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Everything posted by miffy495
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The story in Zelda is the same kind of draw as the story in Mario, as far as I'm concerned. I know what's going to happen, so whatever. For me it's about the dungeon design and the way that the work whatever new tech Nintendo has made into the game's new items. The touch stuff in the DS ones has been great, and the pointer and motion mechanics integrated into Twighlight Princess never felt out of place. That's the key, really. Mario and Zelda, for the last few iterations of both, have been about showing off what the latest Nintendo tech can do, but doing it within the confines of a real game and not feeling like that's the point of the game. Mario Galaxy is a very well polished platformer that happens to incorporate motion controls and pointer stuff, but those things feel like they're small parts of the game rather than why you're playing it. Same for Zelda, but replace platformer with 3rd person adventure/dungeon game. The N64 versions of these series were pretty much the first to prove that their respective genres were even viable in 3D. Wind Waker was saved mostly by its art style and atmosphere, but there's a good reason that people don't remember Mario Sunshine fondly. It was one of the few games in either series that didn't actually try something new and get it really right (even though it could be argued that the water pack was the try, but they really didn't pull it off so well). Saying that it all boils down to the same shebang in every game is being massively unfair to the games, I think. The story is, sure, but who plays these games for the story? Zelda's dungeons can be goddamned fiendish at times, and the atmosphere in some of them is almost suffocating. Playing one through for the second time just doesn't feel the same, as once you've solved the puzzles in it once you're just running through it for nostalgia. The changes in items and mechanics can make huge differences as well. The joy of playing a Mario game is seeing what whimsical new stuff they've come up with to have your portly cartoon plumber running through this time, not to finally rescue Peach. The new suits and abilities (the cloud suit from Galaxy 2 gave the level designers a lot of license to do some crazy shit) also play a big role in that. I suppose your thing about them just putting a game out for "we have a game, give us money" could be true, but as long as they keep delivering the way they do with those games, I'll happily keep giving them money. None of them has ever felt like a cash in, regardless of whether or not they actually were made as one. I hope that gives you a bit of an insight into why I love Nintendo stuff so much, Orvidos. I can see where you're coming from as an outsider, but I have to ask how much of any of these games you have actually played. Your arguments feel like they're coming from someone who expects the story to be the selling point for a Nintendo game rather than the mechanics, when this couldn't be further from the truth. Quite the opposite, in fact. That said, back to E3. I just watched Nintendo's presser and holy shit am I stoked on everything. I am so happy to own a 3DS right now, and they didn't even mention Paper Mario in the conference (there's a trailer on the 3DS Eshop though, in 3D(deee... dee... dee...). Luigi's Mansion 2 makes me incredibly happy, as I was a big fan of the original despite the general response to it being meh. I'm a little bummed that the WiiU is all tech demos right now on Nintendo's end, but seeing stuff like Darksiders 2 announced for it was exciting. The system looks like it has amazing potential at least, and the fanboy centres of my brain are spazzing the fuck out over this. Excited! Cigol, I will join you in the dance of the happy nerd!
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As a huge Nintendo fanboy, I believe the handbook says I must now challenge you to a duel. You're lucky I'm so lazy. I can see not being that into the mechanics of Mario and Zelda, but they're always such damn polished games that I can't quite get actively disliking them if you're remotely interested in the genres that they're in. Care to elaborate on why you have an "utter, seething dislike" rather than just being uninterested? The internet may make me sound sarcastic here, but I am genuinely curious.
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LUIGI'S MANSION TWO!!!!!!!!! :woohoo::woohoo:
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I can be kind of a dick about phones, but it sounds like people here would support me in it. I have a full view of the audience from above from the projection booth, and after putting the lights down will wait until I can't see any backlit screens before starting the movie. If people take more than 30 seconds to shut their shit down, I open my window and announce this fact to the audience. Usually this results in a couple of people chuckling and some others sheepishly turning off their phones.
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What, really? ...just tried it with Link's Awakening. That is fucking great. EDIT: After spending a bit of time with Link's Awakening, I gotta say that as far as I'm concerned, Nintendo has redeemed itself from the DSi store already. All I wanted from the DSi Shop was to get a copy of Link's Awakening on my primary portable system that I could call up from a memory card whenever I wanted. I have it now, everything else is just gravy. Not only that, but it translated really well. It looks good scaled up, and really cool at native with the virtual gameboy screen around it in 3D. This shit has made me very happy. Also, has anyone tried out Excitebike yet? The way that the track actually visibly tilts away from you as you scale up the 3D is fucking great. Especially since it's free, everyone needs to check that out. Makes me very hopeful for where the 3D classics (or whatever they're calling them) are going. EDIT EDIT: Tanu, if you're at all interested in the DSi shop, you need to get Artstyle Boxlife and Artstyle PictoBits. Those two are easily my most played DSi games.
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I got the two freebies as well as Link's Awakening and Mario Land. Two of my favorite game boy games on day one? Yeah, of course I spent a bit of money on them.
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Steam group is still chatting away, if anyone wants in.
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Hey Pirate, you forgot to finish with a fist bump.
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We would have welcomed you! Honest!
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What about Perfect Dark? "*grunt* WHY... ME...?"
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Noooo! The meanness! I didn't realize we were limited to two tags, so that hadn't occurred to me. I only occasionally add a tag for stupid comedy value (ie: "Tanu likes cats" made me laugh in the context of earlier discussion, so I added it) so I've never tried to tag a thread multiple times.
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I posted that 3 posts above this. Why do you ignore my wisdom?
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So if you want to be a jerk, what you have to do is fill up the tags with junk, and then make the last one before the limit your asshole statement?
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That'll do it for Portal. 2 sittings, and not anything new to say about it, so I won't put anything in the Valve replay thread. Only Portal 2 left, and I've replayed every single player Valve game in just over a month!
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psst... Subbes is a lady. EDIT: ...and one who stepped in to correct you herself while I was typing the following: So my boss announced last week that he's leaving my theatre to take over a theatre in Edmonton. It's a fantastic gig for him, with a pension and all sorts of benefits that he's deserved for a long time here but hasn't gotten, so I'm really happy for him. At the same time, it sucks for selfish reasons. First and foremost, I've worked with this guy across two theatres for about 7 years now and he's a really good friend so it's sad to see him leave the city. Second, the owner of the building, who has kept himself out of the picture and let us steer the theatre in the direction we have for the last few years (that is, toward a community house that occasionally shows new releases but more often than not is hosting an interesting festival or cinematheque event. Right now behind me in the theatre there's a lecture sponsored by the bookstore next door with an author flown in from the states. Next weekend George A Romero will be here to do a talk with a screening of Night of the Living Dead), is going to be coming back and taking over the programming. This means that we're likely going to be heading away from the cool community house theatre model and towards the "one movie, 18 shows a week" model. It'll be stable, I guess, but a hell of a lot less interesting and ultimately less valuable to the city's artistic and underground communities. Third, I'm unsure how stable my hours are going to be after the next month or so. Loving my projection job as much as I do, it sucks that I'm now having to think about backup plans, but going back to school in the fall I need something that's both stable and accommodating (starting in January I'll be doing a practicum at an elementary school) to the hours that my program will require. With the guy who's leaving in charge, I would have certainly had that. He was as supportive as any of my professors in getting my thesis done and graduating last year, sometimes flat-out telling me to get writing while I was on shift. The guy taking over, not so much. Long story shot, shake-up in theatre management at 75 year old one screen venue proves very distressing to young projectionist. POST EDIT: Well done, Nach! That's a great story. Getting your wits about you after being headbutted by a horse is impressive enough. I've been thrown a few times, and just getting up afterwards was tough.
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There is a way to do that.
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Oh shit, thanks for the heads up. I wouldn't have known that. That said, I'm getting a free copy of LittleBigPlanet PSP and Mod Nation Racers PSP out of this. Everything else I already own. I'll take my free stuff, but I share your cynicism about their choices of games. Everything free for PS3 has been out for at least 2 years now, and I'm pretty sure that few enough people care about PSP that they can afford those who will take advantage of that deal. Good work, Sony. EDIT: Well, I WOULD have free things if I could log in to my account. Apparently their password changing thing is under maintenance right now. Awesome.
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Oh shit, ZoE is happening? I have both on PS2 and have played them to death, but will happily do it again on a PS3. So rad. SOOOOOOOO RAAAAAAD! EDIT: Did anyone else play through ZOE: The Fist of Mars? It was an Advance Wars ripoff for the GBA set in the ZOE universe. It was actually pretty good.
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That much is true. I actually find that my favourite open-world environment is still GTAIII's Liberty City. I still know that place like the back of my hand, and after all these years if I fire it up again I feel like I'm back in a neighbourhood that I used to live in or something. The cities (hell, sometimes continents) in more modern open-world games are almost too much for me. I'm never in any part of them long enough to get accustomed to it, and so never make a connection to anything. The exception here is in Red Dead Redemption, where when Marston came home I felt like I was coming home. This wasn't due to anything in the game though, so much as the fact that I actually live where that was set (foothills of the Rockies) and it was the best representation of it I've seen in a game. If you don't live around here, you probably didn't feel that.
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So with all this talk of The Witcher 2 lately and my trying to avoid spending too much money, I decided that today was the day to install this game off my Steam list. I believe it will be the first thing I play once I finish my Valve replay, and was wondering beforehand if there's anything that people would consider essential (mods and such) to make the game a smoother and more fun experience. I've never played it before, but have had it on my games list since (I think) the 2009 Christmas Steam sale. I dig that this is going to be a janky euro-RPG in a lot of ways, but the less janky I can make the experience, the better. Any tips?
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Dear EA: Give me all the Bullfrog games. Now, please. I will trade you money for them. Sincerely, Me.
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I've never seen the PS2 version of the GTA games, actually. I played each of them on PC as they came out, and with higher resolution tweaks and all the goodness that the PC has to offer, I find that (though they're certainly dated as hell) they still all look quite clean and hold up all right. Particularly some of the wooded areas in San Andreas (I'm talking about the area in the South-West of the map specifically) I still find look beautiful now whenever I load it up on Steam. I'd definitely be interested in seeing some of your screenshots of the PS2 version just to see what the difference between them really is.
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Fucking rad. I went to the site hoping that I could buy and play it today. Damn you, Summer 2011!
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Unless your issue was "FUCK! I wanted you to walk along that damn cable, not jump off the roof three inches to the left of it and fall 5 stories! I fucking hate you, directional controls!" That's still there, and seems to be just something that has to be tolerated from the series at this point. As much as I love all things AC (hell, I replayed 1 in November and still thought it was rad) that is goddamned infuriating.
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After watching the Giant Bomb Quick Look of this, I decided it was probably a decent idea to check prices on it. Amazon had it for $51 instead of $59, so I ordered it from then. There is probably going to be a postal strike on Friday, buy hopefully that won't interfere too much with getting this game on my PS3 soon-ish.