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MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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Jonas Albrecht posted:

Stux, I'm going to find a wizard and have him magically tie your fate to Nintendo's.

So you want him to live forever? :confused:

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MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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Nintendo's VR will be out when all the other ones have their footholds on the market and it'll be the only one that actively prevents you using it for porn so there won't be any point to it.

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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Apparently the gamecube version is ultimately "superior" due to button layout despite being cribbed from widescreen, though you're still playing Twilight Princess so it's still a bad time.

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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Saoshyant posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUwWAI_Zfn4

Those crazy Nintendo of America folks chasing the Youtube generation. Should have used the chance to get Dark Gary back.

#itsforkids, Internet, don't get mad as usual.

okay i'm twenty seconds in and this is the best. Izzy is literally holding the whole thing together, if it weren't for him i could see where the hate comes from but he sets up the tone perfectly, like of course all this rapid fire sillyness is happening there's a loving talking piranha plant puppet co-hosting what else could it be.

I hope next episode is Top 5 Waifus from TMS #FE

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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Meldonox posted:

Kiria Kiria Kiria Kiria Kiria?

Haven't started chapter 3 but I agree. God I hope the game doesn't just lead to Itsuki and Tsubasa getting together.

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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That's the strangest fetish i've seen today

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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Maybe it's just an iron man suit with galaga

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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SylvainMustach posted:

is this the general nintendo wii u thread now?

I have a controversial question. I'd post it in the Zelda thread but I dont want to get jumped on.
When does TP click?

I've gotten up to the horseback battle with the kid tied to a stick and it's just not fun.

Is my brain broken?

:smith:

I'm willing to accept that it is.

It's just not fun.

Soon you'll reach the Master Sword and suddenly most of the game's issues vanish. For about four hours it'll be a fun game and then it goes back to being bad, not as bad as the start tho. Keep pushing through and there will be two top-tier zelda dungeons, Arbiter's Grounds and Yeti Mansion, then call it quits. Then play Wind Waker for a game that's actually good instead of a flatline with two sudden peaks.

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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MechaCrash posted:

If the NX lacks an optical drive, then that means there isn't going to be backward compatibility with the Wii U. Which I think is a shame, especially because Nintendo was so good about BC these past few gens, but oh well.

Even if the NX ends up having an optical drive I honestly doubt it'll be backwards compatible, as good as the Wii U is there's really not much benefit to backwards compatibility compared to the cost of it, specially when there's only a handful of titles on hot demand for the console and it seems like they're porting them over.

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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Straight up, I think if you try and sell people on any Wii U title with "Runs smoother! 1080p! NO NEED FOR SCREEN CONTROLLER!!" they'll get it in a heartbeat. It'll make Splatoon and Mario Maker worse for sure but every single other game will just get more attention.

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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Patter Song posted:

The 3DS is pretty clearly in its final year itself, although it's taking the "going out with a bang" approach and having a pretty amazing going away party.

I tend to side not with the "hybrid" crowd (one system that's both handheld and console) but with the "one family of systems" crowd (two different systems under the NX label, a handheld and a console that plays most of the same games in HD with post-processing effects etc.). You could easily extend that to "an NX Handheld working as a spare controller for NX Console."

The NX Handheld in this model could easily have a GPU something crazy like 25 times more powerful than the 3DS' without breaking the bank or battery life problems, due to the ridiculous leaps forward in portable technology. If they gave up the 3D, especially.

If it wasn't because of how big the hype for the home console is due to the Wii U flop i'd probably be living every day hyped for the next handheld, I love my 3DS and what's yet to come for it and all the titles I still need to get but goddamn the leap in in power to the next one will be amazing, like it's not even farfetched to expect a much longer battery life, 720p and a way stronger processor. It'll be so cool. :allears:

BexGu posted:

Damnnnnn.

Any estimated dollar number Pokémon Go is making? I know Fallout Shelter made way more than any one was expecting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em7TK_nVdYU

MorningMoon fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Jul 12, 2016

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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I love the gamepad, but overall it taking extra resources and jacking up the console price didn't pan out.

Dr Cheeto posted:

This is never happening. One of the new Zelda's things is "Link has a magical tablet that he uses on his adventures" so dehumanize yourself and face to Wii U Gamepad.

Which, for the demo at least, isn't used in any capacity with the gamepad. It's a button to pull up your apps and then pick one, i'm sure for the full Wii U version you'll be allowed to just tap it but they already showed at E3 how it could work without the gamepad, all you need is a standard controller with a gyro in it (like the PS4) and you're 1:1 with the E3 demo.

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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Patter Song posted:

Just for me personally, I love the Gamepad. It feels a bit weird in your hands at first because it's so wide, but it's become one of my favorite controllers.

I wish the left and right triggers were analog, just because I'm about 90% sure that the reason behind the lack of Gamecube VC is the lack of that functionality, but otherwise I have no issue with it.



On a different subject, I recently started playing Twilight Princess HD, with no prior playing of Twilight Princess (though I have watched bits of LPs of it). It's not as bad as people say it is, at least so far (I'm to the start of Goron Mines)...but it's a game that keeps feeling like it has the potential to be great and just isn't. I did get that exact same feeling from Wind Waker HD and it stayed through most of the game, though...Wind Waker's charm for me was like 90% aesthetic.

I do have a real question, though. Twilight Princess HD's character models are ugly. I don't mean they're poorly-made, I mean that it seems like everyone in Hyrule except Link and Zelda were beaten with the ugly stick. Even the Gorons look hideous. I recently played OOT3D (about half a year ago) and the character models were more primitive but had actual charm to them. Why is this game full of people who look like they were swimming on the shallow end of the gene pool?

Yeah, it's not terrible, but being mediocre for 20 or so hours really burns.

The art design is just straight up ugly, not much else to say, stare at enemies long enough and you'll realize you don't want to.

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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Gyroaiming can, and should, be implemented in the NX.

Overwatch with gyro would finally allow the console versions to be good.

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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The idea of all of Nintendo's output being in one console sounds pretty dope, though I'm still wanting a straight up home console in my heart, I guess we'll see when this thing gets announced.

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

The price would be ridiculous if they were using a brand new chip. I mean, they have they have to include a screen as part of the console as well. The wii u gamepad cost quite a bit.

But isn't the benefit of going with the Nvidia folks over the AMDmen that Nvidia is so far behind that they'd be willing to eat production costs to get products out there or something?

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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If the eurogamer mockup image is accurate I will feel cool af when i disconnect the controller from the portable unite and then connect them together to form the home-mode controller.

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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Real hurthling! posted:

flapping sucked, bomb rolling sucked, skyward swording didn't recognize you were trying to do it all the time and that sucked. skyward sword is a bad zelda but its cool to still like it anyway...if you suck

It's a flawed Zelda for sure but the motion controls are really good when they work. There is no such thing as a Bad Zelda except for Twilight Princess.

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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Soul Glo posted:

Yo, as a PlayStation fan, if you think the Wii U doesn't look better on average than a PS3 then you haven't checked out the PS3's muddy, hammered dogshit-looking library lately.

I would like a Metroidvania on the NX, please and thank you.

Also will rebuy Pokemon Sun to play it on a tv because gently caress money and you, that's why.

The difference is probably just straight up in the architecture, like the Wii U has better something but something else bottlenecks which was the opposite for the other consoles (or something like that) and i'm sure third party developers would've eventually figured out how to make PS360 stuff look quite a bit nicer on Wii U but they had six years with those consoles already, by the time the Wii U was 2 years old everyone bailed ship and went to the real big power improvements.

Nintendo, of course, really pulled off some sweet stunts with the Wii U, along with the much nicer art design just lead to prettier games.

I might do the same with S&M, my gf and I are each getting a version, if they do make an NX version and add something to that it would be fun just playing together and picking up 'mons neither used.

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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hemale in pain posted:

soo is the NX gonna be pocket sized? cause for my job I do a bunch of sitting about waiting between stuff so I wouldn't mind having a really cool little console to whip out.

It'll probably be tablet-sized, so it'll fit in most normal pockets.

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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MechaCrash posted:

So on the one hand, I'm impressed that "here's what's in my pockets" started off a tangent that went on this long. On the other hand, poo poo, it's not like we have anything concrete to talk about for the NX. I think they're going to actually talk about it at Tokyo Game Show, right? That's September 15th.

I'd expect an announcement a few days before and then doing a more hands-on showcase for TGS

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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Huh, http://nintendowire.com/blog/2016/08/09/nintendo-announces-5-new-amiibo-bundles-north-america/ new bundles for captain toad, mario party 10 and yoshi's woolly world, 40 for game and amiibo. I wanted a bigger discount but getting YWW with a blue Amiibo to be best buds with my pink yarn yoshi would be dope.

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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NX launches with Mario Party 1-5 HD Collection, and adds the jerk off minigame from the Wii one, and saves Nintendo from forever doom.

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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s.i.r.e. posted:

When I was working in remastering the subject of alternate forms of media came up a lot, since most of our work was for the Bluray format, and nothing is remotely as cheap as disc. Because flash media has gotten cheaper since the 90s still doesn't mean it's just as cheap.

Outside of that there's this:


Nintendo's hardware has been driving third party away for a while now which is a major issue. They're, yet again, making a unique little butterfly of a console which isn't on the power level as the current consoles let alone their upgrades which are coming around the corner. Why would any developer support this thing? It happened to the Wii and Wii U, so what's going to be the difference here?


WiiU runs off the disc, yes.

I think you're looking at it the wrong way, this isn't the Wii UU, this is the new handheld Nintendo console that's been as successful as ever with a gimmick that makes it a home console as well. Handhelds still sell well, get third party support and have cartridge because discs on a handheld is the stupidest idea.

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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It's a pretty straight forward marketing plan, tell people that no, Nintendo isn't going third party for phones exclusive and come September they'll announce their new system and begin a marketing campaign that will hopefully not be an embarrassment like the Wii U one.

Whatever ends up of the NX for now we at least know it can run Breath of the WIld, so that's a pretty dope thing to have on the go and hook on your tv, something of around that power getting the entirety of Nintendo's output sounds great, if you look at the Wii U's software library it's great but limited while the 3DS is great but also pretty huge, both together would be excellent.

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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s.i.r.e. posted:

Yeah but this has already been done with the Nvidia Shield and it's not selling like wildfire, I'd think that having the name "Nintendo" on it would help it but that did gently caress-all for the Wii U.


Seems like it's just an old-rear end Japanese company owned by old-rear end Japanese dudes.

Nintendo put out a 250 dollar machine that outputs at 240p and had a barely functional 3D Gimmick attached, it has sold around 60 million units and keeps consistently being the top-selling console in Japan. A slightly souped up Nvidia Shield with the Nintendo name sounds like a good direction for the handheld side of things.

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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greatn posted:

Hey say what you will about the ouya, but there last who made it is now the nominee for the Green party.

what?

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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Instant Sunrise posted:

Yeah I'd say that the price cut, Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 played a huge part in saving the 3DS after its wet fart of a launch

Animal Crossing and FE: Awakening also were pretty big hits, more than any single game saving the 3DS I think it's just that it started really rolling by the time its first holiday season came and then it just kept going with that momentum throughout 2012 and by 2013 it was a successful console that also got the first 3D mainline Pokemon games. Early 3DS was pretty dire, but I think the price cut skews people's perception a bit since it took under a year to get going properly, sadly on the Wii U side of things getting that sort of momentum with first party titles proved to be impossible as the challenges of making these huge games that use the Wii U's HD powers simply slowed development to a crawl and by the time another "batch" could be thrown at a decent pace the console was pretty dead on the water and it just makes more sense to keep them in the oven another year so more titles can be ready for a good launch Year for the NX.

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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Supercar Gautier posted:

Yeah. I think it's okay if they release a new edition of the Pro, but the current one is such a good standard they shouldn't drop compatibility.

As much as I love my Pro controller I think they should probably drop it for something almost exactly the same but with analogue triggers and gyro.

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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I love the gamepad and have no problems holding it but there's no doubt that it was a misstep for Nintendo, it raised the cost, took up resources, was the main reason the marketing got confusing (plus the title of course) and few games really made use of it, it was a good idea but it simply did not pan out.

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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^But that means you'd spend 80 hours holding a Steam controller, i'm pretty sure there's laws against that sort of punishment.

Argue posted:

I wish we could go back to the old format of having two threads, where one was for Nintendo Gloom and Houndoom and the other one was the cute thread for cute gamers.

There's not much cute left on the U :/ there's TMS #FE which owns and is amazing, but it has its own thread, so the only Wii U discussion left would be about how much some nerds hate Color Splash.

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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smell this posted:

The Nintendo GameXplain

Andre is the console, you have to hear him talk for sixty minutes about the latest thirty second trailer of something every time you boot the console up.

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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Patter Song posted:

I played through and beat this game about a month ago.

It's...I mean it can be fun at times, but I wouldn't call it a gem. I think it's just a total letdown compared to No More Heroes.

I dug it a lot, but yeah, up 'till TMNT Mutants in Manhattan, that was Platinum's weakest title.

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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R. O. B. 2

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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Parker! Get me pictures! Pictures of NX-man!

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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6 months of marketing sound good if it's not some obvious mistake like the Wii "no, it's not just a controller for the wii, even though you can barely even see the console itself" U.
All they need is to announce it and market it as "NX! The new handheld console form Nintendo! You can also connect it to your tv to unlock MORE POWER!" Even if people assume it means plugging an HDMI to it they can't gently caress it up if the dock thing comes in the box.

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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If the new Dragon Quest launches on the same day as the NX they should be golden.

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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InFlames235 posted:

So it's almost the end of August and no mention of a Nintendo NX Direct event to announce it - is September announcement not likely to happen anymore?

We'll probably find out of the NX Direct about 22 hours before it happens.

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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Edmund Honda posted:

6.2" screen with decent controls on either side is a pretty loving big device!

The GamePad has a 6.2" screen, and calling something that size a handheld console is maybe a little misleading?

It's the size of a small tablet, or a dumb-huge phone. At long last, mobile/tablet gaming have done something right and opened the gate for Nintendo to push out the perfect huge device.

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MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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Actually, the NX is going to be CAD. It is every Loss.jpg edit combined together into a sentient being of meme.

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