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9031 | 65.25% |
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1191 | 8.60% |
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1603 | 11.58% |
| Waa |
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748 | 5.40% |
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Might be worth mentioning that it's got wifi b/g/n so the connection should be faster versus the Wii if you've got a router supporting 802.11nscary ghost dog posted:But will it be better than the other next-gen consoles??? You could always wait two years to find out.
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Sep 16, 2012 12:06
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ThisIsACoolGuy posted:If I can ask; what's the appeal to the series? Me and a friend tried the one on the wii and the intro turned the two of us off because the tutorial was boring as all hell. I feel like we missed something but just wanting to be sure. The Monster Hunter tutorial is boring as hell because it's the tutorial that has to teach you all the mechanics. Take it online and go hunt some monsters in a pack.
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Sep 16, 2012 22:07
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Edoraz posted:That isn't elitist at all. Try to remember how hard your first hunts were. Pretty hard to remember, right? The tutorial should stay, but there should be a Great Jaggi hunt to prove that you don't need hand holding during the tutorial. Like a "oh hey that is one dead Jaggi come home lets get you to rank 3 instantly." It's a good idea! You're out getting herbs and GREAT JAGGI OHSHIT. One thing I like about Monster Hunter is that player skill (versus character skill/stats/equipment) is a huge part of it. Tutorial process should reflect that.
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Sep 16, 2012 22:51
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Hobo Siege posted:Console comes out, gets some of the scant few multiplatform titles still slated for this generation, new consoles with modern architecture come out, third parties and core audiences jump ship, software dries up, Nintendo release a few great titles mixed in with numerous low-content experiments and gimmicks, Mom games as far as the eye can see, life support. So what are you basing this off? I'd love to hear your sources.
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Sep 16, 2012 22:59
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Hobo Siege posted:History. Oh, haha, you're being sarcastic and pretending to be one of those games magazines around the time of the Wii's release? I thought you were being serious for a moment.
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Sep 16, 2012 23:06
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Bombadilillo posted:What the hell is a "mom game" anyway? Cooking Mama, Gardening Mama, etc. ones probably. They're pretty popular.
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Sep 16, 2012 23:12
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Hobo Siege posted:The issue is that the Wii U is a 360 or thereabouts, just as the Wii before it was a slightly upticked Gamecube. This system will face similar challenges to the Wii, and it won't have an explosive new control scheme to get everyone talking. The only difference is that the U's going to have a year to compete with the current gen. Don't listen to the naysayers. History is on your side, right?   
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Sep 16, 2012 23:51
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Astro7x posted:I'm assuming that huge Red spike in Wii sales was New Super Mario Bros. Wii, correct? Yeah, it was out for Christmas 09
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Sep 16, 2012 23:59
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^^^ Like every sport ever  Astro7x posted:I'm assuming that huge Red spike in Wii sales was New Super Mario Bros. Wii, correct?  Like it or not, the 2D Mario platformer genre is a huge system and software seller; although, according to other figures, Wii owners still have an acceptable hardware-software tie ratio. They're not just getting NSMB, they're often getting the system with that before grabbing other games. It's in first/second/third party (and our) best interest to see a NSMB come out to increase the console install base, promoting sales of other titles.
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Sep 17, 2012 00:11
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Almost Smart posted:I don't encounter any of those types of people in this forum. It's only the Nintendo ones, and I don't understand why. It's all the threads, including the PC threads for crossplatform games (although I'm kinda one of the PC guys).
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Sep 17, 2012 00:26
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ZombiU is due out before the end of the yearNeo Rasa posted:[...] It lacks the luster mostly because gaming journalism has been making GBS threads on them for a decade, proclaiming their imminent failure, while they continually sell gangbusters and people eat it up.
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Sep 17, 2012 01:29
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Whoa, new Nano Assault game is looking good.
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Sep 17, 2012 01:34
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horchata posted:heres the non-bundled delux version It won't actually let me check out. It hangs and then has a 404 iframe.
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Sep 17, 2012 02:09
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al-azad posted:Crytek said they would like to see 8gb next console cycle. I definitely believe RAM is the most crippling factor in consoles but that's pretty overkill for a dedicated system. Crytek is bad at optimizing video game engines. They'd love for your PC to have 32 gigs, too.
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Sep 17, 2012 04:16
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Bobnumerotres posted:The DS Mario had a scene near the beginning where Bowser drowns in lava and turns into a skeleton. I was pretty horrified. It wasn't that bad but it was surprisingly jarring since the rest of the game was so drat bland.
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Sep 17, 2012 06:20
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Louisgod posted:Uhm but the architecture WON'T be similar enough, especially when you look at the numerous engines being made for the 720/PS4 and developer comments about how they're not supporting the WiiU with those engines (UE4, anyway). They will not lead on the WiiU when the new 720/PS4 come out. For what it's worth, they've also said they aren't going to officially support the 720/PS4 immediately and are pushing those devs to rely on UE3 longer. Either way, the Unreal engine has always scaled very well, including for use on mobile platforms and lower-capability devices. The public tools you can go and download right this moment come with deployment and testing for smartphones, and the UE4 tools are better than the UE3 ones.
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Sep 17, 2012 20:31
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Bombadilillo posted:My kids will used the WiiU for netflix pretty much nonstop, I don't want the harddrive going that whole time. Also I have one with a swtich so Im just looking at the advantages of that. What about Netflix makes you think "reads and writes to the hard drive" here? You're probably worrying for nothing unless you have a hard drive that spends its idle time spinning and seeking for no reason. limaCAT posted:Did Wii officially access hard disks as well? I'm asking because Nintendo probably could access SD Cards with FAT filesystem because FAT is not covered by patents while other filesystems by MS are covered by it (see ExFAT or NTFS)... the main difference between FAT, ExFAT and NTFS are that FAT officially only accesses 4gb of disk (there are extensions but they are not official extensions, Windows XP could not format a volume of more than 4gb, only access it). A 3DS will read 128GB FAT32 SDXC cards, it'd be reasonable to assume the same for WiiU
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Sep 18, 2012 00:31
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So are all the launch games 480p or what, then?
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Sep 19, 2012 02:01
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I don't think anybody said that they didn't see the appeal of digital signals and HD quality displays, because a lot of old TV looked like rear end and everybody knew it. Part of what made it not worth it, though, was the worldwide price-fixing on monitors, which is still being settled up even now.
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Sep 19, 2012 03:07
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Bobnumerotres posted:Now I have to pick another game as my first! Not many Roguelikes have online multiplayer, this at least has online grave/zombie looting. Besides it would really ruin the atmosphere to have a buddy with you. Just look at RE5 versus RE4, a lot of tense situations can resolve themself or never come up because your buddy is watching your back. There goes the whole "gotta enter this keycode quick!" danger, or the fear you'll be jumped while sifting through bags.
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Sep 19, 2012 17:40
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PonchAxis posted:I'm absolutely baffled that Nintendo still has not revealed anything The answer is closer than you think.
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Sep 20, 2012 06:31
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The CCPro is a bit heavier but altogether it's just a very comfortable controller regardless of weight. At least, that was my experience. Good to hear you got Xenoblade, it definitely helped provide a monster hunting fix especially once you get out to the Gaur Plains / Bionis Leg. There are characters that let you pretend you're SnS, Lancer/Hammer, Gunner, even
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Sep 20, 2012 23:22
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Commissar Ken posted:It's more a knock against the Wii since isn't the Wii U version pretty much just the Wii version with a few easy graphical upgrades and gamepad support? It's basically DQX Wii but at a higher resolution, so yeah.
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Sep 21, 2012 03:43
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Bobnumerotres posted:Yet another "Reggie doesn't get it" interview. I know it's all PR and he's not dumb but seriously. We don't care about your big social gaming plan (that much). Just tell us we'll be able to add our dumb friends/people we meet online, on the fly and be able to voice chat with both friends and strangers. They've already talked about some neat stuff, like being able to check your Nintendo poo poo from your smartphone and pick games to download, then play them when you get home. Steam only just recently added that to their own service, after all, so it was still novel when they came up with it. Gonna be interesting to see how they follow through on it.
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Sep 25, 2012 05:35
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greatn posted:And they're charging the same price too. Now the fact that no one buys Mass Effect 3(released a couple weeks later) for the Wii will be used by EA to not release the trilogy on Wii. The ME3 thread was saying that Microsoft has some kind of exclusive control over ME1 these days, I wonder how that ties into things.
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Sep 26, 2012 18:58
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thefncrow posted:Microsoft was the publisher for ME1, but that probably doesn't have a ton to do with this seeing as how Mass Effect Trilogy for PS3 is going to have ME1 published on PS3 for the first time ever and ME1 is also going to be released on PSN as a stand-alone game (presumably for people who already have ME2 and ME3 for PS3). The specific context was "Why can't they release the games together / Why can't they re-create ME1 in the ME3 engine?" for what it's worth.
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Sep 26, 2012 19:08
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Edoraz posted:Are you sure it wasn't Keiji Inafune, Mega Man's creator? I'd be all over an alternative Zelda game that took place at a 1970s level of technology. MGS5 is up next, and MGS is like Civilization; the odd numbered ones are the good ones. That means we'll need to wait for MGS6 of course, but afterwards? "Link. There's an Iron Knuckle." "Iron Knuckle!?"
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Sep 27, 2012 00:23
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raito posted:Wait, what? Surely you aren't implying that Civ 5 is better than Civ4 (admittedly pretty close with G&K now though)? Spot on with MGS though. Errr, I meant to say that MGS and Civ both have the "skip a generation" thing going on. For MGS the odds are good, for Civ the evens are good although G&K does make Civ V pretty great after all is said and done.
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Sep 27, 2012 01:40
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Cliff Racer posted:Oh, does it fix the slowdown issues, poor fundamental design choices, etc? Yep. The AI was brushed up, too, in addition to an overhaul of naval play to make cross-oceanic Vikingesque raids possible.
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Sep 27, 2012 04:16
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boom boom boom posted:You are scum. Hey now I clarified, I meant they were similar in that they skipped a generation. MGS is on odds, Civ is on evens. That's why it was a semicolon v v
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Sep 27, 2012 18:35
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So where would this Nintendo Direct happen?
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Sep 28, 2012 02:37
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Bobnumerotres posted:Nintendo.com, like the last one. That's great, but the site has no reference of it and all the prior URLs aren't working or show archived Nintendo Direct video. Detective No. 27 posted:Goldeneye Wii was poo poo because it was Call of Duty with James Bond skins. I couldn't get past the second level. I wanted to look around, explore wherever I was. Instead, 006 kept yelling at me to keep moving. It was a very suffocating experience. Daniel Craig is a fine actor and I had zero problems with the change. Oh, it gets better when you're sneaking around labs and going through vents and things just like the good old days.
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Sep 28, 2012 03:24
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Detective No. 27 posted:Really? I'll give the 360 release a shot sometime. I thought so, at least, playing it sneaky. Some levels are just built for firefights though.
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Sep 28, 2012 03:36
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MGS 1, 2, and 3 were full of stuff about the meaning of being a patriot or soldier, the costs of war, and was pretty quick to condemn the actions and double-dealings of governments. Metal Gear 1 and 2 were also pretty anti-war.
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Sep 28, 2012 04:49
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Aeros Wilhelm posted:Why are we talking about MGS again? is it coming out for the WiiU? We all wish. Snake has made Nintendo his home many times.
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Sep 28, 2012 05:16
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Why do you keep teasing me Nintendo?
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COD: Black Ops is warporn, whereas Black Ops: The Line is all about seeing the actual impact those video game choices make.
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Sep 28, 2012 19:15
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Urdnot Fire posted:For clarification's sake, you mean Spec Ops: The Line. Yeah, that's the one. I was about to run out the door when I posted, but there was also a good set of reviews that explore the story in Spec Ops and how it subverts the player's expectations on what a military shooter should be. If I find them again I will link it.
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Sep 28, 2012 21:48
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Fergus Mac Roich posted:Have they talked about any digital download games for this thing yet? I'm hoping they bring King of Dragon Pass over. quote:The eShop is a download service where users can buy content from their console. All of Nintendo's Wii U games will be downloadable from the eShop as well as being available in physical copies, and this option is extended to all other developers. From the first post.
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Sep 30, 2012 02:42
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Liku posted:Man I'd love to play with an inferior control scheme. Well yeah, why else would you have it on the 360? 
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Sep 30, 2012 06:05
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Liku posted:Man that thing looks really loving chintsy, is it basically just a Classic Controller unteathered? Just don't get one.
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Oct 1, 2012 03:55
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