He's not wrong. This beast is in the wild now. Even if Nintendo did C&D, it won't stop it.
I can see this adding a ton of fun to an absolute classic game. More than anything though, imagine the Games Done Quick speedrum races, with all the runners visible in the same game!
Picked up all the stuff for the game cheap, have only spent about $50 and I have the base WiiU game, Legolas, Gimli, ET, Gremlins, BTTF, Doc Brown, Simpsons, Midway Arcade, Bad Cop, Portal 2, Doctor Who, Scooby Doo, Gollum, Wicked Witch, Benny, Unikitty, and Chase. Girlfriend and I are just digging into the game and it is LOADS of fun for us both to play as the various characters we recognize. Even if this turns out to be the final wave it'll be a great ride to shore.
The problem is that this is being portrayed by other media like they barred women from entry, when they actually offered women the jobs but were turned down. Yet suddenly the committee are the supposed villains.
Also, if you have no interest in being on the committee until you find out you get to be the only one of a particular group there and that's your motivation, then congratulations, you're doing it for the wrong reason. You should have done it because you honestly wanted to assist in the committee's work, and since you turned it down the first time, clearly you had no interest in that aspect of it. Special snowflakes, get out, ree.
I'm unsure why anyone would take offense to this, given the positive message of someone actively choosing to work out toward a goal of self-improvement as they define it, and, via the good ending that this video didn't show, showing that with hard work and determination and self control, one can absolutely improve oneself in both body and spirit.
But then, I'm not surprised that people are looking for reasons to be offended either.
Also, I can't believe anyone would have to even say this, but it's 2017 and it's time to stop propagating this myth that somehow being particularly overweight is healthy for you. Yes, having 10-15, maybe 20 at the most, extra pounds of fat (key word: fat, not muscle) is a reasonably safe concept in the cases of sudden disease so your body has fuel to burn. But it is simply false, projecting, full on denial to claim that if you're packing 40-50 or more pounds of fat that you're somehow "healthy", doubly so if you claim that you can't improve for some reason besides not having functional legs, lungs, or a heart condition.
Quirky free game about a lady running to improve herself and gain self confidence? I see nothing to get offended about here, that sort of self-driving, can-do message is something more of us could use in our lives in multiple ways.
@ImagineerNik The real answer is "Yup...and this movie ain't how it happened."
Seriously, they removed Misty and Brock and put in two unknown blahs running Diamond and Pearl Pokémon. Because, you know, why not erase the past? The dumb kids won't know any better.
Very glad to see this classic guide get this kind of attention. I received my older brother's old Nintendo Power magazines and this guide (as well as the Super Mario World and FFIII guides) when I was four. It's a big reason why Link to the Past remains one of my favorite games ever.
I have a digital version of the guide and I've posted it page-by-page on 4chan's /v/ board a few times over the years as "LttPGuideGuy". Despite what so many think about the site, the guide threads have always been wonderful and enjoyable, and those in them truly get lost in the art and lore and the pure detail that went into this amazing guide. It's truly a shame that so few guides ever do this anymore.
Really not liking this layout. I don't go on the Playstation site so I don't know what it's been like over there, but this is CONFUSING. There's random tiles of stories all over the place, and nothing is running chronologically, so the stuff at the top of my page is sometimes days old. That and some of the stories seem to change positions randomly whenever I refresh.
It's cluttered, there's no gentle empty space like the previous layout allowed for (and thus my eyes get worn down trying to identify stories). And while I get that the red is "thematic", the color being splashed all over the site is much more harsh on the eyes than the old gentle format. And really, trying to argue that blue specifically represented Wii-U when the system didn't have a spot of blue on it just doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
I realize I'm laying down a lot of salt here, but this layout has made trying to identify and read the new Switch news very difficult on the computer, and downright aggravating on mobile where it's just scattered all over creation. Sorry, but a pox on this mess. Refine the previous version if you must, but at least give us an option to opt back to the old layout or something similar please.
Hey, I'd buy it. Sure, it's a bit ridiculous, but that's half the fun when it comes to Japanese games. The clothing damage aspect just lends itself more to comedy in my head than titilation, since it appears to be more of a "punishment" for failure than a reward.
Star Fox and Paper Mario looked good. Just about everything else though, either I'm not in the target audience (Animal Crossing etc) or it was just downright disappointing (Metroid).
Stuff, Nintendo. Come on. You were up against FFVII of all things.
@Quorthon You're quoting Rational Wiki as a legitimate source of truthful information? I mean, yikes dude. Just...yikes. That's like saying Fox News or MSNBC are unbiased journalism.
I kind of have to ask... So a random Swedish newspaper posts a story against the game, and it gets reposted here. Nevermind that other places far more prominent have probably done similar stuff. Is this really news, NintendoLife? Or did we just need a place to have the Senran sexism etc discussion beforehand where it could be contained and weaned out to prevent it from taking over future news posts about the game?
Ben Kuchera threw a little hissy fit on Twitter about Shia's boobs, including a claim that the developers are shunning every Zelda fan over the age of twelve.
Mr. Kuchera, I don't think you understand that the Zelda series is equal opportunity. Everyone can have large breasts, even the big ladies!
My girlfriend has been extremely hyped for this game ever since finding out it was coming to 3DS. What the article doesn't mention is that Hakuoki is an immensely popular game with a huge following overseas and a strong vocal fan base online in the west (hence the western release). The 3DS edition also includes a boatload of physical extras such as a folding fan and a thick encyclopedia about the era and time of the story.
This is a really great story and we're both looking forward to picking it up.
@ShikabaneHime13 One can look at all sides of something and understand why it was done, and still be entirely allowed to be pissed off and angry at the manner in which it was done. Shutting down the entire service was not the answer.
Have Nintendo never used the internet before? SON OF A puppy.
I am incredibly mad here. My girlfriend JUST ordered a 3DS from their refurbishment center and we were all set to go on Swapnote for me to send her all my stationaries. For the love of pete Nintendo, screw off, this is not the right answer! Watch the profanity please — TBD
This is completely stupid. This is like if some silly person posted a giant penis on Twitter, and they responded by SHUTTING DOWN TWITTER. You don't shut down the entire service, you ban the poopiedoodoheads who do it and move on. Watch the profanity and insults please — TBD
There's already been a lot of iffy poopoodoodiecacapoopsiedoodles about these awards - every single game that won either had the Head of Marketing in Europe, or was European-based. There's a lot of idle talk online that that's just too much of a coincidence and that the awards group may not have wanted to fly anyone in from outside the Eurozone (ie: Japan or America). Watch the profanity please — TBD
...this has me very, very worried about how extensive (or rather, NOT extensive) the content of the game will be, if it's that much smaller than some of the recent releases.
Before anyone panicks about him being cagey about the game length, bear in mind that Link to the Past, for all it's content, could be 100%ed by an average player in 4-5 hours, and that's not at speedrunner time, which was even lower at a cool 2 hours without glitch abuse.
I'd expect that this game will be more about the experience than a lengthy story.
I have to admit my guilt...when I saw how overwhelmingly successful Mighty was, I yanked my funding from it and put it into Shantae instead...it seemed like they needed it more.
BattleTanx: Global Assault was a fantastically fun game. The story was fairly grimdark cheesy, but it was fun in it's own way, and it's one of those rare sequels where you don't have to have played the first game to understand it. I'd highly recommend the game, it's a ton of fun (and you can use nukes...and yes they do absolutely decimate EVERYTHING).
"They have never sold an item that doesn't go away after each use like the boomerang or the hookshot."
-_-
Shovel and Bow in Link's Awakening. The Blue and Red Shields and a bottle in Link to the Past. The red and blue tunics in Ocarina of Time. The Bomb Bag and Big Bomb Bag in Majora's Mask. The Sail in Wind Waker. The BOOMERANG in Minish Cap. And many, many more.
This is hardly the first time Aonuma's gaffed on his own games. God I'm worried about this nonsensical sequel.
I'm a huge FFVI fan, and I do want to see a movie about it, heck I wrote a script for the first segment of a television adaptation eons back for a scriptwriting class in college. But this...yikes. Everyone's way too young, and the acting seems really stilted. And I just don't understand some of these design choices, there's at least four existing designs for Magitek Armor and this one turned it into this spindly thing that looks like a five year old could kick the legs out from under it.
This is going to sound like a silly gripe, but they turned her into a child AND turned her white. Until they fix that, they're not getting a dime - I'm here for Shantae, not some whitewashed character design.
@Fusion14 You're perfectly entitled to your opinion, even though you're wrong.
FireRed and LeafGreen were enjoyable, sure, but bear in mind that they both censored and changed much of the original game. Yes they added additional content, but the cuts that came with it tends to be the defining factor of which game I choose to play now and then. I would eagerly buy up Red or Blue on the VC - I can't say the same for FireRed and LeafGreen.
@SanderEvers Nintendo has already said multiple times that this is a direct sequel to LttP. The game's WORKING TITLE in Japan is "Link to the Past 2" for pete's sake.
Inasmuch as I loved the Dark World, it CEASED TO EXIST at the end of Link to the Past. Link got the Triforce, banished Ganon's evil wish, and fixed everything. So HOW can the Dark World exist in a sequel? Unless they're going to completely rehash the entire plot and make Ganon get it yet again, which would make absolutely no sense since Link to the Past was one of the few Zelda games where Ganon was KILLED, and he wasn't resurrected until Oracle of Ages/Seasons (as a mindless beast which was promptly put down again).
I'm still the only person I know who enjoyed the sequel to Tales of Symphonia on the Wii.
It's a little more structured than ToS was, because it's guiding us through a direct story, but there's a lot of good character evolution, and there are DOZENS of sidequests - they're just hidden away somewhat since the game moves in chapters. The best way to enjoy the game is to do a normal playthrough the first time, then Grade Shop for the second playthrough and THEN do the sidequests (also because several of them, like the destroyed Balacruf Mausoleum, can only be played on the second playthrough).
@Luigifan141 Anita Sarkeesian's videos. The video game news sites don't want to call out her shenanigans because they'd get attacked as "anti-feminist", so instead they're bandwagoning and jumping on a ton of supposedly pro-female stories.
The point is, everyone is acting like these are somehow "major victories" for women in gaming, when really the portrayal of women in video games is at the best place that it's been in for years. Anita's "Damsel in Distress" managed to get people all worked up so they somehow think there's this widespread victimization of women in video games these days. For the idiots who believe this, I point you to Dead or Alive, Tomb Raider, Baldur's Gate, Assassin's Creed, World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Pokemon, Metroid, and about two dozen other series. Everyone needs to calm down - just because one woman misrepresented and left facts OUT of her video (Zelda has been playable three times, ma'am) doesn't mean suddenly every romhack swapping characters is suddenly news. This kind of hack would have taken fifteen minutes at most to do, and moreover it's been done before actually many years ago.
Why are people making such a big deal out of this? Fans have been modding games to change things like gender of characters for years. Pokemon Red and Blue had a Pokemon Girl mod made even after Crystal introduced the new female character.
The only reason anyone is reporting this as "news" is because Anita finally released her seven-month-late, $160,000 video in which she basically read off the TVTropes Damsel in Distress page up to the year 1995, while promising to read the rest in the next video, which will be released on a future date yet to be determined.
This is fans being fans. It's not news, it's cheap exploitation of Anita and her status as a controversial figure - not because of the feminist movement, but because of her personally.
Edit: "Via Kotaku". Let me say something very clearly: Kotaku is the biggest example of non-news exploitation on the entire internet when it comes to video games. They have no credibility, no credentials, constantly publish fiction as fact, and will grab for attention anywhere they can get it. Do NOT let Nintendo Life, by all accounts a very good site, be wrapped up in their biased inane shenanigans.
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Re: Super Mario 64 Online Creator Says "Nothing Can Stop" the Fan Project
He's not wrong. This beast is in the wild now. Even if Nintendo did C&D, it won't stop it.
I can see this adding a ton of fun to an absolute classic game. More than anything though, imagine the Games Done Quick speedrum races, with all the runners visible in the same game!
Re: Video: Lego Dimensions Brings Teen Titans, Powerpuff Girls And Beetlejuice To Wii U
Picked up all the stuff for the game cheap, have only spent about $50 and I have the base WiiU game, Legolas, Gimli, ET, Gremlins, BTTF, Doc Brown, Simpsons, Midway Arcade, Bad Cop, Portal 2, Doctor Who, Scooby Doo, Gollum, Wicked Witch, Benny, Unikitty, and Chase. Girlfriend and I are just digging into the game and it is LOADS of fun for us both to play as the various characters we recognize. Even if this turns out to be the final wave it'll be a great ride to shore.
Re: Smash Melee Champ Resigns from All-Male Rules Committee To Encourage Broader Representation
The problem is that this is being portrayed by other media like they barred women from entry, when they actually offered women the jobs but were turned down. Yet suddenly the committee are the supposed villains.
Also, if you have no interest in being on the committee until you find out you get to be the only one of a particular group there and that's your motivation, then congratulations, you're doing it for the wrong reason. You should have done it because you honestly wanted to assist in the committee's work, and since you turned it down the first time, clearly you had no interest in that aspect of it. Special snowflakes, get out, ree.
Re: Check Out a New NES Game - Amazon's Running Diet
I'm unsure why anyone would take offense to this, given the positive message of someone actively choosing to work out toward a goal of self-improvement as they define it, and, via the good ending that this video didn't show, showing that with hard work and determination and self control, one can absolutely improve oneself in both body and spirit.
But then, I'm not surprised that people are looking for reasons to be offended either.
Also, I can't believe anyone would have to even say this, but it's 2017 and it's time to stop propagating this myth that somehow being particularly overweight is healthy for you. Yes, having 10-15, maybe 20 at the most, extra pounds of fat (key word: fat, not muscle) is a reasonably safe concept in the cases of sudden disease so your body has fuel to burn. But it is simply false, projecting, full on denial to claim that if you're packing 40-50 or more pounds of fat that you're somehow "healthy", doubly so if you claim that you can't improve for some reason besides not having functional legs, lungs, or a heart condition.
Quirky free game about a lady running to improve herself and gain self confidence? I see nothing to get offended about here, that sort of self-driving, can-do message is something more of us could use in our lives in multiple ways.
Re: Pokémon The Movie: I Choose You Gets New Teaser, With Giveaways Also Confirmed
@ImagineerNik The real answer is "Yup...and this movie ain't how it happened."
Seriously, they removed Misty and Brock and put in two unknown blahs running Diamond and Pearl Pokémon. Because, you know, why not erase the past? The dumb kids won't know any better.
Re: Video: Let's Have a Closer Look at the Player's Guide for Zelda: A Link to the Past
Very glad to see this classic guide get this kind of attention. I received my older brother's old Nintendo Power magazines and this guide (as well as the Super Mario World and FFIII guides) when I was four. It's a big reason why Link to the Past remains one of my favorite games ever.
I have a digital version of the guide and I've posted it page-by-page on 4chan's /v/ board a few times over the years as "LttPGuideGuy". Despite what so many think about the site, the guide threads have always been wonderful and enjoyable, and those in them truly get lost in the art and lore and the pure detail that went into this amazing guide. It's truly a shame that so few guides ever do this anymore.
Thanks for making this video. =)
Re: Site News: Nintendo Life is Red, Nintendo Life was Blue
Really not liking this layout. I don't go on the Playstation site so I don't know what it's been like over there, but this is CONFUSING. There's random tiles of stories all over the place, and nothing is running chronologically, so the stuff at the top of my page is sometimes days old. That and some of the stories seem to change positions randomly whenever I refresh.
It's cluttered, there's no gentle empty space like the previous layout allowed for (and thus my eyes get worn down trying to identify stories). And while I get that the red is "thematic", the color being splashed all over the site is much more harsh on the eyes than the old gentle format. And really, trying to argue that blue specifically represented Wii-U when the system didn't have a spot of blue on it just doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
I realize I'm laying down a lot of salt here, but this layout has made trying to identify and read the new Switch news very difficult on the computer, and downright aggravating on mobile where it's just scattered all over creation. Sorry, but a pox on this mess. Refine the previous version if you must, but at least give us an option to opt back to the old layout or something similar please.
Re: Bomberman Is Coming To Arcades As Bombergirl
Hey, I'd buy it. Sure, it's a bit ridiculous, but that's half the fun when it comes to Japanese games. The clothing damage aspect just lends itself more to comedy in my head than titilation, since it appears to be more of a "punishment" for failure than a reward.
Re: Metroid Prime: Federation Force Is The Metroid Game You Didn't Expect, Or Perhaps Want
One word:
Aaargh.
Re: Poll: What Did You Think of Nintendo's E3 Digital Event?
Star Fox and Paper Mario looked good. Just about everything else though, either I'm not in the target audience (Animal Crossing etc) or it was just downright disappointing (Metroid).
Stuff, Nintendo. Come on. You were up against FFVII of all things.
Re: Swedish Newspaper Questions The European Release Of Senran Kagura 2: Deep Crimson
@Quorthon
You're quoting Rational Wiki as a legitimate source of truthful information?
I mean, yikes dude. Just...yikes.
That's like saying Fox News or MSNBC are unbiased journalism.
Re: Swedish Newspaper Questions The European Release Of Senran Kagura 2: Deep Crimson
I kind of have to ask...
So a random Swedish newspaper posts a story against the game, and it gets reposted here. Nevermind that other places far more prominent have probably done similar stuff.
Is this really news, NintendoLife? Or did we just need a place to have the Senran sexism etc discussion beforehand where it could be contained and weaned out to prevent it from taking over future news posts about the game?
I mean, if that was the point, good thinking.
Re: Complete First Season Of Donkey Kong Country TV Series Coming To DVD This May
What, all of this and NOBODY has mentioned the absolute best part of the show?
THE FACKIN PIRATES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACR1ODcds9Q
Re: Fans Plan a Revival of Mega Man Legends 3
@retro_player_22 They still have to get Trigger off Elysium first. So of course we have to play as Barret to begin with.
Re: Here Are Plenty of Lovely Hyrule Warriors Screenshots at Which to Gawk
Ben Kuchera threw a little hissy fit on Twitter about Shia's boobs, including a claim that the developers are shunning every Zelda fan over the age of twelve.
Mr. Kuchera, I don't think you understand that the Zelda series is equal opportunity. Everyone can have large breasts, even the big ladies!
http://s27.postimg.org/4fm0hn8j5/1400787898311.png
Re: Review: Hakuoki: Memories of the Shinsengumi (3DS)
My girlfriend has been extremely hyped for this game ever since finding out it was coming to 3DS. What the article doesn't mention is that Hakuoki is an immensely popular game with a huge following overseas and a strong vocal fan base online in the west (hence the western release). The 3DS edition also includes a boatload of physical extras such as a folding fan and a thick encyclopedia about the era and time of the story.
This is a really great story and we're both looking forward to picking it up.
Re: Talking Point: Nintendo's Safe and Family-Friendly Focus is Integral to Its Fortunes
@ShikabaneHime13 One can look at all sides of something and understand why it was done, and still be entirely allowed to be pissed off and angry at the manner in which it was done. Shutting down the entire service was not the answer.
Re: Nintendo Disables Swapnote's SpotPass Service Due to Online Safety Concerns
Have Nintendo never used the internet before? SON OF A puppy.
I am incredibly mad here. My girlfriend JUST ordered a 3DS from their refurbishment center and we were all set to go on Swapnote for me to send her all my stationaries. For the love of pete Nintendo, screw off, this is not the right answer!
Watch the profanity please — TBD
Re: Nintendo Disables Swapnote's SpotPass Service Due to Online Safety Concerns
This is completely stupid. This is like if some silly person posted a giant penis on Twitter, and they responded by SHUTTING DOWN TWITTER. You don't shut down the entire service, you ban the poopiedoodoheads who do it and move on.
Watch the profanity and insults please — TBD
Re: Nintendo Comes Up Empty at the Golden Joystick Awards
There's already been a lot of iffy poopoodoodiecacapoopsiedoodles about these awards - every single game that won either had the Head of Marketing in Europe, or was European-based. There's a lot of idle talk online that that's just too much of a coincidence and that the awards group may not have wanted to fly anyone in from outside the Eurozone (ie: Japan or America).
Watch the profanity please — TBD
Re: Cypronia Reveals New Wii U eShop Games, Including "Physics-Based Demolition" Title Angry Bunnies
Angry...Bunnies...
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R9swj1FjJsc/UioISO6--0I/AAAAAAAAPoI/AZ7_x0ZNSMw/s640/tumblr_li2c69qNgN1qgnsnbo1_500+(1).gif
Re: Saucy JRPG Toushin Toshi II Is Getting Remade For The Nintendo 3DS
Call me when Rance Quest gets an uncensored full 3DS release. Then I'll care about saucy JRPGs.
Re: Zelda: A Link Between Worlds Will Lay Claim To This Much Space On Your 3DS Console's SD Card
...this has me very, very worried about how extensive (or rather, NOT extensive) the content of the game will be, if it's that much smaller than some of the recent releases.
Re: Eiji Aonuma Confirms Minor Changes to A Link Between Worlds to Accommodate 2DS
Before anyone panicks about him being cagey about the game length, bear in mind that Link to the Past, for all it's content, could be 100%ed by an average player in 4-5 hours, and that's not at speedrunner time, which was even lower at a cool 2 hours without glitch abuse.
I'd expect that this game will be more about the experience than a lengthy story.
Re: XSEED Aiming For November Release For Busty Anime Brawler Senran Kagura Burst
@craigmoss19 There is, the main focus is combat. And skimpily-clad girls.
Japan.
Re: Extra Chapter Funded for Shantae: Half-Genie Hero
I have to admit my guilt...when I saw how overwhelmingly successful Mighty was, I yanked my funding from it and put it into Shantae instead...it seemed like they needed it more.
Re: Feature: Great Nintendo 64 Multiplayer Games You May Not Have Played
BattleTanx: Global Assault was a fantastically fun game. The story was fairly grimdark cheesy, but it was fun in it's own way, and it's one of those rare sequels where you don't have to have played the first game to understand it. I'd highly recommend the game, it's a ton of fun (and you can use nukes...and yes they do absolutely decimate EVERYTHING).
Re: Eiji Aonuma Advises Adventurers to Hoard Rupees in The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
"They have never sold an item that doesn't go away after each use like the boomerang or the hookshot."
-_-
Shovel and Bow in Link's Awakening. The Blue and Red Shields and a bottle in Link to the Past. The red and blue tunics in Ocarina of Time. The Bomb Bag and Big Bomb Bag in Majora's Mask. The Sail in Wind Waker. The BOOMERANG in Minish Cap. And many, many more.
This is hardly the first time Aonuma's gaffed on his own games. God I'm worried about this nonsensical sequel.
Re: Video: There's A Fan-Made Final Fantasy VI Movie In The Works
wince
I'm a huge FFVI fan, and I do want to see a movie about it, heck I wrote a script for the first segment of a television adaptation eons back for a scriptwriting class in college. But this...yikes. Everyone's way too young, and the acting seems really stilted. And I just don't understand some of these design choices, there's at least four existing designs for Magitek Armor and this one turned it into this spindly thing that looks like a five year old could kick the legs out from under it.
Re: WayForward Launches Kickstarter Campaign for Shantae: Half-Genie Hero
...no.
This is going to sound like a silly gripe, but they turned her into a child AND turned her white. Until they fix that, they're not getting a dime - I'm here for Shantae, not some whitewashed character design.
http://www.shantae.net/images/shantae_main.png
Re: Mega Man Creator Keiji Inafune Working On Spiritual Successor Mighty No. 9
@DaveGX Inafune didn't abandon Megaman. Capcom essentially barred him from it after they shot down three Megaman games.
In other news...WE BROKE ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
Re: Weirdness: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is Beaten in Under 20 Minutes
All these people whining about the use of glitches...
http://1-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/vr/image/1363/71/1363719149049.png
Re: Metroid Fan Film Seeks Crowdfunding For Completion
@manu0 Too many crap Alien films.
Re: David Wise Returns To Compose The Soundtrack To Donkey Kong Country Returns: Tropical Freeze
I was basically ready to write this game off as a level pack cash-grab by Nintendo.
But for David Wise, who is an awesome guy? I'll give it some breathing room and a little hopeful hype.
Re: Feature: A Brief History of Pokémon - Part One
@Fusion14 You're perfectly entitled to your opinion, even though you're wrong.
FireRed and LeafGreen were enjoyable, sure, but bear in mind that they both censored and changed much of the original game. Yes they added additional content, but the cuts that came with it tends to be the defining factor of which game I choose to play now and then. I would eagerly buy up Red or Blue on the VC - I can't say the same for FireRed and LeafGreen.
Re: Feature: A Brief History of Pokémon - Part One
@squashie If the original Red and Blue games were released on VC with local trading and battling via the 3DS IR, people would go bananas.
Re: Video: Batman: Arkham Origins Official Trailer Goes for the Wow Factor
Black Mask, Deadshot, and Deathstroke/Slade? I can go for this.
Re: Eiji Aonuma: Zelda 3DS Will Feature a Light and Dark World
@SanderEvers Nintendo has already said multiple times that this is a direct sequel to LttP. The game's WORKING TITLE in Japan is "Link to the Past 2" for pete's sake.
Re: Eiji Aonuma: Zelda 3DS Will Feature a Light and Dark World
Okay hang on, problem.
Inasmuch as I loved the Dark World, it CEASED TO EXIST at the end of Link to the Past. Link got the Triforce, banished Ganon's evil wish, and fixed everything. So HOW can the Dark World exist in a sequel? Unless they're going to completely rehash the entire plot and make Ganon get it yet again, which would make absolutely no sense since Link to the Past was one of the few Zelda games where Ganon was KILLED, and he wasn't resurrected until Oracle of Ages/Seasons (as a mindless beast which was promptly put down again).
This makes no sense.
Re: Tales Of Symphonia Is The Most "Successful" Series Entry In The West, Says Producer
I'm still the only person I know who enjoyed the sequel to Tales of Symphonia on the Wii.
It's a little more structured than ToS was, because it's guiding us through a direct story, but there's a lot of good character evolution, and there are DOZENS of sidequests - they're just hidden away somewhat since the game moves in chapters. The best way to enjoy the game is to do a normal playthrough the first time, then Grade Shop for the second playthrough and THEN do the sidequests (also because several of them, like the destroyed Balacruf Mausoleum, can only be played on the second playthrough).
Re: Talking Point: An Open Letter To Nintendo
@AbeVigoda Like you had anything better to do.
Responses like this are such mindless crap. If we opened the page, the least we can do is read what's there.
Re: Aliens: Colonial Marines Seems To Have Been Abducted From The Wii U
@Le_Gazman WiiU has a few solid games so far, but unfortunately it's going to be a while before it really has steam.
Re: Dead Island: Riptide Developer Says The Engine "Runs On Wii U Without Any Problems"
BREAKING NEWS: 3rd Party Publishers Attempt to Crap on WiiU, Devs Say They're Full of Hooey. More at 11.
Re: EA CEO John Riccitiello Resigns
@edhe They stopped supporting it a while ago, they just aren't polite enough to come out and say so.
Re: Legend Of Zelda Hacked To Make Zelda The Hero
@Luigifan141 Anita Sarkeesian's videos. The video game news sites don't want to call out her shenanigans because they'd get attacked as "anti-feminist", so instead they're bandwagoning and jumping on a ton of supposedly pro-female stories.
The point is, everyone is acting like these are somehow "major victories" for women in gaming, when really the portrayal of women in video games is at the best place that it's been in for years. Anita's "Damsel in Distress" managed to get people all worked up so they somehow think there's this widespread victimization of women in video games these days. For the idiots who believe this, I point you to Dead or Alive, Tomb Raider, Baldur's Gate, Assassin's Creed, World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Pokemon, Metroid, and about two dozen other series. Everyone needs to calm down - just because one woman misrepresented and left facts OUT of her video (Zelda has been playable three times, ma'am) doesn't mean suddenly every romhack swapping characters is suddenly news. This kind of hack would have taken fifteen minutes at most to do, and moreover it's been done before actually many years ago.
Re: Legend Of Zelda Hacked To Make Zelda The Hero
Why are people making such a big deal out of this? Fans have been modding games to change things like gender of characters for years. Pokemon Red and Blue had a Pokemon Girl mod made even after Crystal introduced the new female character.
The only reason anyone is reporting this as "news" is because Anita finally released her seven-month-late, $160,000 video in which she basically read off the TVTropes Damsel in Distress page up to the year 1995, while promising to read the rest in the next video, which will be released on a future date yet to be determined.
This is fans being fans. It's not news, it's cheap exploitation of Anita and her status as a controversial figure - not because of the feminist movement, but because of her personally.
Edit: "Via Kotaku". Let me say something very clearly: Kotaku is the biggest example of non-news exploitation on the entire internet when it comes to video games. They have no credibility, no credentials, constantly publish fiction as fact, and will grab for attention anywhere they can get it. Do NOT let Nintendo Life, by all accounts a very good site, be wrapped up in their biased inane shenanigans.