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9031 | 65.25% |
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1191 | 8.60% |
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460 | 3.32% |
| Waluigi |
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1603 | 11.58% |
| Waa |
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748 | 5.40% |
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Bombadilillo posted:Its worth noting too, you can remap the gamepad controls too. I remapped L and R to ZL and ZR. I find the L and R awkward to reach for constant use on the gamepad. Plays much better. Yeah, they really should have just swapped the nomenclature on those buttons. ZL and ZR are the natural triggers, while L and R are the wacky out-of-reach extras. Although for Super Metroid and Super Mario World, I've been mapping ZR to a face button for dashing and spin-jumping, respectively. It means not having to take your thumb off your primary actions, which is pretty cool in my book.
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May 16, 2013 17:48
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Bombadilillo posted:Its worth noting too, you can remap the gamepad controls too. I remapped L and R to ZL and ZR. I find the L and R awkward to reach for constant use on the gamepad. Plays much better. That is pretty much the first thing I did. The back triggers just feel so much more natural. Though Samus still handles like a tank, that tiny change helped loads.
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May 16, 2013 17:57
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I love Super Metroid, Fusion and Zero Mission, but for different reasons. Fusion is designed for challenging combat and atmosphere, Zero Mission is designed for speed running and sequence breaking, and Super Metroid is designed for exploration. Samus in Zero Mission feels too twitchy for me, and it feels more like I'm controlling a robot than someone in a suit on an alien planet. There's actually a sense of momentum in Super Metroid, since Samus doesn't just have two speeds, stop and go. However, there are things that are annoying to go back to, such as the fact that you can't go back into a somersault after you've jumped or fallen off a ledge, and it's necessary to wall jump, space jump and screw attack. It's also annoying to scroll though all your weapons to get to the X-ray visor and grapple beam, and having to hold down the run button from the moment you turn on the game until the moment you finish it, but at least these are addressed in the patch I mentioned before.
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May 16, 2013 18:00
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The Black Stones posted:Just a heads up to any goons who might think about buying Pandora's Tower for their Wii U to pass the time - don't do it. The game shipped with a HUGE loving bug that locks up your system near the end of the game if you try and enter a dungeon. There's workarounds for it apparently which involve stuff like having to trigger cut-scenes or ejecting the disc at a certain time and putting it back in to make it not freeze up (it must be a very precise time, cause I tried and it still froze). However, I would rather play a game where I don't have to jump through hoops just to play my game. How it slipped by their QA team I'll never know but apparently the only ones who can patch it is the dev's and they don't know when that will happen. I wonder if there is a wiird/gecko os code to resolve this or just put you in the dungeon edit: you can do the full softmod / hd loader on the wii side of the wii u, right? moron izzard fucked around with this message at 18:08 on May 16, 2013 |
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May 16, 2013 18:06
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Artix posted:...and having to go through the menu to select/deselect your missiles/super missiles/powerbombs/X-Ray Visor every single time is really clunky. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying but you can just press select to cycle through your missiles/super missiles etc. But I can't imagine how you could ever play through Super Metroid if you didn't know that 
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May 16, 2013 18:07
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Spiffster posted:So I got a 20 dollar Nintendo card for the wii u and can't figure out what to get with it. I already got little Inferno, Super Metroid, Kirby, and nano assault so anything left worth snatching up? Thanks for reminding me, I forgot to buy another eShop card.  at me!Might not be your thing but if you like pinball you can try out different tables for Zen Pinball 2. Only thing that sucks is that the demos aren't very long, guess it's just to give you an idea of what they're like. Just bought the Captain America table today for $2.99 because I love Cap and it's actually a pretty cool table. Plus you can play on the game pad instead of the TV if you like. 
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May 16, 2013 18:17
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romanowski posted:Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying but you can just press select to cycle through your missiles/super missiles etc. But I can't imagine how you could ever play through Super Metroid if you didn't know that
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May 16, 2013 18:24
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romanowski posted:Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying but you can just press select to cycle through your missiles/super missiles etc. But I can't imagine how you could ever play through Super Metroid if you didn't know that You are. Let's say you want to use a Power Bomb. In Fusion/Zero Mission, it's as easy as going into the Morph Ball and holding R when you lay a bomb. To fire a missile, it's just hold R and shoot like normal. In Super Metroid, you have to scroll through your list of power ups every single time you want to do that. Need a Super Missile? Press X/Select/whatever you have it mapped to twice. Great, done with that. Oh wait, now I need to open another door. Gotta scroll through again. Need a Power Bomb this time, so it'll be three presses. Oh gently caress, I just went past it. Now I have to press it another five times to cycle through everything and get back to the Power Bombs. That is clunky design, and the series was unquestionably better for ditching it for the Fusion/Zero Mission method.
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May 16, 2013 18:27
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When I play I usually just switch the controls so a face button cycles through while select returns you to the default gun once I have all the weapons so you fluidly do everything while still moving and jumping. I don't know if I'd like the Fusion control layout for it though as I'm probably the only person in the universe who uses L+R at the same time to be able to shoot straight up while crouching. It's very specialized, but I think one of the coolest things about Super Metroid's controls is that it actually takes momentum into account with the gravity suit underwater. So if you pause the game and turn off the gravity suit right after spin jumping, you can do some pretty crazy stuff like shoot right into Ridley's area without bombs or the space jump, etc. Neo Rasa fucked around with this message at 18:35 on May 16, 2013 |
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May 16, 2013 18:30
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Speaking of Super Metroid. Is anyone else getting weird warping music glitches in Wrecked Ship? This is in the lovely EU version.
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May 16, 2013 18:31
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Pixeltendo posted:who needs fusion or Zero mission when ya got the hottest GBA games like Mario pinball land and Mario party advance??? Mario Party Advance is, believe it or not, an amazing game. I know it sounds weird, especially seeing as it's a sprite-based one player Mario Party game, but trust me on this. It's fantastic. Very quirky, but fantastic.
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May 16, 2013 18:32
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I just want to check, that in order for me to play 2 player mario, we need two wii remotes. I can't use the gamepad or my pro controller plus one remote. Cause if so, that's some bullshit right there.
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May 16, 2013 18:59
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Jut posted:I just want to check, that in order for me to play 2 player mario, we need two wii remotes. I can't use the gamepad or my pro controller plus one remote. Cause if so, that's some bullshit right there. It is true and it's bullshit. The Pro doesn't work at all with NSMBU.
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May 16, 2013 19:04
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Neo Rasa posted:When I play I usually just switch the controls so a face button cycles through while select returns you to the default gun once I have all the weapons so you fluidly do everything while still moving and jumping. I don't know if I'd like the Fusion control layout for it though as I'm probably the only person in the universe who uses L+R at the same time to be able to shoot straight up while crouching. I do think the Fusion and Zero Mission control scheme is an overall improvement over Super Metroid, but I totally miss shooting straight up while crouching, and the momentum thing. Jut posted:I just want to check, that in order for me to play 2 player mario, we need two wii remotes. I can't use the gamepad or my pro controller plus one remote. Cause if so, that's some bullshit right there. Yeah. The Gamepad can only be used to control a character in single player, and the Pro Controller isn't compatible with Mario. It's really lovely.
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May 16, 2013 19:06
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SeANMcBAY posted:It is true and it's bullshit. The Pro doesn't work at all with NSMBU. There is no good reason for that! Even if the pro was impossible to use on NSMBU, there could simply be a 'boost mode/normal mode' setting for the gamepad. Meh.
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May 16, 2013 19:07
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Artix posted:Oh gently caress, I just went past it. Now I have to press it another five times to cycle through everything and get back to the Power Bombs. This doesn't resolve your complaints entirely, but there is a button which cancels your selection so you can start from the beginning of the list. I believe the button was Y on the SNES iirc. No idea what it is on the Wii U. With that said, I remember this design not feeling clunky at all back when Super Metroid came out. It's funny how the industry has progressed and transformed my perception of what is and isn't acceptable UI designs.
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May 16, 2013 19:13
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Hey guys, I happen to eat that 'is the Wii U a flop?' discussion up for some reason, so I made a thread for us to discuss it in. Hopefully this'll tidy up the thread suitably, and anyone like me who actually enjoys this poo poo can discuss away.
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May 16, 2013 19:19
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I wish Nintendo would stop making so many mistakes. I'm ready to love the Wii U, but having only two games I care about is a hard sell, and I don't really trust their online services to be nearly as good as Sony's. There's no official price drop announcement, is there? Are there any new bundles on the horizon or big sales coming up, or is everything basically on hold until E3?
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May 16, 2013 19:26
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RentCavalier posted:I wish Nintendo would stop making so many mistakes. I'm ready to love the Wii U, but having only two games I care about is a hard sell, and I don't really trust their online services to be nearly as good as Sony's. On hold until E3/Nintendo Direct announcements.
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May 16, 2013 19:37
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What time is today's Nintendo Direct going to be?
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May 16, 2013 19:49
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Lizard Wizard posted:What time is today's Nintendo Direct going to be? I think it's tomorrow morning at 7 am PST.
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May 16, 2013 19:51
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Lizard Wizard posted:What time is today's Nintendo Direct going to be? Tomorrow O'Clock
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May 16, 2013 19:52
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greatn posted:What I mean is when I buy SMB2 is it going to be $1 or .50, since I already have the Wii version. Nobody answered this it seems, so I will: it will be $1.
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May 16, 2013 20:15
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DarkHamsterlord posted:The same thing it's always been about. Circular arguments in which people keep repeating the same points that have already been made, and no one's opinion is changed. Well we could talk about all the exciting games we're playing on our Wii U's but hahahaha
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May 16, 2013 20:15
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So the European Super Metroid has forced German or French subtitles. I have no problem with optional language subtitles, but you have to choose one of these two and the game still displays the original text on screen at the same time. The overall result is a very cluttered screen. I grew up with SNES and MegaDrive games running at less than 60hz and didn't even know it, so the 50hz doesn't bother me, but this is just clunky and off-putting. But in good news - there has been a new update to Miiverse, so now you can add pictures to comments. Also, if you block a user then they can't follow you. Miiverse has actually been updated on a surprisingly regular basis (by Nintendo's usual standards). Most of these updates are server-side only. I just hope the next major OS update lets you change the size of icons and has some sort of folders system like the 3DS now does. I don't understand why the Wii U OS they initially released was slower at loading games and had less of these features than the 3DS did.
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May 16, 2013 20:19
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Space Racist posted:Hey guys, I happen to eat that 'is the Wii U a flop?' discussion up for some reason, so I made a thread for us to discuss it in. Hopefully this'll tidy up the thread suitably, and anyone like me who actually enjoys this poo poo can discuss away. Uhhh this isn't the kind of thread I had in mind when I suggested making a separate Nintendo thread since it just redirects the pointless armchair analysts to a new thread. We'll see how it goes but don't be surprised if it gets gassed!
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May 16, 2013 21:56
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Louisgod posted:Uhhh this isn't the kind of thread I had in mind when I suggested making a separate Nintendo thread since it just redirects the pointless armchair analysts to a new thread. We'll see how it goes but don't be surprised if it gets gassed! It seems like a pretty good thread so far. The only negative post in there has been from you, honestly.
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May 16, 2013 22:25
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Crowbear posted:Woo! Hopefully they officially announce/show one of the holiday season games and it's not just new trailers for the summer games. https://twitter.com/NintendoEurope/status/335032825873047555 quote:For #WiiU titles coming this autumn and beyond, there will be a #NintendoDirectEU around E3 time in June ow.ly/l5Q8e
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May 16, 2013 22:32
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Louisgod posted:Uhhh this isn't the kind of thread I had in mind when I suggested making a separate Nintendo thread since it just redirects the pointless armchair analysts to a new thread. We'll see how it goes but don't be surprised if it gets gassed! I'll just enjoy it while it lasts.  At least in the meantime people won't have to read that stuff in this thread.
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May 16, 2013 23:29
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Super Mario 2? There goes my night. Wart's going down in a hail of onions. 
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May 17, 2013 00:15
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I'm glad you made it because now I don't have to listen to then incessant whinging of nintendo fans. I've been playing through lego city and it's just been a blast so far. I'm actually pretty scared of the summer as I desperately want both W101 and Pikmin 3 but I still have to finish LC:U Monhun and NSMBU. Not to mention animal crossing and etrian odyssey on ds then pokemon. I have no loving clue how you guys do it! I've put hundreds of hours into games this year and I'm still swamped 
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May 17, 2013 01:34
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I wish I had that problem. Not that many games have interested me this year. Wonderful 101 doesn't appeal to me and I've never played a Pikmin game outside of the minigame in Nintendoland. I'm probably going to give that a pass too so I have a long wait for a new title sadly.
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May 17, 2013 01:36
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Gendo posted:I wish I had that problem. Not that many games have interested me this year. What about Game & Wario? It's out next month.
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May 17, 2013 01:39
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AngryCaterpillar posted:What about Game & Wario? It's out next month.
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May 17, 2013 01:40
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There's no "consensus" because no-one's played it yet, just bitching that it's not a traditional microgame-fest like the other WarioWare games.
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May 17, 2013 01:41
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You should try to find Pikmin 2 for the wii or GC, it's a great little strategy/adventure game and well worth checking out on the cheap.
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May 17, 2013 01:41
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:There's no "consensus" because no-one's played it yet, just bitching that it's not a traditional microgame-fest like the other WarioWare games. Well it's been out for a while in Japan and sold very poorly right? Probably not a good sign.
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May 17, 2013 01:43
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:There's no "consensus" because no-one's played it yet, just bitching that it's not a traditional microgame-fest like the other WarioWare games. It's been out in Japan for over a month. I figured people who said it was awful had played the Japanese release.
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May 17, 2013 01:43
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Atomicated posted:Well it's been out for a while in Japan and sold very poorly right? Probably not a good sign. It sank like a rock, yeah, but that's par for the course right now. More than anything else, I think people just aren't interested in another minigame collection so soon after Nintendo Land, which is fair enough.
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May 17, 2013 01:46
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The only review score I've seen for Game and Wario was Famitsu, who gave it 31/40 I think.
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