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Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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Leofish posted:

You know what would be a thing I wish companies would do? When they update their EULAs for whatever reason, it'd be nice if they'd highlight or point out what changed. I know why they don't, but I'm always curious about EULA changes and updates.

The latest for the Nintendo Network Services Agreement, which updated today on the Wii U (and 3DS I assume but I didn't see an update yet), adds a few tweaks to sentences, and that's usually all it is when they change things. The main one, I think, at least according to the NNSA that's on Nintendo's website, still dated Sept. 30, 2013, is adding, under Use of Information, the following, "We may collect, use and disclose personal information that (a) you provide to us; (b) we collect automatically; and (c) we receive from other sources."

They also added a phrase under Network Services saying if you access Nintendo Network services outside of the US, Canada or certain other countries in the Americas, or if you set your console region as one of those countries, you are bound by the agreement.

There's been plenty of talk on the web about how Nintendo has given itself the right to use anything you do, say, or publish using one of their devices for whatever purpose they want forever, but that hasn't changed. You still "own your user content", as per the agreement, but they can still use your Miiverse posts or screencaps in advertisements or whatever if they want.

Of course, I still hit Agree. There are games to play.

Sometimes using actual Miiverse posts in lieu of ones made by employees or whatever in their official stuff leads to weird stuff popping up like this one around the nine second mark.

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Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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So our old pal Denis Dyack is back on the town and I have no idea where to even post this:

quote:

Denis Dyack, formerly of Silcon Knights, has formed a new entertainment company, Quantum Entanglement Entertainment Inc., or "QE2."

The new company will not only develop video games, but will also create movies and television programming. Dyack says this is where the future is, calling the merging of all three platforms "The Singularity."

"A lot of the television that you're seeing is really bleeding into a lot of the things that we do in video games," Dyack said. "A lot of the things that you see in film are bleeding into a lot of the things that we do in video games.

"I wanted to do something that was a lot more than just video games."

Dyack will serve as the Chief Creative Officer for QE2, but he's not alone in the venture. Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Soon-Shiong has an extensive film and television background in Canada, including his time as Deputy Executive Director, Strategy and Finance at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Chief Operating Officer Paul Rapovski has experience as a film and television producer, and as an actor and director. Rapovski was also an assistant fight coordinator for "Pacific Rim," and provided motion capture aspects for Dyack's Silicon Knights title "Too Human."

One of the first projects we'll see from QE2 will be the return of Shadow of the Eternals -- a spiritual successor to the Silicon Knights cult-classic Eternal Darkness. Dyack tried to relaunch the game a few times through crowdfunding, but the project stalled after failing to reach it's goals.

However, he said Shadow of the Eternals is actively in production now. And it won't just be a video game.

"(We're) looking at it from a film and television side," Dyack said. "We've got more going on that we're just not ready to talk about yet."

Taking a look at the current video game landscape Dyack said the gamer has more say in what they want to play. And he said a successful game isn't hardware-dependent anymore.

"It could be successful on a cell phone, it could be successful on a console, it could be successful on a PC," he said. "(It's) a combination of things gamers have wanted to see for a long time."

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Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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ImpAtom posted:

Known for Eternal Darkness and MGS: The Twin Snakes before decending into a hilarious burst of tremendous fuckup where he ran his company into the ground, made a bunch of lovely games and burned any developer goodwill he ever had.

To top it off the writer for Eternal Darkness, the lore-master who stood by Dyack throughout the years and was basically his number 2, was convicted and sentenced for making child pornography available this past summer.

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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homeless snail posted:

I'm guessing the Pikmin shorts aren't cross buy, right?

No but they should be, or at least offered as some sort of reduced price pack.

I wanna know what dinguses are going to buy them from the eShop, upload them to YouTube, and then complain when they find out Nintendo would really rather have people buy them on their systems than watch 'em on somebody's channel.

I mean just look at that Happy Mask Salesman Miyamoto face. How can you upset that face?

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
Mench'n-a-go-go-baby!

PaletteSwappedNinja posted:

Why does DK's costume have a sick flame decal.

The mystery of what exactly Burning DK is continues.

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
Mench'n-a-go-go-baby!

Help Im Alive posted:

Nintendo made this extremely adorable thing to teach kids about Nintendo IDs

http://www.nintendo.co.uk/Misc-/Nintendo-Extra-929535.html?issue=01&article=nnid

Nikki lives.

Also that Kirby box is so adorable, how could the final boss be anything but a screaming horror from beyond our understanding of reality at this point?

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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Rich Uncle Chet posted:

The re-release of Punch out! On the Wii U, really reminds me: We need a sequel to the Wii version. Next Level really outdid themselves, and I think that was one of the best and most underrated games of last Gen.

They could call it Punch U Out!! and it would give my Little Mac Amiibo something to do than Side B over the edge in Smash Bros.

Punch-Out! Origins: The Legend of Doc Louis. You'll need to master new health recovery and revenge mechanics in order to survive.

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
Mench'n-a-go-go-baby!

The Taint Reaper posted:

Can't wait for Nintendo to discontinue amiibo functionality for games 6-8 months from now.

Gamestop is over run with Infinity/Skylanders and they cant even get rid of them for a dollar. Those World of Nintendo toys are probably a better deal since they're larger than the amiibo guys, can actually move, and they're cheaper than actual amiibos despite having more engineering going on with hip swivels and articulation.


The Fire Emblem Amiibos look like total rear end compared to the action figure ones.

Even Lucina which is a figure you buy for the rear end.

poo poo are Disney and Activision still gonna do new entries in their respective series this year despite this plastic creep? I guess they're just going to push it till the bottom breaks considering they had already sold like, what over a hundred million Skylanders toys yet the marketing crux of the last game was like, "KIDS! We need ya to get even more plastic stuff this time around than usual. And don't think you'll be able to follow that whole "Only one figure of each element" rule you and your parents agreed on we're really planning on making sure you break that rule this time around."

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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Quest For Glory II posted:

Zelda for Wii U is now delayed to 2016.

Considering the fact that every disappointing decision they make gets an "Operationsomething" hashtag movement these days in retaliation I almost want the more wild fans to try something dumb like "OperationZelda2015" at this point just for the hilarity factor. Like yeah rally to force them to shove out a rushed game that's awesome.

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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Bean posted:

I'm cool with it. You know what other game was delayed? Ocarina of Time. OoT is the loving Charles Dickens novel of video games. Homie knows what he's doing and has my blessing.

Hey Wind Waker and Mario Sunshine was rushed out and they ended up fine!

I mean, there were a few things they could have fixed and added to each game...

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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Bean posted:

I thought they said they were going to make an Animal Crossing announcement before the end of this year? It's totally possible that that's our big Holiday/E3 boom.

They can still talk about Zelda at E3, I think they'd be allowed.

I'd like to think that they're still going to show something from the game in their event, especially if it's their digital event were they can control everything that happens even if it's not gameplay.

For some reason it's always a toss up between whether or not an on-stage Zelda game demos well live. Sometimes it goes smoothly like the Twilight Princess showing, other times you get stuff like the Skyward Sword demo and the lesser known Wind Waker mess-up.

Hearing Trinen casually translate their train of thought as they realized the sword had fallen through the level geometry is both bizarre and endearing. Especially when Miyamoto tries picking up rocks and pots to try and see if maybe it's under them. Like when you lose your keys and you start looking under everything to find them.

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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Blackbelt Bobman posted:

What do they have as their big holiday game this year, then? Anything? I can't even remember.

In regards to unknown games it's a toss up at this point honestly. Sometimes we don't know anything going into E3 and say "They definitely GOTTA have something cool for Christmas" and then Wii Music happens, but other times we get Donkey Kong returning the gently caress outta nowhere.

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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I'm wondering just how they plan on topping the digital media event from last year this time around. You can say that the zeitgeist didn't translate to sales or that it was just reinforcing the "Preaching to the choir" mentality most of the directs are based around. But I don't think you can really call the event itself boring. At least not the segment that immediately followed the Robot Chicken intro.

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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Before we go into direct hype mode can I just give a quick shout-out to the Huffington Post and their amazing headlines? Especially since you don't even have to go digging in the tech section to see the story it's right there on the front page in the top bar.

But that's not even the best part THIS IS:

quote:

A representative for Nintendo did not immediately respond to a request for comment. This doesn't appear to be an authorized use of the company's famous mascot, though, so you might try giving it a whirl before any cease and desist letters go out.

WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?

Why would you go out of your way to contact them about it before they had even done anything?

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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Macaluso posted:

Come on Nintendo


Nintendo, I love your games, but poo poo like this is insane.

They are so utterly backwards about these things. Like, with the youtube thing, I think it's lovely what they're doing but it's like fine, people make money off the ad revenue, so okay. But this is beyond ridiculous

They did it because it got too popular, too fast. That and the lovely "Hey play this brand new Mario 64 HD on your browser FOR FREE" headlines I mentioned before. gently caress, at least some gaming sites mentioned it was fan made some didn't even do that!

But yeah once something fan-made goes this viral and starts showing up on mainstream news sites I take it as a sign all bets are off at that point. The last high profile fan thing they had to shut I recall was that Full Screen Mario site that let you play a fully recreated Super Mario Bros. 1 whenever you wanted to on your browser as well as letting you make your own custom levels. That thing started getting pretty popular itself and started showing up on news sites everywhere before they put the kibosh on it.

We know now of course why they wouldn't want an open-source, free and fully functional "Mario Maker" for anyone with a web browser to be able to play around with.

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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deadwing posted:

i'm trying to do my post-play surveys for the stack o' games I registered two sundays ago

waiting this late was an awful idea

I gave up trying to get some last minute points when I found out the second set of Smash Bros. posters were sold out a few days ago.

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:

Here's what I care about : Devil's Third, and Duck Hunt amiibo support for anything and everything, including Devil's Third.

Itagaki didn't even like the concept of achievements back when they were something new and fresh*, I don't know what he'd think about NFC figurines.

*Seriously DOA4 was one of the only games I remember that gave you 0 point achievements for doing poorly.

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
Mench'n-a-go-go-baby!

absolutely anything posted:

and just one more thing...BRING IT IN, GUYS!!!!

*every nintendo executive and character come in with an official english translation of mother 3 and everything for a HUGE party*

Oh God Sakamoto just arrived to the party I see him coming up the steps now everybody hide.

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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Adam Bowen posted:

Ganon is a gigantic loving badass pig demon with a pitchfork

Ganondorf is an emo desert prince sephiroth and does in fact loving suck

Life is tough for a magical kid when you have two moms who sometimes combine into one powerful mom.

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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ChaosArgate posted:

It's 75 cents for a Smash costume. Compare to, say, Squeenix or Namco who will charge at least 4 bucks for a costume and I think you'll find Nintendo's costumes are reasonably priced. The DLC characters are also pretty nicely priced, if Mewtwo is anything to go off of.

Yeah it made taking the plunge on the Fire Emblem DLC, especially the second season a bit easier when I could compare to what Namco was charging for their DLC around the same time.

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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You know you could be mad that a bunch of these tracks are taken from previous titles; but then you look at Ribbon Road and see just how much detail they put into that thing.

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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jivjov posted:

One cup's worth new tracks and one cup's worth of retro seems pretty standard; that's the same distribution the core, unDLC'd game had. And its not like they were ported over with no changes; some of the retro stages are hardly recognizable after the upgrades.

I can understand why they hardly ever go back to the SNES stages for potential stage remasters. With all the work they'd be putting into them it's like they'd be making an entirely new stage, so why not just make a new stage at that point? At least the GBA game has stages with pretty interesting and varied themes they're able to expand on.

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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I also just noticed the Pink Gold Baby Peach statue in Baby Park.

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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Kurtofan posted:

I can't believe Bill Trinen trolled me.

Today we are all Gigideegee.

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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noirstronaut posted:

What does Doug Bowser do? Like, if something were to gently caress up and I had to blame him, what would have hosed up?

He reports to that one guy who did that 3DS mini-conference at E3 2012 that everyone really hated so whenever they do something like that and it sucks now you can blame him.

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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greatn posted:

Does the Nintendo world store have any events for E3 like a watch party or something? I'm going to be in Manhattan with my kid during E3, and I wanted Nintendo World Store to be one of my stops this trip anyway.

Usually, I can imagine if they're selling amiibo at the same though for whatever reason the store would become a mobbed mess.

Edit: For reference, here's a video of the line at the store the night of the amiibo wave 4 and Splatoon launch.

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Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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Fremry posted:

HOLY poo poo, XBOX ONE HAS A RARE COLLECTION THAT INCLUDES 30 GAMES.

The reason I am saying this in the Wii U thread is that one of those 30 is BLAST CORPS.

Yeah it kinda does put the whole VC pricing schematics into question.

Though all those Rare games being thrown in there does kinda feel like they feel there's not as much value in them anymore. All the 360 games in particular being included as well I mean, why is the first Viva Pinata even in the collection? Trouble in Paradise is pretty much an ultimate version of pinata inbreeding and chaos already.

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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Ultigonio posted:

I enjoyed Kameo.

Same, the ironic thing is that before Horse Armor symbolically heralded the age of lame DLC on consoles Kameo actually had pretty reasonable prices for the DLC in that game. It even had a free skin pack featuring skins gamers of all ages designed.

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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Astro7x posted:

Take the 1 or 2 games that people want to play, package them with 28 other games people don't want, and charge them more money than what they'd pay for the games they want al la cart?

Yeah but, I just know people are already going on about how Rare/MS are putting their entire history (albeit with an Ape shaped hole) into one criterion-esque collection while Mother 1 costs seven dollars just because it can. I mean I understand both sides.

Also I wonder if Perfect Dark HD will be updated to remove Molyneux's head now that he's no longer at the MS family.

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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Artix posted:

What if I sweeten the deal by telling you it's being directed by the main responsible for the extended FF7 universe and Final Fantasy Versus 13?

You forgot the most important thing. He wrote the scenario for The Subspace Emissary.

Lucas running away in terror from Wario during a rainstorm with his friend captured and turned into a lifeless and rare amiibo.

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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I wanna know if the vitriol everywhere is still going to be around once E3 season is over and they just start putting out news about new Splatoon stuff every few days for the next two months? Like is this poo poo going to ruin that flow they got going?

Edit: Like at this point I think they've already mentally blocked even looking at their comments section on social media and stuff thanks to same people who wanted remakes of Hoenn and Majora's Mask and always complain about amiibo shortages in posts that aren't even about amiibo. They're always there like some sort of clockwork.

Viewtiful Jew fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Jun 17, 2015

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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The most important petition of our time.

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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Cyron posted:

lol, people need to get laid.

Just wait until we get direct official confirmation Krystal is never coming back to Star Fox for some passionate fans of her to start sending cupcakes to NOA HQ.

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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Anime Curator posted:

people can just not buys games

That's pretty much the only way Nintendo will likely "hear" any message anyone tries to send. Even in Japan, years of one-star reviews on amazon.jp have probably given them an apathy towards user ratings and like/dislike ratios.

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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Jsor posted:

It's not like the money you're giving to scalpers goes directly to Nintendo anyway. :v:

poo poo there's the silver lining in all of this. Hopefully all this internet anger translates to real life anger and the lines usually populated by fervent Nintendo fans are shortened nationwide as a result of this national tragedy, leaving more amiibo for the rest.

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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Rad Valtar posted:

They'll just do a direct if you want to announce a new game.

Remember one of the few things they didn't announce last E3 that fans kept kept crying to them on Twitter about was a Majora's Mask remake? And then suddenly we got one in the span of like four months from the time it was announced in a direct to release.

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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Alfalfa The Roach posted:

I am so excited for #FE. gently caress, man.

It's gotta be weird for anyone who played Awakening and went unmarried long enough to be able to get hitched to Tiki to see her back in this form though. Like one of the reasons you might've picked her in the first place was to be able to say you've married a dragon and have it not be the creepy option at the same time.

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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RZA Encryption posted:

Look at these words you wrote. How the hell does AC: Amiibo Festival get poo poo on and this doesn't?

I feel sorry for that new otter girl. She doesn't deserve to be involved in such a hate-storm.

Edit: Apparently she's Lyle's niece, which is weird but I guess weasels and otters are from the same animal family so it's okay?

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Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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Astro7x posted:

Like I am kind of shocked that they don't unlock the Amiibo Figher costumes in Smash. What is the point of forcing us to buy a rare toy if it is not even going to unlock related content elsewhere?

Considering how the costumes are even the same exact style as the amiibo (including the green squid hat) I think it might have been the case at one point, but something happened and now you just buy them for like a buck fifty or so.

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Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
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Quest For Glory II posted:

Dont respond to this or Taint reaper will go back to his favorite website, Metacritic

The problem with Metacritic is that there's a glitch whenever it brings up the best critically received Wii U games it doesn't display Wonderful 101. It's been almost two years now and it's still not fixed.

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