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lol if you have a family or a significant other instead of just playing video games all day
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I finally unlocked all of the characters in Smash Brothers. I wish I had more time to play this game, it's really good and my first Smash title.
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Mar 25, 2015 19:12
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I have time to play video games in the winter when it's cold as poo poo outside and nothing is happening in my frozen ice palace province
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Mar 25, 2015 19:12
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greatn posted:The IT part is probably being awkward and not having girlfriends or families taking up their time. I really only know one guy in my IT job who this stereotype applies to though, and he mainly has trouble getting dates because he only dates Asian women. (He himself is Asian, I think that means it's ok and not a fetish?) I was mostly making a flippant response but when I was doing technical support (in sales now), there were plenty of people that would take numerous days off for when an MMO came out, or a big RPG, big games, things like that. One guy took a whole week off for an MMO called Rift. It seems fairly common.
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Mar 25, 2015 19:15
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Louisgod posted:I was mostly making a flippant response but when I was doing technical support (in sales now), there were plenty of people that would take numerous days off for when an MMO came out, or a big RPG, big games, things like that. One guy took a whole week off for an MMO called Rift. It seems fairly common. That's more to do with being single and living near family with no need to travel, because you need to use your days off or you lose them.
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Mar 25, 2015 19:18
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I have time to play because I'm between full time jobs. So I got most of the way through Chrono Trigger (never played it as a kid) and while the game hasn't been difficult or grindy, I peeked at a map of the Black Omen and got burned out just at the sight. Good thing it's optional. On topic, hella looking forward to plunking down hours and hours into Xenoblade.
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Mar 25, 2015 19:18
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mamelon posted:On topic, hella looking forward to plunking down hours and hours into Xenoblade. This is the game I want the most out of all of the Wii U titles coming out. Xenoblade comes out in Japan near the end of April, I really hope it's not a long wait for the english release.
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Mar 25, 2015 19:41
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i might actually preorder xenoblade
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Mar 25, 2015 19:43
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I don't understand the thread title. Can someone explain it to me?
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Mar 25, 2015 20:01
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What the hell when did the thread title change. What could possibly have been funny enough to supplant the previous one. on topic: I got wind waker HD yesterday and it Ownz. This game was really pretty even on the gamecube but it is loving gorgeous in HD.
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Mar 25, 2015 20:04
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Slur posted:I don't understand the thread title. Can someone explain it to me? It has to do with goon Taint Reaper.
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Mar 25, 2015 20:06
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note: the new title is an ideal that is impossible to realize. please just try your best
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Mar 25, 2015 20:07
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Slur posted:I don't understand the thread title. Can someone explain it to me? Well, you see there is this part of the body and it's the taint.
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Mar 25, 2015 20:07
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e: I'm no fun
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Mar 25, 2015 20:11
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Sade posted:What the hell when did the thread title change. What could possibly have been funny enough to supplant the previous one. I never got the previous one.
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Mar 25, 2015 20:14
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Apparently the WiiU does not consider an 8-player amiibo smash for item farming actual activity and it shuts off after an hour. That's too bad.
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Mar 25, 2015 20:19
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Slur posted:I don't understand the thread title. Can someone explain it to me? Do not let the taint reaper near your taint
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Mar 25, 2015 20:26
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Pomp posted:Do not let the taint reaper near your taint Too late.
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Mar 25, 2015 20:26
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Fix posted:Apparently the WiiU does not consider an 8-player amiibo smash for item farming actual activity and it shuts off after an hour. That's too bad. You can change this in power settings.
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Mar 25, 2015 20:27
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I don't have the patience for games longer than ~30 hours, even when I was in high school and played RPGs like I was getting paid. Like, poo poo, I might also want to read the Internet and cook a meal, or even (GASP) play a different game! I really wanted to play Xenoblade, y'all are about to scare me off of it.
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Mar 25, 2015 20:45
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Bean posted:I don't have the patience for games longer than ~30 hours, even when I was in high school and played RPGs like I was getting paid. Like, poo poo, I might also want to read the Internet and cook a meal, or even (GASP) play a different game! You sound weak.
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Mar 25, 2015 20:47
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Cake Attack posted:lol if you have a family or a significant other instead of just playing video games all day Having a family / SO means having co-op partners / people you can easily win against on hand all the time! It's annoying when they cry over losing though.
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Mar 25, 2015 20:54
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Bean posted:I don't have the patience for games longer than ~30 hours, even when I was in high school and played RPGs like I was getting paid. Like, poo poo, I might also want to read the Internet and cook a meal, or even (GASP) play a different game! ...Do you play all your games in one sitting or something?
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Mar 25, 2015 20:54
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Metroid Prime progress report! I just picked up the titular powerup. It's pretty trippy! I also feel I should point out that the Power Bomb Guardian was a bitch and a half, but he didn't kill me like that rear end in a top hat Alpha Blogg did, so AB is still the worst boss!
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Mar 25, 2015 21:28
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SRM posted:A good game is only as long as it needs to be, and nothing needs to be 200 hours. I agree. What I was saying was that if the game is really good and 20 hours long, I'll be sad when it ends and wish it had been longer. It's not that a game must be long to be good, rather that many good games would be even better if they were longer. I really don't understand the complaint that it would take months to finish. Months of content in a great game for [price of one game]? How simply awful. Is it just a race to the finish mentality that I don't get? Isn't the ride rather the point?
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Mar 25, 2015 23:23
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Renting games from gamefly has totally changed the way I play video games. I generally burn through the main game as fast as I can, and only dig into sidequests if they're substantial and/or interesting enough to keep me hooked. Its a bad way to experience stuff, because I'm constantly on a weird clock of my own design. Its a great way to experience stuff because I'm not trying to artificially inflate a game's runtime by engaging in bullshit "thrown together by an intern" sidequests only designed to pump up the "value" of a title. Oddly enough, every game I've bought this year has been on the Wii U, because I can justify a purchase if I know i'm going to be pulling it out when friends come over (phrasing!)
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Mar 25, 2015 23:49
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Narcissus1916 posted:(phrasing!)
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Mar 25, 2015 23:59
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Trent posted:I really don't understand the complaint that it would take months to finish. Months of content in a great game for [price of one game]? At a certain point in life, time becomes more valuable than money
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Mar 26, 2015 00:02
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less laughter posted:At a certain point in life, time becomes more valuable than money but you're still playing a game you enjoy. at that point you're saying finishing the game is more important than having fun
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Mar 26, 2015 00:05
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I can't speak for anyone else but if a game takes me that long there's a pretty good chance something else I wanted to give time has come out since. And while it's not necessary to always stay current it is nice to play games somewhat around the time the rest of the world is playing them. If a game takes me that long I probably just won't finish.
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Mar 26, 2015 00:08
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https://vine.co/v/O5UDpvhWb55 Kirby gets hot and wild.
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Mar 26, 2015 00:11
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less laughter posted:At a certain point in life, time becomes more valuable than money I would rather spend my valuable time really enjoying a great, long game, than reading the walkthrough on GameFAQs so I can blow through another title [that you can no doubt totally afford because you are an important adult with a good job and many responsibilities] in the minimum time possible. If it's the best game I've ever played, I'd rather it be twice as long than have it be over quickly so I can move on to a worse game. Your opinion and preferences may differ.
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Mar 26, 2015 00:44
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Trent posted:I did not know that because I am only twelve years old. Yes, and this all boils down to a complicated personal formula where as length gets bigger, gameplay concepts overstay their welcome and feel more like padding than more content. Except Other M and twilight princess, this seems to be a balance Nintendo is great at hitting. Games have lots of content but don't get repetitive.
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Mar 26, 2015 01:12
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you should play a game if you want to play it
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Mar 26, 2015 01:13
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noirstronaut posted:you should play a game if you want to play it What a dumb philosophy. First you have to validate your opinions of buying the game on internet forums.
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Mar 26, 2015 01:15
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Trent posted:I really don't understand the complaint that it would take months to finish. Months of content in a great game for [price of one game]? How simply awful. I think, for me at least, it's because there are two sometimes conflicting desires while playing a game: to experience new/interesting gameplay, and to see all the content a particular game provides. The problem comes when a game has so much content that it takes away from being able to experience other games. Since this is the Wii U thread, I'll use Hyrule Warriors and Super Mario 3D World as examples. I want to play both of them, but physically I can only play one game at a time. So I pick one, in this case Hyrule Warriors. I get to experience the new or interesting gameplay the game provides, and play through the content in the game, and this is a net positive. However, there is still the opportunity cost that I don't get to play Super Mario 3D World, which is another game I want to experience. So if I want to see all of the content in Hyrule Warriors I need to keep playing it, which means I don't get to play Super Mario 3D World that much longer. I'll be having just as much fun playing either game, but the time I spend playing one game is the time I don't spend playing the other game. If it takes me months to complete Hyrule Warriors, then I still haven't even played Super Mario 3D World by the time Zelda/Animal Crossing/whatever comes out, and now I'm even further behind. If I game needs 30+ hours to provide the gameplay/content then that's fine, but if it can be done in half that and they're just padding it with pointless garbage then it's wasting everyones time.
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Mar 26, 2015 01:19
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You can't just alternate between games? Iwata isn't going to beat you up if you try to put 3D World in your Wii U before completing Hyrule Warriors 100%
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Mar 26, 2015 01:25
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Resident Evil 4's island act needed to be half as long.
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Mar 26, 2015 01:25
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Pomp posted:Resident Evil 4's island act needed to be half as long. With fewer Regenerators.
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Help Im Alive posted:You can't just alternate between games? Iwata isn't going to beat you up if you try to put 3D World in your Wii U before completing Hyrule Warriors 100% It probably makes more sense if you use Shin Megami Tensei IV and Xenoblade Chronicles 3D as the examples instead, but I couldn't think of any Wii U RPGs with a heavy emphasis on storyline. If I switch from one to the other then try to go back then there's no way in heck I'm going to remember anything that happened already, and I have to completely start over. That's actually my problem right now, currently playing through A Link Between Worlds (New 3DS was my first 3DS), and I really want to start playing Monster Hunter 4U but I know if I start playing that I won't get back to ALBW for probably at least a month and then I'll lose track of what I've already done. 
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