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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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Mercury Crusader posted:Mario & Sonic at the Race Track I'm only playing this if Epona is unlockable. 
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May 30, 2013 16:55
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Xavier434 posted:I'm only playing this if Epona is unlockable. Epona vs. Yoshi vs. Okami vs. Ecco GO!
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May 30, 2013 17:06
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Paper Jam Dipper posted:Epona vs. Yoshi vs. Okami vs. Ecco Ecco is immediantly eaten by an alien at the start of the race
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May 30, 2013 17:14
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Dr. VooDoo posted:Ecco is immediantly eaten by an alien at the start of the race Oops, forgot to feed Yoshi again. Oh well.
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May 30, 2013 17:37
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Sonic Transformed couldve used an Ecco stage. Cars driving on the sea floor in a shark tube, boats zipping through Atlantis, until eventually taking to the skies to combat the Vortex queen. Edit: Also, a Dobuita stage couldnt hurt!
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May 30, 2013 19:48
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Gutcruncher posted:Sonic Transformed couldve used an Ecco stage. Cars driving on the sea floor in a shark tube, boats zipping through Atlantis, until eventually taking to the skies to combat the Vortex queen. Or an Eternal Champions stage where you murder the competition through an open fan. 
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May 30, 2013 19:53
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Paper Jam Dipper posted:Or an Eternal Champions stage where you murder the competition through an open fan. Just multiple time portals and sections of different eras. You drive by the Chicago theater and the ticket lady shoots at you with a shotgun. You drive by the Russian circus tent and a clown car tries to fall on you. You drive by Washington D.C. and you see Bill Clinton run into a burger joint. 
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May 30, 2013 19:54
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Handsome Ralph posted:So my Wii U has the invalid disc error issue, Nintendo sent me a shipping label for repairs after a quick phone call. So the 'Like New' Wii U you ordered has a crippling hardware problem, necessitating a manufacturer return. That sounds fishy as hell. I'd talk to Amazon about one of their sellers giving you a $330 brick.
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May 30, 2013 20:00
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Mercury Crusader posted:Just multiple time portals and sections of different eras. You drive by the Chicago theater and the ticket lady shoots at you with a shotgun. You drive by the Russian circus tent and a clown car tries to fall on you. You drive by Washington D.C. and you see Bill Clinton run into a burger joint. There are so many forgotten IPs I wish Nintendo would convince Sega to revive for them exclusively. Eternal Champions, Comix Zone, World Series Baseball, Skies of Arcadia (which keeps being rumoured to actually happen) or hell just put Sonic CD on the Virtual Console.
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May 30, 2013 20:06
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Red posted:So the 'Like New' Wii U you ordered has a crippling hardware problem, necessitating a manufacturer return. Absolutely do this, i've heard amazon is very generous involving warehouse deals. You'll probably get some credit out of it.
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May 30, 2013 20:08
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Red posted:So the 'Like New' Wii U you ordered has a crippling hardware problem, necessitating a manufacturer return. The system was essentially brand new as far as I could tell with the box just being a little worn out. Nothing had been opened or touched, and the system had also never been powered on and the cords/controllers were wrapped in plastic still just like a new one would arrive. The box actually had an inventory sticker that said new on it that was covered by the "like new" sticker. I'm just guessing someone dinged the box and they wrote it off, which apparently happens all the time with them. Hell, the systems bundled in games weren't even opened. It was bought from Amazon Warehouse Deals, which is pretty much an extension of Amazon, so I doubt they were trying to pull one over on me. So if Nintendo for whatever reason tells me that it's not being fixed under warranty because of some physical damage I'm not seeing, I have 30 days to return it to Amazon to get my money back, no questions asked since it was technically a used item. I already dropped the system off with UPS to send it to Nintendo. I could call Amazon and whine, but I'm sure they'll likely just tell me to send the system back.
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May 30, 2013 20:09
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Paper Jam Dipper posted:There are so many forgotten IPs I wish Nintendo would convince Sega to revive for them exclusively. Eternal Champions, Comix Zone, World Series Baseball, Skies of Arcadia (which keeps being rumoured to actually happen) or hell just put Sonic CD on the Virtual Console. I know. If there's one thing Sega was pretty good at during their time as a console maker, it was all those new IPs they constantly churned out. Kid Chameleon, Golden Axe, Bonanza Bros, Fantasy Zone, etc. I wish some of their more experimental games could get a modern remake or something but maintain the original gameplay. Personally, I want to see a new Gain Ground.
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May 30, 2013 20:12
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Handsome Ralph posted:I already dropped the system off with UPS to send it to Nintendo. I could call Amazon and whine, but I'm sure they'll likely just tell me to send the system back. It doesn't hurt to try? You had to send it to the manufacturer for repair the minute got the thing. If you're persistant they might give you something!
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May 30, 2013 20:13
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Jet Set Jettison posted:It doesn't hurt to try? You had to send it to the manufacturer for repair the minute got the thing. If you're persistant they might give you something! I ended up sending them an email saying Nintendo was taking it in and fixing it under warranty but if there was evidence of it being like dropped or something, they'll return it to me as out of warranty. So I basically just asked them to clarify that the return policy is in effect for 30 days in case I do need to return it and made a point of being slightly annoyed about the whole deal. Google suggests a lot of people had this issue with launch units, so I'm pretty sure it was a manufacturing flaw and nothing Amazon did.
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May 30, 2013 20:46
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My first Wii U was a brick. Brand new, box didnt even look dinged. Just bad luck
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May 30, 2013 22:02
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Gutcruncher posted:My first Wii U was a brick. Brand new, box didnt even look dinged. Just bad luck Mine too! We took it home from Best Buy on launch day and it refused to turn on at all. Nintendo tried to walk us through a power brick reset but that did not work, so we just took it back and exchanged it for a different one at the store.
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May 31, 2013 02:52
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I had my launch Wii U break after a couple months for no reason. It was pretty weird. Fortunately, getting it replaced by Nintendo was pretty easy, and this one's been working fine. I unfortunately lost my save data, but I didn't have much of that Wii U wise, and anything I planned to play on Wii again, I was going to start over anyhow.
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May 31, 2013 03:23
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My Wii U's drive was also DOA straight out of the box. Thankfully, Nintendo Canada's customer service was fantastic. Come to think of it, every single Nintendo product I've ever owned except for the GameBoy Micro has gone back for warranty repairs; I'm clearly cursed.
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May 31, 2013 05:47
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   only on miiverse
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May 31, 2013 06:22
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You must be cursed all my Nintendo products work great. Never had to call them once. Matter of fact I just put new (watch) batteries in DK game and watch. Still works!
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May 31, 2013 06:22
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Pixeltendo posted:
This one is the funniest to me. To someone born after y2k, this screen must look like moon language.
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May 31, 2013 06:25
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Miiverse is the first thing that has actually made me feel old. The discussion about smash bros and kart racing earlier made me want two games for the Wii U: 1: Bullet-hell meets Sonic Transformed. Wiimotes work together on the big screen in third person, gamepad is top-down to either help or be the enemy. Stages could either switch between terrain/underwater/water surface/sky or people could transform at will. 2: Smash-rostered sports + kart racing like a "Smash Universe Tournament" or something.
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May 31, 2013 06:39
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Pixeltendo posted:
Calling bullshit on number 1 since he has everything. The other 2, goddammit. 
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May 31, 2013 06:48
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Magnatux posted:2: Smash-rostered sports + kart racing like a "Smash Universe Tournament" or something. Super Nintendo Kart. The only downside I see is that to have Samus in her ship race Link on Epona one of them would have to have a ludicrous speed change.
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May 31, 2013 06:48
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I don't blame a kid one bit for seeing a screen full of unexplained numbers and wondering what it's for. That mechanic was already on its way out in the 90s, why would teens today recognize it?
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May 31, 2013 07:10
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Supercar Gautier posted:I don't blame a kid one bit for seeing a screen full of unexplained numbers and wondering what it's for. That mechanic was already on its way out in the 90s, why would teens today recognize it? Just going to the password screen when starting up the game would make it really obvious. But yeah, without that previous knowledge...
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May 31, 2013 07:11
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Okay, to be completely fair, that kid in the bee hole was me at 7 years old after a few years of growing up on the classic series. The game was a rental with no manual and it never occurred to me that Megaman could now scale walls. I ended up just running behind them and shooting their asses to avoid falling in and didn't figure out wall climbing until I ran into a less avoidable impasse. As for the password screen... Yeah, that's right, you kids today have it easy. Uphill both ways, and we had to farm our own E-Tanks.
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May 31, 2013 07:17
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Hobo Siege posted:As for the password screen... Yeah, that's right, you kids today have it easy. Uphill both ways, and we had to farm our own E-Tanks. Luxury! In my day, we had to do it with half a health bar, in dire need of weapon energy, and our mam turning off the console right as we got to the last boss because it was time for bed.  .Pixeltendo posted:
The password one's a bit believable. Password screens have been dead since the early 90's after all, and that was... twenty... years ago... Oh god, I feel old .
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May 31, 2013 07:26
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Luxury! In my day, we had to do it with half a health bar, in dire need of weapon energy, and our mam turning off the console right as we got to the last boss because it was time for bed. Join the club. Remember floppy disks?
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May 31, 2013 07:36
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Bruceski posted:Join the club. Remember floppy disks? You talkin' bout that new-fangled A drive or the B drive, whose disks were actually floppy? 
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May 31, 2013 08:23
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Magnatux posted:You talkin' bout that new-fangled A drive or the B drive, whose disks were actually floppy? A and B aren't descriptors of the type of disk, just which part of the cable the drive is hooked up to. I was hoping to find shots of Hitler getting shot in the ball in the Sniper Elite community and I came away disappointed. 
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May 31, 2013 12:17
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Really quick thing about those floppy disks - I read in an article that someone plugged in a USB floppy drive to an iPad ..... And it worked...
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May 31, 2013 13:16
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Bruceski posted:Join the club. Remember floppy disks? My company still uses them as an integral part of our software. 
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May 31, 2013 13:41
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Pixeltendo posted:
This is far from the first time that something made me feel old, but for some reason this one burns worse than most.
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May 31, 2013 14:21
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The password one amuses me more than saddens. I'd be confused as gently caress to if I'd been spoiled growing up with auto saves and chapter checkpoints. Hell If kids are having problems with Mega Man X, I want to see what they think of Ghouls and Ghosts if they took advantage of the deal. That game is vastly more brutal then Mega man X.
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May 31, 2013 14:44
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So one cool thing ended up happening for me despite having to send my console in for repair. Because Nintendoland was a download code with my bundle, it counted as sixty dollars worth of Deluxe Rewards points. So I got a five dollar voucher for the E-Shop without buying anything other than Metroid for .30 cents. Too bad I won't get my system back before that Mega Man/Ghouls and Ghosts deal ends, cause that would have been an easy sale for me. Handsome Ralph fucked around with this message at 15:34 on May 31, 2013 |
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May 31, 2013 14:48
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Russad posted:My company still uses them as an integral part of our software. Can I ask what company? Daaaaamn.
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May 31, 2013 15:25
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Handsome Ralph posted:So one cool thing ended up happening for me despite having to send my console in for repair. Because Nintendoland was a download code with my bundle, it counted as sixty dollars worth of Deluxe Rewards points. So I got a five dollar voucher for the E-Shop without buying anything other than Metroid for .30 cents. You might be able to get in touch with them and mention this. I seem to recall someone earlier in this thread saying they had done something similar and the console returned to them with whatever game it was they had asked about. Rocco posted:Can I ask what company? Daaaaamn. We sell process control software. I've been told we're finally dropping floppies in our next software release, but who knows how long it will be until all of our customers have upgraded.
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May 31, 2013 15:57
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Xavier434 posted:This is far from the first time that something made me feel old, but for some reason this one burns worse than most. I know what you mean, and for me it's mostly the correct grammar and spelling. I'm used to kids who say things like this sounding like, well, little kids. Seeing the question posed in that way is kind of a kick in the nuts.
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May 31, 2013 17:14
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Passwords were the best. I still remember a bunch of the passwords for Aladdin on the SNES  Genie, Jafar, Aladdin, Abu for the Genie level which I used to love for some reason. gently caress, time to dig out my SNES. e: That game will be 20 this November 
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