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Augus posted:if they don't put every last wario game on the switch i will be most displeased I demand Wario Prime
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Feb 16, 2023 05:17
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ExcessBLarg! posted:Mind you, the last time Nintendo released physical copies of Metroid Prime (as the Wii Trilogy) it sold like poo poo and they clearanced it for $20 within a few months of release. Even though there's every reason to believe it would do better this time, they probably still have bad memories of that. Granted, that was a different time. GameCube copies of Metroid Prime 1 was pretty common and cheap. 2 was kinda uncommon but not nearly as popular as 1. And many Metroid fans who owned Wiis probably already had Metroid Prime 3. Even though they did rework MP1 and 2 to have motion controls, people already grew tired of what was perceived as a gimmick. The Metroid Prime Trilogy did become somewhat harder to come by years down the line. Nintendo did do reprints every so often during the Wii U era, and they always hovered around $60-$70 “pre-owned” at GameStop. I have not seen any of the game news sites eat crow for being wrong about their numerous Metroid Prime Trilogy leaks. They’re doing already revising history and going “whoah the Metroid Prime Remaster rumors were true!”
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Feb 16, 2023 05:21
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Detective No. 27 posted:Granted, that was a different time. GameCube copies of Metroid Prime 1 was pretty common and cheap. 2 was kinda uncommon but not nearly as popular as 1. And many Metroid fans who owned Wiis probably already had Metroid Prime 3. Even though they did rework MP1 and 2 to have motion controls, people already grew tired of what was perceived as a gimmick. The Metroid Prime Trilogy did become somewhat harder to come by years down the line. Nintendo did do reprints every so often during the Wii U era, and they always hovered around $60-$70 “pre-owned” at GameStop. Is any game news site better then ChatGPT at this point?
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Feb 16, 2023 05:34
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Barreft posted:Is any game news site better then ChatGPT at this point? Were they ever?
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Detective No. 27 posted:I have not seen any of the game news sites eat crow for being wrong about their numerous Metroid Prime Trilogy leaks. They’re doing already revising history and going “whoah the Metroid Prime Remaster rumors were true!” the same people who wouldn't shut up about the Metroid Prime Trilogy being just around the corner are now "breaking" stories that Metroid Prime 2 and Metroid Prime 3 remakes are in the works, with zero self awareness
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Feb 16, 2023 06:46
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WarpDogs posted:the same people who wouldn't shut up about the Metroid Prime Trilogy being just around the corner are now "breaking" stories that Metroid Prime 2 and Metroid Prime 3 remakes are in the works, with zero self awareness Eternal Darkness remake when you cowards
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i really liked all the leakers breaking that there would be a nintendo direct in February, something which iirc has happened for like the last six years
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Nostalgia for cds is starting but nowhere near vinyl yet. It has been mentioned but since I specifically taught stuff on music distribution earlier this year I was pleasantly surprised to see tapes proliferating far more than you'd think. Today's youth in Parisian suburbs aren't all that aware of them, but they seem to be very popular in certain music scenes, particularly hip-hop, and in certain parts of the world like the African continent and the Middle East since they remain easy and cheap to produce and sell at mass. I don't buy them myself, since so few contemporary stereos play them, but I do find them to be the most charming of our old physical media and would be 100% with a revival. I don't do vinyls but I do have a healthy CD collection, since that's what I had originally and despite it all I find vinyl incredibly cumbersome and inconvenient.
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Feb 16, 2023 07:51
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Astro7x posted:Amazon, this better be a loving joke I just got this, and I'm pissed, royally pissed. 100YrsofAttitude posted:It has been mentioned but since I specifically taught stuff on music distribution earlier this year I was pleasantly surprised to see tapes proliferating far more than you'd think. Today's youth in Parisian suburbs aren't all that aware of them, but they seem to be very popular in certain music scenes, particularly hip-hop, and in certain parts of the world like the African continent and the Middle East since they remain easy and cheap to produce and sell at mass. It's probably just because tapes are what I had as a kid, but I'll never understand any nostalgia for them. With vinyl records, you get a unique, enjoyable sound. With CDs you get the exact audio. With tapes, you get an annoying hissing sound.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:was it the Wii one that's usually considered the best? the GBA one owns and I am having a ton of fun with it It's not my favourite in terms of raw mechanics but then that not necessarily what your going to Wario Ware for. It's one of the best uses of the motion controls, is great fun with friends, and probably the funniest of the bunch.
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Mario Kart 8 continues to be excellent.Augus posted:if they don't put every last wario game on the switch i will be most displeased I would like to play Wario World, please. KingSlime posted:Nah I gotta cook up some salmon doused in butter, garlic, and lime, game should be unlocked by the time I'm done. That sounds delicious, I'm jealous! Detective No. 27 posted:You obviously don’t follow the vaporwave scene. 
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Cojawfee posted:It's probably just because tapes are what I had as a kid, but I'll never understand any nostalgia for them. With vinyl records, you get a unique, enjoyable sound. With CDs you get the exact audio. With tapes, you get an annoying hissing sound. The quality is garbage compared to everything else, but nothing beats them for ease of use and customization. It's really easy to record on and over tapes, CD burners are fine for digital media, but you can hold a rather small tape recorder up to a thing, and it'll record your sound. Digital recorders obviously do that too, but swapping digital files is less exciting than giving someone a little plastic box, which you've maybe decorated. It makes them rather unique objects all told. They tread a fine line between being surprisingly sturdy and extremely fragile, the shell being able to be mistreated and the tape itself prone to any sort of damage. They're weird. I don't think we'll ever see a huge resurgence, but they've got a niche especially in cheap audio production and they really capture an analog feeling that neither CD's or vinyls do.
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do CDs bring much to the table, nostalgia-wise? all their unique qualities are mostly negatives, like being fragile and disk rot being a pretty unavoidable problem and drives being so finnicky and prone to breaking or scratching your stuff. the best case scenario is that the music sounds exactly like it does as if it was played via digital storage I know that a lot of nostalgia is fueled by flaws and imperfections that we ultimately end up missing, but CD flaws don't really impact the music at all. maybe some people are nostalgic for music skipping every .333 seconds because of a scratch? idk
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WarpDogs posted:do CDs bring much to the table, nostalgia-wise? all their unique qualities are mostly negatives, like being fragile and disk rot being a pretty unavoidable problem and drives being so finnicky and prone to breaking or scratching your stuff. the best case scenario is that the music sounds exactly like it does as if it was played via digital storage I don't think they do, but for me it's part I already own a lot of CD's and I like having the physical object of a thing I like. There's no real difference between putting a CD in the stereo and hooking up my itunes via bluetooth, aside from the fact that I get to hear the neat whirring of the machine as it eats the CD. I also have a much larger digital library for what it's worth and generally only buy CD's if I like the band a lot. I see the appeal of vinyl but A) I never had any and I'm not about to start B) The quality is cute but its idiosyncrasies don't do anything for me and C) You don't have to flip it over to listen to it, which is the big win CD's have that I can play the whole drat thing through in one go in most cases. Most of all they're probably a late 80's-90's thing, like Cassettes are for the mid 70's most of the 80's, and that's why people who are getting nostalgic for that era flaunt them I guess.
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:owned lol Not owned until March, apparently.
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The Pokemon OLED arrived! ...which I can't use because the microSD reader I ordered hasn't yet. Also because I'm at work hours I guess.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:i really liked all the leakers breaking that there would be a nintendo direct in February, something which iirc has happened for like the last six years I do t want to ruin any surprises but look out for a Nintendo showcase around e3 time fellow gamer 
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ExcessBLarg! posted:Also I don't think Metroid Prime Remastered is getting a physical release in Japan? I couldn't find it on Amazon when I was looking last week. I've read a few places that Metroid isn't very popular in Japan. It's one of those series that does a lot better in the west. I also read that Metroid Other M was supposed to appeal more to the Japanese audience but mercifully they hated that mistake of a game too!
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WarpDogs posted:do CDs bring much to the table, nostalgia-wise? all their unique qualities are mostly negatives, like being fragile and disk rot being a pretty unavoidable problem and drives being so finnicky and prone to breaking or scratching your stuff. the best case scenario is that the music sounds exactly like it does as if it was played via digital storage Ignoring the nostalgia angle for a moment. I like vinyl because of the large art, excellent if not quite CD sound, the tactile nature of it, the feeling of owning a record of music. I like CDs because it's a perfect digital archive of the music, as realistically perfect as I can expect to have, they're affordable, I rip the music into the digital realm and have a backup on the shelf. CD has better dynamic range and bass than most vinyl. The downsides of vinyl are the upsides of CD and vice versa. Streaming is fine for air pods but when I want to feel my music I put on a disc at home, or in my car. Compact cassettes are fun objects and I have a few dozen; a lot of music I've gotten at shows was only on tape, or tape and CD, and often the tapes will have Bandcamp codes so I can get the music on all the formats (wav, flac, etc) and stream, AND have a nice little object. That said, modern tapes are not nice to listen to. A proper deck back in the day, with a properly-mastered tape on type III tape with dolby noise reduction could be an excellent listen; as those don't exist anymore (there's one manufacturer of tape mechanisms these days and it's bollocks, type III isn't made anymore, and Dolby no longer licenses their NR tech), tapes sound like poo poo. But if you're giving an artist a fiver and getting a tape with download, that's a nice deal. There's a one-man label that specializes in tape releases, Antiquated Future Records, I've bought a few of his releases and the zines he distributes. I do have some nostalgia for CDs, but I've also some for tapes, yet for actually listening to the medium, CDs win for me, no contest. pwn fucked around with this message at 13:55 on Feb 16, 2023 |
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Cojawfee posted:It's probably just because tapes are what I had as a kid, but I'll never understand any nostalgia for them. With vinyl records, you get a unique, enjoyable sound. With CDs you get the exact audio. With tapes, you get an annoying hissing sound. Most of the people that mess with tapes seems to enjoy them mostly for nostalgia but also because they can be made to sound pretty good if you get a good tape deck, restore it, and get it set up right. It's a tinkerer's hobby these days. Back in the analog days buying and adjusting different equipment could make a noticeable difference in the sound. CDs and digital audio took the "fun" out of that because the music was basically perfect from the source. Also tapes being an analog medium matters for people who are anti-digital when it comes to music. Vinyl nerds taping their records to listen to them on the go for example. Though that's a niche within a niche.
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Cojawfee posted:I just got this, and I'm pissed, royally pissed. You can hold a tape without worrying about destroying the medium so it has the most physicality
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Detective No. 27 posted:You obviously don’t follow the vaporwave scene. I do! And I’m aware that a lot of those releases come out on tape for the ~a e s T h e T I c~ But what I mean is you can throw a stone anywhere and hit a vinyl collector. You can’t do that with tapes. It’s a very specific niche that clearly a handful of people in this thread fall into, but in general I don’t think is popular with the general public. Anyway, switch games!
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so wait I'm sorry in Wind Waker after I defeat the two temples I have to go around the world and pick up a bunch of garbage off the bottom of the ocean?
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Detective No. 27 posted:
For more info/perspective on this, and how lovely the reporting on the whole "PRIME TRILOGY ALREADY DONE AND JUST HELD OFF" stuff was, here's a post by an apparently well known insider at Retro https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/comments/10ydpgf/insider_from_resetera_almost_two_years_ago_told/
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Mr.Acula posted:You can sell a physical copy down the road i have never sold a video game
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Looper posted:god i hope we get prime 2 remaster same. and 3
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Is there any evidence that is an insider or we just accepting that because what they said is nice
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Looper posted:i have never sold a video game I just get Switch games my public library, where you can have them for two weeks, they auto renew up to four times, so I keep it for two months until my stupid kids get bored of it and then I take it back.
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CharlestheHammer posted:Is there any evidence that is an insider or we just accepting that because what they said is nice sorry, should of clarified this but that post was originally on ResetEra and posted almost two years ago, and seems to line up almost exactly with what ended up happening
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Orange Crush Rush posted:For more info/perspective on this, and how lovely the reporting on the whole "PRIME TRILOGY ALREADY DONE AND JUST HELD OFF" stuff was, here's a post by an apparently well known insider at Retro
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Looper posted:i have never sold a video game I haven't done so either, historically, but lately we've been trying to organize the house and get rid of clutter, so I went and sold a shopping bag full of old DS/Gamecube/Wii games I hadn't touched in years to a retro games store in town. Made over $900 for the lot. Certainly could have gotten more if I'd sold them on eBay myself, but also I ain't got the time to do that. Not having the time to do that is why I hadn't sold them that way already. So yeah it kind of feels good. I have some extra space now, and a pile of extra cash I can spend on more (digital) games.
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Silver Falcon posted:I haven't done so either, historically, but lately we've been trying to organize the house and get rid of clutter, so I went and sold a shopping bag full of old DS/Gamecube/Wii games I hadn't touched in years to a retro games store in town. Made over $900 for the lot. Certainly could have gotten more if I'd sold them on eBay myself, but also I ain't got the time to do that. Not having the time to do that is why I hadn't sold them that way already. What's the etiquette for showing up at a retro game store with a big boxes of games? Do you give them a heads up that you've got a lot of stuff to sell or do they not care because that's just "what they're there for"? I ask because I'm in a similar boat and I don't want to fuss with selling them piece by piece on eBay.
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I’d probably give them a courtesy heads up call to see what their policy is. Might be that they won’t have an employee available right then to help you but you can just drop off the entire lot and they’ll get you a quote in a few days.
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McCracAttack posted:What's the etiquette for showing up at a retro game store with a big boxes of games? Do you give them a heads up that you've got a lot of stuff to sell or do they not care because that's just "what they're there for"? I'm sure it varies by store, but at this place they have the option for you to leave stuff with them for them to appraise, if you have a lot. Then they call/text you when they have everything tabulated. To be sure I'd just give them a call or check their website. The place I went to was super nice and patient. 
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100YrsofAttitude posted:The quality is garbage compared to everything else, but nothing beats them for ease of use and customization. It's really easy to record on and over tapes, CD burners are fine for digital media, but you can hold a rather small tape recorder up to a thing, and it'll record your sound. Digital recorders obviously do that too, but swapping digital files is less exciting than giving someone a little plastic box, which you've maybe decorated. It makes them rather unique objects all told. They tread a fine line between being surprisingly sturdy and extremely fragile, the shell being able to be mistreated and the tape itself prone to any sort of damage. WarpDogs posted:do CDs bring much to the table, nostalgia-wise? CDs are still the best-sounding* popular physical medium for music since SACD and whatnot never really took off. As long as they're still being manufactured I think they'll still have a niche among those who trade in physical media, libraries, etc. * Well, physical limitations of vinyl records means they have to go through a different mastering process which is often done better than the heavily-compressed LOUDNESS of most 90s albums on CD.
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