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The Macaroni posted:My kid played Super Mario 3D (the Wii U one) at a cousin's house, and now she wants a Wii U. They're stupidly expensive on the used market and there only seem to be a couple of games worth playing. Is there some equivalent Switch game I could suggest to her, or is there some way to play the Wii U version on the Switch? There aren't any games that are quite like 3D World on the Switch right now. That style of coop mario gameplay in distinct levels has been very successful for Nintendo, so I'm sure we'll see that at some point in the Switch's life-span. That said, if she just likes the platforming gameplay and doesn't care about the multiplayer stuff, Mario Odyssey is really excellent and I'm sure she'd enjoy it just as much. Rayman Legends is also quite good and is cooperative, but it is a 2D game. PantsBandit fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Sep 4, 2018 |
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I just started in the application development field and have my first "project" to work on. Already I've seen my boss claim he worked 30 hours on it last week, despite the fact that I did all the development so far. I'd guess his actual work output was between .5-1 hours. I get the feeling this is a pretty common thing in this field, but hey at least I don't dread work like I did at my last job. Also I'm posting on these dead, gay forums instead of continuing to work so I can't complain that much I guess.
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Sep 5, 2018 04:13
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The Colonel posted:i mean yes but does anybody like anything about kingdoms of amalur I like that video game
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Sep 5, 2018 05:39
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Kingdoms of Amalur: + Really great world design + Fun combat + Cool monsters (but not enough of them) - Everything else probably? I wouldn't claim that Amalur was a "good" game, but it was entertaining enough for me to play start to finish. I think the biggest drive for me was seeing the new areas, they did a really good job of varying the environments and giving each one a lot of personality.
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Sep 5, 2018 15:20
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If I'm healing I almost always play Mercy. Her brain-dead mechanics fit with my overall opinion of healers.
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Sep 5, 2018 18:30
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al-azad posted:I see Polygon finally got rid of their bizarre review process where the reviewer submits it to the editors who assign an arbitrary score based on how well the reviewer sold it to them. Hahaha is this for real you gotta be making GBS threads me. loving polygon man.
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Sep 7, 2018 05:56
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Just reserved a redbox copy of Spiderman  I had a grade-school teacher who used to bitch at how my generation was all about instant-gratification. In hindsight she aint even wrong, that poo poo is great.
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Sep 7, 2018 14:46
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Is the Burt Reynolds thing like Chuck Norris in that people like seeing references to him because he's a meme and not because they actually like him as an actor? I'm not trying to hate on a guy that just passed away, it just kind of baffles me how much people loved his appearance in Saints Row. Like, I saw one guy say it was his favorite moment in the whole series when they revealed the Burt was the mayor, whereas I was left going "ok? Is that the whole joke, or?"
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Sep 7, 2018 15:20
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corn in the bible posted:Are you saying Burt was a bad actor? Rude No, not really. I think the only movie I've ever seen with him was Cannonball Run, which was not awful but had some rapey stuff in it that definitely did not age well.
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Sep 7, 2018 15:29
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Given two scenarios, one in which a PR sounding VO is parodying overly politically correct corpo-speak and one in which the ID writers for DOOM are finally getting a chance to insidiously sneak their fascist views into a game trailer, I choose to believe the one that gets me maddest.
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Sep 10, 2018 15:35
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UAC doesn't operate on the same scale as the corporations we know. They're like Weyland-Yutani, closer to a government structure than a business-organization. In that sense (especially considering the whole "demons invading Earth" thing is 100% their fault) it makes total sense to me that they'd have some kind of "life with demons" presentation for their employees on Earth.
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Sep 10, 2018 15:45
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ID is sending really mixed messages. Am I supposed to be a Nazi, or shoot a Nazi? Gimme a break here!
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Sep 10, 2018 15:52
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babypolis posted:lol goons like doom so i guess everyone will gloss over some pretty lovely jokes, cool cool cool If I didn't have a powerful ability to gloss over lovely jokes I'd have a much harder time reading the SA forums.
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Sep 10, 2018 15:56
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Oxxidation posted:extremely online leftists often get very mad about inconsequential things in video games and other media due to their overwhelming impotence in every aspect of life that matters Hard to fit on a hat but I'll take it.
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Sep 10, 2018 16:06
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Wait, you're saying the person arguing for the most negative interpretation in the most aggressive way actually has the least context out of anyone? On the internet??
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Sep 10, 2018 16:20
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babypolis posted:i really dont see why its so relevant to the discussion of its sequel? Because knowing how the entity from DOOM would and would not speak, in-universe, can help you determine when you should hate the UAC and when you should hate the writers.
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Sep 10, 2018 16:26
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Jay Rust posted:What are some short JRPGs? Nier: Automata There aren't many, which is a shame. I've always thought JRPGs as a genre could really benefit from some shorter offerings. I've bounced off a lot that I've mostly enjoyed because I have other stuff I want to play and I don't want to commit 100 hours to seeing the story through.
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Sep 12, 2018 15:13
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Mario and Luigi games also count for this I think, maybe they push the 20 hour mark a little more. Though they aren't what a lot of people think of when they think "jrpg".
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Sep 12, 2018 15:19
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I got one of those hats in Japan and dressed my cat up in it, let me see if I can find the pic Ahahaha yessssss 
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Sep 12, 2018 18:12
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Saint Freak posted:*record scratch* lol
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Sep 13, 2018 03:11
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To me it feels like Nintendo just decided that they could make a boatload of money by extorting their entire install base for some "small" fee. $20 a year feels like a designed amount that's just low enough that the average Switch user would go "well, this isn't providing me any real value, but I guess I'll pay it in the interest of convenience". I'm prepared to be pleasantly surprised, but this is the impression I've gotten thus far.
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Sep 13, 2018 15:39
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Andrast posted:Well yes, that is why online costs money on all consoles The difference is, the other consoles, in theory, charge partially for the infrastructure they are providing. You're paying to support the continued updating and support for things like quality voice chat, party systems, community features, etc. Not to mention the monthly offerings with PS+ and Games with Gold. Now I definitely don't want to make it appear that I think there isn't a better scenario where all console producers offer these for free, that would definitely be the ideal. But yeah, it doesn't feel like Nintendo really HAS anything in that sense. Their online service is so barebones and the features that are there are crap, so I just can't justify it in the same way.
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Sep 13, 2018 15:48
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If Nintendo is listening, the one thing I would ask for, the single feature update that would make me stop bitching about paying, is easy to use voice chat functionality. If I'm going to be paying for an online service, I want to be able to actually talk to the people I'm playing online with.
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Sep 13, 2018 15:58
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Yeah I don't think many things could "kill steam", but charging to use their services definitely would. EA would probably be salivating at the opportunity to get people to come to Origin, for example. They just don't have the same leverage.
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Sep 13, 2018 16:16
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FirstAidKite posted:
Think of it like a bridge with arched supports versus straight ones. One is going to last far longer than the other due to how they're designed.
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Sep 17, 2018 13:58
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I'm sorry to hear about your flat feet. What exactly happens with it that is so painful? Is it because the pressure is being put down on the entire foot instead of just the front and back? Is there any way to fix your feet or are you just stuck with special shoes/special inserts?
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Wildtortilla posted:Monster Hunter GU on Switch is my new tired after work game. Not to fight crazy monsters but to do some necessary item collection and crafting as a cat. Spend the week nights watching a bit of Netflix and gathering, then hopefully when I'm rested on the weekend I get some spare time and I'll be ready to rock and roll against the big mons. Collecting in that game is quite Zen, isn't it? I like to bring my Switch in with me when I'm cooking dinner and grab some herbs when I have breaks in prepping food.
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FirstAidKite posted:I don't know anything about bridge building or why arched supports are better than straight ones Basically what you said before. Arches cause pressure to be distributed to the outside instead of focused in the center. The other thing is downward pressure on the center of a flat structure will cause the outside edges to want to move inward which can also cause long-term damage. This is all from my extremely layman's knowledge of how these things work so someone else could probably explain better.
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Sep 17, 2018 14:16
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I always pick Bowser in all the games I play. Simple choice because he's always the best, hits hardest, highest top speed, knocks people around like it ain't no thing. His downsides are always like "well if you wipe out it takes longer to get back up to speed" but if you're wiping out as the B-man then maybe go back to playing as Toad
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Sep 18, 2018 14:59
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I'm currently on hold with gamestop because someone on the internet told me they'd honor Spiderman PS4 Pro orders from their glitchy website. I hope you are all having better evenings than being on hold with Gamestop. One of the girls from the gamestop hold "talk-show" just said rpg games.
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Sep 19, 2018 01:57
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cheetah7071 posted:RPG, in the context of video games, has long since ceased to stand for anything. They certainly aren't roleplaying games You've rekindled my love for rpg games. Time to go withdraw $60 from the nearest atm machine. edit: "It takes place during World War 2 which was such a...heavy time..."
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Sep 19, 2018 02:06
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tap my mountain posted:Why does crash look like the dad from rugrats? Crash, that's 144 peaches!
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Sep 19, 2018 03:13
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It's shocking to me what people are willing to pay money for. I feel like if you went to anyone and said "would you pay $100 for 15 PS1 games" they'd go "gently caress no". But if you wrap it in another junky piece of hardware to clutter up their shelves, suddenly they fly off the shelves.
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Sep 19, 2018 15:30
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Poker has been replaced with a digital TCG. Collect all your favorite rockstar heroes!
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Sep 19, 2018 22:29
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Snooze Cruise posted:Sometimes gaming looks small enough to fit on a cat's collar but then you look closely at it and its like MIB where you zoom in and there is another universe in there. How big a cat though?
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Sep 20, 2018 18:32
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exquisite tea posted:House Fire Destroys Over 2,000 Games Was very surprised to see this wasn't about Jeff Gerstmann.
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Sep 21, 2018 15:03
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Wow, seriously? Didn't they just have a major hiring spree a few years ago? You'd think they'd try to scale things back and take on fewer projects before shuttering completely. I really want to know more of this story. Upper management must have been a cluster-gently caress.
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Sep 21, 2018 20:27
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See, that's crazy to me. I don't know how far back they're talking about when they say these games didn't turn a profit (I assume TWD S1 must have, right?). But even if they're not going that far back, that means there must have been 5-10 game SERIES, meaning probably close to 50 episodes, that weren't profitable. And it no point did they try to compensate or change their formula. They must have known they needed to shake things up for years, and nobody was willing to make the difficult call to try and right the ship.
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Sep 21, 2018 20:59
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The 7th Guest posted:why is it good that a bunch of people lost their jobs Well, you see they produced video games that I didn't personally like and therefore
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The first Nolan Batman movie was aight, but loses a lot of its luster by the fact that the other two came out and were better. Dark Knight Rises is a pretty fun romp but you can tell they were going for "what if TDK...but more!" and it ends up being bogged down by trying to shove way too much into its run-time. The Dark Knight though I don't think is overrated at all. It's an extremely good movie buoyed by a couple great performances and I am happy to rewatch it whenever the urge strikes me.
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