Are you getting the Wii U? This poll is closed. |
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Yes | 9031 | 65.25% | |
No | 1191 | 8.60% | |
Maybe | 808 | 5.84% | |
I'm an idiot | 460 | 3.32% | |
Waluigi | 1603 | 11.58% | |
Waa | 748 | 5.40% | |
Total: | 13841 votes |
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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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# ? Apr 25, 2024 07:37 |
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Friend got a Walmart order in for me, "Arrives by Mon., Nov 26" Chaltab posted:What are the current rumors? Even to be proportional to the difference between Wii and the rest of 7th gen, they'd have to have at least 5GB. At that point it's diminishing returns because no game yet created has used that much RAM, even on PCs where configurations with 16GB are common on high-end gaming machines. Whatever the case the Wii U will be out in two months while the others won't be out for another year+ and ultimately nothing is actually confirmed about them at this point, so I'm not caring too much about those right now. Either way the Nintendo system is default for me for Nintendo stuff, and hopefully better Japanese support a la Platinum this time around. Worst case I buy another system again, which could be a while cause I'm weird. I didn't get a 360 until late 2009 I think, that was pretty much for Trials HD when the 360 dropped to $199. Most of my 360 library is Sega arcade games and Cave shooters, then Platinum, Capcom, and a few other outliers. Bombadilillo posted:Console architecture really inst comparable to a pc setup. Would it really bump a price up 100-200$ to double the ram? Is the ram used here that special? I know the edram is. I just don't get it. Chronojam posted: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 04:23 |
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japtor posted:Good thing they're moving to a free to play strategy TBH Warface looks rad as gently caress. I can't wait for the next Direct because I need to know what titles I can just download through the Wii U shop. I'm also interested in what kind of little mini-games will come out for the console. Wouldn't hurt to get a free HD angry birds and other little free/1 buck touch games.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 04:29 |
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The WiiU is gonna dominate Christmas this year. I had thought they might have some trouble cause of people thinking it's a new controller for the Wii, or a Wiii, but if people are already selling out of preorders of the black one a couple days after the thing was announced, I guess those concerns were overblown. Plus the scarcity will help turn it into the "must-have" this year.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 04:30 |
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Bobnumerotres posted:TBH Warface looks rad as gently caress. We know Trine 2, Nano Assault Neo and Toki Tori 2 will be there at launch, and that other stuff is in the works like Bit.Trip.Runner 2, Mighty Switch Force HD, whatever the Word of Goo dudes' new game is called, etc. As for retail releases, all first-party stuff will get a simultaneous digital release, and they're "strongly encouraging" third-party publishers to do the same.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 04:32 |
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:As for retail releases, all first-party stuff will get a simultaneous digital release, and they're "strongly encouraging" third-party publishers to do the same. I don't even see why they need encouragement. You get to sell the game with one less middle man taking a cut of the revenue, and there's no expense for discs. I'm going to try to go all-digital with the U. Screw swapping out discs or worrying about losing things. I'll obviously make exceptions for finding cool games in bargain bins but in that case I hope you'll be able to install it and never fumble with the disc again, like steam-enabled games.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 04:36 |
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Im buying Nano assault right away, that thing looks awesome.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 04:36 |
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Bobnumerotres posted:I don't even see why they need encouragement. You get to sell the game with one less middle man taking a cut of the revenue, and there's no expense for discs. A lot of people don't want to buy digital because Nintendo (almost) never discounts any of their digital games, whereas retailers regularly discount stuff, including at launch. You see people complaining about it re: the 3DS all the time, and on that platform there's a lot more value in buying digitally - namely, being able to have the game right there on the system menu at all times and not have to worry about carrying the cart around - but the Wii U doesn't even have that advantage, so I wonder how it's gonna play out. Nintendo's strategy is supposed to including retail, eShop and digital download cards sold by retailers, allowing customers to hunt around for deals in whichever format they like without undercutting the retailers, but things haven't exactly worked out that way.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 04:41 |
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I wouldn't be surprised if you could switch from whatever game you're playing to a different game the same way you can on 3DS, as long as the current game is closed. Although with the amount of memory dedicated to the OS, you might be able to store the session iOS-style. I'll be interested to see just how deep their OS is. The problem I have with Nintendo's digital strategy is that they've somehow strongarmed Gamestop into never discounting their digital codes, and I expect that to continue. I remember some people thought "oh we'll still be able to get this game cheap digitally because it'll be cheap at third-party retailers" but that doesn't seem to be the case.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 04:44 |
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Nintendo's strategy is supposed to including retail, eShop and digital download cards sold by retailers, allowing customers to hunt around for deals in whichever format they like without undercutting the retailers, but things haven't exactly worked out that way. I can't see Nintendo doing sales on their eShop. I mean, maybe they will, stranger things have happened, but if they undercut retailers Gamestop and such will raise a big stink about it. Even though they have no business strategy for the future, as a gaming company there is no reason good enough to sour your relationship with The Game Store of America.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 04:46 |
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Bombadilillo posted:Im buying Nano assault right away, that thing looks awesome. It definitely pulls off some high quality lighting effects.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 04:50 |
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Bombadilillo posted:Im buying Nano assault right away, that thing looks awesome.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 04:53 |
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Bombadilillo posted:Im buying Nano assault right away, that thing looks awesome. The guys at Shinen are technical wizards. It is amazing how much their small team has managed to pull off on Nintendo's consoles and handhelds. The Operative fucked around with this message at 04:57 on Sep 17, 2012 |
# ? Sep 17, 2012 04:54 |
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http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/09/17/capcom-hints-at-more-wii-u-projects Good job IGN, way to take his warning not to be misinterpreted. He meant that as a very polite way of saying "Don't get your hopes up." Also: http://www.ign.com/videos/2012/09/13/ninja-gaiden-3-razors-edge-wiiu-trailer This game is so loving ridiculous. What kind of major flaws did it have and is there a chance they were fixed? EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuwxsZL6beY Oh wow they really tore it a new one. extremebuff fucked around with this message at 05:04 on Sep 17, 2012 |
# ? Sep 17, 2012 04:59 |
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Bobnumerotres posted:I don't even see why they need encouragement. You get to sell the game with one less middle man taking a cut of the revenue, and there's no expense for discs. The problem with that is that nearly every single content producer in the transition to digital has seen that as an opportunity to pocket extra revenue instead of reducing prices to encourage more sales. Games, books, movies, television; if they were part of one of the big producers then the digital versions wound up costing more than the physical because of an absolute determination to live in denial of basic economics. Until there's a fundamental change in how content producers are viewing digital distribution the pricing is going to be bad. (Before anyone chimes in, there are a couple huge exceptions to this in Valve and Amazon. Both of whom look at pricing from a retailer perspective and have economists on staff to help work out the optimal way that they can get people to constantly throw money at them.)
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 05:06 |
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I haven't played Ninja Gaiden 3 but from what I gather people hated it because they removed a ton of stuff for no reason and slapped a terrible Other M-level story on top. Everything I've read about the Wii U version suggests it'll be significantly different - lots of stuff added back in, lots of new content, etc. Apparently Nintendo themselves have been working on it.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 05:08 |
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Kamiya is awesome/ ...it is in Nintendo Land after all
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 05:10 |
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^^^^^^ Huh?Random Stranger posted:Until there's a fundamental change in how content producers are viewing digital distribution the pricing is going to be bad. When Steam started releasing digital games and such, I had heard from multiple sources that they were going to reduce the price of the games somewhat, on top of not having to pay taxes. Gamestop and other big brick and mortar stores stomped and cried that this was unfair competition, and threatened to do all sorts of ridiculous things in order to counter/protest services like Steam. I imagine the same would happen if Nintendo's eshop undercut Gamestop.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 05:11 |
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japtor posted:Kamiya is awesome/ Whoa, what the? Now that's a really drat obscure pick for Kamiya: Japanese Edo period Zelda clone.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 05:14 |
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japtor posted:Friend got a Walmart order in for me, "Arrives by Mon., Nov 26" I think that has more to do with what shipping option you picked it says it'll arive between november 21-26 for me edit: just placed my order and it says November 26 as well, but I'm assuming thats the last day it may arrive horchata fucked around with this message at 05:21 on Sep 17, 2012 |
# ? Sep 17, 2012 05:14 |
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:I haven't played Ninja Gaiden 3 but from what I gather people hated it because they removed a ton of stuff for no reason and slapped a terrible Other M-level story on top. I remember reading that there was regenerating health after each section of enemies, basically taking out a lot of the difficulty in the Ninja Gaiden games.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 05:19 |
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Policenaut posted:Whoa, what the? Now that's a really drat obscure pick for Kamiya: Japanese Edo period Zelda clone. It's not really a Zelda clone, beyond being a top-down, screen-based thing. No puzzles, no items/upgrades, no real exploration, all action.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 05:19 |
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Astro7x posted:I remember reading that there was regenerating health after each section of enemies, basically taking out a lot of the difficulty in the Ninja Gaiden games. Also in the vanilla release of the game...you only have the dragon sword. The WiiU version will have all the weapons added back in, I believe these were released later on on 360/PS3 as DLC packs.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 05:20 |
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Policenaut posted:Whoa, what the? Now that's a really drat obscure pick for Kamiya: Japanese Edo period Zelda clone. Is it really that obscure when you think of the Nintendoland mini games?
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 05:22 |
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Bobnumerotres posted:^^^^^^ Huh? Hmm, I don't recall anyone ever vocally giving a poo poo about Steam. Green Man Gaming has XCOM for 10% off while Steam is full price and there's no bad blood between retail or digital stores. And every (smart) retailer like Gamestop and Amazon's response has been to open their own digital store (hell, Gamestop carries Steam cards despite owning a competing service Impulse). And now they have their own tablets, app stores, and streaming services of their own. You either keep up with the competition or die.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 05:25 |
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al-azad posted:And every (smart) retailer like Gamestop and Amazon's response has been to open their own digital store (hell, Gamestop carries Steam cards despite owning a competing service Impulse). And now they have their own tablets, app stores, and streaming services of their own. You either keep up with the competition or die. Impulse had an awesome sale on PC games a bit ago. I guess what I heard was bullshit then.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 05:28 |
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Paper Jam Dipper posted:Is it really that obscure when you think of the Nintendoland mini games? It was never released outside of Japan, it's never had a sequel, the developers were nobodies and it wasn't particularly popular in its day. As far as Nintendo console games go it's as obscure as they get.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 05:30 |
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:It's not really a Zelda clone, beyond being a top-down, screen-based thing. No puzzles, no items/upgrades, no real exploration, all action. Ohhh I see now. Taking a look at a few videos, I could definitely see how he could translate that sort of thing to a modern gameplay style. Of course, all I can think of is Devil May Cry meets Ninja Gaiden.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 05:30 |
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Bobnumerotres posted:Impulse had an awesome sale on PC games a bit ago. I guess what I heard was bullshit then. Their prices for major stuff are often in synch with Steam's too. You can walk into a GameStop and get codes for demos from their site too, they have a rotating group of stuff.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 05:31 |
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Policenaut posted:Ohhh I see now. Taking a look at a few videos, I could definitely see how he could translate that sort of thing to a modern gameplay style. Of course, all I can think of is Devil May Cry meets Ninja Gaiden. It wes essentially a one-button game, too, so it could serve as a template for a more accessible third-person action game, kinda like Other M was supposed to be (but without being terrible).
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 05:34 |
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Gonna wait until Metroid U is released before I consider the Wii U.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 05:36 |
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Video of Nazo no Murasamejou for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXLEtKo5jcY I can definitely see it working if he wants to do it. Paper Jam Dipper posted:Is it really that obscure when you think of the Nintendoland mini games? On that note, another video of the Pikmin Nintendo Land game, kind of a fast arcadey multiplayer beat em up version of Pikmin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhyqhiHI7yU
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 05:37 |
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Didn't realize NSMBU was going to be so violent: (Walmart's website, noticed it after pre-ordering)
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 05:51 |
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FPzero posted:Didn't realize NSMBU was going to be so violent: It seems Nintendo took requests for something different in NSMB a bit literally.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 05:53 |
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AngryCaterpillar posted:It seems Nintendo took requests for something different in NSMB a bit literally. The DS Mario had a scene near the beginning where Bowser drowns in lava and turns into a skeleton. I was pretty horrified.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 05:55 |
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Everything plays and looks exactly the same, but stomping on enemies results in real time flesh deformation with four layer models of bone and muscle damage. Stomped on enemies do not fall off of the screen or fade away.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 05:56 |
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Do they usually have pre-orders before ESRB ratings are out? I imagine that's why the warning is there.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 05:57 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO6c_4tGIto During this video they mention downloadable levels. Huh?
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 06:13 |
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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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# ? Apr 25, 2024 07:37 |
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You think that was jarring? Ladies and gentlemen, Bowser's death in Mario's Missing. Having played this game right after playing World, I was shocked by how bad it was and the rather violent ending.
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# ? Sep 17, 2012 06:40 |