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Oh boy, free Animal Crossing incoming for new XL owners.
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Holy poo poo, they're giving away Animal Crossing for free in Europe via the "recommend a friend" thing, just like they did with Monster Hunter. Basically, if you own AC, you can get a code, send it to someone who registered a new 3DS and they get the game for free. However, I'd trade that in a second for Layton X Wright. gently caress region locking, gently caress it forever.
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Aug 7, 2013 15:18
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They also confirmed a US release of Summer Carnival '92 Recca on Virtual Console 
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Aug 7, 2013 15:18
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KORG M01D!!! ...I guess? It does look kinda neat.
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Aug 7, 2013 15:20
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I am mildly excited about Metal Max 4 and hope it gets localized. Metal Max has always been an odd duck of JRPGS--they have all the conventions of the genre, like random battles, a plucky young protagonist, turn-based combat and all that poo poo, but the games were super open-ended. Once you beat the first dungeon you basically buy or are given a tank and you can just set out in any direction. There's poo poo everywhere, it's super easy to wander into an area with monsters WAY too strong for you and get hosed up. The problem is that, if Metal Max 3 is/was any indication, the games are rather minimalistic. The storylines in areas are kind of hard to find, events can be maddening to trigger and everything feels very bare bones. There's a small number of NPCs and I don't remember character customization being very engaging. You CAN upgrade your tank and there's a lot of avenues there--so that may be appealing, especially if they let you paint it colors or add ridiculous weaponry to it in the new one. Oh, and it's a post-apocalyptic JRPG so basically it is anime Mad Max mixed with Skyrim.
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Aug 7, 2013 15:21
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Wow. Steamworld Dig looks pretty fun... and it'll be available after the Direct? Sweet, I might get it and report back.
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Aug 7, 2013 15:22
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PonchAxis posted:Layton x Wright coming to the US! Zeether posted:They also confirmed a US release of Summer Carnival '92 Recca on Virtual Console Oh. That's cool, I guess. Any news of releases for those two games in Europe or Australia?
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Aug 7, 2013 15:24
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EO4 Europe August 30th! Ahahahaha holy poo poo Shibata.
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Aug 7, 2013 15:25
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OBJECTION SHIBATA  Layton x Wright confirmed for EU, too. Aww, no news if Bravely Default is still coming 2013 or not.
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Aug 7, 2013 15:27
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Thank God, LxW is coming to Europe. Also I loving lost it at Objection Shibata. (Boooh 2014!)
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Aug 7, 2013 15:27
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No Bravely Default, though. Come on, we were promised 2013. 
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Aug 7, 2013 15:29
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I missed the Lost World info--will the 3DS version have the same levels and content as the console/pc versions?
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Aug 7, 2013 15:29
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lelandjs posted:I missed the Lost World info--will the 3DS version have the same levels and content as the console/pc versions? There is no PC version, and no, the 3DS version will have (completely?) different levels from the Wii U version.
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Aug 7, 2013 15:30
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I was hoping for a Europe SMT4 release date but at least EO4 and Soul Hackers are coming out pretty soon. Plus the Layton vs AA reveal was amazing.
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Aug 7, 2013 15:31
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lelandjs posted:YESS LAYTON X WRIGHT CONFIRMED FOR USA! I realize this is secondary to the awesomeness of this news, but is it a cart release or is it going to do what AA5 is doing and going just digital distro only? GrandpaPants fucked around with this message at 15:42 on Aug 7, 2013 |
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Aug 7, 2013 15:31
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When is SMT IV coming  Are they waiting for Soul Hackers to be released first?
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Terper posted:Wow. Steamworld Dig looks pretty fun... and it'll be available after the Direct? Sweet, I might get it and report back. Yeah it looks nifty, but Nintendo's eShop is now claiming it'll be out on the 8th of August instead of right now.
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Aug 7, 2013 15:31
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Kurtofan posted:When is SMT IV coming Well since EO4 took 6 months to make it to Europe, and SMTIV is a more text heavy game, I wouldn't hold your breath for any earlier than January next year
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Aug 7, 2013 15:34
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I dunno if the US Direct did something similar but
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Aug 7, 2013 15:34
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OK this is the most crazy thing to announce - a "free to play" baseball minigame where the DLC costs less (in actual money) the better you play. It'lll be out (in Japan) after the presentation is over. Oh man - Daigasso Band Brothers 3DS looks loving amazing. Create a singer using YOUR voice and YOUR face!
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Aug 7, 2013 15:35
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Artix posted:There is no PC version, and no, the 3DS version will have (completely?) different levels from the Wii U version. Oh, for some reason I thought there was gonna be a PC release. I figured there was little to no chance the 3DS version would be the same, but there was hoping. Thanks!
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Aug 7, 2013 15:35
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lelandjs posted:Oh, for some reason I thought there was gonna be a PC release. I figured there was little to no chance the 3DS version would be the same, but there was hoping. Thanks! It's better this way anyway - it means there's a reason to buy both games instead of just one.
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Aug 7, 2013 15:38
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Saoshyant posted:Aww, no news if Bravely Default is still coming 2013 or not. The official Bravely Default twitter said that it is still 2013 in Europe.
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Aug 7, 2013 15:38
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Animal Crossing Plaza for Wii U - sort of want a Wii U now. It lets you upload screengrabs / QR codes directly from the 3DS game (via SD card? sorry, wasn't paying attention) and will be out any minute in Japan at least.
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Aug 7, 2013 15:41
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Help Im Alive posted:I dunno if the US Direct did something similar but It needs the full animation.  edit: which isn't looping at least for me. WTF. Shaman Tank Spec fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Aug 7, 2013 |
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Aug 7, 2013 15:42
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Japan: 3DS Zelda LttP2 (? not sure of title), early 2014 Set way in the future relative to 1. WU Zelda Windwaker HD, Sept. 26 Not sure if I really need this, though. Junji Inagawa (Guy Le Douche) pushing WU Luigi and 3DS Mario & Luigi 4. (He's actually Japan's best-known raconteur of horror.) 3DS Mario Golf World Tour is delayed to 2014. 3DS Darumeshi Sports Ten, DLC A former baseball player dog runs a sports shop. He sells minigames like batting practice, catch, umpire play, bat-making, etc. You can befriend the owner and run errands to reduce the prices of minigames in his shop. These games are bought with real money (not in-game money). Available for download right after the Nin Direct for free. 3DS Band Brothers P, winter 2013 72 instruments. New vocaloid (?) feature with face capture (like Face Raiders). Players can make and play their own compositions. New Animal Crossing Miiverse community, free download after this Nin Direct It'll have its own square. People can make posts including screen caps.
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Aug 7, 2013 15:43
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Sodium Chloride posted:The official Bravely Default twitter said that it is still 2013 in Europe. And Brain Training 3DS was supposed to come out early this year and we all know how that turned out. Unless Shibata confirms an actual release date himself, I'm not going to put stock on someone in Japan knowing it better than him. Bland posted:Well since EO4 took 6 months to make it to Europe, and SMTIV is a more text heavy game, I wouldn't hold your breath for any earlier than January next year NISA isn't changing any line of text. They simply don't want all of their localized games falling on top of each other. Unless it's NOE who's actually localizing SMT4, in which case, they may translate it to most Euro languages, but either way, it will be early 2014 for us regardless of who's bringing it here.
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Aug 7, 2013 15:44
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After two weeks in Japan, I have almost 500 streetpasses, after leaving home with around 30. I have 37 of the 47 Japanese prefectures, only 7 US states. AC is by far the most popular title I've seen from streetpass. My AC home showcase has been filled for a while but I haven't had the time to visit all the homes. That Disney magic life game is getting a lot of play here too. I get 10 streetpasses everytime I go through my local station. If I dedicated the time to it, I could get hundreds in a day I'm sure. I was at the Tokyo Sky Tree this evening when I suddenly got a message that I'm at a "Streetpass Relay Point." This was before the mail went out that that feature was active so I was surprised. I got a ton passes while waiting in line there, 90% from Japan despite a heavy presence of foreigners there. Now that the relay point system is up, I feel like we, in the US, can get some value from the games in Mii Plaza without traveling to Japan. Also, it's not at all unusual to see several adults playing DS and 3DS while commuting on the trains here. In the US I feel like I have to hide what I'm doing if I use my 3DS in public.
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Aug 7, 2013 16:01
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Sooo anyone in Europe able to buy Steamworld Dig? Because it's claiming to release tomorrow for me. That Nintendo Direct was pretty clear about it being out now, so is this yet another case of there being an A class Europe and then the e-ghetto shithole where everything takes longer and Club Nintendo doesn't exist?
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Der Shovel posted:Sooo anyone in Europe able to buy Steamworld Dig? Because it's claiming to release tomorrow for me. That Nintendo Direct was pretty clear about it being out now, so is this yet another case of there being an A class Europe and then the e-ghetto shithole where everything takes longer and Club Nintendo doesn't exist? I'm in the UK and it's available for purchase. It says the release date is 8/8/13 but I was still able to buy it just fine.
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Help Im Alive posted:I'm in the UK and it's available for purchase. It says the release date is 8/8/13 but I was still able to buy it just fine. There we go. 10 minutes ago it was still just offering me pictures but now the purchase button made an appearance. Cheers!
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ookiimarukochan posted:Animal Crossing Plaza for Wii U - sort of want a Wii U now. I sort of want them to bite the bullet and put Mii Plaza out on 3DS already.
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Viewtiful Jew posted:Wow someone actually asked Nintendo...err Alpha Dream at least about the influx of forced tutorials: No, and he's being pretty disingenuous saying so because that option stops appearing very early on. The way a lot of the later tutorials are presented gets obnoxious, too. You'll approach an area where it's obvious you have to use an ability you already sat through a tutorial for, in a slightly different way than you've used it before. You go and try to do it, only for the game to take control away so the helper character can go "oh how will we get past this"? Then Mario and Luigi have a conversation in their nonsense babble which you can't skip through with button mashing because it's just animations with no actual text, helper guy repeats whatever they said back to them as a question, then you get walked step by step through what you already figured out before this all started. That's right, they came up with something even more annoying than Fi's slow crawl of dialogue: conversations that not only can't be sped up, they need another character to take time to translate them for you afterwards. Most of the time to tell you something you already know. It was funny and charming at first, but after twenty hours it's getting aggravating. Don't get me wrong, aside from this the game is great, I'm having a lot of fun. I just wish Nintendo didn't feel the need to keep coming up with new and improved ways of interrupting that fun. Suaimhneas fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Aug 7, 2013 |
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Did LttP 2 get delayed? I thought it was coming out this year. edit: Nope, the video said November. Guess the guy who said 2014 earlier misheard unless it's coming out later in Japan. Mattavist fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Aug 7, 2013 |
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Aug 7, 2013 16:40
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Suaimhneas posted:Don't get me wrong, aside from this the game is great, I'm having a lot of fun. I just wish Nintendo didn't feel the need to keep coming up with new and improved ways of interrupting that fun. Somebody spent four hours working on that animation, it's only fair you sit through that animation for four hours in total to appreciate the creativity of it.
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Aug 7, 2013 16:48
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Suaimhneas posted:No, and he's being pretty disingenuous saying so because that option stops appearing very early on. Each tutorial is like a minute long max, and the animation of Mario + Luigi talking gibberish lasts maybe 5 seconds. In a game that's 25-30 hours long I don't understand why it bothers people so much. Yeah there should be an option to skip them, but people seriously let themselves get way too worked up over this stuff.
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I didn't realize it yet, but we're getting Professor Layton 6 on November 8th in Europe, while it's a 2014 release in the US apparently? 
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Aug 7, 2013 16:49
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As an aside from the Ninty Direct news, I took my 3DS to the nearest city today and quadrupled my lifetime streetpass hits. I'd say the Relay is a success based on that alone.
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Aug 7, 2013 16:50
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Japanese feed: 3DS Zelda LttP2 is coming "start of 2014." November release for the rest of the world makes sense to be in time for the Xmas season. (A Jan. release in Japan won't hurt--they have multiple sales peaks throughout the year as opposed to "Xmas or bust" in North America.)
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