@Chunky_Droid Truth be told it could just as well have been the NA version because even CRT TVs have had multi-sync since the days of the PS2 here in Oz, so the chances of it not working are mighty slim
That said, I take on board that WB released it in Oz not NoE, so it makes me wonder why other third party ANZ distributors of games, regardless of platform, can't do the same.
If you've never owned/played it then as mentioned above, it's a new game.
And how much do people think it's going to cost "just for a HD reskin". Have a real hard think about what's actually involved to do this and what else is being thrown into the deal before deciding the RRP price-point is too high...
I still gag at the thought of paying full RRP for an eShop 'retail' download when I'm having to pay for the medium through which it's delivered (internet in Oz ain't cheap) as well as the additional storage medium.
One could argue the cost of driving to a store but if I can wait a little for a title, then I can get it posted to me and it's still cheaper than an eShop download.
I'm sorry Nintendo it's close but no cigar from a personal perspective.
You discount the downloadable titles by about 15%, I'll happily forego my double Club Nintendo points, and we'll have a deal...
The alleged bugs would have be related to way that the multiple languages are being parsed, which makes me wonder what's changed in the engine from previous versions to cause this.
Damo, as side note, could somebody at NL investigate how come Australia and New Zealand were saved the pain of delay in this game's instance yet are held back (or on occasion, hold back) on the majority of other "European" releases, please?
@SpaceKappa The "reflections in character's eyes" in your post strikes a chord with me in that it sums up the ridiculous degree of focus on gaming graphics in general. I'd rather the floating point power be put to good use elsewhere in a game...
@mumof2kids82 Try overcoming the knowledge that at 50, in spite of what you recognise as the cleverness of Pokemon, it does not sit well with your peers who are more interested in watching TV, fishing, four-wheel driving, drinking to excess, and other 'young grandfatherly age' pursuits...
@rafaelluik and @pinkspider I think you missed the thrust of why @phle wrote that - because (and I'm in the same league) he/she doesn't have enough 'twitch' dexterity to get a great deal of fun from 'regular' Mario platformers so the extrapolation was based on gaming self-esteem, not that the games in question were crap. In my case though, I continue to buy them then get frustrated at my pitiful efforts and/or lack of free time to throw at the game...
@Slapshot 's post 54# is the most sensible take on the story of the 13 yo that I've read.
The argument that @Five-seveN proposed and continued with it's selective overseas examples and ignorance of wider real-world facts - in my opinion - is how most of us outside of the US perceive the average US citizen and not, unfortunately, more like Slapshot and similar, who do not seem to be into twisting constitutional amendments written during the time of real tyrants and muzzle-loaders as an excuse to own weapons of mass carnage.
Is it a case of media making bucks out of the 'empty vessels' and the Eurogamer article is playing all of us - as gamers - to get more hits?
The cynic might even see this thread as being along those lines
BTW, I've been interested in guns on and off since I was about five but I've never owned one... unless you count cap-pistols and laser-tag...
Not buying a Wii U because of freezing issues is about as valid a reason as not travelling in aeroplanes because they crash. If people pulled their heads out of their chicken-little backsides and actually put bad-news into perspective, things aren't that bad. And again we see people with no idea of what goes into electronics claiming ridiculously low prices for what are still essentially vapour-ware consoles from MicroSony and thereby justifying the Wii U price as extortionate. I thought all of this regurgitation of pure crapola had subsided but I see it's time for the next internet wave of disinformation-through-lack-of-thorough-investigation to roll in.... grrrrr....
Gotta have the Classic pack (had this on the PS3 with v1, updated machines, could not download v1 again, wasn't buying new version out of spite ) but then the Marvel tables are calling me...
@BenAV yeah, I've seen your scores.. makes me wanna turn off my 3DS's WiFi in disgust at my own weak scores... LOL!
Cross-play..... so is that like we have to dress up as Lt Uhura to play these, or am I confusing it with cross-dressing cosplay again?... I have better legs than Nichelle Nichols.....
It's not a poll I can help with because rather than use one methodology over others, I may use any of them depending factors such as how desperate I am for the game, what's the offer, and at a price that I am prepared to justify to myself as acceptable.
That said, the least likely is the supermarket/variety chain but I will use their catalogs to get a price-match in a specialist game store.
What I'd like to see in games like this (which is subject to the way the game locates the servers) is that the server software is released for interested fans to keep running.
Probably the only thing I miss from PC gaming is the ability to set up your own servers (usually on an old linux-powered box) if you wanted to.
N64 Goldeneye saw me getting owned by my nephews and niece - they were the Ninty family, we were the Sony family
Fast-forward to last year, a Wii and Goldeneye 007 (after playing the PS3 for several years) absolutely brilliant game (proving that whilst HD is nice, it ain't everything), excellent multiplayer - loved every minute of it!
I'm a little like @luminalace in that I'm almost over it with the waiting - however after spitting the dummy and then watching the video, I guess I'm looking forward to it again
The only bugger is that I will be Wii U-less and working in Norway when this is released... so much nearer to FrozenByte than I am presently, yet still too far to visit in the time I have.
I don't suppose that there are any Ninty Life members living in Drammen who wouldn't mind sharing their console with a foreigner?
@Taceus, you got no time to play Trine 2... I expect you to be at least level 36 in Black Ops by the time I get back - LOL!!!
The Capcom example has been used in engineering software for years except it works like this; you get a disk, you pay for a licence to access certain options and that's it. Want more? Upgrade the licence, unlock what's already been installed onto your hard-drive.
A number of PSN-distributed games were similar in that the demo was the full-game but you were locked out until the licence string was downloaded and applied, meaning that there was only a file of around 15k (IIRC) required to download instead of having to redownload the entire game.
Pretty sure that the various 'tiers' of Windows 8 are the same (within the boundaries of the respective 32-bit or 64-bit installation)
My point is that it's nothing really new, I just think that, Capcom example aside for the moment, it's just not really been noticed before.
COOKING MAMA MADE ME KILL CHEESE IN SELF-DEFENCE !!!
2nd amendment was written when guns were muzzle-loaders and the fledgling US had no army to speak of, relying on militia. That argument's getting old...
P.S imagine The Matrix lobby scene if Neo only had muzzle-loaders....
The whole games industry is in a slump, not specifically Nintendo - whom , I may stress again only make game consoles and games, not tablets, phones, operating systems, tvs, movies, music, cameras, etc, etc.....
Black Ops II and when bored of being a frag-magnet, it'll be...???
I'm spoilt for choices on both WiiU and 3DS so it'll be down to whichever console gets picked up first: Wii U NL or Sonic etc Racing 3DS Crimson Shroud or Super 3D Mario
@Pixel-Perfect I'm debating the price myself but I think I've been swayed enough to buy print + digital. These are the things I've considered aside from the content - might help people decide one way or the other 1) the synopsis says there's no ads between the covers - 78 pages of pure content is virtually a book. 2) There's not a lot of revenue to be gained from advertisements due to the first point 3) The mag is for the Jan/Feb period, so it may only be six issues a year (at this stage) so the cost averages US$9.00/month for print+digital, US$2.50 for digital only. 5) It's the first issue! - an instant buy for OCD collectors of such things!
Points 1 to 4 are the financial considerations which to me suggest value-for-money in either form - point 5 ignores the reasoning of 1 to 4 = LOL!
For any Aussies contemplating buying the print issue, although it's a print-on-demand service, for some reason, the printing is onlly done in the U.S. The cheapest shipping is US$10.50 (USPS), no tracking, estimated 3-4 weeks delivery - so it's almost a typical Aussie newstand delay. Any faster shipping starts at around US$30...
@taffy and everyone else with the same opinion. Is that the same PS3 that set me back AU$800 and barring the user-upgradeable 60GB drive, had a high percentage of crap games - of the few that were available, and I'm guessing half the Wii U's number of titles - and none of the streaming services you listed.
It's taken SIX YEARS for what is, in consumer electronics terms, an 'ancient' design to reach it's current state and price-point.
Don't get me started on Sony's hokey-cokey on PS2-compatability (unlike the full Wii-only emulation experience of the Wii U), the removal of Linux operability because some geek has self-esteem issues, and the fact that the majority of Wii U titles are still cheaper than their cross-platform peers.
Have no doubt, I got a lot of gaming entertainment from my PS3 and for the life of it I got my money's worth but I find this continual bleating of the PS360 prices as a reason to complain taken completely out of context when the supporting list of features were not available at that price on launch and is as frustrating as hell to keep reading the same erroneous message.
What will the Wii U be like in 12 months, never mind 6 years?
In Australia, GameStop trades under the name EBGames - we're a funny lot like that, we wouldn't know what Burger King was other than by looking at the branding to see that everything bar the name, Hungry Jack's, is Burger King.
I never was a fan of EBGames' pricing, particularly charging 80-90% of a new game price for used - and they have no unused stock (surprise surprise), worse when you traded the same title for around a third new game price. I'd also complain about the 'puketahhh-puketahhh' music being so loud sometimes that I can't think, let alone converse normally. This said, they represent the only franchised game-specialist stores that this country has and generally are the only bricks-and-mortar store to stock more than the generic "Barbiez Bratzy Horsiez" crap.
For the Wii U release, it was a case of good timing. I had a lot of stuff to trade and EB were doing a good deal on trade-ins that were credits towards a Wii U pre-order, so with that deal and the price-match policy which the crew in Hay Street were quite keen to remind me about, I ended up exchanging cash and gear for not only my pre-order but had enough credit to get almost two additional titles.
I could not have had less hassle nor managed to come away with what I felt was a bargain had I gone anwhere else, so casting my negative generalisations about the place aside, you can have a good experience but you have to pick the sales and be armed with a competitor's catalogue
@Bankai - what you say might hold true for physical copies - in the stodgy old distribution format (in Oz a select few own the distribution rights to wide variety of consumer goods and we get a narrow range of choices) - but the way I interpreted the distribution statement that it related to the cost of digital copies. And even if game media was made in Oz, 50% is still one helluva mark-up ... cost of living may be high but it's not that high...
So is ANZ getting Trine 2 yet, or do we have to all bugger around self-defeatingly switching regions to get this? (p.s. angst not directed at Nintendo Life )
You cannot exceed 1080p with current TV technology so I would like people to explain exactly what they expect from 'next gen' that is such a dramatic improvement over the Wii U such that it becomes a guaranteed fail.... just like the non-HD Wii was, right?
I have a few ideas where improvements might be made - eg 'deeper' draw distance and more on-screen information but at some point the work required to fill this 'space' reaches the point of diminishing returns when you consider that the focus of a game is playing a game, not sight-seeing and much of the visual feast will go wasted.
The majority of the data on a storage medium will be the graphics and short of fitting high-capacity, high-speed SSD drives, loading times will make the Wii U's menu speed look like grease lightning.
Do I feel like I'm missing out given this scenario? Nope.
People whinge about the cost of the Wii U now - just how much do they expect this near-future tech to cost?
Non-specific, speculative generalisations based on fear of the unknown are beyond boring.
As an 'occasional' Pokemon player and 3DS owner, a 3DS version feels two releases overdue - not that B&W 1 & 2 were bad by any stretch of the imagination but I would have rather spent the extraordinary amount of time playing using the features that I bought the console for, particularly after seeing the Pokemon in the two 3d Pokedex... yes, purely selfish reasons.
Best Xmas memories: (1) My wife, two sons (26 & 23), and myself playing NSMBU for a few hours on Xmas Eve. (2) Listening to my wife's 'gamer noises' as she plays Super Mario 3D on her new white 3DS
So... ah... is it too early to ask what/if there's an eShop update for this week??
Top 10's will always attract some controversy, IMO.
When I read the list, there was at least three games which I disagreed with straight out but thought I'd come back later and comment.
Whilst playing one the games that I like which didn't make the list, I then realised it was because I'm not a fan of the genres represented by those three games in the slightest.
So in the end I figured your list should either have been bigger, or should have contained the top 5 to avoid
Is there a European 4-hour download window for the pod-cast?......
Just joking, guys, just joking
Good read, good points.
Just keep in mind sometimes that for whatever reason the eShop games are released an a seemingly haphazard manner so there are still some regions, such as the Euro Sub-regions Australia & New Zealand who will on the rarest of occasion have the odd title before you guys but as is the case with Trine 2 - and it's by an Aussie developer - we still don't have it.
When I read the comment about Trine 2 online, it only made me want it more!
In agreement about Chasing Aurora - it's inital price put me off so I haven't even bothered reading "on-sale" reports until now, so that's downloading as I type
I sometimes wonder if it'd be any good if the team could get an Aussie and/or Kiwi on the team - and maybe a Japanese correspondent - just to round out the release reporting. Not being critical of the great job you guys do at Nintendo Life but this planet is a pretty big place and the people who inhabit it don't all get the same experience...
@CactusJackson Whilst I hear ya, you don't have to push the idea of 'derivitive' too hard with most games, IMO.
I guess what made me laugh was that you say this in a Nintendo fan forum where as a relatively new Nintendo owner/player it still strike me as odd this sense that 95% of the people want more of the same - Mario/Zelda/Metroid... and maybe Donkey Kong... - in their various permutations.
Then I realise I've been no different with my Battlefield 'love' in the past - LOL!
Well I voted for Dino Crisis and a Resi Evil RTS but only because up to now I've never played or been interested in Megaman... however I never used to like platformers anyway, until I bought NSMBU to see what the fuss was about...
@LZBirdboi not quite, mate, I was trying to establish the relationship between stars and coins, then trying to understand why what seem to be better rewards - in terms of what I'm personally more interested in - are US only.
Not really relating to exchange rates but the rest of the world seems to get bugger-all choice in the reward-scheme in comparison with the US.
I'm not looking to argue with anyone, just trying to understand why it works like it does.
Surely you guys would rather have pencil cases and face-cloths?
Seriously, you should visit the European Star catalogue and see what we have to fork out even 2000 stars ... maybe it's in the exchange rate... seems like 2000 NoE Stars = 200 NoA coins...
Actually this would make a good challenge for the good journos of this site.
Review and Rate the various Club Nintendo offers - if it's been done already, a link would be appreciated
Dear @XCWarrior, if you drive all the way to the side of the country where the sun comes up, you'll see water, but believe it or not, it's not the edge of the known world...
It's the seemingly endless ill-educated guesstimates such as yours by similarly minded people in your part of the world that causes the rest of the world to face-palm in silence...
I think that if there is a problem for BLOPS 2 online community, it's having to share a currently fledgling market and that people may only know of Nintendo's prior online history and 3rd-party FPS support, that there are some really good system-exclusive release titles, that not many people may be cashed-up enough to afford more than a couple of games, or have too many games (as in my case because I flogged a lot of PS3 stuff) to have the time to spare.
I'll be online too - sometime - but damn it, Nintendo Land, NSMBU (as a Mario newbie), ZombiU, and Nano Assault just get in the way...
Look for the fat old biddies in curlers gossiping over the front yard fence and there you find the best of British tabloid journalism... and of course Rupert Murdoch's accountants counting the cash...
RantingThespian is right on the money - and kudos to you for sharing, mate - Lanza was reported to be known to be suffering from a mental conditon which I doubt the 'profiling-plumber' would have known about.
Btw, should anyone not familiar with UK tabloids think the criticism harsh, just check out the rest of the garbage tag-lines on the front page....
p.s. @erv that's psuedo-science - connecting a thin line of coincidences without proving it's not other influences.... this is how mythology evolves...
@itsanandito You want to see the ... delights... that were the Australian Club Nintendo. I don't know what it was like years ago but since I bought the 3DS last year, even up to 1000 coins only gets an underwhelming choice from a facecloth, pencil case, folding fan, and I think Game & Watch compendium to choose from. I'm hoping that whenever the Euro catalogue is back in commission - because that's where I've been getting redirected to - that we can trade coins for things a little less esoteric, such as eShop titles...
Real fans would hunt-down initiate a kick-start project. I realise that petitions don't work in the gaming world but surely this type of game would benefit a kuck-start. Have you all forgotten recent news of other kick-start projects announced on this site ?
If the gameplay is better rather than a hastily cobbled cash-in, then bring it on. The TV series exists, then the game can exist, IMO.
If I recall, Hasbro started with transforming car toys and the media - cartoons and movies - followed (as with other toys) not the other way around as is the case here. Given the time of the Hasbro toys' release, it wouldn't surprise me if Hasbro took "inspiration" from a Japanese anime because when I think back over in my longish-life of TV watching, only the Japanese have had a long history of demonstrating that kind of imagination that brings us robot boys, human-piloted robots (mechs), and transforming cars.
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Re: Rumour: Scribblenauts Unlimited Was Recalled From European Retailers
@Chunky_Droid Truth be told it could just as well have been the NA version because even CRT TVs have had multi-sync since the days of the PS2 here in Oz, so the chances of it not working are mighty slim
That said, I take on board that WB released it in Oz not NoE, so it makes me wonder why other third party ANZ distributors of games, regardless of platform, can't do the same.
Re: Amazon Lists The Legend Of Zelda: Wind Waker HD For $59.99
If you've never owned/played it then as mentioned above, it's a new game.
And how much do people think it's going to cost "just for a HD reskin".
Have a real hard think about what's actually involved to do this and what else is being thrown into the deal before deciding the RRP price-point is too high...
Re: U.S. Download Sales Increase, But Physical Games Drop in Popularity
I still gag at the thought of paying full RRP for an eShop 'retail' download when I'm having to pay for the medium through which it's delivered (internet in Oz ain't cheap) as well as the additional storage medium.
One could argue the cost of driving to a store but if I can wait a little for a title, then I can get it posted to me and it's still cheaper than an eShop download.
I'm sorry Nintendo it's close but no cigar from a personal perspective.
You discount the downloadable titles by about 15%, I'll happily forego my double Club Nintendo points, and we'll have a deal...
Re: Rumour: Scribblenauts Unlimited Was Recalled From European Retailers
The alleged bugs would have be related to way that the multiple languages are being parsed, which makes me wonder what's changed in the engine from previous versions to cause this.
Damo, as side note, could somebody at NL investigate how come Australia and New Zealand were saved the pain of delay in this game's instance yet are held back (or on occasion, hold back) on the majority of other "European" releases, please?
Re: Talking Point: Wii U's Graphical Grunt is Laid Bare - Shall We Play Games Now?
@SpaceApe so you're ready to fork out $10k to go with that $800 Playbox or just going with a PC monitor. What's your idea of 'better graphics'?
Re: Square Enix Laments "Increasingly Difficult" Console Market
@SpaceKappa The "reflections in character's eyes" in your post strikes a chord with me in that it sums up the ridiculous degree of focus on gaming graphics in general. I'd rather the floating point power be put to good use elsewhere in a game...
Re: Legendary Pokémon Meloetta Distribution Date Announced
@mumof2kids82 Try overcoming the knowledge that at 50, in spite of what you recognise as the cleverness of Pokemon, it does not sit well with your peers who are more interested in watching TV, fishing, four-wheel driving, drinking to excess, and other 'young grandfatherly age' pursuits...
Re: Review: Zen Pinball 2 (Wii U eShop)
@BenAV That's ok Ben, leave me to bask in my low-scoring, short-lived, Wii U glory as I have no way of catching up with your 3DS scores
Re: Super Mario 3D Land Sales Outpacing Super Mario Galaxy's In First Year
@rafaelluik and @pinkspider
I think you missed the thrust of why @phle wrote that - because (and I'm in the same league) he/she doesn't have enough 'twitch' dexterity to get a great deal of fun from 'regular' Mario platformers so the extrapolation was based on gaming self-esteem, not that the games in question were crap.
In my case though, I continue to buy them then get frustrated at my pitiful efforts and/or lack of free time to throw at the game...
Re: Nintendo Is Strengthening Development Teams, Defends Wii U Capabilities
One of the most interesting reports with the best follow-up comments I've read on NL re: the Wii U to date!
Cheers all!
Re: Talking Point: Gun Violence and Nintendo is an Unlikely Pairing
@Slapshot 's post 54# is the most sensible take on the story of the 13 yo that I've read.
The argument that @Five-seveN proposed and continued with it's selective overseas examples and ignorance of wider real-world facts - in my opinion - is how most of us outside of the US perceive the average US citizen and not, unfortunately, more like Slapshot and similar, who do not seem to be into twisting constitutional amendments written during the time of real tyrants and muzzle-loaders as an excuse to own weapons of mass carnage.
Is it a case of media making bucks out of the 'empty vessels' and the Eurogamer article is playing all of us - as gamers - to get more hits?
The cynic might even see this thread as being along those lines
BTW, I've been interested in guns on and off since I was about five but I've never owned one... unless you count cap-pistols and laser-tag...
Re: TiVo And Google Maps Functionality For Wii U Hit By Delay
Somewhat...
(tongue-in-cheek response, Damo. I know you meant it to be an open question.... )
Re: Wii U Price Cut Isn't in Nintendo's Plans
Not buying a Wii U because of freezing issues is about as valid a reason as not travelling in aeroplanes because they crash.
If people pulled their heads out of their chicken-little backsides and actually put bad-news into perspective, things aren't that bad.
And again we see people with no idea of what goes into electronics claiming ridiculously low prices for what are still essentially vapour-ware consoles from MicroSony and thereby justifying the Wii U price as extortionate.
I thought all of this regurgitation of pure crapola had subsided but I see it's time for the next internet wave of disinformation-through-lack-of-thorough-investigation to roll in.... grrrrr....
Re: Zen Studios Confirms Zen Pinball 2 Launch Tables
Gotta have the Classic pack (had this on the PS3 with v1, updated machines, could not download v1 again, wasn't buying new version out of spite ) but then the Marvel tables are calling me...
@BenAV yeah, I've seen your scores.. makes me wanna turn off my 3DS's WiFi in disgust at my own weak scores... LOL!
Re: Trine 2: Director's Cut Update Now Live In Europe
Just.... three.... more.... days....
Re: Call of Duty: Black Ops II Patch On The Way
Ocassional freeze as frequent as @Shiryu
+1 for Home button to work when in MP but not in a lobby...
Not found USB ethernet to be a root cause - had lock up with WiFi too, generally as MP menu launches, occasionally on host migration.
Re: 3DS Version Of Super Smash Bros 4 To Be Shown At E3
Cross-play..... so is that like we have to dress up as Lt Uhura to play these, or am I confusing it with cross-dressing cosplay again?... I have better legs than Nichelle Nichols.....
Re: Talking Point: The Future Role of High Street Games Retailers
It's not a poll I can help with because rather than use one methodology over others, I may use any of them depending factors such as how desperate I am for the game, what's the offer, and at a price that I am prepared to justify to myself as acceptable.
That said, the least likely is the supermarket/variety chain but I will use their catalogs to get a price-match in a specialist game store.
Re: Monster Hunter Tri Servers To Be Shutdown At the End of April
What I'd like to see in games like this (which is subject to the way the game locates the servers) is that the server software is released for interested fans to keep running.
Probably the only thing I miss from PC gaming is the ability to set up your own servers (usually on an old linux-powered box) if you wanted to.
Re: Feature: Nintendo and Bond Through the Ages
N64 Goldeneye saw me getting owned by my nephews and niece - they were the Ninty family, we were the Sony family
Fast-forward to last year, a Wii and Goldeneye 007 (after playing the PS3 for several years) absolutely brilliant game (proving that whilst HD is nice, it ain't everything), excellent multiplayer - loved every minute of it!
Re: Frozenbyte Hopes To Release Trine 2 Update This Month
I'm a little like @luminalace in that I'm almost over it with the waiting - however after spitting the dummy and then watching the video, I guess I'm looking forward to it again
The only bugger is that I will be Wii U-less and working in Norway when this is released... so much nearer to FrozenByte than I am presently, yet still too far to visit in the time I have.
I don't suppose that there are any Ninty Life members living in Drammen who wouldn't mind sharing their console with a foreigner?
@Taceus, you got no time to play Trine 2... I expect you to be at least level 36 in Black Ops by the time I get back - LOL!!!
Re: Talking Point: The Blurred Lines of "Collectables" and On-Disc DLC
The Capcom example has been used in engineering software for years except it works like this; you get a disk, you pay for a licence to access certain options and that's it. Want more? Upgrade the licence, unlock what's already been installed onto your hard-drive.
A number of PSN-distributed games were similar in that the demo was the full-game but you were locked out until the licence string was downloaded and applied, meaning that there was only a file of around 15k (IIRC) required to download instead of having to redownload the entire game.
Pretty sure that the various 'tiers' of Windows 8 are the same (within the boundaries of the respective 32-bit or 64-bit installation)
My point is that it's nothing really new, I just think that, Capcom example aside for the moment, it's just not really been noticed before.
Re: Anima: Gate Of Memories Coming To Wii U eShop
@CanisWolfred cheers for the additional background info!
Re: Review: Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2013 (Wii U)
COOKING MAMA MADE ME KILL CHEESE IN SELF-DEFENCE !!!
2nd amendment was written when guns were muzzle-loaders and the fledgling US had no army to speak of, relying on militia. That argument's getting old...
P.S imagine The Matrix lobby scene if Neo only had muzzle-loaders....
Re: Wii U Software Sales Are "Struggling"
Read the Penny Arcade Report linked in post #16.
The whole games industry is in a slump, not specifically Nintendo - whom , I may stress again only make game consoles and games, not tablets, phones, operating systems, tvs, movies, music, cameras, etc, etc.....
@NPD /ignore
Re: Talking Point: What Games Are You Playing This Weekend? - New Year Edition
Black Ops II and when bored of being a frag-magnet, it'll be...???
I'm spoilt for choices on both WiiU and 3DS so it'll be down to whichever console gets picked up first:
Wii U NL or Sonic etc Racing
3DS Crimson Shroud or Super 3D Mario
Re: Nintendo Force To Reveal Exclusive Mutant Mudds Deluxe Info
@Pixel-Perfect I'm debating the price myself but I think I've been swayed enough to buy print + digital.
These are the things I've considered aside from the content - might help people decide one way or the other
1) the synopsis says there's no ads between the covers - 78 pages of pure content is virtually a book.
2) There's not a lot of revenue to be gained from advertisements due to the first point
3) The mag is for the Jan/Feb period, so it may only be six issues a year (at this stage) so the cost averages US$9.00/month for print+digital, US$2.50 for digital only.
5) It's the first issue! - an instant buy for OCD collectors of such things!
Points 1 to 4 are the financial considerations which to me suggest value-for-money in either form - point 5 ignores the reasoning of 1 to 4 = LOL!
For any Aussies contemplating buying the print issue, although it's a print-on-demand service, for some reason, the printing is onlly done in the U.S.
The cheapest shipping is US$10.50 (USPS), no tracking, estimated 3-4 weeks delivery - so it's almost a typical Aussie newstand delay.
Any faster shipping starts at around US$30...
Hint: use the code at #28
Re: The Big Wii U Survey
@taffy and everyone else with the same opinion. Is that the same PS3 that set me back AU$800 and barring the user-upgradeable 60GB drive, had a high percentage of crap games - of the few that were available, and I'm guessing half the Wii U's number of titles - and none of the streaming services you listed.
It's taken SIX YEARS for what is, in consumer electronics terms, an 'ancient' design to reach it's current state and price-point.
Don't get me started on Sony's hokey-cokey on PS2-compatability (unlike the full Wii-only emulation experience of the Wii U), the removal of Linux operability because some geek has self-esteem issues, and the fact that the majority of Wii U titles are still cheaper than their cross-platform peers.
Have no doubt, I got a lot of gaming entertainment from my PS3 and for the life of it I got my money's worth but I find this continual bleating of the PS360 prices as a reason to complain taken completely out of context when the supporting list of features were not available at that price on launch and is as frustrating as hell to keep reading the same erroneous message.
What will the Wii U be like in 12 months, never mind 6 years?
A much better state, I imagine
Re: GameStop Reports 320,000 Wii U Sales Since Launch
In Australia, GameStop trades under the name EBGames - we're a funny lot like that, we wouldn't know what Burger King was other than by looking at the branding to see that everything bar the name, Hungry Jack's, is Burger King.
I never was a fan of EBGames' pricing, particularly charging 80-90% of a new game price for used - and they have no unused stock (surprise surprise), worse when you traded the same title for around a third new game price.
I'd also complain about the 'puketahhh-puketahhh' music being so loud sometimes that I can't think, let alone converse normally.
This said, they represent the only franchised game-specialist stores that this country has and generally are the only bricks-and-mortar store to stock more than the generic "Barbiez Bratzy Horsiez" crap.
For the Wii U release, it was a case of good timing.
I had a lot of stuff to trade and EB were doing a good deal on trade-ins that were credits towards a Wii U pre-order, so with that deal and the price-match policy which the crew in Hay Street were quite keen to remind me about, I ended up exchanging cash and gear for not only my pre-order but had enough credit to get almost two additional titles.
I could not have had less hassle nor managed to come away with what I felt was a bargain had I gone anwhere else, so casting my negative generalisations about the place aside, you can have a good experience but you have to pick the sales and be armed with a competitor's catalogue
Re: Nvidia Unveils the Daunting Project Shield
So forgetting the specifics and focusing on concept, how is this idea radically different from the Wi U's Gamepad?
Re: Fractured Soul Gets a PAL Reduction in Stand Against Price Hikes
@Bankai - what you say might hold true for physical copies - in the stodgy old distribution format (in Oz a select few own the distribution rights to wide variety of consumer goods and we get a narrow range of choices) - but the way I interpreted the distribution statement that it related to the cost of digital copies. And even if game media was made in Oz, 50% is still one helluva mark-up ... cost of living may be high but it's not that high...
Re: Nintendo Download: 3rd January 2013 (Europe)
So is ANZ getting Trine 2 yet, or do we have to all bugger around self-defeatingly switching regions to get this?
(p.s. angst not directed at Nintendo Life )
Re: Review: Trine 2: Director's Cut (Wii U eShop)
(crickets chirping in the distance)
... hello... ahhh... anybody remember us?
we're Australia/New Zealand...
(fade to black)......
Re: Talking Point: Nintendo's New Year Resolutions
@ivanmata and similar "chicken-lickens"
You cannot exceed 1080p with current TV technology so I would like people to explain exactly what they expect from 'next gen' that is such a dramatic improvement over the Wii U such that it becomes a guaranteed fail.... just like the non-HD Wii was, right?
I have a few ideas where improvements might be made - eg 'deeper' draw distance and more on-screen information but at some point the work required to fill this 'space' reaches the point of diminishing returns when you consider that the focus of a game is playing a game, not sight-seeing and much of the visual feast will go wasted.
The majority of the data on a storage medium will be the graphics and short of fitting high-capacity, high-speed SSD drives, loading times will make the Wii U's menu speed look like grease lightning.
Do I feel like I'm missing out given this scenario? Nope.
People whinge about the cost of the Wii U now - just how much do they expect this near-future tech to cost?
Non-specific, speculative generalisations based on fear of the unknown are beyond boring.
Re: Zen Pinball 2 Now Gearing Up For January 2013
3DS and Wii U - ... yep I'm gonna go there... My Body Is Ready!!!
Re: Trailer Promises More Pokémon News In January
As an 'occasional' Pokemon player and 3DS owner, a 3DS version feels two releases overdue - not that B&W 1 & 2 were bad by any stretch of the imagination but I would have rather spent the extraordinary amount of time playing using the features that I bought the console for, particularly after seeing the Pokemon in the two 3d Pokedex... yes, purely selfish reasons.
Re: Merry Christmas From All At Nintendo Life
Best Xmas memories:
(1) My wife, two sons (26 & 23), and myself playing NSMBU for a few hours on Xmas Eve.
(2) Listening to my wife's 'gamer noises' as she plays Super Mario 3D on her new white 3DS
So... ah... is it too early to ask what/if there's an eShop update for this week??
Hope everyone had the best time possible!!!!
Re: Feature: 10 Essential Games For Your New Wii U
Top 10's will always attract some controversy, IMO.
When I read the list, there was at least three games which I disagreed with straight out but thought I'd come back later and comment.
Whilst playing one the games that I like which didn't make the list, I then realised it was because I'm not a fan of the genres represented by those three games in the slightest.
So in the end I figured your list should either have been bigger, or should have contained the top 5 to avoid
Re: Round Table: Let's Talk About The Wii U eShop
Is there a European 4-hour download window for the pod-cast?......
Just joking, guys, just joking
Good read, good points.
Just keep in mind sometimes that for whatever reason the eShop games are released an a seemingly haphazard manner so there are still some regions, such as the Euro Sub-regions Australia & New Zealand who will on the rarest of occasion have the odd title before you guys but as is the case with Trine 2 - and it's by an Aussie developer - we still don't have it.
When I read the comment about Trine 2 online, it only made me want it more!
In agreement about Chasing Aurora - it's inital price put me off so I haven't even bothered reading "on-sale" reports until now, so that's downloading as I type
I sometimes wonder if it'd be any good if the team could get an Aussie and/or Kiwi on the team - and maybe a Japanese correspondent - just to round out the release reporting.
Not being critical of the great job you guys do at Nintendo Life but this planet is a pretty big place and the people who inhabit it don't all get the same experience...
Re: Capcom Wants Your Help For Future Digital Releases
@CactusJackson Whilst I hear ya, you don't have to push the idea of 'derivitive' too hard with most games, IMO.
I guess what made me laugh was that you say this in a Nintendo fan forum where as a relatively new Nintendo owner/player it still strike me as odd this sense that 95% of the people want more of the same - Mario/Zelda/Metroid... and maybe Donkey Kong... - in their various permutations.
Then I realise I've been no different with my Battlefield 'love' in the past - LOL!
Re: Capcom Wants Your Help For Future Digital Releases
Well I voted for Dino Crisis and a Resi Evil RTS but only because up to now I've never played or been interested in Megaman... however I never used to like platformers anyway, until I bought NSMBU to see what the fuss was about...
Re: The 3DS Cartridge Case Returns to Club Nintendo in North America
@SkywardLink98 Cheers mate
@LZBirdboi not quite, mate, I was trying to establish the relationship between stars and coins, then trying to understand why what seem to be better rewards - in terms of what I'm personally more interested in - are US only.
Not really relating to exchange rates but the rest of the world seems to get bugger-all choice in the reward-scheme in comparison with the US.
I'm not looking to argue with anyone, just trying to understand why it works like it does.
Re: The 3DS Cartridge Case Returns to Club Nintendo in North America
@manu0 I feel I'm going to regret asking this - not that it's directed at you , mate - but "Why?"
Is our money not good enough? Is it not enough that even when making adjustments for cost of living, they still seem to come out in front ?
Not that I would deny NorthAm any goodies by any means but I'd like to see the love extended to the rest of the world's buying public...
Re: The 3DS Cartridge Case Returns to Club Nintendo in North America
Surely you guys would rather have pencil cases and face-cloths?
Seriously, you should visit the European Star catalogue and see what we have to fork out even 2000 stars ... maybe it's in the exchange rate... seems like 2000 NoE Stars = 200 NoA coins...
Actually this would make a good challenge for the good journos of this site.
Review and Rate the various Club Nintendo offers - if it's been done already, a link would be appreciated
Re: Reggie Fils-Aime To Host 'Reggie Asks' Interview About Nintendo TVii Today
Dear @XCWarrior, if you drive all the way to the side of the country where the sun comes up, you'll see water, but believe it or not, it's not the edge of the known world...
It's the seemingly endless ill-educated guesstimates such as yours by similarly minded people in your part of the world that causes the rest of the world to face-palm in silence...
Re: Review: Call of Duty: Black Ops II (Wii U)
I think that if there is a problem for BLOPS 2 online community, it's having to share a currently fledgling market and that people may only know of Nintendo's prior online history and 3rd-party FPS support, that there are some really good system-exclusive release titles, that not many people may be cashed-up enough to afford more than a couple of games, or have too many games (as in my case because I flogged a lot of PS3 stuff) to have the time to spare.
I'll be online too - sometime - but damn it, Nintendo Land, NSMBU (as a Mario newbie), ZombiU, and Nano Assault just get in the way...
Re: UK Press Pins Blame For Sandy Hook Massacre On Video Games
Look for the fat old biddies in curlers gossiping over the front yard fence and there you find the best of British tabloid journalism... and of course Rupert Murdoch's accountants counting the cash...
RantingThespian is right on the money - and kudos to you for sharing, mate - Lanza was reported to be known to be suffering from a mental conditon which I doubt the 'profiling-plumber' would have known about.
Btw, should anyone not familiar with UK tabloids think the criticism harsh, just check out the rest of the garbage tag-lines on the front page....
p.s. @erv that's psuedo-science - connecting a thin line of coincidences without proving it's not other influences.... this is how mythology evolves...
Re: Don't Worry, North American Club Nintendo Issues Are Being Fixed
@itsanandito You want to see the ... delights... that were the Australian Club Nintendo. I don't know what it was like years ago but since I bought the 3DS last year, even up to 1000 coins only gets an underwhelming choice from a facecloth, pencil case, folding fan, and I think Game & Watch compendium to choose from.
I'm hoping that whenever the Euro catalogue is back in commission - because that's where I've been getting redirected to - that we can trade coins for things a little less esoteric, such as eShop titles...
Re: Street Fighter X Mega Man Is "A Bit Of A Mea Culpa"
Real fans would hunt-down initiate a kick-start project. I realise that petitions don't work in the gaming world but surely this type of game would benefit a kuck-start.
Have you all forgotten recent news of other kick-start projects announced on this site ?
Re: Square Enix Working On 3DS Game Featuring Transforming Cars
If the gameplay is better rather than a hastily cobbled cash-in, then bring it on. The TV series exists, then the game can exist, IMO.
If I recall, Hasbro started with transforming car toys and the media - cartoons and movies - followed (as with other toys) not the other way around as is the case here.
Given the time of the Hasbro toys' release, it wouldn't surprise me if Hasbro took "inspiration" from a Japanese anime because when I think back over in my longish-life of TV watching, only the Japanese have had a long history of demonstrating that kind of imagination that brings us robot boys, human-piloted robots (mechs), and transforming cars.