A sloppy port for a dieing platform. Bloons TD is pretty fun on other platforms, so it's too bad they couldn't make it work here. Although, on my computer, the flash versions always lagged pretty bad at rounds 50+ IIRC.
"... apparently difficult task of rendering coloured circles ..."
It's probably not rendering the circles which is the problem. It's probably the business logic end. I have to wonder what the hell they're doing, though, to slow it down so much that you're getting one frame a second. e_e
@Henmii Apparently, no one sold white devices before Apple. Changing the color is a radical change and anyone who also changes the color of their devices is horrible. It takes a lot of INSPIRATION to use white plastic instead of black, you know! Even if Nintendo chose to make the Wii white because white was a popular color for certain devices at the time, so what? Also, what specific white devices would they base the Wii's color on given the time frame? iPod? iMac? I guess they could've, but really.
Next, the only thing that's similar between an iPad and a GamePad is a touchscreen, TBH. Apparently anyone who decides to add a touch screen to a device is only doing it because Apple did it? I think the whole point is that Nintendo is trying to create something more original and appeal to a wider audience than just "here's an iPad with some buttons," because they can't afford to do that.
Wii Mini is a copy of the iPad Mini. Right. Apparently making stuff smaller is very original. Game Boy Micro did the exact same thing in 2005. If they called it the Game Boy Mini, you'd probably make up some crap about how some guy at Nintendo traveled into the future back in 2004 and saw the iPad Mini, came back, and decided they needed a new miniature portable to combat Apple seven years in the future from launch. Really. The Game Boy Micro has more alike with the iPad Mini than the Wii Mini does just on the basis that both are held in your hands while being used, while the Wii just sits somewhere on a shelf/the floor. Maybe they chose the name because of the iPad Mini, but no great engineering techniques were stolen here. Also, keep in mind that the PS3 just recently released a slimmer model with less memory, similar to this. I guess they did it because of the iPad Mini too.
This stuff is all marketing and has little to do with the function of the machine aside from the GamePad's touchscreen. We aren't talking about d-pads and analogue nubs here.
For those wondering how well Wii sold in its first week (well, first 8 days), I'm pretty sure it shifted 600k units. Provided this is exactly a week then its probably more fair to use 550k for a rough comparison, though.
@XCWarrior I don't think this looks like Denpa Men at all. In Denpa Men, you spend half a minute crawls pointing at Denpa Men with the camera then flinging a net on them. Then, you spend ten minutes crawling dungeons and engaging in turn based combat, which is most of the game. Take Denpa Men, remove the dungeon crawling and turn based battles and just leave in the point-and-click capture minigame; now you have Spirit Hunters. Well, you don't just tap on them to be fair. You tap, swipe and long press them into submission.
Really, I'm not sure how this is going to keep itself fresh after some hours. All you do is tap, swipe, long press and tap some more. Rinse and repeat until done. Still, it's not like Pokemon Ranger had much variation and I enjoyed that. It was basically loop, loop, loop, rinse, repeat. Of course, it actually had a game world with characters to interact with along with a story and some basic puzzles. Interested to see how this comes out.
$27? Over here you can get a copy of the actual game for $35. So, you get some (very) roughly accurate bars telling you the stats of the Pokemon and some moveset info for $27. You could just go to Bulbapedia and have 100% accurate stats at different level tiers, all of the moves (including egg moves and what parents give what) and information on EV training. Plus, on an iOS device... what's the chance you'll urgently need Pokemon information and not be able to connect to the internet?
@TheDreamingHawk True. If the only device you carry around is a 3DS, there will be plenty of times when you won't have an internet connection. I guess it could be helpful occasionally. I wouldn't consider plopping down $15 bucks for it, but at least it's something. Whether or not I would purchase it, however, is largely irrelevant; what matters is the whether anyone else is buying it. Apparently, plenty are, so I guess they see some value in it.
Well, now the basic set is looking better. Touch choice. White Wii U with 500GB of external storage or Black Wii U with 25GB of internal storage, Nintendo Land and a few useless charging stands. Both would cost $350.
@HarmoKnight What's the difference between spending $15 and $15 of points? None. It's just one is digital "points" rather than dollars that maintain the same value. There's the same cost there always was; you're out $15 worth of currency of some form you could've spent on something else. If he's not willing to buy it with $15 cash, why would he want to squander $15 of Nintendo points? Sure, he saves money if he buys the deluxe set and purchases all his titles digitally overall, but that's not relevant to any specific title (because that saved money should be used just like any other dollar and with the same consideration).
@TheDreamingHawk I don't blame Nintendo for this. They put out a product, people bought it. Also, "ITS FREE ON THE INTERNETZ" is a perfectly acceptable way to weigh whether or not a purchase is warranted. It's the reason I don't buy gaming magazines. It's perfectly fine information they're selling in a nice format, but I already have access to it all. When it comes to piracy however, there is a fundamental difference; no one owns the information. People DO own the content of the games. Stealing a piece of lovingly crafted entertainment without paying the creators (such as getting a game off a torrent) is theft of intellectual property and all the content within the game. How the hell can you steal facts? In choosing to go to the internet, for instance, to learn what shape the Earth is rather than purchasing a book, I'm not stealing from the writers of said book. They never owned the data; they've just written about it.
@Frapp I thought that too, regarding the ending of WW.
@Schprocket
So how many of the nay-sayers are actually parents?
Probably two in ten? I'm not one.
Calling this censorship, whilst it seems apt, is possibly the most ludicrous application of the word I've seen.
Not really. To censor is to simply remove or alter parts of something you dislike. He couldn't deal with Link being male so he censored this fact by making him female through a hack.
Any discussion about the long-term effects on this guy's daughter are pure time-wasting conjecture ...
I agree with this. I don't agree with the personal problems part, though.
provide a choice
Where does it say he explained to his daughter that Link was male but that females could be heroes, then asked her whether or not she wanted her father to hack the game to make Link female? I'm pretty sure his daughter would've just chosen to play the game, rather than have her father bother with this.
After all it's a game, for crying out loud, not a belief in some ritualistic childhood untruth and certainly not one perpetuated for a lifetime.
It's not just about the game, it's about the concept.
This was also one of the worst games to do this to. God knows it's not hard to convince anyone to think Link is female to begin with, especially considering he never talks. All he did was prevent his daughter from hearing the word "lad" a few times. Yep. You know, because hearing/reading the word "lad" completely breaks the realism in a narrative where the sex of the character makes no difference whatsoever.
It's not like I think the guy's evil or something, and I don't think it matters at the end of the day whether or not he did this. In fact, I think that's the point; it doesn't matter. Yes, heroism and strength are connected to males in gaming. Most gaming heroes are male. Changing a few words in a game with a main character who's sex is wholly unimportant won't do squat. It's not like they bombard the player with references to Link's sex! In fact, by screwing up the script but not changing the assets you make things more confusing. If this happened to me and I didn't know, the first thing I'd do is ask why Link's little "brother" is a girl. Not helping things.
@Void Things that were once innovative tend to no longer be considered innovative years later once everyone's seen it. That's the nature of innovation. By whatever definition you're using, the directional pad and mouse are still very innovative things. Therefore, every device shipping with one is a very innovative device.
Oh, I see. Being a dad is completely censoring things that don't need to be censored and lying to your children about the true sex of the heroes in the games they play.
I doubt his daughter would grow up thinking only boys could be heroes. If she would, editing one game isn't going to prevent that. How about just explaining the concept to her that you don't have to be male to be heroic? To me, Link is a blank slate, so it doesn't really matter what sex he is; he's just supposed to represent the player in the game, and his sex is never made a big deal. If anything, this just makes it a little easier for her to connect to Link. Also keep in mind that Tetra already exists in the game, and she's pretty cool. In fact, I find her more interesting than Link since she's less of a blank slate. It's not like the game contains 100% males.
I have to agree with TBD that rewriting old games does nothing. It's like killing off a superhero to change him to another race/sex to fight against racism/sexism. Isn't that racist/sexist in itself? These characters were created as males, for whatever reason, and should remain that way. No one should force them into getting a sex change just because they think it's sexist that the hero is whatever sex they are; that's just reverse sexism. We've just flipped the coin. Instead, if you want more female leads in games, speak up, but don't rewrite the gaming history books.
Also, I hope he made Ganon a female too, then, to show her than not all villains are male; to balance things out. Instead of male vs male, many games would become female vs male. I think she'd get warped just as much from that. Plus, he has to make Tetra a male pirate/prince, fulfilling other stereotypes in the process. Switching roles solves nothing at all.
Don't get me wrong, it's not like I hate the guy. I just think he's going about his business the wrong way. Either way, though, you have to give him credit for going through all that trouble.
There are several problems with this. One is that all the info is available online. Not only the move sets, evolutionary trees and egg groups, but more.
Instead of a wimpy imprecise bar, you can find out the maximum and minimum possible stats the Pokemon can have at level 1, 50 and 100, exactly. You can find out how many EVs different species award you on defeating them. You can find out not only the egg group, but specifically what Pokemon needs to be any given Pokemon's father to give it any given egg move. In case you've forgotten all of the type matches, each Pokemon has a list of how every type matches up, for those complicated dual-types, as well as what moves give STAB. Anyone who would ever need a Pokedex could use the internet to find out ten times more about any given Pokemon.
Also, if any 3DS Pokemon games ever come out that would need a Pokedex, this would be useless; you can open the internet browser without closing your game, but not another app/game.
@DrKarl Haha. Cartridge replacement program, that's a good one. I guess Bethesda should've been mailing millions of Skyrim players with new game disks every month after every patch, eh? o_e
@iphys I have a PS3, and it is awesome. However, a core super-slim PS3 unit will cost around $250. The Wii U uses more modern technology, and has a controller with a touch screen and camera on it. Add fifty bucks for that, and you've got your standard Wii U. In the end, the pricing is almost identical; you're just paying fifty bucks more for newer tech. Fifty. Bucks.
This means, in the end, you're just comparing game libraries. Not exactly fair to do to a brand new console with no game's out, and pointless, since you could do that with any console at launch. How exactly would Nintendo manage to sell the Wii U for cheaper than a PS3?
@SkywardLink98 When the Wii came out, I bet you ranted about how overpriced it was since you could buy a PS2/XBOX at that time for much cheaper. I guess you'll complain about how overpriced Sony and Microsoft's new consoles will be as well, since you can get a Wii on a good day for $100, and they'll probably cost three to six times more than that. This is a new console, and must be compared to other new consoles.
Yes, you can get a PS3 for a little cheaper than a Wii U, but when it launched, it cost twice as much as a Wii U, and that was six/seven years ago. XBOX 360 launched at the same price as the Wii U is launching now. You're telling me, you want an HD console with a controller containing motion sensors, a touchscreen, a camera, a microphone, and more, for less than $299.99? If I were working at Nintendo on the Wii U hardware team, I'd be pulling my hair out at these comments.
I can understand someone in the UK (and some other places) complaining about pricing since they always seem to get the finger, but in USA/Canada consoles tend to come out at relatively fair prices. But, yeah, you're right, it's overpriced; let's just get the Chinese guys and gals slaving away in the factories to make our Wii U's work 24 hours a day to drive the costs down, so that Nintendo's NEGATIVE profit won't go down.
"...we selected [a price] that consumers would consider to be reasonable."
Apparently Iwata was wrong, since many consumers expected it to be $200 or some crap. The console is probably expensive to produce, and they'd like to start making a (god forbid) profit later on.
Looks like the smaller viewing area will make this game suffer a further case of "hit obstacle, respawn, remember to dodge obstacle, hit another obstacle" fever. From the trailer, you can see almost nothing.
@FonistofCruxis I agree there. The video seems to have helped a lot. It adds some appeal to an otherwise somewhat generic song. Plus, the OP, OP, OP... OPPA GANGNAM STYLE sounds kind of funny. It's like every time he says that, 1000 people burst out laughing. It's a new meme...
Air Ride has always been a game that's gotten mediocre reviews from critics (~6 seems to be the average) and much higher reviews from players (I've seen a ton of 8-9s). It's not technically innovative, flashy, it doesn't have a great storyline, or even very good SP. But dang, it's MP is one of the best things to hit the 'Cube.
@FonistofCruxis The fact that you can get 500,000,000 people to listen to a song, most of which probably don't even understand what the hell is being said, just because they 'like the sound', is somewhat ludicrous. Remove the lyrics and what do you have? A very generic song. One I've heard a thousand like. There's really not much to it. It's not one of those songs that awes me, or does anything so amazing it deserves 500kk views. When I listen to music in a language I don't understand, I always look up translated lyrics. If the lyrics are crap/stupid, I find it hard to enjoy the song. Yeah, maybe it's got a good beat, but if they're screaming "DONKEY, TURKEY, HAMBURGER BLITZ!" in the background...
It's like memes. IMO, it's not even because people love the music so much. It's some quality they like, and it goes viral.
@Mr_LztheBleh Indeed. Of course, it's worse than an idea, because thousands of hours of work by dozens of people go into making the game; the programmers, the musicians, the artists, etc. It's many ideas forming a product after a lot of work.
This is not a commodity you need to live. If you don't want to purchase it legally, don't purchase it at all. Of course, some would argue that if you're too poor to buy it (such that you could never obtain it legally, even if you wanted to) you aren't really stealing since Nintendo/devs would never get any money from you in the first place, and you aren't physically taking anything from them. The problem is the people who CAN afford to purchase the games, and maybe would've bought some, if they couldn't go to a guy like him and steal them all.
...is that really the re-release box art? It looks like a mock up used by Siliconera to me. Either that, or Nintendo has chosen to get really sloppy. Just placing a smaller version of the original box art with a thick white background peaking out, and a 'Best price!" label that looks like it came straight out of the supermarket.
Whenever I hear of this stuff, I'm surprised by the people who think this is fine.
This isn't like when you were a teen and you worked at some joint for five to six hours for minimum wage after school. They are forced to work twelve hour shifts (which is all of their waking hours after schooling) in intensive, and sometimes dangerous, jobs, against their will. They are being threatened with their very education, hell, probably sometimes their very lives, whether directly or indirectly, and are being exploited and abused. Do you want a nice simile? It's not a part time job at Burger King. It's like being fourteen and being forced to work in some factory building toys for someone better off in some distant country 65% of your waking hours with no breaks, being threatened and abused, probably being paid $1 a century and a bowl of rice a day. People are trying to commit suicide. What do they do? Set up nets so they can't even kill themselves. They don't even have the right to death, let alone life.
We can regulate things here, say how wonderful we are, then outsource labor to other countries without said regulations. It's perfect. We can say we have a wonderful quality of life while stepping on other people's backs to obtain it. The problem lies at the core of humanity. It is ridiculous that we make all these rules, but make it OK to outsource tasks to places with little to no regulation. What the hell was the point of the regulation in the first place? So that it doesn't happen here, and we can shove the responsibility onto someone else.
A: "We think it is immoral to <insert something here>! makes illegal"
B: "Sir. Is it therefore illegal to go across this imaginary border ten steps away and outsource stuff to the people there who we know will do this highly immoral thing in the process?"
@shinpichu Emulation itself is not illegal, but you're just getting off on the technicality that it's the ROMs that are the problem, when 99.9% of people playing emulated games did not dump the ROMs themselves. Do you honestly think whoever set this up purchased and dumped the ROMs off of a dozen N64 games? There is nothing wrong with emulation. There is nothing wrong with obtaining the games legally from those who hold the rights to them (Nintendo, etc.). This, however, is probably illegal.
What the hell will you play with this thing on ANDROID? Ant Smasher? I don't think so. In fact, emulation is the only thing I can think of where this could be useful since no developer will be building games around it. Many games will continue to use unorthodox controls (sliding, panning, pinching, twisting) which this thing cannot easily handler. Plus, the inputs required to control some tablet games are highly dynamic; they may change from screen to screen. The only games I can see benefiting from this would be games you'd have to emulate.
Also, why the crap would anyone buy this for $150 when you can buy a 3DS for $160? (or less, if you get a deal)? Yes, you don't have to buy 3DS games which cost money, but the games that will really benefit from this are few and far between. Aside from emulated games. Which are free if you pirate them. That's the only use I can think of, unless developers were to start developing around this device. In that event, the whole thing was pointless; why remove buttons from a family of devices, just to emulate them later?
EDIT: Just noticed the update. How nice of the guy to upload the emulator onto the demo device and slap on those ROMs. Now, the real question is, where did he get the ROMs?
@Assassin87 Didn't really notice. One reason is that MH4 is still in development. Also, MH3 splits maps into tiny areas separated by loading lines whilst MH4 has little separation. Maybe that has something to do with it?
it's one thing to link to content on your site related to the article, such as guides, or a signiture link, but when the only point of the sentence was to give you a place to put a URL... xD
@XCWarrior So, just because there are a few games belonging to a subgenre you dislike, you're going to discount all of mobile gaming? That's like me saying Imagine Party Babyz on the Wii is horrible, and another reason to stay away from all Wii games. <insert shallow runner game> is a mobile game, and therefore all mobile games are <insert shallow runner game>? Don't reverse the implication. I'll take a 3DS over an iPhone any day, but there ARE some fun games on there.
@Mandoble It's because it is essentially a "port" of the 3DS version. They took MH3G, named it "Ultimate" for localization, then made a Wii U version from that. Also, the ground textures are the worst part imo.
@Jamouse After playing Freedom, Freedom Unite, Tri and Portable 3rd, yes. At first, I sucked and it took me forever to kill anything (45 minutes for village Rathalos in Tri, lol) but I'm pretty good now. I used to use SnS and wasn't very good with it, but when I started to try different weapons I became much better. Now I use Dual Swords, Long Swords, Lances and Light Bowguns mostly, with a few Bow runs now and then. Average completion time for High Rank guild quest solos in Portable 3rd is ~17 minutes.
Recently played through Tri again since the servers won't be available soon, and my first village Royal Ludroth of the playthrough with a rank appropriate weapon took me something like 7 minutes. Most village monsters took me less than 15 minutes to kill easy, including Gobul, and I got the first Lagiacrus you ever see (in the guts quest where they tell you to run for your life) limping using some crappy Bone line lance; only reason I didn't kill him was because you can't kill him in that quest, as his HP stops decreasing just above capture HP. Contrast that to when I first played the game and it took me a half hour to forty minutes to kill anything, and Gigginox constantly whooped my sorry butt.
@Andrewroxsox There was a clause. He was not to promote competing goods. However, the contract came to a close three days before the ads appeared on TV. The only thing they have him for is that he started work on the ads a little bit before the contract ended.
His contract with them ended three days prior, no? So it boils down to Sony saying the actor is forever linked to the character, and therefore cannot appear in any rival ads ever. Plus, the ad was for TIRES not the Wii; it simply promised people free Wii's for buying tons of tires. So, the actor appears in a commercial indirectly promoting the Wii three days after his contract ended, and not as the character in Sony's ads.
Apparently, once you've ever participated in one of Sony's commercials, you can't even go NEAR a Nintendo product without getting sued. Even if you aren't appearing as the character in said commercials and your contract is up. Sony is basically claiming to own this guy's face.
@Windy Well, why are you hoping for $1.99? That's a higher price than free, isn't it? Therefore, you should be hoping for free based on your logic. The reason why I'm hoping for a higher price than yours is because I don't think two bucks is realistic; the exact reason why your post didn't say you were hoping for it to be zero, or negative ten dollars.
Sure, I'd like a price lower than five bucks. Wouldn't everyone? When I say "I'm hoping for five bucks" I'm just saying it would be nice if the game cost around five bucks or LOWER. It's kind of like setting an upper limit.
This looks pretty fun. I sincerely doubt this will be $1.99 like it is on the eShop, and in fact, due to the far more competitive pricing and larger audience for iOS titles, it's not really fair to expect that kind of price either. I'm hoping for around five bucks, myself. Could end up a little higher depending on the length of the game.
So, he's getting sued for starring in a commercial for tires because they happen to have a thing going on for a free Wii. Yes, he shouldn't be able to promote Sony products then do a commercial for the Nintendo Wii U. But not being able to promote tires because the commercial contains a contest to get a Wii? He's directly promoting tires, not Nintendo goods, and any promotion done for Nintendo is in a quasi-indirect way. I'm not going to be boycotting Sony over something as ridiculous as this, as it is kind of understandable, but this does seems like a stretch.
...This is a standard, generic demo browser. How would this work with anything else? Also, AFAIK, Miiverse is going to be integrated into the interface just like we saw when they showed it off originally. You know, with the game and application icons floating around with all the Miis around them screaming their thoughts at you? Yeah.
Not sure how anyone could think this could be the final interface. If it is, I'll eat five hats with salt and pepper.
@MrWalkieTalkie Since the voice recognition for so many more important words and phrases is so fuzzy, I doubt it actually detects the word "Playstation" and makes Pikachu angry. Maybe it's confused with another word, or something? Or was it confirmed that it was intentional?
@CountShredaqula How did this get started? He entered the comments by making a somewhat sarcastic comment, you complained about the "lack" of Nintendo lovers (there's actually tons on this site; the majority like Nintendo), he replied that it isn't so bad, you said it was horrible and wrote a super long reply, he replied in a slightly brash manner, and then you say he deserves no respect and whine about how no one should whine, but should vote with their dollars.
Talk about mountains from molehills (not that I don't do the same, at times). It's like me saying I greatly dislike people who say they dislike things. Also noticed you took the time to edit your comment four minutes later to add the nice line "I guess I struck a nerve for speaking the truth eh?"
Then you edited it again ~10 minutes after posting to say he's a horrible writer. Well, and here I thought you didn't want people to focus on the negative stuff and just talk about the positive.
Also, for the records, half of what JM says is sarcastic.
@0LD_SK0OL_PUNK ...that was my whole point. I could've used my own posts as an example just as easily, or anyone elses. My point was that we all say things that seem stupid to others, or irrational, hell, even flamebait if it contains a radical opinion, but we don't ban people over it. JumpMad's comments are sarcastic and lighthearted, and even if they weren't, he hasn't said anything offensive. Even if he were being serious, why ban him? Because his comments seem stupid and his opinions aren't shared by many others? How many people do you see taking him seriously and getting in massive flame wars with him? I think most people can tell he isn't serious.
Sorry if I "went off," but I just found the notion of banning a user for saying stupid things (which he clearly doesn't mean half the time, and is just trying to be funny) was absurd.
Sad to think this got the same score as Tales of the Abyss, or other great titles. TofA had a great story, fun characters, well paced combat and was altogether a ton of fun imo. Then we have Angry Birds. A game that could've been on Kongregate and all but forgotten about. No, I haven't played the 3DS version; I have played the original Angry Birds and Angry Birds Rio on other platforms (including iOS).
Seriously, I'd have to be smoking something to dish out thirty bucks on Angry Birds. The games are fun, but I found they also get extremely tedious very quickly. All you do is fling, see what happened, fling again. The cartoonish graphics and funny noises the pigs and birds make makes the game enjoyable for awhile, but then it dawns on you: you're doing the video game equivalent of flinging a tennis ball at a stack of cans, just with a few collectables and explosions.
Then Rovio has the nerve to try to fry our brains with an absurd achievement. Yes, because we all want to enjoy marking spot after spot for an airstrike until we destroy everything in sight for 300 hours. Sardines... BOOM. Sardines... BOOM. Sardines... BOOM. Only 32048563750 more levels to go.
For anyone over the age of ten, Angry Birds is probably more like a 6, imo, especially at retail price. Note that I do think the games are very good for young children; they love the cute pigs and birds, the funny noises they make, and seeing the stuff that happens when they fling them, but they are very shallow and repetitive games.
EDIT: *Sardines, not Soap. Now you've got me doing it.
@WaxxyOne It's news because it is literally the same game. Yes, we know the sports games all look alike to us, but they do usually have SOME differences.
@0LD_SK0OL_PUNK JumpMad is a long time user who likes to try to be funny (and sometimes even try to make a point) through lighthearted, sarcastic comments. He isn't really trolling; just poking a little fun.
Even you come off as more of a troll than JumpMad, are we going to ban you, too?
"are you ... not smart? if you want GBA games, get 'em on amazon." - Insulting someone's intelligence because you failed to understand the point of Virtual Console. I guess we should all just play games on their original consoles, ay?
"Apple copies Super Mario Land 3D, Nintendo DOESN'T sue." - Oblivious to the fact that the game was created by someone, or a group of people, in China. Also, if Nintendo asked Apple to remove the game from the store under copyright violation, they probably would.
"grammar and punctuation is a really important thing. with them, it's a lot easier to detect tone in a sentence(not to mention it's a lot easier to understand what the commenter is saying!). i dont know, it's just a real pet-peeve of mine when there isnt correct punctuation and grammar in comments (but as far as apostrophes go, they're more often then not are unnecessary.)" - Complaining about grammatical errors when you just made several yourself. Also, you're so concerned with legibility; that's why you don't use any capital letters at all, and apparently don't proof-read your comments. Plus, you complain about incorrect punctuation before saying apostrophes are unnecessary. Yeah.
"$300 for the basic version?? no sir, i dont care if this has zelda, im waiting for a large price-drop. didnt nintendo say they werent going to overprice their crap again like they did with the 3DS? were they on drugs when they said that? ... jeez, nintendo is turning into another apple! ... yupp, nintendo just proved their statement a lie." - Great idea. Compare Nintendo to Apple and call both companies' products overpriced crap. $300 is not very expensive for a next-gen, HD console with a tablet controller. The PS3, IIRC, cost $600 when it launched six years ago for the 60GB model. The XBOX360 had a core system at launch for $300, the same price as Wii U, and there are rumors that Microsoft's new console might launch at the same price. I think it's a fair price, and was surprised it wasn't MORE expensive.
"scumbag japan. they know porting a game to the west will bring in dough, but they don't anyways." - One game isn't ported and now the Japanese are scum. But, obviously, you know better about what would make enough money here make it worthwhile to localize it, amirite?
"but wouldn't it be a better idea to review the entire game as a whole rather than "if it aged as well as my cheese"? i dont know about you, but i buy games to have fun, not whether or not if they aged well :/" - We say a game has aged well if it is still fun by today's standards. For instance, I don't think Pong has aged well. It might've been fun when it was fresh, but now it's just "meh." Also, how did they not review the whole game? One of the main points of retro game reviews is to see if they are still fun by today's standards. We don't review games as if we were still living twenty years in the past and use those standards. It isn't a good enough indicator of how well the mechanics work today.
Note that I don't actually care that much about your comments, or think they are particularly bad. JMs are lighthearted and clearly sarcastic, and even if they weren't, he's never really offensive. If we wanted to start nitpicking and picking apart everyone to see who we should ban, we could really do that to anyone.
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Re: Review: Bloons TD 4 (DSiWare)
A sloppy port for a dieing platform. Bloons TD is pretty fun on other platforms, so it's too bad they couldn't make it work here. Although, on my computer, the flash versions always lagged pretty bad at rounds 50+ IIRC.
"... apparently difficult task of rendering coloured circles ..."
It's probably not rendering the circles which is the problem. It's probably the business logic end. I have to wonder what the hell they're doing, though, to slow it down so much that you're getting one frame a second. e_e
Re: Molyneux: Wii U Is Good, But It's Not Great
He makes a game about tapping a cube for hours on end and then says this? Hilarious. I won't comment on his stance but that's just hilarious.
Re: Rumour: 3DS Gearing Up For Another Price Drop
"According to the occasionally reliable source NeoGaf ... "
That made me laugh. Partially because it's true and partially because you actually wrote that.
Re: Wii Mini Is Official And Has No Online Connectivity
@Henmii Apparently, no one sold white devices before Apple. Changing the color is a radical change and anyone who also changes the color of their devices is horrible. It takes a lot of INSPIRATION to use white plastic instead of black, you know! Even if Nintendo chose to make the Wii white because white was a popular color for certain devices at the time, so what? Also, what specific white devices would they base the Wii's color on given the time frame? iPod? iMac? I guess they could've, but really.
Next, the only thing that's similar between an iPad and a GamePad is a touchscreen, TBH. Apparently anyone who decides to add a touch screen to a device is only doing it because Apple did it? I think the whole point is that Nintendo is trying to create something more original and appeal to a wider audience than just "here's an iPad with some buttons," because they can't afford to do that.
Wii Mini is a copy of the iPad Mini. Right. Apparently making stuff smaller is very original. Game Boy Micro did the exact same thing in 2005. If they called it the Game Boy Mini, you'd probably make up some crap about how some guy at Nintendo traveled into the future back in 2004 and saw the iPad Mini, came back, and decided they needed a new miniature portable to combat Apple seven years in the future from launch. Really. The Game Boy Micro has more alike with the iPad Mini than the Wii Mini does just on the basis that both are held in your hands while being used, while the Wii just sits somewhere on a shelf/the floor. Maybe they chose the name because of the iPad Mini, but no great engineering techniques were stolen here. Also, keep in mind that the PS3 just recently released a slimmer model with less memory, similar to this. I guess they did it because of the iPad Mini too.
This stuff is all marketing and has little to do with the function of the machine aside from the GamePad's touchscreen. We aren't talking about d-pads and analogue nubs here.
Re: Wii Mini Is Official And Has No Online Connectivity
No GC support and now no online? Seriously. You're better off waiting for a sale and getting a normal Wii for the same price.
Re: Wii U Shifts 400K Units in Début Week
For those wondering how well Wii sold in its first week (well, first 8 days), I'm pretty sure it shifted 600k units. Provided this is exactly a week then its probably more fair to use 550k for a rough comparison, though.
Re: Japanese Import Ban on R4 Cartridges Becomes Law
@TruenoGT So, essentially, make the eShop like iTunes, where anyone can just download the tools they need and get off and running.
Re: Feature: Mastering The Basics Of Spirit Hunters Inc.
@XCWarrior I don't think this looks like Denpa Men at all. In Denpa Men, you spend half a minute crawls pointing at Denpa Men with the camera then flinging a net on them. Then, you spend ten minutes crawling dungeons and engaging in turn based combat, which is most of the game. Take Denpa Men, remove the dungeon crawling and turn based battles and just leave in the point-and-click capture minigame; now you have Spirit Hunters. Well, you don't just tap on them to be fair. You tap, swipe and long press them into submission.
Really, I'm not sure how this is going to keep itself fresh after some hours. All you do is tap, swipe, long press and tap some more. Rinse and repeat until done. Still, it's not like Pokemon Ranger had much variation and I enjoyed that. It was basically loop, loop, loop, rinse, repeat. Of course, it actually had a game world with characters to interact with along with a story and some basic puzzles. Interested to see how this comes out.
Re: Pokémon Pokédex Is Coming To iOS Devices In Japan
$27? Over here you can get a copy of the actual game for $35. So, you get some (very) roughly accurate bars telling you the stats of the Pokemon and some moveset info for $27. You could just go to Bulbapedia and have 100% accurate stats at different level tiers, all of the moves (including egg moves and what parents give what) and information on EV training. Plus, on an iOS device... what's the chance you'll urgently need Pokemon information and not be able to connect to the internet?
Re: Pokédex 3D Pro Tops 3DS eShop Chart in North America
@TheDreamingHawk True. If the only device you carry around is a 3DS, there will be plenty of times when you won't have an internet connection. I guess it could be helpful occasionally. I wouldn't consider plopping down $15 bucks for it, but at least it's something. Whether or not I would purchase it, however, is largely irrelevant; what matters is the whether anyone else is buying it. Apparently, plenty are, so I guess they see some value in it.
Re: Talking Point: The Realities of Wii U System Memory Have Become Clear
Well, now the basic set is looking better. Touch choice. White Wii U with 500GB of external storage or Black Wii U with 25GB of internal storage, Nintendo Land and a few useless charging stands. Both would cost $350.
Re: Pokédex 3D Pro Tops 3DS eShop Chart in North America
@HarmoKnight What's the difference between spending $15 and $15 of points? None. It's just one is digital "points" rather than dollars that maintain the same value. There's the same cost there always was; you're out $15 worth of currency of some form you could've spent on something else. If he's not willing to buy it with $15 cash, why would he want to squander $15 of Nintendo points? Sure, he saves money if he buys the deluxe set and purchases all his titles digitally overall, but that's not relevant to any specific title (because that saved money should be used just like any other dollar and with the same consideration).
@TheDreamingHawk I don't blame Nintendo for this. They put out a product, people bought it. Also, "ITS FREE ON THE INTERNETZ" is a perfectly acceptable way to weigh whether or not a purchase is warranted. It's the reason I don't buy gaming magazines. It's perfectly fine information they're selling in a nice format, but I already have access to it all. When it comes to piracy however, there is a fundamental difference; no one owns the information. People DO own the content of the games. Stealing a piece of lovingly crafted entertainment without paying the creators (such as getting a game off a torrent) is theft of intellectual property and all the content within the game. How the hell can you steal facts? In choosing to go to the internet, for instance, to learn what shape the Earth is rather than purchasing a book, I'm not stealing from the writers of said book. They never owned the data; they've just written about it.
Re: Father Gender-Bends Link For The Benefit of His Zelda-Loving Daughter
@Frapp I thought that too, regarding the ending of WW.
@Schprocket
So how many of the nay-sayers are actually parents?
Probably two in ten? I'm not one.
Calling this censorship, whilst it seems apt, is possibly the most ludicrous application of the word I've seen.
Not really. To censor is to simply remove or alter parts of something you dislike. He couldn't deal with Link being male so he censored this fact by making him female through a hack.
Any discussion about the long-term effects on this guy's daughter are pure time-wasting conjecture ...
I agree with this. I don't agree with the personal problems part, though.
provide a choice
Where does it say he explained to his daughter that Link was male but that females could be heroes, then asked her whether or not she wanted her father to hack the game to make Link female? I'm pretty sure his daughter would've just chosen to play the game, rather than have her father bother with this.
After all it's a game, for crying out loud, not a belief in some ritualistic childhood untruth and certainly not one perpetuated for a lifetime.
It's not just about the game, it's about the concept.
This was also one of the worst games to do this to. God knows it's not hard to convince anyone to think Link is female to begin with, especially considering he never talks. All he did was prevent his daughter from hearing the word "lad" a few times. Yep. You know, because hearing/reading the word "lad" completely breaks the realism in a narrative where the sex of the character makes no difference whatsoever.
It's not like I think the guy's evil or something, and I don't think it matters at the end of the day whether or not he did this. In fact, I think that's the point; it doesn't matter. Yes, heroism and strength are connected to males in gaming. Most gaming heroes are male. Changing a few words in a game with a main character who's sex is wholly unimportant won't do squat. It's not like they bombard the player with references to Link's sex! In fact, by screwing up the script but not changing the assets you make things more confusing. If this happened to me and I didn't know, the first thing I'd do is ask why Link's little "brother" is a girl. Not helping things.
Re: Molyneux: "I Struggle To See Anything Amazing Coming Out Of Nintendo"
@Void Things that were once innovative tend to no longer be considered innovative years later once everyone's seen it. That's the nature of innovation. By whatever definition you're using, the directional pad and mouse are still very innovative things. Therefore, every device shipping with one is a very innovative device.
Re: Father Gender-Bends Link For The Benefit of His Zelda-Loving Daughter
Oh, I see. Being a dad is completely censoring things that don't need to be censored and lying to your children about the true sex of the heroes in the games they play.
I doubt his daughter would grow up thinking only boys could be heroes. If she would, editing one game isn't going to prevent that. How about just explaining the concept to her that you don't have to be male to be heroic? To me, Link is a blank slate, so it doesn't really matter what sex he is; he's just supposed to represent the player in the game, and his sex is never made a big deal. If anything, this just makes it a little easier for her to connect to Link. Also keep in mind that Tetra already exists in the game, and she's pretty cool. In fact, I find her more interesting than Link since she's less of a blank slate. It's not like the game contains 100% males.
I have to agree with TBD that rewriting old games does nothing. It's like killing off a superhero to change him to another race/sex to fight against racism/sexism. Isn't that racist/sexist in itself? These characters were created as males, for whatever reason, and should remain that way. No one should force them into getting a sex change just because they think it's sexist that the hero is whatever sex they are; that's just reverse sexism. We've just flipped the coin. Instead, if you want more female leads in games, speak up, but don't rewrite the gaming history books.
Also, I hope he made Ganon a female too, then, to show her than not all villains are male; to balance things out. Instead of male vs male, many games would become female vs male. I think she'd get warped just as much from that. Plus, he has to make Tetra a male pirate/prince, fulfilling other stereotypes in the process. Switching roles solves nothing at all.
Don't get me wrong, it's not like I hate the guy. I just think he's going about his business the wrong way. Either way, though, you have to give him credit for going through all that trouble.
Re: Review: Pokédex 3D Pro (3DS eShop)
There are several problems with this. One is that all the info is available online. Not only the move sets, evolutionary trees and egg groups, but more.
Instead of a wimpy imprecise bar, you can find out the maximum and minimum possible stats the Pokemon can have at level 1, 50 and 100, exactly. You can find out how many EVs different species award you on defeating them. You can find out not only the egg group, but specifically what Pokemon needs to be any given Pokemon's father to give it any given egg move. In case you've forgotten all of the type matches, each Pokemon has a list of how every type matches up, for those complicated dual-types, as well as what moves give STAB. Anyone who would ever need a Pokedex could use the internet to find out ten times more about any given Pokemon.
Also, if any 3DS Pokemon games ever come out that would need a Pokedex, this would be useless; you can open the internet browser without closing your game, but not another app/game.
Re: Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward Bug Infects Save Data
@DrKarl Haha. Cartridge replacement program, that's a good one. I guess Bethesda should've been mailing millions of Skyrim players with new game disks every month after every patch, eh? o_e
Re: Dragon Quest VII Set to Venture Onto 3DS
DQ VII, DQM:TW and DQH:RS 3? Yes, please.
Re: Nintendo Confirms Wii U Will Be Sold At A Loss
@iphys I have a PS3, and it is awesome. However, a core super-slim PS3 unit will cost around $250. The Wii U uses more modern technology, and has a controller with a touch screen and camera on it. Add fifty bucks for that, and you've got your standard Wii U. In the end, the pricing is almost identical; you're just paying fifty bucks more for newer tech. Fifty. Bucks.
This means, in the end, you're just comparing game libraries. Not exactly fair to do to a brand new console with no game's out, and pointless, since you could do that with any console at launch. How exactly would Nintendo manage to sell the Wii U for cheaper than a PS3?
Re: Nintendo Confirms Wii U Will Be Sold At A Loss
@SkywardLink98 When the Wii came out, I bet you ranted about how overpriced it was since you could buy a PS2/XBOX at that time for much cheaper. I guess you'll complain about how overpriced Sony and Microsoft's new consoles will be as well, since you can get a Wii on a good day for $100, and they'll probably cost three to six times more than that. This is a new console, and must be compared to other new consoles.
Yes, you can get a PS3 for a little cheaper than a Wii U, but when it launched, it cost twice as much as a Wii U, and that was six/seven years ago. XBOX 360 launched at the same price as the Wii U is launching now. You're telling me, you want an HD console with a controller containing motion sensors, a touchscreen, a camera, a microphone, and more, for less than $299.99? If I were working at Nintendo on the Wii U hardware team, I'd be pulling my hair out at these comments.
I can understand someone in the UK (and some other places) complaining about pricing since they always seem to get the finger, but in USA/Canada consoles tend to come out at relatively fair prices. But, yeah, you're right, it's overpriced; let's just get the Chinese guys and gals slaving away in the factories to make our Wii U's work 24 hours a day to drive the costs down, so that Nintendo's NEGATIVE profit won't go down.
"...we selected [a price] that consumers would consider to be reasonable."
Apparently Iwata was wrong, since many consumers expected it to be $200 or some crap. The console is probably expensive to produce, and they'd like to start making a (god forbid) profit later on.
Re: 2 Fast 4 Gnomz Socking it to 3DS eShop Soon
Looks like the smaller viewing area will make this game suffer a further case of "hit obstacle, respawn, remember to dodge obstacle, hit another obstacle" fever. From the trailer, you can see almost nothing.
Re: Gangnam Style Confirmed for Just Dance 4
@FonistofCruxis I agree there. The video seems to have helped a lot. It adds some appeal to an otherwise somewhat generic song. Plus, the OP, OP, OP... OPPA GANGNAM STYLE sounds kind of funny. It's like every time he says that, 1000 people burst out laughing. It's a new meme...
Re: Review: Kirby Air Ride (GameCube)
Air Ride has always been a game that's gotten mediocre reviews from critics (~6 seems to be the average) and much higher reviews from players (I've seen a ton of 8-9s). It's not technically innovative, flashy, it doesn't have a great storyline, or even very good SP. But dang, it's MP is one of the best things to hit the 'Cube.
Re: Gangnam Style Confirmed for Just Dance 4
@FonistofCruxis The fact that you can get 500,000,000 people to listen to a song, most of which probably don't even understand what the hell is being said, just because they 'like the sound', is somewhat ludicrous. Remove the lyrics and what do you have? A very generic song. One I've heard a thousand like. There's really not much to it. It's not one of those songs that awes me, or does anything so amazing it deserves 500kk views. When I listen to music in a language I don't understand, I always look up translated lyrics. If the lyrics are crap/stupid, I find it hard to enjoy the song. Yeah, maybe it's got a good beat, but if they're screaming "DONKEY, TURKEY, HAMBURGER BLITZ!" in the background...
It's like memes. IMO, it's not even because people love the music so much. It's some quality they like, and it goes viral.
Re: Counterfeit Nintendo Games Seller Faces Jail Term
@Mr_LztheBleh Indeed. Of course, it's worse than an idea, because thousands of hours of work by dozens of people go into making the game; the programmers, the musicians, the artists, etc. It's many ideas forming a product after a lot of work.
This is not a commodity you need to live. If you don't want to purchase it legally, don't purchase it at all. Of course, some would argue that if you're too poor to buy it (such that you could never obtain it legally, even if you wanted to) you aren't really stealing since Nintendo/devs would never get any money from you in the first place, and you aren't physically taking anything from them. The problem is the people who CAN afford to purchase the games, and maybe would've bought some, if they couldn't go to a guy like him and steal them all.
Re: Monster Hunter 3 G Traps an eShop Discount in Japan
...is that really the re-release box art? It looks like a mock up used by Siliconera to me. Either that, or Nintendo has chosen to get really sloppy. Just placing a smaller version of the original box art with a thick white background peaking out, and a 'Best price!" label that looks like it came straight out of the supermarket.
Re: Under-Age Workers Allegedly Worked on Wii U Manufacturing
Whenever I hear of this stuff, I'm surprised by the people who think this is fine.
This isn't like when you were a teen and you worked at some joint for five to six hours for minimum wage after school. They are forced to work twelve hour shifts (which is all of their waking hours after schooling) in intensive, and sometimes dangerous, jobs, against their will. They are being threatened with their very education, hell, probably sometimes their very lives, whether directly or indirectly, and are being exploited and abused. Do you want a nice simile? It's not a part time job at Burger King. It's like being fourteen and being forced to work in some factory building toys for someone better off in some distant country 65% of your waking hours with no breaks, being threatened and abused, probably being paid $1 a century and a bowl of rice a day. People are trying to commit suicide. What do they do? Set up nets so they can't even kill themselves. They don't even have the right to death, let alone life.
We can regulate things here, say how wonderful we are, then outsource labor to other countries without said regulations. It's perfect. We can say we have a wonderful quality of life while stepping on other people's backs to obtain it. The problem lies at the core of humanity. It is ridiculous that we make all these rules, but make it OK to outsource tasks to places with little to no regulation. What the hell was the point of the regulation in the first place? So that it doesn't happen here, and we can shove the responsibility onto someone else.
A: "We think it is immoral to <insert something here>! makes illegal"
B: "Sir. Is it therefore illegal to go across this imaginary border ten steps away and outsource stuff to the people there who we know will do this highly immoral thing in the process?"
A: "Nope. Carry on!"
Re: Archos Uses Star Fox And Mario To Demo Its Console-Killing Tablet
@shinpichu Emulation itself is not illegal, but you're just getting off on the technicality that it's the ROMs that are the problem, when 99.9% of people playing emulated games did not dump the ROMs themselves. Do you honestly think whoever set this up purchased and dumped the ROMs off of a dozen N64 games? There is nothing wrong with emulation. There is nothing wrong with obtaining the games legally from those who hold the rights to them (Nintendo, etc.). This, however, is probably illegal.
What the hell will you play with this thing on ANDROID? Ant Smasher? I don't think so. In fact, emulation is the only thing I can think of where this could be useful since no developer will be building games around it. Many games will continue to use unorthodox controls (sliding, panning, pinching, twisting) which this thing cannot easily handler. Plus, the inputs required to control some tablet games are highly dynamic; they may change from screen to screen. The only games I can see benefiting from this would be games you'd have to emulate.
Also, why the crap would anyone buy this for $150 when you can buy a 3DS for $160? (or less, if you get a deal)? Yes, you don't have to buy 3DS games which cost money, but the games that will really benefit from this are few and far between. Aside from emulated games. Which are free if you pirate them. That's the only use I can think of, unless developers were to start developing around this device. In that event, the whole thing was pointless; why remove buttons from a family of devices, just to emulate them later?
EDIT: Just noticed the update. How nice of the guy to upload the emulator onto the demo device and slap on those ROMs. Now, the real question is, where did he get the ROMs?
Re: Reggie: "Certainly Possible" Wii U Consoles Could Be Sold By Cable Providers
"Seattle Times: Why didn't you just buy TiVo and go the whole DVR route?"
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha... okay, I'm done. :3
Re: Mega Man Fans Troll Capcom Following iOS Social Game Announcement
I read the logo as "ROCKMAN is OVER."
Re: Watch Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate's Newest Trailer Right Here
@Assassin87 Didn't really notice. One reason is that MH4 is still in development. Also, MH3 splits maps into tiny areas separated by loading lines whilst MH4 has little separation. Maybe that has something to do with it?
Re: Want to Know How to Play Spirit Hunters?
Indeed. I admire how subtle that was.
it's one thing to link to content on your site related to the article, such as guides, or a signiture link, but when the only point of the sentence was to give you a place to put a URL... xD
Re: Review: Samurai G (3DS eShop)
@XCWarrior So, just because there are a few games belonging to a subgenre you dislike, you're going to discount all of mobile gaming? That's like me saying Imagine Party Babyz on the Wii is horrible, and another reason to stay away from all Wii games. <insert shallow runner game> is a mobile game, and therefore all mobile games are <insert shallow runner game>? Don't reverse the implication. I'll take a 3DS over an iPhone any day, but there ARE some fun games on there.
Re: Watch Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate's Newest Trailer Right Here
@Mandoble It's because it is essentially a "port" of the 3DS version. They took MH3G, named it "Ultimate" for localization, then made a Wii U version from that. Also, the ground textures are the worst part imo.
Re: Watch Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate's Newest Trailer Right Here
@Jamouse After playing Freedom, Freedom Unite, Tri and Portable 3rd, yes. At first, I sucked and it took me forever to kill anything (45 minutes for village Rathalos in Tri, lol) but I'm pretty good now. I used to use SnS and wasn't very good with it, but when I started to try different weapons I became much better. Now I use Dual Swords, Long Swords, Lances and Light Bowguns mostly, with a few Bow runs now and then. Average completion time for High Rank guild quest solos in Portable 3rd is ~17 minutes.
Recently played through Tri again since the servers won't be available soon, and my first village Royal Ludroth of the playthrough with a rank appropriate weapon took me something like 7 minutes. Most village monsters took me less than 15 minutes to kill easy, including Gobul, and I got the first Lagiacrus you ever see (in the guts quest where they tell you to run for your life) limping using some crappy Bone line lance; only reason I didn't kill him was because you can't kill him in that quest, as his HP stops decreasing just above capture HP. Contrast that to when I first played the game and it took me a half hour to forty minutes to kill anything, and Gigginox constantly whooped my sorry butt.
Re: Here's That Batman Arkham City Video Walkthrough You Wanted
...I think I saw this months ago. I've seen it four times, now. This video almost dates back to when the game was revealed.
Re: Bridgestone Responds to Sony's "Kevin Butler" Lawsuit
@Andrewroxsox There was a clause. He was not to promote competing goods. However, the contract came to a close three days before the ads appeared on TV. The only thing they have him for is that he started work on the ads a little bit before the contract ended.
Re: Bridgestone Responds to Sony's "Kevin Butler" Lawsuit
His contract with them ended three days prior, no? So it boils down to Sony saying the actor is forever linked to the character, and therefore cannot appear in any rival ads ever. Plus, the ad was for TIRES not the Wii; it simply promised people free Wii's for buying tons of tires. So, the actor appears in a commercial indirectly promoting the Wii three days after his contract ended, and not as the character in Sony's ads.
Apparently, once you've ever participated in one of Sony's commercials, you can't even go NEAR a Nintendo product without getting sued. Even if you aren't appearing as the character in said commercials and your contract is up. Sony is basically claiming to own this guy's face.
Re: Mobile Hit Gunman Clive is Shooting His Way to the 3DS eShop
@Windy Well, why are you hoping for $1.99? That's a higher price than free, isn't it? Therefore, you should be hoping for free based on your logic. The reason why I'm hoping for a higher price than yours is because I don't think two bucks is realistic; the exact reason why your post didn't say you were hoping for it to be zero, or negative ten dollars.
Sure, I'd like a price lower than five bucks. Wouldn't everyone? When I say "I'm hoping for five bucks" I'm just saying it would be nice if the game cost around five bucks or LOWER. It's kind of like setting an upper limit.
Re: Mobile Hit Gunman Clive is Shooting His Way to the 3DS eShop
This looks pretty fun. I sincerely doubt this will be $1.99 like it is on the eShop, and in fact, due to the far more competitive pricing and larger audience for iOS titles, it's not really fair to expect that kind of price either. I'm hoping for around five bucks, myself. Could end up a little higher depending on the length of the game.
Re: Kevin Butler Actor Seen Near Wii Console... Sony Takes Him to Court
So, he's getting sued for starring in a commercial for tires because they happen to have a thing going on for a free Wii. Yes, he shouldn't be able to promote Sony products then do a commercial for the Nintendo Wii U. But not being able to promote tires because the commercial contains a contest to get a Wii? He's directly promoting tires, not Nintendo goods, and any promotion done for Nintendo is in a quasi-indirect way. I'm not going to be boycotting Sony over something as ridiculous as this, as it is kind of understandable, but this does seems like a stretch.
Re: Review: Disney Princess: My Fairytale Adventure (3DS)
"Loading times are also preposterously long, often making it feel like you're running this game from a cassette tape."
Sounds about right.
Re: Could This Be The Finished Wii U Interface?
...This is a standard, generic demo browser. How would this work with anything else? Also, AFAIK, Miiverse is going to be integrated into the interface just like we saw when they showed it off originally. You know, with the game and application icons floating around with all the Miis around them screaming their thoughts at you? Yeah.
Not sure how anyone could think this could be the final interface. If it is, I'll eat five hats with salt and pepper.
Re: Feature: The Bizarre History of Pokémon Technology
@MrWalkieTalkie Since the voice recognition for so many more important words and phrases is so fuzzy, I doubt it actually detects the word "Playstation" and makes Pikachu angry. Maybe it's confused with another word, or something? Or was it confirmed that it was intentional?
Re: Review: Angry Birds Trilogy (3DS)
@CountShredaqula How did this get started? He entered the comments by making a somewhat sarcastic comment, you complained about the "lack" of Nintendo lovers (there's actually tons on this site; the majority like Nintendo), he replied that it isn't so bad, you said it was horrible and wrote a super long reply, he replied in a slightly brash manner, and then you say he deserves no respect and whine about how no one should whine, but should vote with their dollars.
Talk about mountains from molehills (not that I don't do the same, at times). It's like me saying I greatly dislike people who say they dislike things. Also noticed you took the time to edit your comment four minutes later to add the nice line "I guess I struck a nerve for speaking the truth eh?"
Then you edited it again ~10 minutes after posting to say he's a horrible writer. Well, and here I thought you didn't want people to focus on the negative stuff and just talk about the positive.
Also, for the records, half of what JM says is sarcastic.
Re: Nintendo: Phones And Tablets Aren't Games Devices
@0LD_SK0OL_PUNK ...that was my whole point. I could've used my own posts as an example just as easily, or anyone elses. My point was that we all say things that seem stupid to others, or irrational, hell, even flamebait if it contains a radical opinion, but we don't ban people over it. JumpMad's comments are sarcastic and lighthearted, and even if they weren't, he hasn't said anything offensive. Even if he were being serious, why ban him? Because his comments seem stupid and his opinions aren't shared by many others? How many people do you see taking him seriously and getting in massive flame wars with him? I think most people can tell he isn't serious.
Sorry if I "went off," but I just found the notion of banning a user for saying stupid things (which he clearly doesn't mean half the time, and is just trying to be funny) was absurd.
Re: Review: Angry Birds Trilogy (3DS)
Sad to think this got the same score as Tales of the Abyss, or other great titles. TofA had a great story, fun characters, well paced combat and was altogether a ton of fun imo. Then we have Angry Birds. A game that could've been on Kongregate and all but forgotten about. No, I haven't played the 3DS version; I have played the original Angry Birds and Angry Birds Rio on other platforms (including iOS).
Seriously, I'd have to be smoking something to dish out thirty bucks on Angry Birds. The games are fun, but I found they also get extremely tedious very quickly. All you do is fling, see what happened, fling again. The cartoonish graphics and funny noises the pigs and birds make makes the game enjoyable for awhile, but then it dawns on you: you're doing the video game equivalent of flinging a tennis ball at a stack of cans, just with a few collectables and explosions.
Then Rovio has the nerve to try to fry our brains with an absurd achievement. Yes, because we all want to enjoy marking spot after spot for an airstrike until we destroy everything in sight for 300 hours. Sardines... BOOM. Sardines... BOOM. Sardines... BOOM. Only 32048563750 more levels to go.
For anyone over the age of ten, Angry Birds is probably more like a 6, imo, especially at retail price. Note that I do think the games are very good for young children; they love the cute pigs and birds, the funny noises they make, and seeing the stuff that happens when they fling them, but they are very shallow and repetitive games.
EDIT: *Sardines, not Soap. Now you've got me doing it.
Re: EA Attempts to Justify Selling Last Year's FIFA as a New Game
@WaxxyOne It's news because it is literally the same game. Yes, we know the sports games all look alike to us, but they do usually have SOME differences.
Re: Nintendo: Phones And Tablets Aren't Games Devices
@0LD_SK0OL_PUNK JumpMad is a long time user who likes to try to be funny (and sometimes even try to make a point) through lighthearted, sarcastic comments. He isn't really trolling; just poking a little fun.
Even you come off as more of a troll than JumpMad, are we going to ban you, too?
"are you ... not smart? if you want GBA games, get 'em on amazon." - Insulting someone's intelligence because you failed to understand the point of Virtual Console. I guess we should all just play games on their original consoles, ay?
"Apple copies Super Mario Land 3D, Nintendo DOESN'T sue." - Oblivious to the fact that the game was created by someone, or a group of people, in China. Also, if Nintendo asked Apple to remove the game from the store under copyright violation, they probably would.
"grammar and punctuation is a really important thing. with them, it's a lot easier to detect tone in a sentence(not to mention it's a lot easier to understand what the commenter is saying!). i dont know, it's just a real pet-peeve of mine when there isnt correct punctuation and grammar in comments (but as far as apostrophes go, they're more often then not are unnecessary.)" - Complaining about grammatical errors when you just made several yourself. Also, you're so concerned with legibility; that's why you don't use any capital letters at all, and apparently don't proof-read your comments. Plus, you complain about incorrect punctuation before saying apostrophes are unnecessary. Yeah.
"$300 for the basic version?? no sir, i dont care if this has zelda, im waiting for a large price-drop. didnt nintendo say they werent going to overprice their crap again like they did with the 3DS? were they on drugs when they said that? ... jeez, nintendo is turning into another apple! ... yupp, nintendo just proved their statement a lie." - Great idea. Compare Nintendo to Apple and call both companies' products overpriced crap. $300 is not very expensive for a next-gen, HD console with a tablet controller. The PS3, IIRC, cost $600 when it launched six years ago for the 60GB model. The XBOX360 had a core system at launch for $300, the same price as Wii U, and there are rumors that Microsoft's new console might launch at the same price. I think it's a fair price, and was surprised it wasn't MORE expensive.
"scumbag japan. they know porting a game to the west will bring in dough, but they don't anyways." - One game isn't ported and now the Japanese are scum. But, obviously, you know better about what would make enough money here make it worthwhile to localize it, amirite?
"but wouldn't it be a better idea to review the entire game as a whole rather than "if it aged as well as my cheese"? i dont know about you, but i buy games to have fun, not whether or not if they aged well :/" - We say a game has aged well if it is still fun by today's standards. For instance, I don't think Pong has aged well. It might've been fun when it was fresh, but now it's just "meh." Also, how did they not review the whole game? One of the main points of retro game reviews is to see if they are still fun by today's standards. We don't review games as if we were still living twenty years in the past and use those standards. It isn't a good enough indicator of how well the mechanics work today.
Note that I don't actually care that much about your comments, or think they are particularly bad. JMs are lighthearted and clearly sarcastic, and even if they weren't, he's never really offensive. If we wanted to start nitpicking and picking apart everyone to see who we should ban, we could really do that to anyone.
Re: Nintendo: Phones And Tablets Aren't Games Devices
@grimbidoo It can be fun to reply seriously to JumpMad.