@Garo: They're already willing to 'waste money' on the production of physical copies for Japan. If they want me to buy this game, they know what what format I want it in; I've made my thoughts perfectly clear both here and on their site. There is no 'get with it' when there are multiple players in the household to share a game between or when Nintendo's lack of a proper unified account system for their downloadable purchases is taken into account.
dangit, i hope they come up with an easier way to transfer code to and from the 3DS. I kinda think that's why i stopped mucking around with the DSiWare version, it just got too annoying to work with the buggy program for coding via PC and then transferring to QR codes to be scanned in via my 3DS :/
It's not any kind of deal if it still hasn't been patched. i love Gaijin to death and I've been a big fan of the Bit.Trip series since the beginning, but I absolutely recommend that people not buy this game, not even for $5. Life is too short to spend it fighting with a broken version of these amazing games. Get Complete instead (it has no issues and includes all the extra goodies) or buy the WiiWare versions.
@Subie98: I know, but he was talking about not seeing vintage or cartridge games in his local Goodwill stores and I was offering that as a possible explanation (and also a possible hint to check them out as a game-buying resource if he's looking for something specific :3).
@KingMike: I'm not sure if you knew or not, but Goodwill has an online auction site where their stores around the country can sell potentially valuable items donated to them in an auction-style setting. It looks like they're able to raise more money for their education and work rehab programs that way. I just checked, and they do have video games and consoles listed on the auction site, though you'll need to use the search function (the console name seems to pull up any available games, consoles, and accessories; there's even a CIB copy of FE: Radiant Dawn up there right now, haha). if I were them, i'd absolutely pull potentially rare items like video games from the general donation pile, research which ones will perhaps sell for more, and put them on the auction site instead of putting them all out in stores nowadays.
@kondabasu: I kinda thought you'd get the hint from my last comment, but apparently not — this is the point where we agree to disagree with one another. I'm going to go back to not caring about this issue at all because I've already got my copy and have long-since enjoyed it thoroughly, and everyone else can continue milling about as they were.
@Kondabasu: If you want to accuse GameStop of committing piracy by having games reprinted and selling them as used, best of luck with that. I'll be over here chilling with my tin-foil-lined hat and waiting for the hard proof to arrive before I start casting stones along with the rest of you. I'm sorry I'm more willing to give the benefit of the doubt than you on this one, but please know that what you're suggesting seems as silly to me as my thoughts on the topic apparently seem to you.
@kondabasu: (A) There is no proof behind any of this, only a 'Kotaku source', rumor, and speculation. (B) one copy counts as 'low stock'.
Heck, for all we know they went on a buying spree themselves back when Amazon and eBay prices were still lower than they planned to sell for. if you want to buy into the conspiracy theory, good for you, but I'll be more than content to sit here waiting for hard evidence to prove common sense wrong.
It's the same thing they've always done. This is nothing new. shoot, I remember heading to the mall after school was out to mill around in the local Babbages and EB (before they both became GameStop stores) with my buddies, they used to have a locked case behind the counter where you could see copies of rare SNES games they had available — stuff like Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, or Final Fantasy titles. Of course anything in that case was sold at a serious premium.
People want to believe the worst about a company they already hate. It's whatev', but diving off the deep end into conspiracy-theory land gets you nowhere, especially when there's a plausible explanation at hand. This looks like something they've been planning for a long time now (that e-mail went out back around February btw) and would easily explain why they suddenly have enough to go around when they (supposedly) haven't had any at all for a long time now — they've been saving them up for this sort of move. They could also have come across a cache of older stock in a warehouse, who knows.
If you don't want to buy a game from them, whether Xenoblade or anything else, no one's forcing you to — there's always places like Amazon, eBay, or Craigslist for the old or rare [Atlus] stuff and Wal-Mart, Best Buy, and Target for the new [first-party] stuff. That's the way it's always been. Nothing has changed.
oh for pete's sake, i knew i got rid of my tin-foil hat too soon. everything is a freakin' conspiracy :/
iirc (and i've probably still got it sitting in my inbox) they sent out a mass e-mail a while back saying they were giving full original retail price (or nearly) for Xenoblade trade-ins, my guess is this was the result. People are talking about boxes being different and blah-blah-blah, but when it comes to GS you're lucky to even get a box with your game almost, they switch boxes around all the time. If it took you this long to pick up on the fact that Xenoblade is an amazing game and you should own a copy, I'm sorry, but you deserve to pay the $90 GS is asking (and lord knows how much it's going on eBay and Amazon for) for a legit copy.
It's nothing they haven't done before; i remember back in the day when GS/EB did used SNES games and stuff like Earthbound, Chrono Trigger, and FFVI would go for a serious premium. They're not stupid and they know what prices rarer games will sell for. This is one of them.
@Spooky: My guess would be that Rory sprung for one and wanted to share his experience with the device, seeing's to how his description says he's in charge of our video content. It ismarketed as being compatible with the Wii U, after all. If I had a device like this and knew it was crap, I'd want to spread the word too.
Besides, look around you — there seems to be a decent segment of our userbase who either had been or may have been interested in picking one of these up. You and I may not care, but let those who do have their day. :3
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@1337man1233: not sure what this has to do with the topic at hand, but Club Nintendo (and nintendo.com for that matter) tends to quote reviews from websites and stuff on pages for their games. They're quoting our site reviews, not a personal CN account or anything. :3
@ieatghosts: squashie was actually calling attention to the fact that you said it was our campaign against piracy when it's actually Nintendo's. We're not affiliated with the big N, man, we're just here to report about anything and everything Nintendo-related that we possibly can :3
You keep saying you want us to speak up, Capcom, but what has that ever gotten us? Where's MML3, where's AA5 in cartridge form? Why is the next BoF game going to phones instead of consoles? Quit trolling us with your pretty words and just do something, Capcom. That's all we want from you.
It's not that the people playing these games are 'talentless' or that the games themselves don't require 'talent' or 'skill' to play, it's that the skills being honed aren't ones you'd be able to apply to a title outside the same genre. It's not easy to find games that cross over from touchscreen-only to touch-and-button-input with ease. Look at Ghost Trick — that came out for iOS a year or two ago iirc. I tried the demo for iPhone after having played the hell out of the DS title; i felt it controlled quite well and I'm sure if that had been the only way I'd ever played it, I would have been just as thrilled with the game as I had been on the DS.
You're comparing your son's experience while playing Angry Birds and Candy Crush to Street Fighter and Pikmin 3, and those aren't fair comparisons at all. You'd be better served comparing his experience playing Angry Birds to something like World of Goo, NightSky, or perhaps even Pushmo — it is at heart a physics-based puzzle game, and they wind up boring all of us after a while. As for Candy Crush, I'd compare it to Bejeweled, Columns, or maybe even Tetris Attack; I can't play any of them for an extended period of time without getting sleepy, and yet they're all still fun games that do take an amount of learning and skill to play successfully or puzzle through mentally. I personally stop and play something else while I'm waiting for my batteries to recharge for those titles, but would I go so far to pooh-pooh them in favor of a full-fledged console title? Absolutely not. They have their place, and it's no skin off my nose what someone else chooses to play anyway.
I don't like it when people choose to continue parroting the same tired 'hardcore vs. casual' nonsense that's been polluting the waters for years now, and I'm saddened to see that happening here for the nth time. We are all gamers, no matter what any one side of the argument has to say about it, and we should either embrace one another and what we all bring to the table or leave each other alone. Changing forms of input and a glut of short-play games on a device not even sold for the purpose of gaming in the first place is something I find myself absolutely unable to fear.
There's a reason I hang out here and not at IGN... what a ridiculous idea. What the hell is a new console going to do for Nintendo at this point? for heaven's sake, wait until X is out at least :/
(a) Turnabout is fair play. Nintendo is Japan-based but operates on an international stage; i don't think catering to fans outside Japan once in a while would be so bad considering there are so many of us.
(b) The original SSB and SSBM had only first-party characters iirc. Brawl brought in characters outside Nintendo's ownership, and SSBU is fixin' to bring in more third party characters. They've broken that wall before, why not break it a bit more by having a real person this time around?
(c) it could start as a joke, but so are some of the other characters. Come on, Mr. Game&Watch? R.O.B? the Wii Fit Trainer? the Villager from Animal Crossing? 'Jokes' like these characters have been embraced by the community, and people are genuinely excited to give the new ones a try. I don't think including Reggie as an option would be such a horrible idea.
@Tsuchinoko: Your complaint was that (most of) the Japanese audience doesn't know Reggie. Mine is that (most of) the western audience didn't know Ness back in the day. We enjoyed playing as Ness just fine, and I'm sure the Japanese audience would have just as much fun getting to know Reggie if he were added to the SSBU roster.
I'm not saying it should happen, nor am I saying it will, I'm just saying that it could be fun for all involved and dismissing it solely by reason of part of the audience not knowing who the person is would be silly given that they've already gone down that road.
@Tsuchinoko: Adam is right — if you watch E3, you know who Reggie is. That's where most of our experience with him comes from, the presentations. It's the same as Iwata; we wouldn't really know him well without the Nintendo Directs, 'Iwata Asks' articles, and E3 presentations. If you don't watch any of those, you wouldn't know him either.
dunno if they'd bother going through the trouble, but I could see him being added as an unlockable or something, it'd certainly be a treat for western Nintendo fans. Not really any different from including Ness in the original roster IMO since if you hadn't played Earthbound you had absolutely no idea who he was (and since no one i knew back in those days had played EB, no one knew who the hell Ness was, lol), but you'd still use him and have fun playing as him regardless.
@CAM290: perhaps, but I'm glad to see they're sticking to their guns on it. They're right, working on smartphones and tablets would decrease the value of their brand. If you want to play Nintendo's first-party titles, buy a Nintendo console. If they start providing Nintendo brand first-party games for smartphones or tablets, what would be the need of buying their consoles?
yes, i'd rather have not known at all. it's one thing to find out a decade later 'oh hey, here's some screenshots of a MML3 sequel that never made it into production'... it's another thing to have been actively pursued as a fan of the Legends series into contributing suggestions, to have been told that we'd have at least a prototype version for the 3DS eShop to play, and then to be told that it's been canceled based on a lack of fan interest or whatever. I'm glad you're still talking about it internally, Capcom. I hope it bothers you and weighs on your collective conscience for a very long time. You've earned it.
@Zach777: someone reported it, and i found it to be over-the-top rude, therefore i edited it to still embody the spirit of what you meant without any of the rude attacking language.
If you'd like to continue discussing this or if you have questions as to what specifically was rude about what you originally said, I invite you to get in touch with me personally so that we can discuss without further derailing this thread. Thanks in advance!
@Zach777: We don't allow vulgar language as per our Rules, so perhaps you're seeing those comments before we've had the chance to step in and edit them. As for complaints, people are going to complain no matter what happens. If you can't handle that, ignore the comment threads, please.
@SphericalCrusher: both series came out around the same time, but even though they look similar on the outside, there are vast differences between them. Don't confuse the two :3
that's not a bad price for it at all, even if you can't resell it afterward. if you'd been on the fence about it before and were interested, it may be time to take the plunge. :3
@OptometristLime: I think the 'practicality' being considered is that this is exactly the same sort of promotion retail stores IRL provide — hell, i work at a retail store that does one of those 'for every $50 you spend, get a $10 off coupon blah-blah-blah' things once a month or so. The store chain doesn't do percentages either, and people regularly grab something small on impulse just to hit the tier so they can get their coupon. It's nothing new to the average consumer.
Sure, it'd be great if it was done as a percentage, and yes, it's not good if you only wanted to spend $90 in the eShop or something, but it's an incentive to get people to spend enough to hit those tiers if they hadn't been going to do so anyway where there'd been perhaps no incentive at all before. If you don't like it, no one's forcing you to put down your funds — and for those Pikmin 3 people mentioned earlier, perhaps they can buy the funds a little earlier than they would've otherwise :3
no one can ever be happy. people begged and begged and begged for the game to be released on VC, and now they don't want to pay the extra two bucks for it? skip your morning coffee for pete's sake :/
@Undead_terror: me too! I got stuck i think at the next-to-last level of the game, and we'd rented it from Blockbuster back then, so we had to take it back before i could figure it out. I did love that game, had a blast playing what I did at least :3
I think i'd suggest waiting for a sale if you're on the fence about this one. i think i've finished the game for the most part, i've got a couple episodes left to wrap up, but this card-game aspect is killing me and i'm left with more questions than answers, really. idk, it's a lovely game, the presentation is really stunning, the mechanics are all right... i just wish there was more to it than this. i'm not sure how to feel, i thought it would have played out much differently :/
@pairomedics: When you've got a damaged system and want to perform a transfer, you can send it in to Nintendo and they can do it for you, even if you've already bought the replacement system — i remember that being talked about back when the DSi came out. Have you tried calling their customer service line? The number is 1-800-255-3700, i'd definitely give it a try if you haven't already.
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Re: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies Will Not Be Getting A Boxed Copy in The West
@Garo: They're already willing to 'waste money' on the production of physical copies for Japan. If they want me to buy this game, they know what what format I want it in; I've made my thoughts perfectly clear both here and on their site. There is no 'get with it' when there are multiple players in the household to share a game between or when Nintendo's lack of a proper unified account system for their downloadable purchases is taken into account.
Re: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies Will Not Be Getting A Boxed Copy in The West
screw 'em, then. i'm good with what i've already got.
Re: Metroid Fan Film Fundraising Campaign Demolished After Claim From Nintendo
@KingBoo01: on the moon, maybe, though there's not much air there — at least that's the last i heard about it :3
@Shire: ha~
Re: Metroid Fan Film Fundraising Campaign Demolished After Claim From Nintendo
Gravity still works too, just in case anyone was wondering :3
Re: Petit Computer Looks Set for the 3DS
dangit, i hope they come up with an easier way to transfer code to and from the 3DS. I kinda think that's why i stopped mucking around with the DSiWare version, it just got too annoying to work with the buggy program for coding via PC and then transferring to QR codes to be scanned in via my 3DS :/
Re: Game Designers Reveal How Super Mario Bros. 3 Would Work As A Free-To-Play Mobile Title
there is absolutely, positively no way in hell i would play this. it's probably one of the worst ideas i've ever heard. wow.
Re: BIT.TRIP SAGA Will be Just $5 in the North American eShop From 1st September
It's not any kind of deal if it still hasn't been patched. i love Gaijin to death and I've been a big fan of the Bit.Trip series since the beginning, but I absolutely recommend that people not buy this game, not even for $5. Life is too short to spend it fighting with a broken version of these amazing games. Get Complete instead (it has no issues and includes all the extra goodies) or buy the WiiWare versions.
Re: Soapbox: 'Vintage' Used Game Prices Do Nothing to Encourage Customer Loyalty
@Subie98: I know, but he was talking about not seeing vintage or cartridge games in his local Goodwill stores and I was offering that as a possible explanation (and also a possible hint to check them out as a game-buying resource if he's looking for something specific :3).
Re: Soapbox: 'Vintage' Used Game Prices Do Nothing to Encourage Customer Loyalty
@KingMike: I'm not sure if you knew or not, but Goodwill has an online auction site where their stores around the country can sell potentially valuable items donated to them in an auction-style setting. It looks like they're able to raise more money for their education and work rehab programs that way. I just checked, and they do have video games and consoles listed on the auction site, though you'll need to use the search function (the console name seems to pull up any available games, consoles, and accessories; there's even a CIB copy of FE: Radiant Dawn up there right now, haha). if I were them, i'd absolutely pull potentially rare items like video games from the general donation pile, research which ones will perhaps sell for more, and put them on the auction site instead of putting them all out in stores nowadays.
Re: Soapbox: 'Vintage' Used Game Prices Do Nothing to Encourage Customer Loyalty
I'm cool with (most of) my local GameStops. these 'vintage games' and the ensuing uproar have done nothing to change my mind about shopping there.
Re: Former Nintendo Marketing Specialist Sheds Light on Smash Bros. as a "Dangerous" Brand at EVO
That actually makes a lot of sense. I can see why they might be a bit gun-shy too.
Re: New Adventure Time Game Receiving 3DS Collector's Edition
get the hell out, that sounds so awesome. i may wind up springing for this after all
Re: Weirdness: SEGA Employee Has a Bad Day, Says Bayonetta 1 & 2 Are Almost "Exactly the Same"
@Rafie: no big deal :3
Re: Weirdness: SEGA Employee Has a Bad Day, Says Bayonetta 1 & 2 Are Almost "Exactly the Same"
@Rafie, @WiiURockz: hey guys, can we cool it with the 'fanboy' argument and get back to the topic at hand, please? Thanks in advance! :3
Re: GameStop Defends Xenoblade Chronicles Pricing, Plans More "Vintage Titles" Like Metroid Prime Trilogy
@kondabasu: I kinda thought you'd get the hint from my last comment, but apparently not — this is the point where we agree to disagree with one another. I'm going to go back to not caring about this issue at all because I've already got my copy and have long-since enjoyed it thoroughly, and everyone else can continue milling about as they were.
Re: GameStop Defends Xenoblade Chronicles Pricing, Plans More "Vintage Titles" Like Metroid Prime Trilogy
@Kondabasu: If you want to accuse GameStop of committing piracy by having games reprinted and selling them as used, best of luck with that. I'll be over here chilling with my tin-foil-lined hat and waiting for the hard proof to arrive before I start casting stones along with the rest of you. I'm sorry I'm more willing to give the benefit of the doubt than you on this one, but please know that what you're suggesting seems as silly to me as my thoughts on the topic apparently seem to you.
Re: GameStop Defends Xenoblade Chronicles Pricing, Plans More "Vintage Titles" Like Metroid Prime Trilogy
@kondabasu: (A) There is no proof behind any of this, only a 'Kotaku source', rumor, and speculation.
(B) one copy counts as 'low stock'.
Heck, for all we know they went on a buying spree themselves back when Amazon and eBay prices were still lower than they planned to sell for. if you want to buy into the conspiracy theory, good for you, but I'll be more than content to sit here waiting for hard evidence to prove common sense wrong.
Re: GameStop Defends Xenoblade Chronicles Pricing, Plans More "Vintage Titles" Like Metroid Prime Trilogy
It's the same thing they've always done. This is nothing new. shoot, I remember heading to the mall after school was out to mill around in the local Babbages and EB (before they both became GameStop stores) with my buddies, they used to have a locked case behind the counter where you could see copies of rare SNES games they had available — stuff like Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, or Final Fantasy titles. Of course anything in that case was sold at a serious premium.
People want to believe the worst about a company they already hate. It's whatev', but diving off the deep end into conspiracy-theory land gets you nowhere, especially when there's a plausible explanation at hand. This looks like something they've been planning for a long time now (that e-mail went out back around February btw) and would easily explain why they suddenly have enough to go around when they (supposedly) haven't had any at all for a long time now — they've been saving them up for this sort of move. They could also have come across a cache of older stock in a warehouse, who knows.
If you don't want to buy a game from them, whether Xenoblade or anything else, no one's forcing you to — there's always places like Amazon, eBay, or Craigslist for the old or rare [Atlus] stuff and Wal-Mart, Best Buy, and Target for the new [first-party] stuff. That's the way it's always been. Nothing has changed.
Re: GameStop Accused of Re-Printing Xenoblade Chronicles, Then Selling as "Used" For $90
oh for pete's sake, i knew i got rid of my tin-foil hat too soon. everything is a freakin' conspiracy :/
iirc (and i've probably still got it sitting in my inbox) they sent out a mass e-mail a while back saying they were giving full original retail price (or nearly) for Xenoblade trade-ins, my guess is this was the result. People are talking about boxes being different and blah-blah-blah, but when it comes to GS you're lucky to even get a box with your game almost, they switch boxes around all the time. If it took you this long to pick up on the fact that Xenoblade is an amazing game and you should own a copy, I'm sorry, but you deserve to pay the $90 GS is asking (and lord knows how much it's going on eBay and Amazon for) for a legit copy.
It's nothing they haven't done before; i remember back in the day when GS/EB did used SNES games and stuff like Earthbound, Chrono Trigger, and FFVI would go for a serious premium. They're not stupid and they know what prices rarer games will sell for. This is one of them.
Re: Out Now: Mario & Luigi: Dream Team Awakens in North America
I just traded in a couple games for it at GS. I hope it's as great as everyone's saying :3
Re: BBC Warns Of Online Gaming Addiction, Uses Image Of Someone Playing Offline Mario Kart
why the heck would they not use an image of WoW (or a similar MMO) for this? WoW in particular is notoriously associated with online gaming addiction.
Re: Masahiro Sakurai Outlines the Challenges of Smash Bros. Development
@Inev: You are a breath of fresh air.
Re: Hardware Review: Hauppauge HD PVR2 Gaming Edition Plus
@Spooky: My guess would be that Rory sprung for one and wanted to share his experience with the device, seeing's to how his description says he's in charge of our video content. It is marketed as being compatible with the Wii U, after all. If I had a device like this and knew it was crap, I'd want to spread the word too.
Besides, look around you — there seems to be a decent segment of our userbase who either had been or may have been interested in picking one of these up. You and I may not care, but let those who do have their day. :3
Re: Nintendo Opens Legal Proceedings Against HackYourConsole.com
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Re: Nintendo Opens Legal Proceedings Against HackYourConsole.com
@1337man1233: not sure what this has to do with the topic at hand, but Club Nintendo (and nintendo.com for that matter) tends to quote reviews from websites and stuff on pages for their games. They're quoting our site reviews, not a personal CN account or anything. :3
Re: Nintendo Opens Legal Proceedings Against HackYourConsole.com
@ieatghosts: squashie was actually calling attention to the fact that you said it was our campaign against piracy when it's actually Nintendo's. We're not affiliated with the big N, man, we're just here to report about anything and everything Nintendo-related that we possibly can :3
Re: Capcom: If You Want Games Like E.X. Troopers, You Need To Speak Up
You keep saying you want us to speak up, Capcom, but what has that ever gotten us? Where's MML3, where's AA5 in cartridge form? Why is the next BoF game going to phones instead of consoles? Quit trolling us with your pretty words and just do something, Capcom. That's all we want from you.
Re: Boy Credits Mario Kart After Taking Control of Car and Saving Lives When Grandmother Passed Out
@Ramstrong (#32): pff, who brakes in Mario Kart if there's no blue shell on the map? :3
Re: John Carmack: Doom 3 BFG Edition Would Be Great On Wii U, But There's Not Enough Interest
Doom 3 was an excellent game, and I'd definitely pick it up for Wii U.
Re: Soapbox: Mobile And Tablet Gaming Is Creating A Generation Of Talentless Players
It's not that the people playing these games are 'talentless' or that the games themselves don't require 'talent' or 'skill' to play, it's that the skills being honed aren't ones you'd be able to apply to a title outside the same genre. It's not easy to find games that cross over from touchscreen-only to touch-and-button-input with ease. Look at Ghost Trick — that came out for iOS a year or two ago iirc. I tried the demo for iPhone after having played the hell out of the DS title; i felt it controlled quite well and I'm sure if that had been the only way I'd ever played it, I would have been just as thrilled with the game as I had been on the DS.
You're comparing your son's experience while playing Angry Birds and Candy Crush to Street Fighter and Pikmin 3, and those aren't fair comparisons at all. You'd be better served comparing his experience playing Angry Birds to something like World of Goo, NightSky, or perhaps even Pushmo — it is at heart a physics-based puzzle game, and they wind up boring all of us after a while. As for Candy Crush, I'd compare it to Bejeweled, Columns, or maybe even Tetris Attack; I can't play any of them for an extended period of time without getting sleepy, and yet they're all still fun games that do take an amount of learning and skill to play successfully or puzzle through mentally. I personally stop and play something else while I'm waiting for my batteries to recharge for those titles, but would I go so far to pooh-pooh them in favor of a full-fledged console title? Absolutely not. They have their place, and it's no skin off my nose what someone else chooses to play anyway.
I don't like it when people choose to continue parroting the same tired 'hardcore vs. casual' nonsense that's been polluting the waters for years now, and I'm saddened to see that happening here for the nth time. We are all gamers, no matter what any one side of the argument has to say about it, and we should either embrace one another and what we all bring to the table or leave each other alone. Changing forms of input and a glut of short-play games on a device not even sold for the purpose of gaming in the first place is something I find myself absolutely unable to fear.
Re: IGN Editor: If Wii U Doesn't Pick Up, Nintendo Should Look To New Hardware
There's a reason I hang out here and not at IGN... what a ridiculous idea. What the hell is a new console going to do for Nintendo at this point? for heaven's sake, wait until X is out at least :/
Re: Pokéball Offered with Pokémon X & Y Pre-orders in the UK
dang, that's awesome! do want ;___;
Re: Capcom Confirms 37.3% Drop in Profits in Second Quarter of 2013
hey, we told 'em what we want and they don't want to listen. maybe they'll get the hint eventually... or not? :/
Re: Nintendo Feels That Working On Smartphones And Tablets Would "Decrease Brand Value"
a Mario 'infinite runner' style game? We've already got that via the Mario Clock anyway, lol. :3
Re: Petition Started To Make Reggie A Playable Character In Upcoming Smash Bros. Title
@Tsuchinoko:
(a) Turnabout is fair play. Nintendo is Japan-based but operates on an international stage; i don't think catering to fans outside Japan once in a while would be so bad considering there are so many of us.
(b) The original SSB and SSBM had only first-party characters iirc. Brawl brought in characters outside Nintendo's ownership, and SSBU is fixin' to bring in more third party characters. They've broken that wall before, why not break it a bit more by having a real person this time around?
(c) it could start as a joke, but so are some of the other characters. Come on, Mr. Game&Watch? R.O.B? the Wii Fit Trainer? the Villager from Animal Crossing? 'Jokes' like these characters have been embraced by the community, and people are genuinely excited to give the new ones a try. I don't think including Reggie as an option would be such a horrible idea.
Re: Petition Started To Make Reggie A Playable Character In Upcoming Smash Bros. Title
@Tsuchinoko: Your complaint was that (most of) the Japanese audience doesn't know Reggie. Mine is that (most of) the western audience didn't know Ness back in the day. We enjoyed playing as Ness just fine, and I'm sure the Japanese audience would have just as much fun getting to know Reggie if he were added to the SSBU roster.
I'm not saying it should happen, nor am I saying it will, I'm just saying that it could be fun for all involved and dismissing it solely by reason of part of the audience not knowing who the person is would be silly given that they've already gone down that road.
Re: Petition Started To Make Reggie A Playable Character In Upcoming Smash Bros. Title
@Tsuchinoko: Adam is right — if you watch E3, you know who Reggie is. That's where most of our experience with him comes from, the presentations. It's the same as Iwata; we wouldn't really know him well without the Nintendo Directs, 'Iwata Asks' articles, and E3 presentations. If you don't watch any of those, you wouldn't know him either.
dunno if they'd bother going through the trouble, but I could see him being added as an unlockable or something, it'd certainly be a treat for western Nintendo fans. Not really any different from including Ness in the original roster IMO since if you hadn't played Earthbound you had absolutely no idea who he was (and since no one i knew back in those days had played EB, no one knew who the hell Ness was, lol), but you'd still use him and have fun playing as him regardless.
Re: Nintendo Feels That Working On Smartphones And Tablets Would "Decrease Brand Value"
@CAM290: perhaps, but I'm glad to see they're sticking to their guns on it. They're right, working on smartphones and tablets would decrease the value of their brand. If you want to play Nintendo's first-party titles, buy a Nintendo console. If they start providing Nintendo brand first-party games for smartphones or tablets, what would be the need of buying their consoles?
Re: Capcom Employee Outlines Details on Mega Man Legends 3 Cancellation
yes, i'd rather have not known at all. it's one thing to find out a decade later 'oh hey, here's some screenshots of a MML3 sequel that never made it into production'... it's another thing to have been actively pursued as a fan of the Legends series into contributing suggestions, to have been told that we'd have at least a prototype version for the 3DS eShop to play, and then to be told that it's been canceled based on a lack of fan interest or whatever. I'm glad you're still talking about it internally, Capcom. I hope it bothers you and weighs on your collective conscience for a very long time. You've earned it.
Re: Nintendo Download: 25th July (North America)
@Zach777: someone reported it, and i found it to be over-the-top rude, therefore i edited it to still embody the spirit of what you meant without any of the rude attacking language.
If you'd like to continue discussing this or if you have questions as to what specifically was rude about what you originally said, I invite you to get in touch with me personally so that we can discuss without further derailing this thread. Thanks in advance!
Re: Nintendo Download: 25th July (North America)
@Zach777: We don't allow vulgar language as per our Rules, so perhaps you're seeing those comments before we've had the chance to step in and edit them. As for complaints, people are going to complain no matter what happens. If you can't handle that, ignore the comment threads, please.
Re: Nintendo Comments On EarthBound's Inflated Pricing
@kirk: i've never been one to stick pronged metal objects into electrically powered ones, sorry
Re: Nintendo Comments On EarthBound's Inflated Pricing
@Kirk, @wombatkidd: I do hope you two are done, because I'm going to be deleting any further nastiness between the two of you.
Re: Retro Collection of Manga Titles Coming To 3DS in Japan
@SphericalCrusher: both series came out around the same time, but even though they look similar on the outside, there are vast differences between them. Don't confuse the two :3
Re: Code of Princess Receives Temporary Price Cut in North America
that's not a bad price for it at all, even if you can't resell it afterward. if you'd been on the fence about it before and were interested, it may be time to take the plunge. :3
Re: Nintendo of America Offers Free Wii U eShop Credit If You Splash the Cash
@OptometristLime: I think the 'practicality' being considered is that this is exactly the same sort of promotion retail stores IRL provide — hell, i work at a retail store that does one of those 'for every $50 you spend, get a $10 off coupon blah-blah-blah' things once a month or so. The store chain doesn't do percentages either, and people regularly grab something small on impulse just to hit the tier so they can get their coupon. It's nothing new to the average consumer.
Sure, it'd be great if it was done as a percentage, and yes, it's not good if you only wanted to spend $90 in the eShop or something, but it's an incentive to get people to spend enough to hit those tiers if they hadn't been going to do so anyway where there'd been perhaps no incentive at all before. If you don't like it, no one's forcing you to put down your funds — and for those Pikmin 3 people mentioned earlier, perhaps they can buy the funds a little earlier than they would've otherwise :3
Re: Nintendo Comments On EarthBound's Inflated Pricing
no one can ever be happy. people begged and begged and begged for the game to be released on VC, and now they don't want to pay the extra two bucks for it? skip your morning coffee for pete's sake :/
Re: Sin & Punishment Studio Treasure Is Working On Gaist Crusher With Capcom
@Undead_terror: me too! I got stuck i think at the next-to-last level of the game, and we'd rented it from Blockbuster back then, so we had to take it back before i could figure it out. I did love that game, had a blast playing what I did at least :3
Re: Review: Attack of the Friday Monsters! A Tokyo Tale (3DS eShop)
I think i'd suggest waiting for a sale if you're on the fence about this one. i think i've finished the game for the most part, i've got a couple episodes left to wrap up, but this card-game aspect is killing me and i'm left with more questions than answers, really. idk, it's a lovely game, the presentation is really stunning, the mechanics are all right... i just wish there was more to it than this. i'm not sure how to feel, i thought it would have played out much differently :/
Re: Guide: 3DS XL System Transfer
@pairomedics: When you've got a damaged system and want to perform a transfer, you can send it in to Nintendo and they can do it for you, even if you've already bought the replacement system — i remember that being talked about back when the DSi came out. Have you tried calling their customer service line? The number is 1-800-255-3700, i'd definitely give it a try if you haven't already.