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9031 | 65.25% |
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1603 | 11.58% |
| Waa |
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748 | 5.40% |
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Soul Glo posted:George Clinton =/= Bill Clinton. Woah  total brainfart.
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Nov 27, 2012 05:31
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Soul Glo posted:George Clinton =/= Bill Clinton. Right, one was President of the US, the other was President of the Dogstar Nebula.
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Nov 27, 2012 05:33
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Right, one was President of the US, the other was President of the Dogstar Nebula. Both make sweet music. Slightly NWS: It's George Clinton wearing a diaper http://i.imgur.com/VlDlb.jpg
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Nov 27, 2012 05:37
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Bombadilillo posted:How's Blops fanbase ingame chat? Ive always played on ps3 when I got into a multiplayer so I never got the stereotypical "13 year old yelling fag" that seems to be prevalent on 360. I am really enjoying a Miiverse that is clean and I dont have to worry about dicks flying on the screen at my kids. I've seen a grand total of two people with a sound icon next to their name so I have voice chat turned off. Since the Wii U doesn't come with a headset I don't imagine there is going to be a lot of chatter.
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Nov 27, 2012 05:38
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Radnor posted:I've seen a grand total of two people with a sound icon next to their name so I have voice chat turned off. Since the Wii U doesn't come with a headset I don't imagine there is going to be a lot of chatter. You can plug in literally any headset into the controller and it'll work though. Even if you just have earbuds you can speak into the Pad's mic. Which raises the question: Why didn't they just use the pad? Can you plug a wireless/wired USB headset into the console itself and use that?
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Nov 27, 2012 05:40
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Radnor posted:I've seen a grand total of two people with a sound icon next to their name so I have voice chat turned off. Since the Wii U doesn't come with a headset I don't imagine there is going to be a lot of chatter. I didnt even think of that, does WiiU support blutooth? Thats what I always used in ps3 and it was a pain in the rear end at every step of the way.
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Nov 27, 2012 05:43
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Bombadilillo posted:How's Blops fanbase ingame chat? Ive always played on ps3 when I got into a multiplayer so I never got the stereotypical "13 year old yelling fag" that seems to be prevalent on 360. I am really enjoying a Miiverse that is clean and I dont have to worry about dicks flying on the screen at my kids. Even when I would dominate in a match all I would get is friend requests and nice messages. I plan on getting Black Ops 2 for Wii-U when I get the console, so happy they kept the wiimote controls because that's why I played COD on Wii in the first place, and the reports are that it controls even better now that it's 60fps plus a few other little changes.
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Nov 27, 2012 06:04
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I just got home with my Wii U and tried to start it up, its just stuck at a logo and wont progress and wont shut off unless I unplug it. I need to exchange the whole thing, dont I...
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Nov 27, 2012 06:44
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Maybe a dumb question, but how do I add friends on this contraption? I can't even find the list.
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Nov 27, 2012 06:59
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dorkasaurus_rex posted:Maybe a dumb question, but how do I add friends on this contraption? I can't even find the list.
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Nov 27, 2012 07:01
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horchata posted:Press the home button and it should be the first option on the left Wonderful! Is there a single place where everyone is adding each other at? I wanna get some pals on this thing.
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Nov 27, 2012 07:04
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Dammit, the gold nunchuk sold out just as I got 900 points. Hopefully they put more up at some point, the small supply they keep listing never lasts long enough for me to nab one.
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Nov 27, 2012 07:07
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So apparently the Nintendo Land hard locking must be related to something online because mine just froze three times in a row and the Nintendo Land community has a bunch of people freaking out about it at the same time. Hope that new patch comes soon...
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Nov 27, 2012 07:07
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God I fucking love Diablo 3 gold, it even paid for this shitty title
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dorkasaurus_rex posted:Wonderful! Is there a single place where everyone is adding each other at? I wanna get some pals on this thing. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3517962 Edit: dorkasaurus_rex posted:Maybe a dumb question I'm sorry but it sort of is. This is the first thing in this thread. quote:Connect with Wii U goons: Nintendo Network ID thread AngryCaterpillar fucked around with this message at 07:50 on Nov 27, 2012 |
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Nov 27, 2012 07:40
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 Attention all AusGoons Found this fascinating number through ozbargain. http://www.vooks.net/wii-u-buyers-guide-wii-u-pre-order-deals/ Mostly standard stuff, but there is one really interesting tidbit - Kmart has Deluxes for $379 (and I confirmed it with a look in their catalogue online). You may want to grab a catalogue to get EB or JB to pricematch come Friday, if you have a preorder with them.
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Nov 27, 2012 09:42
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Neddy Seagoon posted:
$100 for a single videogame. Seriously, this is getting really stupid. I have no idea how the console market can survive with games costing a hundred bucks, especially a game like Skylanders, which is built around the premise of buying additional characters. Meanwhile, on Steam, Arkham City is $15.
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Nov 27, 2012 09:55
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horriblePencilist posted:$100 for a single videogame. Actually, that's been the standard pricing on retail games in Australia all the way back to the days of the N64 and PS1. It's slowly starting to die off in the face of things like ozgameshop, but it still happens with really big releases.
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Nov 27, 2012 09:58
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Actually, that's been the standard pricing on retail games in Australia all the way back to the days of the N64 and PS1. It's slowly starting to die off in the face of things like ozgameshop, but it still happens with really big releases. Right, Australia always had terrible luck with prices. Still, the price difference between console and PC games are by default pretty glaring. Also, they drop in price much, much slower. I think they still sell Super Mario 64 DS for €40 here.
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Nov 27, 2012 10:13
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You only really pay that price if you shop at EB. They are rip off merchants at their finest. Even if the prices are high at JB, usually one of the other department stores sell it cheaper and then JB drops the price to match. Majority of new releases now that aren't special editions are normally $69-79.
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Nov 27, 2012 10:23
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Puddin posted:You only really pay that price if you shop at EB. They are rip off merchants at their finest. That doesn't seem that much different from European or South American prices, then. Still, it's pretty crazy that EB can look at a game with a 9-hour campaign and say "Yeah, that's worth a hundred dollars." On the topic of the Wii U, I wonder how long it's gonna take until a third party releases a Wii U-compatible GameCube controller. Provided if it's not out already.
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Nov 27, 2012 10:42
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Some good news for people still hunting down a Wii U: apparently Fry's all over the country got a shipment of Wii U's, both the standard and deluxe editions. I learned about this when I visited one of their stores tonight, saw them taking literally a hundred Wii U boxes and putting them into secure cages. There's apparently some sort of caveat: they must be purchased as part of a bundle that costs $450+, part of some contract with Nintendo that apparently guarantees Fry's will be recieving shipments throughout the holiday season. I almost considered getting a deluxe one because hell it was right there in front of me, but ended up passing. Monster Hunter isn't until next year, and I'm pretty sure there will be plenty of systems around by then.
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Nov 27, 2012 10:45
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horriblePencilist posted:On the topic of the Wii U, I wonder how long it's gonna take until a third party releases a Wii U-compatible GameCube controller. Provided if it's not out already. I don't know what you mean by this. The Wii U can't boot Gamecube games at all (the feature's been stripped out of the Wii mode firmware, and the hardware no longer suits it), and Nintendo's backward compatibility doesn't allow the console to recognize control interfaces the original device couldn't. If you're talking about a controller with Gamecube features that can be used for games like Brawl, there's a thingy called the Classic Controller, and if you're playing a Wii U title, the Pro Controller as well.
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Nov 27, 2012 10:46
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Iwata Asks: Zombi U! (click)
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Nov 27, 2012 10:50
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^ I would have loved hearing that interview. Imagine the accents  Supercar Gautier posted:I don't know what you mean by this. The Wii U can't boot Gamecube games at all (the feature's been stripped out of the Wii mode firmware, and the hardware no longer suits it), and Nintendo's backward compatibility doesn't allow the console to recognize control interfaces the original device couldn't. I'm just talking about a Pro Controller shaped like a Gamecube controller. There's hundreds of people who'd rather play Smash Bros with a GC-controller.
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Nov 27, 2012 11:10
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horriblePencilist posted:Still, it's pretty crazy that EB can look at a game with a 9-hour campaign and say "Yeah, that's worth a hundred dollars." Games are worth exactly as much as people are willing to pay for them and EB is not making a conscious decision, they're just using the MSRP (I assume). It's the same here in Germany, the MSRP for a new PS3/360 game is 69.99€ ($90, albeit with tax included) but only uneducated buyers pay that. New releases are usually discounted to something like 55€ at the big box stores and literally everything can be ordered at half price in the UK. Still, people do pay 70€ and that's why we're stuck with that price for now, nevermind the fact that no video game is worth that much. Personally, I refuse to pay more than 30 GBP for a game and outside of Diablo III (a PC game, ironically), there hasn't been a game I wasn't able to buy within two weeks of release for that price.
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Nov 27, 2012 11:10
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horriblePencilist posted:That doesn't seem that much different from European or South American prices, then. Still, it's pretty crazy that EB can look at a game with a 9-hour campaign and say "Yeah, that's worth a hundred dollars.". I'm pretty sure that's not how games pricing works. Not to mention that we have tax added to our price already, so when you include a Sales Tax to the US price of a Wii U, that Kmart deal is cheaper than the US. Fantastic! Although I bet they'll only have 2 or 3 units to sell. Kmart didn't even stock the Vita; I'm surprised they're doing the Wii U.
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Nov 27, 2012 11:13
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Conclusions posted:Although I bet they'll only have 2 or 3 units to sell. Kmart didn't even stock the Vita; I'm surprised they're doing the Wii U. Doesn't matter how many units they have if JB or EB will pricematch 
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Nov 27, 2012 11:22
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Yeah it does. Both EB and JB only price match if the other retailer has stock of the item. It's to stop price baiting - I think it was Kmart (or possibly Dick Smith? Can't recall) who got done in for it a few years back. The story goes that they couldn't get enough stock of an item where their competitors could, so they priced/advertised it lower than cost to force price matching, with no rain checks. When the competitors sold out at the cheaper price, Kmart got their stock back in and sold it for a higher price. (Not above RRP, but definitely above the original discount.) Fair Trading rapped their knuckles over that.
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Nov 27, 2012 11:33
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Chronojam posted:Everybody should play Xenoblade if they like RPGs. Yes it does. It does not really have a SIMD unit from what I understand, though.
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Nov 27, 2012 11:42
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Conclusions posted:Yeah it does. Both EB and JB only price match if the other retailer has stock of the item. It's to stop price baiting - I think it was Kmart (or possibly Dick Smith? Can't recall) who got done in for it a few years back. I've never seen them do that in Australia. They've always just looked at the catalogue and gone "yep, fine". Admittedly, they might do that for a newly-released console, but it's still worth the attempt.
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Nov 27, 2012 11:45
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Neddy Seagoon posted:
JB have the deluxe for $399, and a selection of games for $40 when bought in the same transaction. So if you plan on buying at least Sonic Racing, its worth considering.
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Nov 27, 2012 11:57
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TealShark posted:Dammit, the gold nunchuk sold out just as I got 900 points. Likely not for some time, if ever... this offering was for Cyber Monday.
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Nov 27, 2012 13:29
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I ordered a 32 GB Wii U off GameStop.com yesterday (Nov 26) and even though they said it was back ordered, it shipped this morning. Go get em
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Nov 27, 2012 13:56
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Went to the Toys R Us in town for FlingSmash(es) and noticed that they had loads of 8GB systems and absolutely no 32GBs... so if Nintendo Land, digital discounts, the negligible storage upgrade, and color are not factors, these things should be easy pickups for people.
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Nov 27, 2012 14:09
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My call yesterday with Nintendo Customer service was uneventful. The service rep said ... "Well if your Wii U is working now... then just keep enjoying it, but if it gets worse give us a call back and we can take a look at your system." He did, however, imply that there will be some sort of system update in the next week or two that 'should address this problem.'
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Nov 27, 2012 14:35
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horriblePencilist posted:Right, Australia always had terrible luck with prices. Your minimum wage is also over twice what ours is in the US, so I don't really feel too bad for you.
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Nov 27, 2012 14:52
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Yeah, Australians' games are overpriced, but apparently they all make a shitload of money. A friend just got back from there and claimed nearly everybody was pulling in six figures, so I don't care how much your Marios cost  .The patch next week, that's rumored to address the hardlocking? Has anybody whose system locks a lot tried disconnecting their console from the internet and then trying to play something?
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Nov 27, 2012 15:25
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dorkasaurus_rex posted:Maybe a dumb question, but how do I add friends on this contraption? I can't even find the list. This bears repeating: If you add people to your friends list through your "Friends List", you're not sending them a friend request. You're "registering" them, which means they have to register you too in the same way. To send a friend request, go to Miiverse. Go to user options, and you'll see an option to search for users. Type in the user ID of the friend you want to add, and their profile should come up. On their profile page, there's a little button on the top right that says "Friend Request" (I think). Click that and you can send them a friend request. This info is in the ID sharing thread but I'm not sure everyone is getting it. I've really been enjoying reading my activity feed full of nerds, it's much more entertaining than I ever expected it to be. I figured Miiverse would be a novelty at best but it's actually extremely fun. Seaniqua fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Nov 27, 2012 |
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Nov 27, 2012 15:40
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horriblePencilist posted:$100 for a single videogame. The answer for consoles is they can survive pretty drat easily. Even sixty bucks for a console game is cheaper than they used to be. Back in the SNES days a top end game going for eighty bucks retail (which would be well over 100 adjusted for today) wasn't all that uncommon. But 60 bucks on up was pretty normal. PC gamings prices have been driven down because well... everybody steals everything on the PC. This was always quasi the case though. But the ease of piracy has meant that if your selling something on the PC, it better be cheap or an F2p model or people will just steal it.
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Still unclear about the Deluxe Digital promotion. Will the store just know I have a deluxe Wii and give me the 10% rebate credit automatically? Or is there something I need to do to activate the promotion first?
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