony briefing. Uncharted 4 looks unbelievable. That car chase melted my mind
Naughty dog must be staffed by time travellers, it's the only explanation
You missed the part where it crashed and we got to watch Nathan Drake stand in place for a full minute and had to restart it.
Pretty rad otherwise.
Nintendo was honestly kinda disappointing? Star Fox was the only mainline entry in an existing series, there were no new IPs, and literally everything else they showed was eiher something we'd already seen before (Super Mario Maker, Yoshi's Wooly World) or a smaller spin-off game. It's all the monkey's paw version of what I want.
also, fucking Nier 2 holy crap
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Ubisoft WTF?
TRIPLE RAINBOW CAT UNICORN LIKE A BOSS BACON ATHEISM SUBSCRIBE YOLO
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This Unravel game looks gorgeous:
That Gopher!!!!!!!
For anyone who wasn't watching it live, the end of this trailer immediately cut to someone in a Garden Warfare 2 zombie mascot costume dancing to "Danger Zone" by Kenny Loggins. It was the highlight of the show.
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It was all hololens. You can project it on to a wall through the headset (just emulating a flatscreen TV) or you can view a cross section of your world in 3D on a flat surface (a table). When on a table you seem to act more like a god figure, marking areas for other people (who are playing on xbox, pc, surface) and shooting lightning. To be honest it seemed like a pretty tech demo for now, and a cool way to view creations.
Vinny from Giant Bomb suggested doing the dorkiest possible version of that thing where people eat sushi off of naked women.
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I only watched the final of the NWC, but man, Mario Maker looks fantastic. Hopefully they get a good system in place to find good levels because god knows I won't be making any.
You missed watching amateurs play Splatoon with commentary by Youtubers and the children of Youtubers!
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As someone who never really got into Fallout, all the Fallout 4 stuff seemed like basically just a feature list, and not one that seems particularly exciting or inventive.
- crafting system
- dog
- character customization
- basebuilding tower defense thing
- second screen experience that you won't use
- spinoff iOS game
- plastic shit in the collector's edition that you won't use
Not really feelin' it.
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So for anyone who missed it yesterday, before the Nintendo World Championships...
I'm amazed that they managed to do the trademarking and ESRB registration without anyone noticing and spoiling the surprise ahead of time.
Also, that NWC was a lot of fun, even if it was pretty rough at times. I feel like it's probably a good idea to brief all your commentators on how to pronounce your contestants' names in advance, especially your celebrity guest contestant.
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HOLY SHIT MOTHER 1
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I need that tiny Isabelle.
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Hey guys, do you feel emasculated every time you have to use fruit, colourful, girly chapstick? Does it make you feel like a sissy fairy boy? Well, no need to worry any longer. Prove your manliness by rubbing a Dude Stick all over your lips.
EDC is one of those terms that's pretty common in a certain crowd. The CoD playing, MMA loving suburban white guy who was maybe in scouts for a while but never really got anywhere and talks about how cool all this military stuff is but would never actually enlist, and somehow always gets clip and magazine confused when talking about how much they know about guns. They have their dozen matches in a waterproof container that has a strikeable surface and a compass on top, a pocket knife that they never use, maybe an old wick and flint lighter. They carry these things "just in case" but have never had a reason to use them.
tl;dr i was an eagle scout, ask me about the insufferable people i put up with
One of my favourite things to do when I want to feel bad about geek culture is to do a search on the ThinkGeek store for the word "tactical." Most of them are just garbage meant as a joke or to satisfy gross military fetishization. Every single item that could kill someone is described as being "for the zombie apocalypse," as are the survival gear items (the ones meant for doomsday preppers, not campers). Few alternative uses are given for the ones that are clearly meant as weapons, and they tend to sound ridiculous when they do (the blurb for the M48 Tactical Survival series recommends using the harpoon knife to open your fucking mail). The worst by far is the Uzi Tactical Defender Pen.
BUST CRIME WITH ONLY A PEN
We've always had a thing for crime shows, especially the kind with lots of forensic science. Also, it may help when the scientist happens to be a tattooed goth girl that's on a constant sugar high. Just sayin'. Even if it's faux science done in blue-tinted labs, we love it. The thought of a criminal being brought to justice because they left an eyelash at the scene of the crime is just sweet. But we're also reminded that crime is real and you never know when the bad guys might strike.
Are you expecting the unexpected? Does expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected? Either way, the Uzi Tactical Pen turns a mere pen into a life saving tool. The crown also doubles as a glass breaker if you ever get trapped in your vehicle... If things get really bad, you can always rely on the hidden handcuff key inside the top of this pen. This badass writing utensil is made of high-grade aircraft aluminum and writes upside down or under water. If you can find a situation where you use all of this pen's features and live to tell the tale, we probably owe you some sort of prize.
Unless you're a magician or a bondage fetishist I can guarantee there is no situation in your life that is going to be improved by owning a concealed handcuff key.
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Also, I believe she's literally the first female character to be eaten in one of these films, so maybe they were just making up for lost time? See, that's the real gender politics of the flick!
note: I'm pretty sure she's the first woman to die in one of these because there have literally only been 2 women with speaking roles in each film.
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I just learned that furry sex toy company Bad Dragon (as mocked on the internet!) released a T.Rex dildo called "Tyrannosaurus Sex" to coincide with the movie, modeled like some kind of weird muscular appendage since I'm pretty sure there actually aren't any fossilized dino schlongs to base it off of.
The promotional image has it sitting next to a coke can, being triple its size and many times its girth.
Life finds a way.
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Too bad the stupid mixlr keeps cutting out for fifteen minutes for every one minute of actual audio they manage.
E3 2015
in Video Gaming
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I feel like they've done a really poor job of explaining what Happy Home Designer really is. Like, what do I get if I don't want to shell out for amiibo cards? Do I just get a small selection of things to do? Do I get a random assortment of animals each day? Are the animals on the amiibo cards exclusive to those cards, or can I eventually get them in-game? Are they just new houses to decorate? This thing is very clearly being just the interior decoration portion of Animal Crossing with a few minor improvements and what effectively amounts to paid, on-disc, blind-bagged DLC; so is it seriously being sold as a full price retail game?
I like what I've seen of it so far, but it also all seems to be adding up to "be prepared to spend loads and loads of money on a very shallow experience."