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9031 | 65.25% |
| No |
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1191 | 8.60% |
| Maybe |
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808 | 5.84% |
| I'm an idiot |
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460 | 3.32% |
| Waluigi |
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1603 | 11.58% |
| Waa |
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748 | 5.40% |
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NSMBU pushed me over to platinum for the first time.
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Nov 26, 2012 20:21
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Is there some way for Deluxe edition owners to enroll in that digital promotion yet (the one that gives you 10% back on eshop purchases)? Or does your account just automatically know which console you have somehow?
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Nov 26, 2012 20:28
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I've had the Wii U for over a week now and have only played 3 of the Nintendo Land games... the ones I have played have been so fun I haven't ventured off into anything new.
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Nov 26, 2012 20:29
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Astro7x posted:I've had the Wii U for over a week now and have only played 3 of the Nintendo Land games... the ones I have played have been so fun I haven't ventured off into anything new. Which ones, and how many people?
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Nov 26, 2012 20:34
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Bombadilillo posted:Which ones, and how many people? I've been obsessed with Donkey Kong Crash Course.... and now I just learned that there are 4 stages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhkHJ8mSw7I
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Nov 26, 2012 20:55
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Astro7x posted:I've been obsessed with Donkey Kong Crash Course.... and now I just learned that there are 4 stages.  Wow, I just beat one, it is really fun though, frustratingly so.
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Nov 26, 2012 21:02
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Astro7x posted:I've had the Wii U for over a week now and have only played 3 of the Nintendo Land games... the ones I have played have been so fun I haven't ventured off into anything new. greatn posted:Well the multiple developers saying the cpu is slow, and the tear down showing slower ram, and the tech crunch analysis, are all ways to know. It's not really debatable, it just is. In many ways the Wii U is weaker than the xbox360. We just have to move on and hope developers learn their limitations to make better ports.
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Nov 26, 2012 21:06
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Astro7x posted:I've had the Wii U for over a week now and have only played 3 of the Nintendo Land games... the ones I have played have been so fun I haven't ventured off into anything new. My wife and I take turns playing octopus dance, it's a pretty fun but simple rhythm game. The Yoshi cart and DK crash course games are pretty fun puzzle games with Yoshi making great use of the gamepad. The only other two we occasionally play are Animal Crossing & Pikmin. Mario Chase & Luigi's Ghost Mansion are fun if you have 3+ people to play with (was a lot of fun when we had my middle-school aged brothers over). All of the other games we thought were pretty lame.
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Nov 26, 2012 21:14
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Just purchased a Wii U. Question regarding the remotes. I don't have a wii but pretty sure a normal wii remote works with wii u games? We purchased a wii remote plus, only thing I can find is it has a better motion sensor in it for pointer accuracy. Am I right to assume I can go to PrePlayed and buy a used wii remote to use? And does the new remote plus offer anything worth the 40$ price for a second of its kind?
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Nov 26, 2012 21:14
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certain games require Wii Motion Plus, for example the Zelda game in NintendoLand. You're better off just getting all Wiimote+'s from now on. In fact, I think they're phasing regular Wiimotes out (finally)
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Nov 26, 2012 21:17
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Played through the maid mode of Metroid Blast over the weekend with two other local players. I haven't been this  over a co-op experience since my fully-equipped Zelda Four Sword playthrough on the GameCube/GBAx4 several years ago. It really is fantastic, and I'm excited over the fact that more than .005% of the console's audience has the equipment to support games like this.
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Nov 26, 2012 21:17
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Duxwig posted:Just purchased a Wii U. Question regarding the remotes. The Motionplus only improves the motion-sensing for software that opts to use it. It won't enhance or affect a game not designed for it, and it doesn't enhance the IR pointing (although it offers a different method of pointing that games such as Skyward Sword may opt to use). A couple of Nintendoland's minigames require it, and it's of course uncertain what future games might also need it, so getting remotes with it built in is the safest move. Note that buying a copy of Flingsmash is a weirdly cheap way to get one.
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Nov 26, 2012 21:20
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Jet Set Jettison posted:I emailed Nintendo about the crashbeep that has happened to me 3 times now (and more to others in the thread). I asked them if there would be an update for this problem and mentioned that I know it has happened to other people. They send me this email in response: That's not good... I've had this problem about 10 times now, even after changing Nintendoland to English-only. All I want to do is star all the games T_T
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Nov 26, 2012 21:26
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Are there two settings that need to be set to "English only" (one in Miiverse, and one in Nintendo land), or is it just the Miiverse setting? If there are two settings, how do you access the Nintendo land one?
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Nov 26, 2012 21:49
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I'm basically done with NSMBU and now I'm faced with the dreaded task of finding a second game. I'll have tons of houseguests from mid-December on at which point I'll get Nintendo land but in the meantime I'm thinking of picking up Scribblenauts. Is the main complaint about it just that it's too derivative from prior handheld versions? Because I haven't played any of those. It'll be entirely new to me.
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Nov 26, 2012 21:53
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I don't know if it's worth $60. The PC version is $40, seems a better deal to me.
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Nov 26, 2012 21:57
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I've heard basically nothing but good things about scribblenauts Unlimited except that the Steam Version is 20$ cheaper. I really am hoping it drops in price and I can just download it on the eShop for cheap. Nintendo land is really good though even for a single player. Mostly for Donkey Kong Crash Course, but I know I've enjoyed the FPS rail shooter zelda, pikmin and balloon-thing single player. Lots of goons also say good things about ZombiU (as long as you play it and dont expect BLOPs Zombies).
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Nov 26, 2012 21:59
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My problem with scribblenauts is more often then not the solutions are either too obvious or in some cases some things work as catch-all solutions. For example in the first scribbenauts game, "pegasus" was basically a win button for at least 50% of the levels. And sometimes it's like, oh hey, here's a police officer, give him 3 items he needs to do his job and you go "gun" "badge" "handcuffs" and wow yay puzzle solved wait what am I five years old
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Nov 26, 2012 21:59
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Gendo posted:Is the main complaint about it just that it's too derivative from prior handheld versions? Because I haven't played any of those. It'll be entirely new to me. It's co-op in the same way that the Legend of Zelda ('85) was co-op, and I could see playing it with a 7-year-old would be transcendant, but for adults I would say bust out the Wiimotes and WarioWare or something in NintendoLand is probably better.
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Nov 26, 2012 22:01
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Oh, well that doesn't sound very fun.  I guess I'll give ZombiU a chance. I still have like.. 150 star coins to find too.
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Nov 26, 2012 22:02
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How much fun scribblenauts is is pretty much the direct result of your creativity and I am pretty sure an actual 5-year-old would come up with better ideas than that.
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Nov 26, 2012 22:03
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Gendo posted:Oh, well that doesn't sound very fun. ZombiU is intense as gently caress and I seriously regret buying it because I'm too scared of it to play it for very long.
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Nov 26, 2012 22:04
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Katana Gomai posted:How much fun scribblenauts is is pretty much the direct result of your creativity and I am pretty sure an actual 5-year-old would come up with better ideas than that. Listen, I'm an engineer by trade. Finding the simplest, most efficient, most obvious solution is my livelihood.
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Nov 26, 2012 22:04
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horriblePencilist posted:On the one hand, what killed the Wii's VC was that they were originally handing it out to quickly... What made you reach that conclusion? I'm anxious for news on Gamecube games and other digital downloads. Metroid Prime Trilogy is hard to find these days...
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Nov 26, 2012 22:07
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I'm pretty sure Scribblenauts is $40 at Toys R Us or Target or something today, and I think it's worth that price. Sonic Racing is also $40 MSRP everywhere, and has a ton of content if you're into kart racers. Scribblenauts is really fun, it's just better to think of it as a sandbox game for causing chaos and goofing off instead of a puzzle game. The possibilities are pretty ridiculous and you can even create custom items and trade them with friends. My favorite part so far has just been seeing peoples' weird creations on Miiverse and posting pictures of my own.
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Nov 26, 2012 22:08
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God I fucking love Diablo 3 gold, it even paid for this shitty title
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I can't wait for some good horror games to pop up on the Wii U. The pad would be great for, say, the player having to hold up a cellphone as a light source or something along those lines. I'm surprised there hasn't been any rumblings of a Fatal Frame on this yet
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Nov 26, 2012 22:12
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Toady posted:What made you reach that conclusion? Reganomics! if thebton of house guests are decent with games tekken might be a hoot with its ton of content and silly costumes. shame I cant find any hands on reviews since all the ones I read sound like trailer reviews.
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Nov 26, 2012 22:12
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toxicsunset posted:Listen, I'm an engineer by trade. Finding the simplest, most efficient, most obvious solution is my livelihood. You can be creative and efficient! There's a level where a woman complains that her feet hurt so you can remove her legs (adjective "legless") and solve it like that. 
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Nov 26, 2012 22:23
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I'm now warming back to Scribblenauts. 
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Nov 26, 2012 22:25
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They've sold 400,000 of these things launch week: http://www.gamespot.com/news/wii-u-sells-400000-in-first-week-6400582 ...and 1.2 million consoles total, including 300k Wiis and 250k 3DS and 375k DSi units. The Wii sold 600k its launch week, so whether or not 400k is really good for a system with not nearly the hype as the original Wii or a sign that Nintendo is heading down the shitter and will inevitably be a software developer is an exercise left to the reader.
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Nov 26, 2012 22:33
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The true way to play Scribblenauts is to ignore the obvious solutions and find completely insane ones, ie the legless one mentioned above.
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Nov 26, 2012 22:34
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Boten Anna posted:They've sold 400,000 of these things launch week: Isn't that still a couple hundred thousand more than what the Xbox 360 and PS3 sold?
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Nov 26, 2012 22:34
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It's more than all other consoles except the wii (in the US).
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Nov 26, 2012 22:36
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Calaveron posted:Isn't that still a couple hundred thousand more than what the Xbox 360 and PS3 sold? It is. But it doesn't mean anything. All it means is that Nintendo produced 400,000 systems for North America. If they had given us 600,000, we would have bought 600,000.
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Nov 26, 2012 22:37
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Trying to figure out what sales launch figures mean for the long term viability of the platform is pretty much reading tea leaves.
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Nov 26, 2012 22:37
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Calaveron posted:Isn't that still a couple hundred thousand more than what the Xbox 360 and PS3 sold? PS3: Wiki posted:It was originally announced that there would be 400,000 units available, however less than a week before launch reports emerged that Sony did not meet its shipping quota in time, resulting in about 40% of systems not appearing at launch. It is not known exactly how many systems were available on launch day. 360: Wiki posted:According to the NDP Group, North American sales totaled 326,000 units in November
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Nov 26, 2012 22:38
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I have played (and like) both. Allow me to sum up each one in terms of a zombie invasion. In ZombiU I found a safe house and saved. Immediately thereafter I was swarmed by zombies and died. On my next playthrough I died again, this time to the zombified corpse of my last character. In Scribblenauts I had to defend a fire station against zombies. I built a mech by combining a car, a gun, and magic, and then blew up all the zombies.
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Nov 26, 2012 22:38
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Yeah even this Christmas probably won't tell us much. The middle of next year and then the "really" next gen console launches(whether they happen next christmas or even later) will be the real crucibles for the Wii U.
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Nov 26, 2012 22:39
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there's not enough love for Sonic Racing in this thread. Granted, I haven't played a Kart racer since the Mario Kart on Gamecube, so I'm largely unaware of how Kart racers have evolved over the past decade. Still though, I was not expecting this much depth and polish (glitched drift challenges aside) from a $40 game. Really what impresses me most with Sonic and All Stars Racing is the course design. The House of the Dead map is freakin' amazing. It has zombies jumping around in a bouncy castle just to the side of one sharp turn. ZOMBIES ON A BOUNCY CASTLE!
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Nov 26, 2012 22:48
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I just noticed in my download management screen it says that my Download Status is currently downloading, but it's been like that for about 2 days now. Is there some huge update coming in or is it just saying that because i'm connected online?
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Nov 26, 2012 22:51
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