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CapnAndy posted:Look, Nintendo would like to make another Metroid, it's just that they already covered how all women exist only to bear children and find ultimate self-realization through having babies while any rejection of that bio-truth is pure evil. It's not their fault that they've already addressed the totality of the female human experience and there's no other facets to address. I have no idea how, at the very least, that scene at the ending where Adam stops her from going into FakeTourian and instead ejects the final level into the sun in favour of a Metal Gear-rear end ending got past ANYone at Nintendo. Team Ninja, sure, they animated their monsters, flips, and made sure Samus had bomb-rear end bouncing titties, so their job was done, but how the gently caress do you let that design choice get beyond even just a document.
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irlZaphod posted:I'm getting a Switch because it looks cool. You shouldn't, apparently it tastes terrible.
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I'm gonna wait for a Black Friday sale on the Switch. Zelda looks does look really good, but that's not enough for me to $360 on it.
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Nintendo: Interest in Metroid is at an all time high thanks to this extremely well received trilogy that represents the best translation of a beloved 2d franchise into 3d since Super Mario 64, what can we do to completely ruin all of that goodwill and critical acclaim? Team Ninja: Hold my beer
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purple death ray posted:Nintendo: Interest in Metroid is at an all time high thanks to this extremely well received trilogy that represents the best translation of a beloved 2d franchise into 3d since Super Mario 64, what can we do to completely ruin all of that goodwill and critical acclaim? Team Ninja is on record that they were shut down when they tried to make better gameplay decisions
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Gameplay was not other Ms problem.
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CapnAndy posted:Look, Nintendo would like to make another Metroid, it's just that they already covered how all women exist only to bear children and find ultimate self-realization through having babies while any rejection of that bio-truth is pure evil. It's not their fault that they've already addressed the totality of the female human experience and there's no other facets to address. Other M was a crappy movie bankrolled by the galactic government for the purposes of character assassinating the fugitive Samus Aran after she went on the run after destroying their own Metroid experiments in Metroid Fusion. There, I fixed it.
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Team Ninja wasn't the problem at all, and actively tried to fix Sakamoto's fuckups.CharlestheHammer posted:Gameplay was not other Ms problem. It had poo poo gameplay but it was far from the worst problem with the game.
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Unlucky7 posted:Other M was a crappy movie bankrolled by the galactic government for the purposes of character assassinating the fugitive Samus Aran after she went on the run after destroying their own Metroid experiments in Metroid Fusion. There, I fixed it. Ah the iron man defense.
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joehonkie posted:Pretty much. Although everyone I know is hoping they make VC versions of all the Wii U stuff we all missed. Except the like 2 people I know who bought Wii U. I have no regrets about buying a Wii U because Mario Kart 8 is distilled joy in video game form. 
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I bought a Wii U entirely for Wonderful 101 and Bayonetta 2 and do not regret that decision at all.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Team Ninja wasn't the problem at all, and actively tried to fix Sakamoto's fuckups. ImpAtom posted:Team Ninja is on record that they were shut down when they tried to make better gameplay decisions Can I ask for some sources/links? I know they basically washed their hands of the story, but I've never heard any statement giving examples of things they weren't allowed to do, certainly nothing like Retro's mentioning that they weren't allowed to actually have Samus as a bounty hunter in any meaningful way because Nintendo didn't seem to understand what the phrase means in the West.
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Gaz-L posted:Can I ask for some sources/links? I know they basically washed their hands of the story, but I've never heard any statement giving examples of things they weren't allowed to do, certainly nothing like Retro's mentioning that they weren't allowed to actually have Samus as a bounty hunter in any meaningful way because Nintendo didn't seem to understand what the phrase means in the West. Just as an example, Team Ninja was told by That loving Jackass Sakamoto that the Gravity Suit being purplish pink looked weird and stupid, even though it had been that color since the very first game, so they were told to change it so that it isn't purple, resulting in the final game where the Gravity Suit isn't an actual suit but just an aura around the Varia suit. He was always constantly asking them to redo things like that and micromanaging every single decision they made, to the point that the only real creative freedom they were likely allowed was how much of Samus' nipple we can make out through the zero suit.
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Gaz-L posted:Can I ask for some sources/links? I know they basically washed their hands of the story, but I've never heard any statement giving examples of things they weren't allowed to do, certainly nothing like Retro's mentioning that they weren't allowed to actually have Samus as a bounty hunter in any meaningful way because Nintendo didn't seem to understand what the phrase means in the West. There was a good Let's Play done a few years back that had a section with interviews and dev comments. Team Ninja kept wanting a less stupid control system but Sakamoto insisted they not use the nunchuk because ~reasons~.
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Matt Wagner just announced the final chapter of Mage, The Hero Denied, will debut this summer. I've been waiting almost my entire adult life for this.
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Rhyno posted:Matt Wagner just announced the final chapter of Mage, The Hero Denied, will debut this summer. I've been waiting almost my entire adult life for this. I've been waiting my entire life for River City Ransom Underground and these nerds are talking about Other M instead.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:There was a good Let's Play done a few years back that had a section with interviews and dev comments. Thanks for this. I think one of the more telling elements is him admitting he barely has any awareness of Prime, (or ANY first person or even 3D games, by the sounds of it) One or two of the elements he mentions for the story make sense the way they're phrased in the quotes, but not in the way they came out in game. Samus being crap at relationships or everyday social interaction is actually a fine concept and could be played for equal parts comedy and pathos, but that's not what was shown.
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Rhyno posted:Matt Wagner just announced the final chapter of Mage, The Hero Denied, will debut this summer. I've been waiting almost my entire adult life for this. Just came to post this, Mage was something I saw a lot as a kid and never read. Like im sure it was in Wizard a bunch and the odd random issue here and there. I began to think I'd imagined it. Given the big ol gaps between minis was it published consistently during the minis themselves or were there three month gaps between issues too?
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Gaz-L posted:Can I ask for some sources/links? I know they basically washed their hands of the story, but I've never heard any statement giving examples of things they weren't allowed to do, certainly nothing like Retro's mentioning that they weren't allowed to actually have Samus as a bounty hunter in any meaningful way because Nintendo didn't seem to understand what the phrase means in the West. The most blatant example is that the sidewas NES-style control scheme was a demand from Sakamoto.
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Rhyno posted:Matt Wagner just announced the final chapter of Mage, The Hero Denied, will debut this summer. I've been waiting almost my entire adult life for this. This is great news but I really want more Grendel. Even it isn't by him.
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Are they still running with the "Steve Rogers. Agent of Hydra" thing? Is it actually working? Did they give themselves an out?
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Are they still running with the "Steve Rogers. Agent of Hydra" thing? Is it actually working? Did they give themselves an out? They're doing Secret Empire 2 soon, I imagine that's when it'll all shake out.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Are they still running with the "Steve Rogers. Agent of Hydra" thing? Is it actually working? Did they give themselves an out?
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CapnAndy posted:Yes, no, and I guess yes since there's an upcoming event based on all the other heroes finding out and going to war with Cap over it I can't imagine he stays Hydra by the time it's done. I assume Sam and/or Bucky beat him back to sense. Maybe holo-ghost Tony is involved.
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Roth posted:Betting pool for Secret Empire:
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Rhyno posted:Matt Wagner just announced the final chapter of Mage, The Hero Denied, will debut this summer. I've been waiting almost my entire adult life for this. I can't wait to see how old as hell Kevin Matchstick looks.
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I'm kind of on the fence with Mage 3 because in a way, Matt Wagner saved my life. Twelve years ago I was in a very bad place mentally. I was very close to taking my own life and couldn't find much of a reason to keep on living. I sat there in the tiny place I lived in and stared at the ceiling for hours and when I made up my mind to do it, I got up and glanced at my bookshelf where my newly purchased copies of Mage 1 & 2 were sitting. (The "new" HCs Image released). And I thought to myself "If I kill myself I'll never know how the story ends." And that night, that was enough to shake me out of it. The days after were not good but I often think about how the idea of not getting to finish the story annoyed me enough to not go kill myself. And now he's going to finish it and a very small part of me is worried that sometime in the future I might be in a bad place again and I won't have Kevin Matchstick to save me.
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Next time.you feel like that just think to yourself that you can't die until you know for certain whether I named one of my future children after you. Let that question keep you going.
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Rhyno posted:And now he's going to finish it and a very small part of me is worried that sometime in the future I might be in a bad place again and I won't have Kevin Matchstick to save me. You could always substitute it with Orc Stain.
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Battlechasers man, Battlechasers got your back. Concerning Secret Empire, I've not been reading Captain America much but I do recall one of the first issues showing Steves hydra flip was because of red skulls cosmic cube kid changing him. Isnt this all leading to Bucky (since hes living with Cube Kid in Thunderbolts) having a "remember who you are" moment? Agent_grey fucked around with this message at 13:29 on Mar 4, 2017 |
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Agent_grey posted:Battlechasers man, Battlechasers got your back. Something like that, no doubt. I mean, it was obvious to anyone who's been reading comics for any length of time that this would end with Steve overpowering the Kobik reprogramming and becoming Good Cap again. That'll likely be the denouement of Secret Empire (with there still being some consequences to the world from his Evil Cap plan that will let them say "nothing will ever be the same again!")
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See, thats whats sounded a bit weird to me about everyone getting so cross about it as it always seemed something that would get undone by stories end, I even feel maybe the issue revealing skull was behind it likely came along a little early to ease the backlash people had to it. Lately I have been reading twitter a bunch and saw a lot of people being very upset about him being a Nazi (Say Hydra isnt Nazi all you want but thats dumb) but I figured the end result of it being undone would be obvious. Perhaps I have the benefit of reading too many comics for so long to just shrug and assume this is how it ends.
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While it's pretty dumb to freak out at a comic storyline changing a character as if it was going to be the status quo forever, it's probably pretty unwise and demoralizing to have Captain America be a nazi in the current political climate, especially if he's going to be written by Nick Spencer and give weird moralizing speeches to Tony Stark's corpse about how Hillary Clinton caused Benghazi or whatever that was about.
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Rhyno posted:I'm kind of on the fence with Mage 3 because in a way, Matt Wagner saved my life. Pretend Warren Ellis is going to write more Fell, or Desolation Jones, or Doktor Sleepless
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None of those books touched me in the way that Mage did!
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The comic shop near me is having a half off back issues sale. I picked up the complete run of Amethyst Princess of Gemworld. I'm a big fan of those weird 12 issue series DC used to run, like Outcasts or Camelot 3000. On a whim, I also got Alpha Flight All of Alpha Flight  I don't know anything about Alpha Flight, is it any good?
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Guy Goodbody posted:The comic shop near me is having a half off back issues sale. I picked up the complete run of Amethyst Princess of Gemworld. I'm a big fan of those weird 12 issue series DC used to run, like Outcasts or Camelot 3000. On a whim, I also got Alpha Flight It's kinda hilarious how often Canada is portrayed as this Fascist military haven in the 80s X-men comics, but Alpha Flight sucked enough that no one really gave a poo poo when Bendis killed them all off panel in his New Avengers, and no one cared when they came back with no explanation.
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